Clement Oswald Skilbeck (1865-1954) Justice, 1914 a cast silver cloak clasp signed C O Skilbeck, 1914 in the case 11.5cm. diam. Catalogue notes Clement Skilbeck exhibited at the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society exhibitions , between 1896 and 1906. He was considered one of the last Pre-Raphaelite artists and was friends with William Morris and Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

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