Antique display
A display of antique collectors’ items and art pieces will open to the public this afternoon in the Te Kura ! Lounge. Some of the items are 300 years old. They are being displayed; Jby the Canterbury Antique' Collectors Club during the: [Arts Festival. i Items of special interest in- ■ elude a silver mote spoon J(1720) now replaced by the; ;strainer in the teapot spout,! a Jacobean high-backed arm-: ■chair (1685) of walnut and woven cane, a drinking glass (1720) etched with Jacobite : symbols, and a Monteith bowl (i 800 in grey tinted glass. One of the display’s more unusual items is an oriental screen in lacquer and colour.: No exhibit is for sale and a continuous watch will be kept on all items. j
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 19
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126Antique display Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 19
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