Ireland, Irish Ascendency - Royalty, the Court and the British Army - a large Victorian matrimonial scrapbook, compiled and illustrated by General Sir Alexander Montgomery Moore KCB (1833-1919) and his wife Lady Jane (née Colborne, d. 1919), of Garvey House, County Tyrone, various tipped-in ephemera, prints and original compositions, including a Georgian verse satire in ink MS on paper 'of about 1780' illustrating a lawsuit between the Moores and Ld Castle***; Anglo-Irish caricature, "Justice to Ireland", General Sir James Vaughan Jackson (1790-1871), in profile in civilian dress, while Commander-in-Chief in the Cape of Good Hope from 1854-59, mixed media on paper; an Anglo-Indian printed dance card from Simla, 20th August 1869, two further contemporary ball invitations to the Montgomery Moores; 2 sepia photographs of natives' executions; a handful of topographical watercolours of South-East Asia, principally architectural; some other military and topographical photographs; further ephemera illustrative of their life within the establishment of the British Raj; an 1856 MS bill for fare from the Greek island of Syra (Syros/Siros); 2 landscapes of Smyrna from the deck of *** and dated January 27th 1855, &, The French Camp at the Battle Field of Inkerman [Crimean War], February 10th 1855; a blue-printed and ink-annotated dinner menu from H.M.S. Serapis; Austria-Hungary, a bill of from the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, on the 100th anniversary of the institution of the Order of Maria Theresa, a corresponding Ordre de Bataille for a military ceremony commemorating the same occasion, 18th June 1857; Royalty, a VR orange admittance ticket from the Lord Chamberlain's office for the Montgomery Moores to attend the State Apartments, St. James's Palace, for the marriage of the Princess Royal, January 25th, 1858, pasted above the Order of Procession; Marlborough House garden party invite issued on behalf of the Prince & Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra); various Golden Jubilee invitations, including the Westminster Abbey Thanksgiving Service, Buckingham Place State Concert, Summer Garden Party; further invitations, menu cards, etc., from across the Continent; A Moorish Physician's Charm against Sickness frrom Tangiers, March 1859, tipped-in parchment; French Society visiting cards; Royal Hussars manoeuvres map, pen and ink with watercolour; further regimental ephemera; a few pen and ink, pencil or wash studies of soldiers and military manoeuvres en plein air; two sepia photographs of the French military at the Sahara Desert; country house weekend parties, a handful of photographs - guests, staff and houses; telegram; notices of the Parnell Letters, the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; R.H. Essex, watercolour of a Medieval head from a mural at Eton College chapel; further Etoniana, including the Boating Calendar: 1849 & the newspaper (presumably the Times) viz. the Fourth of June in 1889; a page devoted to the death of Prince Albert and Court mourning, illustrated by a print and newspaper notices; an account of the 1869 Delhi Durbar; Emperor Maximilian of Mexico Trial and Execution; Gun Experiments at Dover, a newspaper clipping mentioning General Montgomery Moore; 4 newspaper accounts of the 2nd Encampment of the Dublin Division under Lord Seaton (Lady Jane's father) at Woodlands, September 16th 1858; further newspaper clippings, one illustrating The Uses of Ammonia, another The Czar's Last Moments (presumably Tsar Nicholas I, d. 1855), 3 letters to the Times on Lord Nelson's death; two caricatures of the British Army wearing shell jackets accompanied by an account of a House of Commons debate on the subject, 25th May 1849; A Fenian Proclamation at Drogheda, some Irish ballads and poems from printed periodicals, Irish Election Committees: Drogheda Borough and further notices of Irish elections and politcs; a page devoted to prints of Napoleon and French soldiers of the early Republic; music poster, A Grand Amateur Concert, Dublin, 22nd February 1884; a page annotated and illustrated with stipple engraved portraits of the then British Royal Family, including Queen 'Snuffy Charlotte'; early 19th century and later prints, various subjects -including caricatures - and mixed media engravings, some French, a handful loosely-inserted; Punch cartoons; an early 19th century military map of Antwerp; English antiquarian and topographical watercolours; a few 17th century etchings; etc., further scraps and memories of the Victorian age, mounted on colour leaves, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), crown folio (41cm x 31cm, [1]
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Edward Stodart(1841-1914) - An antique 19th Century portrait print to depicting a lady in a red dress with a hunting hound signed Edward Stodart in pencil together with another portrait of a lady wearing a blue ribbon hat signed H J Freenhind in pencil.Both framed and glazed with moulded bow finials to the top of each. Measures 57 x 45 cm
Dolls - an early 1960s Sindy Bazaar doll, brown hair, blue eyes, striped red white and blue blouse, 29.5cm high; another Patch Doll dressed in a School Girl outfit, coat, dress, blouse, tie, black boots, bag; others outfits inc Skating Girl; Leather Looker, record player, radio. 1960s tartan skirt, black jacket and green bag, possibly a variation of the Lunch Date set etc qty
Costume Jewellery - a sterling silver bracelet set with paste stones; a 1950s style necklace, set with green stones; another similar in white metal and stones; a Victorian leaf shaped brooch, Mother; others similar; a metal dog shaped brooch; a polished mother-of-pearl rosary; a silver gate link bracelet with love heart clasp; brooches; earrings; dress rings; simulated pearls; etc
A 19thC Staffordshire pottery equestrian figure, William III Enniskillen group, polychrome decorated predominantly in green and brown, with gilt highlights, 37cm high (AF), a 19thC Staffordshire pottery clock group, set with male and female, polychrome decorated on naturalistic setting, each in Scottish dress predominately in blue, orange, pink and yellow, unmarked, 37cm H, and a pair of 19thC Staffordshire figures, of Emperor Napoleon 28cm H, and Empress, each polychrome decorated predominantly in blue, orange and green.
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