An interesting collection of jewellery, studio materials and ephemera relating to Miss Bertha Lillian L Goff, including; a silver and blue enamel cloak clasp, six silver and abalone shell buttons, four copper panels, two silver belt buckles with wirework decoration, three silver hat pins, a volume of original jewellery design in pencil, enamelling tools, enamels, a copy of the 1900 and 1905 National Competition books, Enamelling a book by Lewis F Day, three other books on ornament and enamelling, twenty plaster moulds an interesting group of photos in a photo album entitled The Irish Series by Betha Goff, and a collection of photographs and ephemera, (a lot)
Provenance
Bertha Lillian Goff, thence by descent to her great niece.
20th Century Jewellery, Christie's South Kensington 19th June 2001, lot 18.
Private collection.
Catalogue Notes
Bertha Goff (1877-1971) studied at both the Holloway School of Art and the Slade.
Her archive first came to public notice at the B.B.C. Antiques Roadshow in Derby where it was shown to Geoffrey Munn.