A Cooke at an auction

 

London Evening Standard Wednesday 3^rd May 1882

MESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON,& HODGE will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, No. 13, Wellington Street Strand W.C. on Thursday May 25^th the SILVER PLATE (above 1,000 ounces) and articles of Virtu, collected by the late John Fitchett Marsh esq, comprising plated ware, oriental, wedge wood and other china. Shakespeare relics some important bronzes, marble busts, marqueteric cabinets a large and beautiful portable equatorial telescope by Cooke and Sons, 2 microscopes, one a very fine ‘binocular’ by Smith and Beck fire screens etc.

John Fitchett Marsh Esq formerly of Fairfield House Warrington and late of Hardwick House Chepstow