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Click here to subscribe*India. A pair to Private A.T. Fabian, Hampshire Regiment, India General Service 1895-1902, two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4025 Pte A.T. Fabian 2nd Bn Ryl Suss Regt), Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (5353 Pte A.T. Fabian. Hants: Regt), first suspension slack, edge bruise, very fine (2)
*WWII. A group of five to Lieutenant W.H. Pitkin, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) India General Service 1918-62, G.V.R, one clasp, Burma 1930-32 (6284380 Pte. W.H. Pitkin. The Buffs.), 1939-1945 Star, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals, first toned, good very fine, with accompanying miniature medals and riband bars, together with various original documentation and photographs including the recipient in uniform and three large group photographs, a war service Commission certificate dated 24 February 1941 and another for 11 September 1947 plus embroidered regimental cloth badge (10)
*Konrad Adenauer Medal. A German commemorative gold medal, obv. bust of Konrad Adenauer with signature, rev. Cusus ut Memoria Vivat MCMLXVII, 22mm diameter in a 14K (585) pendant mount, combined gross weight 9.5g Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (1876-1967) was German statesman who served as the first post-war Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949-63. (1)
The Aeroplane Annual. The First Complete Aviation Catalogue, with over 100 Plans and Illustrations, Compiled by Bernard Isaac, first edition, published by the Aeroplane Supply Company, (branch of the Motor Supply Company Ltd), 111, Piccadilly, London, W., November 1st, 1909, [60 pp.] trade catalogue, printed in green with illustrations throughout, additional bifolium for notes stapled as centre spread (unused), original printed wrappers, slightly rubbed and dust-soiled, narrow folio (25.5 x 13 cm), together with ten pen and ink and wash original illustrations of aircraft made for this publication, five initialled and five signed by C.L. F[ortner?], some dust soiling and several pencil marks, mostly to versos, sheet size 20.5 x 28.5 cm, plus six printed proofs of aircraft technical drawings as used in the publication with pencil marks, pinholes and occasional spotting and finger marks (17)
*Air Raid Precaution. A collection of WWII and later enamel signs including 'Is that Light Necessary? Please Switch off at First Opportunity', red font on white ground, 30.5 x 61cm, 'Danger Small (Butterfly) Bombs Lie Hidden Here, They Are Likely to Explode with Deadly Effect at the Least Disturbance Keep Away', 30.5 x 46cm, 'Keep Clear Unexpected Bombs', white font on a red ground, 35.5 x 63.5cm plus other signs (11)
*Air Raid Precaution. A collection of small enamel and bakelite signs including County of Essex 'Air Raid Warden', blue font on a white ground 7.5 x 23cm, another for 'Air Raid Warden's Post', white font on a green ground 9 x 30.5cm, 'A.R.P. First Aid Point' aluminium sign 16 x 10cm, together with ARP Warden car badge, aluminium stamped 14/R2 with Patt No's 13cm long and other items (20)
*Aviation Collectables. An album of first day covers, monochrome photos, stamps brochures, etc. relating to Singapore and Malayan Airways Limited, including a FDC for Malaya's First Day Air Service June 28th 1937, stamps from Kalang Airport 1937-55, together with BOAC Wade pottery water jug, 15 cm high, R.A.F.A. enamel car badge, BOAC dishes (2), Air France ashtray etc., plus a small box of 35mm slides showing Westland Wessex at Croydon 1932, seaplanes, etc. (a small carton)
*Aviation photographs. A collection of monochrome photographs depicting early aviation, including a large image of R101 airship on a mooring mast in Bedfordshire, 25 x 40.5cm, a smaller photograph of the same subject, two images of Sanderson's aeroplane 14 x 20cm presented in frame and glazed plus a souvenir postcard of the First Aviation Meeting in England, October 1909, 8.5 x 13.5cm (5)
*Aviation. 150-H.P. Hispano-Suiza (Birkigt Patents). Description. Working. Regulating. Care of Engine. Translated 27/10/16, folding illustrations, a few spots, original wrappers, previous owner signature, a few creases, 8vo, together with The W2B/23 Aero-Engine, Air Ministry, July 1944, first page signed by Frank Whittle and dated 14 Nov '61, with provenance in pencil beneath, illustrations, original wrappers, punch holes and staple rust, 4to, plus Gas Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion, by S.G. Hooker, Rolls Royce Ltd, April, 1945, mounted photographic frontispiece, diagramatic illustrations, original wrappers, light soiling, folio, with others including "Flying Flea" (Pou de Ciel), 1935, a folder of construction details, articles, cuttings etc., a RAF Air Display programme for 1930, and a Daily Express Air Display programme, Gatwick Airport, 25 June 1938 (a package)
*Battle of Britain. 12 Westminster Mint Collectors silver medals commemorating The Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary, mint in plastic cases and presentation case, together with a similar set of 12 for History of the Royal Air Force, other silver medals for Ten Pounds and Twenty Pounds, banknotes, Aviation First Day Covers with cupro nickel coins (3 albums etc.)
Roland Garros and Aviation Festivals at Cholet. A group of 3 scrap albums compiled by Charles Arnault, Vice-President du Comite permanent des Fetes, Cholet, 1910-14, the first folder of 7 pages including wrappers relating to the Grandes Fetes d'Aviation on 14-17 [& 24] July 1910, official programme cover and title pasted to upper wrapper, printed festival broadside and duplicate (22.5 x 28 cm) pasted and partly tipped in, other items tipped in including news cuttings relating to the event, a printed menu, a drawing 'Plan de l'Aerodrome de la Papiniere', two tickets, a printed letterpress poster on buff paper (122 x 40 cm), loose items including a letter on Charles Arnault letterhead, an official programme, 20 pp., Charles Arnault's visiting card, plus two letters from G. Frappier (Grand Garage, Cholet) to Arnault concerning meetings for the organisation of the event; the 1912 scrap album of 23 pp. concerning the meeting for Circuit d'Aviation de L'Anjou for the Cholet leg of the triangular race, 16-17 June 1912, printed broadside and two commemorative stamps pasted to upper cover, the other items in the album including two folded examples of a colour lithograph poster by Lessieux & Carrey, Grand Prix d'Aviation de l'Aero-Club de France, circuit d'Anjou, Les Editions Nationales, Paris, 1912, both tipped into album on facing leaves at rear with one small panel pasted in, colours largely bright and fresh, minor marks and marginal splits, a few old tape repairs to verso, the larger poster 160 x 119 cm (64 x 47.5 ins), the smaller poster with 'Cholet 16-17 juin 1912' strip pasted to lower margin, 104 x 75 cm (41.5 x 30 ins), a third large letterpress poster printed in red on yellow, 123 x 185 cm (49 x 74 ins), other items including numerous pasted in news cuttings, a tipped-in four page newspaper, Cholet d'Aviation, three duplicate small letterpress posters printed on green, blue and pink, each 42 x 15 cm, a plan of the course, a rules and prizes poster, 47 x 31 cm, eight commemorative stamps, five technical drawings/sketch designs on tracing paper (of pylons?), an official programme plus loose programmes published by Le Journal, Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin, three issues of the Vie au Grand Air, two tickets, and a few other items; the third album Grand Meeting d'Aviation de Cholet, 1914, 7 pp., including news cuttings, a letterpress place and date banner for the large poster in the following lot (41.5 x 122 cm), official programme tipped in and duplicate upper cover pasted to upper wrapper, all buff paper albums, folio, 61 x 34.5 cm (24 x 13.5 ins) A unique and historically important archive relating to early French aviation. The first of the three aviation meetings at Cholet in western France took place in July 1910. Three airmen were engaged to demonstrate flying distances, manoeuvres and altitude. The airmen were Leon Versepuy, Emile Obre and Roland Garros who had just gained his pilot's licence. The more famous second event took place in June 1912 when 35 machines were entered into a triangular race between Angers - Cholet - Saumur - Angers. It was a 97-mile circuit flown between 9 am and 7.30 pm, three times on Sunday, 16 June, and four times the next day, making a total of 684 miles. Of the 35 registered participants, 28 aviators qualified, and 11 took off. Due to poor weather conditions, the race was a disaster, but it was won by Roland Garros. At the back of the scrap album for the 1912 event are both size versions of the famous colour poster by Lessieux & Carrey. The third and final meeting in Cholet took place on 15 March 1914, just five months before the outbreak of the First World War. Once again poor weather interfered but not without Roland Garros attempting and succeeding in the newly fashionable loop the loop (see following lot). To an amazed audience of thousands the legendary Garros completes the manoeuvre and finally lands 'with the grace and lightness of a butterfly landing on a flower'. (3)
*Loop the Loop Aviation Poster. An exceedingly rare and large poster designed for Roland Garros performing the loop the loop in an exhibition at Cholet, France, 15th March 1914, printed in green and white on two white sheets, with an upside down aeroplane and printed signature of the artist P. Carrere adjacent, the text reading 'Tout a l'envers. Garros [text printed upside down:] Volera Tete en Bas Boucle la Bouclera' with circular upside down vignette of Garros's head placed beneath, printer's details to lower right margin, 'G. Delattre & Cie, 99 Fg. du Temple, Paris', minor marks and tiny old paper tape repairs to verso, some very light paper toning but overall in very fine condition, 230 x 156 cm (92 x 62.5 ins) This possibly unique survival is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, aerobatic aviation posters. The first loop the loop recorded was made by Lieutenant Petr Nikolaevich Mesterov on 9 September 1913 when he looped his Russian Army 70 HP Nieuport monoplane at Kiev in the Ukraine. At the time he was placed under arrest for risking army property, but when it emerged that he was a hero he was promoted to Captain. This feat was not known when Adolphe Pegoud pulled off the same trick on 21 September at Juvisy, near Paris. Between 25-27 September, Pegoud demonstrated his skills at Brooklands in England and by the end of the year a number of English pilots including B.C Hucks had learnt the trick themselves. The great early French aviator Roland Garros, who was to become a fighter pilot during World War I, performed this same trick to a delighted audience at Cholet on 15 March 1914. The place and date banner which have not been pasted to the bottom of the poster are to be found in the 1914 scrap album of the lot above. (1)
*The Fairey Aviation Company. An original ink drawing on linen of G.A. of Machine (G.4./31.B.) fitted with a Pegasus engine and armaments, dated 25 August 1933, showing Port Side elevation, Front and Plan views, 76 x 135cm The G.43/31 first flew powered by a large nine cylinder un-cowled engine in March 1934, the G.4/31 did not receive any orders or go into production with only one full size aircraft built. (1)
*Pioneer Aviation. A historic scale model of the Santos-Dumont No.14-bis, the wooden frame with cloth canvas, brass two blade propeller and fittings, 85cm wingspan x 67cm nose to tail Built and first flown by the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1906. Originally designed to be tested dangling beneath the gas bag of airship No14, hence the name No.14-bis. The aircraft made a total of nine take offs and remained in the air for just over 21 seconds. (1)
Rolls Royce Achievement. 1950s brochure paperback publication, foreword by Oliver Stewart, 27 pages, numerous illustrations displaying aircraft, engines and other parts together with a collection of aviation ephemera including The Bristol Review, Engine Issue No.7, signed by Breuer; 1932 Accomplishments of Curtiss-Wright Corporation; First in Flight, Curtiss Wright; The Power House of Aviation, A Trip Through Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Pratt & Whitney U.S.A., Single Row Installations; Les Aeroplanes de 1910; 8 WWII German Der Adler postcards, British Seaplanes Triumph in the International Schneider Trophy Contests 1913-31 and other related brochures, magazines (a carton)
*Royal Air Force. A collection of documents, books, etc., relating to Squadron Leader R.J. Spiers, Royal Air Force, including 2 Lecture precis for The Officer's Advanced Training School inscribed with recipient's name, SE5a Pilots' Notes, annotated with diagrams (some quite humorous!), a list of Graduates for The Royal Air Force College Cranwell 1920-62, illuminated manuscript poem written by John Oxenham titled 'A Little Prayer for the Man in the Air', 26 x 19.5 cm (framed and glazed), R. Spiers oil on board, Gloster Gamecock, 14 x 18.5 cm, framed, plus another by the same hand, 20 x 25 cm (unframed), pocket diary for Collins Aero Diary 1960, plus a Neville Duke signed photograph of a Hawker Hunter, 11 x 15.5 cm, photographs, magazines, etc. William Arthur Dunkerley aka John Oxenham (1852-1941), popular novelist and poet. During the First World War his poetry sold over a million volumes, showing him to be the most popular poet at the time. His hymn, For the Men at the Front, is reputed to have sold eight million copies. (a carton)
*Spitfire LFIXe, a fine composite model of this historic aircraft made by Peter Cooke, with Aircraft No. DU-A TE566, beautifully modelled to a high standard on a felt base with modeller's details and perspex case, 40 cm nose to tail, 41 cm wingspan, minor repair to tail wheel Peter Cooke built his first scratch-built model, a Hawker Tempest Mk.V, in 1977 having been inspired by the renowned modeller Tony Woollett whose models he admired at the Model Engineers Exhibition. The Hawker won "Best of Show" at the IPMS nationals that year and then Peter went on to build a limited number of fine scratch built models with some being retailed. Sadly Peter has retired from model making due to a hand injury so his models are in short supply. (1)
Doncaster Aviation Meeting. Souvenir... , Oct 15th to 23rd 1909, The First Flying Meeting in England, [1909], 15 pp., vignette photographic illustrations and full-page caricatures of aviators, original stamped printed pictorial wrappers with upper cover designed by Dudley Hardy, a little soiled, slim 8vo, together with Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne... , [1909], printed in red and black, plan at rear, original pictorial printed wrappers with spine tie, upper wrapper, slightly creased and soiled, largely missing, slim 8vo From the Gert de Leew Collection. (2)
Aviation Fiction. Johns (W.E.), Whitehouse (Arch), Quintrel (Kenneth) and Stark (Rudolf), The Cockpit: Flying Adventures for Young Pilots, with eight full-page colour plates by Bradshaw (Stanley Orton) and numerous line illustrations by Leigh (Howard), no dust-jacket, cloth faded and slightly worn, but good internally, Archer (Wesley D.), Death in the Air - The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, published as a factual account with photos of "aerial combat", but since exposed as fiction, with photographs of models, and a celebrated fake publication, two copies, one a slightly worn hardback First Edition, 1933 (no dust-jacket), and the other a 1985 paperback reprint; Gann (Ernest K.), In the Company of Eagles, hardback in dust-jacket, 1967; Springs (Elliott White), Nocturne Militaire, being WW 1 fiction based on typical actions, two copies, hardbacks in slightly worn cloth, and 41 other hardback volumes from various periods and in variable conditions (47)
Revell (Alex). British Single-Seater Fighter Squadrons on the Western Front in World War I, 1st edition, Schiffer Military History, 2006, together with Duiven (Rick & Abbott, Dan-San), Schlachtflieger! Germany and the Origins of Air/Ground Support 1916-1918, 1st edition, Schiffer Military History, 2006, a few colour and numerous monochrome illustrations, including many after photographs, both original pictorial boards in dust jackets, 4to, plus Ravell (Alex), High in the Empty Blue, The History of 56 Squadron RFC/RAF 1916 to 1920, 1st edition, Flying Machines Press, 1995, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, and Sturtivant (Ray & Page, Gordon), Royal Navy Aircaft Serials and Units 1911 to 1919, & The D.H.4/D.H.9 File, both 1st editions, Air-Britain, 1992/1999 respectively, a few colour and numerous monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, both original pictorial boards, 4to, plus other First World War aviation and military history, all modern publications, including William Kimber, Leo Cooper, Sutton Publishing, etc., mostly original cloth in dust jackets, mainly 8vo (including some 4to), generally G/VG (approximately 150 volumes) (6 shelves)
Robertson (Bruce). Sopwith - The Man and His Aircraft, 1st edition, Harleyford Publications, 1970, together with Lamberton (W.M.), Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War, Harleyford Publications, 1960, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, author's signed copy, plus Nowarra (H.J. & Brown, Kimbrough S.), Von Richthofen and the Flying Circus, 3rd enlarged impression, Harleyford Publications, 1964, colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, all original cloth in rubbed dust jackets, 4to, and Pieters (Walter M.), The Belgian Air Service in the First World War, 1st edition, Aeoronaut Books, 2010, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original pictorial boards, thick 8vo, and Maurer (Maurer, editor), The US Air Service in World War I, 4 volumes, Washington, 1978-79, monochrome illustrations after photos, original uniform brown cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other First World War aviation and military history, mostly modern publications, including William Kimber, Greenhill Books, Battery Press, etc., mostly original cloth in dust jackets (including some paperback editions), mainly 8vo (including some 4to), G/VG (approximately 180 volumes) (6 shelves)
Penrose (Harald). British Aviation, The Great War and Armistice 1915-1919 & The Adventuring Years 1920-1929, 2 volumes, both 1st editions, Putnam, 1969/1973 respectively, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs to each volume, both original cloth in dust jackets, the first volume with dust jacket a little frayed, together with Jackson (A.J.), British Civil Aircraft Since 1919, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, Putnam, 1973-74, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus Franks (Norman, Bailey, Frank & Duiven, Rick), Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-20, 1st edition, Grub Street, 1999, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Shores (Christopher, Franks, Norman, & Guest, Russell), Above The Trenches, A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920, 1st edition, Grub Street, 1990, monochrome illustrations after photos, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other similar aviation history publications, including Putnam (15), Grub Street (31), Airlife (17), Arms & Armour Press (11), etc., all original cloth in dust jackets, mostly 8vo, generally VG (approximately 135 volumes) (6 shelves)
Tomlinson (H.M). All Our Yesterdays, 1st edition, 1930, portrait frontispiece, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, some minor soiling, large 8vo, limited signed edition 271/1025, together with Orpen (Sir William), An Onlooker in France 1917-1919, revised and enlarged edition, 1924, monochrome plates, original cloth, rubbed and some soiling, large 8vo, plus Bishop (Cliff T.), Fortresses of the Big Triangle First, a history of the aircraft assigned to the ... Eighth Air Force from August 1942 to 31st March 1944, 1st edition, East Anglia Books, 1986, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, VG, and Austen (Michael), The British Civil Aircraft Resisters 1919-1999, 1st edition, Air-Britain, 1999, original pictorial boards, thick 4to, VG, plus other various aviation history including the First and Second World Wars, many pre-second world war and mid-20th century publications, but including some recent publications, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, and including a number of paperback editions, 8vo/4to (approximately 175 volumes) (6 shelves)
General Historical Hardback Aviation Books. Gibbs-Smith (Charles H.), Aviation - An historical survey from its origins to the end of World War II, 1st edition, 1970, a very good copy in dust-jacket, McDaniel (William H.), The History of Beech, First Edition, 1971, presentation copy, signed by the author), Luff (David), Bulldog - the Bristol Bulldog Fighter, First Edition, 1987, a very good copy in dust jacket, Cooke (Gillian & Richard), The Red Arrows, Reds, Rolling Now!, First Edition, 1987, good copy in dust-jacket, Jackson (Robert), The Sky Their Frontier, The Story of the World's Pioneer Airlines and Routes, 1920-1940, 1st edition, 1983, very good in dust jacket, Sims (C.A.), British Aircraft Illustrated, 1931, with sepia photographic illustrations, cloth covers a little dull and rubbed, and another, similar, by the same author, British Aviation Illustrated, with References to International Aviation, 1932, with 70 illustrations in photogravure, and 32 others, mostly in good second-hand condition, including private flying, together with Aviation Art Books, Weston (Robert) & Walker (Charles), The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor, Two Volumes; and Blake (John), Flight, The Five Ages of Aviation (Paintings by the Guild of Avation Artists), all 'as new' copies in dust jackets (Qty)
Jane's All the World's Aircraft. Original hardback editions for 1940, 1941 & 1942, small folio in navy blue cloth, the first rather worn, but generally sound, together with a horizontal format hardback David & Charles reprint of the 1919 edition, and Studio Editions, 1991 "American Fighting Aircraft of the 20th Century" and 1990 "Fighting Aircraft of World War II, both very good copies in their dust-jackets (6)
Pre-Great War Pioneer Aviation Period. Gibbs-Smith (Charles H.), Clement Ader, his Flight Claims and his Place in History, First Edition, 1968, a good ex-library copy in dust jacket, Hamel (Gustav) & Turner (Charles C.) Flying - Some Practical Experiences, 1st edition, 1914, worn and soiled cloth, Brett (R. Dallas), History of British Aviation 1908-1914, 2 volumes, Aviation Book Club, no dust jackets, cloth a bit rubbed and marked, Wallace (Graham), Claude Grahame-White, 1st edition, 1960, a good copy in dust jacket, & 5 others (10)
RAF Books. Sims (Charles), The Royal Air Force: The First Fifty Years, 1968 reprint, a good copy in dust jacket, Taylor (John W. R.), C.F.S. - The Birthplace of Air Power, 1st Edition, 1958, in slightly worn dust jacket, Franks (Norman), RAF Fighter Command, 1936-1968, 1st edition, 1992, very good in dust-jacket, Arthur (Max), There Shall Be Wings - The RAF from 1918 to the Present, 1993, very good in dust-jacket, and 16 other hardback volumes, mostly with their dust-jackets and in sound condition (with two duplicate volumes) (20)
Rolls-Royce. The First Aero Engine made by Rolls-Royce Ltd, 1914-1916, 301 pp., light toning to endpapers, original half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, together with Rolls-Royce Bulletin, 20 issues, December 1925-January 1958, numerous illustrations, original wrappers, 4to, plus Rolls-Royce Memories. A Coming-of-age Souvenir, printed for private circulation, 2 copies, CUP, 1926, photographic illustrations, some light spotting, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed with stains, 4to, with other Rolls-Royce aviation and motoring related, including The 40/50 H.P. Six Cylinder 'New Phantom' Car, 1925, Instructions for the Care of Rolls-Royce Cars, August 1912 & July 1914, Kestrel Aero-Engines, 1932 and Merlin II and III Aero-Engines, 1938 (58)
World War II Books. Price (Alfred), The Spitfire Story, second hardback printing, 1986, as new in dust-jacket, Richards (Denis) & Saunders (Hilary St. G.), Royal Air Force 1939-45, full set of 3 volumes, First Editions,1953-54, no dust jackets, cloth faded, Caygill (Peter), Spitfire Mark V in Action, 1st edition, 2001, as new in dust jacket (inscription on front free end-paper), Shores (Christopher), Cull (Brian) & Izawa (Yasuho), Bloody Shambles Volume One - The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore, as new in dust-jacket, 1992 reprint, Feist (Uwe), The Fighting Me 109, as new in dust-jacket, 1989 reprint, and 43 others (50)
A motorised Pashley butchers bicycle, model number SW6, frame number 51948, build date 8th April 1986, with a fourteen inch front wheel, rod brakes, Shuresta centre stand mounted with a Cyclemaster 32 cc engine serial number 115741, manufactured 1953. Pashley were formed in 1926 in Aston, Birmingham, moving to Stratford-apon-Avon in 1986, http://www.pashley.co.uk/bikes/carrier-cycles/delibike.php Cyclemaster power wheels were first made in 1949 with a 25.7 ccengine, increasing in size to 32cc in 1951, by 1961 the market had dwindled and production ceased.
J. Steven Dews, (b. 1949), "Australia Day - Sydney - 1988", artists proof, signed in pencil lower right, 76 x 50 cm, wood frame. Dews was commissioned by the Maritime Services Board to paint Sydney Harbour in all its glory during the First Fleet re-enactment and the Tall Ships sailing in to celebrate the Bicentenary.
J Steven Dews (b. 1949), "Torrens shortening sail", signed bottom left hand corner, oil on canvas, gallery label verso, 59 x 89 cm, gilt frame DDS Provenance; Painted at the artists studio near Sunk Island, east of Hull Bought from the James H. Starkey gallery, Beverley at the first Dews exhibition in December 1976, for £750.00, then by decent. Torrens (1875 - 1910) was a clipper ship that carried passengers and cargo between London and Australia, being the fastest ship at that time. She was built in Sunderland and was 222 feet long and registered as 1276 tons. The novelist Joseph Conrad was chief officer between 1891 and 1893 before leaving to commence his new career. She was managed by Elder, Smith & Co. and was skippered by Captain H.R. Angel who was Commodore of the fleet, her fastest journey was 65 days, undertaking 15 trips. She was broken up in 1910 at Genoa.
Two deck watches signed, Hamilton, 1940's, the first: (calibre 2974B) lever movement signed and numbered 2K8891, dust cover, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, seconds dial, base metal screw back engraved Bureau of ships U.S.Navy comparing watch N 12140-1943, 52mm wide; the second: (calibre 3992B) lever movement signed and numbered 30482, white dial with an inner red seconds dial, centre seconds, base metal case with screw back engraved Navigation Master watch 0552 521 0243 board arrow serial No.801-1942 Hamilton Watch Co H.S.3, 52mm wide25.04.16, Both cases with surface scratches, case backs are engraved, enamel dial watch with two faint hairline cracks, movements are in going order.
A first world war period silver wristwatch, 1916, lever movement, black enamel dial with Arabic numerals, seconds dial, London import mark and stamped with a standard mark 925 for silver, wire lugs, maker's mark FB for Francois Borgel, 35mm wide 25.04.16, Case with light surface scratches, case back appears to have been engraved, but has been removed leaving small dent marks, crown is worn, dial with a faint hairline crack, luminous is missing to the hands, later strap, movement in going order.
A first world war period silver wristwatch, 1915, lever movement, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, seconds dial, luminous hands, London import mark and stamped with a standard mark 925 for silver, wire lugs, maker's mark FB for Francois Borgel, metal front grill, 34mm wide 25.04.16, Case with surface scratches, dial with one small chip to the edge and one hairline crack, in going order.
Two Edwardian split pearl floral spray brooches, the first with three floral clusters, length 7cm, the second with one floral cluster, length 6.7cmThe brooches are in good condition. They both fasten with pin and hook catches. Both are stamped '15CT', in our opinion they would test as gold. Gross weight 19.4 grams. CR made 10th February 2016
A pair of early first period Worcester porcelain sauceboats, circa 1754, of shaped oval form, painted in colours with figures in chinoiserie landscapes within moulded scroll borders, painted workman's marks in red, 17cm longOne sauceboat with restoration to rim of lip. Both with some minor surface wear. 190316
Two three colour bracelets, one in entwined form, one as articulated geometric links (2)Good condition. However, the geometric bracelet is kinked and requires attention. The entwined bracelet fastens with a bolt ring catch, the second with a tongue and box catch and two figure-of-eight safety clasps. The first bracelet is hallmarked 9 carat gold, the second bracelet is stamped 9k. Gross weight 32.8 grams CR 29.04.16
§ Salvador Dali, (Spanish, 1904-1989), Hommage a Terpsichore (La Danse), 1977, the two-piece bronze with green and burnished bronze patina, signed Dali and numbered 230/350 to base, foundry stamp Jemelton 1984, with certificate of authenticity 70½cm (27in) Literature: Dali in the Third Dimension: The Stratton Foundation Collection Terpsichore is the mythological muse of dance. Her name comes from the Greek "delight in dance". Dali conceived the idea for this sculpture in 1977 and it was first cast using the lost wax process in 1984. The lost wax process involves creating a wax model of the sculpture which is then encased in a fireproof mould, heated until the wax melts and is then poured out ("lost"). The mould is then refilled with bronze or metal for the final casting. Salvador Dali is one of the best known of all the surrealist artists, known particularly for his paintings. However he created a considerable number of sculptures, which can be viewed at the Dali Universe at County Hall in Westminster, including a cast of Homage to Terpsichore. In Dali's creation, he sees Terpsichore as a dual or reflected image; one soft and classical in contrast to the other hardened and statuesque. There are no features in their faces as the significance to Dali was in their figures. The dancer of smooth soft lines representing grace and the unconscious, with the other "half" of Terpsichore angular and cubist in feel, representing the chaotic rhythms of modern life. The poet and critic André Breton explained in The Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, that surrealism was a means of reuniting the conscious and unconscious so the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world. Thus Dali, with his sculpture of Terpsichore, reflects the very essence of surrealism.
A Lalique berries pattern glass pendant, the pierced blue glass triangular form moulded with scrolling berries and foliage, unmarked Other Notes: René Lalique was Art Nouveau's most important jewellery designer. He developed in own unique style using non-precious metal such as enamel, glass and horn. Often inspired by the Symbolist art movement, Lalique's designs drew on many subjects including landscapes, insects and the mythogical nymph as seen in this pendant. In the 1890s Lalique began to study in detail the qualities of glass, buying his own glassworks in 1910. From this date he worked almost entirely with glass, abandoning the use of precious metals entirely. He started making press glass pendants after 1910; the invitation to his first all-glass display in his show room in Place Vendôme in 1912 was a dark green, pressed-glass medallion. Medallions were also produced by his company for the fragrance company Fioret for their Chose Promise perfume.
Mathieu Mategot, (French, 1910-2001), a Bellevue coffee table base, the yellow painted metal base lacking its circular glass top 37½ x 104cm (14 x 41in) Provenance: By repute, from the home of Dirk Bogard in the South of France Other Notes: Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) was one of the most renowned designers in France during the 1950s. Born in Hungary, he moved to France when he was 21 years old. He volunteered for the French Army during the Second World War and was taken prisoner and freed in 1944. After the war, and throughout the 1950s, he designed furniture using steel and sheet metal. He was the first person to combine metal tubing with perforated sheet metal, known as rigitulle, a technique which he subsequently patented. To ensure the quality of production of his designs, he set up his own workshops and limited the number in production of each piece. In 1959, he abruptly ended his production of furniture and switched his attention to tapestries, with which he continued to work for the rest of his career. His furniture can be found on display in the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
§ Muriel Pemberton (British, 1909-1993) Women's fashion designs pencil (5) 54 x 38cm (21 x 15in) Other Notes: Muriel Pemberton invented art-school training in fashion in Britain and, in doing so, affected attitudes to fashion design throughout Europe. In 1928 she gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art; she became interested in the idea of a diploma in fashion after a chance encounter with a stranger who admired a dress of her own design that she was wearing. She was allowed to develop her own course in fashion at the Royal College of Art and gained the first diploma in fashion there in 1931. Whilst at the Royal College of Art she became engaged to the Welsh artist, Stanley Lewis, and she features in one of his most famous paintings, Hyde Park, holding a parasol, but they did not marry. Muriel Pemberton later taught fashion design and drawing at Saint Martin's School of Art, becoming Head of Fashion and Design at the School. Pemberton was an innovative teacher, encouraging her students in experimental fashion - her students included such luminaries as Katherine Hamnett and Bruce Oldfield.
§ Adrian George (British, b.1944) Chinese Acrobat signed lower right "Adrian George 1983" and numbered numbered 56/100 lithograph 109 x 78cm (43 x 30in) Provenance: The Francis Kyle Gallery, 9 Maddox Street, London, W1 Other Notes: Adrian George was born in Cirencester in 1944 and educated at the Royal College of Art. Since 1988 he has lived in Paris. Adrian George studied at the Royal College of Art between 1961-64 and was taught by Peter Blake at Harrow Art School. He has exhibited extensively around the world and most recently at Chris Beetles Gallery in 2005. He was represented by Francis Kyle Gallery, 1978 -2000, with eleven one-man exhibitions, including Drawings (1978 and 1980); The Costume Party: works in pastel (1982); Works in oil and pastel (1984); In Arcadia (1985); Nuits blanches (1988); The South Seas (1990), Martinique (1992); Paris in August (1994); The Drawings (1996) and Paintings (1998). He has also participated in numerous theme exhibitions at Francis Kyle Gallery from Women Washing (1981) to Goethe's Italian Journey (1987), Charleston Revisited (1993) and The Art of Memory: Contemporary Painters in search of Marcel Proust (2000). In 1983 George showed oil paintings at the Museo Municipal, Madrid in Pintura Britannica Contemporanea. In 1984 he held his first exhibition in New York, showing there again in Mozart's Travels (1991) at the Lincoln Centre. Adrian George's drawings on subjects from the world of theatre and pantomime have twice been used by the British Post Office for series of postage stamps. In 1994 Paris in August; a diary with text and drawings by Adrian George was published by Peter Owen. Works by the artist are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London. Condition is fine - one small chip to the black frame.
§ John Glashan (Brtish, 1927-1999) Why ME? signed lower left "John Glashan '79" and numbered 95/150 lithograph 58 x 77cm (23 x 30in) Provenance: The Francis Kyle Gallery, 9 Maddox Street, London, W1 Other Notes: John Glashan was born in Glasgow on December 24th 1927. He was educated at Woodside School and studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art. He moved to London in the 1950s and began as a portrait and landscape painter, supplementing this with cartoon work. Some of his first cartoons appeared in Punch magazine in the 1950s and in Lilliput from 1959, followed by regular features in Queen magazine and Private Eye from 1961. He was a founder member of the British Cartoonist's Association in 1966. From the 1960s to 1990s John Glashan contributed to many magazines and newspapers including Harpers & Queen, The New Yorker, The Spectator, Town and Country, Tatler, Radio Times, The Observer and The Sunday Times. The longest running was his weekly cartoon for The Spectator from 1988 to 1998, printed half page colour. He continued to paint throughout this time and his cartoons become painterly in quality and some of his watercolour paintings contain a cartoon. The first exhibitions of his paintings and cartoons were held at the Francis Kyle Gallery in 1979 and 1983. He subsequently showed at the Cartoon Gallery in 1991, The Fine Arts Society in 1991 and 1994 and at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1995. John Glashan died in 1999. Glashan illustrated several books including Tonight and Other Nights, Sweet & Sour, Small Parts in History and Journal of a collector, and collections of his work were published in The Eye of the Needle, Speak up you Tiny Fool, The Penguin John Glashan and John Glashan's World. Condition is fine.
§ Claughton Pellew (British, 1890-1966) Lamentation signed lower right "Claughton Pellew 1925" and "Imp. 6/30" wood engraving 12 x 15cm (5 x 6in) Provenance: Private collection, Cambridge. Other Notes: Claughton Pellew, son of a mining engineer and an artist mother, was born in Cornwall, but soon after his birth the family moved to Canada. On their return from Canada he was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and then in 1907 started at The Slade. Among his contemporaries there were Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson and Paul Nash. A visit to Italy after finishing college greatly influenced him and probably led to his decision to become a Roman Catholic. His beliefs meant that he became a conscientious objector during the First World War and was interned during the latter part of the war. After his marriage in 1919 he moved to a Norfolk village, building his own house and living a simple lifestyle. Although he continued to paint he became best known as a wood engraver. He was a shy and quiet man who preferred to live a simple rural life and he had few exhibitions. He died in 1966, relatively unknown, but since his death there has been much more interest in his work. Image is clear and good.
§ Paul Nash (British, 1889-1946) Still Life II signed lower right in pencil "Paul Nash" and numbered 25/50 in pencil upper left woodcut 18 x 15cm (7 x 6in) Provenance: The Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, London, W1; where purchased by the late vendor in April 1961. Other Notes: Paul Nash (1889-1946) was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the 20th century and a key exponent of Modernism. In good condition. Some slight creasing to the paper to the lower left corner. Frame has scratches and needs re-taping at the back.
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