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Lot 1839
A French gilt brass and champleve enamel bow front four glass mantel clock, with an 8 day movement striking on a gong, stamped Ad Mougin, J.R & Co, Paris, 636 41, to a painted opalescent dial, faux twin rod pendulum, the case with floral and bud finials, pilasters and bevelled glass, two feet missing, winding key, 14in (35.5cm) h.
Lot 628
"A FULL SIZE VIOLIN AFTER JACOBUS STAINER, bearing two internal labels, one hand inscribed "Jacobus Stainer Abfavit prope Oenipontus 1649" the second label "Revisum et Correctum a me E. Zust jun Geigenmacher St. gallon anno 1889" rosewood pegs, 14" (" 35.5cm) back, with un-marked bow in black wooden coffin style case
Lot 1210
A gold shaped rectangular buckle, with green and white enamel decoration and mounted with pearls. Approximately 30g, fitted case by Paris of Liverpool. And a painted porcelain miniature portrait of a lady, her grey ringlets tied up with a bow. And various items of jewellery and costume jewellery etc.
Lot 1633
Tiffany & Co. A diamond set gold walrus brooch with enamel decoration. Blue guilloche jacket with diamond trim and fringe of rubies, red bow tie, white waistcoat and spotted green trousers. With diamond eyes, a cabochon ruby nose and bone tusks. Signed Tiffany & Co 18K. 7cm high. 41g. Made by Donald Claflin. Claflin joined Tiffany in 1965 having worked for David Webb and later Bulgari. Already popular with the younger generation he was to design the famous Tiffany diamond solitaire mount and the whimsical animal jewellery. He was to become responsible for Tiffany`s leadership together with Schlumberger in contemporary design. The walrus brooch was probably inspired by Lewis Carol. A similar Tiffany walrus brooch was sold by Sothebys New York in December 2009 for US$22,500 (including premium).
Lot 18
CHINESE SCHOOL (C.1919) H.M. Submarine L.15, inscribed as title and further inscribed and dated `China Station 1919` (centre) 15 x 20in. (38 x 51cm.) The submarine L.15 was one of the twenty-seven `L` class boats completed before the end of the Great War, numerous others being cancelled or never ordered due to the Armistice. All were basically identical, displacing 895 tons on the surface (1,075 submerged), and measured 238I feet in length with a 23I foot beam. Armed with a single 4in. gun and twin torpedo tubes at bow and stern, L.15 was built at Fairfield`s, Govan, and launched on 16th January 1918. After less than one year`s active service, she was scrapped in 1932.
Lot 118
LAURENCE DUNN (BRITISH,1910-2006) A starboard profile view of the Brisbane Star, Signed `Laurence Dunn` (lower left) and inscribed "Brisbane Star" (Her bow being a reminder of a Malta Convoy attack) Watercolour, 8 1/2 x 13 1/2in. (21.5 x 34.5cm.) Framed and glazed. Laurence Dunn was a prolific maritime author and artist, although almost none of his work has appeared on the open market. Amongst his many books is "Passenger Liners" (Alard Coles, 1961) a volume greatly acclaimed then and still useful today.
Lot 249
A MONUMENTAL 1:48 SCALE DOCKYARD MODEL OF THE 1ST CLASS ARMOURED CRUISER, H.M.S. LEVIATHAN, BUILT BY JOHN BROWN & CO. LTD, CLYDEBANK FOR THE ROYAL NAVY, 1901, the laminated and carved hull with ram bow, bilge keels, twin propeller shafts on `A`-brackets with carved and gilt wood propellers, rudder, portholes, kedge and main anchors on studded cable, sponson booms with Jacobs ladders, sponson guns in casemates; the lined and lacquered deck and superstructure with a multitude of fittings finished in gilt and silvering and including deck rails, bitts, bollards, covered hatches, ventilators, glazed bridge with wood and brass binnacles, telegraphs, search lights, masts with yards, standing and running rigging, signal lanyards, four stayed funnels with mesh tops, safety valve extension pipes, main and secondary armament with ammunition supply tracks with buckets, seven assorted and fully-fitted boats rigged in davits with a further five on deck including three steam pinnaces, aft bridge and mast with telegraphic signal arms, and much other fine detailing, contained within original carved mahogany glazed case and stand, with ivorine builder`s plates and bow/stern name plates on green plush display board. Measurements overall Ñ 95 x 159 x 45 1/2in. (241.5 x 404 x 115.5cm.) This model may be viewed courtesy of Pizza Express, Olympia Way throughout March and April 2010. Please refer to the map inside back cover. Charles Miller Ltd is grateful for their kind assistance. Despite the common practice of using certain ships` names repeatedly over the centuries, only three vessels have borne the name Leviathan during the long history of the Royal Navy; the first was a `74` of 1790 and the last a modest aircraft carrier of 1945 which was never, in fact, completed for sea. Only the second vessel in this trio remotely lived up to the derivation of her name Leviathan - meaning gigantic, impressive, formidable or `anything of huge size` [from the Hebrew livyathan] - and she was the splendid four-funnelled armoured cruiser which joined the fleet at the dawn of the twentieth century. One of the four `Drake` class cruisers approved in the 1898 Programme, the order for Leviathan went to John Brown`s yards at Clydebank where she was laid down on 30th November 1899. Launched on 3rd July 1901 and completed on 16th June 1903, her design was an enlarged version of the `Cressy` class of 1897 although this increased size was mostly utilised to accommodate the significantly more powerful machinery needed to provide their top speed of 23 knots. Displacing 14,150 tons (fully loaded), the `Drakes` measured 533 feet in length (overall) with a 71 foot beam, and were impressively armoured up to a maximum of 6ins. on the most vulnerable areas of their hulls. Coal-fired from 43 Belleville boilers, their twin-shaft 4-cylinder triple-expansion engines could generate 31,500ihp. and, when travelling at full steam, Leviathan and her sisters provided a memorable spectacle. Armed with 2-9.2in. guns, 16-6in., 14-12pdrs. and 3-3pdrs., they also sported 2-18in. submerged torpedo tubes and, with their relatively uncluttered decks, were destined for employment as cruiser squadron flagships as befitted their size and prestige. Crucially, the `Drakes` were among the first British warships to incorporate wood that had been treated to make it less flammable and also to have their coal bunkers subdivided to minimize the effects of a torpedo rather than simply shellfire. Amongst the fastest ships in the world when completed, Lord Goschen, the First Lord [of the Admiralty], hailed the new quartet as "mighty cruisers" and, once in service, all four frequently exceeded their trial speed of 30 knots and proved both good seaboats as well as "exceptional steamers". All in all a triumph of design and construction, it was therefore a pity that, by the time the Great War began in 1914, more modern cruisers had already outclassed them. Leviathan was commissioned immediately after completion and sent to join the Cruiser Squadron in the [English] Channel for two years (1903-04). Transferred to the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean (1905-06), she came home for a refit at Chatham during 1907 after which she remained in Home Waters and joined the 5th Cruiser Squadron in 1908. The next year (1909) she was sent to join the 4th Cruiser Squadron in North American Waters where she remained until 1912. After a brief tenure as flagship to the Training Squadron in 1912, she was then transferred to the 6th Cruiser Squadron (3rd Fleet) from 1913 where she stayed until that squadron was broken up in the weeks leading up to the outbreak of War in August 1914 and its vessels attached to the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow. Leviathan`s earliest wartime employment involved northerly patrols off the Shetland and Faroe Isles, on scouting and blockading duties, in which she showed her mettle to the extent that she was soon made flagship to the newly-constituted 1st Cruiser Squadron (Rear-Admiral Sir Gordon Moore) on 2nd December. Despite the lack of fleet activity, the winter of 1914-15 was extremely busy for the cruiser squadrons which found themselves at sea for long periods in appalling weather protecting inbound shipping and enforcing the blockade against Germany. In March 1915, after almost eight months of unremitting patrol work in adverse conditions, Leviathan was ordered to the West Indies as flagship to Vice-Admiral Patey and, in the latter part of the War, was employed on North Atlantic convoy escort duties. Surviving hostilities, this elegant four-funnelled relic of the Edwardian Royal Navy was finally sold out of the service in 1920 and scrapped at Blyth.
Lot 228
A Victorian rosewood marquetry and line strung break-front credenza, the single panel door to the centre having an oval porcelain central panel depicting a young woman, over ribbon moulded gilt metal mounts, along with four smaller porcelain florally decorated panels, the cabinet with end bow-front glass single panel doors and side gilt metal mounts raised on four short turned feet, 165cm wide, 112cm high, 40cm deep Provenance: Offered in the auction of contents by Allsop Sellers on the direction of Mr & Mrs R H Widdowson at Green Acres, Tuck Hill, Six Ashes, Nr Bridgnorth, Shropshire; held on Tuesday and Wednesday 12th & 13th July 1977, lot 146.
Lot 235
A giltwood and gesso Louis XVI style wall mirror, 19th century, the cabachon moulded and pierced pediment over an arched bevelled mirror plate with three gadrooned bow-fronted open shelves to the fore, supported on plain turned supports, over a shell moulded and pierced apron, 35cm wide, 96cm high, 13cm deep
Lot 244
A George IV mahogany bow-front sideboard, the three quarter galleried top over a central shallow frieze drawer, flanked by a deep drawer to each side, fitted with later brass ring handles, raised on four turned and tapering slender front legs (at fault), 181.5cm wide, 103cm high, 74.5cm deep
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