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Lot 241
A gold plush articulated teddy bear with black glass eyes, black stitched muzzle, faux brown suede paws, with musical movement (AF), 15" high, and a gold plush articulated teddy bear, the large head with stuck down black felt muzzle and stitched mouth, brown velvet paws and growl box, 17 1/4" high (2)
Lot 256
A cast iron money bank, the front as an arbor with bear and beehive, 7" high, and a similar money bank with Royal coat of arms and profiles of monarch, inscribed "Our Empire Bank", 6 1/2" high, and a Japanese clockwork clown toy, tin plate and rubber construction with card sign "Eat at Joes", (AF) (3)
Lot 360
A pair of musical monkeys, fur covered, card and tin plate clockwork action playing cymbals and drum, 7" high, a "Farm Milk" drinking bear, fur covered and tinplate clockwork action, 5 1/2" high, and a fishing bear tin plate, part fur and cloth covered, clockwork action, 5 3/4" high, all clockwork AF, P-F (4)
Lot 114
leiber (F.) The Big Time, 1976, with The Wanderer, 1967; Our Lady of Darkness, 1978 and Two Others, all UK 1st eds. in dws.; Lee (T.) The Blood of Roses, 1990, 1st ed., dw. with Four Further Volumes by the author, in dws.; and Twelve Other Volumes by David Brin, Gregory Benford and Greg Bear, all in dws. (22)
Lot 1114
An exceedingly well-documented and poignant Great War group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. H. Blades, The Rifle Brigade, late Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), who was killed in action in May 1917 1914-15 Star (4130 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), in their card forwarding boxes and registered envelope, virtually as issued (3) £2000-3000 William Henry ‘Harry’ Blades was born in September 1897 and was employed as a clerk at a bank in Kensington on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Having then considered the merits of whether to apply for a commission, and indeed which regiment to join, he attested in the Honourable Artillery Company (H.A.C.) in August 1915, and was embarked for France as a Private in ‘C’ Company, 3rd H.A.C. Infantry Battalion, at the end of the year. For the first few months his unit was employed on garrison duty at St. Omer, but by the summer of 1916, his letters home reveal service of a more active nature on the Somme: ‘We are getting r ady to spend the next few days in a manner not at all comfortable and free from care. I never knew I was so fond of life until recently, when there seemed a chance of losing it ... It seems absolutely absurd to think so many men should be formed up along the line trying to kill each other; and the sun shining overhead, birds singing and green woods in the distance ... The trench mortars are one of the most worrying inventions. They are fired from the trenches, and go high up into the air, dropping somewhere near the trench. You can see them dropping and have to run up and down dodging them, which might be quite interesting if the things didn’t explode with such force.’ Shortly after these operations, Blades applied for a commission and was despatched to a Cadet School, but fell ill with jaundice. It was not, therefore, until February 1917 that he was finally appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion of his favoured regiment - the Rifle Brigade. And towards the end of the following month, his unit moved up to the front line: ‘Things are not so pleasant now; and in a few hours we shall be in the trenches, some of the many Fritz has presented us with. If they are the same as the villages he has left, he can keep them. I have just seen one of them, and it is as desolate a sight as one can imagine - not a vestige of a building - just a gate or railings here and there ... It is awfully noisy here ... This morning we had a unique and rather touching sight of an aeroplane catching fire. The pilot lived to reach the ground, but gradually the flames gained until the plane shrivelled up and dropped. We could see the pilot throw himself out ... My respect for the Church of England has gone; and with the influence of the War, I have become materialistic - everything is chance. If you and a shell arrive at the same place together, that is chance.’ At long last, for he had not been home to Gateshead since he had been embarked for France at the end of 1915, Blades was given 10 days leave at Easter 1917 - ‘I am glad I had eave,’ he wrote on returning to his unit, ‘It won’t be quite so bad now I have seen everybody I wanted to.’ Just a few days later, on 3 May, he led his men over the top in a dawn attack near Cheresy. On the 7th, his Company Commander, Captain W. A. Crebbin, wrote to his father: ‘It is with great regret that I have to inform you that your son is wounded and missing. Much as I should like to, I’m afraid I can’t give you any hope for his safety. The Battalion went into action on May 3rd and shortly after we advanced your son was wounded: one of my stretcher bearers bound up his wounds but the stretcher bearer informed me that Blades had been grievously wounded and that there was very little chance of his living. the enemy counter attacked us heavily after our advance and we had to return to our original line and we were unable to get further information concerning your son. To be quite candid, though I hate being so, I’m afraid it is hoping against hope to think otherwise than that he has been killed in action. It is the best death that we are allowed out here, to fall at the head of one’s men; but it is those at home who have the biggest part of the war to bear, and their’s is the aftermath to suffer. i was your son’s Company Officer and though I have only taken over the Company recently, I know his loss will be greatly felt. His men looked up to him, loved him and would have done anything for him. His will be a great loss to the company. if I hear anything further concerning Blades I will contact you immediately, but in any case if there is any way in which I can help you, please don’t hesitate to write. I will do my best.’ Harry Blades has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was 21 years old. in addition to the archive described below, his awards are also sold with a wonderful biography of some 30,000 words, written by his sister, in which she draws upon some of his correspondence, in addition to many other family sources. Perhaps most moving of all is her account of the occasion that her brother - on his last leave home - confessed that he would never return: ‘He sought her out in the drawing room, where she was sitting alone in the twilight in front of a glowing fire. He walked round the back of the settee and put his hand on her shoulder. As she clasped it in her own, he said slowly and distinctly, ‘I know that I won’t come back. I want you to remember me and tell your children about me.’ The girl felt a lump rise in her throat and the hot tears well up in her eyes. She knew if she tried to speak she would burst into tears, and she must not do that at all costs. She clung to his hand and inclined her head in reply. Her brother waited for a few seconds, and then abruptly strode out of the room ... She felt she had somehow failed him in his hour of need, and that she ought to have been able to give him some words of comfort; but he had spoken with such grave conviction that no words of hers could have dispelled his gloom.’ It was not until September 1984 that she finally made the pilgrimage o see his name on the Arras Memorial. the Archive: (a) An impressive run of postcards, nearly 60, the whole to his family in Gateshead in the period 1913-15, written prior to his volunteering, and detailing his activities in London, not least many visits to the opera, art exhibitions and museums; together with three letters from the same period, with W. Kensington stamp marks, these dated 2 December 1914, 18 July and 21 July 1915. (b) His enlistment form on joining the H.A.C. (Infantry) on 4 August 1915; his Soldiers’ Pay Book (Active Service), with entries ‘In the Field’ covering the period August 1915 to February 1917; his related discharge form on obtaining a commission and official notification for his appointment to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, dated 18 February 1918; together with some miscellaneous souvenirs from his time in France, among them a cinema programme from Rouen Camp, December 1915, a Christmas dinner menu 1916, signed by four Rifle Brigade officers, and detailed annotated maps of trenches and positions, both dating from January 1917, when he was attending a Cadet School for his commission. (c) A quantity of letters home from the H.A.C. Training Camp at Richmond (9), dated between August 1915 and November 1915, and other examples sent from Kensington and Bisley in the same period. (d) A superb run of letters home from France, approximately 60, covering the period December 1915 right through until his death in action in 1917, most of them in ‘On Active Service’ green envelopes and similarly bearing ‘Passed by Field Censor’ stamps, together with a silk embroidered H.A.C. postcard and the occasional field postcard, and, most poignantly, the telegram he sent home reporting his E.T.A. at Gateshead on his last leave, dated 2 April 1917, his last lett
Lot 511
The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem
Lot 150
A pair of Newton's 'New Improved' terrestrial and celestial library globes Circa 1830 on mahogany stands with ring-turned baluster columns and splayed tripod bases ending in turned feet, united by undertiers mounted with compasses, the maker's cartouches (of similar, but not identical form) inscribed: 'NEWTON’S NEW AND IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE On which all the stars, nebulae and clusters contained in the extensive catalogue of the late F.Wollaston FRS, are accurately laid down in their right Ascensions & Declinations, having been recalculated for the Year 1830 by W. Newton. Manufactured by Newton Son & Berry, Chancery Lane, London. Published Jan 1.1834' , and; 'NEWTON’S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, embracing every recent discovery to the present time, manufactured by NEWTON, SON & BERRY, 66 Chancery Lane, London, Published Jan 1st 1834'. Both globes with brass hour rings and meridians, the horizons with zodiac emblems and each inscribed 'Published 1st March 1832 by Newton's & Berry' Both the globes have their original compass papers, which bear the inscription NEWTON, SON & BERRY (one slightly damaged and lacking pointer and glass) the terrrestrial globe incorportaing 'An improved ANALEMMA showing the sun’s declination and place in the zodiac' (2) 43.5cm diameter, 90cm high, horizons 6.1cm wide
Lot 17
SHEPHERD E.H, and MILNE A.A, Six drawings illustrating poems from When We Were Very Young, a portfolio of six hand coloured plates limited to 250 numbered sets, London, Methuen, n.d. (circa 1925), faded, plain plum coloured, cloth on board portfolio holds the six loose folio sheets, each numbered in pencil 113/250, each signed or initialled by artist in the plate, some foxing, titles and measurements as follows; . Happiness-plate size 23 x 33cm, sheet size 39 x 50cm; Vespers-plate size 23 x 35cm, sheet size 39 x 50cm; Hoppity-plate size 25 x 33cm, sheet size 39 x 50cm; Lines and Squares-plate size 27 x 36cm, sheet size 39 x 50cm; Teddy Bear-plate size 34 x 47cm, sheet size 49 x 64cm; The Kings Breakfast-plate size 41 x 52cm, sheet size 49 x 64cm, Hoppity has a publishers label affixed to the bottom of the reverse side (Illus.)
Lot 1094
* Kate Whiteford b.1952- "Between the Lines (3) and (4)", circa 1990; diptych, oil on canvas, bear exhibition labels attached to the stretcher, in matching grey painted metal frames, 152.5x114.3cm., ea,m (2). Exhibited: "British Art Now", Japan 1990-1991, Cat No 47, The British Council: On loan to Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries, according to labels attached to the stretcher (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
Lot 1108
Frank E Jamieson 1834-1899- "W Stronachlachar, Loch Katrine, Perth" and "Loch Lomond nr Ardlui"; oils on canvas, a pair, both signed, both bear inscriptions on the stretchers, in matching reverse profile gilt composition frames, both bear labels for Daniel Miller, Carver and Gilder, 162a Bath Street, Glasgow, attached to the reverse of the frames, 39.7x60cm., ea., (2)
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