A Late 19thC French Painted Pine Commode c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Initially the brand was called

Initially the brand was called Mex which had been a brand of the Bowring Petroleum Co Ltd who had been taken over by Shell in 1921

Getting Owen to court proved somewhat difficult

the better

in the designs for Sion House which was the seat of the Duke of Northumberland in the county of Middlesex which shows the ‘chimney piece of the anti-room with the panel over it’ – (see photographed scan)

John Leonard Insull (born 1883) was Britain's leading and most prolific ventriloquial figure maker of the twentieth century and between 1952 and 1974 he produced no less than 2017 pieces

A Late 19thC French Painted Pine Commode c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Initially the brand was calledOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 33. 5 Width: 52 Depth: 24 Of desirable roomy proportions and being very decorative, the late nineteenth century painted pine chest of drawers or commode in the Empire style and in a later distressed painted finish in aged white with charcoal being used to pick out the feet, moulding and top; the whole comprising of three short and two graduated long drawers, each with lion