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NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)

1789-1860

Mary Sabilla Novello's pocket watch, Will, drafts of letters and songs, thoughts on Christianity and the working classes, scrapbooks and commonplace books, family accounts, prose manuscripts, portrait...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Jewellery

1898

Vincent Novello's gold pocket watch.

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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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Jewellery

c. 1830

Charles Cowden Clarke's gold watch chain with an engraved gem and a wax impression of the gem, accompanied by a letter from his wife Mary Cowden Clarke to their nephew Mario Gigliucci on his inheritan...

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Jewellery

c. 1850

A crocodile tooth shawl pin and a brooch with a miniature portrait of an infant.

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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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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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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...

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Brooch portrait of Catherine Collins née Hehl

c. 1800

Painted portrait of Catherine Collins née Hehl in the form of a glazed brooch. Collins was the sister of Mary Sabilla Novello née Hehl and in later life, was cared for by her niece Emma Aloysia Nove...

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