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A vintage croquet set in wooden case CONDITION REPORT Set contains: 5 balls, 6 hoops, 4 mallets and 2 stumps.Our team of trusted experts are on hand to help and always endeavour to provide an accurate judgement. The ultimate responsibility lies with the buyer however, and we recommend that you make every effort to inspect the lot yourself.To that end, we have provided a number of additional images for your attention.
ASSORTED PARLOUR GAMES, comprising vintage SPINNING TOP SKITTLES, the long board with compartments and 2 sets of slender turned wood skittles and spinning tops, together with set of Old English pattern boxwood CHESSMEN (one knight half missing), DRAUGHTS, CHESS BOARD and TABLE CROQUET (5) Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Tennis Interest. A group of 1890's to 1920's Tennis prize medallions presented to Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce comprising an 1890 All England Lawn Tennis Association Inter-Club Challenge Cup gold prize medallion, white metal Jubilee Lawn Tennis Championships Wimbledon 1877-1926 cased and named medallion, cased and named L.T.A. bronze Commemoration of the Jubilee of the Lawn Tennis Championships 1926, a cased German silver baptism medallion and a boxed 1910-1935 commemorative medallion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_WilberforceSir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 – 28 March 1941) was a British male tennis player. He was vice-president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club from 1911 to 1921 and served as its president from 1921 to 1936.[3] In 1887, he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon. Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 – 28 March 1941) was a tennis player and vice-president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club from 1911 to 1921 and served as its president from 1921 to 1936. In 1887, he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon.In 1888 they were unable to defend their title when they were beaten in the Challenge Round by Ernest and William Renshaw. His best singles performance at Wimbledon came in 1886 when he reached the semi-final of the All Comers tournament in which he lost in five sets to compatriot Ernest Lewis. He also reached the quarter-finals of the singles in 1882, 1883 and 1888.Herbert was a brother of physicist Lionel, son of judge Edward, grandson of archdeacon Robert and great-grandson of abolitionist William Wilberforce. He later served as president and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1931 New Year Honours. Author of The All England Series: Lawn Tennis: With A Chapter For Ladies, 1897.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
Cosway binding.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 'twelfth thousand', illustrations by John Tenniel, original cloth covers and spine bound in at end, magnificent double Cosway binding of burgundy morocco by Riviere & Son, each cover with a central inset circular miniature under glass by Miss C.B. Currie, gilt fillets radiating to ornate hand-tooled foliate frames with gilt-decorated green morocco onlays in corners and centres, recently and finely rebacked to match by Bayntun (who acquired the Riviere stock of binding tools in 1939), with spine gilt in compartments with 5 raised bands and 4 green morocco matching onlays, dark green watered silk doublures within only slightly less ornate frames on pastedowns, g.e., preserved in modern suede-lined led morocco drop-back box, 8vo (binding 188 x 131mm.), 1868.⁂ A lavish Cosway binding (possibly circa 1910-1913), with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie after Tenniel's illustrations; the front doublure is stamped in gilt 'Miniatures by C.B. Currie'. The scenes depicted are Alice with flamingo/croquet mallet and the Duchess on the front cover; and Alice and the Dodo on the rear.At the beginning of the 20th century John Harrison Stonehouse, managing director of Henry Sotheran Booksellers, began to commission these distinctive fine bindings by Rivière and Son, featuring inset miniatures by his in-house miniaturist, Miss Currie. Many of her excellent miniatures imitated the style of the earlier painter Richard Cosway, hence the term Cosway binding. Over nearly 40 years she produced miniatures for over 900 bindings. Examples from other binderies, featuring miniatures by other artists, are referred to as Cosway-style bindings; they are far more common, and generally far less desirable. This copy has 'Bound by Rivière & Son' stamped in gilt near the bottom edge of the inside front cover; the rear doublure is stamped in gilt within a small decorative frame 'Bound by Rivière & Son, from designs by J.H. Stonehouse'; and 'H. Sotheran & Co., 45 Piccadilly, London' is stamped in gilt near the bottom edge of the inside rear cover.
Ayres croquet set.Condition report:Fur mallets - all from the same set, unmarked (presumably the ones that came with the case), one is bound with twine around the base of the shaft - possibly some form of repair. Six hoops. Peg. Mallet. |Four balls however all have lost a slither so are no longer spherical. The case is heavily riddled with worm damage.

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