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Lot 112

WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, FIRST DUKE OF)
A pair of blued steel spectacles, with provenance note

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, FIRST DUKE OF)

A pair of blued steel spectacles, round lenses and thin folding wire sides with arrow-shaped ends (one arm broken), with dark red leather case, gilt-tooled label to interior "JONES/ 62/ CHARING CROSS", and on exterior "X", with manuscript memorandum in ink "These spectacles belonged to the Duke of Wellington. They were given to me on leaving Strathfield Saye [the Hampshire home of the Dukes of Wellington] to return to India on the 31st December 1841. I bequeath these to my dear Child Louisa Michel June 14th 1843 Simlah, C.H. Churchill"

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Provenance: By tradition, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington; Chatham Horace Churchill (1791-1843), Major General in Her Majesty's Service in the East Indies who fought at Waterloo; Louisa Anne Michel (née Churchill, 1819-1905); Christie's, South Kensington, 19 August 1993, lot 69; David Gainsborough Roberts; Christie's, South Kensington, 14 September 2016, lot 562.

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