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Lot 404
THOMAS SHERWOOD YARM' AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK, the hood with pagoda shaped top, finials, column mounted glazed door, with inset linticle glass, overall marquetry of vases of flowers, birds, cornucopia, flowers, fitted square brass face, 11cm square, with cast spandrels, silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, with bell, 30 hour movement, 2.24m high
Lot 1308
An impressive chiming longcase clock, retailed by Hierro Gonzalez & Co, Habana, circa 1900, architectural pediment, pierced scroll side sound frets, glass trunk door flanked by large Corinthian carved and fluted columns, bevelled side panels, 13-1/4-inch arch brass dial with an Arabic numeral silvered chapter ring, seconds dial, two dials for chime/silent and Westminster/Whittington selections, arch with moon disc, twin weight driven movement with eight hammers striking eight tubular bells and a further hammer striking a large tubular bell for the hours, 255cm high19.12.18, Case with chips to the edges in parts, dents and scuff marks, glass panels with small scratches, plinth with cracks and dent marks, dial is discoloured, movement needs cleaning, with nine tubular bells and a pendulum, with three brass cased weights.
Lot 1198
An impressive Italian mother of pearl and bone marquetry inlaid striking longcase clock, probably Sorrento, late 19th century, the elaborately inlaid case with floral and geometric patterned panels, fine metal wire inlay, trunk and plinth with central panels depicting a classical scene and figures in costume, trunk and base with opening doors and internal drawers and velvet lined shelves, 9-inch brass dial with Roman numerals, twin barrel movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, 225cm high see illustration Purchased from Harrods in mid 1980s for £10,000 18.10.18, Case with losses and needs restoring in parts, metal wire is lifting and missing in parts, trunk door and bottom doors with signs of a crack from the top to the bottom which has been restored and filled in the past, majority of the bone inlay is intact apart from a few small areas that need restoring, one of the corner figures front legs is broken and needs re-securing into position (the leg and the bottom right hand side moulding is in one of the inner drawers), some other veneers have come off and are in the internal drawers, dial is discoloured, movement needs cleaning, with pendulum.
Lot 238
AVIATION: A rare multiple signed commemorative cover issued by the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society and featuring a red printed cachet with the words Birthplace of Aviation beneath, signed by twenty nine aviation pioneers, manufacturers and pilots comprising Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993, American Aviation Pioneer who led the Doolittle Raid during World War II), Bernt Balchen (1899-1973, Norwegian Pioneer Polar Aviator), Blanche Stuart Scott (1884-1970, American Pioneer Aviatrix, the first woman to fly at a public event in America), Blanche Noyes (1900-1981, American Pioneer Aviatrix, one of the first ten women to receive a transport pilot's license), Jerome Hunsaker (1886-1984, American Aviator, a pioneer in aeronautics research), Emory S. Land (1879-1971, American Vice Admiral with the United States Navy, President of the Air Transport Association of America 1946-57), Francis Rodwell Banks (1898-1985, British Air Commodore and Engineer, involved in the development of the internal combustion engine), Louis Paulhan (1883-1963, French Pioneer Aviator, winner of the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester, 1910), Ruth Law Oliver (1887-1970, American Pioneer Aviatrix), Benjamin Foulois (1879-1967, American General who learned to fly the first military planes purchased from the Wright Brothers), Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886-1957, Italian Aeronautical Engineer and Aircraft designer and manufacturer), Holden C. Richardson (1878-1960, American Naval officer, a pioneer in United States naval aviation), John Towers (1885-1955, American Admiral with the United States Navy, a pioneer naval aviator who also served as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics 1939-42), Patrick N. L. Bellinger (1885-1962, American Vice Admiral with the United States Navy, a pioneer naval aviator), Beckwith Havens (1890-1969, American Pioneer Aviator, the first salesman with the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, 1910), George Otto Noville (1890-1963, American Pioneer Aviator, served with Richard Byrd on the historic flight to the North Pole, 1926), Jacob Cato Kolff (1914-2007, Director of the Malaysia Air Charter Co. Ltd), Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978, German Aircraft Designer & Manufacturer), Glenn L. Martin (1886-1955, American Aviation Pioneer and Aircraft Designer), Chuck Yeager (1923- , American United States Air Force officer and test pilot, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight), James A. D. McCurdy ( - , Canadian Pioneer Aviator, the first pilot to make a powered flight in Canada, 1909), Grover Loening (1888-1976, American Aircraft Manufacturer), Katherine Stinson (1891-1977, American Pioneer Aviatrix), George A. Page Jr. (1891- , American Aircraft Designer of the Curtiss C-46 Commando), Louis Breguet (1880-1955, French Aviation Pioneer and Aircraft Designer), Lawrence Bell (1894-1956, American Industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation), Lester Gardner (1876-1956, American Aviator, one of the founders of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences and the editor and owner of Aviation magazine), Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957, American Rear Admiral and Polar Explorer who controversially claimed to be the first to lead expeditions to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air) and Alliott Verdon Roe (1877-1958, English Pioneer Aviator & Aircraft Manufacturer). The cover is postmarked at North Carolina, 18th September 1953 and bears the typed name and address of General Frank Lahm. Most of the signatures have small ink numbers at their sides for identification purposes. A most impressive collection of signatures to be found on one piece. Accompanied by an A.L.S. by a Dorothy Smith of Ohio, dated 22nd April 1955 and providing the noted collector Reverend Cornelius Greenway with a list of the signatories on the cover and further including a second, partial A.L.S. by another, unidentified, individual offering the cover to a collector for a price of $15. Some light overall age wear to the cover and a few small tears and areas of paper loss to the upper edge, evidently caused when the envelope was originally opened. G, 3 Frank P. Lahm (1877-1963) American Pioneer Aviator, the first military aviator in the United States.
Lot 226
VISITOR'S BOOK: An exceptional hardback leather bound Visitor's Book from the family of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley, recording the visiting guests to the distinguished country homes associated with the family, located at Mount Grace in North Yorkshire and Penrhos on Holy Island, Anglesey, containing over 1500 signatures dating from 1881-1928, a period covering the Second Boer War and World War I (featuring a number of individuals directly involved in one or both of the conflicts), including, in order of their appearance, Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816-1904, Victorian Ironmaster who restored the mansion at Mount Grace Priory), his wife Margaret Bell and various other members of the Bell family, Lady Blanche Hozier (1852-1925, Mother of Clementine Churchill), Kitty Hozier (1883-1900, Sister of Clementine Churchill; a rare signature owing to her young death at the age of 16), Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893, Tutor & Theologian), Hugh Bell (1844-1931, Mayor of Middlesbrough), his second wife Florence Bell (1851-1930, Writer & Playwright) & his daughter Gertrude Bell (1868-1926, Writer, Traveller, Archaeologist who played a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq and was, along with T. E. Lawrence, a supporter of the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan and Iraq), Norman Grosvenor (1845-1898, Liberal Politician), his wife Caroline Grosvenor (1858-1940, Novelist & Artist), their daughter Susie Grosvenor (1882-1977, Writer & Viceregal Consort of Canada, wife of John Buchan; the signature being an early example at the age of 6, possibly in the hand of her mother), Clementina Mitford (1854-1932, Grandmother of the Mitford Sisters) and her son Clement Freeman-Mitford (1876-1915, Killed in Action at the Battle of Loos during World War I), Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926, Editor for the Oxford University Press), Humphry Ward (1845-1926, Author & Journalist) and his wife Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920, Novelist & founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League), M. E. Grant Duff (1829-1906, Politician & Administrator, Governor of Madras), Leonard Hobhouse (1864-1929, Political Theorist & Sociologist), Henry Montague Hozier (1838-1907, Father of Clementine Churchill), Horace Marshall (1865-1936, Publisher & Newspaper Distributor, Lord Mayor of London 1918-19 at the end of World War I), John Leslie (1857-1944, Soldier who served in the Second Boer War and who married Winston Churchill's aunt, Leonie Blanche Jerome) and his sister Constance Leslie (1861-1945), T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922, Artist & Bookbinder associated with the Arts & Crafts movement), Dorothea Muir MacKenzie (Violinist & wife of the pianist Mark Hambourg), Vesey Dawson, 2nd Earl of Dartrey (1842-1920, Liberal Politician) and his wife Julia Wombwell, Ambrose Macdonald Poynter (1867-1923, Calligrapher, Artist & Architect), and his father Edward Poynter (1836-1919, Painter & Designer, President of the Royal Academy), William Maclagan (1826-1910, Archbishop of York), William St John Hope (1854-1919, Antiquary), Charles Trevelyan (1870-1958, Liberal Politician), Francis Mowatt (1837-1919, Liberal Civil Servant at the Head of the Treasury), Kenneth Muir Mackenzie (1845-1930, Barrister, Civil Servant & Politician), Geoffrey Howard (1877-1935, Liberal Politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1911-15), Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872-1956, Liberal Politician, Intelligence officer during the Seymour Expedition), Vernon Lushington (1832-1912, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts & Crafts movement), Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923, Banker and member of the Rothschild family, compiler of The Rothschild List in 1915), Algernon Charles Stanley (1843-1928, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emmaus, brother of Baron Stanley), Raymond Asquith (1878-1916, Barrister, son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, & a prominent member of The Coterie; Killed in Action at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Battle of the Somme in World War I at the young age of 37), Grosvenor Hood (1868-1933, Viscount Hood), Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937, Painter) and his wife Lucy Guinness, Watkin Williams (1845-1944, Bishop of Bangor 1899-1925), William Ogilvy Hozier (1888-1921, Lieutenant Commander with the British Royal Navy, Brother of Clementine Churchill; a rare signature as a result of Churchill's early death at the age of 33), Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (1885-1977, Wife of Winston S. Churchill), Nellie Hozier (1888-1955, Sister of Clementine Churchill), Edmond Warre (1837-1920, Rower & Headmaster of Eton College), John Slade (1843-1913, Major-General, General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt, 1903), Horace Smith-Dorrien (1858-1930, General who served in the Second Boer War and World War I), and his wife Olive Crofton Schneider (1881-1951, President of The Blue Cross and founder of the Lady Smith-Dorrien's Hospital Bag Fund during World War I), Guy Ridley (1885-1947, Barrister and Master in Lunacy, a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group who participated in the Dreadnought Hoax), Gerald Arbuthnot (1872-1916, Second Lieutenant and Politician, Killed in Action during World War I) and his wife, William E. Pease (1865-1926, Businessman & Politician), Rowland Blennerhassett (1839-1909, Liberal Politician), Frank Swettenham (1850-1946, Colonial Administrator), Valentine Chirol (1852-1929, Journalist, Author & Historian who believed that Imperial Germany and Muslim unrest represented the biggest threats to the British Empire), Edward Marsh (1872-1953, Polymath & Civil Servant, Private Secretary to Winston S. Churchill), Cynthia Crewe-Milnes (1884-1968, Courtier & Social Worker), Ma .....OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CANNOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA Ltd FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Lot 15
THEATRE: A good selection of vintage signed postcard photographs by various Edwardian stage actresses, each of the images with colour tints, including Madge Vincent, Marie Tempest, Gertrude Lester, Ela Q. May (in costume as Wendy from Peter Pan), Decima Brooke, Crissy Bell, Daisy Stratton, Constance Drever, Venie Clements, Dorothy Ward, Zeta Russell, Dora Langham, Nell Carter, Julita Dumas, Iris Hoey, Jean Aylwin, Hetty King, Fanny Dango, Camille Clifford, Irene Vanbrugh, Deborah Volar, Rita Everard, Ada Blanche, Gladys Archbutt, Stella Gastelle, Marie Lloyd, Florence Smithson, Topsy Sinden, Violet Lloyd etc. Some with slight corner and surface creasing, G to generally VG, 40
Lot 81
ARMSTRONG LOUIS: (1901-1971) American Jazz Trumpeter. A good, early vintage signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph of Armstrong seated in an amusing full length pose holding his trumpet and cleaning the bell with a white handkerchief. Photograph by Gibson of Chicago and issued by Johnny Collins as a publicity image for the 'world's greatest trumpeter'. Signed by Armstrong in fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background, 'Best wishes to “Links” 'Oh! You Rascal you' from Louis Armstrong' and dated 11th May 1933 in his hand. Some light overall age wear and heavy traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise about VG Armstrong's inscription on the present photograph incorporates the name of the song You Rascal You, or, officially, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (1929). The song, whose lyricstake the form of threats and complaints levelled against a man who has repaid the singer's hospitality and kindness by running off with the singer's wife, is played by Satchmo in the Betty Boop cartoon I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You (1932).
Lot 1538
French ormolu figural two train drumhead mantel clock, the Henry Marc movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3.5" white dial also signed Henry Marc á Paris, within a drumhead casing flanked by a Classical robed seated lady over an ornate cast base inlaid with floral porcelain panels, also upon a shaped giltwood base, 12.5" high overall (pendulum)
Lot 1510
French white marble and gilt metal mounted two train mantel clock garniture, the Samuel Marti movement with outside countwheel and striking on a bell, the 3.25" convex white floral painted dial within a breakfront stepped case surmounted by an urn finial, 13" high; also with a pair of matching twin light candelabra, 9.5" high (pendulum)
Lot 2315
French gilt metal and porcelain mounted two train mantel clock garniture, the Japy Freres movement striking on a bell (missing), the 3.25" convex painted porcelain dial over a painted panel of a courting couple, within an ornate case, 15" high; also with a pair of matching urn side pieces, 12.5" high
Lot 1824
Interesting early English verge lantern clock made for the Turkish market, the 8" brass arched dial signed Wm. Dent, London, 2607 on a silvered disc to the arch, over a silvered chapter ring enclosing a matted centre, with stylised foliate engraved side doors, surmounted by pierced engraved foliate frets, strapwork and bell, 13.5" high; also within a long case made for the Turkish market, with long arched door and painted overall with stylised flowers and foliage upon a gilded ground, surmounted by a rounded arched hood, 88" high overall (weight, no pendulum) *Provenance: this clock was purchased from a large country house sale in Ireland (lot 1069) in June 1976, this was a three day house sale and the contents were sold on behalf of the executors of Capt. W.E.D. Allen OBE deceased, being the contents of Whitechurch House, Cappagh, Co Waterford Captain Allen was from the family who did the large roadside advertising posters throughout the UK and Ireland. He was himself an author and known collector. His library was particularly important, some pieces at the sale made record prices at the time. He had aristocratic connection through his marriage. Further information about Captain Allen can be found on the internet
Lot 2518
Mahogany mantel clock timepiece with fusee verge pocket movement inscribed Wakefield, South St, Berkeley Square, London, no. 1083, within a rounded arched stepped case, 9.25" high; also a small VAP drumhead mantel timepiece, 6.75" high and a small French ebonised two train mantel clock striking on a bell, 72 high (3)
Lot 1543
Brass single fusee skeleton clock with passing strike on a bell, the 5.75" white painted chapter ring enclosing a skeletonised centre upon tapering arched supports, with four stepped circular feet, under a glass dome and upon a stepped white marble base, 17.5" high overall (pendulum and key)
Lot 1556
French ormolu and porcelain mounted two train mantel clock, the Japy Freres movement striking on a bell and stamped Hy Marc, Paris on the back plate, the 3.25" dial signed Hry Marc, Paris to the centre with butterflies amidst flowering foliage, over another porcelain panel painted with goats passing a cottage by a river and with floral panels to the sides and top, within a decorative cast stepped case surmounted by a Classical urn, upon a shaped gilt wooden stand, 15" high overall
Lot 1552
French white marble and ormolu mounted two train drumhead mantel clock garniture, the Mougin movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3.75" white floral painted dial within a drumhead casing supported upon circular tapered columns to the rectangular stepped base, surmounted by a Classical urn, 15" high; also with a pair of matching two light candelabrum, 10.25" high (pendulum and key)
Lot 1349
Unusual small French rosewood two train repeater alarm mantel clock, striking the hours and halves on a single bell drilled with winding apertures, the rectangular dial plate signed Damiens Duvillier á Paris, within a stepped case inlaid with brass lines and surmounted by a carrying handle, 8.5" high
Lot 1352
French Empire ormolu two train figural mantel clock, the movement with silk suspension, outside countwheel and striking on a bell, the 3" white dial within a rectangular casing flanked to one side by a standing musician holding a flute and with a guitar on a table to the other, surmounted by a music stand, 9.75" high (pendulum and key)
Lot 1528
French four glass white marble and ormolu mounted two train mantel clock garniture, the movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3.5" white chapter ring enclosing an engine turned gilt centre, within a pillared stepped case, 14" high (pendulum); also with a pair of matching five light candelabrum, 15.75" high
Lot 1366
Good early brass hook and spike balance wheel lantern clock, the 6.25" silvered chapter ring enclosing a foliate engraved centre signed Richard Ames Neare St Andrews Church in Holburne fecit, also with central foliate engraved alarm dial and single iron hand, surmounted by pierced foliate dolphin frets, strapwork bell and finial (six weights) *The maker Ames or Aymes is recorded as working between 1648 and 1681
Lot 1539
Attractive French gilt metal and blue porcelain mounted two train mantel clock garniture, the Japy Freres movement striking on a bell, within an ornate case decorated with masks and foliage upon a dark blue ground, 16" high (pendulum and key); also with a pair of matching vase side pieces, 12.75" high
Lot 1308
Fine gilded brass and silvered repeater carriage clock made for the Chinese market, the movement with alarm and striking on a bell, the back plate stamped with Chinese characters and no. 775, the 1.75" principal silvered dial with centre seconds, over an alarm dial, both within a silvered mask and temple stepped pillared case, 8.25" high (key)
Lot 1534
Good French ormolu and porcelain panelled two train mantel clock, the movement back plate signed W. Batty, Manchester & Paris, striking on a bell, the floral painted porcelain rectangular dial plate also signed to the centre, within an ornate ormolu foliate cast case with further floral porcelain painted panels to the sides and base, surmounted by a Classical urn, 16" high (pendulum)
Lot 2303
French white marble and gilt metal mounted two train mantel clock, the Vincenti movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3.25" white dial signed Rollin á Paris within a shaped stepped case surmounted by the seated figure of a child on a cushion, also with an associated ebonised dome base (no dome), 16" high overall (pendulum)
Lot 1345
Good French bronze and champleve enamel two train mantel clock, the movement stamped Leroy & Fils á Paris striking on a bell, the 3.25" gilded dial enclosing a decorated centre faintly stamped, within an ornate champleve panelled case flanked by turned pillars to each corner and attended by standing winged cherubs, surmounted by a rounded arched cornice and domed finial, upon a stepped wooden stand, 18.5" high overall (pendulum and key)
Lot 1547
French boulle two train mantel clock, the movement back plate inscribed P.Ltre.1566, with outside countwheel and striking on a bell, the 4.25" gilt dial with Roman cartouche enamel numerals enclosing a foliate embossed centre, within a balloon shaped case surmounted by the standing figure of a semi-robed child, 17" high (pendulum)
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