FIGHT CLUB: Signed colour 14 x 11 photograph by both Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) and Edward Norton (the narrator and protagonist) individually, the image depicting the two actors standing opposite each other in half length profile poses in a scene from Fight Club (1999). Signed by each in bold blue inks with their names alone to light areas of the image. Together with The Usual Suspects signed colour 10 x 8 photograph by Stephen Baldwin (Michael McManus), Gabriel Byrne (Dean Keaton), Benicio del Toro (Fred Fenster), Kevin Pollak (Todd Hockney) and Kevin Spacey (Roger 'Verbal' Kint) individually, the image depicting the actors standing together in full length poses in a row in a scene from The Usual Suspects (1995). Signed by each in bold blue inks with their names alone, largely to clear areas of the image. EX, 2
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HEISENBERG WERNER: (1901-1976) German Theoretical Physicist, one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1932. T.L.S., W Heisenberg, one page, 4to (folding air mail stationery), Gottingen, 14th April 1950, to Dr. F. L. Breusch of the Istanbul University, in German. Heisenberg informs his correspondent that [Walter] Tollmien will not be able to visit Istanbul in May but would be willing to come for four weeks in the autumn, further remarking 'Tollmien is probably the best representative of theoretical and applied mechanics which we have in Germany, and I think he can fulfil the wishes of the Dean to his full satisfaction'. In concluding he states that he will continue to search for an experimental physicist for the University. Slightly irregularly torn at the edges and with one larger tear to the right edge, just affecting a few words of text, but not the signature. G Walter Tollmien (1900-1968) German Physicist.
AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed items, photographs, programmes etc., and printed ephemera etc., by a variety of famous people including Jean Alexander (white linen handkerchief, contained in the original box and accompanied by a colour signed photograph), Billy Boyd, Gordon Brown (signed 11 Downing Street brochure), Doris Day, Martine McCutcheon, Michael Crawford, Caprice, Angela Lansbury, Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Shane Rimmer, David Graham, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (signed white cotton shirt, apparently worn by Llewelyn-Bowen in an advert for Surf), John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra & Gordon Cooper (signed colour 8 x 10.5 photograph by all four astronauts), Glen Murphy (a costume Fireman's jacket apparently worn by the actor when portraying George Green in the television drama London's Burning), Millvina Dean (accompanied by modern unsigned memorabilia relating to the Titanic), various storyboards and other items relating to Superman III etc., two 4to printed Order of Service for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, 6th September 1997 etc. Some items are framed and glazed. G to VG, 38
Brett (David) - Two Nursery Favourites, first edition, Untearable, original illustrations by the author, original decorated cloth, Dean & Son, [1905]; Ten Little Niggers with Music, illustrations by David Brett, decorated upper board, rubbed and soiled, [1905] § Trier (Walter) 10 Little Negroes, A New Version, illustrations by Trier, original boards, first three pages with lower corner lacking, n.d. § Gibbings (Robert) A True Tale of Love in Tonga, engravings by the author, original cloth backed boards, rubbed, 1935; and 16 other titles similar, v.s (c.90)
James - Autograph Letter signed to "My dear Nixon", 3pp (Montague Rhodes, college head, scholar, and author, 1862-1936) Autograph Letter signed to "My dear Nixon", 3pp., 8vo, King's College, Cambridge, 28th January 1890, "The accident of our not exchanging greetings in Hall on the night of your return led me to imagine - I expect quite wrongly - that there was some unwillingness on your part: and no doubt led to your thinking the same thing of me: which was certainly a mistake"; and 2 others, including a ?autograph draft of a letter by MR James refering to the appointment of a Dean, folds (3).
A Cased Aurum Silver Goblet, produced by Order of the Dean and Chapter to commemorate the 9th Centenary of the Foundation of Chichester Cathedral, the plain tapering goblet with silver gilt interior, stem with wheat sheaf decoration, raised on a spreading circular base with inscription to base, No 360 of 600, hallmarked London 1976, complete with original booklet, case 9" long 100-200
An Aurum Cased Pair of heavy gauge Silver Goblets made by the Order of the Dean and Chapter of Ely to commemorate the Thirteenth Centenary of the Foundation of Ely Cathedral, the goblets with tapering bowls decorated with mermaid detail, raised on octagonal spreading bases with pierced decoration, No 485 of 637 and 486 of 637, complete with original booklets, case 9 1/2" wide 200-300
An Aurum Cased Silver Goblet, produced to commemorate the Royal Silver Jubilee 1977, made the Order of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the goblet with plain bowl over a silver gilt lined stem, raised on a spreading circular base, No 448 of 750, hallmarked London 1977, complete with original booklet, case 9 1/2" long 100-200
AN INDIAN BRASS LACQUERED CORRESPONDENCE BOX decorated all over with scrolling foliate design, 26cm wide, together with an American hammered bronze shallow bowl on a raised cast foot, to the underside 'Rip the Seahorse in bronze' and inscribed 'To Dean Willard Earl Sperry from The Harvard Divinity School', 35cm wide, together with a cut glass decanter and two further Georgian glass bottles
Dated 1822. A group of two framed and glazed tinted sporting prints from the series 'A hunting trip to Melton Mowbray' comprising: a fox hunt with fallen horse (left) and broken fence, group of kneeling men, a man walking with assistance from two comrades (centre) and pack of baying hounds surrounding a man holding the fox's body aloft (right), title beneath '13. Death and the Doctors'; a group of huntsmen with hounds returning, title beneath '14. Dulce domum, - jamdudum animus est in patinis. exeunt in fumo' (sweetly homeward - for some time the mind is on the cooking pot. They leave in smoke); each with old printed label to the reverse 'From Dimmock & Son Fine Art Galleries, Framing and Gilding Establishment, 66 London Street, Norwich. Fancy Goods, Artists' Materials, Paintings Cleaned, Line and Restored'. 1.9 kg total, 66cm (26). Property of an Essex collector. See D. Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874, London and New Haven, 1981, p.128, no.1. The series 'A hunting trip to Melton Mowbray' comprises fourteen numbered scenes, progressing from left to right, depicting the journey out of town, preparation for the hunt, various incidents during the hunt and the return. Each a lithograph with hand colouring issued by Henry Alken (1785-1851), printmaker, after images by John Dean Paul (1775-1852); published by S.& J. Fuller (active 1811-1826). [No reserve, 2, No Reserve] Fine condition; contemporary frames.
Four leaves from the Throckmorton Hours, - in Latin, on parchment [England, c .1425] Four leaves, single column in Latin, on parchment [England , c .1425] Four leaves, single column, 19 lines in a tall and professional late Gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, one-line initials in gold with red and black penwork, one leaf with a catchword, three leaves with 2-line initials in same on blue and burgundy grounds heightened with white penwork and terminating in long tendrils with green leaves and gold bezants, leaves and thistle-like fruit, faint offset on one leaf from decorative penwork once on facing page, small spots and slight losses to ink in places, else good condition, 250mm. by 168mm. From a large and impressive English Book of Hours from the library of Sir Robert Throckmorton (d. 1791). It was probably originally produced for a chapel in an English church or cathedral (rubrics on other leaves giving instructions for a bishop, dean, cantor, chancellor, and treasurer, and ordering texts to be read sine pronunciacione and sub silentio , suggesting communal devotion) and a sixteenth-century inscription on the endleaf of the volume asks that Ye shall pray for the saules of Edward Cotterell & Margaret hys wyff, & of Roger, Thomas, John, William, Jane, Amey, Elizabeth, chylderyn of the seid Edwarde & Margaret . From Throckmorton it passed to John Meade Falkner (d. 1932: see A.S.G. Edwards, 'Medieval Manuscripts Owned by J. Meade Falkner', in The Medieval Book , 2010, pp. 388 and 391), and was sold by Sotheby's on 12-14 December 1932, lot 211 (to H.R. Creswick, Librarian of the Bodleian and later Cambridge University Library), and again on 3 April 1939, lot 44, and then dispersed.
Ceramics and glass - A Royal Crown Derby panelled vase, painted with ships by W E J Dean; Wedgwood Christmas plates; a Royal Crown Derby pink Mikado coffee can and saucer; a Harrods relish pot with lid; a Royal Copenhagen dish a Royal Crown Derby Quail side plate, others similar; glass paperweights; etc
A FINELY ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, MILANESE, CIRCA 1590 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, and visor, prow-shaped upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored) attached to it by dome-headed common pivots (replaced), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a projecting lifting-peg, the bevor pierced at the right of the chin with a large hole to receive a locking-screw that projected from the original upper bevor, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the armour finely etched overall with alternating bands of strapwork and trophies in each case set on a stippled ground respectively gilt and blackened (the gilding only preserved as traces), and separated by plain narrow triple bands 26.5 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr. Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold American Art Association, New York, 23rd November 1928 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts Inv. No. 890, sold in these rooms 20th March 2013, lot 291 Exhibited 'Faerie Tale Festival of Trees', Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 19 November-31 December 2005 The decoration of the helmet is of a style employed by the distinguished late 16th century armourer Pompeo della Chiesa (recorded 1571-93) who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Norman 1986, p. 31).His signature occurs on similarly decorated armours in the collections of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire, the Museo Stibbert, Florence, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Armoury of the Knights of St John at Malta, the helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The design was also employed by several of Pompeo's Milanese contemporaries, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on an armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, one who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on pieces in the same collection and an armour formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington, one who signed himself with a double-towered castle on an armour in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, and several detached pieces in the Wallace Collection, London. (For a fuller discussion of these armours, supported by published references, see Thomas Del Mar Ltd in association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, London 26 June 2007, lot 263).
A BRITISH DAYFIELD BODY SHIELD, SIMPLE MODEL, CIRCA 1915-18 of 'poncho-like' form, consisting of a front section and a slightly shorter rear one each comprised of four plates sewn into heavy khaki-coloured canvas garment fitted with reinforcing strips over the junctions of the plates, the two sections connected to one another over the shoulders by broad strips of canvas and fastened around the waist by a pair of canvas ties that issue from the rear section and pass through loops at each side of the front which is inscribed in black ink just to the inside of the left loop Cpt Weston (extensively stained and showing some rust spots); sold with a copy of a contemporary advertisement for the Dayfield Body Shield dating from 1915 For a discussion of the various models of the Dayfield Body Shield, see Dean 1920, pp. 115-18, figs,72-5.
A BRITISH 'BEST' BODY SHIELD, CIRCA 1914-18 of 'poncho-like' form, consisting of a front section of five horizontal plates, the lowest of which has a rounded bottom end, and a slightly shorter rear one of four plates, the lowest of which has a straight bottom edge, each sewn into a heavy khaki-coloured canvas garment constructed in such a way as to allow it to be folded concertina-fashion into the space of only a single plate, the two sections connected to one another over the shoulders by broad canvas straps and at the waist by a pair of narrower canvas straps that issue from the rear section and are buckled to one another at the front, the lower edge of the rear section inscribed THE "BEST" BODY SHIELD, and the buckle of its left strap bearing a label of the Leicester Museums, recording it as their accession no. 25/R/1969 and stating that it was worn by a Leicester man in the First World War (showing some tears, patching and staining) For a discussion of the 'Best' Body Shield, see Dean 1920, of which of which pp. 119-290, fig. 77.
A 'FRANCO-BRITISH CUIRASS', CIRCA 1916-17 formed of a front and a rear section each fitted externally with small green-enamelled steel plates of predominantly square or rectangular shape joined to one another by welded rings and secured as collective units by rivets to a fabric base, the plates of the front section extending downward further than those of the rear, the fabric base formed of an outer layer decorated with fine brown and cream horizontal stripes, and an inner layer decorated with larger grey, beige and cream vertical stripes of a more elaborate pattern, the two sections connected to one another by snap-fasteners at the fronts of the shoulders, and by ties at the tops and bottoms of the sides, the lower ones forming a belt that fastens at the front Cuirasses of this type take their name from the fact that they were first manufactured in France but subsequently sold to British soldiers. See Dean 1920, pp. 114, fig. 70.
**A PARTISAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, FRENCH OR ITALIAN with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, etched with an espagnolette mask enclosed by scrolls and flowers at the base on each face, a pair of small basal recesses, tapering faceted socket (pitted) fitted with a pair of recurved faceted pointed lugs, a pair of straps, on a wooden haft 60.5 cm; 23 ¾ in head Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, New York, purchased from his estate, 28 September 1929 JWHA Inv. No. 871
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR IN THE 'GOTHIC' FASHION, GERMAN, ITALIAN AND FLEMISH, CIRCA 1450-1510 AND LATER comprising sallet with a broad rounded crown rising to slightly hollowed medial keel pierced at its apex with a circular hole for the attachment of a crest, fitted at its rear with a long pointed 'tail' of two lames (restored), and at its front with a pivoted demi-visor (also restored) cut at its upper edge with a broad shallow notch serving as the lower edge of its stepped vision-slit, and secured to the skull at the right by a spring-catch with push-button release (restored); bevor formed of a main plate shaped to the chin and throat, a chevron-shaped face-plate articulated to its upper edge and supported at the right by a spring-catch, and a single V-shaped gorget-plate articulated to its lower edge; lance-rest (restored) of sturdy one-piece construction pierced at its base with four rectangular slots to fit over the pierced staples of a breastplate; tassets (restored) each formed with a pronounced medial ridge, fitted at its upper end with a pair of suspension-buckles, descending at its lower end to an obtusely point edge and cut away slightly at its inner edge; backplate formed of a straight-topped main plate fitted laterally with smaller side-plates (the left associated and the right restored), and overlain at its lower end by a centrally-cusped plackart struck at its centre with the maker's mark GI beneath a cross, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a culet of three medially-ridged lames, the lowest of which descends to an obtuse point and is fitted at each side-with a small tasset replicating in miniature the tassets proper; large asymmetrical pauldrons formed in each case of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third and largest of them (the lowest four of the left and all those of the right restored), the seventh fitted at its lower edge with a vambrace (restored) formed of an upper cannon open at the inside of the arm and articulated by means of internal leathers through a large shell-like couter, also open at its the rear and strongly shaped to the point of the elbow, to a mitten gauntlet formed of an elbow-length cuff with a separate hinged inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate and four finger-plates with longitudinal V-shaped flutes separating the fingers; pendent besagues each of peripherally-scalloped circular form, decorated with flutes radiating from a pyramidal central boss; cuisses each formed of a long gutter-shaped main plate fitted at is upper edge with four extension-plates, at its lower edge with a winged poleyn of six lames, and at its outer edge with a hinged side-plate that is likewise fitted at its upper edge with four extension-plates matching those of the main plate, and at its lower edge with two more; a pair of ankle-length tubular greaves each cut with an arch over both the heel and foot; the main edges of the armour formed in part with either inward or outward turns, its subsidiary edges cusped at points, and the surfaces of the bevor, the pauldrons and the vambraces decorated with sprays or cascades of flutes in part emphasised by incised lines (extensively pitted and patinated with some rust-perforations, cracks and patching; the restorations in many cases using old metal) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, privately sold 1921 with different sallet Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York, sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 9 November 1940 JWHA Inv. No. 2607 Exhibited 'Medieval and Renaissance Splendor', Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 9 February - 1 May 1984 The mark struck twice on the lower part of the backplate of the mid-15th century, has been identified as that of the Milanese armourer Giovanni da Garavalle, recorded 1438-74. It also occurs on the leghharness of the well-know 'Avant' armour from Schloss Churburg, now in the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Acc. No. '39-65e (Lionello G. Boccia, Le Armature di S. Maria Delle Grazie di Curtatone di Mantova e l'Armarura Lombarde del '400, Busto Arsizio, 1982, p. 282, figs 46-7, 188a.). Except that it has a demi-visor rather than a full one, the fine sallet resembles one of about 1480-90 in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. No. IV. 428, from the armoury of the Knights of St John at Rhodes (W. J. Karcheski Jr & T. Richardson, The Medieval Armour from Rhodes, Leeds & Worcester, MA, 2000, pp. 25-6). In its markedly bell-shaped form, it is reminiscent of works attributed to the celebrated Augsburg imperial armourer, Lorenz Helmschmied, recorded 1467-1515 (Arms and Armour Society, The Art of the Armourer, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1963, p. 16, nos 28-9; and B.Thomas & O. Gamber, Katalog der Leibrustkammer,I.Teil, Vienna, 1976, pp. 106-8,pls. 34-5 & 40). The pauldrons are strikingly similar in design to those of a partial armour formerly in the Imperial Armoury in Vienna and now in the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (Claude Blair, 'The Emperor Maximillian's Gift of Armour to King Henry VIII', Archaeologia, Vol. XCIX,1965, p. 37,pl. XIVc,d), bearing the mark of the Flemish imperial armourer Guillem Margot, recorded 1505-20).
**A COMPOSITE CUIRASS AND OTHER ELEMENTS OF ARMOUR, PARTLY NUREMBERG, EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND PARTLY BY LEONHARD HUGEL, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1925 comprising breastplate with shallow neck and arm-openings, each formed with an angular outward turn, fitted at it lower edge with a series of blind rivets (added in the 19th to attach a mail skirt in place of a missing waist-lame), and struck at its upper edge with the quality-control mark of the City of Nuremberg; backplate formed of a central main plate and a pair of smaller side-plates (the left restored) rigidly riveted within its lateral edges, the broad shallow neck-opening and arm-opening each formed with a partial inward turn, and the main and right side-plates each struck internally with three triangular construction-marks; skirt of four lames front and rear, the lowest at the front cut with a shallow arch separating a pair of pendent tassets each of two lames narrowing to their lower ends; besagues each of circular form rising to a prominent central boss and formed around its edge with a partial inward turn; and a pair of pointed sabatons each formed of a rear section of one plate and a front section of seven plates joined to one another beneath the ankle-bones by a hinge at the inside and a self-sprung stud at the outside (the breastplate and backplate early 16th century but the remainder restored, largely using old plates; the whole moderately pitted throughout) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Armoury of the Freiberg family, Schloss Hohenaschau, Bavaria, sold 1861 (breastplate) Dr Jacob von Hefner-Alteneck, Munich, sold Hugo Helbing, Munich, 6 June 1904, lot 23 (breastplate) Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York JWHA Inv. No. 938 Literature J. H. Heffner von Alteneck, Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerätschaften, Frankfurt am Main, Vol. IV, `1882, p. 14, pl. 244 J. H. Heffner von Alteneck, Waffen, Frankfurt am Main, 1903, p. 26, pl. 36 Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1911, no. 1 Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, pp. 6 & 32-3 Alexander von Reitzenstein, 'Hohenaschauer Waffen', Waffen- und Kostümkunde, Vol. 4, 1962, p. 39, fig. 26 Exhibited Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1911 and 1914-28
**A NORTH ITALIAN BACKPLATE, CIRCA 1600; AND A PAIR OF BESAGUES, 19TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY STYLE the first formed in one piece with a broad shallow neck-opening and a flanged lower edge, its main edges formed with inward turns, later roped in the case of those of the neck and arm-openings and originally bordered there by bands of etched cabling, now largely erased; and the second consisting in each case of a circular disc rising at its centre to a prominent conical boss and formed peripherally with a plain upstanding inward turn, and its rear fitted with a leather suspension-loop and lace (3) Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold from his estate, American Art Association, 23 November 1928, lot 145 JWHA Inv. No. 607 Exhibited 'The Age of Discovery and Exploration', Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, Massachusetts, February 1984 - November 1985 Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, p. 78
**THE SKULL OF A NORTH EUROPEAN HARQUEBUSIER'S POT, POSSIBLY DUTCH, MID-17TH CENTURY; AND AN UNFINISHED VISOR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE the first of hemispherical form constructed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb, projecting backwards as a short flange to receive a neck-guard, and forwards as a broad obtusely-pointed peak pieced at the centre of the brow with a rectangular hole to accommodate a nasal-bar, the edge of the peak formed with a plain inward turn and the comb enclosed to either side by a pair of incised lines (each side of the skull fitted just above the outer ends of its peak with a later horizontal strip of iron, and the whole heavily corroded and holed); the second of bellows form, probably intended for a close-helmet, only partly worked to its final form and devoid of piercings (oxidised overall) (2) Provenance Probably Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York JWHA Inv. Nos. 3069, 247
**A PAIR OF SABATONS, PROBABLY NORTH ITALIAN, 'ALLA TEDESCA', EARLY 16TH CENTURY, AND 19TH CENTURY each of broad-toed form and composed of twelve lames overlapping inwards to the fourth (the last of the left repaired with two riveted internal patches, and the remainder restored), the last in each case decorated at its front end with thirteen divergent flutes enclosed in each case by a pair of incised lines and behind them with a similar transverse flute, and the rear of the lame bordered by a single incised line (the last lame in each case pitted) (2) Provenance Dr Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, New York, 26 October 1950, lot 97 JWHA Inv. No. 2877 Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, p. 39 The left toe-cap appears to be a rare Italian example made 'alla Tesdesca' or in the German fashion of the early 16th century (Boccia and Coelho 1967, pp. 194-222)

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