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Lot 481

A Nikon FM2 film camera, with a Nikon Series E f/1.8 50mm lens.

Lot 468

A Nikkormat 35mm film camera with a Nikon Nikkor f/1.8 50mm lens.

Lot 391

Charlie Chaplin; a large lifesize scale cut-out display of Chaplin, depicted in his trademark suit with bowler hat and walking cane, double-sided, polycarbonate construction, standing 176cm tall, together with four acrylic film promotional posters 'Man In The Iron Mask and 'Amistad' (5) Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (1889-1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977.

Lot 264

Miscellaneous items including novelty and souvenir dolls, plastic TV and film related figures, cigarette cards and matchboxes etc

Lot 385

"Wizard of Oz" L.Frank Baum with "8 Colour Stills from the MGM film", 1937 Boys & Girls Book and 3 other annuals

Lot 1019

A Large Collection Of Film Ephemera, Lobby Cards, Movie Ads, Photos, etc. Film titles include Goldeneye, The World Is Not Enough, For Your Eyes Only, Forrest Gump, Friday The 13th, Fatal Attraction, Father Of The Bride, The Mummy, A Bug's Life, The Green Mile, Double Jeopardy, The Haunting, Bowfinger, etc, some duplication noted. Two Boxes.

Lot 1043

Picturegoer Magazines 1949-52, Photoplay, Film News Stars of the Screen, Pictureshow and many others, three press photographs, including Gregory Peck, postcards, publicity cards, etc:- One Box.

Lot 1111

Le Creuset three lidded storage jars two red one black, Moet and Chandon ice bucket in the form of a tophat, Kevin Bridges the black dog signed book, Fujifilm instamax and a USB film and slide scanner. One Box

Lot 1128

A Large Collection Of Film Ephemera, Lobby Cards, Movie Ads, Photos, etc. Film titles include Blue Hawaii, Geronimo, Zorro And The 3 Musketeers, Gorgg, Swiss Family Robinson, Sgt. Bilko, Sister Act, Space Jam, Romeo And Juliet, Reservoir Dogs, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jurassic Park, Jumanji, etc. duplication noted. Three Boxes.

Lot 80

The campaign group of five awarded to Private D. Bradley, 1st Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on 28 June 1944 during the ferocious battle for Chateau de La Londe, a location immortalised by war correspondents as 'the bloodiest square mile in the whole of Normandy'The Battalion was involved in taking the vital Hillman Fortress, one of the toughest German fortifications Allied troops faced on D-DayIndia General Service 1936-39, clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5826063 Pte. D. Bradley. Suff.R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-1945, the first three digits of the number officially corrected, some erasure at 3 o'clock, not affecting naming, contact marks, good very fine (5)Donald Bradley was born at Manchester and enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment as a regular soldier before the Second World War.The outbreak of the Second World War saw the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment stationed at Devonport as part of the 8th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France from late 1939 to May 1940. With the rest of the B.E.F., the Battalion was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. The next four years were spent training in the United Kingdom for the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The 1st Battalion landed on Sword Beach just before 09.00 on 6 June 1944 and was involved in attacking and taking the vital Hillman Fortress, one of the toughest German fortifications the allied troops faced.Codenamed 'Hillman' by the British it was headquarters to the German 736th Regiment, who had 150 men and officers stationed there. It was a fortified site with 18 underground concrete bunkers linked by a series of tunnels and trenches surrounded by Tobruk machine gun pits, barbed wire and minefields. The site is located 2.3 miles inland from Sword Beach next to the village of Colleville-Montgomery and was constructed by the Germans from 1942.With a commanding. panoramic view over Sword Beach, it was the control centre for the German defences in the area. The main bunker is four meters underground, had an armoured observation cupola and housed the command headquarters, signal centre, mess rooms and sleeping quarters.Not only was Hillman larger than expected, it was also unscathed. It was supposed to have been bombed and targeted by naval gunfire before the Suffolks got there, but that hadn't happened. Assaulting it was a daunting prospect. The first attack was made by A Company of the 1st Suffolks after engineers had cleared a path through the mines and barbed wire perimeter. However, the attack was beaten off.A second attack, this time with a softening up barrage from the Royal Artillery and tank support from the 13/18 Hussars, finally overran the site by 20:15, except for two command bunkers which proved impenetrable. Even their cupolas and armour bounced anti-tank rounds from the Hussars' Sherman Firefly 17-pounder guns. Holed up inside the bunkers were 70 German troops, who spent an anxious night surrounded by enemy forces before Colonel Krug led them out to surrender in the morning.On 28 June 1944 the Regiment attacked the Chateau de la Londe and whilst they achieved their objective it came at a heavy loss of 161 men killed, wounded or missing, including Bradley. At the fall of the Chateau and its surrounding defences war correspondents described it as 'the bloodiest square mile in the whole of Normandy.'Donald is buried at the La Delivrande War Cemetery, Normandy, France.A documentary film 'The Bloodiest Square Mile' was produced as a tribute to all the Veterans of the 1st Battalion the Suffolk Regiment who fought in Normandy in 1944: thebloodiestsquaremile.comThe Imperial War Museum also has a short film dedicated to the men of the 1st Suffolk Regiment: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060019494… 25001 SALEROOM NOTICE:The first three digits of the service number on the I.G.S.M. officially corrected’

Lot 321

The unusual and impressive 'Inter-War' K.C.V.O., 'County of London' K.B., 'Great War' C.B.E., O. St. J., Legion of Honour group of eight awarded to Sir C. B. Levita, Royal Horse Artillery, who earned a further 'mention' during the Boer War and commanded the Royal Horse Artillery detachment during the funeral of Queen Victoria, marching alongside the Royal coffinHis remarkable career was overshadowed when he was dragged into a slander case regarding the supposed haunting of the Dalby Farmhouse - a bizarre episode recently brought to film in Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose- Levita was successfully sued for expressing his forthright opinion about the supposed hauntingThe Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander’s (K.C.V.O.) set of Insignia, comprising neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘K543’; breast Star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold pin, the reverse officially numbered, ‘543’; Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd Type breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1933, enamel damaged and gilding worn; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, Commander’s (C.B.E.), 1st Type neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse contemporarily engraved 'Liet Colonel Cecil B. Levita 1919', with neck cravat in Garrard, London case of issue, which is lacking internal pad; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Commander’s neck Badge, silver and enamel, in fitted case of issue; British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Lieut. C. B. Levita, R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Major C. B. Levita, M.V.O., R.F.A.); Jubilee 1897, silver (Lieut. C. B. Levita, R.H.A.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, minor contact marks and enamel damage, overall very fine (8)One of only 2 B.S.A.C. medals for Rhodesia issued to the Royal Artillery.K.C.V.O. London Gazette 1 January 1932.K.B. London Gazette 1 March 1929.C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.O. St. J. London Gazette 24 June 1930.Cecil Bingham Levita was born in Manchester on 18 January 1867, the son of Emile and Catherine Levita. He came from a prestigious family of Jewish bankers and scholars related to Elijah Levita, author of Bovo-Bukh. Levita's father was a German-born Banker who emigrated to Manchester whose remarkable career saw him become Director of The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, later the Standard Chartered Bank. His mother was the relative of Admiral James Plumridge and was herself a member of the Ree family, a Danish-Jewish family who had created an important shipping business in Denmark.Service in Africa and Queen Victoria's FuneralThe young Levita studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned Lieutenant on 24 July 1886. Serving in the Matabele conflict in 1896 with that rank, he was one of only two members of the Royal Artillery to be entitled to the Rhodesia 1896 reverse medal for that war.Levita was later appointed to the Staff of Lieutenant-General Sir Baker Russell as an Aide-de-Camp and Special Service Officer. In this position he was part of the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso, the operations of 17-24 January 1900, and engagement at Spion Kop, as well as the actions of 5-7 February 1900, the engagement at Vaal Krantz, fighting on the Tugela Heights, and the action at Pieter's Hill. Levita was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for the 5th Division, Natal Field Force and was 'mentioned' for his work in this role (London Gazette 8 February 1901 refers).Promoted to Captain on 1 November 1900 and given command of 'N' Battery Royal Horse Artillery, he was an officer commanding the Royal Horse Artillery at the funeral of Queen Victoria. We know the details of this last service due to a letter he wrote to The Times in 1936. Levita mentions posting his battery to the Long Walk for the 81-gun salute and preparing the carriage for the procession, however a disaster occurred at the final moment, his states:'When the Royal coffin, weighing about 9cwt., had been placed on the carriage, drums began muffled rolls, which reverberated under the station roof, and the cortege started. Actually, when the horses took the weight, the eyelet hole on the splinter bar, to which the off-wheel trace was hooked, broke. The point of the trace struck the wheeler with some violence inside the hock, and naturally the horse plunged. A very short time would have been required to improvise an attachment to the gun-carriage. However, when the wheelers were unhooked the naval detachment promptly and gallantly seized drag ropes and started off with the load. The "gun-carriage" had been specially provided from Woolwich and was fitted with rubber tyres and other gadgets. This was due to Queen Victoria's instructions after seeing a veritable gun-carriage in use at the Duke of Albany's funeral, as also was the prohibition of the use of black horses. On February 4, in compliance with the command of King Edward, I conveyed the royal coffin, on another carriage, from Windsor to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore by means of the same detachment of men and horses. I may add that a few days later King Edward told me that no blame for the contretemps attached to the Royal Horse Artillery by reason of the faulty material that had been supplied to them.'The Great WarAppointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order for his service during the funeral Levita was further promoted Major on 5 January 1902. He remained in service for some time but retired in October 1909, standing for Parliament the next year for St. Ives, Cornwall in 1910 but was unsuccessful. The next year, however, he was successfully elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reformer, later returning to military service with the Reserve of Officers on the outbreak of the Great War. Appointed an embarkation officer in 1914 he was later transferred to become General Staff Officer Grade III on 22 February 1915.Levita was advanced G.S.O. Grade II on 22 September 1915 and the next month Grade I on 22 October. Promoted Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 March 1917, his M.I.C. makes no note of any medals being issued for this service. However, it does state that he was serving at 'Port: No 1 Southampton'. After the end of the war Levita was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire as a reward for his services.Politics, Libel and a Talking MongooseLevita once again returned to politics, being appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London and a J.P. in 1924, a role he would hold for some years. Later sitting as chairman on the housing committee and later as chairman of the London County Council from 1928-1929, his appointment as a Knight Batchelor derived from this role. The award of the French Legion of Honour also followed in 1929. One of his main areas of interest was the idea of film being used for educational uses, he was also the driving force behind the foundation of the King George Hospital, Ilford, this last being the reason for his advancement to the K.C.V.O.His interest in film proved to be his downfall however due to a forthright statement made in 1936 about Richard Stanton Lambert, who was working alongside Levita's wife in the British Film Institute. Lambert was the founding editor of The Listener, published by the B.B.C. and an influential man in the world of British broadcasting. Over a lunch with the Assistant Controller of Programmes at th…

Lot 297

The impressive C.B.E., M.V.O., M.S.M. group of eleven awarded to Lieutenant-Commander A. W. Stone, Royal Navy, who served at the Battle of Heligoland Blight, was twice 'mentioned' during the First World War, later Royal Household Assistant Secretary and Chief Accountant of the Privy Purse, Sergeant-at-Arms to King Geroge VI and Queen Elizabeth II, who carried the mace at Her Majesty's Coronation in 1953The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, 2nd Type Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, by Garrard & Co., silver-gilt and enamel, on length of neck riband, in its case of issue; The Royal Victorian Order, 4th Class Member's (M.V.O.) breast Badge, by Collingwood Jewellers, reverse numbered '1526'; 1914-15 Star (346080, A. W. Stone, Wr. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. oak leaves (346080 A. W. Stone Ch. Wr. R.N.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (346080. A. W. Stone. Ch. Wtr. H.M.S. Cormorant.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (346080. A. W. Stone, Ch. Wtr. "Curaco" Services During War.), mounted together as worn excluding C.B.E., some contact marks and a few lightly polished, otherwise very fine overall (11)M.S.M. London Gazette 24 June 1919.M.I.D. London Gazette 23 October 1914; 11 August 1917.Albert William Stone was born on 20 June 1888 in Gosport, Hampshire, the third of four children born to Private Albert Stone and his wife Rebecca. Albert Stone Senior was a Private in the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, later dying in the service at Portsea in 1892 after having taken part in the Witu Expedition in East Africa.The younger Stone received a naval education and attended the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich, a school for the sons of poor sailors, where he learned navigation and seamanship skills. The school was known as the 'cradle of the Navy' for producing notable officers and personnel. He later enlisted into the Royal Navy in May 1903, when he was fifteen years old, as a Boy Writer with the H.M.S. Duke of Wellington naval barracks. Stone enjoyed a number of postings, including aboard Majestic, Caesar, Firequeen, Victory, Hecla, Forward, and Skirmisher as he moved through the clerical ranks. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, he was serving as a Writer 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Amethyst. Stone was likely a member of Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt's personal staff as he followed him nearly exactly from ship to ship, thus serving with a wide variety of Harwich Force cruisers during the War.The Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914 - the first naval battle of the War between the British and the Germans - saw Stone mentioned in dispatches for service during the action whilst aboard the light cruiser H.M.S. Arethusa. Arethusa was Tyrwhitt's flagship during the battle, and played an active role in the naval engagement. She helped to sink two German torpedo boats early that morning, and was badly damaged by the German defence. By the end of the day Britain scored a decisive victory, losing just 35 men to Germany's 1,500. Stone was still serving aboard Arethusa when she was mined off the coast of Felixstowe two years later on 11 February 1916, eventually running aground and breaking up. He next served aboard H.M.S. Cleopatra while she served in the raid on the German naval airship base at Tondern, also sinking German destroyer G-194, before colliding with fellow naval ship Undaunted in March 1919. After repairs, she took part in operations against the German naval bombardment of Lowestoft in April 1916 and numbered one of Tyrwhitt's force that found the German cruisers carrying out the raid. Stone thereafter joined the Harwich Force cruiser H.M.S. Carysfort in May 1916 when she was patrolling the North Sea and the Strait of Dover. This was but a brief appointment, and he was then with Centaur that September, also in the Harwich Force, and then on to her sister-ship H.M.S. Concord in February 1917. He was with her that June when she sank the German torpedo boat S20 in the North Sea. During this time, Stone was mentioned in despatches for the second time. His final wartime posting was aboard H.M.S. Curacao, the flagship of the 5th cruiser squadron in the Harwich Force, where he earned his M.S.M. for war time services. After the close of the First World War, Stone joined H.M.S. Cormorant with whom he received his L.S. & G.C.. He was finally advanced to Chief Petty Officer Writer while serving with Victory II in 1924, and was later promoted Warrant Writer on 5 December 1927 upon his retirement from the service. The exact date Stone was appointed to the Royal Household is not known, but he served in the office of the Privy Purse until his well-deserved retirement at age 69 in July 1957. He was appointed to the 5th Class of the Royal Victorian Order in January 1938 and was later promoted to the 4th Class in 1947, with the insignia being presented to him personally by King George VI. Stone was Chief Accountant but also acted as Serjeant-at-Arms under King George from 1947, and later for Queen Elizabeth II as well. He attended the Queen's Coronation in 1953, for which he carried the Mace as part of the Duke of Edinburgh's escort. He can be seen in the famous newsreel film of the event, as well as numerous photographs. Throughout his tenure with the Royal Household, Stone was awarded various foreign decorations from state visits and in January 1954 received his C.B.E..His long and illustrious career in the Royal Navy was supplemented by an equally illustrious career for the Royal Household. Stone finally retired in 1957, and later died in Durham on 27 August 1974 at Woodside House, the home of his niece with whom he was residing.Sold together with an original archive comprising:i)The recipient's dress miniatures: 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. oak leaves; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.; M.S.M., G.V.R.; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, and Coronation 1953, mounted individually as worn, very fine (8) with some extra ribandsii)Fitted case for 4th Class M.V.O., by Collingwood Jewellersiii)Photo of Queen Elizabeth II with facsimile message and signature presented to Royal Household staff upon the occasion of her Coronation, framed but missing glassiv)The Illustrated London News, Coronation 1953 magazine with colour platesv)Booklet 'Statutes on the Order of the British Empire 1948'vi)Official Warrant for the appointment of 'Albert William Stone Esquire' to be Commander of the Order of the British Empire, signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philipvii)Binder of comprehensive copied research and photographs, including a newspaper cutting of a photograph of Stone holding the Mace on the St. James's Palace Balcony as part of the Coronation ceremony, wearing his medals…

Lot 305

Sold by Order of a Direct DescendantThe very complete 1985 C.B.E. and 'Arctic Convoys' group of nine awarded to Sub Lieutenant J. R. S. Homan, Royal Navy, who served on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Tracker, latterly Industrial Director of the National Economic Development OfficeThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, 2nd Type, Commander's (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver and silver-gilt, with full and miniature neck ribbons, in case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Arctic Star, with its named box of issue; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these five mounted as worn; together with Russia, Soviet Union, Ushakov Medal, reverse officially numbered '5182' with accompanying named certificate in case of issue; Russia, 70th and 75th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War Medals, with accompanying named award certificates, good very fine (9)C.B.E. London Gazette 15 June 1985.John Richard Seymour Homan - or "Dick" to his friends and comrades - was born at Burley, Hampshire on 7 January 1925, the son of Captain Charles Edward Homan. He was initially educated at a pre-prep school in London then to St. Wilfrid's, Seaford in Sussex and in 1938 he attended Radley College before entering the Royal Navy in 1943 as a Midshipman. Classified as an 'Executive Special' he was posted to the Admiralty in London working in the personnel department. Requesting active service, he was posted to Tracker, an aircraft carrier, where he was given the job of plotting U-boat locations.Tracker served as an escort during 1943-1944 for North Atlantic and Arctic convoys. She originally carried Swordfish torpedo-bombers and Seafire fighters of No. 816 (Naval Air) Squadron, in January 1944, switching to the Grumman Avengers and Grumman Wildcats of No. 846 (Naval Air) Squadron. In April 1944, her aircraft, together with those from Activity were responsible for the sinking of the U-288 east of Bear Island, during convoy JW-58.On 10 June 1944, while part of the antisubmarine screen of the Western Approaches Command for the D-Day landings, she collided with a River-class frigate of the Royal Canadian Navy, Teme, causing damage to both ships. Tracker continued operations despite stove-in bows until 12 June 1944. Thereafter, she was repaired and partially refitted in Liverpool, until 7 September 1944. On 8 December 1944, the ship sailed to the United States to be used as an aircraft transport and spent the remainder of the war ferrying aircraft and personnel in the Pacific.Homan recounted her tenth and last convoy patrol to Murmansk in October 1944, in an interview he gave in 2020:'We escorted a Russian convoy to Murmansk. The Germans could by this time no longer use the west coast of France because of the Allied invasion, and so many U boats were sent to the Arctic. We were in a powerful convoy with three aircraft carriers, 25 other warships and about 28 merchant ships. Many of the merchant ships came from the U.S.A., carrying food and military equipment for the Russians, everything from planes, tanks, guns and ammunition down to boots.Despite the size of the convoy the U boats didn't know we were there until we got to the north of Norway, so the first part was peaceful. I say peaceful but, at that time of year, it was dark most of the day and pretty stormy and very cold. Twilight was about 1pm. We would fall back from the convoy to fly off our aircraft. The bravery of those pilots was incredible.Many were in exposed open cockpits and would have to take off from their carrier surging up and down in a rough sea. One of our aircraft got lost and had to break radio silence. That alerted Berlin who sent a wolf pack of U boats after us. We were heading due east and Berlin anticipated, quite correctly, that we would change our course to southeast, which is where the U boats went. However, London picked up Berlin's signal and instructed us to continue travelling east. The U boats missed us. It was not a complete triumph.Sending our aircraft after the U boats we were equipped with some wonderful new secret weapon, which unfortunately bounced harmlessly off the conning tower. I remember one disappointed pilot coming back and saying, "there goes my DSC". It was quite unusual that the convoy completed its journey there and back without loss of a single ship. I didn't realise until after the war that the Admiralty instruction to change from our original course was based on information from Bletchley. We had been unaware of Bletchley's existence.'U.S. Navy loan: December 1944 - July 1945Tracker left Greenock on 8 December 1944 and reached New York in time for Christmas, she was to stay there until New Year's Eve when she put to sea headed for the Panama Canal and reached San Diego on 17 January 1945. Here the ship's company received the same levels of hospitality they had enjoyed at Portland while the ship was being built. Books, magazines, music, sports kit, and more were donated to the ship for the men's 'comforts' by the Red Cross and U.S. Armed Forces Institute.After a week in San Diego, Tracker moved to San Pedro for the next five days, and opportunity was taken for the crew to experience Hollywood and film stars 'popped in' to visit the ship. By the end of January, she was full of aircraft and passengers bound for Hawaii and American bases in the Pacific. Her first voyage in the transport role took her to the Admiralty Isles and New Guinea in then back in San Diego, arriving back there on 20 March, a round trip of 13,424 miles taking two months. On the return trips Tracker carried U.S. personnel and casualties back to Pearl Harbour.Her second transport run was to Guam and Saipan in the Mariana Islands in April, during this trip the news of President Roosevelt's death reached the ship and her passengers, a memorial service was held on board. V.E. day, 8 May 8, was celebrated on the last leg from Hawaii three days out from San Diego and the end of a 13,020-mile trip.Tracker's third trip took her to the Marshal Islands and back, a shorter, 10,000 miles haul from 12 June-8 July. This was her last operation for the U.S. Navy, she had ferried 300 aircraft and 100 passengers in her three voyages and had steamed 36,000 miles across the Pacific. After storing ship Tracker was to proceed back to Britain, leaving San Diego on 13 Friday having exchanged a few crew members with her sister C.V.E. Atheling, also on transport duties; those men on Atheling who qualified for release under the recently announced 'Age & Service Release Scheme', with Tracker's 'newbies' filling their billets. She reached Norfolk, Virginia on 27 July and New York three days after.Homeward boundThis was to be Tracker's last east bound crossing, carrying on board American wives of British Naval personnel, evacuated children, and over a hundred members of the Fleet Air Arm from the Air Station in New Brunswick which was closing down. She made Greenock on 9 August and disembarked her passengers; work began almost immediately de-storing Tracker in preparation for her final voyage, her return to the U.S. Navy, her service with the Royal Navy ending.The war over, Homan read classics at Christ Church College, Oxford from 1946 graduating with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics. A keen oarsman during his time at the House was part of the team who won Head of the River in 1948. He was a lifelong member of Christ Church Boat Club.Homan joined the I.C.I. with whom he spent the bulk of his working career. He married The Hon. Mary Graham Buckley, daug…

Lot 409

Shanghai Volunteer Corps Long Service Medal, silver, hallmarks to rim, the reverse officially engraved 'B.Q.M.S. J. A. Cheeseman. Act. 1920-1931', good very fineProvenance:Sotheby's, July 1998.James Alfred Cheeseman was born at Reading on 13 August 1893, the son of The Rev. James & Isabella Cheeseman, the sixth of nine children. Young Cheeseman was educated at Chester College School and Paradise Street School in Cambridge before going out east - described as a draper - in 1913. With the outbreak of the Great War, he volunteered with 109 fellows from Shanghai and proceeded to England to join the New Army via the Suwa Maru. Joining King Edward's Horse (No. 894), he served on the Western Front from October 1915 and whilst serving in an Observation Post with 'A' Squadron at La Bourse was wounded by a rifle grenade on 24 March 1916 (1914-15 Star Trio). His daughter later wrote how the wounds effected his lower spine and knee, partially crippling him.Returning to Shanghai in May 1919, he joined the Shanghai Volunteer Artillery Company and the Whizzbangs Shanghai Amateur Football Club. Cheeseman would likely have been called out to share in the actions with his Battery against the Chekiang Kiangsu warlords in 1924-25. Married to Kathleen, he was to face tragedy as she produced a daughter on 16 October 1926 but died the next day, with their infant passing on 20 October 1926. A second marriage several years later (see group photograph) produced another daughter, Dora, who lived until 2015.Awarded his Long Service Medal as per the Shanghai Municipal Gazette of 7 August 1931, the Artillery Battery was disbanded several years after, with Cheeseman joining the Municipal Police Specials from September 1937 - perhaps serving during the emergency. He had also been made Manager of the famous department store Lane Crawford (founded 1862) shortly before its collapse. He thence set up the Textile Import Company, with offices in the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building.Promoted Sub-Inspector in the Specials in November 1939, Cheeseman was living on the Tifeng Road. Following the uncontested invasion of Shanghai by the Japanese on 8 December 1941, life continued comparatively unchanged and the Municipal Police were required to maintain the administration, under the Shanghai Provisional Council of 1941Under considerable pressure from the United States Administration, the foreign Extra Territorial Treaties, which had established the China Treaty ports in the 19th century including Shanghai (except that for Hong Kong), were abrogated on 11 January 1943 by the Treaty Between His Majesty in Respect of the United Kingdom and India and His Excellency the President of the National Government of the Republic of China for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China and the Regulation of Related Matters - so that at the end of the Japanese War Shanghai, and other occupied treaty ports would be returned to the Chinese Government (KMT) in Nanking.This also had the effect of terminating the Police service contracts in March 1943. That same month, Cheeseman and other expatriate members of allied countries were put into one of the internment camps - described as Civil Assembly Centres. His family went into the Lunghwa Centre. That place held just under 2,000 people and was described thusly:'The camp was large, containing seven concrete buildings, five large wooden barracks (originally built as stables by the Japanese), and numerous outbuildings. There were fifty nine dorms and 127 rooms for families.'In addition to malnutrition, malaria and typhoid were a common problem. A fellow internee was J. G. Ballard who, in his book Empire of the Sun (later made into a Stephen Spielberg film), gives a vivid description of life in this camp. At the end of the Pacific War, when the employees of the Municipal Council, civil servants, Police, Fire etc. came out of the internment camps in August and September 1945, they were unemployed. Some managed to obtain jobs in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which it appears the Cheesemans went to. He arrived back at Liverpool in November 1950.…

Lot 139

THE WATCHES & ARCHIVE OF SHEILA SCOTT O.B.E. (1922-88), 'BRITAIN'S QUEEN OF THE AIR'Given all that could be written about this remarkable aviatrix, the cataloguer turns firstly to Encyclopedia Britannica:'Sheila Scott was born on 27 April 1922 at Worcester, Worcestershire and was a British aviator who broke more than 100 light-aircraft records between 1965 and 1972 and was the first British pilot to fly solo around the world.After attending a Worcester boarding school, Scott became a trainee nurse at Haslar Naval Hospital (1944), where she tended the wounded during World War II. In London she appeared in small roles for theatre, film, and television and worked as a model (1945–59). In 1960 she earned her pilot’s license, bought an old biplane from the Royal Air Force, and won several races, capturing the De Havilland and Jean Lennox Bird trophies for that year. To pay for her flying, she became a demonstrator for Cessna and Piper aircraft.Scott first flew around the world in 1966, covering about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) in 189 flying hours. She set world records when she flew between London and Cape Town (1967) and across the North Atlantic Ocean (1967), the South Atlantic Ocean (1969), and from the Equator to the Equator over the North Pole (1971). After her record polar flight, she made a third around-the-world solo flight, earning her 100th world-class record. She wrote I Must Fly (1968) and On Top of the World (1973; U.S. title Barefoot in the Sky, 1974). Scott was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE; 1968), and she received the Royal Aero Club’s Gold Medal (1972). She died at London on 20 October 1988.'Further notice should be made the fact that Scott was likely the inspiration to Ian Fleming for the alluring 'Pussy Galore' in Goldfinger, played by Honor Blackman in the 1964 movie.Her flights with NASA in 1971 are also worth mention:'Sheila Scott is pictured here with her Piper Aztec 'Mythre', in which she made her world and a half flight in 1971. On this flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a single engine plane. She carried special NASA equipment for a communications experiment testing the Interrogation Recording and Location System (IRLS) of the Nimbus polar orbiting satellite. The IRLS equipment, a Balloon Interrogation package, transmitted data on Scott’s location during the 34,000 mile (~55,000 kilometer) flight to the Nimbus satellite, which relayed it to NASA’s ground station at Fairbanks, Alaska and then to a computer center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Sheila Scott’s record-making, historic flight confirmed the satellite’s ability to collect location data from remote computerized and human-operated stations with a unique “mobile platform” location test.'She was Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs in January 1967, her luxury being tobacco seeds to ensure a never-ending supply of smokes. Scott was always seen as a somewhat quirky individual and flew barefoot, claiming she could feel the controls better. She always signed of 'Happy Landings!' and we hope these treasures will find much the same.Sheila Scott's famous Rolex GMT-Master 'Pepsi' stainless steel automatic dual time wristwatch, first worn on her famous 1966 record-breaking long-distance flightRolex, stainless steel automatic dual time wristwatch with date and leather bracelet, this rather worn, Ref. 1675, GMT-Master 'Pepsi', with bakelite bezel, stainless steel Oyster case, screw-down crown and back the reverse engraved 'SHEILA SCOTT', blue and red 24-hour calibrated bezel, No. 1255812, the applied triangular and dot indexes upon the face 'factory' luminated with radium marker, 40mm, in running condition at time of cataloguing but would likely benefit from a service, a most historic object, very fineProvenance:Philips, December 1989 (Sold by Order of Sheila Scott O.B.E.).Scott wore this very watch on her famous flights. Her image - and this watch - was the first to ever market sports watches for wear by women. Scott commented that it was '...a marvelous watch.'It is no surprise that 'Pussy Galore' also wore a 'Pepsi' in Goldfinger.…

Lot 353

A good 'Operation Olive September 1944' immediate D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant R. A. G. Smith, 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), who led the charge on an enemy machine-gun nest with a small band of comrades to great success, later the same day he went off hunting alone and single-handedly pulled off a repeat, this time bringing home the enemy prisoners under their own gunDistinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (6472861 L. Sjt. R. A. G. Smith. R. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style, very fine (6)D.C.M. London Gazette 8 February 1945. The recommendation, for an immediate award approved by Alexander, states:'On the night 6-7 September 1944, 'W' Company, 8 Royal Fusiliers was ordered to attack the enemy and consolidatethe position in the area of the village of Croce.L-Sgt Smith was Platoon Sergeant of the Leading Platoon. On his own initiative he went forward of his Platoon with a small party of men, overran many of the enemy and cleared up a large area of enemy resistance. Alone, showing complete disregard for his own personal safety, he attacked an enemy MG post and killed the crew with his TMC, captured the MG and returned to his Platoon.Later, now single handed, he went forward to another MG post, he captured the enemy gun crew and with their weapon brought them back to our line. Had these enemy MGs not been silenced they would have taken very heavy toll on L-Sgt Smiths Company, which in turn may well have prejudiced the security of the whole of the Croce feature.Apart from these two outstanding incidents, L-Sgt Smith set a very high example of leadership and military qualities and his whole conduct was in the very highest tradition of the Service.'Ronald Arthur George Smith was born on 8 April 1920 at Hornsey, London and was a cabinet maker upon his joining the Territorial Army in June 1940. He was to join the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in October 1940.Smith served with his unit in Iraq, joining PAIFORCE as Lance-Corporal in November 1942. Having served through the Middle East, the unit landed in Italy on 10 September 1943. It was present in the Volturno crossing of October 1943 - being photographed going into action through the mud by Ronald Lambert of No. 2 Army Film & Photo Unit (IWM NA 7876, refers) - and they also shared in Operation 'Shingle' at the Battle of Anzio in January 1944.Little more needs be said about his services in winning his D.C.M. during Operation 'Olive', for his part at Croce, but more can be read of the wider events in the article Autumn Assualt in Italy (Warfare History Network, refers). Smith was made Sergeant on 10 November 1945, transferred to the Gordon Highlanders and was released in September 1946. He took work as a projects manager in Oxfordshire and died in Adderbury in February 1999; sold together with newspaper cutting and copied research.…

Lot 343

The 1940 Dunkirk M.C. group of four awarded to Major L. A. F. P. Gould-Marks, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Tank RegimentMilitary Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated '1940' and additionally inscribed 'Capt. L. A. F. P. Gould-Marks. Dunkirk'; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn by Spink & Son, 5 King Street, London, good very fine (4)M.C. London Gazette 20 December 1940, the original recommendation states:'When most of the Divisional R.A.S.C. had embarked this officer organised his ammunition section as the Divisional R.A.S.C. and he fed the 1st Division and several other divisions from 29th May to 2nd June. This well nigh on impossible task was carried out under continuous air bombardment and shell fire. It was intirely due to his initiative, re-sourcefulness and devotion to duty that all ranks of the Division received rations. His example was worthy of the best traditions of the R.A.S.C..'Langton Alfred Francis Gould-Marks was born in June 1910 at Streatham, London and had been commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps from the Supplementary Reserve of Officers, Royal Tank Regiment in June 1939. Further detail into his award is extracted from 1 Div A+Q records (TNA WO167/192 refers), written at Hondschoote:'D.A.Q. found Captain Marks, R.A.S.C., who still had his section of lorries intact, but was short of a few drivers. Four volunteers were obtained from 2 Hampshires and so there were drivers for all the vehicles. Captain Marks was then told to scavenge everywhere and collect all the supplies he could find and establish a Supply Depot at Bray Dunes.Captain Marks with his loyal band of NCO's and drivers performed the impossible. He found supplies here, there and everywhere and brought them all into Bray Dunes. A half-unloaded Belgian supply train, a beached lighter, discarded lorries all along the front, were all searched and supplies of every description poured into the little supply depot. About four divisions passed through Bray Dunes during the next four days, and they were all given some rations, all which time Captain Marks continued to supply 1 Division and all troops under command. Four lorry loads of rum also proved invaluable.'An active member of the film industry, he was involved in producing the Central Office of Information short film Britain Can Make it, No. 14, which had Geoffrey Sumner starring. His three Campaign Medals were issued to him in August 1948, before going out to Sydney with his wife in May 1949 to produce more titles and died in Camden, London in October 1997; sold together with photocopies of the Invitation to Investiture, dated 20 August 1940, which was retained by the family upon the original sale of these Medals.…

Lot 292

Mixed selection of cameras, Sony Cyber Shot, Fuji film instax 200, Olympus and JVC camcorder etc

Lot 504

Vinyl / CD / DVD - 8 Elvis Presley box sets to include Top Album Collection Volume 2 (COL-0166), A Golden Celebration, 64 Film Hits x 2, Elvis Double Features (missing 1 CD), World Wide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol 1, The Complete 50s Masters, Elvis (DVD/Book).

Lot 742

Memorabilia - Framed and glazed Quadrophenia film poster signed by one member of the cast. UK Quad size approx 30" x 40"

Lot 512

Vinyl - 4 Manic Street Preachers LP’s including: Rewind The Film (Columbia – 888834745291, EU 2013) Sealed, Postcards From A Young Man (Columbia – 88697778601, EU 2010) EX+, Futurology (Columbia – 88843049621, EU 2014) EX, Resistance Is Futile (Columbia – 19075809891, EU 2018 with CD) Sealed

Lot 458

A large group of camera equipment including lenses, mounts, covers, range finders, light meters, flash guns, film slides, anti-screens, etc.

Lot 305

TELEVISION INTEREST; a large collection of television memorabilia, mainly relating to ITC, including two Thunderbirds annuals, ITC Film Sales Catalogue 1989, ITC News Magazine issues 10, 11, 14 and 15, Edward the Seventh TV series double brochure and commemorative coin, in original pouch, ATV Yearbook 1975-1976, also two copies from 1976-1977, 'The Great Muppet Caper' poster, etc.

Lot 7359

Ten horror film VHS video tapes including some big box examples, titles to include Brainsmasher: A Love Story, Ghoulies: Ghoulies Go To College, Mutronics The Movie, The Curse, A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors, Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare On Elm Street The Series, Day Of The Dead, The Complete Hellraiser box set, Scream/Scream 2 box set and Scream 3 (10)

Lot 7336

James Bond interest - A British Film Fund Agency card signed in black ink by James Bond producer, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with typed name of company "Warfield Productions Limited", signatory's name in full "Albert Romolo Brocolli" and dated 6.1.1969. Mounted with a photograph of Broccoli. Together with Sam Mendes autograph in black ink on white card, with accompanying photo of Mendes (2)

Lot 7356

'Carry On Loving' (1970, d. Gerald Thomas) - An original Australian daybill poster for the saucy British comedy film starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw. 30" x 13", rolled

Lot 7339

A British Airways First Class menu, autographed in blue ink by Louis Gossett Jr. "To Steve Have Peace Always Louis Gossett". Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024) was an American film and TV actor, best known for his Oscar winning role as drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in 'An Officer And A Gentleman' (1982)

Lot 7348

Anna May Wong (Chinese American actress 1905-1961) - A signed black and white photograph of Wong Liu-Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong. The autograph in black ink reading "Sincerely Yours Anna May Wong" with Wong adding her signature in Chinese characters below. Image size 7.5" x 9.5".Anna May Wong is considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent and sound film, television, stage and radio.

Lot 7353

'Carry On Matron' (1972, d. Gerald Thomas) - An original UK quad cinema poster for the classic comedy film starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Cope, Terry Scott, Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor, 30" x 40", framed

Lot 7354

'The Italian Job' (1969, d. Peter Collinson) - An original Australian daybill for the comedy caper film starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill, 30" x 13", rolled

Lot 7349

Anna May Wong (Chinese American actress 1905-1961) - A signed and dedicated black and white photograph of Wong Liu-Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong. The autograph in black ink reading "To Mr E C West Best Wishes From The Orient Sincerely Yours Anna May Wong" with Wong adding her signature in Chinese characters below.Image size 7.5" x 9.5". Framed and glazed.With an accompanying typed letter dated 1958 and addressed to Mr West from journalist, John K. Newham, relating to a visit Wong paid to London and details of her whereabouts at the time.Anna May Wong is considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent and sound film, television, stage and radio.

Lot 7326

A collection of music documentary and concert film DVDs including The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Steve Hackett, Hawkwind, ACDC, Sex Pistols, Queen etc. (21)

Lot 7347

Anna May Wong (Chinese American actress 1905-1961) - A signed black and white photograph of Wong Liu-Tsong, known professionally as Anna May Wong. The autograph in black ink reading "Greetings And Best Wishes Anna May Wong" with Wong adding her signature in Chinese characters below. Image size 7.5" x 9.5". Framed and glazed. Water staining present to top and right hand edges.Anna May Wong is considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent and sound film, television, stage and radio.

Lot 7202

LED ZEPPELIN: Two LPs to include 'Led Zeppelin' early UK pressing with plum Atlantic labels (Atlantic 588 171, corrected A1/B1 matrix, Warner Bros./7 Arts/Jewel Music credits, silver stripe sleeve, vinyl VG, sleeve a strong VG, nearing VG+) and 'The Soundtrack From The Film The Song Remains The Same' 2xLP (Swan Song SSK 89402, vinyl and sleeve VG) (2)

Lot 7338

Three autograph books c.1930s-1950s, containing a good collection of signatures from various film stars, comedians, actors, singers, presenters and entertainers of the time, including Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Nikolai Polakovs (Coco The Clown), Anna Wong, Tommy Fields, Joan Winters, Wilfred Pickles, Carol Raye, Henry Kendall, Gracie Fields, Jimmy Hauley, Leslie Banks, Ronald Chesney, Dorthy Ward, Olive Kirby, Celia Lipton, Billy Milton, Flora Robson, Harry Lester, Billie Love, Helga Stone, Margaret Lockwood, James Kenney, Bunty Meadows, Hermione Baddeley, Louise Gainsborough, Eddie "Goofus" Brown, Victor Silvestre, Norman Griffin, Joe Murgatroyd, Vera Pearce, Valerie Taylor, Nicolette Roeg, Kittie Prince, Hannah Watt, Jay Laurier, Grace Draper, Maurice Chevalier, Barry Keegan, Prudence Hyman, Chili Boucher, Richard Greene, Nellie Wallace, Rene Ray, Nancy Brown, Rosalinde Fuller, Terry Devon, Anne Crawford, Dolly Elsie, Billy Cotton, Lillian Gill etc. Together with three albums of contemporary theatre programmes, ticket stubs and flyers, predominantly from Bournemouth venues including The Pavilion, The Winter Gardens, Westover Ice Rink etc.

Lot 44

Sex Pistols; 1980 British Quad Poster The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle. In excellent condition and bears the 'Advertising Viewing Committee' stamp to the right side of the poster. Featuring artwork by M. Hirsch and promoting the film starring Malcolm McLaren and the band. Rolled, 76cm x 102cm.

Lot 85

Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference Turntable. Designed by David Gammon in 1964 for Transcriptors Ltd. The turntable has been fitted with a Shure M44-7 cartridge. The turntable is untested. The rubber belt is missing, and the lid is loose from the hinge as the original glue has weakened over time, this will need re-attaching. The Transcriptors Ltd Hydraulic Reference Turntable has achieved cult status ever since Stanley Kubrick used a model in his seminal 1971 film 'A Clockwork Orange'.

Lot 36

New Wave/Electronic/80s Pop & Hip Hop 12" Singles. A collection of 30 singles. New Order; 'Blue Monday' (FAC 73) VG/VG, New Order; 'Power, Corruption & Lies' (LP, FACT 75) VG/VG+, The Smiths; 'This Charming Man' (RTT 136) VG+/VG+, The Smiths; 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' (RTT 156) VG/VG+, Depeche Mode; 'See You (Extended Version)' (12 MUTE 018) VG/VG+, Simple Minds; 'Love Song' (VS 434-12) VG/VG+, Simple Minds; 'The American' (VS 410-12) VG/VG+, Black Box; 'Ride On Time' (PT 43046) VG+/VG, Yazz and The Plastic Population; 'The Only Way Is Up' (BLR 4T) VG+/VG+, Erasure; 'Sometimes' (12 MUTE 51) VG/VG+, Erasure; 'Oh L'Amour' (12 MUTE 45) VG/VG, Duran Duran; 'Girls On Film (Night Version) (12 EMI 5206) G+/VG, Dead Or Alive; 'Lover Come Back To Me' (TA 6086) VG/VG, Soft Cell; 'Tainted Love' (BZS 212) G/VG, Scritti Politti; 'Cupid & Psych 85' (V 2350) F/VG, Bronski Beat; 'The Age Of Consent' (BITLP 1) VG/VG+, Pamela Nightingale; 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' (CART 361) VG/VG+, Raven Maize; 'Forever Together' (LICT 014) VG+/VG, Depth Charge; 'Bounty Killers' (STORM 13) VG+/VG, Hazell Dean; 'No Fool (For Love)' (ENA T 123) VG+/VG, Frankie "Bones"* Presents Bonesbreaks; 'Volume 4 (More Filthy, Dirty Breaks For DJ's)' (BBR-1000) VG+/VG+, The Human League; 'Hard Times / Love Action (I Believe In Love)' (VS435-12) VG/VG+, Visage; 'Mind Of A Toy' (POSPX 236) VG+/VG+, Thompson Twins; 'Love On Your Side (Rap Boy Rap)' (ARIST 12504) VG+/VG+, Prefab Sprout; 'Don't Sing' (SK912) VG/VG+, Latino Rave; 'Deep Heat 89' (12 DEEP 10) VG/VG+, The Beatmasters Featuring Betty Boo; 'Hey DJ / I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing' (LEFT 34T) VG/VG+, Various artists; 'Cover-Up' (CUP WL5002) VG+/VG+, Mel & Kim; 'That's The Way It Is (Remix)' (SUPETX 117) VG+/VG+, Hazell Dean; 'They Say It's Gonna Rain (Indian Summer Mix)' (12R6107) VG/VG.

Lot 86

Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference Turntable. Designed by David Gammon in 1964 for Transcriptors Ltd. The turntable has been fitted with a Shure M44-7 cartridge. The turntable is untested. Some of the cosmetic metal fittings have come loose as the original glue has weakened over time, these will need re-attaching. The lid is also loose from the turntable. The Transcriptors Ltd Hydraulic Reference Turntable has achieved cult status ever since Stanley Kubrick used a model in his seminal 1971 film 'A Clockwork Orange'.

Lot 223

‡ GEORGE CHAPMAN (1908-1993) fine and large exhibition quality oil on canvas - 'Church and Mine' with St Davids church at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, signed and dated '57, 118 x 146cmsNote by Professor Robert Meyrick: when George Chapman encountered the Rhondda Valley in 1953, he ‘got a fantastic shock.’ It was ‘quite unlike anything I’d seen in my life before,’ he remarked in a BBC television documentary about his work. Chapman had long struggled to find a meaningful subject or a personal vision. The Rhondda finally gave him an object and a purpose. ‘Here, in these valleys,’ he continued, ‘I would find the material that would perhaps make me a painter at last. I was so excited about the whole place, and so nervous too about the tremendous possibilities of the subject.’About this time, Chapman was reading William Faulkner’s novels. As he recalled, Faulkner ‘deals with a particular locality in America, and I began to wonder whether I couldn’t do a similar thing. Whether I couldn’t paint a sort of visual novel of the mining valleys,’ to concentrate ‘entirely on the life that is going on around there, and describe everything that they are doing.’ Over the next fifteen years, Chapman produced hundreds of paintings, drawings and etchings portraying communities across the south Wales coalfields. It was for him a period of critical acclaim and financial success. He staged solo exhibitions at the Piccadilly Gallery and Zwemmer Gallery in London, the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford and the King Street Gallery, Cambridge, which garnered widespread media attention.From his home at Great Bardfield in Essex, Chapman travelled to the valleys in his Volkswagen T1 campervan. He stayed there for days. When it rained, he remained in the driver’s seat with his drawing board resting on the steering wheel. He returned to Essex each time with ‘20-30 drawings’ that he regarded as ‘notes from which to make paintings.’ Chapman had initially trained as a graphic designer in the 1930s. At Shell Mex, BP and London Transport he worked alongside Paul Nash, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, and Edward Bawden. In 1937, however, he gave up his prosperous career and a comfortable lifestyle to retrain as a painter at the Royal College of Art and Slade School. Yet the strong sense of design that he developed as a poster artist never left him. In Church and Mine, he delights in the patterns made by the tombstones, architectural details of the church, colliery winding gear, and the slag heaps silhouetted as light breaks and heavy rainclouds clear. The visual drama of dark wet days in the steep-sided valleys constantly appealed to him.Speaking of Church and Mine to broadcaster Huw Wheldon in 1961, Chapman explained ‘there’s a lovely old cemetery […] right by the railway. Trains are passing by all the time. In the cemetery there’s a charming old mock-Gothic church. The whole thing has a rather romantic air about it […] and a sense of drama.’ The church featured in the painting is St David’s at Hopkinstown, on the outer edge of Pontypridd. Erected in 1896, it was designed in the Early English style by Cardiff-based ecclesiastical architect E. M. Bruce Vaughan (1856-1919). Rising above the Victorian graveyard is the double-bell gable west elevation of the church. A copper-domed Taff Vale Railway steam engine pulls its heavy convoy of wagons laden with freshly-hewn coal between colliery and washery, and to Cardiff Docks beyond. On the other side of the tracks stand the pithead winding gear of Ty Mawr colliery and the chimney of its coke ovens.Church and Mine featured in an episode devoted to George Chapman in the seminal BBC TV arts series Monitor. Directed by David Jones and produced by Huw Wheldon, it was showcased at the Venice Film Festival in 1961. The painting was shown alongside location footage of the graveyard and locomotive. Chapman later gifted the painting to his friend Alick Potter (1912-2000) – founder, Head of Department and Professor of Architecture at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, and later Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University, Belfast. It hung in the study of Potter’s home at Pennant near Aberaeron. Their friendship was one of the reasons why the Chapmans relocated from Norfolk to Aberaeron in 1964. Church and Mine was shown at Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s 1989 retrospective exhibition, ‘George Chapman: A Welsh Story.’ On Potter’s death in 2000, it was consigned to Bonham’s, Bath.Chapman’s paintings are a record of a particular place and time. In 1958, the National Coal Board merged Ty Mawr Colliery with the Lewis Merthyr Colliery. Production ceased in 1983, and the site was razed to the ground. There is now no evidence of the industrial spoilation that once scarred Hopkinstown. The mine buildings have been replaced by a neat housing estate of cul-de-sacs with names such as Ty Mawr Road and Ty Mawr Parc. Close to the Rhondda River, on a narrow piece of land between Gyfeillon Road and the Treherbert-Cardiff passenger railway line, St David’s still stands – encircled now by mature trees. Church and Mine survives as a reminder of a valleys community – once dominated by coal mining and religion – that has long since changed. As such, it is an important historical record of the industrial face of Wales.Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire, long term loan by vendor to Cardiff & County Club, Westgate Street, CardiffComments: framed, ready to hang

Lot 188

PATRICK BERTRAND (?) 1939 - 2017 (?): Jane Birkin und Serge Gainsbourg. Das Schauspielerpaar während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Film „Slogan“ von P. Grimblat. Photographie um 1968. Gelatinesilberabzug. Verso signiert „Patrick“ und mit dem Stempel „Photo / Patrick Bertrand“. Auf der ehemaligen Rahmenrückwand auf Klebeetikett von fremder Hand (?) bezeichnet „Serge Gainsbourg / Jane Birkin / 1971“. Auf Fotopapier. 30,7 x 19,7 cm. Gering wellig. [bg]

Lot 394

Eleven films by Jim Corbett including 'Tiger Hunting in North India (1930) and 'Life at the Foot of the Himalayas' (1932), National Film and Television Archive, VHS format in a leather book box together with readings of 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon' in cassette format in a book box.

Lot 459

A collection of cameras to include vintage Polaroid (600 Film) cameras (2), Kodak Instant camera EK160-EF, Zenit-E with Helios -44-2 lens, together with various compact digital cameras, Sony Finepix and similar. (Qty) Vendor states, majority are in working order, untested by auction house.

Lot 2048

A box of mixed cigarette cards, examples include the Nose Game, Film Favourites, Flowering Trees and Shrubs, British Birds, Popular Speedway Riders, and many others.

Lot 227

An Olympus OM10 film camera with an Olympus Zuiko f/1.8 50mm lens.

Lot 231

A Canon AE-1 film camera with a Canon f/1.8 50mm lens.

Lot 276

Two Canon SLR film cameras, to include, EOS 50E with Tamron f/4-5.6 70-300mm and AE-1 with Miranda f/2.8 28mm lens. (2)

Lot 215

An Asahi Pentax K1000 film camera, with Pentax-M f/2 50mm lens.

Lot 274

Two film cameras, to include, an Olympus OM10 with an Olympus OM-System Zuiko f/1.8 50mm lens and a Canon T50 with a Canon FD f/4.5 70-150mm lens. (2)

Lot 273

Two Olympus OM10 film cameras, with Olympus OM-System Zuiko f/1.8 50mm lenses. (2)

Lot 269

Two Olympus film cameras, to include, am OM-1 and an OM-2n with Miranda f/4-5 28-85mm and Olympus OM-System Zuiko f/1.8 50mm lenses. (2)

Lot 270

Two Olympus film cameras, to include, an Olympus OM10 and an Olympus OM-1 with Olympus OM-System Zuiko f/1.8 50mm and Osawa f/3.5-4.5 28-80mm lenses. (2)

Lot 209

A Minolta X-300 film camera, with Minolta f/1.7 50mm lens.

Lot 211

An Olympus XA2 35mm film camera.

Lot 275

Two film cameras, to include, Voightlander VSL 3-E with Voightlander f/1.8 50mm lens and Petri FT with Petri f/2 55mm, both in cases. (2)

Lot 277

Two Canon EOS 50E SLR film cameras, with Canon EF f/4.5-5.6 80-200mm and Sigma f/4-5.6 70-210mm lenses. (2)

Lot 272

Two Pentax MESuper film cameras, with Cosina f/2.8 28mm and Asahi Pentax-M f/1.7 50mm lenses. (2)

Lot 268

Two Olympus film cameras, to include, an OM-1 and an OM10 with Tokina f/4-5.6 70-210mm and Sigma f/3.5-4.5 28-70mm lenses.

Lot 232

A Minolta X-700 film camera with a Minolta f/1.7 50mm lens.

Lot 226

An Olympus OM-1n film camera with an Olympus Zuiko f/1.8 50mm lens.

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