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pocket watch
1789-1854
Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back, with paper housing.
Artificial woodshaving flowers (2)
Jun/1954
Traditional hand crafted flowers made from wood shavings, purchased in "Moffat,(Dumfrieshire)." [Dumfries & Galloway]
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.
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.
Guitar mute, (Flamenco guitar cejilla capo d’astro).
c.1957
Dark wood guitar capo for a spanish guitar.
Ring with minature portrait of King Edward VIII
1936
Small ring with a glazed minature portrait of King Edward VIII [also Duke of Windsor] .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...