Writing case
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, silk and metal
Measurements
359 x 265 mm; 10 mm (thickness)
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.5
Summary
A tooled leather desk-top writing case with a green watered-silk lining and integral blotter pad. The case has two large and two smaller pockets. The front has a metal monogram of Via Gibbs' initials: VG. The inside is stamped in gold with the makers details reading: J. C. VICKERY / APPOINTMENT / TO HER MAJESTY / 179, 181, 183, REGENT ST. W.
Provenance
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.