Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Victorian Hobby. [ARTICLE]

Victorian Hobby.

The announcement offering for sale the wedding shoes of Queen Victoria recalls the fact that her majesty was a keen collector of historical relics. At a sale held in November, 1898, she commissioned a well-known dealer to secure for her a walking-stick carved to represent “Wisdom and Folly,” once the property of Prihce Charles Edward. The royal agent had carte blanche, and the stick was knocked down to him for £ 160. This was a monstrous price when we consider that shortly before the young pretender’s dirk, with flint-lock. pistol attached, realized only £3 15s; while the great Rob Roy’s claymore, made by Andrea Ferrara, with its shark’s ■kin grip and all, went for £37 16s. At the Stuart exhibition organized in London some twenty years ago a number of most interesting exhibits came from Queen Victoria’s collection. — Dundee Advertiser.