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A well carved 19th C Cantonese ivory card case, the case carved in deep relief with Pagodas and figures in garden settings, the sides carved with entwined dragons and carved bats to the base and with cartouche carved with the letter "L" (this card case was reputedly a gift from Queen Mary to Lydia, who used to attend sewing parties at Buckingham Palace, the case comes with a postcard that reads "From Her Majesty, the Queen, Christmas 1924, Buckingham Palace")
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The following five lots by Clarence Woodburn are consigned from his family and are part of his studio collection. The Artist was an architectural and engineer illustrator who retired to Cornwall. CLARENCE WOODBURN (BRITISH, MID 20TH CENTURY), "Lerryn" (Cornwall), two and another "Pelynt" (Cornwall), signed and dated 1970-75. 9.5" x 14.5", 11.5" x 15". (2). (3).
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The following eight lots are part of the extensive studio collection of Peter Coviello (British, born 1930 died 2009) who lived in West Wales during the later part of his life. Consigned by his family. PETER COVIELLO (BRITISH BORN 1930, DIED 2009, LIVED IN WALES), Magic Eye(?), abstract, signed and dated verso, canvas. 62" x 48".
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The following lots by Sir John "Kyffin" are privately consigned from a vendor whose grandfather, an artist, was a friend of Kyffin and regularly met him, when pictures would be exchanged between them. Others were obtained by the vendor, also an artist, who met with Kyffin when a student in North Wales. SIR JOHN "KYFFIN" WILLIAMS KBE, RA (WELSH, 1918-2006), bird studies, "Chough", "Raven" and "Crow", three, watercolours over pencil, signed with initials. 11.5" x 16.25". (3).
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The awards of James Rennie, CB, Indian Navy 1827-1857 who was recommended for the Victoria Cross following the Persian campaign, comprising CB in gold, bearing Geo III hallmark (date letter not visible due to case mounting), (1 lion missing from angles); China 1842, now fitted with scroll suspender and now engraved James Rennie Lieut HEICS Sesostris; IGS 1854, 2 clasps Pegu, Persia, (similar scroll suspender and similarly engraved in block serif capitals Comr Rennie “In Steam Frigate Zenobia”); France, gold medal “Ministre De La Marine - À Rennie Capne De La Marine Anglaise - Service Rendu À un Navire Francais 1853” GEF. Framed. See Front cover. During the China War James Rennie was in command of the Hon East India Company ship Sesostris. A family history by Alastair John Rennie (not included in lot) states “On 31August the “Sesostris” assisted in covering the landings of troops and Marines in face of intense Chinese fire from their fortresses and batteries...”During the next year the fleets and transports carried out landings at Tinghae, Chinhae, Ningpo Tsekee, Chapoo, and finally ... to Nanking...In all these operations Sesostris played a conspicuous role and James won a high reputation for his courage and dash leading his marines in many assaults on the formidable Chinese defences.” During the Burmese War 1852-53 James was promoted to Commander of the Indian Marine vessel Zenobia. He was present at the capture Rangoon and Bassein. “In the absence of any help from the military, he volunteered the services of his ship and blue jackets to help the Deputy Commissioner at Bassein, Captain Fitch, pacify the hinterland and rid if of Burmese forces still giving trouble. Twice he did this and convincingly proved himself as good a soldier as he was a sailor. He led his force, together with naval guns, through the densest jungle in a climate which had proved fatal to many European (sic) and succeeded brilliantly in trapping the Burmese forces, numbering some 3,000...” For his services Commander Rennie received a Sword of Honour from the Court of Directors of the East India Company. Throughout the Persian campaign Rennie commanded the ship Firoze. The family history again relates “it was resolved to attack Mohammerah, a fortress at the head of the Gulf defended by some 13,000 Persians....Sir James Outram wrote “on 24 March a boat with muffled oars, ..proceeded up the river to choose a position for a mortar battery, but when closely under the forts, it was discovered that the selected site for the mortar was a swamp. The ingenuity of Commander Rennie came to the rescue with the proposal of a mortar raft and in defiance of the engineers who said the first shot would smash it, a raft was constructed during the night, under Commander Rennie’s direction, of casks and studding sail booms securely lashed together and being manned by the Bombay Artillery...was towed up to its position opposite the Northern Fort”. On 26 March ...the Indian Navy frigates proceeded to the attack. The Firoze and Assaye moved up the river to a position opposite the northern battery and after an hours bombardment from the ships and the mortar battery, the order to close was given. The Firoze and Assaye then moved to within sixty yards of the earthworks and at about 10 0’clock the magazine of the northern fort blew up...The British loss was only ten killed and thirty wounded. The Persian army of 13,000 was beaten and dispersed losing some 300 killed...” and it was reported that “Commander Rennie’s happy thought of placing around the bulwarks of several vessels trusses of pressed hay in which the musket balls of the Persian matchlock men lodged without injury to anyone, thus 300 bullets were found buried in the sides of the Firoze and vast numbers were taken out of the hay trusses.” On 23 May 1857 General Outram, in a letter to the Chairman of the HEIC states “In due course I will send the names of individual officers who are worthy of distinction; some I hope may gain even that greatest of all distinctions, the Victoria Cross. One especially, Commander Rennie of the Indian Navy, will be found to have earned a just claim to it.” James was awarded the CB at this time.
Los 888
A Hitler Youth Knife, Fahrtenmesser, commemorating the 1936 Berlin Olympics, clipped back blade 4¾”, etched and gilt with Berlin City arms, “Zum Ruhme des Sports zur ehre des Vaterlandes”, and eagle and swastika over Olympic symbol, the reverse with maker’s mark of Emil Voos, Solingen, the hilt of aluminium with staghorn grips and enamelled Hitler Youth badge, in its sheath, together with its printed paper packet stamped “Berliner Olympiade”. Near new condition. Plate 13 Note: Believed to be awarded to Hitler Youth personnel who assisted in the Games.
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A very Rare Chinese `Poissardes` Coffee Cup, c.1745, of large size and decorated in a rich famille-rose palette with poppies and other flowers surrounding cartouches enclosing a red fish, red floret mark, minute chip and feint crack, 8cm It is thought that the service with this pattern was ordered from les Compagnie de Indes by the Poissardes, detractors of Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, whose married name was Poisson (fish). Madame, who rose to be almost as powerful as the King himself, would never have allowed any such design as she was acutely embarrassed by her name. Pieces rarely appear on the market and the order must have been a small one although comprehensive. It included two bourdalou! For a plate with the fish, see China for the West, Howard, David and Ayers, John, 1978, vol ii, no 449.
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE 17TH CENTURY BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Europe saw three periods of `Chinamania` between the 17th and 20th centuries. The first in the early 17th with the kraak wares, the second with chinoiserie from the mid-18th century until the early 19th, , and again when the aesthetes went china crazy in the last decades of the century. Collectors vied for the best pieces - almost invariably Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white, the best of sapphire-blue tone driving up prices only to see the craze vanish as quickly as it had begun. One devotee was the American painter James MacNeil Whistler who illustrated some of the pieces in the collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1878). One of the present lots no.145 is closely akin to no.203 in that Catalogue. Although modest, this offering is typical of a forgotten era. A double-gourd Vase, c.1640, trekked and washed with a literatus reading in a garden, a boy approaching, the upper bulb with stiff leaves, rim frits, 20.5cm A vase of similar form and decoration and the same size was raised by Captain Hatcher from the junk dated 1643, see The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes,1988, pl. 61.
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Poster, Stroud Brewery Co Ales & Stouts "By Your Leave Please", by Lawson Wood circa 1912. A wonderful, framed poster depicting a rather large `Dandy` on Stroud station being disrupted by the old, bearded porter who is reaching out for the beer. In the background is the Great Western Railway Timetable for London, Swindon, Stroud and Gloucester. The original wooden frame is deeply inscribed `Stroud Brewery Co Ltd`. Published by Sir Joseph Causton Ltd., designers and printers London. Measures 35½" x 28" including frame and is in extremely good condition.
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1930`s felt faced Doll with a GWR, lapel badged Uniform and a GWR inscribed Cap. Most interesting history being won by the Vendors mother, Miss Ethel Partridge, in a raffle at Paddington Station Refreshment Rooms in the early 1930`s. She was a GWR employee who, as a teenager, left the Forest of Dean for the bright lights of London to work for the GWR. She lodged at the company accommodation Westbourne Terrace and the vendor remembers her mother relating the story that the GWR Police escorted them to and from work because they had to pass the rather disreputable Eastbourne Terrace!. Shows age and has one foot half detached. Requires a good clean but a very historic item indeed.
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Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Pocket Watch manufactured by the American Waltham Company. Rear engraved "L&BR", the watch is in fine working condition and comes with original, hallmarked silver Albert that has a 9ct gold enamel National Union Of Railwaymen Badge attached. This official issue watch was the property of Driver F.W. Northcombe who joined the L&BR as a Loco Fireman right at the beginning of the railway operating in 1898, became an established Driver and left at closure. The NUR Badge is engraved "Presented to Bro F.W. Northcombe By The Barnstaple Branch 1925". A small, original photograph of Mr Northcombe accompanies and also a few newspaper cuttings from the time.
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Nameplate GOLD COAST. Ex Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class Locomotive built at Crewe Works in 1934. Originally numbered 5610 then later 45610 by BR. Named in 1936 after the then British Colony in West Africa, it was a well cherished, Derby locomotive throughout its career. When Gold Coast became independent in 1960 and changed to Ghana, the locomotive was renamed by the High Commissioner Mr E.O. Asafu-Adjaye at Euston station on 12th December 1958. Both Gold Coast nameplates were destined for the scrap bin but were recovered by a then Derby Works Engineer, who was allowed to purchase them for the scrap value. One plate was given to a friend, this one kept, much to the envy of many ex Derby Works men and other enthusiasts over the years. Punch marked twice on the rear indicating it to be the right hand plate, it measures 34½" in length. Lightly polished face with a red ground. The wooden display board and flush fixings accompany separately. Undoubtedly the very best name of all the `Colony` Jubilees.
Los 441
Framed Limited Edition Print of `Concorde Formation` by Robert Taylor. Depicts 4 Concorde aircraft, line abreast over The Needles. Most desirable being signed by not only the artist, but also Brian Trubshaw who was chief test pilot and also Brian Walpole who captained the first flight to New York.
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A watercolour portrait with plaque verso "EMMA LADY HAMILTON. A sketch from life by George Romney and a label in ink "this study in watercolour by George Romney was purchased from the son of Thomas Lupton the celebrated Mezzotint engraved who inherited it from his father Leggatt Bros. Cheapside 135 mm diameter
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Horse Racing. Racing Up-to-Date, Flat Racing edition, 44 vols., 1932-36, 1940-77, 1985, pub. Sporting Chronicle, Manchester, known as ‘Form Book’ after 1954, together with Racing Up-to-Date/Form Book, National Hunt edition, 31 vols., 1947-77, 1984, all orig. printed limp. cloth, 8vo, plus The Sporting Chronicle, Horses in Training, a run of 60 vols., 1933-92, orig. printed wrappers, plus smaller runs of other related periodicals including The Racegoer’s Encyclopeadia, Chaseform, Dictionary of the Turf, etc., and other books on horse racing. Formerly the reference library of Bill Garland, who wrote on horse racing for the Associated Press for many years. (approx. 250)
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Crabbe (Rev. G.). The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters, 1st ed., 1810, some spotting, contemp. half calf, worn on spine, 8vo, together with Musical Biography; Or, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Musical Composers and Writers, who have Flourished in the Different Countries of Europe During the Last Three Centuries, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1814, some spotting, untrimmed, orig. boards, worn on spines, 8vo, with other miscellaneous antiquarian, including Camden’s Britannia, 4 vols., 1806, lacking maps, num. small-format annuals, including Forget Me Not, The Amulet, The Christian Keepsake, and similar (3 shelves)
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A Chinese porcelain apple shaped Brushwasher `pingguo zun`, Kangxi period (1662-1722), of stoutly potted globular shape with an inset rim decorated in famille verte enamels with three prancing figures within a typical rocky landscape. The `pingguo zun`, an apple shaped water jar, was a known scholars desk ornament form in China. See Stephen W. Bushell - Oriental Ceramic Art (1899) who writes "Two favorite designs, for example, of the little water-bottles intended to be used with the writer`s pallet [sic] are the p`ing-kuo tsun [pingguo zun] or apple jar, which is molded as an exact facsimile in size and shape of the fruit, and its fellow, the shih-liu tsun [shiliu zun] or pomegranate jar. I have seen these two shapes only in China."" 8cm high, 10.5cm diameter In good condition with some very slight abrasions to the rim surface where the brush was used to remove water. View on auctionatrium.com
Los 15189
A fine Chinese lotus shaped Jade Cup, possibly Ming dynasty (1364-1633) and a Chinese agate Cup, 19th century, the lotus shaped cup finely carved in russet and pale celadon coloured jade with a small looped handle, the agate cup carved in pale grey agate decorated with bats in flight (2) Provenance: From a private collection formed by the vendor`s father who held a senior position in the Hong Kong government in the 1950s. The agate cup 8cm high, the jade cup, 4.2cm high. In good condition View on auctionatrium.com
Los 15206
A finely enamelled Chinese famille rose vase, Yongzheng period (1723-1734) with a Bluett and Sons’label, accompanied by a wood stand of elegantly potted pear shape bottle form with a slightly flaring rim decorated in famille rose enamels with a seated cat in a stylized garden scene with a vase of chrysanthemum flowers on a stand, flowering lotus and four butteflies, the base glazed and with a label for ‘Bluett and Sons’, the matching hardwood stand probably 19th century Provenance : By descent from the vendor’s father who received advice concerning many of his acquisitions from the celebrated English collector H.M.Knight who died in 1970. Included with the vase is an envelope entitled “Sent on the instructions of Mr H.M.Knight” containing a Bluett’s ‘with compliments slip’ on the back of which is a description which reads “ An old Chinese porcelain bottle-shaped vase decorated in rose enamels, ‘rouge de fer’ etc. with vase of flowers, butterflies and recumbent cat in white enamel. 18th century.”" Ht 15.5cm (overall), 13.3cm (vase) View on auctionatrium.com
Los 15207
A fine Chinese ‘Ge ware’ vase, Yongzheng six character seal mark and of the period, the base with a Bluett and Sons label , accompanied by a matching wood stand of typical archaistic ‘hu’ form with a ribbed bulbous body, a slightly spreading foot, elephant head handles to the sides and a slightly flaring neck, covered with an light greenish grey glaze with an irregular ‘fine wire’ dark grey crackle within which are very fine gilt crackle lines, the foot rim dressed in a dark brown wash and the base with a well drawn six character Yongzheng seal mark in underglaze blue and an affixed Bluett and Sons label, the matching stand probably 19th century. Provenance : By descent from the vendor’s father who received advice concerning many of his acquisitions from the celebrated English collector H.M.Knight who died in 1970. Perhaps held in low esteem at the time because of the damage this vase was used as a lamp, fortunately with a removable metal fittingwhich, when taken away, revealed a piece in excellent condition apart from the old visible chip at the top. ‘Ge’ and ‘Guan’ type glazes were copied for the court during the eighteenth century and various marked examples are known. The ‘Ge’pieces tend to have a more matt glaze as here and the crackle lines are more precisely defined. Two types are known; perhaps the rarer one is as here where the dark grey crackle is combined with a fine gilt floss effect. Size: Ht 29cm (overall), 24.5cm (vase) Condition: Good condition overall but with a chip at the top as illustrated c1cm x c0.5cm max. View on auctionatrium.com
Los 15208
A Chinese famille rose brushpot, Bitong, Daoguang mark and possibly of the period of typical form with straight cylindrical sides decorated in Famille Rose enamels with a lady and a deer, two butterflies to the reverse and a gilt border to the rim, the base glazed with a wide foot rim and a six character iron red Daoguang seal mark to the centre. Provenance : By descent from the vendor’s father who received advice concerning many of his acquisitions from the celebrated English collector H.M.Knight who died in 1970. Ht 11.5cm, base diam 6.2cm Excellent condition with no restoration View on auctionatrium.com
Los 15242
A Chinese pale celadon coloured jade tripod censer, 18th/19th century with a Bluett and Sons label of squat circular shape with beaded decoration to the border, on tripod feet and with finely carved mythical beast handles; together with a matching small huang-huali wood stand. Provenance : By descent from the vendor’s father who received advice concerning many of his acquisitions from the celebrated English collector H.M.Knight who died in 1970. Ht 5.5cm without stand; diam 7.8cm not including handles In good condition View on auctionatrium.com
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Holmes (Charles editor) The Art of the Book. A Re Decoration & Binding colour and other illustrations original cloth The Studio 1914 § Plomer (H. R. et al) A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 original quarter cloth Oxford 1932 § McLean (Ruari) Victorian Publishers` Book-Bindings in Paper dust-jacket 1983 plus other vol. relating to books and their illustration and production v.s. (quantity)
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* Civil & Military Aircraft. An interesting archive of 35mm colour slides mostly taken at RAF St. Athan, by Mr V. Jenkins, c. 1958-late 1990s, approx. 7, 000 slides, many labelled (particularly the earlier years) with aircraft type and registration, generally in very good condition, contained in card and plastic slide boxes within Mr. Jenkins’s labelled biscuits tins. Mr. Jenkins was an amateur photographer, well known in his local area of Cwmaman, South Wales. This collection is being sold by his family who have agreed that copyright will pass to the purchaser. (-)
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Air Ministry. The Origins and Development of Operational Research in the Royal Air Force, pub. HMSO, 1963, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., together with Falconer (Jonathan), Stirling Wings, pub. Alan Sutton, 1995, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., plus Bowman (Martin W.), The Men Who Flew the Mosquito, 1st ed., 1995, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., and Shores (Christopher, & Cull, Brian), Air War for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete, 1940-41, pub. Grub Street, 1987, plus others on the aviation history of World War II, including other Grub Street publications, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, all 8vo, generally G/VG (3 shelves)
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Talbot (Frederick A.). Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War, 1st ed., 1915, b&w plts. after photos, modern maroon cloth, 8vo, together with Gill (Lt.-Col. N. J.), The Aerial Arm, Its Functions and Development, pub. The Aeroplane, 1919, b&w illusts. and diags., orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, square 8vo, plus Hearne (R. P.), Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins, 1st ed., 1916, b&w plts., orig. grey cloth, rubbed and spine lightly dulled, 8vo, and Wilkinson (Stephen), Lighter Than Air, [1939], b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, plus others related on World War I ballooning and aviation, including William A. Robson, Aircraft in War and Peace, 1916, Charles E. Lucke, ed., Aircraft of Belligerents in the Year 1914, pub. 1918, The Aerial Year Book and Who‘s Who in the Air, 1920, Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914-1918, [1925], etc., mostly bound in orig. cloth, 8vo (13)
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* Davids (Arthur Rhys, DSO MC and Bar, 1897-1917). Original ALS dated 26/10/17 No. 56 Squadron, R.F.C., B.E.F., and addressed, the day before he was killed, believed shot down at Polterrjebrug, very near the front line, at approx. 11:08, British time, by Leutnant Karl Gallwitz, at the time acting Staffelfuhrer of Jasta Boelke, to Frida Mond, later to marry Herbert Brackley, ‘Thanks ever so much for your letter. I was so glad to get news of your family again. I hope you are enjoying your new French School: and I am so glad you seem to have liked Oxford. I hope I shall see when I go there after the war, if I continue to have my present luck in the scrapping. It really is splendid fun if you take it in the right way. Though somehow one has not that immense satisfaction which the people on the ground have that they have done their in the beastly business. Personally I feel I have done nothing at all! Remember me to all the family & excuse haste. Sincerely yours Arthur Rhys Davids. Arthur Rhys Davids was just twenty when he was shot down and killed, he had been on the Western Front with 56 Squadron for six months, having gone straight into the RFC from Eton. He came to public fame as ‘Eton’s Boy Airman’ through shooting down German ace Werner Voss and he is remembered among other things as the pilot who always carried while flying a small volume of William Blake’s poetry which had been given to him as a Christmas present by his sister in 1916. The exact details and circumstance of Arthur Rhys Davids’s last fight and death are not known but it seems likely that both he and Voss lie in complete obscurity, probably under five miles apart somewhere in the area of Ypres. A copy of the biography of Arthur Rhys Davids entitled ‘Brief Glory’, by Alex Revell, published in 1984, is included in this lot. (1)
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* Longbottom (Squadron Leader Maurice Victor). The original brass release pin (4.5cm long) from Lancaster ED 817 used for the first live drop of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bomb ‘Upkeep’ on May 13th 1943, Maurice subsequently gave this pin to his wife, Linda, who had it engraved ‘Upkeep. First Live Drop. 13.5.43’ and on the reverse ‘ED 817/G M.V.L.’. It is interesting to note that this live drop was only three days before 617 Squadron’s epic ‘Dambusters’ raid on the Mohne and Eder dams in western Germany on 16th May 1943. (1)
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* Aerial photography. Town & Country Planning, written and compiled by Rolf Hellberg F.R.I.B.A., December 1945, original illustrated typescript of an unpublished work laid out as a book, title and 64 pp., the majority of text pages consisting of two tight folio pages pasted side by side, plus a total of approx. 150 b&w photos, including mosaic pattern composite images pasted in with ink captions beneath, the majority of aerial photos, various sizes, including large format, plus a few reproductions of maps, plus tables, etc., contemp. cloth loose leaf binder, large long folio (39 x 54cm) Rolf Hellberg, a Coventry architect, who served as President of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists, from 1962 until 1981. The indexed photographic headings on the title page verso includes Obliques, Filters, Plotting, Shadows, Ports, Archaeology, Waterways, Forestry, War Damage and Reconstruction, etc., the official aerial photos used include photographs of Oxford, Raynes Park, Kinlochleven, Packham Harbour, Glass Houses in Holland, Canterbury, Leicester, Wesel, Darmstadt, City of London, etc. (1)
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* Amy Johnson - International Tourist Trophy Race Donington Park. An original race-card entry list & lap-score sheet for the event September 3rd 1937, autograph signed in pencil verso inscribed “Amy Johnson”, four-page fold-out format, shows some age-wear. According to the previous owner this was acquired by his father, who had been in attendance at the race, and the Aviatrix, who was herself a keen sporting motorist was spotted in the paddock and gave her autograph upon request to the excited recipient. (1)
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* Zeppelin Bombing-Raid. An original copy of the Los Angeles Evening Herald newspaper dated Wednesday January 20th 1915, a rare surviving edition declaiming the first aerial bombing raid on Britain during the Great War, the headline inscribed “Zeppelins Terrorize England” and related articles & sub-headlines including quotes by H.G. Wells, who had predicted such atrocities in his fictional works decades earlier, mounted in original polished oak glazed frame, 21 x 18in (54 x 46cm) (1)
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Ziegler (Frank). The Story of 609 Squadron Under the White Rose, 1st ed., 1971, b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed and chipped d.j. with brown paper protectors covering, 8vo, together with Bag the Hun!, pub. Air Ministry, reprint, November 1943, volvelle to p.15 and target transparency in envelope at rear both still present, orig. printed wrappers, sl. frayed on the spine, oblong 8vo. The front free endpaper and title pages bear a total of 42 signatures of personnel associated with 609 Squadron. Many of the names are neatly identified in pencil beneath and include Sheep Gilroy, George Darley, Alec Ingle, John Bisdee, Count du Monceau, General Mike Donnet, Bee Beamont, Binkie Stark, Eric Roberts, Moose Evans, Frank Ziegler, G. H. Ambler Geerts, Harald Peake, et al. Provenance: David R. Shaw, former chairman of the 609 Squadron Association who obtained this first edition at the book launch of R.A.F. Club in London. (2)
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* Rayson (John). ‘Thank You Canada’. Handley Page Halifax, painted as a tribute to all who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, n.d., c. 1980s, fine col. print after the original, signed in pencil by the artist and A. C. Hull(?), image size 13.5 x 20in (34 x 51cm), limited edition 223/500, together with Gower (Thomas), Remember the Spitfire, n.d., c. 1980s, fine coloured print after the original, signed in pencil by the artist and numbered 417/1500, image size 15 x 23in (38 x 58.5cm), framed and glazed, and three other aviation pictures including a modern oil on board portrait of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, by Ray Tootall (5)
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* ‘The Avroplane’. An important Pioneer and “Daily Mail” Prize-contest design model by Edwin Alliot Verdon-Roe, 1907, a unique exhibition display model of a pioneer flying-machine, created by Alliott Verdon-Roe (the founder of AVRO and Saunders-Roe Aircraft Companies) later knighted for his services to the Aviation Industry, this model, numbered “B2”, is the second maquette for his winning example of two versions submitted for the prize-contest sponsored by the Daily Mail, for a free-flight aeroplane design. Of biplane format utilising pusher-type airscrew powered by a three cylinder Anzani motor, the open-work wire-braced wooden airframe featuring a large forward-mounted lifting-surface, under which was situated the pilot’s control-seat, with dual surface main-planes to the rear, and with additional movable aileron-control surfaces mounted in parallel between the main-planes. The engine mounted centrally behind the pilot, driving the rear-mounted propeller via a long shaft to clear the main flying surfaces. Well fabricated of wood, brass and metal construction, with cotton-thread simulating rigging wires, cream-painted flying surfaces, with black open frame fuselage and silver gravity fuel tank etc, this model represented a sturdy airframe structure with practical application for scaling up to a full-size machine capable of flight, wingspan 12 in, length 7.5in (30 x 19cm), the designer having graduated through engineering via railway and marine practical experience, now turned his attention to aeronautics, and this his first serious design, was subsequently built by Roe in a small rented shed at the newly opened Brooklands Motor Circuit, with its flying field within the central curtilage of the track. The prototype was his first successful aeroplane in a long series of now-venerated machines, produced subsequently by his enlarged enterprise at the Manchester factory where he ultimately relocated. The following year by June 1908, Verdon-Roe had built his first aeroplane to the model-pattern and flew it for a short duration - the first true Englishman to design and build his own heavier-than-air powered machine. A full-size flying replica of this aeroplane was specially re-created to celebrate its centenary in his memory, and is now on display at the RAF Museum at Duxford - a testament indeed to this genius, who laid the foundations of the British Aircraft Industry. The model is contained in his original wooden transit-box, ailerons lacking, and showing some age wear and deterioration to cotton rigging wires. (1)
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* Wartime Toys. A group of war toys etc., 1930s-1940s, including large scratch built tinplate and wooden “pull-along” heavy tank, camouflage painted with swivel turret etc, together with a quantity of lead and slush-cast toys of soldiers, aeroplanes figures and accessories, including Britains and other makers etc, also with tinplate clockwork motor car, Light Tank, also with aviation cigarette-cards, albums, card-games and related juvenilia. The scratch built toy tank was made for Quentin Bland, the son of local post-master at Grafton Underwood in Northamptonshire, where USAF Bomber Group was stationed - he used to visit the air-base and was befriended by ground-crews and pilots who fabricated this to for him as a Christmas present c. 1943. (-)
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* Moderno, The Lion Hunt, bronze circular plaquette, two horsemen and foot-soldiers in combat with the lion who attacks a crouching nude figure in the foreground, 81mm (Molinier 217; Bange 478; Kress 168; Bargello 173; Lewis 28; Astarte VIII, 11 October 2001, lot 185, this piece), a very fine early cast with fine chasing and with suspension loop, fine brown patina
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Loudon (J.C.). The Suburban Horticulturist; Or, an Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the Culture and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit & Forcing Garden to those who have had no Previous Knowledge or Practice in these Departments of Gardening, 1st ed., 1842, wood-engraved illustrations, a few spots, bookplate, contemporary green half calf, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)
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Wiltshire. A Map of the Parish of Purton in the County of Wilts., Finished in the Year of our Lord 1744, red & black ink on paper, laid on linen, ornate cartouche, mileage scale and table of explanation of the named houses, simple compass rose, some later pencil annotations, some dust soiling and staining, occ. closed tears and one small hole to image, mounted on later turned and stained wooden batons, 920 x 1670mm, an unusually large and detailed plan, together with, Ordnance Survey (pubs.), Map of South Gloucestershire and part of North Wiltshire, 1817 [but later]engraved map with orig. outline colouring, on six sheets conjoined, laid on linen, image size 1510 x 1350mm, mounted with contemp. turned stained baton at base, with circular brass ring and toggle to facilitate unrolling, the whole on a spring loaded brass roller attached to flat wooden baton for wall mounting. The Parish map of Purton shows the property of Neville Maskelyne, the astronomer royal, who is buried in Purton churchyard. (2)
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*Vanity Fair cartoon. Mrs George Cornwallis-West [20th November 1912], colour lithograph of Mrs Cornwallis-West by ‘K’, slight mount staining, light marginal finger soiling, 360 x 215mm. One of the most beautiful and inteligent woman to grace society. At the time of this portrait her second marriage to George Cornwallis-West was staggering towards divorce. Perhaps that is why this portrait shows a melancholy beauty as well as her fiery personality, grace and courage. Both she and ‘Vanity Fair’ were getting old by the time this picture was painted, but her ambition, stamina and energy where used to enormous effect in shaping the man who was to become one of the greatest of ‘Great Britains’, her son, Winston Churchill. (1)
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*[Nelson]. A fragile manuscript proporting a draft epitaph on Lord Nelson by Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner (1764-1843), ‘Here lies Admiral Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson whose victories as wide as his fame who almost annialated the enemy’s fleets in the Battle of Nile, Copenhagen & Trafalgar, who took as many ships of the line as he was years old & who by his death caused his Country to lament a glorious Victory & has engrafted in the Navy of England the claims for honor. He died 1805 aged 50. Here lies Admiral H. V. Nelson, let aboukir, Copenhagen & Trafalgar tell the rest. He died 1805 aged -’ and on page two, ‘Here lies Adm. Horatio Lord Visct. Nelson of the Nile, he was killed - aged -. The Victorious and Pious Nelson lies here’, and underneath in a later hand ‘Attempts of Sir Hilgrove Turner, Secretary to King George the Fourth to write an epitaph on Lord Nelson as requested by the King’, paper very browned and with several horizontal splits along chain lines, approx. 20 x 13 cm. Turner was an Army Officer and Courtier who held a succession of royal appointments at Court. From 1803 he was groom of the Bedchamber to George III, and was keeper of the King’s collection of prints. In 1809 he became gentleman attendant to George, Prince of Wales and was for many deputy secretary to the Prince at Carlton House. (1)
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Aristotle. Politiques, or Discourses of government. Translated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of the best Authours, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato, conferred together where occasion of matter treated of by them both doth offer itselfe: The obseruations and reasons whereof are illustrated and confirmed by inumerable Examples ... concerning the beginning, proceeding, and excellencie of Civile Government. By Loys Le Roy, called Regius. Translated out of French into English [by John Dickenson], 1st English ed., printed by Adam Islip, 1598, title with printer’s woodcut device, previous owners signature excised to extreme upper outer corner, pale brown waterstain to upper portion throughout, blank leaf before title (possibly the initial blank or otherwise the endpaper), final blank present, sl. soiling to first and last leaf, contemp. vellum, soiled and some wear, with remains of ties, folio. STC 760. Tforzheimer 10. The first edition in English of Aristotle’s Politics, translated by the scholar and diplomat John Dickenson (c. 1570-1635/6), who served in several important diplomatic positions in the low countries in the early 1600s, and was appointed ordinary clerk to the Privy Council in 1622. (1)
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Augustine (Saint Aurelius, Bishop of Hippo). Opera, post Lovaniensium theologorum recensionem castigatus denuo ad manuscriptos codices Gallicanos, Vaticanos, Anglicanos, Belgicos, &c. nec non ad editiones antiquiores & castigatiores. Opera et studio Monachorum Ordinis S. Benedicti e Congregatione S. Mauri, 11 vols. bound in 15, Paris, Francois Muguet, 1679, eng. head-pieces and initials, full-page port. by G. Audram after J.B. de Champaigne at front of final vol., early owner’s eng. bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., and handwritten presentation inscription pasted to endpaper of final vol., by G. Dawson, presenting this set of volumes to the living of Woodleigh, dated February 20, 1841, contemp. uniform full mottled calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints and extremities, folio, together with Pole (Matthew), Synopsis Criticorum aliorumque S. Scripturae interpretum, 4 vols. bound in 5, 1669-76, 19th-century full calf, worn with several covers det., folio, plus Walker (John), An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England, Heads of Colleges, Fellows, Scholars, &c., who were sequester’d, harrass’d, &c., in the late times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714, contemp. sheep, worn with joints cracked, folio (21)
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James I (King of England). Basilikon Doron, Or his Majesties Instructions to his Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince, 1603, title with woodcut royal coat-of-arms, lacking final leaves L3 & 4, some occasional light soiling, annotation to front blank, contemporary vellum, darkened and creased, 8vo, together with A Journal of the Life, Travels, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Worthy Elder, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, James Dickinson, who Departed this Life on the 6th of the 3rd Month 1741, in the 83rd Year of his Age, 1745, 4pp. adverts at end, occasional light dampstain, contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts. Written by his son Daniel Roberts, c. 1725, bound with A Legacy, Or Widow’s Mite; Left by Alice Hayes, to her Children and others, 3rd ed., 1765 and Memoirs of the Life and Convincement of that Worth Friend Benjamin Bangs, Late of Stockport in Cheshire, Deceased; Mostly Take from his own Mouth, by Joseph Hobson, 1757, three vols., in one, one line crossed through in ink, previous owner isncriptions, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, 8vo, with others including Poems, by William Cowper, 2 vols., new ed., 1805 (9)
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[Philipps, Henry]. A Treatise Enumerating the Most Illustrious Families of England, who have been raised to Honour and Wealth by the Profession of the Law..., 1686, eng. port. frontis., bookplate to front pastedown, some staining to last few leaves, early 20th c. marbled calf gilt bound by Bayntuns, 8vo (1)
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Hobson (R.L.). Worcester Porcelain, A Description of the Ware from the Wall Period to the Present Day..., pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1910, seventeen chromo plts. (inc. frontis.), ninety-two collotype plts., free endpapers creased, orig. gilt dec. cloth, with remnants of d.j., folio, together with Williamson (Dr. George C.), The Imperial Russian Dinner Service, A Story of a Famous Work by Josiah Wedgwood, pub. George Bell & Sons, 1909, chromo frontis. and collotype plts., t.e.g., orig. qtr. Japanese vellum, oval relief portrait panel to upper board, spine stained at foot and frayed at head, slightly rubbed and marked, folio, (limited edition of 300 copies), with Falkner (Frank), The Wood Family of Burslem, A Brief Biography of those of its Members who were Sculptors Modellers and Potters, pub. Chapman & Hall, 1912, col. frontis., b & w plts. and single-page map, folding pedigree at rear, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, large 4to, (limited edition of 450 copies), with Godon (Julien), Painted Tapestry and its Application to Interior decoration, Practical Lesson in Tapestry Painting with Liquid Colour, Translated by B. Bucknall, 1879, six plts. (some col. printed), orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus six others, mostly porcelain & pottery related (10)
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GEORGE WALTON GREEN STAINED LINEN PRESS, CIRCA 1898 The projecting cornice above twin doors, each inset with stained and leaded glass panels with copper inlay worked as foliate motifs, backed by original net hangings and enclosing four sliding shelves each with original linen covers, the base with three long graduated drawers each with brass-backed cut-out handles, the whole raised on bracket feet 152cm wide, 183cm high, 68.5cm deep Literature: Moon, Karen, `George Walton, Designer and Architect`, pub. Oxford 1993, page 115 Exhibited: `George Walton: Designer and Architect` Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow 11 June - 19 September 1993 and at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Church Street Brighton 4 November 1993 - 9 January 1994, No 2.7 Note: This fine linen press in green stained ash was designed by the architect and designer George Walton and was made, circa 1899, for a director of his company, Robert Dick. Walton opened his first showroom at 152 Wellington Street Glasgow in 1888, naming it `George Walton & Co, Ecclesiastical and House Decorators`. In 1897 Walton followed his brother Edward to London where he set up house and studio at 16 Westbourne Park Road, Bayswater, and in 1898 a showroom was opened in York. In the following year a four-storey block of workshops was built in Buccleuch Street, Glasgow, and it was in the same year that Robert Dick became a director of the Glasgow company, rising to chairman by 1905. In her 1993 biography of Walton Karen Moon comments " . . . in the north the company`s directors were keeping them busy: when the two brothers James and Robert Dick, who had been involved in the company since 1899, both married in the early years of the new century, their houses were done out grandly in company style". This press would have stood in one of the bedrooms or upper landings of the house and it retains its original net hangings for the windows and linen covers inside for the drawer slides.
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Marie Walker-Last (1917-), Abstract, initialled, inscribed on verso, mixed media, 24 x 26.5cm.; 9.5 x 10.5in. * She trained at the Chelsea School of Art, under Vivian Pitchforth and, later under Sir Terry Frost and Robert Medley. She and her husband were great friends of Ben Nicholson and Dame Barbara Hepworth, and she mixed in London with many of the great painters of the day; she also met Alfred Wallis, who was such a great influence on the work of Ben Nicholson. In her earlier days, she exhibited world-wide, with Exhibitions in London, Paris, Athens, Florence and Australia, and in 1988, she won First Prize in the Druce Constable Award at an exhibition of contemporary British landscape painting in the Camden Arts Centre. Her works are in the Collections of the Bank of England, the Halifax Building Society, Granada Television, the Arthur Haigh Collection, the Open University, Yorkshire Television, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums and the Universities of Leeds, Bradford and York.
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A set of four 19th century Chinese rice paper painting, of interior scenes with figures, 8.5 x 6in (21.5 x 15cm) in later silk bordered parcel gilt frames. (4) Provenance: From a set of albums belonging to Captain George Bathie, Commander of the East Indiaman `Asia`, who died returning from Calcutta in circa 1834.
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A collection of three hundred and sixty three 7 inch records, consisting of various artist and bands including Sex Pistols `Anarchy in the UK` produced by Chris Thomas, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band `Happy Xmas (war is over)` 1972 (green pressing), Inez & Charlie Foxx `Mockingbird` 1983 EP, five picture discs including Tears for Fears 1983, `Pale Shelter`, Rolling Stones `Its all over now`, The Who `Im a boy` and `Happy Jack` 1966, both on Reaction label
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A collection of twenty five rare 7 inch records by The Wailers consisting of nine on Island Records including `Playboy/Your Love`, `He Who Feels it Knows it/Sunday Morning`, `Hooligan/Maga Dog`, `Shame and Scandal/The Jerk`, six on Ska Beat label including `Love and Affection/Teenager in Love`, `Lonesome Tracks/Zimmerman`, and `And I Love Her/Do it Right` (illustrated)
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Two cast iron Great Western railway notices, reading `All persons are warned not to trespass upon the railways or stations of the company and notice is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of the companies act, every person who trespasses upon any such railway or station in such manner as to expose himself to danger or risk of danger rendering himself liable to a penalty of forty shillings and in default of payment to one months imprisonment for every such offence. By Order`, height 53.5cm, width 75.5cm, and a smaller plaque reading `Warning is given against the dangerous practice of propping up the doors of merchandise trucks for the support of coal weighing machines for loading or unloading traffic, or for any other purpose`. The Great Western Railway Company give notice that such practice is prohibited, and any person disregarding this, caution will be held responsible for injury or damage that may result. James Milne. General Manager dated March 1922, 32.5 x36cm lacking one corner mount (2)
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The Alex `Hurricane` Higgins collection; from his long term friend and driver Charlie Cooke-comprising his famous trademark Fedora hat from his 1982 World Title winning era, a converting walking stick/snooker cue, a signed and inscribed book entitled `The Hurricane The Turbulent Life And Times Of Alex Higgins` by Bill Borrows, that was a gift to Charlie Cooke`s late mother and reads as follows `To Irene love and best wishes lovely Sunday lunch enjoy your dancing all the best Alex Hurricane Higgins`, which Alex gave to Charlie`s mum Irene after a particularly enjoyable Sunday lunch at her house, a photograph of Alex Higgins towards the end of his life with Charlie and four other friends in a Manchester pub, an order of service for Alex Higgin`s funeral that Charlie attended, together with a letter of provenance from Charlie Cooke relating to the items within this collection, which reads as follows "From 1975 until the year 2010 when Alex passed away, I was one of his true friends. Throughout the 80`s I drove Alex to many tournaments, including his World Title win at the Crucible in 1982, looking after his every need. The Fedora that Alex mostly wore during this period was given to me by Alex just after his famous victory. Sadly the satin lining was ruined by the sugared sweets that Alex sometimes kept in the hat for his young daughter Lauren. "Here you can have it Charlie, I`ll get another" he said to me. The very same hat was loaned by me to Mick Moody the base guitarist of Whitesnake, who wore it during their reunion tour of Europe in the 80`s. The walking stick that converts into a snooker cue was given to Alex in Dublin. On the way back to Manchester we stopped off at a snooker hall where Alex racked up a 100 break with it. He gave it to me a year, or so later. The photograph of me with Alex and a few friends (I`m the one on the far left with my arm raised) was taken in a pub in Gorton about three years ago. The signed book was given to my late mother for cooking him a lovely Sunday lunch. "The last time I saw Alex was early on in 2010. Not long after that I received a phone call from his sister asking me if I would attend his forthcoming funeral. Which, with great sadness, I did". Signed Charles E Cooke (Charlie) (illustrated)
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