Images Dated 25th March 2011

Large bowl with transfer - Bairnsfatherware

Large bowl with transfer - I likes me drop of rum Decoration around inside of rim and cartoons, etc. on the outside of the bowl. Inscribed on reverse - Grimswade - Souvenir of Great War, commenced . Bairnsfather Ware

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WWIBritish RFC /Royal Naval Air Service flechette

A World War One period British Royal Flying Corps./Royal Naval Air Service flechette. This is a rare example of the flechette pattern made under licence from the Bristol Company. Firearms & Equipment

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Harpsichord by Arnold Dolmetsch

Included in the exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian decorative arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum : the first harpsichord to be made by Arnold Dolmetsch, dating from 1896. Dolmetsch (1858 - 1940) was a French-born instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. The harpsichord depicted is now part of the Horniman Museum collection of instruments.
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