Torch
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, Glass, Textile, Tin
Measurements
24 mm (Diameter)114 mm (Length)31 mm (Diameter)115 mm (Length)
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1334695
Summary
Two small cylindrical metal torches with pink and orange coloured covers and bullseye lenses engraved 'FOREIGN'. Contained in a drawer in cabinet SNO.F.891 with a similar torch in brown engraved with 'MADE IN ENGLAND', an EVER-READY Mullard radio valve in a card box, and other broken pieces of torches and material. Formerly this group had additional inventory number SNO.G.249.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.