Nelson & Forbes sculpture company
Limited Edition Bronze
Nelson & Forbes sculpture company
Limited Edition Solid Bronze Sculpture Hand Cast in Britain
Spring 2014 All prices valid from 1st February 2014 and include VAT at 20%
About Nelson & Forbes
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Sue Maclaurin Sculpture Jonathan Sanders Sculpture
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Wedgwood Museum Sculpture Collection
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Limited Edition Prints
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How to Order and Contact Us
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About Nelson & Forbes Nelson and Forbes is managed by Deborah Foster, the daughter of a portrait sculptor. When the company started in 2009, our aim was to provide truly wonderful sculpture, handmade by English craftsmen using traditional techniques, at a fair price. We wanted to do this with the sort of customer service that we love to receive, but that seems to be getting harder to find by the day. We still hold these principles very much at the heart of our business. We carefully select suppliers who share our values and we work with small, artisan English companies, bringing together and supporting the best of English handmade craftsmanship. We package each sculpture carefully ourselves in beautifully made gift boxes with luxurious certificates of authenticity. Each piece is carefully protected with layers of foam, ensuring that it arrives with you in perfect condition. We make it our priority to ensure that you are absolutely delighted by your sculptureand believe that a gift should bring pleasure from the moment it arrives (especially if you buy it for yourself!) For our Spring 2014 collection, we are pleased to introduce an exciting new collection of five cats by Sue Maclaurin, created in response to requests from collectors who love her sculpting style. We are also pleased to introduce for the first time her new ‘Large Alert Hare’ as an accompaniment for her much loved Large Flying Hare and Large Boxing Hares sculptures. We are also proud to introduce three delightful new pieces by Jonathan Sanders. ‘Warthog and Baby’ and ‘Seated Warthog’ beautifully complement Jonathan’s highly popular Warthog Family that is now approaching the end of its edition. We are also thrilled to introduce his magnificent new ‘Giraffe Mother and Baby’, depicting a tender moment between a mother giraffe and her calf, created in response to requests from collectors who have been asking Jonathan to feature this much loved subject. We hope you thoroughly enjoy selecting your bronze sculpture and making your purchase with us and are delighted to say that we are always available on the telephone if you have any questions. Deborah Foster Managing Director
The Casting Process Every piece created by Nelson & Forbes is cast using the ancient art of lost wax casting which can be traced back over 6000 years and remains largely unchanged from its original form. It is the process that was used to create famous sculptures across the globe including the Trafalgar Square Lions and the doors of the Bank of England. The lost wax process allows every intricate detail of a sculptor’s original but often fragile work to be perfectly recreated in bronze, ensuring that their sculpture will last a lifetime. As well as bringing longevity to the sculptor’s work, bronze as a material adds an aesthetic quality all of its own which the sculptor considers when he is creating his piece. The casting process encompasses fourteen separate steps, each undertaken by skilled craftsman with years of training and experience in his craft. Each piece takes more than two weeks to complete and every one is entirely made by hand. Every time a piece is cast a new mould is created and then destroyed. This means that whilst being utterly faithful to the artist’s original work, every piece is very slightly different to the last and therefore utterly unique. Once complete, every piece is individually numbered as one of a Limited Edition. This number, combined with the artist’s signature, identifies the piece for generations to come.
Hand Made in britain
Every Nelson & Forbes piece is cast by hand in an British foundry before being individually numbered as one of a Limited Edition.
An edition of 250 means that there will be 250 bronze castings created of that piece and then no more will be produced.
The sculptures are carefully packaged in a handmade gift box, created by a family run Midlands box maker, using cutting and scoring machines that date from the 1890s. The boxes are then assembled and covered entirely by hand, using traditional techniques.
Each piece comes complete with a Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the artist and individually numbered. The certificates are individually printed by hand in Hampshire from an original copper plate engraving.
In an age of low cost disposable convenience, we believe in creating timeless pieces of the highest quality whilst supporting and celebrating British craftsmanship.
Sue maclaurin - Sculptor
Sue Maclaurin is no observer on the sidelines of nature; she is absolutely immersed in the countryside, whether in the U.K. or in the African bush, where she roamed on horseback during her school holidays.
For many years, whilst perfecting her sculpting by studying and sketching wildlife and making models for feature films, she also worked variously as a cattle farmer, gold miner and fish farmer. Even today, her skills as a saddle maker and fitter are very much in demand.
This absolute passion for the natural environment is evident in Sue’s collections of British wildlife sculpture. She perfectly captures the essence of each animal, from the twitch of a whisker to the cock of an ear and this gives her pieces a tangible life force that contributes to her work’s popularity with collectors and art lovers around the world.
Sue now lives and works from her studio in Wiltshire, surrounded, as one might expect, by her beloved English countryside.
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Alert Hare Size: 7w x 16h x 6d cm Size: 2 ¾”w x 6”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Hare Washing Ear Size: 5w x 12h x 8d cm Size: 2”w x 5”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00 12
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Moon Gazing Hare Size: 6w x 12h x 4d cm Size: 2 ½”w x 5”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Listening Hare Size: 7w x 10h x 4d cm Size: 2 ¾”w x 4”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00 13
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Lying Hare Size: 14w x 7h x 9d cm Size: 6”w x 3”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Running Hare Size: 13w x 10h x 5d cm Size: 5”w x 4”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
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Sue Maclaurin
Title: Alert Hare II Size: 5w x 14h x 4.5d cm Size: 2”w x 5 ½”h x 1 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Grooming Hare Size: 8w x 9h x 6.5d cm Size: 3 ¼”w x 3 ½”h x 2 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
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Sue Maclaurin
Title: Racing Hare Size: 12w x 9h x 5d cm Size: 4¾”w x 3 ½”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Rolling Hare Size: 15w x 12h x 7d cm Size: 6”w x 5”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
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Sue Maclaurin
Title: Tumbling Hares Size: 16w x 22h x 11d cm Size: 6”w x 9”h x 4”d Edition: 250 Price: £510.00 17
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Flying Hare Size: 20w x 13h x 8d cm Size: 8”w x 5”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £245.00 18
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Flying Hare II Size: 19w x 14h x 6d cm Size: 7 ½”w x 5 ½”h x 2 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £245.00 19
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Boxing Hares Size: 14w x 18h x 10d cm and 10w x 17h x 10d cm Size: 6”w x 7”h x 4”d & 4”w x 7”h x 4”d Edition: 250 Price: £450.00 20
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Boxing Hares II Size: 8w x 19h x 8d cm and 7w x 17.5h x 9d cm Size: 3”w x 7 ½”h x 3”d and 2 ¾”w x 7”h x 3 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £450.00 21
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Large Flying Hare Size: 22w x 20h x 8d cm Size: 8 ½”w x 7 ½”h x 3 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £460.00 23
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Large Boxing Hares Size: 14w x 23h x 7d cm and 15w x 21h x 13d Size: 5½”w x 9”h x 2 ¾”d and 6”w x 8 ¼”h x 5”d Edition: 250 Price: £760.00 25
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Large Alert Hare Size: 8.5w x 18h x 7.5d cm Size: 3 ¼”w x 7”h x 2 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £400.00 26
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Sitting Cat Size: 7w x 8h x 5d cm Size: 2 ¾”w x 3 ¼”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Crouching Cat Size: 9w x 5.5h x 4.5d cm Size: 3 ½”w x 2”h x 1 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00 28
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Cat Licking Paw Size: 8.5w x 6.5h x 5d cm Size: 3 ½”w x 2 ½”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Seated Cat Size: 7w x 9h x 5d cm Size: 3”w x 4”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £160.00 29
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Bounding Cat Size: 17w x 9h x 6d cm Size: 6 ¾”w x 3 ½”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £240.00 30
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Leaping Cat Size: 15w x 12.5h x 5.5d cm Size: 6”w x 5”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £240.00 31
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Large Pig Head Left Size: 12.5w x 6.5h x 4d cm Size: 5”w x 3”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £155.00
Title: Medium Pig Head Left Size: 9w x 5h x 5.5d cm Size: 4”w x 2”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £125.00
Title: Piglet Head Left Size: 5w x 3h x 2.5d cm Size: 2”w x 1”h x 1”d Edition: 250 Price: £72.00
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Sue Maclaurin
Title: Large Pig Head Right Size: 12.5w x 6.5h x 4d cm Size: 5”w x 3”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £155.00
Title: Medium Pig Head Right Size: 9w x 5h x 5.5d cm Size: 4”w x 2”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £125.00
Title: Piglet Head Right Size: 5w x 3h x 2.5d cm Size: 2”w x 1”h x 1”d Edition: 250 Price: £72.00
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Sue Maclaurin
Title: Seated Pig Size: 11w x 5h x 5d cm Size: 4”w x 2”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £155.00 34
Sue Maclaurin
Title: Listening Bear Size: 9cm w x 6.5cm h x 5.5cm d Size: 3 ½”w x 2 ½”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £195.00
Title: Seated Bear Size: 5cm w x 8cm h x 5.5cm d Size: 2”w x 3”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £195.00 35
Jonathan Sanders - Sculptor
It is unusual, even rare, for an artist to excel in more than one discipline, but that is what Jonathan Sanders has achieved. After graduating with a Fine Art degree from North Staffordshire University, a prized career spanning more than three decades as a landscape painter followed. Notable commissions included an album cover for the band “Ladysmith Black Mambazo” and a portait of Nelson Mandela.
With work successfully selling in galleries and well known high street stores across the U.K., Jonathan revisited his passion for sculpting and swiftly earned himself an enviable reputation as a sculptor of African wildlife.
Jonathan has spent many years studying the form and movement of the animals he loves in their native Africa. His deep knowledge and understanding of his subjects allows him to exquisitely capture the animal’s raw spirit and to imbue each of his pieces with an emotion that means his art is highly sought after by animal lovers and collectors alike.
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Bull Elephant Size: 20w x 12h x 11d cm Size : 8”w x 4 ¾“h x 4 ¼“d Edition: 250 Price: £575.00 39
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Elephant Mother and Baby Size: 19w x 11h x 8d cm and 10w x 6h x 4d cm Size: 8”w x 4”h x 3”d and 4”w x 2 ½”h x 1 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £555.00 41
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Elephant Mother and Baby II Size: 16w x 10.5h x 7d cm and 8w x 6h x 4.5d cm Size: 6 ¼”w x 4”h x 2 ¾”d and 3 ¼”w x 2 ¼”h x 1 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £555.00 43
Jonathan Sanders
Title: One Plus One Size: 9w x 5h x 3d cm and 7w x 6h x 4d cm Size: 3 ½”w x 2”h x 1 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £200.00 44
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Tug of War Size: 11w x 5.5h x 4d cm and 10w x 5h x 4d cm Size: 5”w x 2”h x 1”d Edition: 250 Price: £200.00 45
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Playing Elephants Size: 7w x 4.5h x 6d cm and 9w x 4.5h x 5d cm Size: 2 ¾”w x 1 ¾”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £200.00 46
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Playing Elephant Size: 5w x 5h x 7d cm Size : 2”w x 2”h x 2 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £115.00
Title: Seated Elephant Size: 5w x 6h x 7d cm Size : 2”w x 2 ¼”h x 2 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £115.00
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Rhinoceros Mother and Baby Size: 17w x 8h x 8d cm and 10w x 5h x 3d cm Size: 7”w x 3”h x 3”d and 4”w x 1½”h x 1”d Edition: 250 Price: £555.00
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Hippopotamus Mother and Baby Size: 16w x 8h x 7d cm and 8w x 5h x 4d cm Size: 6”w x 3”h x 3”d and 3”w x 2”h x 1 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £555.00
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Giraffe Mother and Baby Size: 19w x 17h x 8d cm and 10w x 16h x 4.5d cm Size: 7 ½”w x 6 ¾”h x 3 ½”d and 3 ¾”w x 6 ¼”h x 1 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £695.00 53
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Warthog Family (5 pieces) Size: 4 – 7 cm High to the Ears Size: 1” - 3” Edition: 250 Price: £450.00 55
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Warthog and Baby Size: 10w x 8.5h x 4.5d cm and 6w x 7h x 3.5d cm Size: 4”w x 3 ¼”h x 1 ¾”d and 2 ½”w x 2 ¾”h x 1 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £250.00 56
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Seated Warthog Size: 10.5w x 7.5h x 5d cm Size: 4”w x 3”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £175.00 57
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Running Lion Size: 20w x 12h x 7d cm Size: 8”w x 4 ¾”h x 2 ¾”d Edition: 250 Price: £400.00 59
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Hunting Lion Size: 19w x 10h x 9d cm Size: 7 ½”w x 4”h x 3 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £395.00 61
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Large Leaping Lioness Size: 30w x 18h x 11d cm Size: 12”w x 7”h x 4”d Edition: 150 Price: £850.00 63
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Leaping Impala Size: 14w x 14h x 4d cm Size: 5 ½”w x 5 ½”h x 1 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £245.00 Leaping Impala is scaled to complement Running Lion, Hunting Lion and Flying Cheetah
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Cheetah on Branch Size: 17w x 14h x 4d cm Size: 6 ¾”w x 5 ½”h x 1 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £335.00 65
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Flying Cheetah Size: 23w x 15h x 6d cm Size: 9”w x 6”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £310.00 67
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Meerkat Daisy Size: 3w x 10h x 8d cm Size: 1”w x 4”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00
Title: Meerkat Hester Size: 4w x 8h x 9d cm Size: 1”w x 4”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00
Title: Meerkat Archie Size: 3w x 10h x 7d cm Size: 1”w x 4”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00 68
Jonathan Sanders Title: Meerkat Ginger Size: 4w x 11h x 6d cm Size: 1”w x 4”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00
Title: Meerkat Monty Size: 7w x 8h x 9d cm Size: 2”w x 3”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00
Title: Meerkat Errol Size: 5w x 8h x 9d cm Size: 2”w x 3”h x 4”d Edition: 250 Price: £110.00 69
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Seated Kangaroo Size: 13w x 10h x 5d cm Size: 5”w x 4”h x 2”d Edition: 250 Price: £190.00
Title: Lying Kangaroo Size: 15w x 6h x 8d cm Size: 6”w x 3”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £180.00
Title: Joey Size: 7w x 5h x 3d cm Size: 3”w x 2”h x 1”d Edition: 250 Price: £89.00 70
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Boxing Kangaroos ize: 23w x 13h x 6d cm Size: 9”w x 5”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00 71
Wedgwood Museum Original Bronze Sculpture Nelson & Forbes and sculptor Jonathan Sanders were invited by the Wedgwood Museum to create a range of contemporary bronze sculpture, inspired by its collections. The Wedgwood Museum Collection is a unique record of the history of the Wedgwood company. It can be traced back to the founder, Josiah Wedgwood I, who, conscious of the experimental nature of the work he was undertaking, began to keep his trials and experiments for posterity. When Jonathan Sanders visited the museum, he was particularly entranced by the Domestic Employment series of Jasperware, depicting young children going about their day to day life, typically engaged in ‘domestic employment’. The depictions are a beautiful and some might say a slighly romantic view of how ordinary children experienced life in the 1780s , from the point of view of the aristocrat, Lady Elizabeth Templetown. “I couldn’t help but compare those scenes with the lives of my own children”, he says, “and was inspired to sculpt a collection of pieces of them going about their every day life today.” The resulting pieces are a depiction, by a contemporary artist, of the domestic life of today’s English child and Nelson & Forbes are proud to have the opportunity to produce them by hand in England, just as Wedgwood have done for many generations. Each piece is individually numbered and presented in a beautiful hand made gift box with a hand signed and numbered booklet of information.
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Original Bronze Sculpture By
Title: Seated Boy Size: 4w x 9h x 8d cm Size : 1 ½”w x 3 ½”h x 3”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00
Title: Seated Girl Size: 6w x 6h x 6d cm Size : 2 ¼” w x 2 ¼” h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00 ‘The Wedgwood Museum’ is a trade mark belonging to the Wedgwood Museum Trust Limited.
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Title: Reading Boy Size: 14w x 4h x 7.5d cm Size: 4 ½”w x 1 ½”h x 2 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00
Title: Reading Girl Size: 13w x 5h x 6d cm Size: 5 ¼”w x 2”h x 2 ½”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00
Title: Lying Boy Size: 15w x 5h x 6d cm Size : 5 ½”w x 2”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £265.00
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Original Bronze Sculpture By
Title: Large Lying Girl Size: 20.5w x 8h x 5.5d cm Size: 8 ¼”w x 3 ¼”h x 2 ¼”d Edition: 250 Price: £585.00 77
Limited edition prints
Nelson & Forbes is proud to make available Jonthan Sanders’s original sketches of his sculptures as beautiful limited edition prints. These are sketches that Jonathan Sanders created while he was working on a new sculpture, before further working on and embellishing them with colour and texture until he was satisfied that they became lovely paintings in their own right. Each image has been carefully Giclee printed in Great Britain, on high quality Innova Art Fine Art Watercolour cold press 330 gsm paper, using only Epson Ultrachrome inks which are guaranteed to be light fast for 120 years in normal viewing conditions. The prints are then carefully torn around the edges and mounted by hand on Arqadia Minuet 2000 micron acid free conservation board that complies with Fine Art Trade Guild Conservation Level framing. The image stands slightly proud of the back board upon which it was mounted, so. ‘Image size’ refers to the size of the actual water colour paper image within the mount. Once each image has been printed and mounted, it is individually signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. This is your guarantee that this is an authentic, approved print of Jonathan Sanders’s original painting. You can either choose to buy them unframed or framed in a 23mm wide bronze coloured frame, mounted behind glass. Please note that all prints are shown framed in this brochure.
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Jonathan Sanders
Title: Running Cheetah Edition: 295 Image size: 42cm x 18cm / 16½” x 7” Framed external dimensions: 63cm x 40cm / 24 ¾” x 15 ¾” Framed price: £170.00 Unframed price: £120.00 81
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Follow Me Edition: 295 Image size: 28cm x 16cm / 11” x 6 ½” Framed external dimensions: 49cm x 38cm / 19 ¼” x 15” Framed price: £160.00 Unframed price: £120.00 82
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Tug of War Edition: 295 Images size: 30cm x 20cm / 12” x 8” Framed external dimensions: 51cm x 42cm / 20” x 16 ½” Framed price: £165.00 Unframed price: £120.00 83
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Study for Running Baby Elephants Edition: 295 Image size: 55cm x 13cm / 21 ½” x 5” Framed external dimensions: 76cm x 35cm / 30” x 13 ¾” Framed price: £190.00 Unframed price: £120.00 85
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Elephant Mother and Baby Edition: 295 Image size: 43cm x 25cm / 17” x 9 ¾” Framed external dimensions: 64cm x 47cm / 25 ¼” x 18 ½” Framed price: £175.00 Unframed price: £120.00 86
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Hippopotamus Mother and Baby Edition: 295 Image size: 27cm x 20cm / 10 ½” x 8” Framed external dimensions: 48cm x 42cm / 19” x 16 ½” Framed price: £165.00 Unframed price: £120.00 87
Jonathan Sanders
Title: Study for Hippopotamus Edition: 295 Image Size: 60cm x 15.5cm / 23 ¾” x 6 ¼” Framed external dimensions: 81cm x 38cm / 31 ¾” x 15” Framed price: £190.00 Unframed price: £120.00 89
Nelson & Forbes Gift Bag
Material: Jute Size: 40w x 35h x 17d cm Size : 16”w x 14”h x 10½” d Handle Length: 60cm / 24” Price: £8.99 This is an extra strong eco bag, designed to carry the weight of our sculpture. Please note that the Union Jack is dyed on one side of the bag. The reverse side is a natural jute colour.
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How To Order Call us on 01442 256290 to place your order by telephone, or visit www.nelsonandforbes.co.uk to buy online. We accept payment by most major credit and debit cards and are happy to arrange a convenient delivery date with you. Shipping and Returns We aim to deliver all items within 4 working days of receiving your order. All parcels are sent using overnight courier. This service may take two days to Northern Ireland, The Highlands and Channel Islands. We offer a full ‘no quibble’ 30 day money back guarantee, so if you would like to return your purchase for any reason at all, you are absolutely free to do so. Please see our website for our full returns policy, or ask us to send you a copy. Shipping is charged at the following Rate: UK Orders up to £299.99: £5.00 UK Orders of £300.00 and over: FREE If you would like us to ship your order overseas, please contact us for a shipping cost. To ask a question or place an order, please contact us at: Nelson & Forbes Ltd 10 Binghams Park Farm Potten End Hill Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 3BN United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1442 256290 Email: info@nelsonandforbes.co.uk www.nelsonandforbes.co.uk facebook.com/NelsonAndForbes
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All prices valid from 1st February 2014 and subject to change. This brochure is printed in Britain.
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10 Binghams Park Farm Potten End Hill Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 3BN Telephone: 01442 256290 Email: info@nelsonandforbes.co.uk
Sue Maclaurin Flying Hare