LOT 135

A prototype 'Mr Jorrocks' car mascot, by 'Snaffles' (Charles Johnson Payne), British, circa 1922,

Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000

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Lot 135

A prototype 'Mr Jorrocks' car mascot, by 'Snaffles' (Charles Johnson Payne), British, circa 1922,

The Winter Automobilia Online Auction|16 December 2024, 13:08 GMT|Guildford

A prototype 'Mr Jorrocks' car mascot, by 'Snaffles' (Charles Johnson Payne), British, circa 1922,

signed 'Snaffles' and numbered '1' with Registered Design No 692137 to simple squared base, 'cire perdue' cast nickel-plated bronze mascot, depicting the comical cartoon character 'Mr John Jorrocks' in huntsman's full dress sounding his bugle and mounted on his galloping horse, complete with riding crop, 19cm long, 15.5cm high, mounted on original wooden display base; 25.5cm long overall; offered together with a 'new editio'n of the 1830s publication 'Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities', published by George Routledge & Sons, featuring stories and illustrations of Mr Jorrocks humorous activities; and a framed print after Snaffles depicting Mr Jorrocks on his horse with caption 'Tell me a man's a foxhunter and I loves 'im at once', 36 x 39cm.
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Footnotes

Footnote: Mr John Jorrocks was a fictional comical character created by English novelist and sports writer Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) who serialised in pictorial form the exploits of 'Mr Jorrocks of St.Botolph Lane and Great Coram Street', a vulgar urban Cockney grocer with a taste for country life, sports and hunting, in his sporting editorial New Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834, which were later collated and published by George Routledge & Sons in the 1838 title 'Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities'.

Charles 'Snaffles' Johnson Payne (1884–1967) was an English artist, painting mainly military, racing and equestrian scenes, and was the sculptor of the 'Mr Jorrocks' mascot offered for sale here.

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