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A VICTORIAN LEATHER 'EGYPTIANESQUE' STATIONERY BOX, ALEXANDER JONES & CO., LONDON, LATE 19TH CENTURY of pylon form, the black leather stamped with broad hieroglyph filled borders, the lid stamped 'THEOBALDS MUSEUM', the black watered silk-lined interior with cream dividers, with stamp by hinge 'Alex. Jones & Co. 154 Regent St' 27cm wide The Theobalds Museum was a large collection of Egyptian antiquities, amassed by the colourful Valerie Lady Meux (1847-1910). The British Musuem's Egyptologist, Walter Budge, catalogued over 1700 artefacts in the collection. The museum turned down her bequest of the collection however, so it was sold following her death. Apparently Valerie Susan Langdon (otherwise Val Reece) met the brewery millionaire Sir Henry Meux at the Casino de Venise in Holborn, where she entertained the clientele with her banjo playing and singing (more scurrilous gossips inferring that she was also entertained gentlemen privately). Marrying in secret in 1878, the couple enlarged their 18th century mansion, Theobalds, near Waltham Cross, including such improvements as a swimming pool and indoor skating rink. Although shunned by much of society, the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Winston Churchill visited; entertained in the banqueting room of Christopher Wren's Temple Bar, which had been transported from London and re-erected as the estate's gatehouse. Twice painted by Whistler, a third unfinished portrait was supposedly destroyed by the artist following a falling-out with Lady Meux.