Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 1118
Estimate: £70/100
Fishing Motto Plates. Five similar Wedgwood Pottery Plates all depicting scenes of Fishermen. Around the outside of each plate is an inspirational phrase or motto that coincides with the scene depicted. Mottos are ‘Be always as merry as ever you can, for none delight in a sorrowful man’, ‘When the wind is in the west, then the fishes bite the best’, ‘More rain more rest, fair weather isn’t always best’, ‘Man’s life’s a vapour & full of woes, he cuts a caper & down he goes’ and ‘He whipped day in, he whipped day out, but what he caught was not a trout’. Each 10” diameter. Wedgewood marks and number a4562 to bases. Qty 5