Sean Crowley
Name: Sean Crowley
Age: 30
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Occupation: Neckwear Designer
This list is to “the bare essentials” what Wellington’s-army-on-campaign is to a camping trip, but I suppose we all have a different idea of which things are “essential.” *Note: The carpet underneath is not merely decorative as the idea is that all these bits would be rolled up in it and carried out the front door in one go.
List: (Anti-clockwise from top left)
- Striped college scarves (to secure the rolled up carpet and because I like them)
- Leather collar box and stiff wing collars
- Loose organic Assam BOP tea in silver caddy (which goes in the blue pot to the right)
- Royal Lancers mess dress (and why not?)
- Green silk formal waistcoat of the Porcellian Club with jacquard boar’s heads c.1931
- Apparel Arts No.1 Christmas 1931
- Paper silhouette of my royal consort, Lady Meredith
- Johnnie Walker Black c.1950s (from a case found in an uncle’s basement)
- Old Thurston braces
- Carved wooden school placque
- Pour le Merite medal given to me by a WWII veteran friend
- Coldstream Guards Colour Sergeant’s scarlet coat
- Old striped ties
- Wedgwood plate c.1870s and RAF crested officer’s mess cutlery
- French 1930s military-style hairbrushes (use ‘em every day)
- Royal Artillery zig zag needlepoint slippers
- Black silk Fox umbrella
- English purple leather suitcase c.1930s
- Grey topper (every inch of the silk lining is covered in autographs and witty handwritten sayings from various garden parties c.1932-1934)
- Smith Woodhouse vintage 1977 port (part of a mixed case of vintage port my uncle gave me when I graduated college)
- Equestrian mounted leather pouch with fitted sandwich case and flask (don’t ride, but it comes in useful for a ramble)
- Wedgwood (huge) mug marking the investiture of Prince Charles c.1969
- Silver toddy/punch ladles c.1750s (the handles are twisted whale bone and the bowls are fashioned out of George II silver shillings)
- Gold Krugerrand given to me by an uncle on graduating college
- Topsy Turvy Criterion dvd
- Christ’s College, Cambridge carved wooden box
- Battle Creek Sanitarium silver souvenir spoon
- Ancient Order of Froth Blowers silver pin for the rank of “Blaster” in the shape of a foaming mug
- Musket ball I dug up in Fort Greene Park
- Gold monogrammed cufflinks (worn by 3 generations of Burbidges before me—with the history written on a tiny piece of paper—each owner wore them during a momentous occasion in their lives
- Pipe, tobacco and a humidor my brother made for me for Christmas (matches are from an old hunt club near where I grew up—they have Polo and fox hunting)
- Old English molds for making fancy meat pies
- The Gentleman’s Companion: Around the World with Beaker and Flask
