A Late 19thC Plaster Library Bust of Julius Caesar c.1870-90; Aynhoe Park Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Any antique crystal spheres are

Any antique crystal spheres are very desirable especially if a well-known reader has used them

and at least one later swore she owed her life to him

among the meadow hay…"

and elsewhere

The ribbons will be later additions otherwise they are as found and in very original order

A Late 19thC Plaster Library Bust of Julius Caesar c.1870-90; Aynhoe Park Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Any antique crystal spheres areOrigin: EnglishPeriod: VictorianProvenance: Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire, EnglandDate: c. 1870 90Width: 10Depth: 9. 5Height: 19 Base Diameter: 6. 75 (all at extremities)The very decorative plaster portrait bust of the emperor Julius Caesar, in his prime years, shown without state dress, facing slightly to sinister on a socle base, and surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and from the Aynhoe Park estate, England. The bust has a very