A fine Great War submariner’s D.S.M. group of four awarded to Able Seaman W. Biggs, Royal Navy, who was decorated for ‘his coolness in a very exciting scrap’ in H.M. Submarine G.7 in the North Sea in April 1917, when his gunnery skills resulted in the possible destruction of an enemy submarine Sadly, however, he was still serving in G.7 when she was lost with all hands after being mined in the North Sea shortly before the Armistice in November 1918 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (238350. W. Biggs. A.B. H.M. Submarines. North Sea. 15 April. 1917.) with lid of its box of issue and related registered forwarding envelope; 1914-15 Star (238350, W. Biggs, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (238350 W. Biggs. A.B. R.N.) extremely fine (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 22 June 1917: ‘The following awards have also been approved’ for ‘miscellaneous services.’ The original action report states: H.M. submarine G.7. Attack on enemy submarine on 15 April 1917 … Gunlayer. At about 100 yards the first round was fired and immediately there was a flash from just before his bridge (either our shell or his foremost gun). The second round I think undoubtedly hit him in the hull below the conning tower, she being beam onto us and the roll giving the gunlayer the shine of her hull as a target.’ William Biggs was born in Northampton on 20 April 1890, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1907. Having then attended a course at the gunnery establishment Excellent, and qualified as a gunlayer, he was serving as an Able Seaman in cruiser H.M.S. Amethyst on the outbreak of war in August 1914. He quickly saw action at the battle of Heligoland Bight on the 26th, his service record noting that he was paid a bounty for the destruction of enemy ships on the same occasion. Removing to the cruiser Leviathan at the year’s end, Biggs remained similarly employed until mid-May 1916, when he volunteered for submarines. Shortly afterwards, he joined G.7, in which he was awarded the D.S.M. for her action with an enemy submarine in the North Sea on 15 April 1917. The identity of the enemy submarine remains a mystery, but the accuracy of Bigg’s gunfire seems beyond dispute, for it was witnessed by the passengers of a merchantman, off which the U-boat had surfaced; so, too, by four Germans who were taken prisoner. An accompanying copy of G.7’s captain’s report, as submitted by Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Warburton, R.N., who was awarded the D.S.O., makes for entertaining reading, for it involved a protracted approach and a resultant point-blank action, G.7 at one point attempting to ram her surfaced adversary. But the highlight of the action was surely the accurate gunnery of Briggs. Sadly, however, he was still serving in G.7 when she was lost with all hands after being mined in the North Sea shortly before the Armistice in November 1918, thereby becoming the last British submarine loss of the Great War. The son of Richard and Martha Biggs, of Northampton, and the husband of the late Dorothy Biggs, his name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with the recipient’s original parchment Certificate of Service, together with Memorial Scroll in the name of ‘A.B. William Biggs, D.S.M., H.M. Submarine G.7’ and a portrait photograph.
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The Royal Mint Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022) Eightieth Birthday Silver Proof Collection, comprising thirteen silver proof 2006 coins to include: SEYCHELLES 25 rupees Princess Elizabeth and Winston Churchill, SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS two pound £2 Coronation of George VI, SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS two pound £2 Trooping the Colour, ISLE OF MAN corwn Birth of a Princess, ISLE OF MAN crown Pietro Annigoni Portrait, LIBERIA ten dollars $10 Birth of Prince Charles, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ten dollar $10 Princess Elizabeth and Mother, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ten dollar $10 Returning As Queen, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ten dollar $10 State Opening of Parliament, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS ten dollar $10 Family, SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS two pound £2 Elizabeth & Philip, ISLE OF MAN crown Coronation, and SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS two pound £2 Order of the Royal Garter, each coins 925 grade silver, each 28.28g, total weight 367g, each coin with certificate of authenticity, held in wooden case.
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GIBRALTAR Queen Elizabeth II 5oz silver proof 32 crown (ten pounds) medallion 2020 [999 pure silver, 5oz, 141g, 65mm], with Dame Vera Lynn pad print portrait reverse with "We'll Meet Again" below her portrait, limited edition of 1,944, held in coin capsule, with The London Mint Office certificate of authenticity, boxed.
UNITED KINGDOM Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022) 'Gothic Crown Portrait 2021 UK 2oz Silver Proof Coin' comprising five pounds £5 coin 2021 [999 fine silver, 62.42g, 40mm], with Royal Mint certificate of authenticity number 0422 of 4,006, boxed. Purchased from Harrington & Byrne for £949 on 3rd August 2022.
Attributed to Richard Cosway R.A. (British, 1742-1821), an oval bust portrait miniature of Anne Templer, Lady de la Pole (1758-1832) in a white dress, on ivory, mounted in a gold mount on a guilloche enamel ground with a split pearl border, plaited hair and gold monogram verso within a blue and white enamel border, suspended on a 15ct gold flat-link chain, 5 by 4cm, 41.7 gross weight. Provenance: with a letter dated 1928 from Stephen & Alexander Auctioneers stating that the miniature had been examined by Mr Ford and Mr Bernard Rackham of The Victoria and Albert Museum who formed the opinion that it was a 'genuine Cosway'. Note: Anne Templer was the daughter of James Templer of Stover House, Devon, She married Sir John William Pole 6th Bt in 1781. Mother of the child cricketers by Thomas Beach at Antony, she built Shute House (Adam style) with her husband. Her monument is in St Michael's Church, Shute. Note: Ivory Exemption Certificate No.5UFPJCXS
British School, 19th Century, portrait of Beatrice Trollope, age 17, (d.1881), bust-length wearing a lace collar, titled verso, oil on canvas, octagonal, 46 by 37cm, gilt frame. Note: the sitter Beatrice Trollope was the daughter of Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Theodosia Garrow. She married Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley. She died 26th July 1881
Saied Dai (British, 1958), Silver Dawn, signed with monogram l.r., signed and dated 2009 verso, oil on canvas, 40 by 51cm, framed. Note: Dai trained at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, where he later taught. He has exhibited several times in the BP Portrait Award, with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Note: Artist Resale Rights apply
Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS, British, 1788-1867, a white marble portrait bust of a lady, dated 1851, inscribed to reverse E.H. BAILY, R.A. Sculpt. LONDON 1851, on socle, 73cm high, 47cm wide Footnotes: Note: Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867) was a prolific British sculptor. In 1807 he was accepted as a pupil by John Flaxman (1755-1826) and he remained with him for seven and a half years, before being admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1809. He won a silver medal in 1809 and the gold medal, with a prize of 50 guineas, in 1911 for Hercules Rescuing Alcestis from Orcas. His major works include the statue of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar square and designs for John Nash's enlargement of Buckingham House. Condition Report: The bust is in generally good, ready to place condition. There is some dust/dirt to the recesses of the carving and dark pock marks, mainly around her neck, but also to the forehead and the drapery of her left shoulder. Tiny pitted holes beneath the eyebrows. Some small losses to the folds of the drapery and a harline fracture beneath her right shoulder measuring approx 9cm. The reverse with further hairline, stable fractures which are natural faults in the marble. The socle with an orange/yellow blemish streak at the front which appears to be natural discolouration and a darker line to the reverse. The reverse also with a chip to the socle.
A large Bohemian green glass two-handled vase, late 19th century, of baluster form with flaring rim, the neck and upper body affixed with two gilt glass handles with crenellated edges, the body with a circular plaque with painted portrait of a young lady with a bird, surrounded by a gilt border with shells and triangles, the green glass gilded with foliage, the body on a circular base with four shaped feet, 42cm highCondition Report: The gilded decoration to the whole is heavily worn, an area of the border of the painted portrait has been re-touched, the painted surface has small marks and scratches, the handles are slightly loose and would benefit from the screws being tightened, the base has a couple of very minor chips to the edges of feet.
A pair of Bohemian green glass vases and a Bohemian red glass vase, late 19th century, with ovoid bodies and slender necks with flaring rims, each with an oval plaque with hand-painted portrait of a young lady within gilt border, the green ground with gilt scrolling foliage, on knopped stem and circular foot, the green glass vases 33cm high, the red glass vase 30.3cm high (3)Condition Report: The red vase has been broken and crudely repaired with visible cracks around the base of the neck and the shoulder and small holes left by missing pieces of glass, the knopped base also has visible cracks and large chips. One of the green vases has a large chip to the foot. All three vases have considerable wear to the gilt decoration and borders to the painted surface.
Richard Cockle Lucas, British, 1800-1883, a large coloured wax portrait relief of Anna Brownell Jameson, 1794-1860, mid-19th century, depicted wearing a bonnet, signed RC Lucas, inscribed in ink to reverse Wax PORTRAIT of MRS JAMIESON an art critic and with further indistinct inscription, in glazed giltwood frame, portrait - 14.5cm high; frame - 24.8 x 20.7cm Footnotes: Note: Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-1883) is predominately known as a sculptor in wax and ivory, but he also worked in glass, marble and bronze, as well as being a painter. He began his career as a sculptor as an apprentice to his uncle, who worked as a cutler in Winchester, carving knife handles. He joined the Royal Academy Schools in 1828 and studied under Richard Westmacott. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1829 and 1859 and showed ivory carvings and imitation bronzes at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860), daughter of miniaturist D.B. Murphy, was an Anglo-Irish art historian and critic whose work included literary and art criticism, travel writing, philosophy and feminism. She associated with prominent members of society such as Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Ottilie von Goethe, Lady Byron and Ada Lovelace.
Ethel Bower (later Lady Ethel Alice Chivers Harris), British, 1867-1933, a plaster portrait relief of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, dated 1906, inscribed JOHN · RODDAM · SPENCER STANHOPE · A·D · MCMVI, in walnut frame, plaster - 13.5cm diameter; frame - 21.7cm diameter; together with Portrait Medals of a Generation, Modelled by Ethel A.C. Harris, limited edition, no.85/250, London: Spink and Son, Ltd., 1928 (2)Footnotes: Note: Lady Ethel Alice Chivers Harris (neé Bower) (1867-1933) was the daughter of Edward Chivers Bower JP (1827-1896) of Broxholme, Scarborough, Yorkshire. She reportedly studied at the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art) in the 1890s and moved to London after the death of her father in 1896 and began exhibiting sculpture as Ethel Bower. She married barrister Henry Percy Harris in 1908, and continued to practice as an artist, first as Ethel A.C. Harris and then as Lady Harris, when her husband was knighted in 1917. She principally worked as a medallist, exhibiting over seventy medals and medallions at the Royal Academy between 1901-22. John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908) was an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. He was the uncle and teacher of artist Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919).
Two Meissen royal portrait busts of Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon and Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon, c.1753, the decoration of the Princess possibly Hausmaler and slightly later, probably modelled by J.J. Kändler, the princess turned slightly to the right, wearing a white headscarf with a ribbon-tied bouquet of flowers, a turquoise scarf around her shoulders and a posy tucked into her puce bodice, the bodice gilt with indianische Blumen, the prince turned slightly to the left, his pale-yellow bonnet with indianische Blumen and radiating gilt bands, a turquoise sash over his pale-purple jacket with indianische Blumen, each on quatrefoil-section bases edged with gilt scrolls, 16.2cm and 15.9cm high (2) Footnotes: Note: Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon (1750-1755) and Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon (1751-1761) were the children of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729-1765) and Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-1767). Their maternal grandfather, Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, stipulated that both of these portrait busts should have blue eyes. Given that the present portrait of the princess has brownish-grey eyes, and there are a number of firing faults to the glaze, it is possible that her decoration was carried out by an independent Hausmaler. The models of Princess Marie Zepherine and Prince Louis Charles appear to be the work of J.J. Kändler, and they have been attributed to him by various scholars, although they are not recorded in Kändler’s Taxa. See Abraham den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, cat. no. 330 for a bust of the prince, and Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 24 for a pair of busts. Similar examples sold in Christie's London, 28 March 1977, lot 135, and the example from the Nyffeler Collection sold at Christie's London, 9 June 1986, as well as a pair of similar busts sold by Christie’s on 11 December 2000, lot 464. Condition Report: Princess: There is some chipping to the flowers and yellow bow on her bonnet and to the posy tucked into her bodice. There are some dirt-filled small chips to the glaze and some dirt filled small firing faults to her face and shoulder –these are unsightly because of their location (but they could be retouched by a restorer – or, which would be very economical, they could be cleaned by a restorer). In addition, there is some minute wear to the gilding in places. Prince: There is some chipping to the flowers, puce bow and feathers on his bonnet – the majority of the principal feather is lacking. There is a chip to one of the white ribbon-ties of his shirt and there is a chip to the edge of the base at the back – both of these are relatively minor. In addition, there is some slight wear to the gilding in places.
A pair of 16th century carved oak Romayne panels. Circa 1540, each with a portrait roundel within carved swags and scrolls, height 35.5cm, width 17cm (2). From Ian & Penny Alexander.Mollie & Graham met in Wimbledon in 1978. He, a Cornishman, born in Gulval in 1930, acquired an early appreciation of art visiting Newlyn Gallery with his family. In his early career Graham worked in London writing for the Daily Express and he was responsible for one of the first Arts columns in a tabloid paper, but in 1960 he opened an antique shop in Chelsea. Inspired by trips to Italy, he displayed early furniture and antiquities in an uncluttered modern setting, a technique he later utilised in his own home. The Darks moved back to Cornwall in 1980 and at their home in Flushing, and later Truro, curated an impressive body of art and antiquities with a particular focus on Cornish artists such as Paul Feiler and Terry Frost, who both became close friends. The paintings were displayed alongside mid-century modern designer furniture by Eames, Bertoia and Magistretti, and arrangements of antiquities, thought of as ‘ensembles’ by Graham. Warm, charming, and generous hosts, they entertained their artistic circle of friends in their exquisitely arranged home, and it is a privilege for us to handle their beautiful possessions today. We hope to present them to you with as much care and consideration as the Darks used, and that those two remarkable connoisseurs would have approved.Graham Dark 1930-2015Mollie Dark 1928-2024
A collection of 30 film release posters to include The Kindergarten Teacher (x2), Joy, A Royal Night Out, Locke (x4, 2 portrait and 2 landscape format), Gone Girl, Stronger, The Homesman (x2), Ticket To Paradise, Respect, Rocketman, Wonder Woman 1984, The Girl In The Spiders Web (x2), Funny Cow, Bad Times At The El Royale (x2), The Party, A Thousand Times Goodnight, Journey's End, Denial (x2), Blinded By The Light (x2), The French Dispatch and The Leisure Seeker. All approx 102x77cm, all previously displayed at The Helmsley Arts Centre
WILLIAM ORPEN (Attr.) (Stillorgan, 1878 - Londra, 1931).Oil painting on canvas depicting "PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEWOMAN". Signed and dated 1909 lower left. In a gilded frame. Already relined and restretched. Minor defects and restorations. 95x68 cm approx. WILLIAM ORPEN (Attr.) (Stillorgan, 1878 - Londra, 1931). Dipinto olio su tela raffigurante "RITRATTO DI GENTILDONNA". Firmato e datato 1909 in basso a sinistra. In cornice dorata. Già rintelato e rintelaiato. Lievi difetti e restauri. 95x68 cm ca.
Oval oil painting on canvas depicting "PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN". 19th century. In a gilded frame. Already relined and re-stretched. Restoration. 62x50 cm approx. Dipinto ovale olio su tela raffigurante "RITRATTO DI NOBILUOMO". XIX secolo. In cornice dorata. Già rintelato e rintelaiato. Restauri. 62x50 cm ca.
David Morrison (active1793-1850), a wax portrait of an unknown lady, in a bird's eye maple frame, 25 cm x 23 cm, together with a collection of other wax figures and 18th and 19th-century wax portraits in the style of Samuel Percy and wax models under glass domes.A private estateDavid Morrison was active between 1793 and 1850 and was a 'Miniature Modeller' and "Wax Portraitist" to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Augusta in 1826.
In the manner of Samuel Percy a painted wax portrait figure of King Charles I in armour in the manor of Sir Anthony Vandyke, 18th/19th century in a deep moulded ebonized frame, 37 cm x 33 cm overall, together with a good number of other 18th and 19th-century wax portraits and wax religious scenes.
After R. A. Clark, Circa 1835, portrait of a man and a child, label verso 'R. A. Clark Delt', further inscribed by a later hand 'Thos Green, Grandfather and Charles Dymoke Green aged 1 Year and 11 Months. colour print, 21 x 17cm. Condition Report: Good overall condition, period or near period frame with minor losses.
English School, Early 19th Century, a miniature portrait of Mr. Marshall of Waldersea, watercolour on ivory, in a fine gilt metal mount and fitted leather case, 6.2 x 5cm.IVORY EXEMPTION CERTICATE: QF5MG7T7Condition Report: Minor Undulation to the ivory, one scratch in the lower left area, behind glass - not examined out of the frame.
James Digman Wingfield (British 1800-1872). Profile Portrait of a lady with a black lace scarf, oil on board, oval, inscribed on label on reverse, 21 x 17cm. Provenance: The label on the reverse states that this was purchased at the Auction Sale of the effects of Jno Marshall Coppock, dec'd, 161 Bristol Road, Birmingham, June 1903. J M Coppock, a member of the Birmingham Town Council, had dealing with most of the Artists of his time. Condition Report: Under glass, generally good appearance, may benefit from a clean.
English School, Early 19th Century, a miniature portrait of a young lady with ringlets and a pearl necklace, watercolour on ivory, 8.5 x 7cm, in a rosewood frame 21cm x 19cm.Ivory exemption certificate: 9YCABRKXCondition Report: Some slight undulation in the ivory, one thin vertical crack on the lower right half.
English School, possibly 17th Century, a portrait of a gentleman in a black skull cap, oil on canvas, inscribed 'Restored by J and J Hay, Abdn 1852' verso, with Hay label, 68 x 48cm, unframed.Condition Report: Fair overall condition, two minor holes, abrasions and scattered areas of paint loss, uneven canvas, surface dirt.
Edgar Holloway, 'The Etchings and Engravings of Edgar Holloway', by Robert Meyrick, published by Scolar Press, the book signed and numbered '8' by Edgar Holloway, with a further etching inside the front cover of a self portrait of Edgar Holloway, plate size 13 x 12cm, signed and numbered 8/100 in pencil, in a card case.Along with 'Victorian Illustration', by Paul Goldman, signed by the author and numbered 80/100, with three sets of wood engravings after, John Clayton, Edward Duncan, and Sir John Gilbert.(2).Condition Report: Very good condition, spine faded.
Geschenkvase mit Portrait Kaiser Wilhelms II. KPM Berlin, um 1914 Weimar-Deckelvase. Partiell kobaltblauer, lindgrüner und paillefarbener Fond. Auf der Schauseite das fein gemalte Brustbildnis Wilhelms II. in Uniform mit Schärpe und Ordensschmuck in ovaler Reliefgoldrahmung mit erbeerrotem und grünem Email. Auf der Rückseite ligiertes Monogramm WR II unter Reichskrone in Reliefgold auf silberfarbenem Fond, eingefasst von reliefiertem, vergoldetem Lorbeerkranz und farbig gehöhter Reliefgoldrahmung. Mäander, Floralfriese und Blütenstauden in Reliefgold mit farbigem Email. Goldkonturen. Entsprechend dekorierter Deckel mit Zapfenknauf. Vasenkorpus zweiteilig verschraubt. H. 51 cm (1 Henkel rep.). 1. Wahl. Blaue Szeptermarke. Malereimarke. Jahresbuchstabe O. Eine ähnliche Vase in: Aus allerhöchster Schatulle, Kaiserliche Geschenke, Ausstellungskatalog Potsdam-Museum/ Haus Hohenzollern, 2008, S. 57. (60754)
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