Showing posts with label Antiques Cartland Lockwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antiques Cartland Lockwood. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

FROTHY HATS AND OTHER HEADGEAR ON ROADSHOW

The  BBC's Antiques Roadshow never ceases to entertain and  turn up items of extreme interest . Last night the show produced  the above  collection of  hats  which  had  belonged to the  romantic novel writer  Barbara  Cartland, bought by a woman's husband  at auction in 2000  for slightly more than 2000 pounds . Another unusual  item was an album of paintings in the 1810-1840s period , valued at 10,000 pounds ,  of a Quaker household  in which the gardener, Lockwood, wearing a  top hat , was  raking   leaves . Strange indeed  was the  caul, the  membrane  which  covered the head of  a baby when  he was born . It was supposed to be buried with him  later in  life , but he and his wife  died within  a short time of each other  and were  buried  in  a  mass  grave .