{"id":768,"date":"2021-03-01T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:10:10","slug":"march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995 a man called Pierre founded a website call AuctionWeb.\u00a0 25 years later this site \u2013 now called eBay \u2013 is a more familiar household name around the world than 250-year-old Christie\u2019s or, even older, Sotheby\u2019s.\u00a0 Knebworth House has found some fine storied treasures on eBay over the years. \u00a0I recall in 2003 using it to put together a display of objects associated with Edward Bulwer Lytton for his bicentenary celebrations.\u00a0 I found comics based on his novels, music manuscripts of songs using his poetry, even a little ornamental silver chair with his name engraved on it, part of a set honouring writers.\u00a0 The display is still in his study.<\/p>\n<p>Last month his namesake, my son Edward, made an interesting discovery on eBay.\u00a0 He spotted a silver tureen with a double \u2018L\u2019 and a coronet that he thought looked familiar.\u00a0 It took us a while to identify where we had seen it before.\u00a0 It was in the detail of a photograph of Edward Bulwer Lytton\u2019s son Robert, when he was Viceroy of India, on the costumes of his attendants. \u00a0The coronet in the design is a Baron\u2019s coronet, not an Earl\u2019s coronet, which Robert (only recently \u2018Lord Lytton\u2019, on the death of his father) became by virtue of that high profile job.\u00a0 Robert was a baron for only 8 years.\u00a0 This explains why the \u2018LL\u2019 Baron insignia is not particularly familiar to us today.\u00a0 It also matches the 1870s date of the tureen to that specific moment in Lytton family history.\u00a0 It now becomes a Knebworth House story \u2013 not as a tureen \u2013 but as a rare and unexpected find on eBay! \u00a0Thanks Pierre!<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrycobboldkh?lang=en\">@HenryCobboldKH<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-770 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LL-terrine-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LL-terrine-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LL-terrine-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LL-terrine.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/245;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-769 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lord-Lytton-insignia-in-photo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lord-Lytton-insignia-in-photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lord-Lytton-insignia-in-photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lord-Lytton-insignia-in-photo.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995 a man called Pierre founded a website call AuctionWeb.\u00a0 25 years later this site \u2013 now called eBay \u2013 is a more familiar household name around the world than 250-year-old Christie\u2019s or, even older, Sotheby\u2019s.\u00a0 Knebworth House has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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