[CarltonHendricks]

Just unpacked this terra cotta tobacco jar of famed English horseracing jockey Fred Archer 1857-1886…Over the years I’d seen stevengraphs and I think maybe tobacco cards of Fred Archer, but never knew much about him...But I was attracted to this because it was figural…once I got it unpacked and displayed I was glad I got it…has some cracks but for a buck fifty I can live with it…came from England. A tragic figure but great at what he did…

Frederick James "Fred" Archer
Born 11 January 1857 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died November 8, 1886, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Fred Archer, also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen". Delirious from wasting and the loss of his wife during childbirth, he took his own life at the age of 29.
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