Lot Details
Lot 1414
Staffordshire Glazed Earthenware Figure of The Red Barn
Early 19th century
Of a gentleman entering the barn flanked by trees, on a table-form base. Height 7 1/2 inches (19 cm).
In 1828 The Red Barn Murder was a crime that caught everyone's attention and imagination. William Corder, the gentleman depicted in this group, was accused of shooting, strangling and stabbing Maria Marten a local girl and then burying her body under the floor of the infamous Red Barn. William Corder was arrested, tried, sentenced and hanged and the entire story resulted in a plethora of Staffordshire figures of the victim, the murderer, the judge and the Red Barn!
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