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An interesting early 20th Century Russian part serving set, by Faberge, comprising: a fork; a large serving spoon; a small spoon; and an associated cake knife, in velvet lined case with Faberge symbol. NB: The above items belonged to Nurse 'Nanny' Bell. Miss Bell was born at Wolsingham, Durham. She received her first special training in Newcastle Town Moor Children's Hospital. In 1886 she worked as nurse to the children of Sir David Drummond, the famous physician of Newcastle upon Tyne. From there she then went on to occupy similar posts with various noble families across Europe and Russia, including Prince Radolin, the German Ambassador, Baron von Dervies and Prince Bellossky de Bellossky, on the Krestovskey. Also later with Grand Duke George & Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. The Grand Duchess was a cousin of the late Tzar and daughter of King George I & Queen Olga of Greece. She then returned to special training at All Saints Nursery College in Harrogate, followed by a visit to another country to take charge of King Peter of Serbia and then to Czechoslovakia to care for the children of Count Coudenhove at Cschloess Romsburg in the Bohemian forest. This was followed with missions to Paris and then to Chile. The above piece is offered for sale by Nurse Bell's descendants.
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After John Dean Paul (1775-1852), 'The first ten minutes - shaking off the cocktails' and 'Symptoms of a skurry in a pewy country', plates 2 and 3 of 'Leicestershire - Gaudet Equis Canibusque', two coloured etchings with aquatint, 31 x 62cm (12 x 24in) overall, together with 'Grand National Recollections', a coloured engraving after Finch Mason, published 1887 by Fores, 33 x 47cm (13 x 18 1/2in)(3)
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A folio of sketches, five in oil, approximately 25 in watercolour and a few in pencil, mainly of horses and racing subjects, together with the race card for Down Royal Races, July 18th 1936 (including that year's Ulster Derby), and a number of newspaper cuttings reporting on the event. These were given to the vendor by Sir John Brown and are believed to be the work of his father of the same name, who was apparently responsible for the cartoon 'Pip, Squeak and Wilfred' after the First World War.
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John Corvin (20th century), Figures in costume outside a castle on a film set, probably 'Macbeth', oil on board, signed lower right, 51 x 41cm (20 x 16in), together with two smaller works by the same hand of film and theatrical scenes, both also oil on board (3, all unframed) (The artist, who is also an actor, is the figure in a red cloak in the first work)
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Books: ten books by Arthur Ransome, all with original green fabric covers (none with dust jackets): 'Swallows and Amazons' Webb first illustrated edition, 1931; 'Winter Holiday', 1933; 'Coot Club', 1934; 'Secret Water', 1939; 'Big Six', 1940; 'Peter Duck', two copies, one 1932 and one 1953; 'We didn't mean to go to sea', 1937; and 'Missee Lee', 1941; along with quantity of books about Ransome (quantity)
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Books: four by Arthur Ransome, all with dust wrappers: 'Swallows and Amazons', Jonathan Cape, illus. by author and Nancy Blackett, 1939; 'Great Northern', Jonathan Cape, 1947 (first edition); 'The Picts and the Martyrs', Jonathan Cape, first edition 1943; 'Pigeon Post' first illustrated edition 1936, illus. Nancy Blackett (four)
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E*** Hastings, Portrait of Diana Maria Clavering (D.1821), 1st Wife of Lt Col. James Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, signed and dated 1813, pastel on paper laid on canvas, 65x53cm.; 25.5x20.75in. The sitter was the daughter of Charles John Clavering. In 1820 she married James Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone as his first wife.
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Sir William Quiller Orchardson R.A., 1832-1910, the market girl from the lido, signed, oil on canvas, 59.6x101cm.; 23 1/2 x 39 3/4in. Late in April 1870 Orchardson leisurely embarked for Italy, reaching Venice by early April and taking rooms within the Casa Benetzki on the Grand Canal. He had intended to devote himself to painting in Venice but found the light too vivid and instead chose to make sketches and absorb the atmosphere of faded elegance. He took the ill-advised decision to swim every day in the canals, always casting his hat into the water first before leaping in head first after it. He employed the exclusive services of a young gondolier to ferry him through Venice's waterways and to follow him as he swam through the waters, 'one of those invaluable servants you find once or twice in a lifetime among the Latin races, but never, in ten lives, among the Teutons. Everything conceivable that an Englishman in Venice could require, Antonio sought and found.' The handsome gondolier was also something of a romantic hero having risked all by offering himself for a blood transfusion (extremely risky and rarely attempted in those days) to save his fiancee after she contracted smallpox. 'He forced his way to the girl's bedside, took her in his arms where she lay, and never relaxed his hold for a day and a night, until the feeble spark of life was nourished back to the beginnings of flame.' (Walter Armstrong, The Art of William Quiller Orchardson, 1895, p. 27). Whilst Orchardson was in Venice he witnessed the girl's seemingly miraculous recovery and marriage to Antonio and was greatly touched by the heroism of the valiant gondolier and his love for his beautiful young wife. Undoubtedly Antonio and his fiancee were the stimuli for A Market Girl from the Lido which was probably painted immediately after Orchardson's return to London. Orchardson's time in Venice had been a disappointing one, plagued by illness and conditions that he found to be against any possibility of painting. However he returned to London committed to paint several images of Venetian life including On the Grand Canal of 1871, The Venetian Fruit Seller painted in 1874 (Sotheby's, Hopetoun House,19 April 2004, lot 8), and Moonlight on the Lagoons of 1875. Provenance Mrs Richard Johnson, by 1887 Exhibited London, Royal Academy 1870, no. 298; Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887, no. 383 Literature James Stanley Little, 'The Life & Work of William Q. Orchardson Royal Academician', Christmas edition of Art Journal, 1897, p. 21
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Sir Edward John Poynter, Bart., P.R.A., R.W.S., 1836-1919, winter cherries, christmas roses, each signed with monogram and dated 1881 and inscribed with the titles in painted cartouches, watercolour with gold paint and bodycolour, a pair, unframed, each 17x11.5cm.; 6.754.25in. (2) The present pair of watercolours are similar in style to a set of playing cards designed by Poynter in the later 1870s for Messrs de la Rue (Victoria and Albert Museum) and a design made for an advertisment for the Guardian and Life Assurance Company in 1886. During the 1860s and 1870s Poynter had worked sporadically upon a set of decorative tiles for the Refreshment Rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum depicting female personifications of the seasons. The first set of designs had been submitted in 1866 and proved so successful that in 1877 Poynter was asked to produce a further group of designs. It is probable that the present pictures relate to a later commission for the scheme. The charming designs are redolent of the Aesthetic movement with the combination of oriental, classical and Victorian motifs and the interest in foliate decoration and female beauty.
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BOSTON (L) A collection of six signed first editions and thirty letters from the later 1950's onwards to include NOTHING SAID 1971; A STRANGER AT GREEN KNOWLE 1961; THE CHILDREN OF GREEN KNOWLE no date; YEW HALL; THE CHIMNEYS OF GREEN KNOWLE 1958; and THE STONES OF GREEN KNOWLE 1976 all with dust jackets 5 other first editions unsigned and related ephemera
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HEYER (G) A collection of twenty five first editions to include ARABELLA 1949 2 vols; THE RELUCTANT WIDOW 1946; THE FOUNDLING 1948; THE QUIET GENTLEMAN 1951; THE GRAND SOPHY 1950; COTILLION 1953; THE TOLL-GATE 1954; BATH TANGLE 1955; SPRIG MUSLIN 1956 2 vols; SYLVESTER 1957; VENETIA 1958; THE UNKNOWN AJAX 1959; AND PISTOLS FOR TWO 1960; and six related books some with d.j. other with d.j. attached to front end paper (30)
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VITA SACKVILLE-WEST and STEPHEN TENNANT. A signed letter from Vita to Stephen and a poem written by Stephen the letter reads: I am sorry about our projected luncheon on Feb 8th but of course if u are gone to Paris before then it can't be helped. I would love you to spend a night here before u go could u come Friday Jan 28 or Friday Feb 4th? Do if u can. I have got some apple logs from an old apple tree blown down in the recent gales-and they smell like incense on the fire-and they might remind u of Catholic churches in Venice as well as of apple orchards in England-and so we could sit and talk about Italy and England and Spain and North Africa with Northern winter winds blowing around us and the scent of incense in our nostrils-and poetry in our hearts Your Lovin V on Sissinghurst Castle headed paper. The eight line poem is written opposite the title page within; SACKVILLE-WEST (V) ANOTHER WORLD THAN THIS first edition with d.j and given to Stephen from Vita on December 12th 1945; with a 5th edition PEPITA also given to Stephen from Vita.
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GEORGEII III REGIS Nine chapters referring to Acts of Parliament set during the first session of the 16th Parliament on 18th May 1784 chapters 11 24 30 31 36 37 38 42 and 43 which include acts on additional rates for postage additional duties on licences and beer duties to his majesty for the killing of the game and act for repealing duties on tea Charles Eyre & William Strahan London 1784
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*PROGRAMMES Opera Russe a Paris with foreword by Prince A. Zereteli and M. W. De Basil; Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo Season 1935–1936–1937; Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Season 1949–1950; Sadler’s Wells Ballet First Coast-to-Coast Tour 1950–1951; Sadler’s Wells Ballet First American Appearance 1950; Sadler’s Wells Ballet Shrine Auditorium 1949; The Ballet Theatre of New York Coast-to-Coast Tour 1945–1946; San Francisco Opera.
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Worksplate, LNER fully titled 9 x 5, cast iron construction, number 9382 Cowlairs Works 1909. Ex North British Railways Class D33 4-4-0, originally numbered 382 of which only twelve were built between 1909 and 1910 (NBR Class K). The first LNER number in 1924 was 9382 and in 1946, it became 2463 and was numbered 62463 by BR, although didn't survive long enough to actually carry the number before withdrawal in March 1948 from Bathgate depot. Originally shedded at Eastfield, this loco would have worked local trains services out of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The introduction of Thompson B1's saw their rapid demise. A fine, early LNER plate from a scarce class.
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Cabside Numberplate 6316. Ex GWR 2-6-0 Mogul Locomotive built Swindon January 1921. First allocated to Wolverhampton, it quickly found its way to Croes Newydd where it remained for most of its working days plying the ex Cambrian Railway routes. Finally withdrawn in July 1962 from Llanelly depot. An absolutely stunning brass cabside with original paint, including traces of the one time, orange lining. Loco and Boiler stamping in top and bottom rim, this is by far the best example seen in terms of ex loco.
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Signalbox Board MANOR POWIS with three bakelite Signal Indicators attached. Between Cambus and Stirling, site of a colliery. Measures 49" x 15½" in original condition, metal letters on wood. Accompanying is a b/w image of the signalbox board with signalman Jim Drysdale beside. When acquired, the indicators were attached as a memento. Other, very interesting photographs show the first train into Dunfermline Upper, Hilton Road and Longannet Power Station Signalbox interiors, Cambus Junction Signalbox with class 27 picking up Token, Kincardine Junction Signalbox with class 40 passing, plus some early shots of Dunfermline Upper and Lower stations.
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