QUEEN MARY'S GIFT
FINE HANDIWORK ADMIRED [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Feb. 5 In appreciation of a finely-worked hand screen presented to Queen Mary by the patients at the Mount Sanatorium for tubercular sufferers at Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, Her Majesty has sent a mother-of-pearl calendar to Mr. C. Baggs, a disabled soldier, of Basingstoke, who had made the screen. Accompanying her gift was the following letter from Marlborough House:—"Please give this cajendar to the disabled man who did the lovely work, with my best wishes. From Queen Mary." Mr. Baggs, who served during the Great War in the Hampshire Regiment, has been bedridden for the past six years. The screen, with the design worked upon fine tapestry canvas with embroidery cottons, took him three months to complete. He explained that a bird in the centre of the design required 1300 stitches to the inch.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 15
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