Alfred Adrian Jones MVO (British, 1845-1938): A patinated bronze equestrian group of a huntsman and two houndspossibly cast by Elkington & Co.the seated rider blowing his horn, one hound leaping over a small fence, the other before the horse, on naturalistic rectangular base, the rear signed and inscribed AJA and ELKINGTON&CO,, 50cm high, 47cm wide, 23cm deep approximately overallFootnotes:Adrian Jones was a British sculptor and painter who specialised in the depiction of animals, in particular horses. Born in Ludlow, Shropshire, he studied at the Royal Veterinary College, London and in 1866 he qualified as a veterinary surgeon. The following year he enlisted in the Army as a veterinary officer in the Royal Horse Artillery with whom he served between 1867 and 1890. After an illustrious military career, travelling extensively and serving overseas, Jones retired in 1891 with the rank of captain. By this time, he was already active as an artist, having exhibited at the Royal Academy as early as 1884. In 1891 he married and moved to 147 Church Street, Chelsea where he built an art studio in the garden.In 1888 Jones received his first formal commission, to sculpt the outstanding racehorse Ormonde, a triple crown winner, from the Duke of Westminster. The quality and success of this first commission ensured that he attracted the patronage of other horse owners and he soon became nationally renowned as an equestrian sculptor of some of the Turf's greatest racehorses. His training as a veterinary surgeon also gave him a deep knowledge of equine anatomy which he used in his work with great success.Throughout the course of his artistic career Adrian Jones undertook many public monumental commissions, most notable of which is perhaps 'Peace descending on the Quadriga of War' on top of the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner in London.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A late Victorian ebony, palmwood and ivory inlaid display cabinetprobably by Gillow and Co. or Lamb of ManchesterWith ivory stringing, the central bevelled glass inset astragal glazed door enclosing two shelves, flanked by a pair of twin raised panelled quarter veneered and tablet inlaid doors, each enclosing one shelf, above a Greek key inlaid frieze, over a central bevelled glass inset astragal glazed door, enclosing one shelf, flanked by two raised panelled tablet inlaid and roundel centred doors, interspersed throughout with reeded pilasters, the Chubb lock plates stamped with serial numbers and also stamped: 'CHUBB PATENT, 128 QUEEN VICTORIA ST., ST. PAUL'S, LONDON', 110cm wide x 36cm deep x 172cm high, (43in wide x 14in deep x 67 1/2in high)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe offered lot previously belonged to the grandfather of the current owner and vendor. And it is thought by family repute that the great grandfather, Sir Charles Alexander Innes KCSI CIE(1874-1959), originally acquired this display cabinet at the end of the 19th century. Both of these forebears lived and worked in colonial India and Burma, where they were evidently central figures in the administrative running of the British Empire overseas.It seems highly likely that the present piece remained in imperial India until the country gained its independence in 1947, from which time onwards the cabinet evidently permanently returned to England with the family.Sir Charles Alexander InnesCharles Alexander Innes, who was born in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, went on to pass the Indian Civil Service exam in 1897 following an education at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford. Charles travelled to the Madras Presidency where he was employed as a settlement officer in Malabar, in which capacity he also supplied material for The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Then he took up the role of Deputy Secretary to the Indian government. By 1916 Innes had been elected Director of Industries and Controller of Munitions in Madras. After World War I, Innes was appointed Foodstuffs Commissioner with the Indian government. In 1920, as secretary in the Commerce Department, one of his additional responsibilities was to oversee the functioning of the railways. During the following year, Charles Alexander was made Head of the Commerce Department. Two highlights from the period of his term were: the partition of the general finance budget from the railways budget and the foundation of a policy known as 'discriminating protection', the latter of which granted India more self-determination in the area of fiscal policy.The establishment of a Tariff Board of inquiries, which was of massive assistance to the rapidly expanding steel and iron industries in India, was also a policy accredited to Innes. This in turn set up the system which subsequently provided major support in terms of both arming and bolstering the allied forces during World War II. Having been honoured with the position of Governor of Burma in 1927, he went on to serve as such until 1932. Ultimately Charles Alexander was chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India between 1938 and 1952, after initially joining the Bank's board in 1933.Among the most significant distinctions bestowed upon Innes throughout his life were; Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1919 Birthday Honours) for services during the war; Companion of the Order of the Star of India (1921 Birthday Honours); and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (1924 New Year Honours).In 1900 Sir Charles, who was actually descended from the Inneses of Drainie, married Agatha Rosalie, who was the daughter of Colonel Kenlie Stevenson of the Indian Army. Together they had four sons and one daughter. Their daughter Rosalie married Thomas Wynford Rees, the latter being Charles Alexander's private secretary during Innes's tenure as Governor of Burma. During much of his career Rees served as a highly decorated officer in the British Indian Army but eventually progressed to attain the rank of Major General.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alexander_InnesThe item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). Ref AQ698FPU.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Spain & Portugal. Nantiat (Jasper), A New Map of Spain and Portugal, Exhibiting the Chains of Mountains With their Passes The Principal & Cross Roads, With Other Details requisite for the Intelligence of Military Operations, William Faden, January 1st. 1810, large engraved map with contemporary hand colouring on four sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, table of the distances between towns, table of explanation and an 'advertisement' explaining the topography, slight staining and offsetting, each sheet approximately 570 x 785 mm, overall size if conjoined approximately 1130 x 1570 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase with publisher's label to upper board, wear to extremitiesQTY: (1)NOTE:A large and detailed folding map, published during the Peninsular War. Probably because of the war, Nantiat is most exercised with the borders between Spain and Portugal, especially the passes through which it was expected that Napoleon's army might come when the campaign season started in the spring. It is probable that Faden saw an opportunity to sell this detailed and large-scale map to officers in Wellington's army in Portugal, with the idea that it could be used as a reference for the campaign. In July of 1810 - six months after the publication of the map - the French military commander, Marshal Masséna led an army of 65,000 troops into Portugal, pushing on towards Lisbon, but was held back by the Lines of Torres Vedras a set of earthworks that had been built on the orders of Wellington. The campaign - significant for the emergence of large-scale guerrilla warfare - was eventually won by the British under the command of Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the 1st Duke of Wellington. It could be argued that the French defeat was sealed when Napoleon set out with a massive army on what proved to be the disastrous French invasion of Russia. This seriously depleted the French forces with the result that a combined allied army under Wellesley pushed into Spain, defeating the French at Salamanca and taking Madrid. In the following year, Wellington scored a decisive victory over King Joseph Bonaparte's army in the Battle of Vitoria. Pursued by the armies of Britain, Spain and Portugal, Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, no longer able to get sufficient support from a depleted France, led the exhausted and demoralized French forces in a fighting withdrawal across the Pyrenees during the winter of 1813/1814. France, Napoleon and its European dominance would finally fall the following year at the battle of Waterloo.
Vitale (Pietro). Le simpatie dell'allegrezza tra Palermo capo del regno di Sicilia e la Castiglia reggia capitale della Cattolica Monarchia manifestate nella presente relazione delle massime pompe festive de Palermitani per la vittoria ottenuta contro i collegati su le campagne di Prihuega a 11. Decembre 1710..., 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1711, 14 fine engraved plates by Francesco Ciche after Antonio Grano, Paolo Amato and Mario Cordua, most folding and double-page, p. 76 with 'Stanhope' written neatly twice in margin in a contemporary hand, a few folding plates with repaired tears and marginal reinforcements to verso, lacking frontispiece, occasional small water stains and light soiling, contemporary vellum, morocco reback with most original manuscript-titled spine relaid, a few light stains, folio (330 x 220 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Berlin Katalog 3059.An account of the celebrations following the victory of Philip V of Spain over the British at the Battle of Brihuega in 1710 (during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714), under the Duc de Vendôme, who led a Franco-Spanish army against Lord Stanhope's rearguard during the Allied retreat from Madrid to Barcelona.
Muller (Wilhelm). Relation of the Operations and Battles of the Austrian and French Armies in the Year 1809, London: printed for T. Goddard, 1810, 3 folding plans, modern endpapers, some toning & offsetting, modern cloth, 8vo, together with [Fortescue, Hugh]. Memorandum of Two Conversations between the Emperor Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington at Porto Ferrajo on the 6th and 8th of December, 1814, London: James Ridgeway, 1823, 31 pages, errata present, bound with An Account of the Manner of Proceeding at the Contested Election For Yorkshire, in 1807, chiefly relating to the Office of Sheriff, York: printed for Thomas Wilson and Sons, 1818, period inscription to the head of the title page, book stamp to the verso of the title page, 46 pages plus Appendix, modern endpapers, modern grey boards, 8vo, plus Zimmerman (Godfrey), Autobiography of Godfrey Zimmerman, Formerly in the Commissariat Department of The Army Under Napoleon, London: Alexander Durlacher, 1852, monochrome engraved frontispiece, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, 8vo, and 6 other antiquarian military interest including two Robert Barker Panoramas (A Description of the Defeat of the French Army,1816, and Description of a View of the Battle of Waterloo, circa 1815), Collection of Twelve Views of Waterloo by Gerard, circa 1845, etc.QTY: (9)
Military History Press. Napoleon's Finest: Davout and His 3rd Corps Combat Journal of Operations 1805-1807, by Scott Bowden, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 935/1400, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's Apogee Pascal Bressonnet's Tactical Studies 1806 Saalfeld Jena and Auerstadt, by Scott Bowden, 1st North American edition, 2009, unnumbered copy of 1100, numerous colour illustrations, folio, On Campaign in the Age of Napoleon, by René Chartrand, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 552/1200, numerous colour illustrations, folio,The Art of Keith Rocco Waterloo- Napoleon's Last Army, by Paul Lindsay Dawson, 1st North American edition. 2021, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's Last Grande Armée, by Alfred Umhey, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 677/1000, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's First Italian Campaign, by Keith Rocco, 1st North American edition, 2013, signed limited edition 391/1200, numerous colour illustrations, folio, all edges gilt, uniform gilt decorated faux leather, plus The Ancient Art Of Warfare, 2 volumes, 1st edition, by Cresset Press, 1966, numerous colour illustrations, full gilt-decorated red morocco bound by A. Price Oxford, 4toQTY: (8)
Fremont-Barnes (Gregory, editor). The Encyclopedia Of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2006, monochrome illustrations, original uniform boards, large 8vo, together with:Histoire & Collections, publisher, A Dictionary of the Cuirassier Officers of the First Empire 1804-1815, by Olivier Lapray, 2008The Battle Of Marengo, 1800, The Victorious First Consul, by Olivier Lapray, 2014,The Battle Of Ocaña, 19 November 1809, The Army of Spain's greatest victory, by Pierre O. Juhel, 2013, plus 10 further volumes of Histoire & Collections publications, all 1st editions, all original boards, large 8vo, plusPraeger, publisher, Badajoz 1812, Wellington's Bloodiest Seige, by Ian Fletcher, 2005Salamanca 1812, Wellington Crushes Marmont, by Ian Fletcher, 2005Vittoria 1813, Wellington Sweeps the French From Spain, by Ian Fletcher, 2005, plus 11 further volumes from the Praeger Illustrated Military History Series, all 1st editions, all original boards, 8vo, and Dellevot (André), The Dutch-Belgian Cavalry At Waterloo, A Military History, 1st edition, The Hague: De Cavalerie, 2008, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards, large 8voQTY: (31)
Muir (Rory). Wellington, The Path to Victory, 1769-1814, Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace, 1814-1852, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press 2013-15Salamanca 1812, 1st edition, 2001Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleonic, 1st edition, 1998Britain And The Defeat of Napoleon 1807-1815, 1st edition, 1996, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with:Coss (Edward J.), All For The King's Shilling, The British Soldier Under Wellington, 1808-1814, 1st edition: Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plusCardoza (Thomas), Intrepid Women, Cantinières And Vivandières Of The French Army, 1st edition, Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 2010, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other University Presses' published Napoleonic era reference & related, including publications by Oxford, Harvard, New York, Princeton, Cambridge, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo QTY: (75)
Hardman (William). A History of Malta During the Period of The French and British Occupations 1798-1815, Facsimile edition, Malta: Midsea Books Ltd, 1994, endpapers slightly toned, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with;Howard (John Eldred), Letters & Documents of Napoleon volume 1, The Rise to Power, 1st edition, London: The Cresent Press, 1961, previous owner bookplate to front endpaper, small tear to half-title, price clipped, original cloth in dust jacket, lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus, Wilson (Sir Robert), Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army and a Sketch of the Campaigns in Poland in the Years 1806 and 1807, facsimile edition, Felling Tyne & Wear: Worley Publications, 2000, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern Napoleonic reference & related including The Spurious Brood by Olga Bonaparte-wyse, signed, 1969, Military Life Under Napoleon The Memoirs Of Captain Elzéar Blaze by John R. Elting, 1995, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, G/VGQTY: (3 shelves )
Smith (Digby). The Prussian Army to 1815, 1st edition, Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2004, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo,Armies of the Napoleonic Era, 1st edition, Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2004, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with;Caldwell (George & Robert Cooper), Rifle Green in the Peninsula, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Leicester: Bugle Horn Publications,1998-2015, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning to volume 1, All original green faux-leather in dust jacket except volume 1 without dust jacket as issued, 8vo, plus,Carruthers (Harriet. A.), Napoleon on Campaign Classic Images of Napoleon at War, 1st edition, Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2014, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, oblong 4to, and other modern Napoleonic reference & related, G/VG, 8voQTY: (3 shelves )
Lyall (Charles). Uniforms of the Armies at Waterloo, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Berlin: Zeughaus Verlag, 2018, numerous colour illustrations, original printed wrappers, large 8vo, together with other modern Napoleonic reference & related paperbacks including Black Tent Publications, Au Galop! Horses and Riders of Napoleon's Army, Napoleon's Gods: The Grenadiers à Cheval 1812-1815, Charge The Guns! Wellington's Cavalry at Waterloo, Boots and Saddles! Horses and Riders of Wellington's Army, Au Pas De Charge! Napoleon's Cavalry at Waterloo, Crippled Splendour: The French Cavalry from Valmy to Toulouse by Paul L. Dawson, and approximately 200 other volumes including publishers such as Pen & Sword, Histoire & Collections, Arms and Armour, mostly original wrappers,VG, 8voQTY: (3 shelves + carton)
Einstein (Albert). Mein Welt Bild, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934, some light spotting & toning, original wrappers, rear cover torn, front cover & spine slightly rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Aldin (Cecil), Old Manor Houses, limited edition, London: William Heinemann, 1922, signed plus an original sketch by the author to the limitation page, 12 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards, numerous monochrome illustrations & vignettes, some very minor toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards & spine lightly toned, large 4to, 25/380 copies, plusMontgomery (Archibald), The Story Of The Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918, 2 volumes (including the Map volume), London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1919, numerous monochrome illustrations, 19 colour folding maps & 5 monochrome folding panoramic photographs [numbers 1, 4-7] to the Map volume, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and other early-to-mid 20th-Century literature & reference, including Encyclopaedia Of Superstitions, by E. & M. A. Radford, 1st edition, London: Rider and Company, 1947, signed to the front endpaper by 'Alison Uttley, Jan 17. 1949', original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, 8vo, mostly original cloth, some ex-library copies with associated marks, G, 8vo/4toQTY: (5 shelves)
Robert Harford, printed for. English Military Discipline. Or, The Way and Method of Exercising Horse & Foot, According to the Practise of this Present Time, London, 1680, monochrome engraved plates, bookplate to front pastedown, pen lines to the verso of the frontispiece, some light toning, marks & minor wear, contemporary full mottled calf with later spine label, 8vo, together with:Grose (Francis), Military Antiquities Respecting A History of The English Army, 2 volumes, London: I. Stockdale, 1812, monochrome engraved plates, some minor toning & spotting, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, volume 1 boards detached, boards & spines slightly rubbed, folio, plusReed (Isaac), The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, 12 volumes, London: printed for J. Walker, 1820, monochrome engraved plates, some light spotting & toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated half calf, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other mostly 19th-century literature & reference, including Animal Biography; Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy of the Creation..., by W. Bingley, 3rd edition, London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1805, contemporary uniform gilt decorated full calf, 8vo, A Discourse Concerning the Church..., by Robert Sanderson, London: printed by T. B. For R. Taylor, 1688, disbound in modern book box, 8vo, most leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folioApproximately 160 volumesQTY: (6 shelves )
A group of World War I miniature medals, comprising OBE military, Great War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf, and a Special Constabulary Faithful Service medal, together with a group of World War II and later miniature medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with First Army clasp, the Burma Star, Defence and 1939-45 War medals, and a George VI General Service Medal, with oak leaf, and Malaya bar.
Militaria and other ephemera, comprising a World War I period colour tinted photograph of three generations of the same family, framed and glazed, 44cm x 60cm, facsimile photograph of the 531st Coy, Army Service Corps, Cavalry Barracks, York, Sept 1918, two gun cleaning kits, a brown belt, a photograph of the 21st Anniversary of the Lincolnshire Farmers Union, 3rd August 1925, and a further photograph of St John's Football Club, 1999-20.
ROCK & NEW WAVE; records to include, Tangerine Dream, 'Rubycon', UK pressing and 'Force Majeure' German pressing, two by Japan 12" singles of 'Red Guitar' and 'Forbidden Colours', three albums by Steely Dan, 'Katy Lied', 'The Royal Scam', and 'Gaucho', a 12" single 'Fade to Grey' by Visage, Tom Waits, ' The Heart of Saturday Night', on UK Asylum 1976, albums by Tomita, 10cc 'Sheet Music' and T Rex, 'Solid Gold' and thirty singles to include artists, Roxy Music, The Stranglers, Tubeway Army, David Bowie, and four cassettes, Elton John, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Rod Stewart and the Stylistics.
A medal group belonging to Private William Hodgson Green Coldstream Guards, consists of The 914-1915 Campaign Medal of The British Army, The British War Medal and The Victory Medal, all without their original ribbons. Later in his military career he served in The Military Police and was awarded The Police Medal For Exemplary Service, the group also has a 1905 Educational Medal for Two Years Perfect Attendance, two Festival Of Britain English silver crown pieces minted in 1951 and a German 1914-1918 bronze commemorative medal inscribed "For The Fatherland" and The Defence Medal 1939-1945.
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan signed 3x2 album page cutting. Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (16 October 1797 - 28 March 1868), styled as Lord Cardigan, was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford ALS dated 2nd May 1890 taken from the Kirby collection. Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, GCB, GCVO (31 May 1827 - 9 April 1905) was a British Army officer who rose to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War, when an expeditionary force under his command suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of a Zulu force at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. Despite this defeat, he was able to score several victories against the Zulus, culminating in the British victory at the Battle of Ulundi, which ended the war and partly restored his reputation in Britain. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Fitz John Porter ALS dated 13TH June 1889 interesting content taken from the Kirby collection. Fitz John Porter (August 31, 1822 - May 21, 1901) (sometimes written Fitzjohn Porter or Fitz-John Porter) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He is most known for his performance at the Second Battle of Bull Run and his subsequent court martial. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex ALS dated 1826 interesting content. Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, KG, KT, GCB, GCH, PRS, FRSA (27 January 1773 - 21 April 1843) was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his queen consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the only surviving son of George III who did not pursue an army or navy career. He was known for his liberal views, which included reform of Parliament, abolition of the slave trade, Catholic Emancipation, and the removal of existing civil restrictions on Jews and Dissenters. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Twilight Actor, Xavier Samuel signed 10x8 colour photograph pictured during his role as Riley Biers in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as he leads the Newborn Army. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
A collection of assorted medals to include a 1939-45 Defence Medal, an 11th Infantry Brigade Football Tournament medal awarded to the Winners 13th Battn Kings Rifle Corps, 9203 Rfm. J.C Pearson, May 1915, a 1939-45 War Medal, Edward VII Coronation Medal, June 1911 Coronation Medal; together with assorted badges including St John's Ambulance, Royal Artillery, chocolate brown bakelite Royal Corps of Signals economy badge, The Border Regiment, Scottish King's Own Borderers, Royal Army Ordnance Corps,1915 On War Service badge, silver and enamel ARP badge; Post Office Vancouver, B.C medal or badge; Crusader's Tent 1923 Fleetwood Jubilee enamel badge, 1960s Ross Group enamel shipping badge, Lancashire Fusiliers white metal swagger stick top and a small quantity of uniform buttons etc(qty)
Joyce Platt - Half Length Portrait of Major Gordon Wallace of The Royal Army Dentist Corps in Uniform, oil on canvas-board, signed and dated 1941, 60cm x 47cm, within a gilt frame.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A white glazed pottery jug commemorating the Welsh heavyweight boxer Dai St. John circa 1900, colour printed portrait with hand painted naming, the reverse with gilded inscription DAI ST. JOHN, WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF BELMONT, moulded scrolling, condition poor, pitting, internally and extrenally, crazing extternally, crack internally and externally (shown in images) originally with gilt detailing to rim, now virtually all rubbed David Jones was born at Resolven, Neath, 1st April 1871. He fought under the name of Dai St. John and in an era before regulated championship titles was the self-proclaimed Heavyweight Champion of Wales after beating Cardiff boxer John O'Brien. He was very tall for the time standing 6ft 3in. and was a coal miner who got into boxing by supplementing his income in illegal fights and at fairgrounds. When fight opportunities dried up St John joined the British Army and was tragically killed in the 2nd Boer War at the Battle of Belmont, 23rd November 1899.
Collection of four medals relating to wartime and armed forces football, one 9ct gold Inter-Service medal, inscribed obverse and reverse, dated 1936-37, weight 10gms.; silvered medal plaque inscribed for a match with the Czecholslovak Army in England, February and March 1941, in original case of issue; another silvered medal for the Catterick Garrison soccer cup 1942-43; the other medal struck in bronze and enamel and inscribed no.3 Wing, Halton, dated 1937, (4)
Manchester United's Duncan Edwards selection of programmes, menus and other memorabilia,programmes include Manchester United v Cardiff 4th April 1953, Edwards first team debut; Arsenal v Manchester United 17th March 1958; Manchester United v Sheffield Wednesday 19th February 1958 first game after Munich team left blank; Belgium v British Army in Brussels 12th February 1956, fair to good, (qty)
Manchester United 'Busby Babes' autographs & programmes collection, season 1957-58,comprising autograph album featuring Manchester United Busby Babes autographs for Busby, Blanchflower, Edwards, Byrne, Violet, Taylor, Pegg; further individual autographs some with pictorial images for Wood, Colman, Foulkes, McGuinness, Jones, Gregg, Scanlon, B Charlton, Dawson, Berry, Morgan; sold with a selection of programmes including all 1957-58 season League home & away fixtures (42); all 1957-58 FA Cup fixtures including the final (8); 1957-58 European Cup home, only SHamrock away; also included v Real Madrid programme 1956-57 season, v Aston Villa FA Cup final May 1957 with ticket, v Army XI, The Red Devils booklet, Official tokens sheet and various press cuttings; further autographs also featured in the album include Notts Forest Barrett, Morley, Quigley, McKinlay, Hutchinson, Wilson, Watson, Higham; Notts County Tommy Lawton; Preston NE Tommy Docherty; Manchester City Barnes, Ewing, Johnstone, Warhurst; WBA Howe, Robson, Setters, Horobin; Blackpool Matthews, Perry, Mudie, Farm, J. Kelly, H. Kelly, Dune; Arsenal Wills, Clapton, Bowen; Newcastle Stokoe, Keith, Eastham, Scoular; Leeds J Charlton, Baird, Forest, Gibson, fair to good, with wear and some rust staples, folds/creases, stains, page edge wear, some punch holes in programmes, some annotations, some tokens intact, (qty)
LONDON SILVER CASED KEY WIND POCKET WATCH BY WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY - date marked '1888', attached white metal fob chain, open faced white dial set with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, 48mm case diameter, movement No 5291624, 98grms, pocket watch only, no key, currently not running, along with two chrome/base metal pocket watches, one marked 'Services Army' with Arabic numerals to the dial and subsidiary seconds dial, the other dial marked 'Expert Swiss Made', set with Arabic numerals
1st-2nd century A.D. A copper-alloy pyxis of architectural form, a column to each corner, and a bull's head to two of the sides; one side with a male head and the opposite side with a female head; the busts with rectangular recessed plaques below containing inscribed names: 'IVLIVS' and 'LVCIA'; domed lid with corded ribs rising from each corner towards the apex, bulbous finial, knop to each corner. See Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques De Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, items 384, 385, for similar miniature altars, without lid. 70.6 grams, 53 mm high (2 1/8 in.). German art market, 1990s. Mr A.H., a North American collector living in the UK. This pyxis is most likely to have been an ink-pot or a cosmetic box. The fine manufacture, the precision of the details and the presence of male and female names indicate that it was probably intended as a marriage gift. The man was probably an army officer, considering that he is wearing armour and a corona civica, as military decoration. [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website.]
18th Dynasty, circa 1400 B.C. A ceramic funerary cone bearing hieroglyphs in raised relief reading: ?s?r sš mš? n nb t?wy mni 'The Osiris, army scribe of the lord of the Two Lands, Meni.' Cf. Davies, N. de G., and MacAdam, M.F.L., A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones, Part I, Oxford, 1957, No.292. 440 grams, 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.). From an old UK collection. Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016), keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent. Accompanied by an identification display card. Accompanied by an offprint on funerary cones relevant to Men, The Osiris, Scribe of the Army of the Lord of the Two Lands. Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. Meni's Theban tomb is numbered TT230 Alf Baxendale (1941-2016), was a keen amateur Egyptologist, active from the 1960s. He was a good friend of Egyptologist Barry John Kemp who directs excavations at Amarna in Egypt. Alf helped raise funds for equipment and materials for the excavations since the 1980s, and also secured a major sponsorship from one of Britain’s leading brewers, Scottish and Newcastle. He was a member of the Egyptology Society, and became a founder trustee of the Amarna Trust in 2005. Alf bequeathed a major part of his extensive library to the Amarna Project’s offices in Cairo. [No Reserve]
8th century B.C. An Assyrian or Levantine domed bronze helmet of ovoid shape with slightly pointed top and integral cheek-pieces; chased low-relief decoration to both front and back depicting a pair of opposing ibexes flanking a small palm tree; the edge with regularly disposed holes for fastening of the leather lining. Cf. Barron, A.E., Late Assyrian Arms and Armour, Art versus Artefact, Toronto, 2010; Borchardt, J., Homerische Helme: Helmenformen der Ág?is in ihren Beziehungen zu orientalischen und europäischen Helmen in der Bronze-und frühen Eisenzeit, Mainz, 1972, p.99 and pls.31, 32, 3; Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003) in Russian; Dezs?, T., The Assyrian Army, I. The structure of the Neo-Assyrian army as reconstructed from the Assyrian Palace Reliefs and Cuneiform Sources, 2. Cavalry and Chariotry, Budapest, 2012; similar helmets in Gorelik, 2003, pl.LXI, nos.45, 48, 78. 458 grams, 23 cm high (9 in.). Acquired 1960s-1990s. Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr. Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11386-190447. This rare and wonderful helmet is an unusual (probably early) example of conical strap-helmet, linked with similar Greek strap helmets, but until now in the Near East, known only from the Assyrian reliefs. It is shown together with the crested helmets, on the reliefs of Tiglapilaser III and Sennacherib.
Late 5th-early 6th century A.D. A rare long seax, with a finely tapered blade with traces of battle nicks; boat-shaped cross followed by a broad tang pierced by an iron nail for the fastening of an organic hilt. Cf. Menghin, W., Das Schwert im Frühen Mittelalter, Stuttgart, 1983, item 8, Alamannic grave 71 from Pleidelsheim; cf. Archäologischen Landesmuseum, Die Alamannen, Stuttgart, 1997, p.221. 344 grams, 69 cm long (27 1/4 in.). Dutch collection, circa 2000. With Mr D.V.B., Netherlands, 2017. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. The sword and the long seax of the grave 71 from Pleidelsheim were produced most probably by a Danubian or Constantinopolitan workshop, as it is possible also for our specimen, based upon its guard. In the Eastern Empire, these long single-edged blades continued the tradition of the late Roman semispathae, and were used by Roman, Nomadic and Germanic warriors within and outside of the Roman army.
Flanders, circa 1580-1610 A.D. A cylinder-bellied jug with parallel circumferential grooves to the neck, slightly bulbous body and cylindrical central section, shoulder with radiating bands of ribbed panels, narrow foot with radiating ribbed bands and horizontal grooves; central circumferential frieze with inscription around heraldic medallion with the arms perhaps of the Order of Orange-Nassau on a shield with the motto 'PACE ET JUSTITIA' (Peace and Justice), and the initials I and E above, flanked by the inscription: 'LYFDEN GEIT BOVEN ALE DENCK NEIN SPRICKT DIE PENNINCK ICK BEN SOE LYF EN SOE WERT DAT IDER [MICK] GER[T]' Love goes before everything No, says the penny I am so dear and so precious That everyone wants me'. Cf. the Rijksmuseum, accession number BK-KDG-173, for similar vessel; Schmitz, 'Gres Limburgeois de Raeren' in Bulletin des Commissions d’art et d’archéologie, 20 (1881), 17ff., 51-2; Hellebrandt, H., Hugot, L., Mayer, O.E., Raerener Steinzeug / Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Grabungen im Raerener Land / Aachener Steinzeug. (= Aachener Beiträge für Baugeschichte und Heimatkunst. Herausgegeben von Herbert Lepper. Band 4: Steinzeug aus dem Raerener und Aachener Raum, Aachen, 1977, pl.84; for the inscription see Kohnemann, M., Auslangen aus Raeren Steinzeug, Raeren, 1982, p.238. 650 grams, 19 cm high (7 1/2 in.). With Christie's Christie’s, Auction 5347, British and Continental Ceramics, 26 Feb 1995, lot 66. Collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK. In the second half of the 16th century, the Raeren potters developed a new revolutionary technical form variant. This form comprised a foot, a cylindrical middle part, a shoulder and a neck. The cylindrical middle part allowed the insertion of friezes or inscriptions on the jugs, together with the usual coat of arms and medallions, which decorated the jugs from the same period. Perhaps this series was made by Jan Emens in occasion of the Peace of Gent in 1577 A.D., when a medal similar to the 'medallion' on the jug was made to the order of the senior commanders of the Dutch army.
HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON (1739 - 1808). A PAIR OF GEORGE III OVAL PORTRAIT PASTEL DRAWINGS inscribed on reverse Member Grattons Parliment Ireland artist Hugh Hamilton depicting a portrait of Henry Gratton and an Officer of the British Army - in glazed gilt moulded frames, signed.25cm high 20cm wide
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