Fancied fillies and fancy embroidery
An 1841 guide to London’s ladies of the night sold by Hansons for £3300 featured recently in ATG (No 2390), and one of the many rarities that emerged from the recent Gloucestershire sale of the late Martin Orsky’s library was a group of four 18th century broadsides advertising prostitutes.
In the Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) sale of June 26 bidding reached £14,000 for these broa…