Convent
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The Convent Collection #3
Apologies for not returning to this collection sooner which we had promised. While we don’t have any further information about the Abbess, we have still been researching this tragic convent almost obsessively. After further analysis we are positively sure that the Abbess infiltrated this once traditional and peaceful convent. Furthermore we believe that the person…
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The Importance of Cards During the Victorian Era Collection #8
Since starting this project, we’ve found ourselves inundated with private collectors asking for our opinion on certain objects, collectables and photographs. We are extremely grateful to those people and, resources permitting, we will try to help any which way we can. These card illustrations were sent to us after the collector noticed a likeness to…
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The Convent Collection #2
Prior to the arrival of the new Abbess, the nuns at the convent lived relatively peaceful, monastic lives. Their days were filled with ascetic practice, song, worship and contemplative meditation. When the new Abbess arrived, all of this began to change; subtly at first and then drastically. Notes made by local observers suggest that the…
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The Convent Collection #1
Today we were cleaning up the office and we came across some images we hadn’t seen for a while. This was a convent which existed around the 1880s in a remote part of the Cumbrian Lake District. It became infamous after a new Abbess took over and a slide towards occultism and isolation began. Historical…
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