A collection of various vintage and antique decorative items presented within a rectangular wicker hamper featuring leather straps and a buckled closure. The group includes two embossed brass wall plaques, one titled MOTHER featuring a poem and a seated figure, the other titled BLESS THIS HOUSE with a religious verse and cottage imagery. Ceramic items include a Shorter & Son Ltd? character jug titled Old Jarvis, depicting a seated man with a purple coat and tri-corn hat, and a circular thermometer / barometer set in a dark wood mount. A white metal? miner’s lamp, two bud vases, and a souvenir Eiffel Tower are present, alongside a perpetual calendar featuring a lady on horseback and two clocks, one marked Moulin Rouge and the other Timemaster Quartz. The lot also contains a mid-century Scrap Book with a printed illustration of a postman, a small brown leatherette suitcase, and a folding pocket knife with a mother-of-pearl effect handle printed with PRE – ACT CONCRETE LTD. TEL. SHEFFIELD 29283. A notable white metal? miniature anvil bears the raised inscription THE BLACKSMITHS ANVIL GRETNA GREEN OVER WHICH MARRIAGES WERE PERFORMED.
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