Rubber stamp set
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
c. 1900 - c. 1950
Materials
Rubber and wood
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 997108
Summary
Rubber stamps set contained in a white cardboard box with lid, with a green coat of arms representing 2 unicorns, a knight’s helmet and a shield and the inscription: “Justitia, Virtutum, Regina” on top. It includes 50 blocks representing farm buildings, animals and workers. They are either green or orange. It comes with a tin ink stamp pad.
Full description
These are 2 farm buildings, two barns, 3 gates, a well, a tree, 2 hay stacks, a hay cart, a crop field, a small haystack, 2 male farmers sowing, 2 female farmers picking crops, a wheelbarrow, 2 forks, 2 horses ploughing, another horse, 2 cows, 2 sheep, 2 goats, 2 pigs, 2 piglets, 2 cockerels, a hen with 3 chicks and 2 ducks, 3 ducklings, 2 black birds, 2 partridges, 1 dog, 1 beehive and 1 track .
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.