CRYSTAL PALACE
Original Albumen print from the glass negative,
showing Joseph Paxton's enormous structure built for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park and relocated to Sydenham in 1854, 8" x 5½", Crystal Palace, no date but circa
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
41437
£225
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CRYSTAL PALACE MENU
Fine Menu printed in Gold and Red
for the lunch for a "Morning Fete given by the Directors & Shareholders of the Crystal Palace Company to the Representatives of Foreign Governments and other Distinguished Guests", the magnificent banquet includes fine fish courses with Turbot and Sole, followed by every sort of meat dish and lobsters, garnished with truffles and other luxuries, followed by a huge selection of desserts, the menu is decorated with a lace border with flowers, in remarkable condition, 10" x 8", Crystal Palace, 17th June
Item Date:
1854
Stock No:
40210
£375
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CUNINGHAME
(Robert, of Edinburgh, Draper)
Receipt signed "On Accompt of Captain Douglas' Lady"
for £4-11-10 paid by "Docter John Sinclair", for "14 yards black manto silk 6/6" and "a box to put the gown in", "wherfor I discharge him of the samen and all Concerned", title on verso in the same hand, 1 side 8vo., Edinburgh, 8 July
original light blot touching one letter
Item Date:
1719
Stock No:
14464
£65
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SIGNED CIGARETTE CARD
CUNLIFFE-OWEN
(Sir Hugo, 1st Baronet, 1870-1947, Industrialist)
Coloured caricature from the John Players series of 50 entitled "Straight Line Caricatures", signed,
with a small biography printed on the verso, 2¾" x 1¼", no place, circa
Item Date:
1926
Stock No:
41401
£50
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CURLING
(Revd. William, 1803-1879, Principal of Lambeth Asylum for Female Orphans 1829-1870)
Autograph Letter Signed to R. Corner,
recalling his offer of help "in my application for the Lectureship in the gift of the Haberdashers' Company", sending "a list and a few cards" and thanking him "for any thing that you may have it in your power to do", 1 side 8vo., no place, 'Thursday morning' no date, note of receipt in January
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
14852
£15
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