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pocket watch
1789-1854
Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back, with paper housing.
Photographs of Mary Sabilla Serle
c. 1848
Three daguerreotypes in maroon leather cases lined in red velvet. Photographic portraits of Mary Sabilla Serle when she was nine years old. She was the daughter of Cecilia Novello and Thomas James Ser...
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...
Gold watch chain
c. 1830
A gold watch chain with engraved gem seal having belonged to Charles Cowden Clarke. The gem is engraved with the Latin 'Placidam sub Libertate quietem' which translates as: 'By the sword we seek peace...
Silver medal for industry from Enfield School awarded to Charles Cowden Clarke
Jun 1803
Silver engraved medal for industry awarded to Charles Cowden Clarke during his time as a teacher at Enfield School, also known as Clarke's Academy, in June 1803. The obverse is inscribed with a Latin ...
Daguerreotype of a Shakespeare monument
c. 1850
Very faded daguerreotype of a Shakespeare monument on a glass plate, belonging to Charles Cowden Clarke.
Ruby nibbed gold pen
c. 1850
Ruby nibbed gold pen with a silver and tortoiseshell barrel belonging to Charles Cowden Clarke.
Imitation inlaid stone panel
1837
Imitation inlaid stone panel, painted on wood possibly over gesso. The reverse is inscribed with the names of the stones and that it was painted for Clara Novello by Rev. Pigno of the Spanish Place Ch...
Handel Festival medal awarded to (Mary) Sabilla Novello
Jun 1857
A copper alloy medal in a maroon leather, white silk and blue velvet case, struck for the Sacred Harmonic Society and awarded to each of the 2500 performers in the Handel Festival at Crystal Palace, L...