Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 1079
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £18
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

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