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Click here to subscribeGreat Britain Benham Stamp Sheet Collection in a Royal Mail Smilers album with a range of Thematic issues (each with 10 x 1st class stamps), First edition stamp series, mostly 500 only issued. Stated retail of 38 sheets £1,100. Superb includes: Railway, Aviation, Royalty, Titanic, Concorde, Military, Churchill, Antarctic etc.
A collection of limited edition and first year of issue Royal Doulton figurines (6), comprising "Archives - Dancing Eyes & Sunny Hair" HN 4492 (no. 300/1000), "Archives - Little Child So Rare & Sweet" HN 4491 (no. 323/1000), "Archives - Here A Little Child I Stand" HN 4428 (no. 246/1000), "Archives - Do You Wonder Where Fairies Are..." HN 4429 (no. 202/1000), "Dressing Up" HN 3300 (no. 391/9500) and "Daddy's Girl" HN 3435 (1993 - First Year of Issue).
A small collection of books, including Ian Fleming, Goldfinger (1959, first edition) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1965, second impression); Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra (1963, first edition) and When Eight Bells Toll (1966, first edition) and Dennis Wheatley, The Prisoner in the Mask (1957, first edition), all with dust wrappers (the MacLeans price-clipped) and some wear (5)
•ALAN ELSDEN ODLE (1888-1948) PREPARATORY DRAWING FOR VOLTAIRE'S `CANDIDE` Pencil on artist's board 30.5 x 44cm. * George Routledge & Sons's edition of Voltaire's celebrated satirical classic appeared in 1922 and featured Odle's first published illustrations, for which this is a study. These were admired by the reviewer in the New Witness ("there is some soul of beauty in things ugly") but failed to appeal to the corespondent in the Times Literary Supplement who noted their inappropriately sinister and saturnine air. There is undoubtedly much to admire in his densely-worked technique, wherein mere graphite adopts the clarity and definition of a finely etched- or lithographed line. In addition, his mannered figures and strongly sinuous rhythms impart an elegant energy to his compositions. Subsequent reviewers were to praise Odle's "grossness of conception melded with penwork so flowing in line and velvety in quality that the result is sheer beauty". Odle himself was no less eye-catching than his meticulously designed drawings: he was ascetically thin as a result of tuberculosis; he favoured `Oxford Bags` and a careworn smoking jacket at all hours of the day; and wore his fingernails and his hair so long that the latter was wound around his head into a sort of turban. Provenance: London, Victor Arwas Gallery, May 1999 ++ Three small punctures; some foxing and surface soiling
ALFRED WALLIS (1855-1942) FRENCH FISHIN BOAT [sic] Inscribed with title, oil on card 17.5 x 29.5cm approx. Provenance: Collection of Mr and Mrs Christopher Mason, London, to whom given by their close friend Alan Rowe who had purchased it for £1000 from Ann Stokes, second wife of the artist, critic and writer Adrian Stokes, November 1973. Christopher Mason (1928-2018) was married to the artist Joanna Carrington (1931-2003), niece of Dora Carrington. He was a film maker, writer and painter and made a film about Alfred Wallis as well as two about the Bloomsbury Group. Mason met Jim Ede in 1955 through a musician friend called Etienne Amyot. At that time, Ede was Wallis's most devoted collector. At Ede's meticulously furnished home, Les Charlottieres near Blois on the River Loire, Mason saw scores of works by Wallis for the first time. The two men remained friends and Ede was a vital and valued contributor to Mason's short film about Wallis in 1973, entitled Alfred Wallis - Artist and Mariner. Joanna Carrington had long coveted the picture and wrote in her diary, "I must say I am glad Alan has got it. It is such a beautiful one - and being selfish about it - apart from owning it myself, the next best thing as it does mean feasting one's eyes every time we go there." ___________________________________________________________________________________ In this painting inscribed "French Fishing Boat", Wallis recalls one of the French boats that would visit Cornwall in the summer months. French crabbers from Brittany first came from Camaret in 1902 to fish the Scillies and the north coast of Cornwall. Using crab-pots they fished for crayfish, lobster and crab and their vessels had wet wells to keep the shellfish alive till they returned to Brittany. These boats became a feature of the summer scene in St Ives, Newquay and Newlyn, and this practice continued until the mid-1960s. The early French crabbers were sail vessels and were gaff-rigged, but in this and one other painting Wallis remembers lug-sailed vessels. Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood came to St Ives on a day visit in 1928. Their 'discovery' of Wallis has been described as a watershed in the history of modern art. They found in Wallis "An art, simple, direct, honest…unencumbered by theory, completely true to itself."(Oxford Times; Ben Nicholson). Wallis's work was to influence both artists. After the initial visit, Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Christopher Wood came to stay in St Ives; the Nicholsons stayed for three weeks and Wood for three months. Wood wrote to the Nicholsons: "Admiral Wallis I often see" and "more and more influence de Wallis, not a bad master though." Wallis's work acted as a liberating force on Wood who would also have seen the French crabbers in St Ives and later painted fishing boats in Brittany during visits in 1928 and 1930 shortly before his untimely death in 1930. Ben Nicholson received bundles of paintings posted to him by Wallis and introduced the work to a small group of collectors including Jim Ede. Wallis also sent bundles of paintings to Ede, then junior curator at the Tate Gallery, and the work he purchased formed the basis of the present day Tate and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge collections. Robert Jones 2018 Robert Jones is the author of Alfred Wallis Artist and Mariner (3rd edition, 2018). We are grateful to Robert Jones for his assistance with the cataloguing of this picture. Quotations are reproduced by kind permission of the executor of the estates of the late Christopher Mason & the late Joanna Carrington. ++ Slight wear at edges, bumped at corners; a little retouching; needs a light clean
LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 Superb collection of items from the London Olympic Games 2012 housed in a binder and including several original covers signed by Andy Murray, Chris Hoy, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton. The complete collection , housed in plastic sleeves comprises5 x Royal Mail Official Signed Limited edition Gold medal winner covers signed by Hoy, Trott, Pendleton, Jade Jones and Alistair Brownlee, All are limited editions of 500. 4 x Benham Signed stamp covers signed by Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, Greg Rutherford, Dani King and Peter Wilson, Buckingham Signed Cover signed by Andy Murray, 4 x Stamp Covers comprising "Welcome to London 2012 Games", "Keeping the Flame Alive", "London 2012" and "Welcome to London 2012 Paralympic Games" . Complete set of 29 Royal Mail 2012 British Olympic Gold Medal Winners First day Covers, 2 x Memories of London 2012 covers, Olympic Park Access Ticket 19/7/2012, 28 x Olympic Event Tickets including Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, Orbit ticket, Tennis, Beach Volleyball, Rowing, Water Polo, Football (Old Trafford, Wembley and Coventry), Swimming, Hockey, Badminton, Cycling-Track, Athletics, Volleyball, Canoe Sprint, Wrestling Greco-Roman, Triathlon, Diving, Handball, Freestyle Wrestling, Basketball, Taekwondo and Table Tennis. Other items comprise Ticket folder, Olympic Park Map and Spectator Guide to Beach Volleyball. Excellent collection to bring back the memories. Good
Leo Jansen limited edition lithographic print of 'The Beatles', 32.5cm x 41cm, with type written documentation verso from Beatle City certifying that this is number 229 of only 500 originally commissioned in February 1964 by CBS Television to commemorate the Beatles first visit to New York to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show Condition:
Letters Of John Keats To Fanny Brawne First Edition 1878 Edited By H. Buxton Forman Hardcover, bound in the original navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine, Includes three illustrations: a portrait of Keats, silhouette of Fanny Brawne, and facsimile of letter XXVII, 128 pages plus 12 pages of advertisements. Some mild staining and foxing to pages, no loose pages, boards in reasonable condition, some slight wear/fraying to top of spine.
Tretchikoff By Howard Timmins, First Edition Cape Town, South Africa, 1969, Signed By The Artist Hardcover, signed Tretchikoff to page 6. Book contains 8 pages of text, 63 pages of full colour reproductions. Dust jacket in poor condition, taped in places with tears/nibbles to edges. Please see accompanying image.
Mixed Box Of Hardback Books Six items in total to include 'The Styles Of Ornament By Alexander Speltz, Crowning The King, published by Allied Newspapers Ltd, My Lady Rotha by Stanley Weyman, published by A.D.Innes & Co, 1894. Also, Concise History Of Costume By James Laver, published 1968, Everybody's Boswell First Edition with Illustrations By E H Shepard, published by G.Bell And Sons Ltd, also, The Hants Country Book, published by Lindsay Drummond London. Varying condition, please see accompanying image
Star Trek and other Sci Fi movie framed and signed photos of cast members including Star Trek Enterprise plus Star Trek Voyager cast signed photo, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Gallactica signed cast photo, plus another Star Trek signed photo, Star Trek signed print no 461 of 1000 for Star Trek Next Generation, Dr Who signed print, Dr Who 50 year anniversary ltd edition collector card stamps, Star Wars Royal Mail first day cover ltd ed stamp collection 109 / 995, Star Wars first day issue 20th October 2015 ltd ed no 3760 of 4500, plus comics including a signed Dominion British Trek convention magazine etc.Provenance - From a private collector who attended many Sci Fi conventions and fairs including Collectormania and Memorabilia in the UK where he obtained the autographs in person (some are with certificates some personally signed to Gareth) and bought from various autograph companies in the UK and America and from other sources.
Star Wars limited edition 1oz silver bullion Darth Vader coin from Westminster with Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) hand signed Revenge of the Fifth May 2018 first day cover stamps limited edition 028 of 250.Provenance - From a private collector who attended many Sci Fi conventions and fairs including Collectormania and Memorabilia in the UK where he obtained the autographs in person (some are with certificates some personally signed to Gareth) and bought from various autograph companies in the UK and America and from other sources.
Three Royal Doulton limited edition character jugs comprising D6788 'Queen Victoria' no. 2932/3000, D6846 'Dick Whittington Lord Mayor of London' no. 1232/5000 and D6819 'Little Mester Museum Piece' no. 737/3500 (3). CONDITION REPORT: The first two also with transferred The Guild of Specialist China & Glass Retailers stamps to bases, Dick Whittington with minor glazing flaw to rim interior, minor surface wear and dirt to all, none are seconds.
A Grand Collection of RMB Currencies of The Peoples Republic of China, presented in a book format and includes the first set of Renminbi 100 Yuan banknotes (1949), the second set of Renminbi five Yuan banknote (1962), the third set of Renminbi ten Yuan banknote (1966), accompanied by the collection certificate, one of 2000 limited edition sets, with a National Unity price of 12.8 thousand Yuan (RMB), presented within a premium briefcase, 'Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo'.
Monk, Maria. Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, as Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings, to Which is Added Six Months' Residence in a Convent by Rebecca Theresa Reed, first edition, London: Printed for the Booksellers [1836], publisher's maroon cloth with gilt title and black vine pattern (binding as found). A controversial but best-selling book at the time of publication, which claimed to expose sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in a convent in Montreal
Spencer, Richard. Field Flowers, Poems by Richard Spencer, Batley: Printed for the Author by J. Spencer Newsome, no date [c.1891], first and presumably only edition, publisher's blue gilt cloth, presentation copy bearing photographic portrait signed by Spencer, plus contemporary owner inscription for Archer Spencer. Together with a late-Victorian part-set of Snap playing cards, chromolithographic (2)
Blyton, Enid. Mountain of Adventure, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1949, with dust-jacket (worn). Together with three other Blyton titles (Castle of Adventure, reprinted 1949; Mystery of the Pantomime Cat, reprinted 1955; Rilloby Fair Mystery, reprinted 1955), all with dust-jackets (as found), and Barnabees Journall Under the Names of Mirtilus and Faustulus Shadow'd, by Corymbaeus, London: 'Printed in the Year 1716' [but early 19th century], full calf, and Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, seventh edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1854, full calf (6)
Erotic Literature. [Cleland, John]. Memoirs of the Life of Fanny Hill, Or, The Career of A Woman of Pleasure, London: Printed for the Booksellers, no date [c.1880], illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates (including frontispiece), the two parts bound as one (text complete), oxblood buckram binding, the text block having come away from the boards/spine, with loosely inserted newspaper clipping c.1963 reporting the seizure by police of a new paperback edition being published by Mayflower Books. Fanny Hill is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, originally written while the author was in a debtors' prison and first published in 1748, it is considered the first English prose pornography
Atlas of Meteorology (Bartholomew's Physical Atlas Vol.III), by Bartholomew and Herbertson, under the patronage of The Royal Geographical Society, prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute, first edition, no date [1899], elephant folio, half-leather binding with gilt titles and crests, colour maps
MOTOR CAR: TO BE SOLD AT 12 NOON PROMPT. A Vauxhall Corsa Hatchback Special Edition 1.2 Excite 5 door motor car, grey coach work, 1200cc manual engine, first registered 30 / 07/ 2015. recorded mileage 15,566, with service history, registration number MC15 FXPMOT until 29/07/2019.BUYERS PREMIUM ON THIS LOT ONLY IS 10% (plus VAT)
An interesting collection of items relating to the life of Eugene J O'Meara, Surgeon - Lieutenant, including a Victorian gold Army Medical school medal, prize for Military medicine, in original Wyon box (a/f); a Delhi Durbar 1911 medal; and a silver Russo-Japanese war peace medallion, in fitted case; a first edition of his book I'd Live it Again, pub. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1935; a telegram from the Crown Prince of Germany, a photograph of the tiger they hunted together, a photograph of the Crown Prince of Germany, Muttra 1911; an album of black and white photographs from his time in India; six scrolls of medical qualifications; and volume I and II of his uncle Barry Edward O'Meara book Napoleon in Exile...reflections of Napoleon...in his own words by...his late surgeon, pub. Jones & Co, London 1827 (a/f)
Robert Taylor (British, 20th century): a collection of prints comprising 'Hurricane', first edition print signed by Wing Commander R.R. Stanford-Tuck, 'Lancaster', first edition signed by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, 'Mosquito', signed by Leonard Cheshire, 'Spitfire' first edition signed by Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader and Air-Vice Marshall Johnnie Johnson, and 'Wellington', signed by Bill Townsend, all framed 61.5 by 51.5cm. (5)
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