Set of drawers
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, metal, paper, shell and cardboard
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1398839
Summary
A set of four drawers. Covered with textured brown paper. Each drawer has a brass name slot and loop metal handle. Drawer 1 (top) - various shells, loose and in boxes/tins, visiting cards marked 'Mrs Ketton-Cremer, Felbrigg Hall', and a handwritten recipe for 'American Fondant'. Drawer 2 - various shells, visiting cards marked 'Mr Wyndham Cremer, Sheringham, Oxford and Cambridge Club', 'Mrs Wyndham Cremer, Sheringham House', a cardboard box for visiting cards '50 Superior Thin Ivory Visiting Cards, Bowering and Co, Heraldic Stationers and Engravers, 20 George St, Plymouth', and a letter from Oxendale and Co, Manchester. Drawer 3 - various shells. Drawer 4 - various shells, visiting cards 'Mr Ketton-Cremer, Felbrigg Hall, Oxford and Cambridge Club', 'Mr and Mrs Wyndham Cremer, Sheringham House', overwritten 'Beeston Regis Hall'.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).