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Click here to subscribeA collection of WWII RAF uniform items and accessories including two service dress jackets, one pair of trousers, a sheepskin gilet with fleeced collar (Irvin style), peaked hat, booklet, 1941 Air Ministry 1941 dated holster and belt. Belonged to Flight Lieutenant Samuel John Hobday 1875980. He was a Lancaster and Wellington bomber wireless operator / air gunner during WWII. The lot includes a portrait of him in this uniform.
A Naval Officer`s dress sword, the 80cm single-fullered blade with GVR cipher, numbered 04271, the brass semi-basket guard with lion`s head pommel and wire-bound fish-skin grip, in brass-mounted leather scabbard, 98cm overall, with sword knot and outer case, named to scabbard `H W Brammall RNR`.
An 18th century dress of ivory silk damask with printed floral sprays, the much-altered bodice calico-lined, boned, machine and hand-stitched and trimmed with pink silk ruching and ivory lace, the skirt with front opening to reveal quilted silk petticoat, possibly altered, with insertion of pieced fabric to create a sack-back dress, with a larger, unfinished bodice.
W.D. & H.O. Wills cigarette cards including garden flowers (50), speed (50), railway equipment (50), household hints (50), Roses (50), railway engines (50), merchant ships of the world (50), do you know 3rd series (50), wonders of the past (50), ships badges (50), naval dress (50), BDV cigarettes large scale silk flags and others etc
Two ancient dark green carved stone figures depicting a man and a woman, the bearded man carved ornately to back and front with ornate headdress and ceremonial ware, clasping a staff with carved cross to base, the semi naked woman with ornately carved hair, shoulder cloak and dress holding a small pillar with circular carved hash marking to base, both weighing approx. 400 gms. The figures being possibly North African.
J.M. MOORE (CIRCA 1840) PORTRAIT OF MRS LITTLEHOLE SEATED WEARING A BLUE DRESS AND WHITE BONNET, and PORTRAIT OF MRS ROGERS, A PAIR OF WATERCOLOURS, the first signed and dated 1839 lower left, inscribed verso Mrs Littlehole, Marlow, the second inscribed verso Mrs Rogers, wife of Charles Rogers Esq., Strange Park, Radnorshire, framed and glazed in ornate gilt period frames, each 28cm by 21cm (2)
Thomas Willem Van Oss, N.S. (British, b.1901) Three quarter length portrait of Vice Admiral Edward de Faye Renouf, R.N., standing in full ceremonial dress on the deck of a warship oil on canvas, signed lower right 38½ x 28¼in. (97.75 x 71.75cm.) * Vice Admiral Edward de Faye Renouf, CVO, CB (1888-1972) was the son of Edward Binet Renouf (1862-1929) and Lilian Mary De Faye of Jersey. He joined the Royal Navy in 1903 and served during WW1 as a Torpedo Officer on the Dreadnought battleship HMS Conqueror. From 1934-36 he was commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Orion and he commanded the ships HMS Sheffield and HMS President during WW2, also serving as Naval ADC to the King from 1939-40 and as Rear-Admiral commanding the 3rd Cruiser Squadron from 1940-41. He became Vice-Admiral in 1943 and retired the same year, completing his career as Naval Assistant to the Deputy First Sea Lord on HMS President in 1945. He retired officially to Jersey and acted as Chairman of the Sea Cadets Committee for many years. See Illustration.
An 18ct yellow gold portrait pendant brooch in the 19th century style, the oval pendant with pierced foliate scroll border and conforming hinged bale, enclosing a hand painted portrait of a lady in early 19th century dress, her earring and necklace set with two tiny round brilliant diamonds, 3.8 x 3.2cm. See Illustration.
Samuel Shelley (British, 1750-1808) a fine portrait miniature of Marianne de Gastine, wearing a white lace dress, tied fichu and a single strand pearl necklace, white ribbons in her powdered hair, oval watercolour on ivory, 4 x 3.3cm., within a pierced gilt scroll frame with suspension loop. * Marianne de Gastine was the daughter of Major De Gastine, a French refugee in the Dutch service. She was married at The Hague to Anthony Aufrère (b.1704-d.1781), Rector of Heigham, Norfolk from 1732-1782. See Illustration.
A GEORGE V PRIVY COUNSELLOR`S FULL COURT DRESS COATEE, the tailcoat lavishly embellished with gold bullion oak leaf embroidery, with nine gilt brass buttons bearing the Royal Arms (with supporters) and a further four to the rear, white silk lining and with white Kerseymere breeches with gilt buckles.
A GEORGE V PRIVY COUNSELLOR`S LEVEE DRESS COATEE, elaborately embellished to the collar, cuffs, bottom edge and tails with gold bullion oak leaf embroidery, applied with nine gilt-brass buttons bearing the Royal Arms (without supporters) to the front and a further four to the rear, with a pair of trousers en-suite embroidered to the seam with a broad band of gilt oak leaf.
[WALKER, Mary, Lady (1736-1822)]. Letters from the Duchess de Crui and Others, on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female Sex, with Their Rank, Importance, and Consequence, is Stated, and Their Relative Duties in Life are enforced. By a Lady. London: printed for Robson, 1776. 5 volumes, 8vo (157 x 100mm). Half titles in vols. II - V (occasional very light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (boards rubbed). Provenance: Anne Brodie (old signatures to titles of vols. II - V). FIRST EDITION of this epistolary novel. According to the author, the original letters "were written in her nursery, surrounded by her children, for whose use only they were originally intended. Her friends wished her to commit them to the press; but the dread of such an undertaking, the knowledge of the world, and of herself, prevented her compliance, till, being further importuned, she acquiesced, with this difference, that she had given them another dress, because few books are read but romances, by the juvenile part of mankind, who are too apt to neglect religious and moral instructions, if they do not appear in the alluring garb of amusement" (from To the Public). (5)
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians. Illustrated in Sixty-Four Coloured Engravings, with descriptions. London: James Goodwin, [c.1814]. 4to (235 x 165mm). 64 hand-coloured aquatint plates (occasional light spotting). Contemporary straight-grained burgundy morocco gilt (rather worn, covers detached). Provenance: N. [?]Hasler (old signature on title); Jane E. J. Clement (later signature on title). FIRST EDITION. Colas 2358; Lipperheide 1351; Tooley 337.
**A GREEK DECORATED SILVER CARTRIDGE BOX (PALASKA), DATED 1867 of characteristic form, fitted with domed hinged lid, the reverse with pierced belt loop and engraved with the date, decorated over the outer face with engraved designs heightened with niello, including a female in traditional dress, trophies and exotic birds, the border decorated with foliage, all against a punched ground 12.7 cm; 5 in high
AN OFFICER`S CLOAK AND OTHER ITEMS OF THE GUIDES CAVALRY with maker`s label of Hawkes, 14 Piccadilly, inscribed to JK Hensley Esq. A fine dark blue cloak with scarlet cloth lining to collar. A double row of plain white metal half-ball buttons to front, scarlet shalloon lining (top button missing); two lightweight khaki Service Dress tunics, one with scarlet piping round the collar (both lacking all badges and buttons); a good Sam Browne belt of Guides pattern, with white metal fittings, complete with sword-frog, brace and whistle but lacking its rectangular regimental waistplate; a brown pigskin pistol-holster and flat leather pouch, both with loops to attach to a Sam Browne; and a leather-covered swagger-stick (7) Frederic King Hensley was commissioned into the 15th Madras Infantry in 1902, transferring to the Guides shortly afterwards. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1903 and Captain in 1910. The 1914 Indian Army List shows him attached to the Assam Military Police. He accompanied the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from June to November 1918, and subsequently transferred to the 12th Frontier Force Regiment. He appears as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 1927 IAL
AN OFFICER`S FULL DRESS TUNIC OF THE 27TH MADRAS INFANTRY a scarlet uniform with yellow cloth facings and white piping to fronts. Gold lace edging to collar and pointed cuffs, the collar lace traced with a row of gold Russia braid eyes; a similar tracing above and below double row of lace to sleeves, forming a small Austrian knot at the top and crowsfoot in the angle. Gilt buttons bearing regimental number and MAHIDPORE. Twisted gold shoulder-cords mounted with Lieutenant Colonel`s rank-badges
AN OFFICER`S FULL DRESS TUNIC OF THE INDIAN POLICE with maker`s label of SW Silver, inscribed to AG Scott. A dark blue tunic of Rifles style, edged and trimmed with black cord. Five loops each side in front, fastened with olivets and forming eyes and double-drops with caps. Cord ornaments to backseams. Pointed cuffs, edged with the same cord forming an Austrian knot at the top and with a black Russia crowsfoot in the angle. One-inch black mohair braid edging to collar. Shoulder-cords of plaited chain gimp, each mounted with three mullets in white metal and shoulder-title IP. (One shoulder-title, one olivet and one cap missing, some stitching faults to collar-seam and cord loops). Companion blue trousers with double ¾ inch black braid stripes
AN OFFICER`S VICTORIAN UNIFORM OF THE BENGAL STAFF CORPS a scarlet Full Dress tunic with blue cloth facings and white piping to fronts. The collar edged with gold ""Vellum"" lace traced with Russia braid eyes, and bearing a crown in embroidery at each end. Pointed cuffs edged with three rows of gold lace, the lower edge traced with Russia eyes and with a crowsfoot in the angle. Richly-gilt buttons with VR cypher within a crowned circlet bearing the Corps title; a companion scarlet shell jacket, edged all round with gold Russia braid and with a row of gilt studs to front. Blue collar and sharply pointed cuffs, gold Russia eyes within the collar and on the sleeve ornament; and a scarlet V-fronted waistcoat, also edged with gold Russia and with hook-and-eye fastening covered by gilt studs (3)
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