Lot 72
PHINEAS MASCOT.
A standing figure of a Scotsman, chromium-plated on a turned wood base. Inscribed UCL & UCH, the Phineas has been the Students' Union at UCL's mascot since March 1900 when, as part of a celebration to mark the relief of the siege of Ladysmith during the Boer War, students stole Phineas - a wooden Phineas highlander statue - from outside Catesby's, a local department store on Tottenham Court Road. Good definition, 16-cms high.
