the antique-shop proprietor

Also called The bird in charge of the shop, The bloke at the shop

The whiskered, mildewed proprietor of the Brompton Road antique shop.

Connections

dealings

• gives Bertie Wooster 1
• sells the cow-creamer^✦︎ 1
• owns the shop cat^♞︎ 1
• promises Uncle Tom 1

Scenes they are in

1. At the antique shop Sir Watkyn takes Bertie for a reformed bag-snatcher, catches him with his umbrella, and when Bertie trips over the cat and charges out with the cow-creamer, he and Roderick yell for the police and Bertie bolts.Chapter 1, the antique shop, as the bloke in charge

Talked about, but not there

1. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room, as The bloke at the shop