Lot 136
A SCOTTISH STAINED PINE CHILD'S ORKNEY CHAIR
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 19 August from 10am | Lots 1 - 198
Description
with woven straw back and open scroll end arms above a solid seat, on square tapering legs linked by stretchers
Dimensions
83cm high, 54cm wide, 41cm deep
Provenance
Personal collection of John Davie Manson Robertson CBE (Scottish 1929-2015), thence by descent
John Robertson was the author of ‘Uppies & Doonies’, the story of the Kirkwall Ba’, written in 1967, which he later revised and expanded on in ‘The Kirkwall Ba’, Between the Water and the Wall’ published in 2005. A lifelong enthusiast of the Ba’, he won the coveted trophy on New Year’s Day 1966, and was chairman of the Ba’ Committee for many years. He was an important member of Orcadian society and contributed much to the islands' businesses and community.