These two items, the latter of which Roye photographed at Farley Castle with a model, belonged to the colourful explorer Frederick Mitchell-Hedges, with whom Roye enjoyed a close friendship. They shared a passion for antique Georgian silver, and Roye recalls some of the buying expeditions: 'M-H used to buy silver in immense quantities from hard-up aristocratic estates. He would throw it into the back of a shooting break like so much coal, thereby depriving the Death Duties people of rich pickings. M-H had the cruellest eyes of any man I'd ever seen. He never kept less than half a million pounds in cash about him, usually in a large cabin trunk.'