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MANUFACTURERS OF DECORATED PAPIER MACHE, ETC.,

102 & 103 1IIG1I STREET, OXFORD,

Respectfully beg to submit the following extracts from Newspapers and other Publications, referring to

Goods exhibited by them.

“ There is perhaps no city in the kingdom which presents so many objects of high interest for thepencil of the artist as Oxford ; and the enterprise of many of our citizens has been largely exercisedfrom time to time in the publication of engravings of them in various styles of art, and different degreesof merit. But a new and ingenious mode of representing the architectural and other beauties of thecity has for some time past been adopted, and is already brought to a state of the greatest perfection—that of the papier mâché manufacture, upon articles of which, in endless variety, are painted views ofthe Colleges, Halls, and other public buildings, and also some of the more picturesque landscapes in thesuburbs, and the adjoining districts. The sketches are taken upon the spot, and the paintings are (loneupon the premises of the firm which has the great merit of first introducing, and exclusively carryingon, so elegant a manufacture here—Messrs. Spiers and Son of High-street, who employ, as their articlesabundantly testify, first-rate artists, and thereby produce works of art of great beauty and excellence.The pictures, as subjects of art, could not be better of their class. The architectural features fromtheir striking character and great variety, united with the broken and picturesque groups of trees, formviews of the most enchanting kind ; and they are represented under all the advantages of effect whichcan be imparted by the hazy grey or the clear light of morning, or in the quiet of evening, when thoorb of day is just sinking below the horizon. These representations of the most beautiful objects forwhich our city is so justly celebrated, may be possessed in articles which are both useful and ornamen-tal—representations which are executed in an admirable style of art, and upon a material of the mostelegant and durable kind. As mementos of Oxford they are in all respects excellent ; and few membersof the University, one would think, can resist the temptation to possess such elegant and interestingmemorials of their Alma Mater.”-—Oxford Ilerald.

“ The Oxford Contributions to the Great Exhibition. —The first collection of articles, which, fromits interest, variety, and excellence, deserves to be placed at the head of our list, is that of Messrs.Spiers apd Son, of the High-street, in this city, which occupies, and most deservedly so, a very promi-nent position on the north side of the western nave. The articles exhibited by Messrs. Spiers and Sonare arranged in a large and elegant case of brass-work and plate-glass, 14 feet in height, designed byMr. Owen Jones, and fitted up by Messrs. Fox and Henderson at great cost. The contents of the casoare—a largo screen which forms the apex of the arrangement, below and around which are groupedtables, cabinets, desks, work-boxes, albums, portfolios, waiters, tea-caddies, &c., in papier mâche', innumber nearly 300, ornamented with upwards of 150 different views of the colleges, public buildings,the college-walks, and general views of the city and neighbourhood ; around the back of the case, hand-screens, &c., are arranged in a fan-like ornament. From this slight sketch of this collection, which iswell worthy of the prominent position it occiques, and the notice which it excites, it will be seen thatOxford is well represented in the Great Exhibition, having its name and attractions placed conspicuouslyamongst those of our great marts of industry and commerce. Nor will such a display be without itsuse, for it will not fail to awaken in the minds of many pleasing reminiscences of olden times. And wocan well imagine that many of our foreign and country visitors, when tired of tho heat and dust of thometropolis, may gladly be tempted to sojourn amidst the cool and delicious cloisters and gardens of aplace so world-renowned as Oxford, and to possess themselves with some such pleasing reminiscence ofit as these articles afford.” —Oxford Journal.