Miscellaneous collection
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620
Summary
A large metal bound wooden trunk containing various personal objects, photographs, postcards and other correspondence, manuscript and documents. Hinged lid, drop-down carrying handles at each end and a metal lining. Painted on the top in white: Books, Papers &c belonging to George Abraham Gibbs and Victoria Florence de Burgh Gibbs for Doreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs. A white stencil on the front shows a capital letter W surmounted by a baronet's crown.,
Provenance
Kindly gifted to the National Trust by Mrs Victoria Eyre in 2018. This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.