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Lot 763
Angling : the Hardy's Anglers Guide , 47th Edition 1925 . A comprehensive catalogue including full monochrome illustrations of the retailer's rods , tackle & equipment , together with period articles on game fishing , and an additional 24 colour plates illustrating flies , lures and rods . CONDITION: Please Note - we do not make reference to the condition of lots within catalogue descriptions. We are however happy to provide additional information regarding the condition of items on request.
Lot 905
Orient Line - Mail Steamers between London and Australia : A pack of John Waddintgon Leeds & London circular playing cards and rules for 'The Game of 500 ' Each card approx 3" diameter. (52 cards - no 8 of hearts and with one Joker) CONDITION: Please Note - we do not make reference to the condition of lots within catalogue descriptions. We are however happy to provide additional information regarding the condition of items on request.
Lot 84
A Wedgwood Majolica game dish, with bird to lid, impressed mark and lozenge registration mark. Length 24 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: This piece is in generally very good condition. The lid has no problems at all. The base has a scuff to the nose of both mythical creatures and around the head of one of the dead game birds. There is also a small chip to the top edge of the inner lid rim. There is no further damage, no repairs and no restoration.
Lot 96
Two Victorian pot lids, "The Game Bag" and "A Pair". Each diameter 10.5 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The pot lid “ A Pair” has a hairline crack running from the arm of the male figures chair down to the side of the piece and around the back. This is just visible from the front but clearly visible from the rear. There are also very minor old scuffs to the outer and bottom edges of the piece. The second pot lid is in better condition but does also have a faint hairline crack running for about an inch. There is also a series of small chips to the foot rim and one slightly larger on the outside edge.
Lot 525
A Chinese pair of white glazed porcelain tiles decorated in famille rose enamels with Daoist Immortals and companions in a garden scene, seated playing a board game, all within a blue and white swastika motif diaper border, signed and with calligraphic inscription, late 19th century, 29 x 41cm in wood frames with openwork border. Condition Report: Abrasion to glaze in top left hand corner, 1” by 2”. Broken seal. A few scratches. Otherwise good condition.
Lot 84
A Wedgwood Majolica game dish, with bird to lid, impressed mark and lozenge registration mark. Length 24 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: This piece is in generally very good condition. The lid has no problems at all. The base has a scuff to the nose of both mythical creatures and around the head of one of the dead game birds. There is also a small chip to the top edge of the inner lid rim. There is no further damage, no repairs and no restoration.
Lot 260
A FINE AND VERY RARE 39-BORE NUREMBERG WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE STOCKED BY THE "MASTER OF THE CASTLES", CIRCA 1600 with swamped octagonal sighted smooth-bored barrel struck with Nuremberg mark and the maker`s mark, a unicorn and initials, profusely etched over its length, the upper planes decorated with differing gilt panels of leaf ornament linking three elongated nodular-shaped gilt panels each filled with tiered sprays of flowers and foliage over the breech, the median and the muzzle, and all within contrasting guilloche and scrollwork borders etched in the white, flat lock struck with maker`s mark, LH over a pair of brushes (Neue Støckel 3773), decorated with etched panels of scrollwork within gilt scrollwork borders and all on a matted stippled ground, fitted with gilt-iron wheel-bracket, sliding pan-cover with button release, gilt-iron safety-catch and the dog engraved with a monster and a grotesque, fruitwood full stock veneered in ebony, very finely decorated over its full length with an inlaid series of engraved horn oval plaques all set within an elaborate framework of mother-of-pearl, the horn plaques formed as game animal vignettes over the sides of the fore-end, with female personifications of the Cardinal Virtues concentrated over the rear, involving Faith inlaid on the underside of the breech, Justice and Prudence jointly opposite the lock, Charity and Temperance jointly on the cheek-piece and Fortitude on the right-hand side of the butt, together with an espagnolette mask inlaid on upper surface of the butt and a pair of scrollwork panels enclosing medallions filled with an officer`s bust and Turk`s bust respectively either side of the barrel tang, the mother-of-pearl plaques pierced and engraved with both rollwerk and scrolling interlace patterns heightened over the rearward section with cornucopia, swags, grotesque masks, monsters` heads , fruit and flowers, the entire scheme arranged as a series of segments within engraved horn stringing and border strips, the latter decorated with differing patterns of foliage and scrolls and partly inhabited by small animals and birds, the entire inlaid scheme on a ground of incised gilt scrollwork interspersed with both natural and green-stained horn pellets and sown with engraved mother-of-pearl rosettes, the patch-box cover veneered in horn decorated with panels of spiralling foliage inhabited by exotic birds and framing the full-length figure of a Turkish archer, with horn butt-plate engraved with the figure of a caliverman in contemporary dress, moulded iron trigger-guard, and the ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap each of engraved horn (the inlay with minor losses, the ramrod missing) 57.2 cm; 22½ in barrel The stockmaker known as "The Master of the Castles" remains unidentified by name but was almost certainly working in Nuremberg. He is so-called because of the castles which feature in some of his distinctive inlaid compositions; to judge from the quantity of surviving examples it is likely that this celebrated stockmaker presided over a substantial workshop. Examples of this stockmaker`s work are preserved in a wide range of institutional collections, some including the Bargello, Florence (inv. nos. R/64 and M. 235); the de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (inv. nos. 104 and 130-132); The Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. M 1082-1910); The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (inv. nos. 6611 and 6613); and the Princely Collections in Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein (inv. no. 3822). For a detailed commentary on the works of "The Master of the Castles" and for a comprehensive record of his works in public collections see Blair 1974, pp.319-322.
Lot 304
A VERY RARE 15-BORE NORTH GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE WITH ENCLOSED RAINPROOF MECHANISM, SIGNED LUDIVIC HENRIC, NASSAU, DATED 1633 with octagonal sighted barrel lightly swamped at the muzzle, hexagonal bore cut with six grooves, signed in Latinised form "Lvdivicvs Henricvs Comes Nassovicvs", dated "1633", struck twice with the mark MS, a clover leaf beneath (Neue Støckel 4048) and struck with a further mark, the arms of the Counts of Nassau (Neue Støckel 5509, a lion), flat lock-plate engraved over its full surface, involving a pair of male and female figures in contemporary dress embracing within a field of scrolling flowers and seated upon a slab, the latter cut with the enigmatic inscription "O:L: Was Thvs Tv Aô 1633", fitted with internal wheel , the spindle entering from the left and concealed on that side by a pivot cap disguised as a large screw-head, fitted with conventional pan closed by a domed moulded rectangular cover also forming the pyrites-holder and pivoting forwards on an internal spring, the cover fitted with a threaded adjustable lifting-peg also forming an internal clamp for the pyrites held inside, and the lifting-peg baluster-shaped and pierced for a thong, fruitwood full stock carved with a scallop shell moulding in low relief at the base of the fore-end, inlaid over its length with a series of engraved dark horn plaques, including hares pursued by hounds along both sides of the fore-end, rosettes for the barrel-pins and the side-nails, a stylised circular peacock plaque seating the spindle-cover, further game animals including a fox pursued by a hound over the butt, and the cheek-piece decorated with another pair of amorous figures as falconers on a shared mount, fitted with sliding patch-box cover veneered in engraved horn plaques, horn butt-plate with iron finial, iron trigger-guard, iron ramrod-pipe, engraved horn fore-end cap, and bone-tipped wooden ramrod (the back-sight and small pieces of inlay missing) 64.8 cm; 25½ in barrel Wheel-lock firearms built with an enclosed rainproof mechanism are very rare and the present carbine is possibly the earliest dated example. The maker is apparently unrecorded and no German or Dutch derivatives of his name are found in the published gunmaking references either. The system was developed in about 1630 and appears to have remained in vogue at least until about 1653, although merely as a luxurious novelty to judge by the prestigious but very few surviving examples. The leading exponent of the system, and perhaps its inventor, was the celebrated French clockmaker Pierre Bergier of Grenoble. In 1635/6 Bergier, in collaboration with Chabriens de Montélimar, produced two pairs of two-shot superimposed-load pistols on a variation of this system involving coiled internal mainsprings; one of these was made for Louis XIII and is preserved in the Musée de l`Armée, Paris (Inv. M 1659), the other pair was made for the Dauphin, later Louis XIV, and formerly in the collection of William Goodwin Renwick. There are two further extant pairs of pistols with wheel-locks built on this system, one by La Fonteyne a Mourgues, circa 1645 (in the Army Museum, Prague), the other by a member of the Bavarian Gsell family of Arzberg, made for Duke Julius Heinrich of Saxony and dated 1653 (Tøjhus Museum, Copenhagen). The lock mechanism of the present carbine is built on a conventional branched mainspring; the construction principles of this lock and of its spanning arrangement compare most closely with those of two French wheel-lock fowling-pieces, circa 1640, now in the Musée de l`Armée (Inv. M 405 & M 404); the first is number 103 in the 1729 inventory of the Royal Cabinet d`Armes. See Reverseau 2004, pp.100-107. A pair of wheel-lock carbines in the armoury of Carl Gustav Wrangel in Skokloster castle are struck with the barrelmaker`s identical mark, together also with the mark in the form of the arms of the Counts of Nassau. The pair, dated 1627, is attributed to an unspecified Dutch origin on the basis of inclusion of the arms of Nassau, with which the stocks are inlaid also, and of its Dutch historical provenance: see Meyerson & Langström 1984, p. 151, Cat. No. 66-7. For a survey of 17th century wheel-lock firearms with enclosed mechanisms see Hoff 1969, pp.116-120
Lot 315
A 21-BORE AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN WITH FINELY CAST GILT-BRASS MOUNTS, VIENNA OR SALZBURG, CIRCA 1730 with etched twist barrel formed with sighting flat and stepped moulded breech, silver "spider" fore-sight, bevelled lock chiselled with a two-part boar-hunting scene in low relief on a punched matted ground, the cock, its top jaw and the steel each chiselled en rocailles, carved moulded figured walnut full stock decorated en suite with rococo ornament about the barrel tang, the butt with raised cheek-piece decorated with a star formed of inlaid contrasting wood segments, carved in relief with scrolls and acanthus flourishes at both ends and about the base of the comb, with full gilt-brass mounts finely cast in low relief with a series of elaborate rococo vignettes, comprising butt-plate decorated with the figure of a lady huntress standing in contemporary hunting dress beneath an exotic baldacchino, solid side-plate decorated with a landscape vignette involving hunting dogs and shot game within a scrollwork frame suspending a demon mask, trigger-guard finial cast in the form of a further baldaccino, involving a sportsman in contemporary dress within a vignette on the bow, decorated with a demon mask on the finger-spur, and with three faceted ramrod-pipes (one side-nail, the fore-end cap and the ramrod each missing, the stock cracked about the full area surrounding the barrel tang) 96.5 cm; 38 in barrel The etched twist barrel is a fashionable legacy of the Ottoman style of barrelmaking popularised in Austria and Southern Germany by the firearms included among the booty of the Austro-Turkish Wars of 1683-99 and 1716-18. Mounts of this high quality are characteristic of the luxury firearms produced by the leading gunmakers in Vienna and Salzburg within the first half of the 18th century. The highly elaborate portrayal on the butt-plate of the figure of a lady huntress is quite possibly a reference to the Empress Amalia, consort of the Emperor Joseph I. A contemporary account of a shoot held especially for the ladies of the Viennese Court describes the Empress finely dressed and shooting from a throne at the end of a beautiful alley in her garden; see Hayward Vol. II 1963, p.119-20.
Lot 316
A 36-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY DANIEL ECK (OF NÖRDLINGEN), CIRCA 1720 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and signed "D: EcK", the lock with bevelled forward edges and finely engraved with a stag-shooting vignette, and the tail rounded and decorated with a game dog inhabiting a strapwork design (one side-nail missing), figured walnut full stock carved with decorative mouldings in low relief, the butt with cheek-piece carved with a voluted leaf design at the rear and fitted with sliding patch-box cover, full iron mounts, comprising butt-plate with its tang engraved with a strapwork and acanthus leaf pattern, side-plate pierced and chiselled with interlaced scrollwork, trigger-guard with chiselled moulded finials, a pair of moulded faceted ramrod-pipes and chiselled scrollwork escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and iron-tipped wooden ramrod 77.7 cm; 30 5/8 in barrel
Lot 540
A hardback volume "The Football Encyclopedia" 1934 edition 320p.p. to include a history of the game, club histories for England, Scotland and Ireland, a list of international players for all four home countries, international records etc. Also two "Morning Leader" football annuals 1909-10 and 1911-12 (3).
Lot 355
FLORIDA BIG GAME FISHING - a late 19th cent. album, 21 leaves with 48 mounted & captioned photos., possibly a holiday record; the participants appear to be Mr. Stanley & Major Carter - mostly for tarpon, on the sailing yacht, 'Atala'; 12 photos. 6 x 4 ins., remainder 3 x 2; oblong clothbound album with ties, gilt-lettered 'Florida, 1899 / T. Morris.' * v. good historical record; several images of the vessel & named crew (incl. the original owner of this record), fishing from open boats, shore-line gaffing, close-ups of specimens caught, etc.
Lot 355
FLORIDA BIG GAME FISHING - a late 19th cent. album, 21 leaves with 48 mounted & captioned photos., possibly a holiday record; the participants appear to be Mr. Stanley & Major Carter - mostly for tarpon, on the sailing yacht, 'Atala'; 12 photos. 6 x 4 ins., remainder 3 x 2; oblong clothbound album with ties, gilt-lettered 'Florida, 1899 / T. Morris.' * v. good historical record; several images of the vessel & named crew (incl. the original owner of this record), fishing from open boats, shore-line gaffing, close-ups of specimens caught, etc.
Lot 641
PIERRE JULES MENE (1810-1877), a bronze cup and cover modelled as a segmented tusk, the cover surmounted with a hooded hawk above dead fish and game in relief, the body with fox and stag hunting in a woodland, the pedestal cast in high relief with a lizard attacking a bird`s nest and bird chasing a beetle, on leaf cast oval base, signed and dated twice 1849, 15"" high (Illustrated)
Lot 723
19th Century British School study of a standing hunter, oils on canvas together with another study of dead game. Framed. (2) CONDITION REPORT; 22 x 29 1/4 inches (canvas). Significant damage/rips to canvas and very dirty. 29 x 24 inches (canvas). Very dirty/grubby with surface scratches. Splashes of what appears to be varnish.
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