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Lot 335
A pair of William IV rosewood side cabinets, circa 1835, with moulded Breccia marble tops, the fronts with a pair of moulded doors with fabric panels behind brass trellis, flanked by lotus capped pilasters, each 94cm high, 98cm wide, 37cm deepPlease note: These cabinets are not an exact pair, they bear some variations including to size
Lot 443
George Ciancimino, a pair of brushed steel and glass shelf units, 1970s, with jigsaw joint construction, 221cm high, 117cm wide, 49cm deep. George Ciancimino was born in Algiers in 1928 and began his career in Paris, working as a ceramicist and sculptor’s assistant. In the mid 50s he moved to North America where he branched out into furniture design, before eventually settling in London. In Chelsea, he and his brother Jean-Claude set up an antiques business and in the late 60s George returned to furniture and product design and opened his gallery on the Kings Road. He developing a distinctive style that blended his interest in Japanese craftsmanship with his passion for modern industrial processes. He developed a number of fruitful relationships with architects and decorators, especially in the UK, and from there went on to build his own interior design consultancy. Along with designing countless private residences, as well as offices for corporate clients such as Bear Sterns, Seagram and British Airways, his work was successfully licensed internationally to companies such as Mobilier International (France), Jens Risom (USA), Martinez Medina (Spain) and Steelcase (UK).
Lot 342
RUPERT ANNUALS (FACSIMILE EDITIONS)1936-`45, 1948-`53, 1957-`59, 1963, 1965-`66 AND 1970 AND RUPERT ANNUALS C1990 ONWARDS (20) AND A COLLECTION OF OTHER RUPERT RELATED MERCHANDISE, PRESS OUT BOOK, COLLECTORS ALBUMS, CALENDARS, GREETINGS CARDS AND STATIONERY, BADGES, LLEDO BOXED DIE-CAST RUPERT COLLECTION VEHICLES AND STEIFF RUPERT BEAR, BOXED
Lot 191
A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, MID-18TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, engraved at the forte with a hand clasping a falchion, a portrait profile and inscriptions including the date `Anno 1679`, `Solideo Gloria` and `Pro Aris et Focis` (light pitting), brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising shell-guard decorated with a pair of hounds in combat with a bear, globular quillon formed as a hound`s head, knuckle-guard interrupted by a central moulding comrpising a female demi-figure engulfed by a hound`s head, cap pommel and green-stained horn grip 62cm; 24 1/2in blade
Lot 195
A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD, CIRCA 1770 with curved blade double-edged towards the point, cut with a long broad fuller on each face, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief (rubbed, marks indistinct), comprising a pair of short scrolling quillons with moulded borders, bear head pommel decorated in the round, carved ivory grip applied with an engraved silver panel on each side (small losses), and knuckle-chain, in its silver-mounted leather scabbard 55.5cm; 21 7/8in blade
Lot 268
A CASED LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD OF £50 TYPE PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN HENRY MERITON OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY`S SHIP EXETER, 1804, BY RICHARD TEED, SWORD CUTLER, LANCASTER COURT, STRAND with reblued, curved, fullered blade (cleaned, no decoration visible), gilt-brass hilt comprising quillons formed as fasces, langets applied with Naval trophies, knuckle-guard formed as Hercules` club entwined by a serpent and the back-piece as the pelt of the Nemean Lion; finely chequered ivory grip secured at the base by a laurel wreath, in its original, gilt-brass-mounted fishskin-covered wooden scabbard, the mounts cast and chased with Classical scenes including Hercules and the Nemean Lion and Hercules and the Lernean Hydra, the locket inscribed `Exeter`, with belt and slings, in a Lloyds fitted mahogany case lined with blue velvet, the lid fitted with brass carrying handle and plaque, the latter recently engraved `From the Patriotic Fund, Lloyds London to H. Meriton Esqr H.E.I.Co`s Ship Exeter 1804`, the interior with label including the maker`s name, 76.8cm; 30 1/8in blade Literature Frederick Wilkinson, Edged Weapons, 1970, p. 150, illustrated.This sword is one of fifteen Patriotic Fund swords of £50 value awarded to the ships` captains of the East India Company`s `China Fleet` involved in the celebrated engagement with the French of 15th February 1804 now known as `Dance`s Action`. All fifteen of these swords have the name of the relevant ship engraved in a scroll on the offside of the upper part of their scabbards. This feature, unique to the Fund`s £50 swords for `Dance`s Action`, enables this sword to be confidently associated with Captain Henry Meriton, captain of the Indiaman EXETER on that famous occasion - a sea battle memorably fictionalised by Patrick O`Brian in chapter nine of his `Jack Aubrey` novel H.M.S. Surprise (London, 1973).The `China Fleet` of Dance`s Action comprised sixteen homeward-bound Indiamen laden with cargo worth an estimated £8 million and eleven `country ships` sailing from China to India. It sailed without naval escort, being reliant upon the size of the Indiamen - easily mistaken at a distance for British 64- or even 74-gun warships - and the pugnacious spirit of their captains to fight off a French force known to be lurking in wait for them. The fleet and its predators, a squadron commanded by the French admiral Linois, met off Pulo Aor at the entrance to the Malacca Straits late on 14th February 1804. The fleet`s commodore, Captain Nathaniel Dance (1748-1827), was advised by some Royal Naval officer-passengers and, when the French were sighted, adopted tactics that were typical of the Royal Navy in order to delude Linois into thinking that he had met a powerful naval force and not a convoy of armed merchantmen: as night fell, he sent the country ships inshore and formed line of battle. The following morning, three of Dance`s ships hoisted blue ensigns and pennants - a tactic intended to reinforce the impression that they were line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy - and the line stood on for the mouth of the Malacca Straits. At this, Linois signalled his ships to attack the rear of the line. Dance`s riposte was to signal his ships to tack in succession, bear down upon the French and engage them - not a manoeuvre that Linois might have expected from a convoy of merchantmen. The first six Indiamen, led by ROYAL GEORGE - the largest of them, approached the French squadron resolutely and in the face of French gunfire, so unnerving Linois by their evident enthusiasm for the fight and threat to surround and overwhelm his ships that he broke off the engagement after forty minutes and before the remaining Indiamen could join it. The Indiamen suffered only one casualty in the action and, after collecting a Royal Naval escort at St Helena, returned safely with their cargo and to enormous popular acclaim. Dance was knighted, lavishly rewarded and pensioned and received a sword of £100 value from the Patriotic Fund; each of his fifteen captains were also rewarded and each received a £50 sword, of which this is one. Henry Meriton (1762-1826) was born in Rotherhithe and served a seven-year apprenticeship in the brigantine JOHN AND RICHARD on the West Indies trade, working his way up from gunner to ship`s master, before joining the East India Company`s maritime service in 1783. For the next decade, he served on four Indiamen, progressing from 3rd mate to 1st mate and being one of the two survivors from the crew of HALSEWELL when she was wrecked off the Isle of Purbeck in 1786. He joined EXETER as 1st mate on her maiden voyage in 1793 and made three voyages in her, to Bombay and China and back, before being appointed her captain in 1799. On his first voyage to China as captain of EXETER, Meriton distinguished himself in an action off the Brazilian coast on 4th August 1800 when, under cover of darkness, he captured a French frigate, MÉDÉE, that he had pursued and whose captain believed he was menaced by a large British man-of-war. Dance`s Action, in which EXETER was not actively engaged, took place during his penultimate voyage as captain of that ship. In 1809 he was appointed captain of CEYLON, aboard which he was severely wounded and captured during an action in the Indian Ocean on 3rd July 1810, in which a French frigate squadron attacked and seized the greater part of a convoy of Indiamen. Taken to Mauritius, then called Île de France, with his ship, Meriton was released when the island was captured by the British in December 1810; he may have captained the Indiaman SOVEREIGN on a voyage in 1813-14. By 1816, Meriton had been appointed Superintendent of Marine and President of the Marine Board in Bombay, positions that he held until early 1826 when he returned home. Meriton died in Greenwich on 7th August 1826. See A. Farrington 1999, p. 536; the same author 1999, pp. 116 & 237-238; and J. Wright 1997, pp. 30-32.
Lot 489
A 48 BORE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING GUN (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with three-stage barrel octagonal over the breech (pitted, cleaned), fitted with moulded silver fore-sight, engraved blued lock of characteristic form, fitted with external mainspring partly covered by an engraved steel panel, engraved sliding pan-cover with button release, button-catch for setting the sear, flash-guard and engraved dog decorated with tulip flowers (worn, restorations), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid over its surface with engraved staghorn scrolling tendrils and pellets inhabited by rabbits and foxes pursued by hounds, decorated with a bear beneath the breech, carved cheek-piece with a foliate escutcheon supported by scrolling monsters on the left and patchbox with sliding cover decorated en suite on the right, the whole enriched with green-stained horn rondels, mother-of-pearl ball flowers and further staghorn plaques engraved with flowers and foliage, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and butt-plate the latter decorated with a rabbit (repairs), two red painted inventory numbers, and horn tipped ramrod, perhaps the original 78.6cm; 31inProvenance An Aristocratic Collection, sold Jürg Stuker, Bern, 5th-16th May 1977, lot 3684.
Lot 491
A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE, DATED 1652 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel signed in stamped miniscules `Georg Kalb`, dated 1652 and inscribed with the early inventory number `No.87`, plain lock with pierced low wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover and pierced engraved dog, fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved horn plaques and ball-flower tendrils within horn segmental lines over its entire length, including scenes from the chase over the fore-end and patch-box cover, a bear-hunting scene on the cheek-piece, a rustic figure squatting behind the trigger-guard, and a small plaque behind the barrel tang dated 1659 and inscribed with the stockmaker`s initials ` HA.S`, with a horn plaque fitted over the ramrod aperture engraved with a squirrel eating fruit from a basket, plain horn butt-plate, engraved steel trigger-guard, engraved horn fore-end cap, set trigger, and horn-tipped ramrod 55.3cm; 21 3/4 in barrel
Lot 1
A rare Wedgwood creamware punchbowl, late 18th century, the exterior enamelled with the full arms of the Cordwainer`s Society , a bear`s paw crest above the floral initials WO and a shield shaped armorial above the motto BE FAST, the interior painted with fruit beneath a running leaf border, impressed mark, 35cm wide.
Lot 105
[Modern Firsts / Limited Edition Publishers Proof] Faulks, Sebastian, Human Traces, signed and numbered limited edition, Hutchinson, 2005; Clarke, Susanna, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Bloomsbury, first edition, 2004; Atkinson, Kate, One Good Turn, A Jolly Murder Mystery, signed limited edition, Doubleday, 2006; Lansdale, Joe, R, The Two Bear Mambo, signed limited edition, James Cahill Publishing, 1995; McEwan, Ian, On Chesil Beach, Jonathan Cape, Waterstone`s 25 the Anniversary Issue, 2007; Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns, limited edition proof, Bloomsbury, 2007; Ahlberg, Allan, My Brother`s Ghost, signed copy, Viking, 2000; Winterson, Jeanette, Lighthousekeeping, signed limited edition proof, Fourth Estate, 2004
Lot 207
A COPELAND STONE CHINA DISH FROM H.M.S. ALERT, TRANSFER PRINTED IN BROWN WITH A POLAR BEAR WITHIN A GARTER INSCRIBED ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1875, INSIDE A ROPE BORDER, THE REVERSE WITH INSCRIBED ANCHORS AND MARKED ALERT WITH IMPRESSED COPELAND MARK, 24.5CM. NOTE: THE ALERT, CAPTAINED BY GEORGE NARES, LEADER OF THE EXPEDITION, ATTEMPTED WITH H.M.S. DISCOVERY TO REACH A BOAT AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE NORTH POLE. THE EXPEDITION OF SHACKLETON AND SCOTT
Lot 361
Selection of Micromodels (London) Three Dimensional Volumetric Cut-out Card Kits: Beam Engine; H1 Set with Puffing Billy, Rocket, Locomotion; Pre-Grouping Series Set PGVII with The Great Bear GWR, 4-4-0 Compound MR, 4-4-0 Duke Class GWR; Pre-Grouping Series Set PGVIII with Drummond 4-6-0 LSWR, Greater Britain LNWR, Ivatt Atlantic GNR; Set X2 8 Pre-Grouping Coaches in colour; Set BD Breakdown Train; 2 x Set TO Threshing Outfit. Not checked but appear unused and all in VG illustrated paper sleeves. (8)
Lot 21
Seven Britains Trade Boxes containing plastic zoo animals: 1354 American Bison (contains 5); 1333 Polar Bear Sitting (contains 11); 1328 Walrus (contains 11, one with tusk snapped off); 1377 Gorilla (contains 11); 1394 Keepers (contains 6, pen to end of box); 1342 Lioness (contains 11); 1352 Baby Camel (contains 11). Conditions F-E, in overall VG clean boxes.
Lot 79
Four boxed Timpo Tip Tops Frozen North Series: 44057 One man kayak, two standing Eskimoes and Walrus; five standing Eskimoes (one missing foot paddles); 44056 Eskimo Dog Sled with Team, Eskimo and Polar Bear; 44049 Eskimo Igloo with three Eskimo Hunters and Polar Bear. All complete and mostly G/VG in F boxes with tape to ends.
Lot 147
Palitoy Care Bears: Care-A-Lot home in the clouds (F, boxed); Cloud Mobile (G, boxed); Rainbow Roller (G, boxed). Together with Hasbro My Little Pony Grooming Parlour (G/F boxed); Hasbro Charmkins Petal Windmill (G boxed); selection of loose Charmkins figures with 6 card backing pieces (unattached), quantity of loose Palitoy Care Bear and Hasbro My Little Pony figures and accessories. Overall G.
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