A 17th Century Carved Italian Renaissance Style Cabinet. The frieze fitted with a central drawer flanked by small pilaster drawers with protuberant heads forming the handles. The panel doors below centred by further heads and carved with ovals radiating flutes & reeds flanked by caryatids. The corners with recessed columns entwined in ivy leading down to a gadrooned base, 35½ ins (90 cms) high, 33 ins (84 cms) wide, 15¾ ins (40 cms) deep.
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A Fine 18th Century Walnut Marquetry Spice Cabinet. The door inlaid with a starburst and interlaced straps composed of various specimen veneers. The interior having eight variously sized and crossbanded drawers with gilded drop handles. Raised on bun feet 16½ ins (42 cms) in height, 15½ ins (39.5 cms) in width, 8½ ins (22 cms) in depth.
JOUHAUX LEON: (1879-1954) French Trade Union leader & Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1951. Autograph Statement Signed, L. Jouhaux, one page, folio, Paris, 24th October 1927, in French. He writes, in ful,l 'Peace is not just a state of mind; it is also and above all a solid construction built on the groundings of facts. To convert into an organized will the lamentations of humans who for millennia have ascended, powerless, toward the golden stars is to cause the rule of Peace to descend on earth. The essential condition is that achievement is to have faith in Peace.' Together with Frank B. Kellogg (1856-1937), American author of the Pact & Nobel Prize Winner 1929. Autograph Statement Signed, Frank Billings Kellogg, one page, oblong folio, n.p., 10th April 1930. He writes in full, 'Permanent peace will be established when the conscience of mankind is awakened and war is condemned by the public opinion of the world'. Also including a similar typed Statement signed by Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), British Politician, the first Labour cabinet minister, & Nobel Prize Winner 1934. Signed, Arthur Henderson, one page, folio, n.p, n.d. VG. 3 The statements were prepared for publication in the Pax Mundi book; an anthology of sentiments on peace published in Switzerland by the World League for Peace. Between 1925 and 1932 many notable persons from around the world were asked to comment on the prospects of world peace and the volume included contributions from Marie Curie, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore and many others.
PRINCE ADALBERT: (1884-1948) Prince of Prussia, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Vintage signed cabinet photograph of Prince Adalbert of Prussia as a child in a three-quarter length pose. Photograph by Selle & Kuntze of Potsdam. Signed ('Adalbert') in bold black fountain pen ink, with his name alone to the head of the image. Framed and glazed in a contemporary black velvet frame to an overall size of 7 x 8.5. Some minor fading, otherwise about G
ALFONS: (1862-1933) Bavarian Prince and General of Cavalry, a member of the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Vintage signed sepia 4 x 8 cabinet photograph of the Prince standing in a three quarter length pose in uniform. Photograph by Elvira of Munich. Signed ('Alfons') in bold, dark ink to a light area of the image and dated 1906 in his hand. Some slight smudging to the signature. VG
SIAM: Small selection of original unsigned vintage postcard photographs and one cabinet photograph, the images depicting various members of the Siamese Royal family including King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King Vajiravudh (Rama VI), King Prajadhipok (Rama VII), King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) etc., one bearing facsimile signatures, together with an oblong 8vo photograph album containing over 100 snapshot photographs of Siam including procession for the cremation of King Rama VI, King Rama VII in white mourning dress, Palace grounds, Buddhist temples, library and other buildings, various views of Bangkok, rice farmers etc., also including some photographs of relatives and friends in Norway, Canada etc. Most pages are neatly annotated in ink identifying the subjects of the images. FR to generally G, 7 + album
BRITISH POLITICS: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs, a few signed cabinet photographs and larger etc, by various British politicians, Lord Chief Justices, nobility etc, including Austen Chamberlain, R. Stafford Cripps (2), James W Lowther, Charles Dilke, William C. Gully, Hugh Cecil, Joseph Chamberlain, Robert Bond, John Burns, Edward Carson, Edward Clarke, Robert Finlay, Timothy Healy, Lord Cromer, John Charles Bigham, Lord Ashbourne, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Norfolk, Gansford Bruce, Rufus Isaacs, Hardinge Stanley, Justice Darling, Lord Alverstone, Michael Foot, Horace Avery, Lord Jowitt etc. Generally G to VG, 46
LITERATURE: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs, a few cabinet photos and larger etc, by various writers and novelists including Alfred Austin, Hall Caine (2), Laurence Housman, R.F Delderfield, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Benson, Compton Mackenzie, Arthur Pinero, John Drinkwater, Ethel Mannin, G.K Chesterton, Silas. K. Hocking, Andre Maurois, Sabine Baring-Gould, etc. A few FR, generally G to about VG, 19
DE RESZKE JEAN: (1850-1925) Polish Tenor. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 7 x 10 cabinet photograph of De Reske standing in a three-quarter length pose. Photograph by Nadar of Paris. Signed in black fountain pen ink to a light area of the image and dated 1894 in his hand. Two small areas of paper loss to the lower two corners of the photograph and some extremely minor light spotting to the image, otherwise about VG.
An Art Nouveau mahogany mirrorback display cabinet with stylistic floral coloured wood and mother of pearl foliate motifs, glazed and with upper cupboards over shelf and lower cupboard with side windows and shaped undertier shelf, supported on straight tapering legs with block pad feet, 53"w, 81"h.
An Unusual 19th Century Swiss Cylinder Music Box, with a 16cm brass cylinder and single steel comb movement playing ten airs, with zither attachment, lyre shaped tune marker, three bells in sight with butterfly strikers, ratcheted brass winding arm, lithographed pictorial tune sheet to back, in an upright walnut cabinet, with glazed door flanked by two turned pillars, glazed top section, stop/start and change/repeat levers to side, 44cm wide by 45cm high (a/f)
Wooden doll`s house lighthouse with electrical lighting, including: fisherman doll; desk; chair; cabinet; telescope; wooden rowing boat with oars and nets; etc. Affixed to base covered with sand and rocks. Dimensions: L77cm x H approx. 110cm x W59cm. Overall G/VG with broken railing and some paint loss to rocks.
LLOYD GEORGE (David, 1863-1945; Liberal politician and UK prime minister between 1916 and 1922). Collection of photographs and letters by Lloyd George or his office, mostly typed and from his official secretary: to include: 2 informal photographs; 2 cabinet cards by J.Thomas of Liverpool of Lloyd George as a young man; a postcard photograph; 2 typed autograph letters dated 1902 to D.R.Daniel of Four Crosses, Chwilog, Wales, about local workers’ rights and Lord Penrhyn’s slate quarries; an earlier MS damaged letter to Daniel; 16 typed letters about book matters from his London office circa 1937-40, to Mr W.Griffiths, manager of Foyle’s Bookshop (Welsh dept.) in London, secretary signed, (of which 3 are signed by Frances Stevenson, later Lady Lloyd George); 2 autograph letters from Lady Lloyd George dated 1950; 1 letter from Margaret his first wife; a signed 20 x 15cm photograph in old age, and also a 1901 anti Lloyd George lithographic poster ‘Lest we Forget’, 50 x 75cm. Note: This collection was formed by the late Mr William Griffiths, manager at Foyle’s Bookshop in London, and later of Griffs Bookshop in Cecil Court. Griffiths had previously acquired a collection of papers from D.R.Daniel, a Welshman and local union man who stood for the Quarrymen during the dispute with Lord Penrhyn.
Collection of literary ephemera, formed by Mr William Griffiths, manager and bookseller of Foyle’s Welsh Department and Griff’s in Cecil Court, London, to include carte de visite photographs of ‘the late George Eliot’, another after a portrait; Italian cabinet photograph of Theodor Mommsen; another smaller of Gladstone with his grandson (worn); entry card for Gladstone’s funeral; autograph letter signed from John Galsworthy (torn); another from Edith Wynne (soprano), John Thomas (Queen Victoria’s harpist), 2 from Richard Llewellyn (author); also 2 page autograph letter dated 1940 from Nehru’s sister, Krishna Hutheesing to Mr G Guest Levo explaining about her brother (Nethru) and her older sister being in prison; a brief letter from Aneurin Bevan dated 1956; etc
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