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![* Donald McCormick Archive. [Zaharoff, Basil,1849-1936]. Greek arms dealer and industrialist, described as a ‘mystery man of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/0a21e1ac-ca6a-46c9-a018-ada600fe0223/468x382.jpg)
Lot 190
* Donald McCormick Archive. [Zaharoff, Basil,1849-1936]. Greek arms dealer and industrialist, described as a ‘mystery man of Europe’ and the likely primary inspiration for Ian Fleming’s fictional James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled by Donald McCormick during the early 1960s in relation to his biography of Basil Zaharoff, Pedlar of Death, featuring various Autograph Letters Signed and Typed Letters Signed to McCormick from a variety of individuals including Mario Modiano, a researcher in Athens, discussing Zaharoff’s birth date and whether he is regarded as a patriot to the Greeks, providing notes on a talk with Theodore Petrakopoulos, general manager of the Grande Bretagne hotel which Zaharoff patronised, including details of an affair ‘with the wife of a degenerate Spanish duke…(who)….was a homosexual and went off each night with Athenian coachmen. There were two children but it is not clear whose they were, Z’s or the duke’s’, Rosita Forbes (commenting that ‘Zaharov was the most fantastic & absorbing person I’ve ever met. Like a very aristocratic bat, in his elegant black cloak – a simple bat, I suppose, he had sucked life dry of all its possibilities, love, romance, wealth, power, dominance, knowledge & experience’), Haluk Durukal (discussing Zaharoff’s arms trade and the suggestion that he supplied weapons to both Turkey and Greece in 1921-22), David Compton (questioning whether Zaharoff received a GBE in 1918 as there is no record in the London Gazette, ‘This, of course, proves nothing, since there is a secret London Gazette kept for really significant espionage work’, accompanied by a typed carbon copy of McCormick’s reply commenting on Zaharoff’s spy ring, private police force, his association with David Lloyd George etc.), 15 pages of original typed manuscript, with various corrections, numbered 58-72 and including part of chapter IV (The Mystery of the Dead Convict), various newspaper clippings relating to Zaharoff etc., and a Typed Letter Signed, ‘Basil Zaharoff’, one page, 8vo, Paris, 6 June 1924, to the Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts in London, sending an annual subscriptionQty: (approx. 40)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming.
![* Donald McCormick Archive. [Kitchener, Herbert, 1850-1916, 1st Earl Kitchener]. British Field Marshal who played a central r](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/b2873471-3687-413a-93eb-adad00f639b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 189
* Donald McCormick Archive. [Kitchener, Herbert, 1850-1916, 1st Earl Kitchener]. British Field Marshal who played a central role in the early part of World War One. An archive of research documents and letters, etc., compiled by Donald McCormick in the late 1950s, in connection with his book The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death (1959) including an Autograph Letter Signed by Joe Angus, a Gunner with the Orkney Territorial Forces and the first person in authority to raise the alarm of the sinking of HMS Hampshire, in part, ‘I was sent to Birsay on patrol duty, as it happened I was on duty that memorable night from 8 pm until 12 o’clock midnight, when just before 9 pm a cruiser came in sight, I hadn’t been looking very long when all of a sudden a cloud of smoke & flame burst up from behind the bridge… The cruiser was passing Marwick Hd. when the explosion occurred, and she gradually sank down by the bow, when about fifteen minutes after she disappeared out of sight… I immediately reported the disaster… The news of the sinking was reported about 9 pm; it was after mid-night 12 o’clock before any vessel was sighted near where the cruiser went down. It was a stormy night for June… The sailors must have had a terrible night being cast adrift in such seas; quite a number reached the shore and were left to perish. There were only thirteen survivors and one died shortly after. Bodies came ashore for several weeks after…’, further letters (including a series from Ernest Marwick of the Orkney Herald) providing first-hand accounts of the events following the sinking and the questionable actions of the Admiralty in the immediate aftermath including the prevention of sending out a lifeboat (‘She was not launched, although Mr. Thomson was anxious to send her out. It is stated that Mr. Thomson met with the utmost discourtesy, some say abuse, from the authorities…’) and dismissing the story of a secret salvage of HMS Hampshire having taken place as a myth, a number of letters (most congratulatory although a few dismissing McCormick’s theories as poppycock) written following the publication of his work including 5 from Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, several from the politician Irene Ward (in one briefly referring to the Admiralty refusing McCormick access, and in another remarking ‘I think that for the record the Admiralty ought to be pressed to divulge what they know’), some correspondence regarding German U-boat captains, letters from the Admiralty (‘I am commanded… to inform you that if advantage is taken of the facilities offered… you will be required to submit the whole of your manuscript, and to amend any part of it for reasons of public interest, regardless of the source from which your information is obtained’), a small number of letters from Antony Terry, foreign correspondent and investigative journalist with The Sunday Times, various related newspaper clippings (one detailing Rasputin’s link with Kitchener’s death) etc., plus a first edition of The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, (Putnam, 1959)Qty: (approx. 85)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming. On 5 June 1916 Kitchener was making his way to Russia on HMS Hampshire to attend negotiations with Tsar Nicholas II when in bad weather the ship struck a German mine west of Orkney, Scotland, and sank. The Field Marshal was among 737 who died. Kitchener’s great fame, the suddenness of his death, and its apparently convenient timing for a number of parties gave almost immediate rise to a number of conspiracy theories about his death.
![* Donald McCormick Archive. [Pigou, Arthur Cecil, 1877-1959]. English economist who taught at the University of Cambridge and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/b37f6ecf-2520-4ddb-97a0-ada600fe017a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 188
* Donald McCormick Archive. [Pigou, Arthur Cecil, 1877-1959]. English economist who taught at the University of Cambridge and was considered the most effective Russian spy in Great Britain for fifty years. An interesting archive of research documents and letters, etc., compiled by Donald McCormick in the late 1970s, in connection with his suppressed book The British Connection: Russia’s Manipulation of British Individuals and Institutions (1979) including 3 Typed Letters Signed by the Nobel prize winning economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, each 1 page, 4to (2) and 8vo (1), Freiburg, September – October 1984, each to Donald McCormick, stating ‘Having long been intrigued by the to me at first unbelievable stories that the late Professor A. C. Pigou was a Russian spy and having at last succeeded in obtaining a copy of your book The British Connection, I am at last more or less persuaded that you must be right. I not only knew Pigou probably better than any other person still living and not only had been staying with him in College, shared lectures with him (while I was with the L.S.E. evacuated to Cambridge during the war) played chess with him and even climbed with him in the Lake District, but as I now realize, was subject by him to exactly the tests which you described after I mentioned to him that I had without hesitation visited my native Austria when war was likely to break out any moment, because I knew that as an experienced Alpinist I should always be able to cross into Switzerland or Italy without difficulty. Also, characteristically, he dropped me as suddenly when he discovered that my political views made me wholly unsuitable for the purpose he evidently had in mind’ and further arranging a luncheon at the Reform Club in order to discuss Pigou and the suppression of McCormick’s book, further letters from individuals who knew or met Pigou, Wilfrid Noyce, Richard Terrell and others, including a lengthy correspondence with McCormick from Richard Holmes, another letter providing what limited details existed of Pigou’s service with the Friends Ambulance Unit in World War I, various pages of manuscript notes by McCormick relating to Pigou, a copy of his last will and testament, and a small 12mo pocket diary for 1905 believed by McCormick to have belonged to Pigou and with various entries written in pigpen cipherQty: (approx. 20)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming.
![* Donald McCormick Archive. [Espionage]. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/27b5cdfc-fc3c-49b1-9e32-ada600c31087/f7f6147b-b95a-4317-95ae-ada600fe02b6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 191
* Donald McCormick Archive. [Espionage]. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled by Donald McCormick during the 1970s and 1980s, in relation to his works on spies and espionage, many of the items relating in particular to the ‘ace of spies’, Sidney Reilly, including letters from Arden Winch (recalling an anecdote about Reilly supplied by MI6 agent Captain Stephen Alley, and further information relating to the intelligence officer George Alexander Hill), Natalie Wraga (relating to Lord Inverchapel and his valet), a dictated letter from Isaiah Berlin (also relating to Inverchapel’s valet, in part, ‘The rumour was that when Stalin asked Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, as he then was, when he was taking his leave as Ambassador, whether there was anything he, Stalin, could do for him, he was alleged to have asked for permission to take his masseur to his next post in Washington with him – and that this permission was in fact granted by Stalin’), a largely autograph manuscript relating to the Russian mathematician Revolt Pimenov and his interest in Reilly, also including an eight page Autograph Letter Signed in German from Karl Friedmann, the first husband of the Austrian Communist & Soviet agent Litzi Friedmann (who later became Kim Philby’s first wife) and 5 associated photographs, several letters and papers (some photocopies) relating to other Soviet spies including Nikolai Skoblin, Alexander Foote etc., as well as the University of Lund, an Autograph Letter Signed by the 7th Marquess of Anglesey etcQty: (approx. 50)NOTESDonald McCormick (1911-1998) British journalist and historian who also wrote under the pseudonym Richard Deacon. As a journalist on the foreign desk of The Sunday Times McCormick at one stage worked alongside Ian Fleming. McCormick’s publications included Spyclopedia: The Comprehensive Handbook of Espionage (1987).
Lot 364
A Coalport porcelain desk stand19th centurypainted with panels of exotic birds reserved against a deep cobalt ground heavily embellished with gilt flowers, the set comprising a pair of inkwells and covers, candlestick and taper vase, stand 28.5cm wide(restored)Condition report: Stand fully restored, has previously been in several pieces. Both inkwell covers restored. Please refer to images. Some rubbing to gilding around rim of tray.
Lot 374
A group of English pottery and porcelaincomprising a Minton 'BB New Stone' ironstone dessert service, pattern A270, circa 1830-50, transfer-printed with birds in flowering branches with hand-coloured highlights, comprising a tall comport dish with twin handles, 20cm high; four dessert dishes with single handles, 23.5cm diameter; a rectangular twin-handled dessert dish, 29cm wide, five dessert plates, 22cm diameter and three further dessert plates, 23.2cm diameter, impressed factory marks and painted pattern numbers in iron red (minor damages); together with an English porcelain desk stand, circa 1830, comprising a stand with two inkwells (one with glass liner) and a spill vase, stand width 33cm wide (damaged) and a Derby porcelain dessert service, circa 1820, painted with flowers within gilded chain link and apple green borders, the service comprising a tall comport on trefoil base, 16cm high; a canted dish, 27.5cm wide; a heart-shaped dish, 26.5cm wide, four single-handled dessert dishes, 25cm diameter; pair of tureens, covers and stands, tureens 13.5cm high, stands, 22.5cm wide and thirteen dessert plates, 22cm diameter, printed factory marks in red (damages throughout)Condition report: Minton service - Comport dish with foot rim chip.Three single-handled dessert dishes - one chipped and cracked, hairline to centre.Rectangular dish - Small foot rim chip, nibble to one handle.23.2cm diameter plates - Two with single front-facing rim chips, the other two front-facing rim chips.Smaller plates - One plate cracked and chipped to foot, 1 with foot rim chip, 1 with front-facing rim chip, 2 stained and chipped.Overall some flaking to the iron red borders.Ink stand - Stand has been variously broken and repaired, with associated cracks and hairlines. Spill vase cracked. One ink well cracked, repaired finial. Gilding rubbed. Comport - Numerous cracks to the base. Hairline to rim of dish.Canted dish - hairline, heavily stained.Heart dish - stained, decoration rubbed, small chip to underside rim.Four single-handled dishes - all four stained and rubbed, one with X-crack to underside.Tureens, covers and stands - Both stands with some staining, one with a tight hairline from rim. 1 cover with old riveted repair to handle. One tureen with firing crack to rim.Dessert plates - 1 plate with small rim chip, 1 plate with hairlines to centre and rim, 1 plate stained and with rim chip, 1 plate with minute rim nick and hairline, 2 plates badly cracked to centre, 1 plate stained and with hairline, 1 plate with two hairlines and two rim chips, 1 plate with Y-shaped hairline to underside, 1 plate with hairline, 3 remaining plates with staining and hairlines.Overall, decoration with some rubbing and majority of pieces crazed.
Lot 495
A Victorian mahogany veneered twin pedestal desk, formerly a 'Dickens' desk, the rectangular top with a central, hinged writing surface, enclosing an interior with pigeon holes, some damage and losses, 153cm wide x 83cm deep x 82cm highCondition report: Losses, including superstructure and veneers, including two 7cm x 2.5cm of 'fall' and three drawers and three rails lacking setions of veneer. Plinth badly chipped. Lacking three handles and one missing most of its 'backplate'. Scrathes, chips and dents consistent with age and use
Lot 128
A retro Italian style one-piece opaque white glass lamp and shade with frosted and opaque wrythen decoration, blown from one piece, unmarked, 40 x 38cm, together with a pair of modern clear glass crystal desk/bedside lamps with faceted sided columns on faceted conical base, height to top of shade 34cm (3). CONDITION REPORT Italian style lamp - No cracks, chips, rings trueAll Electrically untested
Lot 2
A George III oak bureau, drop-down desk top, interior with arched pigeonholes and eight small drawers above one long central drawer to three drawers either side and central knee hole with small cupboard with starburst inlay, to shaped plinth base, 110 x 95 x 54cm. CONDITION REPORT There is age related wear throughout in the form of surface scratches and deeper scratches, the desk top is slightly loose, the original locks have been replaced as have the handles, some small areas of missing wood, various old cracks to the body, no obvious signs of restoration or woodworm
Lot 14
A 19th century flame mahogany bonheur du jour twin glazed display cabinet with glazed panels to either side, one interior later glass shelf, chequerboard design to the base of the cabinet above four small drawers to serpentine desktop above one central drawer, to tapering cabriole supports with ormolu mounts throughout cabinet and desktop, 145 x 79 x 58cm. CONDITION REPORT There is age related wear throughout in the form of surface scratches with small cracks to the veneer, small areas of veneer missing mainly to the edges and the top of the display cupboard and desk top, approx six cracks to the veneer to the top of desk, small areas of ormolu missing, one area loose but present, no sign of woodworm or restoration.
Lot 52
Large silver capston form inkwell with pique inlaid tortoiseshell lid hinge AF London 1918 and a silver desk top calendar Birmingham 1911 with complete ivory inserts for date, days and monthsPLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM MAY CONTAIN IVORY. Buyers must be aware that regulations of several countries, including USA, prohibit the import of ivory, or any goods containing ivory. Ewbanks advise prospective purchasers who intend to ship this lot to another country that they must familiarise themselves with the relevant import/export regulations prior to bidding. They are responsible for their shipping arrangements and the onus is therefore on them to organise their own shipping.
Lot 124A
A Military issue Omega desk clock,of brass construction and numbered (9576535). With seconds dial below 12 'oclock. Swiss Made. (1)Footnotes:This clock was part of the estate of Commander Wilfred Albert 'Biffy' Dunderdale. It was the clock he had during WW2. The clock was inherited by his Chauffeur during the war years who was entrusted to deal with his affairs. They both lived in Bletchingley in Surrey, and passed down from them.Commander Wilfred Albert 'Biffy' Dunderdale MBE (24 December 1899 – 13 November 1990) was a British spy and intelligence officer. It has been suggested that Dunderdale was used by Ian Fleming as a basis for the character of James Bond. He was born in Odessa, son of Richard Albert Dunderdale, a shipping magnate. Dunderdale served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. He worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) between 1921 and 1959. His work involved liaison with French intelligence (1926–40) and Polish intelligence (1940–45). Bill 'Biffy' Dunderdale, was station head of MI6 in Paris, wore cufflinks and handmade suits and was chauffeured around Paris in a Rolls-Royce. After his retirement from SIS in 1959 he was appointed British Consul-General in Chicago. He later moved to New York, he died there in November 1990.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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