Memorabilia Associated With Victorian Jockey Fred Archer (English, 1857-1886)

to include:

an Irish cabinet card photograph of Archer dressed for racing, the image imprinted with a facsimile signature; matted in later frame and ready for hanging. (Photo with small mark, faint foxing; not examined out of frame.)

small leather storage trunk with front handle, metal mounts, and "FRED ARCHER" printed at the front. (Leather scuffed and scratched with corner tear, mounts with light verdigris, box locked, lacking key, and apparently empty.)

John Welcome's FRED ARCHER: HIS LIFE & TIMES. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards, in photographic jacket. 8vo; 208pp. (Boards with light edgewear and browning; offsetting on endpapers, pages very lightly toned with occasional light grime and foxing, minor edge dents; jacket lightly scuffed with edgewear, interior toned, foxing on flaps, not price clipped; very good in very good jacket.)

John Welcome's FRED ARCHER: A COMPLETE STUDY. London: Lambourn, 1990. New Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards, in illustrated jacket. 4to; 176pp. Foreword by Lester Piggott; signed by Piggott at the foreword. (Boards with light marks and grime; interior clean and unmarked, light foxing on fore-edge; jacket scuffed with light edgewear, several creases, not price clipped; very good to near fine in very good jacket.)
Box 8 x 16 1/4 x 11 in.; Frame 10 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.
The remarkable Fred Archer held the title "Champion Jockey" for thirteen seasons.

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