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Lot 100
A BRACE OF INDIAN DAGGERS. Both with rear curving blades of approximately 10.3/4" respectively, each having a three quarter length tapering fuller. Hilts of stone and mother of pearl in segment patterns, scabbards of leather covered wood. Both blades in good condition having been coated years ago, in grease.
Lot 122
A BRACE OF 19thC CONSTABLES SIDEARMS. A brace of Victorian Constables sidearms with single-edged curved blades of 30" approx blades. Full length wide fullers, brass hilts with swept forward quillions and rayskin covered grips. One has the locking button missing, one has some loss of the grip.
Lot 97
Three Vintage Petrol Cans, comprising BP Motor Spirit green painted, with some corrosion; Shell-Mex green painted/rusted, and Shell Motor Spirit with traces of red paint; ten packs of 30amp fuses, stapled to a Co-Star Central Automotive Spares display card; and two boxes of assorted car spares, to include two Beugler paint pin striping tools, craftsmen and professional model, boxed, 12v car indicator bulbs, Osram boxed sidelight bulbs, metal wheel brace, grease guns etc (qty)
Lot 388
Pair of Slade Wallace 1888 Pattern Shoulder Braces buff leather, left and right braces. Lower double brass buckles with buff leather securing strap. Shoulders with brass loops secured by riveted tabs. One brace slightly shortened. Both white blancoed. Various issue stamps. Some service wear.
Lot 389
Pair of Slade Wallace 1888 Pattern Shoulder Braces buff leather, left and right braces. Lower double brass buckles with buff leather securing strap. Shoulders with brass loops secured by riveted tabs. One brace slightly shortened. Both white blancoed. Various issue stamps. Some service wear.
Lot 394
A boxed set of Victorian ivory handled silver fish servers, by Goldsmiths Alliance Limited, London 1888, having bright cut scrollwork decoration with brace of salmon to knife blade, embossed silver collars and reverse tapering wrythen carved ivory handles, in original retailers fitted case..
Lot 205
BERRY JAMES: (1852-1913) English Executioner, 1884-91, recognised for his important contribution to the science of hanging with his refinement of the long drop method developed by William Marwood,improvements which were intended to diminish the mental and physical suffering of the prisoner. An extremely rare A.L.S., James Berry, two pages, 8vo, Bradford, 22nd March 1889, to Lewis [Strange] Wingfield ('Dear Friend'), on the printed stationery of the Executioner's Office. Berry informs his correspondent that he has received his letter and invitation to lunch in London, continuing to comment on his health, 'Since I have returned from Shepton Mallet I have a severe attack of chills on my chest & lungs and this is the first day I have been down from my bedroom but I am thankful I am no worse' Berry further writes on the subject of his work, 'I have an engagement in Dublin Kilmainham Gaol on the 8th April, Kirkdale Liverpool on the 9th and Swansea on the 10th so I must brace myself together and try and get some strength before the time comes for one to leave home again for business…' Berry also recalls a jovial case of mistaken identity the last time he was in his correspondent's company, remarking, 'I was quite amused at the social gathering of friends guessing me a foreigner and the other was not so far wrong in stateing (sic) I was a musician as I have always had a strong attachment to music and singing. My wife gave a hearty laugh when she read it.' With some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Berry, the first British hangman with sufficient literacy skills to be able to write of his experiences, performed 131 hangings during his career including that of William Bury, a man considered a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. Infamously, in 1885, Berry was also the executioner who failed to hang John Babbacombe Lee (1864-1945), the controversially convicted murderer who became a cause célèbre known as 'the man they couldn't hang'. As the present letter confirms, Berry had been at Shepton Mallet gaol to conduct the execution of Samuel Rylands (also referred to in some reports as Reylands) on 13th March 1889. Rylands had been convicted of the murder of Emma Jane Davies, who on the night of 2nd January 1889 had gone missing after walking to collect milk from Yeobridge. Failing to return home that foggy and frosty morning, her anxious family searched the route she would have taken. They found her body lying in a muddy ditch, a blind-cord around her neck, the body gashed and cut, and her dress thrown over her head, which was almost severed from her body. The police, having been called, found a bloodied razor nearby alongside a man's footprints. On the 4th January Rylands, a local labourer, was arrested. There was no direct evidence linking him to the crime, although milk was found on his hat and it had been noted he was seen perspiring heavily and had wet and muddy boots on the day of the murder. Indeed, it was pointed out to the jury in the case, that it was better to acquit a guilty man than an innocent one be convicted, such was the circumstantial evidence. However, convict him they did. Interestingly, in what was undoubtedly a reference to the Jack the Ripper murders, The Times of 22nd February 1889 reported, 'It was apparently an aimless and motiveless crime by whomsoever committed. It was probably the morbid results of reading the accounts of the horrors which of late have appeared in the newspapers. In this instance, however, there were no traces of any outrage with the view to gratifying the murderer's passions'. On 8th April 1889, Berry visited Kilmainham gaol, Dublin, to conduct the execution of Peter Stafford, convicted of shooting a farmer to death during a dispute. At the gallows Stafford resisted violently when Berry tried to pinion him, fearing his end and struggling for freedom. In a fraught scene, Stafford had to be forcibly taken by warders to the scaffold, where he cried, 'Lord have mercy on me! God forgive me my sins!' before Berry, with great difficulty, carried out the sentence. Berry gave a drop of 6ft 6in, Stafford's weight being 11 stone, and death appeared to be almost instantaneous, the spinal cord being completely severed and the blood vessels of the neck ruptured. Two days later, on 10th April 1889, Berry attended Swansea gaol to perform the execution of Thomas Allen, a black seaman said to be a Zulu. Berry was to write later in his account of the execution for The Post: 'One of the worst jobs I have ever tackled was the execution of Thomas Allan (sic)… Thomas was a black man, a big strong fellow, with muscles like iron bands, and it well nigh beat me to hang him.' Allen had been convicted for the murder of Frederick Kent, the landlord of the Gloucester Hotel, Swansea. Allen had hidden within the premises after closing time in order to steal the days takings. Upon being discovered a struggle ensued which resulted in Allen being shot in the thigh and Kent being mortally wounded with a cut-throat razor. Making good his escape, the police followed Allen's footsteps left upon the snow covered ground. The fleeing murderer had left his cap behind, and from this he was identified. He had also left a razor in the bedroom, this being the weapon that had inflicted the various wounds. Once discovered Allen found himself at the hands of a lynch mob and ultimately in gaol. Convicted of murder, Allen was led to the gallows. The hanging did not go well. Berry would later explain, '…the poor fellow sank down into the pit. The rope did not quiver. “Dead, dead!” Exclaimed the governor… but the words were scarcely out of his mouth before the man at the end of the rope began to struggle. The doctor assured me afterwards that nearly three minutes elapsed before [he] died, and he thought it would have been better if I had given my victim another six inches. He was probably right.' Despite Berry's reference to a third execution in the present letter, his presence at Kirkdale gaol, Liverpool on the 9th April was not required. The prisoner Charles Parton, under sentence of death, on 5th April 1889 for the murder of John Fletcher, was granted a reprieve and his sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for life. OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM WE CANNOT DISPLAY THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT - PLEASE CONTACT IAA DIRECTLY FOR THE FULL DESCRIPTION
Lot 175
Victorian silver and cut glass matched part dressing table set, comprising 3 square glass bottles, 3 faceted cylindrical glass jars, 2 small cylindrical jars, 2 rectangular glass boxes, a glass box with hinged lid and screw fastening, all glass containerswith star cut decoration to base and engine turned decoration to silver tops, all silver components stamped with marks for ‘George Brace, London, 1879’ also containing small pair of silver scissors and shaving razor stamped ‘Butler’s keeno razor’, contained within a black leather travel case with detachable mirror inset to lid, and a draw compartment. Condition Report: Overall good, note that not all componants of this set are present, no cracking or damage to glass containers, rusting and genera wear to scisors and razor, general wear and tear to leather box and lining consistant with age and use.
Lot 48
An early freelance model of a Burrell road locomotive Starlight with crane and living van, built by Mr J E Davies of Swindon and being spirit fired, cab with regulator and direction control, crank driven water pump and bevel gear drive to crane, belly tanks, spoked and straked wheels. The model finished in brick coloured paintwork with brass boiler bands and sign written canopy. Length 72cm. Width 18cm. Height to top of canopy 25cm. The model comes together with a well-built living van having corrugated metal finish. Interior fitted with wood burning stove, bed, table, seats and ledge and brace stable type door. The living van was also built by Mr J E Davies of Swindon. Length 26cm. Width 16cm. Height 27cm. * No boiler history available. Framed photograph of the engine with its builder.
Lot 120
A BRACE OF 22-BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOLS OF MAIL COACH TYPE BY MORTIMER, 9.25inch barrels engraved with the manufacturer's details, the first with stepped and bolted lock signed H W MORTIMER & CO, full stocked with brass mounts. Ramrods lacking, generally worn and in need of repairs. The second lacking lock and with damage to stock. (2)
Lot 330
A 19TH CENTURY SINGHALESE PIA-KAETTA, 17cm heavy blade with clipped back point, heavily reinforced with a white metal brace at the forte and along the back edge, this decorated profusely with scrolling foliage, characteristic carved horn grips with foliate white metal mounts, contained in its white metal mounted wooden scabbard.
Lot 394
A LATE 19TH CENTURY PRUSSIAN POLICE PICKELHAUBE, the black leather skull with white metal fittings to include pierced scroll helmet plate W over IV 1848 1898 IN TREUE FEST, quatrefoil spike base with tapering spike with ball terminal, leather liner, back brace, cockades and chinstrap lacking, together with a late 19th or early 20th Century Lance Cap, the black leather skull with gilt brass fittings to include rayed helmet plate applied with white metal focal plate with crossed lances on a shield, the latter applied with a white metal 1, scarlet cloth top with scarlet horse hair plume, green silk lining. The pair mounted within a glass dome. (2)
Lot 81
A THREE PIECE SILVER TEA SERVICE, maker probably George Brace & Co. Ltd., Birmingham 1931, of squat globular form with cast foliate rims, comprising teapot with hinged swept cover, ebony knop and earred scroll handle, two handled sugar basin and milk jug, teapot 9 1/2" wide, 21ozs 2dwts total gross (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)
Lot 183
A scarce Third Reich Police Officer’s sword, 25” blade marked “Krebs Solingen”, steel hilt, blackened wood grip with bronze inset eagle and swastika, complete with its scabbard and under tunic hanger and brace set. GC (very slight wear to scabbard finish and slight stains to blade). Plate 10
Lot 446
A set of four 19th century Black Forest walnut wall panels of rectangular form. Each carved in high relief with fruit and game depicting a brace of partridge, a hare, three fish tied and fruit, 64cm x 34.5cm (4). Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Loss to the tip of one of the tail fins belonging to the fish. Slight loss to the leaves within the fruit. Overall very good.
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