`THE SANDYS COACH WHIP COLLECTION` A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-EIGHT COACH WHIPS, MOSTLY USED ON THE `TALLY HO!` STAGE COACH, WHICH RAN ON THE THE SURBITON TO LONDON ROUTE

Lot 215
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 215 | 'THE SANDYS COACH WHIP COLLECTION' A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-EIGHT COACH WHIPS, MOSTLY USED ON THE 'TALLY HO!' STAGE COACH, WHICH RAN ON THE THE SURBITON TO LONDON ROUTE
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'THE SANDYS COACH WHIP COLLECTION'

A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-EIGHT COACH WHIPS, MOSTLY USED ON THE 'TALLY HO!' STAGE COACH, WHICH RAN ON THE THE SURBITON TO LONDON ROUTE

MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY

Many with silver and white metal mounts, three with antler handles, five capped with baron's coronets, some with malacca; together with another crop and three Victorian oak wall-mounted whip-racks

The longest whip: 76 in. (93 cm.) long; each stand: 9 in. (23 cm.) high, 22 ½ in. (56 cm.) wide, 1⁄2 in. (2cm.) deep





Provenance

Michael Edwin Sandys, 5th Baron Sandys (1855-1948) and by descent.



Literature

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS, in 'The Study'.
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