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Lot 304
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931), `Diana Wounded`, a bronze figure, with black patina, signed and dated in the maquette `B Mackennal 1905`, 367cm high, on a marble base, 42cm high overall. Please note: The correct height of this bronze is 37cm. Height overall including the plinth is 42cm
Lot 16
Airships – The Hindenburg a small self standing bronze plaque showing the Hindenburg in profile with the legend ‘Hindenburg LZ 129 1936-37’ Mounted on onyx approx 4x2 1/2 ins. It is not clear why this was issued – it may have been a commemorative while the Hindenburg was still in service but the fact that it cites the year in which the famous disaster could indicate that this was issued as a memorial to the great airship.
Lot 339
Stalin and the Soviet Union The death mask of Josef Stalin cast in bronze together with a casts of his right and his withered left hands. This is believed to be one of only two such casts taken from the original plaster death mask brought from the Moscow Art Kombinet brought by art dealer James Birch who had arranged the exhibition of Gilbert and George’s work in Moscow in 1990. The other example was sold at Sotheby’s in the early 1990s. Originals taken shortly after his death exist in Russian collections notably the Josef Stalin Museum in Gori and there are believed to be 12 of these. The present example is therefore one of very few in the West. Stalin died in 1953. The circumstances of his death are shrouded in mystery but it is thought that he died of a stroke. Shortly after his death a plaster cast was made of his face and hands and from this the bronze casts were made. Stalin looks serene in death his swept back hair and moustache are prominent features. James Birch is a prominent art dealer in London and is famous for his championship of British art in Russia. He was responsible for staging an exhibition of the works of Francis Bacon in Moscow in 1988 and then subsequently the work of Gilbert and George in Moscow in 1990 and then in Beijing and Shanghai in 1993.
Lot 39
A collection of metal figural vesta holders and strikers, comprising: a 19th century Bronze stand alone ‘go to bed’, modelled as a reading monk, on a circular base, plus a cast iron gnome, a cockerel, two bears with staffs, a kingfisher, a fox, two middle Eastern figures and another figure. (10)
Lot 422
Ancient Rome, Diva Faustina Senior (d. AD 140/1), bronze As, Rome mint, c. AD 146-161, bust right, rev., Ceres standing holding torch, 27mm, fine; Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), bronze As, Rome mint, struck AD 175, laureate head right, rev., Tiber reclining left, resting hand on boat, 26mm, off-centre, very fine; Sundry other smaller Roman, etc, (18 - one silvered), fair to fine. (20)
![Regimental Medals (2), of the Vth Foot [Northumberland Fusiliers], 1767 and 1805, both bronze, St. George and dragon, rev., M](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10119/2849879/458-20111219125148_468x382.jpg)
Lot 458
Regimental Medals (2), of the Vth Foot [Northumberland Fusiliers], 1767 and 1805, both bronze, St. George and dragon, rev., MERIT, etc., 34.5mm. Both lack suspension rings, 1805 pierced, this fine, 1767 nearly so. (2) The Vth Foot fought in North America at Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine and Germantown and later served in both the West Indies and Canada.
Lot 459
Anne, Battle of Ramilies, 1706, copper medal, by J. Croker, 35mm (MI 284/92), and a medallet for Vigo Bay, 1702, 26mm; George II, Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748, brass medal, 42mm, rev. engraved with numeral |2|; Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Free British Fishery Society, 1750, copper medal, by L. Koch, 40.5mm (MI 659/365 ; George III, Coronation, 1761, bronze medal, by T. Pingo, 40mm (BHM 30); Prince Frederick, 1764, 30.5mm; The Revd. William Romaine (1714-1795), bronze Medal, 1782, 36mm (BHM 241); John Wesley (1703-1791), 50th Anniversary of Methodism, white metal medal, 1789, 35.5mm (BHM 334), fine and very fine. (8)
Lot 462
Prince Charles of Lorraine (1712-1780), The re-capture of Prague, 1744, an English copper medal, bust three-quarters right, rev., cavalry enters the city, other troops flee, 43mm (MI 592/238); another variety, worn; Prussia, Frederick the Great, the Battles of Rosbach and Lisa, bronze medals (4), 41-48mm, fine and better. (6)
Lot 485
Italy, Girolamo Querini (1461-1543), Venetian Senator, a cast bronze Renaissance medal, by Andrea Spinelli, bearded and robed bust left, rev. Saint Jerome in the desert, kneels before a crucifix, a lion at his side, 38mm (P. Attwood, Italian Medals, c. 1530-1600, no 210; Voltolina I, 320; Armand I, p. 154, 2; Trésor Numismatique, Italy, II, pl XXI, 5). A contemporary cast from a struck original, very fine and very rare. Andrea Spinelli (1508-1572) was born in Parma but was principally active in Venice. He used the same reverse with Saint Jerome for the medal of another Senator, Girolamo Zane.
Lot 502
The Duke of Wellington, |Record of British Valour|, a gilt-bronze box medal, 1815, by I. Porter and published by Edward Orme, the lid, uniformed bust of the Duke left, the base, Victory seated below tree inscribing a tablet, the box containing the complete set of 13 hand-coloured roundels, 12 depicting a Peninsular battles, the last |Waterloo|, 75mm, in original red leather case, stamped in gilt, RECORD OF BRITISH VALOUR. Extremely fine and rare. These box medals are seldom found gilt and the roundels in this set, with the battle name below the image, are the scarcer variety. When issued, the roundels were joined to each other in series, by a tape running through them, from the base to the lid. References: Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals, 1760-1960, Ringwood 1980, 206, No 866 (RR); Christopher Eimer, Medallic Portraits of the Duke of Wellington, London, 1994, No 80.
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