Shirt front
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Linen
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350230
Summary
Shirt part; Shirt front - Made from white linen. It has a neck band that fastens with a button hole and 2 wide box pleats either side of the centre front and 2 narrow frills. It is marked 'E E B' (Edward Earl Bulwer) on the neckband and 'A B Wade' on the back of the neckband. (male) Wade Catalogue number C.11."Shirt front with wide box pleats, two narrow frills & neckband marked E.E.B. Edward Earle Bulwer (my great grandmother's brother.) & a pair of cuffs" Gift from K.B.S. (Grannie Spencer)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade