Club Item Number: 1921.567.1 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Whalebone club with cherry bark binding round shaft and creature's, open-mouthed ?bird, head carved on top. Down the centre of the blade a design has been carved between two lines, composed of circles and triangles; good.
Sarah Stones illustration (Sketchbook II:29) also appears in Force Force Art and Artefacts of the 18th Century: Objects in the Leverian Museum As Painted by Sarah Stone (1968:152).(Bio) Baroness Eliza Isy von Hgel, ne Froude, was the granddaughter of Arthur Howe Holdsworth, through her mother Catherine Henrietta Elizabeth Holdsworth. The Froudes lived in Salcombe, Devon.