Vanity case
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Metal
Measurements
114 x 345 x 254 mm
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Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 708896
Summary
A red leather-covered vanity case with twin lockable latches and a leather carrying handle to the front face. Four very small studs to the rear. The interior lined with cream watered silk. Much missing. Red backed white metal hair and clothes brushes remain plus 3 original round tubs. Stained and degraded. A red luggage label printed - Pennyman - Ormesby - Middlesbrough - Passenger To - on an affixed white label, in pencil - Stockton - V - Bristol and, written in ink below on the red label Kings X. Red leather vanity case. Additional contents red plastic pot, two additional glass pots possibly OK. Marked on the inside of the lid.
Provenance
Pennyman collection devised in October 1961 to the National Trust under the terms of Colonel JBW Pennyman's Will.