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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Memorial document to Johannes Ott, Musketier of Reg. 85

Memorial document to Johannes Ott, Musketier im Inf. Regiment 85, und im Res. Inf. Regiment 53. K.I.A. 8.10.14 near Reims - Champagne. Artist - Anton Hoffman, Munchen. Commemorative Art

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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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