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ANTIQUE #SA1159711

An Attractive Early 20thc Painted Good Sized Storage Box

£545    $732    €621
An Attractive Good Sized Painted Box with Horse Racing features with ''Sir Tatton Sykes'' and ''Newmarket etc written on it as well as a painted racehorse. Inside is papered well out. Early 20thc
 
Sir Tatton Sykes was born in 1772: and he chose to wear 18th century dress all his life. He lived on the 34,000 acres of the family seat of Sledmere House, the largest estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Sykes family was one that thought little of building an entire village – Sledmere – to support it, or of hiring the most noted landscape designer of the age, Capability Brown, to transform its parkland. They employed the foremost designers, plasterers and architects of the period to fashion the house itself. They were rich, energetic, resourceful … and eccentric.
 
Sir Tatton grew up to be an informed and intelligent sheep breeder, but his first love was horse racing. Apparently he even sold a copy of the Gutenberg Bible to support his stables and foxhounds. In the unlikely event t...
Antique SA1159711 shown on this page was made in 1930. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
1930
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