FYI, you have the fantastic board the wrong way around. The should be a white square on the right hand corner. Just remember also that the queen always goes on her own colour then you’re all set to play. Really enjoy watching these videos you do, thanks.
@thomasryan539410 күн бұрын
Does anyone make real pith helmets today? I’ve tried buying some but they always turn out to be the same Vietnamese made fakes.
@CampaignFurniture10 күн бұрын
I'm afraid I don't know for sure. I would think there must be someone making them but have never tried to buy a new one.
@jpkatz143511 күн бұрын
Much thanks for showing this interesting travelers artifact.
@Mick02811 күн бұрын
I have a set in what I believe is rosewood; stamped W Morton & Son. Looking at your excellent video I think they are later rather than the early sets you show.
@CampaignFurniture11 күн бұрын
A name I haven't seen before - thank you.
@jpkatz143518 күн бұрын
Wonderful information on lovely examples of tourist ware. Thankyou.
@zen4men21 күн бұрын
What a great story! Plymouth and war made my family a fortune, as my maternal grandfather's family owned huge quarries. From 1812 to 1841, they supplied 4.5 million tons of limestone for Plymouth Breakwater - a project on the scale of the Channel Tunnel, crucial to protecting the fleet from sou'westerly gales. / You mentioned the Napoleonic invasion scare. It resulted in the huge "Palmerston's Follies" forts that ring all important areas in southern England. Plymouth is no exception, and it kept large numbers of men in our quarries busy for many years. I have been in the bowels of a couple of the forts, and there are tunnels and stairs that just go on and on! / Plymouth is full of buildings and bridges made out of squared grey limestone, which often has a purplish streak in it, which makes a good contrast with granite quoinstones. My family even owned a ship, which travelled as far as Malaya with stone. Enterprising people! And my maternal grandmother's family owned a bank and tin smelter in Cornwall, so what with Plymouth limestone and Cornish granite, stone is in my blood! / Duperier is not a name I have heard of before in Plymouth, but he certainly served the volunteers well. His father certainly had an eventful career! Good detective work! /
@CampaignFurniture21 күн бұрын
It sounds like your family have a very rich and interesting history
@zen4men21 күн бұрын
@@CampaignFurniture I can see that you are a very lucky man, doing what you love doing. As to family - like all other families, there is a history, but few know much. My father was a liberal, with no great interest in family, and he felt socially insecure. His grandfather was a top cable engineer, who invented the Wilmot Automatic Transmitter - effectively an improved router for telegrams, when Superintendent of the Waterville Cable Station. I knew he was in Ireland, but was never told of his invention - perhaps my father did not know? / Like yourself, I enjoy a bit of detective work. Like how did my great-grandfather from the Bolitho family in West Penwith, Cornwall, marry a Macleod of Cadboll from Invergordon Castle. Two people born 730 miles by road apart, brought together by two country houses a mile and a half apart! / I don't know for certain, but I deduce the link was banking, and the River Dart in South Devon. This helped:- www.wdhg.org.uk/presentations/Houses%20of%20the%20Dart.pdf A cousin, Thomas Bedford Bolitho MP, owned Greenways, the house later owned by Agatha Christie, and now National Trust. Just north-west across the Dart lies Sandridge Park, then owned by Lord Ashburton, who also owned land in Scotland, and married a Macleod of Cadboll - a remarkable lady! So the link seems to be banking, Scotland, and the River Dart. / Lord Ashburton also owned an estate called Spitchwick, on the edge of Dartmoor near Ashburton, where my great-grandfather later built a granite manor house called Hannaford Manor. Bolitho's bank had sold out to Barclays in 1905, William and another Bolitho became Barclays directors, and William had not one, but TWO granite houses built at the same time ( the other called Trevelloe above Lamorna ). It must have been a profitable merger! / It suggests that William knew Spitchwick well, and it is possible there was a link through Harrow, and the Royal Devon Yeomanry / horses / hunting. Late in life, my grandmother would stay at Holne Chase Hotel, very country house relaxed grand, and very near to Hannaford, driven up by Langston the chauffeur/gardener in her ancient Rover 100. I often stayed with her at Trevelloe as a boy, travelling alone from Plymouth on the railway, and picked up at Penzance station by Langston, who was an ex-soldier, so I got on well with him. I did not know then that the Bolithos helped get the railway to Penzance, passing by their tin smelter at Chyandour. Thomas Bedford Bolitho was a director of Great Western Railway, and was invited by US railroad companies to give lectures on how GWR operated. / Looking back to the 12 year old me, I wish I had asked more questions about my family before my grandmother died. Only quite recently did I find a picture on the internet of her father, William, wearing the slouch hat of the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, where he was awarded the DSO for leading a doomed forlorn hope assault up a steep path set in a 1,000 foot chiff, at Nooitgedacht - a British defeat. He looked just like myself - the resemblance was uncanny. And as a 12 or 13 year old boy, I had found a slouch hat in the cellar, and briefly wore it, before sadly losing it. / The past shapes our today. For example, I am a bit of a rebel. I wish I had known as a boy that two of my Macleod ancestors, both great(x6)-grandfathers, Macleods of Berneray and Cadboll, lairds who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie. At Falkirk, Berneray led his clan at the age of 54, and killed a mounted dragoon, earning the title "Old Trojan". Amazing what the internet teaches me! But it does explain why the youthful me wanted to go to Sandhurst, and join the Black Watch, and why a South Devon boy's blood would rise at the skirl of the pipes! /
@tonyt794821 күн бұрын
Well done
@jpkatz143523 күн бұрын
2:01 Thankyou, supurbe presentation of a life as discovered through 3 paintings.
@CampaignFurniture23 күн бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment.
@jpkatz143521 күн бұрын
Your YT channel is a world tresure for we who love and learn from these artifacts. THANKYOU.@CampaignFurniture
@CampaignFurniture21 күн бұрын
@@jpkatz1435 Thank you for your kind words
@billyboy00200027 күн бұрын
Do you know where to get replacement keys
@CampaignFurniture27 күн бұрын
We have a local locksmith who can do most keys if the lock is removed for him. Stronger locks, of course, can cost quite a lot for replacement keys.
@allthatroubleАй бұрын
Thank you for your posting. It was very informative and concisely answered my question.
@acmelkaАй бұрын
Wow! Thanks, you appear to be The Man when it comes to campaign furniture as far as KZbin goes. I'm researching for historical fiction and love all the detail
@jpkatz1435Ай бұрын
Much thanks for the concise information on that box.
@arispring3035Ай бұрын
What was the book title?
@CampaignFurnitureАй бұрын
The Decorative Arts Of The China Trade by Carl L. Crossman
@chrislentzyАй бұрын
Super series showcasing makers' details. Well done.
@chrislentzyАй бұрын
I only just noticed that this secretaire chest has no cock beading. So cock beading wasn't always used on campaign chest?
@WestCoasHazeАй бұрын
Wonderful history as always.
@CampaignFurnitureАй бұрын
The desk is part of a campaign chest. A video on it can be seen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYK8o5qZp5dka6c
@jpkatz1435Ай бұрын
Lovely to hear some of the sets history. Thankyou.
@hittitecharioteerАй бұрын
The history behind the pith helmet is fascinating. Wearing one risks looking like Don Estelle (best known as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum). None the less, a pith helmet just looks stylish - especially the authentic ones. Panama hats are lighter, rollable, packable, and generally more practical for sun-protection in the modern age. It's nice to know there's someone that still cares about this icon, and collects 👍🏻.
@WestCoasHazeАй бұрын
Love pith helmets. There's several stores that sell them where I live. US Marine Corp still wear sun helmets in a ceremonial manner for firearm instructors, a plastic form unfortunately. US postal carriers also still wear them regularly, again a plastic version. Of course Melania Trump looking fantastic in one on her trip to Africa. Don't forget the bugari is it to be dipped in water to cool the wearer
@baobo672 ай бұрын
Very pucker old chap. Cheerio.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Much thanks for the vid.You are looking very good with it on.
@DemetrioAlbidrez2 ай бұрын
I Love Antique Furniture and these One is So Beautiful ❤️❤️ !
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Much thanks for showing both book case "entertainment centers".
@WestCoasHaze2 ай бұрын
Beautiful,would love one of these but have no where to put it. This seems unnecessarily ornant, books in a chest and displayed with bookends would accomplish the same task in a smaller footprint while on campaign
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
By today's standards, much campaign furniture would seem unnecessary but in the 18th & 19th centuries when many British army officers bought their commissions, the more comfortable they were, the better they thought they could do their job. Local labour to carry it was often cheap. One officer took almost an orchestra's worth of musical instruments with him!
@WestCoasHazeАй бұрын
@@CampaignFurnitureYes, truly elegance under canvas. Believe me I've tried to justify buying one of these campaign book cases, I love the quality and craftsmanship, but I don't think that my wife would agree! Interesting fact about the orchestra, I do recall your example of one high ranking officers baggage running several miles of carriages or wagons. I think George Washington had a similar caravan on campaign
@CampaignFurnitureАй бұрын
@@WestCoasHaze It was Sir Colin Cambell nicknamed Sir Crawling Camel by his troops. In India, William Howard Russell of The Times noted in his diary on the 2nd of February 1858 'Sire Colin Campbell's baggage &c. extended for eighteen miles, when he came down from Lucknow.'
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Ellagent, as is the best campaign furnature.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Wonderful, Much thanks for showing it.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Yes, a wonderful shiner away of the dark in the time long before smartphone LEDs. Thankyou for showing this particular device i knew not of.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
0:09 1. Missed seeing the chair folded. Your dissasembly/reassembly is ALWAYS very engaging/insightful, i always slow that part down to more fully understand that process/sequence. 2.Suprised arm straps did not have more holes to allow back angle adjustment. Why do you imagine this is the case? 3. Love the chusion color and contrasting BLUE elaments. Any evidence this treatment recreats original fabric colors? 4.An interview with the "wonderfull" Sally would add her insights in the resteration/preservation of these historicly significant/fascinating/precious remnents of a past long gone to this American Bostonian.
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
The arm straps only having one position is unusual and perhaps indicative of its later date. I'm afraid the replaced cushions are not authentic to the original, which probably would have been a leather or oilcloth. We gave the wonderful Sally licence to give it a modern interpretation. I'll have a chat with Sally but I don't think she would do it.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
MUCH thanks for your quick reply. If the Wonderful Sally is reluctant, for the present, to discuss her craft, of equal interest would be a vidio expedition to interview/chat with a willing devoted collector. Campaign furniture is itself "wonderfull" and a visit/viewing to a meaningful collection and collector will expand its appreciation and deepen the knowledge of us who love this furniture form.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Can imagine a "full set" around a dining table. Are ther comenserate arm chairs? That would complete a set in my mind.
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
We haven't seen any armchairs but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some in the original set.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
1. I appreciate your reply. 2.Any indication of folding armchairs in historic campaign furniture catalogs?
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
@@jpkatz1435 We've seen a lot of folding and dismantling chairs in catalogues but haven't found any yet of Naval Chairs or of this form of chair. Most of the surviving catalogues showing portable furniture tend to be from the 2nd half of the 19th century.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Again, thankyou for your prompt reply(s). Any further thoughts on the posibilitys of visiting ardent/serious/ willing to share-educate campaign furniture collectors? I can only imagine a visit to an exquisite collection with you and the devoted collector sharing the love of the form.
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
@@jpkatz1435 Its an interesting idea but at the moment, I can't spare the time to do it. Finding a collector who would be happy to do it might also be difficult. Never say never but I can't see anything happening in the next couple of years.
@jpkatz14352 ай бұрын
Lovely momento of time long gone.
@fredbloggs80722 ай бұрын
Love it. I would imagine a replacement drawer would not be too difficult to fabricate, as you could use the drawer from the other side as a template.
@SlackingSince19692 ай бұрын
I've been watching (almost binging...lol) off and on the videos on your channel for the past month or so. Ever since your Officer's full personal campaign furniture video came up in my feed. As a former Boy Scout and Rover from the late 70's to mid 90's. I can see the beginning of what we use now for camping, in the Victorian era campaign furniture. The design of this furniture is quite well thought out and manufactured to a high standard. Craftmanship in both design and manufacture. Here in Canada we built wood/canvas and wooden canoes in factories similar to the factories British campaign furniture was made. In today's world it is very hard to think of entire factories and very large workshops, filled with workers, who posessed such craftmanship and skill. Collectively, I fear we have lost a lot of escoteric skills in the past 30 years. Among them the ability to tinker. Thoroughly enjoying your videos and learning a lot. Cheers🍻
@CampaignFurniture2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for your kind words. I'm pleased you enjoy our videos.
@some-idea3 ай бұрын
Beautiful joinery. I wonder how long it took to make and finish a box like that. Thank you for making these videos to showcase such workmanship.
@user-cf1hm1pw6h3 ай бұрын
I've seen these lamps in old movies usually Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper. But I had no idea they used a candle. For some reason I thought they were oil or paraffin. Thankyou for a great informative video.
@CampaignFurniture3 ай бұрын
You're welcome - thanks for your kind comments.
@zen4men3 ай бұрын
Great Solution of a Picture Puzzle! ============================ Can I suggest you take a look at your sound, as, interesting as your subjects are. you are frequently hard work to hear. I am no expert myself, but I believe it may be quality of microphone, plus distance from the microphone. A microphone that clips to you may work wonders! /
@CampaignFurniture3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Yes, I have been looking at the sound for a while. I do use a clip on mic but not while I dismantle furniture as it creates more interference. I tend to have it stationed close by.
@zen4men3 ай бұрын
@@CampaignFurniture We learn by experience! / I taught myself how to create graphic images to sell items on the internet more effectively, and often it is the mistakes I make that launch my style in a new direction. I enjoy the creativity. I have a huge range of textured borders, which means my ADVs on Gumtree are instantly recognisable as my work. I look back on my early efforts, and remember how proud I was of them, though now they seem amateur in comparison. /
@zen4men3 ай бұрын
@@CampaignFurniture Did they make ship's candlesticks to sit on a table? I just bought a heavy, wide mahoghany base with a short bronze candleholder in the centre. Beautifully turned, of a higher than normal quality ( for household candlesticks ), and clearly rather old. I googled, but can find nothing like it. /
@CampaignFurniture3 ай бұрын
@@zen4men take a look at the candlestick in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGOygqOio96Ei80
@zen4men3 ай бұрын
@@CampaignFurniture Thanks - I saw that. I will take a photo, and send it to you. /
@WestCoasHaze3 ай бұрын
Not just a product demonstration, but a story and history lesson as well. Brilliant as always
@fredbloggs80724 ай бұрын
Thank you, amazing to see how much stuff the officers used to lug round with them, and how small it all packs up. Presumably an officer wouldn't have had to assemble/disassemble it himself, and would have had a batman to do it for him.
@CampaignFurniture4 ай бұрын
Dependent on their rank, yes, they would likely have had a batman or a servant to do the work.
@JinKee4 ай бұрын
Get the Lock Picking Lawyer to silently defeat one of these.
@johnharper2574 ай бұрын
Such gadgets are still being sold today.
@jpkatz14354 ай бұрын
CCA, much thanks for showing/offering the door wedge.
@SimonWallwork4 ай бұрын
Every day, a school day.
@zen4men4 ай бұрын
Never heard of a "Rodney" decanter before! Royal Navy is in my blood. My family live close to Plymouth, supplied 4 million tons of limestone to build Plymouth Breakwater 1812-1841, my grandfather was at Jutland ( our front door bell is the ship's bell of battleship HMS Collossus ( 1910 ), given to him by the navy on his retirement ), and my father was a WW2 submarine officer awarded the DSC by the age of 22. Mind you, I took to the army side of the family, but Royal Naval College Dartmouth definitely influenced my education, through my father. I rather like stories attached to things, so had I heard the Rodney story, I would have remembered it. / After 66 years of life, amazing how many completely new things keep popping up. / I grew up in a house called Cleeve, which had substantial cellars, as well as attics. There was a huge brown bearskin lurking in the cellar, with fur 4 or 5 inches long. As kids, we would wrap ourselves up in it, until we began to overheat. / There was Imperial Yeomanry equipment from the Boer War, where my great-grandfather was awarded the DSO for leading men up a 900 foot kloof to attack the Boers - and being cut to pieces - a forlorn hope distraction to allow the main force to disengage in a British defeat. / A Treasure Trove! /
@jpkatz14354 ай бұрын
This was a pleasure to get information backround on these decanters. Thankyou.
@olumsezbey4 ай бұрын
Damn, the whole time in the beginning my mind was racing with how it would collapse and be self contained. Sad I couldn’t see it in ‘travel mode’.
@CampaignFurniture4 ай бұрын
See this video for similar showing how this type of washstand dismantles: www.campaignfurniture.com/campaign-furniture/other-camp-furniture/campaign-washstand-1 Its in our archive section on the website.
@olumsezbey4 ай бұрын
@@CampaignFurniture Thanks for the response. I enjoyed that video too.
@jakibros4 ай бұрын
Just picked up what I believe is a campaign box...possibly early American. 2 locks on the front. The bottom lock is a square brass key hole. I am trying to find a key to fit it. The size of it is very similar to your box.
@jpkatz14354 ай бұрын
Much thanks for showing and teaching us qabout this lovely wash stand.
@jpkatz14354 ай бұрын
Wonderful presentation and information. THANKYOU.
@mickfromaustralia9024 ай бұрын
One of your very best segments, thank you.
@CampaignFurniture4 ай бұрын
Many thanks Mick.
@fredbloggs80724 ай бұрын
The fact that it appears to have been exposed to heat/fire adds an extra layer of interest. Presumably these bucket would have been hung up filled with sand rather than water?
@CampaignFurniture4 ай бұрын
Yes, you're right filled with sand but they may have had a number unfilled as well.
@fredbloggs80724 ай бұрын
Do you know if the very convincing faux wood paintwork was intended to be merely decorative, or was it to camouflage the safe as an ordinary wooden box?
@CampaignFurniture4 ай бұрын
I would imagine that it was more focused on the decorative side with the chance that it may fool a thieve a bonus.