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A vintage English soft toy teddy bear (likely Chad Valley / Chiltern) with short pile plush hair, flat bottom paws and stitched nose along with a Russian clockwork dancing bear. The dancing bear with wooden guitar whose arms and head move when the mechanism is wound to the back dressed in traditional clothing. Smallest measuring approx 24cm.
*Wilhelmina Geddes (1887-1955),Faith, Hope and Charity,a stained glass window, from St Paul's Church, St John's Hill Battersea, and made by Charles F Blakeman (1907-1989), with three two-part tracery panels, a quatrefoil panel and four spandrels, inscribed 'This window was designed by the late W. M. Geddes and made by C. F. Blakeman, 1956', also with cleaning instructions,lower panels 52cm wide, 42cm highcentral panel 52cm wide, 80cm highside panels 52cm wide, 95cm highcentral roundel 32cm wide, 33cm hightwo triangular larger 26 x 19cm two triangular smaller 21 x 11.5cm (11)Wilhelmina Geddes (1887-1955)Ulster-born Wilhelmina Geddes is widely regarded as one of the outstanding designers and makers of stained glass working in the first half of the twentieth century. Trained at Belfast Art School and the Metropolitan College of Art in Dublin, Geddes absorbed the expressive and technical principles of the Arts & Crafts Movement, translating these into a uniquely powerful personal idiom.Some of her earliest work was shown at the important Exhibition of British and Irish Decorative Arts at the Louvre, Paris, in 1914. Subsequently she was given the prestigious commission for a war memorial window (1919) in the Governor-General’s Church (St Bartholomew’s) in Ottawa. Made at the ‘Tower of Glass’ studio in Dublin, it was exhibited to great acclaim in London before its installation in Canada. Moving to London in 1925, she thereafter worked at the renowned ‘Glass House’ studios (Messrs Lowndes & Drury) in Fulham, London. Amongst the commissions she completed in the inter-war period, were windows for churches at Laleham in Middlesex (1926), Northchapel in Sussex (1930), Otterden in Kent (1933) and for St Martin’s Cathedral at Ypres, Belgium (1938). These and other works profoundly impressed younger artists such as Evie Hone and John Piper.The 3-light window depicting Virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity) was commissioned by the Rev. Chad Varah, a radical Anglican priest (and future founder of the Samaritans) who had been appointed rector of St Paul’s Church, St John’s Hill, Battersea (near Clapham Junction) in 1949. Intent on restoring and embellishing the church after war damage, Varah had contacted John Piper, seeking a recommendation for a modern stained glass artist. He was advised to contact Geddes who, despite poor health and struggling with work on two other commissions for London suburban churches – All Hallows, Greenford (1951-2) and St Mildred’s, Lee (1953-4) – agreed to make a design.By now, Geddes’ style had evolved into a remarkably distilled form of monumental expressionism, which was quite unique in British stained glass and which entailed subtle choices of coloured glass and intricate craft processes in the glass-painting. With the assistance of two young craftsmen, Donald Drury and Charles Blakeman, Geddes was able to finish the windows for Greenford and Lee, but her deteriorating eyesight and other ailments made it impossible for her to complete the full-size working cartoons for Battersea. After collapsing in the street and being admitted to St Pancras Hospital, Wilhelmina Geddes died, aged 68, on 10 August 1955.It was decided that the Battersea window, Geddes’ final commission, should be completed from the artist’s designs by Charles Blakeman, who was also working at the Fulham Glass House. Blakeman admired Geddes’ work immensely, having closely observed her design and craft techniques as she carried out her Greenford and Lee projects, and he was determined to do justice to her ideas for the window. The artist’s biographer, the late Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, recorded that by ‘using Geddes’s sketches and cartoons, however illegible, Blakeman was able to adhere to her designs relatively faithfully while still producing a window clearly his own’. The window was finally unveiled in 1956, when it was seen by Rev. Chad Varah, who was ‘highly impressed’ by it.The window depicts Faith, Hope and Charity as three female angelic figures, whose seated forms fill each lancet. At the base of the window are two of the Evangelists and, in the centre, a scene of the Annunciation. Above the figure of Faith is a vignette of St Thomas and Christ, while Hope holds a miniature scene of Noah’s Ark and above Charity is a figure of St Mary Magdalene. The upper tracery lights contain depictions of the Moon and Sun with, in the centre, the Christ Child. An inscription in the right-hand light records that ‘THIS WINDOW WAS DESIGNED BY THE LATE W. M. GEDDES AND MADE BY C. BLAKEMAN 1956'.When St Paul’s church was amalgamated with another parish in the 1970s, the Geddes-Blakeman window was obscured by internal alterations to the building and was effectively inaccessible. The church was finally declared redundant in recent years and later converted to housing. As part of the structural alterations, the stained glass window was removed. Literature: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron and Michael Wynne, 'Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass', Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1988;Nicola Gordon Bowe, 'Wilhelmina Geddes, Life and Work', Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2015;Peter Cormack, 'Arts & Crafts Stained Glass', Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2015. We are very grateful to Peter Cormack for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.*Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot. Condition report: All the panels have been kept in plastic boards, taped both sides. Three lowest panels - structurally sound in the lead frames. No visible defects or cracks. Faith - two cracks to panels. Fourth panel from the bottom on the left - crack to the base of the wing. Fourth panel from the right on the bottom (knee) this panel has a crack.Hope and Charity - both appear without cracks. Both are structurally sound in the lead. All three slightly bowed. Left hand top - yellow crescent moon - cracked panel. The other top panels again appear to be OK. Lead work good on all others.
R.M.S. QUEEN MARY. A Chad Valley R.M.S. Queen Mary cardboard model comprising 13 sections, printed to represent the various decks. Original leaflet & box. Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.
Mettoy Chad Valley and NFIC Diecast and Plastic Buses, Mettoy red diecast clockwork coach, number plate MTY 820, tested well, VG, Chad Valley Midget blue diecast clockwork bus, tested well, two keys, in original box, F, some paint loss, box F, lacks one flap and NFIC Hong Kong red plastic London Transport Double Deck Leyland Bus, friction drive, Regent Ads to both sides, in original box, E, box F-G, tear to both flaps (3)
Chad Valley 6'' tinplate clockwork Double and Single Deck buses, red Double Deck Route 38A Victoria, number plate CV10071, VG, red Single Deck National with London Glasgow De Luxe Express on sides and London to front, number plate CV10073, G, mark to front of roof, green Double Deck Greenline Route 721 Aldgate and Brentwood, number plate CV10071, VG, all motors tested well (3)
Chad Valley Carr's Biscuit tin 10'' tinplate clockwork Double Deck London Transport red bus with lift up lid, in red and cream with black roof, Route 25 Victoria Station, Carrs Biscuits ads on one side, two on front and three on back, Chad Valley Toys on other side, clockwork tested well, G-VG, some minor scratches
REGGAE 12" (ROOTS/DUB/ROCKSTEADY/DANCEHALL - WITH RARITIES!). Totally killer collection of 11 x 12" plus 1 x 10" to get blasting out of your Sound System! Full of rarities, artists/titles are Mikey Dread - Roots And Culture c/w Jungle Dread (Dread At The Controls DATCD 008 - clean Ex condition), Carlton & The Shoes - What A Day (Live And Love LLDIS 116 - Ex condition, very clean record, noted with a possible pressing fault appearing as a 'hairline fracture' running with the groove, this can just be felt but we believe does not affect playback), Steve Baswell - Cool Rasta Man Cool (Phase 1 Records - solid VG condition with some surface marks/VG og company), Dennis Brown/Horace Andy & Ranking Buckers - Master Mix 3 (OB 003 - Ex/VG+), Dennis Brown/Jackie Mittoo - Rebel With A Cause (Jakki JM468 - nice Ex), Desi Roots - Go Deh Right (Hawkeye HD 033, blue vinyl - Ex/VG+ og company), Nico Demus - Gunman Connection (CHAD 44 - Ex), Barry Brown - Physical Fitness (SD 008, blue - Ex), Cornel Campbell - Be Thankful (NIADD 110, blue - VG condition), Black Uhuru, Pad Anthony and Papa Biggie (sic).
REGGAE 12" (ROOTS/DUB/ROCKSTEADY/DANCEHALL - WITH RARITIES!) Irie collection of 21 x 12" once more full of rarities. Artists/titles iunclude Prince Juinor And Mannings - Free Mandella (Metro Sound PBL 04 - Ex only with a couple of very light and minor surface marks, A side very slightly 'faded'), Ras Ibuna - Diverse Doctrin (SNT-01 - Ex/VG+), Half Pint - Jah Love Is Pure & Clean (Tappa Records T.Z.D. 1017 - superb Ex+ condition), Lacksley Castell - Govenernment Man (NERT 008, blue vinyl - Ex condition), Freddy (sic) McKay - Card's On The Table (CS. 001 - VG+), Little Kirk - Ghetto People Broke (Ruddy's Music, 2 copies with blue and harder to source green label designs - both records ace Ex+ condition), Sugar Minott - We Have Fi Live (LL 106 - Ex) and A Letter To Nelson Mandella (SMP 1009 - Ex), B. (Barrington) Levy inc. Blash Rose (CHAD 57 - Ex) and Murderer (Jah-Life JL 008 - Ex+), Gregory Isaacs - Corn A Go Bust (VPRD-750 - Ex), Mikey General - Dance Hall Vibes (DIG 002), Dr. Alimantado, Dillinger, Steel PUlse and Don McCarlos (sic, Carlos) - Nice Time (Late Night Blues) (PIR-001 - please note filler condition only).
Chad Valley, Unknown Maker - A collection of 14 unboxed and mainly unbranded vintage glove puppets. Seven of the puppets appear complete, whilst there are 7 loose heads along with 5 costumes. One of the puppets 'Punch' has a detached and perished head, and the costume bears the Chad Valley label inside. Puppets range in condition between Poor - mainly Fair Plus - Good with age related wear and imperfections. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Chad Valley - Marx - Tri-ang - Elmont - A collection of 11 x vintage tinplate and plastic vehicles including Marx Fire Chief Car, Chad Valley car, Tri-ang Minic van, an Elmont Toys lorry and other similar models. They all show signs of age and use, some have minor damage / small parts missing, the Elmont lorry has some warping. They are in Fair to Good condition overall. (This does not constitute a guarantee )
817 Gunner W. J. Owen of the Royal Field Artillery - Owen's original Edwardian British made straw filled teddy bear, with his 1914 Mons Star medal pinned to the bear's chest, and his original cap badge above. The teddy bear likely Chad Valley or similar in make, with vertical stitched nose and felt pads. (AF). Measures approx; 45cm tall.
Chad Valley remote control car finished in blue with aluminium metal body. Red tinplate printed interior, steerable front wheels with clockwork mechanism (Key included and working) also includes red plastic tubing and rubber/steel plunger. Some scuffs and marks but generally good with fair original box.
Tinplate: A collection of assorted boxed and unboxed tinplate and other collectable items to include: Triang Sailor Ahoy!, Toytown Playground, two Chad Valley vehicles, Bell Cycle, Fair-land Ring the Bell, See-saw, Monkey, Cat, Ladybird and others. Some keys are present. Condition is varying, some damage to boxes. (one box)

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