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Preisdatenbank abonnierenBetty Boothroyd (1929-2023) Speaker Of The House Of Commons Signed Card With 11x14 Mounted Photo Display. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
A collection of Bose's electronics, to include a Bose Bose AV48 Media centre, a Bose Lifestyle Roommate, a pair of Bose AL8 Homewide wireless audio links, plus a variety of cables, also including five small Bose speakers, four of which have floor stands, weighted, and a Bose's floor powered speaker and a variety of manuals and cables
* Gillray (James). A Plumper for Paul! – or – the Little Taylor Done Over; vide – The terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery, H. Humphrey, March 13th 1807, etching with bright contemporary hand colouring, upper margin strengthened on verso, 245 x 355 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 10708. A comment on the rebuke given by the speaker to Paul, when he presented a petition against Sheridan's return to Parliament, alleging bribery, corruption and tampering with witnesses in connection with a petition against him.
* Gillray (James). London Corresponding Society alarm'd - Vide. Guilty Consciences, H. Humphrey, April 20th, 1798, etching with aquatint, bright contemporary hand-colouring, slight spotting, thread margins, laid on later card, mounted with a board which is glued to the backing card, 255 x 190 mm. together with Doughty (William). [Elizabeth Dunning née Baring, Lady Ashburton as Ariadne, 1804] uncoloured mezzotint after Sir Joshua Reynolds, proof before title, small margins, some dust soiling, creasing and marginal fraying and closed tears, slight surface abrasion, 380 x 275 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:BM Satires 9202. The open book of "Proceedings" shown open and leaning against the chair of the speaker, lists the attendees as a blacksmith, a barber, a butcher, a fishmonger, a tailor, and a dissenter. Their "alarm" stems from the fact that five Irishmen, several of whom had links to the London Corresponding Society, had been indicted on April 10 on charges of high treason just days before the publication of this print. The gathering is overlooked by the portraits of Thomas Paine and John Horne Tooke, both of whom had been prosecuted by the Pitt government under repressive new laws. Paines's publication of 'The Rights of Man' had resulted in a charge of 'seditious libel' and Tooke had been tried (and acquitted) of treason in 1794. The idea of encouraging the working man to independent political thought and activism was regarded as so radical and dangerous that successive prosecutions of the members of these 'societies' had largely driven them underground; in this case to the Hell Fire Cellar in Chick Lane; an area notorious for prostitutes and thieves.
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE: a Cromwellian silver portrait plaquette of William Lenthall'CT' unknown maker, probably Dutch circa 1653 Shaped-oval in form, intricately embossed in high and low relief, featuring a side view of the male bust with head turned facing right, staring outwards, the hair long and wavy, a plain Puritan shirt collar at the neck, the official robes of the 'Speaker of the Long Parliament' beneath, either a lion or devil's mask to his shoulder, 'CT' stamped under the truncated body, and in the background a chased foliate landscape within an elaborate cartouche border, ornamented with a skull, masks and two outstretched naked figures to the upper rim, width 7.6cm, height 8.9cm, weight 1oz.Footnotes:ProvenancePreviously held in several famous numismatic collections, including:The Montagu Collection of Coins, 'Catalogue of the Collection of Medals', sold Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, Tuesday 25th May, 1897, Lot 233.The John G Murdoch Collection, 'Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals - The Series of Scottish and Anglo-Gallic Coins', sold Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, Monday 11th May, 1903, Lot 175.The Arthur Loebbecke Collection, 'Kunstmedaillen und Plaketten des XV bis XVII Jahrhunderts', sold Munich, 26th November, 1908, Lot 255.Spink & Son, sold London, 20th January, 1910, purchased by Vernon James Watney (24 October 1860 - 27 August 1928) of Watney Brewery fame, and owner of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire. The plaquette comes with a letter of provenance from Spink to Vernon J. Watney, dated 1910.Thence by descent to the present owner.Biography of William Lenthall (1591-1662)William Lenthall, (born June 1591, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire — died September 3rd, 1662, Burford, Oxfordshire), was an English Parliamentarian who, as Speaker of the House of Commons, was at the centre of repeated struggles between the Parliamentarians and Royalists during the English Civil Wars.Trained as a lawyer and called to the bar in 1616, Lenthall was chosen as Speaker of the House at the beginning of the Long Parliament, in November 1640. On 4 January 1642, King Charles I entered the House of Commons to arrest five Members of Parliament for high treason. Speaker Lenthall bravely defied the King to uphold the privileges of Parliament, refusing to reveal their whereabouts and uttering the infamous words 'May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.' Lenthall believed in upholding the supremacy of the House of Commons and freedom of speech; as Speaker, he was a servant beholden to the House and not the King while within its walls. As such, Charles I had to leave without arresting the five Members, and no monarch has entered the House of Commons since then.During the Civil Wars Lenthall sided with Parliament, and upon the outbreak (1647) of the power struggle between the Presbyterians and Independents, he supported the Independents. At the same time he was probably secretly in sympathy with the Royalist cause. Lenthall continued as Speaker in the first Parliament (1654) held under Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, and after the collapse of the Protectorate in 1659 he was speaker of the restored Long Parliament. Although he supported the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, he was thereafter barred from public office. However, he soon regained royal favour by testifying against a man accused of participating in the trial and execution (1649) of Charles I.William Lenthall was therefore a remarkable man, not only intellectually astute but fearless. He survived twenty uninterrupted years as Speaker of the House, at a turbulent and violent time in British history. A period which bore witness to the execution of Charles I, the Civil War, the Interregnum years of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), and then the Restoration of Charles II as Monarch. This rare, silver uniface plaquette was commissioned around 1653 to possibly commemorate Lenthall's endeavours. However, it can be read in two different ways, either viewed as a celebration of his achievements and character, a lion's mask (how it had been traditionally described in past auction catalogues) on his shoulder symbolising his valour in defying the King; the border embossed with a skull, masks and naked figures, metaphorically illustrating that he had fearlessly risen above the temptations of evil, his moral integrity intact. Or alternatively, this plaquette can be viewed as an overt criticism of Lenthall, for on closer examination the lion's mask on his arm actually resembles 17th century imagery of the Devil.It is pertinent to note that Lenthall was viewed as a somewhat controversial figure, his political allegiance openly switching sides dependent on who was in power. An alternative reading therefore could be that this plaquette was created as an open condemnation of Lenthall, and that the mask on his shoulder was in fact a representation of Oliver Cromwell, who Royalists quite literally saw as the Devil incarnate. Lenthall was viewed by his enemies as politically 'in bed' with Cromwell, dancing to his tune, symbolised by the devil's mask on his shoulder and the dark imagery embossed around him. The common myth perpetuated, was that Oliver Cromwell had used satanic forces to win the Battle of Worcester in the English Civil War. In 1651, on the eve of the Battle of Worcester, Oliver Cromwell allegedly met Satan in Perry Wood. According to legend, he was granted seven years' prosperity in return for his soul, starting with his Civil War victory in 1653. At this point Oliver Cromwell was declared Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, which is interestingly around the time this silver plaquette was created. Nevertheless, with remarkable precision, the leader of England's only experiment in republican government died exactly seven years later, amid terrible storms, in September 1658.Simultaneously loved and loathed, Cromwell was seen by some as a revolutionary figure, freeing England from the absolutist Charles; others saw him as a regicidal, religious maniac who was one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant. Cromwell was demonised in satirical illustrations by Royalist propagandists throughout the civil war period, their authors making fun of both Cromwell's appearance as well as his politics. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Cromwell's body was exhumed and publicly hung. However, what cannot be denied is that Lenthall's survival strategy had worked. Despite walking a precarious ministerial tightrope, negotiating unimaginable parliamentary and civil unrest, he had prevailed over adversity and emerged triumphant; the consummate political player.Portraits of Lenthall as Speaker by Cornelius Johnson, Henry Paert and Van Weesop are to be found in the Palace of Westminster. The National Portrait Gallery also holds an anonymous portrait and a miniature likeness by Samuel Cooper.We would like to acknowledge Christopher Eimer for his assistance and expertise.LiteratureBritannica, 'William Lenthall, English politician', accessed 26/05/2023 via www.britannica.com/biography/William-LenthallBritish Library, 'Oliver Cromwell as the Devil', image 1660, accessed 12/06/23 via www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item104116.htmlAndrew Thrush and John P. Ferris,'The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 - Willam Lenthall (1591-1662)', (published Cambridge University Press, 2010), accessed 26/05/2023 via www.historyofparliamentonline.orgPalace of Westminster, 'Speaker Lenthall defends Parliament', accessed 26/05/2023 via UK Parliament www.parliament.ukFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COUTHON GEORGES: (1755-1794) French Politician and Lawyer. President of the National Convention 1793-94. A proficient speaker who often exploited his condition as a paraplegic in order to gain the Assembly`s approval of his proposals. A close associate to Robespierre and Saint-Just in the Committee of Public Safety. Couthon, responsible of the huge increase of executions, was himself guillotined alongside Robespierre. A clean A.N.S., `G. Couthon´, one page, 4to, Camp d´Auberville, 24th August 1793, to the verso of a two pages letter addressed to him, to citizen Souvati, in French. Couthon states `Répondre au citoyen Souvat que malgré ma recommendation le ministre ne peux accorder deux grades dans 7 mois, sans une action d´état´ (Translation: “Respond to citizen Souvat that despite my recommendation the Minister cannot grant two upgradings in 7 months, without a State action”). Couthon responds to his correspondent to the address page which states “Au Républicain Couthon, Représentant du Peuple et member du Comité de Salut Publique”, bearing alongside and beneath Couthon´s response, a republican ink stamp. The letter addressed to Couthon states in part `Citoyen et ami, je vous ai écris plusieures fois l´année dernière en reconnaissance des soins que vous avez pris pour l´avancement de mon frère…´ (Translation: “Citizen and friend, I have written to you several times last year in recognition of the care you have taken for my brother´s promotion…”) G to VG
THREE BOXES AND LOOSE MISCELLANEOUS SUNDRIES, to include a boxed Bush radio alarm, a John Lewis radio alarm, a boxed JVC portable wireless speaker, a John Lewis Polka portable speaker, two Princess electric tabletop food warmers, a new and unused box of Scrabble, a Sony digital radio, Smiths mantel clock, a Mag-Lite torch, embroidered table linen, cookery books, a 1960's enamelled copper trinket tray by J. Capo Esmaltes, signed J. Capo on the reverse, a new and unused Creamcraft woollen blanket, barometer, wine rack, large oak serving tray, walking stick, etc. (s.d) (3 boxes + loose)
FIVE REPRODUCTION CAST IRON MONEY BOXES, including 'Trick Pony', 'Stump Speaker' and a clown, height of tallest 23.5cm (5) Some of the items in this lot are listed on the basis they are illustrative of a bygone culture in which there were different social norms. We understand the potential controversy surrounding this type of item but believe that providing transparent information about historical context fosters greater understanding of our complex cultural history
A large selection of hi-fi equipment to include a National Panasonic turntable / cassette recorder, radio, Technics separates ; cassette deck, tuner, a Grundig tape recorder, various radios, Hitachi cassette player / music centre, Technics turntable, Grundig Studio RPC 310 turntable / radio, two Philips radios, a Rank stereo amp, a Samsui stereo receiver, a Sony boombox, Trio stereo synthesizer, integrated stereo amp, a large Technics speaker and a bag of tape reels, etc.
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