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Lot 165
A group of 7 medals awarded to Major Norman Batey Pigg comprising; a Military Cross inscribed Armentieres, 23.11.16, 31.3.17, N.B.P. for conspicuous gallantry in action. He led a successful raid against the enemy`s trenches and was severely wounded.A Distinguished Service Order medal for conspicuous gallantry and initiative during the operations east of Solesmes from the 23rd to 26th October 1918. He commanded a company (YCO 1st BN Northumberland Fusiliers) which made three assaults during the operations. On one occasion he pushed forward with a small party and captured a machine gun which had been causing casualties. Later he observed the enemy`s field battery which he at once charged and routed the gunners saving the battalion many casualties.First Bar 1914 - 1919, comprises; The Great War for Civilisation 1914 - 1919 medal inscribed Capt. N. B. Pigg, with a single bronze oak leaf emblem and The 1914 - 1918 War medal inscribed Capt. N. B. Pigg. Awarded for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty by his fine example of leadership and courage he encouraged his men to successfully repulse three heavy enemy attacks. Later when the enemy drove back the line on his left, he quickly threw out a defensive flank enabling the remainder of his force to take up a new position in the rear. His rapid grasp of the situation considerably impeded the enemy`s advance.Second Bar 1939 - 1945 comprises; The Defence Medal, The 1939 - 1945 Star and a 1939 - 1945 War medal, with a single bronze oak leaf. Awarded for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack, for two days under repeated heavy bombardment and in the face massed attacks. He held his men cleverly together and rendered great assistance to his battalion commander.Major Norman Pigg, born in Seaham, Co. Durham in 1894. He joined the Army as a 2nd Lt in 1915 and served in the 21st and 1st Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers. On the 23rd November 1916 after being severely wounded, 2nd Lt Pigg was carried back to the trenches and taken to hospital having been shot straight through the leg. He was told he may have to have his leg amputated. The night before the operation the surgeon examined the wound and found a piece of khaki thread that was impeding the healing process and his leg was saved.He served with the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the 2nd World War in France 1940. As a Major commanding `C` Company on the 25th May 1940 he became second in command of the Battalion evacuated at Dunkirk. Home service for the rest of the war.
Lot 3014
A Corgi Toys Major Gift Set No. 4 Bristol `Bloodhound` guided missile with launching ramp, loading trolley and RAF Land Rover, boxed (some playwear, missile tip faulty, box creased, torn and scuffed), a No. 1118 `International` 6x6 army truck, boxed (box lightly scuffed and stained), and eight Corgi Toys cars (some playwear and discolouration).
Lot 1080
Harlequins home Rugby programmes 1938-1946 v Blackheath on 8th January 1938 (rusty staple), v The Army on 29th January 1938 (folded with rusty staple), v Richmond on 31st December 1938 (folded, rusty staple and slight tear) and v Richmond 28th December 1946 (single sheet, creased with slight tear) (4)
Lot 1083
Army Rugby programmes 1937 and 1938 1st Battalion Welch Regiment (Belfast) v 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (Wellington Barracks) played at Cardiff Arms Park on 10th February 1937 in the semi-final of the Army Rugby Union Challenge Cup (folded and creased and slightly grubby). 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (Aldershot) v 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Plymouth) at Command Central Ground, Aldershot on 9th March 1938 in the final of the Army Rugby Union Challenge Cup (folded, creased and worn) (2)
Lot 2692
5x various large Army bronze golfing medals - to incl 4x Royal Engineers Golfing Society two from the reign George V each embossed on the one side with period golfing figures and one mounted in silver hallmark cash dish engraved Royal Berkshire Spring 1939 made by Philips Aldershot (wt 2.4oz) , 2 from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II one engraved Spring Meeting 1959 and Army Golfing Society Ordnance Cup Runners-Up medal 1951
Lot 108
A 19th century Continental multi colour gold and enamel snuff box, apparently unmarked, the cover with a central classical mask with drapery, swag and laurels on an engine turned geometric reeded background with formal leaf work border with white, blue and black enamel, the bordered base engine turned with a circular motif, the corners with similar enamelling, the interior with a later plate engraved ‘Peter from B.J-J and A. 10.3.32’, 9cm long by 6cm wide by 1.5 cm high. This box appears to have been a wedding gift to Peter Llewelyn Davies upon his marriage to the Hon. Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven on 10th March 1932. The Hon. Margaret Leslie ‘Peggy’ Hore-Ruthven was daughter of Walter Patrick Hore-Ruthven and was well known with her sister Alison, as ‘P and A’, The Ruthven Twins. Peter Llewelyn Davies was born in 1897 to Sylvia (née du Maurier) and Arthur Llewelyn Davies. During his childhood he and his brothers were befriended by J M Barrie and are widely accepted to be the basis of the characters in Barrie’s stories, the most famous being ‘Peter Pan’ which was premiered in 1904. In 1907 their father Arthur died and J M Barrie pledged to look after the boys and their mother. In quick succession the brothers also lost their mother and therefore in 1910 J M Barrie formally adopted them. After being educated at Eton Peter entered the army, winning the MC. In 1926 he set up his own publishing house. He became a respected figure in the publishing world but there continued to be the association with J M Barrie’s stories that couldn’t be shaken. He committed suicide in 1960 and there has been much speculation as to what degree the legacy of Peter Pan haunted him. Provenance: Acquired by the vendor’s family from Ruthven ‘Rivvy’ Barrie Llewelyn Davies. For a related item please see Lot 7
Lot 157
A WWII embroidered glider pilot badge, two Allied Airborne Army patches and five others - in unused condition together with 24 black & white photographs showing the troops and aircraft involved in preparations prior to D-Day, contained in a photographer`s envelope addressed to Section Officer Clapham at RAF Earls Colne, Essex
Lot 442
AN UNUSUAL AND VERY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF EARLY PRINTED LAPEL BADGES AND FLAG PINS sold in aid of various British charities, including the Blind League, Church Army Violet Day, Railwaymen`s Orphanage, animal charities and many others, some silk, including pansies and other flowers, c1900-40, together with a few other items including a fragment of fabric inscribed Piece of Aeroplane that came down in Mr J Spoke`s field April 5th 191-, in contemporary album with velvet covered boards (330 approx ) A few small faults but generally good and a most unusual collection
Lot 476
RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS POSTCARDS 6601 Cosmopolitan New York (6), 4110 Continental Summer in the Alps, undivided back (6), 9160 Spanish Banditi (6), 7175 Brittany II (6), 7482 Ceylon II (6), 7443 West Indies III (6), 2609 North Italy (6), 7374 Florence (6), 7484 In The Arctic Regions III (6), 7750 Egypt XIV (6), 8952 Shanghai II (6) 7333 Auckland (6), 7053 Monte Carlo I (5), 2393 Italian Scenery (6), 7950 Mexico I (6), 9229 Australian Types (6), 7031 Pleasure Resorts of Melbourne (5), 9966 Native Life in India III (6), 8946 Agra II (6), 7408 Native Life in India I (6), 8926 Bombay II (6), 9851 Native Life in India VII (6), 8965 Lahore I (6), 8902 Elephants at Work (6), 8948 Lucknow (6), 7065a Madras (6), 7065 Madras I (6), 8968 Simla II (6), 8969 Bombay (6), 7234 Cawnpore (6), 9051 Aquarette Native Types of India (6), 7235 Delhi (6), 7236 Lucknow (6), 7237 Agra (6), 8925 Bombay I (6), 4005 Calcutta (6), 7239 Benares (6), 7022 Bombay (6), 8970 Bombay II (6), 8957 Historical India I (6), 8957 Historical India II (6), 8957 Historical India III (6), 8969 Bombay (6), 8993 Native Life in India (6), 9091 Native Life in India II (6), 9310 Native Life in India III (6), 9311 Native Life in India IV (6), 8966 Lahore II (6), 8901 Calcutta (6), 8983 Delhi II (6), 8945 Agra I (6), 7183 Calcutta (6), 8985 Bangalore (6), 8986 Bagalore (5), 7089 Kashmir (6), 7023 Jeypore (6), 8666 The French Army I (6), 7926 Brussels (6), 3805 Italian Lakes and Gardens (6) [unnumbered] Gold Coast Government II (6), 7930 Liege (6), **2001 Weisbaden (5), **614b Munchen (6) and 7629 Pyrenees II (6), excellent, including several postally used, in modern binder
Lot 481
RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS POSTCARDS 7371 Teignmouth (6), 7112 Durham (6), 7692 Whitby (6), 2718 The Olde Print Series (6), 2649 The Olde Print Series (6) 7591 Picturesque Castles (6), 9722 Platemarked by Mead & Stream (6), 7982 Whitby IV (6), 1700 Barnsley (5), 6182 Aldershot (6), 9723 Platemarked The Cornish Coast (6), 7062 Rough Seas (6), 521 Marine Studies (5), 6421 Up the River (6), 8536 Picturesque English Lakes II (5), 7275 Ilfracombe (6), 7179 Old Stratford on Avon (6), 7422 London (11), 4021 Nature`s Glories III (5), 1668 Whitby (5), 7218 Nottingham (6), 1785 Clifton (6), 7860 Shakespeare`s Country X (5), 7993 Picturesque Devon (6), 3271 Coaching II (6), 7431 Surrey II (6), 7857 London (6), 1455 Isle of Man I (6), 2605 Marine Studies III (6), 7969 Views on the Dart (6), [unnumbered] Worcester Porcelain (6), 1655 Derby (6), 6199 Newark (6), 9242 By Candle Light (6), 1742 Bartolozzi II (6) 2359 The Time of Flowers (6), 9511 St Alban`s Pageant II (6), 2547 Marine Studies II (6), 9883 The Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders (6), 9134 British Battles I (6), 9994 The Black Watch (6), 9884 The Gordon Highlanders (6), 9328 Northumberland Fusiliers (6), 9167 Army Service Corp (6), 9426 The 2nd Life Guards (6), 9162 Royal Welsh Fusiliers (6), 9356 Seaforth Highlanders (6), 9993 Coldstream Guards (6), 9203 Irish Jokes from "Punch" (6), 5317 Coronation 1937 (6), 9040 Famous Expresses II (6), 9150 Famous Expresses III (6), 9226 Famous Expresses IV (6), 9161 Famous Expresses VIII (6), 9662 Famous Expresses IX (6), 6256 Off Scarborough (6), 9017 Celebrities of the Motoring World (6), 9629 The Franco-British Exhibition (6), [unnumbered] Gretna Green (6), 9227 Happy Little Coons III (6), 9043 Scotch Fisher Life (6), 2883 The Blush of Eve II (6), 2650 The Olde Print II (6), 1488 Rough Seas (6) 828 Rembrandesque, undivided back (6), 768 Art Series London by Night (6), 1672 Leamington Spa (6), 7249 Tunbridge Wells (6), [unnumbered] Hoylake (6), [unnumbered and publisher unknown] The Lord`s Prayer chromo (8) and Lorna Doone (12), excellent, including some postally used, in modern binder
Lot 492
RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS POSTCARDS 1532 and 1533 Picturesque England (12), 8546 Up the River (6), 9031 In the Country (6), [unnumbered] Canterbury Cathedral Stain Glass Windows (6), 2886 Flowers in a Cottage Garden (5), 7920 Stratford on Avon (6), 7160 Calm Seas (6), 799 Norwich (6), 7695 Picturesque Shropshire (6), 7501 Picturesque Whitby (6), 9890 Sea and Sky (6), 7819 Bonnie Scotland - Callander (6), 7787 York V (6), 7626 Cornish Cliffs (6), 7682 Bonnie Scotland - The Highlands (5), 1459 Chester (6), 1966 Torquay (6), 3804 Blue Lagoon (6), 2685 Marine Studies (6), 2577 By Wood and River (6), 1477 Gloucester (6), 7409 Picturesque Counties - Sussex (6), 2630 Evening Glow (6), 3151 Scottish Lochs (6), 7643 Oxford I (6), 7938 Eaton (6), 7254 Edinburgh VI (6) 7694 Burns` Country II (6), 7952 Oxford (6), 7984 Dartmoor II (6), 9518 Oxford Pageant III (6), 7207 Conway (6), 7688 Fort William (6), 7178 Edinburgh II (6), 7021 Canterbury Cathedral (6), 7560 Scot`s Country III (5), 7859 Picturesque Kingsbridge and Salcombe (6), 7939 Windsor (6), 9441 In the Scottish Highlands (6), 7161 The Restless Sea (6), 8500 London (8), 2580 Moorland (6), 1531 Very Busy (6), 9738 Platemarked Rural England II (6), 7036 London (11), 6423 Up the River IV (6), 772 Edinburgh (6), 9700 Platemarked Lovely Lakeland (6), 7875 Guernsey III (6), 1350 In Dickens` Land (6), 1781 Leeds (6), 8944 The Trossocks (6), 1360 Hiawatha (6), 9478 The British Army (30), 1377-1818 by Harry Payne (12), 7809 Bonnie Scotland - Perthshire (6), 7113 Picturesque Counties - Hampshire (6), 7198 Bettws-y-coed (6), 16783 Cheltenham (6), 7189 The Wye Valley (6), 7602 Welsh Waterfalls (6), 7344 Bonnie Scotland - Perthshire (6), 7491 The River Dart (6), 1489 Rough Seas (6), 7496 Stamford (6) and 9185 Irish Life II (6), excellent, including severally postally used, in modern binder
Lot 626
A PRATTWARE COMMEMORATIVE JUG of pearlware, moulded with named equestrian portraits of the Duke of York and to the other side, Prince Cobourg in arched frames, the handle issuing from a large ochre fringed leaf, 21cm h, c1793-4 Such jugs were probably made to commemorate British victories in the Flanders Campaign of 1793. The British contingent of ten thousand men under the Duke of York formed part of the army of Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg. Two other examples are illustrated, Lewis (J & G), Prattware... 1780-1840, second edition, Woodbridge 2006, p161,1763-1827. Flat chip on lip, minor crack on rim, tiny spot of chipped glaze beneath one of the portraits but a sound example
Lot 192
A late-19th century leather cartridge case monogram `W.G.B` to lid of case, lid interior bears gilt tooled leather label `Army and Navy C.S.L. Gun Department 105 Victoria Street Westminister S.W.`, the interior with six removable dividers creating up to seven individual compartments with leather straps and buckles, two straps missing, the exterior with leather handle and securing straps, 21¼ x 11in. (54 x 28cm.).
Lot 413
Various airship related items. Includes two nice cards from the French Aviation week in Champagne. Close up of British airship. Mounted photograph of nine WW1 German army fliers. Two welcome cards for arrival of ‘Graf Zeppelin’ in Japan 1929. An interesting group. 15 items. GC-VGC. See website
Lot 651
After Lady Butler (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, British 1846-1933) THE LAST REMNANTS OF AN ARMY, a monochrome print, a single Afghan soldier on horse back during the first Afghan war 1842, printed by permission of the Fine Art Society, within a card mount and moulded frame, under glass. 40cm x 64cm Condition Report: Some discolouration and foxing spots, some knocks to frame.
Lot 575
Quantity of WWI & WWII military uniform items & militaria, comprising badges, buttons, ephemera, books, kit bag marked `Beard P 13100004`, two tunics, one being a CMP tunic badged up as VP, two shirts & two long shirts with no collar, forage cap & Royal Military Police peaked cap with badge, two photos of 2nd Vol Batt Derby Regt bandsmen in 1899 (wearing helmets as per lot 22), plus RFC & RES sweethearts, MGC RA Norfolk Regt Army Cyclist Corps cap badges & Welsh Regt, damaged, German belt buckle & WWI helmet plate, possibly dug up, & other misc. bits, in a vintage suitcase (lot) Care! High International Shipping Charges [from same estate as lot 574]
Lot 673
Gallaher Cigarette Cards, comprising full sets (23), inc. `My Favourite Part`, `Army Badges`, `Wild Flowers`, `Dogs`, `Racing Scenes`, `Butterflies & Moths` & `Garden Flowers`, & part sets (28), plus some odds, mostly good condition, some soiled / damaged, mostly in binders (5) within plastic pages (approx. 3400 cards total) Care! High International Shipping Charges
Lot 678
Kensitas Cigarette Card Silks, inc. `A series of 60 National Flags` (approx. 90) & a few `British Empire`, many in original wrappers, & some BDV silks inc. `Crests & Badges of the British Army`, `Flags` & a few others (approx. 30) plus four large portrait silks of `HRH Prince Edward of Wales`, `Rt Hon. D. Lloyd George`, `Admiral Jellicoe` & `Sir John French` & one more of `India` flag (5 large) (approx. 130 in total)
Lot 50
Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941) THE RISING MOON, TANGIER, 1912 oil on canvas signed lower left; with title [THE RISING MOON/ TANGIER BAY/BY/JOHN LAVERY/ 5. CROMWELL PL:/ LONDON/1912] (in a later hand) on reverse 40 by 49.5in., 101.6 by 125.73cm. The artist; Thence by descent to Mrs J. McEnery; Her sale, Adam`s, 11 December 1990, lot 93; Private collection Christie`s 20 May 1999, lot 51; Private collection Adam`s 25 May 2005, lot 81 Mallie, Eamonn (ed.), One Hundred Years of Irish Art, 2000, p.186 Following their marriage in July 1909, Lavery`s wife, Hazel and stepdaughter, Alice, joined his entourage on regular winter sojourns in Tangier. Since 1891, the year of his first visit, Lavery had been captivated by `the White City` and in 1903 had secured a house on Mount Washington overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar. Here the wealthy members of the international community had built themselves secluded villas at a discreet distance from the souk and the kasbah. Whilst it was not palatial, Lavery`s retreat, Dar-el-Midfah, `the House of Cannon`, had a sumptuous terraced garden where rambling bougainvillea led the visitor down the hillside towards the sea. This became his winter studio for the first four months of each year, and the place where some of his most memorable canvases were painted. After 1910, Hazel and Alice brought a new dimension to the painter`s Tangier studies. Mother and daughter were glimpsed on the beach, on the hilltop paths and entertaining at alfresco breakfasts on the veranda and in the garden. Their presence on these occasions was often a foil to the resplendent vistas provided by a series of headlands known as the Pillars of Hercules that, for the traveller, formed `the gateway of a world of wonder`. `Nothing in Tangier` wrote HD Traill, `will compare with the approach to it by its incomparable bay`. Looking eastward, it is this sequence of inlets leading to the great sweeping bay that we see in the present work. The city is tucked behind the hill on the right. This particular view was one that Lavery painted on many occasions in small 10 by 14 inch studies, one of which was presented to the Scots adventurer, RB Cunninghame Graham (Fig 1. Moonrise, Tangier, c.1912, Private collection). However in 1912, the painter took up this 40 by 50 inch canvas to do full justice to the spectacle. The idyllic world was nevertheless fraught with danger: several of Lavery`s neighbours had been kidnapped by local brigands and Hazel, fearful for her daughter`s safety, accompanied her everywhere. The Sultan was weak, his police, ineffectual, and his local administrators, corrupt. Such was the growing lawlessness in Morocco that in March 1912, the French army, stationed across the border in Algeria, invaded. Tangier was momentarily quiet, save for the social event of the season, the marriage of Eileen Lavery, the painter`s daughter, to James Dickinson, a Liverpool solicitor. Planning for this event did not deter the painter as he embarked on one of his most productive Tangier seasons. In the present canvas Alice, now aged eight, wearing her favourite bandana (Fig 2. Miss Alice Trudeau, 1912, Private Collection), takes centre stage. A second figure, probably her mother, sits overlooking the scene. Lavery may have wished to include others in the composition but in the end an empty chair and table were sufficient to indicate that at moonrise the guests have gone. The last rays of the sun, sinking behind the painter as his works, pick out tiny white buildings perched on the edge of the citadel in the distance. The romance however was not to last. After 1914 travel was restricted and only one further visit was made in 1920. Thereafter, attention shifted to the Riviera and the House of the Cannon was sold in 1923. Ten years later, on a Mediterranean cruise the Laverys passed the Pillars of Hercules without disembarking and the painter looked out upon the White City for the last time. `I feel quite sad remembering the past` he wrote to his old friend and fellow expatriate `Tangerine`, Cunninghame Graham. Prof Kenneth McConkey November, 2012 Footnotes: 1. Alice, later Mrs J McEnery, was Hazel Lavery`s daughter by her first marriage to Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau Jnr. 2. Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World, 2010, (Atelier Books), pp. 54-6, 95-105. 3. HD Traill, `The Pillars of Hercules` in The Picturesque Mediterranean, its Cities, Shores and Islands, n.d. [c.1890], (Cassell Publishing Company), pp. 2,6. 4. McConkey 2010, p. 116 5. Since the picture does not appear in the probate valuation of the contents of Lavery`s studio made shortly after his death, we may assume that it was already assigned to Mrs McEnery, later Mrs Stephen Gwynn. This would be logical since she is the child represented. Close examination of the paint surface indicates that since it left Mrs Gwynn`s possession in 1990 the picture has been re-stretched and re-lined to restore Lavery`s original composition. "
Lot 114
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN. MAGIC CHARIOT, 1991 Aubusson tapestry; Atelier René Duché; (no. 2 from an edition of 9) signed with initials in the weave on reverse by maître-lissier, René Duché and numbered lower right; with certificate of authenticity sewn on reverse, signed, numbered, titled and dated by le Brocquy and Duché 72.5 by 50.7in., 184.15 by 128.778cm. Taylor Galleries, November 2000; Private collection Whyte`s, 29 November 2005, lot 112; Private collection Louis le Brocquy: Aubusson Tapestries, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 2001, unpaginated (illustrated) Woven at the Atelier René Douche, France. One of a series of 22 tapestries based on le Brocquy`s 1969 illustrations to The Táin. Issued in a limited edition of nine plus two artist`s proofs. "I hope that these images from Táin Bó Cuailgne, transmuted into the woven forms of tapestry, may be seen as a tribute to the poet Thomas Kinsella, who inspired them and to the devoted publisher and designer, Liam Miller, who gave them their original coherence" (Louis le Brocquy, op. cit.). Louis le Brocquy was living in France with his young family when he received a life-changing invitation, in December 1966. Publisher Liam Miller wanted him to collaborate with Thomas Kinsella on a new translation of Ireland`s oldest saga. Le Brocquy penned an enthusiastic affirmative that Christmas Eve and spent much of the next three years visualising An Táin Bó Cúailgne. In September 1969, Dolmen Press published it as The Táin. The Táin was born of some eighty stories about the Ulaidh, a prehistoric people who lived in the north and north-western regions of what is now called Ireland. Part epic, part soap opera, the tales were vivid, vicious, inconsistent and often rather rude. Oral versions survived for long enough to be collected by scribes, whose fragmentary manuscripts are now in Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy. Translators and writers such as Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats had retold some of the Cúchulainn tales - and Joyce`s Finnegans Wake drew on its meandering style - but Thomas Kinsella`s Táin was the first widely-accessible version, especially when Oxford University Press` 1970 paperback followed the de luxe and limited editions produced by Dolmen Press. The Táin marked a unique cultural moment, for Ireland and the world. The State had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was driving ahead with Seán Lemass` Second Programme for Economic Expansion. By 1969 when it was published, Northern Ireland was in conflict, and global events such as the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as wars in Vietnam, Angola and elsewhere, underlined its themes of invasion and carnage. Meanwhile, The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love." Its impact was instant. Although characters like Cúchulainn and Ferdia, Medb and Aillil, were local, the collaborators translated them into a crisply contemporaneous style that resonated through the cultural hierarchy. It engaged lovers of art, language, music and Celtic studies, as well as popular culture. The Táin became an Irish Iliad, with Cúchulainn as a Superhero reincarnating to a new age of rock, cartoons and animation. The images le Brocquy called `shadows thrown by the text` became so iconic that it is almost impossible now to imagine The Táin differently. Yet no one had visualised the full saga previously and no artist from Ireland had engaged so thoroughly with pieces of writing in so collaborative a way. Le Brocquy made hundreds of drawings, many of which appear in the de luxe and limited editions, with a handful printed in the paperback and a precious twenty in tapestry. Communication was difficult in those pre-digital days because he was in France and Miller was in Dublin, so that many key design decisions relied on sending letters through the post. Le Brocquy`s innovative, daring approach cast the saga as a virtual alphabet composed of spontaneous, inky letters. This shows immediately in Army Massing, where marks cascade in rivulets that resemble both chain mail and hand-writing, and in the H-shaped Cúchulainn confronting Ferdia. Different ages and cultures whisper through the images - and through the twenty tapestries made during 1998-2000, when le Brocquy collaborated with maître-lissier René Duché, whose firm had recently been awarded the honour Meilleur Ouvrier de France. Cuchulainn`s Warp Spasm, for example, speaks both of calligraphic marks from Sun Tzu`s The Art of War and Yves Klein`s bodily-marked Anthropometries, as well as cave paintings traced by prehistoric peoples. The translation into tapestry, via le Brocquy`s Táin lithographs, crested on the momentum from oral to written traditions, from drama to poetry and from visual culture to music. Duché`s subtly-textured cottons and wools freed le Brocquy`s black-on-white marks into a textured, sensual material that illuminates the sense of a blot or stain without definite edges, which is what he wanted. Here, the statuesque shapes let le Brocquy grow the book`s relatively modest scale into a life-affirming series of interconnected images that speak to each other like letters in a phrase or sentence. Le Brocquy`s hand reaches out through each one. Medb Ruane April 2012 "
Lot 1017
Four: 1939-45 star, Africa star with 8th Army clasp, Defence and War. GVF; Four: Africa star, Italy star, F&G star, War, NEF; Jubilee medal 1935, Coronation 1953 in box GVF; USA WWII Victory medal in box EF; a GWR 25 Years First Aid Efficiency HM silver and enamelled brooch to 1694 Albert L Raymont 1945, EF and 2 sundry other items. (14)
Lot 1035
USA: Air Medal, in case with brooch bar, EF; Medal for Service in the Spanish War VF; Army Good Conduct medal VF. Russia:7 various, mostly WWII commemoratives, F & VF. Miniature medals (5): USA War with Spain 1898, Spanish Campaign Navy 1898 VF, Battle of Manilla Bay 1898 F, (not old), United Italy 1848-1918. VF and a 1915-18 War. VF` (15)
Lot 1163
An interesting silver cigarette case, HM Chester 1904, the lid embossed with a veteran car and with niello inlaid family crest and motto, the reverse with nielloed scene of building and boats on the Nile, badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps, initials “OC”, and Arabic signature of the artist. GC (minor dents)
Lot 1178
29 books on military badges and insignia, including “Headdress Badges of the British Army” by Kipling and King, Vol 2; “Military Badge Collecting” by Gaylor, 3 different editions; “Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles” by Westlake; “Formation Badges of World War Two” by Cole; “Charlton Catalogue of First World War Canadian Infantry Badges”; “New Zealand Reinforcement Badges 1914-1918” by Lowe, etc. GC
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