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Click here to subscribeTwo boxes of various Star Wars toys and ephemera including Wonder World (boxed), Quiz Wiz Electronic Question & Answer Game, games console, key ring, Episode One Clash of the Lightsabers card game, Imperial Forces Collectors Set, Darth Vader die-cast metal key chain, paperweight, ceramic Darth Vader money bank, two Star Wars lunch boxes, etc.
Archibald Thorburn, 1860-1935, `Studies of a Herring Gull`, watercolour and body colour, signed with initials, inscribed `Calva` and dated May 20th 1917, 25cm x 36.5cm Archibald Thorburn was born in 1860, near Edinburgh, the fifth son of the miniaturist Robert Thorburn ARA. He showed an artistic talent from a very early age with particular gift for detailed wildlife studies. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was 20 years old. Thorburn`s watercolours, particularly his depictions of game birds have been illustrated in numerous publications. For details of the condition of this lot please contact the auctioneer.
A signed Manchester City The Blue Moon over Wembley 2011 shirt, bearing in excess of thirty autographed signatures including Alexander Kolarov, David Silva, Nigel De Jong, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Yaya Touré, Shaun Wright-Phillips etc, the reverse with photographic provenance, ticket stub and photograph from the game, framed and glazed
A collection of cookbooks comprising `The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks,` dedicated to the Honourable Lady Elizabeth Warburton by Elizabeth Raffald, published by R & W Dean, Manchester and London 1807, `Wholesome Fare`, by Edmund S & Ellen J Delamere, `The Female`s Best Friend or The Young Woman`s Guide to Virtue, Economy and Happiness`, edited and compiled by Watkin Poole, printed and published by J Gleave & Son, Manchester 1826, `Saleable Shop Goods` with numerous counter, tray and window items, `How to Bottle Fruit, Vegetables, Game, Poulty, Milk, Meat, etc` by ex-Sergeant Major G E O Fowler, FR.H.S. `The Modern Housewife or Menagere`. printed in 1853, `Out of the Frying Pan`, an autobiography by Keith Floyd, a First Edition of 2000, signed by Keith Floyd with an amusing picture of a glass of wine, together with numerous books on cooking (31)
After Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio (1571-1610) Continental School 18th/19th century-`The Card Sharps`, large scale oil on canvas, bears an indistinct signature bottom left, three old wax seals applied verso, 99x137cm (3ft 3inx4ft 6in), inset large and ornate 19th century Florentine carved and gilded frame. NB: Caravaggio`s original was among his most popular and influential compositions and was painted circa 1594, it was acquired by Caravaggio`s most important patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte (1549-1626), for the Poalazzo Madama in Rome. The card game depicted is Primiera, it was one of the most popular gambling games of the period, and an ancestor of the modern poker. It was played with only forty cards, but the aim of the game was very similar. Only four cards are dealt to each of the players and there are only four combinations, a Primiera (one card of each suit), Supremus (6,7,Ace of the same suit), Fluxus (four cards of the same suit) and a Chorus (four of a kind). The game is otherwise decided by Face points, as in Poker (illustrated)
ELLEN HODGETTS (19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL) Oil on canvas Temptation figures with a basket and dead game and companion The Lovers Parting, a pair, signed and dated on verso 1860, 46 cm x 36 cm together with a further study of sheep on a hillside, monogrammed D E H on reverse 15 cm x 25 cm (3) NB It is thought that the pair of works were executed by Ellen Hodgetts daughter of Hodgetts, Richardson and Pargeter who registered glass designs at the Wordsley glass works from 1865-1870
Bryden (H.A., ed.). Great and Small Game of Africa, an Account of the Distribution, Habits and Natural History of the Sporting Mammals, With Personal Hunting Experiences, pub. Rowland Ward, 1899, fifteen hand-coloured litho plates, b & w illusts. including many from photos, half-title with contemp. inscription ÒThe Mombasa Club, with A. Newmann`s salaamsÓ (with later b & w magazine image pasted beneath), title frayed & torn to margins (with col. magazine image pasted to verso), t.e.g., near contemp. half morocco gilt, boards detached and some wear, 4to. Limited edition, 343/500 copies, signed by Rowland Ward. (1)
Nicholson (George). Fifty Years in South Africa: Being some Recollections and Reflections of a Veteran Pioneer, 1st ed., 1898, b & w illustrations, pubs. ads. at end, a few spots, original cloth, a little faded with one or two stains, 8vo, together with Twenty-Five Years Big Game Hunting, by Brigadier General R. Pigot, 1st ed., 1928, numerous half-tone illustrations, a few spots, prize-label at front, original red cloth, 8vo, plus The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain and Brevet-Major Royal Fusiliers Commander of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Being an Account of his Services for the Relief of Kandahar, of Gordon, and of Emin, from his Letters and Diary by Walter George Barttelot, 3rd ed., 1890, mounted portrait frontispiece, two folding maps at end, some spotting, original red cloth gilt, spine lightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, with four others including East Africa Protectorate. Orders in Council, Kings (Queen`s) Regulations, Ordinances, Rules, Proclamations and Other Official Orders in Force in the East Africa Protectorate on the 1st of January 1903, and vols. II-XI, East Africa Protectorate. Ordinances and Regulations, 1900-1910, and From Korti to Khartum, by Col. Sir Charles W. Wilson, 3rd. ed., 1886 (7)
A Second World War `East Africa and Europe` Group of Five to Captain (Hon.Maj) F. J. Cooper, Royal Artillery, 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Territorial Efficiency Decoration, dated to reverse (1960), mounted for wearing, with related dress miniatures, together with a unique period album, titled `Snap Album - Capt. F. J. Cooper, R. A.`, with black and white images (`snaps taken with the Eljy camera, on my arrival to East Africa`), (mostly East Africa, natives, native soldiers, safari, many inscribed) with detailed narrative, service history to frontispiece,`305 (E.A.) (East Africa) L.A.A. Regiment, E.A.A.``205 (E.A.) (East Africa) L.A.A. Battery, E.A.A.``202 (E.A.) (East Africa) L.A.A. Battery, E.A.A.``E.A. Artillery Training Centre and Depot, E.A.C.``P.O.W. Guard Camp, Nairobi``M.E., R.A.. Depot, Heliopolis` Major F. J. Cooper, was educated at Wellington School, he served throughout the Second World War, in Africa, France and Germany. His photographic record of his time, training in Africa, is full of a life spent training for service in the Far East, notations of people, places and game hunting, offer an unique insight into Africa during the 1940s.
An Interesting Small Collection of Relics Relating to Game Hunting in Africa in the 1930`s, including a bird foot blotter, an African carved bone pipe, a silver mounted otter paw pendant ( the mount inscribed CH, CH; 16.X.23), a Continental red stained pottery tobacco jar as a man`s face with sideburns, three bamboo section tankards, two leather vessels (one made from a bull`s testicle), and an 18th/19th century Austro-German two-pronged fork (qty)
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