FROM £1 TO £1000

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 22, 25 July 1936, Page 25

FROM £1 TO £1000

When the multiform art treasures collected by Horace Walpole were sold at Strawberry Hill in 1842 a Sheldon tapestry map, in two parts, fetched a pound only. Recently at Christie's this map, of Cloucester and adjoining counties, sent by the Earl of Dudley, raced from an opening bid of 500gs to 960gs. Messrs. Mallett, the winners, said that they were acting for an important private collector. Few present recalled that this map had appeared at Sotheby's sixteen years ago in the Henry Birkbeck collection, when it realised £1010. There are rare Sheldon maps in the Bodleian, and some at York Minster. William Sheldon was a squire who, in 1550, established a tapestry factory at Barcheston after having sent his agent to the Low Countries to learn the craft of weaving. "

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