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A large Harrods Teddy Bear, seated, wearing a red scarf and cap, 49cm high.

Ian Glen signed 12x8 Game of Thrones colour photo. Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the Resident Evil film series (2004-2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011-2019). Other notable roles include John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon (1990), Larry Winters in Silent Scream (1990) for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor from the Berlin International Film Festival, Manfred Powell in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Brother John in Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), the title role in Jack Taylor (2010-2016), Sir Richard Carlisle in Downton Abbey (2011), James Willett in Eye in the Sky (2015), and Bruce Wayne in Titans (2019-present). Good condition Est.

A pair of George IV silver entrée dishes and covers, from the Sampaio servicePaul Storr, London 1823 Each shaped-rectangular with gadroon, shell and acanthus borders, the covers with incurved corners, leaf-capped scroll handles on a splayed leafy calyx, each cover applied twice with a coat of arms below a barons coronet, bases also engraved twice with a demi unicorn argent, armed or, maned proper with barons coronet, each numbered 2 and 3, length 30cm, weight 161oz. (2)Footnotes:The arms are those of Teixeira quartering Sampaio, Amaral and Guedes for Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio, Barao de Teixeira, later 1st Conde de Póvoa (1774-1833)On 22 May 1816 the title 1st Lord de Sampaio was conferred upon him by King João VI in Rio de Janeiro. Soon after, on 6 March 1819, he was made, by Royal Charter, 1st Barao de Teixeira and was granted the right to bear arms. He was created 1st Conde de Póvoa on 3 July 1823, named after his estate in Póvoa de Santo Adrião, near Lisbon.These dishes are part of the extensive service for 180 persons, ordered by the Conde de Povoa from Paul Storr in 1822-23. This was exactly at the moment that Storr, who left Rundell, Bridge and Rundell in 1819, opened a retail shop in New Bond Street in partnership with John Mortimer. The Sampaio service represents one of the most elaborate and greatest productions of Storr's new shop.Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio died at his home of Rua da Escola Politécnica, in Lisbon, on 27 March 1833, aged 59 years. His son JoãoMaria de Noronha became 2nd Conde de Póvoa and inherited the family fortune, aged only 6. The 2nd Conde died soon after, in 1837 at which time the titles became extinct and the fortune passed to his sister Marie Louise de Noronha Sampaio.The service descended at Casa Palmela, Lisbon, the family home of the Dukes of Palmela.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 17th century German silver-gilt coin tankardAndreas Haidt, Danzig (Gdansk Poland) circa 1680 Of cylindrical form, a flat-domed hinged cover centred by a medallion embossed with an armorial monogrammed 'ZABM', within a laurel band bordered by fruit and animals, including a lion attacking a horse, running wolves and a rabbit, opening to reveal a gilt interior, a bifurcated thumbpiece with leaf-capped scroll handle beneath, the body inset with twenty-one silver thalers including Austria, Transylvania, Saxony, Ravensberg, Denmark, Saxe-Gotha, Germany, Liege and Poland, coins dated circa 1540 to 1680, the recesses between gilded and embossed with elaborate high and low relief images of lions, a boar, a bear, wolves, dogs, foxes, a squirrel, fruit and foliage, to the base a Swedish Johan III 4 riksdaler (circa 1587), atop three cast ball and claw feet, height 23cm, diameter 14cm, weight 52oz.Footnotes:ProvenanceIn 1906 offered at an auction of the collection of Georg Agath from Wroclaw (Breslau) at the auction house of Rudolf Lepke in BerlinIn 1914 at the exhibition in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Frankfurth am Main as the property of Philip von Schey (1854-1922)Sold at Sotheby's auction 'European Silver', Geneva 14th May 1990, Lot 191From a private collectionLiteratureFeatured in the following publications:Anna Frackowska, 'Gdansk Silver Tankards of the 17th and 18th centuries', (Warsaw: ARGRAF 2013), p.376, no. XXIX/8'Lepke Auction House' Berlin 1906, item 63'Ausstellung' 1914, p.68, no.148Darius Nowacki, 'Gdanskie zlotnicktwo XVII w. - proba charakterystyki' in: Sztuka XVII w.1994, p.245, note 34For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLD BEAR BROOCH, 1974The 18 carat gold bear with a pink gemstone eye, maker' mark TVS, London hallmark, length 3.2cmFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A group of collectors teddy bears to include a small Harrods 20th Anniversary bear, Little Folk bears, a Deans collectors club limited edition bear and othersLocation: RWM

A Steiff 'The English Musical' Teddy Bear, with white tag, number 660979, brown tipped mohair, wearing a cream silk ribbon, plays Elgar's 'Pomp and Circumstance', with cream embroidered bag, 30cm tall

Approximately 220 vintage postcards including Stroud, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, Salisbury, Stroud Canal, shipping, Amberley, Sapperton, Chedworth and The Bear Rodborough 

A Steiff 'First American' Teddy Bear, with white tag, number 667183, limited production in 2003, exclusive to North America, dark blonde mohair, wearing a star spangled bow tie and felt hat, with North American flag on left foot and embroidered First American Teddy to the right foot, with certificate, 38cm tall

A Steiff 'Classic' caramel mohair Teddy Bear, with yellow tag, number 004612, chest tag and swing label, 42cm tall

A large old English articulated teddy bear, H. 75cm.

An early 20thC mohair teddy bear, 50cm high. (AF)

A Steiff William and Catherine The Royal Wedding teddy bear, 25cm high, blonde, with certificate in cloth bag.

A Black Forest carved bear adjustable book stand, 24cm wide, and a stork Oriental plaque, 25cm high. (2)

[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo [Jones]. London: printed by James Flesher, [1655]. First edition, folio (27.7 x 18.2cm), disbound, lacking E2, portrait frontispiece and 4 folding woodcut plates (of 7; the remaining plates with old repairs), with 3 initial blanks (all detached), title-page defective, browning, damp-staining towards front. With profuse ink marginalia throughout in a contemporary hand (closely trimmed in places; occasional concomitant paper corrosion), in English and occasionally Latin (and a few phrases in French), unrelated or only tangential to the printed text, in a rambling, scurrilous and repetitive style, with numerous references to 17th-century figures and events, and exhibiting a fixation with large sums of money, the printed dedication 'To the Favourers of Antiquity' (A4) signed 'Pembroke & Muntgomrye' in the same hand as the marginalia, the signature asterisked with an accompanying annotation by an 18th-century hand, 'This Philip E. of Pembroke and Mongomery [sic], was the writer of these wild notes. A Wood woud have less belyed him, in calling him a mad man, than in saying he was illiterate & coud not write his name', 19th-century annotation to initial blank, 'There is reason to believe that the notes scrawled upon these pages are written by the Philip Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery to whom the book is dedicated, E. D.'Note: The dedicatee of the work was Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), though the 'writer of these wild notes' is more likely to have been his son, the infamous seventh earl (1653-1683), also Philip, who succeeded in 1674 and 'quickly acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous and violent behaviour' (ODNB). He was reported by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1680) to keep at the family seat of Wilton House a menagerie of exotic animals, was committed to the Tower for blasphemy, and killed two men in separate drunken incidents, escaping punishment first through claiming privilege of peerage, and second by royal pardon. The character who emerges from these annotations is obsessed with money, and those who have it, motifs which recur throughout a bewildering variety of ravings, doggerel verse and arbitrary lists, written in spelling eccentric even for the period, altogether suggesting a person of entirely unsound mind. If he was not the earl of Pembroke, references to Wilton House and Ramsbury suggest that he at least thought he was, and the annotations are perhaps dateable to the 1660s on the basis of a recollection that 'some 40 or rather 44 years agoe, there was a great faction betwixt ye Digberians & ye Buckingamians' (p. 26); another remark, 'How ould art thou? fifteen come Lent. If Christmasse lasted all ye year, then what should become of Lent' (p. 15), suggests that the annotator was an exact contemporary of the seventh earl's. Further examples include: 'If hee be mad as my Lady Harewood says whose tongue is not slaunder it is rather for wantinge ye ten thousand pounds an year his father promisd to give him tha[n] yt hee thinkes 6000 an year to bee too mutch for him to manage with Wilton & Ramesberye' (p. [vi]); 'And was it not strange, that in one week His Grace should loose one thousand pounds at gleeke? or 4000 ls at gleeke. Hath hee burned ye teats of her virginity? Certayneley that ould woeman wanted businesse that sette London bridge afyre, shee did [?] the city of London to ye value of cent mil escu au moins' (p. 1) 'The house of ye Howards is now goinge towards theyre woonted declininge, for when they are great, they emprison & beat, & then ye sunne leaves shining then thousand hee & shee hereticks, ten thousand hee & shee Armineans, ten thousand hee & shee Armenians, London lickpenny, Lincolne lickpenny, Mrs Sarah Graunty widdow hath a 1000 an year land of inheritance to live on' (p. 14); 'Ravilliack Crummewell is to bee pulld apeices wth 4 wild horses upon London streets & then to bee hang draiwen & quartered not decapite[d]' (p. 31); 'Hinnico Jones alias Iniguity Jones a justice of peace of ye qudrum and custos rotilorum hath for keepinge ye kinges houses in repayre deaux cens mil escu per an, three score thousand ls starlinge an year and well payed hee is 4 score years ould. Midwife Mrs Bullard midwife Mrs Whiteby midwife Mrs Cutler twoo parsons widdowes' (p. 34); 'Mathew Cardroe lyeth heer, whooe drunke too mutch of bottle bear. I care noe more to kill them in bravado then forto drinke a pipe of Trinidado [...] Tom Tippett uppe & downe doth walke & cannott see himself in his owne optick glasse' (p. 41); 'Wilton House Ramsberye house Pembrokes Earl Pembrokes & Muntgomeryes then Lord Chamberlaynes. Personal suppositum intelligens ten of 20 ls an year augmentation monye to ye Greeke lecture or buildinge at Cambridge, Oxford Caius de Antiquitate Cantabrigi' (p. 43); 'I kneaw ye 3 Mackullyes taylours all three Scottshmen & brothers ye woorst of them dyed woorth twenty-thousand pounds they three dyed in all woorth three score thousand starlinge deaux cens mil escu au moins' (p. 50); 'I was nurst 2 years at Mourtleack two years togither [...] by Nurse Beck, whoe nurst ould mad Besse Tallmatch' (p. 61); 'Sr Ferauncis Cranes hanginges all ye suits at Mourtleck upon ye Thames where I was nurst cost ten thousand pounds at least. Hee made my Lord keeper Williams ye 4 seasons of ye year & sould them to him for £500 Sir Firauncis Crane of Grafton Auditour Crane' (p. 63); 'Hee & shee marquesse Ormonde, hee & shee Marquesse Toosmond, Hee & shee Marquesse Desmond, Rabshekais & Achitophells, Madam you must bee whippt at a cart stayble, or you shall ride in a dunge cart, or have rotten eggs throwne at you[r] Irish honour' (p. 69).

Folio Society Group of deluxe limited editions, natural history comprising: Illustrations of Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear. Collected and Introduced by David Attenborough, 2012. One of 780 copies signed by David Attenborough, large folio, original black goatskin gilt, colour plates, duplicate of the Eagle Owl plate laid in, original solander box; Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise ... by R. Bowdler Sharpe ... The Plate, with a Foreword by David Attenborough, 2011. One of 1,000 copies, large folio, original green quarter goatskin, large pictorial block in orange and gilt to front board, pale mottling to rear board, original solander box (faintly marked); The Temple of Flora [by Robert Thornton], 2008. One of 600 copies, large folio, original green quarter goatskin, in original solander box with Commentary volume (4to) inset, duplicate plate (Tulips) laid in; The Herefordshire Pomona, 2014. One of 980 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original green quarter goatskin (plate volume) and original green cloth (text), 4 duplicate plates laid in, original solander box (4)Note: The limitation leaf in The Temple of Flora cites 1,980 copies printed, but a letter from the Folio Society accompanying the lot reads: 'Of the original printing of 1,980, only 600 will be published as bound books; the remainder will be issued as sets of floral plates later this year, and will not bear a limitation number'.

An early 20th century plush teddy bear.

An unusual pottery bear, wooden unicorn, glass lampshades etc

A box of mixed pottery, signed iridescent glass vase, 2 pieces of Bohemian pottery, a vase, a trinket box and a glass moulded figure of a girl holding a teddy bear.

Continental School, a dark patinated bronze, of a bear, oval base, 19cm long

Toys and Juvenalia - a Steiff teddy bear in suitcase; a Starsky & Hutch Shoot-Out Target Set; a 1980's Grandstand Invader From Space electronic game, boxed; a Hornby Railways Pick-up Goods Set; a radio controlled car, Porsche 928; etc

An Isle of Wight glass globular vase; a Royal Worcester Aesthetic Movement two spout teapot, a/f; a treacle glazed jug, as a seated bear; a pair of studio pottery blue tits; a Poole traditional pattern bowl; etc

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Debonair Bear, Collector's Guild exclusive, gold stopper, boxed; another, Blue Bow Tie Bear, gold stopper, associated box; two Royal Crown derby miniature Bear models, Happy Birthday and Christmas 2012 "Robin" Shopper Bear, both boxed (4)

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Grizzly Bear, gold stopper, printed mark in red, boxed

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Drummer Bear, gold stopper, boxed; another, Blue Bow Tie Bear, silver stopper; a teddy bear model, Cricketer, boxed; another, Alice (4)

An early 20th century cast iron novelty money box, as a bear, 16.5cm high

A BLUE LIDDED BOX CONTAINING ASSORTED ENGRAVINGS AND EPHEMERA TO INCLUDE A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF A POLAR BEAR, INTERIOR SCENES ETC

A VINTAGE JOINTED TEDDY BEAR MADE IN TIVERTON DEVON

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DICK PHILIP K.: (1928-1982) American science fiction writer whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) was adapted for the cult movie Blade Runner (1982). A remarkable collection of six T.Ls.S., love, Phil, each with a small drawing of a heart and arrow in his hand at the side of the signatures, twenty-one pages (total), 4to, n.p. (Santa Ana, California), February 1981, all to Professor Patricia Warrick (‘Dear Pat’). Over a period of just a few days Dick writes at great length to his correspondent (three of the letters written on the same day, 14th February, of which one runs to seven pages) and discusses various topics including his VALIS trilogy, Christianity and religion, philosophers including Plato, Plotinus, Dante, Malebranche, Kant, Mercia Eliade and others, American politics (likening the United States President to the ‘grim king’ who must be overthrown), reincarnation, the occult, consciousness of time, the films Star Wars and All That Jazz and other subjects, perhaps most importantly the series of mystical experiences he faced in 1974.Brief extracts from the letters include –‘I just reread VALIS in its entirety. I now understand. There is another “time” or reality; it does not lie in the future…..Like the dream-time (perhaps because it is the dream-time) it is now and it is here. It is disclosed by sacrament and by God’s grace through revelation – revelation of Christian apocalyptic history, exactly as I saw. In this other time (illo tempore) Christ is present, but in our linear flux time he is not and, perhaps, never will be. This is exactly and precisely what February 1974 to February 1975 consisted of……The two times or realms bear some kind of relation to each other; in some way they interact (or have a common basis), but I can’t say how. This explains why I “remembered” in February 1974 when I saw the golden fish sign…..It is world as God’s plantation, and the whole story is in VALIS. The search at the end for the savior is a search by Fat (myself) to find the way back to that world, misconstrued in terms of space, and in terms of time….VALIS was Christ, but the question as to whether I went there or he came here totally baffles me…..The faith that Fat and Phil feel at the end of VALIS is the only route; it must be absolute, unfailing and eternal; and yet still God’s grace is necessary if the savior is to be “found”. VALIS is a valid, true, accurate and sufficient account of participation in this other time or realm where Christ is rather than is not…..As Plotinus says, this is not a journey through space; it is a journey from a lower realm to a higher one. All this is very strange, but I know it absolutely upon rereading VALIS.  I know it but I can’t explicate or propound it; yet what I say is true…..VALIS, then, is an extraordinary and extraordinarily important record of this finding of this other reality, realm, world of time. I repeat: beyond doubt, what was found is absolutely real’. (10th February 1981) ‘When I reread VALIS the other day…..there was something else I noticed, something I had not realised was there. A coherent system for political action of a revolutionary nature can dimly be apprehended through the obscuring layers of philosophy and theology and science fiction. I am wondering, therefore, what effect – if any – VALIS will have on born-again Christians, inasmuch as they are into apocalyptic speculations – as my novel is. Just as in Revelation “Babylon” is identified as Rome, I go on and identity “Rome” as the imperial American Presidency. I bipolarize true Christianity to this modern-day Rome and stigmatize the American Government as the incarnation and physical manifestation of Satan…..In fact, VALIS seems to me to be a very political book – virtually a manifesto and to a certain extent even a handbook of rebellion…….Deconstructed, VALIS, then, is a political novel, more so than any I’ve previously written. What apparently happened in March 1974 was that my political views and my religious inclinations and convictions, which up to then were at odds, fused as thesis and antithesis in me into one higher synthesis, so that my theology can be said to have explicit political implications, or it can with equal accuracy be said that I now see my political views as emanating from divine authority, represented in VALIS by Sophia and of course by VALIS itself in the movie Valis. Which is to say, its successful attack on and overthrow of Nixon……Once again my right hand did not know what my left hand was doing. I thought I was writing a theological, philosophical novel; but, as I say, in view of the regime that has just now come to power here in the U.S., VALIS can be interpreted as a call for political action against that regime, and not limiting itself to legal acts. It is as if upon experiencing a Christian conversion (March 1974) I then went on and wrote the political novel that up to then I had always been afraid to write – wanted to write but feared to……Oddly, VALIS, then, is the reverse of FLOW MY TEARS, wherein the overt or external or outer or exoteric message is political…..VALIS appears to be theological and yet carries a covert message in which violent revolution against the regime is preached…..What is strange is that in writing VALIS I was totally unaware that I was preaching revolution, the same revolution I have always preached; but, now possessing divine sanction, in fact divine authorship, I was free (as I say) for the first time to come forth and preach it openly…..I am, frankly, very joyful that I got such a radical political novel published – in the guise of a theological-philosophical sci-fi novel……So I guess I experienced what Jung calls “the reconciliation of the psychic opposites”, this being what March 1974 was all about; the opposites (politics and religion) were fused into a higher synthesis…..and out of this came VALIS. When one reflects on the current political climate, VALIS is extraordinary indeed, and very much needed’ (12th February 1981) ‘I wish to put forth a very powerful argument regarding the spiritual, psychological effect of apprehending the Forms through anamnesis, because I now understand – I think – what the mind of the percipient fathoms when he apprehends that Forms exist, and apprehends them specifically through anamnesis: the loss of amnesia and hence the recovery of prenatal memories. It is pointed out somewhere in my reference books…..that a recollection of a former life or even of several or many former lives is not a guarantee of immortality. This is a logical error often made; viz: if I lived before this lifetime I will therefore live again after this lifetime. But this does not follow; this lifetime could be the final one…..This is why occult books dealing with reincarnation are really not worth anything….. (13th February 1981) Each of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes. A remarkable series of letters, rich in their content. VG to about EX, 6RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM MEAN THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION CAN'T BE DISPLAYED. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

[WRIGHT BROTHERS]: An interesting, small collection of original vintage photographs of various sizes (mainly 6 x 4) most depicting Wilbur Wright at an aviation school in France, some of the images showing him with other pioneer aviators including Bleriot, Tissandier etc., and one showing him seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. Some of the photographs, by Callizo, bear printed white captions. Also included is a photograph of the Wright Brothers plane on display in an exhibition hall, and three postcard photographs etc. Laid down (1). G to generally VG, 13 

[CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY]: ADENAUER KONRAD (1876-1967) German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of West Germany (officially the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany) from 1949-63. An historically important group of printed documents concerning the introduction of the West German constitution following the end of World War II, and other related items, two signed by Adenauer, all relating to the Grundgesetz fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ('Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany', i.e. the West German Constitution), comprising -(i) printed 4to copy of the Entwurf des Grundgesetzes ('Draft of the Basic Law') in the version of the second reading of the Parliamentary Council, published by the Bonn University printers as Parliamentary Council paper number 883, 8th May 1949, comprising 38 pages, in German, and consisting of 146 numbered articles forming the proposed West German Constitution, containing a series of pencil corrections (most in German, although, curiously, a few in English too) to the margins, in the hand of Rudolf Nadolny, alongside articles 21, 22, 37, 38, 54, 82, 132, 136, 137 and 144.(ii) printed 4to copy of the Grundgesetz fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ('Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany') as passed by the Parliamentary Council in Bonn, 8th May 1949, published by the Bonn University printers, comprising 38 pages, in German, and consisting of 146 numbered articles forming the definitive West German Constitution and reflecting the amendments as noted in the preceding draft copy, the introduction stating, in part, 'Aware of their responsibility before God and mankind, inspired by the will to maintain their national and state unity and to serve world peace as an equal member in a united Europe, the German people in the states of Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Nieder-Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Wurttemberg-Baden and Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern, to give state life a new order for a transitional period, passed this Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany by virtue of its constituent power….'.(iii) printed 4to copy of the first edition of the Federal Law Gazette, issued in Bonn, 23rd May 1949, published by the Bonn University printers, comprising 20 pages, in German, and presenting the 146 numbered articles of the West German Constitution (Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany), signed ('Adenauer') by Konrad Adenauer in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone at the conclusion.(iv) a folio presentation album containing thirty original unsigned photographs (most approximately 9 x 7, a few smaller) documenting the work of the Parliamentary Council in preparing and approving the West German Constitution at Bonn in 1949, the images depicting the members of the committee working together at tables in a large hall, various members of the press seated at tables, a press conference, four female parliamentary councillors engaged in discussion, various committee members working in their offices, a secretary working at a telex machine, committee members taking a lunch break, relaxing over a game of cards, committee members casting their votes in a secret ballot, the counting of the votes, and the announcement of the result by Konrad Adenauer, and the closing session showing Adenauer delivering his proclamation of the constitution on 23rd May 1949. The majority of the photographs are by Hehmke-Winterer of Dusseldorf and bear their blind embossed credit stamp, and the majority of the pages have brief printed German captions and tissue guards. One of the final pages, featuring a photograph of Adenauer standing at a lectern, is signed ('Adenauer') by the soon-to-be elected Chancellor in the margin, and on the facing page appears a printed 8vo menu card for a dinner at the La Redoute restaurant in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, on 24th May 1949, signed by four individuals including Adenauer, and dated 24th May 1949 in his hand. The menu has been affixed to the page with clear sellotape across each of the signatures. A printed oblong 12mo label is pasted to the inside cover indicating that the album was presented by the State Government of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in May 1949, and bears two unidentified signatures.(v) an original mimeograph typed copy of Adenauer's speech given on the occasion of the proclamation of the West German constitution in Bonn on 23rd May 1949, six pages, 4to, in German, commencing 'Ladies and Gentlemen! I ask you, in view of the importance of the work that we have just completed, after the minutes of excitement, to look together for a few moments now, so that we can take stock of what has happened and where we are. First of all, I would like you to be able to state, so that the public outside does not get the wrong impression, that of the thirteen representatives of Bavaria in the Parliamentary Council, seven have approved the constitution, i.e. the majority. And I think one can hope that there will also be a majority in the Bavarian state parliament when this Basic Law is presented to the state parliaments in the near future. Ladies and Gentlemen! It's probably true and I don't think any of those who justified their no-vote will deny it - for us Germans this is the first happy day since 1933. …….' (vi) Rudolf Nadolny (1873-1953) Prussian military intelligence officer under German Foreign Office cover who served as the German Ambassador to Turkey 1924-33 and the Soviet Union 1933-34. T.L.S., Nadolny, one page, oblong 8vo, Rhondorf bei Honnef, 13th August 1949, to Mr. [Gerard] Ball, in German. Nadolny writes to make a request of his correspondent, explaining that he had been visited the day before by two Englishmen and two Germans who inspected the whole of his house and surveyed the rooms with, he believes, the intention of confiscating it for use by the English authorities, and asking that he and his wife be allowed to stay in the apartment in consideration of their ages and that they had recently carried out some repairs at considerable expense.(vii) Rudolf Nadolny - a second T.L.S., Nadolny, one page, 4to, Rhondorf bei Honnef, 22nd January 1950, to Gerard Ball, in German. Nadolny states that it is a pity he has not seen his correspondent for so long, but is aware that he has been working deliriously, continuing 'I should like to send a copy of the attached booklet (no longer present) which I offer to you, to the well known Mr. Sandys, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, but do not know his address. Could you tell me how to send it to him? The accompanying book will show how a peace with Germany could look according to the rules of national law. It has been written for the case that all four occupying forces together conclude such a peace. If, however, the Western Allies wanted to include Germany in a West-European combination, I thought that this could only be done on the basis of full equality'.An exceptional and rare grouping of documents, pivotal in the history of Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Some very light coverall age wear, a few minor stains and small tears, generally VG, 7 RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM MEAN THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION  

GELIN XAVIER: (1946-1999) French actor. Signed and inscribed 10 x 7 photograph of Gelin in a head and shoulders profile pose, in costume as Reginald, alongside actress Brigitte Bardot, in costume as Felicia, in a scene from the French romantic comedy film The Bear and the Doll (1970). Signed by Gelin in bold black fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background. Together with Daniel Gelin (1921-2002) French actor, father of Xavier Gelin. Signed and inscribed 9.5 x 7 photograph of Gelin standing in a half-length pose, in costume as Yves Bayet, alongside actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, in costume as Yvon 'Pierrelot' Morandat, and Marie Versini, in costume as Claire Morandat, in a scene from the war film Is Paris Burning? (1966). Signed in dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image. VG to EX, 2 Provenance: The present photographs originate from the collection of Pierre Goulliard, a French gentleman who, for over 50 years, dedicated himself to obtaining in person autographs of British, American and European movie stars, always obtaining the signatures in fountain pen ink.

WRIGHT FRANK LLOYD: (1867-1959) American architect, designer & writer. Typed manuscript, unsigned, five pages, 4to, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, August 1939, being a draft of Wright's article entitled To the Fifty-Eighth, with a number of ink corrections in Wright's hand, in part, (Wright's corrections marked in bold text), 'If printed reactions to my talks in London - no speaker really - which should HAVE reached me there x but now reach me at Taliesin mean anything, I have succeeded in getting myself pretty thoroughly misunderstood and well disliked, especially by those who should have been quick to understand me. I refer to the 58th variety - “the fruit of my own orchard”? For such pains as I took in the circumstances I am accused of disowning the “fruit of my own orchard” when I intended only to cut DOWN out saplings interfering with good fruit. Therefore certain intellectualists (saplings) are saying I am changed to “escapist”. A bad word, their word “escapist”? Boys, Why call names? Why not go to work? Go on…do something on THEIR your own that doesn't take refuge with the incompetent in a “universal” pattern for something that (should it abide with principle) ought to be as alive and various as human character is itself! AND have I “changed” or ONLY simply smashed myself as an idol? I intended to smash that IDOL but only to let idol worshippers a little closer than they NOW seem to want to go. Hero worship is sometimes pretty awful. That any of mine can now bear hide nor hair of me would be a surprise to me……Once and for all concerning this constantly repeated reference to my contribution to Architecture as a kind of romanticism: because any attempt on their part to establish a “contemporary vernacular” is defied by the revelations of principle eternally fresh and new in every building I build - they DRAG IN THE term “Romanticism” is dragged in to conceal their own impotence whereas it only really explains it. I love romance as I love sentiment. But just as I dislike sentimentality I would dislike their “Romance”. Corbusier or Gropius - I suggest you put a gently sloping roof on any LE CORBUSIER OR GROPIUS just to see what you have left of the so-called International Style after proper deductions have been made…..But where is that creative force today? THE man is not using the Machine! The machine is using the man and is using him so he is losing himself….becoming a “thing” beneath his push button and steering wheel….I see now as I saw then - that the only way man can use the machine - not let it use him - is to get it as a working principle into the hands of the great human forces we used to call the creative artist. Well…again, where is he?.....So, bid to England, I came with another “Declaration of Independence”. This time ONE concerned, not with taxes, but with independence of any aesthetic whatsoever where this matter  of life as structure is now concerned - social, political, or artistic. I said that the only way man can use his machine and keep alive what is best in him is to go by means of it to the larger freedom the machine makes possible - go toward decentralization instead of continuing the centralization the machine exploits and, so far as any great human benefit goes, will soon explode. Simple enough? Do I continue to fog the issue? If so the Machine itself will prove me right. Meantime I can wait and work'. A few minor staple holes to the upper edge of each page, not affecting the text, and with some very light, minor age wear, VG Wright's article was published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of Architects in October 1939 and served as a rebuttal to criticisms levelled at him after a lecture he delivered in in London in May 1939 attacking the 'international style' of architecture.

A SMALL BLACK FOREST BEAR, ENAMEL BADGES including 'Goodwood 1984', and other small collectibles

A BLACK FOREST CARVED LINDEN WOOD MODEL OF A STANDING BEAR 28.5cm high (damaged), together with a collection of treen, including a tea caddy in the form of an apple and a babushka. Provenance: Formerly in The collection of S.W. Wolsey (c.1895-1980) and a small glass Roman style jug

Five Scalextric model racing cars; two Tri-ang “OO” gauge model locomotives; a large teddy bear; & a wicker baby’s basket.

A vintage Singer girl’s sewing machine, boxed; & a plush teddy bear, 13” tall.

A Royal Crown Derby Aurora Polar Bear paperweight and cubs Boris and Alice, both 79/500 with certificates and two Imari bears, 1 of 5 boxes (5)

Four Royal Crown Derby seated bear paperweights, Drummer Bear (2), Red Bow Tie, certificate, Blue Bow Tie and another, 1 of 5 boxes

A Victorian turned boxwood glove powderer and cap, 10.5cm h, a turned sycamore monaural stethoscope, early 20th c, a Scottish tartan ware round pin box and cover, a Victorian pin cushion faced with wood from the mount of olives, a Swiss carved limewood bear, an early Victorian bright and whitewood box with varnished transfer print to the sliding lid, an olive wood pen tray and miscellaneous other bygones Mostly in good condition

Two Pelham puppets, Yogi Bear and another, both boxed

A Royal Doulton Canton Pattern Tea Set, To Comprise Cups, Saucers, Side Plates, Milk Jug etc. The Pattern Featured in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Skit with Paddington the Bear

Selection of decorative ceramic figures, including: Beswick figure of a trout, no.1032; Just Cats & Friends figure of a dog; Staffordshire Wally/hearth dog; four various Hummel figures of children; Steiff resin teddy bear; and others.

Frank Rinehart (b. 1861-1928) - A pair of 19th Century American vintage toned platinum photographs / prints depicting Native Americans by F.A Rinehart, Omaha dated 1898. One example depicting Louison of the Flatheads and the other depicting Chief Hollow Horn Bear of the Sioux.  F.A Rinehart, was an American photographer who captured Native American personalities and scenes, especially portrait settings of leaders and members of the delegations who attended the 1898 Indian Congress which took place at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska.  Attending the U.S. Indian Congress at the fair were over 500 American Indian delegates representing more than 35 Native communities from throughout the United States.  Both set within red card borders.  Each measures approx; 24cm x 18cm (image only)

A vintage 20th Century reconstituted stone garden exterior decorated statue in the form of a young boy. The figure modelled bear foot holding jug while resting / leaning on fence. Measures approx; 82cm tall.

STEIFF TEDDY BEAR BOXED & UNUSED 32CMS TALL

STEIFF PADDINGTON BEAR NEVER USED & IN ORIGINAL BOX 25CM TALL

A quantity of soft toys and dolls. Including large jointed teddy bear, bisque head doll, etc.

A bisque doll, together with Steiff 'Cosy Friends' bear and Armand Marseille 'Germany 551' bisque doll. Fingers chipped on smallest example.

A vintage teddy bear, together with two dolls including Armand Marseille 996 example.

M Takayo. A Carved Soapstone figure group, bear fighting with male figures. Signed to the base H: 53cm. Damage to foot.

WEBLEY & SCOTT, BIRMINGHAM A SCARCE .177 BARREL-COCKING AIR-RIFLE, MODEL 'MKII SERVICE', serial no. S2140, circa 1935, with matching number, 25 1/2in. barrel fitted with a tunnel fore-sight, push-button barrel release, elevating dove-tailed rear-sight to the barrel cradle, rotating bolt-handled barrel-lock, peep-sight to rear, blued air-chamber with model details and patents (anti bear-trap device screw replaced), trigger unit with makers name and address, swinging safety catch, walnut semi pistol-grip butt-stock, ribbed horn heel-plate, the whole retaining much original blued finish Pre-1939

A Mummy and Baby Bear Silver Pendant. 3 and 2.5cm.

A quantity of decorative china to include Teddy Bear decorated tea ware, table lamp, blow lamp, sculpture etc.

A Winstanley pottery cat with glass eyes, Royal Doulton figurine "Happy Birthday", Royal Doulton figurine "Penny" a Poole pottery model bear, Beswick model horse and Beswick model

A brass figure of a bear on circular base

ONE LARGE BEAR AND TWO BOXES OF SOFT TOYS, including teddies and hand puppets,( 2 boxes and 1 loose)

DOLLS AND TOYS ETC, to include three Cabbage Patch dolls - one boxed, 'Little Aussie' Paramount Koala Bear, Billabong Koala, boxed sleeping baby by Chad Valley, Bisque head doll 'Charlotte', Palitoy Tiny Tears bath, vintage wooden dolls house with furniture etc

TWO BOXES AND LOOSE MASONIC APRONS, CASED TOP HAT, ETC, to include fifteen freemasonry aprons including Rose Croix, fourteen sashes, a leather cased top hat by Walter Barnard & Son, a Marks and Spencer watch, a child's Paddington Bear watch, etc (2 boxes + loose) (sd)