Lot 53
53
A fine miniature sampler, worked in red silks on gauze with alphabets, numerals, 'King' 'England' and 'Queen' beneath crowns and 'Kensington II School'--4.25 x 3.75in. (11 x 9.5cm.), mid 19th century, unframed
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A fine miniature sampler, worked in red silks on gauze with alphabets, numerals, 'King' 'England' and 'Queen' beneath crowns and 'Kensington II School'--4.25 x 3.75in. (11 x 9.5cm.), mid 19th century, unframed

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A fine miniature sampler, worked in red silks on gauze with alphabets, numerals, 'King' 'England' and 'Queen' beneath crowns and 'Kensington II School'--4.25 x 3.75in. (11 x 9.5cm.), mid 19th century, unframed
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Kensington School, Kensington High Street was a charity school also known as the National School designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and built in 1711-12 and demolished 1878 to make way for the Kensington Town Hall. In 1804 a new girls' school was established. Two stone statues of a boy and a girl made by the mason Thomas Eustace were preserved on the North elevation of the school, now known as St Mary Abbotts School.

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