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rdaw:P10088
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"A catalogue of superior and elegant furniture, a 12-feet billiard table, fine pedal harp, by Erat; cabinet piano-forte, and valuable melange of articles of taste and vertu, at the mansion of Nevill Holt, near to Market Harborough and Uppingham, comprising twenty-four splendidly carved oak Elizabethan chairs, in rich silk damask; marqueterie commodes ... a collection of forty fine paintings, including a Head of Daniel, undoubted by C. Dolci; two of dead game, by Sneyders, and others of merit; 150 beautiful miniatures, fine prints, exquisitely sculptured marble antique figures & busts, 5000 volumes of books, many scarce and valuable works; capital foreign table and bed linen, small cellar of wines, and a variety of effects; four valuable blood fillies and yearlings, a blood mare and foal, two riding and gig horses, two shooting ponies, twelve pointer dogs, eight sheep, a neat gig, harness, saddles, a stack of fine meadow hay, &c. [1848]"
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