A Scarce Pair of 18thC Cock Fighting Spurs c.1780-1800 sub-Antiques and dated to November 1854

and dated to November 1854

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

the whole surviving from the first quarter of the nineteenth century

She has wonderfully primitive repairs and has been cut down with the unifying stretchers lacking whilst the slab seat is particularly thick

A Scarce Pair of 18thC Cock Fighting Spurs c.1780-1800 sub-Antiques and dated to November 1854Origin: 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