Cockney barrow boy-related jewellery is coming to auction in Salisbury later this month.
Woolley & Wallis will offer a collection consigned by a descendant of the musical hall performer Lupino Lane (1892-1959) on January 25.
Lane, born Henry Lupino but known to all by his nickname of ‘Little Nipper’, was a prodigious comedic actor, theatre manager and director but is best known as the star of the 1937 musical Me and My Girl. Playing the character Bill Snibson, the cockney barrow boy who inherits an earldom, he sang and danced the famous Lambeth Walk.