Cumbrian house packed full of Mouseman

The 33 pieces of ‘Mouseman’ furniture on offer at Carlisle auction house Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) all came from a Cumbrian Georgian country house where they had been since at least before 1950.

Many were probably pre-war pieces, made during the lifetime of Robert Thompson (1876-1955) himself…

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