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Click here to subscribeChinese blue and white wine jug, 19th Century, moon shape decorated with dragons scrolling amidst foliage in underglaze blue and with a domed cover, 22cm; also a Chinese blue and white small moon flask, with salamander handles and domed cover, decorated with figures, 19.5cm; and a Chinese blue and white Meiping covered vase, decorated with figures on a bridge in blue and white, four character Kangxi mark, height 32.5cm (3)
Military Interest and in particular Dieppe and D Day Landings Mulberry Harbour and Winston S. Churchill - Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster OBE born 1896 an important archive including the following: signed photograph Winston S. Churchill VE Day 1945 with accompanying personal letter to Colonel Steer-Webster "Herewith copy of my Minute - Piers for use on beaches - and an autographed photograph of myself as a gesture of thanks to you for helping me to achieve it by your dedication to Mulberry". NOTE - Colonel Steer-Webster was in almost daily contact with Sir Winston Churchill during the construction and development of the Mulberry Harbours. Colonel Steer-Webster's medals and miniatures, including Order of The British Empire, World War One and World War Two medals, French Legion of Honour Medal and American Legion of Merit Medal. Both presented in A.H. Baldwin & Sons Limited presentation cases. Silver model of a "Concrete Mat" hallmarked London 1942, presented to Major V.C. Steer-Webster RE "As a tribute to his ingenuity and energy in discovering a simple solution to the baffling problem that made Dieppe possible, N.E. Wates and R.W. Wates December 1942". Length 14 cm. Colonel Steer-Webster was Deputy Director of Experimental Engineering and played a large part in the design of Mulberry B for Arromanches and previously designed concrete mats, "Chocolate Mattresses" to allow access to beaches with heavy artillery. Colonel Steer-Webster was awarded £1000 for his invention from "the Royal Commission on Awards". A silver plated model "Whale" (floating roadway), length 15 cm, and a silver plated model "Phoenix" anchorage point, length 14 cm. Both were important sections of the Mulberry Harbour. Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster's Military OBE, cased. Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster's "Freedom of The City of London" in later silver case dated October 1963, Garrard & Co. The Freedom of The City of London granted in 1951 "In Recognition of his achievements for having the Mulberry Harbours ready of D Day". Watercolour, Colonel V.C. Steer-Webster and black and white photographs of the same in military uniform. Approximately 150 black and white photographs of aspects of the Mulberry Harbour in construction and use, including official photographs. Tinted panoramic photographic view of Mulberry B 1944, 18 cm x 100 cm. Terence Cuneo Mulberry B 1944, 32 cm x 57 cm. Scrapbook "Mulberry Mission" to Canada 1946 comprising press cuttings and photographs, etc. The Mission was to allay misconceptions in Canada that the Canadian action at Dieppe was simply a tragic episode in the campaign, when in fact the action paved the way for the allies brilliant success in the D Day Landings of 1944. A case of 71 photographic slides in wooden case all Mulberry Harbour related, including design drawings and the harbour itself. World War One - Private V.C. Steer-Webster's dog tags, 1914 silver cigarette case, Royal Engineers cigarette lighter, 1914 Christmas tin, Victorian silver hip flask, Elliott Brothers pocket barometer, service books. The bullet that was removed from Private Steer after an injury which led to him being declared "no longer fit physically for war service" April 1916. There are numerous other items within the archive including lecture notes and in depth analysis of the D Day Landings and documentation from colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster's later career. There is also correspondence with the French Authorities in relation to his receipt of the French Legion of Honour Medal. A brief note on the importance of the Mulberry Harbours - the Mulberry Harbours were floating artificial harbours designed and constructed by British Military Engineers during World War Two. They were used to protect supply ships anchored off the coast of Normandy after the D Day Landings of June 6th 1944. The idea for such harbours came from several people and in particular Winston Churchill. The harbours were intended to protect the ships from storm and enemy attack. Many of the French ports had been destroyed and/or booby trapped by the Germans. The disastrous British attack on Dieppe in 1942 rekindled the interest in the artificial floating harbours. Two were built for D Day. Mulberry A was constructed off Omaha Beach to supply US forces. Mulberry B was built off Gold Beach at Arromanches to supply British and Canadian troops. Mulberry A was destroyed in a storm a few days after it was built. Mulberry B was operational for some 10 months after the landings. In the 10 months after D Day Mulberry B was used to land over 2.5 million troops, 500,000 vehicles and 4 million tons of supplies. The harbour is credited by some historians with shortening the war by increasing the effectiveness of the allied supply chain during the invasion. The harbours were a huge feat of civil engineering. They were built hastily in the dry docks on The Thames and Clyde. They were pulled across the channel by tugs and assembled off the French coast. They were operational within 12 days of the landings. The archive also includes a war time letter from Louis Mountbatten from South East Asia Command Headquarters August 1945 writing to "thank you for your great kindness in presenting me with a painting of Mulberry. I was informed of this just before I left London recently but owing to the Japanese surrender I had to leave so quickly that I was unable to write at the time and thank you". There is also a signed letter from Winston Churchill dated 24th April 1945 thanking Colonel Steer-Webster for "the excellent coloured reproduction of Mulberry B which you have been good enough to have prepared for me" and "thanking you for the various models and relief map of the Mulberry which you have sent to my map room during the past months". There is a secret movement order to Steer-Webster and in reference to Juno Beach June 1944 and other wartime orders (see illustration).
Chinese blue and white porcelain - comprising a rectangular export dish, three ginger jars, a small vase with panels of antiques and with pseudo four character Kangxi mark, blue and white export tankard, a moon flask, a cracked ice ground wine pot, a garlic head candlestick, a provincial blue and white bowl decorated with Feng and a Japanese Kraak style octagonal teacup and saucer (12).
A 19th century ruby overlaid decanter, having a shaped stopper, the mallet shaped body cut through to clear with fruiting vine decoration, together with a Victorian ruby flash onion shape decanter and stopper with ground pontil and gilt number 20. 23.5 cm and 25.5 cm respectively. CONDITION REPORT: The club shaped decanter is in good order with no cracks or chips. It is very dirty. The gilding is predominantly rubbed around the foot rim and stopper. The etched flask is also in good order. There are no chips or cracks. It is however dirty. The gilding to the stopper and main body is rubbed. The two ruby decanters are probably late 19th/early 20th century.
An antique screw top flask type decanter, and another foliate engraved. Tallest 24 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The square flask is in good order with no condition issues. There are no chips or cracks. The decanter with the screw on top has a significant chip to the stopper. The main body of the flask is however in good order with no further chips or damage. The glass blowing is quite crude and there are imperfections within the glass itself.
AN EPNS FITTED LEATHER PICNIC TEA CASE, HAMILTON & CO, CALCUTTA, C1900 comprising kettle, teapot, tea caddy, cream jug, milk flask, lampstand, sugar bows, one spoon and pair of Wedgwood gilt handled bone china cups and saucers, in maker's two-door velvet lined fitted case, 22cm h Leather handle detached, one cup cracked, teapot dented. Originally with two spoons, wicker covering on handle of kettle unravelling
A Chinese blue and white porcelain vase, with pierced sides and central pull out liner, together with another similar example, a compressed enamelled flask, bearing Yongzheng mark, a large Japanese blue and white jar and cover, a twin handled moon flask, a waisted vase decorated with fish and similar
An olive green wine glass, probably late 19th century, the glass with reeded and ornately knopped stem on folded foot, 14cm high, with a hand blown metal mounted green glass flask with stopper, 21cm high, a similar brown glass example with later vine leaf stopper, 24cm high, and a selection of decorative glassware, to include a cut glass jug engraved 'Mary Evans Kedwelly', and various coloured glasses (Qty)
A selection of silver and silver plated items, to include, a set of nine fish knives and forks, Martin, Hall & Co, Sheffield, the white metal filled handles with scrolling foliate designs, with three Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company silver spoons, with enamel topped handles, a toast rack, a hip flask, serving dish, lighter, bottle opener and a selection of flatware (Qty)
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