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Click here to subscribeMixed toys to include 17 x carded Del Prado ' Men at War ' metal figures (mostly with accompanying booklets), carded Kenner 1980s Super Powers Collection Wonder Woman (appears unopened), Academy Minicraft Ford Capri plastic model kit, vintage Pinocchio jigsaw puzzle, boxed Disney figures/ornaments, boxed Rupert Bear figures, PG Tips advertising toys, Disney mugs, Disney stereo tapes, etc
Mixed Toys & Games - Nine boxed Disney figure ornaments (to include Christmas Magic examples), Dreamworks plastic figures (including Shrek), boxed Rupert Bear friction-power car, Terminator ltd edn 2-part box set, Barbie Doll, Waddington's Monopoly, Walt Disney Pinocchio jigsaw puzzle, Waddington's 'The Battle of the Little Big Horn'', boxed Fireman Sam fire engine & figures, carded New Line Productions The Golden Compass Lee Scoresby figure, etc (2 boxes)
Large collection of mixed toys & dolls to include a quantity of Playmobil (City Line bus, fencing, figures, etc), Canterbury Bear, boxed Marke Technofix 318 Mystery Shooting Gallery (box poor), Tomy Thomas The Tank Engine track & locos, wooden farming base & buildings, boxed Vulcan Childs Sewing Machine, Britains figures, etc
Three boxed Steiff limited edition Harrods Musical Bears, to include 650369, certificate No.01077, 662133 Howard, certificate No.00164 & 661211 Percy, certificate No.00186, together with 662386 The Black Watch - The Musical Bear, certificate No.00034, with drawstring bag , bears ex, boxes with some wear (4)
Four boxed limited edition Steiff Bears, to include 661273 Exhibition Bear 2003, certificate no. 00921, 656507 Sommer 2007, certificate no. 00688, 672507 Auction Set, certificate no. 00344 & 662386 ' The Black Watch ' Musical Bear with drawstring bag, certificate no. 00647, bears ex, boxes gen vg/ex (4)
Steiff - Three boxed limited edition replica teddy bears, to include Teddy Bear 1926, The smaller version of ' Happy Anniversary ' owned by Paul and Rosemary Volpp, white tag 407215, with certificate no. 3311, Teddy Baby Maid 1930 Blond 25, white tag 407512, with certificate no. 00563 & Teddy Baby Boy 1930 Blond 25 with original packaging, white tag 407529, with certificate no. 00589, bears ex, boxes gen gd/vg (3)
Collection of 12 unboxed smaller Steiff bears, to include The British Isles Bears x 4, 661136, 661112, 661143 & 661105, Classic Mr. Cinnamon 000171, Original Teddy 0201/18, Classic Teddy 027406, Original Teddy 0202/18, Cosy Friends Charly 012884, Cosy Friends Original 022791, Cosy Friends Original 110146 & Cosy Friends Original 110221, together with boxed Mini Teddy Bear 039027 & Light Blue Steiff Club Gift 2004, overall condition vg / ex (14)
Five 20th century handmade jointed teddy bears to include 'Buster' bear by Margi Annandale, Brotherwood Bears mohair teddy bear, Sylvi Bears, Cowslip Bear Company and Janet Steward examples, plus three vintage soft toys / bears (straw-filled Dachshund, straw-filled cat with bell & a small jointed bear) and a seated dog soft toy. (Largest bear measures approx 39cm tall)
Steiff - Five Steiff teddy bears with tags to include 100th Anniversary Othello, no. 660498 (with COA), Millennium bear, no. 654701 (with COA), Capricorn bear, no. 654961, Cosy friends blonde bear, no. 022760 and ' Fynn ' bear, no. 111327, contained with an original Steiff box, together with a Hermann ' Princess Diana Queen of Hearts ' ltd edn musical bear with tag, and one other teddy bear with Concorde jumper
Large collection of teddy bears & soft toys to include TY Beanie bears (with tags), Disney Store, Build-a-Bear, Raikes Bears, and Wallace & Gromit examples, featuring Build-a-Bear FIFA World Cup 2010, boxed Raikes Bears 'Max' bear, Aardman Animations 'Bleating Shaun', Aardman Animations Shaun Nightwear Case, Disney Store 'Stitch Crashes', etc, plus a small quantity of mixed toys to include Disney Animator's Collection Ornament Set of 5, Wallace & Gromit gift box, jigsaw puzzles, etc (4 boxes)
East India Company, Madras Presidency, Later coinages: Moghul style, gold Mohur, 1817-18 issue, Arkat, sikka mubarak badshah ghazi aziz-ul-din muhammad alamgir [The auspicious coin of the victorious emperor chosen of the faith of Muhammad Alamgir], frozen date 1172h above, rev. zarb arkat sanat 6 julus maimanat manus [Struck at Arkat in the 6th year of tranquil prosperity], 11.69g/12h (Prid. 238 [Sale, lot 401]; Stevens 4.1; KM. 418; F 1584). Tiny obverse rim nick at 1 o’clock, otherwise about extremely fine, retaining original brilliance [certified and graded NGC AU 58] £1,000-£1,500 --- Provenance: SNC (London) February 1982 (743), ticket. Owner’s ticket. By a proclamation of 9 December 1817 the standard circulating medium in Madras became the silver rupee, subsuming the old pagoda system. Gold rupees (mohurs), and their fractions, struck in late 1817 and 1818, were declared current from 7 January 1818 and may be distinguished from previous issues bearing the fixed date of 1172h by the closed lotus flower they bear. The designs of the gold and silver coins were near-identical and, to prevent the circulation of imitations and gilt copies, it was decided to call in the gold, most of which was in the form of mohurs, and re-issue the three denominations with a revised design incorporating the arms of the Company from March 1819. The gold third-mohur, conceived as the equivalent to five silver rupees, entered circulation on 15 May 1820 and quickly became the only small gold coin struck at Madras in the years prior to the introduction of the uniform system in 1835
The first silver coin struck at Bombay East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type I, yr 7 [1672], arms of the Company, hon : soc : ang : ind : ori · [The Honourable English Company of the East Indies] around, rev. a : deo : pax : & : incrementvm : [Peace and increase cometh from God] around mon : bombay anglic regims Ao7o [Money of the English Government of Bombay year 7] in five lines in centre, 11.53g/3h (Prid. 12 [Sale, lot 446]; Stevens 1.2; KM. 135). A stunning coin, extremely fine and toned, extremely rare and almost certainly the best specimen available to commerce [certified and graded NGC AU 55] £50,000-£70,000 --- Provenance: Major-General Henry Hyde, R.E. (1824-87, Master of the Calcutta Mint 1861-76) H. Montagu Collection, Sotheby Auction (London), 3-4 May 1892, lot 69 [by private treaty from H. Hyde] J.G. Murdoch Collection, Sotheby Auction (London), 21-30 July 1903, lot 49 J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction (London), 11-13 June 1912, lot 39 V.M. Brand (Chicago, IL) Collection With Friedberg Capital Coin Co (Long Island City, NY) RARCOA Auction 15 (Chicago, IL), 24-7 February 1972, lot 1689 With Mayfair Coins (London) F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 446 [bt Spink November 1973], ticket. Owner’s ticket. It is believed that two other specimens are known: 1). British Museum E 3883, the Pridmore plate coin (same dies); 2). P.J.E. Stevens Collection (Stevens plate coin), ex Sir John Wheeler (lot 71), V.M. Brand (Spink 50, lot 217), B. Roth Part II (lot 443), H.H. Allan (lot 382) (different rev. die). On 27 March 1668 Charles II, by letters patent, transferred the island of Bombay from the Crown to the Company. By late 1668 Company officials had requested tools for making coins from London, but it was not until 1671 that its directors agreed that Gerald Aungier (1640-77), president of the Surat mint, would establish a mint on Bombay island. By the autumn of 1672 Aungier was in Bombay and the first coins, anglinas, copperoons and tinnies, were struck in December 1672. These bear the year 7 date, reckoned from February 1665, when Bombay was ceded to the English crown by Portugal. The new coin met with opposition on the mainland, principally because citizens were used to a combination of Portuguese coins and Surat rupees and it was perceived that the latter were of slightly higher alloy and weight. A further objection was the lack of any regal title, which was partly rectified in the second issue of 1674
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: Mughal style, silver Fifth-Rupee for the Malabar Coast in the name of Shah Jahan II (1131h/May-August 1719) but struck under the auspices of Muhammad Shah (1131-61h/1719-48), Mumbai, type A/I, yr 1 [1719], sikka mubarak badshah shah jahan 5 [The auspicious coin of the victorious emperor Shah Jahan 1/5th], rev. zarb munbai sanah ahd julus maimanat manus [Struck at Bombay in the 1st year of tranquil prosperity], 2.29g/1h (Prid. 34 [not in Sale]; Stevens 7.19; KM. 270). About extremely fine £70-£90 --- Provenance: SNC (London) November 1980 (9340), ticket. Owner’s ticket. The earliest British-inspired silver coins circulating in the Malabar Coast region were introduced c. 1719-20 and, though they bear the name of Shah Jahan II, were almost certainly issued in the reign of Mohammed Shah. The extensive series of 18th century ‘velli fanams’ or ‘billies’ have been the subject of much detailed research by Shailendra Bhandare and Paul Stevens (cf. The Coinage of the Bombay Presidency, p.329 et seq.), who have suggested a chronological order based on style, with the title of the Moghul emperor and the regnal year each coin bears being of secondary significance and complicated by the ‘frozen date’ sequence employed
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Early Years, silver Rupee in the name of ‘Alamgir II (1167-73h/1754-9), 1174h, yr 6 [1760-1], naming Murshidabad, sikka mubarak badshah ghazi ‘alamgir [the auspicious coin of the victorious Emperor ‘Alamgir], rev. zarb murshidabad sanah 6 julus maimanat manus [struck at Murshidabad in the 6th year of his reign of tranquil prosperity], flower to left of regnal year, 11.62g/4h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 1.18; KM. 8.2). About very fine, very rare £600-£800 --- Provenance: Bt R.C. Senior (Glastonbury, UK) May 1985. Owner’s ticket and envelope. As early as 1758 it was clear that coins with the mint-name Kalkata were not being preferred in commerce to those from Murshidabad, 120 miles to the north, so pressure was brought to bear on the nawab, Mir Quasim (†1777), at the close of 1760 to permit Calcutta coins to bear the name Murshidabad. These first issues bear the name of the murdered emperor ‘Alamgir II; the authorities did not receive permission to alter the name of the emperor on coins to Shah ‘Alam until July 1761
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Pulta mint: Prinsep’s coinage, copper Madosies or Half-Annas (3), in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), all 1195h, yr 22 [December 1780-April 1781], shah alam badshah 1195 [Shah Alam emperor 1195], rev. sanah 22 julus [in the 22nd year of his reign], two stars below widely spaced, large flan, 29mm, 15.66g/6h (Prid. 191 [Sale, lot 626]; Stevens 3.13; KM. 126); similar, 28mm, 13.07g/6h (Prid. 191 var. [Sale, lot 626]; Stevens 3.14; KM. 126); similar but stars closer together, 28mm, 13.85g/12h (Prid. 191 var. [Sale, lot 626]; cf. Stevens 3.15; KM. 126) [3]. First good very fine, second about extremely fine, last good fine and off-centre, the smaller reverse die probably intended for a Quarter-Anna £100-£150 --- Provenance: First K. O’Brien Collection, Part II, Noble Numismatics Auction 46 (Sydney), 16-17 November 1994, lot 2422 (part); R.A. Climpson Collection, Noble Numismatics Auction 85B (Melbourne), 25 July 2007, lot 2156 (part) Second bt R. Weir (Unionville, ONT) February 1999 Third Robert Senior (Glastonbury, UK) FPL 4, Winter 1982 (369); bt R.C. Senior February 1983. Owner’s tickets. John Prinsep (1748-1830), son of an Oxfordshire vicar, entered the cotton trade of the EIC in London as a young man and arrived in India in 1771 intending to join the army, but shortly afterwards resigned his commission. Taken under the wing of Warren Hastings, Prinsep introduced the cultivation of indigo, with which he was to make his fortune as shipments from the previous source of this textile dye for England, South Carolina, were seriously disrupted by the American wars of independence. In 1780 he discovered copper mines at Rohtas and Moghyr in Bihar and, having been granted permission by the authorities to mine the metal and given a 3-year contract to produce a new copper coinage for Bengal in April of that year (with an option to extend it for the next 27 years), started to produce coins in early 1781. Struck on blanks rolled by machinery and in fly presses, these pieces were superior to any copper coin that had been minted in India up to that time, but Prinsep had overestimated the amount of copper in his mines and was forced to mix it with imported sheet and Japan copper. The coins, which unusually do not bear any mark of value, were released into circulation in September 1781 and Alexander Cunningham, Prinsep’s business partner, had met with the Company’s directors in London to appraise them of a situation that he thought would be beneficial to the cowrie-using population in Bengal, but they obviously were not fully aware of. In January 1782 London advised Calcutta to terminate Prinsep’s contract, for a number of reasons but principally because they had not sanctioned it, but the letter informing Calcutta of this decision arrived 12 days too late to cancel it. Prinsep invoked the 27-year extension, but eventually the dispute was settled with the grant of a large financial payment to Prinsep and, in return, Prinsep surrendered his minting equipment at the end of 1784
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Second milled issue, copper Pice (3), in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), frozen regnal yr 37 [1796], sanah julus 37 shah alam badshah [in the 37th year of the emperor Shah ‘Alam], revs. ek pai sikka/yek pai sikka/ek pai sikka [one pai sikka], 30.2mm (2), 9.01g/12h, 8.44g/12h, 29.5mm, 8.53g/12h (Prid. 204 [Sale, lot 629]; Stevens 4.29; KM. 52) [3]. About extremely fine, attractive examples £60-£80 --- Provenance: E. Wodak (Melbourne) Collection C.E. Pitchfork Collection, Part III, Noble Numismatics Auction 48 (Melbourne), 11-13 July 1995, lot 2142 (part) [acquired c. 1970-1] R.A. Climpson Collection, Noble Numismatics Auction 85B (Melbourne), 25 July 2007, lot 2154 (part). Owner’s tickets. Following the major currency reform in 1793 and the agitation for a new copper coinage by the assay master at Patna, the Governor-General of Bengal, Sir John Shore (1751-1834), considered the matter at some length and proposed regulations for a new copper coinage which would be struck exclusively at Calcutta and bear trilingual values. Specimens of the two denominations were approved in November 1795, bearing the recently completed 37th year of Shah ‘Alam’s reign, but the proposed method of producing them, using copper from melted Prinsep and other issues, was found to be more difficult than first envisaged. By employing sheet copper and reducing the weight of the coins, production began in April 1796 and by October all of the available copper had been converted. Of almost 100 coins of the variety Prid. 204 (Stevens 4.29) once owned by Mr Puddester, he distinguished three distinct groups; large flan, 30+mm (9+g), medium flan, 29-30mm (8-9g) and small flan, 27.5mm (7-8g). See also next lot
The first serious attempt to replace the cowrie shell in Bengal – a fascinating currency experiment East India Company, Bengal Presidency, European Minting, Soho, hexagonal copper Pattern Gundah or Four Cowries, 1792, unsigned [by N.-A. Ponthon], large size, balemark, rev. scales, ‘adil [justice] below, edge plain, 15mm, 1.48g/6h (Prid. 365 [Sale, lot 684]; Stevens 10.1; KM. Pn11). Good extremely fine with a hint of original colour and proof-like fields, very rare [certified and graded NGC PF 63 BN] £1,500-£2,000 --- Provenance: P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection SNC (London) April 1980 (3158), ticket. Owner’s ticket and envelope. In contrast to the Madras and Bombay presidencies, Matthew Boulton’s Soho manufactory only produced pattern coins for Bengal. Robert Wissett (1750-1820), a senior Company figure in London, contacted Matthew Boulton in September 1792 with a view to Boulton producing a coinage to supersede the cowrie system, rated at 1,280 to the rupee. Boulton conceived the idea of making hexagonal pieces and, within 10 days of Wissett’s initial contact, he had been sent 50 specimens of the larger-size coin, but owing to a misunderstanding coined them to the value of four cowries instead of one. Smaller pieces were made, but whether pieces of either size were actually shown to the new Governor-General of Bengal, Sir John Shore (1751-1834), before his departure for the East, is not known. As David Vice stated in his article on the series (Format FPL 58, pp.2-5), ‘the passage of time and the propensity for these very small pieces to easily get lost have contributed to the serious erosion of these numbers [i.e. the numbers of pieces struck]. Consequently only a handful of examples has survived to bear testimony to what was for the East India Company a fascinating currency experiment, and for Matthew Boulton a marvellous display of his ingenuity and entrepreneuring skills’
The unique set of four different Soho Pattern Pice, 1795 East India Company, Bengal Presidency, European Minting, Soho, bronzed-copper Pattern Proof Pice in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), unsigned, frozen regnal yr 37 [1795+], sanah julus 37 shah alam badshah [in the 37th year of the emperor Shah ‘Alam], rev. ek pai sikka/yek pai sikka/ek pai sikka [one pai sikka], edge plain, 30mm, 14.18g/6h (Prid. 380 [Sale, lot 689]; Stevens 10.5; KM. Pn19). Practically as struck, very rare [certified and graded NGC PF 62 BN] £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: SNC (London) February 1982 (799), ticket. Owner’s ticket. Following the major currency reform in 1793 and the agitation for a new copper coinage by the assay master at Patna, the Governor-General of Bengal, Sir John Shore (1751-1834), considered the matter at some length and proposed regulations for a new copper coinage which would be struck exclusively at Calcutta and bear trilingual values. Specimens of the two denominations were approved in November 1795, bearing the recently completed 37th year of Shah ‘Alam’s reign, but the Calcutta government had seen fit to ask whether it might be better to obtain the coins from England. Although nothing came of this request (Stevens, 2012, p.166), the fact that these carefully-struck patterns exist prove that someone at the Company, most likely Robert Wissett (1750-1820), had instructed an English mint, which by definition at the time must have been Soho, to produce pieces copying the Bengali designs. Doty and Tungate are silent on the matter, except that the former (p.187) alluded to a request for manual screw presses from Calcutta in early 1796, which were finished in the summer of that year and despatched to the East in November. As there would have been time for samples of the November 1795-approved coinage to travel from Calcutta to England by the summer of 1796, could these have acted as patterns for a Soho engraver (N.-A. Ponthon?) to copy, and then for Soho to strike a few specimens on the machinery before it was sent to Calcutta?
A pair of Victorian brass bear candlestickscast naturalistically with red glass eyes standing holding aloft detachable sconce with drip pans engraved to drip pan rims 'Toulmin & Gale, 7 New Bond Street, on circular socle basesHeight 22.5cm.Condition: Two red glass eyes absent. Slight loss to wire on the ropetwist border
Children's and illustrated books Collection of works, most signed including:Shepard, E. H. Everybody's Boswell. London: G. Bell and Sons, Limited, 1930. First edition thus, large-paper issue, one of 350 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed;Dahl, Roald. The Twits [and:] Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980-8. 2 works, first editions, 8vo, original boards, dust jackets (price-clipped), each signed by illustrator Quentin Blake on front free endpaper;Blake, Quentin. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote ... Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: The Folio Society, 1995. 8vo, original cloth, slipcase, signed by Quentin Blake on title-page;Pullman, Philip. [Group of works:] The Book of Dust, Volume One, La Belle Sauvage, 2017 (2 copies); The Book of Dust, Volume Two, The Secret Commonwealth, 2019; Grimm Tales for Young and Old, 2012; The Scarecrow and his Servant, 2004; Lyra's Oxford, 2017; Serpentine, 2020; all first editions except Lyra's Oxford, all signed by Pullman, all with dust jackets, one copy of La Belle Sauvage additionally signed by illustrator Chris Wormald;Blyton, Enid. The Ship of Adventure, 1950. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, signed by the author on the front free endpaper (head of leaf excised), spine rolled, covers slightly marked;and approx. 30 others, including: Paul Coldwell, Paula Rego: Printmaker, 2005 (signed by Paula Rego) The History of the Beano, 2008 (large 4to, inscribed by Euan Kerr and Morris, editors of the Beano, with an original pencil sketch of Minnie the Minx by Jim Pence, and an original ink sketch of Gnasher); Alasdair Gray, Sixteen Occasional Poems 1990-2000, 2000 (one of 200 copies, signed); Arthur Rackham, The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929 (first trade edition, original cloth); idem, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1911 (first trade impression, second impression); Inga Moore (illustrator), The Wind in the Willows, 2000 (signed); Michael Rosen, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, 2009 (20th anniversary edition, signed by Michael Rosen and illustrator Helen Oxenbury); Gerald Scarfe, Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World and Other Tall Stories, 2008 (signed), and Drawing Blood; Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored, 2005 (inscribed); and similar
A large group of mainly TV & Film Related to include Playmates "Tomb Raider"; Duracell Space Scooter Bunny; TV Talkers "Beavis & Butthead"; "Toy Story"; "Nooki" Bear (still in factory sealed bag) plus others - conditions vary from Excellent to Mint in generally Fair (slightly faded) to Excellent boxes and packaging - see photo. (Qty contained in 2 x large open boxes)
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