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Auction archive: Lot number 158

NURSERY RHYME HANDKERCHIEFS - [ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie (1879-1964 ) and others.] - An unusual group of 21 cotton handkerchiefs.

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,617 - US$2,426
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$2,022
Auction archive: Lot number 158

NURSERY RHYME HANDKERCHIEFS - [ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie (1879-1964 ) and others.] - An unusual group of 21 cotton handkerchiefs.

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,617 - US$2,426
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$2,022
Beschreibung:

An unusual group of 21 cotton handkerchiefs.
N.p.: [circa 1935]. 21 cotton handkerchiefs (13 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches and smaller), each printed with classic nursery rhymes and associated illustrations, chiefly in bright colors, after Mabel Lucie Attwell Margery Colman and others, one with an original sticker noting "Cotton / Made in Ireland". Provenance : Peter & Iona Opie (with their ink stamp on an envelope used to preserve a few of the handkerchiefs, the envelope also includes a note that the handkerchiefs were brought in 1936-1937). a wonderful collection of children’s handkerchiefs, including seven with designs by mabel lucie attwell and one by margery colman (otherwise unidentified). It includes six based on 19th century pictures: three of these are printed in black-and-white, and three in bistre. It also includes a gift set of four of the handkerchiefs (each with the same image as issued) tied-up with a ribbon and with "A Merry Xmas" sticker.

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

An unusual group of 21 cotton handkerchiefs.
N.p.: [circa 1935]. 21 cotton handkerchiefs (13 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches and smaller), each printed with classic nursery rhymes and associated illustrations, chiefly in bright colors, after Mabel Lucie Attwell Margery Colman and others, one with an original sticker noting "Cotton / Made in Ireland". Provenance : Peter & Iona Opie (with their ink stamp on an envelope used to preserve a few of the handkerchiefs, the envelope also includes a note that the handkerchiefs were brought in 1936-1937). a wonderful collection of children’s handkerchiefs, including seven with designs by mabel lucie attwell and one by margery colman (otherwise unidentified). It includes six based on 19th century pictures: three of these are printed in black-and-white, and three in bistre. It also includes a gift set of four of the handkerchiefs (each with the same image as issued) tied-up with a ribbon and with "A Merry Xmas" sticker.

Auction archive: Lot number 158
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2007
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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