Lot 131
131
A tunic of a Sherwood Forester
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A tunic of a Sherwood Forester

17TH CENTURY

Details
A tunic of a Sherwood Forester
17th century
Of green facecloth, the sleeves of red facecloth, the whole trimmed with silver braid
Provenance
The Savile Family, Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, sold Knight, Frank and Rutley House Sale, in conjunction with Christie's, 11-21 October 1938, lot 332.
Roger Warner Esq., Burford, Oxfordshire.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Such tunics would have been of particular interest to Mr Augustus Savile, who served as Master of Ceremonies to Queen Victoria and whose ancestor, in the 17th century, had served as Governor of Sheffield Castle. The Savile home, created in the Cistercian Abbey at Rufford, Nottinghamshire has been described as lying 'in a country of greenwood, and the ferny depths of the old forest of Sherwood' (Charles Latham In English Homes, London, 1904, pp. 201- 206).

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