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Orange and Blue Q Newlyn (Kemp 167). Screenprint in colours, on Arches paper, signed in pencil, numbered 55 of and edition of 150.

Signed by the artist.

Trophy with handles and lid.

One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'Suts in Yard (successor of this) was one of the most important features of our School life. Besides being a Tuck Shop it was also the Stationary Store and School Book Shop. It is a great pity the photo of Suts including the amazing MISS LUCY ROUD has not survived in this series, purchased from there. (It may however be seen in Record of OWW, Vol III).
A ‘Greaze up Suts’ could be a fearsome affair in which the smaller or weaker stood little chance. Never so much as in Play 1918, when stock was normally limited to ‘Thin Arrowroot’ but chocolate arrived twice the term! (Later, always in stock).
MISS ROUD was a truly wonderful character - small, gold-bespectacled, resembling a village store-keeper. During School hours, she made up all the Book and Stationary accounts (in a unique round hand) for 350 boys. In Breaks she dealt (generally single handed) with scores of chits for ‘Quartern’-‘nib’-‘pen’ etc. etc. and continuous vociferous demands (especially during a Greaze) for this or that item of confectionary. Her one, unfailing weapon was: ‘Shan’t serve you! Enough!”'

One copy annotated on reverse as follows, by R.S. Chalk:
'1918-1924
By the 1920’s the multiplication of names of O.WW up School was beginning to pose a real problem, as space was running short. They cost (I believe) only 5/- Each!
Towards the end of my time I heard Costley-White explaining to some distinguished visitors that in future permission to have names painted up School was to be confined to “Westminster Families”, i.e. families that had at least three members at the School at some date. I could claim a younger brother and, later, three cousins – but in any case all was decided by the Blitz (which obliterated hundreds of names, including 17 Phillimores and 16 Waterfields).'

A George III silver mustard pot on three feet, embossed with a border of flowers on foliate and paw feet, blue glass liner. Maker's mark obscured.

Mahogany case with rocaille gilt brass mounts, painted dial signed within rocaille mask spandrels, subsidiary dials to the lower spandrels - Musica/Silence and Minuet/Dance/Hornpipe/Gavot, the arch with a painted automaton vignette of a harbour scene, eight day movement with a cylinder action carillon of ten bells, twin pull chord repeats.

Miniature of Mrs. Charlotte Du Brieux

Kept "Mother du Brieux's" Boarding House at No1. Dean's Yard. Formerly Mrs (Driffield) but subsequently married the Chevalier du Brieux ...