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A very rare and historically important Third Reich Customs Officials dagger for Gdansk, 25cm flattened diamond section blade by Eickhorn, regulation alloy hilt, wire bound leather grip, contained in its steel mounted leather wrapped scabbard complete with green velvet and bullion straps. This piece is particularly rare in that it is officially modified to reflect the "neutral", combined Polish and German run corridor around Gdansk. The crossguard is devoid of the characteristic eagle and swastika and is applied with a bronze shield shaped escutcheon bearing the arms of Gdansk. The German Customs Officials were believed to have facilitated the movement of elements of the SS into the Free City of Danzig who then took part in the siege of the post office at the outbreak of war.
Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960) Italian, a wooden and gilt metal bound copy of I Fioretti di S. Francesco, Il Cantico del Sole, Le Considerazioni sulle Stimmate, copy number 226 out of an edition of 1000, publ. Rome, 4th October 1926 the seventh centenary of the death of St Francis, illustrated and decorated by Cambellotti. This book is bound with a wooden binding by Cambellotti, the central front panel inset with gilt bronze semi-relief depiction of St Francis with the stigmata with painted girdle to his robe. Cambellotti was a fore runner of the Italian Arts and Crafts movement and an admirer of William Morris. He was an artist, cabinet maker, illustrator, sculptor, architect, ceramicist, poster and set designer and printmaker.
A 19th Century bronze desk inkwell the base with triple ram`s head and hoof decoration, the lid surmounted with a figure of a child holding a puppy with a dog alongside together with a 19th/20th Century electrotype plaque depicting an Italian quayside with musician and fishermen before Vesuvius.
A fine ship builder`s model of the single screw cargo ship "TREWIDDEN" built to the order of The Hain Steamship Co. Ltd, London by John Readhead & Sons, South Shields, completed in fine detail and contained within a bespoke bronze framed display case, the case 171cm w x 57cm high x 38cm deep. The Hain Steamship Co. was incorporated in 1901 and operated independently until 1917, when having lost 21 ships during the war and upon the death of director Sir Edward Hain, the company was purchased by P & O steam navigation company. The company maintained trading under the Hain name Until 1972 when all of the Ships of the Line were re- registered under the P & O name. The Trewidden sailed with Hain and P & O until 11th June 1972 and she was eventually broken up in 1979.
A large bronze group, a Bedouin with a feather and a hawk, standing on a plinth (a.f.), 78 cm high See illustration Condition report Report by NG Right arm been broken and repaired. Left little finger broken and missing. Feather in right hand detaches. Grubby with nicotine residue and dust. Losses and rubbing to painted decoration. A couple of stress cracks are visible under base.
# FRED RICH: ""OSPREY"" 1983, a cast gilt and enamelled bronze medal, from an edition of 60. Bethan Willams: ""Gwyniad"" 1993, from an edition of 23, and Robert Cook: ""Zebra"" 1999, from an edition of 47 (3) Provenance: Christopher Drake Gallery, November 1982. The collection of the late Siva Swaminathan, (later Brendan Garry Nathan).
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