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Lot 2433
1420 AD. Fourth issue, Rouen mint. Obv: crown over three fleurs with lion rampant each side and +H REX ANGLIE Z HERES FRANCIE legend with pellet below H. Rev: cross fleury with H at centre, lion in second quarter and crown in fourth, with SIT NOME DNI BENEDICTV legend and pellet below S with 'lion' initial mark; with old collector ticket. Elias 249; Roberts - (but see 2893, with annulet below first letters of legends); see also Hawkins 5 (with annulet below first letters); see Snelling, pl.2, 12 (for type). 2.34 grams. [No Reserve] Very fine; old tone. Rare.
Lot 2434
1422-1447 AD. Obv: facing bust with annulet each side of neck within tressure with HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FR legend. Rev: long cross and pellets with annulet in first and third quarters with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE M and VILLA CALIS legends for Calais mint; with old collector ticket. S. 1840; N. 1429. 1.68 grams. [No Reserve] Good very fine.
Lot 2448
1550-1553 AD. Third period, base issue. Obv: rose with E D G ROSA SINE SPINA legend and uncertain mintmark (escallop?). Rev: long cross over arms with CIVITAS LONDON legend for London mint; with a contemporary brass forgery of an Irish issue shilling. S. 2474; N. 1945. 0.58, 2.07 grams. [2, No Reserve] First fine; second poor.
Lot 2557
1542-1558 AD. First period, class VIci. Obv: crowned thistle with initials M - R at sides and MARIA D G SCOTORVM legend. Rev: saltire cross through crown with cinquefoil at sides and OPPIDVM EDINBVRGI legend for Edinburgh mint. S. 5432; Burns 59; see Stevenson, Robert, The Bawbee Issues of James V and Mary, BNJ 59, pp.120-156, pls.12-15. 1.55 grams. [No Reserve] Good very fine. Scarce.
Lot 2611
Dated 1775 AD and uncertain. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS III REX legend. Revs: Britannia with BRITANNIA legend and dates below; both mis-struck, first very off centre. First: CGCC CH-1775B-14 (same dies); see Atkins for information on evasions. 4.83, 4.31 grams. [2, No Reserve] Fine and good fine. Rare.
Lot 2615
Dated 1771, 1772, 1774 and 1775 AD. Obvs: the first with GOD SAVE US ALL legend; the others with GEORGIVS III REX legends. Revs: all with Britannia seated and date in exergue, with BRITANNIA. legend. CGCC EH-321a (this coin)/CGCC CH-1772B-3 (this coin)/CGCC CH-1774B-4 (same dies?)/CGCC CH-1775B-4; See Atkins for information on evasions. 6.60, 7.10, 7.83, 6.47 grams. [4] From about fine to very fine; toned.
Lot 2740
Dated 1867 and 1880 AD. 1867 issues, 1, 5 and 10 bani. Obvs: crowned arms and supporters within crowned mantle with ROMANIA legend above. Revs: numeric value above BANU or BANI and date in three lines, within wreath with 'H' below (1 banu), 'WATT / & CO' in two lines (5 bani) or 'HEATON' (10 bani) below for the Heaton or Watt mints. 1880 issue, Carol I. Obv: profile bust with CAROL I DOMNUL ROMANIEI legend. Rev: crowned arms and supporters within crowned mantle dividing date with ROMANIA 2 BANI legend and 'small B' mintmark for Bucharest. KM# 1.1/KM# 3.2/KM# 4.1/KM# 11.2. 17.80 grams total. [4, No Reserve] First, third and fourth uncirculated or near so; third very fine.
Lot 547
9th century AD. A rectangular book or casket mount with chamfered outer edges, scooped inner edges and trefoil between; incised niello-filled circle with facing figure of St. John pointing to an open book, eagle to his right shoulder, spandrels framing his head and 'IO/HA/NNIS' (John) above the book; spandrel above the circle, addorsed beast-heads flanking each with open mouth, scaphoid ear, hole for the eye (to accept a domed rivet-head), punched-dot texturing; the trefoil with holes for eyes in the two flanking lobes and punched lozenges for the nostrils; small gilt section to the reverse. Cf. facing figures on the Fuller Brooch, published in Webster, L. & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, item 257. 5.30 grams, 39mm (1 1/2"). Property of a London collector; previously in the Don Lee collection before 1990. The first copies of the Bible to enter Britain during the Anglo Saxon period would have come with missionaries from the Continent and most notably Rome. The first recorded conversions happened in 597 AD with the arrival of Augustine. Prior to his arrival Æthelberht of Kent married a princess, Bertha, daughter of Charibert, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks, who brought with her a chaplain. Bertha had restored a church from Roman times to the east of Canterbury and dedicated it to Saint Martin of Tours, the patronal saint for the Merovingian royal family. Æthelberht himself, though a pagan, allowed his wife to worship God her own way. Probably under influence of his wife, Æthelberht asked Pope Gregory I to send missionaries, and in 596 the Pope dispatched Augustine, together with a party of monks. Thereafter Christianity spread throughout England under royal patronage. Churches became prominent landmarks, along with monasteries, and these religious institutions required the necessary objects for the carrying out of Christian ritual. The most important of these was the Bible itself which was laboriously copied and decorated at a number of important centres, such as Lindisfarne, and then disseminated to the monasteries, churches and cathedrals. Not only were these lavishly decorated within, but the covers were also decorated in silver, silver-gilt and gold plates, depicting Christ and the four Evangelists in typical Anglo Saxon style. Fine condition.
Lot 635
2nd millennium BC. A D-section gold penannular bracelet of European type with splayed and clubbed finials. Cf. Taylor, J.T. Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles, Cambridge, 1980, plate 53b. 70 grams, 81mm (3 1/4"). Property of an Essex collector; acquired 1970s. Supplied with a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Goldwork first appeared in western Europe in the early second millennium BC and is associated with high status individuals; in Britain the natural enrichment of the native metal by tin and copper suggest alluvial sources for the gold and the main sources for gold throughout the Bronze Age would have been from Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, west and north Ireland, as well as the central European area of Transylvania. Gold played a valued role in prehistoric society, principally being found in elite burials and the objects were not simply art or ornamentation but probably designated both the high social rank of the individual as well as their tribal/political, religious and occupational status. The British Isles were the dominant centre for gold work and although there were links with Brittany, the latter area seems to have lacked the same skills to work gold until a later date. British gold work is noted for its highly burnished finish which required considerable skill and man hours to produce. The most common gold ornaments from the period take the form of buttons, hair rings, lunulae, bracelets and ornamentation for daggers. The style of bracelet as seen in this example, with the flaring ends, became popular in the late Bronze Age and carried on into the Iron Age across much of Europe. Similar examples to this one can be seen in the Milton Keynes hoard and an example found at Beaumaris on Anglesey, all of which are now in the British Museum. Very fine condition, slight distortion.
Lot 688
1st-2nd century AD. A D-section cast miniature brooch with s-shaped body, scaphoid head joined at the chin and similar tail; enamel panels to the tail, ear, head, and the body with a panel of polychrome enamel ornament. Cf. Hattatt, R. Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts, Oxford, 1989, item 1655. 12 grams, 49mm (2"). Found East Yorkshire, UK. The 'dragonesque' brooch is typically Romano-British and first appeared after the start of the Roman conquest of southern England in 43 AD, but embodying native artistic taste. Fine condition; tail detached.
Lot 731
2007 AD. A bronze maquette bust of Baroness Thatcher at the time of her resignation in 1990, on a rectangular base with threaded sockets to the underside, a private commission sculpted by the renowned official Margaret Thatcher artist Antony Dufort. 335 grams, 11cm (4 1/4"). Property of an English gentleman. In 2003, Antony Dufort was commissioned by the Advisory Committee on the Works of Art to produce a bronze statue of Baroness Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain, to be installed by the doors to the Commons Chamber in the Palace of Westminster, opposite the statue of Winston Churchill. The sculpture was the first of a former Prime Minister to be installed during the lifetime of the subject, after a change to the parliamentary rules in 2002 which previously forbade the erection of statues of living parliamentarians in the House. It was unveiled on 21 February 2007 by the then Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon. Michael Martin MP. Thatcher, known as the 'Iron Lady' during her tenure of office, quipped: I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. A smaller bronze statue of the baroness, also by Dufort, was sold for £210,000 in February 2015 at a private Conservative Party auction. Thatcher's pose was selected to show her in vigorous debate, papers in one hand, jabbing with the forefinger of the other. At a private viewing before the public ceremony, Baroness Thatcher declared that she was 'thrilled' with the portrayal. Dufort was chosen for the task because of his reputation, arising from previous works depicting Nottinghamshire miners. He studied history at New College Oxford, from 1967 to 1971 and took a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London, in 1976. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. Portraits and sculptures by Dufort are housed in many notable private, public, corporate and museum collections. In the field of sculpture, he specializes in portraiture, historical figures, the representation of movement and the mining industry. Very fine condition.
Lot 975
. Fine crystals of neptunite (black) and benitoite (blue) on natrolite, from the classic California, USA, locality. Cf. Bonewitz, Dr. Ronald Louis Smithsonian Rock and Gem, (2008), p.287. 354 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; ex Christopher Cavey collection. Benitoite (ben-EE-toe-ite) is a rare blue barium titanium silicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. Benitoite fluoresces under short wave ultraviolet light, appearing bright blue to bluish white in colour. The more rarely seen clear to white benitoite crystals fluoresce red under long-wave UV light. It was first described in 1907 by George D. Louderback, who named it benitoite for its occurrence near the headwaters of the San Benito River in San Benito County, California. Neptunite is a rare complex silicate mineral containing potassium, sodium, lithium, iron, manganese, and titanium. Very fine condition. Both minerals are rare.
Lot 1028
Stoker (Bram) Dracula, 8vo, original mustard-coloured cloth with red lettering, First Edition, First Printing on thicker paper, sheets bulking to just over one inch, pages untrimmed and with blank leaf (pp391/392) and blank end paper, no advertisements; published by Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster 1897. See illustration
Lot 1040
Francois Christophe Armand Toussaint (1806-1862): a large pair of French mid 19th Century gilt and patinated bronze figural torcheres: Esclave Indien and Esclave Indienne, cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), after the original Toussaint models dated 1850, the male figure wearing a gilt head cloth, hoop earrings, raising his left arm and holding fan in right hand by gilt loin cloth, the female figure with gilt hair and head cloth draping down into skirt below bare breasts, standing beside jewellery casket, both holding light fittings, the urn form bases with goat mask and floral swag designs above shaped fluting, each fitted with nine-branch ormolu candelabra with urn sconces above drip pans and scrolling leaf stems, the male figure signed "Ad. Toussaint 1850", both signed "F. Barbedienne Fondeur" beside medallion mark; raised on a pair of associated carved stained wood circular stands, decorated with drapery to frieze and cords down swept tapering square legs, terminating in acanthus leaves. Figures 44in. (112cms) high from base to raised hands. Torchere overall approximately 68in. (173cms) base to top of central light fitting (not including faux candle mount). Bases 27in. (69cms) high. NB The original figural torcheres designed by Armand Toussaint, first exhibited in 1847 for a salon in Paris, bronze models commissioned by the French Interior Ministry and were exhibited three years later at the Paris Salon 1850-51 Exhibition (No. 3599) and there after were placed in the Palace de l'Elysee. Both Barbedienne and Graux-Marly owned the rights to the reproduction of these figures and after Toussaint's death both houses signed an agreement to regulate the casting sizes of each model. LITERATURE See Barbedienne Catalogue 1855 and later 1886 (page 62). Previous sales of closely related figures are known, including: Bonhams, London, New Bond Street, Lot 100 on 10th July, 2014; Christies London, King Street, 29th April 2010; and Sothebys, New York, 21st October 2008, Lot 85. See illustration
Lot 950
A pair of family medal groups awarded to 1102 Staff Sergeant J.C. Adams, Second Batallion The First Australian Imperial Force, to include: Victory Medal, War Medal and 1914-15 Star, with ribbons, in 1914 Christmas tin, inscribed to inner lid name, serial no. and regiment above address 31 Claremont Road, High Gate, London; together with his brother's medals, 17407 Sergeant F.G. Adams, Highland Light Infantry, also comprising: Victory War Medal; and 1914-1915 Star.
Lot 951
A group of Second World War medals, to include: Defence Medal, War Medal, Naval General Service Medal with George VI crowned bust and Palestine 1936-1939 bar, and Naval Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with uncrowned George IV bust, all with ribbons, awarded to Mx. 51580 I.H. Mindham, Chief Petty Officer Wtr. Royal Navy on the HMS President; a First World War Medal awarded to F.2094 H.H.L. Petty Officer Mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service, with original box and ribbon and silver medallion; a First World War General Service Medal awarded to 3103 Private L.E. Plummer, 11th Batallion First Australian Imperial Force; a silver Overseas Nursing Association 1896 medal on 1927 bar; and a similar in base metal; etc.
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Lot 1003
1918 October 7 to November 20, group of three 'Make Your Sixpence Fly' 'Aerial Post Cards', franked with ½d (2) and 1d, tied by 'Aerial Post South Africa' cds`s, the first 'Winged Sixpence' the others 'Badge on Red Cross' types, variously addressed, first with bend at lower left otherwise fine
Lot 1199
Useful balance of unused collection from 1923 to 1999, better items incl 1923 Setting I ½d to 5s, excl 2d, 1923-26 Setting VI 5s and 10s, 1926 to 6d, 1927-30 2s 6d, 10s and £1, also 4d pair with no stop variety, 1930 Air 4d and 1s first printing, 4d with no stop variety, 1938 Voortrekker and 1939 Huguenot sets, 1941-43 and 1943-44 War Effort sets to 1s 3d or 1s, 1954 to 10s, 1961 to 1r, 1966-72 to 20c, 1966 Vedder presentation folder, most later commems and defins for period present, postage dues incl 1923 Setting I 6d De la Rue ptg, Setting II on 5d Transvaal (SG D10), 1927 set of 6, officials incl 1931 to 6d, 1938 1½d purple-brown, 1945-50 ½d to 6d (ex 2d), 1951-52 ½d to 6d, also some modern stamp booklets, all pairs horizontal and generally fine, issues from 1950s onwards u/m (Few Hundreds)
Lot 1201
Unused collection in stockbook from 1923 to early 80`s, incl 1923 first setting part set to 5s purple and blue, second setting 5s purple and blue and 10s blue and olive-green, third and fourth setting from ½d to £1 green and red sets, also 1927-30 part set to 10s bright blue and brown, generally fine (Hundreds)
Lot 1342
1947 Air, imperforate 2m to 200m with Arabic cancelled underprints (as SG322/33, Balian 424c/35c), also 40m carmine and 200m with English Cancelled underprints (from the first printing) and 2m vermilion plate number block of 4 and 10m violet right marginal block of 4 with Arabic underprints, only 100 sets of first possible and 50 examples of English underprints
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