Sale 4094
London, South Kensington
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30 March 2006
Price realised
GBP 156
Estimate
A collection of 19th-Century pap-boats, including: two English pewter pap-boats circa 1800, one stamped with a crown and X ORFORD, and the other stamped FH 1800 and similarly with a crown X DENT; two carved wooden pap-boats, one half -covered with carved foliage decoration and the other decorated on the base to resemble leaf; a creamware pap-boat stamped on the base for COPELAND W, a small earthenware measuring spoon with pink-lining; a small glass measuring spoon with blue and gold enamel decoration; an early 20th-Century earthenware feeding cup, inscribed on the inside for THE "KIRBY" FEEDING CUP PAT. APPLIED FOR 400/1909 (8)
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Literature
BENNION, Elisabeth. Antique Medical Instruments (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Reprinted in 1980, 1986)p. 268
Pewter pap-boats with FH stamped on it, like that included above, were according to Elisabeth Bennion originally made to raise money for the Foundling Hospital. (p. 270)
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