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Click here to subscribeBronze Age Trefoil RazorLate Bronze Age, 1,200-900 BC A cast bronze razor with broad peltoid blade, narrow neck and looped trefoil head. 15 grams, 90 mm. (3 1/2"). Property of a Hampshire Gentleman; acquired before 1990; believed found Great Massingham, Norfolk. Fine condition, loops open.Starting Price: £200
Iron Age Bronze Enamelled Bridle Mount1st century BC-1st century AD A cast quatrefoil bridle mount with champ leve fields of red enamel; the symmetrical design comprising a central panel with parallel sides and rounded ends, flanked by D-shaped panels with central annulet reserved against the enamel field; within the central panel a reversed s-scroll, each arm terminating in a transverse s-scrolled block with reserved pellet; the curved lines with graceful swellings in the La Tene style; two integral attachment sliders to the reverse. Cf. the openwork bronze bridle mount plaques with La Tene decoration from Iron Age Champagne, France, published in Stead, I.M. & Rigby, V. The Morel Collection. Iron Age Antiquities from Champagne in the British Museum, figs.185-8; red enamel bronze enamel plaques in Smith, R.A. British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities, plate VIII. 89 grams, 67 mm. (2 1/2"). Found East Anglia, UK. Extremely fine condition.Starting Price: £4500
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Dragonesque Brooch1st century BC A cast dragonesque brooch with La Tene style scrolls and bosses to the body and finials, pin lost in antiquity. 16 grams, 52 mm. (2"). Ex Glover collection; found Cambridgeshire, UK. Fine condition, with traces of enamel.Starting Price: £500
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Dragonesque Brooch1st century BC-1st century AD A cast dragonesque brooch with serpentine-shaped body and comma-shaped head and tail elements; the trunk with enamelled ring-and-dot motif, and two similar at the ends. 9.90 grams, 53 mm. (2"). Private collection, Nottinghamshire, UK; acquired late 1980`s-early 1990`s. Fine condition.Starting Price: £400
Iron Age Ex Hattatt Collection Brooch Group1st century BC-1st century AD A group of two Iron Age brooches from the Hattatt collection comprising: an iron Alesia-type brooch with deep tapering bow, long foot with recurved integral knop, curled hinge; the type of Gaulish origin; mounted on a custom-made display panel stand with Hattatt collection description and further information on a label to the reverse; inked collection number to the reverse of the bow; the other a bronze trumpet brooch with moulded arc decorations on the head, sprung pin moving freely, tapering body with acanthus motif; horizontal ribbing and zigzag motifs, plain underfoot; retaining swivel chain loop with traces of red enamel; collection number to the reverse of the bow. Published in Hattatt, R. Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts item 1489 and Iron Age and Roman Brooches, pp. 106 & 109. 84 grams total, 64-84 mm including stand. (2 1/2 - 3 1/4"). Alesia type found near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK; trumpet type found in Northamptonshire, UK. Hattatt remarks of the Alesia brooch: In remarkably fine condition for iron, this could well have been worn by one of the Roman invaders.[2]Fine condition.Starting Price: £150
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Chariot Terret1st century BC A large, solid-cast chariot terret, its main bow round in cross-section, the basal skirt of foliate form with a knop to each lower point and an integral lower loop. 60 grams, 59 mm. (2 1/4"). Private collection, Nottinghamshire, UK; acquired late 1980`s-early 1990`s. [No Reserve]Very fine condition.Starting Price: £5
Iron Age Bronze Belt Fittings with Gold Detailing6th-5th century BC A South Arabian fabricated two-piece belt closure comprising: a rectangular plate with transverse D-section bars, hooked at the forward edge and bifurcated to form flat extended ribs; the plate and bars decorated with gilt domed studs on the inner and outer faces in a geometric layout; a corresponding rectangular plate with three transverse folded bars, pierced in three places and decorated on the outer face only with gilt domed studs. 71 grams total, ribbed plate 91 mm. (3 1/2"). Silk collection, London, UK; formed in the 1950`s. [2, No Reserve]Fair condition, some loss.Starting Price: £5
Iron Age Celtic Iron Looped and Socketted Axe700-600 BC A rare English found transitional type of socketted and looped axe, following the traditional late Bronze Age forms having an oval socket mouth with thickened rim, the wedge-shaped blade with slightly convex cutting edge, a single side-loop to secure to an L-shaped wooden haft. See Smith, R.A. British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities 1925, fig. 82; for similar examples; recorded with Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference FAKL-38D115. 377 grams, 11 cm. (4 1/4"). Found Middleham, North Yorkshire, UK, in 2010. The PAS entry includes the following text: This object is one of a small number of socketed axes made from wrought iron. While the form is relatively easy to cast in a two-part mould and a clay/sand core to form its hollow socket it would be very difficult to produce as a forging. Iron socketed axes were rapidly replaced by axes in which the haft passes through an eye, the type that remains in use today. This axe must, therefore, represent the transition from bronze to iron. Parallels exist for iron socketed axes with examples from Walthamstow, Essex (Smith 1925, Fig. 82) and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wilts (Cunliffe 1975, p 268, Fig. 14:2 5) neither of which is quite like this find although the latter appears to share the curved loop side and straight back seen on the Middleham axe. A better parallel was found during excavations at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire. This is a find of note and has been designated as of national importance.Fine conditon, treated and stable. Excessively rare.Starting Price: £200
Medieval Bronze Pope Urban V Papal Office Seal Matrix Attributable to Cardinal Adam Easton1362-1370 AD An important vesica seal matrix with complex design comprising a central agnus dei (Lamb of God) and Holy Grail within a circular border; male heads above and below, the upper tonsured and probably a portrait of Urban; the lower of a bearded saint, likely to be St Peter and with foliage within the spandrels; the circular panel with Gothic legend `agnus:dei:qvitollis peccati mundi` (Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world) and inside `urbanis:quintus` (Urban the Fifth) and to the outer band `sancta:aualtane:martris. [foliage] et: cap:ila:beate:marie:de:scala:celi:` (Holy Mary, blessed, hallowed in heaven with the martyrs); the reverse with solder showing that a long rib and suspension was originally fitted. 31 grams, 65 mm. (2 1/2"). Ex Winterton collection, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK; recorded by Doncaster Museum and the British Museum (reference number P&E /65/03/JPR, 9th January 2004) and seen by the British Library; found near Gainsborough, Nottinghamshire, UK, 2003. Cardinal Adam Easton (born uncertain, died Rome, 1397/8, of `old age`) was almost certainly of peasant birth from Easton, Norfolk and was taken in and educated by the church; his potential was recognised and he later joined the Benedictine monastery attached to Norwich Cathedral. He rose in the church becoming the Benedictine proctor at Avignon, taking the position of his friend Thomas Brynton and to become a cardinal and the most important cleric in the church, second only to Pope Urban V (himself a former Benedictine). He is recorded as having travelled between the papal palace at Avignon and England, delivering a letter from Urban to Edward III telling the English King to restrain the activities of his men at arms in Italy and it is likely that he would have been involved in Urban`s quarrel with Edward III of England over the payment of the annual tribute (dating back to King John) which occasioned the antipapal polemics of John Wyclif. He is also known to have travelled in England with his association with Simon Langham. His tomb, which once bore the inscription Skilled in all things, renowned father Adam. The great theologian, who was cardinal of England, which was his fatherland, the title of St Cecilia was given to him. He died and ascended to heaven in the year 1397, in the month of September can still be found in the Church of St Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome. Pope Urban V (born 1310, died 19 December 1370), born William de Grimoard, reigned as Pope from 1362 to 1370. In September 1362, Abbot William arrived in Avignon, returning from Naples, where he had been sent by Pope Innocent IV as papal legate, only to learn that the pope had died. At that time, a conclave was already being held to elect a successor to the recently-deceased pope. In a surprise move, on the 28th of that month he himself was elected Pope. He then took the name of Urban, the fifth pope with that name to rule the Church. He was not even a bishop at the time of his election, and had to be consecrated as one before his coronation. This was done on 6th November by Cardinal Andouin Aubert, the nephew of his predecessor. He served as the sixth pope in the Avignon Papacy. Urban boarded a ship at Corneto heading for France on 5th September 1370, Avignon on the 24th of the same month. A few days later he fell severely ill. Feeling his death approaching, he asked that he might be moved from the Papal Palace to the nearby residence of his brother, Angel, whom he had made a cardinal, that he might be close to those he loved. He died there on 19 December 1370. The seal matrix can be firmly dated to the papacy of Urban V (1362-1370 AD) as it bears his name. It is the seal of a papal office holder; a man of high position close to the Pope. It is likely to be the seal used by Cardinal Adam Easton, lost in England during his travels between Avignon and the English court and church; most probably as a result of the reverse rib, which would have provided a suspension loop by which it could be worn or secured, becoming accidentally detached.Extremely fine condition, professionally cleaned. Excessively rare and important.Starting Price: £1500
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Short SwordBronze Age, 1250-650 BC A cast short sword comprising a triangular blade with lentoid-section midrib and raised penannular block to the upper end; the grip flat with flanges to the edges to accept organic inserts expanding to a peltoid terminal. 328 grams, 45 cm. (17 3/4"). Ex Gibbons collection by inheritance; acquired before 1990. [No Reserve]Fine condition, some notching to edges.Starting Price: £5
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Dagger GroupBronze Age, 1250-650 BC A group of two daggers comprising: one with flat-section leaf-shaped blade, the grip with flanges to the edges securing bone hilt inserts; one with lentoid-section triangular blade, waisted guard and round-section grip with two peltoid finials. 302 grams, 19-19.5 cm. (7 1/2"). Ex Gibbons collection by inheritance; acquired before 1990. [2, No Reserve]Fine condition.Starting Price: £5
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Horse BitBronze Age, 1250-650 BC A cast horse bit assemblage comprising a square-section bar with scrolled ends, and two flat-cast zoomorphic plates advancing on a baseline with loop to head and rump, hole to shoulders. 350 grams, 22.5 cm. (8 3/4"). From an old German collection, Cologne. Fine condition.Starting Price: £450
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Zoomorphic Kohl PotBronze Age, 1250-650 BC A cast kohl pot comprising a conical tube with flared rim; to one face an ibex head with scrolled horns; to the other a monkey`s head with hands drawn up to the temples. 166 grams, 86 mm. (3 1/2"). From an old German collection, Cologne. Fine condition.Starting Price: £300
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Spoon with Horse HeadBronze Age, 1250-650 BC A large, long-handled spoon, the bowl deep with a pronounced central ridge; the long, slender handle with recurved horse`s head terminal; the horse`s mouth slightly open, the eyes large and round, the mane short, a bridle across the nose, reins running behind the head. 290 grams, 27 cm including stand. (10 1/2"). From a UK private collection; acquired from a London gallery in 2001. Fine condition.Starting Price: £300
Commemorative Medal Sir Henry Charles Englefield - Commemorative Gilt Stater MedallionDated 1782/1819 AD. A gilt bronze struck medallion resembling a Greek stater in style by G. Mills, depicting Sir Henry Charles Engelfield (1752-1822), 7th Baronet Engelfield. Obv: profile bust left. Rev: HCE monogram with AYNB (for 1782) and AWIZ (for 1819) lettering in Greek characters; held in a gold ring surround and housed in original hinged leather-covered round case. BHM 1, 978 (AE gilt, Rare); D. 66/2; EPM 1891/77. 8.76 grams, 19.76mm diameter, including outer ring,. Sir Henry Charles Englefield devoted his entire life to study. In 1778 at the early age of 26 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the following year Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. For many years he was vice-president of the latter. Owing to his being a Catholic, objection was taken to his re-election; another factor was his opposition to the 1797 election to the Society of the architect James Wyatt. He was replaced by the Earl of Aberdeen. Under his direction the society produced between 1797 and 1813 the series of engravings of English cathedrals, to which series he contributed the dissertations on Durham, Gloucester, and Exeter.Extremely fine, the surround ring slightly damaged and possibly once glazed. Rare.Starting Price: £90
British East Anglian Archaeology BooksEight offprints in original wraps: J. M. C. Toynbee and R. R. Clarke, A Roman Decorated Helmet and Other Objects from Norfolk, from Journal of Roman Studies, volume XXXVIII, 1948; R. Rainbird Clarke, A Hoard of Metalwork of the Early Iron Age from Ringstead, Norfolk, from Prehistoric Society, 1951; J. D. D. Clarke and C. I. Fell, The Early Iron Age Site at Micklemoor Hill, West Harling, Norfolk and its Pottery, from Prehistoric Society, 1953; Charles Green, Broadland Fords and Causeways, from Norfolk Archaeology, volume XXXII, 1961; O. K. Schram, Fenland Place-Names, from Chadwick Memorial Studies,1926; Gordon Ward, The Iceni - Teutons or Celts?, from Norfolk Archaeology, volume XXXII, 1959; C. F. C. Hawkes and R. R. Clarke, Gahlstorf and Caistor-on-Sea, Two Finds of Late Bronze Age Irish Gold, from Essays in Honour of Sir Cyril Fox, undated; Catherine Johns and Roger Bland, The Hoxne Late Roman Treasure, from Britannia, volume XXV, 1994. 570 grams, the largest 27 x 19 cm. Some ex libris Clive M. Eyre. [8, No Reserve]Generally very fine, minor soiling to wraps. All are useful.Starting Price: £5
A Luristan bronze model of a Horse or Camel Circa 1st Millennium BC Together with a Neolithic period small handled pottery urn, circa 3200-2500 BC; a Hebron Iron Age pottery jar, 1200-586 BC; and an antique Middle-Eastern copper bowl with punchwork border and calligraphy inscription The bronze 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) long, the bowl 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) diameter.
A MALACCA CANE the parcel gilt bronze negro`s head pommel having paste eyes and enamel teeth, brass tip, 93cm l, late 19th A fine quality and unusual cane in good original condition, the head with one or two small knocks and scratches visible under magnification. The enamel teeth very slightly chipped visible only under magnification. The gilding on the ferrule rubbed, the malacca cane and brass tip original and attractively patinated with small old knocks and marks, consistent with age.
A CARVED INDIAN JASPER, OPAL & DENDRITE MODEL OF A PHEASANT by Georg O Wild with bronze feet, signed GW and numbered 1049 to underside of the tail feathers, mounted on a naturalistic quartz base, 31cm wide, with certificate Georg Wild was born in Germany in 1894 and started producing sculptures in 1921 at the age of 27,his forebears worked for Fabergé in St Petersburg
Chinese silver inlaid bronze censer bearing Shisou mark, having two cast ring drop handles, pierced wooden cover and standing on a hardwood stand, 11.5cm wide Some decoration is rather dull and rubbed. Wooden cover is missing knop and has one small section of pierced/carved decoration missing - General condition consistent with age **
Austin Bennett (Contemporary) - Three small patinated bronze figures, - Female Figure I, 11.5cm high standing on an oak base, Female Figure II, 7.75cm high standing on a slate base and Study For Girl Arranging Her Hair, 13cm high standing on an oak base A.R. General condition consistent with age **
Julius Paul Schmidt-Felling (German 1835-1920) - Pair of patinated bronze and ivory figures depicting male and female harvesters, he carrying a scythe, she scattering seeds, each signed and standing on a veined marble block base, 26.5cm high Some nibbles to the edges of the marble bases. Scythe is a little buckled - General condition consistent with age **
A miniature Louis XV style commode-form jewel box Late 19th / early 20th century, unsigned, modeled as a marquetry commode with gilt-bronze mounts, the hinged serpentine inset marble top opening to a single velvet-lined compartment, over a conforming case with a working lock and two false locks above a waved apron on splayed feet with foliate-cast sabots, 7.25`` H x 10.25`` W x 5`` DProvenance: Private Collection, San Dimas, CA. Condition: Overall good condition. Structurally sound. General scratches, marks, rubbing and wear commensurate with age and use. Scattered minor nicks to edges. Wear to legs, including a small loss to veneer just above mount- less than .25``. Some shrinkage cracks to underside. Some very slight lifting to veneer. A tiny ding to metal molding on front of top. Mounts to front legs loose- each missing one nail. Lacking mounts to rear legs; legs with corresponding nail holes. The velvet lining a later replacement. Lock plate a later replacement. Retains key. Not fitted with drawers; the two lower locks are false, as stated.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
Miniature Louis XVI style vitrine-form jewel box Late 19th / early 20th century, unsigned, modeled as a vitrine table of gilt bronze with glazed top and sides, the hinged rectangular top opening to a single compartment, on tapering octagonal legs joined by interlaced stretchers centered by an urn, 6.5`` H x 7.25`` W x 5`` DProvenance: Private Collection, San Dimas, CA. Condition: Overall good condition. Scratches, marks and rubbing commensurate with age and use. No key.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
A Continental bronze figure of a soldier Late 19th / early 20th century, signed ``Fremd / Stuttgart``, depicted standing and leaning against a rifle, dressed in the uniform of a foot soldier, on an integral square base, together with a wooden pedestal, 22`` H x 6.5`` W x 6.25`` DProvenance: Private Collection, Montecito, CA. Condition: The wooden pedestal: 40.25`` H x 11.25`` W x 11.25`` D. General marks, rubbing, scratches and wear commensurate with age. A poorly executed repair to figure`s left hand where it was re-attached to arm, with a loss to underside of wrist.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
JW MacDonald, ``Bryant``, a patinated bronze bust Titled, signed and dated to back ``Bryant / by Wilson MacDonald /1878`` (James Wilson MacDonald 1824 - 1908 New York), depicting William Cullen Bryant (1794 - 1878), the American poet and journalist, gazing downwards with furrowed brow, 22`` H x 16.75`` W x 10.75`` DCondition: Overall good condition. General marks, scratches and rubbing commensurate with age. A minor nick (0.125``) to tip of beard.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
MONUMENTAL BRONZE SCONCE - Magnificent Belle Epoch Solid Bronze Winged Gargoyle Architectural Mount, fitted with a gas jet in the mouth and having a curled tail to hold a flagpole, in remnants of the original gold finish, excepting the nipples and teeth, roughly 38" x 30" x 14", some corrosion, verdigris, nice age patina.
After Leon Tharel a patinated bronze `Idle Fiddle` Late 19th century, signed ``THAREL`` (Leon Tharel c. 1858 - 1902 French) and ``sculpt``, depicting a sleeping boy holding a violin and bow, on an integral rectangular base, together with a velvet-covered wooden plinth, excluding the plinth: 10`` H x 10.75`` W x 8`` D Condition: The wooden plinth alone: 2.5`` H x 12.75`` W x 8.5`` D. Overall good condition. Light scratches, marks and rubbing commensurate with age. With a golden-brown patina. Bow lacking string.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
After E Villanis, a patinated bronze bust `Thais` Circa 1900, signed under right arm `E. Villanis` (Emmanuele Villanis 1858 - 1914 French), impressed to rear of base with Societe des Bronzes de Paris foundry seal and `7937``, titled to base, depicted wearing her hair in a chignon and draped all` antica, on an integral square spreading base, 15.5`` H x 8.5`` W x 6.25`` D Literature: Illustrated: Berman, Harold ``Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders 1800 - 1930``, Atglen, PA: 1994, Vol. III, p. 502, fig. 1830 . Note: A companion of Alexander the Great on his Persian conquest, Thais is recorded by Plutarch and Diodurus as the instigator of the burning of the palace of Persepolis during a drunken revel in 330 BC, supposedly in retribution for Xerxes` burning of the temple of Athena on the Acropolis in her native Athens. Others believe she was a lover and possibly wife of Ptolemy, who became King of Egypt after Alexander`s death, and bore him three children. Many characters in Greek and Roman comedy were named Thais, and there was a Christian saint of the same name, who in the modern era was the subject of Anatole France`s novel ``Thais``, which was the basis of Jules Massinet`s 1894 opera of the same name.. Condition: Overall good condition. General scratches, marks, and rubbing commensurate with age. Patination to face and body a rich reddish brown; patination to drapery and head a golden brown.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
A Franz Bergman cold painted bronze lamp Late 19th / early 20th century, Austrian, impressed to underside with Bergman amphora `B` mark, stamped ``Geschutz`` and ``5917``, depicting an Arab carpet seller spreading a rug beneath a glass-inset lantern suspended from a faux-bamboo pole, 18`` H x 7.5`` W x 8`` D Condition: General marks, rubbing and scratches commensurate with age. Lamp arm bent. Replaced screws. Rug possibly re-touched.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
An Austrian Art Deco bronze figure Circa 1920, stamped ``Austria``, the patinated & cold painted bronze female figure depicted wearing a ruff and harlequin-patterned tights, dancing on an illuminated patinated metal base with inset green onyx top, electrified, 13`` H x 8.75`` W x 5.25`` D Condition: Overall good condition. General scratches, marks and rubbing commensurate with age. Wiring in need of replacement. Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
An Art Deco silvered bronze figure signed Gilbert Circa 1920, signed to side of base ``Gilbert`` and impressed to underside of base ``Made in France``, the nude female figure depicted balancing on the toes of one foot with legs crossed on a patterned cloth, mounted on a three-tiered stepped hexagonal base of bronze patinated to resemble green onyx and inlaid with silvered metal swirls and bands, 20.25`` H x 6`` Dia. Condition: Overall good condition. General scratches, marks and rubbing commensurate with age. Polish residue to crevices.Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
`Kneeling Girl with Book`, Gerda Gerdago Circa 1925, signed Gerdago (Gerda Iro Gerdago 1906 -* ) with foundry cipher `AR` for Arthur Rubenstein, cold painted and gilt bronze and bone, depicted wearing exotic costume and kneeling on one knee, mounted as a bookend on a rectangular green onyx base, together with an unmounted bookend of matching green onyx, 2 pcs, the bookend with figure, overall: 6.75`` H x 8`` W x 3.25`` D Condition: The bronze alone: 5.5`` H. The unmounted bookend: 5.25`` H x 8`` W x 3.25`` D. Overall good condition. With general marks, scratches and rubbing to surfaces commensurate with age. Typical inherent yellowing to figure`s face and a seam line to neck under chin. Heavier rubbing to hair of figure. Some flea bite nicks along edges and on corners of onyx. Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
A figure of a snake charmer, Schmidt-Cassell Circa 1920, signed to base ``Schmidt-Cassel`` (Otto Gustav Schmidt Cassel 1867-1954 German), of gilt and cold painted bronze and carved bone, depicting a standing female figure in exotic costume, gazing at a coiled snake held in her left hand, on an integral circular base decorated with birds, mounted on an octagonal stone plinth, overall: 17`` H x 6`` Dia. Condition: The bronze alone: 14.5`` H. With general marks, scratches and rubbing to surfaces commensurate with age. Typical inherent yellowing to figure`s face and hands. Restoration to finger on right hand. Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
After T. Cartier, a bronze figural group of lions Early 20th century, signed to bronze ``Cartier`` (Thomas Francois Cartier French 1879-1943), depicting two lions fighting, on a naturalistic base of rough-hewn marble with polished front edge, 15.75`` H x 27.5`` W x 11.5`` D Condition: Good condition overall. General marks and scratches commensurate with age. Heavy rubbing to patination. Scattered spots of verdigris. Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
A Philip & Kelvin LaVerne `Etruscan` dining table 1965, engraved signature to base ``Philip Kelvin LaVerne / 65`` (Philip LaVerne 1908 - 1988 American) (Kelvin LaVerne b. 1936 American), the rectangular top of patinated bronze over pewter, acid-etched with a design of overlapping spirals, on a bronze pedestal with abstract pierced appliques supported on a rectangular bronze base raised on ball casters, 29`` H x 60`` W x 38`` D Condition: Overall good condition. Structurally sound. General scratches, marks, rubbing and wear commensurate with age and use. A small dent to tabletop (1``).Your bid indicates acceptance of our Conditions of Sale. AS-IS. ALL SALES FINAL
The 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games gold prize medal awarded to the British swimmer Jennie Fletcher for the 100 metres Freestyle Relay, 33.5mm, struck in silver-gilt (as usual for 1912 1st Place team awards), designed by Erik Lindberg and Bertram Mackennal, two maidens crowning a victorious athlete, the reverse with a herald proclaiming the Olympic Games, Jennie Fletcher became Britain’s first female Olympic swimming medallist when she won an individual bronze in the 1912 100 metres freestyle final behind two Australians (Fanny Durack, who was using the then brand-new ‘Australian Crawl’ technique, and Mina (Wilhelmina) Wylie). In the relay event gold went to the British team of Bella Moore, Jennie, Annie Speirs and Irene Steer ahead of West Germany and Austria. Jennie swam an outstanding second leg to help earn the British girls a World Record as well as Olympic victory. Born on 19 March, 1890 in Leicester, the seventh of nine children in a family of five girls and four boys, Jennie Fletcher attended Mellow Street Board School and participated as often as possible in swimming competitions and exercises. She later wrote: “Swimming to me was my greatest pleasure and no encouragement was needed for me to compete in polo, diving or swimming. There was no mixed swimming in those days but with special permission my brother Ben was allowed to pace me.” From the age of 11 she was coached at Leicester’s Cossington Street Baths by the celebrated Jack Jarvis, whose characteristic freestyle employing the ‘Jarvis-Nuttall Kick’ had already brought him numerous awards (including two Olympic gold medals for the 1,000 and 4,000 metre open water races swum in the River Seine, Paris, in 1900). Jennie recalled: “Most of the early swimming was single arm and trudgen with the scissors kick going to the crawl in the latter stages. My training was not regimented but consisted of long walks, [and] skipping accompanied by deep breathing exercises.” In 1906, at the age of 34, Jarvis added a silver and two bronze medals to his own Olympic tally in the interim Athens Games, by which time Jennie was challenging for her first British record for the Ladies’ 100 yards freestyle. She went on to win 6 Amateur Swimming Association titles for the distance before 1912, setting a new world record in 1909. Working long hours with her father, who nevertheless gave her great support and encouragement as an amateur, she succeeded in winning numerous trophies and awards. She retained the Dewar Shield after winning it three years in succession, broke her own record on 11 occasions, and became British champion 6 times. At the London Olympics of 1908 it was decided, after much deliberation, that swimming competition for Ladies would be permitted; however uncertainty and a late decision meant that in the event there were too few entries to proceed. At the time this must have come as a huge disappointment for Jennie, whose parents had recently declined on her behalf the opportunity of a professional tour of America with the celebrated Annette Kellerman. At Stockholm in 1912, however, there was a strong British Ladies’ contingent, chaperoned by Jack Jarvis’s sister. Jennie later said: “The crowning moment of my career was when King Gustav of Sweden placed the classic laurel wreath on my head, put the gold medal round my neck, and said, ‘Well done, England!’”. In 1917 Jennie married Henry Hill Hyslop and the couple settled in Canada, where they farmed and had six children. Jennie died in 1968. Provenance: Bequeathed by the recipient Jennie Hyslop, née Fletcher, to her son Henry Irving Hyslop (1920-2000); bequeathed in turn by H.I. Hyslop to his daughter (and Jennie’s granddaughter) Heather, on behalf of whom it is now offered for sale. A copy of H.I. Hyslop’s Will, including codicil dated 1994 specifying the bequest to Heather of “… my mother’s gold medal from the 1912 Olympics… “ is included in the lot, together with a contemporary portrait postcard captioned ‘Jennie Fletcher Worlds 100 yds Champion’, showing Jennie wearing Leicester Ladies’ Swimming Club costume and a championship medal (see illustration). Copies of other relating documents, including a letter written by Jennie in 1965 to the compiler of a sports encyclopedia, are also offered with the lot. Other items of memorabilia relating to Jennie’s swimming career, including her Olympic laurel wreath, were donated by her daughter to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
A collection of memorabilia relating to the British diver Jean Gilbert including the swim suit she wore at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, by Umbro, in black wool, inscribed OLYMPIC GAMES, 1936; sold together with two framed period photograph of Jean Gilbert seen competing in the diving competition wearing this swim suit; and a ‘good luck’ card from Umbro addressed to Miss J Gilbert; the lot also including Jean Gilbert’s: bronze 1936 Olympic Games participation medal; bronze competitor’s badge designed with Olympic Rings above the Brandenburg Gate, numbered 4294, dark blue ribbon; competitor’s identity card for the Berlin Olympics; and a presentation by the Jersey Swimming Club to the British diver Jane Gilbert being a souvenir of her participation at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, in the form of a small two-handled electroplated cup with presentation inscription, mounted on a composition base, height 11cm., 4 1/4in. Jean Gilbert was a member of Jersey Swimming Club who at the age of 16 represented Great Britain at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In the 10 metres platform diving she finished with a ranking of 7th.
Five: Royal Victorian Medal, Ed. VII type in bronze (un-named), in case; BWM, Victory (178119 A J Dees, C.P.O. RN), Naval LS & GC, Geo V Admiral’s bust (C.P.O HMS Excellent), Defence medal, GVF. Together with 3 HM silver shooting medals 1909-11 named to A. Dees and a most interesting bound length of pennant, old label attached states “Commissioning and Paying Off Pennant of the last Commission of “HMS Vindictive” previous to her going over to Zeebrugge” and on the reverse “12th Dec 191- (worn), Birkenhead, Hauled down by C.P.O Dees”, appears GC for age. Plate 1 Note: Vindictive paid a major part in the Zeebrugge raid of April 1918. She was to attack the Mole guarding Zeebrugge Canal and land Marines and sailors, however, a smokescreen was ineffective due to a change in the wind direction and Vindictive came under intense fire before finally returning to Dover. The following month it was decided to use Vindictive again, this time as a blockship at the raid at Ostend and sunk in the canal entrance.
NIJINSKY VASLAV: (1889-1950) Russian Ballet Dancer. A large 14 x 21 etching by artist Malvina Hoffman depicting a male dancer in a full length pose playing a mandolin. Signed (`Waslaw Nijinsky`) by Nijinsky with a large fountain pen ink signature to the lower mount and dated 1916 in his hand. Also signed in pencil by Malvina Hoffman directly below the image. Rare. Some light, minor staining and age wear to the extreme lower edge, only very slightly affecting the date but not the signature. Otherwise VG Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966) American Sculptor, known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people. Dancers formed a large part of Hoffman`s early work, her subjects including Anna Pavlova, although she continued to sculpt dancers throughout her career.
AN ASSORTMENT OF COLLAR BADGES AND BUTTONS Including officers` collar-badges as follows: a pair of badges in gilt and enamel; a pair of new badges in silver plate and gilt, a single old badge and a single new badge, also in silver plate and gilt; three pairs of bronze badges and one single; two pairs of embroidered thistles, one gold, one silver, from Full Dress collars; a pair of skirt-ornaments from an officer`s coatee, possibly of the The Royal Scots, St Andrew in silver wire embroidery (now blackened with age); some 12 ORs` collar-badges in gilding-metal, white metal or anodised; six officers` buttons, mainly for coatees, including gilt open-backed examples for The Royal and the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, a closed-back gilt button of the Royal Scots, a white metal button of the Queen`s Edinburgh Light Infantry, and one of the 16th Regiment (now incorporated in a gold-laced loop from the cuff-slash of an 1856 pattern tunic); some 100 other buttons, including 9 OR`s small pewter coatee buttons, open-back or flat, of various regiments (excavated condition, some loops missing) (lot)
A PAIR OF BRONZE DORÉ MOUNTED SÈVRES PORCELAIN PEDESTAL TABLE LAMPSFrance, 19th CenturyEach cerulean vase-shaped lamp having two hand-painted reserves bordered by gilded decoration, the front sides depicting a courting couples in eighteenth century dress, the back sides with floral bouquets against a white ground, the feet with similar floral decoration; the vases are closed with swirling acanthus leaf necks and acorn detailed everted lips, the bodies are mounted with two foliate scroll handles each; all set on a pierced foliate scroll bases with bosses; with original turnkeys, now electrified, in working order. Condition: One floral reserve with a 3/8 inch gouge in a flower petal, now painted over but not infilled. A few tiny losses in cerulean ground here and there. Minor loss in one area of gilded frame around peasant couple reserve. Slight age-appropriate wear to gilded surface of bronze mounts. One modern plastic light switch missing.18 ½ x 9 ½ x 6 ¾ inches to top of original piece (47 x 24.6 x 17.1 cm).Two pieces total.Starting Price: $700.00
A GEORGE III LONGCASE MAHOGANY GRANDFATHER CLOCKLate 18th CenturyA George III longcase mahogany grandfather clock made by John Smith of Keighley. A graceful swan-neck broken pediment with central winged Griffin, is supported by mahogany columns featuring bronze Corinthian capitals and a shaped glass panel door. The enameled roman numeral face of the clock is signed J. Smith Keighley and surround by hand painted pastoral scenes, supported by a flame mahogany case with a locking shaped panel door. All supported by a hipped base with shaped reserve raised on tapered feet.Condition: Restorations to finish and moulding. Age cracking. Original backboards. Includes winding key, pendulum and weights.102 1/2 x 27 x 12 inches (260.3 x 68.5 x 30.4 cm). Starting Price: $1,400.00
A PAIR OF FRENCH ROCOCO STYLE GILDED BRONZE AND CRYSTAL THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRAPossibly France, 1850-1875Each delicate gilded bronze candelabrum having a shaped rectangular base with foliate decoration and a central ribboned boss and finial, all supporting a second conforming base with two bosses and three large acanthus leaves rising to a circular platform with a rose; from there rises a central post ending in a pierced bobeche and rosette decorated candlecup; two large foliate S-scrolls also attached to the post support similar bobeches and candlecups; from each bobeche hangs one small bead and one elongated prism.Condition: The central posts in both with stabilizing repairs; one with a repaired and re-gilded break in the proper left S-scroll. One candle insert missing; one chip in one prism. Age appropriate wear to gilded surface.19 ¼ x 9 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (48.9 x 23.8 x 12.4 cm).Two pieces total. Starting Price: $350.00
AN ITALIAN BAROQUE STYLE WALNUT DESK/COMMODE19th CenturyThe plank top folds over and the top drawer face folds down to reveal a slide out writing surface and six drawers. The desk is supported by three drawers with moulded edges with bronze bale hands and lock with escutcheons. All raised on a straight apron and bracket feet.Condition: Warping commensurate with age. Restorations. Includes keys.38½ x 54½ x 26½ inches (97.8 x 138.4 x 67.3 cm). Starting Price: $1,800.00
AN ITALIAN PIETRA DURA, GILT BRONZE, EBONY AND EBONIZED CABINETNorthern Italy, 19th CenturyThe wave carving on the ebony frame molding houses eight drawers each with two inset pietra dura plaques of flowers in agate, rose quartz, turquoise among others inlaid into black marble. Each of the 16 plaques feature a different flower. The center of the cabinet features a broken pediment drawer above a mirrored arched reserve with parquetry floor and flanked by columns with gilt bronze capitals and bases.Condition: One plaque cracked and minor age cracks to cabinet. Frame stable.14 x 29 1/2 x 9 inches (35.6 x 74.9 x 22.9 cm). Starting Price: $2,000.00
LARGE MIRROR IN A 19TH CENTURY WATER GILT FRAME BY CHARLES MAYS & CO., LONDON.The large plate glass mirror is housed in a water gilt frame featuring a double layer of deeply molded acanthus leaf flanked by cove moldings, left and right. A 19th century paper label affixed to the back reads as follows; C.m May & Son, Gilders, Picture Frame Manufacturer, Steamworks 18 N. Annis Court, Soho, Pictures cleaned and restored. The company of C.m May and Sons, also the preferred framers to the famous portrait painter John Singer Sargent, ceased business in 1922. Additional 19th century paper labels identify this frame as having been part of the Royal exhibit at Manchester, held in 1851. The bronze locks, slide bolts and footed dowel locks to one end indicate this was originally an exhibition frame holding a work of art on canvas.Condition; Age cracking to gesso throughout with gilt rubs showing red bole clay and gesso underlayment. One of the original bronze locking mechanisms is missing, leaving a rectangular void at the frames edge. 79 x 45½ inches (200.7 x 115.6 cm). Starting Price: $600.00
A LOUIS XVI STYLE MARQUETRY SIDE TABLE WITH GILT BRONZE MOUNTS19th CenturyThe rectangular top features a musical theme with a bird taking flight and flanked with flowering vines on a mahogany ground with gilt bronze edge and supported by a plain frieze with single locking drawer. All raised on tapering square section legs with sabots and casters.Condition: Long age crack to top . Lacking key. Frame stable.26½ x 25 x 16 inches(67.3 x 63.5 x 40.6 cm). Starting Price: $300.00
c750-600BC: Late Bronze Age socketed bronze axe head 5 by 2 in. R. G. Widdowson Antiquities, North Yorkshire; Whence purchased by the present ownerExtremely fine and rare Ewart Park Phase bronze axe head with three diverging ribs on each face and prominent mouth moulding. Found during Limestone quarrying in Cardiganshire, Wales in 1890.
2002: Michael Davitt bronze sculpture by Rory Breslin 16 by 11 in.Bronze; (no. 4 from an edition of 6), signed numbered and dated on reverse of base. A study of Michael Davitt`s head by Mayo based sculptor Rory Breslin, for the statue that stands outside the Michael Davitt Museum in Straide, Co. Mayo. Michael Davitt, a founding member of the Irish National Land League was born in Straide, Co. Mayo during the height of the famine. His family was evicted from their and forced to emigrate to Lancashire, England where Davitt began had his arm amputated after an accident working in a mill at the age of 11. Davitt became involved with the Fenian movement in England and later, in the 1870s and 1880s he was instrumental in the enactment of the Irish Land Acts, and becoming a patron of the GAA and an MP. Rory Breslin studied art at the National College of Art and Design and in various parts of Europe. He co-founded the Head Sculpture gallery in Dublin and has had numerous solo drawing and sculpture exhibitions.
ARTHUR FLEISCHMANN (1896-1990) BUST OF KATHLEEN FERRIER, CIRCA 1954 Terracotta, signed A. FLEISCHMANN 42cm high Provenance: April 22nd 2012 is the centenary of the birth of the internationally renowned English contralto Kathleen Mary Ferrier (1912-1953). In 1946 Ferrier made her stage debut, in the Glyndebourne Festival premiere of Benjamin Britten`s opera The Rape of Lucretia. A year later she made her first appearance as Orfeo in Gluck`s Orfeo ed Euridice, a work with which she became particularly associated. By her own choice, these were her only two operatic roles. As her reputation grew, Ferrier formed close working relationships with major musical figures, including Britten, Sir John Barbirolli and Bruno Walter. She became known internationally through her three tours to the United States between 1948 and 1950 and her many visits to continental Europe. Tragically Ferrier died of cancer at the height of her fame in October 1953 at the age of 41. Arthur John Fleischmann (1896-1990) trained in Prague, Budapest and Vienna and worked in France and Italy before travelling to Australia. He spent six months working in Bali in 1938 and arrived in Australia the following year. He was hailed as a modernist sculptor and exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne with Lyndon Dadswell and Daphne Mayo. Fleischmann left Australia in 1948 and settled in London where he became a Fellow of the RBS and exhibited widely. This bust of Ferrier was sculpted to commemorate her life and the bronze version was unveiled at a memorial concert at King George`s Hall in her home town of Blackburn, Lancashire on October 8th 1954, a year after her death. It is now held at Blackburn Museum.
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