Shropshire Society in London Life Saving Medal, Captain Matthew Webb left, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to The Designer upon the Institution of the Decoration’, edge inscribed (Captain Adrian Jones, M.V.O., R.B.S. President) 51mm., silver, with ring suspension and ribbon, with silver brooch bar, extremely fine £300-400 Adrian Jones was born on 9 February 1845, the fourth son of James Brookholding Jones of Ludlow. After being educated at Ludlow Grammar School he served 23 years in the Army - in the 3rd Hussars, Queen’s Bays and 2nd Life Guards - seeing service in the Abyssinian War 1868 (medal); the 1st Boer War 1881, and the Nile Expedition (medal and star). A noted Sculptor, he was awarded the M.V.O. 4th Class in 1907 on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the Duke of Cambridge at Whitehall for which he was responsible. His other works include the Royal Marines Monument, St. James’s Park, the Carabineers’ Memorial, Chelsea Embankment, and the Peace Quadriga on Constitutional Hill Arch. In 1935 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Captain Jones died on 24 January 1938.
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Pair: Drummer W. Barton, Royal Irish Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3915 Dr., Rl. Irish Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3915 Dmr., Rl. Irish Fus.) minor contact marks, very fine (2) £200-240 William Thomas Barton was born in Chelsea, London. A Musician by occupation, he attested for the Royal Irish Fusiliers at London on 30 June 1891, aged 15 years. Attesting as a Boy, he was appointed a Drummer in September 1891. With the 2nd Battalion he served in South Africa October 1899-October 1902. He was discharged at Holywood, having completed his period of engagement, on 29 June 1903. With original parchment Discharge and Character Certificates and copied attestation papers.
THEO FENNELL - two pairs of 18ct gold mounted gem set earrings to include a pair of hooped earrings, each collet set with a circular cut sapphire, the second pair of circular design, each collet set to the centre with a circular cut peridot, to a domed surround applied with beaded decoration, both with post and butterfly fittings (2) Lengths 1.7cm and 1.2cm Theo Fennell (b. 1951) studied art at York and the Byam Shaw. going on to become an apprentice designer with Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd. He established his own workshop in Hatton Garden to design and create silverware. In 1982 he opened his first shop in Chelsea`s Fulham Road. Fennell experimented across a broad spectrum of design, all the upholding the belief that jewellery and silverware can be irreverent as well as beautiful, and exhibiting a scrupulous eye for minute detail.
A CHELSEA-DERBY REEDED CREAM JUG painted in green monochrome with flower sprays and sprigs beneath a gilt dentil rim, the foot and handle gilt, 12cm h, gilt conjoined anchor and D, c1775 and two Chelsea-Derby coffee cups and a coffee cup and saucer, one of the cups similarly painted with swags, the other and a cup and saucer with polychrome sprays beneath a blue and gilt anthemion or dentil rim, painted crown over D in puce or blue, c1780-86 (5) ++Wear to the gilding on the rim and handle. Saucer with a few tiny rim nicks, one of the coffee cups with wear to the gilding on the dentil rim. The green monochrome coffee cup with some typical light wreathing of the glaze but no significant damage, unsightly flaking or restoration
A CHELSEA DISH with Warren Hastings type moulded border, painted with three vignettes, flowers and a butterfly, the three panels and rim gilt, 29cm diam, painted anchor in red enamel, c1756 ++Broken into three pieces and restuck. The breaks visible on he reverse from the front glazed over. An acceptable example from the Godden Reference Collection
A LIVERPOOL CHELSEA EWER CREAM JUG, SETH PENNINGTON AND JOHN PART with triple scroll handle, printed in underglaze blue with floral sprays and a wreath, having `maltese cross` inner border, 8.5cm h, c1780-95 ++In fine condition, minute firing crack in part of the handle glazed over during manufacture, no restoration
A Packet: approximately 70+ assorted Soccer Programmes, mainly Chelsea Football Club interest, 1969-70 and 1970-71, assorted home and away matches including Chelsea v Newcastle United 25th February 1970, Chelsea v Birmingham City 3rd January 1970, Chelsea v Leeds United 10th January 1970, Chelsea v Sunderland 31st January 1970, Chelsea v Burnley 17th September 1969, Chelsea v Arsenal 27th September 1969, Chelsea v Coventry City 1st November 1969, Chelsea v Manchester City 20th December 1969 etc
Reginald Wells (British, 1877-1951) A small Pot, circa 1912 Stoneware, mottled dark red glaze with pale blue, green and white splashes, impressed COLDRUM CHELSEA ; Provenance: Private Collection, Suffolk" Height 13.3cm, Diameter 14cm Condition: In perfect condition with no damage or restoration View on auctionatrium.com
A Worcester Blind Earl pattern dessert plate circa 1770, the circular plate decorated in the workshop of James Giles, moulded in relief with rose buds and leaves and painted in brightly coloured enamels with moths and insects, within a scalloped gilt lined rim, 19cm diameter The design for this plate originated at the Chelsea porcelain factory and was also produced at the Worcester factory from the 1750`s. In the 19th century the pattern was named after the Earl of Coventry who lost his sight in a riding accident. He ordered a service in this pattern so that he could feel the raised decoration.
FREDERICK GEORGE DAWTREY DREWITT (1848-1942) The Moselle Bridge at Coblenz, with pencil inscription on mount `Turner`s Coblenz copied at Brantwood 1881. F. Dawtrey Drewitt` watercolour 12 x 18 1/4in (30.5 x 46.4cm) This watercolour is a copy after Turner`s Coblenz, 1842, Wilton 1530 (Art Museum Cincinatti). That original hung at Brantwood and appears on the wall of John Ruskin`s bedroom (in which he died) in the watercolour by Arthur Severn, painted in April 1900 (versions in Ruskin Foundation and Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Dawtrey Drewitt presumably knew Ruskin well in order to have gained access to Ruskin`s Collection of Paintings. Unfortunately 1881 was a year of ill health for Ruskin and the Brantwood Diary, where a visit from Drewitt would otherwise have been recorded, doesn`t continue after February of that year. Frederick G. Dawtrey Drewitt was the biographer of Edward Jenner (the naturalist and discoverer of vaccination) and Historian of the Chelsea Physic Garden. A Pathologist by profession, Drewitt`s other interests beside painting, included Zoology and Botany. As well as being a watercolourist, he also experimented with print making. He exhibited at The Royal Academy on various occasions.
PHILIP REINAGLE, R.A., (1749-1833) The Watering Place, with inscription on the reverse `Chelsea Philip Reinagle, R.A. from Reinagle O.G., Daughter of Philip Reinagle to J.H. Smith, Caradoc Lodge, Church Stretton` oil sketch on canvas 12 1/2 x 16in (31.7 x 40.7cm) The location is said to be on the Thames at Chelsea Provenance: J.H. Smith Hesba Stretton , the novelist (1832-1911) with Sotheby`s January 1968. Thence to the present vendor`s family
Football autographs. An album containing over 500 newspaper and magazine cuttings depicting portraits and action shots of football players and teams from the early 1950s, bearing approx. 250 ink autographs of major stars of the day from numerous clubs including Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Liverpool, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Southampton, West Ham United, Leicester City, Charlton Athletic, Middlesborough, Preston, Sunderland, etc., players autographs include Tommy Lawton, Jimmy Dickinson, Doug Reid, Jack Milburn, Bill Nicholson, Alf Ramsey, Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Stanley Matthews, etc., album size 36.5 x 24 cm (1)
Football. F.A. Cup Semi-Final, March 27, 1920, Bristol City v. Huddersfield Town, the Chelsea F.C. Chronicle Official Programme, vol. XV. No. 37, 4pp., cover with Grand National illustration “Favourites Both for the Big Jump” by Bernhard Hugh, a few creases, 4to. The semi-final was played at Stamford Bridge, with Huddersfield winning 2-1, meeting Aston Villa in the final, (Villa winning 1-0 in extra time), also played at Stamford Bridge, the first final after the end of the First World War. (1)
* Williams (Christopher David, 1873-1934). Portrait of Lieutenant Harry Atheling Russell Boustead, R.F.C., 1892-1917, oil on canvas, signed lower right, and dated 1918, 112 x 81cm (44 x 32 ins), some minor flaking to upper left corner, contemp. gilt moulded frame, incorporating laurel leaves and berries (with framer’s label of Chapman Bros., 241 Kings Road, Chelsea, to verso), small handwritten label to verso ‘Lieut. Har. Boustead R.F.C., mentioned in Despatches, painted by Christopher Williams, 71 Eardley Rd., S.W.5’. Harry Boustead was the fourth and youngest son of John and Leila Boustead. He attended Harrow School, where he became Head of House and won the champion senior swimming cup. He went on to University College, Oxford, winning the 100 yard swimming race for Oxford v Cambridge in 1913, and gaining his BA in 1914. On the outbreak of war, Boustead obtained a commission in the 2/8 Middlesex Regiment, and travelled with them to Egypt in August 1915, where he saw active service on the Western Frontier Campaign against the Senussi. On his return in 1916, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, and after a month’s training obtained his wings and was posted to France in October 1916. He saw six months flying service, once bringing down two German machines in one day, but was killed on April 5th 1917 in an aerial fight with two hostile machines. His observer was killed, and though terribly wounded, he fought off the enemy and succeeded in re-crossing British lines, making a safe and successful landing, where he died an hour later. Lieutenant Boustead was subsequently mentioned in Despatches on December 13th, 1917. His Wing Commander wrote to his father ‘Your son was a very gallant officer and died a magnificent death, and even if he receives no official recognition of his gallantry, the story of his last fight will remain as fine a memorial as any official reward could be’. See Harrow Memorials of the Great War, pub. 1918-21. Christopher David Williams (1873-1934) a portrait, figure and landscape painter, was born at Maestag, and educated in Cardiff and Oswestry. He studied painting at the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. (1)
*Thames Tunnel. Opening of the Thames Tunnel. Visitor’s Ticket, Admission to view the Procession, 1843, engraved green card with vign. of the tunnel entrance at head, the word ‘procession’ struck through and in ink written the words ‘opening of the tunnel as a thoroughfare’, the date completed as Saturday 25 March, the ticket valid at Rotherhithe only, with the time 3 o’clock inserted by hand, 75 x 115mm, together with a ticket for ‘The Lying in State of the Remains of Field Marshal The Late Duke of Wellington’, in the Hall of Chelsea Hospital on Friday 12 November 1852, printed in black on thick white paper with black border, plus the Lord Chamberlain’s facsimile signature and embossed stamp to lower margin, a little soiled and creased, 85 x 130mm (2)
Marie Walker-Last (1917-), Abstract, initialled, inscribed on verso, mixed media, 24 x 26.5cm.; 9.5 x 10.5in. * She trained at the Chelsea School of Art, under Vivian Pitchforth and, later under Sir Terry Frost and Robert Medley. She and her husband were great friends of Ben Nicholson and Dame Barbara Hepworth, and she mixed in London with many of the great painters of the day; she also met Alfred Wallis, who was such a great influence on the work of Ben Nicholson. In her earlier days, she exhibited world-wide, with Exhibitions in London, Paris, Athens, Florence and Australia, and in 1988, she won First Prize in the Druce Constable Award at an exhibition of contemporary British landscape painting in the Camden Arts Centre. Her works are in the Collections of the Bank of England, the Halifax Building Society, Granada Television, the Arthur Haigh Collection, the Open University, Yorkshire Television, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums and the Universities of Leeds, Bradford and York.
A collection of twenty-four 1940`s and 50`s football programmes comprising 15th November 1947 Huddersfield Town vs Preston North End, Story of the FA Cup 1948 Finalists twenty pictures and details booklet, Wednesday 16th November 1949 England vs Ireland International played at Manchester Cities ground Main Road, Wednesday 21st September 1949 England vs FA of Ireland played at Goodison Park, Tuesday December 27th 1949 Oldham Athletic vs Mansfield Town, Saturday 15th April 1950 Scotland vs England played at Hampden Park, 14th October 1950 Leicester City vs Doncaster Rovers, Saturday 4th February Bolton Wanderers vs Portsmouth, April 8th 1950 Huddersfield Town vs Derby County played at Elland Road, England vs Scotland International Saturday 15th April 1950, Wednesday 18th January 1950 England vs Switzerland International programme, Saturday 5th January 1952 Bolton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur, Saturday 15th December 1951 Buxton vs Aldershot, 11th April 1952 Burnley FC vs Swansea Town, Saturday 18th October 1952 Sheffield Wednesday vs Derby County, Saturday 21st February 1953 Bolton Wanderers vs Aston Villa, Saturday September 12th 1953 Preston North End vs Newcastle Utd (x2), Wednesday 11th November 1953 England vs Ireland International played at Goodison Park, Saturday March 19th 1954 Bolton Wanderers vs Cardiff City, Saturday October 23rd 1954 Portvale vs Ipswich Town, Saturday 5th February 1955 Stoke City vs Luton Town, Saturday 16th November 1957 Bolton Wanderers vs Nottingham Forrest, Saturday 5th April 1957/58 Bolton Wanderers vs Manchester City, December 26th 1957 Mossley vs Hyde Utd, Saturday 6th April 1957 England vs Scotland International played at Wembley, Monday April 7th 1958 Nottingham Forrest vs Chelsea, Saturday December 19th 1959 Tottenham Hotspur vs Newcastle Utd and 26th December 1958 Birmingham City vs Manchester City, also a small quantity of 1960`s advertising sheets to include Lawrences Big Name in the Big Game football boot brochure, Football Stars Past, Present and Future no.2, 1964 team photograph sheets `The Story of Pele the World No.1 Footballer` booklet, `Football Favourites In Action`, `Todays Footballers In Action no.3`, `Football Manager of the Year Awards World Cup Series Fixture List 1966`, also a smaller quantity of Speedway and other programmes to include Belle Vue Speedway Manchester 2nd July 1966, Belle Vue Stock Car racing Saturday 6th May 1967, Wednesday 16th August 1967 High Speed Gas Challenge, Saturday 15th April 1967 The Double Diamond Trophy, Great Britain vs Russia International Speedway Test Match series 1964 for Saturday 4th July, Wednesday 8th July and Saturday 11th July contained in one programme etc (approx 40 pieces)
A fine Chelsea coloured "Goat and Bee" jug circa 1745/47, probably modelled by `Nicholas Sprimont`, the branch form handle painted in shades of brown and applied with naturalistic coloured oak leaves, the lower section modelled with two recumbent goats seated nose to tail below a realistic modelled and coloured bee on flowerheads in red, blue, pink and yellow, the jug is painted with colourful flowers, a ladybird and butterfly, the rim with brown line, incised triangle mark to base, height 11cm (Note: coloured `Goat and Bee` jugs are much rarer than white versions) (illustrated)
A collection of 30 professional and personal photographs relating to Jack Boyer and the Boyer Family, Directors of Chelsea FC 1910s through to the 1940s, including a real photo postcard of the 1912-13 Chelsea team and an official photo by W H Jacques of the 1947-48 team; the remainder largely of a family and personal nature, it is believed that some of the people in the photographs are from the Mears family. Jack Boyer, and his father before him H. Boyer, wee Directors of Chelsea FC. Jack Boyer also had links with Queen`s Park Rangers FC.
A page from the official Wembley Stadium Distinguished Visitors Book signed on the occasion of the Chelsea v Charlton Athletic 1944 Football League (South) War Cup Final signed by General Dwight Eisenhower and other dignitaries, sold with a colour scan of the original front cover to the Wembley Visitors Book that was employed between 1935 and 1947; and digital archive match reports from The Times newspaper (3) The 1943-44 Season was the fourth season of special wartime football matches played in Britain during the Second World War, after normal Football League and Football Association Cup football was suspended in England in September 1939. Teams were split into a north and south regionalised system. The Southern Cup final was contested between Charlton Athletic and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium on 15th April 1944. All 85,000 tickets were sold and all players were professionals, which was not always the case during the war years. Charlton won the game 3-1 and then went on to play the Northern Champions Aston Villa in a play-off at Stamford Bridge. The game ended 1-1 and honours were shared. The Visitors Books bears signatures of some Illustrious personalities who were present at the match, and is a unique record of the Chelsea v Charlton War Cup final. Importantly, the book bears the signature of General Dwight Eisenhower who, at the beginning of 1944, had been ordered to Britain from the Mediterranean to be Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. A photograph of Eisenhower meeting the Chelsea team on the Wembley pitch before the game was reproduced on p.596 of The Guinness Record of the F.A. Cup by Mike Collett (Guiness Publishing Ltd., 1993). Less than three months after the Chelsea v Charlton Cup final, the D-Day Landings commenced on 6th June 1944, ultimately leading to the declaration of victory on V.E. Day 8th May 1945. The following month H.M. King George VI conferred the Order of Merit on Eisenhower, who later became the 34th President of the United States of America in January 1953 and serving two terms until his retirement in 1960. He died in 1969. Other signature in the Visitors Book include: Harold Alexander (later Earl Alexander of Tunis), Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre of War 1944-1945; Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service 1940-45; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1945-1951; Firoz Khan Noon, Indian Representative, British War Cabinet, 1944-45, later leader of the Pakistan Republican Party; 1st Baron Wigram, Colonel of the 19th Lancers, Indian Army, and Extra Equerry to King George VI 1936-1952; Group Captain Sir Louis Greig, Gentleman Usher in Ordinary to King George VI 1924-36, Extra Gentleman Usher 1937-1952 (he also played international rugby for Scotland); William Phillips, Personal Representative of the President of the United States to India 1942, Political Officer (U.S.) on General Eisenhower`s Staff, London, 1943-44; Sir Frank Newson-Smith Bt., Lord Mayor of London 1943-44; 1st Earl of Woolton, Member of the War Cabinet 1943-45, Minister of Reconstruction 1943-45; General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Adjutant-General to the Forces 1941-46; General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, GOC-in-C, Anti-Aircraft Command 1939-45; and others.
A group of three exercise books containing 1950s football autographs, team groups including on F.A. Headed paper, the England team v Scotland 9.4.1949, Aldershot, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Bristol City and Rovers, Carlisle United, Charlton Athletic, Chelsea (reserves), Chesterfield, Colchester United, Darlington, Derby County, Dundee United, Everton, Exeter City, Fulham, Gillingham, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Leyton Orient, Luton Town, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Millwall, Newcastle United, Northampton Town, Norwich City, Newport County, Oldham Athletic, Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth, QPR, Sheffield United & Wednesday, Shrewsbury Town, Southampton, Southend United, Stockport County, Stoke City, Swansea Town, Torquay United, Tottenham Hotspur, WBA, Wolverhampton Wanderers, plus many individuals including the Busby Babes Duncan Edwards (twice), Roger Byrne, also Tom Finney, Stanley Matthews, Don Revie, Len Shackleton any many other stars of the day
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