283284 Preisdatenbank Los(e) gefunden, die Ihrer Suche entsprechen
283284 Lose gefunden, die zu Ihrer Suche passen. Abonnieren Sie die Preisdatenbank, um sofortigen Zugriff auf alle Dienstleistungen der Preisdatenbank zu haben.
Preisdatenbank abonnieren- Liste
- Galerie
-
283284 Los(e)/Seite
![[§] HOWARD SOMERVILLE (SCOTTISH 1873-1952) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN Signed and dated 1922, inscribed 'To Peggy from Howard' on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e0391efe-b5ae-42a2-aceb-a9510106d4c8/aa3e52f6-1ee9-4bd0-eeca-feeda0dd2208/468x382.jpg)
![[§] BET LOW A.R.S.A, R.S.W. (SCOTTISH 1924-2007) SELF-PORTRAIT Signed, signed and inscribed with title and dated c.1954/56](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e0391efe-b5ae-42a2-aceb-a9510106d4c8/b6a2f6a2-788b-4285-d2e6-b71950b61baf/468x382.jpg)
![[§] BET LOW A.R.S.A, R.S.W. (SCOTTISH 1924-2007) PORTRAIT OF F. J. ANDERSON (FREDDY) Signed and inscribed with title and d](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e0391efe-b5ae-42a2-aceb-a9510106d4c8/4ddf990c-3bba-4a2c-cdfa-fa2fea9a0494/468x382.jpg)
![[§] GEOFFREY SQUIRE (BRITISH 1923-2012) PORTRAIT OF ELSA Signed, oil on board 71cm x 46cm (28in x 18in)](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e0391efe-b5ae-42a2-aceb-a9510106d4c8/14a0726c-e84b-48cc-840c-7614cddb0ebf/468x382.jpg)
Los 649
A QUEEN ANNE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER and Administration of the Sacraments... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Oxford University Printers 1711 with Queen Anne portrait frontispiece and further later coloured illustrations, inscribed 'Elizabeth Catchpole her book' and with Henry Edward Wise bookplate, marbled end papers, gilt edges and fine, probably contemporary, gold tooled red leather binding, 16mo, 17 x 10cm
Los 752
JONES, David, 1895-1974, 'In Parenthesis: seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu' Faber & Faber, London, 1st Ed. 3rd Imp 1937 with d/w, with frontispiece and map, inscribed by the author, Oct 1947 with further contemporary inscription together with a letter from D.J. to his sister Alice Burns, Nov 17 1947 with reference to T.S. Eliot, plus portrait photo and press cuttings, 8vo. d/w cut and torn edges, bumps and stains
Los 786
YEATS, W.B. The Secret Rose, Lawrence & Bullen, London 1897 with six plates and frontispiece by J.B. Yeats, gold tooled blue cloth, plus 'The Celtic Twilight', A.H. Bullen, London 1902, with frontispiece portrait by J.B. Yeats, gold blue cloth, 19.8 x 13.5cm and one associated title Plays for An Irish Theatre, Vol II. Bullen 1904 (3)
Los 535
EXTRAORDINARY RED BOOK by a Commoner, London 1816, loose boards, plus WOODFALL, William, 'My Notebook a Satirical Poem', London 1821, 17.5 x 11cm. plus BURNET, Gilbert, 'Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester', London 1680, with engraved portrait, full leather with losses, Rochester bookplate plus Burke's Reflections, London 1790 (4)
Los 593
GREGYNOG PRESS, The Autobiography of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury with intro. by C.H. Herford 1928, untrimmed paper bookplate. brown cloth with gold tooled title and armorial. Fo. plus another copy of Herbert's Life, 4th Ed. with folded portrait engraving, Dodsley, London 1792, marbled boards and leather spine worn, 23.5 x 19cm
Los 597
MALMESBURY, Third Earl, 'Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury', 3 vols. Bentley, London 1844 with engraved portrait frontispiece, blue cloth and grey gold tooled leather boards with green title and marbled end papers, bookplate. 8vo. 22 x 15cm, bumped plus BATH & WELLS, Bishop of, Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland, 4 vols. Bentley 1861 London, brown cloth. 8vo (8)
Los 304
A Worcester The King of Prussia' No.3 small teapot and cover, printed in monochrome with an engraving after Robert Hancock, with half-length portrait of the King of Prussia, a single Cupid with laurel wreath, the verso with Fame, blowing two trumpets, the handle and spout with stylised foliage, the cover with flower bud finial and printed with cannon and barrels with cannonballs, black line borders, 11.3cm high, c.1757Vendor's Note - This is the rarest of the three engravings of The King of Prussia that Robert Hancock produced for porcelain decoration. The print is signed RH (for Robert Hancock) Worcester and an anchor (the rebus of Richard Holdship, who seems to have been responsible for transfer-printing at the Worcester factory). In addition, half hidden in the scroll, R Hancock fecit Worcester is inscribedNote: This is such a rare piece, I can find none of the well-known catalogues with this design on a teapot in any description, so I cannot give a reference to it. Condition Report: Restored teapot. Nibbles to finial.
![Antiquarian Books - Miniature Books, Pocket Portrait Shakespeare, eight-volume set, Thomas Yardley, London [n.d., c. 1900], f](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4e4aa4c4-2763-4211-9cce-a95a00ef6eb1/a1e6e95b-3b86-4566-a4ff-2332b93a3d07/468x382.jpg)
Los 1240
Antiquarian Books - Miniature Books, Pocket Portrait Shakespeare, eight-volume set, Thomas Yardley, London [n.d., c. 1900], floppy oxblood leather covers, 48mo; The Family Devotional Bible, with Copious Notes and Reflections on each Chapter of The Old and New Testament, and Valuable Marginal References by the Rev. Matthew Henry, three-volume set, Printed and Published by J. and F. Tallis, London [n.d., c. 1860], profusely illustrated throughout with line engraved title-piece and title-page, further full-page engravings and some lithographic vignettes, some inscribed ink MS family genealogy to volume I, full contemporary straight-grained leather bindings, gilt embossed laureate fillet to board border, gilt lettered spines, original yellow paper endpapers with contemporary bookseller's label: J. Chapman, Bookseller and Binder, Ilford, 4to; The Great World War: A History, The Gresham Publishing Company, London [n.d., c. 1918] pictorial card covers and titled buckram spines as issued, 8vo; 19th century and later devotional and literature
Los 40
British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1841, unbarred As in GRATIA, young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852; Marsh 24 [R3 in any condition]), an especially choice example of this classic rarity, showing glowing lustre and just faint friction on the portrait and obverse field, sharply struck with a fabulous reverse, certified and graded by PCGS as About Uncirculated 58, one of the finest 1841 sovereigns to appear at auction and very rare in this grade The mintage of gold sovereigns was particularly scant in this year, with a reported issuance of just 124,054 pieces, compared to several million for most of the dates of this first bust type. Examination of the Royal Mint’s output of all coins for the first half of the 19th century (as given on Table 74 in Challis’s New History of the Royal Mint) reveals that the totals for 1841 were smaller than normal but not exceedingly so, which leads to the next question: what happened to all the 1841 sovereigns (not to mention half-sovereigns and halfcrowns), making them rarities today? Challis mentions the heavier export of copper and silver beginning in 1835 (page 487), but this had no impact on the gold coinage. Commercial attrition explains the overall scarcity of Queen Victoria’s early gold, but what happened in particular to the sovereigns of 1838, 1839 and 1841? The 1838 sovereign’s mintage was 2.7 million coins, yet it is very rare today. The 1839 sovereign is rarer still in Mint State, perhaps reflecting its mintage of just over half a million pieces. But 1841 is rare in all grades and almost unknown in Mint State. Challis relates that during the early 1840s the Royal Mint was under special scrutiny by government officials looking into its costs (pages 493-496), and that its records were suspect as being possibly inaccurate due to political squabbling. Yet none of this explains the rarity of the 1838, 1839 and especially 1841 sovereigns. British commerce has always been intense and this clearly supports the idea that these first sovereigns of the new reign were heavily used. But so were all of the other issued dates of the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s. When the Bank of England instructed the Royal Mint to melt down some 90 million sovereigns into gold bars during 1930-31, as Challis tells us (page 576), it may well be that the older, more worn coins went into the melting pots to such an extent that the bulk of remaining earlier dates thus disappeared forever. Survival was nothing less than chance.
Los 47
British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1846, young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852), a lovely coin showing a different surface texture and lustre, as here we see not satiny glow but a ‘harder’ surface that is somewhat reflective and very brilliant, the strike consistently bold, while around and on Her Majesty’s portrait a few marks are noticeable, certified and graded by PCGS as Mint State 64+, scarce so fine The only example graded MS64+ by PCGS.
Los 49
British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1848, first (small) young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852; Marsh 31A), lustrous but a bit softly struck and showing some wear and tiny abrasions all over the obverse side, certified and graded by PCGS as About Uncirculated 55 The extremely rare first head variety and only one other example graded AU55 by PCGS. Perhaps the quickest way to identify this rare variety is to check where the I in DEI appears over the downward curve of the queen’s hair immediately to left of the top bunch of hair in her ponytail: on this variety that letter sets centred, whereas on the second head it sets to the left. This is a very rare coin, in point of fact, that was not recognized for most of the time since it was struck, not even by Marsh in his first editions. While it is called the ‘small head’ it is only slightly so compared to the following portrait. Evidently the positioning of the queen’s portrait was altered in this year in an attempt to prolong die-life (as fully explained in the Bentley sale of 8 May 2012, lot 55 footnote). For advanced collectors of sovereigns, this coin presents a true opportunity to obtain a coin absent from almost all collections.
Los 5
British Coins, George III, proof sovereign, 1820, large date, open 2, straight grained edge,laur. head r., rev. St. George and the dragon (S.3785C; W&R.200 [R7, 1-2 known]; Nobleman 51 [part], lightly impaired but brilliant, certified and graded by PCGS as Proof Genuine Uncirculated Details, Altered Surface, exceedingly rare Proof impressions of any date of the first style of sovereigns issued, late in the reign of George III, are all rare in any state of preservation. These are technically ‘proofs of record’, variously called ‘record proofs’ and ‘VIP proofs’. The Act of Union of 1800 included a provision that instructed the Royal Mint to prepare and preserve examples of the kingdom’s coinage in each year so as to keep an historical record of the coinage using actual examples, not just accounts. This was an innovation. Specimen proofs of almost all coinage issues exist from that date on. When the first sovereigns of the modern era appeared in 1817 bearing the Wyon portrait of the aging monarch combined with Pistrucci’s now-classic image of Saint George (replacing Saint Michael of medieval lore) depicted slaying the dragon (symbol of evil), the coin was instantly admired and continued to be struck into 1820 after the king had died. Proofs of 1817 are most often seen among the specimen coinage, followed by the considerably rarer 1818. It is believed that a single 1819 proof may exist but the coin so described in a 1950 Spink reference has not been seen in many decades. As George III passed away on 29 January 1820, proofs bearing this date seem to have been not much more than an afterthought. The 1820 proof half-sovereign (WR.207) is so rare that the Wilson-Rasmussen reference did not show its image; one appeared in the Terner Collection. The proof 1820 sovereign, as seen in this lot, is equally rare with an estimate of perhaps two examples extant. Its technical grade is of little matter as it is lacking in almost every collection in the world. One lucky buyer will be able to boast of ownership of one of the great sovereign rarities. Everyone else can put it on their wish list.
Los 505
British Medals, Edward VI, circular portrait plaquette, an electrotype copy of the ‘unique contemporary cast’ in lead in the British Museum, bust l., with plumed hat, wearing coat and doublet, Garter Collar and George and holding gloves in his r. hand, EDWARDVS - DEI GRA AN REX, 74 x 74.5mm. (MI.56/7, illus.; pl. IV, 1; H&P, p. 147 & pl. 29, 4; Farquhar, 114), mid 19th century, much as made, reproducing a medal in very fine condition *ex Christopher Foley Collection, Woolley & Wallis Auction, 16 October, 2014, lot 15
Los 517
British Medals, Charles I, Coronation 1626, silver uniface portrait cliché, by Nicolas Briot, bust r., wearing ruff collar and ribbon for medal, signed NBF below, 25mm. (MI.243/11; BMC [Jones] 127; Platt, type C, p.118; Foley 195), nearly extremely fine, toned and without creases *bt. Spink & Son, 1977
Los 550
British Medals, James II, Accession and the Throne Protected, 1685, silver medal, by George Bower, laureate bust of the King r., hair long falling over mantle, IACOBVS II DG MAG BRI FRAN ET HI REX, rev. an angel protects the Crown which is placed on a chair of State, TUTAMEN AB ALTO, 43.5mm. (MI.611/18; Eimer -), a magnificent portrait medal, choice mint state and very rare *ex Spink Auction 8, 27 February 1980, lot 467 [Hugh Jessop] The reverse alludes to the supposed success that was expected to follow during James’s reign.
Los 621
British Medals, George III, Accession 1760, copper medal, by Julien Colibert, laureate bust r., in armour with lion breastplate, ermine mantle, GEORGIUS III DE GR MAG BRITAN FRAN ET HIB REX, rev. sun in majesty, DIFFUSO LUMINE NITET, 72.5mm. (BHM.2, R3; Eimer 923), surface has been lacquered, very fine and very rare *bt. A. H. Baldwin, pre-1980 (with Michael Sharp ticket suggesting Pingo or Yeo as the medallist) Laurence Brown [BHM] catalogues the medal as for the Accession and it has been included in the collection for that reason. Christopher Eimer places it at 1800. Certainly, the style of portrait is hard to date and the present cataloguers are inclined to think it most likely to be in the 1770s. The portrait of the medal in the following lot seems more youthful. Julien Colibert was received as a citizen of Geneva in 1765. He is known to have lived in London sometime after walking out on his family in 1769. All medals by Colibert are very rare and the dating is by no means certain.
Los 642
British Medals, George III: Queen Charlotte, Coronation 1761, a gilt pressed card portrait, taken from the obverse of the Coronation Medal, set on a narrow sparkling border in contemporary glazed turned wood frame, total diam. 68.5mm., delightful and as made *bt. Timothy Millet, List 1, 2001, no. 297, illustrated
Los 659
British Medals, George IV, the year of the Accession 1820, The Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, bronzed cliché portrait, the obverse of the College’s Royal Prize Medal, by William Wyon [signed W. WYON F. MINT], bare head of the King to left, signed below truncation, GEORGIUS IIII DG BRITANNIARUM REX – 1820, 55.5mm. (BDM. VI, 68 and p. 652 for illustration of a squeeze of the portrait only), in fitted red leather case as issued and glazed with domed watch glass, mint state and extremely rare *bt. B. A. Seaby 1975, ticket states unrecorded RRRR The Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, was established in 1806, replacing the earlier Royal Naval Academy. The ‘Royal Medals’ were awarded in three categories as Classical, Historical and Geographical, and Mathematical prizes. See also: N. Carlisle, A memoir of the life and works of William Wyon, Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint, London, 1837, p. 162.
Los 67
British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1859, Ansell, young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852E; Marsh 42A [R5 in any grade]), lustrous and sharply struck with only light wear, mainly on the queen’s portrait, fully lustrous on reverse, in exceptional condition for this rarity, certified and graded by PCGS as About Uncirculated 55 Both As in GRATIA are unbarred, which is most unusual and presumably rare. This famous sovereign rarity takes its name from the man who alloyed the Australian specie sent to the Royal Mint for coinage use, George Frederick Ansell, and authored a technical paper called ‘A Treatise on Coining’ (first appearing in The Mechanics’ Magazine, 24 June 1859). The ‘Ansell sovereign’ is readily distinguished from other 1859 sovereigns by the raised line appearing on the lower portion of the ribbon behind Victoria’s ear, and it came to be made for a purely technical reason: the recently established Sydney Mint found itself unable to refine out the natural silver and other metals in its native gold ore (Challis, A New History of the Royal Mint, page 513). Ansell’s life story is vague but he seems to have been employed, for his expertise in metals chemistry, by the Royal Mint in its smelting room, where he successfully parted out the trace metals in the ore and deemed the gold received from Australia to be fit for coinage into sovereigns. His work was evidently questioned by the master of the Mint, so he added the now-famous raised line on the ribbon to dies he had prepared to intentionally test results. Initially the gold was deemed ‘brittle’ because of the impurities it contained when received at the mint. Ansell’s sovereigns underwent testing and were found equal to all others in durability, not at all ‘brittle’. All of the Australian gold was then coined into sovereigns using his obverse die(s), and these were duly released into commerce. Decades passed before the variety was recognized by the numismatic fraternity, by which time almost all remaining examples showed considerable wear, but in fact few ‘Ansells’ have ever been discovered. The rest of the mintage disappeared around the world during the century in which sovereigns were freely traded. Never identified as unusual during this period, most of Ansell’s sovereigns undoubtedly ended up melted down into gold bars, some to be made into other sovereigns. Most survivors show evidence of some years of commercial use. The two examples in this collection are exceptional among all known survivors.
Los 679
British Medals, George IV, Coronation 1821, uniface silver medal, by Jean Jacques Barre (1793-1855) for De Puymaurin, laureate bust r., GEORGIUS IIII DG BRITANNIAR REX FD, rev. blank, 41.5mm. (PW.8, recorded only in copper), extremely fine and extremely rare *bt. Mrs. I. Allen Jean Jacques Barre (1793-1855), Graveur Général des Médailles, Paris. The style of the portrait suggests that the medal was made at the time of the Coronation. Baron Jean-Pierre Marcassus de Puymaurin (1757–1841), Director of the Monnaie de Paris (1816-1830).
Los 68
British Coins, Victoria, sovereign, 1859, Ansell, broken 5 in date, young head l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath (S.3852E; Marsh 42A [R5 in any grade]), lustrous and sharply struck with obvious light wear on the queen’s portrait, certified and graded by PCGS as About Uncirculated 55, scarce and popular
Los 772
British Medals, Victoria, Coronation 1838, white metal medals (2), by Thomas Halliday, bust l., hair in chignon, rev. the Queen crowned, 54mm. and 38.5mm. (BHM.1821, 1824; W&E.111.1, 111B. 1), bright extremely fine; others in white metal (3), by J. Davis, similar bust, rev. legend, date ‘28’ stamped over error ‘26’, 29mm. (BHM.1818; W&E.103D.1); by (?) W. J. Taylor, small bust l., hair in chignon, rev. crown in wreath, legend, 38.5mm. (BHM.1844, unattributed); another, within brass rim, 34.5mm., poor; medallets (2), perhaps by Halliday, Accession, brass; Coronation, silvered metal, 24.5mm. (BHM.1770, 1831), except as stated, very fine (7) *second and fourth bt. B. A. Seaby, 1974 Brown is muddled with the entry for BHM.1824; he describes the obverse as similar to 1821, a bare head portrait, however he illustrated a crowned head. Seaby ticket on fourth gives attribution to Taylor.
Los 774
British Medals, Victoria, Coronation 1838, copper medal, by Thomas Halliday, bust three-quarters l., HMGM VICTORIA QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, rev. the Queen crowned by figures of the three kingdoms, standing Fame behind, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, 44.5mm. (BHM.1823, R3; W&E.113.2), a delightful portrait, virtually mint state, extremely rare *bt. B. A. Seaby, 1981
Los 782
British Medals, Victoria, Coronation 1838, a set of three copper medals, by (?) W. J. Taylor or J. Davis, unsigned, diademed bust l., her hair tied in chignon, VICTORIA – ASCENDED THE BRITISH THRONE…, rev. the Queen enthroned, her foot resting on lion, attended by Britannia, Justice, Hope and Commerce, 45.5, 34.5 & 28mm. (BHM.1842; Eimer 1313; W&E.138A.7, 10, 13), choice extremely fine (3) *two larger bt. Christopher Eimer, last bt. Mrs I. Allen The portrait on the smaller medals is proportionally smaller on the flan than on the larger, where it very much fills the space.
Los 848
British Medals, Edward VIII, Intended Coronation 1937, a small group of souvenir medals, etc. (16), in bronze, brass and white metal, including the City of London and portrait pin by H. W. Miller (Giord.CM227), all but two with crowned busts; with a silhouetted photograph mounted on wood, of ‘The Prince’s genial smile’, mostly extremely fine (17)
Los 850
British Medals, Edward VIII, fantasy ‘proof’ set of seven crown-size coin-like medals, one portrait and six reverse designs crown, halfcrown, two-shillings, shilling, sixpence and threepence, common monogram reverse, in polished wood fitted case, mint state (7) *bt. SAS [Special Auction Services], 3 November 2015, lot 3
Los 860
British Medals, George VI, Coronation 1937, large circular bronze medallic plaque, by Leonard Jennings (1877-1956), bust l., GEORGE THE SIXTH, 230mm. (W&E.7107, VR), a handsome wall-hanging, much as made Jenning’s portrait sculptures were known for their subtlety of expression and close likeness. For further information: ‘Leonard Jennings OBE’, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art, online
Los 861
British Medals, George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Coronation 1937, large circular bronze medallic plaque, by Leonard Jennings (1877-1956), their conjoined busts l., GEORGE VI AND ELIZABETH, 232mm. (W&E.-), a handsome wall-hanging, much as made Jenning’s portrait sculptures were known for their subtlety of expression and close likeness. For further information: ‘Leonard Jennings OBE’, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art, online.
Los 878
British Medals, Elizabeth II, Coronation 1953, a group of the various portrait medals, by Messrs John Pinches, bronze unless otherwise stated, crowned bust, 35mm. (silver & bronze); bare head, rev. Ship of State, 35mm.; bare head, rev. National Playing Fields, 35mm. (3 – one bronze, two alloy); crowned bust, rev. Westminster Abbey, 35mm. (2 – silver & bronze); and 2 white metal alloy medals (W&E.8050A, 8055A, 8056H, 8058B), silver and most others mint state (10)
Los 221
Italian cameo bracelet, mounted with six similarly carved portrait cameos featuring profiles of a young woman in differing materials, each cameo approx. 20mm diameter, mounted within square openwork links worked in a loose Art Nouveau style in 14ct gold, marked '585', length 18cm, gross weight approx. 53.7g; also a similar 14ct gold carved cameo ring with an oval profile portrait cameo, 23mm x 18mm, marked '585', gross weight approx. 6.8g (2)
Los 342
Late Victorian School, Portrait miniature of a lady, half length in a blue dress, 6cm x 5cm, in a brass frame with leather case; also a Victorian silhouette of a lady signed 'Miers', mounted within an ebonised framed, 6.5cm x 5cm; and a portrait miniature of Lord Nelson, 8.5cm x 6.5cm, mounted within a boulle style frame (3)
Loading...-
283284 Los(e)/Seite