Objectnummer
2011/9
Beschrijving
This sign, issued by the National Allotments Society, London, warns against damage to garden allotments and summarises protective details from the Allotment Act of 1922. It is a white, rectangular enamel sign with black and red text. It was part of the collection of Malcolm Norris which he started in 1969, and by the time of his death in 2010 consisted of approximately 700 horse brasses, 65 smocks, antique farming tools, and various other artefacts.
Fysieke kenmerken
Rectangular-shaped enamel sign with perforations at all four corners. Some damage to surface enamel. White background with red and black writing. Text reads as follows: 'NOTICE [in red] // ALLOTMENT ACT, 1922. // This Land is cultivated as garden allotments. Any person who without lawful authority or by negligence, causes // DAMAGE [in red] // to any Allotment Garden, growing crops, fences or buildings thereon, is liable, on summary conviction to a fine of // £5 [in red] // ISSUED BY THE // NATIONAL ALLOTMENTS SOCIETY, LIMITED, // DRAYTON HOUSE, GORDON STREET, LONDON, W.C.1.'
Archiefgeschiedenis
MERL ‘Object Accession Form’ – 'Short description (free text): Enamel sign warning against damage to garden allotments and summarising protective details from the Allotment Act of 1922. Issued by the National Allotments Society, London. // … // Physical description (free text): Rectangular-shaped enamel sign with perforations at all four corners. Some damage to surface enamel. White background with red and black writing. Text reads as follows: 'NOTICE [in red] // ALLOTMENT ACT, 1922. // This Land is cultivated as garden allotments. Any person who without lawful authority or by negligence, causes // DAMAGE [in red] // to any Allotment Garden, growing crops, fences or buildings thereon, is liable, on summary conviction to a fine of // £5 [in red] // ISSUED BY THE // NATIONAL ALLOTMENTS SOCIETY, LIMITED, // DRAYTON HOUSE, GORDON STREET, LONDON, W.C.1.' // … // Associated information (free text): This artefact was purchased with the help of funds provided through the Heritage Lottery Fund project entitled 'Collecting Twentieth Century Rural Cultures'. It once formed part of the collection of the late Mr Malcolm Norris (1935–2010). Mr Norris is said to have started his collection in 1969 with a chance find of a horse brass depicting a wheatsheaf. Having felt he had amalgamated enough artefacts to hold an exhibition, he mounted his first display at the Cranleigh Agricultural Show in Knowle Park in 1976, with only a small amount of the collection going on show. Following this success he periodically exhibited his complete collection at a number of shows and events throughout the country. He held his last show in 1996 in Sevenoaks, Kent before deciding to ‘mothball’ his collection. Following his death in 2010, his family decided to disperse the collection, which was sold at public auction in Reading on 14 September 2011. This was one of two similar signs that formed Lots 1302 and 1303 in an auction of some 1362 Lots. // References: Thimbleby and Shorland, 'Dispersal Sale of a Private Collection' (Thimbleby and Shorland Catalogue, 2011) - annotated copy in accession file.’, 'Dispersal Sale of a Private Collection' (Thimbleby and Shorland Catalogue, 2011) – ‘Mr Malcolm Norris – (1953–2010) // Mr Norris started the collection you see before you in 1969 with a chance find of a horse brass that depicted a wheatsheaf, followed by two smocks in 1979. Having felt that he had amalgamated enough artefacts to hold an exhibition, his first showing was at the Cranleigh Agricultural Show in Knowle Park in 1976, with only a small amount of the collection being exhibited. Following the success of this show, Malcolm would periodically exhibit his complete collection at a number of shows and events throughout the country. // The remarkable point about this is that Malcolm learnt to drive in the RAF but never acquired a licence, so he was very reliant on public transport and the good will of family and friends to ferry him to auction houses, antique shops and stalls to build his collection. His purchases were entirely self-funded from his average wage; nothing given or donated. // Malcolm was fiercely proud of his collection, noting that when Maidstone had their Charter Celebrations in 1950 they had one farmer’s smock on display even though the last farmer in England to wear a smock lived in the Tenderden area in the fifties. Malcolm’s collection of smocks range from plain to ornate, from working to Sunday best, and consisting of ones from Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Lincolnshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex. // He also felt the need to point out proudly, when writing to ask about a show venue, that he had been to the York Museum, Taunton Museum, Hull Museum, Reading Museum of Rural Life, plus many more but had yet to see a better collection than the one he owned. // He held his last show in 1996 in Sevenoaks, Kent before he decided to ‘mothball’ his collection. // Following his death in 2010, his family have now decided the time has come to sell all of Malcolm Norris’s vast and interesting collection of rural artefacts.’
Datum
1922
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