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Lot 279
*An Scarce Officer’s Tibet and N.W. Persia Group of 5 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly, 2nd / 1st Madras Pioneers, late 32nd and 64th Pioneers, Indian Army, comprising: Tibet 1903-05, single clasp, Gyantse (Lieut. H. St. G. H. Harvey. Kelly 64th Pioneers); British War Medal (Maj. H. St. G. Harvey Kelly.); General Service Medal, 1918-1962, single clasp, N. W. Persia (Major H. St. G. H. Harvey Kelly.); India General Service Medal, 1908-1935, single clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj, H, St, G, H, Harvey-Kelly, 2-1 M, Pnrs,); Jubilee Medal 1935; Group loose, with original riband bar, lightly polished and cleaned, very fine or better (5). The Harvey-Kelly family were a landed family from Westmeath, Ireland, and Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly was born in 1880. He passed out from Sandhurst in 1899, following which he received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant (Unattached List) in the Indian Staff Corps on 17 January 1900, as shown in the original warrant included with the lot. Soon after he was made a 2nd Lieutenant with the 32nd Pioneer’s, and sent to join Younghusband’s Tibet campaign of 1903-05, where he was present at the action at Niani (also spelt Naini) on 26 June 1904, on the strategic main road leading to Gyantse. As recorded in his personal journal, the storming and subsequent capture of this heavily fortified monastery was his first experience of battle (‘My first show!’), and he wrote: “2 Coys 32nd were ordered to attack under B- [Colonel Herbert Ralph Brander, C.B.] skirmished around selected house + garden about 150 yds from the village, and as we approached on the other side the enemy opened fire. A row of 4 houses loopholed & barricaded doors + windows, nothing to be seen but puffs of smoke, and we in a ditch, open fields between us, firing at the loopholes…maxims chattering, 7 pounders banging. After a while the enemy fire died down and then ceased. ‘That’s all that then, said B-, if they know what’s good for them – they’ve bolted. I’m going to rush the house.’ which with a wild yell he proceeded to do. Up we jumped and followed him but no sooner had we shown ourselves than the enemy’s fire recommenced. They had been waiting for a better target. On we ran, one man down on my left, & so up to the first house. B- hammered on the door, so did the Sepoys, not a sound from within and no way of getting in. No signs of Tibetans, must have bolted. Gun cotton was left behind by order…Orders came from Colonel Hogge – 23rd will clear the houses, 32nd the garden in the middle of the village. The garden was a walled in enclosure – loopholed – gateway bricked up, and a clear run of 60 yards to reach it. B started giving orders to circle behind…we followed, not a sign of the enemy, our own shrapnel playing hell’s bells above our heads. B reached the gate and we had the bricks down, waiting to rush them. Another minute and we were in. Not a soul in the place. Having carried out our orders, there we sat in the shade of a tree and had tiffin…until it was time to march to Gyantse.” Harvey-Kelly also took part in the operations at and around the mountain fortress at Gyantse, between 5 May and 6 July 1904, and then during the march to Lhassa between 14 July and 3 August 1904. Afterwards he served in the 64th Pioneers between c. late 1904 and 1907, and then in North West Persia and Waziristan between September 1919 and May 1921 with the 2nd Battalion / 1st Madras Pioneers. He retired from service in the Indian Army in 1928, whereupon he joined the South Indian Railway as Executive Officer, Golden Rock Colony. He worked in this capacity until 9 October 1935, when he decided to leave India and return home, having been presented with the King’s Silver Jubilee medal at a Durbar in Trichinopoly just weeks before on 3 September 1935. He appears to have spent his retirement in Bedford, where his sons attended Bedford Modern School. He sons served with distinction in the Great War: Herbert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly was a famous pilot - the first to land in France and the first RFC pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft before being shot down in Bloody April and dying from wounds. Another son, Charles Hamilton Hume Harvey-Kelly, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Baluch Light Infantry, served as Military Attaché to Kabul, and won the D.S.O. This group offered with an original warrant, portrait photograph, an original copy of the ‘Farewell Address’ to Harvey-Kelly from the Golden Rock Colony, letter from the South Indian Railway Co. confirming his nomination for the King’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, and other related research. Harvey-Kelly’s archive, including his journal and photographs of the Tibet expedition, will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s London, Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 November 2016
Lot 294
A small Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/0 1922, with pebbled dashed front, card shutters, green front door to side with ‘letter’ box, brick paper sides, tiled roof, front opening to reveal two rooms, original papers and some furniture - 171?4in. (44cm.) high (reproduction upstairs shutter and some slight restoration)
Lot 280
A Schönherr Model 670 dolls’ house 1920s, white painted with red roof, steps up to a front terrace with door to one side, central window with window box and bay window, first floor double window with balcony, crystal set radio ‘washing-line’ aerial suspended from both chimneys, ground floor front opening to reveal one large room and small front opening to first floor revealing small room, original interior papers and furniture including a red and white striped upholstered drawing room set - 243?4in. (63cm.) high (slight restoration)
Lot 300
A Tri-ang Ultra Modern dolls’ house DH/51 1939, painted cream, green wooden front door and garage doors, tinplate windows, large bay window, sun terrace on roof, front opening to reveal four rooms, hall, stairs and landing, sun room above garage, electrically-lit and a quantity of period furnishings - 29in. (731?2cm.) wide (repainted)
Lot 364
A Tri-ang A-symmetric dolls’ house DH/D 1924, with pebble-dashed exterior, ground floor bay window, green front door with lions mask knocker, tinplate windows, timbered eaves, papered tiled roof and front opening to reveal two rooms, original papers to first floor, fully furnished with old and some new pieces - 26in. (66cm.) high (reproduction shutters and slight restoration)
Lot 320
A carpenter-built brick painted dolls’ house circa 1900, with central front door, two windows on each floor, black painted tiled roof, brass carrying handles, centrally front opening with lock to reveal four rooms, fully furnished including a Bing cream painted tinplate kitchen furniture set with blue Art Nouveau stenciling, tinplate tub with mangle, wire work half-tester bed, two metal six branch chandeliers, other early twentieth century German furniture - 351?2in. (90cm) high
Lot 266
A 1930s German red roofed dolls’ house probably Wagner, cream with stenciled timbering, front door and tiles, bay window on first floor over handing front door, front opening to reveal two rooms - 18in. (451?2cm.) high (some restoration and retouching); and a small quantity of vintage furniture including two flowers in pots
Lot 362
A G & J Lines dolls’ house No.33 1909-10, with cream painted façade, two-storey bay window to one side, central front door with roof, balustrade front garden, mansard roof with dormer window and widow’s walk to one side, timbered and pitched roof to other, chimneys, front opening in two halves to reveal four rooms, hall, stairs and landing - 313?4in. (801?2cm.) high (completely refurbished)
Lot 444
A G & J Lines 1919 dolls’ house, with pebble-dashed exterior, tinplate windows with cardboard shutters, front door with lion head door knocker, front opening to reveal four rooms, hall, stairs and landing, original papers, fireplaces, range and dresser - 25in. (631?2cm.) wide (missing some paper from roof)
Lot 258
A Silber & Fleming type box back dolls’ house No.5, with central front door, remains of original brick papers to 1st floor, repainted façade, box back in original red paint finish with stenciled no.5 on back, front opening to reveal four rooms - 261?2in. (671?2cm.) high (interior redecorated and electrified)
Lot 263
A Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/2 1928/9, with central front door with lion knocker, tinplate windows with green card shutters, paper tiled roof, ‘pebble-dashed’ walls, front opening to reveal four rooms, hall, stairs and landing, original papers, electrically lit - 25in. (631?2cm.) wide (very slight damage and repairs to roof papers)
Lot 299
A Tri-ang Ultra Modern dolls’ house DH/50 1939, painted cream, green wooden front door and garage doors, tinplate windows, large bay window, sun room and sun terrace on roof, front opening to reveal two rooms, hall, stairs and landing, electrically-lit and a quantity of period furnishings - 21in. (531?2cm.) wide (replaced chimney and battery cover)
Lot 358
A large Tri-ang Stockbroker dolls’ house DH/93 1932, cream painted with half timbered first floor, red tiled roof, two bay windows, tinplate window frames with green shutters, garage, side porch and door with sundial, circular tin label on back, steps, front opening in four places to reveal five rooms, three fireplaces, a range, original papers, hall, stairs and landing - 471?4in. (120cm.) wide (later electrification)
Lot 351
A Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/62E 1930s, cream painted with half timbered first floor, red tiled roof, two bays, two walled front gardens, central front door, garage, front opening in two places to reveal four rooms, electrically lit, original papers and a quantity of suitable furniture, triangular tinplate label on roof - 263?4in. (66cm.) wide
Lot 359
A G & J Lines dolls’ house No.20 1909/10, brick paper and cream painted, central front door with lion mask door knocker, two bay windows to ground floor, balustrade to 1st floor window, red tiled paper pitched roof, central front opening to reveal four rooms with staircase and fireplaces - 301?2in. (771?2cm.) high (restored)
Lot 253
The The following 178 lots are the collection of the late Ron & Doreen Truin; Ron & Doreen shared many collecting interests during their 60 years together. Ron was a lifelong toy collector, retaining his childhood toys from the 1930s. His wife Doreen had an extensive collection of dolls’ houses, and whilst Ron’s main interests was always toy trains, inspired by Doreen’s enthusiasm he gathered his own collection of houses ranging from Silber & Fleming, G&J Lines, Gottschalk through to Tri-ang and Stubbs. Doreen was particularly interested in Tri-ang and G & J Lines, and acquired an extensive knowledge of these companies. It was a hobby that gave both of them a great deal of pleasure and created many friendships over the years. Their collection also includes lots 140, 203 to 217, 532 to 534 and 556. Ron’s toy train collection is to be included in the auctions on the 16th/17th November and Trains Galore on the 14th/15th December. A Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/C 1921, with paper tiled roof and brick first floor, ‘pebble-dashed’ ground floor, central front door with letter box, balustrading, card yellow shutters, front opening to reveal two rooms - 221?2in. (57cm.) high (some restoration and repainting, side papers replaced)
Lot 254
A G & J Lines box backed dolls’ house No.4 1909-10, with painted and papered façade, central front door with brass knocker, portico, pillared first floor windows with triangular pediments, front opening to reveal four rooms, four Evans & Cartwright style tinplate fireplaces and some original papers - 251?4in. (64cm.) high (some repainting and replaced brick paper)
Lot 330
A rare Tri-ang caravan 1950s, wooden two-wheeled trailer covered in wood effect paper, tinplate windows and door, original step, the plain wooden roof lifts to show electric lighting, the ceiling then lifts to show two rooms, two bunks, wardrobe, sink, cooker, table and chairs; and four cloth and pipe-cleaner doll - 141?2in. (37cm.) long
Lot 369
A Tri-ang Stockbroker type dolls’ house DH/64 1932, cream painted with painted timbers, red painted tiled roof, tinplate windows, central front door with porch with bay window and tinplate sundial above, garage, electrically lit, round tinplate label on back front opening in four places to reveal eight rooms with a large quantity of furniture mainly Dol-Toi - 45in. (1141?2cm.) wide (slight wear, some repainting to window frames)
Lot 296
A Tri-ang No.1 Princess dolls’ house 1930s, with carved wooden ‘thatched’ roof, pebble dashed walls, two bay windows, metal windows, central yellow painted front door, side door, rear opening to reveal four rooms, hall, stairs and landing, original papers, some fitted furniture and fireplaces, circular label on roof - 30in. (761?2cm.) wide
Lot 438
A Tri-ang stockbroker type dolls’ house, cream painted, tiled roof, painted half-timbered first floor, tinplate windows, central front door with porch and sundial above, front opening in four places to reveal eight rooms, electrically-lit, original papers and circular tinplate label on back - 45in. (1141?2cm.) wide (all original, but fairly worn and some damage)
Lot 439
An interesting tin or fine gauge steel single storey dolls’ house, possibly a shop display with cream and brick stenciled walls, green and red roof, windows at side, the front of clear Perspex with inset windows and front door, hinged roof to reveal two rooms, cream painted with red stenciled nursery border - 22in. (56cm.) wide (chimney replaced); and a small Tri-ang dolls’ house
Lot 357
A rare very large institutional Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/14 1921, finished on four sides with a timber framed pebble-dashed 1st floor, brick papered ground floor, tinplate window with printed green card shutters, carved wooden front door with arched portico, grey texture roof with dormer window, rear back door, front opening in two parts to reveal six rooms with fireplaces and internal doors, hall, stairs and landing - 551?2in. (141cm.) wide x 481?2in. (123cm.) high x 201?2in. (52cm.) deep (interior repapered, damage to lower paper on right side and slight general wear)
Lot 298
A G & J Lines box backed town dolls’ house 1920s, with three floors, central front door with triangular pediment, window either side, 1st and second floors with two windows and semi-circular pediment joining the two, brick papers and cream painted with green lining, front opening to reveal three rooms - 29in. (731?2cm.) high (old repaint, interior repapered)
Lot 319
A Tri-ang dolls’ house DH/5 1919-21, with cream and red painted façade, paper brick detail and sides, central brown front door with two large windows either side, two pillars holding the first floor balustrade curved balcony with large central sunroom, windows either side, paper tiled roof with dormer window, two chimneys and central finial, front opening to reveal four rooms, hall, landing and stairs, internal doors, furnishings including oak Elgin - 291?2in. (75cm) wide (some restoration)
Lot 353
A G & J Lines dolls’ house No.37 1915, cream painted wit pillared portico, front door with lion knocker, tinplate windows, brick papers to sides, tiled paper roof, embossed paper Thistle label to rear, front opening to reveal four rooms with fireplaces and original papers - 26in. (66cm.) high (repainted facade, some replaced exterior paper and front step)
Lot 361
An early 20th century dolls’ house, possibly G & J Lines, repainted beige and brown, central pillared front door, six windows, pitched roof with central chimney, front opening to reveal four rooms and staircase, furnished with modern furniture including items from a haberdashery - 283?4in. (73cm.) wide (completely refurbished)
Lot 1043
An Edwardian brass carriage clock, circular in plan and with single-train movement with alarm, complete with case. Height excluding carrying handle 11 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The clock face is very dirty at the edges but there is no damage to the enamel. The movement winds on both trains but is only running for a few seconds when shaken. The brasswork has lost much of its original finish and is tarnished. The platform appears to be original. The glass panels are all in good order. The rear door top pin is missing and the door is loose. There are some minor nibbles to the bevelled glass to the bottom left hand corner of the rear door. We have a key but this does not wind the alarm mechanism only the going train. The carrying case is very worn and tatty.
Lot 1054
An Edwardian inlaid mahogany mantle clock, with two-train striking movement and boxwood strung case. Height excluding carrying handle 22 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The clock case is in generally good condition with no losses or damage. It is simply a little dirty. The front door is missing its glass. There is a star crack between the numerals 5 and 6. The clock movement is fully wound on both trains. It does however strike when advanced to the hour. The clock does appear to be ticking.
Lot 1073
A late Victorian black slate mantle clock, with a pair of accompanying urns. Clock height 41 cm, width 32 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The clock case is in generally good condition with only very minor scuffs and chips as one would expect for an item of this age. There are no serious problems with the case. The brass bezel to the front door is a little tarnished but in good condition as is the glass. The dial is in good order. The clock movement is complete and we have the pendulum. The movement strikes correctly when advanced and appears to be ticking away. The accompanying urns are not quite a match to the clock. They are generally very dirty but have no significant problems. They both have minor nibbles and scuffs to the slate as one would expect. One urn has slightly more chips and scuffs than the other and the losses are a little more significant but not substantially problematic.
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