BY LONGMAN AND BRODERIP, CIRCA 1776

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY-CASED SPINET
BY LONGMAN AND BRODERIP, CIRCA 1776
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 75 in. (190.5 cm.) wide
Together with a George III mahogany revolving piano stool (2)

Provenance

The Spinet - Miss Olga Nethersole, C.B.E. (d.1957), Trebarfoote Manor, Bude, Cornwall.
Purchased by Roger Warner on 25 June 1952.

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Lot Essay

Messrs Longman and Broderip, whose partnership flourished from 1776 to 1798, contracted much of their instrument making to craftsmen such as Baker Harris and Thomas Culliford. The latter signed a related instrument, which bears the date 1780 and was exhibited at the International Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885 (see J. Nex, Culliford and Company: Keyboard Instrument Maker in Georgian London, Early Keyboard Journal 22 (2004) pp.7-47).

The actress Olga Nethersole (1870-1957) made her stage debut in 1887 and went into management leasing the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1894.

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