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Animals / Anthropomorphic. Collection of 27 Victorian & Edwardian chromolithographic greetings cards depicting anthropomorphic animals, predominantly Christmas cards. Including depictions of robins drinking wine and eating Christmas pudding; a goat running a milk cart; frogs playing a drum; monkeys dining at a table; a dog cooking a pork chop; cats taking photographs; mice wearing dresses; cats smoking cigars; cats on a racetrack; monkeys drinking tea (by Helena Maguire); cats reading books and writing. To include a c.1905 folding die-cut card of cat wearing driving goggles and hat (27)
Four silver boxes, comprising: a Victorian shaped rectangular card case by Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham 1858, 10cm (4in) long; a cigarette case by Horace Woodward & Co., Birmingham 1912, presentation engraved to C. M. Keiller 1912, for Scottish Six Days' Motor Cycle Reliability Trial; a canted-rectangular dressing table box, London 1903, engraved CMK; and a similar smaller oval box by Deakin & Francis, Birmingham 1917, 339g (10.9 oz) gross Clifton Macnee Keiller (1888-1968) of GWK cars. In February 1908 he began a three year pupilage in the engineer's office at GWR's Swindon Works. J. Talfourd Wood, the W in GWK, was a pupil at Swindon at the same time. 1911 he was living at Springfield, 19 Brackley Road, Beckenham, Kent. The prototype GWK car was built in stables in Beckenham. In 1921 he married, at Wandsworth, to Doris M. Lorden.
Two George IV rosewood card tables, hinged revolving top enclosing baize lined surface, beaded frieze above turned column support raised on quatrefoil base and fluted turned feet W92cm, H70cm, D92cm Condition Report & Further Details The tables were restored in 1981 - label on base. They are very clean and the interiors are restored. Small piece of beadwork missing from one table. Some splits to veneers on one table. Slight warping to top of one table. Some worm in columns on both tables.Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
[JOHNSON AMY]: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A good hardbound 4to menu for a Luncheon in Honour of Miss Amy Johnson, being ‘A Tribute from Representatives of British Youth & Achievement in all Activities of Life to Her Courage and Endurance during her Historic Flight from England to Australia May 5-24, 1930’, hosted by the proprietors of the Daily Mail at the Savoy Hotel, London, on 6th August 1930, signed to two inside pages by over twenty individuals present at the luncheon, including Richard Richardson (Lord Mayor of Hull, the city of birth of Johnson) and his wife, the Lady Mayoress, the Deputy Lord Mayor, and the Sheriff of Hull and his wife, Woolf Barnarto (1895-1948, British Financier & Racing Driver, one of the ‘Bentley Boys’ of the 1920s and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race in 1928, 1929 & 1930), Eileen Fearnley-Whittingstall (1907-1979, English Tennis Player who won six Grand Slam doubles titles 1927-31), Harry Gordon Selfridge Jr. (1900-1976, Son of Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr., founder of the department store Selfridges), John William Johnson and Amy Johnson (the parents of Amy Johnson), William Morris (1877-1963, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English Motor Manufacturer & Philanthropist), George Sutton (Managing Director of Associated Newspapers), Mildred Bruce (1895-1990, Mrs. Victor Bruce, British Record-Breaking Racing Motorist, Speedboat Racer and Aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s), Sylvia Thompson (1902-1968, English Novelist), Diana Fishwick (1912-1998, English Women’s Golf Champion), H. W. ‘Bunny’ Austin (1906-2000, English Tennis Player, Wimbledon finalist in 1932 & 1938), Tom Webster (1886-1962, English Cartoonist & Caricaturist; alongside an original pencil sketch of a long bearded man standing in a full length pose with the holograph caption ‘I may not look 35, but there! I’m a Russian’), William McWhirter (English Editor of the Sunday Pictorial and Managing Director of Associated Newspapers 1944-50, father of Norris and Ross McWhirter, founders of Guinness World Records), Violette Cordery (1900-1983, British Racing Driver & Long Distance record breaker), Jack Hylton (1892-1965, English Pianist & Band Leader), Lupino Lane (1892-1959, English Actor & Theatre Manager), Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905-1962, English Actress), P. H. Fearon (1874-1948, British Cartoonist for the Daily Mail, known as ‘Poy’; alongside an original pencil caricature of the Brighton hotelier Harry Preston), Richard Hughes (1900-1976, British Writer) etc. All have signed in bold pencil or dark fountain pen inks. The menu includes a Sonnet in Homage to Johnson by Robert Nichols, an essay entitled Dea Ex Machina by Sylvia Thompson and illustrated with six photographs of Johnson taken at various stages of her historic flight, a Guest List organised by profession, and the cover features a reproduction of a painting by Joan Manning Sanders (some tears and age wear). Accompanied by the loosely inserted original printed oblong 8vo invitation card issued to Annie Croft and a printed table plan for the luncheon. With the ink ownership signature of Annie Croft (1896-1995, English Stage Actress, mother of the writer & producer David Croft) to the upper edge of the front cover. The binding is a little loose and with some light overall age wear, G
GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH: GEORGE VI(1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & ELIZABETH (1900-2002) Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Signed Christmas greetings card by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth individually, the folding 8vo stiff cream card featuring an image to the inside of the Royal couple standing in full length poses together alongside their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. The four stand on the upper deck of HMS Vanguard as they arrive at Cape Town at the start of the Royal Tour of the Union of South Africa in 1947. Table Mountain can be clearly seen in the distance. Signed by King George VI ('George R') and Queen Elizabeth ('Elizabeth R') in fountain pen inks beneath a printed greeting and dated 1948 in the King's hand. With gold embossed crown to the front. A couple of very light, small stains to the lower edges, VG

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