A Wonderful Pair of c.1800 Carved Oak Sailor's Farewell Figures sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles music hall comedian and actor

music hall comedian and actor and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

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It was purchased by an American magician several years later and performed until it was captured and electrocuted by Thomas Edison who believed it had been enchanted by Nikola Tesla

A Wonderful Pair of c.1800 Carved Oak Sailor's Farewell Figures sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles music hall comedian and actorOrigin: British Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 1810 Width: 3. 75 inches 3 inches (at widest points) Height: 9. 5 inches 9 inches (the figures) Height of The Wholes: 11. 5 inches 11 inches The male and female carved depictions of a sailor and his sweetheart in period dress, each on an associated oak plinth, the sailor with his hands clasped to his chest in sorrow, the lady looking forlorn with an