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Descripción : Diary dated 1897 AD. A mixed group of items once the property of Dr. D.W. Collings comprising: a manuscript diary in unbound paper quires with pen and pencil annotations, sketch maps and sketches describing the doctor's travels in Egypt, a card envelope containing a portion of fabric, marked 'Egypt ancient. Fragment of coarse woven material (flax?) used as a backing of a mummy cartonnage? Ptolemaic period', a rectangle of twill woven cloth in an envelope, a glazed composition pendant on card, two hieroglyphic seal impressions on card, a stone spindle whorl, a glazed composition figure of Thoth on a wooden base, a hardstone heart amulet, a restrung necklace of tubular and discoid glazed composition beads, a group of fourteen photographs taken by Dr. Collings with a frame camera, mainly scenes of the Nile. 537 grams total, diary pages: 23 x 17cm (9 x 6 3/4). Ex Dr. Dudley Collings collection, Suffolk, UK, thence by descent, acquired by Collings in 1897 while on his travels in Egypt. Dr Dudley Willis Collings (1870-1955) was the first curator of the Southwold Museum and the town's doctor. Collings's son and daughter-in-law were close friends of Eric Blair (George Orwell) who shared their interest in anthropology. The F.G. Hilton Price collection was published in London in 1897 in a dedicated illustrated volume entitled A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Hilton Price. [24]
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