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Lot 103
* Delfs (H., early 20th century). Head-and-Shoulders Portrait of Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945), watercolour with black charcoal, heightened with bodycolour, signed lower left, and dated Rawa Ruska 10/7 ‘15, additionallyinscribed Mackensen, and dated 10/7 1915 lower right, sheet size 37 x 26cm (14.5 x 10.25ins) Von Mackensen, newly promoted to Field Marshal, and wearing three medals, one of which is the Blue Max, which he was awarded on 3rd June 1915, led the 11th Army against the Russians, through Galicia, taking Rawa Ruska on 21st June 1915. (1)
Lot 302
* Hoff (Robert van ‘t, 1887-1979). A small archive of family photo albums, art books and ephemera, including seven photo albums, five of the albums containing a total of approx. four hundred mounted small gelatin silver prints (largest approx. 7.5 x 5 cm but the majority approx. 3.5 x 3.5 cm), each album with a brief manuscript note of locus and chronology in van ‘t Hoff’s holograph, the albums covering the period 1922-24, from the birth of their daughter Megan (and two years later the birth of their son Walter), the first album beginning with two images of van ‘t Hoff’s house in Laren, Netherlands, the majority of other images being of Megan plus some of family and friends and latterly Walter also, whilst living in Torquay, Barnet and Rushington, Sussex, the fifth album including two images with Robert identifiable by context, together with two further albums, one containing ninety-six window-mounted views of Europe, c. 1920s, including Belgium, Holland and northern France, the other containing ninety-three window-mounted small format photos of van ‘t Hoff’s family, also containing two photos of Robert (here with moustache and goatee), many of the small studies of the two babies taken in an artistic manner with careful use of light and shade, occ. ink annotations but mostly identifying the specific age of the child concerned, contemp. cloth, large 8vo/oblong 8vo, together with eight orig. issues of De Stijl, nos. 1.5, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.10 and 5.12 (wrappers det.), all complete with b& w plates as issued, plus orig. cloth-bound books for Years 1 and 2, both complete with 17 and 23 plates and with pencilled initials R.H. [Robert van t` Hoff] to titles, plus Wilhelm Theodore Reuter`s copy of a monograph ‘Frank Lloyd Wright’, pub. 1911, ownership bookplate to half-title verso and pencil note in van ‘t Hoff’s hand ‘received from his daughter, Summer 1965’, modern cloth, sl. rubbed and soiled, small folio, plus a woodcut of a lighthouse, signed W[alter] van ‘t Hoff in the image, an orig. poster design in pencil [by Megan?] for a dance given by the Women’s Land Army, 56 x 38 cm, plus a large sheet of sketches of buildings, bridges, figures and abstract designs by Megan, a pencil sketch of a car accident [by Megan?], a folder of approx. 70 leaflets, letters, snapshots and news cuttings, c. 1941-45, relating to Megan’s time with the Women’s Land Army, plus two autograph letters in Dutch initialled ‘RH’ by Robert van ‘t Hoff, one a rough draft, and one a fair copy of the same letter, both dated 11 February 1974, addressed to Dr Asselbergs explaining that he has nothing left of interest for the archive and that his photographs are merely family photos, also noting that he kept in contact with Mondrian, each 2 pp., 4to. Robert van ‘t Hoff (1887-1979), Dutch architect and furniture designer, who from 1917 became an influential member of De Stijl movement. Family wealth allowed him to subsidise the publication of De Stijl journal, but for political reasons he split with the founder Theo van Doesburg in 1922, withdrawing from artistic activity and declaring himself an ‘ex architect’. He spent much of the rest of his life in England promoting his anarchist ideas, settling permanently in Hampshire from 1937. This intriguing personal archive of photographs demonstrates an artist with a designer’s eye for line and form, light and shade, and also contains previously unknown photographs of van ‘t Hoff himself. (-)
Lot 325
* Fougasse (pseud., really Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887-1965). ÒThe Grand Ballroom of the Hotel SublimeÓ, a pair of pen & ink drawings on a single sheet of paper, one showing the ballroom full of people, with an orchestra playing on the stage, the other showing it empty, save for a figure seated at a desk, latter signed in lower left-hand corner, each drawing 146 x 253mm (5.75 x 10ins), mounted. Published in `Punch’ on 8th November 1939, as no. XIII in a series entitled ÒThe Changing Face of BritainÓ; the drawings were then published collectively by Methuen in 1940. British cartoonist Cyril Kenneth Bird was best-known for his editorship of Punch magazine and his iconic World War II propaganda posters. He was educated at Cheltenham College and King’s College, London. While at King’s College he attended evening art classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic and at the School of Photo-Engraving in Bolt Court. He was seriously injured at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I and invalided out of the British Army (his pen name is based on a type of mine called a fougasse). He first contributed to Punch in 1916, while convalescing, and also contributed to several other British newspapers and magazines, including the Graphic and Tatler. In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, his drawings evolved from the traditionally representational to the innovative, spare style for which he became so popular. He became art editor of Punch from 1937 to 1949, then editor until 1953, and was the only cartoonist ever to edit the magazine. During World War II, he worked free-of-charge for the Ministry of Information, designing humorous but effective propaganda posters, including the famous ÒCareless Talk Costs LivesÓ series. He was awarded a CBE for this work in 1946. He also illustrated and co-wrote several humorous books with W.D.H. McCullough. (1)
Lot 398
* Sillince (William Augustus, 1906-74). ÒIf this blinkin’ rain keeps up much longer we’ll `ave the perishin’ Siegfried line full o’ pocket battleshipsÓ, orig. illustration for Punch, 1941, black wax crayon on textured paper, showing two army figures wearing large capes in a downpour, signed in crayon, titled in ink, sheet size 381 x 278mm (15 x 11ins), ink stamp date 1939 on verso, together with ÒAnother Pierrot, my ladyÓ, black wax crayon on textured paper, interior scene of a grand house with fancy dress ball in progress, signed in crayon, titled in ink, sheet size 381 x 278mm (15 x 11ins), plus ÒWill you accept a cheque for my buttonhole?Ó pencil drawing on paper, of a stout lady florist and a portly gentleman in a flower shop, signed, sheet size 261 x 291mm (10.25 x 11.5ins), plus forty-one small pen & ink drawings on paper, letterpress vigns. for We’re All In It, 1941 and We’re Still All In It, More Pictures from Punch of the Times We Live In, 1942, 160 x 117mm (6.25 x 4.5ins) and smaller, together with copies of the two books for which they were produced (a small folder)
Lot 429
* Page (William, Private in the 38 Regiment of Foot). An unusual archive of fifteen autograph letters from the low-ranking soldier William Page to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Page (corkscrew maker and later steel toymaker), Wolverhampton, 27th May 1807 to 1st July 1812, written in a reasonably clear hand that improves over the years, describing details of his life and health and colleagues and wishing his parents and friends well, sometimes asking for money and usually signing himself as their `undutiful son’, the first three letters written from Lichfield and Alton, one letter written from Bandon, Ireland, six letters from Guernsey (Doyle Barracks and variously in Captain Rogers, Captain Wrench’s, Captain Taylor’s and Captain Forster’s Company, 2nd Battalion, 38th Regiment), one letter from Oxford, and one each from Lisbon, Sobigol, Nava Froas(?) and Coinbra, together with a letter from a friend Thomas Watson writing to his parents on his behalf giving them an update on his situation in June 1807 and a clearly written letter by a colleague, Thomas Morris, from the plains of Almeida, 21st May 1811 (written to Morris’s wife), plus a fragment of a letter from Page to his parents in Ireland, all somewhat soiled and with numerous fold splits and occ. chips and tears, many with indistinct name or date strikes, a total of approx. 38 pp., mostly folio, plus two unusual period corkscrews, presumably made by Joseph Page, one with a screw-thread fitting into a purpose-made case and loop handle, the other with a butterfly screw nut through upper stem, both approx. 8cm. Included with the bundle of letters is an old bible page with some family notes written to blank verso: `Benjamin Page, the son of Joseph and Mary Page, born 31st March 1806. Hannah, wife of the above, daughter of Joseph and Ann Lloyd, born 25th September 1806. Benjamin Page, died February 2nd 1869’. Benjamin Page who is described in one of William’s letters as `always my favourite’ of an unknown number of brothers was only a baby when William joined the army. This unusual collection of letters from a low-ranking soldier, while containing much of family concerns, also gives good insight into his army life and concerns. Letter one: `...I have been very ill for this two days with a very violent purging & other pains for these last two or three nights I have up and down every five or ten minutes for the living is so unregular to what I have been used to and the duty so very strict that I am really weary of my life tho’ there is plenty of meat and bread but you are put in the rooms from the [?] & nobody to cook for you but you are obliged to cut a bit of [?] & frizle it how you can that is a Soldiers Living from Year to Year without any [?] Except you can buy them yourself which is unpossible for we get but one shilling & 7d a week besides your Bread Meat & Washing which the pay for themselves & out of that small trifle you have pipe clay & oil & many other small articles and if you have any Small Beer you must pay a penny a pint & what money I thought of Receiving what stopt for I cursed thing or another I have not settled yet...’ (27th May 1807). Letter fifteen: `...I was obligated to go into the rear owing to having a rupture come on by hard Marching and heavy fatigues which rendered me incapable of Marching with my regiment so I was sent to General Hospital but was well in health three Days after I left the Regiment I got to be a Clerk in the Commissary Department and had a guinea per week wages besides my corporals pay from the regiment at which place I continued for five months and was allowed besides my wages what provisions Spirits & wine I wish for my Own use and a friend if I Choosed During which time I saved more than Eleven Guineas which I have by me at this time and ten months pay Due at the Regiment which would be of great service to me if please god I was at Home Again... I have very Little to inform of Concerning the State of Affairs in this Country [Spain] for being Away so long from them and so very far off that I see nothing of it and hear very little at this time I ham as much as much as three Hundred Miles away from them the Army are a Considerable long way in Spain Driving the French before them & if the Spanish troops stand firm I am of Opinion that we will be Clear out of the two Countries this Summer which will be a happy Day for Soldiers here for their hardships are undescribable but still fight with the Greatest of ardour and firmness never undertake a Battle but what the Complete it with Spirit & loyalty the British Army is prior to the Eyes of All nations and a Severe terror to their Enemy tho of a much infiror number I can give you but Very Little Account of the Battle of Badajoz but our Loss is Estimated at three thousand men as I hear our Regiment Got very much Hurt... `. Recent typed transcriptions of the letters are included with the lot. (a bundle)
Lot 452
* Botha (Louis, 1862-1919). Signed postcard `Louis Botha’, c. 1902, postally unused vignette chromo postcard of a soldier from the 17th Lancers by Harry Payne (Raphael Tuck British Army Postcard No. 113), signed by the first Prime Minister of South Africa to the right of image, a little spotted, together with eleven other autographed and postally unused b&w postcards of Boer War interest, including six with portraits from photos of the signers, Lord Methuen (1845-1932), Sir Henry J. T. Hildyard (x 2) (1846-1916), Major-General Arthur Fitzroy Hart (1844-?), Sir Leslie Rundle (1856-1934), and Sir Donald Currie (1825-1909), Ship Owner; shown in a group with Rudyard Kipling, the remaining cards signed by Sir Henry Brackenbury, Earl of Albemarle, Lt. General Frederick Forestier-Walker, Lt. Colonel Basil Spragge, and Major General Lord Edward Cecil, scattered minor spots and marks (12)
Lot 508
Lee (Henry). Memoirs of the War in the Souhern Department of the United States, 2 vols., 1st ed., Philadelphia, 1812, engraved portrait frontispieces, half titles (one torn with loss), somewhat spotted and browned throughout, previous owner signatures to titles, contemporary black half morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Franklin (Benjamin), Memoirs, pub. Duane, Philadelphia, 1818, engraved frontispiece of the author, title with engraved vignette, Emblematic plate and folding newspaper facsimile, some spotting and dampstaining, later cloth, 8vo, with two others: Catalogue No. 906, Unique Collection of Engraved Portraits of George Washington, 1904 and John Clyde Oswald’s Benjamin Franklin in Oil and Bronze, 1926, plus Roussel (M. de), Etat Militaire de France Pour L’Annee 1778, 20th ed., Paris, 1778, title with woodcut vignette, one or two light spots, contemp. mottled calf, loss to head of spine, lightly rubbed, 12mo, together with four other later edition French army lists by Roussel, for the years 1782-85 (10)
Lot 586
Millar (Oliver). Later Georgian Pictures (Pictures in the Royal Collection), 2 vols. (text/plates), pub. Phaidon, 1969, colour and b&w plts. etc., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, together with Crookshank (Anne, and the Knight of Glin), The Watercolours of Ireland, Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint c. 1600-1914, 1st ed., 1994, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Massie (Alastair), A Most Desperate Undertaking: The British Army in the Crimea, 1854-56, 1st ed., pub. National Army Museum, 2003, numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large square 4to, and Hewison (Robert), Ruskin and Oxford, The Art of Education, 1st ed., Oxford, 1996, a few colour and many b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., small 4to, and others on British art, including some exhibition catalogues, 4to/8vo, mostly VG (40)
Lot 711
Carter (Thomas). Medals of the British Army, and How they Were Won, 3 vols. only (The Crimean Campaign; Egypt, Peninsular, Waterloo, and South Africa; India, China Etc.), 1851, chromo. plts., orig. non-matching cloth gilt, a little frayed at head and foot of spines, 8vo, together with [Surtees, R.S.], Mr. Romford’s Hounds/Ask Mama, or the Richest Commoner in England/Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, n.d., c. 1880-90, hand-col. plts. after John Leach, orig. dec. cloth, a little faded on spines, 8vo, with other miscellaneous books including children’s and illustrated works, a few antiquarian, etc. (3 shelves)
Lot 536
A late-Victorian silver mounted regimental mess cigar box by Frederick Mc Crae London 1896 retailed by the Army and Navy C.S.L rectangular form the hinged cover set with the badge for the The King’s Royal Rifle Corps the interior set with a silver plaque inscribed ‘PRESENTED TO THE SERGEANT’S MESS BY COL. FETHERSTONEHAUGH 1898’ cedar lined the base with later unmarked mounts and the underside mounted with crocodile 40.8cm x 26.5cm x 11.5cm.
Lot 1107
A boxed Dinky Super Toys medium artillery tractor no.689, lacking rear cover, a boxed Dinky Toys Comet wagon with hinged tail board no.932, both in blue and white striped boxes, a boxed Budgie horse box no.294 and six unboxed Dinky vehicles comprising orange Land Rover with trailer no.341, 10 tonne army truck no.622, Hawker Hunter no.736, tank transporter no.660 and Centurion tank no.651 (9)
Lot 130
A World War 1 medal group awarded to 39476 Private R W Richie of the Royal Army Medical Corps comprising 1914-15 Star and the Great War for Civilisation Medal, also in this lot are assorted medals comprising three 1914-18 medals awarded to 8437 Sapper H Jackson of the Royal Engineers, 86370 Driver A Phipps of the Royal Artillery, 59078 Private J Ridgway of the Cheshire Regiment, also a 1914-15 Star awarded to Z-2267 Private J Taylor of the Rifle Brigade
Lot 132
A quantity of militaria comprising a World War I period Imperial German Iron Cross second class, also a Nazi Germany commemorative tinny badge dated 1st of May 1937, a quantity of British army badges comprising Royal Marines, The Welch, George VI period Royal Army Service Corp badge, Royal Artillery, North Staffordshire Regiment, also two Parachute Regiment cloth badges a quantity of spurs and badges various etc
Lot 137
A collection of legal documents comprising parchment document dated the 13th of July 1657, further parchment documents dated 1734, 1839, 1784, 1896 and one on paper dated 1670 etc, also a book entitled `Master J H Barnes` dated June 1854 being a school book with various mathematical calculations, an old personal note book c.1885, a signed photograph of the actor Tommy Handley in an army uniform, verso stamped Julius Darewska variety agent, a postcard depicting the arrival of King George V at Ludgershall, a paperback book entitled `Hitler Befreit Sudetenland` with many photographic illustrations of Adolf Hitler greeting troops, injured soldiers in hospital and triumphant entry into the Sudetenland, dated 1938, later rebound in paperback, also a copy of `Olympia` 1936 with applied photographs showing Aolph Hitler greeting the Olympic athletes (surprisingly none including Jessie Owen!), bound in blue cloth with decorative gilt decoration
Lot 545
Action Man: four dolls in Infantry, Australian Infantry Sailor and Skier costumes, large selection of accessories including Life Raft with Paddle, Combat Mess Kit, rucksacks, stretcher, air cylinders, air-vests, crutch, skis, guns, boots, ammunition, note-pad with pencil, Official Equipment Manual, Air Manual, Intelligence Manual and Army Mmanual, hound and space capsule, overall G-VG
Lot 95
Hornby Series Modelled Miniatures: Set No 22 Motor Vehicles comprising red and cream 22a Open Sports Car with blue tinted wheels (F, parts G, small part missing from offside front mudguard), yellow and green 22b Sports Coupe with plain wheels (G-VG), blue and red 22c Motor Truck with green tinted wheels (overall VG), orange and blue 22d Delivery Van with plain wheels (generally G, minor chipping), blue and yellow 22de Farm Tractor with red wheels and without hook (VG, minute chipping to wheel rims and green and orange 22f Army Tank (G, lacks tracks) 1933-1935 with reproduction set box (6)
Lot 206
Twenty Five Boxed Matchbox 1-75 Series Vehicles-1.Mercedes Truck, 2.Mercedes Trailer x 2, 6.Quarry Truck, 10.Pipe Truck, 14.Lomas Ambulance, 16.Scammell Snowplough, 17.8-Wheel Tipper, 19.Lotus Racing Car, 23.Trailer Caravan, 24.Hydraulic Excavator, 35.Snow-Trac, 38.Vauxhall Victor, 42.Studebaker, 45.Ford Corsair, 49.Army Half Track, 49.Unimog, 59. Ford Singer Van x 2, 61.Alvis Stalwart, 62.TV Service Van x 2, 63.Fire Crash Tender, 72.Standard Jeep, 74.Mobile Canteen; Two Superfast-18.Field Car and 38.Honda Motorcycle with Trailer; Three Major Packs-2.Bedford Articulated Truck, 4.Ruston Bucyrus, 6.Pickfords Transporter; A Quantity of Unboxed Vehicles, in two boxes (most vehicles playworn, some with missing parts)
Lot 1
Army Lists.- List of the Officers.."1789 5 vol. second mentioned contemporary red morocco the rest contemporary tree calf gilt rubbed the last three rebacked preserving original spines178918081822 1824 & 1827; and a quantity of others 19th & 20th century army navy & airforce lists" 8vo et infra(qty)
Lot 333
A First World War Sketch Book by Corporal P.J. Hill 21017 of the 20th Battalion of The County of London Regiment, circa 1915, containing a collection of good quality full page watercolours and pen and ink drawings of life in the army during WW1, together with another sketch book by the same artist from around 1895. (2)
Lot 7
A group of six Dinky Army vehicles circa early 1970s to include a No.699 Leopard Recovery Tank the model in original blister pack with all accessories, two No.680 Ferret Armoured Cars in original blister pack, a No.612 Commando Jeep in original window box, a No.353 Shado Two mobile and an unboxed Dinky Anti-Tank gun
Lot 94
A group of boxed Dinky Toys, mainly military vehicles, items include a Dinky Toys Commando Squad gift set No. 303, containing an army truck, armored car and army helicopter, in original packing with original polystyrene insert and all accessories, a Dinky Toys gift set No. 677, a Stalwart Load Carrier, Amphibian vehicle and Ferret Armored car, a No. 675 Motor Patrol boat in original blister packing with all accessories, a No. 602 Armored Command Car and a Dinky promotional taxi, circa early 1970s
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