The Glanfield Collection of Rural and Farm Bygones

TWO FINE CUP SHEEP BELLS AND A WIDE MOUTH BELL. The cup bells, 18th century. The larger marked ‘RW’ is probably from Robert Wells’s celebrated fou...

TWO PAIRS OF18th CENTURY SHEARING SCISSORS. TWO SPRING-TINE DAGS AND A SHEATH. The scissors are very scarce. The dags (shears) 19th century.

SHEPHERD’S TURNIP CROOK, KNIFE AND SLICER. All 19th century. The knife is self-made from a broken scythe blade, hooked to grab loosened turnips. W...

A SUSSEX SHEPHERD’S TAR POT. Late18th/early 19th century. Carved from solid wood 31cm ht. Very scarce.

A HORN LANTERN AND A TINKER’S MINIATURE LAMP. Both 19TH century. Part of one horn ‘pane’ in the lantern is missing. The miniature tin lamp is deco...

A SHEPHERD’S FIELD YOKE (1.9m), AND A RAM YOKE. 19th century. Both scarce. The ram yoke from the Norwich area prevented fence breaking.

17 RUMBLER BELLS AND A PAIR OF RAM SHACKLES. The 18th century rumblers were found at Pulborough Nr. Horsham, Sussex. Customarily for horse harness...

A FINE SHEPHERD’S BRAZIER, TINDER BOX, STEEL AND FLINT, AND A BOXWOOD CANDLE HOLDER. All 19th century, the brazier very scarce. A rope looped thro...

A SHEPHERD’S FOLD PITCHING BAR AND BEETLE. Fold beetle, early1800s. The 1.0m bar (drift) from Sussex, rather later. The drift was rammed into chal...

A TINKER-MADE TEA POT, FIRE HOOK, HANGER, AND IRON POT. All 19th century.

A CANISTER SHEEP BELL AND A PAIR OF IRON RAM SHACKLES. The 18th century iron bell was dipped in brass to give it ‘ring’. The brass wears off in pa...

A LATTEN AND TWO CLUCKET SHEEP BELLS. The small clucket is on a leather strap, 18th century. The other on a strap, and the latten on a yew yoke, e...

A SHEPHERD’S NECK CROOK, A LEG CROOK AND A RUSTIC UMBRELLA. The Sussex crooks are 19th century.

FIVE FINE RUMBLER BELLS AND A CLUCKET BELL. All late 18th century. The large rumblers are decorated. The clucket was brass-dipped to give ‘ring’. .

A SHEPHERD’S MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AIDS. A tin and brass drenching bottle. A horn salve box. Another, wooden with swivel lid. A blood stick and fle...

A SHEPHERD’S IRON PITCH POT, MARKING IRON AND SHEEP’S COLLAR The iron dipped in pitch marked ownership. The collar’s shaped wooden side pieces are...

A SHEEP’S CUP BELL, CANISTER BELL AND A WIDE MOUTH BELL. The cup on a strap and the canister, 18th century. The wide mouth bell on a yew yoke, 19t...

A SHEEP’S CLUCKET BELL, A WIDE MOUTH BELL AND A CANISTER BELL. The clucket on a yew yoke, and the brassed canister bell, 18th century. The wide mo...

A FINE SCOTTISH SHEPHERD’S COMBINED DRINKING HORN AND WHISTLE. Early 18th century. Conical and decoratively turned, 23cm. Whistle at tip. Exceptio...

THREE CLUCKET SHEEP BELLS. The two on leather straps, 18th century. The other on a yew yoke, 19th century.

A FINE CANISTER SHEEP BELL, A LARGE CLUCKET BELL, AND A WIDE MOUTH BELL. The canister on a leather strap, late 18th century. The brassed clucket o...

AN IRON AND A WOODEN SHEEP DIP HOOK. Both 19th century. The iron hook forms a cyma curve to double as a neck crook when washing. The wooden hook i...

A SHEEP LEG CROOK, AND A DIP HOOK. Both 19th century. The 2m long dip hook doubles as a neck crook for ‘dip and drag’.

A WOODEN SHEEP DIP HOOK AND A LEG CROOK. Late 19th/early 20th century.

TWO BENTWOOD SHEEP NECK BANDS 19th century, from East Anglia. Scarce.

A WOOL PACK CRAMPING IRON. 19th century. When the canvas pack sheet was filled with fleeces, the iron drew its two edges tightly together for sewi...

AN OVERSHOE AND A HEAVY HORSESHOE. 19th century. Exceptionally scarce. This wood and iron shoe was used on the Lancashire Fylde wetland to preven...

FOUR HARDWOOD TETHERING CHOGS. From a Gosberton Clough farm nr. Spalding, Lincs. All 19th century.

A PAIR OF IRON HORSE SHACKLES AND A LIGNUM VITAE TETHERING CHOG. Both 19th century. West Country shackles.

A FINE RING OF EIGHTEEN BRASS RUMBLER BELLS ON A MARTINGALE. The bells may predate the 19th century brass symbols that stud part of the 1.83m stra...

TWO DRENCHING HORNS AND A WOODEN BALLING GUN. Both horns early 19th century, one with wooden handle. The other bears owner’s initials. The gun’s s...

A LATTEN BELL AND EIGHT RUMBLER HARNESS BELLS. The 18th century latten bell is marked ‘RW’ and is probably from Robert Wells’s celebrated foundry ...

A LATTEN HORSE BELL AND AN ENGRAVED BRASS HORSE BELL. The latten is on a broad brass-buckled strap. The cast wide-mouth brass bell, foundry mark ‘...

A FINE PAIR OF HEAVY HORSE HAMES, AND A SCOTCH ROLLER. The wood and iron roller was chained back to either side of a wagon’s rear wheel when climb...

A HORSE LEADING POLE, AND A BULL LEADER. 19th/early 20th century. The horse pole is from Knossington, nr. Braunston, Leics.

AN EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE AMULET. From a stable, W. Lavington, Wilts. Superstition held that horseshoes and stones with a natural hole or ‘evil eye’...

A FINE WOODEN DAIRY PAN (QUERN) Cooper-made, 68cm wide at handles. Mid-19th century. Scarce. To separate cream from milk, it stood in the pan for ...

A MILK DELIVERY CAN AND A MILKING STOOL. Brass fittings on the late 19th century can include a plate engraved ‘Charman Albury’. Details of this fa...

TWO SPIKED CALF MUZZLES . To prevent suckling. Both from North Yorks, 19th century.

A SPIKED NOSE RING AND TWO SPIKED NECK PIECES. All 19th century, from North Yorks. To deter calves from suckling. The spiked wooden neck pieces 23...

TWO SPIKED NECK PIECES AND A PAIR OF IRON HORN TRAINERS. All 19th century. The spiked wooden neck pieces from North Yorks,. 23cm long, to deter ca...

THREE IRON COW TETHERS, A CUMBRIAN TETHER AND TWO COW BELLS. Both bells are 18th century. One is foundry-marked ‘FH’’. The wooden Cumbrian tether ...

AN EXMOOR CATTLE YOKE, OX CUES AND PLOUGH TOOLS. From a farm near Dunster,19th century. Paired yokes of this type are very scarce. Cattle were put...

A WOODEN BULLOCK COLLAR. 19th century, from a farm near Dunster, Somerset. Bullocks were draught beasts on smaller farms.

A PAIRED OX YOKE. 19th century. West country.

A WOODEN BULLOCK COLLAR AND AN OX BOW 19th century.

AN EAST ANGLIAN PUSH HOE. Turn of the 19th/20th century. 2.25m long overall.

A CROFTER’S CASCHROM, A BARLEY HOE AND A TANGED CULTIVATION TOOL. 19th/early 20th century. The caschrom was a tillage implement where no plough co...

A FINE BREAST PLOUGH AND CLAPPERS. Both 19th century. The plough was used by the Hutchens brothers into the 20th century on Rackenford Moor betwee...

TWO PAIRS OF BREAST PLOUGH CLAPPERS. Clappers are scarce relics of farming’s most punishing labour. The pair in shaped sheet iron are highly unusu...

A FAGGOT FORK AND A STONE RAKE. Both 19th century. Stones damaged plough coulters and shares. Raked stone dressed parish roads. The fork carried g...

A BENTWOOD SEEDLIP & NECK STRAP. 19th century. This ancient seed box lay against the sower’s waist as he broadcast seed by hand, gripping the upri...

A SEED FIDDLE. A good early1900s example, replacing the seedlip. Brass plate ‘James Penfold, Tortington Works, Arundel’. Previously Penfold & Wimb...

A SCOTTISH SEED SOWING TRAY. Late 1800s/early 1900s, from the Borders. The same function as the seedlip.

FOUR WOODEN BIRD SCARERS. Assorted wooden clappers and rattles, 19th century. The heavy rattle is from Northumberland.

A WOODEN HAY CRATCH. Early 20th century, Welsh border near Ludlow. By this means a large truss of hay was carried on the back down hillsides unrea...

FIVE BOXWOOD TOGGLES AND THREE ROPE PULLEYS. All 19th century. The toggles from a Sturminster Newton farm, Dorset, enabling rope to be drawn tight...

A DATED FIRKIN, AND ANOTHER. ‘1835’ is cut into the firkin’s head. The other is also part withy-bound, 19th century. Firkins are typically 2-6 pi...

A WELSH REAPER’S GRIT HORN, A STRICKLE STICK, AND A FIELD ANVIL. Unusually, a leather mixing pad is attached to the horn. It remains charged with ...

A SOUNDING HORN AND A REAPER’S GRIT HORN. Both 19th century. The unusually long grit horn (46cm) is inscribed ‘1851,’ with the initials of a succe...