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Lot 536
PAIR OF MEIJI PERIOD JAPANESE BRONZE VASES overall with reserve relief panels depicting birds amongst prunus blossom and foliage, the waisted neck area with relief mandarin ducks and pheasants and having Greek key banded rim decoration, standing on circular stepped base. 43cm high approx. Impressed seal/character mark to both bases. (2) (B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: General wear commensurate with age, minor dinks in places, rather grubby. Some noticeable verdigris to the base of one of the vases.
Lot 46
FONDA HENRY: (1905-1982) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Small collection of A.Ls.S., Hank, (and one with his initial H), six pages (4to) and two written on picture postcards, various places (mainly California), 1940-51 and some undated, all to Meta Sterne. Fonda writes a series of social letters to his friend, stating, in part, ‘He hasn’t killed me yet – but he hasn’t given up – Neither have I – ‘ (7th May 1940), ‘I forgot, of course, that I can’t write a letter to an officer…..It was fun seeing you last week – wish I could have sat down and really shot the breeze without having to run……the weather has been like summer and the sinus condition has disappeared and taps just sounded and I’ve got to get this light the hell out’ (‘Monday nite’, accompanied by the original envelope post marked by the US Navy 17th February 1943 and signed by Fonda in the return address), ‘This won’t stand up for a letter – but will let you know I survived – and thanks for the good thoughts’ (16th December 1951), ‘It’s much too late for excuses – let’s just face it – I don’t write many letters. Now that I’ve started this one – I don’t know what to write about – I don’t want to talk about “Point” which of course is closest to me at the moment, because I want you to see it first and then we’ll talk. I don’t want to talk about politics – because even now I am still too emotionally involved – though we’ll have to talk about it sometime – there are many things I don’t understand about some people I used to know. That leaves the weather and our healths – the first is fine here – and the second improving……Our summer is still unplanned – there is talk about a movie of “Mister Roberts” but nothing very definite – Unless there is an exciting movie to do – we’ll come back to Long Island for the summer…..’ (Chicago, 2nd February, annotated ’53?’ in pencil in an unidentified hand), ‘There is little I can tell you of my work other than that the hours are long – often exciting – and sometimes interesting – never dull because you’re too damn busy…..We’ve moved forward three times since I’ve been with the command – and new operations follow each other so fast that we find ourselves working on two at the same time. The war seems to have taken an amazing turn out here – but I’m no more optimistic than I was last spring that we’ll have finished it sooner than two or three more years – However that is a minority opinion’ (n.d.). Together with two unsigned photographs, a Christmas greetings card bearing a secretarial signature and inscription and a small mimeographed sheet of text featuring a Hollywood news story regarding the rape and murder of a Hollywood Canteen hostess, annotated in ink by Fonda, ‘…..say what you want about Hollywood’. Some light overall age wear, minor creasing and small tears etc., generally G to about VG, 10 Meta Stern (1899-1975) American Researcher & Script Supervisor who worked on various films, mainly during the 1940s and 1950s, including Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Fort Apache (1948) all of which starred Henry Fonda and were directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda enlisted in the US Navy in November 1942, serving for three years initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee and was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation.
Lot 1345
Good French bronze and champleve enamel two train mantel clock, the movement stamped Leroy & Fils á Paris striking on a bell, the 3.25" gilded dial enclosing a decorated centre faintly stamped, within an ornate champleve panelled case flanked by turned pillars to each corner and attended by standing winged cherubs, surmounted by a rounded arched cornice and domed finial, upon a stepped wooden stand, 18.5" high overall (pendulum and key)
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