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Princesses also sold well, Gibson paying 

 $3,000 for one and $1,900 for another. These 

 traced to Tanqueray's Minerva 4th, imported 

 by Morris & Becar. At this same sale 7th Lord 

 of Oxford 17586 fetched $3,700 and Avery & 

 Murphy paid $3,000 for Peri 3d. The thirty- 

 three animals disposed of brought $56,000, an 

 average of $1,697. 



As a matter of fact the Gwynnes of this pe- 

 riod ranked with the best Short-horns of their 

 time. Indeed for many years, while the old 

 Princess sort and their cousins the Elviras and 

 "Js" were still in comparative obscurity, under 

 the skillful management of careful handlers in 

 Cumberland and the North the Gwynnes were 

 making Short-horn history. Their intrinsic 

 merit and solid worth, their grand flesh and 

 scale, their finish and dairy quality gained for 

 the Gwynnes the plaudits of the entire coun- 

 try-side even in the very heart of the old Short- 

 horn country. As one after another of these 

 handsome specimens of the breed made their 

 appearance in the English show-yards and sale- 

 rings their name became a bye-word, synony- 

 mous with symmetry and persistent quality. 

 "The Gwynnes can't be downed," an expres- 

 sion often heard in those days across the At- 

 lantic, meant that no matter what cross or 

 alien blood was resorted to the Gwynne char- 

 acter seemed to assert itself. Richard Gibson, 



