A Primitive Velvet Backed Tin Wall Mirror c.1900-20

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Object Description

The primitively made tin plate wall mirror being rectangular with rounded corners and with a beautifully distressed plate to a lead border, the rear and sides clad in the original teal coloured velvet and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century.

Object History

Unknown.

Object Literature

The general nature and materials used in this mirror suggest it may have been part of the travelling or circus community.

It would look super grouped with other random pieces of wall art.

Object Condition

The mirror is in as found condition and prove wonderfully decorative, now acting more as a picture than its original purpose.

Object Details

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By appointment only.

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Dealer Location

The Onion Barn
Shoe Cottage
15 High Street
Blunham
Bedfordshire
MK44 3NL

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