the mahogany rectangular cabinet with fall front door opening to reveal ten sliding drawers each with ivorine bun handle and twin index tabs, drawer interiors fitted bars of nickel spring metal clips with lower section for moth balls, unusually, the lower two fly drawers fitted Hardy patent security fly clips, and holding a good selection of 200 Hardy fully dressed eyed salmon flies, door interior with applied rectangular metal trade plaque, door front with applied ivorine rectangular plaque “No.2 1-3/0” and outer case with recessed brass carry handle and inset name plate, engraved previous owners name “Walter P. Tyser”, back panel slightly loose, 10” x 9 ¼” x 6 ¾” overall, circa 1910 (see illustration) £2500-3500
** Walter Parkyns Tyzer (1867-1944) of Gordonbush, Brora, was a respected ship and insurance agent, he held the positions of director of the Tyser Line Ltd., Chairman of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line and director of the Cunard Steam Ship Company. The Tyzer family have long reaching connections to salmon fishing on the Brora river,
301 A cast of the British Record Roach
