Box base
Category
Coins and medals
Date
Unknown
Materials
card, gilt
Measurements
52 x 68 x 23 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748812.1.2
Summary
The bottom to the cream jewellers box containing a piece of white tissue paper on top of which sits a piece toilet paper, on which sits Walter Straw's 'PAST PRESIDENT' of 'WORKSOP CHAMBER OF TRADE' medal underneath a pad of wool wadding. Box - two piece cream box, the lid has a brown gloss border to the top edge with the words; 'W. F. Marshall WATCHMAKER & JEWELLER. 43. GATEFORD ROAD. WORKSOP.' in gold. The bottom of the box is plain with; 'W. W. STRAW 1936 & 1953' handwritten in blue pen.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.