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Mintorn & Son specialised in glass shades and imported alabaster vases of various shapes and sizes as well as kits for modelling wax flowers, like this example. The firm had premises in various fashionable addresses in central London, including the Pantheon Bazaar, Oxford Street, and New Bond Street, from the 1840s to the 1860s.
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