Sir Watkyn's umbrella^✦︎

Also umbrella, the blunt instrument, old Bassett’s, an umbrella, the umbrella

The umbrella Bertie absent-mindedly picked up, so that Sir Watkyn thinks him a thief.

In each book 3 books

• In The Code of the Woosters
  The umbrella Bertie absent-mindedly picked up, so that Sir Watkyn thinks him a thief.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Sir Watkyn's umbrella, which Bertie absent-mindedly took up in a Brompton Road antique shop at their first meeting.
• In Much Obliged, Jeeves
  Sir Watkyn's umbrella, which Bertie absent-mindedly took in an antique shop, so that Spode says he steals everything.

Connections

dealings

• Bertie Wooster steals, takes 6
• Sir Watkyn Bassett owns 5

Scenes it is 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 its umbrella

Talked about, but not there

The Code of the Woosters 1 scene

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 umbrellas

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 2 scenes

1. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers, as your father’s umbrella
2. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers, as umbrella

Much Obliged, Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as his umbrella
2. Spode tells Bertie that Madeline has broken their engagement and means to marry Bertie, and threatens to tear him limb from limb if he lets her down.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as an umbrella
3. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as umbrella