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James Keggie

Career Dealer

Biography Dealer of museum objects, London. He had stand in Portobello Road for over 30 years. He started out selling musical instruments but became a general dealer [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 02/02/2007]

Biography References "Provenance: Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England 1760-1990" H. Waterfield and J.C.H. King Somogy Art Publishers Barbier-Mueller Museum 2006

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations]

County London [Greater]

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1949

Dates active 1901-1985

Donated around 1949

English collections Chromatic set of 13 tuning forks, free reed instrument

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link "Provenance: Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England 1760-1990" H Waterfield and JCH King Somogy Art Publishers Barbier-Mueller Museum 2006

English collection size 2

Connections Thomas Kenneth Penniman / Keith Prowse & Co.

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