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拍品專文
THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH A FRAMED AND GLAZED INSCRIPTION READING:-
'SANDY' IS A RELIC OF AN AGE WHEN EVERY CRAFT AND TRADE HAD ITS OWN DISTINGUISHING SYMBOL, AND IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE A TOBACCO SHOP IN DONCASTER ON 11TH JUNE 1750.
HIS ORIGIN IS UNCERTAIN BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS BROUGHT 'SOUTH OF THE BORDER' FROM SCOTLAND AFTER THE '45 REBELLION, BEING CONSIDERED A MORE SUITABLE TOBACCONISTS' SIGN IN AN AGE OF SNUFF TAKING THAN THE NEGRO WITH THE ROLL OF TOBACCO (TRINIDAD ROLL) WHO PRECEDED HIM.
FOR SOME YEARS HE STOOD OUTSIDE OUR CITY SHOP IN THROGMORTON STREET, BUT IN 1936 HE RETURNED TO DUKE STREET AND SUFFERED DAMAGE IN THE BLITZ IN APRIL 1941.
'SANDY', IS, HOWEVER, WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE FINEST OF HIS KIND. HE IS CARVED (PROBABLY BY SOME ANCIENT SCULPTOR OF SHIPS' FIGUREHEADS) FROM A SOLID LOG OF PINE, WHICH POSSIBLY ACCOUNTS FOR HIS LONGEVITY, AS MANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE MADE OF LESS PERMANENT PLASTER.
AFTER THE ACT OF UNION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND IN 1707, GLASGOW BECAME ONE OF THE CHIEF PORTS FOR THE IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN TOBACCO. CONSEQUENTLY, THE FIGURE OF A HIGHLANDER BECAME A COMMON SIGN FOR A TOBACCONIST, FREQUENTLY REPRESENTED HOLDING A SNUFF MULL OF HORN WITH A PINCH OF SNUFF IN THE RAISED HAND, AS HERE.
OTHER RELATED FIGURES INCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATED IN E.H. PINTO, TREEN AND OTHER WOODEN BYGONES, 1969, P. 439, AND ANOTHER FROM THE JUDKYN/PRATT COLLECTION SOLD CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENNSINGTON, 8 NOVEMBER 1995, LOT 86.
'SANDY' IS A RELIC OF AN AGE WHEN EVERY CRAFT AND TRADE HAD ITS OWN DISTINGUISHING SYMBOL, AND IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE A TOBACCO SHOP IN DONCASTER ON 11TH JUNE 1750.
HIS ORIGIN IS UNCERTAIN BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS BROUGHT 'SOUTH OF THE BORDER' FROM SCOTLAND AFTER THE '45 REBELLION, BEING CONSIDERED A MORE SUITABLE TOBACCONISTS' SIGN IN AN AGE OF SNUFF TAKING THAN THE NEGRO WITH THE ROLL OF TOBACCO (TRINIDAD ROLL) WHO PRECEDED HIM.
FOR SOME YEARS HE STOOD OUTSIDE OUR CITY SHOP IN THROGMORTON STREET, BUT IN 1936 HE RETURNED TO DUKE STREET AND SUFFERED DAMAGE IN THE BLITZ IN APRIL 1941.
'SANDY', IS, HOWEVER, WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE FINEST OF HIS KIND. HE IS CARVED (PROBABLY BY SOME ANCIENT SCULPTOR OF SHIPS' FIGUREHEADS) FROM A SOLID LOG OF PINE, WHICH POSSIBLY ACCOUNTS FOR HIS LONGEVITY, AS MANY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE MADE OF LESS PERMANENT PLASTER.
AFTER THE ACT OF UNION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND IN 1707, GLASGOW BECAME ONE OF THE CHIEF PORTS FOR THE IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN TOBACCO. CONSEQUENTLY, THE FIGURE OF A HIGHLANDER BECAME A COMMON SIGN FOR A TOBACCONIST, FREQUENTLY REPRESENTED HOLDING A SNUFF MULL OF HORN WITH A PINCH OF SNUFF IN THE RAISED HAND, AS HERE.
OTHER RELATED FIGURES INCLUDE ONE ILLUSTRATED IN E.H. PINTO, TREEN AND OTHER WOODEN BYGONES, 1969, P. 439, AND ANOTHER FROM THE JUDKYN/PRATT COLLECTION SOLD CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENNSINGTON, 8 NOVEMBER 1995, LOT 86.