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Lot 29
From the wardrobe of Opera singer Jessye Norman.pleated dress with a flowing over dress and scarf, white and red floral design on a black background. (XXL). NOTE Jessye can be seen wearing this dress on the BBC3 in concert page.Provenance: in September 2020 Hansons Holloways handled the sale of contents from the estate of American Opera singer Jessye Norman. The sale catalogue is online in the archives. This included a large collection of clothing and costumes, many designed for stage performances.
Lot 34
A 1937 wedding dress, which was originally white, but during WWII it was dyed and remodelled to create a black backless dress that has a back peplum, flowing skirts from waist band with two ties at side, skirt cut on bias. Has Art Deco buckles which are in the Egyptian design. Including an original picture of the dress being worn by Norabelle on her wedding day.
Lot 7
A black beaded Art Deco 1920s dress, this iconic dress is embellished in silver and black bugle beads, paste stone beads (some stones missing), all in panels of embellishment falling at the a line waist, the bodice of the dress has a small panel and the whole of the dress has slanting bead work onto a crepe lining
Lot 8
A black evening gown in fine jersey, shift design, with a satin rolled collar, at the front and pointed collar at the back, nylon zip, left has split on the hemline, edged in black satin and a bow, late 1960's, together with a white grosgrain evening dress, with a metal side zip, high neckline, and a slit open back design down to the lower back, long sleeve, left hemline is split with a scalloped design (2)
Lot 77
A New Zealand Medal, 1866, awarded to ENSIGN E.C. MILNER, 2ND BN.18TH RYL.IRISH REGT.(Confirmed on the roll. Edward Champneys Milner was born in 1846 and educated at Marlborough College. He served in The New Zealand War of 1860-66 as an Ensign in the 2nd Bn of The Royal Irish regiment. Upon his retirement, he was Lieutenant Colonel of the 18th Bn. A newspaper obituary announcing his death (Globe Tuesday 3rd July 1917) states 'one time professor at Sandhurst and afterwards in partnership with Dr Miller Maguire, as a coach having under their tuition Prince Alexander of Teck, the late Prince Christian Victor, General Sir Stanley Maud, and General Sir E Allenby); a Victory Medal, bronze example, awarded to LT.COL.E.F.MILNER ( Edward Francis Milner, commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment from Sandhurst in 1891. Served in India with the 1st Bn Royal Irish Regiment, went on to serve during the Boer War. Served during The Great War landing in France on 21st June 1915. On 30th April 1918 he was placed on the half pay list due to being in ill health. Entitled to an 1895 India General Service Medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, King's South Africa Medal and 1914/15 Trio. Mentioned in Dispatches for Boer War, announced London Gazette 29th July 1902); a British War Medal, awarded to CAPT. A.K. HARVEY-JAMES. (Arthur Keedwell Harvey-James was commissioned in the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) after enlisting in the Artists Rifles in 1914. He was sadly killed in action on 15 April 1917 and is buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Loos. He was Mentioned in Despatches. In civilian life he was the actor and author Arthur Scott Crave. He starred as Richard I in the 1913 film Ivanhoe); a Pair of Dress Studs, each set with three seed pearls, boxed (4) CONDITION REPORT: . New Zealand medal - Correctly impressed ( Condition VF, some edge bruising below naming); Victory Medal correctly impressed ( condition GVF+); British War Medal correctly impressed ( Condition GVF. Edge bruise to top of Capt)
Lot 194
A Comprehensive Collection of George V Royal Navy Uniforms to a Medical Officer, post 1918, comprising a black silk bicorn hat with gold bullion trim in a japanned tin case; a pair of gold bullion trimmed epaulettes with rank crown for a Captain, in japanned tin case; a black wool jacket with rank cuffs to a Surgeon Lieutenant, with a two pairs of trousers; a full dress tailcoat with gold lace trim and rank cuffs to a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander with a pair of trousers; a coatee with First World War trio medal ribbons and rank cuffs to a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander; a mess dress jacket and waistcoat; a great coat with four replaced buttons; a woven mohair hat band with bullion thread embroidered insignia; and two leather belts with sword slings; also, a Victorian Royal Navy peaked cap with gold bullion embroidered insignia centred by a silver fouled anchor (15)
Lot 152
A Comprehensive Collection of USSR Militaria, including an Afghan war period army soldier's webbing backed leather waist and cross belt, an officer's yellow dress belt with dagger slings, a Second World War officer's brown leather belt with steel buckle, a rare officer's leather belt with steel buckle, a rare army sergeant's belt, a faux leather belt with brass buckle, a post war navy belt, a post War gas mask in bag, another gas mask, a post war water bottle with mess tin in a case, two other cases, another water bottle, an entrenching tool, three leather trimmed ammunition pouches, two machine gun cleaning rods and a War time oil bottle and kit, four Marines Mosim Nagant rifle slings, two army carbine/rifle slings, a carbine sling, seventeen pairs of mainly officer's shoulder boards, a 1954 dated snow suit of smock and trousers in bag, a post-war Airforce dress jacket , two CCCP car pennants and three post war flags, contained in a blue holdall
Lot 286
A Prussian Model 1871 Dress Bayonet, the cut-down steel blade faintly etched with a trophy of arms and foliage, the brass hilt with nickel recurving crossguard, lacks scabbard; three Various Knives, comprising a German hunting knife with aluminium and stacked leather washers grip, a Chinese dagger with brass hilt and leather scabbard, and an Arab knife with horn grip and leather sheath (4)
Lot 289
A George V Artillery Officer's Sword, the 82cm single edge plated steel blade etched with the royal cypher and foliage, and with Proved poincon, the nickel plated three bar hilt with wire bound fishskin grip, with a leather sword knot and service scabbard, 100cm, with the Sam Browne hung with whistle and lanyard, together with a No.1 Service dress cap, a Royal Artillery scarf, a pair of black patent leather mess wellingtons with box spurs, and a pair of nickel plated spurs; a Zeiss Ikon 8 x 30 B Monocular, numbered 642865, in leather case (9) CONDITION REPORT: . Some orange rust pitting and black patching to blade.
Lot 106
A Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th Century Bronzed Spelter Figures - "Trafalgar" and "Waterloo", as Admiral Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington, standing on wood socles, 50cm; a Cold Painted Lead Figure of a Royal Artillery Officer, mounted on a horse and wearing parade dress; a Heredities Resin Figure of a Prussian Cavalry Officer; an Anodised Copper Figure of a Vulture, with outspread wings (5) CONDITION REPORT: . Nelson with damage to his telescope and the title cartouche Royal Artillery officer with numerous repairs.
Lot 150
A Small Quantity of British and American Webbing, comprising a set of '58 pattern rear pouches, a pair of '37 pattern ammunition pouches, a US entrenching tool cover, a British entrenching tool cover, a pair of '44 pattern shoulder straps dated 1945, a set of US sleeping bag webbing holders, a Second World War khaki wool sleeping bag with zip fastener, a pair of hot barrel gloves, a gun cleaning kit in webbing pouch, a US belt and a modern British dress belt (14)
Lot 1094
A group of 10 Royal Doulton figures including Veronica HN1517; The Love Letter HN2149; Afternoon tea HN1747; Fond Farewell HN3815; Patricia HN3365; Janine HN2461; Sunday Best HN2698; 2 x Ninette HN2379; June HN2991 There is a small nibble to the edge of Fond Farewell's hat. The glaze to the front of Janine's dress has a scratch . No other chips, cracks or repairs to the other pieces
Lot 127
* Angerstein Family. A cartes-de-visite album relating to the Angerstein family, c. 1860s/1880s, containing 155 window-mounted cartes de visite, including a large number of family members and their home Woodlands, plus others of royalty and notables of the day, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Leopold, Prince and Princess Christian, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord and Lady Palmerston, Sir James Gordon in full naval dress, G.B. Airy, Roderick Merchison, James Glaisher, etc., a few images not from life, captioned on the mounts and a number with clipped signatures of the sitters pasted beneath, some captioned beneath windows with cartes no longer present, inner hinges partly broken, contemporary morocco with gilt clasp (lacking key) and gilt monogram of Mary Ann Angerstein (wife of William Angerstein, 1812-1897) to upper cover, slightly rubbed, 4to, together with two letters of related correspondence from the Greenwich & Lewisham Antiquarian Society and a pamphlet titled 'The Angersteins of Woodlands' by Cyril Fry, 1966Qty: (1)NOTESThe Angerstein family gave a large collection of paintings to the National Gallery in London in the early part of the nineteenth century, helping them to form a core of their collection. The family home, Woodlands was in Blackheath, south-east London.
Lot 129
* Cartes de visite. A cartes-de-visite album, c. 1860s/1880s, containing 50 window-mounted albumen print portraits of clergy, artists and literary figures, including David Livingstone, Cardinal Wiseman, John Leech, Martin Tupper, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alexandre Dumas, plus numerous bishops and deans, two not from life, pencil identifications to many mounts, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt clasps, spine cracked and split along joints, small 8vo, together with a similar album containing 40 photographic cartes de visite from life of British and French subjects, a few in military dress and some identified on mounts, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt and bone clasps, rubbed, small 8vo, preserved in contemporary card box with marbled sides and contemporary manuscript labelQty: (2)
Lot 131
* Cartes de visite. A group of 3 albums of cartes de visite and cabinet cards relating to the Dods and Normand families and circle in Hong Kong, c. 1860s and some later, containing a total of 336 window-mounted cartes de visite and 17 cabinet cards, one cabinet card of a condemned criminal (somewhat speckled) with printed details of Afong to mount verso, the cartes de visite largely family and friends including a few in military dress and some of children, plus a few notables including Alfred Lord Tennyosn, Thomas Carlyle, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, plus a few with Chinese figures, one of street gamblers [by John Thomson, 1869], one of a Chinese executioner, Canton, one of a tall Chinese man in court dress by London Stereographic and Photographic Company, plus 2 copies of a carte de visite of Mrs G. Dods and her dog Sailor by Afong with printed credits at foot and to verso, some pencil captions to mounts, 2 small photographs, 1860s, with pencil caption 'House at Canton' (11 x 9 cm) loosely inserted, ownership inscription of Dods and Normand family names at front of each album, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt clasp (one lacking), rubbed, 4to (and one 8vo)Qty: (3)NOTESWilliam Kane Dods (1866-1948) worked as an agent for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and served as treasurer and honorary secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and on the Committee of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. The co-owner of the book was Charles M. Normand (?1834-1912), a direct contemporary of Dods senior, who also served in the Far East as an assistant surgeon. By family descent.
Lot 133
* Rejlander (Oscar Gustave, 1813-1875). Young boy in a sailor suit, c. 1870, albumen print carte de visite, the young boy full length and smiling with his hands clasped around a pole, photographer's name and address details printed at foot (No. 1, Albert Mansions, Victoria Street, SW) and to verso, additionally inscribed in pencil 'Temple Clay', together with 10 further carte-de-visite portraits, 1860s/1880s, including the photographer Francis Frith as an old man (by Silas Eastham), a large group of the Gladstone family, the swimmer Matthew Webb, John Bright (2), Lord Bathurst, the chemist Alexander Crum Brown, Professor John Wilson, Louis Jules of Prussia in military dress and Prince & Princess Henry of Battenberg with infant Prince, plus one additional carte de visite of Edwin Landseer in his studio (not from life)Qty: (12)
Lot 147
* Three-quarter-plate daguerreotype of a military and family group outdoors, Calcutta, February 1847, a group of five British men including three officers standing informally around a seated elderly lady, photographed in a compound courtyard with sunlit trees seen through the archway behind them, slight edge tarnish, hinged leather case with broken fasteners, heavily rubbed, 17 x 13 cmQty: (1)NOTESJack Webb (1923-2019) was a well-known North London antiques dealer for 70 years and a passionate collector of antiques and militaria. We were delighted to sell his extraordinary collection of antiques and militaria in sales earlier this year, while his prestigious collection of medals of the Middlesex Regiment were sold in a special summer sale by Dix Noonan Webb. Jack also had a passion for military photographs, especially daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and cartes de visite and we are pleased to offer this final part of Jack's collection here. Jack kept most of the cased images in a glass display cabinet in his 'Museum Room' at home in Islington, London. While he cherished these images he never attempted to clean or restore them and bidders should be aware that our photographs show these cased images as found and that many of the items would improve with professional cleaning. A rare outdoor military daguerreotype by an unidentified photographer. A contemporary manuscript note is included with the photograph and identifies the army officers as, [left to right], Lieutenant [John?] Staples, Brigadier General [Richard] Powney and Captain [Francis Claude?] Burnet[t] with ‘My dear Father, Mother & myself. Taken in Capt Burnet’s compound in Dum Dum Artillery Station, Nr. Calcutta in February 1847, J.F.C.’. Richard Powney (1786-1865) of the Bengal Artillery was stationed at Dum Dum c. 1831-33. He is listed as Lieutenant General of 24th Brigade, Royal Artillery in his death notice. The identity of J.F.C. and his parents has not been established. J.F.C.'s father appears to wear a uniform cap but is otherwise in civilian dress and may be a chaplain, surgeon, judge or some other sort of administrator.
Lot 19
* Mayer (Ernest & Pierson). A pair of colour-tinted salt prints of a young man and woman, c. 1855, oval format, the woman with number '17438' inscribed adjacent to dress, images 20 x 16 cm, passe-partout mounts with photographer's embossed stamp at foot, gilt moulded frames with rounded corners and photographers' printed labels to versos, salt print of young man lacking glassQty: (2)
Lot 201
* Royal Navy. An album containing 64 cartes de visite and 18 cabinet cards of Royal Navy officers and some juniors, c. 1860s/1880s, mostly in full dress naval uniforms, several displaying medals, together with a second album containing a further 22 cartes de visite and 5 cabinet cards of high-ranking naval officers, c. 1860s/1880s, photographs in both albums window mounted, contemporary padded morocco with gilt clasps, rubbed and both spines slightly damaged, 4toQty: (2)
Lot 203
* Military Officers. An album of approximately 70 cartes de visite and 20 cabinet cards, c. 1860-1900, mostly uniformed officers and some cadets, mostly volunteers including rifle volunteers and other militia, the majority in regimental dress and uniforms, subjects include Lieutenant F. Hopwood, 22 Middlesex R.V., Major M.B.F. Miller, Central London Rangers, Captain R.W. Barnett, Lieutenant Colonel H.L. Florence, various photographers, window-mounted into a near-complete album, contemporary morocco with gilt clasp, heavily rubbed, 4toQty: (1)
Lot 204
* Miltary Officers. An album containing 10 cabinet cards and 70 cartes de visite of volunteer officers and militia, c. 1860s/1890s, mostly full length in regimental dress and uniform, a few hand-coloured, various photographers, large unidentified but including officers from Royal Berkshire, Black Watch, 5th East Kent R.V., 1st Northants R.V., 4 cartes de visite of Lord Elcho, 3rd London R.V., etc., a complete album with chromolithograph military mounts, contemporary embossed padded morocco with gilt clasp, rubbed, spine defective, 4toQty: (1)
Lot 206
* Military Officers. An album of 28 cabinet cards and 44 cartes de visite, c. 1870s and later, including a Sergeant of the 17th Lancers with Afghan medal and 2 clasps, Major General Ormsby, Royal Artillery, Lord Cardwell, a Field Officer in the 42nd, 7th Earl of Granard with Grand Cross of Gregory the Great, Colonel Milward, Royal Artillery, a Sergeant in the KRRC with India 1895 medal and clasp, plus many others unidentified, the majority in regimental dress or uniform, all window mounted with some chromolithographic military leaves, contemporary embossed morocco with gilt clasp, some wear to spine and extremities, 4toQty: (1)
Lot 207
* Military Officers. An album containing approximately 170 cartes de visite of British army officers including senior and retired officers, c. 1860s/1880s, the majority half or full-length portraits in army uniforms and regimental dress, figures identified include General Sir R.C. Napier, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Seymour, Sir Edward Hamley, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Fuller, Lieutenant General A.J.Herbert, ex-23rd Foot, a Sergeant Major of the 5th Fusiliers, soldiers from the 22nd Foot, 49th Foot, 100th Foot, etc., many of the senior officers displaying medals, 4 window mounted, contemporary morocco-backed boards with onlaid mother-of-pearl and abalone geometric design to both covers, 3 gilt metal clasps, slightly rubbed and chipped at edges with small losses and fastener for central clasp missing, 4to (30 x 23 cm)Qty: (1)
Lot 208
* Military Officers. An album containing 55 cabinet card and cabinet-card size photographic portraits of military officers, c. 1860s/1880s, including guards officers, hussars, cavalry, retired officers, mostly in regimental dress and many displaying medals, sitters identified include 2nd Lord Castletown, Colonel R.F. Balfour, 2nd Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant G. Abercromby, Scots Guards, Fitzroy Johnstone, 4th Hyderabad Cavalry Contingent, Colonel H. Jackson, 62nd Foot, the Duke of Edinburgh, General Sir Henry Norman, Bengal Staff Corps, Sir John Adye, Royal Artillery, etc., contemporary half morocco with gilt clasp, heavily rubbed and spine worn, oblong folio (28 x 33 cm)Qty: (1)
Lot 222
* London & Royalty. An assorted group of late 19th and early 20th-century photography, including 50 stereoviews (15 military interest), 10 glass stereoviews (4 military interest), 12 miscellaneous lantern slides, a three-quarter-plate ambrotype of an unidentified elderly man, a small selection of photographs featuring shopfronts and shop staff including 5 tintypes, plus a panel print of Queen Victoria and a three-quarter-length albumen print portrait of an elderly Prince George, Duke of Cambridge in full military dress, signed 'George' in upper left blank area, 28 x 18 cm, framed and glazedQty: (a small carton)
Lot 234
* 16th Regiment of Foot. A cabinet card and carte-de-visite album relating to the Johnson and Austen families with connections to the 16th Regiment of Foot, c. 1860s/1880s, a complete album containing 24 mounted cabinet cards, the middle of the album including 12 albumen prints of family portraits and groupings, an original pencil drawing, possibly of Sappho, 22 x 18 cm, plus 6 photographs of the 16th Regiment of Foot in various groupings and drills, images approximately 20 x 27 cm and similar, the final third of the album with 72 window-mounted cartes de visite including 4 sitters in regimental dress and 36 smaller window-mounted photographic portraits of various families, a few mounts with pen and ink and some watercolour border decorations, some modern pencil identifications of sitters to mounts, contemporary morocco with gilt clasp and key and monogram to upper cover, heavily rubbed, 4to (31 x 23 cm)Qty: (1)
Lot 242
17th Century School, a portrait miniature of a gentleman dressed in black, his face with a moustache and beard, 45mm diameter, framed within a gilt gesso frame, together with a portrait miniature of a lady with blue dress, a miniature of a gentleman, a miniature of a portly gentleman and a print with a poem below, (5)
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