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A substantial late Victorian oak magazine of draughtsman’s drawing instruments, W.F. Stanley, London, circa 1890 The interior with moire silk padded lining to lid inscribed in gilt W.F. STANLEY, GREAT TURNSTILE STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON W.C., & RAILWAY TERMINUS, LONDON BRIDGE beneath TO H.M. GOVERNMENT over lined lift-out fitted top tray containing a comprehensive selection of nickel plated brass instruments and ivory handled pens including beam compasses with pen pencil and plain points, a rare triangular compass, a nine-inch proportional compass engraved with calibrations labelled PLANS and SOLIDS and signed STANLEY., GT. TURNSTILE., LONDON., a ‘road’ compass and an ivory ‘dotting’ pen incorporating alternative dotting styles within screwed-lid container to end cap; the middle tray with a twelve-inch nickel plated brass rolling rule, five boxwood scale rules each stamped with Stanley trademark, an ebony cylindrical rule and a wooden straight edge; the lower section with a circular nickel plated protractor calibrated in degrees in both directions and signed for Stanley to the central cross-piece, the base with apron drawer containing watercolour paints and related accessories including a ceramic mixing palette, the exterior of the box with oval brass name plate engraved Tom Yendoll, Ebbw-Vale and capped corners to lid over conforming strapped edges, 36.5cm (14.5ins approx.) wide. William Ford Stanley is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from 3 Holborn bars, London 1860-64; 3, 4 and 5 Great Turnstile, Holborn, London from 1860; 13 Railway Approach, London Bridge 1869-91 and 1, 8 and 9 Tichborne Court 1872-91. Online records indicate that Tom Yendoll was the proprietor of the Heol y Mwyn Hotel in Ebbw Vale during the 1890’s and was chairman of the Ebbw Vale Cricket Club in 1912. The presence of the Railway Approach address within the gilt on silk trade label to the interior of the lid of the current lot would indicate a date of around 1890 which suggests that Tom Yendoll may have worked as a draughtsman before becoming a victualler.

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