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"Sweet peas (Spencer mixed)"

"Sweet peas (Spencer mixed)"

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"Sweet peas (Spencer mixed)"

by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company (1933-66)

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About This Item

The original watercolor for one of Stecher-Traung's beloved seed-packets. — The 'Spencer' sweet pea is associated with Althorp in Northants: It was the fifth earl's gardener, Silas Cole, who noticed the new variety there in 1898, named it Countess Spencer, and sent 2200 seeds to America in 1903 — ancestors, I suppose, of the individuals pictured here.

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Seller
Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts US (US)
Seller's Inventory #
D1919
Title
"Sweet peas (Spencer mixed)"
Author
Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company (1933-66)
Format/Binding
Archival mat (16 × 13 inches)
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
for Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company, ca 1940
Place of Publication
Rochester (New York)
Date Published
1940
Weight
0.00
Size
133 × 135 mm (5¼ × 5¼ inches)

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Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts is a private, research-intensive rare-book dealer of forty years' experience in and around New York, specialized in exceptional books, manuscripts, and cultural property. Jay Dillon has been responsible for selling or appraising more than $100 million worth of books and manuscripts spanning some three thousand years. In 1989 Jay Dillon was the editor and principal author of a richly annotated catalogue that was hailed in the English press as one of the ten best books -- of any kind -- published that year. In 1994 he was invited to narrate the Discovery Channel program on the history of monopoly; and four years later he was consulted by the Zapruder family in connection with their famous film of the assassination of President Kennedy -- which, as it turned out, Mr Dillon valued more accurately than any other appraiser. The firm maintains a wide and productive network of relationships both among private collectors and in the trade; and we are currently engaged in building a number of outstanding private collections for our clients. Books and manuscripts offered to the public are mainly duplicates from our clients' libraries, or otherwise surplus to their needs. Our appraisal services include formal appraisals for insurance, estate-settlement, and tax purposes. For details please contact Dillonbook@AOL.com.

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