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Lot 750
.- The Ernest Sewell Cabinet of Conjuring Tricks two sets with wand various tricks (differing from those listed with instructions in lid) the first with instruction booklet label with different portraits on lids [c.1920 and 1930]; Maskelyne`s Misteries thirteen tricks not entirely as listed with instructions inside lid [c.1930?]; The All-British Conjuring Set with wand seven tricks and instruction booklet [c.1930?]; The Magic Star Conjuring Set with wand ten tricks and instruction book [c.1945?] all in original card boxes the last three with pictorial labels on lids various sizes (5)
Lot 174
The Tichborne Case. A significant archive album of letters, related ephemera, press cuttings, cabinet photographs, and pencil drawings of court room figures from life, by Lady Louisa Rawlinson (nee Seymour), a witness at the criminal trial of Arthur Orton, the `Tichborne Claimant`.Included in the rather worn album are: Letter from Sir Edward Doughty (or his wife) apologising that their old Jamaican servant Andrew Bogle was accompanying Orton to England; letter from Sir Roger Tichborne dated 1850 from his barracks in Tipperary, 4 pages; letter of December 10th 1866 from Sir Roger`s mother to Mrs Seymour `...I am happy to say that I expect my dearest Roger home at the end of this month… he [Orton] says in his letter to me that he has found health in Australia and that he is much stouter than he was...`; another Seymour letter to her son dated 1867 `...they had poor Roger`s letter to me from Buenos Ayres and I believe he gave it to the lawyers, but of course they have it still...`; Letter from Lord Arundell of Wardour (nephew of Sir Roger`s mother) `...My dear Mrs Seymour, I enclose an account of a recent interview with Castro [i.e. Orton], copied from a letter... I think it will amuse you and it certainly settles the question of the man being an imposter. I hear he is trying to get himself recognised as Sir Roger by old servants and soldiers of Roger`s former regiment`; Also Lady Rawlinson`s summons to give evidence against Castro (Orton) and her statement of evidence as used in the criminal trial. Also significant are several cabinet type photographs, mainly of Orton, and 72 competent pencil drawings and sketches of the courtroom characters with captions, one signed with her initials; several of these are of Orton `butcher`, others include the judge, jury members, `Whicher the Detective`, etc. Lady Louisa Rawlinson (1833-1889) was an aunt of Sir Roger and married in 1862 Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895) famous for his work on deciphering cuneiform inscriptions. She was a daughter of Henry Seymour of Knoyle, as was Sir Roger`s mother, Henriette, though illegitimate. The facts of the Tichborne case are well known, and stem from Sir Roger`s mother`s desperate attempts to find her son, whom though lost at sea, was, she believed, still alive somewhere. The collection shows that Orton (or Castro) had support for his claim from many quarters, partly as a result of his selling Tichborne Bonds that would benefit purchasers if he won the case. Orton lost the civil case, and was convicted of perjury in the criminal case that followed. He died in poverty in 1898Provenance: By descent through the Rawlinson family
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