A Large Collection of Mid-19thC Carved Bone Alphabet Letters c.1860 sub-Curios perched on a sphere

perched on a sphere

the panels surviving the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the turn of the century

stone and terra-cotta ware besides a wide range of drainage pipes and fittings

The examples within this particular case have a pleasing variation with a wide range of distinctive colours and pattern

A Large Collection of Mid-19thC Carved Bone Alphabet Letters c.1860 sub-Curios perched on a sphereanOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 70 The Letters: 0. 5 inches high (average) The wonderful collection of 134 carved bone letters in total, each hand made, the group with one complete alphabet, surviving from the high Victorian period and contained in a later tin box. The collection and the box are in as good as condition as you could wish, with a beautiful mellow patination to the bone, varying piece to piece.