We Always Dress Like This

For the purposes of cheering up a lady or a gentleman at the Feast of St. Nicholas a Wheatley Pocket Leather and Felt Line Dresser with brass Newey studs.  For sale in the fuggery of a Christmas public house known at this time of year as my website.

Fetch the Priest

For immediate sale to a lady or gentleman who is occasionally in need of a priest at the Quartermasters Stores sometimes known as my website an Ogden Smith of London original with stamped brass head.  Dating to the year 1955 when the cost of a life was 7/6d or 10/-.

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'.