Royal Historic Interest - by repute a sixteenth century piece of embroidery worked by Mary Queen of Scots whilst held at Chartley Hall between December 1585 and September 1586. Comprising different sized panels of finely worked yellow silk on cotton depicting flowers and garlands in the French manner. Sewn together to form part of a bed valance. Mary Queen of Scots and her household were known to have created quite a few pieces of embroidery during her confinement and an inventory of her items taken when at Chartley confirms embroidered pieces. Provenance: The piece is accompanied by letters and notes as follows: Letter, hand written, sent from 4 Victoria Road, Sherwood, Nottingham and dated 27.2.44: 'Dear Lady Eveline, Just a line to let you know that Nurse Cain is pretty much the same and has decided to give up her house. It is her wish that you should have the enclosed piece of Tapestry, the history of which you will find on the enclosed writing. Yours faithfully A.M.Sheppard.' Note hand written on printed headed paper from The Kennels, Thoresby Park, Ollerton, Newark, Notts: 'This piece of needlework was sent to me by Nurse Cain when she was in her last illness. She had told me that the hangings of which these were a part were repaired when her grandmother was housekeeper at Chartley. These bed hangings were said to have been worked by Mary Queen of Scots when she was a prisoner at Chartley. Some of the worn pieces were cut out, Miss Cain's grandmother kept them.[indistinct initials].' A label, hand written, stating 'Piece of Scotch quilting worked by Mary Queen of Scots when at Chartley Staffordshire (fragment of bed-curtains'. And a newspaper cutting with handwritten annotation 'Guardian 11th 9th 34' the article titled 'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Relics In Needlework Exhibition' which refers to a National Exhibition of Needlework at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh - no specific reference to this piece or Chartley is made.
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A group of moleskin curtains, of recent manufacture, lined and interlined, comprising a large pair and three small pairs,large pair, top 160cm wide,bottom 360cm wide255cm drop,small pairs, top 110cm wide,bottom 180cm wide260cm drop (8)Condition ReportOverall good order, with minor wear. While there are some small surface marks, they present well.
A Victorian rosewood sideboard. Each of the two mirror backed shelves having pierced galleries and moulded edges, the upper one mounted on metal columns, the lower on wooden columns. The lower section having carved and moulded details and containing four glazed doors covered in metal lattice and floral details, opening to reveal shelves, raised on carved bun feet, H139cm x W183cm x D40.5cm Condition Report: Gallery rail to the top is slightly bent in one place, lots of water stains and marks to the top three levels, key only works in the two side doors, locks are the same with no makers name and appear to be later, doors close well, there is mould to the doors and internal areas which appears to clean off, the back is original. the curtains are slightly tatty on close inspection, small split to the breakfront top at the rear.
With an elaborate domed shaped canopy and curtains on three sides. No condition report? Click below to request one. *Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.Request a condition report
Vintage household collectables to include a navy Mawson Swan & Morgan of Newcastle stationary folio, furnishing braid, partial curtains and a chintz pelmet, decorative furnishing accessories and vintage material remnants, 2 early 20th Century brown leather collar cases, a wrought iron airer end, vintage buttons, a brass door knocker, grape scissors, a gold tone supersonic lighter, sewing patterns and a travel clock. Location:If there is no condition report, please request.
A MAHOGANY FOUR POST BED OF GEORGE III STYLE MODERN the foliate-carved canopy with large urn finials above turned reeded posts and with a padded headboard, with green and pink floral drapes and covers 320cm high, 172cm wide, 217cm long Together with a pair of bedside tableswith matching fabric and two sets of curtains Saleroom notice:Please note the measurements have been altered from the printed catalogue Condition Report: The cornice opened at corner joints. Head board is currently un attached. Otherwise condition is fair and consistent with age and use. Corner bed side tables are made out of chip board with some damage. The bed comes with a mattress. The urns unscrew from the bed. The bed can be dismantled.266cm high not including the urns. 316cm high including the urns.Condition Report Disclaimer
Matchbox Super Kings a boxed group to include (1) K-69 Caravan Touring Set containing metallic champagne gold Jaguar XJ12 with light, ivory interior & tow bar, dark chocolate brown base, deep dish 5-spoke wheels and Europa Caravan - white plastic body with dark chocolate brown side stripes & "Caravelle" cast, dark brown interior & opening door, dark chocolate brown base, 5-arch wheels (2) blue metallic Jaguar XJ12 with brown interior and tow bar and Europa Caravan - white plastic body with dark chocolate brown upper stripe, clear windows with orange curtains, brown interior & opening door, tan chassis, 5-arch wheels (3) K35 Massey Ferguson Tractor - White and red with red and silver trailer and correct load - Generally Excellent to Mint in Good Plus window boxes bright examples (3)
TWO BOXES AND LOOSE MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS to include an Indian dress sword and sheath for the international market, a terracotta disk of a Chinese phoenix painted black, a pewter Handstodt Viking longship, a pair of BMM pewter seals, nine small pewter military figures depicting Roman and Scottish military personnel, a Mahogany wall bracket, a brass miners lamp marked 'Lamp and Limelight Company Hockley,' six milk jugs to include manufacturers Mason's, Spode, etc, a pair of white curtains, a plated nineteenth century Reed and Barton jug height 33cm, a standing copper brazier (without interior), a rucksack, and a bag, etc (2 boxes and loose) (s.d)
A vintage mid-20th century dolls house - the Victorian-style house with portico front and balustrades outside the upstairs windows, painted green and white with primrose yellow windows and front door, the two-piece front opening to reveal four rooms, a hallway and staircase to an upstairs landing, with 1950s period wallpaper, fitted dresser to the kitchen and fireplace to one of the bedrooms, the windows with printed cotton curtains. (LWH 65 x 34.75 x 63cm), one chimney missing.
‘Kingsmill, who was following Esmonde, flew so low that he was hit by ricochets from the surface of the sea as he pressed through the smoke and bursting shells. He watched Esmonde’s aircraft erupt in a ball of fire and then his friend Brian Rose crash into the sea, before he turned towards the Prinz Eugen at a range of 2.000 yards. Kingsmill had received the first of several wounds, a hit in the back. His observer, “Mac” Samples, had blood running from his boots, and his leading telegraphist air gunner, Don Bunce, had his seat shot away, so that he had to brace his legs to avoid falling into the sea. Swordfish W5907 had one wing on fire, it had engine damage, and the controls were becoming increasingly sluggish as Kingsmill turned full circle to avoid enemy fighters, then steadied up for his torpedo drop. Prinz Eugen manoeuvred violently to comb the torpedo track which just missed astern. As Kingsmill turned away, his Swordfish was hit again, detonating its distress flares. Trailing ragged fabric streamers and with gaping holes in virtually every part of its wings, fuselage and tail, he tried to prevent it stalling before ditching.’ The fate of Swordfish W5907 on 12 February 1942, as described in the obituary notice of the pilot, Pat Kingsmill; The Daily Telegraph, January 2003, refers. The unique ‘Channel Dash’ C.G.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer (Air) D. A. ‘Don’ Bunce, a Telegraphist Air Gunner in 825 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm Already a veteran of a celebrated Swordfish attack against the Bismarck in May 1941, when his pilot dropped to 100 feet in the face of a ‘very vigorous and accurate barrage of heavy and light A.A. fire’ – and indeed of the loss of the Ark Royal – Bunce added to his laurels in a supreme act of defiance in 825’s suicidal strike against enemy capital ships in the English Channel in February 1942 Amidst curtains of flak, and in the face of relentless cannon shell fire from Fw 190s, his armament amounted to a ‘feeble’ .303 Vickers machine-gun and ‘every Naval swear word I could muster’ Of the six Swordfish that went in, none returned, just five airmen out of 18 living to tell the tale. The force’s leader, Lieutenant-Commander Eugene Esmonde, D.S.O., R.N., was awarded a posthumous V.C., a distinction which recognised the valour of all of 825’s participating aircrew: ‘Their aircraft shattered, undeterred by an inferno of fire, they carried out their orders, which were to attack the target. Not one came back. Theirs was the courage which is beyond praise’ Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.VI.R. (FAA/SFX. 631 D. A. Bunce, Naval Aimn. 1.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, minor edge bruise to first, nearly extremely fine (6) (6) £80,000-£100,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- C.G.M. London Gazette 3 March 1942: ‘Naval Airman First Class Donald Arthur Bunce, FAA/SFX. 631, who was Air Gunner in the Swordfish aircraft piloted by Sub-Lieutenant Kingsmill. With his machine on fire, and the engine failing, he stayed steadfast at his gun, engaging the enemy fighters which beset his aircraft. He is believed to have shot one of them down. Throughout the action his coolness was unshaken.’ Donald Arthur Bunce was born in Oxford on 27 May 1921 and joined the Fleet Air Arm as a Naval Airman Second Class in January 1940, when he commenced training as a Telegraphist Air Gunner (T.A.G.). Bismarck action – Loss of Ark Royal Posted to 825 Naval Air Squadron (N.A.S.) at Campbeltown in mid-April 1941, he and the squadron were embarked in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Victorious a month later, shortly before the famous pursuit of the Bismarck. Bunce subsequently took part in all the sorties flown by 825 N.A.S. during the pursuit, achieving over 14 hours airborne in less than one and a half days. The first of these sorties was flown on 24 May 1941, when nine Swordfish aircraft set-off to attack the Bismarck under Lieutenant-Commander E. K. Esmonde, R.N. Bunce’s aircraft, part of the first wave, was piloted by Lieutenant N. G. MacLean, R.N.V.R., and went into the attack at midnight, in the face of a ‘very vigorous and accurate barrage of heavy and light A.A. fire’, and dropped a torpedo off Bismarck’s port beam from 100 feet. It - in common with all but one of the ‘fish’ dropped by the squadron - was artfully dodged by Bismarck’s helmsman, but vital damage was inflicted by a hit obtained amidships by another Swordfish. The flight back to the Victorious was by no means a foregone conclusion, the homing beacon aboard the carrier being unserviceable. Moreover, the searchlights deployed by Victorious’s captain to guide in Esmonde’s flight were swiftly shut down by command of Rear-Admiral Curteis. Nonetheless, all the Swordfish made it back safely, landing between 0200 and 0230 hours. The squadron’s strike role now concluded, 825 N.A.S. was nonetheless called upon to carry our ongoing search patrols - two on the 25th and one on the 26th, and Bunce participated in all three, flying as T.A.G. to Esmonde in the last of them. However, he was not among those decorated or mentioned in despatches in the subsequent list of awards granted to the squadron in September 1941, a list which included a D.S.O. for Esmonde, and four D.S.C.s and three D.S.M.s. No matter; Bunce would shortly be the recipient of a much rarer distinction. Meanwhile, in the first week of June 1941, he and 825 N.A.S. were embarked on the Ark Royal. Fresh, too, from the Bismarck action, the Ark was deployed to the Malta run, and lent valuable support in Operations ‘Substance’ and ‘Halberd’. On 13 November 1941, however, disaster struck in the form a fatal torpedo strike, her demise famously captured on film. Mercifully, all but one of her crew survived. The Channel Dash In early 1942, and having re-mustered at Lee-on-Solent, 828 N.A.S. was ordered to R.A.F. Manston, as part of Operation ‘Fuller’, the much-flawed plan to counter the anticipated breakout of enemy capital ships from Brest, namely the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. When indeed the German ships made their bid for freedom - in what became known as the Channel Dash - the response mounted by air and sea proved entirely inadequate. Apart from anything else, the breakout was daringly enacted in daylight, whereas ‘Fuller’ had been planned around a nocturnal breakout. Moreover, the Germans had assembled a formidable defensive screen, the three capital ships being covered by six destroyers and 34 E-boats, in addition to a mass of Me 109s and Fw 190s. Nonetheless, gallant attempts were made to counter the enemy fleet’s progress, including those mounted by elements of our Coastal Forces - but of all such endeavours one stood out above the rest: the strike mounted by six aircraft of 828 N.A.S. under by Lieutenant-Commander Eugene Esmonde, D.S.O., R.N. ‘In my opinion,’ wrote Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Flag Officer Dover, ‘the gallant sortie of these six Swordfish constitutes one of the finest exhibitions of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty that the war had yet witnessed.’ Admiral Otto Ciliax of the Kriegsmarine was equally impressed, writing in his diary: ‘The mothball attack of a handful of ancient planes was piloted by men whose bravery surpasses any other action by e...
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY FOUR POSTER BEDIN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATERthe moulded cornice with foliate carved and tapering reeded foot posts, carved with the Order of the Garter surrounded by plumes of feathers above a reeded urn, with a silk lined tester, headboard and posts and with a bespoke set of silk curtains, bedspread and valance221cm high, 166cm wide, 215cm longProvenanceSotheby's, Gargrave House, Skipton, Yorkshire, 26-28 October 1982.
A pair of red and cream striped linen curtains of recent manufacture, lined and interlined, together with a tassled pelmet each 147cm wide (top)274cm long(3)Condition Reportlightly stained and browned to the lining and bottom edge overall fair order, light musty smell would benefit from cleaning.
A set of lined curtains The rust ground with foliate decoration throughout and brocaded borders.The first pair 300cm long x 180cm wide. The second pair 240cm long x 245cm wide. The third pair 310cm long x 180cm wide. The single 210cm long x 240cm wide.Qty: 7In generally good condition. Slight fading around the edges. No notable smell to them, they are generally clean.
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