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Lot 1271
JACK THE RIPPER INTEREST 1892 memorial card for The Deeming Family brutally murdered at Dinham Villa Rainhill March 16 1892.Frederick Bailey Deeming was hanged for the murder of his Rainhill St Helens born wife in Melbourne in 1892. After his arrest his previous address of Dinham Villa Rainhill was searched and under the fireplace, the bodies of his first wife and four children were found. Before the bodies were found he celebrated his next marriage in the same room. In prison in Australia he admitted to the multiple murders and also admitted to the murders of the last two Jack The Ripper victims. He remains one of The Ripper suspects and has featured in various TV programmes. Dinham Villa was demolished soon after the hanging.Provenance: This item literally fell out of an old Family Bible from a family in the Rainhill area brought into our auction last week
Lot 270
SCOTTISH REGENCY SOFA TABLE, PROBABLY EDINBURGH FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY the rounded rectangular crossbanded top with drop ends above a pair of line inlaid frieze drawers, with dummy drawers opposing, raised on four square supports and platform raised on outswept legs ending in brass paw feet with castors (Dimensions: 93cm wide (down), 152cm wide (up), 72cm high, 65cm deep)(93cm wide (down), 152cm wide (up), 72cm high, 65cm deep)
Lot 333
Two pairs of binoculars comprising a pair of German C.P. Goerz 12x binoculars with leather case and a pair of French Lemaire First World War field binoculars with leather case.Condition: dirt and some fungus build up on lenses of German binoculars with some outer surface wear, all moving parts functioning well on both, both cases in good order, outer surface wear only, no damage, length of binoculars extended - 17cm & 13.5cm.
Lot 251A
A vintage 1965 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner 5513 stainless steel watch, with signed gloss black gilt 'meters first' dial with open chapter ring, luminous dot and baton hour markers, luminous pointed baton minute and Mercedes hour hands, center seconds hand, and rotating bezel with Arabic numeral fifteen minute track, 7mm screw down signed crown with rounded crown guards, screw down case back signed and referenced to inside and dated l.65, having 26 jewel caliber 1530 automatic movement, fitted with signed stainless steel link bracelet dated 1.71, referenced 7836, marked 280 & 258 at the 20mm lugs and with fold over clasp, case diameter 39mm, no box or papers. Similar models sold at auction include lot 257 - 16/03/2019 and lot 263 - 17/09/2016 by Watches of Knightsbridge, with specific reference to similar dial models with gloss gilt dials and their conditions. Condition: currently in working order although not sold with any guarantees, natural patina, loss to gloss finish and in typical oxidised 'tropical' condition for age with wear from radium lume to dial including bronzing to outer chapter ring around 12-3 o'clock and some minor crazing present visible with 10x loupe, some discolouration and minor cracking to lume plots and lumed hands, outer wear to bezel with fading, surface scratches and clicker worn out, 7mm crown operates well, surface wear to case including minor surface scratches throughout, bracelet as per description is a later addition and dated for first quarter of 1971, has some play in the links and is showing signs of use over the years although clasp functions well.
Lot 422
POSSIBLY THE CIRCLE OF GERMAIN PILON (1535-1590) AND/OR BARTHÉLEMY PRIEUR (BERZIEUX 1540-1611, traditionally depicted, previously mounted (Dimensions: 17.5cm high)(17.5cm high)Footnote: Note: Pilon is famed for his allegorical figures in marble and bronze: first for the Tomb of King Francis I in the Abbey of St Denis, Paris; then, in 1559, the Monument for the heart of King Henri II, with a group of the Three Graces, the epitome of French Mannerist figure-sculpture; and, finally, the Tomb of King Henri II, again in St. Denis. Prieur was a French follower as court sculptor of Pilon, working in stone and marble: he specialised in casting bronze statuettes in commercial series. Characteristic of Prieur’s many statuettes of young women – usually secular, nearly nude, classical nymphs – is the profile of the face such as is used here for the Virgin Mary: a high forehead, sloping back in an almost Grecian continuous line from a small nose, with a receding hairline, while small pursed lips appear above a daintily receding chin. Close too is the coiffure, where a plait of hair is wound round the crown of the head in a neat circle. This group is not dissimilar from a figure of the Virgin alone (sometimes paired with a St John the Evangelist from under a Crucifix), of which three examples are known, and one of which was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, after a sale at Sotheby’s in 1996. Similarities between that figure and the present statuette in style, dress (especially the drapery on their backs) and physiognomy support a tentative attribution to the circle of practitioners around the two sculptors, though its treatment is not as refined as theirs normally is.
Lot 417
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN OR FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUNG SATYR PLAYING THE FLUTE FIRST HALF dark brown patina, marked with the French crowned C control mark (Dimensions: 26cm high)(26cm high)Footnote: Note: the subject of this bronze is the 1st-2nd century Roman figure which is itself a copy of the 4th century BC Greek original. The marble statue was in the Villa Borghese in Rome and now is in the collection of the Louvre. The crowned C was a French tax mark struck on bronzes over a certain weight between February 1745 and February 1749. The 'C' stands for cuivre (copper), the principal component in the bronze alloy.
Lot 215
PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN OAK FRAMED AND LEATHER UPHOLSTERED LIBRARY ARMCHAIRS CIRCA 1842 each with high padded back and seat in red leather flanked by part padded arms ending in scrolled hand holds, raised on lappet carved legs with brass caps and castors, one chair fitted with a brass and oak adjustable bookrest and bearing a white metal plaque inscribed 'HMS Brittania/the wooden home of/Will. F. Blair/for 7 years/1842', the other chair lacking bookrest, bearing similar plaque engraved 'The Royal George/Sunk at Spithead Aug 19th 1782/1100 souls perished/Recovered 1840' (Dimensions: 69cm wide, 112cm high, 72cm deep) (Qty: 2)(69cm wide, 112cm high, 72cm deep)Footnote: Provenance: The Blair Sale, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 14th-15th March 2012, lot 68 Note: HMS Britannia was a 120-gun first-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1813 and launched on 20 October 1820. Commissioned in 1823, she saw service in the Mediterranean from 1830 to 1841. She was decommissioned in 1843, before returning to service for the Crimean War, from 1851-4. She returned to England at the beginning of 1855 and that year became a hospital ship at Portsmouth, then a cadet training ship in 1859. She was moved to Portland in 1862, then Dartmouth in 1863. She was finally sold for scrapping in 1869. These timbers were presumably removed when she was first decomissioned in 1842-3. HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 18 February 1756. The largest warship in the world at the time of launching, she saw service during the Seven Years' War, as Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's flagship at the Battle of Quiberon Bay and later taking part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent. She sank whilst undergoing routine maintenance work, anchored off Portsmouth on 29 August 1782 with the loss of more than 1,000 lives - one of the most serious maritime losses to occur in British waters. In 1840 the broken wreckage was destroyed by the Royal Engineers in a huge controlled explosion that shattered windows as far away as Portsmouth and Gosport. Several of the salvaged bronze cannons were melted down to form the base of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Timber from the ship was also used to make the billiard table for the North Wing of Burghley House, Lincolnshire.
Lot 624
EAST INDIA COMPANY CAST BRONZE BELL DATED 1747 bearing the company insignia VOC and the date 1747, JAFFANAPATNAM, suspended in a wrought iron frame mounted to a large stone mill wheel (Dimensions: Bell diameter 14in.)(Bell diameter 14in.)Footnote: Note: The Dutch East India Company, Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie , was founded in1602 and was sponsored by the Dutch government in an effort to stabilize profits and form a monopoly in the Dutch spice trade. It was the world’s first formally listed public company, and was given the power to build forts, keep armies and make treaties. The first permanent trading post was in Batavia, Indonesia; but eventually they were establishing colonies and trade throughout Asia, expanding their reach to Ceylon, modern day Sri Lanka, in 1640. Jaffanapatnam is today’s Jaffna on the Sri Lanka’s north-west coast, a city that had been established by the Portuguese as their colonial administrative center, that was won by the Dutch East India Company in 1658 after a three-month-siege. This bell, cast with the name of the city and the date 1747, probably hung in one of the trade warehouses or company buildings and would have been used to announce ship arrivals and departures, or for administrative proclamations.
Lot 625
CARVED SANDSTONE CAPSTONE OF JACOBITE INTEREST LATE 17TH CENTURY of triangular shape, with crossed sword and pike, and initials I E K, dated 1698 below, surmounted by a coronet (Dimensions: 45cm high x 39cm at widest point)(45cm high x 39cm at widest point)Footnote: Note: The initials on this stone most likely refer to John Keith (d. 1714), Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall and first Earl of Kintore, maternal grandson of the Earl of Mar and the son of the 6th Earl of Marischal. The Earldom of Kintore and Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall was created in 1677. The 10th and last Earl Marischal was also John Keith (c. 1693-1778), a staunch Jacobite, who managed to escape to the Continent after actively participating in the rising of 1715. He served the Jacobite court at Avignon with ambassadorships to Spain and then Prussia, dying in Potsdam in 1778. Although the original location of this stone is untraced, it presumably graced a lintel or doorway above one of many properties owned by the 1st Earl of Kintore. It is tempting to consider it may have been removed after the '15 in defiance of his participation from one of his forfeited estates.
Lot 5
PAIR OF UNRECORDED ITALIAN MAIOLICA ALBARELLOS, FROM A SET OF PHARMACY JARS BY ANDREA DI MARCO DI the cylindrical bodies with swelling at the shoulders and bases, and decorated with bands of yellow armorial trophies on dark blue grounds, enclosing central oval reserves depicting the emblem Ds ME (for Domus Misericordiae House of Pity) surmounted by crosses flanked by trophies, with inscribed labels, the first EL. D.’ GENZNA, the second UNG. D’. B’SILICO, with incised symbols to the base, the first L2 d2 (for ‘libbre’ (pounds) and ‘once’ (ounces), possibly equating to 792.5gm its modern weight when empty), the second L2 d6 (possibly equating to 937.3gm, also its modern weight when empty) (Dimensions: 20.8cm high, 13.6cm wide; 21.5cm high, 13.4cm wide) (Qty: 2)(20.8cm high, 13.6cm wide; 21.5cm high, 13.4cm wide)Footnote: Provenance: Property from Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian Note: The emblem depicted on the albarellos is still to be found on the buildings which were formally the Hospital of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Perugia. The surviving hospital account books note in 1565 payment for a set of pharmacy vases from the Perugian potter Andrea di Marco di Iacopo delle Scine. These albarellos belong to this commissioned set. Eight others are recorded. Four spouted jars - one in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, dated 1565, one in the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Perugia, two in private collections, one in Ostra, one in Assisi (Giulio Busti and Franco Cocchi in La Via Della Ceramica Tra Umbria e Marche: Maioliche Rinascimentali da Collezioni Private, 2010, ed. Ettore A. Sannipoli, cat1.23, p104.). Four albarellos similar to these exist, two in the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum Milan, and two, both dated 1565, formerly in the Della Gherardesca Collection (Finarte, Milan, 21-22 Nov, 1963, lot 65). The labels: EL.D.’ GENZNA and UNG.D’.B’SILICO probably refer to an elixir of gentian, and an ointment made from basil, respectively. For reference to the weight of the albarellos please see Timothy Wilson, Maiolica - Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, cat30, p116-7. We are grateful to Celia Curnow for writing these entries and to Dr Elisa Sani for confirming her attributions.
Lot 434
SIX DUTCH HAND-COLOURED BOTANICAL ENGRAVINGS, BY RHEEDE TOT KRAAKESTEIN CIRCA 1685, AMSTERDAM from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus , framed (Dimensions: 35cm x 45cm (sight size)) (Qty: 6)(35cm x 45cm (sight size))Footnote: Note: The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive work of the flora of the East Indies containing illustrations of a great number of tropical and sub-tropical plants and fruits classified in Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic and Malayam. It is still considered a major reference of work for botanists and herbalists studying the flora of South Asia.
Lot 536
A mixed lot of ephemera to include first day cover stamps, Jersey, Isle of Man, Spring flowers, Liverpool Football Club 1892-1972 and others, some maritime-related ephemera to include various postcards, some relating to the Bermuda Line, various menus, a quantity of loose stamps, a stamp album containing world stamps, a quantity of various world coinage and a quantity of signed photographs.
Lot 484
A large quantity of 'The Observer's Book', mostly relating to aircraft by William Green, covering aircraft throughout the years, also flowers, birds, flags, pond life, railway, sea and seashore, insects, geology and wild animals (approx 50), also fifteen small books titled 'Warplanes of the First World War and Second World War', all relating to fighter planes, float planes, flying boats and bombers.
Lot 192
An Imperial German Naval Sea Pilot's badge- first instituted in 1913 bronze gilt, the obverse with a central eagle in mid-flight, underneath a radiant sun, on top of a seascape, within an oval oak and laurel leaf wreath, tied at the bottom with a bow and topped by a German State Crown, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, weighs 30.3grams, 4.5cm wide and 7cm high
Lot 26
A Deans white mohair mother Polar bear sitting on her hind legs, having orange glass eyes, stitched mouth and cloth nose, holding her Polar bear cub, with Deans Rag Book label to the bottom of mother bear and label to neck of cub. Mother 42cm high, Cub 18cm high. Produced to commemorate the birth of the first polar bear at London Zoo in 1949.
Lot 234
Box of military insignia and badges, various, pair of military nickel spurs, a photographic portrait of a First World War army officer, a small metal stereoscopic viewer with photographic slides and a set of Kodak topographical postcards, mainly appearing to be Calcutta, with others.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)
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