59/388

This curved piece of willow basketwork, open at the ends, is a mudguard or wheel-guard for a horse-drawn trap. It came to the Museum from a sports, travel and leather goods store in Wimbledon, London.

1 mudguard: willow

Brighton Museum has a side-saddle bicycle with two mudguards from the late-eighteenth century., MERL 'Catalogue of baskets' form – 'NAME: MUDGUARD (trap, basketwork) // Acc. No.: 59/388 // Group: TRANSPORT. LAND. passenger horsedrawn // Neg. no.: 60/3119 // Place of origin: Wimbledon // Period in use: // DESCRIPTION // Materials: Willow // Shape and construction: A long narrow curved piece of basketwork open at the ends. The top is a ‘pillar’ & the sides are scallomed to it. 1 row of upsetting, close randing & a trac border. 28 Scalloms each side. // Dimensions: Length: 37” width top: 2” width-side: 3” // Use: On the wheel of a trap // Dialect names: Wheelguard // Distribution: // Additional notes: Shown in hists of S. & Prices [Basketmakers’ Lists of Sizes and Prices of Work] from 1873–1916. Brighton Museum has a side-saddle bicycle with two mudguards late 18th c.', 59/388–59/419 were donated to MERL by ‘W. & G. Hales // Later E. Hales Saddler (Brown) & Harness Makers // Sports, travel and Leather Goods Stores’ of 29 Kingston Road, Wimbledon, London.

Mudguard, Basketwork

Wright, Dorothy (Recorder)