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Lot 94
Two Tunbridge ware desk thermometers, one raised on bun feet and mosaic rectangular base supporting a pair of stick ware pillars divided by an ivory scale inscribed 'H. Hollamby Tunbridge Wells', mercury thermometer lacking top return to scale and inoperative, 12cms high, and another on canted mosaic rectangular base, the ivory scale inscribed 'G. Wise Tunbridge', with mercury thermometer within a mosaic border and shaped outer frame, minor losses, 15.5cms high. (2) †The first with retailer's label to base for 'W.H. Tooke …. Liverpool'. From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Lot 107
Two Tunbridge ware stamp boxes, comprising a rectangular example in geometric mosaic, the lid with 'STAMPS' in mosaic, 6.2cms, and another in rosewood with stamp 'QV Postage Stamps' within fine geometric mosaic panels, 8cms. (2) First illustrated Austen(B), Tunbridge Ware, opposite Page 28, Plate 16. From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Lot 102
Two small Tunbridge ware rosewood boxes, one labelled for Nye, the other Barton, the first of rectangular form the sides with 'chain' mosaic, the inset lid with mirror mosaic medallion within a geometric mosaic border, base with nice clear label 'Edmund Nye ….', 11.5cms, the other square, the lid with central stick ware panel within a geometric mosaic border, internal printed circular label 'T. Barton Late Nye ….', 6.7cms sq. x 1.6cms. (2) From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Lot 894
19th Century pattern and reference works, comprising Mee (Cornelia), A Manual of Knitting, Netting And Crochet Work, 1843, 2nd edition, 267pp including patterns and image of C. Mee's knitting needle gauge, decorative cloth, gilt, contents loose / Warren (Mrs), Needlework Designs, fancy soft yellow covers / Mee (Mrs) and Austen (Miss), Novelties In Needlework, Third Series, fancy soft green covers, post 1867, and Mee (Mrs) and Austen (Miss), Novelties In Needlework, First Series, pink soft covers. (4)
Lot 703
A fine French sable beadwork scissor case, with a pair of steel scissors, the scissor case of triangular form and worked to each side with a hot air balloon in flight amid bands of geometric and floral beadwork, the scissors probably later but with elegant cut arms to oval loops, case 7.8cms, scissors 8.5cms. †It is likely that this scissor case with the balloon in flight records the first balloon flight from Versailles, 19th September 1783.
Lot 358
A gilt foil book form pin cushion, the covers with panels of musical and military trophies within floral borders, the 'spine' titled 'Sir Walter Scott Life of Napoleon', red velvet infill, 7.5 x 6.5 x 3.3cms. †This work was first published in 1828. From a distinguished UK Private Collection
Lot 851
Two silver and enamel thimbles by Peter Swingler, comprising an example with two oval enamel studies of a male bullfinch on a holly branch, and another with two oval enamel studies of a kingfisher in river landscape, first with internal rim hallmark and PS maker's mark, second with internal apex hall marks and PS maker's mark. (2) From the collection of Celia Barrington
Lot 25
Two small early Tunbridge ware print decorated and inlaid boxes attributed to Wise, the first in rosewood with bombe sides, the lid with a cut corner print of a figure dancing and another seated with lyre in painted black and gilt border and a canted inlaid and crossbanded outer border, compartmentalised interior with box form pin cushion, 15cms. The other in whitewood, the exotic veneered top with untitled circular colour print depicting an unidentified house in a black and gold painted surround with an outer chequer and line inlay border, interior lined in old paper, 13.2cms. (2) From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Lot 483
Two mounted and inscribed 'relics', a fringe from the bed on which George III was born and a tassel from the bed on which Mary Queen of Scots slept, both mounted on a single board with old ink pasted down inscriptions 'This bit of Fringe is part of the Bed (of the Green Silk) now standing in one of the Rooms at Worksop Manore the seat of The Duke of Norfolk / whereover his present Majesty George III was born, at Norfolk House in London, where the bed then was, but was removed for its better preservation to Worksop some years afterwards - it was taken from the bed July 16th 1795' signed twice but the signatures ruled over. The tassel 'A tasel from the Bed in the Duke of Devonshires House at Chattesworth in Derbyshire in which Mary Queen of Scots Slept', the board 29.5 x 23cms. †On first reading the attribution to the seat of the Duke of Norfolk in relation to the fringe seems unlikely, the family seat being Arundel Castle, however at the end of the 17th Century the house, Worksop Manore, passed by marriage to the Duke of Norfolk in whose family it remained until 1804. ††In relation to the tassel, Mary Queen of Scots was held captive at Chatsworth throughout the 1570's.
Lot 611
Two Avery type needle packet cases and another, comprising a brass example 'The Golden Needle Case - 8 - Sharps - Cook Son and Co., London', 3.7cms, 'Abel Morrall's - 6 - Burnished Egg Eyed Sharps - Johnsons Patent', 5cms, and a hinged and sprung rectangular brass example of reeded form with leaf and flower border, 7.5cms. (3) The first registered January 7th 1868
Lot 164
England 1966 World Cup Legends multi signed GPO FDC includes Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Alan Ball, Jack Charlton, Martin Peters, Roger Hunt, Jimmy Greaves and Kenneth Wolstenholme. PM Fareham, Hants 18 Aug 1966 First Day of Issue. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 104
Autographed TOTTENHAM 1963 Book : A hardback book 'Spurs Go Marching On' by Ralph L. Finn, published by Robert Hale Ltd in 1963, the book details Tottenham's victory in the 1963 European Cup Winners Cup and has been neatly signed to one of the first pages by 8 players in blue / black biro pen - MACKAY, SMITH, ALLEN, DYSON, NORMAN, MARCHI, JONES and BAKER. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 125
Tottenham 1967 15 team squad Spurs players signed cover for match v Celtic, with 5/8/67 Glasgow match day postmark. Autographs include Pat Jennings, Cyril Knowles, Mike England, Philip Beal, Alan Mullery, Joe Kinnear, Clayton, Jones, Robinson. A six-goal thriller that either side could have won but at the end both sides and the crowd were happy with a draw. Neither reputation were really enhanced but neither were they damaged - honours even. In May 1967 Tottenham defeated Chelsea in the FA Cup Final at Wembley. The same month Glasgow Celtic defeated Inter Milan in the Final of the European Cup in Lisbon to become the first British team to win the trophy. This high-profile pre-season Challenge Match at Hampden Park to mark the Centenary of Queen's Park Football Club attracted 91, 708 spectators and was played on this day, 5th August 1967. Both teams were at full strength represented by the players who had lifted the trophies the previous season. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 138
Nandor Hidegkuti Hungarian football legend signed 1952 Helsinki Olympics FDC. Set on descriptive A4 page with corner mounts. The Football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was won by Hungary. The games signalled the arrival (to Western Europeans at least) of the Hungary national team - the Magical Magyars. Ferenc Puskás later said of the 1952 competition: It was during the Olympics that our football first started to flow with real power. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 67
George Best signed European Football Championship 96 FDC Triple PM First Day of Issue Philatelic Bureau Edinburgh 14 May 1996 with 10x8 inch colour photo. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 416
Cricket Liam Livingstone signed 16x14 inch overall framed and mounted colour photo pictured after scoring his 2nd first class century for Lancashire. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 342
Football Kerry Dixon signed The World Cup 1930-1986 official commemorative cover PM World Cup Kingstown St Vincent W.I First Day of Issue. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 66
Fulham Legends multi signed World Football Champions FDC signatures include George Best, Bobby Moore, Rodney Marsh, Tommy Trinder and two other.PM Southampton 18 Aug 1966 First Day of Issue. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 380
Collection of Argyle 9 x programmes of Football League Division Three/Canon League Division Three/F.A. Cup First Round, various Teams Newport County. Bradford City. Chesterfield. Doncaster Rovers. Notts County. Oxford UTD. Exeter City. Gillingham. Exeter City. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 162
Diego Maradona signed Official commemorative cover PM World Cup 3.7.86 Bequia Grenadines of St Vincent First Day of Issue. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 251
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of Great Britain, 1952-2022. Document Signed, St James's, 26 August 1955, a pre-printed pardon, completed in manuscript, concerning Thomas Nicholls who was convicted of failing to pay National Insurance contributions and ordered to pay a fine of three pounds, being hereby pardoned and the fine remitted to him, signed by the Queen at head of first page adjacent to embossed stamp, minor marks, paperclip stain at head and three file holes to left margin, not affecting signature or text, 2 pages, folio, together with an unsigned copy of another pardon for an unidentified person concerning a traffic offence in 1954, filing holes and rusted staple marks, 2 pages, folioQTY: (2)
Lot 300
* Military Letters. A group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed, 1804-1842, the first from John Hely-Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison (1757-1837), Cheltenham, 25 September 1804, to Rear Admiral Sir Home Popham (1762-1820), concerning the forthcoming British raid on Boulogne, advising Popham to 'beware of adventures and expeditions, they are always very hazardous and sometimes very foolish and contrary to all the rules and sound principles of war', also asking Popham to leave behind in Dover his 'mad brother' [?Christopher Hely-Hutchison, 1767-1826, soldier and politician], 'errant enough to attempt anything and everything', 3 pp.; the second from William Carr Beresford (1768-1854), Viscount Beresford, Marshal of the Portuguese Army, Lisbon, 30 March 1809, to Frederick, Baron D'Eben, Colonel in the Portuguese Army, praising his conduct at the time of the murder [on 20 March] of Bernardim Freire de Andrade, a Portuguese general, and commenting on the anarchy and insubordination of the people of Porto, 4 pp.; Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch (1748-1843), Commander of the British Forces in the Low Countries, Brussels, 29 June 1814, to Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War and the Colonies, marked 'Private', concerning the Allies' policy for the future of Belgium following the defeat of Napoleon and the possible union of Belgium and Holland, Lynedoch apparently not yet having been fully informed of the Secret Treaty of London of 23 June 1814 which agreed the union, 4 pp.; Frederick Mackeson (1807-1853), Commission of Peshawar, 22 August 1842, to Major General George Pollock, concerning the Anglo-Afghan War, Pollock's advance towards Kabul, and the security of the Khyber Pass, old clear tape repair at foot of first page, 4 pp., all 4toQTY: (4)
Lot 370
* Wagner (Richard, 1813-1883). German composer, theatre director and conductor. Fine Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Richard Wagner’, Bayreuth, 5 February 1879, to Julius Ruthardt, Director of the Riga Opera House, in German, replying to a request from Ruthardt that Der Ring des Nibelungen should be staged in Riga [now capital of Latvia], insisting that for every theatre the complete work should be staged (i.e. in four parts) and in the correct order, beginning with Rheingold, mentioning the theatres of Leipzig, Mannheim and Cologne and stating that his terms are 10%, setting out more specific terms for for Riga in four clauses, the terms to extend to 30 years after his death, written and signed in a very neat and clear hand in purple ink, 3 pages, 8vo, VGQTY: (1)NOTE:Partial translation:‘… In addition to the assurance of so-called "tantièmes" or author's rights, I ask every theatre to provide a guarantee that the complete 4-part work will be performed in full - even if in successive parts - and in the sequence of the parts, that is starting with the "Rheingold". I make claim on that guarantee through a partial prepayment of the tantièmes. Leipzig, Cologne, Mannheim etc. pay me tantièmes of 10 per cent of the takings for each evening (including the subscription quota), and I claim one half of this over a considerable period as an advance payment. Accordingly I should wish to have the following points established for Riga:1. Acceptance of obligation by an immediate advance payment of 4000 Marks (as referred to above).2. Undertaking to pay tantièmes of 10 per cent (on the basis stated above).3. This agreement to continue for 30 years after my death (according to the provisions of the German Reichsgesetz).4. Advance payment to be repaid by the retention of half of each tantième payment, so that only 5 per cent of each evening's takings would be payable to the author until the advance had been paid off in full…’.A very fine letter about the staging of his most famous four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) and his insistence that all four operas were to be performed in the right order beginning with Der Ring (The Ring).Despite Wagner’s stipulations most opera houses did not perform the whole cycle and usually started with Die Walküre (The Valkyrie). The first performances at Riga, (where Wagner himself had been Kapellmeister in his younger years), were (in the correct order) on 26 October 1890, 28 March 1898 and 25 February 1902.Julius Ruthardt (1841-1909) was a German violinist and composer. He worked in a number of cities as Kapellmeister: Riga from 1871 to 1882, Leipzig from 1882, Berlin from 1884, Bremen from 1893, and Berlin again from 1898. Among his compositions, the incidental music for Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Halte-Hulda is notable.Not in the Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, translated and edited by Stewart Spencer & Barry Millington (London & Melbourne: Dent, 1987). A full transcription and translation is available on request.
Lot 414
* South American Diary. A manuscript diary of a voyage to the Amazon, kept by a sailor working in the engine room of the PSS Morana, during three years' service along the coasts and up the rivers of Brazil, Peru and Paraguay, 1862-65, written in a neat hand in reporter’s notebook format, approx. 106 leaves of which approximately 66 are completed, written from both ends with some entries in the middle, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf notebook (label of Parkins & Gotto, 25 Oxford Street) with clasp, slightly rubbed, oblong 8vo (110 x 185 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Titled ‘A Juvenile Log of 3 Years adventures in the P.S.S. Morana in the Amazon’ at head of first page, the diary was written at the time of the war between Brazil and Paraguay. It begins with the voyage from Greenhithe in Kent in September 1862. There then follows brief but lively entries describing daily engine room and maintenance duties, carnival and sport, the occasional gun battle up river, the arrival of the mail, wages sent home, deaths on board, royal salutes, local customs, etc. ‘Times of Running down to Para with the Pastaya, from Yquitos’, [20 July:] ‘Grand doings today. Launch of the Pattumayo from the Arsenal, had a huge party on board and the President of Para, got up steam, had a run as far as the fort and back, had a Brazilian band on board enjoyed ourselves first rate, got rather muzzy you had better believe it’.
Lot 416
* Titanic Relief Fund. A cheque (No. K. 18642) from The Capital & Counties Bank Ltd, for six guineas to Mrs Ada Mary West, 28 April 1917, with the Titanic Relief Fund ink stamp and three signatures and payee name in ink to verso, with blue pencil marks and Barclays Bank red ink stamp, 10.5 x 20 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Edwy Arthur West (1875-1912), a Cornishman, married Ada Mary Worth in 1905 and had two daughters. They decided to emigrate to Florida with their two daughters to start a fruit culture business. West purchased ticket number 34651, costing £27.15s and the family embarked on the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as second-class passengers.Ada West later recalled the events of the sinking: 'We were all asleep when the collision took place but were only jolted in our berths - my husband and children not even being awakened and it was only the hurrying of passengers outside the cabin that caused alarm. The steward bade us all get up and dress thoroughly with plenty of warm things. Arthur placed lifebelts upon the children and carried them to the boat deck. I followed carrying my handbag. After seeing us safely into the lifeboat Arthur returned to the cabin for a thermos of hot milk, and, finding the lifeboat let down he reached it by means of a rope, gave the flask to me, and with a farewell, returned to the deck of the ship'.Ada also recalled male interlopers in her boat who had hidden under the women's skirts; the men had to be asked to stop lighting cigarettes in fear of the women's skirts being set alight. She also stated that she did not fear for her husband's safety until after the ship had sank and she heard the cries of those in the water. A steward in the boat tried to soften the mood by shouting 'Pull up men -- they're singing in the other boats. Give them a shout!'. The boat's occupants apparently made enough of a din to drown out at least a bit of the carnage happening not far away. As day broke Ada stated that she saw no wreckage or bodies but could see many icebergs. Rescued by Carpathia, Ada and her two daughters were treated kindly. She later recalled another survivor scoff that it was wrong that Titanic's surviving officers were feted by the passengers and crew of their rescue ship, allegedly being treated to champagne in the first class dining saloon on the evening of their rescueAda West died in St Vincent's Nursing Home in Plympton, Devon on 20 April 1953 aged 74. One keepsake that remained in her possession for the remainder of her life was the flask that her husband had passed to her the last time she ever saw him.Her daughter Edwyna, a Titanic survivor in her own right, was married in 1941 to Clarence Patrick Erskine-Lindop (1920-2001) who later became Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government in the Bahamas and he was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1977. The couple are also believed to have spent time living in Manhattan. Edwyna died in Plymouth in 1969.The paper Mining World wrote 'It is impossible to write without mention of the conduct of this heroic Cornishman who unquestionably might have saved his life had he chosen to take the place that, we suppose, was subsequently occupied by one of the women saved. Of such heroes the world is not worthy. Arthur West may be one of the least known of the Titanic heroes, but none will deny him the distinction of being one of the noblest'.There is a memorial to Arthur West, a former chorister, in Truro Cathedral placed there by his wife and children who had returned to live in Cornwall following the tragedy. See Encyclopedia Titanica (2020).
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