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Lot 156
A collection of 6 hardback volumes by Charles Darwin. Published in London by John Murray. 1/ Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Charles Darwin Published by John Murray, UK (1905) Used Hardcover Second Edition Volumes 1 + 2 2/ The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits, with illustrations, Fourth Thousand, DARWIN (Charles). Published by London John Murray (1881) Used Hardcover First Edition 3/ The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants Charles Darwin Published by John Murray, UK (1906) Used Original Cloth Second Edition 4/The various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilised by Insects. Second Edition, popular, seventh impression. DARWIN, CHARLES. Second Edition Used Hardcover 5/The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex with Illustrations Darwin, Charles Published by John Murray, London (1906) second edition reprinted
Lot 60
Sir Samuel Luke FILDES (1843-1927) Oil on canvas ‘Portrait of Winifred Ellerman’ (1894-1983) (aka Annie Winifred Ellerman whose pen name was Bryher Inscribed in black ink on the backing board Signed and dated 1914 41” x 31” (104cm x 78.7cm) Note: The sitter was the daughter of Sir John Ellerman (1862-1933) shipping tycoon and financier who was the richest man in the United Kingdom at the time of his death. Winifred was 20/21 years old at the time the portrait was completed. It was probably commissioned for her ‘coming of age’. Note on the artist: Sir Samuel Luke Fildes originally produced illustrations for ‘The Graphic’ magazine but gave up working for the magazine in 1870. He turned his full attention to oil painting. He took rank among the ablest English painters, with The Casual Ward (1874), The Widower (1876), The Village Wedding (1883), An Al-fresco Toilette (1889); & The Doctor (1891), all now in Tate Britain. He also painted a number of pictures of Venetian life and many notable portraits, among the best known being portraits commemorating the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (R.A.) in 1887; and was knighted by King Edward VII in 1906. In 1918 he was appointed as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by King George V. Provenance: Exhibited Royal Academy 1915 No.27 Illustrated Annie Winifred Ellerman was born in September 1894 in Margate to the shipping magnate and financier John Ellerman who at the time of his death was the richest Englishman who ever lived. He lived with Winifred’s mother, Anna Glover, but did not marry her until 1908, 14 years after Winifred’s birth. John Ellerman had little interest in public recognition and his lifestyle was unostentatious. As a child, Winifred travelled widely to France, Italy and Egypt and the Mediterranean and on occasions on family holidays to the island of Bryher one of the Scilly Islands. She later used the pseudonym ‘Bryher’, her favourite island, as her pen name. This name she used for the remainder of her writing career as well as everything else she participated in to free herself from the bonds and obligations on what it was meant to ‘be an Ellerman’. During the 1920’s Bryher was an unconventional figure in Paris and among her circle friends was Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and Berenice Abbott. Her wealth enabled her to give financial support to struggling writers including Joyce and Edith Sitwell. She also helped with finance with Sylvia Beach’s book shop ‘Shakespeare and Company’ and certain publishing ventures. She started a film company ‘Pool Group’ and provided funds to purchase a flat in Paris for the destitute Dada artist and writer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Another member of this group was Hilda Doolittle the celebrated imagist poet known as H.D who became Bryher’s life-long partner for more than 40 years, until her death in 1961. Bryher helped to raise H.D’s daughter, Perdita, (who became Mrs John Schaffner of New York), later Bryher’s adopted daughter and heir. Although she married twice, Winifred had no questions about her sexuality and explored that aspect of life to the fullest. On a trip to America in 1921, she married her first husband Robert McAlmon to escape the control of her parents. At that time she moved with H.D. to Switzerland with H.D’s daughter. In 1927 Bryher divorced McAlmon and married Kenneth Macpherson who was also H.D’s lover. They adopted H.D’s daughter, Perdita. Together Macpherson, H.D. and Bryher not only founded the film company ‘Pool Group’ but also the advant-garde cinema journal ‘Close-Up’. Bryher herself appeared in a film ‘Borderline’ in 1930. In 1933 Bryher wrote an article in the ‘Close-Up’ ‘What Shall we do in the War?’ where she wrote about the situation of Jews in Germany, urging readers to take action. Her home in Switzerland became a receiving station for refugees and she helped more than 100 people from Nazi persecution, before being forced to flee herself in 1940. They included intellectuals, analysts, artists and their families. She also established the Hanns Sachs Training Fund for refugee analysts arriving in the US. During the Second World War she lived in London. Bryher wrote poems and literary criticism but is better known for historical novels. The first of these she wrote 1952 when she was 58 years old. Most are set in Britain during various eras including the Roman. They are considered to be well researched and vivid set in times of turmoil and scenes from a perspective of a young man. They were acclaimed in her own time and in recent times have been re-discovered and re-printed In summary: - Selina E. Kusch wrote in the ‘The Bryher Chronology’ in 2014 - “Bryher was an avid supporter and vocal advocate of international film, psychoanalysis, political freedom, anti fascism, progress in myriad forms and just plain modernity”. A remarkable woman of her time a corner stone of modernism as an artistic movement who cared little for normal social conventions.
Lot 392
SCI-FI/TV Related Action Figures, mixed lot includes: boxed Bluebird Manta Force Mad Karnock's Evil Karnoids; boxed Marx Thunderbolt Horse; 4 x Palitoy/Kenner Star Wars figures; Mego Star Trek Spock; Mattel Masters of the Universe He-Man; Playmates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; Transformers Optimus Prime; accessories etc. Conditions vary, P-VG, mostly unboxed. (20+)
Lot 192
MAN UTD TREBLE - SHERINGHAM Six colour real photographs , each measuring approx 12" x 8", and each shows Sheringham , one shows him holding the FA Cup aloft at Wembley, one shows him holding it with Scholes on the pitch (signed by Scholes), and another shows him scoring in the Final v Newcastle, the other three are from the Champions League Final v Bayern and show Sheringham celebrating after scoring, another is of match action and the third shows him balancing the Trophy on his head after the game on the pitch. Good
Lot 216
6 Autograph Letters signed to various people, including (Abel, naturalist and hunter, grandson of Joseph Crawhall, 1851-1929) 6 Autograph Letters signed to various people, including, his uncle Joseph Crawhall, Alfred Pease, Logan Mack, Frederick Wise etc., together 19pp. & 1 envelope (1 letter incomplete), 8vo, Sunderland, Wark-on-Tyne, 15th November 1892 - 31st December 1924, on a variety of subjects, including: " to tell you my new book, 'Wild Spain' is now well advanced in publication I hope I shall be able to send you a copy, for your critical judgement", geese at Holy Island, salmon fishing etc., and 4 other pieces, including 3 pen and ink drawings with watercolour wash, 2 by Chapman of an "Egyptian Goose", "Golden Plover" and 1 by Joseph Crawhall, "Sea Trout", v.s., v.d. (10 pieces). "Chapman was one of the old-style dilettante landowning sportsmen, artists, and authors. His books are fluently written, perhaps too discursive and anecdotal for a modern taste, but they display his wide general knowledge and competence with sketchbook and camera. As well as being a man of action Chapman gave thought to the philosophy of nature study. His engaging and lively personal observations about nature and its study brought Chapman a wide audience in his time." - Oxford DNB.
Lot 637
An unusual Belgian 60 bore percussion sporting gun for a boy, c 1870, 37½” overall, barrel 24” engraved with scrolls and flowers at muzzle and breech, the latter with flat sighting rib, Liege proof and number 519, the back action lock and rounded hammer chiselled with leaves and tendrils, the lock and barrel bright nickel plated overall, the ebonised halfstock carved on the underside of the fore end with leaves and scrolls, the wrist and underside of the butt carved in relief with two lions’ heads and head of a bearded man, all with coloured glass eyes, the mounts of gilt steel, including engraved fore end cap, deeply engraved trigger guard, and small circular box in the butt, the lid cast in relief with a game bird. GWO & C (small patches of flaking to barrel plating, the ramrod replaced). Plate 7
Lot 397
ACTION - Collection Of 15 UK quads (76 x 105cm) to include, Chariots of Fire, Convoy, The Amsterdam Kill (Bruce Lee), Rocky, A Man Called Horse, Airport 77, Grizzly, Onion Field, Stripes, Electric Horseman, Last Moments, The Last Snow of Spring, That Lucky Touch, Betsy, The World is Full of Married Men. Generally A to B+ condition (folded). (Film Posters)
Lot 401
ACTION ADVENTURE - Collection of 15 UK quad (76 x 1105cm) posters to include, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Watch Out, We'Re Mad, Zorro, Survive, Man Saw Tomorrow, Class of 84, Bermuda Triangle, Spiderman/Sinbad, The Island at the Top of The World, Quest for Fire, Blak Hole, Hanger 18, Final Countdown, Star Trek II, King Kong, Blue Thunder. Generally A to B+ condition (folded). (Film Posters)
Lot 361
Engine Number : CB400FE-10618-77 Estimate : £18,000 - £22,000 Prepared by Honda dealers, Nettleton Motorcycles, with a frame built by Dave Kerby, (Metalfab ) this is the actual bike raced by motorcycle legend 'Rocket Ron' Haslam during his 1980 season in which he won the F3 World Title and competed in the Isle of Man TT and finishing 3rd. The bike was also raced in the Ulster GP. It was comprehensively restored in the late 1990's with the help of the original engine builder, Graham Barlow and the engine has a righthand gear change and has 'works' pistons and barrels and an 'Italian' cam. During the restoration, the engine was fitted with a starter motor. Remaining in absolutely excellent condition throughout, the bike has been used for a few parade laps and been exhibited at a number of shows. It is supplied with a number of photos of it in action as well as an item a pure motorcycling history, the F3 TT laurel. A one-off opportunity to acquire a genuine F3/IOM race bike once ridden by the great 'Rocket Ron' Haslam.
Lot 225
1914/15 STARS TO CASUALTIES. A 1914/15 Star named to 200443 Pte D S Nichol Liverpool Regt. David Simpson Nichol 5th rifle Battn was born and enlisted in Liverpool. Killed in Action aged 21 years at Guillemont, the son of James and Margaret Nichol of 37 Norton Street, Liverpool. No known grave, commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial Secondly 11815 Pte T G Hibbert Royal Scots. Again a Liverpool man the son of Mrs M J Hibbert of Springfield Square, Walton Rd, aged 19 years old, date of death due to wounds received in action 7/6/1915. Buried in Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure No 2 , Belgium. With a copied photograph and obituary from the Liverpool Echo.
Lot 483
A MILITARY CROSS & 1914 STAR TO THE QUEENS REGT. A George V issue Military Cross in case of issue, with original ribbon and top suspender present. A 1914 Star named to Lt B M Kenny The Queens R. Bertram Maurice Kenny was a serving officer when the Gt War started. He was commissioned into the Royal West Surreys (Queens R) where he was a Lieutenant when he embarked on the 13th Aug 1914 for France & Flanders. Wounded on the 14th October after taking part in the Retreat from Mons. It started by order on the 24th August, at one stage of the battle the Battalion retreated 52 miles in 16.1/2 hrs. Strangely the first officer wounded in action was Lt Pain. He was shot in the arm by a Frenchman, who thought he was a spy. It is noted that of the 1000+ men and officers who embarked for France in August 1914, only 17 were still serving at the Armistice. A group photograph of the 1st battalion officers is in the War Illustrated. Note below states, 'A Conspicuously Gallant Battalion, which has suffered great losses'. Promoted Captain 31/1/1915, Temp Major from Staff 4/1/1919. He vacated the position of Adjudant attached 13th London Regt 4/11/1920. Awarded 1914 Star and Clasp. Awarded a Military Cross. 1918. Brevet Major 1919, T/Major from Staff. He resigned his commission due to ill health (wounds) whilst on the half pay list, 13/10/1925. Retires on pay on account of ill health caused by wounds late the Queens Regt ,with the rank of Major, 14/10/1925. In June the following year 1926 a B M Kenny died at Derby aged 41. The son of Judge William Kenny, Privy Counsellor and Unionist MP, who was left £1000 in the will of his third cousin Mjr General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny GCB, KCMG, GCVO etc. The Kenny family owned over 4000 acres, which included his ancestral home in Treammanagh. This was largely sold to the tenants in 1909, by Sir Thomas. One of whom's last acts was to visit his severely wounded cousin Bertram Kenny in Hospital, dying himself shortly after that. A friend of both Edward V11 and George V, often giving them his advice. The family had a history of military service, through many generations of soldiers. Bertram's Gt Uncle served at Waterloo. The family were all Catholics and strong unionists. Bertram's brothers were Edward Henry and William David Kenny, he had three sisters. Bertram was Best Man at his brothers wedding to a Russian Aristocrats daughter. See Illustration
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