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Lot 91
A pair of taxidermy red squirrels in an oak glazed hanging wall cabinet, by Mike Gadd (Taxidermist), Boston Spa, Wetherby, modelled as an adult red squirrel perched on a painted branch amongst grasses, with another squirrel in a burrow, the top of the case stamped with M. Gadd's marks, 68 cm high x 55 cm wide
Lot 4332
Fifteen various Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambs. view albums circa 1890-1900, including 'Rock's Royal Ipswich Cabinet Album', 12 views on 12 folding concertina leaves, plus 'Rock's Royal Norwich Cabinet Album', 27 views on 12 leaves, (each 19 x 14.5cm), plus 'The royal Cabinet Album of Hunstanton and Lynn', (15 x 11cm), 'Collotypes of Ipswich and Felixstowe including Harwich & Dovercourt', published Smiths, Suitall of Ipswich (18 x 23cm), 'Photographic View Book of Cromer', published Rounce & Wortley (19 x 25cm), 'Album of Coloured Photographic Views and Short Histor of Bury St. Edmund's', published Paul & Mathew (21 x 30cm), plus others Hunstanton, Ely, Felixstowe, Southend-on-Sea (15)
Lot 4300
Diss interest, two late 19th Century Carte de Visite albums, 54 CdV's in total, many by Norfolk & Suffolk photographers including Cleer S. Alger of Diss (12); Sawyer & Bird, Norwich (3); J. Mann, Norwich (2); plus others Ipswich, Thetford, King's Lynn, Colchester, plus a cabinet card photograph of Diss Mere by Cleer S. Alger of Diss, contemporary red morocco gilt albums, brass clasps, all edges gilt (2)
Lot 4222
A collection of 19th Century Cartes de Visite, Cabinet Cards, small quantity Autograph Letters Signed, many relating to notable persons of the period, 90+ CdV's including Charles Darwin (1809-1882); Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), engineer; David Livingstone (1813-1873), missionary, explorer; Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), journalist, explorer; Robert Moffat (1795-1883), missionary, daughter maried Livingstone; Henry Bessemer (1813-1898), inventor; Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), novelist, playwright; Michael Faraday (1791-1867), scientist; J.S. Mill (1806-1873), philosopher, politician; Samuel Morse (1791-1872), inventor, painter; Lord Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, politician, CdV plus fragment of Autograph Letter Signed; Leonard Courtney (1832-1918), politician; Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, poet; Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), writer; Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895), author, playwright; Alphonse Marie-Lamartine (1790-1869), author, statesman, Nadar CdV plus Autograph Letter Signed, 1843; Eugene Scribe (1791-1861), dramatist; Victor Hugo (1802-1885), writer; Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian patriot; Felice Orsini (1819-1858), Italian revolutionary who tried to assassinate Napoleon III; Birkett Foster; Gustave Dore, Edwin Landseer; Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), writer; Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), statesman, CdV plus clipped signature; Charles Blondin (1824-1897), French acrobat, (3 Cartes de Visite depicting him, his son, him and family); plus assorted others including theatrical/humorous, a Manchester Football team circa 1870 etc, Cabinet Cards of Ellen Terry, William Gillette etc, plus 10 page ALS from Johnston Napier dated 1861, a time during which he was Gladstone's aide during his term as Chancellor of the Exchequer?; some items relating to the 19th Century Tichborne trial/claimant, including Arthur Orton (1834-1898), the "Tichborne Claimant", ALS dated 1873 thanking unnamed correspondent for a letter towards his defence, plus CdV of Orton; plus ticket admitting witnesses to the bench, signed by Tichborne trial judge Alexander Cockburn, 10th Baronet (1802-1880); plus CdV Lady Dowager Tichborne
Lot 4270
Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft & environs view albums etc, including Alfred William Yallop: 'In and About Ancient Yarmouth', 1905, limited edition (25/250), numbered, 96 plates as called for, 2 plates at end with marginal part losses and laid down on card, oblong 4to, original decortaive cloth gilt, new EP's, inner joints reinforced, plus 'The Album of Great Yarmouth Views', circa 1900, printed in Germany, 26 views on 10 folding concertina leaves, oblong, orig. cloth backed decorative gilt boards (22 x 32cm), '32 Views of Great Yarmouth & District', Callcutt & Beavis, c.1900, orig. boards gilt (17 x 23cm), 'Rock's Royal Cabinet Album of Lowestoft', London, Rock Brothers, c.1900, 12 folding concertina leaves of views, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (19 x 15cm), plus other view albums Jarrold & Sons, Valentine & Sons, Brown & Rawcliffe 'The Camera Series' etc (11)
Lot 4108
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), and his circle, a collection of autograph letters signed, Cartes des Visites, Cabinet Cards, autograph fragments, clipped signatures, original sketches etc, relating to Charles Dickens, the foremost novelist of the 19th Century, and his extensive circle of friends and associates, which encompassed many eminent and influential figures of the Victorian age, including fellow writers, artists, illustrators, poets, social reformers etc, 50+ individual items, comprising Charles John Huffam Dickens 'Boz' (1812-1870), clipped signature, corner mounted onto card, printed biography to card mount, plus CdV by the London Stereographic & Photographic Company, circa 1860s, with facsimile signature at foot; John Leech (1817-1864), humourous artist, illustrator of 'Pickwick' after Seymour's death, personal friend of Dickens who contributed illustrations to all the 'Christmas Books', and sole illustrator of 'A Christmas Carol', Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs Taylor, 1 page 8vo, Brunswick Square, London, 6 March 1858, thanking her for a gift of music of a quality "which improves upon acquaintance. I value it highly", corner mounted to card backing, typed description to mount, plus an original pencil drawing by Leech, tipped onto card mount, together with original envelope and autograph note signed dated 1833, making Leech 16 years of age at the time, possibly to his college friend?; Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English novelist and playwright, contributed to 'Household Words' from 1855, collaborated with Dickens in 'The Lazy tour of Two Idle Apprentices' and 'A Message from the Sea', wrote, with Dickens, 'No Thoroughfare', 1867, by which time he had become a close friend of, and a strong influence upon, Dickens, his later novels include 'Armadale' and 'The Moonstone', autograph envelope signed, addressed to Mr C. Thomas at Messrs Robson & sons, printers, postally cancelled 18th July 1879, tiped onto card mount, plus CdV of Wilkie Collins, by Charles Watkins photographers circa 1860s; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), novelist, his most famous books being 'Vanity Fair', 'The Newcomes', 'The Virginians' etc, his reputation enhanced by the later 'Pendennis'. Dickens and he met in 'Pickwick' days, when Dickens was in search of an illustrator, and Thackeray always remembered offering him some drawings, "which, strange to say, he did not find suitable". In 1858 the pair quarelled over a critical comment on Thackeray by Edmund Yates, published in 'Town Talk'. Thackeray tried to get Yates removed from the Garrick CLub; Dickens defended Yates, and the two literary giants remained estranged until a wekk before Thackeray's death. Dickens was deeply shocked by the death, and paid warm tribute to Thackeray's genius, learning and humour. Autograph Note Signed by Thackeray, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath, plus CdV of Thackeray by Herbert Watkins of Regent Street London; George Cruikshank (1792-1878), artist and caricaturist, commissioned to illustrate 'Sketches by Boz', and later 'Oliver Twist', as well as 'Joseph Grimaldi' and 'The Mudfog Papers'. In 1847 Cruikshank published 'The Bottle', in 1848 'The Drunkard's Children', and his magnum opus 'The Worship of Bacchus' in 1862. Despite his fanaticism as a teetotaller, and his strange claims to have written 'Oliver Twist' and originated 'Pickwick', Dickens admired him and remained friendly with him. George Cruikshank Autograph Letter Signed, dated 24th September 1869, to Mr Hill, 263 Hampstead Road headed paper, 8vo leaf, folded, tipped onto card mount, typed biography to card mount. Plus a Cruikshank Autograph note Signed, tipped onto card, undated, approx size 18 x 11cm, plus autograph memo signed by R.J. Chillingworth addressed to "Geo. Cruikshank Esq Hampstead Road N.W.", 8th September 1874, 2 sides of m/s; Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz' (1815-1882), painter and illustrator, first illustration for Dickens for 'Sunday under Three Heads', 1836, followed by 'Pickwick', continued to illustrate for Dickens for 23 years, ten of the novels being illustrated by him in etching or wood engraving, 'A Tale of Two Cities' being the last book for which he drew, his drawings notable for grotesquerie and strong characterisation. Autograph Letter Signed, August 4th 1875, headed Brunswick House, Marine Parade, Hastings, 8 lines plus signature, to W. Marshall, 17.5 x 11.5cm, tipped onto card mount, printed biography beneath; Marcus Stone (1840-1921), son of Frank Stone, with whom Dickens was warm friends, virtually Dicken's adopted son after Frank Stone's death in 1859, often spending weeks at Dickens' home, provide frontispieces for some volumes in the cheap edition before illustrating 'Our Mutual Friend'. By 1870, when Dickens was searching for an illustrator for Edwin Drood, Stone was enjoying considerable success with his paintings and no longer worked as an illustrator, Autograph Letter Signed from Stone to the young daughter of Dr. Doran, January 8th 1867, ipped onto card mount, with portrait engraving of Stone and transcript of letter, plus mounted Victorian photograph of Stone (approx 9 x 6cm), plus another ALS from Stone to Dr. Doran, January 31st 1867, tipped onto card leaf, with transcript; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 'L.E.L' (1802-1838), poetess, member of LAdy Blessington's circle, she was frequently at Gore House at the time when Dickens visited there, died mysteriously of poisoning in West Africa in 1838, unsigned autograph fragment, 7 lines, [nd], laid down and repaired, annotated in another hand above as a piece of her manuscript "Illustrations of Walter Scott's Female Characters", with printed transcript beneath; John Fraser (1812-1876), one of Dickens's closest friends, ALS dated 1855; Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), friend of Dickens's from Devonshire Terrace days, ALS, CdV by John Watkins, In Remembrance cabinet card published by Mendelssohn together with corresponding printed in memoriam pamphlet, 1873; Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), English philanthropist, friend of Charles Dickens, signed fragment of Autograph Letter plus CdV by London Stereoscopic Company; Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) CdV; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) CdV; Washington Irving (1783-1859), author, man of letters, friend and in regular correspondence with Dickens c.1840-42, clipped signature; George Watson Pratt (1830-1861?), American Librettist, ALS addressed to Berger, last page mentions "I anticipate much pleasure in seeing you, Barker and Dickens again. I have not heard a word from Barker or Dickens - the next time you meet them please apply the following wishes to them...[there follows a list of supposedly humorous insults!]"; Alfred Crowquill [i.e. Alfred Henry Forrester], (1804-1872), ALS, mounted on card next to mounted 19th Century portrait engraving of Crowquill, transcript of letter loose in sleeve; William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), ALS dated 1845, plus engraved portrait illustration; Richard Bentley (1794-1871), publisher who collaborated with Dickens, ALS dated 1853; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), friend of Dickens, founded Guild of Literature of Art with Dickens, fragment of an ALS; Thomas Talfourd (1795-1854), letter front signed; Leonardo Cattermole, son of George Cattermole, humorous pen & ink sketch, signed, Luke Fildes (1843-1927), ALS dated 1894 to Archibold Grove; Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857), ALS, autograph letter front + 2 CdV's; R.H. Barham [Thomas Ingoldsby] (1788-1845), ALS; ALS from Blanchard Jerrold to William Hall (of Chapman & Hall publishers), concerning his proposed biography of George Cruikshank; Mark Lemon (1809-1870), autograph ten lines of a poem, signed; plus CdV's of Charles Fechter & Daniel Maclise; plus seven photographic sheets of specimens of designs registered in England & America, unresearched, possibly a Dickens connection
Lot 4335
A collection of twenty one view albums, tourist guides etc, South Coast of England and environs, circa late 19th/early 20th Century, including 'Stride's Album of Portsmouth & Southsea Views', 24 views on 16 folding concertina leaves (20 x 15cm), '150 Views of the Isle of Wight', London, Rock Brothers, (28 x 22cm), 'The Album of Brighton Views', London, Wm. Z, 14 views on 10 leaves, (19 x 14cm), 'Rock's Royal Chichester Cabinet Album', (19 x 14cm), 'The Album of Hastings and St. Leonards Views', 15 views on 16 leaves, (22 x 17cm), plus others Jersey, Bournemouth, Folkestone, Southampton, Ramsgate, Sherborne, Salisbury, Beaulieu Abbey etc, plus 'Nelson's Handbook for Tourists - The Isle of Wight', 1859, folding coloured map, coloured plates etc (21)
Lot 4336
A group of eight view albums, tourist guides of Scotland, circa late 19th/early 20th Century, including 'The Cabinet Album Views of Edinburgh', (13 x 18cm), 'Buchan Illustrated', pub. W.J. Middleton, Aberdeen, 72pp, (18 x 24cm), 'Oban & Neighbourhood', (20 x 27cm), 'Photographic View Album of Elie', pub. William Ovenstone, 20 x 29cm, plus others Glasgow & Clyde, Cruden Bay, plus 'Souvenir of Scotland Its Cities, Lakes, and Mountains - One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views', T. Nelson, 1896, 120 chromolitho views on 60 leaves as called for, all tissue guarded and VGC, original pictorial cloth gilt (8)
Lot 486
19th Century Superb Set of Hand Painted Floral Cabinet Plates ( 10 ) Ten In Total. c.1880. Each Plate with Turquoise Borders with Six Painted Floral Roundel's to Border, Finished with Gold Stud Decoration, The Main Central Panel with Floral Image on a White Ground, Each Cabinet Plate as a Different Floral Hand Painted Floral Image of Top Quality. The Whole Set Making For a High Quality Collection of Hand Painted Cabinet Plates, With Impressed Marks to Bases - Hard to Read. Size of Each Plate 8.75 Inches - 21.90 cms. impressed mark for R G Scrivener & Co
Lot 339
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Conder Token Collectors’ Club, medallic tokens (8), 1999, in brass, by P. Flanagan, swan, rev. Lady Godiva, edge stamped 3, 39mm, 28.75g/12h (CTCJ 11, p.53); 2000, in bright bronze, by B. Timmons, rev. Uncharitable Monopolizer, edge stamped 003/250, 39mm, 26.39g/12h (CTCJ 19, p.4); 2001, in brass, by P. Flanagan, rev. Time seated on coin cabinet, holding shield inscribed wayne anderson 1941-1999, edge stamped 003/250, 39mm, 26.29g/12h (CTCJ 23, p.5, from the corrected rev. die); 2002, in brass, by P. Flanagan, similar but shield inscribed with error dates 1941-1991, edge stamped 003/250, 39mm, 26.30g/12h (CTCJ 23, p.5, from the incorrect rev. die); 2004 (2), in bright bronze and ‘gold’, revs. druid’s head left in wreath, both edges stamped 003, both 39mm, 26.31g/12h, 26.26g/12h (CTCJ 31, p.14); 2005, in frosted copper, rev. bull, edge stamped 003, 39mm, 26.41g (CTCJ 36, p.4); 2006, in frosted copper, rev. bust of Britannia right, edges stamped 006, 39mm, 26.34g/12h (CTCJ 41, p.4) [8]. All brilliant mint state £50-£100 --- This series of limited-edition medals was the brainchild of the late Philip Flanagan. The Club was founded in 1996 by Wayne Anderson (1941-99) and a steering group which included Joel Spingarn, Bill McKivor (member no. 3), Jerry and Sharon Bobbe, Allan Davisson and Robinson S. Brown Jr; at the time of its first newsletter (now journal) in August 1996 it could boast 89 members. The first medal was issued in March 1999 and the last, for the Club’s 10th anniversary, in November 2006. Various edition sizes have been reported; some of the silver issues were struck in very limited quantities and the late owner’s envelope states that only 25 medals bearing the incorrect year of Wayne Anderson’s death were made, contrary to the edge inscription
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