A gentleman's waistcoat with woolwork fronts worked in diagonal bands of red and blue with vine leaves; another of ivory figured silk and a third of red face cloth, all mid 19th century (3)

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A gentleman's waistcoat with woolwork fronts worked in diagonal bands of red and blue with vine leaves; another of ivory figured silk and a third of red face cloth, all mid 19th century (3)

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The ivory waistcoat has a note inscribed "Waistcoat in whichmy father was married to my dear Mother at S Saviour's Southwark on Dec 30th, 1841, now Southwark Cathedral..." with a short history of the cathedral

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