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Click here to subscribe*Military Misellany. A collection of press, agency and private photographs of numerous military subjects, including groups of officers and men, demobilisation, shell and bomb damage, packed railway trains, Marshall Foch and other senior officers, together with a group of later photographs of the British Army parades, personalities, the reformation of the German Army in 1957 and others of similar interest, approx. 60 images contained in a folder (1)
*World War I. Cavalry and Dogs at War. An unusual group of press and other photographs from Agence Rol and others, included rare images marked `Passed by the Press Bureau for transmission abroad`, many with inscriptions verso, including some later period photographs of a visit to Nice and Berlin in 1935 of the German Army Riding Academy, other photographs of equestrian skills, heroic dogs of the battlefield and more of similar interest with some press cuttings, approx. 60 images contained in a folder (1)
*World War I. Tommy Atkins and the British Army. A group of photographs by agencies and others, including Meurisse, together with images of wounded men in non-combative occupations such as harness making, carpentry, binding, and painting, American troops in both WWI and II, with French soldiers, personalities and others of similar interest, many inscribed verso, approx. 50 images contained in a folder (approx. 50)
*World War I. Trench Warfare. A remarkable and evocative collection of agency, official, press and private photographs depicting the horrors of trench warfare, including the hours of boredom, going `over-the-top`, comradeship, the `look-out`, digging trenches, under fire and bombardment, the dead and dying, desolate landscapes and the sheer misery suffered by the soliders of the French army, approx. 50 images, contained in a folder (1)
*World War I. The French Army at War. A miscellaneous collection of photographs from official and private sources, illustrating the spirit and attitude of the French officer and piolu, including relaxation, regimental groups, the ruins of the Verdun Forts, men marching off to war, cemeteries of the fallen, shell damaged buildings, survivors beside their ruined dwellings, the removal of street architecture, a celebration at the `Taverne Municipale` and others of simialr interest, approx. 80 images, contained in a folder (1)
World War I Art. A collection of 28 well-executed pen & ink drawings by Sydney Robert Jones (1881-1966), depicting army encampments, trenches, graves of soldiers of both sides, French towns and Chateaux including Arras, Nelse, Lucheux, etc., ruined buildings, views of Field Marshal Haig`s HQ at Montreuil, Royal Flying Corps biplanes at the aerodrome at Estress-en-Chaussee, a cellar a St Cren in which the artist lived for a period, some pieces of a more stylised nature captioned `headpiece`, all signed and dated 1917 or 1918, some with army censor stamp and official markings to the versos, including both landscape and portrait format views, sheet size 340 x 253 mm, some laid onto card, together with two unrelated drawings by Jones and an unrelated book illustrated by him. Sydney R. Jones (1881-1966) studied at the Birmingham School of Art and worked for The Studio and The Sphere, as well as illustrating numerous books. These illustrations may have been used in the 1919 publication `England in France: Sketches mainly with the 59th Division` by Charles Vince. It seems that during the war his artistic skills were utilised by the army as some sheets have Jone`s wartime rank written to verso as 2nd Lieutenant R.E., Field Survey Battalion R.E. (31)
*Four: Captain J. O`Neill, Army Cadet Force, Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R. (Capt J O`Neill ACF), National Service Medal, Suez Canal Zone Medal, Vierdaagse Cross 1959-1976, bronze type with 4-Daagse Nijmegen riband bar, extremely fine, mounted for wearing, with miniature dress awards for first and fourth, pips, `A.F.C.` collar badges and Royal Artillery beret ()
*A group of three to Gunner C. Collyer, Royal Artillery, who suffered a gun-shot wound to the arm whilst serving on the Western Front and was subsequently discharged. 1914-15 Star (102607 Gnr. C. Collyer. R.H.A.), British War and Victory Medals (102607 Gnr. C. Collyer. R.A.), extremely fine, with silver wound badge (189537), enclosure, together with a black and white photograph of the recipient on horseback, telegram dated 8.9.1916, informing Collyer was in `no 22 general hospital suffering from gunshot wound to arm` and several other original documents relating to Collyer`s discharge, a framed certificate of discharge to the recipient dated 9.6.1917, 40cm x 48cm, there are also two newspaper cuttings from the Daily Mail `Seven Sons and All Serving.- In the window of the cottage of Mrs Collyer of Bute Road Wallington Surrey are proudly displayed seven of the recently designed `Not at Home` buttons. All her seven sons- Robert, William, Walter, Maurice, Thomas, Charles and Arthur are serving in the Army, a splendid record which the King has just recognised by sending Mrs Collyer a letter of congratulation`, a copy of this letter dated 11.10.1915 is included in this lot (see lot 734) ()
*A large archive relating to the family of Captain John Livingston, Royal Army Medical Corps. A set of four Victorian St. Mungo`s College, Glasgow Medical Prize medals, each bronze of navette shape, impressed `John Livingstone [sic]`, and differing prize `Medicine Session 1894-5`, `Clinical Surgery Session 1894-5`, `Surgery Session 1894-5`, `Forensic Medicine Summer Session 1894`, 40mm x 62mm, extremely fine, in a fitted leather presentation case (case worn), together with several education certificates awarded to John Livingston and other family members in metal scroll, and a number of related items including a pair of WW1 identity tags, a collection of approx. 15 letters written by Livingston between July and October 1918 to his family in Barrow, the content includes current position at the time of writing, movements that day, descriptions of the developments of the war and politics in Russia, America and at home, plus a quantity of family photographs, etc. Captain John Livingston (1872-1952), a native of Barrow-in-Furness, Scotland, served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps. (-)
*A Great War casualty group to Private T.F. Gardiner, Gloucestershire Regiment K.I.A. 18.11.1915. 1914-15 Star (17267 Pte T.F. Gardiner. Glouc:R.), British War and Victory Medals (17267 Pte. T.F. Gardiner. Glouc.R.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (Thomas Francis Gardiner), extremely fine, in a frame with 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with original framed letter from the War Office confirming Gardiner had been killed in action, together with a Second World War group, comprising 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star and War Medal and framed letter of condolence from Kitchener and letter of thanks to the 21 Army Group from Montgomery dated 1945. 17267 Private Thomas Francis Gardiner, served on the Western Front with the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment from 18/7/1915, he was killed in action 18.11.1915, Gardiner is commemorated in the Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L`Avoue, France. (-)
*Three: Private R. Gifford, Army Service Corps. 1914-15 Star (M2-131271 Pte. R. Gifford, A.S.C.), British War and Victory medals (M2-13271 Pte. R. Gifford, A.S.C.), mounted for wearing, extremely fine, mounted for wearing, Pair: Gunner A.W. Appleton, Royal Artillery, British War and Victory Medals (120757 Gnr. A.W. Appleton. R.A.), very fine, mounted for wearing, Pair: Private. A.E.A. Robertson, London Regiment, British War and Victory Medals (304626 Pte. A.E.A. Robertson. 5-Lond. R.), and a silver Masonic Medal engraved `Bro. A.E.H.[sic] Robertson No2715`, London 1939, 1oz, extremely fine, Victory Medal (180995 Spr. A.J. Nicols. R.E.), extremely fine (9)
*Three: Lieutenant Colonel W.C. Cooper, Royal Engineers. 1914-15 Star (Capt. W.C. Cooper. R.E.), British War and Victory Medals (Lt/Col. W.C. Cooper. R.E.), extremely fine, together a silver medal for the `Army Rifle Association India, B.P.R.A. 1887-1921` and France Republic: Croix de Guerre, 1939 (5)
A Great War casualty pair to Private P.L. Northcote, West Yorkshire Regiment, British War and Victory Medals (56723 Pte. P.L. Northcote. W.York.R.), extremely fine, with card boxes of issue (one lid missing) and envelope addressed to `Mr. J. Northcote, Railway Inn Farm, Bow, Devon`, together with 1914-15 Star (2) (13310 Pte A. Cox. Devon:R./46759 Pte. T.J. Lovegrove, R.A.M.C.), good very fine. 56723 Private Percival Leonard Northcote served on the Western Front with the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire (Prince of Wales`s Own), died 28.7.1918, Northcote is buried in the Le Grand Hasard Military Cemetery, Morbecque, France. 13310 Private Albert Cox, served on the Western Front with the Devonshire Regiment from 17/2/1915. 46759 Private Thomas J. Lovegrove served on the Western Front with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 27.9.1915. (4)
*Pair: Worker G.A. Preston, Queen Mary`s Army Auxiliary Corps. British War and Victory Medals (33324 Wkr. G.A.Preston. Q.M.A.A.C.), minor edge bruise to second otherwise extremely fine, together with two copied photographs of the recipient in uniform, a `QMAAC & ATS Comrades Assn` badge by `J.R. Gaunt, London`, and a WW1 period paperback book titled `Winsome WAACS`(Women`s Army Auxiliary Corps) by M. Onions, illustrations by K. Wood (4)
*Three: Sergeant G.L. Sturgeon, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-15 Star (54038. Pte. G.L. Sturgeon, R.A.M.C.), British War and Victory Medals (54038 Sjt. G.L. Sturgeon. R.A.M.C.), extremely fine, together with a copied photograph of the recipient, the recipients `Soldiers Pay Book`, WW1 period field surgeons set in a red leather case by `Savory & Moore` and a brass Verner`s Patent Officers compass by `Ed Koehn, Geneva, Switzerland, No. 16743` dated `1915` with War Department arrow, in its brown leather case stamped `French & Son Ltd, London 1916`. 54038 Sergeant George Lucas Sturgeon served with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 3.9.1914. (6)
*WWI Tank Mk I. A very rare and large cast-iron gate memorial plaque inscribed `William Foster & Co. Lincoln` c. 1918, of heavy raised relief design cut-out format in the distinctive shape of the first `Tank` utilised by the British Army on the Somme in 1917 & 1918, excellent riveted detailing to armour-plated construction with side-mounted gun-turret nacelle and crawler-track outline, possibly a unique memento of this ground-breaking invention designed to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front and revolutionise military strategy thereafter, 39 x 14in (36 x 100cm) (1)
*WWII - Medal Group awarded to Capt J. M. Warrington Royal Engineers Beds & Herts Regt, including 1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Africa Star (1st Army clasp), Italy Star, 1939-1945 War Medal and Defence Medal, extremely fine, in original box of issue, together with a pair of identity tags, Service-Release Book, and Dunkirk Veterans Association lapel badge. Lieutenant John Warrington commissioned at outbreak of war via OTC, (Chartered Civil Engineer) sent with BEF to occupied France, evacuated via Dunkerque, repatriated, sent with 1st Army served in North African Campaign, promoted Captain, further transferred with regiment via invasion of Sicily and Italian Campaign, through Northern Italy into Germany, responsible for maintenance and repair bridges, roads and transport logistics etc. Demobbed Jan 1946. (1)
Lake (Alan). Flying Units of the RAF, 1st ed., 1999; Jefford (Wing Commander C.G.), R.A.F. Squadrons. A Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents Since 1912, 2nd ed., 2001; Vajda (Ferenc A., and Dancey, Peter) German Aircraft Industry and Production 1933-1945, 1st ed., 1998; Wilson (James), Luftwaffe Propaganda Postcards. A Pictorial History in Original German Postcards, 1st ed., 1996; Greer (Louise and Harold, Anthony), Flying Cloth. A Story of its Development, 1st ed., 1979; Sweeting (C.G.), Combat Flying Equipment. U.S. Army Aviators` Personal Equipment, 1917-1945, 1st ed., 1989, and other Air Life aviation publications, numerous col. and b & w illusts., a few additional newspaper and magazine illusts. tipped in by John Blake, all orig. boards in d.j., folio, 4to & 8vo, all VG (46)
Lamberton (W.M. and Cheesman, E.F.). Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, 2nd imp., Harleyford, 1960, together with Brown (Lieutenant Colonel K.S., Heyn, Captain E.F., and others), United States Army and Air Force Fighters 1916-1961, 1st ed., Harleyford, 1961, and Matt (Paul R., and Robertson, Bruce), United States Navy and Marine Corps Fighters 1918-1962, 1st ed., Harleyford, 1962, and Nowarra (Heinz J., and others), Marine Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, 1st ed., Harleyford, 1966, numerous b & w illusts. and plans, a few related newspaper and magazine illusts. tipped in, all orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 4to, and others similar (24)
Archer (Robert D.). The Official Monogram US Army Air Service & Air Corps Aircraft Color Guide, vol. 1, 1908-1941, pub. 1995, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., folio, together with Woodhouse (Henry), Textbook of Naval Aeronautics, New York, 1917, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, soiled and rubbed, folio, plus Jupnter (Joseph P.), U.S. Civil Aircraft, vols. 1-8 (ATC 1-800), pub. California, 1962-80, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. mock morocco (somewhat damp stained), in sl. frayed d.j., tall 8vo, and others of American aviation interest (3 shelves)
*U.S.A. - 1918. The 9th Aero Squadron. An historically important circular section of original aircraft fabric cut from a Breguet of the 9th Aero Squadron (Night Reconnaissance), painted in black, grey and white with the unit insignia of searchlight beams which form an `IX`, some flaking and chipping but overall in good original condition, 20in (51cm) diam. The 9th Bombardment Squadron began as the 9th Aero Squadron at Camp Kelly, Texas, 14 June 1917. The Unit was posted to England in December 1917 for intensive combat training flying the Sopwith Scout. Moved to the front in August 1918, the 9th was assigned to the First Army Observation Group and began to fly a new aircraft, the French Breguet 14. This aircraft was used extensively to perform the unit`s mission, night reconnaissance, and to reduce visibility the aircraft were painted black. (1)
M. Saint Olive: A bronze relief plaque of a water sprite from the ship T/N Michelangelo signed M Saint Olive, and with foundry lozenge mark Valsuani 51cm.; 20ins high by 108cm.; 42½ins wide The T/N Michelangelo was launched on September 16, 1962 in Sestri shipyards. She sailed from Genoa to New York, the Caribbean and Rio de Janeiro. With the increasing costs of oil and Union demands the Italian government announced that subsidies would be withdrawn in 1975. Michelangelo and her sister ship the Rafaello wre sold to the Shah of Iran as barracks for army personnel. The were finally scrapped in Pakistan in 1991. the Valsuani foundry was started in the 1899 by the brothers Claude and Attilio Valsuani. Casting mostly small works for various artists using the lost wax technique (cire perdue) they worked for Renoir, Picasso Despiau, Paul Troubetzkoy, Matisse and Gaugin amongst others. Claude Valsuani died in 1923, but his son Marcele continued to produce fine quality bronzes until the 1970’s.
Misc. costume jewellery, comprising brooches (13), mainly antique stone set, one with small stones missing, antique amethyst set necklet, ladies` marcasite set rings (2), strand of vulcanite beads, some slight damage, jet brooch of ladies` slipper with cat sleeping in it, end of cats tail missing, Scottish ptarmigans foot brooches, stone set (2), gent`s Edox wristwatch, small seconds dial & black Arabic numerals, fitted with expanding bracelet, enamelled Royal Army Ordinance Corps sweetheart brooch, stamped silver & an `A.T.S.` pin (lot)
WWI Military Medal group, comprising MM and bar, awarded to 16760, Pte. F. Steele, 12th Battn. Manchester Regt. (with duplicate bar & ribbon in box), Meritorious Service Medal, awarded to 101105, Sjt. F. Steele, 43rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers & WWI trio, inc. 1914-15 Star, 16760, Pte./Sjt., Manchester Regt., some fading to Victory Medal, otherwise mainly extremely fine (5), Manchester, shoulder titles (3), badge, minus pin & two buttons, plus WWII, War & Defence Medals & Stars for 1939-45, Italy & Africa, with 1st Army bar (5), in Infantry postal box addressed to Mr J. Steele (small lot)
Military cap badges, British & other, inc. reproductions (22), military buttons, mainly British army, many on card, with neatly written descriptions, possibly inc. reproductions (163), plus some ribbons & a few lapel & other badges, various, mainly good condition (lot) Care! High International Shipping Costs
Military cap badges, mainly British army, inc. reproductions (15), framed & glazed, with military print, patches, inc. British army, some reproductions (approx. 20), some framed & glazed, US Police badges, reproduction (5), framed & glazed, beret with Hussars badge & Russian beret with nine badges, plus a few WWI postcards & other items, mainly good condition (small lot) Care! High International Shipping Costs
British army cap badges, various (15), mainly good condition, WWI War medal, holed, damaged & minus suspender, WWII, War Medal & Stars for 1939-45 & Atlantic, extremely fine, Third Reich, Winter Campaign Medal, good condition, buttons, various (2) & badges etc., various, mixed condition (5) (27)
Player`s cigarette card sets: National Flags & Arms, Army, Corps & Divisional Signs, 1914-1918, 1st & 2nd Series, Uniforms of the TA, Football Caricatures by `Mac`, Football Caricatures by `RIP`, RAF Badges, Modern Naval Craft, Motor Cars, 2nd Series, Country Seats & Arms, 1st & 2nd Series, Products of the World & Doncella - Country Houses & Castles, mainly good condition (13) Care! High International Shipping Costs
Badges of HM Services (Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd, Manchester, 1946), Regimental Badges, Major Edwards/Arthur Kipling (Charles Knight, London, 1974), Military Badge Collecting, John Gaylor (Seeley, Service & Co., 1973) & Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, Kipling/King (Frederick Muller, 1973), plus Texaco, badges set, cigarette card sets, Players: Drum Banners & Cap Badges, Military Uniforms of the British Empire Overseas, Uniforms of the TA & Army Corps & Divisional Signs, 1914-1918, 1st & 2nd Series & Gallaher: Army Badges, trade card sets, Walters Palm Toffee: Some Cap Badges of Territorial Regiments & Ewbanks Ltd.: British Uniforms, plus Craven Black Cat: Vintage Cars, latter glued, otherwise mainly good condition (small lot) Care! High International Shipping Costs
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN COLLECTION Aubusson tapestry; Atelier René Duché (each no. 4 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 72.50 by 110in. (184.15 by 279.40cm) Provenance: Agnew`s, London; Where purchased by the current owner Exhibited: `Louis le Brocquy Aubusson Tapestries`, Agnew`s, London, 3-29 May 2001, The Táin Tapestries 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 these tapestries. 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 these 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. They belong together. The tapestries were last seen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2003, when they were acquired under the Heritage Tax Scheme. It is profoundly moving to see them together in these weeks after the artist`s passing on 25 April 2012. Le Brocquy`s hand reaches out through them. Medb Ruane April 2012 (£202,510-£243,010 approx)
Postcards in album including comic, greetings, street scenes plus cigarette cards in two albums, Wills - Allied Army Leaders, Players - Life on Board a Man of War, Riders of the World, aviary and caged birds, etc (qty) Further images and condition reports are available at www.reemandansie.com
Stamps - Great Britain mint collection including 1887 Jubilee to 1/-, Army official overprints, Royal cipher marks, 1924-25 Wembleys, 1929 PUC £1.00, 1939 high values, 1951 Festival high values, Queen Elizabeth II definitives including sideways and inverted watermarks, good range of Machin issues etc Further images and condition reports are available at www.reemandansie.com
A set of eight silver-plate dinner & eight desert plates (1852) 26 cm diameter Field Marshal Viscount Gough`s Dinner & Desert Plates engraved with his crests of augmentation. Elkington & Elkington Mason & Co, silver plate marked "M" Elkington in shield, date letter P corresponds with 1854 an internal "factory" mark not regulated by law, compatible with inscribed date of 1852, a plate inscribedmark of West & co of Dublin retailers. Viscount Hugh Gough KP, GCSI, KCB, PC 1779-1869, a British Army officer is said to have commanded in more general actions than any other British officer of the 19th century except the Duke of Wellington.
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