Lot 73
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An unusual wedding ensemble in Smyniote style comprising dress and jacket with open shoulders, the ivory silk ground woven with gilt metal stripes interspersed with small green foliate sprigs, trimmed with gilt metal braid, circa 1830

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An unusual wedding ensemble in Smyniote style comprising dress and jacket with open shoulders, the ivory silk ground woven with gilt metal stripes interspersed with small green foliate sprigs, trimmed with gilt metal braid, circa 1830

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Inscribed in the waistband of the dress in ink Written by me her daughter Mrs Claudius B. Lasell. "Wedding dress of the wife of the Revd. Jonas King of Athens Greece, Mrs A Aspasia King. a native of Smyrna - born about the year 1810"

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