Sale 7013
Woburn Abbey
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20 - 21 September 2004
Price realised
GBP 108
Estimate
A WHITE-METAL PAPER KNIFE The tapering blade engraved with a coronet and the initials 'H.M.S. of A.' the terminal cast with figures and a bull within foliate scrolls 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) long; together with a silver paper knife retailed by Dudley & Cox, Southsea, with a Galleon finial, London 1914, in original fitted box - 6 in. (15 cm.) long; a plated late Victorian pocket watch with circular dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary dial; and a printed box for John Groom's Crippleage and Flower Girls' Mission (4)
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