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Lot 286
An early 20th century walnut, serpentine fronted desk, with a brass, galleried, mirrored back and six bow fronted drawers, over a brown leather surface with a central drawer panel, above a facsimile drawer and twin pedestals, containing seven drawer, on cabriole legs and castors, 40"h, 44"w, 21"d
Lot 461
A large Victorian bow fronted mahogany chest of two short and three graduating long drawers, the drawers fitted throughout with cock-beaded borders enclosing flamed veneers, with turned handles, all except one centred with a mother-of-pearl roundel, flanked by embedded column sides with scrolling capitols, raised on tapering fluted legs flanking a shaped apron base, 128 cm high, 128.5 cm wide, 55.5 cm deep.
Lot 233
Two 18th century Bow fan-panelled landscape powder blue porcelain plates together with an 18th century Worcester porcelain blue and white bowl, pair of English pearlware sauce ladles, Chinese plate and vase, a studio pottery tile relief moulded with an owl, Poole pottery green glazed teapot stand etc (some damages)
Lot 195
A WWII Royal Navy service group of medals awarded to Lt Cmdr Humphrey Gilbert Grace, RN, together with bicorn hat, epaulettes and related ephemera:, the group comprises 1939-45 Atlantic Star, Italy Star, British War Medal with oak leaf, together with corresponding miniatures. The bicorn hat and epaulettes by Gieves of London in a Russian lacquered case also containing shoulder flashes, hat badge and regulation sword belt. There is also a copy of 'This Imperial Theme HMS Gambia Commission 1952-54', photographs of HMS Gambia and HMS Sussex and copies of records and research.*Notes - At the start of WWII Lt Cmdr Grace had just been appointed to HMS Varnoc as an A/S Lt. HMS Varnoc was a British Vclass destroyer with a complement of 70 officers and men. In June 1940 HMS Varnoc participated in the evacuation of British Troops from Norway and St Nazaire, France. Convoy patrols in the Atlantic followed, culminating in an action on 15th Match 1941 which will be long remembered in Naval history. On that day, HMS Varnoc sank two German submarines U99 and U100 which were commanded by two of the Kriegsmarines top U-boat Captains, Joachin Schepke and Otto Kretschmer. Details of these two actions are as described by Lt. Cmdr Walter Edney from 'Recollections of WWII'- 'After a little more than a mile, the silhouette of a U boat could be seen on the surface, so without hesitation our Captain gave the order to Stand by to Ram. This we did in no uncertain manner, at full speed, hitting the U-boat amidships and toppling her over. It bought Varnoc to a sudden standstill, embedded in the U-boat which was only cleared by putting both engines full astern. The U-boat rose high in the air and sank, the Captain still on the bridge wearing his white cap but badly injured, went down with her. It subsequently transpired that the U-boat we had sunk was U100, Captained by a Lieut Capt Schwepke, a U-boat ace who had sunk many thousands of tons of British shipping. After a short while, a U-boat surfaced just astern of us, so close that it was necessary to move out of the way fairly quickly for fear of being torpedoed or fired upon. It was not to be. In fact both Walker and Varnoc opened a cross fire at the U-boat. It was clear that she was badly damaged and the crew would have to surrender. The U-boat flashed a message to Walker to the effect that she was sinking. The bow of the boat subsequently rose in the air and she slithered down to her grave. This was U-boat U99, captained by Lt Cmdr Kretschmen, the unchallenged ace of the German U-boat fleet after Prien, who had been sunk with his U-boat a few days before by HMS Wolverine.HMS Varnoc was commanded by Lt Cmdr JGW Deneys, who was subsequently awarded The Distinguished Service Order for these actions'.*Biography - On 3/11/1942 Lt Grace was appointed to HMS Quail. He took part in the Salerno landings during September 1943. On 15th November, HMS Quail, whilst on patrol in the Adriatic, struck a mine and was beached the following day. 1944 found Lt Grace serving on HMS Diomede, a boys training ship at Devonport. He was back to sea in Jan 1945 serving on a battle class destroyer, HMS Camperdown. Promoted to LT Cmdr in 1948 he saw service on HMS Gambia between 1952 and 1954.
Lot 340
A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE TANKER M.T. FERNCOURT , BUILT BY ERIKSBERG MV, GÖTEBORG FOR FERNLEY & EAGER, OSLO, 1955 the laminated and carved hull finished in two-tone red with black topsides, dark grey decks with painted and gilt brass fittings as appropriate, including winches, companionways, deck-rails, superstructure with comms mast, pipework, gantries, funnel with engine room lights, covered boats in davits and other details, mounted on four silvered tapering columns to display base with laminated builder's plate and glazed wooden display case -- overall measurements: 19 x 81 x 14½in. (48 x 206 x 37cm.) Provenance : With Langford's Marine Antiques This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial RoadCondition report: Hull in good condition, two or three loose components, some paint flakes by forward bridge but generally good overall condition. Case trim under bow missing.
Lot 98
A BELL FROM THE IMPERIAL GERMAN SUBMARINE U.B.44 , 1916 cast in brass with impressed lettering inscribed U.B. 44 , the inside inscribed in raised lettering 15 C , complete with clapper, now mounted on wood stand, the bell -- 6 x 6in. (15 x 15cm.); stand 15in. (38cm.) highFootnote: One of a class of six, UB-44 was built by AG Wesser, Bremen, shipped in sections to Pola and assembled (with her sisters) by Wesser engineers, being launched in April 1916. She measured 121 feet with a 14ft 4in. beam, and her Daimler diesels provided a range of 6,840 miles at nearly 9 knots on the surface and 4 knots submerged with a range of 45 miles on batteries. She was armed with two 19.7in. bow torpedo tubes and could carry four torpedoes. Additionally, she was also armed with a single 3.5in. deck gun. She was commissioned on 11 May 1916 and ordered to the Austro-Hungarian base at Cattaro, near the Mediterranean. On 30th June she torpedoed and sank the S.S. Moeris on passage between Glasgow and Alexandria with the loss of three men and her only 'kill'; Her fate is unknown, but anecdotal evidence suggests she may have been sunk with a lance bomb off Paxoi in early August. How her bell survived is unclear, however her unusual construction and early demise suggests that it had yet to be fitted.Condition report: Polished, black filling to lettering now missing.
Lot 347
AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE JAPANESE MAIL STEAMERS YAMASHIRO MARU AND OMI MARU , BUILT BY SIR W.G. ARMSTRONG, MITCHELL & CO. FOR THE NIPPON YUSEN LINE, 1884 the laminated and carved hull painted pink below waterline with black topside, white boot top and decorative gilt dragons to bow, boarding companionway, white lined decks, with silvered, oxidised and wooden fittings including anchors with studded chains and winch, wood capped deck rails, forward bridge with navigation lights, binnacle and telegraph, companionways, ventilators, cutaway masts, belaying rails and pins, main bridge with helm, stayed funnel with insignia, engine-room lights, six fitted boats in davits, saloon lights, deck house, emergency helm, coal chute covers, and other details, mounted on turned gilt brass column in mahogany glazed display case with ivorine builder's plate -- overall measurements 25½ x 87 x 21½in. (65 x 221 x 54.5cm.) This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial RoadFootnote: Designed as a pair of essentially identical sisters, Omi Maru and Yamashiro Maru were built in Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell & Co.’s ‘Low Water’ Yard, on the Tyne, in 1884. Ordered by the recently established Japan Mail Steamship Company or Kyodo Unyu Kaisha (KUK), they were constructed of iron throughout, measured 301 feet in length with a 37.5 foot beam, and were powered to 14 knots by 2-cylinder surface-condensing compound engines by the Wallsend Slipway Company of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Omi Maru (Yard no. 468) was launched first, on 27th March 1884, and registered at 2,473 tons gross (1,533 net); Yamashiro Maru (Yard no. 467) followed soon after and was registered at 2,528 tons gross (1,567 net). In addition to useful cargo space, each vessel had ample and well-appointed passenger accommodation in three classes and both entered service together. KUK had been established in 1882 and, from the outset, had received a state-subsidised mail contract. However, just as the two new steamers were nearing completion, the Japanese government came to the decision that it was uneconomic to continue subsidising two rival companies, with the result that KUK was amalgamated with its slightly older competitor Mitsubishi Shokai (founded 1875), to form the new company of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). Thus, both Omi Maru and Yamashiro Maru began their successful twenty-five year careers working for what would, in the future, become one of the world's greatest shipping conglomerates, and with one of them, Yamashiro Maru , achieving significant individual celebrity. Between 1885 and 1892, Yamashiro Maru ran a pioneering transport service from Yokohama to Honolulu for impoverished Japanese emigrants, docking in Honolulu with her first ‘cargo’ of 978 labourers on 17th June, 1885. Over the next few years, she carried some 10,000 migrant workers to Hawaii until, in 1894, she and her sister Omi Maru were commandeered by the Japanese government for active service as “torpedo ships” following the outbreak of war with China. So successful were the sisters in this role - and so easy had they been to adapt for it - that Armstrong, Mitchell, their builders, received considerable acclaim in Japan which soon resulted in new orders for a number of expensive purpose-built warships. Released from war service towards the end of 1895, Yamashiro Maru was then selected as the flagship to inaugurate NYK’s new Yokohama–Melbourne service in 1896, with Omi Maru and a third ship joining the route soon afterwards. On her maiden run, Yamashiro Maru left Yokohama on 3rd October and proceeded to Hong Kong via Kobe and Nagasaki. Clearing Hong Kong on 17 th October having loaded additional cargo, she was in Australian waters on the 27th and was greeted in Brisbane, her first call, by a huge crowd and a civic reception. The enterprise proved an instant success and the name of Yamashiro Maru immediately became synonymous with the new service from Japan. In 1904, Japan found herself at war again, this time with Russia, and Yamashiro Maru was once more pressed into service, on this occasion as a hospital ship. Released at the end of 1905, she returned to her popular Australia run for four more years until laid up, with her sister Omi Maru, when the company decided that the sisters had become obsolete. Sold for scrapping, the pair remained together till the last and were broken up alongside each other at Osaka in March 1910. Without doubt, the sisters, most especially Yamashiro Maru , were the pride of the Japanese Merchant Marine in their day and it seems a pity that their names are not better known. END OF SALE Next Sale: 28th April 2020 closing 28th February ~ Entries Now Invited.Condition report: Fine overall condition comensurate with age, some minor components such as belaying pins etc. missing, model has been cleaned and case repaired within the last 7 years.
Lot 327
A BASSETT LOWKE MODEL S.S. EXPLORER , CIRCA 1935 the 29in. carved hull with electric motor, lined decks with carved wood and metal fittings as appropriate, harpooning gun to foc'sle, maker's label on stern deck house, masts with standing and running rigging, removable superstructure with bridge and stayed funnel to engine compartment, now mounted to black plexiglass display base with perspex cover -- overall measurements: 17½ x 37½ x 7in. (44.5 x 95 x 18cm.)Condition report: Paint on hull crazed and crumbling in areas, some overpainting at bow, motor not tested. Varnish shrinkage to other components, some fading.
Lot 96
A SOUVENIR DINNER GONG CARVED FROM WOOD AND BRASS SHELL CASES RECOVERED FROM H.M.S. BACCHANTE , GALLIPOLI, 1915 of shield form with ship's badge and naval crown inscribed to front 'C.J.B. Gallipoli 1915', with hooks supporting three brass shell casings and leather bound striker, assembled dimensions -- 33 x 19in. (84 x 48cm.)Footnote: Bacchante was a 12,000 ton 'Cressy' class cruiser of 1901. Obsolete by the Great War, she was sent, along with several other pre-Dreadnoughts, to support the Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove on the 25th April 1915. Armed with 2-9.2in. breach loaders and 12-6in guns (along with 12-quick firing guns and 2-18in. submerged torpedoe tubes) she suppressed the Turkish guns by actually touching her bow to the beach to get a better position. She remained for several months and was particularly effective during the Third Attack on Anzac Cove on 19th May where she and three other pre-Dreadnoughts again suppressed Turkish artillery with good effect. Her commander, Algernon Boyle, latterly supervised the evacuation of Anzac Cove, but Bacchante was not present having been sent to the Mediterranean, and then as flagship to Sierra Leone for the last year of the War. Paid off, she was broken up in 1920.
Lot 95
AN ARMCHAIR MADE FROM THE WOOD OF H.M.S. VINDICTIVE , 1918 the back carved with naval crown and inscribed as per title -- 40½ x 25½in. (103 x 64.7cm.) Provenance : Southampton Master Mariners' AssociationFootnote: An 'Arrogant' class cruiser built at Chatham in 1897, she was obsolete by the start of hostilities in 1914 but in fact proved her worth with noble service in the Zeebrugge Raid of April 1918. With most of her guns replaced with howitzers, flame-throwers and mortars and under heavy fire, she managed to lay alongside the mole and embark Marine gunners and a large raiding party. Her upperworks were heavily damaged and her captain, Alfred Carpenter, was awarded the Victoria Cross. Sunk as a blockship during the second Ostend Raid on May 10th that year, she was raised in 1920 and her bow section is preserved in Ostend harbour as a memorial to the twenty-eight men lost in the raid.Condition report: Arms re-attached, chair complete and in good overall condition, it's considered 'fragile'
Lot 325
AN EXHIBITION STANDARD 1:32 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL YACHT QUEEN VICTORIA , ORIGINALLY BUILT BY J. SAMUEL WHITE AT EAST COWES, 1846 modelled by A. Baranov from his own researches, in alder, pear and black hornbeam woods, the hull sheathed below the waterline with ebonised topsides and finely chased brass bow and stern decoration and finely carved figurehead of the queen, the planked decks with treenails and fittings including metal anchors with bound wooden stocks, anchor winch with hawse pipes, belaying rails and pins, deck and saloon lights with glazing, metal bilge pump with eccentric crank shaft, covered companionways with panelled sides and seats, brass binnacle and helm, two finely constructed lifeboats swung-out in davits, racked masts with standing and running rigging with bound blocks and tackle, and full suit of stitched linen sails, mounted on two brass supports to ebonised display base -- overall measurements 43 x 54in. (109 x 137cm.) Provenance: This model was awarded gold at the All Russian Shipmodelling Competition Championship, 2017; and silver in the Ukrainian Shipmodelling Championship, 2012 This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial RoadFootnote: With ‘Russophobia’ on the rise since 1820 over tensions with India and elsewhere, the British Government, capitalising on the new Queen's youth and in an attempt to break with the past, presented this yacht as a diplomatic gift to Tsar Nicholas I. Built by Joseph White of Cowes and registered at 95ft long with a 22ft beam, it was supposed to be launched at midday 10th June 1846 in the presence of the Grand Duke Constantine and Queen Victoria, but as it turned out, the Victoria & Albert aboard which they were travelling was delayed and so in the event the Russian consul smashed a bottle of Lacryma Christi over the bow and launched her. The I.Y. Queen Victoria was indeed splendidly appointed with ceremonial cabins decorated with rosewood and maple with a bird's-eye texture and a gilt full length figurehead of the Queen herself and became the first yacht of the St. Petersbury Yacht Club, founded by Nicholas on the 1 st May the same year. A great success, she raced for many seasons and her life was extended by a substantial refit, but by 1884 she was worn out and had to be broken up.Condition report: Fine condition overall.
Lot 237
INDIAN/BOLLYWOOD/CLASSICAL (INDIAN) - LPs. Mesmerising collection of 21 x LPs including many original Indian pressings. Artists/titles include Various - Famous Ghazals Of Mirza Ghalib (EMI India ECLP 2775 - VG/VG+), Ram Narain and Chatur Lal - Beat And Bow (EALP 1312), Himangshu Biswas (ECLP 2341, Indian HMV), Guru Mere Sang Sada Hai Naale, John Barham/Ashish Khan, Ananda Shankar - S/T (2nd UK tan labels, RSLP 6398 - neat VG+ copy), Ravi Shankar inc. India's Master Musician, Improvisations, Sound Of The Sitar, In New York, In San Francisco and Live At The Monterey International Pop Festival, Hare Krsna Festival and Goddess Of Fortune LP. Condition is generally VG to Ex though the earlier Indian releases can vary.
Lot 505
Omar Rayo (Colombian 1928–2010), watercolour of a grinning male face, partially constructed from wood with a red bow tie C1947 "Portrait Alfonso Lopez", artists signature to lower right, 34.5cm x 49.5cm, Provenance: from a private collection in Switzerland believed to have been purchased by Hermando Solano various blemishes and marks but no tears or anything significant to the detriment of the work
Lot 559
Two Georgian miniature portrait studies, the first a hand painted portrait possibly on ivory, depicting a lady with curled dark hair under a bonnet, tied with a bow and enhanced with a floral embellishment, the second a watercolour or drawing of a gentleman in profile with button jacket, 13cm x 10cm framed and glazed (2)
Lot 189
Ivanka Trump black suede handbag, blue Osprey leather handbag, pair of Kurt Geiger black suede and bow shoes and a pair of Emma Hope gold pump shoes (4) Condition ReportEmma Hope Gold shoes are size 35.5. Kurt Geiger are slightly smaller - size not visible. Black handbag - no obvious faults noted on exterior or interior.'Osprey' bag - no obvious faults - slight wear on bottom two corners (exterior)
Lot 122
AN AMETHYST AND DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE, designed as an oval cut amethyst with diamond surround, suspended from a diamond and amethyst bow, to the fine belcher link chain, clasp stamped 375, pendant panel believed to be silver gilt, chain length 230mm, pendant length 37mm, approximate weight 4.7 grams
Lot 222
A SELECTION OF JEWELLERY, to include an Edwardian 15ct gold diamond brooch, the central old cut diamond within a floral surround to the staggered double bar brooch with beaded, twist and floral decoration, with 15ct hallmark for Birmingham 1900, length 50mm, approximate weight 3.5 grams, together with a marcasite bow brooch, two paste costume jewellery, brooches, a cubic zirconia bar brooch, a ring and a pair of amber drop earrings, some with marks to indicate silver
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