Details
A late Victorian inkstand,
with gadrooned borders, fitted with a central seal box with a detachable taperstick cover, flanked by two mounted cut-glass bottles and two pen depressions, one inscribed "Seymour Hicks from an old friend 30th Jany 1895", crested, by Charles Stuart Harris 1894 - 24cm x 15½cm, 23oz.
with gadrooned borders, fitted with a central seal box with a detachable taperstick cover, flanked by two mounted cut-glass bottles and two pen depressions, one inscribed "Seymour Hicks from an old friend 30th Jany 1895", crested, by Charles Stuart Harris 1894 - 24cm x 15½cm, 23oz.
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Literature
Seymour Hicks (1871-1949)
Actor, manager, author, only 16 when he "walked on" at the Grand Theatre Islington in a play called In The Ranks. In September 1904 came his great vaudeville success The Catch of the Season. He then went in for building West End theatres and he built the Aldwych which opened in December 1905. He later opened the Hicks, which later became the Globe in Shaftsbury Avenue. He died on 6 April 1949. D.N.B. 1941-50.
Seymour Hicks (1871-1949)
Actor, manager, author, only 16 when he "walked on" at the Grand Theatre Islington in a play called In The Ranks. In September 1904 came his great vaudeville success The Catch of the Season. He then went in for building West End theatres and he built the Aldwych which opened in December 1905. He later opened the Hicks, which later became the Globe in Shaftsbury Avenue. He died on 6 April 1949. D.N.B. 1941-50.