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Click here to subscribeStow (J) The Survey of London, published by Elizabeth Purslow, Royal Exchange 1633 Condition Report: In a modern quarter calf and cloth binding, good condition. Bookplate of Andrew Oliver to inner cover. First printed page is the Title page (pictorial frontispiece may be missing). Internal condition fair, some staining and creases, a few small repairs including to title page, a few folded corners and slight losses to corners.
A Chinese blue and white bowl, Kangxi, painted in underglaze blue with figures in a landscape, 21.5cm diameter/Provenance: The Collection of Ethel Bedford Fenwick nee Manson (1857-1947). In 1881, aged twenty-four, she became the matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. She worked tirelessly for the registration of the nursing profession and was determined that nurses should be registered after three years of training to a National Curriculum; eventually after years of lobbying at the highest level she became the General Nursing Council's first Registered Nurse/see illustration Condition Report: Minor defects to glaze from time of firing and dimples to base. Small hair crack (hardly visible) to base. Overall appears in good condition.
A set of boxwood and ebony Staunton chessmen, the white king signed Jaques, London and with bishops mitre stamp to two rooks and two knights, the kings 10cm high the pawns 5cm high, contained in a baize lined box with Staunton label, the cover with plaque 'Bebington Chess Club Tournament First Prize won by Thomas C Crane Esq. March 1869' and the folding board with geometric inlaid border/see illustration Condition Report: The black Queen with split to base about the size of a pin. Spilt to cover on box. Mitre stamp on rook and knight of each set. Mitre stamp to rook and knights on each set.
HIH The Dowager Empress Maria Feodovna of Russia and HM The Dowager Queen Alexandra - rare dual signed Presentation portrait photograph of the two Royal sisters in formal pose, holding hands, signed and dated in ink 'Maria 1914 Alexandra', the unframed portrait by W, & D, Downey, London, in original folder with gilt embossed Royal Coat of Arms and By Appointment to cover, 47cm x 31cm. In May 1914 The Dowager Empress travelled to England to visit her sister, The Dowager Queen Alexandra and while she was in London, the First World War broke out forcing her to hurry back home to Russia CONDITION REPORT Outer cover a little dirty and corners tatty. The image and mount are in very good original condition with some minor foxing marks to mount. The signatures and date are very clear and have been protected by the original tissue paper inner leaf
Four late 19th century German Sitzendorf porcelain figures - classical female subjects, blindfolded cherub and First World War KPM Berlin figure of a gleaner, 11cm - 22cm (5) CONDITION REPORT Blindfolded boy- one wing restored. K.P.M figure- tip of sickle chipped, Tall classical female- object in hand missing and finger chipped. Diana figure- clock broken and re-stuck, finger chipped, horn restored. Female figure with boy- hand and cloak restored
Early 19th century French silver three piece condiment set, comprising pair of standing salts of cylindrical form, with pierced and embossed classical figure and foliate decoration in the Empire style, pierced border with turn-over rim, engraved initial and clear cut glass liners, matching lidded mustard with sea monster handle and pineapple finial (first half 19th century, possibly Paris). All at approximately 8ozs, mustard 10.5cm overall height (one clear glass liner lacking)
Very rare First World War carved alabaster ship diorama, the three-funnelled gun boat with British flags, crude figures and mounted with guns and lifeboats, on carved base, housed within black painted glazed box frame, 60cm wide. N.B. Probably Southern European and possibly Maltese, by descent from the same owner as lot 861 in the present sale
HRH Prince Charles Prince of Wales - rare black and white Presentation photograph of the seventeen year old Prince, when attending Geelong Grammar School, Corio, Australia - studying at his desk, the mount printed 'Geelong Grammar School, Corio, Prince Charles Timbertop 1966', in original glazed frame, 36cm x 28cm. The Prince attended two terms at the school's Timbertop Camp from January to August 1966. It was his first visit to Australia
Graham Green - May we borrow your husband? signed first limited edition, April 1967, numbered 67 / 500, together with eight further Graham Greene first editions; Carrying a statue, In search of a character, A sense of reality, A sort of life, The potting shed, The Comedians, The Quiet American, Our man in Havana. Also a group of other modern first editions; Evelyn Waugh - Helena Scott - Kings modern Europe, William Golding - the hot gates, The Pyramid, The Spire, Angus Wilson - Anglo Saxon Attitudes, Jean Cocteau - Opium, Gann Maxwell - The ten pains of death, Walter Farrell - Only Son
GB collection in crown twin lock binder continued, commencine 31 pre stamp covers, W.E. Gladstone autograph on thank you note, then three x 1d black on covers (two are four margin) and fifteen 1d stars on cover, followed by a superb GB collection to 1951, starting with eight x 1d blacks, 2d blue, 1d red plates to PL. 224 (ex 77) ous underprint, 1858-70 2d blue plates complete, many stamps to 1883-4 10/- blue (2) lilac and green issue complete and Jubilee set to £1 mint and used ED VII to 1/- mint and 5/- used, GV seahorses, DEFS mint and used, PUC £1 used, GVI to £1 including rsw mint, then various dues and officials ending with regional's on first day cover and individuals with odd errors, a superb lot, seldom offered
Stamps:- Magnificent collection of GB mainly decimal including first day covers, presentation packs, booklets and booklet panes, many of the first day covers are better, with some being numismatic, booklet pane first day covers also noted, main value in very high face value as to presentation packs appear complete to 2005/6 including deputation and high values, prestige books also in evidence, twenty one albums in four boxes.
***AUCTIONEER TO ANNOUNCE AMENDED DESCRIPTION - LOT CONTAINS 95 PROOF SETS*** 95 of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces First Edition Proof Set, struck by John Pinches Medallists Ltd, all medals are in silver and weigh approximately 2.14 ozt each, medals and certificates are in a wooden six drawer presentation case.
A collection of original period newspapers about the Coventry Blitz to include: The Baltimore New Post 15 11 1940, 1000 Killed, Injured in Raid on Coventry. The Chicago Daily News 15 11 1940. Bombers Rip British City Cleveland News 15 11 1940. Blast English City Toll is 1000. Cleveland News 16 11 1940. First Pictures of Bombing. Corriere Della Sera 15 11 1940. formidabile Attacco su Coventry. Daily Mirror 16 11 1940. Night Blitz Begins in Provinces. Los Angeles Evening Herald Express 15 11 1940. British City in Ruins. The New York Times 16 11 1940. Coventry Wrecked in Worst Raid on England. The New York Times 16 11 1940. Coventry Wrecked in Worst Raid on England. (Second Copy) Philadelphia Record 18 11 1940. Countless Dead in Coventry Shelters. The Providence Journal 16 11 1940. Coventry Digs for Victims. The San Francisco News 15 11 1940. Nazi Bombs Raze Coventry. St Louis Post Despatch 15 11 1940. 1000 Casualties in Coventry Raid. St Louis Post Despatch 16 11 1940. 1000 Casualties in Coventry Raid. (Same newspaper Final Edition) St Louis Globe Democrat 16 11 1940. Assault on Coventry Worst in England. Winnipeg Free Press 15 11 1940. Nazis Batter Coventry. Berliner Lokai Anzeiger 15 11 1940 Berliner Lokal Anzeiger 17 11 1940
* JOHN MACKIE, THE SWILCAN BRIDGE oil on canvas, signed and dated '04 75cm x 101cm Framed Note: The Swilcan Bridge, or Swilcan Burn Bridge, is a famous small stone bridge in St Andrews Links golf course, Scotland. The bridge spans the Swilcan Burn between the first and eighteenth fairways on The Old Course, and has itself become an important cultural icon in the sport of golf.
* COLIN W BURNS (BRITISH b 1944 - ), HUNTSMAN IN A LANDSCAPE oil on board,signed 62cm x 91cm (24.5 x 35.8 inches) Framed. Note: Born in 1944, Colin Burns grew up in a Norfolk seaside town. From the age of seven, he began to paint landscapes and sunsets and, as a nine year old, started winning art prizes at school. At the age of twelve, his parents moved to live in the middle of the country in a marshland farmhouse and his former town life was replaced with beautiful surroundings and the local wildlife. Colin Burns claims that this change of lifestyle was the greatest artistic influence he has experienced. He became more and more involved in painting and began observing the wonders of nature. At the age of sixteen he left school and qualified as an accountant and went to work at ‘Birds Eye’ in Great Yarmouth, painting in his spare time and finding an enthusiastic market for his local landscapes. Colin’s paintings caught the eye of a well known Art Dealer - Ivor Hook of ‘The Little Gallery’ in Elm Hill, Norwich - and, through an introduction in 1976 to the renowned ‘Tryon’ Gallery in London specialising in wildlife by leading artists, Colin held his first exhibition in 1977. Having left ‘Birds Eye’ in 1978 to become a professional artist, painting both in oil and watercolour, concentrating on the East Anglian countryside and the birds that inhabit it, Colin Burns has now become one of the most ·successful artists of the day. The Highlands of Scotland and its moors with its unique Scottish wildlife are also beautifully portrayed along with London scenes and even Central Park in New York, such is the versatility of Colin’s talent with the brush. However it is the East Anglian countryside for which he is regarded as a leading wildlife artist. The international Auction House ‘Christies’ now almost exclusively handles the sales of his new work through sales in London, New York and Scotland. Many of his paintings have been reproduced as greetings cards and prints and his original oils and watercolours are keenly sought after and included in important collections in Europe and the USA.
* MOIRA BEATY (SCOTTISH 1922- 2015), BOYS WILL BE BOYS oil on board, signed 20cm x 26cm Framed. Note: Moira went to Glasgow School of Art in 1939 where her contemporaries included Joan Eardley and Margot Sandeman. These three young women were regarded by their lecturers as the brightest stars of their generation. After one year as a student she was recruited to Bletchley Park where she worked as a code breaker, one of Churchill's 'corkscrew thinkers'. She returned to GSA in 1947 to complete her studies. Moira's enduring talent was recognised again last summer at the age of 92 with a sell out exhibition in Kirkcudbright. Moira Beaty was a resolute and determined woman who was an integral part of the famous group at Bletchley Park who did much to aid the Allies' victory in the Second World War. She worked in Hut 8 where Alan Turing and Peter Twinn set up the Naval Enigma Code. Beaty was responsible to Twinn - the first mathematician to be recruited to Bletchley. "I discovered something," Beaty modestly remarked years later, "a code within a code. I was immediately moved to within the codebreakers and became a cryptographer working on the German Secret Service codes." The Twinn team was involved in breaking the secretive Abwehr codes which were even more complicated than the ordinary military messages. The information this provided to the Allies in such major operations as the desert campaign, the D-Day landings and the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz proved vital to the war effort. Her first solo exhibition was at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh in 1979 and at the Collins Gallery in Glasgow. Her works were also seen at the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery in London and around Dumfries - notably at the Gracefield Arts Centre. In 2001 Gracefield held a major retrospective exhibition of both Moira and Stuart Beaty's works, entitled Full Circle. Last year Beaty officially opened the Kirkcudbright Summer Art Exhibition: Glasgow Girls 1920 - 1960, and held a solo exhibition in the town's Harbour Cottage Gallery. Both exhibitions were hugely popular and, at 92, Moira Beaty was still making a strong impression and gaining new collectors..
ROSIE DAHLSTROM, FAT BLACK TRUTHS THAT LOOK LIKE FLIES oil on canvas 60cm x 40cm Framed. Note: Born in Glasgow, Rosie Dahlstrom graduated with a First from the Painting and Printmaking Department of the Glasgow School of Art in 2014, and she continues to live and work in Glasgow. Since graduating, Dahlstrom has exhibited widely in Glasgow, as well as having her first solo show in the Harbour Arts Centre to celebrate International Women's Day. She was also selected for the Royal Society of Painters using Watercolour's Annual Exhibition in the RSA Building, Edinburgh, and has exhibited alongside established Scottish artists such as Graham Fagen and Adrian Wiszniewski in 'The Real Face of Burns' show in Alloway, South Ayrshire. As a result of the GSA Mackintosh Building fire in May 2014, Dahlstrom was a recipient of the Phoenix Bursary which culminated in a large group show in July in Glasgow.
* GWEN HARDIE, FACE 09.17.05 oil on canvas 64cm x 58.5cm (25 x 23 inches) Framed. Provenance: The artist. Private London collection. Note: Hardie is the youngest artist ever to be awarded a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland (1990).Gwen Hardie is represented in many private and public art collections in Britain, Europe and America including two major works in The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has shown with The Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Dinter Fine Art and has been awarded Residencies at Yaddo in 2004, 2005 and 2006 in a Bogliasco Fellowship at The Liguria Study Center in Italy. She lived in London between 1990 and 2000 and had 6 solo shows with galleries such as Annely Juda Fine Art, Beaux Arts and Fischer fine Art. In 1997 her painting was awarded a prize at the John Moores biennial, Liverpool and was included in the New British Painting'' which toured America in 1986. Hardie left her native Scotland in 1984 when she was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to study with Georg Baselitz in Berlin. A documentary was broadcast on Scottish Television about her in Berlin in 1987. At Edinburgh College of art she was awarded the Richard Ford Award to study the paintings of Velasquez at the Prado Museum and received a first class honours degree in 1983. '' Three of Gwen Hardie's paintings are currently included in ''REALITY; Modern and Contemporary British Painting'' at The Walker Art Gallery (until 29th November 2015) alongside the work of Walter Sickert, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, L S Lowry, Jenny Saville, Ken Currie, George Shaw, David Hockney, Alison Watt, Paula Rego and other important 20th century and contemporary artists.
* MERVYN GOODE (BRITISH b.1948), A SUSSEX FARMHOUSE ON THE RIVER ARUN oil on canvas, signed 51cm x 67cm (20 x 26 inches) Framed Note: Mervyn Goode is one of the country's leading and most respected traditional landscape painters in oil. His first One-man Exhibition, at the Highton Gallery in London in 1970, which featured entirely oil paintings depicting the Hampshire landscape, was a 'sell out', and stimulated considerable interest and achieved rare acclaim from Collectors and Critics, both here and abroad. Numerous One-man Exhibitions held in London and the provinces; a One-man Exhibition in the U.S.A; countless invited featurings in Mixed Exhibitions in Public and Private Galleries throughout the country; featurings in television documentaries; and an ever-increasing demand from Collectors in the UK and abroad. Mervyn Goode's work has been reproduced by the Medici Society, Kingsmead Publications, the Bucentaur Gallery, CCA Stationery, Royle Publications, Country Cards, the Almanac Gallery, the Paper House Group, Phoenix Trading and Rosentiel's (who, during 2004, launched a publication of strictly limited edition prints of two of his paintings, each being an issue of 295 copies signed by the artist), and in numerous Fine Art Books and Periodicals.
* RONALD RAE, THY WILL BE DONE charcoal on paper, signed, titled and dated '86 87cm x 154cm Framed and under glass. Note: Ronald Rae was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1946. Whilst still in short trousers he struck his first granite rock. At the age of twelve he was drawing a weekly cartoon strip for a local newspaper. Drawing would be an important part of his life but sculpture his main love and obsession. In the beginning Rae explored his faith through his art. This resulted in a large series of emotive drawings and carvings based on the life of Christ. Being brought up in the countryside it followed that he expressed his appreciation of animals in his art. Aware of his Celtic heritage he thrilled at seeing Scotland's ancient carved stones and Celtic crosses that often included wild boar, horses and bears. In response he has carved all these animals. Rae is one of Scotland's best known sculptors, having carved the Lion of Scotland, located in St Andrews Square, Edinburgh. The Lion was carved from a twenty tonne boulder of pink Corrennie granite from Aberdeenshire. It took over a year to complete using hand tools only. At present the sculpture is on loan to Essential Edinburgh and on exhibition in St Andrew Square Gardens in Edinburgh City Centre.
ROSIE DAHLSTROM, OCYPETE THE FOUL oil on board, signed with initials and dated 2014 41cm x 29cm Framed Note: Born in Glasgow, Rosie Dahlstrom graduated with a First from the Painting and Printmaking Department of the Glasgow School of Art in 2014, and she continues to live and work in Glasgow. Since graduating, Dahlstrom has exhibited widely in Glasgow, as well as having her first solo show in the Harbour Arts Centre to celebrate International Women's Day. She was also selected for the Royal Society of Painters using Watercolour's Annual Exhibition in the RSA Building, Edinburgh, and has exhibited alongside established Scottish artists such as Graham Fagen and Adrian Wiszniewski in 'The Real Face of Burns' show in Alloway, South Ayrshire. As a result of the GSA Mackintosh Building fire in May 2014, Dahlstrom was a recipient of the Phoenix Bursary which culminated in a large group show in July in Glasgow.
AN 82 PIECE ALVESTON PATTERN SILVER CANTEEN OF CUTLERY, Sheffield 1972, makers mark of Robert Welch, 8 place settings, comprising:- 8 table forks- 8 table knives- 8 soup spoons- 8 dessert spoons- 8 tea spoons - 8 coffee spoons- 8 table knives- 8 fish forks- 8 fish knives - 2 large serving spoonsall contained within a timber and velvet lined fitted case. (c.122oz including knives);together with a hardback copy 'Robert Welch: Design in a Cotswold Workshop', first edition, 1973 (82)*Please note, this lot comes with the original receipt from Heal's of Tottenham Court Road
SYD BARRETT - 2 x very rare 1st pressings of the first two solo LP's from Barrett. Titles are Barrett (SHSP 007 no EMI - strong Ex/Ex with only one or two very light marks on the record) and The Madcap Laughs (SHVL 765 no EMI - nice Ex w/only one or two very minor marks/Ex nice clean sleeve). Both complete with original company inners.
LED ZEPPELIN - I FIRST PRESSING - A very well presented 1st UK pressing of the sought after 1st album from Led Zeppelin. This copy has the "turquoise" lettering w/grey stripe on the front of the sleeve, and Superhype credits for tracks A1,2,4 and B1,2,3,5. The record is in Ex condition. There a a couple of light surface marks on both sides, but no deep scratches whatsoever that would cause hindrance to playback. The labels are extremely clean. MATRIX: 588171 A//1 + B//1 (with the second 8 on both sides correctly crossed out with hand etching replacing it). The sleeve is in Ex+ condition. This short lived pressing has a laminated sleeve, and there is very little wear to note to this. There is perhaps slight lamination wear to the reverse.
KRAFTWERK - S/T - A rare original UK release on the Vertigo swirl label (6641 077)- this was the UK combined release of Kraftwerk's first two German albums. The records (6499 268/9) are both in Ex+ condition with hardly any marks to note of. Contains both original swirl inners. The gatefold sleeve is in Ex+ condition with only extremely minor wear.
THE BEATLES - PLEASE PLEASE ME 1ST STEREO - A very scarce 1st UK stereo pressing of the famous debut studio album by The Beatles, issued on Parlophone with black and gold labels (PCS 3042). Dick James credits for tracks A1,2,6,7 and B4,6. The Dick James credits are misaligned on the 2nd and 3rd line on the side 1 label, indicating an first run. MATRIX/STAMPERS: YEX 94-1 1 G + YEX 95-1 1 R. Note that the stampers are from "machine 1" and as such this is the earliest possible pressing. The record is in G+ condition. There are several surface marks to the record but no deeper scratches or "feelable" marks. The labels are fully readable and only a little worn. The sleeve is in VG condition. The rear flipback designed sleeve is worn on the top and bottom with a few small tears. The front of the sleeve in nice clean condition.
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