CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| 1. | [Bronze Statuette for Gas (circa 1850)] | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| 2. | [“The Trusty Servant” Print (circa 1830)] | 14 |
| 3. | [Grandfather Clocks: John Burgess de Wigan; Philip Smith, Barton; Phillips, Ludlow] | 15 |
| 4. | [Grandfather Clocks: Pennington, Ince; T. Helm, Ormskirk; Bold, Warrington] | 18 |
| 5. | [Grandfather Clocks: Brown, Liverpool; Monks, Prescott; No Name, Enamelled Dial] | 19 |
| 6. | [Oak Dresser, Welsh, 17th Century, with Pewter] | 24 |
| 7. | [Elm Dresser, Welsh, Early 17th Century, with Pewter] | 25 |
| 8. | [Ecclesiastical Chest (circa 1600)] | 26 |
| | [Oak Dower Chest, dated 1702] | 26 |
| 9. | [Oak Spindle Back Chairs, Early 19th Century] | 27 |
| | [Birch Chairs, Early 19th Century] | 27 |
| 10. | [Chinese Chippendale Chair, Late 18th Century] | 28 |
| | [Oak Lancashire Chairs (Faked)] | 28 |
| 11. | [Cromwellian Gate-leg Table (Oak); Knife-box With Shell Inlay; Salt-box Dated 1659; Bowl, by Copeland] | 29 |
| | [Gate-leg Table, made of “Foudroyant” Oak] | 29 |
| 12. | [Bureau with Bookcase (Mahogany)] | 30 |
| 13. | [Mahogany Bureau, 18th Century] | 31 |
| | [Chest of Drawers with Bureau Fitment] | 31 |
| 14. | [Birch, Veneered Rosewood, Folding Table; Tea Caddy] | 32 |
| | [Mahogany Table, Drop Ends] | 32 |
| 15. | [Mahogany Chest of Drawers] | 33 |
| | [Dishes—Davenport, Leeds, Copeland; Bowls—Bow, Chelsea, Plymouth, Bow] | 33 |
| 16. | [Dwarf Chest of Drawers with Heppelwhite Mirror] | 34 |
| 17. | [Oak Chest with Oak Cupboard, enclosing Pewter] | 35 |
| 18. | [Mahogany Corner-Cupboard with Pewter] | 42 |
| 19. | [Old Pewter Group] | 43 |
| 20. | [Old Pewter Group] | 46 |
| 21. | [Old Pewter Group] | 47 |
| 22. | [Pewter Snuff Boxes] | 64 |
| 23. | [Pewter Pots—Inscribed] | 65 |
| 24. | [Pewter Pots and Lidded Tankards] | 70 |
| 25. | [Pewter “Alms-Dish”—Faked (Front)] | 71 |
| | [Pewter “Alms-Dish”—Faked (Back)] | 71 |
| 26. | [The “Odamifino”] | 74 |
| | [The Converted Bedpan] | 74 |
| 27. | [The Mystery Piece] | 75 |
| 28. | [Old Brass Group] | 78 |
| 29. | [Old Copper Group] | 79 |
| 30. | [Old Mortars (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)] | 84 |
| 31. | [Old Mortars (Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)] | 85 |
| 32. | [Old Pottery Group] | 88 |
| 33. | [Old Pottery Group] | 89 |
| 34. | [Old Pottery Group] | 92 |
| 35. | [Old Pottery Group] | 93 |
| 36. | [Pictorial Pottery] | 98 |
| 37. | [Willow Pattern] | 99 |
| 38. | [China Cabinet, Mahogany, Late 18th Century] | 122 |
| 39. | [Old China Group] | 123 |
| 40. | [Old China Group] | 128 |
| 41. | [Old China Group] | 129 |
| 42. | [Old China Group] | 136 |
| 43. | [Old Horse Amulets, Group 1] | 137 |
| 44. | [Old Horse Amulets, Group 2] | 142 |
| 45. | [Sheffield Plate and Old Silver] | 143 |
COLLECTING AS A PASTIME
REFLECTIONS
There is a cause for everything. Are antique collectors born or are they made? Is the craze inherent, or do circumstances or environment create the craving? How in later life do early associations influence our peculiar fancies? Possibly my seven years as a choir-boy at Winchester Cathedral attending services and practices there fifteen times weekly, being boarded at the Bishop’s Palace, and playing games under the shadow of the ruins of Wolvesey Castle may have laid impressions which tended to render me susceptible to the mediæval. My reflections bring to mind my singing at the enthronement of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, and seeing the bones of King Rufus taken out of his tomb and laid in skeleton form on the floor of the chancel. In those times a man was not considered too old at forty, as the Dean was doing his little bit at ninety. To go back still farther, when quite a small boy I lay for weeks with a broken leg, which had to be broken a second time owing to poor setting, in a room out of which there was a secret chamber for hiding those “wanted” in the good old days. This ancient home with its pointed gables and windows was suitably named “Gothic Lodge,” and is near Southampton, close to a house in which Lord Jellicoe’s grandfather resided.