There are 31923 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeZenon Texeira, Tanzanian/British b.1968- Portrait of a woman head and shoulders turned to the right with a red hair extension and a white lace cape; colour polaroid print, 77x51cm: together with two other colour polaroids by the same hand, one of a figure in a white lace dress and the other of a model, quarter-length with arms above her head, 77x51cm., ea. (3) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
APOLLO IX: Signed Commemorative cover by the three crew members of Apollo IX(1969) individually, James McDivitt (Commander), Dave Scott (Command Module Pilot, the seventh man to walk on the moon) and Rusty Schweickart (Lunar Module Pilot). The cover features an Apollo 9 cachet and is post marked at Cape Canaveral, 26th March 1969. Signed by each astronaut in bold black and green inks with their names alone to clear areas. About EX
APOLLO I: An extremely rare vintage signed colour 10 x 8 photograph by the three crew members of Apollo I (1967) individually, Virgil Grissom (1926-1967, Command Pilot), Edward H. White II (1930-1967, Senior Pilot) and Roger B. Chaffee (1935-1967, Pilot). The image depicts the three astronauts standing together in half length poses, in a row, each wearing their blue NASA overalls. Signed by each in black inks with their names alone to light areas of the image. A couple of very light, extremely minor and insignificant surface creases, about EX Apollo I was scheduled to be the first manned mission of the United States Apollo manned lunar landing programme, with a launch date of 21st February 1967. Tragically, on 27th January 1967, all three crew members were killed in a cabin fire during a launch pad test at Cape Canaveral.
SCHMITT HARRISON: (1935- ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XVII (1972), the twelfth man to walk on the moon. Signed and inscribed colour 10 x 8 photograph, the official NASA image depicting Schmitt in a half length pose, wearing his white spacesuit, on the moon alongside the United States flag which is seen pointing towards the earth. Signed ('Harrison H Schmitt') in bold black ink to a clear area of the image, adding Apollo 17 in his hand beneath his signature. Together with a signed Commemorative Cover by Schmitt, issued in honour of Apollo 17 and featuring a colour silk illustration of the Apollo 17 splashdown. Post marked at Cape Canaveral, 19th December 1972. Signed ('Jack Schmitt') in bold black ink with his name alone to a clear area. VG to EX, 2
MANDELA NELSON: (1918- ) President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. Signed First Day Cover featuring a colour design commemorating the Presidential Inauguration, 10th May 1994, with the caption Many Cultures - One Nation in English and Afrikaans. The cover features four different colour postage stamps, one with a portrait of Mandela, and is post marked at Pretoria, 10th May 1994. Signed by Mandela in ink with his name alone to a clear area, alongside an official black ink stamp of the Private Bag of the Office of the President, Cape Town, 22nd September 1997. Lightly mounted and professionally matted in beige beneath an attractive folio calligraphic copy of a speech, beginning 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate...', mis-attributed as Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. Framed and glazed in a plain silver coloured frame to an overall size of 15.5 x 24.5. VG
Roman Bronze Mercury Figurine1st-2nd century AD. A cast figurine depicting Mercury standing nude with winged petasos to his head and textile cape over his left arm, winged sandals to his feet. 38 grams, 63 mm (2 1/2"). Formerly the property of a Mayfair gentleman, acquired 1980s. Fine condition.Starting Price: £300
*Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed `Edward Thomas`, Steep, Petersfield, 12 May 1914, to [Thomas] Seccombe, `Many thanks for these cuttings. They seem to me the best proposional [?] prose & better fun that most literature. I have since been looking up that page on my own account. It is a wonder anyone reads reviews. But then even Reynolds writes them. He talked of you. Chesterton asked me for something topographical the other day & I have given him subjects to choose from. Many thanks for mentioning me. I have just ridden the bicycle for the 1st time since I bought it home & it goes so stiffly uphill that if you could arrange a swop I should be very glad indeed. Only I do not want you to put yourself to inconvenience. 1) If the man at the shop will exchange it, 2) Or if it positively will fill an empty place in your own system, then I will bring or send it along. Otherwise I will get used to it. Forgive my horrid haste`, 2 pp., 8vo. Thomas Seccombe was a writer, reviewer and friend of Thomas. Last Sheaf: Essays by Edward Thomas, with a foreword by Thomas Seccombe was published by Cape in 1928.. (1)
Herdsman 2nd-3rd cent. A.D.Intaglio on heliotrope jasper, mm 12x9,5x3. Form 8c. Standing figure of an aged herdsman to the left, wearing a hooded cape and leaning on a staff; before him his dog jumps up at a tree on the left, which curves over the scene, from its branches a hare (?) is suspended.
*Finlason (Charles Edward, 1860-1917). A Nobody in Mashonaland or The Trials and Adventures of a Tenderfoot, [1893], printed press notices before title, ownership book ticket of G. Finlason to front f.e.p. and related newscutting to front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, together with the manuscript diary of Charles Edward Finlason, 1874-91, a total of approx. 220 leaves including tipped-in newscuttings, leaves from other diaries, etc., some leaves detached, contemp. cloth, rubbed, 8vo. Charlie Finlason is sometimes dubbed the father of Kimberley cricket. He was an author and journalist by trade and emigrated to Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa when he was a young man. The fragmented diary begins in his youth in New York before his move to South Africa. Besides personal affairs the diary includes jottings on current affairs, stocks and shares, etc., plus occasional reports of cricket matches played by Finlason. -2
Maurice (Major Gen. Sir Frederick). History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, 8 vols. including 4 vols of maps, 1906-1910, numerous folding maps, original blue cloth gilt, fraying to head and foot of spines, 8vo, together with Brackenbury (Henry), The Ashanti War; A Narrative, 2 vols, 1874, facsimile letter, 6 plans including two contained in pocket at rear of vol. two, rebacked with new endpapers, remains of original backstrips relaid, 8vo, and Dennis Edwards (pub.), The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1900. An Album of Upwards of Three Hundred Photographic Engravings, Cape Town, [1901], b & w half-tone photo. illusts throughout, patterned cloth endpapers, orig. pictorial buckram, oblong folio, plus other South Africa interest (17)
Bronte (Charlotte, Emily & Anne). The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte, 6 vols., 1922, num. col. plts., contemp. red half calf gilt, spines faded, 8vo, together with Lawrence (T. E.), Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1935, b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus Goble (Warwick, illust.), The Water-Babies, a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, by Charles Kingsley, 1910, num. col. plts., orig. cloth gilt, fading to covers and spine, 8vo, plus others, mostly children and illustrated related (2 cartons)
Harris (Captain William Cornwallis). The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; Being the Narrative of a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, Through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, 4th ed., 1844, twenty-six hand-col. litho. plts., folding map at rear, a.e.g., orig. blind stamped gilt dec. cloth, rebacked preserving orig. spine, rubbed, large 8vo (1)
Harvey (Colonel J.R., and Lieut.-Colonel H.A. Cape). The History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons from 1689 to 1799, Afterwards the 5th Royal Irish Lancers from 1858 to 1921, 1st ed., 1923, folding maps and plans (short tears), a few corners at end with insect damage, Appendix leaf repaired, some light soiling, modern cloth retaining original labels, 4to, together with A Sermon Preach’d Before the Queen at Windsor, July the 11th, 1708. Being the First Sunday After the Account of the Late Great Victory Obtain’d over the French Army near Audenarde, by Her Majesty’s Forces, and those Under the Command of the Duke of Marlborough, by Thomas Manningham, 1708, 16 pp., a little browned and spotted with marginal chips, modern brown buckram, 8vo, plus The Report of the General Officers, Appointed by His Majesty’s Warrant of the First of November 1757, to Inquire into the Causes of the Failure of the Late Expedition to the Coasts of France, 1758, 116 pp., modern brown buckram, 8vo, with others including The Corrected Monthly Army Lists, January 1801, Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1802, Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, 2 vols., 1866, Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical of King James’s Irish Army List (1689), 1997 and Irish Army Lists of King Charles II 1661-1685, Dublin, 2000 (15)
M.G. Pearson, limited edition print, Royal Yachts off Cowes, 1926, No 6/850, signed in pencil, 33 x 50cm, Geoff Hunt, Ltd ed print, `Pickle` 6-Gun Schooner 58/750, signed in pencil, 30 x 34cm, and Philip Barlow, pen and ink drawing of the Queen Elizabeth II in Cape Town dock, signed and dated 94, (3).
AN INDIA MEDAL WITH THE PUNJAB FRONTIER 1897-98 AND TIRAH 1897-98 CLASPS, together with a Queen`s South Africa Third Type reverse with the Cape Colony, Transvaal and South Africa 1902 clasps and a WWI pair to 53908 SJT. R. Hodgkin Notts and Derby R, 4709 PTE. 2d BTN Derby Regt, on India medal, Corpl. Notts and Derby Regt on Q.S.A. displayed as worn e.f
A QUEEN VICTORIA SOUTH AFRICA 1900 TIN CONTAINING A QUEEN`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL 2ND TYPE REVERSE, with the Cape Colony, Orange Free State clasps to 4059 PTE. E. Neale 6/DRGNS, ribbon missing medal e.f, together with WWII Defence and a George VI Police Long Service and Good Conduct medal to Const. Arthur B. Ward, attempted removal of `Const`
Father and son group of seven medals awarded to 5912 Pte G B Williams, Gloucestershire Regiment, and Henry/Harry Williams,regiment unknown - Africa medals with Orange Free State, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps, together with a WWI trio incl 1914 Mons Star, rosette but no bar present
Herbert Barnard John Everett (1876-1949) View of the Thames Oil on panel, 25 x 34cm Signed. Inscribed verso Christmas 1896 This panel was a very precious possession of the artist and kept on the mantelpiece of whatever studio he occupied from the time of its creation until he died. Oils are very rare as the artist bequeathed the entire body of his work to The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich at the time of his death. Herbert Barnard John Everett (1876-1949) Herbert Everett, a member of the Herbert Family seated at Muckross Estate in Killarney, was arguably the preeminent maritime painter of his generation. His cousin and former wife, Katherine Everett, in her Anglo-Irish memoir, Bricks and Flowers, grudingly concedes that from the time of his matriculation at The Slade School that he "was thought to be one of the most promising students." She relates that the drawing instructor Henry Tonks thought his early work "mature and excellent," and that the painting instructor Wilson Steer regarded him as "being full of promise." Herbert, or as he came to be known, "John," faced stiff competition in this estimation by his instructors, two of his classmates being William Orpen and Augustus John. The three men soon became fast friends. Everett's improbable mother, Aurelia, let rooms to both her son's friends in her house at 21 Fitzroy Street, as she did to many of the art students at the Slade School and the house soon became the Bohemian Mecca of many art students of the period. The three men often met there to "draw at night. They picked up strange unusual models; but I was shy, after seeing John's brilliant nudes, of drawing in his company," records the painter William Rothenstein. One can only surmise where these models were engaged in London's Victorian Twilight. Often, it seems the trio's caroussing was funded by John Everett, he being the recipient of a private income from his Herbert relations. It is during this period that Orpen painted the full length seated portrait of Everett, now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to which it was transferred by the National Portrait Gallery in 1950. This portrait was among Orpen's early public submissions of his art for exhibition to the public to the New English Art Club along with his seminal works, The Mirror and A Mere Fracture as well as a portrait of Augustus John, all painted in Fitzroy Street. In this portrait, Orpen depicts Herbert "John" Everett, as the quintessential aristocrat, lounging cross-legged with gloves, a silk top hat, and a silver-topped walking stick before a background of his own drawings and watercolours of ships with a telescope and a roll of maps inferring the insouciance and swagger of the gentleman adventurer that Everett was to become. His training at the Slade and also subsequently at the Academie Julian in Paris encouraged him to paint en plein air and in his work we see continual experiment with brightly sunlit stippled brushwork and natural daylight tones coupled with his own sense of informality and spontaneity. John Everett was to use his private income to fund no less than 16 sea voyages including two circumnavigations during each of which he produced hundreds of paintings. He worked on deck, lashed to a mast if necessary in pursuit of truth in his art, . In the spring of 1918, he was commissioned as an official war artist and asked to produce paintings of the naval aspect of the war. This led to the end of his marriage and his whole-hearted pursuit of a life exemplified as that of a bohemian artist like that of his lifelong friend Augustus John. It is perhaps, owing to John Everett's background that we have known so little about him until recently. Not needing to generate an income from his art, he very simply never sold any of his marine pictures, albeit he did sell some of his landscapes. When he died, he bequeathed the entire body of his marine canvases, some 2000 paintings to the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich where they remain. This is the first time that any of his marine pictures have come to the public market. The landscapes offered for sale were among his private collection of his own work. Allof the lots offered were acquired by the present owner from the Everett descendants. 1. Katherine Everett; Bricks and Flowers, "Memoirs of Katherine Everett,"Constable and Company, Ltd., London 1949. P.92. 2. Ibid., P.93. 3. William Rothenstein; Men and Memories, Volume I., P.334. 4. Bruce Arnold; Orpen, Mirror to an Age.,Jonathon Cape, London,1981.P.81.
A Great War DSO group of seven to Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Ernest Mahon, 55th Cokes Indian Rifles. Distinguished Service Order (GVR), silver gilt and enamel (with original Garrard & Co box); Queens South Africa Medal (renamed), four clasps, South Africa 1901, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (Lieut. A E Mahon, RL Irish Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. 55/RFLS FF); 1914-1918 British War and Victory Medal, M-I-D oak leaf (both Lt. Col.); India General Service Medal (renamed) three clasps, Waziristan 1921-24, Waziristan 1919-21, Mahsud 1919-20 (Bt. Lt. Col.); George V Coronation Medal Offered together with portrait photo cards and associated ephemera, M-I-D notices etc. Provenance: The recipient thence by descent Condition Report All fine condition, unmounted, consigned by the reciients descendants
A Great War DSO group of six to Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Charles James Hartland-Mahon, Royal Field Artillery. Distinguished Service Order, GVR, silver gilt and enamel (a copy medal); Queens South Africa Medal, three clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony (Capt. M C J Hartland-Mahon RFA); Kings South Africa Medal (both renamed), two clasps, South Africa 1901 and 1902 (Liet.R H A); 1914 'Mons' Star, clasp 5th august - 22nd November 1914 (Capt R. F. A.); 1914-1918 British War Medal and Victory Medal, M-I-D oak leaf (Lt Col). Offered together with original miniature set of medals, original DSO warrant (June 1919), the four M-I-D notices (November 1916, April 1918, November 1918, February 1919), cabinet portrait photo cards (circa 1899) and assorted ephemera relating to the officers service career, 'secret' WW1 tactical progress report etc, photographs of Colskop artillery positions (Boer war), military certificates/examination papers... Provenance: The recipient thence by descent Condition Report QSA and KSA both with multiple rim marks, the others all fine. Note renaming details/replacements DSO
A collection of children’s clothing, mostly white lawn or fine cotton, some with white work embroidery and some broderie anglaise, including three christening robes with fine pin tucks; a long petticoat; three nightdresses; assorted short dresses, petticoats; summer vests; two felted wool skirts; fine wool cape; two pairs of babies leather shoes; two odd shoes and other items. Early 20th century. With varying time stains; damages and marks. Sold as a collection with all faults not subject to return.
A Louis Feraud Cape Coat in Black Wool with stud fastening and revered pockets, 1970s, labelled a Louis Feraud cross-over dress in fawn with full skirt and belt detail with cream trims, UK 16, 1970s labelled and a Louis Feraud wool shift dress with embroidered sleeves and bead and button detailing, labelled uk 14 and a Susan Small full length sleeveless evening dress, labelled the wrap over bodice with shawl top and ruffle decoration to full skirt and hemline, the ground with floral motifs, uk 12, 1970s (4)
A Burberry Prorsum Gentleman's Green Wool Tweed Full-Length Overcoat, 1950s, labelled, with plaid lining, double breasted design, with belt tie, chest approx. 110cm, together with a ladies black wool cape with stylish pleated reveres and roundel trims to collar with long tassel ties, black silk crepe lining, probably 1930s, (2)
Pieces of Mauchline ware, comprising; a bell form tape measure (photographic – damaged – Royal Mail Steamer Leaving Docks Cape Town/Souvenir From Cape Town), complete printed tape, 5cm, a slant top thimble case (St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth) with Dorcas thimble, 3.7cm, a heart shaped pincushion (photographic – The Bridge, Brandon), 5.5cm, a drum form pincushion with applied print image (Great Malvern), 4.7cm diameter, and a notelet (High Street, Stroud/Stroud Church), catch s.d., 8.5cm x 5.5cm. (5)
France tours to South Africa Rugby programmes 1958, 1967, 1971 and 1975 v SA Universities 9th August 1958, v South Africa 15th July 1967, v Eastern Transvaal 22nd May 1971 (2 copies), v Border 31st May 1971, v South West Africa 8th June 1971 (adhesive marks on reverse, ex album), v South Africa 19th June 1971, (adhesive marks on reverse, ex album), v Natal 31st May 1975, v Proteas 4th June 1975, v South West Districts 9th June 1975, v Transvaal 14th June 1975, South West Africa 17th June 1975, v North Eastern Cape 24th June 1975 and v South Africa 2nd Test 28th June 1975, in good condition (14)
New Zealand tour to South Africa Rugby programmes 1976 21 out of 24 programmes, only missing v Proteas 7th July, North West Cape Invitation XV 6th September and Griqualand West Invitation XV 14th September. Included are two different programmes for the 3rd Test on 4th September plus SA Rugby Yearbook 1976 (23)
AN SFBJ BISQUE HEADED CHARACTER BÉBÉ with weighted blue glass eyes, painted lashes, open mouth, two upper teeth, wobbly tongue and dimpled cheeks, on five piece bent limb body, 62cm, impressed SFBJ 251 Paris 11 In good condition, with cream silk embroidered dress and cape, cream cotton bonnet, white fabric shoes and fair mohair wig
A SIMON & HALBIG BISQUE HEADED CHILD DOLL with blue glass eyes, raised, moulded eyebrows, open mouth with upper teeth and dimpled chin, on straight legged wooden and composition ball jointed body, 50cm, impressed SH 12079 DEP 7 ½ In good condition requiring restringing, with white cotton infant gown with pin tucks and lace edging cream woollen cape and swans down trimmed bonnet, original blond mohair wig
AN ARMAND MARSEILLE BISQUE HEADED DOLL with fixed dark brown glass eyes, open mouth with upper teeth, on ball jointed composition body, 75cm, impressed Armand Marseille 390n Germany A12½ M In good condition, right leg loose, in blue cotton dress with embroidery and tucking, dark blue velvet trimmed cape and bonnet, brown calf boots, fair mohair wig
Loading...
![*Thomas (Edward, 1878-1917). Autograph letter signed `Edward Thomas`, Steep, Petersfield, 12 May 1914, to [Thomas] Seccombe,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2864356/403-20121129152651_468x382.jpg)
