1) Lace handkerchiefs which belonged to Catherine Dickens.
2) Embroidered overmantel (for hanging on a mantelshelf) made by Catherine Dickens in 1853 for Nelly, wife of Dickens's friend, Mark Lemon, editor of Punch. It is similar to the one she holds in Maclise's portrait of her on the wall above.
3) Catherine Dickens's engagement ring. The noter here explains how it was passed down in the family.
4) Catherine Dickens's gold enamelled and diamond 'serpent' ring.
5) A visiting card case, of tourtiseshell and mother-of-pearl, a wedding present from Charles to Catherine Dickens.
2) Embroidered overmantel (for hanging on a mantelshelf) made by Catherine Dickens in 1853 for Nelly, wife of Dickens's friend, Mark Lemon, editor of Punch. It is similar to the one she holds in Maclise's portrait of her on the wall above.
3) Catherine Dickens's engagement ring. The noter here explains how it was passed down in the family.
4) Catherine Dickens's gold enamelled and diamond 'serpent' ring.
5) A visiting card case, of tourtiseshell and mother-of-pearl, a wedding present from Charles to Catherine Dickens.