the-barlin-auction
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London, the Strand, the second day of the November 1879 auction of the late Sir Edmund Barlin's antiquities. Lot 47 — a silver-and-niello bird-pendant, said to be early Byzantine — sells at three of the clock to Mrs. Penelope Penrose of Bath at £142. The pendant delivered by the firm's carrier to the Royal Crescent on the 21st is the right form and the wrong piece: no inscription, no wing-bend. Mrs. Penrose writes in complaint on the 4th of December and encloses a sketch. The bidder against Mrs
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