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Lot 2680
LOUISIANA SLAVE TRADE: A BILL OF SALE FOR THREE SLAVES Dated 6th December 1833, New Orleans, concerning the sale of three individuals: Jourdan, a boy aged fifteen; Elias, aged fourteen years; and Seye, aged thirteen years; signed by William Boswell, Notary Public, with a cheque for $2,520 attached Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 397
Tito Jackson and David Guest signed America Cinema Awards Foundation Wells Fargo Bank cheque dated 3.22.1994. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 191
GB stamps: Unusual complete Lloyds cheque book of 1912 with unfranked one penny scarlet postage revenue issue, SG 350, cat £25 each, used alongside fiscal impressed penny on every one of its 30 cheques, serials 0271-0300. GB stamps: Unusual complete Lloyds cheque book of 1912 with unfranked one penny scarlet postage revenue issue, SG 350, cat £25 each, used alongside fiscal impressed penny on every one of its 30 cheques, serials 0271-0300. GB stamps: Unusual complete Lloyds cheque book of 1912 with unfranked one penny scarlet postage revenue issue, SG 350, cat £25 each, used alongside fiscal impressed penny on every one of its 30 cheques, serials 0271-0300.
Lot 289
Telly Savalas Signed cheque 15/02/1977, with colour photo. Framed. Measures 11 inch by 16-inch appx. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 298
Jamie Lee Curtis signed cheque 08/09/1980 with colour photo from the movie Perfect. Framed. Measures 14 inch by 17-inch appx. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 6427
Peter Cushing (1913-1994). Coutts & Co cheque, 1992 - handwritten and signed by the actor in his familiar blue ink, drawn on the account of Peter Cushing Productions Ltd. for £19.75 in favour of Inland Revenue, dated 2.x.1992, with Ref. no. 136 1x DC1403 9301 (2782) handwritten on reverse. Provenance: ex- Peter Cushing Collection: Canterbury Auctions, 2023.
Lot 5255
Autographs: Stars of Stage and Screen - 20+ Signed photographs, many Inscribed to John, Includes, Fred Astaire, Signed black and white photograph and Signed small white card (2); Rock Hudson, Signed black and white photograph and Signed white card (2); Robert Mitchum, Signed black and white photo card, folded, postmarked, Los Angeles, California; Jimmy Stewart, Signed black and white photograph, with original envelope postmarked Los Angeles California, and handwritten label with Stewarts Beverley Hills, PO Box address on reverse; David Niven, Signed black and white photograph, within original envelope printed with David Nivens Samuel Goldwyn Studio, Los Angeles address; Faye Dunaway, Signed Towering Inferno black and white publicity photograph, with COA; Elizabeth Taylor, black and white publicity photograph and Signed small white card, with a printed cream card, handwritten in blue pen; Judy Garland, facsimile Signed black and white publicity photograph, within original envelope, postmarked Culver City, California, with MGM Studios printed logo top left; Rory Calhoun; Original Signed Bank of America cheque, dated 5/2/1961; Dan Duryea, Signed inscription on a slip of paper cut out from Leading Men, issue No. 79; George Raft display, Signed on a piece of blue paper beneath, mounted, 20.5 x 30cm; Fred MacMurray, Signed black and white photograph and further Signed white card (2); Virginia Mayo, Signed black and white photograph with COA; others include, Michael Caine; Richard Burton; John Mills; Richard Todd; Jack Buchanan; Red Skelton; Glen Ford; and others, various sizes, the largest 8 x 10 inches. (22)Condition Report: overall good conditions with strong signatures.
Lot 99
Wilde (Oscar).- Douglas (Lord Alfred) Autograph Letter signed to Robert Sherard, 2pp., declining to view the proofs for Sherard's upcoming biography, stating that he is satisfied in regards to Sherard's understanding of his behaviour in relation to and support of Wilde "though at one time you were misled, as many others were, by the likes of Ross, Harris & others, & even (I must add) by the misstatements Oscar himself. But now you have seen his own personal letters & you know that I gave him quite a lot of money when I left him at Naples & later" and stating that Sherard has generally treated him well "& probably given me credit for being better than I was!", 1 St. Ann's Court, Hove, 29th September, 1936, folds, hole-punches (affecting 1 word), stitch-marks and paper residue to left-hand margin; and a cheque for 10 guineas made out to Douglas by Sherard, signed by Douglas on verso, v.s. (2)*** Bosie complaining to Wilde's principal early biographer about mis-characterisations of his behaviours by Robert Ross, Frank Harris and Wilde himself. The letter and cheque both likely related to Douglas' contributions to Sherard's forthcoming Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris and Oscar Wilde (T. Wener Laurie, 1937). Provenance: from the estate of the late Max Reinhardt. Proceeds from the sale will benefit MaxLiteracy.org, which inspires creative writing in young people - set up in memory of Max and his authors.
Lot 497
Ava Gardner framed signed cheque for $100.00 Dated June 65 and black and white photo of Ava above. Measures 13"x17" appx. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 489
Rex Harrison mounted signed cheque for $7.00 dated 1st December 1959, with colour photo from My fair Lady. Measures 17"x14" appx. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 358
* Signatures. An assorted group of approx. 225 signatures, mostly 19th century, a few earlier and later, by luminaries from the world of music, the arts, theatre, politics and religion, including autographs of Ignaz Paderewski, Laurence Housman, Harold Monro, Edward Landseer, Frederick Lord Leighton, Hilliare Belloc, Edgar Wallace, Vera Britain, Joe Beckett (boxer), Randolph S. Churchill, Feodor Chaliapin, Gerard Hoffnung, Hall Caine, J. B. Priestley, William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, Charles Villiers Stanford, E. F. Benson, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Arthur Bliss, Imogen Holst, Josiah Gilbert Holland (American Poet), John Wilson Croker, Henry Pelham Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, Charles Beresford, Eric Crozier and Martin Shaw, Sir Frederick Bridge, Constant Lambert, Benjamin Gigli, Sir George Dyson, John Ruskin, Teresa Carreno, William Gillette (1st Sherlock Holmes), Benoît-Constant Coquelin, Marie Tempest, Madge Kendal, Sir Charles Hubert H. Parry, Julia Neilson-Terry and Fred Terry, Arthur Wing Pinero, Alfred Piccaver, Christine Nilsson, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Edward Poynter, Reginald Heber (autograph cheque), Henry W. Bellows (American Clergyman), Moses L. Scudder (American Methodist), Walter de la Mare, Lascelles Abercrombie, Edna Lyall, Sir John Simon, Dame Clara Butt (Autograph Music Quotation Signed), William Congreve, of The Congreve Rocket, (address panel and fragment autograph letter unsigned), Sir George Henschel, Edward Lloyd, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Gervase Elwes, Gilbert Frankau, Austen Chamberlain, John Keble, Sir Arnold Bennett, Pietro Annigoni, Sir John Tenniel, Joseph Joachim, Samuel A. Storrow, E. R. G. R. Evans, Anthony Hope Hawkins, and many others, all signed on one side only and with only a few on the same page, mostly 8vo and smallerQTY: (approx. 225)
Lot 236
* Lister (Joseph, 1827-1912), British surgeon, medical scientist, and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Joseph Lister’, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, 15 May 1889, to C. B. Lockwood, thanking him for the ticket sent to him for the Humphry [?Davy] dinner, ‘I of course should not have thought for a moment of asking permission to attend except in the understanding that I should be allowed to pay for the ticket’, and enclosing a cheque (not present), two old hinge remains to left margin not affecting text, 2 pp., 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).
Lot 235
* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900), English writer, art critic and artist. Autograph Letter Signed, 'J. Ruskin', Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 12 October 1881, to Tarrant and Mackrell [his solicitors], 'It is really a pleasure to me to see your hand again and to enclose cheque clearing St George as well as myself', thanking them for their 'steady assistance', light spots at foot of page not affecting signature or text, 1 page on letterhead with integral blank leaf, mounting adhesion remains to upper margin of blank final page, 8vo, together with a second Autograph Letter Signed with initials, Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, no date, to Arthur, a short note concerning some diagrams for a lecture, 1 page with integral blank leaf, 8vo, plus a carte de visite of Ruskin by Elliott & Fry, mounting remains to card versoQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).The Guild of St George is a charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy, founded by John Ruskin in 1871.
Lot 426
A COLLECTION OF SCALES, MEASURING EQUIPMENT, WEIGHTS, ETC, to include a large Avery Tobacco Scale, an early 20th century 'Haspy & Co' protectograph cheque writing machine, a green vintage cast iron set of scales, a 'Sikes Buss Hydrometer,' small hand tools and individual weights, (Condition Report: Varying degrees of rust, dust, untested)
Lot 611
A collection of various hand drawn design elements, including borders, lettering, portraits and other elements of bank note design, largely on card in pencil, ink and watercolour these exquisite and detailed designs vary in size and condition but are generally good with some discolouration and foxing to some of the designs, some incomplete, including a design for Colombo Sri Lanka Co-operative Provincial Bank cheque
Lot 604
A collection of Specimen Cheques and Money Orders, a range of examples from the 19th and 20th Century, in various conditions, some mounted on card, including an 1880's US postal note, mounted on card, Poor, an 1890's Thomas Cook & Sons £5 circular note, mounted on paper poor to fair, a Laem Thong Bank Ltd Bangkok, specimen cheque, in good condition, an Iraqi Embassy London, Rafidain Bank specimen cheque, good condition, and more, fifteen in total, along with a reproduction of a 1968 '1000-Mile-Per-Watt' world record achievement certificate
Lot 503
Bank of Cyprus, two original hand drawn design essays for the face and reverse of a £50 Travellers cheque, both on thick card and framed with grey paper, the visible area of each design measuring 7.0cms x 20.0cms, a few spots and stains here and there but overall clean, along with a specimen £10 travellers cheque of the same design, with two red SPECIMEN overprints and three cancellation holes, in crisp uncirculated conditionPLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL IMAGES
Lot 584
Australia, a collection of printed copies of plate proofs for various Westpac Banking Corporation travellers cheque designs, including five 20 Dollar designs on pink paper, roughly trimmed from larger sheets, along with four prints of face and reverse designs of a 100 Dollar travellers cheque, on thin wove paper, untrimmed, some notes and annotations are visible and the face designs bear the date 16/3/84,
Lot 499
Central Bank of Ceylon, a collection of plate proofs of various notes including the 1979 circulation series, including the 20 Rupees face in red, indigo and green, 50 Rupees face in black, 100 Rupees face and reverse in blue, red and green, along with six other multi coloured, single sided, sample printings of unidentified notes, also included is a hand drawn design essay for a bank cheque on printed backing paper, mounted on card, which includes some printed overlaid panels to the left hand side, and has a designers overlay attached Specimen note for 1979 50 rupees in specimen folder - SBN24BSpecimen note for 1979 50 rupees in specimen folder - SBN24B
Lot 859
Ephemera, a broad selection of interesting items to include 1910 H.M. Yacht Victoria & Albert dance card, 1936 TGWU Rates of Pay booklet, French department store advertising cards, 1898 Reading certificate to kill game, souvenir programmes for Tom Jones, Sacha Distel, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Cliff Richard, The Shadows and Arthur Askey in Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (2 different), old cheques and cheque books mainly London & Westminster Bank Ltd, various 19thC documents and letters, Jean Simmons signed photo (with pin holes), signed postcard Anna May Wong and much more (gen gd)
Lot 545
THREE BOXES OF EPHEMERA, BOOKS & SUNDRIES to include a folder containing foreign banknotes, cheque books, 1960's Pop music theatre bills, a silk, tv magazines, die-cast cars, a Film Review book, five books on Royalty, The Story of Seventy Momentous Years - The Life And Times Of King George V, Queen Mary A Picture Pageant Of Her Wonderful Years, Sixty Years A Queen, King Emperor's Jubilee, Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, an Official Souvenir Programme of The Coronation Of Their Majesties King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, a Kings & Queens of England from 1066 scroll, ten Football statuette trophies and thirteen Birmingham football medals
Lot 687
1855 (Dec 24) Entire letter from Tanna to Bombay endorsed "Stamped & Registered, Letter no 30", franked 1854 1a (four margins) cancelled by "9" in diamond of bars, backstamped with red boxed "TANNA / Paid" datestamp and "G.P.O / 1 A.M" Christmas day arrival datestamp. A fine 1854 issue registered cover, originally enclosing a cheque. Photo on Page 98.
Lot 724
Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852) - a Coutts & Co. Cheque, dated 17th November 1825, pre-printed form, completed in manuscript, payable to himself, for £50, single filing hole and cross-hatching made by the bank by way of cancellation, 8cm x 17cm, framed with monochrome print of the Duke, 44cm x 27cm
Lot 677
Jack Haley 11x9 inch framed and mounted signed Bank of California N.A cheque dated 1/13/72. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 31
Dickens (Charles).A cheque signed by Charles Dickens, 4th September 1866, drawn on Messrs Coutts & Comp., paying the Rev. William C. Sawyer, fifty pounds, eighteen shillings and sixpence, blue printed cheque, completed in manuscript, with one penny blindstamp and watermark, two vertical folds, pin hole to left side, 87mm x 183mm visible, mounted, framed, glazed front and rear.
Lot 200
Jack Haley signed cheque mounted below black and white Tin man photo. Approx overall size 16x12inch. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 35
‘Of course, I did not know this would be my last assignment in mines disposal work when I left the Admiralty before breakfast that morning and was carried by car to Hoxton. At the back of the minds of us who did this work was an acceptance that there probably would be a ‘last.’ In defence of our sanity, perhaps, to stop us leaping from the cars that carried us to each assignment, or maybe just in case we began to think ourselves heroes, we did not dwell on this probability. It was there. But suppressed. If and when the ‘last’ mine came … well it came. Several of our section had found it; some, less fortunate than I, did not live to tell the story. My ‘last’ buried me in rubble for several hours with my back broken and other injuries, and it kept me in plaster for the best part of a year.’ Lieutenant Jack Easton, G.C., R.N.V.R., as quoted in Wavy Navy: By Some Who Served. The outstanding ‘London Blitz’ G.C. group of seven awarded to Sub. Lieutenant J. M. C. Easton, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, a member of the Admiralty’s secretive Land Incident Section who was buried alive by the detonation of a parachute mine in London’s East End in October 1940. When eventually pulled from the debris, he was found to have suffered a fractured skull, a broken back and broken legs: his gallant assistant – Ordinary Seaman Bennett Southwell – was less fortunate, his decapitated body being discovered six weeks later Easton was no stranger to the nerve-wracking business of mine disposal, having earlier made safe 16 such devices, including one which had crashed through the roof of the Russell Hotel in Bloomsbury and ended up hanging from the chandelier in the main dining room: the grateful hotel owner presented Easton with a cheque for £140 - and an offer of Sunday lunch for his family for life - but both had to be rejected ‘as a matter of honour’ George Cross (Sub-Lieut. Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton, R.N.V.R. 23rd January, 1941.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (7) £80,000-£120,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- G.C. London Gazette 23 January 1941: ‘For great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty.’ Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton was born at Maidenhead, Berkshire on 28 May 1906 and was educated at Brighton College and Pangbourne Nautical College, prior to training as a solicitor and joining his grandfather’s law firm in the City of London. Understated designation: The Admiralty’s ‘Land Incident Section’ A keen sailor, Easton was a perfect candidate for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and attended the training establishment H.M.S. King Alfred at Hove, Sussex prior to being appointed a probationary Temporary Sub. Lieutenant in September 1940. As related in Wavy Navy: By Some Who Served, it was at King Alfred that he was one of twelve officers who volunteered for a secret mission: ‘I was, with others, to learn that, as far as the Navy was concerned, volunteering for anything is foolish vanity. Within eight hours of volunteering for this intriguingly phrased ‘secret mission’ I, with eleven brother officers, was reporting to H.M.S. Vernon, the gunnery and mines school at Portsmouth.’ Here, they discovered their pending fate, namely immediate membership of the Admiralty’s Land Incident Section and a crash course in mine disposal: ‘So many unexploded mines were sticking in the ground or hanging by their parachutes that the small, trained band of R.N. specialists engaged in rendering mines safe where they could be approached was unable to cope with the work. Somewhat grudgingly, perhaps out of consideration for our complete rawness or from an expert’s distrust of the amateur, the R.N.V.R. was being called in to share the Navy’s task.’ Easton continues: ‘There were many speculations as to why the mines had not exploded, even on contact. But that their mechanisms would start operating again to even the slightest movement or tap (as you might start a stopped watch by the gentlest finger-nail tap on its face glass) was something known. Our warning that the mine was alive again was the ticking of its mechanism, and when we heard that we knew we had a maximum of twelve seconds to get to safety. In certain situations, this time margin meant nothing … as it meant nothing to a Sub. Lieutenant who died while dismantling his first mine: no part of him was found, not even a uniform button or badge. He just disintegrated.’ Easton’s first mine was located at a farm in Norfolk, buried to half its length in a chicken run: ‘I confess to feeling very much alone in the world at that moment: the farmhouse was, of course, evacuated, and my police inspector, and his assistants had gone. We worked entirely alone on our tasks, for although each officer had the assistance of a trained rating, it was the ‘etiquette’ of the job to keep the rating out of the danger area until the real fang of the mine, the bomb fuse, had been drawn. So I was in that farmyard quite alone. I don’t think I have ever been so much alone in my life. Our instructor had not mentioned this, as he had not mentioned the queer chill at the base of the spine. I gave one last look at the empty world I inhabited, then got on my knees beside them mine and began scraping away the earth … ’ After careful digging to reach the fuse, he emerged triumphant, as he did from his next fifteen assignments. 12 seconds to live As cited above, however, disaster struck on 17 October 1940. Easton takes up the story: ‘It was, as I have said, in Hoxton in the East End of London. One morning before breakfast a car took me to the district. As usual, I was greeted by the A.R.P. authorities, and, with my rating [Ordinary Seaman Bennett Southwell] by my side, I listened to what information they had. A large area of tenement property had been evacuated and ‘Unexploded Bomb’ notices erected round it. The tenant of the house, a bit excited and self-important, described what he believed to be the position and size of the mine. Then, supplied with all available information, the rating and I set off down the drab street. Those solitary walks towards the location of a mine always reminded me of the last scenes in the pictures of Charlie Chaplin. I had the feeling that a vast audience was watching the way I walked. It had been a last scene for several men I knew, though such morbid thoughts were absent that day. I was looking for the house described. It was easily discovered for the mine had crashed through the roof and made a great ragged-edged hole, and the slates littered the street and pavement. It was the usual type of working class home in the East End of London, one of a continuous structure of two-storied, drab erections, more miserable than usual because of the stillness, the emptiness of the houses. Through the windows one saw the miserable interiors, the little proud possessions in ornaments, plants, enlarged and coloured photographs of soldier and sailor sons, the parlour luxuries of poor folk. There was a rigidity and pathos in the long rows of small homes. The shattered roof was an outrage, somehow. The front door was open and I entered a narrow hall. The thick dust here was familiar and eloquent to me now, and I moved cautiously, in case a too heavy footfall set the mine mechanism going again. The door on my...
Lot 142
Ephemera: An original letter from 10, Downing Street signed by Neville Chamberlain dated 30th January 1939 in 10, Downing Street envelope, together with a Leicester Bank receipt dated 18th Nov 1809 signed by Thomas Paget (for Pares, Paget, Pares & Heygate), a hand written cheque dated Decem:2.1713 and another hand written document. (4)
Lot 126
Morocco.- George II (King) Appointment of John Russell, British Consul at Tetuan on embassy to Sultan Moulay Abdelmalik, D.s. “George R”, manuscript on thick vellum, folds, a few very small brown marks, small remains of Great Seal, 305 x 585mm., Hampton Court, 17th August 1728; and 4 others comprising a letter to John Russell from his son and 3 officer’s commissions (1 signed by George IV, 1824, and 1 by Queen Victoria, 1881), v.s., v.d. (5).*** First mentioned, John Russell (d. 1752), Clerk to the Cheque in Gibraltar, later British Consul at Tétouan, wrote an account of his embassy to the Emperor of Morocco in 1729, in order to free captive Europeans.
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