A cream-coloured octagonal panel in vulcanised rubber embossed with a fruit centrepiece and decorative border. It is of a type produced for display at the Great Exhibition, 1851. Embossed decorative rubber panel 1850s
Beige-coloured vulcanised rubber embossed with a prayer in ebonite typeface. It is in a rectangular wooden frame and was displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 for blind visitors. The prayer reads: “WHEN THOU PRAYEST ENTER INTO THY CLOSET, AND WHEN THOU HAST SHUT THY DOOR, PRAY TO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET; AND THY FATHER WHICH SEETH IN SECRET SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.” Framed Prayer in Ebonite Typeface Displayed at the Great Exhibition for Blind Visitors. circa 1851