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Catherine Southon Antiques & Collectibles Auction 9 June 2021
28. An impressive Victorian Folk Art butcher’s shop display model by Fernley
1880 polychrome decorated wood and plaster, depicting the shop front decked with cuts, carcasses and produce with a butcher holding a steel knife, to the left the abattoir at work with figures engaged in butchery including the slaughtering of a bull, above the sign inscribed ‘Fernley Family Butchers’, and a row of four sash windows, adorned with flags, ferns and potted plants, bears a metal plaque label to left “Fernley Makers Limehouse 1880”, the case with applied gilt frame to front a carrying handles to side. It is understood that these models were placed in butcher’s shop windows when the shop was closed as a trade sign. Height 78cm, width 94.5cm, depth 42cm
Butcher’s Hall, The Worshipful Company of Butchers Woolley & Wallis, Lot 630 3rd April 2012 On loan Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green where on display for over thirty years By direct family descent and made by the then vendor’s great great grandfather
