Barrel wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1933
Materials
Paint, Wood, Iron
Measurements
280 x 225 mm; 560 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338922
Summary
Model of a 'Sussex' two-wheeled wagon. Exterior painted blue. Interior and wheels painted red. Bolsters extend beyond body to rear and have curved ends. Two bar barge rails supported on iron brackets. Three-slatted rack set at an angle at the front. Red shafts with iron slider bars, and toe-sticks. Single width wheels with iron tyres. Contained three white painted reeded barrels (barrels not present in 2008, they are in Seventh Heaven with inventory no. SNO.TY.5088). In notebook no.5, page 83 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'The Large Garret Land Transport MODELS Country Wagons, built by H.R. Waiting of Boxwood, painted by C.P.W. scale 1½" - 1ft all constructed as the actual wagon, with Real tenons & every bolt & detail is carefully shown. Full details & specification of each is in the Snowshill Chest in the Gallery Room. no.6 Sussex Rarer 2 wheel cart. Blue.' 'The skill of the Country Wheelwright is well shown in the set of model wains, made for me so perfectly by Mr. H. R. WAITING. This collection of models will be a valuable record in days to come, as the Wheelwrights craft is now a dead art. Each of these models was built from careful measurements taken from an actual old wain, every bolt and detail is accurately shown to 1 ½” scale'. (Charles Wade, Haphazard Notes Volume 2, page 96-97)
Provenance
CPW item 6 - bought 13th July 1933 for £26 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Sussex
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83