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Fire shovel, reverse

Cast polished steel fire shovel with a decorative brass handle, a floral finial and a bell-shaped blade with a pierced flower motif, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a poker, each with a registration lozenge mark and the letter H which dates them to 1843, possibly made in Sheffield by H & W Turner. Date: 1843

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The Complete Practical Cook

Book, The Complete Practical Cook; Or, A New System Of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery, by Charles Carter, London: printed for W. Meadows, in Cornhill; C. Rivington, in St Paul's Church-Yard; and R. Hett in the Poultry, 1730. The book is a quarto voulme with 60 copper plates of table layout diagrams, recased in its original panelled, blind tooled calf boards. The front end paper is inscribed Worthington / Cowley House'. 26 x 20.5 cm

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Christmas wrapping paper

Three sheets of Christmas wrapping paper printed with a design of silver fir trees, stagecoaches with four horses and a hotel on a salmon pink ground, manufactured by Perkins Paper Products Ltd., Montreal, Canada, and thought to date c.1930-1940. Date: 1930-1940

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