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Lot 630
"THE PHONEY-WAR", DUNKIRK, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ - "The Leader Foolscap Folio Diary for 1940". Manuscript diary on c. 50 leaves kept by Thomas A. Johnson."THE PHONEY WAR", DUNKIRK, THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ - "The Leader Foolscap Folio Diary for 1940" [title printed on upper wrapper]. Folio (320 x 210mm). Manuscript diary on c. 50 leaves ruled in red and blue, with extensive daily entries kept from 1st January to 16th September 1940, after which, following the enlistment of the diarist, they become sparser or non-existent. Provenance: Thomas A. Johnson (contemporary signature, in the same hand as the diary, on the upper wrapper - see note). A FASCINATING, MOVING AND OCCASIONALLY UNSETTLING DAY-BY-DAY ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN WARTIME PROVINCIAL ENGLAND in which world events are thrown into poignant relief by mundane descriptions of domestic life, including a great deal of gardening, listening to concerts and plays on The Home Service and numerous visits to "the Pictures" ("Askey film awful"). The opening of the diary is remarkable for its apparent lack of interest in the war - a testament to its initial "phoney" status - which it does not allude to until the 13th March when the entry abruptly states, "Finns agreed to Russia's terms." From there on, the international situation plays an increasingly prominent and anguished part in the entries as it starts to intrude upon the everyday life and emotions of the writer and his family: on 18th March, for instance, "Hitler met Mussolini"; on 8th April, "British lay mines in Norwegian waters"; on 9th April (in a much larger hand than the rest of the entry), "Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. War started in earnest"; on 13th April, "Navy sank 7 Destroyers at Narvik. 1000 men lost. Dora here. Rolled back lawns. Tidied old greenhouse"; on 22nd April, "Planes droning all night"; on 6th May, "3 Destroyers gone west"; on 16th May, "War waging fiercely. The greatest Battle ever known"; on 19th May, "Put sweet peas out. Mowed back lawns. Churchill spoke 1st time as Prime Minister"; on 21st May, "Germans advancing rapidly towards English Channel. French traitors fail to blow up bridge"; on 29th May, "B. E. F. withdrawing to coast due to Belgian surrender"; on 13th June, "Terrible war news. Afraid France is done for"; on 14th June, "Germans enter Paris. Fine day, to Hooton. Home 5. Did gardening"; on 17th June, "France stops fighting. Terrible news. Britain left alone to fight"; on 21st June, "Hitler meets French in forest to discuss peace terms. Felt very miserable"; on 28th June, "Nazis been over Speke. Dropped bombs. Washed hair"; on 29th June: "Hitler to march through London on Aug. 15th"; on 19th July, "Hitler plans to invade to-night!!!"; on 22nd July, "3rd air raid warning 1-45 - 2am. All got up and went to shelter. I had to get out for fear of suffocating. Ma had brandy"; on 27th July, "Poles starving. 2000 dying each day. [?]Em gathering Dora's apples"; on 13th September, "Felt hellishly miserable. Cannot stand many more goodbyes! Germans ready for invasion. Troops massed"; on 16th September (having enlisted), "Diary must end from to-day onwards. Complete change of life for me from 16th until after the war. Went on [?]9.30 train. Raining. Felt very miserable. Drills etc. Had kit and coat stolen. Did not sleep well." On the verso of the final leaf, under the heading "Air Blitz Kreig[sic] Aug 11/40", is listed a tally of aircraft losses on either side from 11th August to 20th August, 1940, in which German losses are a great deal higher than British ones. The keeper of these diaries is almost certainly the composer, arranger and music teacher Thomas Arnold Johnson (1908-89) who would have been about 32 at the time of writing. The attribution can be made with some confidence since many of the entries mention place names in the locale of Neston, the Wirral, where he lived his whole life, and also describe composing, arranging and teaching music, and list, on an almost daily basis, every major piece of music he listened to, in the evenings, on the Home Service. It is not known in which capacity or rank he served in the war but we do know that, happily, he survived it and went on to a long and successful career in music.
Lot 280
Mixed lot of Champagne, liqueurs and spirits to include three Piper-Heidsieck, two 1.5l bottles and one boxed, two Hennessy Cognacs, Napoleon Courvoisier, KWV Brandy, Wild Africa Liqueur, boxed Sordo Barolo, Baileys, Metaxa, Double Century Amontillado, Glen Mist Liqueur, Commemorative boxed Guinness, Sabra and two bottles of Becherovka (quantity) Condition Report: please refer to additional images for more information Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 981
A 19th century Bristol blue glass decanter with stopper, inscribed 'Rum' and with elaborate gilded decoration featuring a twin handled urn etc, height 28cm, together with another similar, 'Brandy', height 23cm (2). Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.Condition report: Brandy has wear to the gilding and some minor surface scratches. The rum has 2 chips to the stopper finial and a chip to the rim of the bottle. Wear to the gilding and glass has surface scratches.
Lot 1028
A George III Bristol blue glass decanter and stopper, gilded in the manner of James Giles with floral swags, height 27.5cm, together with another blue decanter inscribed 'Brandy' (2).Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.
Lot 980
A set of three 19th century Bristol blue gilt decorated glass decanters with stoppers, inscribed 'Hollands', 'Rum' and 'Brandy' within decorative shield shape cartouches, in a gilded wood decanter stand. Overall height 27cm. Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.Condition report: The rum stopper finial has a small edge chip. The other two stoppers are replacements. Wear to the gilding on each piece.
Lot 985
A 19th century Bristol blue glass decanter with stopper, inscribed 'Brandy' in gilt, together with two other Bristol blue decanters gilded decoration, with stoppers. Each approximately 26cm high. Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.Condition report: The 'Brandy' bottle has a chipped stopper. The other stoppers are replacements. Each bottle has very worn gilding.
Lot 1031
Four Georgian Bristol blue glass decanters, one with stopper inscribed 'Hollands', height 26cm, another inscribed 'Rum' and two others inscribed 'Brandy' (4).Provenance:Michael Trethewey. A Gentleman of Taste.We are delighted to be selling in this sale and over forthcoming sales, items from the estate of the collector Michael Trethewey. Michael had an unerring eye for quality. He was a frequent visitor to these auction rooms, an elegantly dressed, unassuming man who bought well and had a singular passion for old-school antiques.Condition report: The bottles have worn gilding and only one has the correct stopper.
Lot 54
Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)Portrait of Jane Allnutt with her pet spaniel, within a painted oval oil on canvas, unlined61 x 50.4cm (24 x 19 13/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceLeft by the sitter to her half-brother John Allnutt (1803-1881)Violet Susannah Knox, his daughter Vicesimus John Knox, her sonHolliss Allnutt Knox, his son, and thence by descent to the present ownerThe enchanting subject of this unrecorded portrait by Lawrence is Jane Allnutt (1818-1845), the daughter of one the artist's more significant patrons whose family had made their fortune in the wine and brandy trade in the 18th century. John Allnutt (1773-1863) lived in some style in a palatial home in then-rural Clapham, and used his considerable wealth to buy from the great artists of the day; works by Constable and Turner graced the walls of the family home including the latter's The Devil's Bridge, St. Gothard of circa 1803-4 which bore a label in John's hand recording that he had gifted the painting 'to my daughter Jane.' In addition to a full-length portrait of John by Lawrence, we know he painted several other portraits of the family, amongst which a second study of Jane painted in 1826. Judging from that unfinished portrait (K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1989, no. 21) we can assume that the present study was painted around 1821-22 when Jane was three or four. Like the 1826 portrait, it has descended through the sitter's family after her death in 1845, the year of her marriage to Henry Carr (1817-1888) at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham. Lionized by the aristocracy, Lawrence was known for his good nature and charm, although his closest friendships were amongst the professional men and their families who were his earliest patrons. Not least of these were the families of John Julius Angerstein, Sir Francis Baring and indeed John Allnutt, who is known to have helped Lawrence in his financial difficulties: £5,000, for example, is said to have been paid to Allnutt following the artist's death.Many of Lawrence's best portraits during the last decade of his life were of children: indeed, his importance in this regard was recently recognised when the National Gallery in London agreed to buy the artist's celebrated Red Boy for £9.3 million. This dazzling tour de force (which was the first painting to be displayed on a British postage stamp) was described by the Gallery this year to be a unique opportunity 'to acquire an exceptionally important painting by one of the finest European portraitists of the early 19th century, which is of outstanding significance for British national heritage.' Previously dismissed as superficial, owing to the apparent facility of his technique, none of Lawrence's followers matched the fresh immediacy of his brushwork, with the possible exception of John Singer Sargent, and today, especially following the 1979 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, this great artist's stature has been reappraised: he is now widely believed to have been the finest portrait painter of his generation in Europe. Lawrence's achievement as a painter was based largely on his confidence in his largely self-taught powers as a draughtsman. As appears to have been the case with the present portrait, he usually drew the figure directly on his canvases before applying the paint, rarely producing separate preliminary sketches. His admiration of the great draughtsmen of the past influenced his own work as well as stimulating him to acquire outstanding examples of the work of the Old Masters. Unlike such artists as Sir Joshua Reynolds, who delegated such chores to studio assistants, Lawrence was also remarkable for insisting on choosing the dress, accessories and settings of his sitters with particular regard to the age and concerns of the sitter. This intimate depiction of a close family friend is the perfect example of Lawrence's extraordinary ability and dedication to his art.We are grateful to Peter Funnell and Brian Allen for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 480
Two trays of assorted items to include; six boxes of Royal Doulton crystal pairs of glasses; brandy balloons, whisky tumblers etc (one box only has one not a pair), a moulded panda and bamboo design teapot, a cottage design teapot by Leonardo, two Leonardo collection figures in original boxes; a 'Visions' elephant figure and a 'Bedtime' figure of puppies. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
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