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Click here to subscribeLarge Persian Kashan crimson ground carpet, large floral central medallion surrounded by trailing branches decorated with leaves and stylised plant motifs, the main border with scrolling design interspersed with palmettes, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 527cm Depth/Diameter: 352cm
Persian Heriz pale olive and ivory ground carpet, large quatrefoil medallion with palmettes, the surrounding field decorated with trailing leafy branches and stylised plant motifs, peach ground borders with overall floral pattern, within guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 378cm Depth/Diameter: 294cm
Persian Kashan crimson ground carpet, indigo ground central pole medallion and spandrels decorated with floral motifs, the field decorated with interlacing leafy branches and palmettes, repeating border with scrolling pattern and stylised plant motifs, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 390cm Depth/Diameter: 297cm
Persian Kashan ivory ground carpet, central rosette medallion with projecting palmettes, densely decorated field depicting trailing leafy branches and stylised plant motifs, the border with similar scrolling pattern, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 410cm Depth/Diameter: 286cm
Persian Kashan crimson ground carpet, floral pattern indigo ground central medallion and matching spandrels, the field decorated densely with scrolling foliate patterns and floral motifs, the main border decorated with scrolling branches and palmettes, within floral pattern guard stripesDimensions: Length/Width: 413cm Depth/Diameter: 295cm
Persian Kashan ivory ground carpet, central medallion decorated with sixteen arranged palmette motifs, within a field decorated with swirling leafy branches and stylised plant motifs, the main border decorated with matching swirling pattern, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 349cm Depth/Diameter: 239cm
Persian Heriz crimson ground carpet, large central medallion surrounded by stylised plant and leaf motifs, ivory ground spandrels with further stylised foliate decoration, the main border with trailing pattern decorated with stylised plant motifs, within guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 292cm Depth/Diameter: 199cm
Persian Kashan indigo ground carpet, large central rosette medallion decorated with alternating palmettes, the surrounding field and spandrels with overall floral design depicting trailing branches and stylised plant motifs, crimson ground border with trailing floral pattern, enclosed within guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 334cm Depth/Diameter: 243cm
Persian Kashan ivory ground carpet, central floral pattern medallion surrounded by trailing branches decorated with stylised flower heads and leaf motifs, swirling pattern spandrels with further floral decoration, the main border decorated with repeating palmettes, within guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 357cm Depth/Diameter: 243cm
Persian Kashan indigo ground carpet, central floral pattern medallion surrounded by a densely decorated field depicting trailing branches with leaves and palmettes, scrolling border decorated with stylised plant motifs, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 360cm Depth/Diameter: 260cm
Persian Bidjar peach ground carpet, central pole medallion enclosed within lozenge field and spandrels, decorated all over with small Heratti motifs, the main border with trailing pattern decorated with stylised plant and Boteh motifs, within two triple band guard stripes with repeating flower head decoration Dimensions: Length/Width: 378cm Depth/Diameter: 298cm
Persian Kashan ivory ground carpet, overall floral design, the field decorated with scrolling and interlaced leafy branches interspersed with palmettes, scrolling border decorated with stylised plant motifs, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 368cm Depth/Diameter: 243cm
Persian Hamadan indigo and red ground carpet, large central medallion decorated with projecting palmette motifs, the surrounding field decorated with trailing branches and flower heads, crimson ground border decorated with stylised plant motifs, within floral pattern guard stripes Dimensions: Length/Width: 329cm Depth/Diameter: 246cm
A grand, life-size oil painting on canvas portrays Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896), the fourth Shah of Persia from the Qajar dynasty. Standing in an opulent interior, he is elegantly dressed in an imperial military uniform, adorned with golden embroidery, medals, and a distinguished sash. His regal presence is further emphasised by his tall Qajar-style hat, featuring the royal emblem. The Shah is depicted resting his hand on a luxurious red velvet and gold-trimmed chair with a richly detailed Persian carpet beneath his feet adds depth and texture to the scene. The background features ornate wall decorations and a Persian calligraphic inscription. H: 189cm, W: 109cm (Framed)
A 19th century Victorian walnut pole screen. The pole screen with needlepoint tapestry having carpet peacock with glass eye and decorated flowers of part berlin beadwork set within glass frame Raised on a tripod base and reeded central column. Adjustable pole setting. Measures 183cm height approx.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS: two albums of b/w snapshot photographs depicting scenes around Palestine and Hejaz railway, 1918-20: includes images of the ceremony of the Holy Carpet in Cairo, views of the Palestine railway as well as General Allenby at Zeitoun, possibly assembled by one Captain Claude Cousens DSO, oblong 8vo/4to, card and reverse calf bindings, larger album externally scuffed but contents generally sound. (2)
TWO QUR’ANS: A QAJAR MANUSCRIPT AND AN OTTOMAN PRINTED BOOK Iran and Ottoman Provinces, respectively dated 1287 AH (1870 AD) and 1329 AH (1911 AD)Comprising an Arabic manuscript on lined paper, with 14ll. of black ink naskh script to the folio, aya markers as gold roundels, with full diacritics and vocalisation, interlinear corrections and notes in red ink, some marginal notes in gold, the opening bifolio with typical Qajar manuscript illumination in polychromes and gold, with cusped arches at the top of the text panel and elaborate fretwork bands with zigzag motif, the first two sura openings in cusped golden cartouches on cobalt blue ground with polychrome floral sprays, the text reserved against gold cloud bands, the remaining sura heading in gold ink, the fly-leaves with notes in a different hand at the end of the text, in a dark red morocco binding; and an Arabic printed book on pressed paper, with 15ll. of black ink printed naskh script, rosette as verse markers, the opening bifolio with a stylised chromolithographed 'carpet page' design in red and green, the colophon with an oval cartouche of text bearing information and the date of the publication, with two stamps, one dated 1318 AH, earlier than the supposed date of publication, in a detached dark brown tooled morocco leather binding.The manuscript 17.5cm x 10.2cm the folioThe printed book: 20.5cm x 13cm the page Qty: 2
A HERIZ CARPET With a central medallion on a brick red ground within similar borders approximately 362cm x 288cm Condition Report: Carpet with significant wear overall as illustrated. Wear reveals underlying weft and warp in areas throughout. Various old stitched repairs, including a old repaired tear through one side border - see images. A patch repair to central field approximately 20 x 10cm. Longest edges have some sections re-bound in varying colours of thread but are untidy. They have various losses, wear, fraying and loose threads. Some undulation to the edges of the carpet - it is not completely square in shape. The fringed ends have moved into the pile and a guard stripe has been lost at both ends. Both ends with wear, fraying, loose threads and losses. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
AN AGRA CARPET With an all over design of leaves and palmettes on a black ground within red ground borders, with a heraldic crest and motto approximately 365cm x 365cm Condition Report: Carpet with the wear overall consistent with age and use. Various areas of additional wear reveal underlying weft and knot heads in places throughout - see images for extent. This is most visiable to the black ground of the central field. The borders with various areas of losses to the pile which appear to be from old moth damage - see images for extent. Fringing has been lost at both ends and replaced with a cords. Longest edges are untidy. They have various losses to the binding, wear, fraying and undulation. There is a tear/area of loss adjacent to the binding towards one corner of the carpet - see images. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Country of origin: IndiaCondition Report Disclaimer
An outstanding Second War submariner’s D.S.M. and Second Award Bar awarded to Leading Telegraphist V. G. Backman, Royal Navy, for his ‘distinguished service, outstanding courage, and devotion to duty’ in successful patrols in H.M. Submarines Porpoise and Tally-Ho Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (JX.129189 V. G. Backman. L.Tel. R.N.) minor edge nick, otherwise about extremely fine £2,400-£2,800 --- Only 147 Second Award Bars were awarded to the Distinguished Service Medal during the Second World War. D.S.M. London Gazette 29 December 1942: ‘For distinguished services in successful patrols in H.M. Submarines.’ D.S.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 February 1945: ‘For outstanding courage, skill, and undaunted devotion to duty in successful patrols in H.M .Submarine Tally-Ho.’ Vernon George Backman was born in Neath, Glamorgan, on 20 March 1911 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 8 February 1927. Appointed a Telegraphist, he transferred to the submarine branch in July 1932, and was promoted Leading Telegraphist in H.M. Submarine Proteus on 2 November 1937. ‘Porpoise Carrier Service’ - D.S.M. Backman joined H.M. Submarine Porpoise on 17 May 1939, and served in her during the Second World War from the outbreak of hostilities until 12 February 1943. After participating in hazardous mine-laying operations off Norway, he was awarded the first of his D.S.M.s for assorted war patrols in the Mediterranean between November 1941 and October 1942, latterly under the command of Lieutenant Leslie Bennington, D.S.C., R.N. - who would win a D.S.O. and a Bar to his D.S.C. in the same period. Much of this service was spent on the Malta run, namely hazardous but essential supply trips with fuel, munitions and general supplies for the besieged island. David Thomas’s Submarine Victory takes up the story: ‘The spring of 1941 was a period of incessant air raids upon Malta, and it was not until Hitler launched his foolish Russian campaign in mid-summer that the German raids ended, although the Regia Aeronautica carried on the aerial battle. One other method of supplying Malta existed - submarines. At Alexandria the minelayers of the 1st Flotilla and the large 'P' Class boats had given sterling service, but they were now called upon to act as submerged cargo carriers, a service which became known as the Magic Carpet Service to Malta. The first submarine to take on this duty was Porpoise, and her contribution was the greatest of all those boats which participated. She ended the Magic Carpet Service with her own special flag bearing the initials P.C.S. denoting Porpoise Carrier Service. The islanders looked forward to the arrival of convoys and our cargo-carrying submarines with such avidity that their arrival was cause for cheers and waves of welcome. When such interest is taken in naval matters by landlubbers in times of stress and anxiety an odd story or two intrudes now and then. Legend has it that on one occasion Porpoise arrived with her torpedo tubes stuffed full with sausages. And for all we know, legend may be truth! Indeed, these submarines were crammed to the nth degree by sailors knowing they had only to suffer the intensely cramped conditions for a few days. Every effort was made by the sailors to stuff into every nook and cranny as much as was humanly possible consistent with the safety of the boat - and even this factor may have had a blind eye turned upon it in the interests of succouring Malta. In addition to Porpoise the four large submarines Cachalot, Parthian, Regent and Rorqual were adapted for this service. The supplies of petrol they carried filled a proportion of their fresh-water tanks, fuel tanks and even main ballast tanks. One section of their batteries was even removed to provide more space for cargo. Nor were these cargo-carrying runs purely operations of mercy. They were patrols - offensive in nature - usually with tubes loaded with twenty-one-inch torpedoes and not sausages. The gallant Porpoise suffered the experience of more than eighty depth-charges in four days on one of these missions. She made in all nine of these trips.’ That mission occurred in mid-August 1942, the Admiralty describing the enemy’s relentless assault as ‘one of the heaviest depth-charge attacks ever made on a British submarine’: in fact Porpoise endured the detonation of no less than 87 depth-charges. The assault commenced after Porpoise had torpedoed the Italian merchantman Lerici about 120 nautical miles off Libya, two escorting enemy destroyers and two torpedo boats delivering a protracted 60 depth-charge attack. Notwithstanding the ferocity of the enemy’s response, Porpoise renewed her attack on enemy shipping off Tobruk, as a result of which she attracted the wrath of yet another enemy destroyer: ‘The destroyer passed overhead and dropped a depth-charge which exploded very close to the submarine. Porpoise was badly shaken, some lights were extinguished and large quantities of corking were dislodged from the deck head, and shortly afterwards fumes and smoke were observed coming from No. 1 Section of the Main Battery. No. 1 Battery was isolated to prevent the spreading of fumes through the submarine. After the first depth-charge attack the destroyer continued in a northerly direction for about three minutes. She then turned back for another run. She then passed astern and dropped four depth-charges which were unpleasantly close and damaged No. 2 and No. 3 Sections of the Battery. Further attacks then followed in quick succession and on each occasion the enemy appeared to be in firm contact. The enemy made a total of 12 attack runs but depth-charges were only dropped during the best runs. Altered course to 210 degrees. The enemy was not able to make contact as easy as before but when she did the attacks were as carefully conducted as before … Altogether the enemy dropped 27 depth-charges. All were very close’ (Captain Bennington’s report refers). On discovering the extent of the damage caused to Porpoise when he was able to surface that evening, Bennington signalled for assistance and the crippled submarine was escorted into Port Said by two destroyers and a fighter escort. Tally Ho - Bar to D.S.M. Transferring to H.M. Submarine Tally Ho on 13 February 1943, where he was soon joined by his old skipper Bennington, Backman served in her until January 1945, initially on war patrols off Norway, Gibraltar and the South of France but afterwards in the Far East. It was for gallant deeds in this latter theatre of war that he was awarded his second D.S.M., while Bennington added a Bar to his D.S.O. and a Second Bar to his D.S.C. in the same period. Submarine Victory again takes up the story: ‘Submarine operations got into full swing in the new year of 1944. Boats were being sent to patrol the shallow waters of the Malacca Straits. All waters are dangerous for submarines in wartime, as we have read; the northern waters of Norway, with their long daylight hours; the Arctic ones with their ice hazards; the shallows off the coast of Europe; the shallows and clarity of the Mediterranean. Now, in the East, submarines were subjected to the peculiar hazards of these oriental waters. Clear, shallow seas are dangerous in themselves. But the Malacca Straits and similar Eastern waters were not always reliably charted. This is no reflection on the magnificent work of the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department. Accurate charts demand frequent surveys to locate shifting sandbanks and similar peculiarities. Commanders and navigators were constantly perturbed by depths which failed to correspond with those shown on the charts. And the knowledge that t...
A box of silver and silver plate, the silver comprising a boxed Mexican letter opener with carpet beater style finial, bears import marks, an Elizabeth II circular napkin ring and a silver topped glass sugar caster, gross weight of silver 92.8 grams, 2.98ozt, the plate to include soup ladle stamped 800, mother of pearl handled serving utensils, etc, boxed napkin rings, etc (1 box)
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