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Lot 2011
Minton Parian figure by John Bell (1811-1895), of Miranda seated on a rocky outcrop with conch shell at her feet, inscribed January 1850 and numbered to base, 40cm highNOTE; Shown by Minton at the Great Exhibition in 1851, executed for the Art Union of London, and in production over many years, Miranda is one of a series of literary heroines modelled by Bell, following the success of Dorothea. Miranda is the daughter of Prospero in Shakepeare's The Tempest.
Lot 2184
Smith.A. An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 3 vols. 1819, leather bound, together with a further 13 old cloth and leather including Currer Bell, Jane Eyre, 1859, first French Edition, an interesting eclectic lot. (16)Provenance - Removed for sale from Runnymede Park, Egham
Lot 2244
18th century mahogany bracket clock by Edward Tutet (Tatet) of London, the eight day repeating movement, with alarm, the painted face with subsidiary seconds dial and alarm disk, on brass bracket feet, engraved back plate , striking on a bell, 36cm highProvenance - Removed for sale from Runnymede Park, EghamEdward Tutet was apprenticed to Joseph Bosley on the 2nd September 1754 for 7 years at a sum of £42 (Clock & Watchmaker Apprentice Records 1710-1810, Dennis Moore 2003). He was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1765 and Master in 1786. He died in 1792. A bracket clock by Tutet can be found in 'The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks' by Eric Bruton p.112. His son, also called Edward, was a freeman of the Clockmakers Company between 1792 and 1811 whilst working in London. He is recorded as working abroad in 1813
Lot 2261
Ansonia enamelled iron cased 8 day mantel clock circa 1880-1890. 11cm porcelain dial ring with Roman numerals. Movement strikes on a gong. Overall size 26cm high,24 cm wide. Victorian black marble mantel clock with white mottled marble edge strips on case and plinth fronts. 12cm porcelain dial with Roman numerals in 15cm dia decorative surround. French movement (11101) with corresponding pendulum, striking on a bell. Total clock size 36cm high, 31cm wide and 18cm deep.
Lot 250
An Edwardian mahogany inlaid Arts & Crafts display cabinet in the Glasgow school manner. Raised on stunning inverted turned tapering legs with bell pad feet. Above, sentry box glass display cabinets with leaded glass panel work, vaseline glass flower heads and coloured glass petals inset. The drop centre cabinet with inlaid detailing. Measures 154cms high x148cms wide x 40cms depth
Lot 188
Virginia Woolf's family.- Duckworth (Stella, half sister of Virginia Woolf, married John Waller Hills, 1869-97) 12 Autograph Letters signed to her mother, Julia Stephen (philanthropist, married first Henry Duckworth, second Leslie Stephen, 1846-95) & 1 to Lisa Stillman, artist, 43pp., 8vo, 22 Hyde Park Gate, Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall & elsewhere, 18th April 1884 - 7th November 1896, 6 letters in French, on riding, living with her grandmother and 1 to Lisa Stillman announcing her engagement to John Waller Hills, "I am very happy happier than I ever thought I should be again... we were talking about you last night you know how much he likes you. I told him of an episode in the billiard room at St Ives wh I know made you dislike him, he remembered nothing of it in fact was sure it never could have happened" § Hills (John Waller, politician and angler, 1867-1938) 5 Autograph Letters signed to Stella Duckworth and 1 to his mother, Anna, 29pp. & 5 envelopes, 8vo, Corby Castle, 29 Wimpole Street & elsewhere, 26th August 1896 - 3rd February 1901, "Garet caught a salmon, 16 lbs, at last, I shall have a try this afternoon... Florie is very worthy, but she is dull, & her aimless chatter gets on my nerves", and taking Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell to Queen Victoria's funeral, "I went to the funeral yesterday: it was extraordinarily impressive. I took Vanessa & Virginia & we got very good seats in Oxford & Cambridge Terrace, though they cost a small fortune... . The coffin was covered with a piece of plain cloth satin with very little embroidery: the crown, the sceptre & the ball were simply laid on the top... . Then came the King, the German Emperor [Kaiser Wilhelm II] & the Duke of Connaught... the Emperor looking about & then evidently talking on everything..."; and a small quantity of other letters to Stella Duckworth and her mother, including: a letter from George Smith, of the publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co., discussing discussing whether Leslie Stephen should resign as editor of the DNB due to ill health; ALs from Julia Stephen to Stella Duckworth, "Beloved Female"; ALs from the artist Norman Wilkinson to John Waller Hills concerning an illustration he has commissioned and including a proof of the etching; Stella Duckworth's bank book, 16 photographs of members of the Stephen/Duckworth family (including a few of Virginia Woolf, some very faded) etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (qty).⁂ Stella Duckworth (1869-97), married John Waller Hills [1867-1938, politician and angler ] in 1895. "Shortly after the marriage Stella was taken ill with peritonitis, and she died in July 1897." - Oxford DNB.
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Lot 60
[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily and Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, second issue, lacking errata slip but with advertisement leaf bound at end and final blank, without publishers' catalogue at end, embossed booksellers' stamp of Bragg & Son of Taunton to front free endpaper, original ribbed olive green cloth with blind-stamped border and central harp design to covers, Westleys & Co. binders' ticket at rear, pale yellow endpapers, a little rubbed, spine faded, slight spotting and staining to lower cover but overall a very good copy, [Smith 1 pp.6-14], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848].
Lot 259
Economics.- Letter to a Friend concerning Credit (A), and how it may be restor'd to the Bank of England..., 8pp., drop-head title, foxed, later marbled wrappers, split at spine, [Wing L1639a], 4to, for Andr. Bell, 1697.⁂ Rare work on banking, suggesting that the Bank of England, established two years earlier, should be used to build a supply of credit. The theory of a credit-based economy was eventually adopted with the creation of the funded National Debt and paper money. ESTC lists only 2 copies in the UK (BL & Manchester) and 4 in America.
Lot 899
*An early Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Bronze awarded to Sailmaker James Sweetmore of the Queen Margaret, of London, who went out in the ship’s boat to rescue all nine crew of the Heatherbell, of Shields, who were in ‘imminent peril of their lives’ in high seas off the Cape of Good Hope. Having brought them safely aboard, they were later landed at St. Helena comprising: Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life, V.R., large bronze issue (James Sweetmore. Wreck of the “Heatherbell” 3rd. Janry. 1858); in original, blue velvet-line case of issue, with gilt embossed name to exterior, tiny nicks to rim in places, otherwise good extremely fine. The events of this incident were recorded in detail by the York Herald of Saturday 27 march, 1858, as follows: “LOSS OF A SHIELDS BRIG. The account of the loss of the brig Heather Bell, Captain Appleton, has just been received by her owners. It appears she sailed from Bird Island, one of the Guano Islands, on the south coast of Africa, on the 16th of December last, bound to Liverpool with a cargo of guan. All went well until the 29th, when she experiences some very heavy weather, the sea breaking over her and carrying all of the decks. The pumps were sounded, and it was found she was making nearly two inches of water in the hour, from a leak which was discovered to be in the after part of the vessel. Next day the gale increased, and she shipped a great number of seas, which nearly filled her cabin. This weather continued, and on the 3rd of January it was found the leak had increased, and they commenced to throw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. The course of the vessel was also changed, the captain wishing to make land. The pumps were tried again, but they were choked, and the crew had to resort to bailing to keep the water down. It was at last found impossible to save the ship, and signals of distress were hoisted. During the day a barque came in sight, and, seeing the signals, immediately hove to and sent her lifeboat to their assistance. The crew left the vessel, and shortly afterwards she disappeared. The barque is the Queen Margaret, of London. Captain Spence, crew, nine in number, were landed at St. Helena on the 21st of January.” The ship’s Mate, James Robb, was awarded a silver Board of Trade Medal, and the 5 other crew of the Queen Margaret were awarded bronze medals, as well as a £2 gratuity.
Lot 774
*An Early Victorian Campaign Group of 3 awarded to Captain Thomas Edward Bowerbank Dent, 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment, who was tragically found ‘frozen to death’ during a snow-storm returning from Balaklava during the Crimean War on 5 January 1855. His death exemplifies the appalling weather and conditions experienced by officers and soldiers alike during this brutal campaign, comprising: Cabul, 1841-42 (Ensign T. E. B. Dent, 9th Foot.), contemporary engraved naming in upright capitals, possible correction to regiment; Sutlej, 1845-46, Moodkee reverse, 2 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon (Lieut. T: E: B: Dent 9th Regt), officially impressed in upright capitals; Crimea, 1854-56, no clasp (Capt. T. E. B. Dent. 9th Foot.), officially impressed, but with correction to regiment; medals loose, toned, generally very fine to good very fine (3). Captain Thomas Edward Bowerbank Dent (1821-1855) was born in Madras, India, and was baptised soon after in Calcutta. He was the son of Thomas Ross Dent, Coroner of Calcutta in the Bengal Civil Service, and his second wife Amelia Dent (née Blythe). T. E. B. Dent joined the 9th Regiment in 1841 as an Ensign on 19 February 1841, immediately serving in India in Chinsurah under Captain Astier. He served with this regiment during the First Afghan War of 1841-2, and was promoted to Lieutenant by purchase on 18 April 1843. He soon after served during the Sutlej Campaign of 1845-6, returning home to Britain ‘having earned distinguished honours at Moodkee (the Caledonian Mercury of 9 September 1847, refers) in September 1847. He married Alice Sealy Daunt on 27 January 1848, with whom he would have three children (Amelia, Elizabeth, and Richard) born in Ireland, in the following years. Upon the outbreak of the Crimean War, he travelled to the Crimea with his regiment from Malta, arriving on 27 November 1854 at Balaklava. They arrived into a chaotic, appalling scene, with the British supplies and equipment entirely inadequate, their camps on the Kherson Plain rife with disease, deadly winter storms, and hard service required of them in the trenches around Sebastopol. The ‘History of the Norfolk Regiment’ by F. L. Petre, details a report by Lieutenant Colonel Borton, as follows: “For some days after the 9th Regiment reached camp, the sick were exposed to the same privations as the healthy, lying in bell tents on damp ground, without covering beyond that of a single blanket which too often was also wet. The weather was desperate and the duties in the trenches very severe. Cholera broke out on the third day, and in the absence of all necessary comforts, the mortality was of course very great, so that ninety deaths occurred amongst 450 men…Of 540 men who landed…182 have died, 153 are sick absent, and 38 are sick present.” A further note in the battalion diary records the fate of our recipient: “January 6, 1855 – Tom Dent frozen to death last night”. Walking back from Balaklava in a snow storm, Captain Dent appears to have lost his way and sat down to rest, eventually succumbing to these fatal conditions (these details borne out in other official records also). Offered with a quantity of relevant research.
Lot 902
An Original Cannonball salvaged in 1934 from the wreck of the British 32-gun Frigate H.M.S. Lutine, mounted on a wooden plinth made from timber the same ship. The Lutine sunk off the Dutch coast on 9 October 1799, carrying a large shipment of gold, and the ship’s famous ‘Lutine Bell’, salvaged in 1858, still hangs in the rostrum of the underwriter’s room in Lloyd’s of London, and still tolls to this day on ceremonial occasions or in remembrance of major disasters, comprising: Cast iron cannonball or round shot, 110mm diameter, 5.20kg, in good condition, resting upon separate dark wood plinth, bearing the small plaque ‘Cannon Ball salved from H.M.S. “Lutine”, sunk in 1799. Mounted on “Lutine” wood’. Light surface corrosion to cannonball from salvage, but otherwise in good condition, minor splitting and old nail-holes to wooden plinth [collection only] (2)
Lot 466
†VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) THE FRENCH WINDOW signed and dated '45, signed again and inscribed with the title on a fragmentary label verso, oil on canvas, 54.5 x 37cmProvenance: Imogen Skirving (1937-2016) by whom acquired from the Mayor Gallery Ltd, London in July 1963.Believed to be Charleston++Fine condition, unlined and on the original stretchers with gallery label and that of James Bourlet & Sons Ltd
Lot 534
A FRENCH GILT BRASS STRUT CLOCK, LATE 19TH C the engine turned and silvered oval dial in foliate engraved and pierced frame, the movement with platform lever escapement and striking on a bell, the domed backplate engraved Mre John Du Boulay Donhead Hall Shaftesbury, 15cm h++Movement running when wound, case in good condition with slight wear to gilding
Lot 533
A LOUIS XIV GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK, EARLY 18TH C the cast and chased dial inscribed BARY A PARIS beneath urns flanked by allegorical busts, the interior with strapwork and sloping trompe l'oeil floor, the arched leafy gadrooned case applied with caryatids and three full length figures of saints, on four 'Indian head' volute legs, the 19th c English chain fusee movement with bell and gong, 75cm h++Lacks pediment and pendulum, much dirt and small localised areas of worm damage, basically complete and unrestored in typically country house condition
Lot 1102
Art Deco Marble Figural Mantle Clock Raised on rectangular base of cream and moss green veined Verdi marble, the clock is cased in geometric form marble with chromed dial and black numerals. A bronzed dog figure is seated to the side of the clock. Complete with key and pendulum. 18 inches in length, height, 9 inches. Good condition. Please note bell is missing.
Lot 575
AUTOGRAPHS 1968 Programme , Scottish Under 23 v English Under 23, 7/2/68 at Hampden Park, autographed on team page by the complete English team plus three reserves. Includes Peter Springett, Tommy Wright, Emlyn Hughes, Tommy Smith, Alan Stephenson, Colin Bell, Rodney Marsh, Brian Kidd, Martin Chivers, Peter Osgood, Howard Kendall, Peter Knowles and Jones of Bournemouth. Not a bad team. Good ink signatures. Generally good
Lot 979
ENGLAND ASHES 2005 AUTOGRAPHS Book and dust wrapper Calling The Shots - My Story as England Captain by Michael Vaughan, signed on the frontispiece by Vaughan and inside the book, underneath their pictures by Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Ian Bell, Geraint Jones, Ashley Giles, Matthew Hoggard, Steve Harmison, Simon Jones and Paul Collingwood. Good
Lot 365
A French 19th century ormolu and porcelain mounted table or mantel clock, with seated female lyre player above 8cm pink ground dial painted en grisaille with three amorini, the two side panels similarly decorated with male and female amorini holding baskets of fruit or flowers, the case with female caryatid corners, upon winged claw feet, with bell striking drum movement 27 x 15.50cm (11 x 6in)
Lot 369
A Regency ebonised chiming table clock, John Moore & Sons, Clerkenwell, London, the arched top with five pineapple finials above silvered dial with strike/silent to the arch, engraved foliate spandrels, three train triple fusee movement with balance wheel escapement mounted to the backplate, striking on 8 bells and striking on a further bell, both case sides with fret panels and handles, grille rear door, upon lobed brass bun feet 71cm (28in)
Lot 370
A French 19th century carriage clock with alarm by Moser, the engraved case with enamelled dial marked 'Moser, Paris', alarm ring below, the bell striking movement numbered 145, signed 'Moser a Paris', silvered platform lever escapement, formerly with repeat, 15cm high Provenance: From the collection of the late Sir Richard Parsons general dirt and age wear to surface; repeat button present but with no connection. dial and movement slightly tilted back. rear glass damaged. dial with fine cracks. Club shaped hands. Sold as seen
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