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Lot 229
A good lot to include an 8 drawer storage cabinet containing a quantity of sewing and crafting equipment and materials, a bag containing a quantity of knitting needles and similar and a sewing box with contents (3) - This lot MUST be paid for and collected, or delivery arranged, no later than close of business on Tuesday. Please do not bid if you are unable to comply
Lot 1117
A Chippendale revival carved mahogany breakfront display cabinet, attributed to Chippendale House, Wells Road, Bath, C Baker, early 20th century, with an acanthus carved frieze and glazed doors decorated with acanthus scrolls and flowerbell mouldings, with conforming glazed wings enclosing two glass shelves, the base with a long drawer, raised on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet joined by a flattened stretcher, 153cm by 37cm by 189cmCharles Baker (1841-1932) came from an important family of chair and cabinet makers working in Bath. The firm was known for its exacting recreation of 18th century designs, especially Sheraton and Chippendale patterns
Lot 804
AN 18TH CENTURY DUTCH MARQUETRY DISPLAY CABINET with shaped moulded top above a glazed top section with opening door and glass shelves, the bottom section with two frieze drawers fitted with pierced brass handles; standing on shaped square cabriole legs joined by an under stretcher 110cm wide 33cm deep 192cm high.
Lot 380
A LATE 18TH CENTURY CHINOISERIE LACQUERED CREAM TABLE CABINET having a carrying handle above a pair of hinged brass mounted doors revealing a bank of six drawers fitted with brass loop droppers; standing on a shaped plinth base. Decorated with figures in garden settings with horse, pagodas and floral sprays 28cm wide 18cm deep 24cm high.
Lot 123
WILDE OSCAR: (1854-1900) Irish Playwright and Novelist. A good, rare large 7.5 x 9.5 signed Imperial cabinet photograph by Wilde, the engaging image depicting the writer in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Photograph by The Cameron Studio of Mortimer Street and Regent Street of London and bearing their partial imprint to the remnants of the lower photographer’s mount. Signed (‘with best wishes from Oscar Wilde’) by Wilde in dark ink to a light area of the background at the head of the image. Signed photographs of Wilde of this size are seldom encountered and are highly desirable. Trimmed to the edges of the photographer’s mount, largely to the lower edge, and with some scuffing to the extreme edges (most likely caused when the photograph was originally framed) and with some very minor, light age wear to the image. G The present portrait of Wilde was taken in around 1889/90 and could justifiably be considered as one of the playwright’s favourite images of himself. Although the recipient of this particular signed photograph is not known, Wilde did inscribe copies of the same print to his former lover, Robert Ross, and (two) to his friend Arthur Fish, assistant editor of The Woman’s World, in August 1890 shortly before Fish married. One of the two photographs inscribed to Fish is in the William Clark Andrews Memorial Library and reproduced in The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, (edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, 2000) and the other example was sold at auction by Bonhams, London, on 22nd November 2011 (Lot 271, realised £13,750). The Cameron Studio was established by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (1852-1911) in Mortimer Street, London, in the mid-1880s. The youngest son of the renowned photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, Cameron’s early portraits reflected his mother’s style.
Lot 183
HOARE SAMUEL: (1880-1959) British Politician, First Lord of the Admiralty 1936-37 and Home Secretary 1937-39. Important and historical A.L.S., Sam, two pages, 4to, Admiralty House, 10th December n.y. (1936), to Lord Beaverbrook ('Dear Max'), marked Personal. Written on the day that King Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication, Hoare announces 'I have not telephoned or come round today or yesterday as I was, on your advice, sitting back in the final acts of this tragic farce' and continues 'It was clear to me yesterday that the denouement was inevitable. I tried my best to the end to make renunciation possible, but the King would not move an inch. To what depths can folly descend!' Hoare further states 'In any case I am glad and grateful that another crisis brought us together again. It is almost a year to a day since my resignation. The first friendly word from outside came from you. I never forget these things nor shall I forget our talks of the last fortnight, and your manifest wish to help me in my career.' A letter of interesting content written on a pivotal day in the history of the British monarchy. One neat tear to the right edge of a central fold, only very slightly affecting one word of text, otherwise VG Max Aitken (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Anglo-Canadian Business Tycoon, Politician & Writer, owner of the Daily Express and London Evening Standard newspapers. In June 1936 Hoare became First Lord of the Admiralty and in November 1936 he was (with Duff Cooper, the then Secretary of State for War) sought out by Edward VIII to provide independent advice and counsel on the King's constitutional problems. Initially the King attempted to convert him into a champion of his cause hoping that Hoare would speak up in defence of his right to marry when the matter came up for formal discussion in the Cabinet. In the King's memoirs A King's Story (1951) he recounted this first meeting, "But I failed to win him as an advocate. He was sympathetic; but he also was acutely conscious of the political realities. Mr. Baldwin, he warned me, was in command of the situation: the senior Ministers were solidly with him on this issue. If I were to press my marriage project on the Cabinet I should meet a stone wall of opposition. I saw Mr. Duff Cooper at the Palace later the same day.....He was as encouraging and optimistic as Sam Hoare had been pessimistic and discouraging." Hoare's second meeting with the King took place at the end of November, about which the King wrote, "At this juncture, the scene shifted momentarily to Stornoway House where Max Beaverbrook, ever since his return from America, had worked feverishly to rally support for me in whatever quarters it might be found.....Mr. Baldwin was aware of what Max Beaverbrook was up to; and no doubt hoping to check the forces beginning to rally round my cause, he despatched Sir Samuel Hoare on Sunday, the 29th, to explain the attitude of the Government towards the King. The message which the First Lord of the Admiralty bore was ominous indeed. It was that the Ministers stood with Mr. Baldwin---"no breach exists: there is no light or leaning in the King's direction." Then the First Lord fired his second salvo. "The publicity," he said, "is about to break." Many Ministers, he added, were restless and dissatisfied over the failure of the Press to publish facts of a crisis already the talk of the rest of the world. He stressed Mr. Baldwin's desire that the Press, like the Cabinet, should form an unbroken front against the proposed marriage. It was an undisguised invitation for Max Beaverbrook to change sides. His answer was: "I have already taken the King's shilling, I am a King's man." On 4th December the King learned of an earlier meeting between Beaverbrook and Hoare, of which he commented "So the day had not been all debits as far as I was concerned. From Stornoway House Max Beaverbrook, sensing the favourable upsurge in public opinion, had steadily hammered away on the theme of delay. I must not allow myself, he urged, to be harried and hurried into precipitous action. He had seen Sir Samuel Hoare again, and in conversation with him had formed the impression that many Ministers were troubled by the turn the crisis had taken, and would welcome a withdrawal of my request for advice on the morganatic marriage proposal. But I was wearied to the point of exhaustion." Finally during the morning of 10th December 1936 (the day Hoare wrote the present letter to Beaverbrook) the King signed the Instrument of Abdication.
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