An ivory cameo of Thomas Telford, in profile to right, wearing a coat

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AN IVORY CAMEO OF THOMAS TELFORD

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An ivory cameo of Thomas Telford, in profile to right, wearing a coat
mounted on black paper, rectangular black frame
oval -- 2¼ in. (5.7cm.) high; and two biographies of Thomas Telford including The Story of Telford, Sir Alexander Gibb (London, 1935) and Thomas Telford, Laurence Meynell (London, 1957) and a letter from Sir Alexander Gibb to T. Telford, dated 27th September 1935

See Back Cover Illustration, Colour Illustration, and black and white Illustration (3)

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Lot Essay

Thomas Telford (1757-1834), one of the great engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was born the son of a shepherd. He is chiefly remembered for building the bridge across the Menai Strait and the Pont Cysylte aqueduct. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

There is a similar cameo illustrated in The Story of Telfordi, Gibb, London, 1935, p.208

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