Three Early Victorian Legal Manuscript Indentures, Relating To John Smyth sub-Antiques Origin: Holland

Origin: Holland

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– Alice Through the Looking Glass

Three Early Victorian Legal Manuscript Indentures, Relating To John Smyth sub-Antiques Origin: HollandOrigin: English Period: Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: 1838 1839 Width: 30 inches Height: 25 inches Three framed, attractively calligraphic, indentures; written in black ink on vellum, in a neat secretarial hand, two with wax seals of the witnesses or executers below the text. There is some slight creasing to the vellum in a few small areas but this could easily be flattened out. The first indenture, dated the 30th of July 1838, is a contractual