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Lot 161
An exceptionally rare fine quality lid with impressive provenance: Bear Attacked by Dogs (2) black marbled flange, gold lined rim, 81mm complete with black marbled flared base (2). * Originally offered at auction by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson on 15th May 1924, this lid was purchased by Mr G.E. Lambert for £5/10s/0d. Lambert disposed of his collection privately, much of it to Mr L. Grant in July 1959, this lid for £9/0s/0d. The Grant Collection was offered in four parts by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, this lid selling as lot 30 on 10th February 1965 for £32/0s/0d to Mr D. Jenkins. The Jenkins Collection was offered for auction in two parts by Messrs Phillips, this lid selling as lot 127 on 4th October 1989 for £900 to Mr R. Cashmore. The Cashmore Collection was offered for auction in three parts by Special Auction Services, this lid selling as lot 368C on 19th September 1998 to the present vendor for £1,150
Lot 376
SUYIN HAN: (1917- ) Pen name of Elizabeth Comber, Chinese-born Author of A Many-Splendoured Thing. Interesting A.L.S., Elizabeth, three pages, 8vo, n.p. (Washington?), n.d. (August 1950), to Dear Nora. Suyin states that she has received her friend's letter, which her adopted daughter Yungmei also read, and continues 'What can I say? You praise my prose, and even now I have no idea whether I write well or not. I do not know. I simply do not know anything at all, except that I loved Ian Morrison and I am still so much in love with him that I cannot bear it.....That is all. I do not know whether I wrote a good or a bad book. It just came.' Suyin writes of her family before again returning to Morrison, 'Ian said that I reminded him of Emily Brontë. Who was Emily Brontë? Was she also the kind of person who finds it hard to forgive and who never forgets anything? I wish I could die. I hope it will happen one day soon. Yet I love to live each moment, but relinquish as each moment goes by. I did not know what it was to be in love. Pao [Pao H. Tang, Chinese General. Tang was Suyin's first husband and died in the Chinese Civil War, 1947] seems so much more comprehensible to me now, because of Ian. I am glad Pao died. He would hate what is happening now. He could never adapt. Ian was marvelous. Sometimes he comes back so strongly that I feel he is not dead, though he is now only a few ashes in Surrey (of all places, to take him to England!)' Accompanied by an envelope from the Jefferson in Washington. A letter of fine content. VG. Ian Morrison (1913-1950) Australian Journalist and War Correspondent for The Times, killed in the Korean War. Morrison had a love affair with Suyin while stationed in Hong Kong. The story of their affair was told in the semi-biographical film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), based on Suyin's 1952 novel.
Lot 519
GEORGE II: (1683-1760) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, two pages, folio, Court at St. James's, 17th January 1742/3. The manuscript document is addressed to Henry Pelham (1694-1754, British Prime Minister 1743-54), Pay Master of the Forces and is a warrant for deducting six pence in the pound from the Electoral Troops of Hanover, further giving instructions that the 'Moneys so deducted you are to keep in your hands to be applyed by you to such uses, and in such manner as We shall think fit' and asking that a distinct account be maintained. Countersigned at the foot by Samuel Sandys (1695-1770, Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. To the second page appear a set of manuscript accounts titled Abstract of the Foregoing Establishment and listing accounts covering a 42 day period for Life Guards, Horse, Artillery and General & Staff Officers totalling £456,478. The page of accounts are also signed at the head by King George II and bear the same three countersignatures at the foot. Some light staining, tears to edges of central folds and a small area of paper loss in the upper left corner. About G
Lot 33
ATTRIBUTED TO GIACOMO GUARDI (1764 - 1835) Figures on a quayside by a Venetian Canal gouache heightened with white, on paper laid down on backing card; and five other venetian views by the same hand , (all laid down on backing card ), one framed 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in (11.4 x 19.1cm) and slightly smaller (6) The reverse of the backing cards all bear pencil inscriptions by a later hand stating ' original drawing- view in Venice by Francois Guerin , pupil of Canaletto'
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