SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove antique merit certificates published by W F Jackson

published by W F Jackson & Sons of Salford Manchester in the late 30s/early 40s

right down to those wonderful scrolled feet

Each measures 25 1/8" t x 1 5/8" in diameter

7 1/4" tall x 2" wide x 7/8" deep

As darning was a skill taught to young women of all classes--including in orphanages

SOLD Hand-carved Alabaster Dove antique merit certificates published by W F JacksonThe alabaster doves I have foound most similar in manner to this one are later 19th century Italian; whether that is the case here I am not certain, but it certainly seems to have a good amount of age. This one certainly seems poised as if to perch on the edge of an urn and perhaps it once did; there is a little roughness to the flat underside of the feet but not enough to tell me for sure. Whatever the case, I love a dove, and a marble carving, and I