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Lot 46a
Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A terracotta effigy vessel representing a small sandaled human foot and ankle perhaps belonging to a child, covered in a thick orange-brown slip with protruding toes clearly delineated, sandal straps with incised detailing over and around the foot with a spherical "jingle bell" adorning the top. A ceremonial vessel probably used in libation or drinking rituals. Size: 5" L x 3.5" W x 4.5" H (12.7 cm x 8.9 cm x 11.4 cm) Provenance: Ex-Galleria Eleni, Chicago. Condition: Intact with minor surface wear. Overall excellent with nice burnishing marks. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #111167
Lot 4d
Ancient Greek Empire, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. Fragment from what was once a stunning Greek bell krater. Red-figure section showing a standing youth with torch in his right hand, himation draped over his shoulder. Small section of laurel band showing at top. Custom stand. Size: 7" W x 5" H. Provenance: Ex- M. Reiniger collection, Chicago, IL, Ex- Jones collection, UK. Condition: Fragmentary, else excellent All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #111285
Lot 93v
Mexico and Italy, ca. 1900 to 1925 CE. This is a collection of three fairly large silver milagros depicting saints. Milagros, also known as ex-voto, dijes, or promesas, are religious folk charms often used as votive offerings to pray for healing. They are usually attached to altars, shrines, or parts of churches -- for example, at San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, they are nailed to the church bell. Size: 6-1/4" L x 2-1/4" W (15.9 cm x 5.7 cm). Provenance: Ex-Historia Antiques, James Caswell, Santa Monica, CA Condition: Wear as shown. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #110876
Lot 429
SITWELL SACHEVERELL: (1897-1988) English Writer. Small series of six A.Ls.S., Sacheverell Sitwell, nine pages (total), oblong 8vo (and one brief letter to the verso of a postcard), Towcester, Northamptonshire, 1967-1972, all to Paul Turok in New York. Sitwell, a noted music critic, writes to his correspondent on a variety of subjects relating to classical music, in the first letter referring to Hector Berlioz‘s compositions, in part, ‘You have noticed what is obviously a very silly misprint. It is very odd I should have missed it. Obviously I meant Symphonie Fantastique, the Grande Messe des Mortis, and Te Deum. But now I wd. Say Les Troyens was his masterpiece. Wouldn’t you?’ (9th November 1967), and in subsequent letters stating, in part, ‘Thank you very much indeed for sending me your Fantasia on Liszt’s “Grey Clouds”. It looks very interesting’ (18th January 1970), ‘Your Three Transcendental Etudes, Op.30 came this morning. I have got one or two friends who are good pianists, and I must get one of them to play them to me….I am wondering if The Bell of Arcos is about the Spanish town Arcos de la Frontera in Andalucia!’ (20th March 1970), ‘…I have been grappling with the typewritten proofs of an immensely long book (200,000 words) which have driven me nearly crazy - but now they are finished!…Death of a Fly is the opening chapter of the book I mentioned, and I will be sending you a copy of it when it appears’ (10th July 1972). Together with a vintage folding oblong 8vo Christmas greetings card inscribed by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) British Poet & Critic, elder sister of Sacheverell Sitwell, the card featuring a facsimile signature and greeting although with an ink inscription by Sitwell, also adding the first name of her brother, Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English Writer, in her hand. Generally VG, 7 Paul Turok (1929-2012) American Composer & Music Critic.
Lot 497
BELL ALEXANDER GRAHAM: (1847-1922) Scottish Scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed sepia 10 x 14 photograph of Bell in a profile head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Harris & Ewing of Washington DC and bearing their blindstamp at the base. Signed by Bell in dark fountain pen ink to the lower border, 'To Mrs Roland Granville Fortescue with much love from her uncle Alexander Graham Bell'. Some extremely light, very minor age wear, not affecting the image or signature, otherwise EX
Lot 691
WORLD WAR II: A colour 16.5 x 13.5 Limited Edition print entitled Midnight 'Ops' by artist Gerald Coulson, the image depicting an Avro Lancaster in flight in a moonlit sky, signed in bold pencil by the artist to the lower white border and numbered 74 of 300, and also signed in bold pencil to the upper and lower white borders by over twenty bomber pilots of World War II, some of them associated with 617 Squadron and the Dambusters Raid, including Les Munro, Fred Sutherland, Tony Iveson, George Johnson, Ray Crayston, Grant McDonald, Ken Lucas, John Langston, John Bell, Tony Hiscock, Eric Clarke, Peter Donaldson, Russell Waughman, Ron Green, Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman, Jack Belsey etc. Many of the pilots have added their Squadron numbers beneath their signatures. Some slight, very minor creasing to one corner, otherwise VG
Lot 692
DAMBUSTERS THE: A Limited Edition 17.5 x 12.5 print depicting the 617 'Dambuster' Squadron Memorial at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, by artist K. Buckingham (1987), individually signed to the white borders by over fifty pilots of World War II associated with the Dambusters Raid and 617 Squadron, including Bill Howarth, Len Sumpter, Les Munro, James Tait, Bill Reid VC, Joe McCarthy, Ken Brown, Archie Johnstone, Harry Johnson, John Pryor, John Bell, Albert Hepworth, Colin Cole, Benny Goodman, Jock Calder, H. K. 'Duke' Munro, Frank Appleby, Basil Feneron, Bill Pengelly, John Sanders, Des Phillips, Arthur Joplin, Frank Tilley, Reg Spencer, Ross Stanford, Frank Cardwell, John Langston, Danny Daniel, Terry Kearns, Donald Cheney, Freddie Watts etc. Also signed by the artist and numbered 287 of 617. All have signed in bold pencil, with the exception of one ink signature. Rolled and with some light overall surface creasing, G
Lot 87
SCIENCE: Selection of signed clipped pieces, A.Ls.S., etc., by various scientists, inventors, botanists, astronomers etc., including Oliver Lodge (vintage signed postcard photograph), Charles Piazzi Smith, John Russell Hind (to Sir John Lubbock), William Armstrong, Humphry Davy, Robert Owen, Francis Galton, James Paget (2), William Hooker (interesting A.L.S. regarding seeds and plants), Isaac Lowthian Bell, Joseph Banks, Frederick Abel, Justus von Liebig etc. Some are neatly laid down. G to VG, 16
Lot 109
HISTORICAL: Selection of A.Ls.S., a few signed cards and pieces etc., by various British Political leaders, some religious figures and military leaders etc., largely pre-20th century, including William Wilberforce (final page of an A.L.S. to Rev. J. W. Doran, sending his respects to Dr. Orpen, in part, ‘….it is possible I may see him again on this side of a better world…’), Thomas Nowell, Evan Nepean, W. R. Inge, Frederic Farrar, George Gilfillan, Frederick Temple, Benjamin Jowett, Spencer Horatio Walpole, Henry Brougham, Duke of Montrose, Lord Shaftesbury (2), Arthur Kinnaird, Henry Chorley, Charles Yorke FM, John Westlake, Thomas Chambers, George K. A. Bell, Edith Henrietta Fowler, Jesse Collings, John Sumner (as Archbishop of Canterbury), Samuel Wilberforce, Richard Cobden, Marquis of Reading etc. Many are laid down. A few FR, generally G, 69
Lot 152
RUGBY UNION: Selection of signed 4 x 6 photographs by various Rugby Union players including Ofisa Tonu’u, Ben Nutley, James Wilson, Luther Burrell, Lee Dickson, Ben Foden, Jonathan Bell, Jordi Murphy, Simon Geoghegan, Phil Orr, Stephen Ferris, Jim Staples, Terry Kingston, Calum Clark, Luke Charteris, Ross Nesdale, Kevin Maggs, Mike Bradley, Cory Allen, Lionel Nallet, Robbie Diack, Denis McBride, Gary Halpin, Eric Elwood, Darragh O’Mahoney, Chris Henry, Eoin Reddan, Isaac Boss, Shane Jennings, Niall Woods, Yoann Maestri, Tony Buckley, Gabriel Fulcher, Brian McCall, Eric Miller, Anthony Foley, Felix Jones etc. A few duplicates. Most of the images (a few of which are slightly grainy) are colour and depict the players in poses wearing their rugby shirts. VG to EX, 81
Lot 91
A good George III Bryant & Son, London mahogany cased bracket clock, the square arched dial with silvered chapter ring bearing Roman and Arabic numerals, date aperture and strike silent feature to arch, within raised pierced foliate gilt brass spandrels signed Bryant and Son, London, repeating striking double fusee movement with verge escapement and foliate engraved brass back plate, the bell top case with gilt brass carrying handle and pine cone corner finials, glazed arched front and back doors as well as glazed side panels, raised on gilt brass ogee bracket feet, 53cm h.
Lot 93
A late 19th Century architectural marble and gilt bronze mantle clock, the sarcophagus form base with central circular engine turned dial with Roman numerals and minute track, mounted with a classical frieze and berried leaf cast border, raised on paw feet surmounted by the reclining figure of Sappho with her lyre after J. Pradier, signed, stamped Susse Fres, the eight day bell striking brass movement signed Richond Ft a Paris 629, with pendulum and key. 53cm high.
Lot 4
A French ormolu mantel clock with eight day movement striking on a bell, painted pink porcelain dial with floral decoration, signed - J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, in a decorative ormolu spelter case in classical style, with Sèvres-style porcelain panels and surmounted with model of a classical maiden holding an urn and grapes and an eagle. 19th century. W48cm, H34cm, D16cm. Weight: 7.19Kg. Provenance: Nicosia Estate of an eminent Cypriot Doctor's collection. Reserve:€200. In-House Packing & Shipping Worldwide.
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