Category Archives: LASSCO News
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28 March 2024
Easter Opening Hours 2024
Both LASSCO Three Pigeons in Oxfordshire and LASSCO Brunswick House in South London are closed over the Easter weekend. We close for business at 5.30pm on Thursday 28th March and re-open at 9.00am 2nd April. For any enquiries, please contact us by phone message or email and we’ll get straight back to you next week....
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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...