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Click here to subscribeCorgi Toys Gift set 1 Car Transporter with Four Cars, 1101 Bedford Car Transporter, four unboxed cars, 201 Austin Cambridge, 205 Riley, 208 Jaguar, 300 Austin Healey, model are fair to good, no dummy boxes, with instruction leaflet, outer original box is poor to fair, plus six unboxed Corgi Toy Cars, Morris Mini Minor, Morris Cowley, Austin A40, Standard Vanguard RAF, Fiat 1800 and Chevrolet Impala police car, all in fair to good condition (11 items)
Selection of playworn Dinky toys, including Austin Atlantic, Rover 75, Studebaker, Hillman Minx, Austin Healey, Triumph, Vanguard, Observation coach, Breakdown truck, BR horse box, Army Tank transporter and Centurion Tank, Ambulance, Army trucks and more, generally poor condition, (38 items).
Nine Unboxed Corgi Toys, including, 1142 Holmes Wreck Truck, 433 Volkswagen Delivery van, 441 Volkswagen Toblerone van, 471 Karrier Bantam Snack bar, 209 Riley Police Car, 437 Cadillac ambulance, 448 Austin police mini van, 506 Sunbeam Imp Panda car and 513 Citroen Safari Alpine Rescue, all in good to excellent condition (9 items)
Twenty Three Unboxed Commercial Dinky Toys, including, Bedford vans, Kodak, ‘Ovaltine’ ‘Dinky Toys, Trojan Vans, Esso-Chivers-Cydrax (repainted), Bedford Refuse wagon, Commer Break down truck, Austin Raleigh Cycles, 27G motor cart, Loudspeaker van, 30w Hindle Smart, Dublo Royal Mail van, 25c Flat truck, plus others, all in poor to very good condition, (21 items)
Four Boxed Dinky Toys Cars, 112 Austin Healey Sprite, red, 113 M.G.B. Spots Car, off white, 197 Morris Traveller, off white, red interior and 240 Cooper Racing Car, blue body, no 20, all models are in fair to excellent condition, original boxes, are good to excellent, complete with all end flaps (4 items)
Collection of Playworn Dinky Military Models, 2x 660 Tank Transporters with Thornycroft Mighty Antar Wagons, 2x 651 Centurion Tank, 622 10 Ton Army Truck, 621 3 Ton Army Wagon, 661 Recovery Tractor, Armoured Personnel Carrier, 688 Field Artilery Tractor, 641 Army 1 Ton Cargo Truck, 2x 670 Armoured Car, 2x 673 Scout Car, 674 Austin Champ, Trailer 25 PR Gun, 2x 692 Medium guns and a 696 25PR Gun, models are in very good to fair condition (19 items)
Three Original Boxed Dinky Toys Cars, 103 Austin-Healey ‘100’ Sports, red body, grey interior/wheel hubs, in good to very good condition, some paint chipping, with correct colour spot box, complete with end flaps, box has wear, 133 Cunningham C-5R Road Racer, white body, tan interior, driver, with blue wheel hubs, in very good to excellent condition, plain yellow box is fair to good and 158 (40A) Riley Saloon, cream body, green wheel hubs, in excellent condition, box is poor (3 items)
Twenty Playworn/Repainted Dinky Toys, including 27f Estate car, 139a Ford Fordor, 40b Triumph, 40d Austin Devon, 2x 40j/161 Austin Somerset, 157 Jaguar XK 120, 40e Vanguard, 30p Petrol tanker, 470 Austin Van Shell, 480 Bedford Van Kodak, 29c Bus, 2x 29b Streamline bus, 36g Taxi, 40h Taxi, 42a Police box, 30w Hindle Smart, 27a Massey Harris Tractor and a telephone box, all in poor to good condition (20 items)
Dinky delivery vans and other vehicles, 453 Trojan OXO van, blue, good condition, some scuffs, 471 NESTLE’S Austin van, red, good condition, boxed 181 VW, light grey with blue hubs, 661 Army Recovery tractor, 064 Dinky Dublo Austin lorry and 066 Bedford flat truck box only, all excellent to mint condition, boxes good and a 781 Petrol Pump Station ESSO, good condition, couple of chips to pump tops, boxed with inner packing, good condition, (7 items).
A Selection of Playworn Dinky Toy Models, including Oxo Trojan Van, 2x 237 Racing Mercedes Benz, 261 Post Office Telephone Service Van, Austin Atlantic, 239 Vanwall, 2x 192 Desoto Fireflite, 150 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, 2x 27F, 2x 25Y Jeep, Standard Atlas, 160 Austin A30 and a 120 Jaguar E Type plus others, models are in good to fair condition (27 items)
Bindings. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, A Selection from the Papers of the Late Arthur Austin, Edinburgh, 1822, some spotting and marks, later gilt decorated red half morocco bound by William Brown, spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 8th edition, 1902, black and white illustrations, later red half morocco bound by Sotheran, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Descriptive Sketches, Illustrating Mr William Simpson's Drawings of the Seat of War in the East, First Series, by George Brackenbury, 1855, black and white illustrations, contemporary gilt decorated red half morocco bound by M.M. Holloway, boards and spine rubbed with minor loss, large 4to, plus other mostly 19th century literature, all gilt decorated leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to, approximately 75 volumes (3 shelves)
Marryat (Frederick). Mr Midshipman Easy, volumes 1-3, 2nd edition, 1836, period inscription to volume 1 front endpaper, some light spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half calf bound by Bumpus, boards and spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Dobson (Austin), Collected Poems, 7th edition, 1907, black and white portrait frontispiece, period inscription to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary ornate gilt decorated red full morocco, front board lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Kennard (Mrs Edward), Wedded to Sport. A Novel, 1893, period inscription by the author to front endpaper, some light spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green half morocco, spine faded, boards slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th century literature, some leather bindings, some original cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)
PROMINENT CONTEMPORARY/FREE JAZZ SAX PLAYERS - Leading collection of 13 x LPs! Artists and titles include Charles Austin (x3) - Mindscapes (Spitball SB-4 - Ex/Ex), Expression To The Winds (Spitball SB 6- Ex+/Ex) and Peace On Earth (FIDARDO 5), Arthur Blythe (x3) - Metamorphosis (India Navigation IN 1038 - Ex+/Ex), The Grip (IN 1029 - Ex+/Ex) and Bush Baby (AD 5008 - Ex+/Ex) and Rova Saxophone Quartet (x7) inc. The Bay (Ictus 0019 - Ex+/Ex+), (with Anthony Braxton) - The Aggregate (SAS 023 - Ex+/Ex), The Removal Of Secrecy (METALANGUAGE 106), Rova Play Lacy, This, This, This, This., Daredevils and As Was. Condition is largely Ex to Ex+.
Miller (Liam) Dolmen XXV, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1976, signed Ltd. Edn. 38 (50) copies, leather backed boards, ilus., slip case; Kinsella (Th.) Wormwood, sm. folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1966 Signed Ltd. Edn. 350 copies, cloth backed boards, slip case; Montague (John) The Bread God, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1968, Signed Ltd. Edn., 250 copies, ptd. wrappers; Miller (Liam)ed. A Tribute to Austin Clarke on His 70th, 9 May 1966, D. (Dolmen) 1966, Ltd. Edn., ptd. wrappers, as a lot. (4)
A George IV silver three-piece tea service, each element of compressed oblate form, profusely decorated with floral and foliate mouldings, repousse work and engraving, a C-scroll cartouche framing the engraved arms of the Russell family with motto "Che Sara Sara", Thomas Austin, London, 1824, 1536 g
3 limited edition prints to include 2 by Nick Hardcastle, one numbered 14/250, signed in pencil by the artist lower right, entitled "County School" the other limited edition 6/750 entitled "L1 Tank at Brundel" again signed lower right in pencil by the artist, framed under glass. Image size 25 cm x 35 cm for each and a further limited edition print by John Austin entitled "Dawlish Castle" numbered 33/350 signed lower right in pencil by the artist, framed under glass. Image size approximately 40 cm x 55 cm. (3)
Sir Peter Austin Flag officer & Tony Theobald artist signed 1974 Centenary of Winston Churchill official Navy cover RNSC18. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Nine Vanguard Die-cast Triumph Herald saloon (VA05012), Imperial Saloon (VA 34002), Colorado Austin Healey (VA51000), Triumph Spitfire MK111 (VA06705), Willow Green Rover (VA27003), VW Cabriolet (VA2001), Austin A60 Cabridge (VA44000), Triumph Dolomite Sprint (VA05304) and Thames Trader Drop Side (VA15002) all boxed. No condition reports for this sale.
Lamb (Lady Caroline, novelist, 1785-1828) Autograph Letter third person to Mr. Glossop, 1p., 8vo, n.p. [Brocket Hall in another hand], n.d. [c. 1820s], "Lady Caroline Lamb presents her Compliments to Mr Glossop and begs to inform him a letter she has received from Mr. Jones. She also wishes much to ask him whether he suffered for his good nature or whether Mr Kinnaird has shaken hands as he ought and forgive his having attended to Lady Caroline's request", tipped-in on album leaf § Byron (Lady Noel, wife of Lord Byron, 1792-1860) Autograph Letter third person to J.B. Sale, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, sm. 4to, 4 New Norfolk Road, 28th January 1829, apologising for not meeting him but that she has "a severe cold" and acknowledging "her good and singular obligations to him", old newspaper cutting laid down on letter, tears along folds, browned; and 3 others, comprising letters from Jane Porter, Eliza Cook and Sarah Austin, an an engraved portrait of Eliza Cook, folds, v.s., v.d. (6 pieces).
SPARE, Austin Osman: Earth Inferno. Printed by the Co-Operative Printing Society Limited., London., 1905 (1904 at the end). Signed Limited Edition, No. 25 of 265 copies. Folio. (440 x 356 mm). 30pp, illustrations by Spare throughout including full-page plates, reproductions of drawings and numerous vignettes. Published when Spare was 18. Bound in the original cloth boards; covers little grubby; G+
§ Austin Osman Spare (1888-1956)pencil and coloured pencils on thin wove paper'Threshold: Quasi-automatic drawings. 1944-1945' title page in the original album with attached note '35 drawings by A.O.S. Bought for £15. Nov 15th 1945 through Hannen Swaffer'8 x 13in.LOTS 1087 - 1115 FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN EASTBOURNEAn introduction by Dr William Wallace, an acknowledged authority on the life and work of the artist and author of The Catalpa Monographs: A Critical Survey of the Art and Writings of Austin Osman Spare - Jerusalem Press, 2015AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1886-1956)SKETCHBOOK OF 35 DRAWINGSThe suite of fine drawings by Spare offered here for sale represent sketchbook works but of accomplished presentation drawing standard, and represent one of his usages for this medium, permitting his inspiration to unspool sequentially onto the pages from his restlessly combinatory imagination.He is unusual amongst artists, in that he was prepared to sell his sketchbooks; these are usually retained by artists as containing germinal ideas for more resolved works. Whilst Spare also did this he was not possessive about them, and at times they were extensions of his own published occult-philosophical works. Good, early examples include the exquisite mystical bookworks in ink and watercolour The Focus of Life & The Papyrus of Amen-AOS (1905-6) and The Arcana of AOS & the Consciousness of Kia-Ra (1906), developing ideas from his first published book Earth:Inferno (1905), both sold to his friend and mentor, the avid collector, Pickford Waller (1873-1927), possibly in the hope of publication. This was only realized in 2011 as Two Grimoires which succinctly conveys their magical nature. The title The Focus of Life would be invoked again by Spare for his published oneiric odyssey and masterwork of 1921Spare was again selling sketchbooks by 1924, and again to Waller with Satyros at Stroud, a mythologised vision of the Gloucestershire landscape in pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour, produced on holiday far from the fleshpots of the Boro'; 'Satyros' being one of the artist's alter-egos. His accompanying letter to Waller is upbeat, Spare having been bucked by the sale of four drawings to Lord Leverhulme. Two other sketchbooks of that year have since been part-published, the sublime Ugly Ecstasy, with its grotesque, Baudelairean vision of beauty, bought by Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1976), and The Valley of Fear: Metamorphosis, with its Sherlockian title (Spare loved detective stories), another Waller acquisition. Another, (1925;published 1972), A Book of Automatic Drawings, is actually quasi-automatic, with more finely finished grotesquerieOverall, the sketchbooks vary, from the type of fluent ludic outpourings of the automatics, to finely finished sequences verging on discreet narrative as in an unfolding journey, to more didactic sketchbooks intended as instructive for students of his Austin Osman Spare School of Draughtsmanship. Others contain preparatory drawings for larger pastel paintings and other work, and even, as with one owned by his great friend and amanuensis Frank Letchford (1916-1998), a combined sketch/scrapbook with pieces collaged over full-paged drawings of c.1954Several notable sketchbooks, including types (drawings) here offered at auction were produced whilst the artist was "fire-spotting" for flying bombs over his beloved Southwark. One such, (recently published) consists of 24 highly finished drawings, entitled: Adventures in Limbo, obliquely recalling the Dantean influence of the 1905 Earth:Inferno. Spare, like Blake, viewed London as both (literally and metaphorically) as both concrete and spiritualised as well as charged with mystery. In Dante's Limbo, the poet in wonder sees the noble pagans later revered by Spare: Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Democritus, Diogenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Thales, Zeno (of Cittium), and Dioscorides. The artist was to reveal tellingly in his 'Mansion House' pub show catalogue (1952) that his sketchbooks for sale (items 101-111) are titled Cacoethes Scribendi. These range from12 to 48 drawings priced from £2 10s to £8.00. He describes them thus:Cacoethes scribendi: Twelve sketchbooks of original ideas. A work of art often owes its virtue to omission as well as revision or consummation; yet equally (if not more so), the uninhibited nature of the contents of artist's scribbling books are instructive, potent and stimulating, because they show the creative faculty in unhindered operation, and the underlying ideas motivating the artist are in some measure revealed. Those purchasing these sketchbooks obtain therewith both the copyright and my permission to exploit any of the ideas as their ownThe 153 exhibition at 'The White bear' tavern offered "sketchbooks by request" (items 141-2) One of these, from Letchford's collection (No5) of twelve drawings features Witches Sabbath scenes, and one drawing is of three plinthed satiric heads labelled 'Carus Lucretius', 'Apuleius', and 'Zeno of Elea', there is a distinct whiff of Faustian brimstone. Several drawings in this book were developed; one, into an ink drawing on wood: 'Evocation by Acrobatics' appeared in Spare's last show- at the Archer Gallery in 1955 (no 139). Conversely, one drawing is a version of 'These are the Women' (minus the anthropomorphic tree) which had been shown at 'The Mansion House' pub in 1952, although the title occurred at Spare's "Home Show" of 1936 (no 8). Another book owned by Letchford is a mix, starting with a list of titles for his last exhibition and several preparatory sketches, such as 'Ghosts are Sidereal' (no 45) alluding to Spare's method of anamorphic distortion, and part of the 'Ghosts I Have Seen' series.Sketchbooks in the Bower-Dalton collection reflect their diversity. Spare has used an autograph book for his mainly satyrized heads and titled it A Book of Satyrs (after his second published book of 1907). The 29 drawings probably capture the mythologised heads of ARP, AFS and ambulance personnel, again whilst on fire-watching duty, capturing the denizens of the wartime blackout Inferno. Another in the same collection is titled Static Alignments (1944-5) comprising twenty demonstration drawings for students. Another of 1944: Ideas and Transcriptions From Life: Drawn for Students was presented after the war, to Frank Letchford, displaying a variety of experimental stylesThe title Cacoethes Scribendi of 1952 for his sketchbooks provides a clue to Spare's motives. The term originates (typically) with a satirist, Juvenal (late 1st-2nd c AD), who refers in Book III (7th Satire) to: "insanibile scribendi cacoethes" an incurable passion for writing (drawing in Spare's case), as almost a pathological compulsion. Again, the classical world collides with London, with Juvenal's influence on Sam Johnson (1709-1784), in his London of 1738. The phrase also occurs in a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), the first line reading: "If all the trees in all the woods were men". In fact, Spare does sometimes present trees in anthropomorphic form. The present sketchbook drawings reveal a glimpse into the mind and soul of an extraordinary artistDr William Wallace: August 2017Gorringe's are grateful to Dr Wallace for providing this learned overview
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