Lot Essay
The box is sold with a photocopy of 'Lessons on Objects, as given to children between the ages of six and eight in a Pestalozzian school at Cheam Surrey, 1851.' listing a series of educational objects.
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CIRCA 1850
Details
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY-CASED COLLECTION OF SPECIMENS FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
CIRCA 1850
With four lift out trays containing various minerals, textile fragments, natural history fragments etc.
12 in. (31 cm.) wide
Together with a Victorian mahogany box of microscope slides (2)
CIRCA 1850
With four lift out trays containing various minerals, textile fragments, natural history fragments etc.
12 in. (31 cm.) wide
Together with a Victorian mahogany box of microscope slides (2)
Exhibited
'Childhood', A Loan Exhibition, Sotheby's London, 2-27 January 1988, no. 634.
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