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Michael Parkington was one of the world's foremost glass collectors. Parkington, died in 1994 aged 71, he was a solicitor who's most famous case was while in South Africa defending Nelson Mandela on treason charges in the early Sixties.

As with many collectors, Parkington didn't just have glass as a passion. He had earlier collected silver. His Kensington flat was packed to the rafters with glass of all ages, types and companies. Monart, Vasart, Gray-Stan, Stuart, Nazeing, Stevens & Williams, Varnish Glass, 18th & 19th Century Glass and much more. He was introduced to Whitefriars glass in the early nineties and very quickly built up an amazing collection from Harry Powell to Geoffrey Baxter pieces. 3 years after his death his collection was put up for auction at Christie's in a sale split into two parts such was the scale of the auction.

This catalogue is the sale catalogue "The Parkington Collection Part I" which contains the Whitefriars glass. It has colour photographs of some stunning glass, much of it very rare. He had managed to obtain a Ruby Cello vase by Baxter of which only two are known. There is a lot of other companies glass, as previously mentioned, in it including some fantastic Monart glass. There are a couple of mis-described "Whitefriars" vases but considering this was all collected "pre-internet" he obviously was a great researcher.

The catalogue is in very good condition with only a slight tear to the top of the spine. All pages are very good. There are 62 pages detailing 525 lots. I will include a copy of the prices achieved.

I currently have the catalogue for Part II of this collection on Ebay as well. I can combine postage on these two catalogues.