"Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton vanity fair prints "The Committee" (Plate 9) shows

"The Committee" (Plate 9) shows a panelled room with a dozen members of parliament

Right hand margin has gilt edge consistent with it being removed from a Vanity Fair album volume

Major-General Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley (28 January 1856 – 14 February 1932) was a British military officer and Liberal Unionist politician

1832 – May 14

which was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s

"Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton vanity fair prints "The Committee" (Plate 9) showsAntique Vanity Fair print. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton (10 May 1848 2 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Irish parentage who was a self made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He engaged in extensive advertising for his chain of grocery stores and his brand of Lipton teas. He boasted that his secret for success was selling the best goods at the cheapest prices, harnessing the power of advertising, and always being optimistic. He was the most persistent