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Lot 271
German armorial manuscript volume. Containing 480 hand-painted continental shields & crests, early 16th century, comprising five double-page sheets (opening to 425 x 600 mm) on thick wove paper, 96 shields to each double-page sheet or opening, each armorial finely drawn in pen & ink with original watercolour in red, blue, yellow and green, and captioned in brown ink in a secretary hand (with some unusual spellings of names which suggest an early composition for example Meittenharsre mod. metzenhaussen, Mobingartt mod. Bomgart and Scharenstein mod. Horenstein), the style of drawing is continental and the absence of an Italic influence suggests an early date, few discreet old repairs, each sheet laid onto good quality 17th century(?) laid paper (and so, thought worthy of preservation even at this date), some light dust-soiling, few minor marks (including old damp stain to one sheet), edges neatly strengthened with archival tissue, guards and endpapers renewed, upper pastedown with small portion of earlier pastedown retained with 'Anon 478' written in ink and pencil, modern full tan calf professionally bound by Julian Thomas (volume conserved & rebound in 2010, and original invoice for binding and conservation work included), single gilt-line to border to boards, spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration, slim folio 440 x 335 mmQty: (1)NOTESThe armorials include many canting arms and early Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights, some very early examples not recorded in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch. The most prevalent coats appear to be for bearers in Bavaria, Suabia, Franconia and Rhineland (Bavaria was a Duchy, later a kingdom, which split at various times rather than being a separate entity). The Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order are early, e.g. Berfurtteyer (mod. Karl Beffart v. Trier); Dussanre (mod. Heinrich Dusner); Ludolf Konig et al. There is very little 'vert' (green) in the shields, a colour that was not much used in early heraldry. The watermarks (pomme de pin, double-headed eagle and bear) compare to examples included in Briquet & Piccard dating from between the 1480s to 1540s.
Lot 573
The Poignant, Historically Important Manuscript Journal, Peking Siege Commemoration Medal and Archive of Doctor Wordsworth Poole, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his devoted and gallant services as Physician to the British Legation during the Siege at Peking, having previously served as Principal Medical Officer in Central Africa and Southern Nigeria. Poole’s Journal, lavishly illustrated by sketches, diagrams, and tables, is a fascinating account of the rising tension between the foreign Legations and the Qing Court, the appearance of anti-foreigner ‘Boxers’, and the daily struggles of the defenders of the International Legations, all from the perspective of ‘the fighting doctor’ who set up and ran the improvised International Hospital and was a close confidante of, and advisor to, Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister to the Qing Emperor, and his wife Ethel, Lady Macdonald. i) Peking Siege Commemoration Medal, 57mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the Ch’ien Men engulfed in flames, in the exergue a cannon, ‘junii xx - augusti xiv’, the reverse featuring Britannia and Germania standing facing, clasping hands, a Chinese female standing behind; below a dragon, ‘mene. mene. tekel. upharsin. ichabod!’ impressed on the edge (Dr Wordsworth Poole C.M.G.) ii) Dr Poole’s Personal handwritten Journal (marked ‘Private’) in two volumes, the first (rebound) running from January 1896 to May 1901, the second covering the period May 1901 up to November 1901, when he fell ill prior to his death in January 1902, the several hundred pages of acute observation and commentary contain much of historical, medical and mental health interest iii) Dr Poole’s personal photograph album, covering the period 1895-1901, a fascinating companion to the Journal, 26 pages with hundreds of images in excellent condition, annotated and covering many of the personalities and places mentioned in his Journal and letters, including the Siege of the Legations iv) Dr Poole’s personal letters to his family, mostly typed transcripts but some of the later ones from 1900 onwards are handwritten originals v) Two framed original portrait photographs of the recipient vi) Obituaries, notices, and much other ephemera relating to Wordsworth Poole, generally very good condition and an important and rare archive (lot) £12,000-£15,000 --- Dr Poole’s medal group, comprising The Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s breast badge; Central Africa Medal 1891-98 with clasp Central Africa 1894-98; East and West Africa Medal 1887-1900, with clasp 1897-98; and China Medal 1900 with clasp Defence of Legations, was sold in these rooms in March 2021. Wordsworth Poole was born at St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, on 7 December 1867, the son of Samuel Wordsworth Poole, an M.D. of Aberdeen and Vicar of St. Mark’s, Cambridge, and the grandson of Richard Poole, an eminent physician, psychiatrist and phrenologist, who practised in Edinburgh. He was educated at St. Olave’s School, London, where he won several scholarships, and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Completing his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, an organisation to which he developed a lifelong loyalty, qualifying as an M.B. and B.C.H. and serving time as house surgeon, he went overseas in search of adventure, first to Africa, then to China. Africa Poole kept a private Journal and wrote many letters to members of his family, providing a rare insight into an important period of British rule in the interior of Africa, dealing with the final overthrow of the armed forces of the African and Arab leaders who conducted a huge traffic in slaves. They also contain much of interest from a medical and mental health perspective and many references to the life led by the early Europeans in the interior of Africa (and subsequently, China). One of Poole’s first tasks was to make and fit a prosthetic for an African whose leg had been bitten off by a crocodile. Poole found his work with the indigenous peoples highly rewarding; he considered many of the European missionaries and soldiers less likeable as patients and companions. The sickness and mortality rate amongst the Europeans must have been one of the highest in the world, an overall annual death rate of around 10%. The death rate among officials was particularly high. In 1897-98 out of the total of 65 in the country around Lake Nyasa there were 12 deaths (18%), practically all in the prime of life. Kinetic injuries abounded, especially in rural areas. Dr Poole joined Major C. E. Edwards on his campaign against Zirafi, a powerful slaver chief based on a steep, easily defended hill covered with boulders, which was tough to approach ‘with people potting at you from good cover.’ The skirmishing en-route was described by Poole in a letter to his mother: ‘I and my hospital carriers were passing a clearing when about 70 yards away from us two guns blazed off from behind rocks. The porters threw down their loads and hooked. My boy ran up to me with my rifle, and I was trying to catch sight of someone to fire at (I’m fairly steady with the rifle now) when I saw a flash and some smoke, followed by another, and a bullet fell near my feet, knocking up dust into my face.’ Poole performed several operations in the field: ‘Last Saturday I took off a man’s hand. He had been shot through the wrist by one of Zirafi’s men about six weeks ago. Since then he has had Tetanus… He is doing well now and it has all healed up by primary union.’ On 24 November 1895, Poole accompanied Major Edwards, Smith and Bradshaw of 35th Sikhs on the German Steamer S.S. Hermann von Wissman on their way up to subdue the Arab slaver strongholds of Mloze, Kopa Kopa and Kapandanser; their force of 400 soldiers arriving in detachments. Stopping on the way at Likoma, a missionary station, Poole reflected on the psychology of Europeans who came to Africa: ‘There is a peculiarity about the men who have been in Africa some time. You get into a groove of your own and can’t bear anyone else to be running the show with you. Look at Livingstone and his fearful temper and quarrels with other white men. Kirk, Stanley and all of them the same. One’s temper must become ruined. It is so noticeable with every head of out-stations; they are all bears in one way and brook no interference. I see that one must make enormous allowances for people out here. The circumstances are so adverse. There is no public opinion and such a fierce light of criticism beats upon the actions of a handful of white men out here.’ Poole described in his letters the appalling outbreaks of severe dysentery, malaria and blackwater fever and the difficulties he had in dealing with them single-handed: ‘Just now there is a great deal of sickness about. In the last fortnight I have had about 40 cases of very acute dysentery, some cases of pneumonia and other minor ones.’ He too succumbed to recurrent bouts of fever in the Nyasa region and in Nigeria, to extent that he had to return to England as a convalescent. He recorded his options in his Journal on 6 June 1899: ‘1. Another billet from Colonial Office in a healthy climate. Such a billet as would be worth my while accepting would probably be a long time turning up. 2. Stay at home and try and get on Tropical School of Medicine - but pay poor. 3. Foreign Office said there was a possibility of post of physician to Legation at Peking falling vacant. Worth about £700 a year. Climate good. Drawbacks to this appointment not allowed private practice… and no further advancement. But an easy well-paid billet. My prospects in Nigeria were good...
Lot 170
The important Indian campaign pair awarded to Colonel Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 7th (later 4th) Madras Light Cavalry, one of India’s most important early amateur photographers who left a legacy of images of international importance; his harrowing images of the Madras famines are considered some of his finest works, whilst as Provost Marshal, during the Third Burma Campaign, this gallant officer carried his camera under fire at the battle of Minhla, making him one of the first ever recorded war photo-journalists Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Cornet W. W. Hooper, 7th Madras Cavalry.) officially impressed naming; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Ltt. Coll. W. W. Hooper 4th Madras Cavy.) officially re-engraved naming, nearly extremely fine (2) £900-£1,200 --- Willoughby Wallace Hooper was born on 4 February 1837, at St John's Grove, North Brixton, London, son of William Thomas Hooper, Secretary to the East India Company College, Haileybury. Educated at Ramsgate under Thomas Whitehead, he was accepted for employment as a Writer in the Secretary's Department of East India House in November 1853, a position he held until being commissioned Cornet into the 7th Regiment Madras Light Cavalry, arriving in India via the overland route on 20 April 1858; Lieutenant, 21 December 1859; Captain, 27 December 1872; Major, 1 January 1883; Lieutenant-Colonel, 20 April 1884; Colonel, 20 Aprilo 1896. During the Mutiny Hooper served with the 2nd squadron, 7th Light Cavalry from November 1858 to April 1859, at Kamptee in the Deccan under Colonels Roberts and Orr. On 28 February 1859, they marched miles without a halt in pursuit of the enemy and defeated them the same day, taking several prisoners. From 1 October 1861, he was doing duty with the 4th Regiment Madras Light Cavalry, at the disposal of the Commissioner of Nagpore, for the purpose of taking “Photographic Likenesses” illustrative of the different races in that Province. A letter written by Hooper to the Chief Commissioner's Office, Central Provinces, dated 3 November 1863, states that he has submitted 20 plates of a series of photographs of the tribes of the Nagpore Province but explained that he had the greatest difficulty in procuring the photographs as the inhabitants had never seen a European before. He travelled through the jungles of the province getting images of the Bringewars, Dunwhars, Bhoomias and Gonds. Each photograph annotated as to location, diet, culture, religion and disposition. From Hooper's efforts and the collaboration of 12 other photographers from around India came the publication of ‘The People of India’ in 8 volumes, containing 470 albumen photo prints compiled and assembled by John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, a record of national importance to India. The article ‘A Craze about Photography’, by John Falconer, Curator of Photographs, India Office Collection at the British Library, is unsure how Hooper became interested in photography but, by 1860, while serving with the 4th Madras Light Cavalry at Secunderabad, he was active. Later, Hooper took an interest in the life of the British in India so, between his military duties, he turned his camera to Anglo-Indian domestic and cantonment life before collaborating with Veterinary Surgeon George Western of the Madras Army to the pursuit of big game hunting and the Shikar. In 1872 Hooper and Western produced the successful series of a twelve 9 x 7 inch photomontages entitled ‘Tiger Shooting’. However, alongside his tranquil domestic, life Hooper's photography began to express an increasingly more morbid strain in which there became a desire to capture humanity at moments of extreme suffering. His harrowing and haunting series of photographs of the Madras famines of 1876-78 are among Hooper's best known images. All were ‘posed’ and the emaciated subjects and macabre postures can still shock today. It was said of Hooper that he was a steadfast Christian of undisputed courage who had the reputation of being a good officer although perhaps inflexible and over-zealous for the moral welfare of the troops in his attempts to stamp out vice. In 1886 his desire to photograph the Burmese at the moment of death is attributed not to any inhumanity but a passion to secure for posterity that indelible record of human expression at the supreme moment. When back in Madras it is related that on one occasion a sepoy went on the rampage running amok and shooting at his fellow officers and comrades. Hooper gathered up his photographic apparatus and brought it to bear on the sepoy, who was in the act of taking aim at Hooper, when the homicidal sepoy was shot dead by another sepoy. Hooper seemed unconcerned as he had obtained his negative. Hooper departed Madras aboard the Tenasserim on 1 November 1885 for Rangoon, to take up the position of Provost Marshal of the Burma Expeditionary Force, arriving Rangoon on 8 November. On the 15th November he joined the main body of the force and sailed on the Thambyadine towards Mandalay. Grattan Geary describes at the battle of Minhla how ‘this gallant officer carried his camera under fire so that it might be available for the record of any exceptional incident’. Once the military objective was achieved Hooper set about curbing the looting and drunkenness that broke out both by the local inhabitants and soldiery. Dacoits proliferated the countryside and Hooper joined a force of the Hampshire Regiment led by Colonel Baker to apprehend a renegade pretender. In his stockade they found the body of a European who had been brutally murdered and decapitated. During their march back they were fired upon from the dense jungle resulting in 2 Hampshire's killed and eight or ten wounded including Lieutenant Lloyd. The Times, January 21st 1886 – Special correspondent in Burma Edward Kyran Moylan: ‘The Rev'd Mr Colbeck, the representative in Mandalay of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, has addressed a public protest to the Chief Commissioner against a recent attempt by the Provost Marshal to procure testimony against other persons from a Burmese while he was covered by the presented rifles of a firing party. Mr Colbeck who has been a long resident in Burma, declares that such proceedings cannot fail to bring shame and discredit upon our name, nation and religion. The ghastly scenes which constantly recur in executions carried out by the Provost Marshal constitute grave public scandals. The Provost Marshal, who is an ardent amateur photographer is desirous of securing views of the persons being executed at the precise moment when they are struck by the bullet. To secure this result, after the orders “ready, “present” have been given to the firing party, the Provost Marshal fixed his camera on the prisoners, who at times are kept waiting several minutes in that position. The officer commanding the firing party is then directed by the Provost Marshal to give the order to fire at the moment when he exposes his plates. So far no satisfactory negative has been obtained and the experiments are likely to continue. These proceedings take place before a crowd of mixed nationalities and cannot fail to have a demoralising effect on both soldiers and spectators.’ The article produced instant outrage. Prime Minister Gladstone and the Houses of Parliament were incensed and Lord Randolph Churchill was instructed to telegraph Lord Dufferin to have Hooper, together with Lieutenant G. V. Burrows, 25th Madras Infantry, the officer in charge of the firing party, removed from Burma. However, in Burma and India opinions differed. It was known that Moylan had a grudge against the army and was only too keen to to use the views of the Rev'd Colbeck to exace...
Lot 771
A 17th Century oak Wainscott type chair, the lunette carved top rail over a foliate medallion decorated centre panel and plain plank seat, flanked by open arms on turned supports over a foliate lunette carved seat rail, on turned and ringed supports to block feet united by stretchers, 58 cm wide x 42.5 cm deep x 105.5 cm highCondition ReportChair appears structurally strong and solid though please bear in mind that this is subjective. Support rail top right with large split. Back panel with large split. Left arm as you look at the chair from the front a replacement. Seat with various splits. Rear feet with replacement sections to the base. Front feet probably with replacement blocks and possibly the front stretcher too. Height of seat from floor 48 cm. See images for further detail.
Lot 214
COLLECTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOKS to include Frank Herrmann - 'The Giant Alexander', first edition Methuen 1964 with dustjacket, 'The Giant Alexander and the Circus' first edition Methuen 1966 with damaged dustjacket, John Lawrence - 'The Giant of Grabbist' Hamish Hamilton 1968 with damaged dustjacket, Walter De La Mare - 'Peacock Pie', drawings by Edward Ardizzone, Faber & Faber Ltd. 1962 with dustjacket, John Burningham - 'Borka The Adventures of a Goose with no Feathers' reprint 1966, 'Harquin The Fox who went down to the Valley' 1967, 'Mr Gumpy's Outing' 1970 and Roger Duvoisin - 'The Happy Lion' reprint 1965, 'The Happy Lion and The Bear' reprint 1966 with damaged dustjacket, 'The Happy Lion's Quest' reprint 1965 with dustjacket and Phyllis Krasilovsky - 'The Cow Who Fell In The Canal' reprint 1968 (11)
Lot 10
A George II carved walnut side chair in the manner of Giles Grendey The shaped back above a vase shaped splat and bowed drop-in seat upholstered in teal silk damask, on cabriole shell and trailing bellflower carved legs, on claw and ball feet, stamped W.R to the back seat rail, 55cm wide, 50cm deep, 100cm high, seat height 48cm. The chair offered here is virtually identical to a set of six sold Christie’s London, 15 Nov 2017, lot 153 and a single example sold Christie’s New York, 22 October 2010, lot 386. All these chairs are closely related to a set of six in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the celebrated Clerkenwell cabinet-maker and upholsterer Giles Grendey (d. 1780), two of which carry labels 'GILES GRENDEY, In St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell, LONDON, Makes and Sells all Sorts of Cabinet- Goods, Chairs and Glasses' (illustrated C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 242, fig. 434). A further labelled suite of similar seat-furniture by Grendey and formerly in the collection of the late J. S. Phipps, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 November 1981, lots 233-235. Another chair with identical back is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., 1954, vol. I, p. 254, fig. 85. A number of chairs from Grendey's workshop bear the stamp of his journeymen, some of which are recorded in the archives preserved in the Public Records Office. A suite of chairs supplied by Grendey at Gunton Park, Norfolk (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p. 243, fig. 437) is identically stamped 'WB' and this stamp probably relates to William House, employed at Grendey's Clerkenwell workshop from 14 April 1747 (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, pp.371-2). Similar stamps 'WF' and ‘WH' appear on numerous chairs of known Grendey models, including a set of dining-chairs with identical legs and scallop backs almost certainly supplied by Grendey to John, 1st Earl Poulett for Hinton House, Somerset, and the suite of chairs at Longford Castle, Wiltshire.
Lot 262
A Group of 19th century blue and white transfer printed tableware, mostly Spode Comprising four soup bowls, thirteen plates, patterns including 'Death of a Bear' from Spode's Indian sporting series, 'Bridge of Lucano', 'Girl at the Well', 'Sarcophagi and Sepulchres at the Head of the Harbour at Cacomo', two Light Blue Etruscan Series plates by Elkin, Knight and Bridgewood, 26cm diameter, and a Mason's Ironstone plate. (17)
Lot 327
A blonde plush teddy bear, Chad Valley, with moveable arms and legs, partial button to right ear, 35cm high, together with a boxed Hornby clockwork 'O' gauge No.40 Tank Locomotive and various items of MeccanoCondition report: All items in play worn conditionEye lost or very worn. Voice box not functioning. Losses and wear to mohair finish.
Lot 1258
A MIXED LOT:- A late Victorian miniature heart-shaped frame, a novelty ring tree with a bear finial, an enamelled matchbox cover, three vesta cases, a bookmark holder, a matchbox cover, an Edwardian sovereign case, a pipe rest, two bookmarks, a pill box, a watch chain, two pencils, a seal, two money clips, a pill box, two swizzle sticks & a toothpick; the frame 2.5" (6.5 cms); 10.25 oz weighable silver (lot)
Lot 361
A LATE 19TH CENTURY SET OF TWELVE ROYAL CROWN DERBY IMARI COFFEE CUPS AND SAUCERS IN THE 4591 PATTERN, majority bear date cipher for 1897, printed, painted and impressed marks (24) (Condition:- all saucers are ok, seven cups are ok, four sound dull when tapped, one of which has an over gilded tiny chip to the outside rim, one cup sounds defective/cracked when tapped)
Lot 395
A GROUP OF CERAMIC ORNAMENTS/PLATES, comprising four Royal Doulton figures 'Buddies' HN3396, 'Let's Play' HN3397, 'Dinky Do' HN1678 and 'Greetings' HN4250 (boxed), a Royal Crown Derby paperweight 'Debonair Bear' from Collectors Guild (no stopper), Coalport 'Encore' figurine and a 'Carriage' (Cinderella coach), and two based Wedgwood collectors plates from 'Four Seasons', 'Spring Sowing' and 'Autumn - Ploughin' (with Certificate)
Lot 400
FOUR PIECES OF BERNARD ROOKE POTTERY, all four decorated in relief with foliage, insects and frogs, comprising two vases, heights 27cm and 12cm and two toadstool shaped table lamps, heights 24cm and 38cm, the taller vase bears adhesive Bernard Rooke label and incised initials, the smaller vase and lamp bear incised initials, the larger lamp appears unmarked (4) (Condition:- all four pieces appear to be in good condition, lamps not PAT tested)
Lot 453
A SET OF FIVE WADE NAT WEST PIGGY BANKS AND OTHER 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY CERAMICS, including a Victorian blue and white transfer printed mug with rural scene, a Don McLay of Formby crystalline glazed vase, height 11cm, a boxed Crown Staffordshire pie slice and a matching unboxed cake knife, a Purbeck pottery charger with fish design, Sylvac planter, cracked, a resin polar bear figure, etc (Condition:- all Nat West pigs have 'Natwest' stoppers, Sylvac vase cracked, Rouge Royale jug chipped to the base)
Lot 537
A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED COLLECTORS AND COSTUME DOLLS, various styles and nationalities, well loved teddy bear, clown puppet, a small quantity of boxed Matchbox 'Models of Yesteryear', all 1970's and 1980's issues and a boxed T P Activity Toys wooden Knights Castle No 67, playworn condition, some minor damage but appears complete (four boxes)
Lot 117
A SELECTION OF SILVER AND WHITE METAL JEWELLERY, to include two hinged silver bangles, an oval locket, a filigree hat brooch, two bird bar brooches, a Paddington bear brooch, an Edwardian letter clip, etc., most with hallmarks or marks to indicate silver, approximate total gross weight 160 grams
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