Dowell, George & Son (1903)
Dowell, George & Son
Address not stated; furniture makers (fl.c.1903)
Makers of a small tobacco and cigar cabinet from Roman stockade oak found in Carlisle, designed by client Edwin Scott-Nicholson for Barn Close, c.1903. The oak had been excavated when an extension to the Carlisle Museum was being built. Hinges and handles for the cabinet were made to Nicholson’s design by the metalworker Richard Llewellyn Benson Rathbone of Liverpool.
Source: Whittaker, ‘Barn Close and the Arts and Crafts Interior’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present’ (2018).
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