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English furniture", of which he was also an important collector. He designed modern furniture in what he described as the "Modern English Traditional School". He wrote extensively on furniture and also produced several books on antique clocks.
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in 1914. He did not serve in the military during the First World War due to ill health, instead working as a designer and decorator. Symonds and
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in his ear; he also claimed that she had poured acid over him at a hotel where they were staying. Bamberger was found guilty of eight counts of perjury relating to her testimony in the divorce court and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in a case that was regarded as unusual at the time due to
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English furniture from
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English furniture and clocks. A study of walnut and mahogany furniture ... together with an account of Thomas Tompion and other famous clockmakers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Bamberger obtain a divorce from her husband who was serving in the military, resulting in a complicated divorce case heard in 1920 that soon after resulted in
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Symonds married Daphne
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164:(1922), were highly detailed treatises on the methods of the fakers that plagued the antiques trade at that time. He also wrote on English clocks and a biography of the Restoration
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English walnut & lacquer furniture. The present-day condition and value and the methods of the furniture-faker in producing spurious pieces &c
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