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ID number:  WB-HC0928
Institution:  Winterbourne House and Garden
Named collection:  Winterbourne House Collection
Artist / Maker:  Giberne, Agnes
Title / Object name:  Least Said Soonest Mended by Agnes Giberne
Object type:  Book
Date made:  1906
Materials:  Paper
Measurements:  19x13.5cm

Red hardback book with illustration of girl reading and dog on front cover. Published by James Nisbet & Co, London. Prize label in front cover: Ranelagh Road Wesleyan Sunday School Wolverhampton Round O Class 2nd Class Prize awarded to Florence Nicholls January 1906. Belonged to donor's grandmother. Donor's grandparents William and Florence (nee Nicholls) Dickenson were employed by Bell & Nicolson as travelling salesman for baby clothes and draper's assistant - donor occasionally wore the samples. William Dickenson started at Bell & Nicolson in 1906 at 16 and stayed till retirement in 1950s by which time he was a buyer.

Notes:  Prize inscription

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