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Lot 1200
TAGORE KUMAR NAWAB: (1873-1949) Indian member of the Tagore family, descendant of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College. A most unusual A.L.S., Raja Kumar Nawab Shyama Kumar Tagore, two pages, 4to, Tagore Palace, Calcutta, 15th December 1909, to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. On a letter bearing to the heading a golden monogramme, and the printed title “The Rajbati - Pathuriaghata”, Kumar Tagore starts introducing himself as `The Eldest son and heir of His Highness the Raja of Tagore, Knight Grand Cordon of the order of the Bust of Bolivar (Venezuela) and Knight Grand Cordon of the order of King Achellos of Patagonia) and also had the honor of entertaining at His Highness Palace the ex President Grant of the United States of America during his visit to the city of Calcutta… I have the honor of holding the Honorary post of Consul-General for Persia in India and also the sole agent for the Tea Trade in India for the said Government. His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia was graciously pleased to confer upon me the High Imperial order of the Lion and Sun and also the hereditary title of Nawab Shahzada (Prince) of the Persian Empire´, and after such an extensive and peculiar self-introduction, Tagore states `As there is no representative of your Excellency´s government in India, So I venture to submit my appeal at the feet of your Excellency that your Excellency might be graciously pleased to appoint me as Honorary Consul-General for the Republic of Bolivia in India. I should really - it a great honor to serve under your Excellency Republican Government´, and further concludes with `An early reply will highly esteem´. With a receipt stamp to the front page and some pencil notes from the Bolivian Foreign Affairs Ministry, dated 8th March, reading (`1st- We are going to ask for references; 2nd- Ask for a report to our London legation about the petitionary…) A curious and entertaining letter. Small paper loss to the left edge only very slightly affecting one word, but not the text or signature. VG £100-120
Lot 778
CHANTREY FRANCIS: (1781-1841) English Sculptor. Small collection of three A.Ls.S., F L Chantrey, four pages (total), 8vo, Belgrave Place & Trentham, 20th August 1839 - 12th October 1840, all to Sir Robert Peel. Chantrey writes a series of letters regarding appointments, both declining and accepting them, in part, 'any hopes I might have entertained of going to Birmingham have been long destroyed by an attack of illness which in its consequences has much reduced me & rendered me unfit for society. I am slowly recovering. At least to me the progress seems slow, for it is now more than three weeks since the doctors commenced and they have not yet given me my discharge' (20th August 1839), 'I shall have much pleasure in visiting you at Drayton Manor….the post will not allow time to say more' (30th September 1839), 'I expect to be on my way to London on Wednesday morning and will do myself the honor of calling at Drayton Manor….' (12th October 1840). Two letters with blank integral leaves. Together with an A.L.S. M A Chantrey, by his wife and cousin, Mary Ann Wale, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. (1844), to Charles Eastlake. Chantrey answers her correspondent's enquiries and states 'I think the price named to the Treasury for the Queen's bust was £200'. With blank integral leaf. Also including an A.L.S., Geo Jones, by George Jones (1786-1869) English Painter, Keeper of the Royal Academy, one page, small 8vo, n.p., 15th November 1844, to Charles Eastlake. Jones states, in full, 'The enclosed from Lady Chantrey will answer your questions, and I can affirm with certainty that the marble bust in my possession is precisely similar to that at Windsor'. With blank integral leaf. VG, 5. £200-300 Robert Peel (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46. Charles Eastlake (1793-1865) English Painter.
Lot 781
RODIN AUGUSTE: (1840-1917) French Sculptor. D.S. twice, Augustin Rodin and Aug. Rodin, one page, oblong 8vo, Rue de l´Université, 3rd June 1909, in French. The manuscript document, entirely in Rodin´s hand, is a receipt for the sum of 23,000 francs received from Mr. Pulitzer as the final payment for one marble bust and a bronze bust. Rodin´s second signature and date are penned across an official French revenue stamp neatly affixed to the document. With blank integral leaf. A few minor, very neat excisions and one small hole in the upper left corner, otherwise VG. £800-1200
Lot 856
HESING: Also known as Xi Cheng. Mandarin who travelled in the Keying, first Chinese junk to ever sail from Hong Kong to New York and further to London. Signed 8vo portrait drawing of Hesing. Signed (`Hesing´) in bold black ink at the foot beneath his portrait, also adding the junk name `Keying´ and `Brooks´ to the head, all with their equivalent Chinese characters beneath. The drawing bears to the upper corner a red ink stamp with Chinese characters, being the seal of Prince Hui Rui. The document has been affixed to a slightly larger card. Few stains not affecting the signatures. Small folding and creasing. Together with a colourful visiting card, with Hesing signature, beneath his name in Chinese characters and alongside a Chinese ink red stamp, being the seal of Prince Hui Rui. The card has been affixed to a slightly larger card with a typed annotation `Signature of a Chinaman written on board the Chinese junk at Blackwall, June 20th, 1848.´. With heavy folding. F to G, 2 £100-120 The Keying was a three-masted Chinese trading junk that sailed from Hong Kong in December 1846 with a mixed crew of Chinese and British sailors. The vessel had been purchased surreptitiously by a conglomerate of enterprising English businessmen. It was placed under the command of Captain Kellett with the intention of carrying curiosities and merchandise to England and thereafter serving as a kind of floating museum. The Chinese crew members that they were embarking on such an extended journey were not aware of such plans. The Keying arrived in New York City on July 9, 1847, creating a sensation, with seven thousand visitors per day. In late March 1848, the Keying arrived in London to great fanfare, and several different medals were struck to commemorate its appearance, including one that had a bust of Madarin Hesing. It was visited by the Queen Victoria, whose right to be the first European woman to visit it was reserved, The Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens. It has been suggested that the Chinese Emperor was aware of the project from the start and secretly kept informed about it, and that the mandarin served as an informer to report back in detail.
Lot 186
A SECOND WORLD WAR BRITISH AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE WORKING OVERALL by Moore Taggart & Co., dated 1945, size No.2 (bust 35in. to 38in.); a Second World War British Women's Land Army pair of corduroy breeches, by Redman Bros., dated September 1941, size No.6 (waist 26in. to 28in.); and two Second World War British 'Mickey Mouse' gas masks, each boxed (both with wear / tears to red rubber), (4).
Lot 622
Quanity of Transformers busts/statues: Diamond Select Soundwave Bust, ltd.ed. 47/1000, boxed; Diamond Select Optimus Prime, ltd.ed. 238/1500, boxed; Palisades Arcee Polystone Statue, ltd.ed. 590/2000, boxed; Puzzle Productions Ultra Magnus SD, ltd.ed. 161/500, boxed; Palisades Cliffjumper Artist Proof, ltd.ed. 66/90; Palisades Optimus Prime 'The War Within', ltd.ed. 494/1500. G-E. (5)
Lot 5301
Boxes and Objects - a Victorian plaster wall pocket; a 19th century pewter tankard; a Victorian purple leather scrap book; Victorian glass advertising bottles (3); a miniature bust of Hermes; a miniature and novelty copper signalling lamp; antiquarian books, some with engraved and chromolithographic plates; loose plates; fossil, paleontological specimens; gilt frame; etc
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