Collecting as a Pastime

Collecting as a Pastime

In the html version of this eBook, links to larger scale illustrations have been provided where details are not easily visible. Please see the detailed transcribers note at the end of this text. This book is written, and the illustrations prepared, mainly to inspire, inform and amuse Amateur Collectors. In this I trust it will be successful, but I further hope that it may arrest the attention and stimulate the interest of many other readers. 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 Bishops 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 medival. 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 Jellicoes grandfather resided. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49556
Author: Rowed, Charles
Release Date: Jul 31, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English