A PRINTED LINEN HANDKERCHIEF OF HERALDIC INTEREST
Lot 45 Property from the Estate of Robert P. Eaton

A PRINTED LINEN HANDKERCHIEF OF HERALDIC INTEREST

PEELE & SIMPSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1768

Closed23 October 2013

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A PRINTED LINEN HANDKERCHIEF OF HERALDIC INTEREST
PEELE & SIMPSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1768
Printed in black on white linen, with a continuous ribbon border enclosing a central field containing the arms and names of 176 English peers and royal Dukes, with the printed inscription, "The ARMS Names & Titles of All the PEERS of ENGLAND to the year 1768, together with ye ARMS of Their Royal Highnesses ye DUKES of Gloucester & Cumberland," signed Peele & Simpson, Inv., R. David, Exec. and D. Richards, Sculp., mounted in a wooden frame
29½ in. (74.9 cm.) high; 32 in. (81.3 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Other examples of this heraldic hankerchief printed by Peele & Simpson are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of London.