Lamond turns sleuth and solves 150-year-old puzzle
IN 1851 it wowed the world when it won the Council Medal at the Great Exhibition, but for decades its whereabouts have been a mystery. Now, after years of research, Jeremy Lamond, a director of Halls Fine Art, of Shrewsbury, has solved the puzzle of what happened to the first ever exhibition sideboard.
Its significance, says Mr Lamond, lies in the fact that, "it established a great tradition of exhibi…