AN ENGLISH EARLY 20TH CENTURY FINE CARVED OAK DINGLEY DELL FRAME
with cavetto sight edge, scrolling oak leaves and acorns in deep relief on a punch work ground, fluted ogee
rebate 25 x 17 cm
sight edge 22.5 x 14.5 cm
section depth 10 cm
overall 44 x 36 cm

bears inscribed label (verso): Made of small pieces of Oak from Cobtree Manor, Dingley Dell after the fire which damaged the house on December 25th, 1932. W. A. Wainocot.

'Dingley Dell' - In 1831, The tenant of Cobtree Farm, Mr William Spong is believed to have taken in a soaked Charles Dickens who had fallen in a pond while out walking near Cobtree Farm. It is said that Dickens immortalised him in The Pickwick Papers as Mr Wardle of the Manor Farm near Dingley Dell.