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And who is the very important person? and what
is the marquetry picture?
(A clue: This mural represents the VIP's silver jubilee)
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Yes that's right
you've got it, the very important person is no other than Her Majesty the
Queen. The London Group made this very large mural for the Queen's Silver
Jubilee in 1977 and as the reprint shown below of the letter sent to Charlie
Good from Buckingham Palace confirms, Her Majesty was most impressed with
the marquetry piece.
You will be pleased to know that the Queen did indeed
find a place to hang the picture and it hangs, I believe to this day, in Her
Majesty's Coach House. That extremely well respected marquetarian, the
aforementioned
Charlie Good acted as the spokesman and representative of the London Group
in all the dealings at Buckingham Palace concerning this highly impressive
work.
The picture actually made it's debut at an exhibition in the House of
Commons at the Houses of Parliament London under the auspices of Bill
Lincoln (the then owner of Art Veneers) and was unanimously given the
'thumbs up' by the members of Government of the day.
This picture proved to
be a real feather in the cap for the members of the London Group and Alf Murtell in particular who participated in the picture and who provided the
notes for this article, thanks Alf. |
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This picture on the
right is a reprint of the scroll seen on the right hand side of the silver
jubilee mural just below the Windsor Castle picture.
As it is difficult to
read the wording in the photo, presumably due to the lighting conditions at
the time and the reflective nature of the grain pattern of the selected
veneer, I have re-sampled that section and enhanced it in Photo Shop for
you, I think it's worth it, don't you?
If you would like to see a more
legible version of this scroll click the button below:
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