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Lot 302
A GEORGE III GREEN JAPANNED EIGHT DAY LONGCASE CLOCK, the 12" brass break arch dial with silvered Roman chapter ring, fleur de lys half hour marks, Arabic five minutes, matted centre with subsidiary seconds, engraved date aperture and ring winding holes, with mask and scroll spandrels, the arch with convex disc signed Thomas Milner, London, flanked by dolphin mounts, the hood with plain pillars over a break arch trunk door with gilt chinoiserie decoration, 205cm high
Lot 422
A SMALL COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE PEWTER AND COPPERWARE including a mazer, a knopped brass candlestick standing on three claw feet, a 19th century country door stop depicting game birds and a mouse on a wheatsheaf, and four pewter plates with touch marks for London on reverse, and a pair of candlesticks (9)
Lot 106
SHAW RICHARD NORMAN: (1831-1912) Scottish Architect whose works ranged from residential houses (including W. S. Gilbert's home, Grim's Dyke) to public buildings (including the original New Scotland Yard). An unusual small 4to writing album containing a selection of A.Ls.S. (8), partial autograph letters (3), signed clipped pieces (11) and original pen and ink illustrations (7) and other fragments etc. by Shaw, each neatly mounted to pages within the album, the letters all written to the Revd. Fred W. Joy, a Canon and Librarian at Ely, from 1877-97, and stating, in part, 'Ha Ha Ha! Ha! Your letter amuses me so much I can't write or speak for laughter Ha! Ha! Ha You certainly are the funniest old dog...that I ever came across....I wish we could do that trip but we can't - it is quite impossible...', 20th September 1878, written by Shaw with attractive undulating lines of text), 'Lamentable condition of poor puss found....in the kitchen stairs with half his tail cut off by the swing door - oh! poor puss!!!', 31st July 1884, the head of the letter featuring a pen and ink illustration of the invalid cat with blood dripping from his severed tail), 'I do most heartily hope that your married life may be an exceedingly happy one, there are I have heard such things as "infelicitous marriages"....but I know nothing of them, if you are half as happy as my old woman and I have been for the last 15 years, I should be content....', 14th March 1882), 'I am too old....by the time Isabel comes to the "Sermon" stage I shall be fast asleep with my toes turned up to the roots of the daisies - and so should not be able to impact any of these good moral sentiments for which I am so justly celebrated....', 17th March 1886), 'If you really mean to make such a point of it of course I shall be very happy & very proud...my only doubt was about the fitness of an old Buffer as I am being a God father to such a teeny-weeny-ickle thing as Isabel is, and must be, till I shuffle off my mortal coil...', 20th March 1886), '...I find that "retiring from business" means a great deal more to do than ever - & means doing it all yourself....It is a very pretty photo. I'll do some sort of a little finial for fun - it must be rough - & not architectoooralooral....', 7th March 1897), 'Poor Juby has gone!! We are inconsolable for her loss....She was hear on Monday morning last and had her milk as usual....all enquiries have proved vain, all search fruitless. The wife has been seen in a cocked hat & knickerbockers looking under all the bushes....We have not even got a suspicion of what can have become of her but fear she has somehow got converted into sausages....', 22nd April 1877, written by Shaw in a small, neat hand on a piece of 8vo stationery with a thick black ink mourning border). Many of the illustrations by Shaw feature cats, but also include a church organ, bell, various writing instruments etc. Some of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes. Generally G
Lot 144
PLATH SYLVIA: (1932-1963) American Poet & Novelist, wife of Ted Hughes 1956-62. An original typescript poem, unsigned, one page, 4to, Lawrence House, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, n.d. (c.1954-55). The poem, comprising fourteen lines, is entitled Eve Describes Her Birthday Party and commences 'The Boy-next-door, inscrutable as God/ created cocktails easily as stars'. Plath has extensively revised the fourth line in her own hand, replacing 'the windy jargon' with 'wrangling jargon' and also adding the words 'seraphic spheres (disharmony of spheres?)' as possible alternatives to 'angelic wars', with further holograph revisions to the twelfth line, replacing 'pierced the' with 'plunged through the'. Together with a second original typescript poem, unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p., 10th June 1949, entitled To Ariadne (deserted by Theseus). Rare. VG, 2
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Lot 184
[LIVINGSTONE DAVID]: (1813-1873) Scottish Missionary & Explorer. LIVINGSTONE JANET (1818-1895) Younger Sister of David Livingstone. A.L.S., Janet Livingstone, two pages, 8vo, Hamilton, 4th June 1889, to Mr. Shelley. Livingstone announces 'I am sorry that your notice of my father is to be published so soon as you kindly promised to let my sister & me see it before-hand' and further remarks 'We thought we might be able to correct mistakes and give you items of interest such as an extract from my brother's last letter to his son Thomas in which he says that the greatest blessing God had bestowed upon him (the Doctor) was that of God fearing religious parents….'. With blank integral leaf. VG Neil Livingstone (1788-1856) Scottish Sunday School teacher, a teetotaller who handed out Christian tracts on his travels as a door-to-door salesman. Thomas Steele Livingstone (1849-1876) Son of David Livingstone who joined the University Mission and arrived in East Africa in January 1862.
Lot 238
BUCKLEY CECIL W.: (1830-1872) British Royal Navy Captain, Victoria Cross winner for his actions on board HMS Miranda in the Crimea on 29th May 1855. Buckley was the first winner of the Victoria Cross to be actually gazetted. Rare illustrated A.L.S., Cecil Buckley, three pages, 4to, HMS Cormorant, Bolivia, 7th October 1850, to 'My dear Aunt'. Buckley writes a lengthy, informative letter that opens with his frustration with the slave trade 'We have just run up here to see what is doing in the slave trade, and find it flourishing at a great rate… Slaves have been landed in pitch dark nights almost within hail of us in the very ports we have been watching.' Buckley continues to report that he has visited his father's grave, at the head of the second page rendering a fine ink drawing of the headstone in his hand, further adding that the inscription reads, 'Here resteth the remains of Joseph Buckley who departed this life 6th October 1834 aged 36 years. Rejoicing in the hope of salvation.' Buckley also informs his aunt that 'I shall most likely find a letter from you waiting me in Rio as it is sometime since I heard unless you have as I suspect directed to the “Daedalus” in which case I must hope for the best.' In buoyant mood he also remarks 'One of the Lieutenants of the “Southampton” called Day professes to be well acquainted with an Exeter family of our name, doubtless the same to which these two handsome young ladies belong, who were once introduced to me at my house (very unwillingly on my part) as my cousins.' Buckley continues in a jovial way yet laments the possibility of his next posting to the Pacific in that 'Everything is so comfortable, and all things agreeable in the “Cormorant” that I quite dread the idea of leaving her' and concludes with a touch of light-hearted self-indulgence, 'Can I venture to be remembered at the next door after this lapse of time, or has London been too gay this season, and added memories to the usual list of tales, operas and fetes. If so break the news gently to me.' With integral address leaf in Buckley's hand and with various postmarks including a blue Falmouth Ship Letter cancellation. Some tears to the final page and with an area of paper loss (caused by the breaking of the seal), just affecting the address and running close to, but not affecting, the signature. Some light mottling, G
Lot 1050
A SUPERB MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY INLAID STANDING CHINA CABINET by EDWARDS & ROBERTS, with a swan neck pediment, the central serpentine glazed door enclosing two shelves, flanked by concave glazed sides over a pair of doors and concave side panels, all profusely inlaid with classical motifs, supported on slender cabriole legs united by an under-tier, stamped EDWARDS & ROBERTS. 7ft 0ins high x 3ft 2ins wide x 1ft 5ins deep.
Lot 1051
A SUPERB MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY INLAID CABINET by EDWARDS & ROBERTS, with swan neck pediment, dentil moulded cornice over a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing a mirror backed interior, flanked by open shelves with mirrors behind, above a bowfronted door flanked by a pair of astragal glazed doors, all profusely inlaid with classical motifs, supported on slender tapering square legs, stamped EDWARDS & ROBERTS. 7ft 4ins high x 4ft 7ins wide x 1ft 3ins deep.
Lot 704
A George III oak cased longcase clock by Benjamin Lockwood, SwaffhamWith a shaped fret work pediment over a break arch twelve inch brass dial with Roman numeral hours and Arabic minutes, a subsidiary second dial, date aperture and strike / silent dial, the dial signed Benj Lockwood, Swaffham with an eight day movement striking on a saucer bell, the dial flanked by two tapering ring turned columns above an arched door and plain front panel, plinth base complete with twin weights and pendulum, 217cm height CONDITION REPORT: lot 704 - Clock movement not well maintained. Good possibly movement will require some restoration.Boards which hold clock movement have been replaced, strong possibility clock and case are a marriage, clock case also looks like it has been reduced.
Lot 711
An 18th Century pollard oak longcase clock, Broadhurst, MacclesfieldThe stepped caddy top above a blind fret work frieze and two tapering columns flanking a twelve inch brass dial with Roman hour numerals and Arabic minute numerals, centred with a subsidiary second dial and date aperture with gilt metal openwork spandrels and an eight day movement striking on a saucer bell, the nicely figured and slender pollard oak case with a twin beaded door over a plain front board and plinth base, clock case requires some restoration, complete with pendulum and weights, height of clock 219cm.
Lot 145
An early 20th Century Winterhalder and Hofmeier eight day mantel clock The arched architectural case with glazed arched door, raised on a stepped on a plinth base and raised on compressed bun feet, enclosing silvered dial with 4 inch chapter ring, with black Roman numerals, stamped Lamer Kuss & Co. beneath slow/fast and chime/silent dial, 29cm high. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 145Cannot guarantee working condition of clock.Some discolouration to dial,Movement looks clean,Case good condition,With pendulum.
Lot 304
An early 20th Century carved oak cased 8-day mantel clockThe carved architectural case with square glazed door, housing silvered chapter ring and putti spandrels, the twin fusee movement striking on a gong, 35cm high. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 304Cannot guarantee working condition of clock.Case good condition,movement appears to be in good order,with pendulum.
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