MEREM:2016.18

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Brief description:

wooden chair with ?leather seat and inscribed brass plaque, sold in The Square, Mere, on 23.9.1903, one of six, ‘being the first distraint in Mere Wilts for refusal to pay that portion of rate applied to sectarian education’, or ‘Passive Resistance to the Education Act of 1902’.
Classifications:

domestic / furniture / events / local history
Identifications:

chair
Measurements:

height x width x depth
Material:

wood / brass
Completeness: incomplete