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A patinated metal figure of a standing 17th century soldier dressed as a cavalier wearing a breast plate, a cape, a wide brimmed hat with feather, a rapier at his waist and holding a lance in his right hand, the base shows that this was at one time a gas lamp and the flame would be at the lance tip 92cm high
T.E. LAWRENCE "Seven Pillars of Wisdom-A Triumph", published by Jonathan Cape, London & Toronto, T.E Lawrence-"The Mint", limited edition No. 1167/2000 by 352087 A/C Ross, published Jonathan Cape, London in original slip-in cover, "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence of Arabia", edited by David Garnett, bearing label for Medici Galleries, and a postcard album depicting North African subjects
Nihusius (Bartoldus) Epistola Philologica...de Nav first edition 12pp. device on title name on title modern red morocco gilt small 4to Frankfurt Lucas Jennisius 1630. *** Rare work on the wonders of an African island called Gorgades (Cape Verde Islands) described in Pomponius Mela and discovered by Hanno. According to Howgego Hanno was a “Carthaginian navigator who in about 470BC sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar and along the coast of West Africa. The purpose of the voyage was the colonization of the coast of Africa.” He also discovered the Senegal River Cape Mesurado and Mount Cameroon.
A collection of medals comprising Queen Victorian South Africa medal, the rim named to Sargent W Slinn of the Manchester Regiment with bars for South Africa 1902, South Africa 1901, Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony, also an Edward VII South Africa medal, the edge named to Private F Warhurst Manchester Regiment with bars for South Africa 1902 and South Africa 1901, also in this lot, a boxed collection of WWII medals awarded to Mr A Butterworth comprising Africa Star, Defence medal and 1939-45 medal in original box of issue (5).
`The Captured Bird` a large Art Deco Goldscheider Pottery Bat Girl figure model no. 5230, designed by Josef Lorenzl, modelled with arms outstretched to display her cape, with spiders web design, standing before a flower filled urn printed and impressed marks, impressed artist signature, small frit to nose and fingers 47cm. highLiterature: Ora Pinhas Goldscheider Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 118 for an identical figure
Two: QUEEN`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, 1899-1902, 2nd type rev, (ghost dates), 4 clasps, Johannesburg, Driefontein, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, (3337 Pte. F. Moore, 2: Shrops: Lt Inft) KING`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, (3337 Pte. J. Moore, Shrops. L.I.)
Two: QUEEN`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, 1899-1902, 2nd type rev, (ghost dates), 4 clasps, Transvaal, Driefontein, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, (4471 Pte. W.H. Phillips, 2: Shrops Lt Inft), KING`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, (4471 CorpL. W. Phillips, Shrops. L.I.)
Four: QUEEN`S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL, 1899-1902, 2nd type rev, (ghost dates), 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, (7336 Pte. A. Powell, 2nd Shropshire Lt Infy). 1914-15 STAR (7537 Pte. A. Powell, Shrops: L.I.), BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS, (SR-7537 Pte. A. Powell, Shrops. L.I.). To France 24/07/15. M.I.C. shows died 19/11/18. C.W.G.C. shows served with 6th Btn. and died aged 44 years, buried Solesmes British Cemetery, France
Barrow (Sir John) A Voyage to Cochinchina first edition 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 double-page) 2 double-page maps with partial hand-colouring contemporary ink signature at head of title a little browned plates lightly offset modern half calf spine gilt uncut spine very slightly faded [Abbey Travel 514; Tooley 86] 4to 1806. *** This is the first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China and is now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited Madeira the Canary Islands and Rio de Janeiro; a description of that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da Cunha the ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook`s Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa.
A matched silver four piece tea service with a kettle and a tray by The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd, London 1934-36, circular with gadrooned ‘cape’ rims, the kettle, tea and hotwater pots with composition handles and finials, the kettle on a stand 27.5cm (10.5in) high; the oblong twin handled tray with cartouches to the inset angles, 60.5cm (24in) long; with a matched cream jug and sugar basin by Garrard & Co., London 1963 and 1955; and a sugar tongs, in a fitted mahogany box for the original set labelled for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, a brass plaque engraved ‘From Mother 1937’, 5732g (184.3 oz) gross
An early Victorian silver shaped rectangular snuff box by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1843, engraved with scroll foliage overall, the cover engraved with an inscription, the interior gilt, 8.2cm (3.25in) wide, 127g (4.1 oz) The presentation reads ‘Presented by the Glasgow Association of Underwriters to Lieut. Alexander Boyton, R. N. in command of H. M. Steam Packet Pike Portpatrick as an acknowledgement of his services at the wreak of the Barque Sovereign of Glasgow 10th July 1847‘. Alexander Boyter entered the Royal Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board the Volontaire of 46 guns (Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy), then at the Cape of Good Hope. Sometime later, while in the Endymion, Boyter was severely wounded on 9th October 1814 in an ill-fated boat attack on the American privateer Prince de Neufchatel, of 18 guns and 130 men, on which occasion the British were repulsed, with a loss of 28 killed and 37 wounded. Boyton was also present at the memorable capture of the President frigate in January 1815. He obtained his commission in February 1815, and continued in the Endymion, latterly in the Channel, until paid off. He was appointed in October 1825 to the Coast Guard, being given the command (4th August 1842) of the PIKE steam-packet, on the Portpatrick station. ‘Stranraer, 10th July. The SOVEREIGN, of and for Greenock, said to be laden with sugar and rum, got on shore at 10.30 pm today in Murrock Bay, a few miles S of Port Patrick [Portpatrick]’. Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,396, London, Tuesday July 13 1847. ‘Greenock, 15th July. Part of the cargo of the SOVEREIGN, from Demerara to the Clyde, which is on shore in Murroch [Morroch] Bay, has been landed’. Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,400, London, Saturday July 17 1847. ‘The loss of this vessel is not cited by I. G. Whittaker (1998); she may have been successfully refloated’ and the inscription on the present lot seems to bear this supposition out. Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2004.
* A Cape gold small two part buckle by Johannes Casparus Lotter (active 1811-1823), Cape Town, circa 1815, each side chased with a diced roundel and scroll borders with a matted ground, 4cm (1.5in) wide. Welz, Stephan ‘Cape Silver’ Cape Town 1976, p. 136 for a brief biography and p. 150 for the marks
FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, 8vo (189 x 125mm.) (Occasional light soiling.) Original cloth (extremities bumped, minor discolouration), dust-jacket (slightly soiled, small tears at fold). – And five others by Fleming, including two other first editions (‘You Only Live Twice’, London 1964, 8vo; ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’, London: 1965. 8vo) (6).
FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Some light spotting to edges.) Original cloth (extremities slightly bumped), dust-jacket (minor nicks, creases and light soiling). – And four others by Fleming, including one other first edition (‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, London: 1963, 8vo) (5).
An interesting collection of approx 55 wooden waterline ships, Naval and Merchant examples. Naval include Queen Mary, Vanguard, Hood, Colossus and Victorious Battleships, Aircraft Carriers Courageous and Furious, destroyer Gloucester, Flagship Albion, Cruiser Repulse, etc. Plus Merchant examples include Cape Town Castle, Drottningholm, Titanic and Antenor. QGC-GC some age wear a few AF.
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