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)
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John Doubleday (restorer)
[edit]![John Doubleday with the Portland Vase](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/John_Doubleday_with_the_Portland_Vase.jpg/119px-John_Doubleday_with_the_Portland_Vase.jpg)
John Doubleday with the Portland Vase
- ... 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).