SPORTSMAN

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Manuscript letter, on engraved and illustrated letterhead, from Robert Hall & Co., The Highland Sportsman, Shooting & Estate Agency, London, acting for a client requiring 'a good shooting to yield not less than 1000 brace of grouse'.

Author: 
[Messrs. Robert Hall & Co., The Highland Sportsman, Shooting & Estate Agency, 43 Old Bond Street, London [hunting; shooting; field sports]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Messrs. Robert Hall & Co., The Highland Sportsman, Shooting & Estate Agency, 43 Old Bond Street, London. [Added in manuscript: Messrs. Russell & Dunlop. W.S., 20 Castle Street, Edinburgh.] 22 January 1895.
£60.00

1p., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with vertical closed tear at head neatly repaired with archival tape. Ornate letterhead, including an engraving of a sportsman looking through a telescope, while standing beside a dead stag, with a gamekeeper beside him, both men in kilts. The letter is signed 'Robert Hall & Co.', with the rest of the text in another hand.

Autograph Signature ('J B. Hobbs.') of the Surrey and England cricketer Sir Jack Hobbs [Sir John Berry Hobbs], on part of a letter.

Author: 
Sir John Berry Hobbs [Sir Jack Hobbs] (1882-1963), Surrey and England cricketer
Publication details: 
Without place or date.
£25.00

On 7 x 21 cm. rectangle, cut from the base of a 4to letter. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, laid down on a piece of card. With the word 'SCARVES.' printed in the right margin, from the shop Hobbs bought with the proceeds of his 1919 testimonial. The text reads: '<...> to similar appeals by this same post. | Please forgive me. | Yours very truly | [signed] J B. Hobbs.'

Autograph Signature ('J B. Hobbs.').

Author: 
Jack Hobbs [Sir John Berry Hobbs, 1882-1963], English cricketer
Publication details: 
Date and place not stated.
£18.00

On piece of paper roughly 2.5 x 5 cm. Laid down on leaf of cream paper, 8.5 x 12 cm, from an autograph album. In slightly faded blue ink, and with a crease to the bottom left-hand corner, affecting the lower loop of the 'J'.

Autograph Letter Signed to [Berry Bros, Wine Merchants].

Author: 
W.C. Whitney
Publication details: 
Hotel Royal, Naples, 12 March 1895.
£56.00

Financier and sportsman (see American DNB). One page, 4to, good condition. He asks for more Dagonet Brut to be sent to the Grand Hotel, Rome. He wants to be informed if there are any difficulties and would like them to find 50 dozen more. "You may find it in the hands of relaible houses in which case purchase it for me."

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