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Click here to subscribeJapanese Antique Samurai Edo - Period Katana Tsuba of Large Size, Soten Kinko - Sukashi Mokka Gata Shape, Inlaid on Both Sides with a Sage Feeding a Monkey, Picked Out In Silver and Bronze Highlights, Worn Consistent with Age and Use, Fully Signed by the Japanese Maker - Please See Photos. Size 3.5 x 3 Inches.
A green baize lined fitted oak case for an Adams percussion revolver, with trade label of R Adams, 76 King William Street, London, Patentee of the Revolver, “also of the New Breech Loader”, containing Adams marked double cavity 54 bore bronze mould (slightly battered), nipple key with pricker, pewter oil bottle, Joyce cap tin, copper flask, and turnscrew. Basically GC (some wear to case, lid escutcheon missing)
A good cased .30” rim fire Sharps patent 4 barrelled pistol by Tipping & Lawden, number 4027, 5½” overall, barrels 3” with Birmingham proofs and retaining much original blued finish (bore sight missing); silver plated bronze frame stamped “Tipping & Lawden Sharps’ Patent” around the hammer screw; with foliate embossed black ebonite grips. Good Working Order and Clean Condition; in its fitted blue baize lined mahogany case, the walnut veneered lid with shield shaped brass escutcheon, containing a steel cleaning rod. Plate 15
A cased 5 shot 54 bore Adams Model 1851 self cocking percussion revolver, barrel 6¼” engraved “Deane, Adams & Deane, 30 King William St, London Bridge”, frame engraved with scrolls and “Adams’ Patent No 7370.R”, cylinder similarly numbered.Good Working Order and Condition (lightly refinished, the cylinder has been slightly pitted and cleaned, butt cap lightly pitted); in its green baize lined fitted oak case, with trade label of Deane, Adams & Deane, containing Adams marked double cavity bronze bullet mould; Dixon flask retaining all original finish, brass mounted wooden cleaning rod, pewter oil bottle, and Joyce cap tin. Plate 19
A cased 5 shot 54 bore Kerr’s patent side hammer single action percussion revolver, barrel 5½” with London proofs and L.A.C mark; the frame engraved “Kerr’s Patent 11,351”, the number repeated on the cylinder; back action lock bearing small “London Armoury” oval stamp; chequered walnut butt having plain butt cap with lanyard ring. Good Working Order and Condition, retaining much original blue on barrel and cylinder; in its green baize lined fitted oak case, with trade label of “John Blanch & Son, No 29 Gracechurch Street, London”, containing double cavity 54 bore bronze bullet mould stamped “Tranters Patent”, flask marked “J S Riley Patent” retaining some original finish, nipple key with pricker, turnscrew, brass mounted cleaning rod, oil bottle, and key to the case. Plate 21
A CHINESE CARVED SOAPSTONE SEAL IN THE FORM OF A RAM, 14CM H, A JAPANESE LACQUER BOX AND COVER, A CHINESE MINIATURE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DRUMSTICK VASE, A 19TH C BONE SNUFF BOX, AN INDIAN BRONZE VESSEL ON FOUR LEGS, 19TH C AND SEVERAL OTHER WORKS OF ART, INCLUDING A DAMAGED CHINESE EXPORT IVORY BOX
MINIATURE WORKS OF ART AND BYGONES, A COLLECTION OF 19TH C AND LATER OBJECTS AND CURIOUS INCLUDING BRASS, BRONZE, IVORY, ENAMEL, PORCELAIN AND OTHER MATERIALS COMPRISING CHESSMEN, MINIATURE DOLLS, CANDLESTICKS, ANIMALS, SCULPTURE, COINS, BUCKLE, 19TH C DESK SEALS, ETC IN FOUR WOODEN PRINTER'S TYPE TRAYS, EACH APPROX 36 X 82CM
A Light and Airy Mid-18th Century French Ivory Fan, the guards and gorge decorated in bronze in a linear design. The double cream silk leaf complements this approach, with vertical bands, alternating painted pink roses and green leaves with embroidered and intertwined green and gold sequins. To the top and sides, a gold chainstitch embroidered outline undulates as a border and passes down through the painted flowers, this adding to the shimmer as the gold catches the light. The verso is plain. Guard length 10.5 inches or 25.5cm, Together with A fan leaf with a design of 18th century Lords and Ladies at a ball, uncut, unsigned, undated, printed onto lightweight cream silk. The ladies, grandly dressed in elaborate robes, ruched and tucked and décoletée, carry open folding fans. The gentlemen, in long patterned coats and plain breeches, wear curled wigs. Depth of leaf measured at the centre approx. 5.1/8 inches or 13cm. Span from bottom right corner to bottom left approx. 17 inches or 43cm (2) CONDITION REPORT: . Fan 1 - wear to the silk mainly on the verso, and lower edge, best seen from the verso. Some splitting to the folds on the verso but the recto appears strong. Wear to the bottom left prevents the fan from closing cleanly.Fan 2 - as new and clean.
* Jazz / Blues. Collection of approximately 280 jazz and blues LP's / vinyl records, including Herbie Mann "At The Village Gate" (Atlantic 1380), Count Basie "The Greatest, Count Basie Plays ... Joe Williams Sings Standards" (Japanese Import, Verve UMV 2650, Japanese slide-on wrapper intact), Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson "Blue Guitars" (Parlophone PMC 7019), Jerry Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers "The King of New Orleans Jazz" (RCA RD-27113), Bessie Griffin and The Gospel Pearls "Portraits in Bronze" (London SAH-G 6165), Bill Justis "Raunchy" (Sun 6467010), The Peddlers "Live at the Pickwick!" (Philips BL7768), Billy Strayhorn's Septet "Cue for Saxophone" (Felsted FAJ 7008), Benny Goodman and His Orchestra "1937-1939" (Limited Edition, First Time Records FTR-1507), The Gerry Mulligan Sextet "Gerry Mulligan" (Jazztone J-1260), Miles Davis "Blue Moods" (Fantasy F-86001), Fats Waller "Fats Waller Memorial" 5-LP box set (RCA Victor 730570/74), Fletcher Henderson "A Study in Frustration, The Fletcher Henderson Story" 4-LP box set (Columbia C4L 19), together with other recordings by artists such as Kid Ory, Ladd's Black Aces, Humphrey Lyttleton, Clarence Williams, Red Nichols, Eva Taylor, Carroll Gibbons, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Shelly Manne, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura, Dinah Shore, Art Tatum, Tommy Dorsey, Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Duke Ellington, Bud Freeman, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Sonny Stitt, Frank Sinatra, Junior Walker, Cleo Laine, Lucky Millinder, Red Norvo, Louis Armstrong, Courtney Pine, Charlie Parker, The Savoy Orpheans, Roy Fox, Ben Pollack and His Pick-a-Rib Boys, Lew Stone, Cab Calloway, Cherry Wainer, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Susan Hayward, Seger Ellis, Dexter Gordon, Eddie Condon, Oscar Peterson, Charles Remue, Bobby Hackett, Peter Nero, Erroll Garner, Jack Teagarden, Lee Wiley, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Five Harmaniacs, Tiny Parham, Johnny Hodges, Bruce Turner, Stan Getz Quartet, Pee Wee Erwin, Wild Bill Davison, Earl Bostic, Junie C. Cobb, Maynard Ferguson, Mahalia Jackson, Lionel Hampton, Barbara Cook, George Shearing, George Lewis, Freddy Keppard, Gene Krupa, Miss Annabelle Lee and many others (Qty: approx. 280)
* Orme (Edward). The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France, from the Year 1808 to 1814, under the Command of England's Great Captain Arthur, Duke Of Wellington, London: edited, published and sold by Edwd Orme, 1815, 13 hand-coloured aquatint roundels each mounted separately on card with printed text verso (diameter 6.6 cm), housed in original bronze medallion case, obverse with profile portrait of Wellington facing left, reverse with title 'Picture Medal' and allegorical depiction of Victory, signed both sides 'Porter F.', reverse signed 'Edwd Orme Direx[it]', engraved roundel title mounted to inside of both obverse and reverse, linen hinges (see Abbey) perished with concomitant slight loss of text on verso to 'Battle of Waterloo' and 'Battle of Albuera' roundels and more extensive loss of text to 'Battle of Busaco', verso of 'Battle of Talavera' slightly marked (Qty: 1)NOTESAbbey Life 466. An uncommon set of aquatints commemorating Wellington's victory in the Peninsular War. They were later reissued in Jehoshaphat Aspin's Naval and Military Exploits (1820; see Abbey Life 350 and Tooley 71). According to Abbey the roundels were originally all joined together and were accompanied by a red leather case as well as the bronze medallion case. In this set the second roundel is named 'Passage of the Douro', which Abbey names 'Oporto'.
Langsdorff (Georg Heinrich von). Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bid 1807, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Friedrich Wilmans, 1812, engraved portrait frontispieces, 43 engraved plates, one folding plate of music, black ink stamps to titles, small red ink stamps to final plate versos in each volume, some light offsetting and offsetting, bookplates of Donald H. Graham Jr. (1914-2010, US real estate developer and Chinese bronze mirror collector), contemporary half calf, red labels to spines, tears and splits to spines, covers rubbed with some wear to corners, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESHill 968; Howes L81; Sabin 38895-6. Contains the first published view of San Francisco, not included in the English translation of 1813-14. 'Langsdorff was naturalist to Krusenstern's expedition, which he had quitted at Kamschatka, and explored the Aleutian Isles, the Northwest Coast, California etc., and returned overland through Siberia. His work contains a fuller account of Sitka, the Settlement of St. Francisco etc., than any other' (Sabin).
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