| Description | Cairness Game Book. Entries made in copy of 'The Game Book, or Sportsman’s Journal...Printed for and Sold by Charles Playfair & Co., Gunmakers, Fishing Rod, Reel and Tackle Manufacturers, 138 Union Street, Aberdeen'. Entries give dates, places, and a few weather notes with details of different varieties of game shot, numbers of guns. Volume measures 28.5 x 13.5 cm.
[Part of a collection of Game Books from Cairness Estate (MS 1160/14/23-33), 1879-1937, varying in size, binding and details of information given according to printed headings, but generally showing numbers of game, wildfowl, and rabbits shot, numbers of guns and some weather notes. MS 1160/14/27-33 are uniformly bound in black leather with ‘Cairness Game’ printed in gold on front cover and with identical headings for entries. Enclosures have been gathered together and placed in folder with other such material from other volumes in this section and marked with references as shown, but no details are here given.] |