Lot 188Y
24 May 2006, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £360 inc. premium
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Miss Harriet Hale Rix, wearing white shawl and bead necklace.
Signed on obverse Gertrude Massey, gilt-metal frame with reverse glazed to reveal silk and labelled Mrs Gertrude Massey/ 75 Newman St./ W.I (struck through) 11 George St./ Baker St. W.1/ No 2/ an American citizen/ Miss Hale/ a Mental Healer.
Oval, 83mm (3 1/4in) high
Signed on obverse Gertrude Massey, gilt-metal frame with reverse glazed to reveal silk and labelled Mrs Gertrude Massey/ 75 Newman St./ W.I (struck through) 11 George St./ Baker St. W.1/ No 2/ an American citizen/ Miss Hale/ a Mental Healer.
Oval, 83mm (3 1/4in) high
Footnotes
Harriet Hale Rix and her sister Annie Rix Militz were educated through the spiritual movements of Emma Curtis Hopkins and Mary Baker Eddy, pioneers in New Thought Metaphysics. They were catalysts in the “Unity Movement” and what was to become the rich spiritual vein of “New Thought.” Both sisters wrote extensively for their publication 'Master Mind' and published several books. They lived in Alameda, California.