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Click here to subscribeSTAR SIGN GAME (? late 18th c.), comprising 48 printed cards: planets, classical figures etc., each with oval illustration and description beneath (a few stains & wormholes). With another, comprising 52 colour printed cards (12 star signs, each with 4 cards + 4? jokers), probably mid 19th c. (2) See illustration.
AFRICANA. Prichard, H. Hesketh. Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness. 1910. Presentation copy inscribed on flyleaf, "F.E. Lacey 1910 from the Author". Portrait, plates, some coloured, by Lady Helen Graham and E.G. Caldwell and from photographs. - Stanley, H.M. In Darkest Africa, Colonial Edition, 1890. (spine faded and frayed). Five maps, 4 of them folding (2 torn), numerous woodcut illustrations - Steevens, G.W. From Capetown to Ladysmith, ed. Vernon Blackburn, Edinburgh and London, 1900. 2 maps, one of them folding and coloured. With a reprint of Roosevelt. African Game Trails, November 1910, and Michell. The Life of...Rhodes, 2 vols., 1910. 8vo., orig. cloth. (6) Sir Francis Lacey was the first man to be knighted for services to cricket.
A large white painted storage box containing a large collection of board games to include Cluedo, Backgammon, Chess, Downfall, etc, a Dunlop carrying case containing tennis rackets, an Action Man toy jeep and a toy truck, together with a Crossfire game, an Aurora World Championship Motor Racing track, a "The Great Train Hold Up" set and a model sailing boat
A box containing an ivory shoe horn, together with an ivory backed hairbrush, assorted ivory cocktail sticks and a stand depicting a lion astride a hoop, raised on a circular plinth base, various ivory and bone fish shaped game counters, a carved ivory bead necklace, a pair of composite figures depicting ladies in Oriental dress, etc
Two George V silver and tortoiseshell menu holders William Comyns, Birmingham 1912, one of oblong form inlaid in silver with a pair of game birds amidst foliage, the other oval decorated with a floral spray, within reeded and foliate borders, together with a George III caddy shovel, Joseph Taylor, Birmingham 1816, with pierced and foliate engraved bowl, repaired, a set of three George V salt spoons, E. S. Barnsley & Co. and another salt spoon, gross weight 1.7oz. (7)
A good 18th century Italian rosewood and marquetry fold over game table the swivel top with velvet lined storage beneath, in quarter veneered rosewood with a broad floral and foliate marquetry border with bees to the corners, cross banded in kingwood, the inner surface centred with a large gonzales-alves and foliate marquetry roundel, cross banded in satinwood and within an outer rosewood and satinwood border, the frieze with shell and foliate marquetry centred with classical busts, raised on conforming rosewood and marquetry square tapered supports with satinwood veneered scroll corner brackets, on collared square feet, 30 x 15½in. (76 x 39cm.), 31½in. (79.5cm.) high.
* Games and bezique markers. Mauchline Ware Fortune Telling game, the octagonal box printed ‘Edinburgh from the Castle’, side panels printed with various questions and spinning wheel, velvet lined, 11.5cm wide, together with a spinning top with photographic printed view of Kirn (replacement rod), a cribbage board printed ‘Sea Front Dover’ and ‘Dover from the Sea’, another photographic printed ‘Broadstairs, Bleak House Pier’, another with three photographic printed panels for ‘Ann Hathaway’s Cottage’, ‘Holy Trinity Church’ and ‘Shakespeare’s House’, Stratford on Avon, each approx. 25cm long, plus a Tartanware bezique marker and a Mauchline bezique marker printed ‘Albert Memorial, Tenby’. (7)
* Games. ‘Ascot’, The New Racing Game, by Jacques & Sons, London, complete with brass spindle with bone winding handle, six lead horses with jockeys up (play-worn and some minor damage), miniature bone dice, orig. varnished wood box with printed label, 25.5cm long. See T & K, p. 105 (plate 177).. (1)
* A Victorian part porcelain dessert service, comprising two comports, and six plates, each shaped and decorated in the imari palette, 24cm diameter, together with a Victorian porcelain woven wall pocket, formed, two cornucopia against basket weave base, together with two further wall pockets, each of cornucopia form and floral encrusted, plus a 19th century porcelain game dish of oval form with gilded decoration, 37cm wide. (-)
A mixed lot of flatware, comprising silver items: a set of three 18th century game skewers, shell terminals, engraved with a crowned M, a late-Victorian Elizabethan pattern sharpening steel, by Streeter and Co Limited, London 1899, a pair of game skewers, London 1898, two 18th century table knives, and a pair of electroplated fish servers, the blade pierced and engraved with a fish in an eel traps, carved ivory handles, approx. weighable 3.3oz. (10)
Arts and Crafts scenic tapestryArts and Crafts four panel scenic tapestry screen, the four panels depicting a hunting scene with wild boar and big game being surrounded by the pack of dogs set in a wooded interior, each panel wrapped in a leather border accented with brass nail head trim, 72``h x 108``wStarting Price: $400
MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) English Footballer, Captain of the England World Cup winning team, 1966. Rare A.L.S., Bobby Moore, on the verso of a slim oblong 8vo colour picture postcard showing two views of the Guadalajara Hilton hotel in Mexico, n.p. (Jalisco, Mexico), n.d. (June 1970), to Mrs. Kynaston in Manchester. Moore thanks his correspondent for her letter, which he greatly appreciated, and comments `Hoping to bring the cup back to England for all the folks at home`. Some light overall age wear and creasing, G The year 1970 was a bittersweet, mixed and eventful one for Moore. He was again named as captain for the 1970 World Cup but there was heavy disruption to preparations when an attempt was made to implicate Moore in the theft of a bracelet from a jeweller in Bogotá, Colombia, where England were involved in a warm-up game. A young assistant had claimed that Moore had removed the bracelet from the hotel shop without paying for it. There was no doubt that Moore was in the shop-he had gone in with Bobby Charlton to look for a gift for Charlton`s wife. The accusation was not proved. Moore was arrested and then released, he then travelled with the England team to play another match winning his 80th cap, and England were 2-0 victors, but when the team plane stopped back in Colombia on the return to Mexico, Moore was detained and placed under four days of house arrest. Diplomatic pressure, plus the obvious weakness of the evidence, eventually saw the case dropped entirely, and an exonerated Moore returned toMexico to rejoin the squad and prepare for the World Cup.
DODGSON C. L.: (1832-1898) Lewis Carroll. English Author of Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland. An excellent A.L.S., C L Dodgson, four pages, 8vo, Christ Church, Oxford, 13th May 1879, to [Thomas Gibson] Bowles. Dodgson announces `I much admire your shower of hard words, & have sent it on to the printer, though without the least expectation that it will calm the storm, or do anything to diminish the general feeling of discontent which I see settling down upon all who have taken up "Doublets"` and continues `May I, without giving offence, venture on a word of remonstrance as to the last "Hard Case"? (I mean the one about a son "born before wedlock"). I cannot consider such a subject as fit for discussion in a drawing room, & among young ladies-& surely that is the sort of society among which you intend the paper to circulate? At any rate that was my impression when I presented you with "Doublets".` Dodgson expands further, `Please do not think me officious: I don`t think I should venture to trouble you, only that I feel that I am now personally connected with V.F. and concerned in its reputation. I have been recommending my young lady friends, right & left, to take up "Doublets", & I confess it comes on me rather as a shock to find that the same paper invites them to discuss a question of bastardy.` He concludes the letter `Don`t (I earnestly beg of you) make me repent that I ever let my name appear in the columns of V.F.` before adding a postscript, `Lest I should be misunderstood, I add that I don`t consider the "Hard Case" as objectionable in itself. As between man & man, I would have no objection whatever to discuss such a question. I simply plead on behalf of the young ladies-& I know of many who are now looking to the "Doublets" with keen interest...` Some very slight, minor show through of Dodgson`s characteristic purple ink, largely to the upper half of the pages, VG Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841-1922) Founder of the magazines The Lady and Vanity Fair. Maternal Grandfather of the Mitford sisters. Dodgson`s preoccupation with the subject of Bastardy within Vanity Fair is interesting-Bowles himself was the illegitimate offspring of politician Thomas Milner Gibson and a servant girl, Susannah Bowles. Doublets, also known as Word Ladder or Word Golf, is a word game which Dodgson invented on Christmas Day in 1877, although the first reference to it in his diaries appears on 12th March 1878. Vanity Fair published the first of Dodgson`s Doublets in their 29th March 1879 issue.
FLY BAG & FRAMED FLIES: (2) Liddesdale of Newcastleton canvas/leather game fisher’s bag 14" x 12", twin front pockets, shoulder strap with brass/leather fittings, fine and a glazed framed collection of 4 Thunder & Lightening gut eyed salmon flies, sizes 3, 1, 2/0 and 3/0, with tying details to rear of frame.
ROD: Hardy The No.6 Salt Water 42lb TC Palakona big game rod, No.E27543 dating to 1933, Hardy’s Patent twin leg framed agate tube guides and roller tip ring, burgundy whipped, light revarnish, felt wrapped fore grip, mahogany/brass detachable butt with stud lock ferrule and original stopper, fine throughout, museum displayed with tag.
ROD: Rare Hardy Salt Water Heavy Duty No 6 Palakona 42lb big game rod, formerly owned and fished by Col E. T. Peel, 6-10" 1 piece cane with detachable polished mahogany and brass butt section, heavy duty twin screw lock winch fitting, felt fore grip, Hardy Patent reel guides whipped burgundy, Hardy Pat roller tip guide, fine condition, can be seen on the cover of Marks book being fished by Col Peel.
LURE: Rare Hardy Scarborough Silver Herring 9" metal bait in blue silver, Hardy’s Alnwick England stamped to both fins, original hook secured with red wool against body and fitted to multi strand wire Hardy Trace and Hardy Alma big game swivel, fine, made from 1937 -50`s, ex Col Peel collection.
ROD HARNESS: Hardy Big Game canvass rod harness, rarely seen example, full twin shoulder outfit with 2.5 to 3.5" wide webbing straps, brass fittings and wood toggle, Hardy embroidered label to rear, fine condition, can be seen worn by Col Peel during the capture of his world record 798lb Tunny in 1932, beating Zane Greys record by 40 lbs, harness illustrated on front cover of Marks book.
ROD: Rare Hardy Salt Water Heavy Duty No 5 Palakona 35lb big game rod, 6-10" 1 piece cane with detachable polished mahogany and brass butt section, bronze stud lock ferrule, rosewood and cork stopper, heavy duty twin screw lock winch fitting, felt fore grip, Hardy Patent reel guides whipped burgundy, Hardy Pat roller tip guide, fine condition, with makers cloth bag and hang tag and spanner, ex Col peel collection.
E.T. PEEL SCRAP BOOK ETC: The personal scrap book of Col E. T. Peel stuffed with many newspaper cuttings and articles relating to Tunny fishing and his exploits, typed and hand written letters, fascinating insight into fishing is the big game world, 3 early Post Cards of Tunny, two with hand written details of Peels fish catches 1930 and 32 plus many black and white original photographs relating to Tunny fishing and various facsimile pages of same.
Toys: two late 19th century Siamese Shadow puppets, an early 20th century French card game entitled The Book of Fate, a Victorian spinning top, a set of bone and ebony dominoes in mahogany box, a collection of lapel pins of the Union flag issued to commemorate Empire Day 1919, a travelling cribbage set, and a collection of 65 million year old fossil ammonites.
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