c1830 Antique Engraving CELT HATCHET OF FLINT PAVENHAM BOG BEDFORDSHIRE (B27)

Listing Template 2018 Home About Us View Feedback Contact Us c1830 Antique Engraving CELT HATCHET OF FLINT PAVENHAM BOG BEDFORDSHIRE (B27)Click image to enlargeDescriptionc1830A largeoriginal antique engraving titledA CELT, or Hatchet of Flint stone found in,BEDFORDSHIRE.Dug out of a bog called Miller's Bog at PAVENHAMPROVENANCETaken from Collections Historical; Genealogical and Topographical for Bedfordshire with engravings from the original drawings by Thomas Fisher F.S.A published by J B Nichols and son, Cornhill.Overall size including margins approx 24cm x 33cm. Condition very fine.Thomas Fisher (1772-1836) was born inRochester, Kent, the younger of the two sons of Thomas Fisher, printer, bookseller, and alderman of Rochester.In 1786 Fisher entered the India House as an extra clerk; in April 1816 he was appointed searcher of records. He retired on a pension in June 1834, after having spent in different offices under the company altogether forty-six years. He died unmarried on 20 July 1836, in his sixty-fifth year, at his lodgings in Church Street,Stoke Newington, and was buried on the 26th inBunhill Fields. From the time of his coming to London he had resided at Gloucester Terrace, Hoxton, in the parish of Shoreditch.Before he left Rochester Fisher's work as a draughtsman attracted the attention ofIsaac Taylorthe engraver. He was also eminent as an antiquary. Fisher was in 1821 elected F.S.A. of Perth, and on 5 May 1836 F.S.A. of London, an honour from which he had been hitherto debarred, as a dissenter.Shipping View Our Categories Decorative Prints World Wide Maps Scotland Maps Architecture Design England Maps Royalty About UsWe specialise in selling all items that can be considered to be Antique Paper. * PRINTS * MAPS * HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS * POSTAL HISTORY * BOOKS * POSTERS * STAMPS * POSTCARDS * EPHEMERA And anything else that is considered Antique and made of Paper. ALL OF OUR ITEMS ARE ORIGINAL ANTIQUES - NOT MODERN COPIES. We are also very keen buyers of anything similar and especially after better collections, original archives, whole libraries and better single items and have and#163;250,000 in cash funds at anyone time to buy the right items. Contact UsIf you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us through the eBay messaging system. Feedback We will always help you to have a 100% positive happy buying experience. Contact us if you are unhappy about any aspect of your purchase from us. We only want five star feedback from you so buy with confidence.…