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Wendy Varley's avatar

How fascinating!

I’ve been finding treasures of a sort in the boxes saved from my parents’ house after they died, so this resonated.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

It’s a delight to find something precious in all the boxes of stuff

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Bronwyn Poulsom's avatar

I would love to be sitting in that chair! I can feel the late afternoon sun, and see a beautiful Mediterranean bay through the trees. A really lovely picture.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

Me too!

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Deborah Vass's avatar

It is such a charming drawing and well done for finding out so much about her. It is so tricky to find out about artists pre- internet.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

There is something very enticing about this print. I want to be sitting at that table in the sunshine!

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Deborah Vass's avatar

I thought just the same and would love a tablecloth like that!

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Annie Graves's avatar

What a lovely picture! And some great detective work

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

It’s charming isn’t it. I can imagine being there.

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Mary Heseltine's avatar

Serendipity! I can feel the sun.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

Don’t you just want to be sitting there! To be fair we are sitting in our garden having just had dinner al fresco so can’t complain!

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June Girvin's avatar

What a great story and detective work, and a lovely picture.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

Thank you June. It was an unexpected pleasure

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Jane Aldridge's avatar

What a lovely discovery. My granddad was a porter at Billingsgate fish market and my mum was familiar with swathes of shellfish being prepared to feed their large family (13 children!)

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

It was delightful to find. I bet your granddad had some (fishy) tales to tell!

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Izzy Moore's avatar

What a beautiful picture.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

I know! I just want to be sitting at that table 😁

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Sheralyn's avatar

What a lovely discovery you made doing a difficult job of wading through boxes of your mums things. Beautiful picture that is really quite calming.

I found hundreds and hundreds of paper clips, pencils and rubbers in my mothers belongings, I kept them for months and then just as I was about to let them go to the tip I found a craft charity that was thrilled to take the lot, I was so pleased that they went to an organization that could use them.

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Gina Ferrari's avatar

I hadn’t thought about a craft charity. What a good idea!

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