QUEEN MARY’S GIFTS.
Queen Mary has presented to the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, a telephone receiver set of the candlestick type, which was given to King George V and herself when, as Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, they visited Canada in 1901. It has engraved upon it a presentation inscription from “the Citizens of The Telephone City, Brantford, Can. Oct. 14, 1901.” The works of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada were in Brantford. Queen Mary has presented a number of Victorian knick-knacks from her collection to Father J. S. M. Ward, the director of the Abbey Folk Park and Museum, New Barnet, for exhibition in a nineteenth-century shop which is being added to the museum. The gifts include a mfihogany tea-caddy,’ complete with canisters and sugar-basin ; an inkstand in papier niache, inlaid with mother-of-pearl; an inlaid papier mache stationery box; a papier rnaclie blotter; a gilded and painted papier rnaclie trinket tray; a writing tablet in ivory and mother-of-pearl; two samplers, one dated 1827; and an embroidered needle-book. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 9
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172QUEEN MARY’S GIFTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 9
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