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The Charity Shield In recognition of the 50th anniversary of 1966, a milestone in English Football when England won the FIFA World Cup, Thomas Lyte have re-built the retired Charity Shield. www.thomaslyte.com/the-charity-shield. The fourth edition of the Charity Shield, a unique object in its own right, has been handcrafted by an expert team of silversmiths to raise money for the Bobby Moore Fund, Cancer Research UK. www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/become-a-partner/our-charity-partners/bobby-moore-fund The Charity Shield will be sold at a live auction to be conducted by Graham Budd of Graham Budd Auctions, the specialist auctioneer of sports memorabilia. The sale is taking place at the Royal Garden Hotel, High Street Kensington, London, on the evening of Monday 10th October at 9.30pm. You can bid for this piece of football history by live online bidding through www.the-saleroom.com/grahambudd. There are no auctioneer's fees, live internet bidding fees or VAT to pay. What you bid is what you pay. The new trophy is hand spun from 4.2kg Sterling 925 Silver. Standing an impressive 58cm squared, the trophy underwent the painstaking process of casting, hand chasing, hand engraving and polishing, with over 130 craft hours used to make this stunning piece. It is a perfect replica of the 1908 trophy which remains in The FA’s possession at Wembley. This incredible piece of craftsmanship is not only an iconic symbol of sportsmanship and the game of football, but the purpose of creation lies in fundraising for the Bobby Moore Fund. The fourth edition of the Charity Shield will be sold with all of the money raised going to the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK, in doing so, replicating the original inspiration of the Charity Shield in 1908, which sought to give something back. Over the past few months the Shield has been on a journey across the UK, appearing at some of sports most inconic events, such as The Community Shield Final. On the final leg of its journey, it is being housed at the National Football Museum in Manchester for all sports fans to enjoy until the day of the auction on 10th October. Founded in 1908 as a successor to the Sheriff of London Charity Shield, the F.A. Charity Shield began as contest between the respective champions of the Football League and the Southern League. The first encounter was between Manchester United and Queen’s Park Rangers. The format changed and eventually became a match between the reigning League Champions and F.A. Cup winners, although not exclusively if for example a team had won ‘the double. In February 2002, the competition and trophy was renamed the FA Community Shield. The then-FA marketing director Paul Barber noted this was in order to reward the work of those contributing to the game, who go unnoticed: "The most important thing is that the many good causes that have benefited from the shield in the past will continue to benefit from the Community Shield in the future." The FA also intended to prevent any interference made by the Charity Commission into where money raised by the game should go. Because the central silver roundel of the Shield was inscribed with the name of the competition “Football Association Charity Shield”, a new trophy had to be commissioned for the Community Shield and the existing trophy had to be retired. The retired trophy actually had a brief life as it had only been built and used for the Charity Shields of 1999, 2000 and 2001, and had been a replacement for the earlier edition which was retired because the silver was in a perilous state through repeated cleaning by proud recipients over the decades. This version remains the property of the Football Association. The winners of the replacement edition were Arsenal in 1999, then in 2000 by Chelsea in the last Charity Shield played at the old Wembley Stadium. In 2001, and at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Liverpool were the last team to lift the “Charity Shield”, with Arsenal the first winners of the “Community Shield in 2002”. The central roundel from the Shield retired in February 2002 was removed and generously donated by the Football Association for the rebuild by Thomas Lyte and is the centerpiece of this magnificent object being offered here for auction to benefit the Bobby Moore Fund, Cancer Research UK. Greg Dyke, chairman of The FA said: “The FA was pleased to donate the centrepiece of the 2002 FA Charity Shield to Thomas Lyte to support the Bobby Moore Fund. Bobby was a Charity Shield shared-winner with West Ham in 1964 and it is an entirely fitting tribute to him that the Thomas Lyte trophy is to be auctioned to raise money for the charity set up in his name. The auction will be an important event in the calendar of activities taking place this year, to recognise the achievements of Bobby Moore and the 1966 team in winning the World Cup 50 years ago.”
Lot 652
Player “Riders of the World” a series of 50, 1905, catalogue value £80Nearly VGC (brown and white back); Wills “Historic Events”a series of 50, 1912, 60, GC to VGC; Player “Napoleon” a series of 25,1915, catalogue value £50, about VGC; Player “Polar Exploration” 1st series of 25, 1911, 65, VGC; Ditto 2nd series 1916, 55 VGC; Wills “First Aid” a series of 50, 1913, catalogue value £75 about GC; Mitchell “Famous Crosses”, a series of 25, 1923, catalogue value £17.50, GC; Lambert & Butler “Pirates and Highwaymen” a series of 25, 1926, catalogue value £35. VGC (8)
Lot 153
A hallmarked silver rimmed horn beaker bearing a presentation inscription to Captain William Morris of the 17th Lancers who commanded his regiment during the Charge of the Light Brigade. The horn beaker, 5½” high, topped by a hallmarked silver grooved turned over lip (HMs worn); glass bottom; the beaker front bearing a shield shaped plaque engraved “Presented to Capt. W. Morris 25th April 1851. Death or Glory”. Good Condition Plate 3 Note: Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) William Morris exchanged from 16th to 17th Light Dragoons February 1847; joining the regiment in Dublin. He attended the Senior Department of the Royal Military College passing out in 1851, and purchasing his promotion to Captain 25th April 1851 (so commemorated on the beaker). At Balaklava the 17th Lancers under Captain Morris occupied the front centre of the Light Brigade. As they began the advance, Captain Nolan, an old friend of Morris, is reputed to have said ‘Now Morris, for a bit of fun” before spurring his horse forward towards Cardigan. Morris called to Nolan “That won’t do Nolan, we have a long way to go and must be steady”, Nolan was then killed by a bursting Russian shell. It will always be a subject of debate as to whether Nolan, realising the Light Brigade was advancing into the jaws of death, was trying to warn Cardigan of Russian artillery hidden by terrain. Morris apparently believing they advanced as intended. As the artillery fire increased the Light Brigade gathered momentum with Cardigan calling out to Morris to keep steady to prevent his being overtaken by the 17th Lancers. Morris had the good fortune to reach the Russian guns unscathed and charged past to Russian cavalry beyond, attacking an officer with his sword which he was unable to disengage. With Morris now at the mercy of the Russians he received two sword blows to his head. After surrendering his sword Morris was able to make his escape using stray horses, which were killed under him, then trying to continue on foot. Seeing the severely wounded officer on the ground Sergeant Charles Wooden (17th Lancers) and Surgeon James Mouat (6th Dragoon Guards) went to his assistance. Wooden and Mouat each being awarded the Victoria Cross for their action with Mouat being the first medical recipient of the new decoration. Shown on General Bucknall Estcourt’s Return as severely wounded, Morris was also mentioned in Lord Lucan’s dispatch
Lot 189
An interesting presentation Belgian made .70” Russian 2nd type M1843 carbine for rifle regiments, being a direct copy of the British Brunswick rifle and known as the “Luttich Carbine”, 46” overall, twist barrel 30” with deep 2 groove rifling, bayonet bar at muzzle and tangent rearsight, the nipple bolster stamped with number “465”, the line engraved back action lock stamped “P. J. Malherbe, Liege”, walnut stock having regulation pattern brass mounts, including oval escutcheon engraved with cypher of Nicholas I, butt plate tang engraved with the Imperial eagle and “No 465” and patch box cover engraved “Tchernaya, August 15th 1855, given by Colonel, Lord G Paget to H W Des Voeux”, with sling swivels and original steel ramrod with large brass cupped end. Good Working Order and Condition dark patina to lock and barrel (small section of fore end has old worm at the muzzle). Plate 22 Note: Colonel Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget, was the sixth son of Henry William Paget, first Marquis of Anglesey. He left England for the Crimea in June 1854 in command of the 4th Light Dragoons. He fought at Alma and Balaklava where led his regiment in the Charge. He was the next senior officer of the Light Cavalry Brigade to Lord Cardigan.
Lot 166
“A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade” at Balaklava, with other Incidents of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, by William Butler, Late of the 17th Lancers, One of the Survivors who was present at the Principle Engagements of those Memorable Campaigns...” a privately published 8 page account by Butler published Preston 1890. In this first hand account he describes the harsh life in the Crimea: of the Alma “...I never saw such carnage. Men and horses could scarcely get along for the dead bodies..”; of Balaklava “Walk, trot, gallop was sounded by Lord Cardigan’s trumpeter, Wm Britton, who on that day was killed..”, “Shot and shell was coming in all directions. What few reached the guns - and I amongst them - cut away like mad men...some sound being heard, which I took for rally...got together what few we could, but going back was worse than coming....” (Butler was attacked by 2 Cossacks which he despatched before losing conciousness); of the harsh winter Butler talks of men and horses starving “the horses were actually eating each other...”. The booklet cover shows Butler in later years proudly wearing his medals. The condition is commensurate with age, the paper cover sheet partly split along the spine. Plate 14
Lot 480
Four: Military Medal Geo V first type (50527 Bmbr A Swinnerton R.G.A), 1914-15 star (Gnr), BWM, Victory (Cpl), NVF-VF, MID emblem to Victory, with photocopies of medal index card and pages of London Gazette. Note: Mentioned in Field Marshal Haig’s despatch 17.11.1917; Military Medal confirmed 4.2.1918
Lot 531
A small archive of material of late WWI RAF interest, relating to Flight Cadet Sidney Venables, from August to November 1918, comprising approx 50 sepia photographs of individual cadets and groups, aircraft crashes, individual aircraft including Avro 504, RE8, DH4 and DH9, Sopwith Pup, BE2, Handley Page Bomber, Armstrong Whitworth and Bristol Monoplane, 2 large aerial views of Old Sarum airfield, etc, all glued into a later album, many identified; also “Air Board Technical Notes” on “Rigging” and another similar on “Engines”; “Pilot’s Flying Log Book” (Army Book 425), with entries from August to November 1918 (first solo flight 14/11/18); a Civil Aviation Log Book with training flights from July 1st 1919 to first solo flight on August 30th; and a “Royal Air Force Transfer Card”, listing postings from April to November 1918 and various courses completed (Ground Tests, Navigator and Gunnery). Average GC An interesting lot
Lot 164
“Cavalry; Its History and Tactics” by Captain L.E. Nolan, 15th Hussars, third edition, published Bosworth and Harrison 1860. Rebound in cloth with embossed leather spine causing pinching to first colour plate and splitting between pp 338 and 339. Generally Good Condition (one or two pencil notes in margins) Note: Captain Lewis Edward Nolan was famously killed by the first shot at the Charge of the Light Brigade joining them after carrying orders to Lord Lucan from Lord Raglan.
Lot 478
D.C.M. George V issue (7906 Pte M Sullivan RAMC) VF Note: DCM London Gazette 16.2.1915 recipient with the 21st Field Ambulance and awarded for “gallant conduct in the performance of his duties whilst exposed to heavy shell fire”. Sullivan first entered the war 7.10.1914 and later transferred to RE as Sapper 285422
Lot 642
Lambert & Butler “How Motor Cars Work” a series of 25, 1931, catalogue value £55; Lambert & Butler “Motor Cars” (grey back), a series of 25, 1934, catalogue value £90 VGC; Wills “Safety First” a series of 50 1934, catalogue value £60 (some backs stained); Player “Motor Cars”, a series of 50 1936,catalogue value £70, GC (some backs stained), Ditto 2nd series 1937, catalogue value £50. GC and better. (5)
Lot 131
A late 19th century 4.5mm (.177”) Giffard Patent compressed CO2 rifle, number 5873, 41½” overall, the round barrel 25” stamped in small letters “Manufacture Francaise D’Armes Et Cycles De St Etienne” and with adjustable tangent rearsight; steel frame engraved with leaves and tendrils, and with maker’s logo in front of the loading tap; with 11½” CO2 cylinder beneath the barrel, numbered 20225 and with various stamps including the maker’s logo; walnut butt having chequered wrist and hard black rubber butt plate embossed with a hot air balloon and “Paul Giff(ard I)nventeur”. Good Working Order and Condition (slightly worn overall and light pitting, mainly to the barrel, the butt plate chipped). Plate 33 Note: The balloon on the butt plate is a reference to the fact that Paul Giffard’s brother Henri made the first powered flight in a dirigible in 1852.
Lot 479
Four: Military Medal Geo V first type (84506 Dvr F Hemmings 41/By RFA), 1914-15 star, BWM, Victory. VF-GVF with photocopies of recipient’s service records. Note: Frederick Hemmings 41st Btty 42nd Bde, 3rd Div. Arrived France 21.6.1915, MM London Gazette 6.8.1918, Bde in the area of Arras at this time.
Lot 72
A Victorian 1887 Heavy Cavalry officer’s undress sword, mounted with late Victorian RA officer’s blade 34½” by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall (No 30354), etched with crown, Royal Arms, traces of Royal Artillery and thunderbolt, foliage, blank panel with hand engraved initials “BV 1891”, pierced scroll guard, steel mounts, silver wire bound fishskin covered grip, in its steel scabbard. Good Condition (blade some areas of heavy pitting and ground for action) Plate 21 Note: The sword of Berkeley Vincent, 2nd Lieut RA 1891, Captain 1900, Transfers as Major 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (when the blade must have been rehilted) 1908, Lt Col 1917, Colonel Commandant 1922, retired rank Brigadier General 1924. Vincent served in Gibraltar 1891-93, India 1896-1901, China War 1900-1 (medal), South Africa 1901-2 (QSA 5 clasps), Russo Japanese War 1904-5, attached Japanese First Army in Manchuria 1914-18, served on General Staff in France, wounded, 5 times MID, CB 1919, CMG 1916, served Kurdistan 1923, MID medal, 1922-24 Colonel Commandant Military Forces, Iraq, Knighted 1924. Died 1963
Lot 301
T* RENTON (19TH CENTURY) Portrait of James Kemp of Hoxton Academy Chapel (1745-1819) and his wife Mary Kemp (d.1837), a pair, one signed and dated 1807, oils on canvas, 77cm x 65cm (2) James Kemp, founder of Hoxton Academy Chapel, one of the first Sunday schools in London, opening in 1814 to teach the lowest classes to read on the Sabbath and encourage a religious understanding. Prior to this he had run the Sunday school in his own home for 25 years. Each picture with inscribed labels verso with further details
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Lot 213
THE BEATLES 'HELP!' (LP, ALBUM, MONO) PARLOPHONE PMC 1255, VINYL CONDITION MINT-, SLEEVE CONDITION VERY GOOD+, MATRIX NUMBERS XEX 549-2 / XEX 550-2, YELLOW/BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL G&L FLIPBACK SLEEVE, MONO - FIRST PRESSING WITH "THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD" & " SOLD IN U.K." LABEL TEXT, OUTLINE MONO ON FRONT COVER
Lot 214
THE BEATLES 'REVOLVER' (LP ALBUM MONO) PARLOPHONE PMC 7009, VINYL CONDITION IS MINT-, SLEEVE CONDITION VERY GOOD+, MATRIX NUMBERS XEX 605 - 2/XEX 606 - 2 RDO, YELLOW/BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL G&L FLIPBACK SLEEVE, MONO - FIRST PRESSING WITH "THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD" & "SOLD IN U.K." LABEL TEXT, MONO ON FRONT COVER. ALSO THE BEATLES 'REVOLVER' (LP ALBUM STERO) EMI PARLOPHONE PCS 7009, VINYL CONDITION NEAR MINT, SLEEVE CONDITION VERY GOOD, MATRIX NUMBERS YEX 605 - 6 - 1 - 1/YEX 606 - 7 - 1 - AND THE BEATLES 'SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND' (LP, ALBUM, STEREO) PARLOPHONE PCS 7027 STEREO, VINYL CONDITION VERY GOOD+, SLEEVE CONDITION VERY GOOD+, MATRIX NUMBERS YEX 637 - 1/ YEX 638 - 1, YELLOW/BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL G&L GATEFOLD SLEEVE [3]
Lot 2610
Original vintage travel advertising poster in French: BOAC Jets to the Orient. (The British Overseas Airways Corporation / BOAC was the British state airline created in 1940-1946 as the result of a merger, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971-1974 to create British Airways / BA.) Fun image of a couple under the shade of an umbrella with pictures of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, Thai palace, plane and rice paddy fields in the background. Good condition, light creases, small repaired tears. 1960s, design by , UK, size 76x50.5cm
Lot 3606
Original vintage poster for The Hurlingham Club, GB vs France, the first London hard court championships, sponsored by Slazenger. The Hurlingham Club is one of the established London private members' clubs. Rare piece of tennis history. Fair condition, folds, soiling, writing on poster as draft for the second championship. 1960, design by Unsigned, UK, size 76x50.5cm
Lot 5803
Original vintage re-release movie poster for the classic film, Star Wars: The Original is Back, starring Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Frank Oz as Yoda, David Prowse/James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Kenny Baker as R2-D2. Music by John Williams. Produced by Gary Kurtz. Written and directed by George Lucas. Originally released in 1978, this movie was the first episode of the original Star Wars trilogy. "The Original is Back" headlines this re-release poster with a "Revenge of the Jedi" snipe banner ("Extra: see the coming attractions of the next chapter in the Star Wars saga - Revenge of the Jedi"). One sheet R820106. Good condition, folded as issued. 1982, design by Tom Jung, USA, size 104x68.5cm
Lot 5400
Ikarus Gunther Pluschow Original vintage documentary film poster for a German movie, Ikarus: Gunther Pluschows Fliegerschicksal. Image of a pilot in a helmet with goggles and a bi-plane flying over snowy mountains. A poster for the re-release of a 1932 film about Gunther Pluschow, a German aviator, aerial explorer and author from Munich, Bavaria. His feats include the only escape by a German prisoner of war from Britain back to Germany; he was the first man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air. Art by Byer, Dresden, Plakatdruck F Potter, Berlin. Horizontal. Nazi censorship stamp on bottom right. Very good condition, fold. Original Vintage Posters Cinema Posters Germany , 1941 , 42x30cm
Lot 1305
Original vintage advertising poster for the World Youth Christian Congress, Brussels 1935. Rare poster for the the first International Congress of the Young Christian Workers (YCW) or Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne (JOC). Art Deco design of ships around the globe. Good condition, folds, repaired tears. Belgium, design by Gillelmet (?), 1935, size 27.3x19.5cm
Lot 2603
Original vintage advertising poster promoting BOAC flights to South Africa, East Africa and Mauritius. Presentation in Dublin, Ireland, at the Shelbourne Hotel on 5 November 1968. Tickets available free from travel agents or BOAC. Stylish image on an orange background of a giraffe in front of a blazing sun. (The British Overseas Airways Corporation / BOAC was the British state airline created in 1940-1946 as the result of a merger, introducing the world's first passenger jets to its service in 1952 and merging again in 1971-1974 to create British Airways / BA.) Good condition, minor fold lines and repaired tears. Width: 50.5cm, Height: 76cm
Lot 103
BALLET: A large collection of unsigned printed 8vo, 4to and some folio programmes for various ballet performances, 1940s-1980s, mainly London venues including Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sadlers Wells, Wimbledon Theatre, Davis Theatre, Croydon, Stoll Theatre, Kingsway, The Streathan Hill Theatre, Golders Green Hippodrome, Open Air Theatre, Finsbury Park, Theatre Royal, Windsor, Coliseum Theatre, Harrow, Chiswick Empire, and some provincial venues including Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, Bristol Hippodrome, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Birmingham Hippodrome, Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, Theatre Royal, Bath, New Theatre, Hull etc., a few foreign including Metropolitan Opera House, New York etc., companies and dancers include The Royal Ballet, Ballet Rambert, The Royal Danish Ballet, Jerome Robbins, Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit, The Sadler's Wells Ballet, Paco Pena's Flamenco Company, NY Norsk Ballet, Ballet Espanol of Pilar Lopez, The New York City Ballet, Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas, Les Ballets des Champs Elysees, Walter Gore Ballet, Martha Graham and Dance Company, The Japanese Ballet of Miho Hanayagui, The Spanish Ballet of Teresa and Luisillo, Ram Gopal with his Indian Dancers and Musicians, Moscow State Dance Company, The Bolshoi Ballet, Classical Theatre of China, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet, The Yugoslav National Dancers, Ballet Legat etc., and ballets performed include The Firebird, Romeo and Juliet, Anastasia, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seven Deadly Sins, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Giselle, La Bayadere and many others. Also including some Gala Performance programmes for His Imperial Majesty The Shahanshah of Iran, Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip (1959), The King of Belgium etc., various Covent Garden Books (numbers 3, 5, 6, 9, 12 & 13), The Diaghilev Exhibition catalogue edited by Richard Buckle for the Edinburgh Festival 1954 (2), The Royal Opera House Covent Garden 1858-1958, Sadler's Wells Ballet first Coast-to-Coast Tour 1950-51, Margot Fonteyn in Australia, 1957 etc. Some overall age wear, G to VG, 418
Lot 105
LANDSEER EDWIN: (1802-1873) English Painter. Small series of four A.Ls.S., E Landseer, nine pages (total), small 8vo, St. John's Wood Road, London, 7th March 1865 - 21st June 1869, to General Cecil Forester (1) and his wife, Mary Anne Jervis. Landseer writes to his correspondents regarding various invitations, some of which he accepts and others he declines, in one letter stating 'For the last 10 days I have been a martyr to my first attack of a pitiful gout and have waited till the last minute in hopes of being able to take advantage of your generous invitation….my Doctor who has just left me recommends my keeping my chamber. I beg you to pity me and believe in my very sincere regret and my mortification as I consider your annual dinner as the event of the season' (21st June 1869). Three of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by Landseer and signed by him with his monogram to the lower left corners. Some slight traces of former mounting, G, 4 George Cecil Weld-Forester (1807-1886) 3rd Baron Forester. British General and Politician, Comptroller of the Household 1852, 1858-59. In 1862 he married Mary Anne Jervis (c.1813-1893) Daughter of Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St. Vincent, an associate of the Duke of Wellington. Her first husband was David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-1851) Anglo-Indian Politician, the first person of Asian descent to be elected to the British Parliament.
Lot 107
PISSARRO CAMILLE: (1830-1903) French Impressionist Painter. Incomplete A.L., unsigned, being the first page of a longer letter, 8vo, London, 22nd May 1897, to his wife Julie Vellay ('Ma Chere femme'), in French. Pissarro announces that their son is recovering from his illness, 'Lucien continues to get better and better, he gets up every day and gains strength by the day. The doctor has just arrived.' The artist continues to refer to the Bensusan family who have received bad news of Sam, who had been in Palestine, 'He caught typhoid fever coming back on the boat. He is alone in Marseille. His illness is not very serious; it is benign' and also adds that Esther, who speaks French, is intending to go and find him. With a neat tear to the left edge of the fold, not affecting the text, otherwise VG Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) French Landscape Painter, son of Camille Pissarro. Lucien had settled permanently in London in 1890 and in 1892 married Esther Levi Bensusan (1871-1951) who is mentioned in the present letter. Samuel Levy Bensusan (1872-1958) British Journalist and Author, brother of Esther Levi Bensusan.
Lot 118
WARHOL ANDY: (1928-1987) American Pop Artist. An excellent book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back Again), First Edition published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975. Signed and inscribed by the artist to the half title page, with an original illustration in his hand, being a drawing of his famous Campbell's Tomato Soup can, filling the majority of the page. Signed ('Andy Warhol') at the foot of the drawing and dated May 1975 in his hand. The page is also signed ('AW') by Warhol with his initials, in a different, darker ink, and most probably signed at a different time to the drawing. Accompanied by the dust jacket (some very minor, small faults to the edges). A desirable example of an original drawing of one of Warhol's most iconic images. VG
Lot 119
HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. A good original black pen and ink sketch of a shark, drawn and signed by Hirst to the verso of a First Class boarding pass for a Singapore Airlines flight SQ 317 from London to Singapore, 13th December 2014. Hirst has added an inscription in his hand above the sketch, along with a drawing of a heart in his hand, and signed his name beneath the sketch. Together with a small selection of other Business and First Class boarding passes for various flights with Singapore Airlines, individually signed by footballer David Beckham, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and magician Dynamo (also adding an inscription in his hand). Generally VG, 4Hirst is famous for his series of artworks featuring dead animals preserved in formaldehyde, the best known of these being The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living which features a tiger shark.
Lot 120
ARTISTS: Selection of signed cards, some with additional ink sketches or notes, by various artists, illustrators and cartoonists etc., including John Ryan (3), Charles Fuge, Alberto Uderzo, Babette Cole, Raymond Briggs (signed First Day Cover), Ralph Steadman, Nick Park, Roberto Matta (signed with a monogram incorporating a self portrait [?] to the verso of an invitation card to an exhibition of his works in Paris, 1992) etc. A little duplication. Some of the cards have neat calligraphic annotations to the head and foot in the hand of a collector. Generally VG to EX, 18
Lot 13
WOODS TIGER: (1975- ) American Golfer, Open Championship winner 2000, 2005 & 2006. A yellow souvenir limited edition pin flag from the 18th hole boldly signed in black ink by Woods with his name alone. Double matted in green alongside two colour photographs of Woods, commemorating the golfer's victory at the 2006 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Framed and glazed in a brown wooden frame to an overall size of 32 x 30. A small Upper Deck authentication sticker appears directly below Woods's signature and is numbered 62/500. Supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity EX The 2006 Open Championship was the 135th Open Championship. Tiger Woods held off Chris DiMarco, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, and Sergio García for a two-shot victory. The win was his second consecutive Open Championship title and third overall. Royal Liverpool Golf Club first hosted The Open Championship in 1897 and the 2006 Open was the 11th to be held there.
Lot 134
PRUDHOMME SULLY: (1839-1907) French Poet and Essayist, first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1901. A.L.S., Sully Prudhomme, one page (folding letter card), 8vo, Chatenay (Paris), 26th March 1903, to Mademoiselle Gimbert, in French. A perplexed Prudhomme informs his correspondent 'Your letter is a puzzle to me. I knew a colleague Alexander… I lost track of him, though I held him in high esteem. I do not have the least recollection of ever having seen his nephew… at least my memory has not retained any trace of anything similar.' Hand addressed by Prudhomme to the verso. Some very light, minor age wear, VG
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