ed for and not exposed to too much sunlight),
have kept their condition very well, and now are quite the favourite
kind for collection. It speaks much for the quality of the silks used
and the dyes of nearly three hundred years ago that the fugitive greens
and blues and delicate roses in these little works of art, as in the
superb tapestries of the same date, should be as fine as when made,
whereas to-day's colours are as fleeting as the glories of the rainbow.

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The following are the principal prices in Lady Wolseley's sale:

L s. d.

A small bag, red and gold brocade 2 15 0

A small bag or purse 5 0 0

A fine bead book-cover 6 0 0

Same, trimmed with silver lace (Harris) 6 16 0

A pair of embroidered shoes (Harris) 6 0 0

A small pocket-book, silk embroidery on
silver ground 8 17 6

A pair of Stuart shoes 9 19 6

A stumpwork picture, a most curious globe,
showing Europe, Asia, Africa, and America,
1648 (S. G. Fenton) 24 0 0

A double book of Psalms, embroidered binding
with Tudor rose 23 10 0

A petit point picture, 12-1/2 x 9-1/2 11 11 0

A small picture, partly sketched and partly
worked 4 14 6

A Stuart stump picture, 18 x 15-1/2 18 18 0

A Stuart stump picture, King under canopy,
17-1/2 x 14 14 14 6

A Stuart bullion picture, vase, in
tortoiseshell frame, 23 x 18 8 8 0

Same, with Herodias's daughter and John the
Baptist 5 5 0

A portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales, in
flat-stitch on rose satin 21 0 0

Another on satin, "Bathsheba," spangled,
17 x 13 6 16 0

Another on satin, birds on gold and silver,
13 x 13 (Harris) 13 13 6

A bead picture, 15 x 11 11 11 0

A stump and bead picture, 12 x 11 12 1 6

A small book-cover, 14 x 8 13 12 0

A Stuart stump picture, figures and silver
fountain, tortoiseshell frame, 22 x 16 15 15 0

A stump picture, lady with coral neckl