A RARE PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY PAINTED ENGLISH TRICK SCENERY BO...

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£1,600 - £1,800

A RARE PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY PAINTED ENGLISH TRICK SCENERY BOARDS FORMED AS THE QUEEN’S GUARD.
The very rare pair of metamorphic trick scenery boards each hinged and hand-painted to wood and canvas, comprising of two rows of the Queen’s guard appearing from their guard houses, sign written with the numbers B42 and A41, the soldiers appearing to emerge by un-folding into a two rows of twenty five soldiers each, in their distinctive red tunics, on the march, surviving from the latter part of the nineteenth century and from the renowned collection of John Michael Blundall (1937-2014). The original tactile wooden handles are all present. With later small hooks for wall hanging, which could be removed.

(h 76.5cm x w 91.5cm x d 1.5cm)