A Scarce Pair of 18thC Cock Fighting Spurs c.1780-1800 sub-Antiques 1830-50Width: 34

1830-50Width: 34

glass eyes were being replaced by plastic counterparts

He occupied it under Henry I and later under Stephen

By rotating the box two complete turns anti clockwise the sand fills a reservoir and the sand then falls onto the wheel and drives a series of gears by means of which the acrobat performs his tricks

The rare Welsh ladies hat or ‘Het Gymreig’ in mushroom coloured silk of typical broad rimmed form the interior with label for ‘Carver & Co late Dale & Co’ made in Bristol exclusively for the female Welsh market in the mid nineteenth century

A Scarce Pair of 18thC Cock Fighting Spurs c.1780-1800 sub-Antiques 1830-50Width: 34Origin: English Period: George III Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1780 1800Height: 1. 25Depth: 3Width: 0. 25 (each)The rare pair of eighteenth century cock fighting spurs, in steel and brass with leather straps, the wholes surviving from Georgian period England. The spurs are in totally original order with no losses or repairs. The leather straps would be secured around the cocks leg with the steel ring placed over the birds natural leg spurs before