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Period: 1890s
Snooker billiards pool scoring marking board carved oak and decorative detail
Located in Radstock, GB
A very rare decorative scoring board circa 1890 featuring a carved cherub, almost certainly a commissioned piece.
Constructed from English oak with equisite detailing.
Rectangular ...
Category
British Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Oak
Antique Brown Leather Riding Boots with Trees, 1890s Austria
By Rudolf Scheer & Söhne
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
A pair of exquisite decorative brown leather riding boots made by Austrian Imperial shoemaker Scheer - Purveyor of the imperial and royal court of the Austrian and Hungarian empire.
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Category
Austrian Late Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Vintage Cycling Telescopic Drinking Beaker
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Telescopic Cyclists Cup.
A cyclists telescopic cup made up of five graduating rings to form a relatively large cup with a turned over lip. The Victorian collapsible travel, b...
Category
American Edwardian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Shooting Print after Thomas Blinks, Waiting for the Guns.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Thomas Blinks Photogravure, Waiting For The Guns.
A wonderful titled colour photogravure of four hunting dogs, setters, after Thomas Blinks original painting, Waiting For The Guns. F...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Vintage Golf Book, Golf and Golfers, Past and Present.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Golf And Golfers, Past And Present By J. Gordon McPherson.
A rare, well produced first edition golf book, Golf And Golfers, Past And Present. Published in 1891 by William Blackwood &...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Welsh Rugby Union Tickets and Lapel Pin, Welsh Football Union
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Three Rare Items Once belonging To The Welsh Rugby Union Vice-President, G. Henry.
These wonderful rare items belonged to the Welsh Rugby Union Vice-President, G. Henry and comprise of a 1896 lapel-pin (medal), leather crocodile wallet (season ticket 1901-1902), green leather wallet...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Antique, Unused Golf Ball, Gutta Percha, Mesh Pattern
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Unused Antique Gutty Golf Ball.
An exceptional example of a moulded mesh patterned Victorian gutta percha golf ball, manufacture unknown. The ball is in mint condition and is with th...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Antique Left Handed Golf Club, Smooth Face Iron
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Willie Park Left Handed Smooth Face Golf Club.
This early Willie Park Jr. hickory shafted lofting iron has a smooth face, original hickory shaft and the remains of the original sheep...
Category
Scottish Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Vintage, Strung Table Tennis Rackets
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Pair Of Table Tennis Rackets, Ping Pong Bats.
A rare pair of early teardrop-shaped strung 'Ping Pong' bats or rackets, unfortunately the maker is unknown. Some of the early t...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Abalone, Ash
Antique Ice Skate Blade File
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage Ice Skate File.
An unusual hand held ice skate blade file. The body of this sharpening tool is made of cast iron and painted black, althoug...
Category
British Edwardian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
Vintage Golf Club, Rut Iron, Army and Navy Stores
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Hickory Shafted Army & Navy Rut Iron.
A rare good quality early smooth faced rut iron, also known as a rut niblick, rutter or track iron. Rut irons were commonly used to hit the ball...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
Antique Rut Niblick, Hickory Shafted Golf Club
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Hickory Shafted Rut Iron.
A good quality smooth faced rut iron, also known as a rut niblick, rutter or track iron. Rut irons were commonly used to hit the ball from cart tracks and deep ruts etc. Young Tom Morris was known to hit his rut iron from the fairway to play a high shot onto the green, a shot only a player of his calibre could master. They say he even managed to get backspin on the ball.
The golf club is with hickory shaft and a polished sheep skin grip. The head has no makers marks, but it is a high-quality club and heavy in weight, has a long hosel (10 ½ cm) and a thick blade, not to be confused with the later 'Rut Niblick' that was lighter, thinner blade and a shorter hosel.
A nice desirable golf collectable...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Jack Morris, Transitional Long Nose Golf Club
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Scared Head Transitional Long Nose Golf Club.
An elegant scared head transitional long nose golf club by Jack Morris of St Andrews. This great looking club is also known as a driver or brassie with a slight loft, it has a black stained club head, lead weight to the rear and the traditional horn slip along the leading edge of the sole, the polished head is stamped 'J. Morris'. The hickory shaft with polished sheep skin grip.
This is a very nice example of a scared head golf club from the 1890's. We believe the shaft is a replacement as it has old markings for a much longer grip.
The measurements shown are the full length of the shaft and the width and depth of the face.
The approximate head size (see image):-
a = 9 cm
b = 3.2 cm
c = 4.6 cm
John (Jack) Morris was born in St Andrews in 1847 and was the son of George and nephew to the great Old Tom...
Category
Scottish Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Beech
George Bussey Automaton Caddie Golf Bag
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Caddie Golf Bag, George Bussey Automaton Caddie.
A wonderful example of an early auto caddy by George Bussey. This is a rare find indeed as very few of these bags have survived, and they are difficult to obtain. The caddie has a boxwood carry handle and the main body of the caddie is made of mahogany. The boxwood handle is attached to the oak legs via metal rods and a brass mechanism. With this clever design the legs will open out automatically when the lower end is placed on the ground, they will then fold back in when lifted up. The canvas & leather bag for golf balls and the half pencil bag to the bottom of the stand are the original bags (flap is a replacement). The caddie stand is stamped with Bussey's name on the brass mechanism, and on both legs. There is a brass embossed trade label "Geo. Bussey & Co., London (with the Bussey arrow logo)' pinned onto the caddie bag...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Boxwood
Antique Dutch Tile With Golf Scene.
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Dutch Delft Golf Tile.
An early framed Dutch delft brown and white golf tile - hand painted with a scene depicting a golfer. The brown image is on an off white background with corner...
Category
Dutch Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Walking Stick Cane 9 Ct Gold Pommel, Late 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is an exquisite antique Victorian walking cane with a 9ct gold pommel, dating from the late 19th Century.
The gold handle is round in sh...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Gold
Victorian Novelty Golf Inkwell, Silver Plated
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Victorian Novelty Golf Silver Plated Inkwell.
A fine quality plated golf inkwell with rectangular base raised on four ball feet. There is a singl...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Silver Plate
Douglas Adams Sea Trout Fishing Photogravure
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Sea Trout fishing by Douglas Adams.
A large atmospheric highlands fishing photogravure taken from the original painting by Douglas Adams. The angling pictur...
Category
English Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Thomas Blinks Photogravure, Waiting for the Guns
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Thomas Blinks Photogravure, waiting for the guns.
A wonderful titled color photogravure of four hunting dogs, setters, after Thomas Blinks original painting, waiting for the guns. Framed and mounted in a modern wooden frame with gold slip. Publication details printed in the bottom boarder 'painted by Thomas Blinks, London Published 1895 by Arthur Tooth & Sons, 5 & 6. Haymarket, S.W. copyright registered by the British Art Publishers Union Limited. New York & Mess'' Stiefbold & Co. Berlin'.
Thomas Blinks was born in 1860 and was regarded as one of the best sporting artists of his generation, the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Painting from life and largely self-taught, Blinks was a leading animal and sporting painter specializing in painting hunting scenes and was considered one of the best Victorian painters...
Category
English Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Wood, Paper
Equestrian Book, Modern Practical Farriery
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A large late Victorian first edition veterinarian book "Modern Practical Farriery, A Complete System Of The veterinary Art" edited by W.J. Miles and published by William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill, London. A very rare, sought after and important publication illustrated with numerous finely executed anatomical and other engravings, possessing high value on the score of utility as well as of ornament, many of which are executed in colour. Not ex-library. Well over five hundred pages, 47 full-page-plates in black and white and colour (all original lithographs and colourful chromolithograph plates) also several illustrations within the text. Large format hardback book, leather corners and spine, gilt title to spine 'Modern Farriery', all page edges marbled. Internally it is very clean and bright, cover rather worn, cloth cover to the rear with tear.
Modern Practical Farriery, A Complete System Of The veterinary Art, as at present, Practised at The Royal veterinary College, London. A complete guide to the horse, its history, varieties, and uses - breaking, training, feeding, stabling, and grooming - how to buy...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Billiard, Snooker Score Board, Cabinet in Mahogany
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Burroughes & Watts Billiard Buffet Style Scoreboard, Life Pool.
An exceptionally high quality, imposing billiard scoreboard by Burroughes and Watts of London, made in three...
Category
English Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Rowing Print, Cambridge University
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Cambridge preparing for the boat race.
A wonderful atmospheric rowing lithograph of the Cambridge crew getting into a rowing scull preparing for a race....
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Football, Rugby Clay Pipe
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Victorian Sporting Clay Tobacco Pipe.
An early embossed Football & Rugby clay pipe. The large bowl decorated in relief with three football players on one side and three rugby players...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Clay
Billiard Snooker or Life Pool Scoring Board London
By Cox & Yeman
Located in Radstock, GB
A beautiful mahogany framed scoring cabinet by Cox & Yeman circa 1890, featuring hand painted sliding panels ,revolving numbers and a central slate panel....
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Denby Pottery Tennis, Rackets Lemonade Jug, c. 1890
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Tennis-themed Lemonade Jug.
A rare "Denby" pottery tennis themed lemonade jug. The tennis ceramic has an applied panel decorated, in relief, with two crossed lawn tennis rackets, three balls and a lawn tennis net...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Brass Circular Whist Score Markers
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Brass Game Score Counters.
A pair of Victorian brass, gun metal, whist game score markers. The top of the circular counter rotates to reveal the scor...
Category
British Victorian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Antique Gutty Bramble Pattern Golf Ball, IR
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Solid bramble pattern gutty golf ball.
A moulded bramble patterned white gutta percha golf ball in original condition. The 1890's Gutty ball still has most of the white paint but is...
Category
British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Rubber
Vintage Black & White Golf Photograph
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Late Victorian golf photograph.
A sepia toned late Victorian Colonial golf photograph of a group of male golfers, the group containing a few children. The gentlemen are wearing an assortment of clothing, some in caps, some in bowler hats, a couple with top hats, one gentleman wearing a military uniform with medals. The golf clubs they are holding are early wooden scared head long nose hickory clubs, the sort made by the great Scottish clubmakers like Tom Morris, Willie Park, Alex Patrick, Charlie...
Category
European Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Smooth Face Left Handed Golf Club, Lofting Iron
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Early left hand hickory golf club.
This early large head hickory shafted lofting iron has a smooth face, hickory shaft and the remains of the original sheepskin grip. This is a fine...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Antique Billiard Print of a Player, John Roberts Junior
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
John Roberts Junior Photogravure.
Late 19th century study of John Roberts Junior, billiards player, signed in pencil by John Roberts Junior and the artist Thomas Edward Gaunt.
Robe...
Category
German Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Polo Painting by Rossi, at the Polo Match
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Polo oil painting "At The Polo Match", By Alberto Rossi.
This is a beautiful colourful original oil on board painting by renowned Italian artist Al...
Category
Italian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Cricket Belt Buckle
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Cricket belt buckle, The Eleven.
Brass-coloured cast metal belt buckle with raised images mounted on a flat plated metal back plate. The piece is attached to the back plate via metal pins at each of its corners that pierce the buckle and are flattened out on the reverse. On the reverse of the back plate there is also a loop and hook for a belt. The raised scene features eleven figures in varied cricketing poses wearing plain, stripped and patterned shirts, a time before 'cricketing whites' were introduced. All the gentlemen have facial hair, be it a beard, mustache or sideburns with four of the gentlemen with cricket bats, two in bowling stances, one is behind the wickets, one is attaching his pads and three are fielding. A wonderful piece of cricket memorabilia...
Category
English Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
End 19th Century Antique Magnetic Topographic Compass Made in Brass and Oak
Located in Milan, IT
Magnetic topographic compass, of oak and brass; instrument consisting of a magnetized needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane, marking with the tip of the needle the direction of magnetic north, compass card with eight winds complete with goniometric circle divided into 360 °, complete with the compass needle lock. Italian manufacture of the late 19th century. Very good condition. Measure 3.1x3.1 height 1.
Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture).
The invention of the compass is mysterious but it is well known that magnetite was discovered in Magnesia, a city of Asia Minor. We can find the first indications about the use in Europe of the magnetic force for orientation at the end of the XII century...
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Italian Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Oak
Primitive Hand Carved Wooden Sleigh for One Person, circa 19th Century
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Lovely hand carved primitive, puristic wooden sleigh for one person, probably end of the19th century.
The sleigh has a beautiful, silverish weathered pa...
Category
American Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
19th Century Spanish Sporting Painting by E.Gioquinto, 1892
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th century Spanish sporting painting by E.Gioquinto, 1892, a finely painted gem of a hunter on a lake
Measures: Oil on board 11.5" x 8.5"
Giltwood frame 14" x 10".
Category
Spanish Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Antique Golf Painting in Watercolour of Caernarvonshire Golf Club, Wales
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A fine landscape watercolour of Caernarvonshire Golf Club, Conway, by H.C. Whaite. golfers in the left hand corner, the course, sea and mountain range making up the rest of the painting. There are catalogue extracts on the rear of the painting 'Mullock's, Sporting & Golfing Memorabilia...
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British Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paint
Original Fox Hunting Watercolour by Finch Mason
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Original Fox Hunting Watercolor, Finch Mason.
A wonderful original hunting watercolour signed by the renowned sporting artist George Finch Mason, titled ...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper, Paint
Antique Novelty Billiard Clock
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Novelty Billiard mantel clock.
A rare and very unusual novelty mantel clock, the base being a miniature billiard table. The drum-shaped clock case has a 6 cm porcelain dial fronting...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Elephant Head Walking Stick / Promenade Stick Bone, circa 1890
Located in Berlin, DE
Solid wood stick with fine bone engraving as an elephant head. Germany around 19th century
Very fine carved handwork. Carved elephant sculpture as a handle. Very high quality workma...
Category
Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Bone
Fox Hunting Equestrian Gold Fox Mask Stick Pin
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
9-carat gold fox mask stick pin cravat pin by William James Dingley.
The pin is in excellent condition and a very effective and stylish accessory. The rear...
Category
English Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Gold
Antique Juniors Scared Head Golf Club
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Antique Hickory golf club, scared head driver.
A juniors scared head, spliced wood driver. The golf club with hickory shaft and sheep skin grip. The head with horn...
Category
English Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Hickory
1891 Football Match and Association Game after W. Overend, Antique Photogravure
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This wonderfully expressive photogravure was published in 1891 in London. The etching was made after W.H. Overend’s original work, still showcasing his signature at the bottom left o...
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English Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Golf Print, Royal North Devon Golf Club, Photogravure of Westward Ho
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Royal North Devon Golf Club 1893 by Mayall & Co. Ltd.
A great image of the members of the 'Royal North Devon Golf Club, Westward Ho!' from 1893. The figures are all photographs superimposed onto a painted background of the course. In the margin is printed 'Permanent Autotype, Produced by Mayall & Co. Ltd. 73 Piccadilly'. The image appears very much photographic but is more of a photomechanical print rather than a photograph.
John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall (1813-1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.
Taken from Royal North Devon:-
Royal North Devon at Westward Ho! Can rightly claim to be the cradle of English Golf. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest golf course in the country and is regarded as the St Andrews of the South. The golf course is as tough as any of the UK's more famous links layouts and has recently been placed in Golf World 's 'Top 100 Courses in the World' that a golfer 'must play'.
Not only is Royal North Devon a great course, it is also a place of huge historical importance. Inside the warmly welcoming clubhouse, the golf museum, honours boards and the clubs top competition trophies are worth a visit on their own and help to tell the story of the game and this remarkable club's unique place in it.
Above all, this is great, natural golf that is largely unchanged from 100 years ago when Harold Hilton et al pronounced Westward Ho! As England's No 1 competition golf course. RND is pure, raw exhilaration and ultimately the experience of playing a fast running links in a stiff breeze still tests the very best in the game.
Many of the great players of the last 100 years were regular competitors at RND but the greatest of them all is without doubt John Henry Taylor...
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British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Print, Lawn Tennis Match
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Tennis lithograph titled "Lawn Tennis Match" by an anonymous artist and published by William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow. Reframed in an old per...
Category
British Sporting Art Antique 1890s Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Oak, Paper
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