Isabel Salt Collection
Item set
- Identifier
- COL24
- Title
- Isabel Salt Collection
- Description
- Items associated with Isabel Salt, granddaughter of Sir Titus Salt
- Associated person or organisation
- Additional information
- Type
Items
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2018.9.6.11: Champagne cork Champagne cork, metal top labeled Veuve Pommery, 1943. -
2018.9.6.17: Broken glass-plate negative Broken glass negative of two unidentified young women. -
2018.9.6.2: double picture frame Hand made and hand decorated wooden hinged double picture frame. Contains two pencil sketches of a boy (with the letter K underneath on the frame) and a little girl (with the letter S underneath on the frame) who are possibly Isabel and Lawrence Salt. -
2018.9.6.3: Tin box containing acorns Tin box containing 12 acorns and accompanying purple card with a written note by Isabel Salt. The tin is decorated with yellow and blue with black lettering: 'The 'Allenburys' Glycerine and Blackcurrant Pastilles. Made from the fresh ripe fruit. Manufactured by Allen & Hanburys Ltd London'. Late 19th or early 20th century. The note is written on the back of a Ticket for the Harrogate Infirmary Building Fund Pageant of English Literature, Saturday July 23rd 1921. The note states 'Autumn 2018. These have been picked up in the grounds of the Palace of Doorn (Amerongen, Holland) where the ex Kaiser was then living' -
2018.9.6.4: Fabric covered box Box covered in floral fabric comprising of a base and a lid that lifts off. The box is now Faded to brown but original colours on red ground visible under lid. Label on the base states: 'Pomme d'Or Harrogate'. Late 19th or early-mid 20th century. -
2018.9.6.5: Luggage tag Luggage tag of brown leather with embossed S decoration, strap with buckle. -
2018.9.6.6: 2 Hair curling tongs with case 2 Hair curling tongs with case with card marked 'Salt Oxted - Surrey' -
2018.9.6.7: Spectacles and case Round spectacles with translucent orange frames in a Animal skin case. Chamois glasses cleaning cloth. The case is labeled 'Norman J. Fordham. 5 Station Approach, Oxted'. Early-mid 20th century. -
2018.9.6.8: Valentine's Party Games The Shepherd's Garden.' Cardboard box, slightly damaged, 16cm high x 11cm wide, containing 8 cards. Box and cards with coloured picture of shepherd presenting floral wreath to shepherdess. Inside of card contains riddling poem with missing words. Separate sheet listing answers to riddles. Made by Valentine and Sons, Dundee and London. Also contains two handwritten cards 11cm high x 9cm wide with instructions to games, 'Find Me!' and 'Hide and Seek' with blank paper folded round them. Back of cards contain printed advertisement for 'White Elephant' stall for Oxted and Limpsfield Congregational Church. C1915.