Jack the Ripper: An Important c.1866 Cast Iron Street Sign; New Goulston Street E

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Jack the Ripper: An Important c.1866 Cast Iron Street Sign; New Goulston Street EOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1866 Width: 50. 75 inches Height: 6. 75 inches Weight: 12. 2 KGS The mid Victorian period rectangular cast iron street sign with typical shaped ends in black, white and red pigments reading New Goulston Street, E survives from the middle of the nineteenth century and is contemporary with the murders of Jack the Ripper of 1888. The piece is in good overall condition and

a German basketmaker

now complimenting the bottle

The printed Union Jack flag in soft thin cotton is in worn but sound order with a lovely consistent gentle fade across the textile surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century and probably used to celebrate victory in the Second World War

The hardwood shield has an old repair

Of small proportions

all of these anomalies making for a piece telling a real story

The original water within has now reduced to about two centimeters deep due to natural evaporation over more than a century and what would have been the snow chips are now remnants of dirt

Atkinsons Carillon

stereoscope cards

the draws of dovetailed construction gliding soundly

the internal mechanism operating rising hair

In what we like to describe as ‘country house condition’

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