Monday 19 October 2009

Vanity Fair Print - Polo Player

[caption id="attachment_74" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Polo Player - Maj. M. Rimington"]Polo Player - Maj. M. Rimington[/caption]

This original Vanity fair polo print dated 1898 can be viewed and purchased here

Men of the Day 728. Major Michael Rimington.
'He is descended from Edward Longshanks, he is two-and-a-half inches more than six feet, and he was born at Penrith forty years ago. Unusall for a soldier he went to Oxford and took a degree: after rowing in the Keble Eight, playing in its Cricket Eleven an in its football team, jumping hurdles and hunting, and generally behaving athletically. But he did not begin polo till he got to Sandhurst; after which he joined ithe Iniskilling Dragoons in South Africa ..... He is one of our bets polo players and Honorary Secretary of the All-Ireland Polo Club.'

(A full biography is supplied with this print).

Thursday 15 October 2009

Original Spy Cricket Print - "Reggie"

[caption id="attachment_71" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Vanity Fair Cricket Print dated 1906"]Vanity Fair Cricket Print dated 1906[/caption]

 Mr. R. H. SPOONER By Spy. 'Reggie'. Educated at Marlborough. Played for Lancashire and England. Also played Rugger for England. Served in the Boer War.

See full details here: Vanity Fair Cricket print by Spy