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Click here to subscribeFOOTBALL PICTURES A small miscellany including a black & white Press photograph with paper notation on the reverse, action from Crystal Palace v Millwall 25/11/1950 match abandoned. Boys Magazine team groups from the 1930's including Chelsea, Man. City, Aston Villa, Tottenham and Huddersfield. Generally good
Quantity Of Action Figures, Including Robotech, 5 x Harmony gold 3inch figures on blister card, 2 x 12ich figures, 3 x Irwin Reboot action figures, Super Elasti Luffy, 5 x Spawn figures, on blister card, Alien queen Face Hugger, Hyperforce Chiro, Terminator 2 Metal Mash, Megaman Windblast Man, Sabans Masked Rider Ferbus, Bandai Battle Builders,Takara Missionel VR, Bendems Superpro EXO Squad Robotech Gladiator, Corgi Junior Popeye and one other, all in excellent to mint condition, boxes/cards are fair to very good (26 items)
Various 1960s and Later toys, A mixed collection including an Action Man army jeep, boxed Marx Pro Shot golf game, and pair of wooden stilts, together with a collection of scalextric including track, accessories, and two cars an Aston Martin DB4 Marshal's car (minus a wheel) and F Jnr Cooper Austin, Britains wild west stagecoach and horses, Lego and various other toys, some tin and dressing up items P-F, Box F, (Qty) in three boxes
1970s and Later Toys, A collection of factory sealed toys including A 1976 Airfix Concorde model kit with factory sealed contents, a 1987 Bluebird Manta Force set, 1997 Lost in Space robot, Honk Kong Fighting Russ 12" army outfit and two Hasbro 2003 Robot Action Man figures, together with thirteen 1990s figures all in original packaging including Star Trek, The Mask, Robocop, Disney, Power Rangers, Samurai Cyber Squad, Reboot and Highlander together with other sealed items including die cast vehicles, F-E, Boxes F-G, (Qty) in two boxes
Action Man and Similar Toys, An unboxed collection of Action Man toys and accessories including, a Cherilea tank, 1975 Hasbro jeep, a Sunny Pride tank and an army truck (probably Cherilea) together with various accessories including two figures, guns, tools a motor launch and others, (vehicles with missing parts), F, (Qty)
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) MORNING GLORY, 1945 oil on canvas signed lower right; titled on canvas verso; also with original typed label [It is the wish of Mr Jack B. Yeats that this painting shall be always kept under glass] and with James Bourlet label on reverse 14 by 18in. (35.6 by 45.7cm) Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; Where purchased by R.M.D. Thesiger. London, 1945; With a Mr William Macquitty, London; Christie's, London (Sale II), June 1982, lot 144; Private collection 'Loan Exhibition', Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 20 June to 4 August and Tate Gallery, London, 14 August to 15 September 1948, catalogue no. 60 (organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Afterwards at Aberdeen Art Gallery and Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy) Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, page 646, catalogue no. 716 Morning Glory depicts two travellers on the cobbled street of a dark deserted town. One sits on a suitcase while his companion stands in the foreground. He is staring into the strong morning sunlight that penetrates through a side-street. A lobster pot hanging from the wall suggests that this opens onto the sea. The figure's face is transformed by the warm golden light of the dawn. With his hand drawn up to his chest, he looks as though he is experiencing a religious vision. His upright pose contrasts with that of his forlorn cohort who rests with bowed shoulders, his hands on his knees. His friend's hat and baggage lie abandoned in front of him, in the gloom of the empty thoroughfare. Compared to the monochrome face of the background figure, that of the man in the foreground, is made of a cacophony of pinks, whites, yellows and blues. His jacket, ostensibly dark green, is formed out of a myriad of coloured brushstrokes. While the streetscape is dominated by sombre dark blues and greys that suggest the lingering dimness of night, traces of yellow sunlight are evident on the cobbles and blank facades of the buildings. A sense of heat emanates from the right-hand foreground of the scene. The word "glory" in the title accentuates the spiritual aura of the light-filled man in the foreground. Glory, used in the titles of several of Yeats' late works, means thanksgiving or worship to God. Hilary Pyle suggests that this painting anticipates these visionary works of the 1950s. The arrival of the dawn is a momentous theme in them, a moment of revelation in which the natural world comes to life and brings renewed hope and sustenance to the nomadic inhabitants of Yeats' paintings. Like many of these works, Morning Glory has a strong dramatic quality with the intense light suggesting that of a spotlight in a theatre. It conveys the idea that the action is happening elsewhere, as if the two figures are waiting behind the scenes, ready to come on stage and perform. Dr. Róisín Kennedy April 2018
HOARE SAMUEL: (1880-1959) British Politician, First Lord of the Admiralty 1936-37 and Home Secretary 1937-39. Important and historical A.L.S., Sam, two pages, 4to, Admiralty House, 10th December n.y. (1936), to Lord Beaverbrook ('Dear Max'), marked Personal. Written on the day that King Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication, Hoare announces 'I have not telephoned or come round today or yesterday as I was, on your advice, sitting back in the final acts of this tragic farce' and continues 'It was clear to me yesterday that the denouement was inevitable. I tried my best to the end to make renunciation possible, but the King would not move an inch. To what depths can folly descend!' Hoare further states 'In any case I am glad and grateful that another crisis brought us together again. It is almost a year to a day since my resignation. The first friendly word from outside came from you. I never forget these things nor shall I forget our talks of the last fortnight, and your manifest wish to help me in my career.' A letter of interesting content written on a pivotal day in the history of the British monarchy. One neat tear to the right edge of a central fold, only very slightly affecting one word of text, otherwise VG Max Aitken (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Anglo-Canadian Business Tycoon, Politician & Writer, owner of the Daily Express and London Evening Standard newspapers. In June 1936 Hoare became First Lord of the Admiralty and in November 1936 he was (with Duff Cooper, the then Secretary of State for War) sought out by Edward VIII to provide independent advice and counsel on the King's constitutional problems. Initially the King attempted to convert him into a champion of his cause hoping that Hoare would speak up in defence of his right to marry when the matter came up for formal discussion in the Cabinet. In the King's memoirs A King's Story (1951) he recounted this first meeting, "But I failed to win him as an advocate. He was sympathetic; but he also was acutely conscious of the political realities. Mr. Baldwin, he warned me, was in command of the situation: the senior Ministers were solidly with him on this issue. If I were to press my marriage project on the Cabinet I should meet a stone wall of opposition. I saw Mr. Duff Cooper at the Palace later the same day.....He was as encouraging and optimistic as Sam Hoare had been pessimistic and discouraging." Hoare's second meeting with the King took place at the end of November, about which the King wrote, "At this juncture, the scene shifted momentarily to Stornoway House where Max Beaverbrook, ever since his return from America, had worked feverishly to rally support for me in whatever quarters it might be found.....Mr. Baldwin was aware of what Max Beaverbrook was up to; and no doubt hoping to check the forces beginning to rally round my cause, he despatched Sir Samuel Hoare on Sunday, the 29th, to explain the attitude of the Government towards the King. The message which the First Lord of the Admiralty bore was ominous indeed. It was that the Ministers stood with Mr. Baldwin---"no breach exists: there is no light or leaning in the King's direction." Then the First Lord fired his second salvo. "The publicity," he said, "is about to break." Many Ministers, he added, were restless and dissatisfied over the failure of the Press to publish facts of a crisis already the talk of the rest of the world. He stressed Mr. Baldwin's desire that the Press, like the Cabinet, should form an unbroken front against the proposed marriage. It was an undisguised invitation for Max Beaverbrook to change sides. His answer was: "I have already taken the King's shilling, I am a King's man." On 4th December the King learned of an earlier meeting between Beaverbrook and Hoare, of which he commented "So the day had not been all debits as far as I was concerned. From Stornoway House Max Beaverbrook, sensing the favourable upsurge in public opinion, had steadily hammered away on the theme of delay. I must not allow myself, he urged, to be harried and hurried into precipitous action. He had seen Sir Samuel Hoare again, and in conversation with him had formed the impression that many Ministers were troubled by the turn the crisis had taken, and would welcome a withdrawal of my request for advice on the morganatic marriage proposal. But I was wearied to the point of exhaustion." Finally during the morning of 10th December 1936 (the day Hoare wrote the present letter to Beaverbrook) the King signed the Instrument of Abdication.
*Medals. A historically important DSM group to Able Seaman Arthur Frederick Fisher, Royal Navy who served in HMS Marlborough from 1914 to 1920, fought at Jutland and was part of the crew who evacuated the remaining Romanov family members from the Crimea in 1919. Later service saw Fisher win his DSM whilst serving in HMS Alacantra when the ship was engaged in a bitter duel against the German raider Thor on 27 July 1940. Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.163835 A.F. Fisher. A.B. R.F.R.), 1914-15 Star (J.9264, A.F. Fisher, A.B., R.N.), British War and Victory Medals (J.9264 A.F. Fisher. A.B. R.N.), Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (J.9264 (DEV.B. 12997) A.F. Fisher. A.B. R.F.R.), 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal, contact marks to third and fifth, therefore WWI medals very fine, WWII generally extremely fine, presented in a glazed display case with silver cigarette case engraved 'A. Fisher from The Empress Marie, The Grand Duke Nicholas and the Imperial Family of Russia on board HMS "Marlborough", April 1919.', hallmarks for Birmingham 1918, with original paperwork and photographs of the recipient including a large black and white portrait photograph of the recipient c.1919 taken whilst serving in HMS Marlborough in Malta, 38 x 27.5cm, plus another proudly wearing his DSM DSM. London Gazette 27 December 1940 'For good services in action against an enemy raider'. J.9264 Able Seaman Arthur Frederick Fisher, DSM, Royal Navy was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire in 1894, he joined the Royal Navy on 17 August 1917, served in various ships including HMS Marlborough from 2 June 1914 to 1 November 1920. He re-engaged for service during WWII on 7 September 1939. His service saw him taking part in two historical events, one being the evacuation of the Romanov family in 1919, the other the duel against the German raider Thor in 1940. HMS Marlborough. After the 1917 Russian Revolution members of the Imperial Russian family had fled to the relative safety of the Crimea, but nine months after the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children, King George V ordered the Royal Navy to evacuate the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (mother of Tsar Nicholas II and sister of Queen Alexandra), Grand Duke Nicholas and 15 other members of the Romanov family. On 7 April 1919 HMS Marlborough arrived in the Crimean city of Yalta. The voyage lasted 14 days, arriving in Malta on 21 April. An account of the presentation of the cigarette case included in this lot is recorded in the book Close of a Dynasty (1956) by Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Pridham K.B.E., C.B., who was in command during the voyage from Yalta to Malta: 'The day after the departure of the Dowager Empress Marie, Prince Youssoupoff and Admiral Viassemsky came on board to present, on behalf of Her Majesty and the Grand Dukes and others, £125 to be distributed to the thirty-five cooks and attendants who had, as they put it, so efficiently and cheerfully looked after the needs of the Imperial party It was decided not to present the whole sum in cash but to present each man with a cigarette case inscribed to commemorate the occasion.' HMS Alcantara was an armed merchant cruiser (ex-Royal Mail Line) commanded by Captain J.J.P. Ingham, R.N. who won a D.S.O. at Jutland. In January 1940 the Alcantara was sent to the South American coast where she was ordered to patrol the "Pernambuco Watch" and keep an eye on the island of Trinidad. In mid-July 1940, Naval intelligence were alerted that a German raider was due to arrive in the vicinity. On the morning of 27 July, the German raider Thor (commanded by Kapitan Otto Kahler) was spotted and this soon escalated into a ferocious duel. A shell burst over the Alcantara's quarter deck, killing the trainer of the P4 6-inch gun and knocking out the ship's wireless transmitter aerials. Another shell hit the deck causing considerable damage, two more then hitting the starboard side, tearing gaping holes. The Thor continued its attack leaving the Alcantara severely damaged but able to return fire, causing the Thor to flee. The Thor went on to become the most successful commerce raider of the war, claiming 22 victims. A total of 6 DSMs were awarded for this action, including one to Petty Officer W.C. Mudge which was sold at DNW on 13 December 2007 (Lot 77). (8)
AN ENTWHISTLE B/L/EJECTOR 12B. A 12 Bore boxlock ejector shotgun with 28" barrels, made by S Entwhistle of 1A Alfred Street. Blackpool. Chambered for 2.1/2" cartridges, the forestock and grip with chequered decoration. The action engraved with some traces of colour hardening remaining. The stock was replaced in the 1970's for use by a taller man, most likely retailed at some time by Wm Evans. Their label is inset in the good quality webbing guncase, which the gun is in. S Entwhistle Gun Makers was founded in Blackpool in 1895 *Rfd/Sac rqd*
AN IMPORTANT Q-SHIP DSM. P-ALBUM AND RELATED FAMILY MEDALS. A Metropolitan Police 1887 Service Medal awarded to P C C Deacon. A Society For the Protection Of Life From Fire, bronze award (Man & Woman type), in bronze. Named to Charles Deacon for services at 13 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, London. 17th November 1889. Citation Details are as follows, from the original award. The Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire. (Patron the Queen). This Certificate in addition to a Bronze Medal, is awarded to 184f Police Constable Charles Deacon in testimony of prompt and efficient aid rendered by him at a fire on the 17th Day of November 1889, at 15 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park W. 20 New Bridge Street. E C. 13th February 1890. By order of the Trustees, signed George Cooke. 12" x 9.1/4" approx. A Distinguished Service Medal named to 237806 W H Deacon PO. English Channel 3 Sept 1917. (Action against a German Submarine) A Naval General Service Medal with bar Persian Gulf 1909-14, named to 237806 W H Deacon AB HMS Espiegle. (A Crew of 150 Officers & Men) Cadmus Class and the last RN ship to have a figurehead, though no sails were fitted. Took part in Gun Running duties and when war was declared 5/11/1914 engaged and silenced a significant body of Turks. A 1914/15 Star named to 237806 W H Deacon PO RN. British War & Victory Medals named to 237806 W H Deacon PO RN. With an original Newspaper account of his Service and Death on HMS Esk . LOST OVERBOARD. Newbury Mans tragic death off Spain. Life-long Naval Career. A well known Newbury man Petty Officer William Harry deacon was 'Lost Overboard' from HMS Esk, while employed in Operations off the coast of Spain, during recent severe weather. He was the son of the Late Mr Charles Deacon, who kept a General shop at North Villa, Boundary Road, Newbury. He was aged 47. Petty Officer Deacon lost his life in the service to which he devoted his career. He joined the navy at the early age of 16 and after the usual training ship period, joined the Home Fleet. In 1910 he was drafted to the East Indies station, where he took part in the campaign to suppress Gun Running. For this he was awarded the Persian Gulf Medal and clasp, and he returned to England in 1913. Early in 1914 he joined the Destroyer HMS Hardy,m which was employed off the coast of Ireland, again supressing Gun Running At the Outbreak of War he was serving in the North Sea and his ship was badly damaged by enemy gun-fire at the Raid on Hartlepool. He was in the Battle of Jutland on board HMS Barham, and was in the thick of the battle, when over 60 men were killed. In 1917 he volunteered for Q Boats or Mystery Ships campaign against enemy Submarines. His ship was sunk but he was rescued and afterwards received the Distinguished Service Medal In 1920 he was lent to the Australian Navy and went in the new Destroyer Anzac to Australia, where he served for 2 1/2 years. On his return to England he served as Petty Officer and Torpedo Coxswain on various Destroyers. In 1927 he was drafted to China and served on the Yangtse-Kiang river, during the China-Japanese trouble. Returning to England in 1930 he came out of the navy on pension and had several jobs in civilian life. Petty Officer Deacon rejoined the navy in July 1936, and only last Christmas came to Newbury on leave, to stay for a fortnight with his stepmother, Mrs Deacon of 5, Gilders Square. It was during manoeuvres off the Coast of Spain in Thursdays severe weather that he lost his life. Family provenance gives him washed overboard, whilst delivering a message to the bridge. A 1914/15 Star named to J3105 J E Deacon AB RN. British war & Victory Medals named to J3105 L Smn J E Deacon RN. Details from an original Newspaper Cutting. The brother of William Deacon he also has quite some service to relate. Seaman John Deacon who has recently been home on leave to visit his parents, has had an adventurous career for a young man of not more than 25 years. Joining the navy when quite a boy, he was sufficiently advanced to take part in patrol work in the early days of the war, and then at the time of the Gallipoli adventure, he was ordered to the Dardenelles. He was one of the survivors when the Irresistible was sunk, having been in the water for over half an hour. He afterwards joined a landing party on the Gallipoli coast, and was wounded in one of his legs, directly he landed on the beach, but this was disregarded as a small scratch. He went on and was afterwards brought down with another wound in the other leg, but he managed to carry on until the mission for which his party landed was accomplished. Returning to Headquarters where he found that only he and another man had survived the Turkish fire. Seeing that the above was Deacons first holiday, it would be agreed that he had finally merited the same. A 1914/15 Star named to PO 2952 Pte A Rendall RMLI. British War & Victory Medals named to PO 2952 Pte A Rendall R M L I. A Royal Fleet Reserve LSGC Medal, named to Ply 2592 B22 A Rendall Pte RFR. An original newspaper cutting (spells his name wrongly) states: Veteran of Boer War. Merriott mourns Mr A Raindle. A veteran of the South African War and First World War Mr Abel Raindle of Broadway , Merriott (Somerset) who died on Wednesday week aged 95 years, was buried at Merriott on Saturday following a service in All Saints Church, conducted by the Rev R N Bathgate. Mr Raindle joined the Royal marines at the age of 17.1/2 years and retired from the service after the South African War. He then joined the staff of Fisherton House as attendant and served for 15 years. He was recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of war and on his return was employed as a gardener at Russell Square. The Principal Mourners were Mr & Mrs J Deakin, who had married his sister. Together with a large framed print of HMS Irresistible sinking, 30" x 4". A photograph of Abel Rendall wearing his medals.Another of the Victory March through Newbury. A war Illustrated copy of Nov 26th 1914. Another of a family portrait by Christopher of Crewkerne and Yeovil. Father, Mother, Daughter and three Sons or Sons in Law. aw. The Bible presented to J Deacon, on leaving HMS Impregnable, 1909. A photograph of some of the ships crew of HMS Britomart. A magnificent album of photographs of William Deacon's service after WW!. Shipping and other scenes of Hong Kong, Shanghai, including bodies in the Streets of Canton 1927. Gt War German Guns at Tsing-Tao. Recovering a crashed Seaplane, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Sea Trials, Saigon, Malacca, Australia, Cheffo, Pekin, Wei hi Wei, Aden, Suez Canal, etc. Mostly taken whilst serving on HMS Cumberland, including Dry Dock shots. Amazingly William Deacons older brother joined the R Navy, and was lost overboard before the Gt War. See Illustration
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