A Mid-19thC Gilded & Painted Plaster Bust of a Young Queen Victoria sub-Macabre- Medicine when it turns brick-red above

when it turns brick-red above and sports a black patch on its belly

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A Mid-19thC Gilded & Painted Plaster Bust of a Young Queen Victoria sub-Macabre- Medicine when it turns brick-red aboveOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 60 Width: 13. 5 Height: 21. 75 Base Diameter: 7 (all at extremities) The well sized three quarter plaster bust of Queen Victoria, with wear and weathering commensurate with age, shown in her younger years and in ceremonial garb, to a circular socle plinth, the crown painted in gilt and with remnants of original paint elsewhere and surviving from the mid Victorian period. There are