A quiet hundred without the police interfering!

$30.00

Antique golfing cartoon woodcut c1910. Police… the bag?

Policeman. "Where did you get that bag?"
Bill Sykes (indignantly). "There you are! Nice thing, in a free country, that a man can't have a quiet hundred up without the police interfering!"

Original woodcut from a sketch for the Punch Library of Humour published in London c1910 with later hand-tinting. Mr Punch's Golf Stories 'Told by His Merry Men' were intended as after-dinner stories. 

In good condition, this small page measures 18.5 x 13cm (7 3/8 x 5 inches). It is mounted between antique-whte conservation ragmat, and covered with cellophane for protection and presentation, ready for framing. The image window measures 130 x 95mm (5 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). The external mount for frame is 250 x 215mm (9 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches).