Silver shield on a wooden support. 1 small plaque. Presented by Henry Smith Esq., 1912. Awarded: 1879 - 1939. Damaged, right hand 'ear' lost.
The Alexander Clark Co LtdScreenprint in colours, signed in pencil, numbered 18 of an edition of 75.
Frost, Sir Terry, 1915-2003One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'My recollections of the macabre ‘relics’ (gathered, I think, from Pereira, a fellow KS who had originally been up Ashburnham) are as follows:-
During repairs to Ashburnham House, some years before our time, there were discovered the mummified corpses of a CAT and (its prospective victim) a RAT. How they had met their simultaneous fate none could day. (Were they ‘gassed’ during the Great Fire of Ashburnham in 1731?)
This I remember being told: ‘The Cat was wearing a silver collar.’ (In the photo this appear to be a silver plate on a leather collar. Had anyone thought of it, the hall-mark on this would have given an approximate date.)
About 1923-4 I remember reading (perhaps in ‘House Notes’ in the ‘Eliza’) that “the Cat and Rat had been duly returned to Ashburnham Upper’, amid some mock ceremony. I cannot imagine these ‘relics’ were treasured there for long.'
Lithograph, signed and dated and inscribed 'E.A.' in pencil, an artist's proof aside from the edition of 300, on wove paper, with full margins.
Tinguely, Jean, 1925-1991Head and shoulders; he is turned to the left; he wears a black academic dress.
Half-length portrait of Gow seated, turned left; he wears a red cassock over black academic dress and collar; he sits on a carved chair; his hands rest on a book with the school arms upon it; there is a pilaster on the wall behind him.
Gow, Andrew Carrick, 1848-1920Reverse: Long cross
Reverse: SC Neptune standing naked facing left, cloak on shoulders, holding dolphin and trident