Marietta Pallis's silver pencil holder, the shaped silver pencil holder with dents from use

Marietta Pallis's silver pencil holder, the shaped silver pencil holder with dents from use, together with three pencils.

Marietta Pallis, ecologist, painter and author, was born on 26 October 1882 in Bombay, daughter of Alexander Pallis (Greek scholar and poet) and his wife, Julia Ralli. The family left India in 1892 and settled in Liverpool in 1894. At Liverpool, under the tutalege of F. J. Lewis, Marietta and fellow student Jean Shaw began a survey of the Norfolk broads. In April 1909. Marietta went on to own Long Gores farm, a Marshland property in Hickling, Norfolk

Provenance: By Family decent