STEADMAN RALPH: (1936- ) British illustrator, best known for his collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. An extensive correspondence collection of forty-two A.Ls.S. (the majority to the versos of postcards, many featuring images of Steadman's work) and nine T.Ls.S., Ralph, sixty-six pages (total), 4to and smaller, various places (Maidstone, Kent, France and Italy), March 1980 - January 1997, all to Tom Maschler. The substantial, and often amusing, correspondence covers a wide range of subjects, including Steadman's work, in part, 'Many thanks for your letter and your marvellous enthusiasm. I am very happy that Cape & your good self are prepared to take me on with a project that hardly has any bones yet.....I doubt if I will begin Leonardo for 2 or 3 months but that does not prevent me reading about my subject and making notes which is how I set about the book on Freud' (18th March 1980), 'It's fascinating sitting in spots where the old boy [Leonardo da Vinci] might have sat. I was unable to lie on his bed or use the secret tunnel used by Francois I to visit him daily' (25th April 1981), ' "Bloody good!!" he said when he caught sight of the first drawing. "How many more are there?" "How many do you want?" "That depends" "On what?" "How many disciples turn up - can you manage another eleven - No problem' (31st August 1982), 'If he can sell 5000 copies there must be another 50,000 who would buy it if they only knew about it - at least. There is a huge army of committed fans over there [America] but I don't think they know the book exists. All I know is when I did a signing the queue went down the street - New York & West coast. Maybe they were all my fans and there aren't any more but do you believe that. Anyway, one of these days we'll blast through the bullet proof barrier & wonder why we worried' (21st December 1984), 'When Glasgow Art Gallery asked for copies of "I Leonardo" to sell during the course of my exhibition there, they were informed that you are now completely out of the 2nd edition. Surely it is worth a reprint even for this country only' (3rd May 1985), '...[I] have been asked to front a T.V. show on our attitudes to animals (J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss etc to be interviewed) I've just been to a bullfight, so I'm on dodgy ground' (28th September 1995). 'I will be researching the ways of cannibals - where they were - who they ate - who tasted best and what their favourite sauces are. Did they have head chefs - table manners - religious symbolism & belief in the powers allotted to various parts of the body......Are we in fact missing a vital part of our diets which no amount of lamb or pig can assuage?.....It's a wide & wonderful subject Tom, and in the metaphysical sense we act like cannibals today in this dog eat dog society of ours' (19th October 1995), 'I have read The Mildenhall Treasure - it is a fine TRUE tale of trust and paranoic avarice. Though, Butcher's wife knew. I love the descriptive atmospherics as much as [Roald] Dahl's grasp of human nature. It could be special, but why, I ask myself am I illustrating Dahl, when I could be hurling myself into Rabelais' (16th June 1996), 'I was thrilled to hear from you again. We have now reorganised the answering machines especially for you so that if you want to sing a song, tell me a story, or recite a piece of concrete poetry, you know I will hear it in future' (n.d., although 1996), 'Two things in defence of the "Snags". Defence one: Children love repetition. Defence two: Childrem don't recognise sophistication; only the inherent spirit of fun, the game itself played out between parent & child. I know. It has been tried out on a nursery school full of children and they ask for more. Defence three even: It is a great way to learn punctuation & a wonderful way to read pictures....' (18th June 1996), 'I am in search of magic - in search of Roald Dahl. What made him tick?' (26th November 1996), 'Over the last few months I have been doing some strange but intriguing, and funny!, pictures in the evenings on my knee (on paper of course) which I call my knee jobs. They seem like the basis for a book though I don't quite know how or why' (6th January 1997), 'Cannibals at the moment are rife in the world of publishing, literart meat-eaters, retail/wholesale packagers, remainderers of books which are in their prime, even 'Animal Farm' which is No. 3 in the best 100 books of the 20th century - trashed because 'its sale has gone down to a trickle' and who, I wonder, is prepared to admit blame?......Unless the book smells like a Body Shop and leaps off the shelf to bite you up the arse, what chance do new books have, except one on cannibals who might like a piece of arse for supper' (19th January 1997), 'I hope that our chat yesterday settled the final touches for our collaboration to reincarnate one of Roald Dahl's wonderful true stories' (29th April 1999), 'Here is something to get your teeth into. The spider's mouth is the hole at the back of Dahl's chair - it needs my cryptic explanation' (n.d.), 'I have avoided planning new booksm but I have not been idle.....I have been involved in a modern dance based on the last years of Picasso....I have done the centenary portrait of T. S. Eliot for The Poetry Society celebration in September. That led to a curiosity to see how I could portray his face in paint & I completed 6 paintings of his visage. He has a strange face......Channel 4 are keen to do a film about my Welsh speech based on the 'BOYO' tapestry and I am making a 10 minute short based on a conversation I invented between Marcel Duchamp & Luis Bunuel......I have always felt that the people who do well out of my book signings are the book shops since I give more of a performance that a mere 'Jeffrey Archer' type signing' (n.d., although 1993). Several of the letters are illustrated with a small caricature alongside the signatures. Some very light, minimal age wear, VG, 51Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.
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CHRISTINE OF FRANCE: (1606-1663) Daughter of King Henry IV and Marie de Medici, and sister of King Louis XIII. Duchess consort of Savoy 1630-37. Upon the death of her husband Victor Amadeus I in 1637, she acted as Regent of Savoy 1637-48. A very fine L.S., `Christinne´, one page, folio, Turin, 18th August 1652, to Cardinal Marquis Villa, in Paris, in Italian. The letter bears the written heading `La Duchesa di Savoya - Regina di Cipro´ (''Duchess of Savoy - Queen of Cyprus''). Christine of France refers to her correspondent´s letter received and states in part `...pur d´hoggi v´habbiamo scritto in risposta della vostra delli 16...´ (Translation: "... even today we wrote to you in response to your letter of the 16th..") Further the Duchess refers to the ennemy army, stating `...essendoci poi capitata quella delli 17 continente nuovi raguagli dell´armata nemica ve ne habbiamo voluto accusare la ricevuta in segno del nostro gradimento...´ (Translation: "...since the news from the 17th came to us with new information from the enemy army, we wanted to acknowledge receipt as a sign of our gratitude...") With a large countersignature at the base. With address leaf. Bearing to the address leaf a paper seal affixed. Very small minor age wear. G
STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924-53 as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-52) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941-53). A good D.S., J. Stalin, in Cyrillic, with two lines of holograph text, in bold red indelible pencil, one page, 4to, Moscow, 25th December 1941, in Cyrillic. The typed classified document is an order (number 0508) issued by the Stavka of the Supreme High Command and states, ‘1. In view of the particularly important tasks assigned to the 27th Army, it should be transformed into the 4th Shock Army. 2. The 3rd, 33rd, 332nd, 334th, 249th, 257th, 358th, 360th rifle divisions should be included in the 4th Shock Army. 3. From 1st January 1942, all the commanding staff (higher, senior, middle, junior) of the 4th Shock Army should be paid one and a half times the salary, and to the rank and file, two times the salary as it is established for the Guards divisions’. Stalin adds a fourth instruction to the order in his hand, ‘4. The order is to be adopted in all units of the 4th Shock Army’. Countersigned at the foot by Boris Shaposhnikov (1882-1945) Soviet Colonel and Marshal of the Soviet Union, one of the foremost military theorists of the Stalin-era who served as Chief of the Staff of the Red Army 1928-31, 1937-40 and 1941-42. The verso of the document bears various typed and manuscript (in ink and pencil) administrative notes including a list of over twenty individuals who were to receive a copy of the order in cipher. A few tears and small areas of paper loss to the left edge, not affecting the text or signatures, and some light staining. About VG The 4th Shock Army was a combined arms army of the Soviet Armed Forces which participated in the Toropets-Kholm Offensive between January and February 1942 and also saw action on the Kalinin Front and 1st Baltic Front during World War II.
JEFFERSON THOMAS: (1743-1826) American President 1801-09, a Founding Father of the United States of America and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. A good, large D.S., Th: Jefferson, as President, one page (vellum), large folio, Washington, 27th March 1806. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is a military commission appointing Alexander Macomb to be a Captain in the Corps of Engineers in the service of the United States and 'to take Rank as such from the Eleventh day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and five', further stating that 'He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.......And he is to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America or the General or other superior Officers set over him, according to the Rules and Discipline of War'. Countersigned at the foot by Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) American Colonel who fought in the War of Independence, served with George Washington's Continental Army and was present at the British surrender at Yorktown. Secretary of War 1801-09. With a circular blind embossed seal affixed at the head alongside an engraving by John Draper of a large eagle and shield and with another fine engraving at the foot, also by Draper, depicting cannon, crossed flags, drums, weapons and other symbolic militaria. A handsome signed document with good association. The manuscript text is a touch light, although remains perfectly legible. Some light age wear at the folds, one of which runs across Jefferson's signature, although to very little detriment. VGAlexander Macomb (1782-1841) American Major General, Commanding General of the United States Army 1828-41. Macomb received a Congressional Gold Medal for his stunning victory as the field commander at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
GORDON CHARLES: (1833-1885) British Major General, known as Chinese Gordon and Gordon of Khartoum. A.L.S., C. G. Gordon, two pages, 8vo, Beaufort Street, Chelsea, 14th April 1881, to Garnet Wolseley ('My dear Wolseley'). Gordon writes a letter of introduction recommending Captain Hurrell of the 89th as 'a candidate for the Residency of Transvaal (if the Transvaal allows a British Resident)', further remarking 'I have known him for some years as an energetic officer, & he has good recommendations from Cape. I have told him that you will receive him kindly and hear what he has to say'. With blank integral leaf. A letter of good association. About EXGarnet Wolseley (1833-1913) 1st Viscount Wolseley. Anglo-Irish Field Marshal, one of the most admired and influential British Army officers of his day. Wolseley served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces 1880-82 and as Governor of Transvaal 1879-80.
FOUCAULD CHARLES DE: (1858-1916) Foucauld was a former cavalry Officer in the French army, he would later become an Explorer, and finally a Catholic Priest. Foucauld lived as a hermit, among the Tuareg in the Algerian Sahara. In 1916 Foucauld was assassinated and is considered by the Catholic Church a martyr. The Little Brothers of Jesus were found after him. An excellent and rare A.L.S., `Fr[ere] Charles de Jésus´, one page, 8vo, `Beni-Abbes (extreme Sud Oranais) Algerie´, Algeria, 10th March 1905, to his congregation superior, in French. To the upper left corner, Foucauld annotates "IESUS CARITAS´, adding a sketch of a cross above a heart. To a cleanly written letter, Foucauld states in part `I dare writing to you again to beg you to send me by post-mail the complete series of your ten volumes, Attente de Jésus, Jesus enfant, etc.. I also take the liberty of asking you to be kind and send to me "Marie d´apres l´Evangile" when the book will be printed.´ Foucauld further explains that he will pay for the books over two payments, and before concluding states `Thanking you for all the good you bring to my soul with your books, I kneel at your feet, supplicating your blessing and to implore Jesus for my conversion.´ Extremely small age wear, otherwise G to VG In 2020, Pope Francis authorized the processing for his canonization.
PAVLICHENKO LYUDMILA: (1916-1974) Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. Pavlichenko is credited with killing 309 enemy combatants, likely placing her within the top five snipers of all time. A rare vintage war date signed and inscribed 3 x 5 photograph of Pavlichenko, the image depicting Lady Death in a head and shoulders pose wearing her uniform and several medals. Signed in purple fountain pen ink to the verso with an inscription in Cyrillic, 'To a true friend and a wonderful comrade Grisha Kozlovsky....' and dated at Moscow, 30th March 1943 in her hand. Some light, minimal traces of former mounting to the upper edge of the verso, not affecting the inscription or signature. About VG
JAMES VI & I: (1566-1625) King of Scotland (as James VI) 1567-1625 and King of England & Ireland 1603-25. L.S., James R, as King of Scotland, one page, 4to, Edinburgh, 21st June 1589, to John Ogilvie of Inshewan, in Middle Scots. The King grants his licence to Ogilvie to remain and abide at home away from the army and muster (host and raid) appointed to convene at Brechin and Aberdeen and exonerating him from any proclamations made, or to be made, to the contrary, as well as any penalties, and discharging all of the King's lieutenants, justices, deputy justices, and all judges and ministers of law, of impounding (poinding), troubling or interfering (intromitting) with Ogilvie, his lands, goods and possessions (geir) in any way for the time that he remains at home ('We be the tennour heirof for divers causses moving ws Gevis and grantis licence to our Lovit Johnne Ogilvie of Inchesthewin To Remane and abid at hame fra our oiste and raid appointit to convene at Breichane and Aberdene........Exonerating him thairfra be thir presentis Nothtwithstanding quhatsoevir our lettres, Chairgeis or proclamations maid or to be maid in the contrair and panis thairin contenit, dischargeing all our Lieuie tennentis, justice[s], justice deputis, thar deputis and officers and all jugeis, ministeris and officieris ministeris of our Lawis and thair deputis now present and to cum of all calling, poinding, trubling or intrometting with The said Johnne Ogilvie, his Landis, guidis and geir in any wayis in tyme tiding for the remaining and abiding at hame fra the said oist and raid'). Signed by the King at the foot alongside the remnants of a red wax seal and countersigned ('M Cancellarius') by John Maitland (1537-1595) 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, in his capacity as Lord Chancellor of Scotland (1586-95). A few minor, small holes, only very slightly affecting a few words of text and with some slight creasing at the edges, GJohn Ogilvie of Inshewan (c.1525-1594) Scottish landowner.
LENIN VLADIMIR: (1870-1924) Russian revolutionary and politician who served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia 1917-24 and of the Soviet Union 1922-24 & TSIURUPA ALEXANDER (1870-1928) Bolshevik leader and Soviet politician who served as People's Commissar for Food of the RSFSR 1918-21. A rare D.S. by both Lenin ('V Ulyanov (Lenin)') and Tsiurupa ('A Tsyurupa') individually, one page, folio, Kremlin, Moscow, 20th June 1919, with the stamped heading of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Workers and Peasants Defence Council, in Cyrillic. The typed document is addressed to Narkomprod (People's Commissariat for Food Supplies) of Crimea and states, in part, 'Considering the severity of the food situation in Russia, and the enormous shortages of food for children, especially for sick children, I suggest that all canned fruits available in Crimea, as well as cheese, should be earmarked solely for feeding sick children in Northern Russia. Products should be sent to Komprod's address'. Signed at the conclusion by Lenin in his capacity as Chairman of the Defence Council and by Tsiurupa in his capacity as People's Commissar for Food Supplies, alongside an official circular purple ink stamp. Some very light, extremely minimal age wear, VGThe People's Commissariat for Food Supplies (also known by it's abbreviation Narkomprod) was originally founded in 1917 and was the ministry of the Russian SFSR in charge of food supplies and industrial goods.Lenin and Tsiurupa signed the present document at a significant time during the Russian Civil War (1917-23) throughout which Crimea changed hands numerous times. Whilst it was governed by the Bolsheviks in June 1919, it would not be long before it became the stronghold of the anti-Bolshevik White Army under the command of General Anton Denikin. It is therefore possible that Lenin and Tsiurupa, aware of the situation facing Crimea, were attempting to get as much food as they could out of the area before it was too late.
PONIATOWSKI JOZEF: (1763-1813) Polish General, Minister of War and Army Chief. Marshal of the Empire. An excellent D.S., `Joseph Prince Poniatowski´, one page, large folio, 11.5 x 18.5 (29.5cm x 46cm), Warsaw, 1th August 1808, in Polish. Poniatowski, in his capacity as Minister of war, appoints an infantry officer. The partially printed document bears a large printed coat of arms to the heading, with the printed text heading “Frederick August – By God´s grace, King of Saxony, Duchy and Warsaw, etc.. – Polish Army – Duchy of Warsaw”. The title appoints Tadeusz Wolinski as Major of the First Infantry regiment. Signed by Poniatowski at the base, the first two words with light ink. Overall age wear and foxing, although fully legible. Professionally repaired to the verso to edges. About G
DUMOURIEZ CHARLES FRANCOIS: (1739-1823) French General during the French Revolutionary Wars and Minister of Foreign Affairs March - June 1792. An interesting Autograph Letter, unsigned, four pages, 8vo, n.p., 17th October 1817, to [Charles Ferdinand d'Artois] ('Monseigneur'), in French. Dumouriez, at the time exiled in England, writes an informative letter with various pieces of news including that of an important mission involving Russian ships preparing to leave the Baltic, as well as other topics, in part, 'Nous n'avons encore aucune nouvelle de votre assemblee, mais je pense comme vous que les discussions se traiteront avec menagement. Alors elles eclaireront, & n'interdieront pas - je ne doute pas que, malgre la ratification, on ne parvienne, sinon a annuler le Concordat, au moins a le modifier de maniere a en diminuer une partie des inconvenients. La nomination de Beugnot pour aller relever Blacas a Rome me persuade que le Roi a juge comme toute l'Europe, que ce traite qui fut blame sous Francois I & Leon X, ne peut pas etre renouvelle au 19eme siecle apres 30 ans de revolution' (Translation: 'We still haven't heard anything from your assembly, but I agree with you that the discussions will be handled with care. I have no doubt that, despite ratification, we will manage, if not to annul the Concordat, at least to modify it in such a way as to reduce some of its inconveniences. The appointment of Beugnot to relieve Blacas in Rome convinces me that the King has judged, like the rest of Europe, that this treaty, which was blamed on Francois I and Leon X, cannot be renewed in the 19th century after 30 years of revolution') and continuing to again refer to the Duke of Blascas, 'Mr de Blacas, malgre sa benigne negociation, ne sera pas regarde a Rome. On me mande dans plusieurs lettres de cette ville qu'il s'y est fait detester par sa hauteur & ses indiscretions, des Romains, du Corps diplomatique & des Francais. Il est souhaiter qu'il change de manieres a Madrid, s'il y va bientot comme on le croit icy. Au reste cette mission peut devenir tres importante, & elle demande beaucoup de prudence pour eviter de se compromettre dans les affaires presque desesperees de l'Espagne, qui cherche partout des secours' (Translation: 'Mr de Blacas, despite his benign negotiation, will not be seen in Rome. I am told in several letters from that city that he has made himself hated there by his haughtiness and indiscretions, by the Romans, the diplomatic corps and the French. It is to be hoped that he will change his ways in Madrid, if he goes there soon as is believed here. Moreover, this mission may become very important, and it requires a great deal of prudence to avoid compromising himself in the almost desperate affairs of Spain, which is seeking help everywhere'), before turning his attention to the movements of Russian vessels, 'Nous aprenons que l'Escadre Russe de Revel de 6 viasseaux & quelques fregates va partir de la Baltique avant les Glaces pour aller-ou? C'est un vaste champ aux conjectures. On est tres occupe icy de ces mouvements, qui sont trop dispendieux pour un des pretextes qu'on lui suppose, celui d'aller chatier les Tunesiens!' (Translation: 'We learn that Revel's Russian squadron of 6 ships and a few frigates will leave the Baltic before the Ice to go-or? This is a vast field for conjecture. They are very busy here with these movements, which are too costly for one of the pretexts that they are supposed to have, that of going to punish the Tunisians!') and further observing 'Il est certain que l'armee de Benigsen sur les frontieres de la Turquie a ete portee a 80 m[ille] homme effectifs, & qu'on annonce que l'Emp[ereur] Al[exandre] doit aller visiter au printems ses provinces meridionales. Les Steps de la petite tartarie pourraient devenir aussi funestes pour lui que les bords du Boristhenes pour Charles XII & Bonaparte. La Peste pourrait devenir un puissant Allie pour les Turcs. Je croirais donc plustot, si cette Escadre sort reellement de la Baltique, qu'elle est destinee pour l'Espagne, surtout si elle a des troupes a bord soit pour se porter dans le Golphe du Mexique soit pour garnisoner Mahon. Cette conjecture coincide avec la negociation qui est poussee tres vivement a la Cour de Naples, negociation appuyee par la Russie pour engager le Roi votre beaupere a ceder aux Etats-Unis definitivement l'Isle de Ponza apres avoir echoue aux autres pretentions pour l'indemnite Murat. On me mande cette nouvelle comme certaines de Civita Vecchia, ou l'Escadre Americaine a mouille dernierement, mais on ne m'a donne aucun detail sur ce groupe d'isles peu connu je sais seulement que c'est un bon mouillage qu'on peut arranger pour devenir une bonne station navale. Calculez ce qui resulterait pour l'Angleterre, si la Russie & les Etats-Unis acqueraient simultanement un Establisement fixe dans la Mediterranee' (Translation: 'It is certain that Benigsen's army on the borders of Turkey has been increased to 80 thousand effective men, and that it is announced that the Emp[eror]Al[exander] is to visit his southern provinces in the spring. The Steps of Little Tartary could become as disastrous for him as the banks of the Boristhenes for Charles XII & Bonaparte. The Plague could become a powerful ally for the Turks. I would therefore rather believe, if this Squadron really leaves the Baltic, that it is destined for Spain, especially if it has troops on board either to go to the Gulf of Mexico or to garrison Mahon. This conjecture coincides with the negotiation which is being pushed very hard at the Court of Naples, a negotiation supported by Russia to urge the King your father-in-law to cede the Isle of Ponza definitively to the United States after having failed with the other claims for the Murat indemnity. I have been sent this news as some from Civita Vecchia, where the American squadron recently anchored, but I have not been given any details about this little-known group of islands, I only know that it is a good anchorage, which can be arranged to become a good naval station. Calculate what would result for England if Russia and the United States simultaneously acquired a fixed establishment in the Mediterranean'). Dumouriez concludes his letter by making a reference to the Austrian diplomat Prince Ludwig von Starhemberg, who had broken both of his legs, as well as the mysterious murder in Rodez of magistrate Antoine Bernardin Fualdes and the subsequent trial which included the infamous testimony of Clarisse Manson. Some light age wear and a few minor reinforcements to the central vertical fold of the bifolium. About VGCharles Ferdinand d'Artois (1778-1820) Duke of Berry. Son of King Charles X of France, and the husband of Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies whom he had married in 1816.Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas (1771-1839) French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration.
ROBESPIERRE AUGUSTIN: (1763-1794) Robespierre the Younger. French lawyer and politician, the younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre the Younger was arrested (at his own request) along with his brother and subsequently the two were executed by guillotine along with twenty of their supporters. D.S., Robespierre je., one page, small folio, Nice, 16th June 1794, in French. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is issued in the name of the French people by 'Les representans du peuple deputes par la convention nationale pres l'armee d'Italie et les departemens du var et des alpes maritimes' (Translation: 'The representatives of the people deputed by the national convention to the army of Italy and the departments of Var and Alpes Maritimes') and orders that a payment of 'Quinze cent mille livres' (Translation: 'Fifteen hundred thousand pounds') be made by the Paymaster of the Army. Signed by Robespierre at the foot and countersigned by an army inspector. A little roughly torn to the right and lower edges with a few small areas of paper loss, only very slightly affecting the text. GThe present document was signed by Robespierre in the month before his execution by guillotine.
WELLINGTON DUKE OF: (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish Field Marshal, the victor of Waterloo. British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834. A.L.S., FM the Duke of Wellington, in the third person, one page, 8vo, London, 15th June 1847, to Mr. H. Edwards. Wellington acknowledges receipt of his correspondent's letter and continues to inform him 'The Duke as the Commander in Chief of the Army has no control over the appointment of the clerks in the War Office. If he had he must decline to recommend a gentleman for his qualifications, of whom he knows nothing, excepting that knowing nothing of the Duke he has solicited to be appointed by him to an office'. With blank integral leaf. About EX
Frank O. Salisbury, British 1874-1962 - Ten portraits: Hugh Bullock, worked on Wall Street, connected with the pilgrims trust?, son of Calvin Bullock; Mrs Joy Allpress, authority on antique and period decoration; Col. Robert James Blackham, army physician, barrister, author, political and Clark of the glaziers company (later Major General); Rev. Dr. Samuel Leslie Parke Cadman, leading American churchman, NBC religious broadcaster. Author, pastored central congregational church in Brooklyn, President of Federal council of churches of Christ, two; Rev Sidney Arthur Alexander, Canon of St Pauls Cathedral, painting commemorates 40 years of service with a study on reverse of the Rt Hon 7th Lord M ??, 1943; Bishop Asbury, aka 'The prophet of the Long Road led American Methodism from 1784, portrayed as though he was 39, 1957; Dr N.M. Butler, President of Columbia, Nobel peace Prize, President of Carnegie endowment for international peace, 1931; Steven Baker, Chairman of Manhattan Bank, 1931; Sir Charles John Bartlett, Chairman of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. Luton. Resident of Harpenden, Herts, 1954; chalk and pastel on paper,64.5 x 50.7 cm and smaller (unframed) (10) (ARR) Provenance: The Walpole Society, donated by Philip Mould & Company on behalf of a private collector Note: Frank O. Salisbury was one of the leading society portrait painters of his day. The son of a plumber and glazier, he was drawn to art at an early age and throughout his career painted many important figures in the cultural and political sphere, including Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill. His portraits of Dame Maud McCarthy and Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII) are currently on display as part of the inaugural display at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery in London. Salisbury also painted large-scale ceremonial, historical and religious scenes, many of which are now in public collections. Salisbury painted in a classical but lively style, bringing his sitters to life while remaining vehemently opposed to modern methods. The works for sale with Roseberys include portraits of glamourous society figures, politicians, eminent businesspeople, and members of the aristocracy. Interesting examples include portraits of Will Keith Kellogg, founder of the eponymous cereal company, Her Highness the Ameera of Bhahwalpur and Mrs Dunlap Hopkins, President of the Women’s School of Design in New York. There is also a highly moving study of a Nurse in Wartime uniform. Alongside these portraits, there is also a collection of large-scale studies for religious scenes. These works have remained unseen for several decades and were recently donated to The Walpole Society by Philip Mould & Company on behalf of a private collector.
Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA, British 1891-1959 - Cloaked Figures Studies (with 'Figure studies' on the reverse), c.1916; brown wash on irregularly-shaped headed paper and with pencil on paper on the reverse, with 'Stanley Spencer Studio Sale' stamp upper, 25.6 x 17.6 cm (ARR) Provenance: Christie's, London, Stanley Spencer Studio Sale, 5th November 1998; The Court Gallery, Taunton (according to a copy of the label and partial paperwork); the Collection of Paul Clarke and thence by descent Note: based on the headed paper used for this drawing, it was clearly made during Spencer's time working for the Royal Army Medical Corps based in Salonica (modern day Thessaloniki in Greece) during the Second World War. His experiences on the Macedonian front would inform his greatest and best known work, the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere.
Thomas Williams of Barbados (19th C.) Portrait of a British army officer wearing a red uniform jacket and medalsoil on canvasinscribed verso and dated Barbados Octr 184027.5 x 22cm***CONDITION REPORT***Oil on original canvas in somewhat neglected condition, stretcher marks showing along with some fine and broad craquelure running throughout the paint, together with a number of small flaking patches, apparently unsigned to the front, housed in the rubbed probably original gilt frame, inscribed on the back of the canvas which is made by a New York supplier P.Caff..., top of the stretcher has a tantalisingly faint inscription which I would guess as being Lieut. Colonel W... Thompson, RA? Regt Oct 1840,PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
° ° Brigade and General Orders Book, Bombay, 1 March 1784 – 14 March 1785 118 paper folios, most leaves browned, some brittle and with occasional (but not extensive) losses, all repaired, in a buckram binding, 38 x 28cmArmy order book of the East India Company, comprising general orders issued at Bombay between 2 March 1784 and 14 March 1785, compiled in the office of Thomas Marshall, Town Major, and containing orders relating to military administration including notices concerning appointments, movements of troops, postings, promotions, pay, disputes over precedence and sentences of the separate courts martial for European and native troops.Judging by the recurrent signature of the Town Major, in a hand clearly differentiated from that of the clerk or clerks responsible for the main text, this appears to be the original order book rather than a duplicate.Each day’s entry begins with the parole or watchword (in English) and corresponding countersign (in Hindi). As well as military orders, byelaws for the administration of Bombay were entered, such as the revocation of the restriction on the native inhabitants of the city on ‘passing in their hackneys at the Church Gate’, on the understanding that the permission did not extend to unlicensed carts.The context of the entries is the end of the second Anglo-Mysore war (1780-1784), in which the troops of the East India Company fought against Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan and their French allies. The text of the treaty ending the war, signed on 11 March 1784, is copied into the volume; it represents the last occasion when an Indian power was able to dictate terms to the Company. On 24 March is recorded the burial of Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell (1753-1784), whose epic defence of Mangalore continued from 23 May 1783 until 23 January 1784 and was marked by severe hardships. Campbell was exhausted by his exertions and died of a consumption at Bombay on 23 March 1784. The reduction in the military establishment following the peace was recorded on 9 May 1784, with orders for a series of gun salutes to mark the peace, the king’s birthday and the New Year, including 15 guns for ‘prosperity to Bombay’.The volume is packed with the names of military personnel, including those of the native troops and their officers, and on folio 29 are set out the names of 50 Company cadets in order of rank. Grants of permission are recorded for men to recover their health by taking a sea voyage, visiting ‘the hotwells’, Surat or China, or by returning to England.Proficiency in local languages entitled officers to increased pay, and a committee was ordered to meet monthly to examine candidates. On 20 December 1784 detailed regulations for the management of the Sepoy Battalion Hospitals were entered into the book, with rates of pay; the commanders of the battalions were to provide ‘proper native doctors and assistants’ whose pay was to be increased ‘as an encouragement to men or more knowledge and experience to engage in the battalion service’; however pay was to be stopped ‘to prevent the idle and lazy from skulking in the hospital’. These provisions were made in anticipation of the return to Bombay of prisoners captured in the late war; on 31 December they were congratulated by the President of Bombay ‘for that steady attachment they have shown to the service of their honourable employers and their love for their families and native country, which reflects so much honour on them as soldiers and as men. The committee desire that this may be clearly explained not only to the officers but individually to the Sepoys that they may be made fully sensible, their allegiance to the honourable company from which they could not be seduced by all the arts of the Nabob [Tipu Sultan], has justly merited and received the highest approbation of this government.’ The minute also alluded to ‘the unfortunate expedition under the late Brigadier-General [Richard] Matthews, who with his officers was poisoned after surrendering to Tipu. It stressed ‘one important principle of action, where they cannot conquer it will be better and braver to die with arms in their hands than yield, to trust to the mercy of so faithless and barbarous a foe.’Captain Thomas Marshall was commissioned on 21 June 1784 and served as Town Major of Bengal; he was promoted to lieutenant-general on 4 June 1814 and died on 20 May 1825; he can probably be identified with the Captain Thomas Marshall who married Mrs Mary Bowles, widow, at Bombay on 27 November 1784.A microfilm of this volume, copied in August 1980 by permission of Peter Burton, is held at the British Library, Asian and African Studies, Mss Photo Eur 180; another volume from the series, also signed by Thomas Marshall and covering 5 May 1786 – 14 January 1788, formed Lot 73 at Bonham’s, 7 June 2011, when it sold for £2040 including premium.***CONDITION REPORT***PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
A collection of penknives, a wooden 970 Puma-Game Warden knife; a Joseph Rodgers steel army style knife circa 1954; a small bone handled Victorinox knife; two red Victorinox multi-purpose knives; a Suunto Helsinki Patent Model KB-14 steel compass in leather travel case; and a vintage map measurer.Qty: 8
Great Britain FDCs (3) including No.1) 1983 (6 July) British Army set on Irish Guards Benham Gold FDC with Irish Guards BF1900PS handstamp BLS5, cat £35. No.2) 1983 (6 July) Royal Scots Benham Gold with The Royal Scots BF1900PS handstamp BLS4, cat £35 and No.3) 1983 (6 July) Royal Welch Fusiliers Benham Gold with Royal welch Fusiliers BF1900PS handstamp BLS4, cat £35.
Collectables: A collection of assorted toys and collectables to include: Big Trak vehicle and transporter, Action Man Eagle Eyes figure and clothing; and a collection of Meccano including Army Multikit and Motorised Set 4, both unchecked for completeness, and some unboxed Meccano parts. Mixed condition, mostly playworn. Please assess photographs. (Q)
3 Dinky Toys military vehicles. A Supertoys Foden 10-Ton Army Truck (622). In olive green with tin tilt. An Austin Army Water Tanker (643) in olive green and an Armoured car, (670) in olive green a late example with green plastic wheels. All boxed, very minor wear. Two that have flaps are complete. Vehicles VGC-Mint, minor chip to Foden tilt. £70-90
7 large Spec Cast/First Gear/ERTL etc Aircraft including Money Banks. A Douglas DC3 Air Rescue Service U.S.A.F. . Douglas DC3 Humble Oil & Refining Co. 1931 Stearman US Army Flyers. 2x F4U-1 Corsair Collector Banks, variations. A Bellanca Sky Rocket, Coca-Cola. Plus another F4U Corsair with French markings. All boxed, some wear/cleaning required. Contents VGC-Mint. £70-100
7 large Spec Cast/First Gear/ERTL etc Aircraft including Money Banks. 2x Bellanca Skyrocket, SHELL and Coca-Cola. 2x F4U-1 Corsair Collector Banks. Another similar, EXXON. A Travel Air 4000 Bi-Plane, Army Red Cross. Plus a Modified Franklin Utility Glider, TEXACO Eaglet. All boxed, some wear/cleaning required. Contents VGC-Mint. £70-100
2 French Dinky Military. Camion G.M.C. Militaire Bache (809). In U.S. Army olive green livery, with driver and rear plastic tilt, painted metal concave wheels. Together with railway crossing road sign. Boxed with insert. Plus a Canon De 155 (802), complete with camouflage net. Boxed. Some wear/damage to G.M.C. box. Contents VGC-Mint. £70-100
11 dinky toys military vehicles. Includes, No.697 25 pounder field gun set, No.651 Centurion tank, No.660 tank transporter, No.693 7.2 Howitzer, No.677 armoured command vehicle, No.692 5.5 medium gun, No.643 army water tanker, No.670 armoured car, No.626 Military ambulance, No.673 scout car, and gift set 699 military vehicles 1, All boxed. together with No.623 army truck (loose). All boxes have wear and creasing, some missing inner and end flaps, and ends taped up. Boxes are very grubby. (12 items). vehicles are GC-VGC. £100-150.
Framed Black and White Portrait photograph of D-Day Veteran Victor McKenzie. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. Victor McKenzie’s story. "I was a lorry driver in the Army Service Corps. As we were driving over a pontoon bridge a shell exploded in the water in front of us. The blast from the shell hit our lorry and stopped it dead, like we’d hit some invisible wall. A piece of shrapnel from the shell came straight through the widescreen, clipped my ear and embedded itself into a gun rack in the lorry behind. Another inch or so the other side and I would have been dead! I made sure that I dug the piece of shrapnel out and still have it as a souvenir today".
Framed Portrait Photograph of D-Day Veteran Percy Lewis. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story: "I was a wireless operator and we arrived at Queen’s Section, Sword Beach at 11am on D Day. There were boats everywhere! Eventually we went ashore and I was told to set up my Wireless Set No. 18 on the beach, as it was our job to communicate with the men back on our ship. Problem was that when we had the wireless set up, there was no one back on the ship left to receive our messages anyway, so we sat there on the beach from 4pm until 10am the following day doing nothing! We were posted to a captured pillbox near the canal, that had two German Spandau machine guns and a periscope and we were told to keep an eye on the Germans who were still on the far side of the canal. Eventually we broke out of Normandy and when we got to Holland, I was injured by a mortar in my ankle and was flown home on a Dakota. As soon as I was fit again, I was sent straight back to the line. One night, twelve of us were advancing into a village. We knew the Germans were around because on a quiet night with no wind you could smell them, as they used a soap that was scented. I discovered that my wireless arial was broken and I was out of spares, so my officer told me to go back. Now on my own, I headed for a house for some cover when two German Paratroopers came out and I thought that this was it! Instead, they took me prisoner. While you knew the dangers that you faced, you never thought that you’d ever be taken prisoner. I was the only one of the twelve that night to survive without a scratch, as all the others were killed or injured. Then I was sent to a POW camp in Germany called Stalag 11B, which I found out later was right next to Belsen. I was 10 st 10lbs when I arrived and only 6 st 2lbs when I was liberated by our lads on 16th April 1945. This is the army for you! Instead of sending the Catering Corps with something like soup for us all, they sent tinned fruit that gave us all severe dysentery. Eventually I arrived home, although the kind chap who gave me a lift to my house asked me if I was alright because I looked so thin and ill. Dad opened the door and shouted Mum, who nearly smothered me. All they had received was a telegram telling them that I was missing in action and had obviously feared the worst. Two days after later, a telegram arrived saying that I was alive and well and would be home soon!".
Framed Portrait Photograph of Bill Ruth. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story: "I was put in the RASC and assigned to 257 Ambulance Car Company, with the job of taking casualties from the field dressing station to the field hospital. At Portsmouth, a docker had offered me his hand and said ‘Good luck son’. I had been in the army only four months and had no idea what to expect. So, it was with both excitement and fear that we landed at Arrowmanches just after 6th June. Sleeping in an open field that night, I reached for my helmet for protection and accidentally felt my mates face. Next morning he told me he was woken in the night by a hand across his face and thought the Germans had come for him! In April of 1945, we’d advanced into Germany and were told to go to a camp. As we approached I could see all these scarecrows. As we got nearer and the stench from the camp hit us, I realised that they were people, just not moving, standing still. The camp was Belsen. We couldn’t give the victims any food, because it would kill them, nor could we go inside the camp because of infection. We weren’t supposed to touch them, but they were so weak that we had to help them into the ambulance. Some were overcome. Some even kissed my feet. I’d witnessed many horrific scenes during the war, but this was unbelievable. How could someone do that to another human being? "
Framed Black & White Photograph of D-Day Veteran Peter Smoothey. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story: "I was 19 and on a tank-landing ship that had travelled overnight from Portsmouth. I remember it like it was yesterday. We were all young. It was absolute chaos. You couldn’t move for boats and ships and the Germans were on the beach waiting for us. We hadn’t slept much and it was action stations most of the way. I manned a gun turret at the stern. A lot of the army were seasick and felt rotten. They were glad to get ashore, but the fighting was strong after that".
Framed portrait photograph of Nanza Hughes. Overall size including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is her story: "I was a wireless operator at Forest Moor Y station in North Yorkshire, listening in on the German stations and copying down their morse code messages. This all then went to Bletchley Park for decoding, although obviously we had no idea where they went at the time. We worked in pairs, what they called ‘double banked’ so that we would not miss anything. On 5th June I was on the night shift starting midnight until 7am. It was the shift that we all hated as nothing usually happened and I would normally spend my time writing letters home. Something peculiar happened around 3am, when army intelligence officers had arrived in our set room, which had never happened before. Just after 3am one of our out stations was calling up control, sending a message uncoded in plain German, which was unheard of. I realised something big was happening if the Germans were not even bothering to encrypt their own messages. As I was listening in to the message and copying it down, which was actually very difficult to do because it wasn’t coded, but in plain language and I was still trying to split them up into the usual group of five letters as we were taught to do, one of the intelligence officers tapped me on the shoulder and told me just to keep writing. After the message had finished and I had stopped writing, he tapped me on the shoulder again and said, ‘The invasion has started’."
Series 77 - Britains - MJS - Others - A collection of unboxed, painted white metal and plastic model soldiers in various sizes from a variety of eras. A lot of the figures are unmarked, and appear to be kits made to a very high standard - one has a broken hand. Lot includes FUS Miniatures 8th Army; MJS SS Standard Bearer; Plastic unmarked WW2 British Paratrooper carrying wounded soldier and similar. Overall models appear to be in Good - Excellent condition, some display dusty, and are all unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
Deluxe Topper Toys UK - A boxed Johnny Seven One Man Army plastic toy gun. This desirable toy shows some signs of play use and appears to be in Very Good condition overall. It comes with one plastic grenade, one anti tank rocket, one armour piercing / anti bunker shell and the instructions. The box is Poor with damage at both ends, it still has the original inner packing piece. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
Matchbox - 27 x boxed/unboxed Matchbox die-cast model military vehicles - Lot includes a #67 Saladin Armoured car. A #73 R.A.F Pressure Refueller. A #49 Army Half Track MK.III, and similar. Some boxes are missing their flaps. Boxes appear in poor/fair condition with storage wear. Die-cast models range from playworn to good condition. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (M)
King and Country - A boxed Limited Edition King & Country EA42 8th Army Desert Bentley. The model with seated SAS driver comes with accessories and appears to be in Mint condition, housed within a Very Good box with some general storage related wear. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
Ichimura - Toplay T.P.S. - 4 x vintage Japanese tinplate hovercraft models with flywheel motors in Navy, U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Core livery in Fair to Good condition. Also a TPS battery powered hovercraft which appears in Good condition in a Poor box and a vintage Daintee toffee tin with a Vickers VA-3 hovercraft on the front.
King and Country - Four boxed figures by King and Country from various series. Lot consists of EA30 8th Army Tank Riders; EA21 8th Army 'On Guard' Classic SAS figure; RAF 25 Kneeling RAF Armourer; plus LAH93 Seaman Marching. Figures appear to be in Mint condition in Good - Excellent boxes with some general wear. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
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