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Osborn, Herbert (1895-1907)

Osborn, Herbert

London & Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire; ivory turner (fl.1895-1907)

Joined the Guild of Handicraft c.1895 as an ivory turner and moved with the Guild from London to Chipping Campden in 1902. Apparently, his wife so disliked the countryside that she never left the cottage in Chipping Campden. Osborn is included in a photograph of the Guild taken in the winter 1906-07.

Sources:  Lambourne, Utopian Craftsmen, (1980); Crawford, C R Ashbee. Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist (1985);Carruthers and Greensted, Good Citizen’s Furniture, The Arts & Crafts Collections at Cheltenham (1994); Greensted, ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement collections at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850-1932 (2000); Greensted and Wilson, Originality and Initiative. The Arts and Crafts archives at Cheltenham (2003).