Louis Wain Cats Man o War Battleship Navy Cricket Sketches Rip Victorian 1898


Louis Wain Cats Man o War Battleship Navy Cricket Sketches Rip Victorian 1898

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Louis Wain Cats Man o War Battleship Navy Cricket Sketches Rip Victorian 1898 :
$16.15


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3 Illustrated / photo articles from 1898 the first is entitled \"Some Costly Pets\" 1 page. The article names various people of the Victorian period who have expensive cats as pets, the cats are illustrated in mono by Louis Wain

They include:-

  • Mr S Woodiwiss\'s short haired English Tabby \"Champion Zenophon (Worth £100)
  • Hon. Mrs McLaren Morrison\'s Persian \"Ameer\" (worth £100)
  • Mrs C Hill\'s short haired blue \"Patrick Blue\" (worth £50)
  • Madame Portier\'s long haired blue \"Blue Boy\" (worth £100)
  • Mrs G Leverson\'s Siamese \"Rynda\" (worth £30)
  • Miss G Willoughby\'s chinchilla long haired \"Zaida\" (worth £160)
  • Miss G Willoughby\'s Siamese \"Fulmer Banjo\" (worth £50)
  • Mrs Herring\'s English Silver Tabby \"Champion Jemmy\" (worth £100)
  • Hon. Mrs McLaren Morrison\'s Long Haired Black \"Satan\" (worth £100)

    The Man o War is a very interesting old article illustrated with several photographic illustrations of sailors at their work

    Including

  • Serving out Jacks grog 12:30
  • Teetotal Sailors receiving cash instead of rum
  • An sale selling a deserters clothes
  • Jack as a tailor making and mending his clothes
  • Sialors claiming their articles on the opening of the Scran bag
  • Jack is his own washerwoman
  • Officers playing cricket on Quarter deck


    The third is 2 pages of cricket sketches by Mr \"Rip\" they include

  • Arthur Shrewsbury
  • Mr K J Key
  • Little \"Bobby\" Abel
  • Ranji
  • Mr F G J Ford
  • Mr Jessop
  • Phillips the international Umpire
  • Big Tom Richardson

    Please note these are pages from a rare disbound Victorian magazine, there are no covers and there may be extracts from other articles at the start or end.

    Whilst the images show the article in its still bound state, the article will be sent as loose pages. Some pages may be showing signs of foxing / browning due to the age of the paper

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    Louis Wain Cats Man o War Battleship Navy Cricket Sketches Rip Victorian 1898 :
    $16.15

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