Lot 4
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN IRON AND STONE BOOT SCRAPER
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN IRON AND STONE BOOT SCRAPER

CIRCA 1845-1855, ATTRIBUTED TO A.W.N. PUGIN AND MANUFACTURED BY JOHN HARDMAN & CO., BIRMINGHAM

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN IRON AND STONE BOOT SCRAPER
CIRCA 1845-1855, ATTRIBUTED TO A.W.N. PUGIN AND MANUFACTURED BY JOHN HARDMAN & CO., BIRMINGHAM
18 in. (45.5 cm.) long
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Lot Essay

The Chirk boot-scraper, probably designed by A.W.N. Pugin for the Porch of the new Family or East Wing designed in 1845 (see lot 500), is flowered with gothic-fretted quatrefoils. It is likely to have been commissioned by Colonel Robert Myddelton Biddulph (d.1872) from the Birmingham 'Medieval Metalworker' John Hardman (d.1867).

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