Saturday, 7 November 2009

Antique Maps Website Re-Launched


Joan Blaeu - Yorkshire East Riding

Featuring a complete re-design and over 350 antique maps, many newly catalogued. Maps and charts of all parts of the world, an easy search facility and secure online shopping cart.

Our antique sea charts feature items from the Channel Islands to the Pacific Ocean.

Visit Antique Maps Online for an extensive selection suitable for collectors or those looking for gifts for men.

Monday, 19 October 2009

Original Vanity Fair Print - Polo Player



Major Michael Rimington - All Ireland Polo Club - dated 1898
See full details of this Vanity Fair Polo Player here

'Descended from Edward Longshanks' - Men of the Day 728.
Chromolithograph dated 13th Oct 1898

'he did not begin polo till he got to Sandhurst; after which he joined ithe Iniskilling Dragoons in South Africa ..... He is one of our bets polo players and Honorary Secretary of the All-Ireland Polo Club.'

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Original Vanity Fair Print - 'Reggie' by Spy



Reggie - R. H. Spooner, July 18th 1906
Educated at Marlborough. Played for Lancashire and England. Also played Rugger for England. Served in the Boer War.

See full details here - Vanity Fair cricket print

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

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Spy Print - Oxford Cricket dated 1889



See full details of this Cricket print by Spy

Philipson went to Eton and had a good record as a schoolboy cricketer, before going to Oxford, where he got his blue and where he became captain in 1889. He also represented Oxford at tennis, rackets and Association football. His highest first-class innings was his 150 for the University against Middlesex in 1887, and in this year he was selected to play for the Gentlemen at both Lord's and the Oval.

Monday, 14 September 2009

Original Edwardian Watercolours of Bantham by Hewett

A collection of watercolours by West Buckland artist Frank Hewett. Beautiful subtle colours with a soft tonal quality, dated circa 1910 - 1913. Views include: Bantham Beach, Bigbury on Sea, Burgh Island, West Buckland,River Avon and Hexdown Quay.

View the Collection Here



Frank Hewett fl. 1900 - 1925
Lived in West Buckland, near Bantham in South Devon. He painted many local seascapes and landscapes as well a charcoal portraits of local people. He formed and trained a local rifle volunteer group at the time of the first world war. He was an imposing, bearded man who would regularly be seen sketching on street corners in his familiar cape.

Friday, 4 September 2009

Vanity Fair Cricket Print



'Charlie' Colin Blythe Jehu Junior dated 1910

Further details here: Vanity Fair Original Cricket Print