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Click here to subscribeA late Victorian silver hinge lidded faceted glass jar, the hinged cover formed as an owl's face, with boot button eyes, by S. Mordan & Co, London 1896 and a late Victorian silver table lighter, formed as a standing female Dicken's style character, her hat hinged to contain matches, her hand to hold the light (the fitting lacking), the underside ridged to strike matches, Birmingham 1892, (2).
National Gallery [London] Reports 1893-1907. Official reports by the Director Sir Edward John Poynter to the Treasury, with mss. inventories, typescript and printed lists plus some related content from external publications, bound into a slim folio of dark green half morocco over lighter green cloth, spine lettered gilt, a little stained and bumped, upper joint cracked. The first list, by hand, titled 'A List of Pictures... proposed for transfer to the Gallery at Milllbank' concluding with a 'Note by Director' (in Poynter's hand?). A fascinating document for art historians, concerning the foundation collections of the gallery now known as Tate Britain, which was at first under the Directorship of the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.
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