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Lot 160
Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (1916-2018), poet and wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A white metal desk model of the Masada excavation, 1966, bearing engraved inscription, 'To Mrs. Harold Wilson, The Masada Exhibition, London Nov. 1966, Yigael Yadin'. Mary Wilson officially opened the Masada exhibition in London in 1966 (while Harold was Prime Minister). The Masada excavations were led by Professor Yigael Yadin between 1963 and 1965. Together with a printed menu for Traditional Afternoon Tea in honour of the visit of Lady Wilson, Raffles Hotel, Singapore, 12 January 1978 (Harold and Mary did a five-day visit to Singapore at the invitation of PM Lee Kuan Yew), and a printed menu scroll from the Corporation of London luncheon commemorating the 800th Anniversary of the Mayoralty in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, held at the Guildhall, London, 8 February 1989 (3)Provenance: Purchased as part of a group Lot in A Prime Minister's Life: The Collection of Harold & Mary Wilson, 10 May 2019, Hansons Auctioneers
Lot 202
GRENADE PAPERWEIGHT. A brass desk paperweight in the stylised shape of a grenade. Condition: Good. No serious marks or scratches. WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.
Lot 361
An afrormosia desk,1960s, designed in by Richard Hornby and made by Fyne Ladye of Banbury, with a raised hinged shelf opening to reveal divisions and a drawer, over a blue leather surface, above a drawer with a reeded front, 91.5cm wide58.5cm deep102cm highCondition report: Colour and surface worn. Blue leather top fade, worn and with a hole. The stretcher has damage and loss to the right side.
Lot 487
A Danish teak desk, the rectangular top with three drawers either side, 123cm wide60cm deep73.5cm highCondition report: See additional images.Some colour change to the top of the desk - minor scuffing to the legs - otherwise OK. Further photos added.No key for top left drawer - stable condition.
Lot 71
An Art Deco walnut desk,with a green leather half-moon inset top, with canted corners, over two frieze drawers, raised on concave pedestals united with a stretcher, 106cm wide52.5cm deep76cm highCondition report: Glass top, some wear to the handles, replaced veneers and some loss to the veneers on the corners, and chips to the edges.
Lot 322
A Danish teak and oak desk, 157cm wide76cm deep76cm high, and a teak desk chair,52cm wide54cm deep75cm high, 47cm seat high (2)Condition report: See additional images.Desk top - some colour change and ring stains. The front has some knocks and veneer flakes around the drawers. The key is present.The Desk chair - has flake to the veneer on one side - small chip to the back rail.
Lot 1022
A late 19th Century Italian carved walnut kneehole desk: of broken outline, decorated with ribbon-tied foliate and fruit garlands and scrolling foliate designs, the top inset with a leatherette panel, the frieze fitted with a tooled leather inset writing slide and two small drawers, having an enclosed cupboard with cabochon and scrolling foliage, flanked by stiles headed with sculptured cherubs masks and with a mythical bird on panel at side, the sculptured cherub corner support united by turned and foliate stretchers, on bun feet, 93cm (3ft 0½in) wide
Lot 861
Hewitt & Son, London, a brass-bound mahogany desk chronometer: the gimballed two-day duration movement having spotted plates and detent chronometer escapement, the 3½-inch round silvered dial having black Roman hour numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, Up and Down state-of-wind dial, gold spade hands and engraved with the maker's name Hewitt & Son, Makers to the Admiralty, London, No. 1890, the brass bound two-tier rosewood case with inset brass handles to the sides and a glazed circular viewing aperture to the top, height 12cms, depth 17.5cm, width 17.5cm.* Biography Thomas Hewitt, born 1799 in Prescot, Lancashire, moved to London in 1812 and is recorded as working at various addresses as a chronometer maker including 12 Upper Ashley Street, Clerkenwell in circa 1840 and 34 Windsor Terrace, City Road, from 1856 until at least 1859. With James Hewitt at Atherton Street, Prescot, Lancashire as Hewitt Brothers from circa 1854 until 1872 and then Montague Road until 1876, being the main centre of chronometer movement construction at this time. Thomas devised various forms of compensation balances and was known to use both Earnshaw spring detent and foot detent. The great innovator John Wycherley was apprenticed to Hewitt in Prescot. Thomas died in 1867. His son, Thomas J.P. Hewitt, born 1833 in Atherton, Lancashire, worked with his father at King Street, Tower Hill City, London. He was Director of the British Watch Company and elected to the Council of the British Horological Institute in 1863 becoming Vice-President. Thomas J.P. Hewitt died in Balham, South London in 1918.
Lot 945
An early 18th Century walnut and diagonally banded kneehole desk:, of small size, the quarter veneered top with a crossbanded border and a moulded edge, fitted with a single long frieze - and six small drawers about a central recessed enclosed cupboard with shaped apron drawer above, on bracket feet, 81.5cm (2ft 8in) wide.
Lot 946
An early 18th Century walnut and feather banded kneehole desk: the wide crossbanded top with a moulded edge, fitted with a baize inset slide, a single long frieze drawer and six small drawers about a central recessed enclosed cupboard with shaped apron drawer above, on bracket feet, 82cm (2ft 8¼in) wide
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