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    Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector

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    • Maxwell Ashby Armfield, R.W.S.
    Lot 100

    Maxwell Ashby Armfield, R.W.S. (Ringwood, Hampshire 1881-1972 Warminster, Wiltshire)

    Sylvia's Travels: Button Town

    Price realised

    GBP 3,500

    Estimate

    GBP 1,200 - GBP 1,800

    This lot is offered without a reserve

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    Maxwell Ashby Armfield, R.W.S. (Ringwood, Hampshire 1881-1972 Warminster, Wiltshire)
    Sylvia's Travels: Button Town
    signed with initials and inscribed as title (on a flag)
    pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out, unframed
    11¾ x 9¼ in. (30.5 x 23.4 cm.)

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