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This is a large antique scrapbook album that is full of Victorian era scraps, greetings cards, adverts, original sketches & watercolours, and original flyers - posters of the period many of them relating to YORK City in North Yorkshire.
There's a piece of paper inserted into the front that reads that this was owned by the Knowles family of York.
Looks like they were collecting the pieces for a long time as there is a watercolour dated 1864 signed by a JWK but there is also some ephemera from the WWI era.
Items of interest include a large embossed scrap of St Pauls Cathedral in London at the front - 4 prints of beautiful young ladies - gilt and embossed Christmas and other cards - 2 x Charles Vallet coloured prints - a cut down 1899 calendar - 2 hand made real fine sketches of Christmas cards showing angles and similar with wording, one is dated 1869 - a christmas card printed by Monkhouse of York as printed on the card - a full page of CARTOON like doodles with pencil date April 21st 1896 , the vain boy, john thomas , the happy one, joey and signed simply AR at the bottom - engravings of Brimham Rocks and Rydal Mount - Knaresbrough - more scraps and a page with a JESTER looking chap next to it is a small MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR wooden FAN glued in as well - nice PEARS SOAP advert coloured adverts glued in - 2 small colour advert BUSINESS CARDS from ALF COOKE Crown Point Almanack Works LEEDS and then at the bottom it says Representative Mr J Barrow at an address in YORK - double sided PEARS SOAP advert flyers from books of the period - a very nice coloured advert card ESTEY ORGAN Co, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A. - a very interesting coloured advert card showing a negro gentleman with his leg up on a table , he is saying " Dis yer Beef am de Boss Ladie and Gemmens " with 4 tins of the beef below the table and one on it from LIBBY Mc NEILL & LIBBY Cooked Corned Beef. this card is 3 x 5 inch.
A full page watercolour of a picnic day down by a large river with small rowing boats and a wooded scene, signed May 18 1864 J.W.K. it is 10 x 7 inch.
2 cut down calendars of THOMAS CONING tea dealer family grocer 39 Goodramgate YORK.
4 Grover & co colour prints of paintings. A double page colour print from the XMAS NUMBER 1889 printed in Germany advertising WELDON'S BAZAAR OF CHILDREN'S FASHIONS.
A small printed Christmas card which is a signed picture by W.F.B. it shows a WWI Soldier inside it says 17th Division Hearty Greetings from France 1918 , to All at Home from Jack. The next page within the card has a colour print of a soldier marching over a map towards Berlin which then says ALLIED DEFENSIVE 1918 17th Division August 23rd to October 11th 1918 40 miles and still going strong. Turn it over again and it says Designed by Pte. W.F. BRIGGS 9th D.OF.W. Rgt which of course is the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment. 5 x 7 inch pasted back into book. A postcard which has a moving Soldiers Hat Taken 3 days to leave / got 6 days "C.B."
3 types of WW1 GERMAN RATION TICKETS glued in.
Of special note are the following which are printed paper and relate to YORK city direct and there will be very few of these items of paper surviving.
A small printed paper flyer which is titled WAR ! WAR ! WAR ! in YORK ! Bombardment of the devils kingdom by command of the General Wm Booth. On July 31st 1881 , a detachment of The Salvation Army led by Major CADMAN assisted by the Hallelujah Lasses, Trumpeter and other Officers. The TROOPS will meet for Knee Drill in the SKATING RINK at 7am. and ,pre writing about the event . It was printed by B. Eaton, bookseller and stationer 4 London Rd, Sheffield. This flyer is 5 x 7.5 inch.
Another printed flyer or poster which says
An address from the first
" HIGH SHERIFF OF YORK "
To his " LOW " Sheriff
( Vulgarly called UNDER-Sheriff )
then it has 34 lines about this.
The flyer is 7.5 x 10 inch.
Another poster or flyer programme has 4 pictures of small animals on the very top A cat and 3 rats.
The
BLUE-TAILED RATS OF COPPERGATE !
It then has a 4 line ode poem by Pope followed by 14 4 line verses and 13 names at the bottom printed with missing surnames. It may be some sort of quiz sheet.
It is 9 x 11 inch.
Please see photographs provided for more details and visual confirmation of condition.
There are normal signs of age and use wear.
There are normal signs of age and use wear.
The outer cover is damaged at the spine and there is also wear on the edges and corners. 99% of items are glued - pasted in.
It measures approx. 12 inches x 9 and 1/2 inches. It weighs approx. 1.4 kilos.. overseas shipping reflects this.
This is one of the archive of antiques which belonged to a well known York historian, the late Mr Darrell Buttery MBE 1941 - 2022. He was a teacher, writer, and a very keen historian. Born in Guisborough to Olive and George Buttery. He was keen at all sorts of things during his early years being involved in the theatre and acting. He wrote The Streets of York, Four Centuries of Change ( 2018 ) book. He collected many items YORK related as well as paperwork and ephemera, the type of items which are usually burnt or thrown out long ago. Keeping his own family scrap albums. Some very good quality art pencil sketch books as well as watercolours too. Photograph albums and I am sure many photographs will never have been seen before so great for the York - Yorkshire collectors even now. Scrap albums with some fascinating contents. Just a few of the most unusual items to follow in a few weeks.
My stock ref : #T42/111122 - DB in book box.
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Scale is usually an English 1 penny coin which is 20mm in diameter which is just short of 7/8ths of an inch in diameter, or a universal Coke can, and we all know how big those are.
If you see A/F = a/f in the title or description it means "as found" condition which may have scuffs, scratches and damage.