Details
A pair of child's shoes of brown glacé leather, with square toe and throat, bound in light brown silk and trimmed with a rossette, with a looped cord at the ankle, (missing on one shoe); another pair similar of black satin; a pair of child's knitted socks; a pair of white kid gloves with blue ribbon trim; a stole; and a white cotton handkerchief embroidered with Queen Victoria's monogram, dating from the early 19th century (6)
Provenance
Sold with a letter entitled Relics of Her Majesty Queen Victoria Empress of India God Bless & Keep Her always. Bought by the vendor's father during World War II on the Isle of Wight from the sale of the the estate of the receipient of the letter in 1908. The author of the letter presumably worked at Osborne. The shoes are said to have belonged to the Princess Royal, the other items to Queen Victoria