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Total number of records: 57

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection57
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection41
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections11
English Literature3
Herbert Read Collection3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
portraits15
jewelry10
family8
gift giving6
hair6
photographs6
decorative arts5
print media5
anarchism3
art3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy3
London, United Kingdom3
Belgium1
Brough1
Cumbria1
Dumfries and Galloway1
Enfield, Middlesex1
England1
Fermo, Italy1
Greece1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16001
From 17007
From 180036
From 190013

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189940
Up to 199917

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pocket watch

1789-1854

Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back, with paper housing.

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Artificial woodshaving flowers (2)

Jun/1954

Traditional hand crafted flowers made from wood shavings, purchased in "Moffat,(Dumfrieshire)." [Dumfries & Galloway]

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Print block of image of Gypsy/Traveller wagon

c.1925

1)Wooden printing block of Gypsy/Traveller wagon. 2) Wrapped in brown paper with a label, "“Caravan Woodcut”, “39” and also a copy of the printed image affixed.

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Printing blocks (3) of photographs for the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society.

c.1938

3 copper photographic/printing plates mounted on wooden blocks of images used for articles in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society.

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Guitar mute, (Flamenco guitar cejilla capo d’astro).

c.1957

Dark wood guitar capo for a spanish guitar.

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Ring with minature portrait of King Edward VIII

1936

Small ring with a glazed minature portrait of King Edward VIII [also Duke of Windsor] .

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Brass case, probably designed as a calendar but at one time owned by Gypsies, With hinged lid, hinge of copper with white metal nails.
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Brass case [Sailor's tobacco case]

c.1729 -11/11/1942

1) Brass case with with hinged lid, hinge of copper with white metal nails. The case is decorated with engravings of figures, writing and calendar numbers on lid and base. On the lid: (1) Julius Cae...

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Minature Model of Gypsy Traveller Wagon

c.1968

Painted wood.

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Pocket watch

c. 1800

A Barraud gold pocket watch that belonged to Vincent Novello, in a cotton cover with a handwritten Italian inscription which gives the date 2 May 1898 and records that the external case was missing. T...

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BC MS NCC/2/8/1 Lock of Mozart's hair
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Lock of Mozart's hair

1829

A lock of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's hair, tied with red string. Vincent and Mary Novello visited Mozart's widow Constanze in Salzburg, Vienna, as part of their travels across Europe in 18...

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Pocket watch

c. 1800

Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back. The winding key is attached with string. It was packed in a paper banking envelope, inscribed on the reverse with 'M.S. Nove...

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Crocodile tooth shawl pin

c. 1850

Crocodile tooth shawl pin with a decorative metal clasp and possibly a hinged lid engraved with 'MCC', given to Mary Cowden Clarke by the American Shakespeare scholar Horace Howard Furness and his wif...

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