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Lot 38
A VERY RARE SOUVENIR SILVER NOVELTY SCENT BOTTLE FROM KAISER WILHELM II`S FIRST RACING YACHT METEOR (LATE THISTLE), CIRCA 1890-91, modelled in the form of a life buoy with rope bindings with finely enamelled burgee for the Royal Yacht Squadron to top and yacht name in blue to bottom, screw stopper and securing chains, hallmarked for Cornelius Saunders and Frank Shepherd, Chester, 1890-91 - 2 3/8in. (6cm.) high; contained within bespoke glazed cabinet - 8 x 6 x 4Iin. (20 x 15 x 11.5cm.), Provenance: Christies, South Kensington, Sale 9240, 1st November 2001, lot 77. During a fiercely competitive racing career lasting over twenty years, the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II bought or built five exceptional yachts Ñ all named Meteor Ñ which he raced vigorously against the finest British, Continental and American yachtsmen of the day. A grandson of Queen Victoria with a love of all things maritime, the Kaiser chose as his first Meteor the already famous America`s Cup challenger Thistle which he purchased and renamed in 1891. Designed by the great G.L. Watson and built by D. & W. Henderson & Co. at Glasgow in 1887, Thistle was a steel cutter registered at 170 tons gross (100I net). Measuring 98 feet in length with a 20 foot beam, she had been built for a syndicate headed by Mr. James Bell of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club and had run against Volunteer in the America`s Cup races of September 1887. Failing to win back the coveted trophy, she nevertheless had a very successful career and proved the obvious choice for the Kaiser to launch himself upon the yacht racing scene. In 1893 he won the prestigious Queen`s Cup at Cowes in her but, by 1895, she had been outclassed by several brand-new yachts, most notably the Prince of Wales`s Britannia. Determined to beat his uncle`s cutter, the Kaiser immediately ordered a replacement for Meteor (I) and her successor was completed in time for the start of the 1896 season. Rather than sell Meteor (I), the Kaiser gave her to the German Navy for the use of naval cadets and she was renamed Comet for her new ršle.
Lot 110
THE MAIN SHIP`S BELL FROM 74-GUN THIRD RATE SHIP-OF-THE-LINE DEFIANCE (1783), cast in bell bronze with mouldings to the rim and shoulder, cast with raised Government broad arrow mark and date `1812`, impressed metal tag attached to crown reading Bell of the Defiance `74, broken up 1817 - 22 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (57 x 54cm.), One of eight Slade-designed "Elizabeth" class ships, Defiance was ordered from John Randall & John Brent at Rotherhithe in 1780, she was launched on 10th December, 1783. Her crew mutinied three times, in 1795, 1797, and 1798. She fought at the Battle of Copenhagen on April 2, 1801, the Battle of Cape Finisterre on July 22, 1805, and the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805 where she captured the Spanish San Juan Nepomuceno and sustained casualties of 17 killed, 53 wounded. After refitting at Portsmouth she was recommissioned in March 1806 for Capt. Henry Hotham during which time she blockaded Rochefort and she assisted with the destruction of three French 40-gun frigates (La Cybele, Le Calypso and L`Italienn) at Sables d`Olonne on 24th February 1809. In December 1813 she was used as a temporary prison ship at Chatham, was laid up in ordinary between 1814-1815 and was broken up there in 1817. It is presumed that for an unknown reason it was necessary to fit her with an unnamed bell during her period as a prison ship, which remained aboard as she was not commissioned again.
Lot 210
AN INTERESTING PASSAGE DIARY FOR A VOYAGE BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND NEW ZEALAND ABOARD THE EMIGRANT SHIP DUNEDIN, 1881 written by a crewman, Alexander Malcolm, for a relative in a clear hand over 56 pages of a work book and providing a detailed narrative account of conditions and occurrences throughout the 95 day passage: Fri Aug 26th Tonight we discovered we had three more passengers than usual in the shape of 3 stowaways... they were at once put to work the latter half recording the courses and distances of several more voyages; together with his masters certificates dated 1913 and a copy of Sea Breezes, November 1956. The 1,320 ton, 73 metre Dunedin was built by Robert Duncan and Co at Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1874 at a cost of £23,750 (approximately £1.4m). She was one of six `Auckland` class emigrant vessels, designed to hold 400 passengers. In 1881, still painted in the original Albion Line colours of a black hull with a gold band and pink boot topping as shown, she was refitted with a Bell Coleman refrigeration machine with which she took the first load of frozen meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. She was lost with all hands racing against her sister, the Malborough, in 1890
Lot 230
THE BRIDGE BELL FROM THE SAILING SHIP SAMUEL PLIMSOLL (1873), inscribed over an arc and mounted on a wood and metal display stand (repair to lower left now with 1in. crack), the bell - 5 x 6Iin. (13 x 17cm.); 13 3/4 in. (35cm.) high overall. Launched from Hood`s yard at Aberdeen in September 1873, with her namesake present to watch the event, the Samuel Plimsoll was the third iron clipper ordered for the [Aberdeen] White Star Line`s growing fleet of emigrant ships. Registered in London at 1,510 tons gross (1,444 net) and measuring 241 feet in length with a 39 foot beam, she sported a full ship-rig and was completed as "a double topgallant yarder." Specially fitted out for the emigrant trade, she left Plymouth on 19th November [1873] with 180 passengers and arrived in Port Jackson, Australia, on 1st February the following year. Despite light winds at the start of her outward passage, she made the run in a creditable 73 days, including one splendid dash of 340 miles in 24 hours when approaching Tasmania. From the outset she proved herself a very fast ship, with her best-ever performance being Sydney to the Bishop`s Rock lighthouse in 68 days under Captain Henderson, albeit later in her career. She remained in the Sydney trade until 1887 when she was transferred to the Melbourne run, all the time continuing to carry 3-400 emigrants on the voyage out and a full cargo of wool back to the UK. A prominent and well-known vessel in the so-called Wool Fleet, the famous old ship caught fire in the Thames in 1899 and had to be scuttled. Subsequently raised and repaired, she was sold to Savills who operated her until 1902 when she was dismasted and so damaged on passage to Port Chalmers, New Zealand, that she was deemed not worth repairing. Eventually towed to Sydney at the end of a 120-fathom hawser, she ended her days as a coal hulk in Fremantle harbour where her beautiful lines continued to impress all who saw her despite her final unglamorous employment.
Lot 235
A LARGE AND FINELY CARVED FRUITWOOD PORTUGESE WOODWORKER`S PLANE the top decorated with a stylised dolphin front handle and decorated back handle (old wear, evidence of old worm) - 49in. (124.5cm.), Possibly carved by a shipwright, a very similar plane from the Tiroler Volkskunstsmuseum at Innsbruck and described as 17th century is illustrated in W.L. Goodman: The History of Woodworking Tools, Bell, London, 1964, p.59.
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Lot 237
[ROBERT FALCON SCOTT] THE 1902-3 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: THE SHIP`S BELL FROM THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPONSORED STEAM YACHT MORNING (EX-MORGEN), RELIEF SHIP TO CAPTAIN SCOTT`S DISCOVERY cast in brass with moulded rim and filled lettering over a semi-circle reading S.Y. "MORNING" 1902 R.G.S., clapper with rope sally, secured to a brass bracket for bulkhead securing - 10 x 10in. (25.5 x 25.5cm.); together with a British School painting of Morning underway off a headland with shipping beyond, signed `Harker` (lower right) - 23 x 34in. (58.5 x 86.5cm.) Framed; and a quantity of ephemera including a photograph of Morning. Although her name is not so instantly recognisable as those other Antarctic stalwarts Discovery, Endurance and Terra Nova, the little steam auxiliary Morning has nevertheless earned her place in the modern history of polar exploration. Originally designed as a wooden screw-assisted whaler with a barque-rig, Morning was built by Svend Föyn at Tönsberg, Norway, and launched bearing the name of Morgenen in 1871. Registered in Tönsberg at 452 tons gross (293 net), she measured 145 feet in length with a 31 foot beam and was owned and operated by her builder until his death almost thirty years later. In the mid-1890s, her ageing 80hp. engine was stripped out and she became a pure sailing vessel until, in October 1901, she was purchased by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., President of the Royal Geographical Society [R.G.S.] and probably the greatest exponent of Antarctic exploration of his day, for £3,880. He regarded her as the ideal supply ship for his forthcoming expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., and she was given a new 84hp. compound engine by Nylands Værksted before leaving Norwegian waters. Upon arrival in the Thames, she was rechristened Morning as befitted her new nationality before being expensively fitted out for the `Great White South` by Messrs. Green of Blackwall at a cost in excess of £7,000. Captain Scott and the members of his [first] expedition sailed from London in the summer of 1901 in Discovery and, after a final call at Lyttleton, New Zealand, entered the Ross Sea and discovered Edward VII Land in January 1902. In July that year, Morning left the East India Dock bound for the Antarctic and, crammed with supplies of every description to feed and equip Scott and his men, arrived in the Ross Sea on 25th January 1903. Unable to berth next to Discovery due to ice, the stores she had brought were sledged across to the waiting Scott and, after an exchange of news, Morning departed as quickly as she had come lest she too became entrapped. The decision as to whether Discovery should winter in the Antarctic had been left to Scott but when his ship found herself unable to break free of ice in the MacMurdo Strait after the first winter, the R.G.S. despatched Morning [along with Terra Nova] on a second mission to relieve Scott and his party. The two ships arrived off the base camp on 5th January 1904 but, fortunately, Discovery was soon able to free herself and the three ships returned home in company. During both voyages to the Antarctic in 1902-04, Morning was commanded by Captain William Colbeck, R.N.R., with Edward Evans (later Lord Mountevans) as her Navigating Officer. The latter was to come to prominence on Scott`s second expedition (1910-13) but his earlier time in Morning gave him much valuable experience. Shortly after arriving back in England, Markham sold Morning and she was bought by Robert Kinnes of Dundee who returned her to commercial use as a whaler. In 1910, under Captain Adams, she had a remarkably successful season when she caught seven large whales in four days in Jones` Sound (Greenland) whereas 1913 proved a disaster when she returned home to Dundee with nothing. Still afloat at the start of the Great War, Morning disappears from record soon afterwards although she is not noted as a War casualty. Despite being "so underpowered, she had to stop the engine to blow her whistle", Morning`s name has endured in Polar folklore and will forever be associated with that heroic era of Antarctic exploration at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Lot 29
A well engineered model of an M.E. beam engine, built by the late Mr S M Bell of Hull from. Reeves castings having single cylinder with inside steam valve, Watts parallel action, speed governor with shut off linkage, open crank with drive wheel and large spoked flywheel, beam driven water pump and mounted on mahogany plinth. Finished in green paintwork with polished brightwork . Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
Lot 31
A model of a stationary revolving dockside crane, built by the late Mr S M Bell of Hull, mahogany and brass mounted boom and gearing driven by side mounted oscillating steam cylinders. Power is supplied by a spirit fired vertical copper, centre flue, boiler having mahogany plank cladding, pressure release valve, inline displacement lubricator and brass spirit burner to base, 30cm high. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
Lot 382
A plain-stemmed wine glass, the bell bowl with a solid lower section on a stem filled with spiral threads and a folded conical foot, 15.5cm high; another of drawn trumpet form, 17cm high (foot rim chips), mid 18th century; and two others, possibly Low Countries Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 34
A late Victorian silver coffee pot by Daniel Welby and John Welby, London 1899, the tapering cylindrical body, with bell shape finial to domed lid, with inscription to base `To Sidney & Madeline Clive from Catherine Lady Buxton 1901, 22cm (8.5in) high, 737g (23.70 oz) Engraved with the crest of a griffin passant recorded for BANDENELL of Netherbury, MacTiernan of Ireland and others.. Provenance: Clive Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 160
BERGMAN INGRID: (1915-1982) Swedish Actress, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed and inscribed 9 x 7 photograph, a good close-up image of Bergman in a head and shoulders pose in costume as Maria from the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls. Bergman received an Academy Award nomination for her role in this film. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image. VG
Lot 303
ROLLING STONES THE: An autograph album containing individual signatures of The Rolling Stones comprising Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, all signing their names to individual pages with the exception of Bill Wyman whose signature appears on the verso of Brian Jones. Each of the pages are annotated at the head by the collector and the signatures were obtained in person at a concert in Leeds on 12th July 1964. The album also features various other signatures including a loose piece signed and inscribed by Keith Richards, Cliff Richard, Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin, Del Shannon, Jimmy Savile, The Luvvers (Alex Bell, Jim Dewar and Ross Neilson) etc. G to about VG
Lot 792
AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous collection of signed cards, some signed photographs and letters etc., by a wide variety of famous people including Elsa Maxwell, Norman Hartnell, Christian Lacroix, Paloma Picasso, Pierre Balmain, Gertrude Shilling, Jean Muir, David & Elizabeth Emanuel, Terence Conran, Roy Strong, Andy Green, Uri Geller, Chay Blyth, Fred Dibnah, Walter Monckton, Martin Bell, Brian Moore, Willie Carson, John de Chastelain, Bruce Kent, Asa Briggs, Imran Khan, David Sarnoff, Marcia Falkender, Twiggy Lawson, Barbara Dickson, Annabel Croft, Clare Francis, Mandy Rice Davies, Elke Sommer, Penelope Chetwode, Kim Phuc, Edwina Currie, Alex Best, Yvette Chauvire, Tessa Sanderson, Mary Wilson, Alicia Markova, Felicity Lott, Sue Barker, Virginia Wade, Lisa Clayton, P. D. James, Katie Rabett and many others. The majority of cards have neat calligraphic annotations by the collector at the head and foot. Some duplication. Generally VG, 320
Lot 147
An 18th century Worcester bell shaped coffee cup with handpainted polychrome floral and foliate decoration, with wishbone handle, unmarked, 2.5in. (6.5cm.) high, together with a matched handpainted saucer, with central rose and shell decoration and a swagged floral border to the scalloped rim, 5in. (12.5cm.) diameter. (2)
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Lot 707
Woolf (Virginia) The Waves first edition original purple cloth dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell light browning to upper panel and spine with a small sign of damp stain small piece missing to fore-edge affecting upper panel re-enforced with paper at edges on verso [Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279] 8vo Hogarth Press 1931.
Lot 329
Bewick (Thomas wood-engraver 1753-1824) autograph manuscripts on slips of paper slightly browned folds v.s. most n.d. 1 dated 1813. ***Includes a 12-line fragment from his Memoir "the Eagle cannot soar but the crows will be croaking after him" a 6-line fragment of a letter to Mr. Bell and a note of the death of Rev. Thomas Zouch..
Lot 2
AVictorian electro-plated and ram`s horn desk inkstand, Rd. No. 32842 for 1885, the horns forming the bodies of dolphins with crossed tails with a bell between, the wells behind their heads, the oak rectangular base with a pen rest, a hammer rest with hammer and a presentation plaque dated 1887, 33.5cm (13.25in) high, 42.5cm (16.75in) wide Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 36
A George II silver straight-tapered coffee pot, by Edward Feline, London 1732, with a bell finial, a domed cover and an ivory double scroll handle, engraved with a crest of a chained lion within a cartouche, 23cm (9in) high, 808g (25.75 oz) gross (the cover unmarked) Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
Lot 1
A set of four cider glasses, each bell-shaped bowl engraved with an encircling apple branch bearing two fruit, raised on a double-knopped multiple airtwist stem, mid 18th century, some footrim chips, 18.5cm. (4) Provenance: From the collection formerly at Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse and thence by descent.
Lot 168
An early 20th century Continental teddy bear, straw filled, covered in green plush with swivel joints, black button eyes, pointed nose, humped back, bell to ribbon, long arms and legs with black cotton pads, 13 1/2" high, together with correspondence from its owner Denis from Blackpool, including the letter requesting the bear addressed to Father Xmas, c.1916
Lot 160
A 7 piece amethyst cloud glass dressing table set comprising 2 candlesticks, 2 lidded pots, 2 pin trays and larger tray with an embossed design to underneath. Tray length 35cm. 2 Victorian Davidson`s blue square bowls with embossed design together with a similar yellow Davidson`s jug (S/D), 2 late 20thC ruby red Riihimaki glass vases together with a similar Alsterfors example, mid 20thC Italian glass bell with a murrine and speckle design to body and handle (in need of restoration), a mid 20thC Italian glass vase with an internal nailsea type design to near base and a freeform web type design to top in clear and blue glass, together with 2 mid 20thC black glass bowls, one possibly by Webbs (17)
Lot 88
Salvatore Colacicco, `Lord Elgin` and `Heather Bell`, oil on canvas, signed, 34 x 50 cm (13 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.), a pair (2). Both paddle steamers operated out of Bournemouth. `Heather Bell` was the first to offer regular excursions from Bournemouth Pier in 1871 and `Lord Elgin`, working until 1955, was the last British paddle propelled cargo vessel.
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