{"product_id":"the-historically-important-and-sportingly-fascinating-edwardian-10ct-rose-gold-combination-dip-pen-and-propelling-pencil-by-sampson-mordan-co-copy","title":"Royal Composer, Pioneer Conductor \u0026 \"Gilbert \u0026 Sullivan\" Confidant: A Superb Late-Victorian Rose-Gold Propelling Pencil to Sir Joseph Barnby","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The truth is that men of genius are apt to be dreamers without a sense of the practical” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCommissioned for Sir Joseph Barnby by the short-lived Cleckheaton Philharmonic Society in gratitude for his visit to the recital of his composition \u003cem\u003eRebekah\u003c\/em\u003e on 2 January 1894.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnsigned and Unmarked. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e112mm [Retracted], 143mm [Extended], 24.8g Gross, \u003cem\u003ewith screw cap terminal inset with shield-shaped bloodstone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eNeatly Engraved \u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheckheaton Philharmonic Society. To Sir Joseph Barnby Kt. 1894\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e in cursive script on floriate-etched and engraven hexagonal barrel. A remarkable and historically-significant survivor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSmooth slider and original soft lead in nib. Practically as manufactured, in original fitted presentation box with partial delamination to external covering and to gilded bordering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSir Joseph Barnby was born at York on 12 August 1838, the youngest of fifteen children. His father, Thomas, played the Church organ as well as running a boot and shoemaking shop on Swinegate. Music was therefore present from birth, and the young Joseph proved an unusually quick study: he began teaching when ten, was an organist at twelve, and a music master at a school when scarcely fourteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a seven year old chorister at York Minster, \u003cem\u003e“The place readily found for his boyish gifts in the choir of a great and solemn Minster, where, day by day, ‘service high and anthem clear’ brought [Barnby] under the direct influence of art in its most exalted application — and, besides that long, steady, quiet training, at a susceptible age, in the finest and most fruitful school which England can boast.”\u003c\/em\u003e  (\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Musical Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarch 1896\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 16, Barnby entered the Royal Academy of Music, studying under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas. In 1856, he was narrowly defeated by Arthur Sullivan in competition for the first Mendelssohn Scholarship. The two scholars had tied the first test, but Sullivan had prevailed after the second. The closeness of the contest was itself a form of distinction, and the two would remain great friends throughout their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ePresented by the Cleckheaton Philharmonic Society to Sir Joseph Barnby on\/about Sunday 12 January 1894\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eFrom the Estate of Sir Joseph Barnby (1838-1896)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eTo his only daughter Ms Muriel Barnby (died 1959)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHOP | SPINK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58241157005696,"sku":"63352\/5","price":4995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/8243\/2198\/files\/Joseph-Barnby-791x1024.jpg?v=1781314378","url":"https:\/\/shop.spink.com\/zh\/products\/the-historically-important-and-sportingly-fascinating-edwardian-10ct-rose-gold-combination-dip-pen-and-propelling-pencil-by-sampson-mordan-co-copy","provider":"SHOP | SPINK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}