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Click here to subscribe15 Boxed Dinky military diecast models to include 697 25-Pounder Field Gun Set, 623 Army Covered Wagon, 693 7.2 Howitzer, 676 Armoured Personnel Carrier, 677 Armoured Command Vehicle, 626 Military Ambulance, 692 5.5 Medium Gun, 736 Hawker Hunter Fighter, etc, all diecast ex, boxes vary in condition with some missing end flaps and some showing signs of storage and edge wear, but gd overall
23 Boxed Matchbox Lesney Series diecast models to include 19 MG Sports Car, 62 General Service Lorry, 61 Ferret Scout Car, 57 Wolseley 1500, 49 Personnel Carrier, 23 Caravan, 10 Pipe Truck, 68 Army Wireless Truck, 67 Saladin Armoured Car, etc, together with boxed Matchbox Superfast 36 Draguar and Matchbox Models Of Yesteryear model, all diecast vg overall, boxes vary in condition with some missing end flaps and signs of wear throughout
Six boxed 1/48 Airfix Operation Herrick Afghanistan plastic model kits to include A14101 Augusta Westland Merlin HC3, A50123 British Forces Patrol And Support Group, A07300 British Army BAE Warrior, A06302 Supacat Coyote, A50124 British Forces Forward Assault Group and A06301 British Forces WMIK Land Rover Snatch Land Rover, plus 2 x carded Airfix HO/OO plastic model kits including Half-Track M3 and Panther Tank, all appearing complete and unbuilt with some sealed examples, contents ex, boxes vg overall
Collection of 33 boxed plastic model kits to include mainly figure and vehicle kits including 3 x Airfix (2 x Scammell Tank Transporter and 1 x RAF Refuelling Set), 4 x Tamiya Military Miniatures (US Army Infantry, US Army Armoured Troops, German Observation Group, etc), 6 x Call To Arms (American Revolution, 3 x English Civil War and 2 x Zulu War), Matchbox P-6006 British Commandos, 4 x Action Packs and 13 x Atlantic, etc, all contents appearing complete and vg overall, boxes showing signs of wear, but gd-vg overall
28 Boxed plastic model kits to include Revell 1/32 Messerschmitt Bf 110C-4/B Jabo, Airfix 1/24 ME Bf 109E, Matchbox 1/32 DH-82A/C Tiger Moth, Tamiya 1/25 German MG 34 Machine Gunner Metal Model Figure, Airfix 1/72 Avro 504 K, Hasegawa Hobby Model Kits 1/72 M4A1 Half Track US Army, Tamiya 1/35 History In Miniature Series Japanese History Samurai Warriors, Matchbox 1/72 Wellesley Mk.I, Frog 1/72 Bristol Blenheim Mk1, Hasegawa 1/72 G.M.C. CCKW-353 Cargo Truck, etc, together with a quantity of bagged plastic model kits including Frog 1/72 De Havilland Gipsy Moth, Riko Scenic Accessories, Novo Air Kits, Rare Plane Vacforms, etc, all contents appearing complete and unbuilt, but unchecked for completeness, contents vg, boxes vary in condition but gd-vg overall
23 Boxed / carded Airfix 1/32 and HO/OO Scale figure plastic model kits to include 10 x Collectors Series kits featuring 42nd Highlander (Black Watch) 1815, French Grenadier Of The Imperial Guard, George Washington, 2nd Royal North British Dragoon 1845, British 10th Hussar 1845, etc, 4 x Military Series kits including American Infantry, British Eighth Army, German Infantry and British Commandos, 1 x Military History Series Waterloo French Infantry - 1815, etc, all appearing complete, but unchecked for completeness, contents vg overall, boxes gd-vg overall with some signs of light storage and edge wear
WW1 Kent Territorial Army Service Corps Recruiting Posterrare, colour printed, illustrated recruiting poster depicting a member of the Kent ASC, full length with wagon and horses to the background. Asking for recruits to report at Maidstone. The poster with some age damage and now mounted in a modern frame. Colours remain bright. Overall frame size 28 x 40 inches Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
Edwardian Period Large Postcard Album Containing Approximately 900 Postcards, postcards from Edwardian to 1930s, mainly UK some overseas, scenic, humorous, sentimental, occasions, some local to Berkshire, includes an interesting group of RPs, Show Week 1920 Aldermaston depicts a group of men gathered in front of a car, Aldermaston 1908 snow covered scene, 1923 Reading Corp Tram and Motor collection week, depicts a tram festooned for the Mayors Unemployment fund, Maidenhead Garage 1918 depicts a 1795 bus with staff in Summer Garb, Military camp Tilehurst Reading 1910, RHA at Foxhill Centenary Fete 1910, Reading Police at Drill Recreation Ground, Co Op fete Prospect Park by C E May, Bank Holiday at Prospect Park Reading 1911, possibly another by Rumbold Wallingford, Caversham Bridge 1911 with C & G Ayres horsedrawn Delivery wagon, Bath Rd Thatcham 1911, Colthrop Paper Mills with goods wagons, Widmeadow Lock Thatcham, The Moors Thatcham 1923, two depicting a group of bus workers (possibly Reading Corp) with their buses 'On Promenade in Reading During WWI', The Wallingford omnibus with driver Jimmy Wheeler and female clippie outside the Three Feathers Wallingford, Edward & Sons Portable Building Specialists, Lewknor, St Mary's Butts Reading depicting a fire station and the Salvation Army Citadel, Bath Rd Newbury 1925, Tattenden Village, Dinner time Biscuit Factory Redaing, High St Nettlebed, The Street Trimley, Monday Market Street Devizes, Battle School 1912, Wellington Rd Heaton Norris, Frant Court Sussex, sent by Pte Gregory Royal Sussex Regt BEF, The Parade Hastings, Motor Cars in long walk for Royal Garden Party 1908, a British single decker bus with driver Moleux during WWI, carriage with figures possibly Mayor of London outside HL Holloway Church St Deptford, Funeral of Trooper Moore, Life Guards, Windsor 1909, a postcard depicting Harry Bensley on his Walk Around the World in a knights helmet, purchased from him in Reading 1908 in the market place, other RPs included, many postcards dated/annotated on reverse, overall P-VG, (900 approx.)some of the RPs are loose from the album, please see additonal images of the album, not everything is images as there is too many
Galoob - Micro Machines - A collection of vintage Micro Machines accessories including a boxed Stunt Jump Transport set, a boxed Aircraft Carrier, an unboxed Air Cargo Plane and an unboxed Army Helicopter. They show signs of age and use and are unchecked for completeness, they appear Fair to Good overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
John Anthony Conner (American, 1892-1971)"Iredell Road, Laurel Canyon", a sunny prospect depicting a meandering dirt road amongst scattered trees, before the Santa Monica Mountains, oil on canvas board, signed, titled on frame verso, in moulded gilt frame, 33 cm x 42 cm overall, together with another study of a winding turquoise river, autumnal trees, and a distant horizon of blue mountains warmly illuminated by a setting sun, in a similar Californian setting, oil on canvas board, signed, in gilt slip and moulded wooden frame, 37 cm x 43 cm overall[ Conner was born and raised in Illinois and served in the US Army during World War One before relocating to California. He drew inspiration from Los Angeles scenery and went on to pursue a career in the art department of MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc), amongst several other motion picture studios, garnering respect for his impressionist depictions of desert landscapes. ]
John Anthony Conner (American, 1892-1971)A still desert landscape strewn with scrub, before distant dusky mountains, oil on board, signed, in moulded gilt frame, 43 cm x 53 cm overall[ Conner was born and raised in Illinois and served in the US Army during World War One before relocating to California. He drew inspiration from Los Angeles scenery and went on to pursue a career in the art department of MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc), amongst several other motion picture studios, garnering respect for his impressionist depictions of desert landscapes. ]
* BILL WRIGHT RSW RGI DA (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2016), SHORE FARM watercolour on paper, signed, titled label versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 40cm x 59cm, overall size 61cm x 81cmNote: Bill Wright's talent first became evident when he was a boy, drawing endlessly for amusement while bedbound with illness. He went on to study painting at Glasgow School of Art and became an award-winning watercolourist, constantly inspired by was seascape and ever-changing sky on the Kintyre peninsula where he had a second home. Glasgow-born Wright, the son of a shipyard plater, was brought up in Partick and started his schooling at the city’s Dowanhill Primary before being evacuated to Dunoon during the Second World War. After returning home he attended Hyndland Senior Secondary and despite being discouraged by his parents, who would have preferred him to have a “proper job”, in 1949 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art. They were interrupted by national service – a duty he felt hindered the progression of his art career. He served at Catterick army garrison but was a pacifist who abhorred war and dismissed the opportunity to be promoted to Sergeant as an army career held no interest. His first teaching post was at East Park School in Glasgow’s Maryhill. He then moved in 1965 to St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton where he spent two years before becoming art adviser for the area at the age of 36. Over the next two decades he fostered the idea of instilling a cultural interest in art among pupils. He formed working groups to reform teaching of first and second-year students, encouraged forward-looking principal teachers and recruited many young teachers. His ethos was that teachers were not just there to create artists but to give all children a good art experience. He also established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie in Dunbartonshire, where youngsters from different backgrounds could investigate the idea of furthering an art career through experiencing a range of different mediums in an art camp environment. And he is said to have been instrumental in encouraging the implementation of Scotland’s Standard Grade art and design qualification. However, he suffered from the chronic arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis which, by the age of 55, forced him to take early retirement from his post in the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council. Meanwhile, as he had strived to enthuse youngsters with his own passion for art, he had been elected, in 1977, to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. A member of the Glasgow Arts Club for many years, he was also an elected member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute, served as president of the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association for 14 years and was a Scottish Arts Council lecturer, touring the country discussing art. But perhaps his own greatest inspiration was the view from a cottage he stumbled upon half a century ago, seven miles from Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre. He rented the property at Bellochantuy and set up a studio there where he drew on the vistas stretching 180 degrees, encompassing sea, beach, rocks and sky. He was utterly smitten by the area and was ultimately bequeathed the cottage by the owner who had become a close family friend. Over the years he came to know the area intimately and was fascinated by the constantly changing moods of the sea and light of the sky which formed the majority of his output. One large body of work, "Towards Islay", focused on the view from the back of the cottage. He captured the patterns and waves of the sea, sometimes adding a bird, limpit, mermaid’s purse, rock lines or some seaweed. But at times his works were very abstract and symbolic, concentrating on themes of nature and transience. He was hung in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border. His work also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland. And he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.
* JAMES WATT RGI (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2022), FJORD oil on canvas, signedframedimage size 20cm x 61cm, overall size 27.5cm x 67.5cm Note: James Watt was born in Port Glasgow in 1931 to Alexander Watt and his wife Isabella (nee Hooper). His entire family, including his grandfather, and everybody he knew, were in shipbuilding. He was always passionate about boats. He believed he was very lucky. "I was in the right place at the right time. I caught the tail-end of the Clydeside shipbuilding boom in the 1950s. Shipyards had full order-books and the river teemed with craft of every sort. So I always had a subject”. His paintings are in a formidable array of collections – including those of HM Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The Princess Royal, The Arts Council, The Hunterian, Glasgow Museums, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, IBM, Britoil, the Danish Embassy, Yarrow Shipbuilders, McKean Museum and Art Gallery, Clyde Shipping Co, the Royal Bank of Scotland and also the town council in the Faroes. Watt went to Glasgow School of Art for four years where he was taught by Ted Odling, Douglas Percy Bliss, and David Donaldson. In 1958 he was one of 13 founders of the Glasgow Group, an artists' co-operative which continues to this day. Irritated by the conformist, unadventurous policies of local exhibiting societies like the Royal Scottish Academy and the RGI, and at the dearth of commercial outlets in the city, they got together with other GSA students and graduates to exhibit at Glasgow’s then-beautiful McLellan Galleries. The Glasgow Group was the Transmission Gallery of its day. After two years National Service in the army, from 1955 to 1957 he became an art teacher, and a much-beloved one at that. He was noted for his kindness and good counsel, and one former student says of him: "I had pretty much zero talent but he sparked a lifelong love and interest in art." Another remembered “His was the fastest-moving Volvo down the school drive. He was some man." Later Watt became a member of the RGI and was elected a member of Society of Scottish Artists in 1965. In 1997 he received The Royal Bank of Scotland Award at the Glasgow Institute. He dedicated much of his life to recording the River Clyde and its industries, and his vast body of work forms a vital archive of the river. Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, The Lost Clyde: The Paintings of James Watt, was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. James was also the father of Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA, one of Britain's best-known painters.
* BILL WRIGHT RSW RGI DA (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2016), CHANGING NIGHT SKY watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 30cm x 43cm, overall size 54cm x 66cm Note: Bill Wright's talent first became evident when he was a boy, drawing endlessly for amusement while bedbound with illness. He went on to study painting at Glasgow School of Art and became an award-winning watercolourist, constantly inspired by was seascape and ever-changing sky on the Kintyre peninsula where he had a second home. Glasgow-born Wright, the son of a shipyard plater, was brought up in Partick and started his schooling at the city’s Dowanhill Primary before being evacuated to Dunoon during the Second World War. After returning home he attended Hyndland Senior Secondary and despite being discouraged by his parents, who would have preferred him to have a “proper job”, in 1949 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art. They were interrupted by national service – a duty he felt hindered the progression of his art career. He served at Catterick army garrison but was a pacifist who abhorred war and dismissed the opportunity to be promoted to Sergeant as an army career held no interest. His first teaching post was at East Park School in Glasgow’s Maryhill. He then moved in 1965 to St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton where he spent two years before becoming art adviser for the area at the age of 36. Over the next two decades he fostered the idea of instilling a cultural interest in art among pupils. He formed working groups to reform teaching of first and second-year students, encouraged forward-looking principal teachers and recruited many young teachers. His ethos was that teachers were not just there to create artists but to give all children a good art experience. He also established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie in Dunbartonshire, where youngsters from different backgrounds could investigate the idea of furthering an art career through experiencing a range of different mediums in an art camp environment. And he is said to have been instrumental in encouraging the implementation of Scotland’s Standard Grade art and design qualification. However, he suffered from the chronic arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis which, by the age of 55, forced him to take early retirement from his post in the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council. Meanwhile, as he had strived to enthuse youngsters with his own passion for art, he had been elected, in 1977, to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. A member of the Glasgow Arts Club for many years, he was also an elected member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute, served as president of the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association for 14 years and was a Scottish Arts Council lecturer, touring the country discussing art. But perhaps his own greatest inspiration was the view from a cottage he stumbled upon half a century ago, seven miles from Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre. He rented the property at Bellochantuy and set up a studio there where he drew on the vistas stretching 180 degrees, encompassing sea, beach, rocks and sky. He was utterly smitten by the area and was ultimately bequeathed the cottage by the owner who had become a close family friend. Over the years he came to know the area intimately and was fascinated by the constantly changing moods of the sea and light of the sky which formed the majority of his output. One large body of work, "Towards Islay", focused on the view from the back of the cottage. He captured the patterns and waves of the sea, sometimes adding a bird, limpit, mermaid’s purse, rock lines or some seaweed. But at times his works were very abstract and symbolic, concentrating on themes of nature and transience. He was hung in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border. His work also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland. And he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.
A MODERN QUEEN ALEXANRAS ROYAL ARMY NURSING CORP DRESS UNIFORM and a stable belt, the uniform consists of a red jacket and a long navy blue dress with a belt, also included is a stable belt complete with buckle, the dress has 3 rank pips on the shoulder to show the rank of captain, overall the uniform is in good condition
Dinky - A rare 1939-41 Mechanised Army Set # 156. All the vehicles are present but they have all started to crack and break up and are in Poor overall condition. The lower box is intact and has the inner stand with slots for the models, the box lid has split on the corners. Comes with a box for Royal Artillery Personnel # 160 and Royal Tank Corps Personnel # 150. The boxes are Good but only 2 x figures are undamaged. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
WW2 British Army Sniper / Spotter, Signalling Telescope and Case, Original WW2 period telescope for signalling and spotting. Maker marked ‘Dollond, London’ and ‘Signalling IV S’ with broad arrow. Comes with the leather eye piece/lens covers plus a spare lens in a small leather pouch. Overall, very nice condition, clear lenses, including the spare.
WW2 Italian Pith Helmet and Peaked Cap, Original Italian army pith helmet with goggles, the helmet unfortunately has suffered over the years, with the cork material inside becoming brittle and breaking up, causing the helmet to lose shape, it has that appearance of being there to say the least. Liner, chin strap and the original badge still remain. WW2 Italian officers peaked cap included with this lot, is in fair condition, its makers marked to the sweatband and the inside of the cap, Bullion badge on the front with chin strap, leather peak has some surface damage to the top but overall a nice condition hat.
German WW2 Heer 1935 pattern army officers dress dagger and scabbard. With silver plated pommel and crossguard, orange celluloid handle and plated steel scabbard. Blade unmarked, in excellent condition. Leather blade buffer intact. Overall excellent condition with minor age related wear. Total length 29.5cm approx. Buyer must be over the age 18 and provide ID verification
Palitoy - Cherilea - Action Man - A group of vintage Action Man items, an Army Foden truck with a quantity of clothing and accessories including hats, boots and weapons. They show some signs of age and use and are unchecked for completeness, appear Fair to Good overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
Four: Captain R. H. Spicer, Canadian Army Ordnance Corps, late Brabant’s Horse and Royal Canadian Dragoons Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Corpl: R. Spicer. Brabant’s Horse) suspension claw re-affixed; 1914-15 Star (34804 Pte R. H. Spicer. 2/Can: Div: H.Q.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. H. Spicer.) with riband bar, a Canadian Boer War Welcome Home medal, silver, a 1910 Gold Sovereign Coin Edward VII, mounted in a sterling silver and enamel surround worded ‘B. S. Sons Of England’, by A. Kent& Sons, and a Masonic Past President’s Jewel suspension engraved to the recipient as part of the Middlesex Lodge, campaign awards mounted as originally worn, contact marks overall, good fine or better (lot) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- M.I.D. London Gazette 28 December 1917. Richard Henry Spicer was born in Sussex, England in January 1878. He served during the Second Boer War in South Africa; for 2 years 9 months service with Royal Canadian Dragoons; and, 9 years, 5 months Canadian Ordnance Corps. Spicer advanced to Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Army Canadian Ordnance Corps, before being commissioned. He died in August 1949.
British Mannesmann Tube Co., Llandore, Swansea, Employees Tribute Medal, 25mm, gold (9ct., 7.25g), no hallmarks but stamped ‘9CT’, the obverse depicting Britannia, with flag, greeting a soldier with an embrace, the reverse inscribed (name engraved) ‘War service recognition A. G. Milne from B.M.T. Employees’, with loop and small ring suspension, some polishing, overall very fine, rare £140-£180 --- Archibald George Milne was born in 1881. He served in the South Africa during the Boer War with the 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, and is recorded in the 1911 Census as residing at Caipystyll Street, Swansea and being employed as a tube metal worker. He saw further service during the Great War as 5678 Corporal, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He was discharged and transferred to the Army Reserve in 1919, suffering from ‘hypertrophy’ of the heart.
Six: Sergeant R. P. Cooney, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, late 11th and 18th Hussars, Royal North West Mounted Police and Canadian Field Artillery India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3267 Corpl. R. P. Cooney, 11th Hussars); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (4985 Pte H. [sic] Cooney. 18th Hussars.) 1st clasp facing slightly buckled; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4955 [sic] R. Cooney. 18th Hussars); 1914-15 Star (40156 Gnr: R. P. Cooney. Can: Fd: Art:); British War and Victory Medals (40156 Gnr. R. P. Cooney. C.F.A.) mounted for display, lacquered, contact marks overall, generally nearly very fine (6) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Robert Patrick Cooney was born in Kenagh, Longford, Ireland in June 1870. He attested for the 11th Hussars at Dublin in April 1891, and advanced to Corporal in February 1897. Cooney served with the regiment in India, October 1892 - March 1899. He was tried by district court martial and reduced to Private in August 1899, and transferred to the 18th Hussars in November of the same year. Cooney served with the regiment in South Africa, November 1899 - September 1902, and was discharged in April 1903. Cooney, travelled to Canada, and joined the Royal North West Mounted Police in April 1904. He served with the latter in the Yukon Territory until he was invalided out of the service in February 1907 - having been found mentally and physically unfit. Despite the latter findings, Cooney joined the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery in September of the same year. He advanced to Sergeant, and was discharged in August 1912. Cooney re-engaged for service in the C.E.F. in August 1914, advanced to Sergeant, and served with the 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery in France. He was injured, when his horse fell on top of him, whilst carrying a despatch to a battery at Ploegsteert, 20 February 1916. Cooney was discharged in Canada in December 1919. He attested for the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps at Victoria, British Columbia in October 1920. Cooney died of TB related to previous service in France, 24 July 1925. He is buried in Victoria (Ross Bay) Cemetery. Sold with several files of extensive copied service papers, including photographic images of recipient. The successful buyer will be required to either collect in person, or arrange specialist shipping.
A & A. S bayonet in leather and metal scabbard, stamped near the pommel, blade length 58.5cm, sword 72cm approx overall, a possibly Chilean M1908 police side arm bayonet in metal scabbard, the handle of the bayonet marked 'E.61', blade length 29cm, bayonet 40cm approx overall and a Swiss army bayonet, numbered W. 382745 to the blade, blade length 24cm, bayonet 37cm approx overall (3) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.
A group of four Bank Markazi Iran banknote die proof engraver's test strike portrait vignettes of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in Imperial Iranian Army uniform, colour trials in black, brown and blue, two with titles to lower half 'I.M. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi' above 'Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ld, New Malden, Surrey, England', both numbered '462' (good/very fine, one with corner crease, overall very fine). Provenance: from the personal archive of the late Alan Dow, master banknote engraver to Bradbury Wilkinson & Co and the Bank of England.
oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1980 verso framed image size 56cm x 92cm, overall size 68cm x 103cm Note: James Watt was born in Port Glasgow in 1931 to Alexander Watt and his wife Isabella (nee Hooper). His entire family, including his grandfather, and everybody he knew, were in shipbuilding. He was always passionate about boats. He believed he was very lucky. "I was in the right place at the right time. I caught the tail-end of the Clydeside shipbuilding boom in the 1950s. Shipyards had full order-books and the river teemed with craft of every sort. So I always had a subject”. His paintings are in a formidable array of collections – including those of HM The Queen and Prince Philip, The Princess Royal, The Arts Council, The Hunterian, Glasgow Museums, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, IBM, Britoil, the Danish Embassy, Yarrow Shipbuilders, McKean Museum and Art Gallery, Clyde Shipping Co, the Royal Bank of Scotland and also the town council in the Faroes. Watt went to Glasgow School of Art for four years where he was taught by Ted Odling, Douglas Percy Bliss, and David Donaldson. In 1958 he was one of 13 founders of the Glasgow Group, an artists' co-operative which continues to this day. Irritated by the conformist, unadventurous policies of local exhibiting societies like the Royal Scottish Academy and the RGI, and at the dearth of commercial outlets in the city, they got together with other GSA students and graduates to exhibit at Glasgow’s then-beautiful McLellan Galleries. The Glasgow Group was the Transmission Gallery of its day. After two years National Service in the army, from 1955 to 1957 he became an art teacher, and a much-beloved one at that. He was noted for his kindness and good counsel, and one former student says of him: "I had pretty much zero talent but he sparked a lifelong love and interest in art." Another remembered “His was the fastest-moving Volvo down the school drive. He was some man." Later Watt became a member of the RGI and was elected a member of Society of Scottish Artists in 1965. In 1997 he received The Royal Bank of Scotland Award at the Glasgow Institute. He dedicated much of his life to recording the River Clyde and its industries, and his vast body of work forms a vital archive of the river. Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, The Lost Clyde: The Paintings of James Watt, was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. James was also the father of Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA, one of Britain's best-known painters.
oil on canvas, signed, titled verso framed and under glass image size 46cm x 61cm, overall size 59cm x 74cm Note: James Watt was born in Port Glasgow in 1931 to Alexander Watt and his wife Isabella (nee Hooper). His entire family, including his grandfather, and everybody he knew, were in shipbuilding. He was always passionate about boats. He believed he was very lucky. "I was in the right place at the right time. I caught the tail-end of the Clydeside shipbuilding boom in the 1950s. Shipyards had full order-books and the river teemed with craft of every sort. So I always had a subject”. His paintings are in a formidable array of collections – including those of HM The Queen and Prince Philip, The Princess Royal, The Arts Council, The Hunterian, Glasgow Museums, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, IBM, Britoil, the Danish Embassy, Yarrow Shipbuilders, McKean Museum and Art Gallery, Clyde Shipping Co, the Royal Bank of Scotland and also the town council in the Faroes. Watt went to Glasgow School of Art for four years where he was taught by Ted Odling, Douglas Percy Bliss, and David Donaldson. In 1958 he was one of 13 founders of the Glasgow Group, an artists' co-operative which continues to this day. Irritated by the conformist, unadventurous policies of local exhibiting societies like the Royal Scottish Academy and the RGI, and at the dearth of commercial outlets in the city, they got together with other GSA students and graduates to exhibit at Glasgow’s then-beautiful McLellan Galleries. The Glasgow Group was the Transmission Gallery of its day. After two years National Service in the army, from 1955 to 1957 he became an art teacher, and a much-beloved one at that. He was noted for his kindness and good counsel, and one former student says of him: "I had pretty much zero talent but he sparked a lifelong love and interest in art." Another remembered “His was the fastest-moving Volvo down the school drive. He was some man." Later Watt became a member of the RGI and was elected a member of Society of Scottish Artists in 1965. In 1997 he received The Royal Bank of Scotland Award at the Glasgow Institute. He dedicated much of his life to recording the River Clyde and its industries, and his vast body of work forms a vital archive of the river. Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, The Lost Clyde: The Paintings of James Watt, was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. James was also the father of Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA, one of Britain's best-known painters.
A "French-style" officer's jacket of the Latvian Army from the interwar period. The jacket features one epaulette on the collar, with the other missing. The overall condition is good with signs of wear, as shown in the photos. There is a mark where a barrette was attached, and the shoulder boards are missing.
Bayonet with a single-edged blade, featuring a double-edged concave fuller. The bayonet's tang is single-sided. The handle has two contoured wooden scales, secured to the tang with two screws.The steel catch with a spiral spring is non-functional. The steel scabbard ends in a round pommel.Marking on the ricasso of the front blade: stamped manufacturer's name Fabryka. Zbr 4 - Zbrojownia 4 Kraków and the number 97727. On the rear flat, there is an eagle in a crown, the State emblem, and the letters (W.P.) representing Wojsko Polskie (Polish Army).The scabbard is fitted with a leather frog, dedicated to the Polish bayonet with a characteristic round knob at the end.Overall condition as shown in the pictures.
Bayonet with a single-edged blade, featuring a double-edged concave fuller. The bayonet's tang is single-sided. The handle has two contoured wooden scales, secured to the tang with two screws.The steel catch with a spiral spring is non-functional. The steel scabbard ends in a round pommel.Marking on the ricasso of the front blade: stamped manufacturer's name Fabryka. Zbr 4 - Zbrojownia 4 Kraków and the number 68462. On the rear flat, there is an eagle in a crown, the State emblem, and the letters (W.P.) representing Wojsko Polskie (Polish Army).The scabbard is from a German Mauser bayonet, marked.Overall condition as shown in the pictures.
The blade of the sabre is steel, with visible grooves and double fullers on both sides. The spine of the blade shows a deep temper line. The blade is double-edged. The grip is made of beech wood, with a brass crossguard and an oval hole for the sling. The quillons are trapezoidal in shape with visible joins. The guard is made at a right angle, connecting to the pommel. The pommel has a brass cap with a screw fastening the tang of the blade.On the spine of the blade, there are visible markings, most likely from the civilian expert Tadeusz Książnicki, stamped with "k/2" inside an oval, and the sabre's number A5201. On the outside of the blade, there is the model designation "S.wz.34." and on the opposite side, the manufacturer's mark "H. LUDWIKÓW/KIELCE". The sabre comes with its original scabbard, also numbered A5201.The wz.34 sabre is the most recognizable sabre of the Polish Army from the interwar period.The overall condition of the blade and grip is as shown in the pictures. The sabre was broken in the scabbard and has been repaired. The leather sling and frog are later additions.
Single-piece badge made of tombac, attached with a nut. The badge is shield-shaped, with the Warsaw mermaid at the top, symbolizing the 2nd Polish Corps (2KP), and at the bottom, the identification badge of the 8th Army, surrounded by the inscription "2 Korpus Polski" with laurel branches above the text.The reverse is smooth with the stamped number, and a repaired attachment post in the center. The nut is not signed.The badge has a low number, 1023, which is becoming increasingly rare on the collectors' market.Dimensions: 36.5 x 20 mm.Overall condition as shown in the pictures.
Bayonet with a single-edged blade, featuring a double-edged concave fuller. The bayonet's tang is single-sided. The handle has two contoured wooden scales, secured to the tang with two screws.The steel catch with a spiral spring is non-functional. The steel scabbard ends in a round pommel.Marking on the ricasso of the front blade: stamped manufacturer's name Fabryka. Zbr 4 - Zbrojownia 4 Kraków and the number 92935. On the rear flat, there is an eagle in a crown, the State emblem, and the letters (W.P.) representing Wojsko Polskie (Polish Army).The scabbard is dedicated to the Polish bayonet, with the characteristic round knob at its end.Overall condition as shown in the pictures.
Two propaganda brochures published for the Polish Army in the East by the Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1944, and the Propaganda Department of the Political-Educational Directorate of the Polish Army, 1945. Soft covers, 46 and 32 pages.The overall condition is visible in the photos.Dimensions: 16.2 cm x 11 cm, 14.7 cm x 10.7 cm
Bayonet with a single-edged blade, featuring a double-edged concave fuller. The bayonet's tang is single-sided. The handle has two contoured wooden scales, secured to the tang with two screws.Steel catch with a spiral spring. The steel scabbard ends in a round pommel. The scabbard's latch is soldered with an oval backing plate. The latch has a beveled top section to facilitate the removal of the frog.The scabbard throat consists of two flat springs, secured to the scabbard body with two rivets.Marking on the ricasso of the front blade: stamped manufacturer's name Perkun and an elliptical military acceptance mark (D2). On the crossguard, the serial number 42.P is visible. On the rear flat, there is an eagle in a crown, the State emblem, and the letters (W.P.), representing Wojsko Polskie (Polish Army).Overall condition as shown in the pictures.
Vinyl - 53 Rock & Pop LPs including recent / reissues to include Led Zeppelin (IV reissue), Black Sabbath, Soft Machine (textured cover), Stevie Wonder x 2 (including 180gm reissue), Tom Waits (2017 reissue), Peter Tosh, Tom Petty (Greatest Hits 1993 pressing), Japanx 2 (inc German pressing), Lou Reed x 2, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Patti Smith x 2 (inc 2019 pressing on We Are Vinyl), Gary Numan & Tubeway Army 2015 reissue), Jethro Tull, Roxy Music x 3, Rolling Stones x 3, Al Green, U2, The Who, Mica Paris, Santana, Paul Simon and more. Vg+ overall
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