PAIR OF QUEEN VICTORIA’S SILK STOCKINGS
19TH CENTURY
£5,250
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
embroidered with initials ‘VR’, framed, 93 x 35cm (36.6 x 13.8in); together with a framed and glazed pair of photographs and bearing inscription ‘John Meakin (born 1816) and Ann Birkin (born 1816)/ Hosiery Weaver and Hosiery Embroideress for Her Majestys (sic) the Queen/ for sixty years: both photographed in 1898’, 32 x 46cm (12.6 x 18.1in) (2)
Footnote
Exhibited: Queen Victoria: Powerful Ruler of a Mighty Empire The Forbes Magazine Collection at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, January 20th - April 29th, 2001, No. 151