Lot 91: Sold for £150 hammer
An Antiques & Collectables Auction to include Toys, Wines & Spirits,
Thursday 12th December 2024
A Prattware ceramic chapel money box, probably Mexborough, Yorkshire, modelled in the form of a chapel with male and female figures standing either end, inscribed 'SHARP GARLAND CHICHESTER', painted in traditional colours and spongeware, 14cm wide by 13cm high.
NB: Sharp Garland's grocery shop once stood on the north-east corner of Eastgate Square, Chichester, and was reputed to have been the oldest continuously running grocery business in the country, and is believed to have been founded by John Smith in 1665, ownership of the business changed hands multiple times to different dignitaries and local people important to Chichester, including various members of the Hardham family, in 1860 the grocers was purchased from the Hardhams by Sharp Garland who had been born in Petworth in 1832, the business remained under the Garland family name for 104 years.