LETTERS PATENT for the granting of coat of arms to captain William-Eleazar Pickwick of Bathford, Esq.
Estimation :
500 / 600
Adjudication :
1 000 €
Description
S.l., 10th May 1838. Large vellum (62 x 49 cm), on 1 leaf, 2 pendant red wax seals in gilded metal boxes (diam. 7 cm) linked by blue silk ribbons, paper seal and stamp. Original wood case covered with red morocco decorated with a gilt roll and a blind-stamped roll, gilt cypher VR with a crown repeated on the cover and the front side, 2 gilded metal clasps, interior lined in turquoise paper bordered with a gilded frieze (rubbed leather, some scratches).
Beautiful document, signed by the kings of arms Ralph Bigland Garter and William Woods Clarenceux.
William-Eleazar Pickwick was the nephew of the famous Eleazar Pickwick (1749-1837) who inspired Charles Dickens's first novel "The Pickwick Papers", published in feuilleton in 1836-1837, which made his name a household word. On Eleazar's death his estate was inherited by William-Eleazar, except for the coaching business. "His successors, perhaps to erase memories of the foundling, and of Dickens's eccentric characters, and having obtained a grant of arms in 1838, abandoned the name of Pickwick about 1872 in favour of Sainsbury, which was acquired through marriage" (# Buchanan).
JOINT:
•an interesting letter signed by G.W. Beltz, from the Heraldic College, to Captain Pickwick, May 7th 1838, where the design of the coat of arms is fully detailed (1 little split).
# Buchanan, Brenda.- "J.-Pickwick, Eleazer", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
Belles lettres patentes octroyant le droit de porter des armoiries à William-Eleazar Pickwick, neveu du célèbre Eleazar Pickwick (1749-1837) qui inspira le premier roman de Charles Dickens, "The Pickwick Papers" (1836-1837). Sous boîte en maroq. rouge de l'ép. (56,5 x 15 x 7 cm) : monogramme couronné V.R. sur le dessus, lettre patente à 2 sceaux de cire rouge appendants protégés d'étuis en métal doré disposés dans les compartiments int. doublés de papier bleu (cuir lég. défraîchi).
Beautiful document, signed by the kings of arms Ralph Bigland Garter and William Woods Clarenceux.
William-Eleazar Pickwick was the nephew of the famous Eleazar Pickwick (1749-1837) who inspired Charles Dickens's first novel "The Pickwick Papers", published in feuilleton in 1836-1837, which made his name a household word. On Eleazar's death his estate was inherited by William-Eleazar, except for the coaching business. "His successors, perhaps to erase memories of the foundling, and of Dickens's eccentric characters, and having obtained a grant of arms in 1838, abandoned the name of Pickwick about 1872 in favour of Sainsbury, which was acquired through marriage" (# Buchanan).
JOINT:
•an interesting letter signed by G.W. Beltz, from the Heraldic College, to Captain Pickwick, May 7th 1838, where the design of the coat of arms is fully detailed (1 little split).
# Buchanan, Brenda.- "J.-Pickwick, Eleazer", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
Belles lettres patentes octroyant le droit de porter des armoiries à William-Eleazar Pickwick, neveu du célèbre Eleazar Pickwick (1749-1837) qui inspira le premier roman de Charles Dickens, "The Pickwick Papers" (1836-1837). Sous boîte en maroq. rouge de l'ép. (56,5 x 15 x 7 cm) : monogramme couronné V.R. sur le dessus, lettre patente à 2 sceaux de cire rouge appendants protégés d'étuis en métal doré disposés dans les compartiments int. doublés de papier bleu (cuir lég. défraîchi).
