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Lot 2112
1920s Floral Chiffon Cowl-Neck Dress and Jacket, in powder blue, navy and yellow floral design, the long sleeved jacket with ties at the neck, the sleeves of jacket and sides of dress with additional chiffon tiers; together with 1920s Vibrant Yellow and Orange Chiffon Sleeveless Dress, ruched centre front, frilling to skirt and side panels, cream petticoat; 1920s Powder Blue Chiffon Sleeveless Dress, press stud fastening to side, machine lace tier decoration to skirt, stitching detail to simple bodice, gold lamé ribbon bow; and a 1920s Salmon Pink Silk Taffeta Beaded Dress, with shoe string straps, press stud side fastening and a flared skirt from a bustier waistline and top (4)Blue floral set - heavy damage to several places on the dress, shoulders and upper sleeves of jacket also torn. Yellow dress - one tear noted, centre back of bodice and one shoulder is also torn, damage to hemline. Powder blue dress - discolouration to bodice, chiffon generally discoloured. Pink dress - upper part shattered, slight splitting to lower skirt panel.
Lot 2140
A Quantity of Ladies 1970s Clothing and Accessories, comprising a Parigi red long sleeved shift dress with pleated panel to the front and back and a appliquéd mesh panel to the reverse (size 14); a floor length emerald green sheer long sleeved dress with cream crochet bodice and cuffs; a Parigi blue multi pleated long sleeved shift dress (size 10); a Entente black long sleeved dress with bow pleat and ruffle detail to the skirt (size 10); a Parigi red and patterned multi pleated long sleeved dress (size 12); a Gina Bacconi striped grey and pastel dress, with pleated skirt and attached tie (size 10); Gina Bacconi black beaded evening dress; a Roter pastel pink and purple summer dress with matching overlay top (size 12); a 1930s peach asymmetrical nightgown; a wedding dress with crochet work bodice and bead detail, with veil; together with a Suitcase of Assorted Beaded and Other Evening Bags (qty)
Lot 547
A Victorian mahogany kidney-shaped desk with quarter brass gallery and green leather tooled inset top, the locks late marked "J. Needs & Co. 100 New Bond St W late J Bramah 124 Piccadilly", flanked by four bow front graduated drawers, raised on square section tapering supports to brass caps and brown china castors, 127 cm wide x 79 cm high
Lot 564
A Victorian mahogany gentleman's spoon back arm chair with buttoned upholstery over scroll arms and a bow fronted seat with reeded front rail, on turned and ringed front legs to castors, together with a chair upholstered to match with similar frame, the seat with serpentine front rail on turned and reeded tapering legs to brass caps and castors
Lot 84
18TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL IN THE MANNER OF JOSEPH HIGHMORE "Miss Whetham", study of lady in white silk dress with blue ribbon bow, portrait study, half length within an oval, oil on canvas, unsigned, 76 cm x 63 cm CONDITION REPORTS Various crazing throughout and cracking to the paint. Long scratch to the upper left hand side corner and some smaller deeper scratches there. A series of scratches to the right of the sitter. Some further scratches and scuffs. Some small losses of paint in various places. Some brown dotted marks including one to the arm of her dress. The left hand side appears greyed / milky. There is a crease running along the top. Under UV light the whole appears very milky. Various scratches, scuffs and marks and general signs of wear and tear throughout. In need of a good clean. Very browned / yellowed all over. In need of restoration due to the scratches and greyness in colour. Frame with various cracks, losses, chips, scratches and scuffs. All over with various general signs of wear and tear.
Lot 167
The Highly Important Great War and Fall of Hong Kong P.O.W. Group of 11 to Sir Mark Aitchison Young G.C.M.G., the 21st Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong. Governor Young was finally advised by Major-General Christopher Maltby to sign Hong Kong’s surrender and capitulation, going in person to surrender at the Peninsula Hotel on 25 December 1941, a day known locally as ‘Black Christmas’. Young shared in the privations and abuse of his fellow P.O.W.s despite his high position, and returned to Hong Kong after the Japanese surrender to great fanfare. Soon after he made vigorous but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to reform and democratize politics in Hong Kong, devising the ‘Young Plan’ in 1946, comprising: The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Cross 1st Class Set of Insignia, comprising sash badge in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver, gilt and enamels, in original fitted case, by Garrard & Co. Ltd.; with collar chain, in silver gilt and enamels, also in original fitted case, by Garrard & Co. Ltd.; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 53mm width, in silver and enamel, and breast star, 70mm width, in silver and enamel with brooch pin, neck ribbon and alternate uniform ribbon, in case of issue; The Order of St. John, officer’s breast badge, in silver;1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. M. A. Young. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. M. A. Young.); Jubilee Medal 1935; Coronation Medal, 1937; G.C.M.G. and O.S.J. sets separate, campaign group swing mounted on bar with reverse brooch pin, these with matching set of miniatures, medals lightly polished, very fine or better, orders generally extremely fine (11). C.M.G.: London Gazette: 03.06.1931 (Chief Secretary, Palestine); The Order of St. John, Officer: London Gazette: 24.06.1932; K.C.M.G.: London Gazette: 21.06.1940; The Order of St. John, Knight of Grace: London Gazette: 21.06.1940; G.C.M.G.: London Gazette: 01.01.1946 (Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong). Sir Mark Aitchison Young, G.C.M.G. (1886-1974), was born on 30 June 1886, the son of Sir William Mackworth Young and Frances Mary Egerton, daughter of Sir Robert Eyles Egerton. His father had served as Resident of Mysore and Coorg, and then as Lieutenant-Governor the Punjab between 1897 and 1902, and both families were counted amongst the most distinguished families in Colonial India. Mark Aitchison Young was educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, entering the Colonial Office as an ‘Eastern Cadet’ on 4 October 1909, and subsequently taking up a post in the Ceylon Civil Service. He continued to work at the Colonial Secretary’s Office, Colombo, until the outbreak of WWI in August 1914, when he joined the Rifle Brigade, being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 13 June 1915. Serving on the Western Front in France and Flanders, he rose to the rank of Captain before returning to the Civil Service once the Great War had ended. His career continued on an impressive trajectory, first returning to Ceylon as Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary between 1923 and 1928, then serving as Colonial Secretary in Sierra Leone between 1928 and 1930. Between 1930 and 1933 he was Chief Secretary to the Government of the British Mandate of Palestine (for which he was made C.M.G.), later taking up his first Governorship in Barbados between 1933 and 1938, being appointed K.C.M.G. in 1934. He also served as part of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, before serving again as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Tanganyika Territory between 1938 and 1941. Mark Young arrived in Hong Kong on 10 September 1941, and only weeks into his new role began making detailed plans to resist the attacking Japanese forces. Beginning on 8 December, the mainland areas of the New Territories and Kowloon were captured after 5 days of fighting, with Major-General Maltby’s combined British & Indian units of the Mainland Brigade (2nd Bn. Royal Scots; 5th/7th Bn. Rajput Regiment, 2nd/14th Bn. Punjab Regiment) forced back to the more readily-defensible Hong Kong Island. The first call to surrender was made by the Japanese commander Lieutenant-General Taikaishi Sakai on 13 December, but Young rejected it outright, calling upon Hong Kong’s defenders to “Fight On! Hold fast for King and Empire!” On 25 December the South China Morning Post had run the Governor’s Christmas message that very morning, showing still that the Governor had no intention of surrender: “In pride and admiration I send my greetings this Christmas Day to all those who are working so nobly and so well to sustain Hong Kong against the assault of the enemy. God bless you all in this, your finest hour.” At the same time, early that day, civilians, nurses and wounded soldiers were being killed and assaulted at St. Stephen’s College Hospital. Just hours later at 3.00pm, General Maltby was driven to Government House, in the hope of convincing the Governor to surrender, on the advice of his other fellow officers – each one at breaking point, and with water and communications now cut off. Calling a meeting with Maltby, Commander A. C. Collinson R.N., and two members of the civilian Defence Council, Governor Young heeded their advice and took the final decision to call a cease-fire at 3.15pm. Fearing further reprisals and civilian casualties, and under a chronic shortage of water, he gave the colony’s surrender to General Takashi Sakai at the Peninsula Hotel later that day, to the shock of the world, and despite Churchill’s call to fight to the very last. This, the first surrender of a British Crown Colony to invasion, became known as ‘Black Christmas’ in Hong Kong, as it braced itself for what would be a brutal 3 years and 8 months of Japanese rule. Despite his position, after two months incarceration in ‘Room 336’ of the Peninsula Hotel he spent some time in the POW camp in Stanley before being moved with other high-ranking officials (including Maltby) between further camps in Shanghai, Formosa (Taiwan), Japan, on the Mongolian border, and then to Mukden, Manchuria. Governor Young is known to have defended the rights of his fellow POWs on numerous occasions in the face of regular brutality, and shared in their privations and abusive treatment. He also once petitioned his fellow P.O.W.s to resist signing documents that they would never attempt to escape captivity. Various eye-witness P.O.W. accounts recall that Governor Young did not avoid the brutal treatment of his captors, regardless of his high position. Despite his suffering and that of those around him, he survived to see the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945, and later took part in a number of war crimes tribunals concerning various Japanese officers and officials. Being much weakened through prolonged captivity, Governor Young was returned to Great Britain for a period of recovery before his official return to Hong Kong on 30 April 1946, where he was greeted by ‘one of the largest crowds ever to have been assembled’ by the waterfront on the Queen’s Pier (as recorded by the China Mail, 1 May 1946). This important and symbolic return to the colony’s British administration was well-received, but marked the final bow of Sir Mark Young’s eventful career. Despite his attempts to reform local politics through the self-titled ‘Young Plan’ of September 1946, which themselves were an attempt to democratise Hong Kong and to strengthen self-government for the long-term, these plans were eventually rejected for fear of communist infiltration and subversion. Governor Young was made G.C.M.G. that year in 1946, but was not otherwise recognised with any honours for his role as Governor of Hong Kong, despite his even handedness, his resilience, and his remarkable strength of character shown under the most trying of circumstances. He retired from the Colonial Office in 1947, and later died on 12 May 1974, at the age of 87.
Lot 1
A Rare Circa 1890 Automaton of a Standing Marquis Smoking Monkey, believed to be by the House of Phalibois in Paris. The monkey-person, with papier-mâché head, leather-lidded glass eyes, painted complexion with dark shadows around the nose and mouth, grey mohair periwig, dressed in an elaborate satin Marquis costume decorated with lace jabot and cuffs, bow tie, silk buttons and topped by a Marquis hat with pom-poms. He holds a meerschaum cigarette holder in his right hand and a gilt-framed lorgnette with round-shaped frames in his left hand, and stands upon a yellow velvet base. When in motion, in a realistic manner, he turns his head from side to side, lifts the cigarette holder, inhales three times, lowers and turns his head to the centre and exhales, lifts his left hand with lorgnette while tilting his back head and opening and closing his mouth (an internal system of rubber tubing allows the smoking action), approx 63 cms high (to top of hat) with base 17 x 17 x 3 cms.
Lot 465
32 inch single edged straight blade. Narrow fuller. White metal D shape knuckle bow with lower SS stamp within a square. Steel disk pommel. Oak leaf decorated ferrule. Black composite ribbed grip with wire binding. Rear spine and front badge absent. Contained in its black painted steel scabbard with plated mounts. Top mount with SS stamp within a square. Single loose hanging ring.
Lot 501
39 inch ( 41 1/2 inches including the forte ) narrow double edged blade with short central fuller with Armourer’s stamp “SHI”. The ricasso running through the lower hilt with line edge decoration. Steel multi ring crossguard with internal fitted double shell guard. Steel S shape quillon and knuckle bow. Steel twisted ball pommel. Twisted brass wire grip. Good patina to steel.
Lot 508
32 3/4 inch single edged slightly curved blade with large fuller and narrow rear fuller. Forte stamped “H Ludwikow Kielce”. Back edge stamped “A2173”. Brass crossguard with ring end. Double langets, knuckle bow and pommel. Polished wooden grooved grips. Contained in its steel scabbard with single hanging ring.
Lot 509
28 1/2 inch single edged slightly curved blade. Triple narrow fuller. The face etched with floral scrolls and “Honor i Ojczyzna”. Forte stamped “G Borowski Warzaw”. Brass crossguard, double langets and D shape knuckle bow. Brass backstrap and pommel. Leather covered grip with twist wire binding. Contained in its steel scabbard with two loose hanging rings. Blade heavily resharpened.
Lot 513
34 1/2 inch single edged slightly curved blade. Large fuller. Steel D shape knuckle bow and downswept quillon. Narrow steel double langets. Steel backstrap and pommel. Leather covered ribbed grip. Contained in its steel scabbard with double loose hanging rings. Some pitting to exterior steel and minor dents to scabbard.
Lot 514
31 3/4 inch single edged slightly curved plated blade. Large fuller. Forte stamped “A Mann Warszawa”. Plated D shape knuckle bow, downswept quillon and double langets. Plated backstrap, leather covered grip with brass wire binding. Contained in its steel scabbard with traces of plating. Some dents to scabbard.
Lot 516
32 3/4 inch single edged slightly curved blade. Large fuller. Traces of blue and gilt etching with foliage swags, mounted Cavalry Officer and peacock over a tent. Brass D shape knuckle bow with downswept quillon. Double langets. Brass backstrap with flat top pommel. Contained in its brass scabbard with two loose hanging rings. Minor dents to scabbard.
Lot 517
30 1/2 inch single edged slightly curved blade. Two narrow fullers. Floral scroll etching with “Faba D Toledo 186” to one panel. Brass guard with flags and shield cartouche. Floral cast knuckle bow and backstrap. Wooden grip with twist wire binding. Contained in its steel scabbard with two loose hanging rings. Rear folding section of hilt absent.
Lot 541
a well restored example of this pattern of sword. 29 inch single edged, curved blade with large fuller. Traces of scroll foliage and stand of arms engraving. Gilt brass pierced guard and crowned “GR” knuckle bow (possibly repaired and partly replaced). Gilt brass lion mask pommel and backstrap. Gilt ferrule. Shagreen covered grip with twist wire binding. Contained in its blackened leather scabbard with gilt brass mounts. The throat mount with rope edged panel engraved “R Johnston Late Bland & Foster Sword Cutler & Belt Maker To His Majesty 68 St James St London”. Good professionally restored example.
Lot 544
31 1/2 inch single edged, straight blade with large fuller. Traces of gilt filled floral scrolls, royal coat of arms and crowned “GR” cypher. Maker’s scroll “Woolley & Deakin”. Brass double shell guard. Brass D shape knuckle bow and floral terminating quillon. Brass urn pommel. Wooden ribbed grip.
Lot 652
13 inch single edged blade. Both sides etched with hunting scene panels. The forte with “Eickhorn Solingen” maker’s stamp. Gilt shell guard and knuckle bow terminating with hoof decoration. Gilt ferrule and grip sides. Composite slab grips with gilt acorn decoration. Contained in its gilt mounted leather scabbard. Still contained in its maker’s card box.
Lot 454
A LADIES VINTAGE PLATINBLOND MINK FUR JACKET, fully lined, embroidered initials 'MMcW' and 'Bradleys', side pockets, contrasting leather tie fasteners and leather bow embellishment to cuffs¦Condition Report:No obvious damage to fur or lining. ¦Measures approx. 51 cm, underarm to underarm laid flat.¦
Lot 909
TAXIDERMY - PIKE (ESOX LUCIUS) CIRCA 1910, mounted in a naturalistic river bed setting of weeds and faux rocks, bearing paper label to the interior 'A.W. Gamage Ltd., Holborn, London, E.C', the bow -fronted case inscribed 'Caught by Herbert Nurse, Middle Level, Outwell, Weight 15 lbs 13 ozs, January 1910', L 92 cm approximate, case H 48 cm
Lot 1005
Pair of Moore Brothers scalloped edge dishes, with cacti leaves and lotus leaves supporting two cherub musicians, one playing a Cello and the other playing a Lyre.Circa 1880, Size 17cms high 16cms diameterCondition: Lyre player, one wing restored, Cello player, neck, bow and end of cello restored
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