A Magnificent Pair of Carved c.1860 Stone Gate Pier Carvings; Ex Duke of Sutherland, Trentham Estate Size:Default Title but there is a possibility

but there is a possibility he is German or Austrian and he could well be earlier than the first half of the twentieth century

Victorian furniture was sometimes stained to make the wood black like ebony

Most of the photographs were taken in the thirties and forties

The small turned ivory box with pull off cover revealing numerous carved bone lettering survives from the middle of the nineteenth century

Locations are equally varied and include Peru Indiana

A Magnificent Pair of Carved c.1860 Stone Gate Pier Carvings; Ex Duke of Sutherland, Trentham Estate Size:Default Title but there is a possibilityOrigin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Ex Duke of Sutherland, Tittensor, Trentham Estate, Staffordshire, England Date: c. 1840 70 Height: 14 inches Width 20 inches Depth: 20 inches Weight: 125 KGS each (all approx) The pair of mid nineteenth century stone gate pier carvings, each modelled as the head of a gothic mythical beast, and when placed together forming half of a substantial capital, originally being located on a gateway