Template:Did you know nominations/John Doubleday (restorer)


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 14:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

John Doubleday (restorer)

 * ... that after a drunkard smashed the Portland Vase into hundreds of pieces, John Doubleday (pictured) was dubbed "the prince of restorers"? Source: Gentleman's Magazine 1846, p. 41
 * ALT1:... that John Doubleday (pictured) was dubbed "the prince of restorers"?
 * ALT2:... that after John Doubleday (pictured) died, he left his entire estate to the daughter of a deceased bookkeeper, with nothing for his own wife or children?
 * Reviewed: Ophiopholis aculeata

Created by Usernameunique (talk). Self-nominated at 07:07, 14 September 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg GTG. New enough, long enough, nicely written with most of what's known. A sentence explaining the significance of the PV would do no harm. Hook fact verified and Earwig finds nothing. Pic ok on age. Johnbod (talk) 15:33, 14 September 2017 (UTC)