Category Archives: LASSCO News
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28 February 2024
The Philosophers
A LASSCO discovery: The Philosophers, carved marble reliefs c.1710, by Francesco Cabianca (1666-1737)
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7 February 2024
The Temple of Friendship Coade Stone Urns
The fifteenth hole at the Harleyford Golf Club is testing. It’s 378yards from Tee to Green that, for the brave right-hander, requires a full-blooded drive with a “draw” on it; the ideal shot should clear the trees and peel to the left, dropping down on to the dog-leg fairway. Get it right and the second shot into...
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13 January 2024
Del-Boy comes to LASSCO
Sir David Jason and Jay Blades pay a visit to LASSCO Three Pigeons
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13 December 2023
Get these floorboards down … and have an “Egyptian Hall”
Reclaimed Flooring from an historic site: Egyptian House, Piccadilly
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16 June 2023
THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK
Brunswick House remembers the death in battle of the Duke of Brunswick at Quatre Bras on the 6th of June, 1815.
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27 March 2023
The Tucker Collection of Frame-makers’ Moulds
Make a gallery wall from the huge collection of frame-makers' moulds now available at LASSCO
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22 March 2023
Panelling salvaged from R.M.S Mauretania
In our ceaseless trawling of the barns, attics, stables and out-houses of fusty institutions and country houses we get the opportunity to find and purchase the most extraordinary things. The year started with the discovery of a large stack of wooden panelling, thick with dust and leaning up in an old garage in the grounds...
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15 March 2023
The Eton College Museum Chimneypiece
Salvaged from under the floorboards of the school hall at Eton, where it had lain for 88 years, LASSCO has acquired a spectacular stone fireplace: In 1935, faced with the dismantling of a huge stone fireplace in the Classical Museum at Eton College, the builders were clearly daunted. Even when disassembled into its component parts...
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22 February 2023
The Gates to Forgotten Metro-Land
In amongst the stock of ironwork at LASSCO Three Pigeons we have a utilitarian pair of iron gates for sale. We removed them from the yard at Verney Junction Station in rural Buckinghamshire. It is now a private house but still with an overgrown railway platform at the back. The small station, in a tiny...
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20 January 2023
Omnia Vanitas…
LASSCO has acquired a framed set of late Victorian and Edwardian caricature portraits from the original Vanity Fair, 1868-1914, depicting a range of figures from the world of art, politics, industry and law. The original Vanity Fair was a weekly society magazine first issued by Thomas Gibson Bowles in 1868. It aimed to capture and...