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Clangers Peter Firmin signed 50th ann Ivor The Engine Magical Worlds official 2009 Internetstamps FDC. Peter Arthur Firmin was an English artist and puppet maker. He was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. Between them they created a number of popular children's TV programmes, The Saga of Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood. 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

Vingt Mille Lieues sous Les Mers Paris: Hetzel, [1903-4?] 8vo, 6 full-page colour illustrations, rebound in brown cloth, gift inscription from Sir James Walker to his son, Professor Frederick Walker;Swift, Jonathan - Arthur Rackham, illustrator. Gulliver's Travels... London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;De la Motte Fouqué - Arthur Rackham, illustrator. Undine. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Beecher Stowe, Harriet. Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: Sands and Company, 1900. 8vo, frontispiece, original pictorial blue cloth, rubbed;Jekyll, Gertrude. Wood and Garden. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Fourth impression, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle around the World... London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1890. 8vo, red cloth gilt;Scott, Sir Walter. Rob Roy. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., [n.d.] Large 8vo, green cloth;Billinghurst, Percy J. A Hundred Fables of Aesop. London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1903. 8vo, original pictorial cloth(8)

Autographs 3 autograph albums 1) Black morocco album with signatures of King George V ('George R.I.', dated 20th May 1919), Queen Mary ('Mary R', 20th May 1919), King George VI ('Albert', dated 4th November 1921), Field Marshal Douglas Haig ('Haig of Bemersyde', 26 January 1920), John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown (makers of the first non-stop translatlantic flight), Robert Baden-Powell (24th September 1919), Jose Raul Capablanca (Cuban chess player, dated 8th October 1919), Ivor Maxse (army officer), David Lloyd George and Margaret Lloyd George, H. A. L. Fisher (historian and politician), Admiral Wemyss, Purachatra (prince of Siam), Yehudi Menuhin (violinist), Malcolm Sargent (conductor), Nina Milkina (pianist), these all direct onto the album pages, together with the clipped and mounted signatures of Herbert Sutcliffe (cricketer), Maréchal Foch (supreme allied commander in World War One), William Ewart Gladstone, John Betjeman, Harriette Chick (microbiologist), and an autograph noted signed by John Bright (also clipped and mounted), and numerous other signatures. With ownership inscription of Jessie Margaret Irons, Park Grange, Sheffield, and laid-in note (not in the same hand) reading: 'This autograph book started in record [of] the visits to Sheffield of Royalty & celebrates when old William Irons was Lord Mayor & Ada Irons Lady Mayoress in their year of office starting on 1st November 1918. It was later used for other signatures'.2) Green cloth album with approx. 45 engraved armorial bookplates of Scottish peers including Admiral Keith, the dukes of Argyll, Sutherland, Atholl, Gordon, etc., and numerous other families including Drummond, Forbes, Fraser of Lovat, Clanranald, Macdonell of Glengarry, Macleod of Rasay, etc., 2 very large engraved bookplates of the Earls Spencer and the Earls of Radnor, approx. 300 varicoloured embossed crests, 52 clipped signatures of Scottish peers and other notables including Sir David Brewster (scientist), Charles Lyell (geologist), etc.3) Red cloth album including autographs of Yorkshire county cricketers for 1938 (e.g. Herbert Sutcliffe, Hedley Verity, Arthur Wood, Arthur Brian Sellers, Maurice Leyland, etc.), Gracie Fields, masters of Birkdale School (Sheffield), other Sheffield figures, etc.(3) Provenance: David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and ornithologist (obituary: British Birds, vol. 113, issue 9, pp 560–⁠561).

Collection of limited editions 1) Green Blades from her Mound. Poems, from Poems of 1912-13 by Thomas Hardy. A Selection by Mark Cazalet, who also made all the Images. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original yellow cloth with wraparound printed paper onlay, green cloth chemise;2) Leading the Cranes Home. A Selection of Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley. Woodblock Prints by Ralph Kiggell, 2006. One of 150 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original flexible boards, cloth case;3) The Revelation of Saint John the Divine, 1999. One of 150 copies signed by the artist Natalie d'Arbaloff, folio, bound in leporello format in original cloth covers;4) Bert Isaac. The Landscape Within, 1991. One of 100 copies, oblong 4to, original boards, with cloth portfolio of 15 original colour prints each numbered and signed by the author and contained in separate printed envelope, together housed in single slipcase;5) W. S. Graham. Letters & Heads. Douglas Thomson. One of 125 copies signed by the artist, folio, original cloth, slipcase;6) The Pyed Pyper. A Passage extracted from: A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities by the Studie and Travaile of Richard Verstegan, 2002. One of 175 copies signed by the artist Angela Lemaire, 4to, original buff limp leather tooled in blind, in original cardboard case with cloth ties;7) White Voices, being a Translation by Malcolm Parr of La Croisade des Enfants (1896) by Marcel Schwob with woodcut images by Keith Bayliss, 2001. One of 200 copies signed by translator and artist, oblong folio, original cloth, cutaway cloth slipcase;8) The Seafarer. One of 240 copies signed by artist Inger Lawrance and author/translator from the Anglo-Saxon Kevin Crossley-Holland, oblong 4to, stitched Japanese-style in original card covers, printed on doubled leaves unopened along fore edges, housed in original cloth case with linen ties;9) The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer with Wood Engravings and Afterword by Angela Lemaire, 2000. One of 220 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase;10) Masks and Other Poems by Walter Strachan, 2000. One of 100 copies signed by all 12 artists, 4to, original wrappers, slipcase, plates in various media;11) Lucian Blaga. The Poems of Light. Versions in English by Oltea Simescu and Eric Williams. Images by Sara Philpott, 2002. One of 200 copies signed by translators and artist, 4to, original cloth-backed patterned boards;12) Lens of Crystal. Poems by Robin Skelton. Images by Sara Philpott, 1996. One of 250 copies signed by author and artist, 4to, original patterned boards, slipcase(12)

* Juvenile. A collection of approximately 130 prints, mostly early 20th-century, colour prints, by or after Cicely Mary Barker, Arthur Rackham, Louis Wain, Beatrix Potter, Lawson Wood, W. Heath Robinson and Henriette Willebeek Le Mair, mostly mounted, three framed and glazed, various sizes, good conditionQTY: (approx. 130)

A mixed lot of ceramics including Wedgwood, Maling and Arthur Wood.

Illustrated Books. Harling (Robert), Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious, Published for The Shenval Press by Faber and Faber Limited, 1946, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, Leighton (Clare), Sometime -- Never, London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1939, lacking ffep, cloth only, 8vo, idem, Fray Mario, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1939, wooduct frontispiece, dj, hb, 8vo, idem, The Sea & The Jungle, first edition thus, London: Duckworth, 1930, dj, hb, 8vo, Ayrton (Michael), The Minotaur, London: Published privately by Genevieve Restaurants, 1970, original publisher's pictorial papered boards, 4to, Ardizzone (Edward, illustrator), Pictures on the Pavement, London: Michael Joseph, 1955, pictorial dj, cloth, 8vo, idem, Peacock Pie, 1946, dj, hb, 8vo, Gibbings (Robert), Iorana!, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1932, ffep and rear pastedown with ex-lib markings, otherwise good, original cloth over papered boards, 8vo, Reynolds Stone, Arthur Watts, etc., (11)

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852). Prize Models for the Wellington Monument, the report of the judges, 1857, 184-190ff of manuscript on foolscap, 4 pasted illustrations and 1 loose, the record lists ten prize winners, identified by their number and motto only, from which it may be concluded that there were over eighty entries in total, there follows a highly detailed description and critique of the winning and runner-up memorials, taking into account their compatibility with the environment of St Paul's Cathedral, one presumes that none of these entries were adopted, the 7 leaves along with a precis and a slightly later engraving by J.T. Wood of The Wellington Tomb in the Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, (8)

Bourchier (John, Lord Berners). The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. A new edition: with a series of plates, from illuminated drawings contained in a valuable ms. of the original romance, London: White, Cochrane and Co., 1814, half-title, 25 hand-coloured engraved plates, wood-engraved illustration, occasional light spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey and Charles Cowan, Logan House, top edge gilt, later burgundy full morocco, covers panelled in gilt with volute corner pieces and double fillet border, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt to compartments, slight fading to spine, edges slightly rubbed, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Limited edition of 175 copies.

Chambers (R., editor). The Book of Days. Illustrated with numerous portraits, views etc., relating to each month of the year. Collected from numberless sources, 12 volumes, London: printed by W. Davy at the Dryden Press for his friend James Gibbs, 1872, additional half-title and letterpress title printed in red and black to each volume, the two original printed titles (Chambers, 1869) bound in, extensively extra-illustrated with over 2000 engraved plates, portraits, wood-engravings, advertisements, playbills, pamphlets, press cuttings, periodical extracts, fashion plates and other illustrations, each volume representing a month of the year, mostly 17th, 18th and 19th century, but including a few earlier, some hand-coloured or printed in colour, some double-page or folding, the majority neatly trimmed, window-mounted and inlaid to uniform size, a few with manuscript annotations or captions, various sizes, one or two plates with slight repairs, a few light spots, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary uniform crimson half morocco gilt, each volume stamped in gilt to upper cover 'Cecil C. Balfour, light edge wear and some marks, thick 4to, 27.5 x 19 x 7.5 cmQTY: (12)NOTE:Provenance: Cecil C. Balfour (1849-1881); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Specially bound for Cecil C. Balfour (1849-1881), with his name stamped in gilt to the upper cover of each volume. His elder brother Arthur Balfour was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, and is best known for the 'Balfour Declaration' of 1917, which ultimately led to the creation of the state of Israel.The wide range of unusual and entertaining extra illustrations include allegorical, pastoral, natural history, literary, social, sporting and political subjects.Amongst the earlier Old Master prints are Mercurius by Jan Sadeler and Maarten de Vos, 1585 (Hollstein 523), Hyems by Jacob Matham after Goltzius, 1589, January ('Dum glacialis...') by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585, a 15th century illuminated leaf on vellum with border decoration of flowers and 14-line illumination of a saint raising a man from the dead in gold and colours, Martius by Jan Collaert, circa 1609/10, Scaramouche, circa 1700, an early copper engraved version of Durer's Annunciation (from the Small Passion), probably late 16th or early 17th century, etc.Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries include a lithographic portrait of W. A. Mozart by Adoph Friedrich Kunike, circa 1820, a small stipple engraved oval portrait of Ignatius Sancho, by Bartolozzi after Gainsborough, an engraved portrait of Phillis Wheatley, nego servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, 1773, Gall & Spurzheim's Symbolical Head (in colour), a sepia aquatint view of the High Street from the Country Market Place, Philidelphia, a large colour aquatint entitled Boxing Match for One Hundred Pounds, 1818, etc.

THREE EARLY JUGS TO INCLUDE H & K TUNSTALL, ARTHUR WOOD, ETC

A Large Collection of Microscope Slides, large light wood cabinet with 28 drawers each capable of holding 3 rows of 12 slides each giving a total capacity of 1008, with door missing glass window, containing slides by various makers including Norman, Beck, Horne & Thornthwait, WM West, Bradford, Watson & Sons, Arthur J Doherty, Cole, Edmund Wheeler, with subjects including diatoms, minerals, insects, botany etc...

A SCHOENAU & HOFFMEISTER BISQUE HEAD DOLL, nape of neck marked 'S H 1909 7/0 Germany' with PB inside five pointed star, sleeping blue glass eyes, missing lashes and wear to lids, open mouth showing five teeth, wig damaged and worn, jointed composition body, missing both legs from below the knee (both present in box) and right arm below elbow, damage to left hand, height approx. 28cm, with a Kader plastic doll, cased Coronet 020 box camera, quantity of Royal commemorative mugs and tins etc., green enamel metal meat grinder with table clamp, Arthur Wood and Dartmouth Pottery jugs, cased Singer electric Sewing Machine, Serial No.S1724164, child's Debutante 'Little Betty' Sewing Machine, (neither tested) wooden stool etc. (box and loose)

An Arthur Wood pottery piggy bank - decorated with blue, pink, and yellow flowers, width 19cm, together with two similar and a smaller example. (4)

A TRAY CONTAINING ARTHUR WOOD ITEMS

GROUP OF ART POTTERY, including a pair of Arthur Wood ribbed floral vases, a Flaxton jug and vase and a William Bennett jugthe pair 30cm highQty: 5

A quantity of decorative ceramic planters including Brannam Pottery, Arthur Wood and other potteries.

Arthur Luiz Piza and Alfons Dargis Artworks (2) items including a Piza (Brazilian / French, 1928-2017) colored etching, pencil signed lower right and #3/10 E.A. lower left, matted behind glass in a metal frame and a 1964 Dargis (Lithuania / American, 1909-1996) oil on paper abstraction signed lower left, dated lower right and matted without glass in a wood frame having a label verso giving title 'Composition #6' Property from: a Private Estate, Evanston, Illinois Height: 21 inches, Width: 15 1/2 inches (plate, etching)Frame Size: 32 inches by 25 1/4 inches Condition: oil on paper appears glued to backing and having occasional slight rippling of surface, light to moderate wear to frames, accretions to exterior of Piza glass, Dargis frame lacks glass Disclaimers: not examined out of the frames Category: Fine Art > Paintings Estimated Sale Time: 1:29 pm (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1Photograph #2Photograph #3Photograph #4Photograph #5Photograph #6Photograph #7Photograph #8

Oriental ceramics, Arthur Wood tortoise money box and a collection of ceramics, glassware and other collectables, in five boxes

Two Edwardian and later postcard albums mostly humorous and risqué cards inc Donald McGill, Reg Maurice, Thomas Henry, Ludgate, Fred Spurgin, D Tempest, Biggar, Dudley Buxton, Albert Beerts, Bob Wilson, Arthur Moreland, Agnes Richardson, Lawson Wood, Reg Carter, etc others portrait, topographical etc approx 330 card (2)

Pair: Private H. Crates, 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front at High Wood on 21 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (1509 Pte. H. Crates. R. War. R.) good very fine Pair: Private F. A. Richmond, Suffolk Regiment British War ands Victory Medals (5091 Pte. F. A. Richmond. Suff. R.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘431999’, complete with safety chain, very fine Memorial Plaque (Thomas Wilson) good very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Henry Crates was born in Birmingham and attested there for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He served with the 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and was killed in action at High Wood on 21 July 1916 - entering the line on the southern corner of High Wood facing towards Longueval on 20 July, over the next two days the Battalion was ‘cut to pieces by fire from High Wood’, and suffered total casualties of 485. Crates has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Frederick Arthur Richmond attested for the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 January 1916 to 12 August 1918. He was discharged due to wounds, and was awarded the Silver War Badge. His address at the time was Lily Farm, Caldecote, Cambridgeshire. There are numerous men with the name Thomas Wilson on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.

A PAIR OF ARTHUR WOOD STAFFORDSHIRE SPANIELS, HEIGHT 20CM

Arthur Karl Maderson (Irish 1942), oil on wood of a sport stadium, a.f paint coming away in many areas, monogrammed to reverse, 92x116cm

The Royal Geographical Society - Arthur Imhof S.A. an eight-day duration limited edition World Time Clock, in the form of a terrestrial globe with black ground marked with gilt continents, the silvered 24-hour annular dial standing on a wood base with gilt-brass turned pillars, height 27.3 cm.Designed by the British watchmaker Richard Good and manufactured by Arthur Imhof S.A. of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, retailed by the Franklin Mint Ltd., London circa 1979/80.

ART DECO POTTERY. Three pieces of Art Deco Pottery including Arthur Wood & Kensington. Tallest 21cm. Also, a modern Brian Wood, Arizona patterned vase.  Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING.  The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.

An Arthur Wood tea pot and various tankards

A BOX AND LOOSE CERAMICS AND OTHER ORNAMENTS, to include a large ceramic shire horse with cart, height of horse 29cm including harness, a Willow Tree 'With Love' figure, a David Winter 'Green Dragon Pub' model, an Arthur Wood piggy bank, a Carlton Ware pink lustre pot, miniature animals including Wade Whimsies, Peter Fagan and others, crested wares, a Jersey Pottery candleholder, mid twentieth century cruet sets, etc (1 box + loose) (sd)

Seven assorted jugs including an Arthur Wood Majolica style jug, an HJ Wood Ltd 'Indian Tree' jug and similar others.

A group of novelty cottage ware teapots, an Arthur Wood green glaze jug, and three stoneware jars

Royal Crown Derby jardinere Royal Crown Derby jardinere painted with birds by Arthur Wood date code for 1897. 17cm highExpertly restored small section of the rim.

A selection hill walking, scrambling, and climbing guides for Britain, titles including: Rock Climbing in the Peak District, by Paul Nunn; From the Peak to the Cheviots, by John Wood; Climbs on the North York Moors, edited by M. F. Wilson; Holiday Rambles in the English Lake District, by Arthur L. Bagley; Shadow on the Hills, by Nancy Price; and others, contained across two boxes.

LEADENHALL PRESS : London Cries: with Six Charming Children ... text by Andrew W. Tuer. Illustrated inc. colour after Rowlandson. org. half cloth paper covered boards, title label on upper cover, large paper signed proofs, folio, n.d - with Pearson, Edwin, Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Book Literature ... with Impressions from Several Hundred Original Wood-Cut Blocks ... (etc). org. printed paper covered boards with white buckram spine, only 500 small copies, 4to, Arthur Reader, 1890. With - Egan, Pierce - The Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life In and Out of London, red cloth a little damp marked with skiver spine, hand coloured frontispiece (damaged along the fore-margin), 35 hand coloured plates after Robert Cruikshank. Reeves & Turner.1887. (3)

A pair of Arthur Wood pottery models of spaniels, each h.29cm

A George V Silver Double Photograph-Frame, by Ernest Wilfred Sanders and Henry Arthur Mackenzie, Birmingham, 1914, shaped oblong and with two oval aperatures, with an engine-turned finish and central vacant medallion, with wood easel back, 18.5cm wide, 17.5cm high; Together With and a cased silver caddy-spoon, maker's mark RMP, possibly Australian, early 20th century, with shaped terminal, in fitted gilt-tooled black leather covered case, the case 12cm long (2)

Blue and white ceramics, including three cheese domes and Ringtons jars, teawares, including a Royal Albert Moss Rose pattern teapot, Sadler and Arthur Wood examples and a collection of other ceramics, in three boxes

A collection of 19th century blue and white ironstone in an 'Asiatic Pheasant' pattern, Wedgwood vase and an Arthur Wood jug.

Mixed ceramics to include Withernsea, Arthur Wood, a Beswick dog model # 907 and similar, also included in the lot is a pair of bookends. [W] NOTE: THIS LOT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR IN HOUSE SHIPPING, PLEASE CONTACT CLIENT SERVICES FOR A LIST OF SUITABLE COURIERS AND A QUOTE. PLEASE NOTE: ALL ITEMS MUST BE PAID FOR AND COLLECTED OR DESPATCHED BY WEDNESDAY THE 13TH DECEMBER DUE TO THE HOLIDAY PERIOD.

Play Safe With The Stars - From The Estate of Dave Prowse (Darth Vader in Star Wars) - 'Play Safe With The Stars' - Prowse's personal treasured copy of his own 1981 Green Cross Code themed children's annual. The annual features various cartoon strips and inclusions from celebrities of the period, and comes autographed by a wealth of stars and celebrities - all obtained personally by Mr Prowse during the period. Autographs include; Mark Hamill (Best Wishes From A Galaxy Far Far Away!), Paul Daniels, Ben Kingsley, Brian Cant, Stephanie Lawrence, Simon Carrington, Graeme Garden, Jimmy Savile (Mind How You Go!!), John Cleese (Pull The Chair!!), Ed Stewart, George Cole, Maureen Lipman, Brian Jackson, Arthur Mullard, Jon Pertwee (signed 'Who? Worzel!'), Pete Murray, Lenny Henry, Lennie Bennett, Barry Howard, Bob Carolgees, Helen Atkinson Wood, Rick Wakeman, Metal Mickey, Emlyn Jones, Chas and Dave, John Craven, Harry Carpenter, Sally James, Angela Rippon, Noel Edmonds, Ken Dodd (Super Tights!), Bernard Cribbins, David Jason, Val Doonican, Wayne Sleep, Denis Waterman, George Sewell, Peter Purves, Rula Lenska, Little & Large, Barbara Woodhouse, Chris Tarrant, and many others. Some dedicated to Mr Prowse, some with sentiments or in-jokes. Most signed to the first few pages and blank rear pages, but autographs also feature throughout. The album itself has damage to the spine and general wear, and would benefit from restoration. Complete, and no pages loose but some are working loose. A unique archive of autographs, each personally collected by Mr Prowse in the annual. Originally sold in our Estate Of Dave Prowse Part 2 Auction in 2021

WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Oscariana, London, 1910, 12mo, original printed upper wrapper, the lower cover with an embroidered spray of flowers in green, tan and white, within a wide stitched silver wire border.WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Oscariana. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1910. 12mo (145 x 115mm). Additional title within wood-engraved decorative border, title printed in red and black, small mounted illustration at head of first page of text and at end. Original printed upper wrapper, the lower cover with an embroidered spray of flowers in green, tan and white, within a wide stitched silver wire border.

BLISS, Arthur (1891-1975, composer). Conversations, London, 1922, 4to, original wrappers. Provenance: Edward Wadsworth. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 2 OF 5 COPIES SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER "RESERVED FROM SALE", and further signed by the publisher. VERY RARE.BLISS, Arthur (1891-1975, composer).  Conversations for Flute (and Bass Flute), Oboe (and Cor Anglais), Violin, Viola, and Violoncello. London: Goodwin & Tabb, Ltd., 1922. 4to (260 x 175mm). Printed music notation throughout. Original printed wrappers with woodcut ornament [?] by Edward Wadsworth on the upper wrapper (lightly browned). Provenance: Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949, artist, very small signature in red ink on the upper wrapper beside the woodcut ornament); pencil drawing on the rear endpaper [unsigned] but possibly by Wadsworth. (Please see the illustration.) FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 2 OF 5 SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER "RESERVED FROM SALE", and further signed on behalf of the publisher on the limitation leaf. The five "movements" of the work are titled as follows: 1. The Committee Meeting; 2. In the Wood; 3. In the Ball Room; 4. Soliloquy; and 5. In the Tube at Oxford Circus. VERY RARE.

A pair of English mahogany occasional tables, by Arthur Brett of Norwich, of George III style, 20th century, the gallery tops on chamfered supports, joined by pierced X-frame stretchers, 67cm high, 50cm wide, 42cm deep (2)Condition Report: both with scratches and knocks throughout, one with a piece of wood missing from the gallery top, both structurally sound, overall good condition

A pair of 1930's Arthur Wood Deco ceramic vases

James Arthur O'Connor (1792 - 1841) A Clearing in a Forest with Figures on a Path by a Stream Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 93.5cm (28½ x 36¾") Signed and dated 1825One of the largest and most impressive works by the artist to come to market in recent decades – and prior to its rediscovery in a French private collection unknown to scholars and collectors alike – this is a truly magnificent example of Irish landscape art, unusual both in the grandeur of its conception and the bravura handling of paint in its execution. Impressive in scale, the landscape is at the same time a masterpiece of detail, palette and texture. It is perhaps best described as symphonic in the complex richness of its multi-layered surface but somehow the disparate elements coalesce into a harmonious and pleasing whole.The mid-1820s was a period of both consolidation and on-going experimentation in O’Connor’s landscape art. He had arrived back in London by early 1822 and soon met with success with his pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution. A sketchbook of 1822 (National Gallery of Ireland) shows his travels around the south of England in search of subject matter while in 1824 he experimented with etching. O’Connor was an artist in constant need of inspiration from the physical world. He expressed this eloquently in relation to the Irish landscape that he loved so well: ‘I am about [to go] to the wild and beautiful scenery of my native country to refresh my memory, and get some studies to help me in future exertion of my profession – I know I will be benefited by a sight of the grand....scenery that I will meet with in Ireland and hope to show it on canvas’.Through the early ‘20s he continued to paint Wicklow landscapes. In 1825 in a work in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, he revisited the Westport subject matter with which he had engaged in the previous decade and here again memories of Ireland are clear, if less topographically specific with the rocky stream inevitably reminding of his beloved Dargle River. This is one of a series of generally serene compositions showing travellers on a path by a wood including another landscape of 1825 (Gorry Gallery, 2023) and a work of the following year in Nottingham Castle Museum. However, it surpasses all other works of the 1820s in the intricate complexity of its pattern making as various paths penetrate the picture plane. The play of light and shade as the eye is drawn by human activity into the forest – and back again – is only matched by the subtlety variegated palette as autumn imparts golden richness of tone to the verdure. James Arthur O’Connor, was born in 1792 at 15 Aston’s Quay, Dublin, the son of an engraver and print seller. He first exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1809 when he showed The Card Players. This subject piece was to be something of a false start as his interests thereafter were to lie almost exclusively in landscape, and specifically the Irish scenery which he loved. The artist was, however, to spend a large part of his career in England, also making several extended tours of the continent. Together with Francis Danby and George Petrie, he travelled to London in 1813, but returned the following year to care for his orphaned sisters. His first great series of topographical landscapes was of Westport, executed for the Marquis of Sligo in 1818/19 (private collection). To the same years can be dated the impressive series of Ballinrobe house and demesne (NGI). Although he met with some initial success at home (winning a premium of twenty five guineas from the Royal Irish Institute), in, or about, 1821 O’Connor returned to London  and, over the following years, he exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member.In 1825, the year he painted this large work, O’Connor moved to Hampstead where his friend Danby, as well as John Constable, were neighbours and the following year he spent at least six months in Brussels where, it seems, he painted a rather atypical view, The Field of Waterloo (private collection). While his correspondence shows that he was acutely aware of the innovations in landscape painting of both Constable and Turner, it is also tempting to hypothesize continental influences. Indeed, O’Connor made several trips to Europe, meeting with some success in Paris, where he was apparently patronized by King Louis Phillipe. Indeed, given the longstanding French provenance of this notably distinguished work it is likely that it was one of the works that O’Connor brought with him to the continent in the 1820s as a calling card to showcase his art. Certainly it can be viewed as a summation of the different strands within his art up to this point and the proud, even programmatic nature of the signature argues for the significance that O’Connor afforded to the painting. However, from about 1833 failing eyesight and general ill health curtailed O’Connor’s career, although he was greatly helped by a generous commission from Sir Charles Coote of Ballyfin, which was paid for in advance. O’Connor died in poverty in London in 1841. His fellow artists, led by his compatriot the President of the Royal Academy Sir Martin Archer Shee, organized a subscription for his widow.O’Connor’s obituary in the Dublin Monthly Magazine for Apr his character and art. ‘O’Connor was a man of simple, quiet, unsophisticated feelings, alive to the simple charms of nature, and awake to her slightest impulses. He was impressed by her sublimity and grandeur and artificially cultivated scenery was not to his taste’. O’Connor is one of the most capable and interesting of all Irish landscape painters, and comes close to matching the achievements of the eighteenth-century school: as one of his earliest biographers put it, ‘he was a poet with the brush, and exquisitely reproduced the impressions inspired by the more romantic and solemn aspects of nature’. It is pleasing that this, one of his lost masterpieces, has finally been identified and indeed has been repatriated to Ireland after its long sojourn in France.

A fine Great War ‘Third Battle of the Scarpe’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major A. W. Lavarack, Royal Fusiliers, who was decorated in 1917 for his part in the capture of Oppy, near Arras, commended by the C.O. of the 17th Royal Fusiliers for his ‘suggestions’ and ‘coolness’ during the Battle of Cambrai, and wounded in action during the German Spring Offensive Subsequently appointed Secretary and later President of the English Golf Union, Lavarack selected and accompanied two gifted amateur golfers to Baden Baden Golf Club in Germany in the aftermath of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, successfully masterminding a last-minute victory in the Golfpreis der Nationen Trophy, more commonly known as the ‘Hitler Trophy’ over the much-fancied young German pairing Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Oppy Village. Major A. Whitley Lavarack. 17th. R.F. June. 1917.’; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. A. W. Lavarack. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Major A. W. Lavarack.) nearly extremely fine (4) £1,400-£1,800 --- M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. Arthur Whitley Lavarack was born at Willesden, Middlesex, on 25 December 1883. Given the nickname ‘Tiny’ on account of his 5 foot 2 inch stature, Laverack spent his childhood and teenage years in Hendon and Austria, devoting his time to engineering and invention. Granted a patent in America for a ‘recreative switchback apparatus’ bearing a heavy resemblance to a Cornish wheelhouse of the 1800s, his creativity was only stifled by the outbreak of the Great War. Appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 4 November 1915, he is recorded by author Edward Wyrall as one of the original contingent of the 17th (Service) Battalion. Sent to France on 16 November 1915, Lavarack joined 30 officers and 994 other ranks in the Annezin, and later Cuinchy, sectors. According to Wyrall, life at Cuinchy was pretty miserable: ‘In the front line, water and mud - anything from waist to knee deep - produced a condition almost indescribable. The hours men spent crouching against the walls of the trenches (for to show one’s head meant almost certain death from a sniper’s bullet) were passed in dull agony... shell holes and mine craters frequently overlapped one another, mostly full of stinking water, foul from decaying bodies which still lay beneath the turgid surface.’ Engaged at Guillemont and the Battle of the Somme, it was said that a subaltern’s life in the Royal Fusiliers at this time was worth only about a week’s purchase, so dreadful were the casualties among the officers. At the Battle of the Scarpe on 3-4 May 1917, two ‘fresh’ companies of the 17th Royal Fusiliers moved forward to assist the Canadians, one to Arleux Loop and the other to the old British line west of the loop. Noted as present by Wyrall, Lavarack was awarded the Military Cross. Oppy proved a turning point for the Battalion, for as Wyrall noted: ‘The old Battalion which had landed in France in 1915 was becoming extinct’. The surviving officers were now in command of inexperienced men, with strong leadership being ever more vital. On 30 November 1917, the Germans launched a savage rain of shellfire onto the Bapaume-Cambrai Road. Keen to retake the salient held by the Royal Fusiliers near Vendhuille, prodigious numbers of infantry left their trenches at 9 a.m. and began to swarm around British front line units. Holding back the surging masses of grey-clad figures, Captain W. N. Stone and Lieutenant S. Benzecry were both recommended for the V.C., the former being posthumously awarded the decoration in the London Gazette of 13 February 1918. Wyrall notes that the Commanding Officer of the 17th Battalion was keen to praise others: ‘...to Captain and Adjutant A. W. Lavarack, for the suggestions that he made and the coolness which he maintained which were of invaluable assistance to me, especially as both my signalling and intelligence officers were wounded earlier in the fighting.’ The early days of the Spring Offensive brought further challenges for Lavarack and his comrades. Facing a ‘grey avalanche’ at Miraumont, Courcelette, Le Sars and Loupart Wood, Wyrall notes an onslaught no less in magnitude than that faced by Stone and Benzecry in the Rat’s Tail a few months previously. Wounded in action, Lavarack was fortunate to reach the sanctuary of a casualty clearing station. Returned home at the cessation of hostilities, he then determined to spend the next 40 years enjoying the manicured fairways of the best golf courses up and down the breadth of the British Isles - in somewhat marked contrast to the Western Front. Appointed Paid Secretary to the English Golfing Union in 1934, Lavarack soon found himself meeting the German Führer who was considering a ‘spin off’ spectacle after the Berlin Olympic Games: ‘A difficult interview with Hitler is one of the odder golfing memories of Major A. Whitley Lavarack, who succeeds Mr. Alan Sowden, of Ilkley, as president of the English Golf Union at the Union’s annual meeting in London today. Major Lavarack, who has been secretary of the Union since 1925, spent much of his early life in Austria. When Hitler came to power, there was some talk that he would ban golf in Germany. Herr Heinkel (sic), the then president of the German Golf Union, asked Major Lavarack to use his influence to put over the golfers’ point of view. An interview was arranged. After Major Lavarack had explained the game and extolled its health-giving virtues, Hitler said impatiently: “If I allow my people to play golf it must be arranged that we win everything.” Major Lavarack said diffidently that this was not always possible. Hitler replied sharply: “If we do not win all the time I shall plough up the courses”.’ (Recollections of Major Lavarack, published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, 10 March 1954). It is difficult to understand why mid 1930s Germany held any interest in golf or golf tournaments at all, more so why the Führer would spend his own reichmarks on an amber-laden plate trophy. Germany had no golfing tradition, nor champions, and only around 50 courses. More pointedly, author Alan Fraser in his book The Hitler Trophy notes that ‘Hitler was to golf at that time what Tiger Woods is to painting today’. With time at a premium, the Head of the German Golf Union successfully sourced two talented amateur players, but was unable to convince the I.O.C. to admit golf into the programme for the 1936 Olympic Games. Instead, Karl Henkell arranged what he hoped would be a prestigious addendum, an international tournament that would be close enough in time, if not place, to be recognised as part of the Olympiad; christened Der Grosse Preis der Nationen, the tournament was designed to allow golf to wrap itself around the Olympic flag, offering further spectacle for the top German dignitaries. Emboldened by the success of a pre-Olympic tour of America, Henkell sent invitations to 36 countries inviting them to compete at Baden Baden Golf Club; 28 immediately declined. With an increasing awareness of German clubs expelling Jewish players, Switzerland and Sweden soon followed. This left England under the stewardship of Lavarack as one of the remaining half-dozen to accept, alongside France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Netherlands. Accompanying Lavarack to Baden Baden were English golfers Tom Thirsk and Arnold Bentley. A seasoned pair, they faced 72 holes of strokeplay with the combined scores of both players determining the winner. From the calm surrounds of his Black Forest digs, Lavarack sent telegrams to his men: ‘Bes...

A COLLECTION OF ART DECO DESIGN CERAMICS, MOSTLY ARTHUR WOOD, CROWN DUCAL TRIO ETC

Box containing mainly 1930's pottery incl 2 large decorative jugs, 1 marked Arthur Wood, the other Sylvac together with 2 tea-pots and 1 teapot stand and small flower vase

Miscellaneous ceramics, including Arthur Wood basket, Booths Real Old Willow pattern tea and dinner ware, Foley part tea service, etc

A COLLECTION OF KITSCH CERAMIC MONEY BANKS, C. 1970s including Arthur Wood Tortoises, and a fat pony (10)

Mailing lustre glazed ceramic vase, plus other lustre glazed ceramics Inc. Arthur Wood, Crown Devon Fieldings, etc all used and unchecked mostly reasonable

Assorted 1930's and later glazed pottery jugs and vases to include Carlton ware, Arthur Wood, etc.

Collection of Victorian and later teapots, various makers to include Wades, Arthur Wood, Richmond, etc.

A Royal Stafford creamware bowl, dia. 27cm, and an Arthur Wood twin handled urn, width 37cm (2)

LEOPARD AND MAGPIES', EX ADOLPHE STOCLET COLLECTIONKorea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century. Ink, watercolor, and gouache on silk, mounted on cardboard, with a gold-lacquered wood frame, behind glass. Finely painted with a spotted leopard standing foursquare amid rocks, grasses, and leaves, below two magpies in flight. Provenance: From the collection of Adolphe Stoclet, and thence by descent in the Stoclet family. Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949) was a Belgian engineer, financier, and noted collector. He was born into a family of Belgian bankers and became a director of the Societe Generale de Belgique after his father’s death. He married Suzanne Stevens (1874-1960), the daughter of the art critic, historian, collector, and dealer Arthur Stevens (1825-1909) and niece of the painter Alfred Stevens (1823-1906). The Stoclets were connected with avant-garde art circles in Paris and Vienna, where they met Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), who designed the Stoclet’s famous Palais in Brussels. Gustav Klimt (1862-1916) painted the murals in its dining room. The Palais Stoclet, today a UNESCO World Heritage site, was the lavish setting to one of the most important eclectic art collections of all times, which included Egyptian and Chinese sculpture, medieval Italian paintings and metalwork, enamels and relics, as well as Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art.Condition: Good condition with minor wear, little soiling, creasing, small tears, minuscule losses. The frame with some wear, age cracks, and a minor repair to one corner. Dimensions: Image size 211 x 114.5 cm, Size incl. frame 220 x 124 cmKkachi pyobeom, paintings depicting magpies and leopards, was a prominent motif in the minhwa folk art of the Joseon period. The leopard represents authority and the aristocratic yangban, while the dignified magpie represents the common people. Hence, such paintings were a satire of the hierarchical structure of Joseon's feudal society.Museum comparison:Compare a related painting of a leopard and magpie in the Museum of Far Eastern Anitquities, Stockholm.

2 Arthur Wood staffordshire style cats, 11" tall.

A pair of Arthur Wood jugs together with two other flower jugs

ARTHUR WOOD WALL POCKET, decorated with flowers, along with an Art Deco jug and a small flower vasejug 19.5cm highQty: 3

Arthur Wood cruet, 19cm, an oak and glass Deco trough, and a walnut box

A Collection of Glazed Ceramics to Comprise Two Green Glazed Graduated Ribbed Vases (Tallest 25cm High), Watcombe Pottery Bowl with Wavy Rim (1514) AF, Langley Coffee Pot and Jug and an Arthur Wood Indian Tree Jug

A Collection of Various Ceramics to Comprise Oriental Blue and White Vase, Baluster Vase and Cover Art Deco Arthur Wood Spider Webb Pattern Ewer, 19th Century Jug etc