Advent-under-the-Counter Madam! c. 2012

Discovered whilst searching in the lock-up a number of Letter Press posters set masterfully in ink by Martin Clark for the White Tent of Words; Archive Slide & Silent Film at the 2012 Port Eliot Festival.  Proceeds go to more adventures in ink. May be found until they go  'Under the Counter Madam'.

 

Sitwell Wallets

Bought from an impeccable private source having been in the possession of a 'retired' collector a pair of leather wallets which were once the property of Sir Sacheverell 'Sachie' Sitwell of Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire.  Brother of Edith and Osbert - Sachie Sitwell was revered as an art critic; aesthete and exponent of modernist and Italian baroque painting in England.  For sale to an aesthete of similar standing In The Shop Window.

Wellington-in-Arcadia

For immediate sale from the snuggery of a Sunday lunchtime public house known for today as 'Just in Sir!' an original and rare Geen Cup Ticket from 1935.  Issued to E. Gale representing Wellington Angling Society who drank on Tuesdays and Thursdays in The Wellington on Wood Green High Road.  Mr. Gale's catch at Peg 394 numbered one fish only at 4oz 3drm and it is perhaps not surprising that it did not win him the Geen Cup which in that season was lifted by a Mr. Gadd of the Kingston Working Mens Club A.S.

We Always Dress Like This

Advent-in-Arcadia carries on and with it a photograph which appears in Ann Green's splendid 'History of Johnson & Sons Ltd' (Great Yarmouth) which I reviewed for Caught by the River yesterday.

On the A1 Highway

The traditional selling exhibition on my website www.andrewsofarcadia.com known as Advent-in- Arcadia begins today the 1st December in the Year of Our Lord & Other Wounds 2015 with a 1950's  Cummins' of Bishop Auckland and Darlington Christmas Catalogue 'For Cunning Customers & Others'.  Featuring sixteen pages of illustrated tackle and shooting paraphernalia the catalogue also supplies details of what was once Cummins' new premises in Darlington - 'An ideal spot on the A1 Highway to break your journey and refresh yourself by examining at leisure all the best and latest fishing tackle'.

The National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair: Sunday 15th May 2016

In Arcadia flags are raised and trumpets sound as empty bottles clink on pantry floors; dogs and cats are kissed and Elgar plays on the radiogram in thanks to all those gracious and intrepid souls who both stalled out and visited yesterday's National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair in Redditch.  The next edition of the Fair will be staged on Sunday 15th May 2016.  Should you wish to obtain a flyer for the Fair please take one from any street corner urchin or stop me when you see me at a market or auction.  Thank-you.

Rupert and Luke

I have a feature in the current edition of Fallon's Angler (No. 4) called Rupert and Luke based on and featuring reproductions of photographs I posted a couple of summers ago.  You may buy it from your local news stand; bookshop or directly from the Fallon's Angler shop.