Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930 and cartoonist Tom Webster Original printed card for the Turnberry Hotel, Ayrshire with colour view of the front of the hotel to centre. The back of the card has hand drawn pencil caricatures of, to left hand side, Arthur Mailey, depicted bowling a rugby ball, drawn by Tom Webster and to the right hand side Tom Webster smoking a cigar, by Arthur Mailey. Each has been signed by the artist, each with title 'Tom by Arthur' and Arthur by Tom'. The card measures 7"x5.5". Vertical centre fold otherwise in good/very good condition
Presumably Mailey and Webster as journalists were staying at the Turnberry Hotel, possibly when Scotland played Australia in Glasgow in July 1930 and these caricatures were drawn over Dinner Tom Webster was a British cartoonist and caricaturist who specialised in sporting cartoons. He started out at the Sports Argus in Birmingham, then later the Evening News, before joining the Daily Mail in 1919. He specialised in cartoons of horseracing, cricket and golf, and stayed at the Mail for over twenty years. He left the Daily Mail in 1940, but continued to draw for other newspapers, and his own range of annuals, until 1960. He died in 1962, aged 76
Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930 and cartoonist Tom Webster Original printed card for the Turnberry Hotel, Ayrshire with colour view of the front of the hotel to centre. The back of the card has hand drawn pencil caricatures of, to left hand side, Arthur Mailey, depicted bowling a rugby ball, drawn by Tom Webster and to the right hand side Tom Webster smoking a cigar, by Arthur Mailey. Each has been signed by the artist, each with title 'Tom by Arthur' and Arthur by Tom'. The card measures 7"x5.5". Vertical centre fold otherwise in good/very good condition
Presumably Mailey and Webster as journalists were staying at the Turnberry Hotel, possibly when Scotland played Australia in Glasgow in July 1930 and these caricatures were drawn over Dinner Tom Webster was a British cartoonist and caricaturist who specialised in sporting cartoons. He started out at the Sports Argus in Birmingham, then later the Evening News, before joining the Daily Mail in 1919. He specialised in cartoons of horseracing, cricket and golf, and stayed at the Mail for over twenty years. He left the Daily Mail in 1940, but continued to draw for other newspapers, and his own range of annuals, until 1960. He died in 1962, aged 76
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