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Norman Wade, British, 20th century-Near Bow Lane, 1976; lithograph and screenprint in colours on wove,signed, dated and numbered 152/200,image: 46 x 27.5 cm,(framed)(ARR)Condition Report: The condition is typical for its age, with some discolouration, otherwise in good condition.  

SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND BROOCH AND EARCLIPSDesigned as a floral bouquet, set with carved sapphire and single-cut diamonds, tied by a similarly-cut diamond bow, the earclips of matching design, diamonds approx. 1.00ct total, length: brooch 4.5cm, earclips 2.3cm (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TWO DIAMOND-SET PENDANTS, EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY1st: The rose-cut diamond bird, with a cabochon emerald eye, perched in a similarly-cut diamond tree, a top a blue enamel ground, beneath a rose-cut diamond bow, mounted in silver and gold, 2nd: The cluster of rose-cut diamonds within a scalloped, similarly-cut diamond border, mounted in silver and gold, lengths: 1st 4.2cm, 2nd 2.0cm (2)Footnotes:Please note this lot has VAT at a preferential rate of 5% on the Hammer Price and VAT at the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two items. A CELINE one-shoulder black sleeveless, lined, full-length evening dress, slit to the thigh at one side with black bow detail at the back. Fits UK10 and a pair of CELINE silver and gold-tone large clip earrings.Condition Report: Good condition

A late 19th century Beechwood and elm Smoker’s bow arm chair, turned spindles and legs, double H-stretcher, 83.5cm high x 66cm wide.

A George III style mahogany bow-front chest of drawers, by Burton Reproductions Ltd., four long cock-beaded drawers, brass swan-neck handles, bracket feet, 84cm high x 77cm wide x 49cm.

A Walter Skull and Sons, ‘New Advance Furniture’, mid 20th century oak chest of three drawers on stand, turned handles and supports, 82cm high x 68.5cm wide x 42.5cm; an oak bow-front corner table, pair of short drawers to frieze, 76cm high x 86cm wide, (2).

A Georgian mahogany bow fronted side table having a single drawer and on squared tapering legs, 73cm h x 78.5cm wLocation:

Taxidermy: A Cased Pair of European Eels (Anguilla anguilla), circa mid-late 20th century, a pair of skin mounts preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed, mounted against a pale green painted back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 116cm by 18cm by 47cm.

Taxidermy: A Cased Perch (Perca fluviatilis), circa 1898-1904, by W.F. Homer, 157 Forest Lane, London, a large skin mount preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled and grit covered river bed, mounted against a pale blue painted back drop, enclosed within a typical period ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 56.5cm by 19cm by 31.5cm, un-labelled but upon restoration a Homer's letterhead was found to be glued to the verso of the fish specimen, the address displayed dates this fish to 1898-1904, a photograph of this discovery is applied to the verso of this case, approximate weight of fish in excess of 3lbs.

Taxidermy: A Cased Northern Pike (Esox lucius), dated 1914, in the manner of John Cooper & Son's, London, a large skin mount preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed, set against a painted pale green back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 113cm by 24.5cm by 47cm, applied gilt legend to front glass - "Pike, Taken by W.F. Grimmett, March 1914, Weight 21lbs".

Taxidermy: A Cased Pair of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), dated October 1928, by W.F. Homer, 105 Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London, E7, a pair of large skin mounts preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed, mounted against a pale blue painted back drop, enclosed within a large typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 93.5cm by 22cm by 62cm, taxidermist's paper trade label to interior upper left, bearing ivorine legend to interior upper right - "Carp, Caught by Harry Wyatt, Langport, Somerset, October 1928, Wgts 11lb 8ozs, 8lbs 8ozs", including an original black and white photograph of W.F. Homer in his workshop with the angler, together with an original newspaper clipping entitled "Bristol Angler's Exceptional Catch". Featured within "The Domesday Book of English Fish Taxidermist's" by Barry Williams.

Taxidermy: Who Killed Cock Robin, dated 2023, by A.J. Armitstead, Taxidermy, Darlington, Co Durham, an interesting diorama depicting the death of Cock Robin, portraying an adult House Sparrow with a bow and arrow underfoot, a mortally wounded adult Robin laid below upon grit covered groundwork, a single arrow to his left side, both mounted upon the remains of a small stone wall, set against a watercolour painted church yard scene back drop, enclosed within an oak framed wall hanging five-glass display case, 29cm 7cm by 37cm excluding outer frame, signed and dated to interior right, taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso.

A GOOD VICTORIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CREDENZA by EDWARD & ROBERTS with figured walnut top, ormolu mounts. The front with panelled walnut centre door flanked by bow fronted glass doors. Stamped: Edwards & Roberts. 5ft 6ins long, 3ft 5ins high.

A GOOD PAIR OF LARGE EARLY/MID 20TH CENTURY BRUSSELS NEEDLEWORK PANELS, cream ground, decoration with a flower filled basket suspended from a ribbon and bow, above a flower filled urn on a classical shell base, within an egg and dart border, mounted on a framed backing board. 13ft high x 3ft 4ins wide Provenance: Previously owned by Sir Rocco Forte, Rocco Forte Hotel Group.

A PAIR OF PORCELAIN SPILL VASES painted with flowers and bow and arrows. 4ins high.

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Victorious with Rivoli (Andrew Covett.) good very fine £3,000-£4,000 --- Andrew Covett is confirmed on the roll as an Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Victorious and was wounded in the action with and capture of the French 74-gun Rivoli on 22 February 1812 (London Gazette 12 May 1812 refers - Andrew J. Cowet). Approximately 67 clasps issued for this action. On 16 February 1812, the British 74-gun ship Victorious, Captain John Talbot, accompanied by the 18-gun brig-sloop Weazel, Captain John William Andrew, arrived off Venice, to watch the motions of the new French 74-gun ship Rivoli, Commodore Jean-Baptiste Barré, and two or three brigs of war, lying ready for sea in that port. Foggy weather made it the 21st before Captain Talbot was enabled to reconnoitre the port. On that day, at 2.30 p.m., the Victorious descried a brig in the east-north-east, and at 3 p.m., in the same direction, a large ship, with two more brigs, and two settees. The ship was the Rivoli herself; the three brigs were the Jéna and Mercure of 16, and the Mamelouck of eight guns; and the two settees were gun-boats; all about 12 hours from Venice, bound to the port of Pola in Istria, and at this time steering in line of battle; the two gun-boats and one brig ahead, then the Rivoli, and astern of her the two remaining brigs. The British 74 and brig were presently under all sail in chase, and soon began to gain upon the French squadron. At 2.30 a.m. on the 22nd, perceiving that one of the two brigs in the rear had dropped astern, and that the Rivoli had shortened sail to allow her to close, Captain Talbot hailed the Weazel, and directed Captain Andrew to pass the Victorious if possible, and bring the sternmost brig to action. Captain Andrew was so prompt in obeying the order, that at 4.15 a.m. the Weazel overtook the Mercure, and engaged her within half pistol-shot. After the action between these two brigs had lasted about 20 minutes, the brig that had been in company with the Mercure, the Jéna, shortened sail, and engaged the Weazel distantly on her bow. Thus opposed, the latter still continued a close and well-directed fire upon the Mercure until another 20 minutes had elapsed, at the end of which the French brig blew up. In an instant the Weazel lowered down her boats, but only succeeded in saving three men, and those much bruised. In the meanwhile, taking advantage of the darkness of the morning and the damaged state of the Weazel’s rigging, the Jéna had made off, and soon disappeared. At daylight, however, the British brig regained a sight of both French brigs, one a short distance astern of the other, and, having by this time refitted herself, she crowded sail in pursuit, sweeping occasionally, owing to the lightness of the breeze; but the Jéna and Mamelouck outsailed the Weazel, and kept gradually increasing their distance. At 4.30 a.m., just a quarter of an hour after the Weasel had begun her engagement with the Mercure, the Victorious, having a light air of wind on her larboard beam, arrived within half pistol-shot of, and opened her starboard guns upon, the Rivoli, who immediately returned the fire from her larboard broadside, and continued, with courses clewed up, but royals set, standing on towards the gulf of Triest. A furious engagement now ensued between these two line-of-battle ships, interrupted only when, for a few minutes together, the fog or the smoke hid them from each other’s view. In the early part of the action, Captain Talbot received a contusion from a splinter, that nearly deprived him of his sight, and the command of the ship devolved upon Lieutenant Thomas Ladd Peake, who emulated his wounded chief in bravery and judgement. After the mutual cannonade had thus continued for three hours, and the Rivoli, from the superior fire of the Victorious, had become unmanageable and reduced to such a resistance as two quarterdeck guns only could offer, Lieutenant Peake, by signal, recalled the Weazel, to have the benefit of her assistance, in case either ship, the Victorious herself being in a disabled state, and both ships at this time in seven fathoms’ water off the point of Groa, should happen to get aground. Having bore up in obedience to the signal, the Weazel stood across the bows of the Rivoli and, at 8 a.m., when within musket-shot distance, poured in her broadside. This the brig, wearing or tacking as necessary, repeated twice. Meanwhile the Victorious maintained a steady cannonade, and at 8.45 a.m. shot away the Rivoli’s mizen mast. In another quarter of an hour the French 74 fired a lee gun, and hailed the Victorious that she had struck. The Victorious had her rigging cut to pieces, gaff and spanker-boom shot away, her three topmasts and mainmast badly wounded, her boats all destroyed, except a small punt belonging to the ward-room officers, and her hull struck in several places. Out of her actual crew of 506 men and boys (60 of the men sick, but only a few absent from their quarters), she had one lieutenant of marines, and 25 seamen and marines killed, her captain (slightly), one lieutenant of marines (mortally), two master’s mates, two midshipmen, and 93 seamen and marines wounded; in total, 27 killed and 99 wounded. The Weazel had the good fortune not to have a man hurt, either in her forty minutes’ engagement with the Mercure, or her very spirited, and in all probability, not ineffective cannonade of the Rivoli. Captain John Talbot not only received a Small Naval Gold Medal for this action but was also knighted. Lieutenant Peake was promoted and Captain John W. Andrew of the Weazel was rewarded with a Post Captain’s Commission. Weazel’s part in this action was commemorated with a separate clasp inscribed ‘Weazel 22 Feby 1812’, but there were only 6 claimants for it including Captain Andrew.

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Implacable 26 Augt 1808, Anholt 27 March 1811 (William Mear.) some edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £10,000-£14,000 --- Provenance: Glendining, February 1902; Dalrymple White Collection 1946; Spink N.C., December 1956; Christie’s, November 1985; Dix Noonan Webb, July 2015 and June 2020. William Mear is confirmed on the rolls as a Private, Royal Marines, aboard H.M.S. Implacable in August 1808, and was one of the detachment of Marines that took part in the defence of the Island of Anholt in March 1811. Approximately 44 clasps issued for Implacable and approximately 40 clasps issued for Anholt. Only two medals issued with this combination of clasps. The Implacable was originally the French line-of-battle ship Duguay Trouin, launched at Rochefort in 1797. She was present at Trafalgar and was one of the four ships that escaped, only to be brought to action and captured by Sir Richard Strachan on 4 November 1805, and taken into the Royal Navy as the Implacable. In August 1808, Sir Samuel Hood in Centaur, accompanied by Implacable Captain Thomas Byam Martin, joined Rear Admiral Nauckhoff and the Swedish fleet in Oro Roads and they all sailed from there on the 25th, in pursuit of the Russian fleet which had appeared off Sweden two days earlier. Due to their superior sailing, Centaur and Implacable were soon well in advance and closing on the Russians who appeared to be in disorder. By the morning of the 26th, Implacable was able to bring the leewardmost of the enemy’s line-of-battle ships, the Sewolod, 74, Captain Roodneff, to close action. After 20 minutes the enemy’s colours and pendant were lowered but the approach of the whole Russian force obliged Sir Samuel to recall Captain Martin. A Russian frigate took the crippled ship in tow but when the Russian Admiral hauled his wind, Centaur and Implacable gave chase and forced the frigate to slip her tow. The enemy ships again bore down in support but instead of engaging they entered the port of Rager Vik (also known as Port Baltic or Rogerswick). When boats were sent out to try and tow her in to harbour Centaur stood in and, after driving the boats off, ran across the bow of the Sewolod just as she was entering the harbour. The Centaur then lashed the Sewolod’s bowsprit to her mizen-mast and both ships soon drifted aground. The Russians refused to strike and the battle went on until the arrival of the Implacable finally induced the Russian ship to surrender. Implacable had to heave Centaur off. However, the prize was so firmly aground that after taking out the prisoners and wounded men, Sir Samuel ordered her to be burnt. Implacable lost six men killed and twenty-six wounded including two who did not recover and three who had limbs amputated. Centaur lost three killed and twenty-seven wounded, and the Sewolod 303 killed, wounded and missing. One of the most brilliant operations of the War was the defence of the Island of Anholt, in the Baltic, by Captain J. W. Maurice, R.N. with 400 Marines commanded by Major Torrens. This small party, being attacked by 1000 Danish soldiers, beat them off, and forced no less than 520 men to surrender, while the Tartar, 32, Captain Baker, and the Sheldrake, 16, Captain Stewart, pursued a Division of 12 Gunboats protecting their landing, and captured two and sunk a third. The Danish loss amounted to 35 killed and 23 wounded, the British only losing two killed and Major Torrens and 30 men wounded. The clasp eventually issued for the defence of Anholt is the only one which stems partially from the promotion of Royal Marine officers.

Miscellaneous Documents, booklets and ephemera, mainly of military interest. Comprising a Soldier’s ‘Brown Book’ Service and Pay Book, Regular Army Soldier’s ‘Red Book’ Certificate of Service, Record of Service Sheet, and Parchment Royal Warrant, on appointment as Warrant Officer, relating to Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant Major A. M. Williams, Royal Engineers and Royal Signals, together with a group photograph supposedly including the recipient; a Parchment Certificate of Service (Army Form D.426), Parchment Certificate of Discharge (Army Form B.2077), and Certificate of Employment During the War (Army Form Z. 18), relating to Regimental Sergeant Major G. R. Marsden, 4th Dragoon Guards; a small bundle of letters home, mainly from India and Burma in the early 1890s, relating to Lance Sergeant R. Scott, Cheshire Regiment, including a parchment Camp Cookery Certificate issued by the Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, Aldershot Camp, this all giving an interesting snapshot of military life on campaign in India and Burma; a R.A.F. Form 2520B Airwoman, Royal Air Force Service and Release Book, and letter from the Royal College of Music, London, relating to Flight Sergeant H. M. Klein, B.E.M., Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; a Home Guard Service Certificate, 1952-56, named to G. E. A. Bourne; two National Registration Identity cards, one named to W. J. J. Haynes, of Brierly Hill, with a Gloucestershire Regimental Association Life Membership Card; an Army Booklet ‘Health Memoranda for British Soldiers in the Tropics’ 1941; and other ephemera; together with a British cast copy of the Sinking of the S.S. Lusitania Medal by K. Goetz, 55mm, unboxed, generally good condition £60-£80 --- Alexander Mitchell Williams was born in 1904, and enlisted at Cork into the Royal Engineers on 2 February 1920. He transferred into the Royal Signals on 6 November 1920, and remained in the Royal Signals for his military career. He served at Home, in Egypt, India and served with the B.E.F. in France from September 1939 to June 1940, the remainder of his Second World War Service being ‘at Home’. His Certificate of Service confirms that he had served 25 years and 253 days with the Colours and seven years in the Reserve, having a combined service of 33 years. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1938, the 1939-45 Star and the Defence and War Medals. He was discharged from the Army Reserve in 1953. George Richard Marsden was born in Ashford, Kent. He enlisted into the Dragoons of the Line as Private No. 4802, 4th Dragoon Guards, at London on 13 May 1898. He transferred to the Army Reserve at Gosport on 20 April 1905, and was recalled for service in the Great War being promoted Regimental Sergeant Major on 13 October 1917. Robert Scott received the India General Service Medal 1854, with clasp Chin-Lushai 1889-90, for service in India as Colour Sergeant, 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Miss Hilda Minnie Klein was born in Bow, London, in October 1896. A talented pianist, she entered the Royal College of Music on 23 September 1915 and studied there for 19 terms. She won numerous prizes, became an Associated Board examiner and held a teaching post until the late 1960s. Miss Klein enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force at Harrogate on 30 September 1940. Promoted to Corporal on 24 January 1941, she was trained as a Photographic Interpreter (P.I.) and transferred to R.A.F. Medmenham in Buckinghamshire on 17 April 1942; the station was the R.A.F.’s Central Interpretation Unit, responsible for analysing air photographs and producing reports of enemy positions. The unit issued target maps to 617 Squadron prior to the Dambusters Raid, and kept close tabs upon the movements of the Tirpitz in Norway. For her services she was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1945) and additionally awarded the British Empire Medal, Military Division (London Gazette 1 January 1946). She was discharged on 14 September 1945 and died at Hove, Sussex, on 7 June 1981.

A fine Second War submariner’s D.S.O. and D.S.C. group of eleven awarded to Captain Dudley Norman, Royal Navy, who won the D.S.C. when in command of H.M. Submarine H.44 for sinking shipping off the coast of Norway in 1940, and the D.S.O. when in command of H.M. Submarine Upright for sinking the Italian cruiser Armando Diaz in February 1941; he was afterwards the first Commodore of the Malaysian Navy Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1941, with integral top ribbon bar; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1941, hallmarks for London 1940; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; Malaysia, Pingat Khidmat Berbakti; Denmark, silver medal for Galathea Deep Sea Expedition 1950-1952; Netherlands, Red Cross Decoration, silver-gilt and enamels, and Red Cross Medal of Merit, silver, medals unmounted, together with mounted group of eight miniature dress medals and a loose Jubilee 1977, generally good very fine (12) £4,000-£5,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 23 September 1941. Seedie’s Submarine roll confirms award ‘For sinking the Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz off Kerkenah Bank in the Mediterranean on 25 February 1941, and a supply ship.’ D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1941. Edward Dudley Norman was born on 2 August 1910, and went to Dartmouth in 1924. He joined the Submarine service in 1932 and served in submarines at Devonport, Gosport and Portland before undergoing the Submarine C.O.’s Qualifying Course in 1940. His first submarine command in March 1940 was the 1920-vintage H.44, in which he carried out several patrols in the North Sea, sank enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast, and was awarded the D.S.C. In December 1940, Norman went out to the Mediterranean to take command of Upright in the Malta-based flotilla, later dubbed ‘The Fighting Tenth’. Sailing for his second patrol in February 1941, Upright had to encounter a new hazard: Italian acoustic mines laid in the harbour approaches. Upright’s sailors detonated them by firing machine gun bullets into the water about 100 yards ahead of the boat. On 21 February, Norman took Upright inside the Tunisian harbour of Sfax to look for targets, but found none. “As we were then scraping along the bottom at periscope depth,” he said, “it seemed prudent to reverse course and retire to the open sea.” Four nights later, Upright was on the surface off Sfax, charging main batteries, when the officer of the watch sighted “a cruiser or a very large destroyer, escorted by two destroyers, one on each bow”. Norman estimated the target’s course and speed, fired four torpedoes, and then dived. “As I got below,” he said, “the periscope was going up. I got it on the right bearing in time to see the first torpedo hit, in the light of which I considered the target was probably a cruiser.” He had, in fact, sunk the 5,000 ton Italian cruiser Armando Diaz and was awarded the D.S.O. Invalided home from Malta with dysentery in July 1941, he took command, in October, of the German U-boat U.570, which had surrendered to an R.A.F. Hudson aircraft south of Iceland in August, and was renamed H.M.S. Graph. U.570’s cryptographic material had been ditched and many instruments smashed, but in a year’s trials under Norman, Graph gave the Allies priceless information about the construction, performance and weaponry of the standard Type VII U-boat. After Graph, Norman commanded Tuna and Alcide, one of the first of the long-range A Class patrol submarines intended for the Pacific. Norman left the Submarine Service in 1947 and had appointments in the Admiralty, with Nato, as Executive Officer of H.M.S. Heron, the naval air station at Yeovilton, where he learned to fly, and in command of the sloop Nereide on the South African Station. The Royal Malaysian Navy, which formed on independence in 1957, began modestly with the purchase of a handful of ex-Royal Navy minesweepers. But as its first Commodore, Norman laid the foundations of a small but efficient force which played a full part in the confrontation with Indonesia in the 1960s. When Norman retired in 1960, he was awarded the Malaysian decoration, the Pingat Khidmat Berbakti. In retirement, Norman was secretary of the Royal Malta Yacht Club, and he played an influential role in establishing the first Whitbread Round the World Race. He died in 1998, aged 87. Sold with original warrant and statutes for D.S.O., award certificates for Coronation Medal and Netherlands Red Cross Decoration (16 January 1959), various correspondence, and an original photograph album compiled by Norman with 16 large black and white photographs of the captured U.570 on later trials as H.M.S. Graph, some captioned and dated 15 October 1941, showing interior images and various detailing around her, together with four larger loose photographs of the submarine.

An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Miss Mary C. Coulcher, C.B.E., Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Association, and Vice-President, Suffolk Branch, British Red Cross Society The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Supt. M. C. Coulcher.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with two additional ‘5 Years Service’ bars (Lady Supt. Miss M. C. Coulcher. Ipswich Corps. 1909) contact marks to last, generally very fine (3) £300-£400 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 30 March 1920: Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher, O.B.E., Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Association, and Vice-President, Suffolk Branch, British Red Cross Society. O.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918: Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher, Vice-President and Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade; Commandant, Broadwater Auxiliary Hospital, Suffolk. Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher was born in Lynn Regis, Suffolk, in 1852, the daughter of the The Reverend George Coulcher, and moved to Ipswich in 1870. She was one of the initial members of the St. John Ambulance Association movement in Ipswich, becoming Hon. Local Secretary of the Ipswich Centre, S.J.A.A., in January 1880, and was appointed to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1902. Appointed a Lady Supervisor, St. John Ambulance Brigade, in 1904, she served as a town councillor from 1909 to 1912, and during the Great War was Commandant, Voluntary Aid Detachment, Suffolk 22; Commandant of Broadwater Auxiliary Hospital, Ipswich, from 21 October 1914 to 12 February 1919, and also Commandant of Gippeswych (Isolation) Hospital, Ipswich, from 20 March to 6 September 1915. It was her enthusiasm and financial support that led to the town’s first motorised ambulance. She was also a Vice-President of the British Red Cross Society for Ipswich, and a member of the East Suffolk War Relief Committee Executive. For her services during the Great War she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, and was advanced a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920. She died in Ipswich on 15 June 1925. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient; and also details of the publicity behind the play Dread Zeppelin, for which she was one of the inspirations, and in which she features.

Three: Petty Officer J. E. Merrett, Royal Navy, who was killed on 6 August 1914, when H.M.S. Amphion struck a mine off the Thames estuary and sank with the loss of 132 men killed; she was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War 1914-15 Star (167481, J. E. Merritt [sic], P.O.1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (167481 J. E. Merrett. P.O. R.N.) very fine (3) £240-£280 --- John Edward Merrett was born on 2 April 1877 at Devonport and joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class on 7 June 1892, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable. Advanced Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Centurion, 2 April 1895, he was promoted Able Seaman in the same ship on 1 May 1896, and Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Defiance, on 28 October 1898. Advance Petty Officer 1st Class, H.M.S. Defiance, 10 March 1905, he transferred to H.M.S. Amphion, 2 April 1913, and was serving in her on the outbreak of the Great War. He was consequently present at the first naval engagement of the War when Amphion sank the German mine-layer Königin Luise on the 5 August 1914: the very next day, however, Amphion became the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the War, when she struck one of her victim’s mines. The following is an account of Amphion’s all too brief wartime career: Great Britain declared war on Germany at 23:00 hours on 4 August 1914. In the early hours of the following morning Amphion sailed from the port of Harwich together with four destroyers of the 3rd Flotilla. By daylight on 5 August they were well out in the North Sea sweeping towards the Heligoland Bight. A few hours after leaving port one of the destroyers received a report from a fishing vessel who had seen an unknown vessel “throwing things over the side” about 20 miles north of Outer Gabbard. At 10:25 am Amphion sighted an unknown steamer and sent destroyers Lance and Landrail to investigate. The steamer was, in fact, the German Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Holland passenger ferry which had been converted into an auxiliary mine-layer. On the night of 4th August she had left her home port of Emden with cargo of 180 mines and steamed south through the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary. She resembled the steamers of the Great Eastern Railway that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland, and had hurriedly been painted in their colours of black, buff and yellow to disguise herself. As the two British destroyers approached her, Königin Luise made off at 20 knots altering her course, before disappearing into a rain squall where she laid further mines. The destroyers pursued and at 10:30 Lance opened fire, the first naval shots of the Great War (the forward gun, which fired the shot, is preserved in the Imperial War Museum). They were soon joined by Amphion, which had won the Fleet Gunnery Prize for 1914, and the German came under a very accurate fire. Königin Luise was only lightly armed and offered little resistance. When her efforts to escape into neutral waters, and to draw the British ships onto her minefield were unavailing, Commander Biermann gave the order to scuttle her. At 12:22, on fire amidships and with smoke and steam pouring from her, Königin Luise rolled over to port and sank. 56 of a crew of 130 were rescued by Amphion. Half of these prisoners were incarcerated in a compartment in the cruiser’s bow for the grim reason that “if we go up on a mine, they might as well go first.” During the action, gun crews from the disengaged side of Amphion crossed over to watch the firing and showed their appreciation of good salvoes by cheering and applauding. After the action Captain Fox mustered all hands and reprimanded the men for leaving their posts. He reminded them that they were at war and each man had to stick to his own duty. The ship’s company saw sense of this and rather enjoyed the lecture. Returning to Harwich, Amphion then sighted another ship of the same appearance and colours as Königin Luise but this one was flying an enormous German flag. The destroyers opened fire. Captain Fox recognised her as a genuine Great Eastern Railway steamer and signalled to cease fire; at the same time, the vessel hauled down the German colours and raised the red ensign. She was the St. Petersburg, flying the German flag because she was carrying the German ambassador Prince Lichnowsky and his staff to neutral Holland. Her identity and mission established, she was allowed to proceed. At 06:45 hours on 6 August Amphion struck one of the mines laid by the Königin Luise. It exploded just beside the forebridge and broke the ship’s back. The explosion practically destroyed the bridge; all the occupants, including Captain Fox, were badly burnt, and smoke and flame poured from the slits in the conning tower. All the focsle gun crews were killed, as were many men on the forward mess decks, where the hands were having breakfast. Of the 21 German prisoners in the forward compartment, all but one were killed. Despite his injuries Captain Fox took charge. The ship was well down by the bows and attempts to extinguish the raging fires failed. Abandon ship was ordered. As most of Amphion’s boats had been destroyed, the destroyers sent their boats to rescue the crew. There was no confusion or panic; the survivors fell in on deck and, within twenty minutes of the first explosion, all survivors were aboard the destroyers. Unfortunately, although Amphion’s engines had been stopped, she still had way on, and at 07:03 hours, just as the last boatload of survivors had been taken off, she struck a second mine. Her magazine detonated in a huge cloud of pale yellow smoke and the fore-part of the ship was completely disintegrated, showering the attending destroyers with debris. One 4 inch shell fell on board the Lark, killing two of Amphion’s men and a German prisoner. Amphion then suddenly slid astern and sank at 07.05. One officer and 150 men were lost.’ Merrett was among those killed, the first British casualties of the Great War, and he is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

A Garrard and Co cased silver plated canteen of cutlery, of bow topped bead design, to include fish eaters, various serving pieces, etc., fitted in an ebonised canteen, 27cm high, 52cm wide, 36cm deep, part settings for twelve.

A gilt gesso oval wall mirror, with bow shaped crest, 44cm high, and a fruit wood dressing table jar container, stamped F. Lecomte Paris, the amber tinted bottle AF.

An early 19thC mahogany bow front chest of two short and three long graduated drawers, with oval pressed back plate handles, and splay feet, 108cm wide.

An early 19thC mahogany bow front bachelor's chest, with reeded top, brushing slide, and four graduated drawers with brass loop handles, and splay feet, 70cm wide.

A George II oak bow front hanging corner cupboard, with fielded panel door, moulded cornice, 92cm high.

A George III mahogany bow front chest of two short and three long graduated drawers, with brass solid back plate handles, and splay feet, 106cm wide. (AF)

Various Staffordshire pottery spaniels, standing cat with blue bow, the body picked out in black, 44cm high, various Staffordshire spaniels, etc. (a quantity)

A 19thC mahogany bow front sideboard, on square taper legs with spade feet, 100cm wide.

An officer's sword, with etched straight blade, turned handle, compressed pommel, pierced grip with crown and bow, and leather scabbard, 98cm long.

EDWARD BARNSLEY (1900-1987) PAIR OF BOW-FRONT CABINETS, CIRCA 1956 African mahoganyDimensions:96cm wide, 88.5cm high, 53.5cm deep

Two bronze sculptures, late 19th / 20th century, to include an unsigned figure group of two children and a dog stealing a bird from its nest, resting on a verde antico base (not attached), the bronze 15cm high, and an unsigned figure of Cupid modelled resting on a rock with bow and arrow in hand and head turned to the left, on green marble step base, the bronze 15cm high, together with a bronze chamberstick with scrolling handle, with trefoil sconce and geometrically patterned drip pan, 6.5cm high (3)

A George III style mahogany bow front side table, last quarter 19th century, satinwood crossbanded and boxwood inlaid, with three short drawers, raised on square tapering legs, 82cm high, 109cm wide, 51cm deepCondition Report: some veneer missing, top with ring marks, scratches and old gouges, 

A Regency mahogany bow front chest, first quarter 19th century, with two short over three long drawers, raised on splayed feet, 107cm high, 108cm wide, 56cm deep Condition Report: scratches, stains and old gouges all over, some lifting to veneer, some veneer missing, both sides with repaired splits, split to the front of the top right drawer, 

A Victorian mahogany bow front chest, last quarter 19th century, the four graduated drawers with turned knob handles, raised on turned toupee feet, 101cm high, 101cm wide, 59cm deepCondition Report: splits to top and both side panels, scratches and knocks to wood, some veneer missing, structurally sound

A pair of Louis XV style bow front vitrines, 20th century, gilt metal mounted, the two glazed doors with painted lower panels, raised on cabriole legs, 164cm high, 100cm wide, 42cm deep (2)Condition Report: light scratches to wood, structurally sound, very good condition 

GEORGE KNAPTON (1698-1778). PORTRAITS OF THE REV. THOMAS CURTEIS (1706-1775), KENT CLERGYMAN; AND OF HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH (nee PAPILLON) (1720-1786). A pair, he quarter length, wearing a dark grey coat, black waistcoat and curly wig, within a painted oval; she quarter length, wearing an ivory dress with a blue bow and a pink mantle, within a painted oval, she signed and dated `Knapton/ pinxit/ 1749`, oil on canvas, period carved wood frames (with some damages) Each 74.5 x 62cm. approx. (2) * Thomas Curteis was ordained priest in 1739. He was domestic chaplain for Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart in 1750; and, later, for Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset, until 1775. After serving as Prebendary at Canterbury Cathedral, he settled back into parish life near Sevenoaks. His first wife (nee Austen) bore him two children but she died before 1743. His second marriage later that same year was blessed with five daughters and a son. The son, Thomas, followed his father into the clergy. The identification of the Rev. Curteis is determined by an old handwritten label on the back of the frame. *CR Each lined; he with a subsequent patch upper right addressing a rectilinear tear; each with some craquelure and retouching.

ANTIQUE 19THC VIOLIN & LABEL OF PROVENANCE, VIOLIN BOW & VINTAGE WOODEN CASE. A good quality 19thc violin possibly English, the full size violin with two piece back, carved scroll and rosewood tuning pegs, with a label inside which reads 'Mary McBean Bell Irving, From Uncle Ted Fraser in Spring of 1907, when I was 10 3/4, Middle Park, Paignton, Devon' (violin 59cms long, 34.5cms to base of button). In a modern case and with a bow, and also with a vintage wooden Violin case, with a label inside for Hart & Son, 28 Wardour Street, London (case 77cms long). Ivory submission reference: R7LVL1D8. CITES permit is included. Exporting outside the EU will require an additional export permit. *CR Some wear to the surface around the shoulder of the violin, some small chips/nibbles around the edges of the violin, general wear as you would expect over time.

ANTIQUE VIOLIN BOW - W E HILLS & SON, LONDON. A violin bow by W E Hills & Son, the octagonal stick with ebony frog and metal mounts, stamped to the shaft just above the frog (74.5cms long, 58.9 grams). *CR See online images, condition seems generally good.

ANTIQUE VIOLIN BOW - DODD. A violin bow by Dodd, the round stick with octagonal terminal, ebony frog and ebony and white metal adjuster (end of adjuster missing), stamped to the Frog 'Dodd' (73.5cms long, 57.6 grams). Ivory Registration Number VSXWTJMQ. CITES permit is included. Exporting outside the EU will require an additional export permit. *CR End of adjuster missing, otherwise seems in generally good condition.

JOAN & DAVID DE BETHEL - RYE POTTERY CATS. Including a Cat from 1987, Model No 1292, painted with a bow tie & clothing (18.5cms high). Also with a Cat from 1996, Model No 5120, with decoupage decoration (18.5cms high). (2). *CR 1987 Cat, very small crack to the edge of the hole underneath, and small chip to edge of hole. 1996 Cat, a little wear to the paint on the bottom of the tail, possibly a very small crack to the underneath of the tail.

ENGLISH 18THC BOW SAUCEBOAT & TWO OTHER SAUCEBOATS. A 18thc Bow ribbed porcelain sauceboat in the Desirable Residence pattern, the interior painted with scrolls (12cms long). Also with a Liverpool blue and white dolphin ewer, with painted and moulded decoration (9cms high, 11.5cms long), and a Liverpool painted and moulded sauceboat (possibly Philip Christian), 12.5cms long. (3). *CR Bow sauceboat, small chip to spout and to the rim, handles has cracks around the terminal of the handles - possibly repaired. Ewer, small chip to spout, some discolouration/brown spotting in places, firing crack around one side of the handle (from manufacture) Sauceboat, couple of small nicks to the base of the footrim, otherwise seems generally fine.

Glazed finish figure depicting woman dressed in dark and light pink with bow accents holding a basket of flowers and green bonnet. Part of the Harradine Classics series. Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: Leslie HarradineIssued: 1945 - 1952Dimensions: 7.5"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

Limited edition fine bone china that was inspired by the romance of the victorian era. Depicts gal in a lavender off the shoulder dress with matching hand fan and hair bow; gold gilt touches on gown and hand fan.Royal Worcester backstamp. Artist: N. StevensIssued: 1991Dimensions: 6.5""L x 6""W x 8.5""HEdition Size: 1422 of 12500Manufacturer: Royal WorcesterCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

Limited edition figurine modeled as elegant woman wearing yellow gown; peach colored flower and bow details.Coalport backstamp. Issued: 1991Dimensions: 9.5"HEdition Number: 76 of 1000 Manufacturer: CoalportCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

AN ANTIQUE CITRINE, PEARL AND DIAMOND PENDANT set with an oval cut citrine in a border of pearls surmounted by a bow set with rose cut diamonds, no assay marks, 3.5cm, 8.2g. 

An early 19th century bow transfer decorated semi porcelain strainer dish, decorated with a flower and fruit still life, 33cm.

A Georgian figured mahogany bow front chest of 3 long and 2 short drawers with brass ring handles, on bracket feet, width 111c

A circular 19th century pedestal coffee table on turned column (reduced); An 18th century oak bow front cupboard enclosed by 2 doors

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUTTERFLY PEMBROKE TABLELATE 18TH CENTURYWith a bow fronted frieze drawer opposing a false drawer front74cm high, 84cm wide, 75.5cm deepProvenance:Private Collection, Tim Rootes and Obby Waller, Barton Hill House, Gloucestershire

A PAIR OF MAHOGANY BOW FRONT CHESTS OF DRAWERSEARLY 19TH CENTURYEach 69cm high, 61cm wide, 38cm deepCondition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches, abrasions consistent with age and useOld splits and cracks, chips and losses, some vertical splits/cracks to the sidesThe lowest drawer of one retreats too far into the case - there are blocks but these appear to have worn down and may need replacing to secureThere are no locks by design, the handles appear to be original Overall appears solid and stableSome scuffs and scratchesPlease see additional images for visual reference to conditionCondition Report Disclaimer

A silver circular jewellery trinket box, the hinged cover decorated with a central white guilloche enamel panel, hand painted with a Forget Me Not wreath & red bow, padded silk & velvet interior, John Edward Wilmot, Birmingham, 1911 175g gross

Watchmaker's Tools - a pocket watch Bow Mill specialist milling tool marked 'D.R.G.M No.14558 Triumph' in original box retailed by Terry Kimber, Sheffield; Bergeon watch balance prising tool; watch depthing tool, boxed; 19th century Lathe Pivot 'TOUR A PIVOTER' watchmaking tool; etc (5)

A Victorian mahogany flame mahogany bow front chest, of two short and three long drawers, turned legs, 118cm high, 122cm wide, 56cm deep, c.1860

An attractive Edwardian satinwood kidney shaped Occasional Table, the rosewood banded top profusely decorated with floral garlands around a basket of flowers, hanging from a ribbon bow, above a conforming decorated frieze and a stretcher shelf below, raised on square tapering legs, 61cms (24''). (1)

A fine pair of George IV period Irish mahogany Hall Chairs, each with shield shaped backs and central cartouche, above a bow fronted solid seat on ring turned front legs. (2)

An exceptional pair of late 19th Century French kingwood and marquetry Hanging Corner Cupboards, with ornate brass mounts and upper bow fronted shelf, one door inlaid, featuring a man on a ladder handing a birds nest to his lady friend, the other a man handing flowers to his lady friend, each within a cube parquetry band. (2)

A Georgian pierced and polished steel bow fronted Fender, with rows of oval medallions flanking a rectangular centre with a larger medallion, all with bead moulded on top and bottoms, approx. 142cms (56''). (1) Provenance: The FitzGerald Family, Carton House, Kildare, by direct family descent.

A heavy bow fronted cast iron Fire Grate, with crested top and fluted back on front cabriole legs, 46cms (18") w. (1)