Details
Victorian Valentines
four cards, enclosed in contemporary stamp and post marked envelopes and addressed to E L Browne Esq, St John's College, Cambrigde, -all 5½ X 3½in. 14 X 9cm., three stamp marked Cambridge, Feb 13 1876, one stamp marked Cambridge, Feb 13 1875;
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four cards, enclosed in contemporary stamp and post marked envelopes and addressed to E L Browne Esq, St John's College, Cambrigde, -all 5½ X 3½in. 14 X 9cm., three stamp marked Cambridge, Feb 13 1876, one stamp marked Cambridge, Feb 13 1875;
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Provenance
Edwin Leece Browne, 1856 - 1933, known more commonly as E L B, was borne in 1856 at Roos in Holderness. He was the headmaster of St Andrews School Eastbourne and was well knows for his boundless energy and vigour for bathing and hunting with his boys. He never married and this lot and the following two lots were last looked at in 1933 and have been hidden away ever since