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A very rare Royal Doulton figurine to be sold at Lawrences of Crewkerne in October is Sketch Girl, which auctioneer Simon Jones, seen here, estimates at Pounds 500-Pounds 800. It's based on the cover of The Sketch magazine in the Twenties; a pretty girl featured on the front of almost every issue, and the figures on and around her tray - a devil, jockey, ballerina, soldier and cupid - are meant to symbolise the mag's rather eclectic fields of interest. Designed by Leslie Harradine, one of Doulton's foremost and most prolific modellers from the Twenties right through until the mid-Fifties, she was produced from 1923 to 1938 in limited numbers, and for some reason is part of a small group of Doulton figures that were not given an official HN number. Apparently commissioned by The Sketch, she was nevertheless made in some numbers and sold to the public.See the full content of this document
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Antiques World's Picks for the Weeks Ahead
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Wessex Auction Rooms' collectors' sale today includes a good number of colourful magic lantern slides, many of them showing the sights of London. By no means as much in demand as some s...See the full content of this document
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