Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
COSTUME RELATED TO THE WEDDING OF LADY CYNTHIA HAMILTON
Lot 748

COSTUME RELATED TO THE WEDDING OF LADY CYNTHIA HAMILTON

CIRCA 1919

Closed8 July 2010

Price Realised

GBP 687

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COSTUME RELATED TO THE WEDDING OF LADY CYNTHIA HAMILTON
CIRCA 1919
Comprising: a shell-pink bridesmaid's dress; a pair of fine girl's bridesmaid's dresses of lemon pleated silk chiffon; scraps of a wedding gown together with original sketches by Elizabeth Handley Seymour; together with an ivory satin page-boy outfit of later date

The gown and accessories worn at the marriage of Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton (1892-1972), daughter of 3rd Duke Abercorn, to Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975). The wedding took place at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 26 February, 1919.

Specialist note

Madame Elizabeth Handley Seymour was a fashionable dressmaker to the British court and high society, perhaps best known for her 1923 commission to create the wedding gown of the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth. Handley Seymour ran an atelier at number 47, New Bond Street, London, throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s.