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Lot 7
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel HendersonRare table lamp, circa 1958-1960Printed and glazed ceramic, printed paper shade.41.5 cm high, 40 cm diameter Produced for Hammer Prints Ltd.Footnotes:LiteratureMichelle Cotton, Lesley Jackson, Robin Spencer, Nigel Henderson & Eduardo Paolozzi: Hammer Prints Ltd., London, 2013, pp. 66-67 for illustrations of the printsToysNick WrightCo-author of Cut and Shut: The History of Creative Salvage, London, 2012Born in Lieth to Italian immigrants, Eduardo Paolozzi had few of the advantages of the young owners of the toys depicted on Hammer Prints. His father, a shop owner, admired Mussolini and sent Eduardo to summer camps in Italy. There he gained an appreciation of the planes, trains and fascist badges. At the outbreak of war, his father was declared an enemy alien and imprisoned. So was Eduardo. His father was then transported to Canada and drowned when the ship was torpedoed. Once freed, Eduardo helped his widowed mother make ice cream, one childhood treat that had always been abundant, whilst assembling scrapbooks containing images of the many more that were not.His friendship with Nigel Henderson was formed at the Slade School of Art. Henderson was born of a wealthy English family and focused his camera on London's poor. A working-class Scot, Paolozzi came to prominence with collaged images from American magazines. Their friendship was so strong they lived in adjacent cottages on the Essex coast and set up a business together. Hammer Prints produced household objects and textiles printed in designs based on deliberately degraded images taken by Henderson. Whilst some of the designs were later taken up by manufacturers like Hull Traders, 'Toys', the print used on the lamp base and shade, was only produced by the artists. Patrick Rylands, designer of Playplax, the toy Rachel Whiteread credits as her inspiration for her 2005 Tate installation, says the toys depicted would have been prohibitively expensive when new. Like the 'Toot Toot', Patrick thinks the 'Autobus' was made by Lehmans, a German manufacturer producing tin toys of a quality that rendered them 'the real thing writ small'. However, he says 'In Paolozzi's hands, the toys are speaking a different language'. That language is pop. In the centrality of ephemera and the use of collage and assemblage, British artists adopted the grammar of Kurt Schwitters but developed their own vocabulary. Where Schwitters used torn tram tickets, fragments of wire and bank notes rendered worthless by inflation to memorialise the dead of the First World War, Hamilton, Paolozzi and Henderson, collaged advertisements and glamour magazine images to critique the consumer culture of an ascendant America following the second. Not that their critique was entirely negative. In bombed out Britain where food was still rationed, images of fridges full of fresh dairy and T.V.s showing chromium-plated cars had an allure, materially and visually. Paolozzi wanted the Cadillacs and glamour girls he cut and pasted just as he had done the Lehman toys - but there's a rip tide.The fulfilment of our desire to buy creates, not a sense of achievement, but a lack. The objects of our desire are diminished by acquisition so the impulse to own remains. The eye then searches for something else, something better, bigger, a compulsive cycle illustrated in British Pop Art. Richard Hamilton, a member of the Independent Group which also included Paolozzi and Henderson, exhibited 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?' at the 'This is Tomorrow' exhibition in the Whitechapel Gallery. The bodybuilder portrayed is not muscle and bone but a blow up that goes 'pop.' Similarly, Paolozzi and Henderson's 'Toys' are juxtaposed against a phrenology head and cherubs, emblems of pseudo-science and misplaced faith. Fat on ice cream that, like all sweet things creates a hunger for more, Eduardo Paolozzi knew well that the best toys are the ones we don't have. Moreover, in illustrating that paradox, the blind, crazy driver of consumer culture, British Pop has an unresolved tension that gives it relevance even in the age of the buy it now button.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 28
A Japanese Namiki Yukari Royal Vermilion Urushi fountain pen, in vermilion with gold fittings, the tapering cap engraved R114 to the top, having ball-end clip engraved with pentagonal logo and 'NAMIKI', and narrow gold band, the nib engraved with outline of Mount Fuji, logo, and 'Namiki 18K-750 ', further hallmarked Ste PP-F and with date stamp a606 to either edge, length 14.9cm (capped), weight 45.5g, with velvet lined wooden box, certificate of authenticity, paperwork and outer card boxAppears never to have been inked or used.No apparent cracks, splits or scratches.The black marks in the image are from the camera lens - not on the pen.Nib is good.Threads are sharp.
Lot 328
Palitoy, Action Man - A vintage painted blonde hair Action Man in Astronaut outfit. The hard hand Action Man appears to be in Good condition overall with some signs of wear and play to right ear and face is is stamped 'Made in England by Palitoy Under License From Hasbro © 1964' to rear of torso. The figure is dressed in space suit, gloves, boots, space helmet with visor and mic, oxygen chest pack, camera, back plate - space suit has some wear / perishing to rear, overall outfit and accessories range Fair Plus - Good. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Lot 432
A BOX AND A BASKET OF CAMERAS, WALKING STICKS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include a cased Minolta Dynax 500si 35mm film camera, fitted with a Minolta 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 lens, a cased Panasonic RX1 video camera, cased Praktica Sport 8 x 25 field binoculars, twelve walking sticks including two sticks with horn handles, a cane with a silver mount, hallmarked Chester 1908, a stick with a compass mounted in the handle, a stick carved with an eagle, and another with a brass bird's head handle, tallest stick 96cm, a shooting stick, four flat irons, etc (1 box + 1 basket) (sd)
Lot 424
A BOX OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, comprising a Panasonic Compact Stereo System model no SC-HC28DB, with remote control and instructions, a Bose Sound Dock Digital Music System portable model, with remote control and instructions, both having leads, together with an Olympus Stylus 700 digital camera, (1 box) (Condition report: all af but appear in good condition, untested)
Lot 416
A BOX OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT AND BINOCULARS ETC, to include an Olympus OM-1N 35mm SLR film camera fitted with an Olympus Zuiki 50mm f1.8 lens in good cosmetic condition, Sigma 70-250 zoom lens, Kodak Junior II 620 folding roll film camera, camera cases, Bisley spotting scope and tripod, Russian 12x40 binoculars, Optus 8-24 x50 zoom binoculars, Jessops 8x40 binoculars etc
Lot 407
FOUR BOXES OF ELECTRICAL AUDIO EQUIPMENT, LPS AND DIECAST CARS, to include an Etón Satellit 750 FM Stereo/LW/MW/SW/ air receiver, a pair of Bell & Howell binoculars, a Roberts Classic 928 radio, a clip on LED desk lamp, Garmin vehicle GPS device, Sanyo bed-side radio/ alarm, Halina Paulette electric camera, a Gigaset C530A land line phone set, over thirty Country CDs including Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, etc, over one hundred LP records including Jim Reeves, Herb Alpert, The Seekers, Hank Williams, etc, four framed prints including a large cross stitch, nine boxed diecast model cars mostly Models of Yesteryear, a boxed Corgi model of Tramlines D992/7 Birmingham, etc (s.d) (4 boxes)
Lot 64
1993 Enesco "Home on the Stage" deluxe multi-action battery powered music box. Plays the tune "You oughta be in pictures". "Lights! Camera! Action!" as the soundman moves the microphone to catch every boom and bang, and the cameraman sights the action as he moves along the track, and Western scenes revolve behind the action to create the "great chase", and the entire set is illuminated by tiny overhead spotlights for the "take". The original box has visual damage, but everything else is in excellent condition. Original manual included. Listed on page 5 of Enesco Musical Showcase Catalog - Home on the Stage #590592. Height: 18 cm. Width: 15 cm. Depth: 15 cm. Condition: Excellent. Location: Switzerland, Degersheim. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEsXnrp_fM
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