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Lot 249
P. Eadie. Lets Visit Ireland. 1958. 1st; H. Thurston. Lets Look at Ireland, 1965. 1st. Illustrated; Sean O'Faolain. An Irish Journey. 1941. 1st Illustrated by Paul Henry. G. Fletcher; Ireland Illustrated. 1922. 1st; H. Rose. Your Guide to Ireland. 1965; A.E. Collected Poems. 1913; Dora Sigerson. The Woman Who Went to Hell. 1891. Ex Lib; Dora Sigerson. Love of Ireland. 1916. First; Dora Sigerson, As The Sparks Fly Upwards c.1916 1st (9)
Lot 472
W. B. Yeats. Reveries over Childhood and Youth. New York. 1916. First U.S. edition published in tandem with the London first. With coloured plate by Jack B. Yeats and 2 family portraits by John B. Yeats. The only Yeats book in which all the family participated. Beautiful original decorative cloth, superior to the London edition. Scarce
Lot 2
JOSEPHINE HASWELL MILLER A.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1890-1975) COTSWOLD VILLAGE Signed lower left, oil on board 39cm x 99cm (15.5in x 39in) In 1938 Josephine Haswell Miller became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. Her 1975 Obituary from the RSA Annual Report read:‘It is difficult now, nearly 40 years since her election to the Academy, when most of her contemporaries are dead and after the radical change of values suffered by our society, not least in the appreciation and practice of the Arts, to make a just assessment of Josephine’s career which held so much promise, but there is little doubt she was a star in her generation and a woman who combined great sensitivity and charm with outstanding artistic gifts and exceptional achievements.’
Lot 7
BENJAMIN CREME (SCOTTISH 1922-2016) STILL LIFE WITH DICE - 1956 Signed, dated and inscribed with title verso, oil on board 43cm x 58cm (17in x 23in) Exhibited: Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, May 1992So accomplished was the young Benjamin Creme's first exhibition in 1940 that word spread throughout Glasgow, attracting the attention of Jankel Adler, Josef Herman and John Duncan Fergusson. After relocating to London, Creme was inducted by Adler into an artistic circle which included Robert Colquhoun, Prunella Clough, Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan and John Minton.
Lot 17
BARBARA BALMER R.S.A., R.S.W., R.G.I. (SCOTTISH 1929-2017) LITTLE STILL LIFE Signed lower right, watercolour 23cm x 28.5cm (9in x 11.25in) Aitken Dott & Son, Barbara Balmer Exhibition, Edinburgh, 28th April-10th May 1975 Balmer's soft tonality and hard outline is indebted to early Italian art, which she first encountered in 1973 with the assistance of a Travelling Scholarship. This work was exhibited two years after Balmer's first visit to Italy, and is replete with stillness and clarity that characterised her subsequent work.
Lot 83
HAMISH LAWRIE (SCOTTISH 1919-1987) VIEW OVER SOUTH BRIDGE ONTO THE MOUND, EDINBURGH Signed lower right, oil on board 36.75cm x 45cm (14.5in x 17.75in) A note verso states that this painting was purchased from Hamish Lawrie's studio on Tarvit Street, Edinburgh in the 1950s.Lawrie studied at Gray's School of Art and after graduation found work as an camera man on film sets. He is believed to have sold his first painting to the poet Dylan Thomas.
Lot 25
JAMES DOWNIE ROBERTSON M.B.E., R.S.A., R.S.W., R.G.I. (SCOTTISH 1931-2010) UNTITLED (MOONLIT TOWN) - 1965 Signed and dated '65 lower right 75cm x 99.5cm (29.5in x 39.25in) The present lot, and lot 26, date to relatively early in Robertson's career when he was still establishing himself as an artist. His first solo exhibitions in the early 1960s were well received, and by the close of the decade he had secured a teaching position at the Glasgow School of Art, where he continued to work until 1996. Downie Robertson is best-known for his evocative and expressive landscape paintings which often interpret scenery around the Clyde and West Renfrewshire.
Lot 70
DAME LAURA KNIGHT D.B.E., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH 1877-1970) SPANISH DANCER NO.1 - 1923 Etching and aquatint, Print No. 1, signed and inscribed in pencil to margin image size 27cm x 21.5cm (10.75in x 8.5in) Laura Knight is an artist of exceptional importance to the development of modern British art. Knight lived and painted in the artist colonies of Staithes in North Yorkshire and Newlyn in Cornwall, before moving to London in 1919. Her time outside the capital allowed her to develop her style, which reached maturity during her time in Cornwall. Knight achieved particular renown for her depictions of London's circus, ballet and theatre companies. She was the first woman artist elected to full membership of the Royal Academy.
Lot 38
CHARLES ERNEST CUNDALL R.A., R.W.S., R.P., N.E.A.C. (BRITISH 1890-1971) HOLYROOD - 1927 Signed and dated lower left, oil on board 25.5cm x 39.75cm (10in x 15.75in) P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London;Calton Gallery, Edinburgh This painting is likely to have been included in Cundall's first solo show at Colnaghi in 1927. After serving in the First World War Cundall had studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1919-20), and he earned a reputation for ambitious panoramic landscapes. In the Second World War he served as an Official War Artist, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1944.
Lot 1
JOSEPHINE HASWELL MILLER A.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1890-1975) SILVIA WITH SUNYA Signed lower right, oil on canvas 74.5cm x 61.5cm (29.5in x 24.25in) Exhibited: Paisley Art Institute Exhibition, cat.no.1In 1938 Josephine Haswell Miller became the first woman to be elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. Her 1975 Obituary from the RSA Annual Report read:‘It is difficult now, nearly 40 years since her election to the Academy, when most of her contemporaries are dead and after the radical change of values suffered by our society, not least in the appreciation and practice of the Arts, to make a just assessment of Josephine’s career which held so much promise, but there is little doubt she was a star in her generation and a woman who combined great sensitivity and charm with outstanding artistic gifts and exceptional achievements.’
Lot 270
ERROR: Bank of England, George M. Gill, £10 (2), 1 March 1988, serial numbers DW32 264086 and ET71 065182, the first with metal strip incorrectly implemented, fully exposed on obverse and impinging on the Queens face, the second paper incorrectly fed into machine resulting in no Queens portrait in watermark and six small circles in right field, first extremely fine, second about uncirculated (2 notes) EPM B354 £120-£160
Lot 173
Bank of England, a small group including Peppiatt, 10 Shillings, 2 April 1940, serial number U74D 884457, £1 (2), blue, prefix L46E and green, prefix D32A, along with O’Brien, £5, lion & key, prefix D78 and Royal Bank of Scotland, Diamond Jubilee £10, 2012, prefix TQDJ, and First Trust Bank, £10, 2012, prefix VA, also a modern polymer £5 and a small group of low grade mid-century Scottish £1 notes (4), all listed notes uncirculated, a useful lot (11 notes) EPM B251 £200-£260
Lot 86
Bank of Engraving, W.C. Clayton, Reading, a skit note for £50, 3 January 1852, serial number W/C 43826, promising to ‘Engrave and Print in Letter Press or Copper Plate, Bind Books and supply Stationery on Demand, for the Sum of Fifty Pounds, in the first style of the Art, or forfeit the above Sum, signature of W.C. Clayton, thin paper, fine and scarce Outing unlisted £80-£100 --- William Charles Clayton of West Street, Reading, was born in 1822 or 1823. by 1851 the census records him living in Oxford Street, Reading, with his wife Jane and one child, and that his occupation is printer and bookbinder. by 1853 he is recorded with premises at West Street, as per this note. He died in 1864, aged only about 41.
Lot 199
Bank of England, Leslie K. O’Brien, 10 Shillings, 21 November 1955, serial number C67Z 192564, £1, 21 November 1955, serial number C85L 577813, 10 Shillings, 1960, prefixes C16, B52N, M59 and 24X, the first 10 Shilling good very fine, the remainder good extremely fine to uncirculated, a useful group with first/last series (7 notes) EPM B271, B273, B281, B282, B284, B285 £60-£80
Lot 593
Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited, £1, 1 March 1961, prefix B/B, £5, 20 September 1961, prefix B/B, also Clydesdale Bank Limited, £1 (2), 1 February 1965, prefix C/E, 1 September 1969, prefix C/R, £5, 1 May 1967, prefix C/R, Fairbairn signature, first extremely fine, others about uncirculated or better (5 notes) PMS CL 28, 29, 30b, 31b £150-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Lot 361
Northern Bank Limited, £1 (2), 1 May 1929, serial number N-I/A 082834, Knox signature, 1 August 1929, serial number N-I/F 015164, Stewart signature, 1 January 1940, serial number N-I/H 002392, the first note pressed extremely fine, second and third note uncirculated (3 notes) PMI NR 67, 68a, Pick 178a, 179 £200-£300
Lot 691
States of Jersey, 6 Pence (2), ND (1942), serial number 16009 and 56835, 1 Shilling, ND (1942), serial number 60984, first 6 pence with foxing spots, good very fine, second about extremely fine, the 1 Shilling with very minor staining, about uncirculated (3 notes) BNYB JE1, JE2, McCammon JN244, 245 £100-£150
Lot 473
Currency Commission, Irish Free State, partial die proofs for 10 Shillings (2), first orange with ‘15-8-28’ date in pencil, second green on paper, both showing left half of note, about uncirculated and attractive (2 pieces) PMI LTN 1, Pick 1A £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Lot 77
Leeds & Hull, 35 George Street Waterworks, a skit note for £50, 1803, promising to ‘pay with Steam & Art combined to clean and completely Renovate or Dye in Colour, all kinds of Ladies and Gentlemen's wearing, Apparel, Carpets & Moreens cleaned or Dyed to and Colour, Watered & Prest like new’, signature of J. Adams the First, edges ragged, on very thin paper, very good and extremely rare Outing unlisted £100-£150
Lot 309
Bank of Ireland, £1, 9 March 1936, serial number B/13 192188, £1, 3 June 1937, serial number B14 550632, Frazer signature, £1, 14 July 1943, serial number B/20 790497, Adams signature, the first pressed very fine, second pressed extremely fine, the third original extremely fine (3 notes) PMI BA 94, 95, 96, Pick 51b,c £100-£150
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