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    [Original watercolor of pink flowers and purple design]

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    Image of a watercolor with pink blossoms and a botanical and geometric design in purple and gold.

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    Watercolors

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    A group of 15 watercolor paintings of people and scenery, 5 x 8 inches or smaller. The painter is unidentified.

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    Qur'an

    Manuscripts

    The volume is autograph in Arabic script; 6 pages with illuminated borders, in a tooled-leather binding with flap closing. The bookplate with signature of Theodora Duncan pasted down to first end page; some pages with old repairs made by a previous owner.

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  • One boxed Set of watercolor paints

    One boxed Set of watercolor paints

    Visual Materials

    One boxed set of watercolor paints, untitled; manufacturer's name and date are not given. The set is comprised of several small cakes of watercolor paint, one small, round porcelain dish, and two quill paint brushes. The set is housed within a wooden box with a sliding lid. The box is divided into two halves lengthwise by a wooden divider onto which a paper label identifying each color is barely discernible. This box is similar to sets 5 and 10 in Box Number 75. Title supplied by cataloger.

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    Isabel Burton obituaries

    Manuscripts

    This is a bound volume of newspaper obituaries for Isabel Burton, compiler unknown, made in the 19th century. The album has the modern bookplate of Burke E. Casari, a previous owner, pasted onto the inside front cover. Two pieces of ephemera are also enclosed: Sir Richard F. Burton Memorial Fund [printed pamphlet] and a list of the obituaries in the album, typed by B.E. Casari.

    mssHM 82873

  • Instructions on needle-work and knitting, : as derived from the practice of the Central School, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane, London

    Instructions on needle-work and knitting, : as derived from the practice of the Central School, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane, London

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    The nine miniature mounted cloth samples of needlework and knitting consist of: a blue printed cotton pinafore; a linen shift-sleeve; a fine lawn infant's shirt; a fine cotton gentleman's shirt; a frilled and tucked baby's bonnet; a long woollen undergarment trimmed with silk; a darning sampler; a cross-stitch alphabet sampler in red thread; and a cream worsted stocking. The pages on which samples have been attached are included in the pagination. "List of the prices of work done by the girls"--page 26.

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