£225
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
machine-woven silk, mounted on a paper backing with applied registration lozenge and embossed crest of the city of Coventry, later framed
Note: Tennyson's Ode on the opening of the Exhibition was written at the request of Francis Richard Sanford, organizing secretary for the London International Exhibition, and set to music by William Sterndale Bennett to be sung at the opening ceremony. Charles Newsome registered the ribbon design with the Patent Office on 31 May 1862.