A Good Late Victorian Wasp-Waisted Shop Display Mannequin by Wells & Son, London

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A Good Late Victorian Wasp-Waisted Shop Display Mannequin by Wells & Son, LondonOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1900Height: 65Width: 14Base: 14. 5The good quality shop display mannequin having a well turned adjustable bobbin stand to a wasp waisted form of Parisian origin, having hand written numbering 35670 and Paris to its underside, with the original black linen covering, to a turned knop finial, the base with tri form feet with brass makers plaque for Wells & Son Window Fitting

A charming and aged oak panel

before the invention of radar

in the Louis XVI taste

There are no tears or rips

that’s more like it

This chest has that enviable natural bleaching which is impossible to fake and means it can sit happily in a traditional or more modern setting

One or more swags would normally go at each end

which is stamped by the owner using a special timing punch when it gets home showing the exact time it arrived

has universal appeal and is instrumental in modern psychology and studies of mental development

including new battlements and turrets

Hippolyte André (1826-1891) took on the running of the business once he died

The label under glass bottle having the original squat spherical stopper over protruding lip and frosted neck