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Lot 88
* Chiromagica. A Chiromagica game by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, c. 1870, a mahogany box with inserted pane of glass with central hand-spinner, onlaid printed instructions and one sheet of answers, together with three double-sided question discs and two further pictorial onlays of answers, a little soiling and a few small marginal nicks to onlays, sliding lid with chromo-pictorial design to lid, sl. rubbed and soiled, approx. 30 x 30 x 5 cm. An early trivia game whereby general knowledge questions are magically answered by the hand-spinner. When the question on the centre disc is aligned the hand-spinner will magnetically turn beneath the glass to point to the correct answer printed on the matching overlay. (1)
Lot 95
Games. Pip-Pip. Motor Car Game for 2 to 6 Persons, pub. C.W. Faulkner & Co, c.1906, including twenty chromo cards (to form the track course), six chromo motor car playing pieces and two dice, rule cards present, contained together in orig. chromo printed box, box worn and lacking one side, box approx. 125 x 95 x 35mm, together with The New Icosian Game Invented by Sir William R. Hamilton, Andrews” Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, c.1860s, twenty ceramic counters, contained in orig. mahogany box with printed paper label to lid, box approx. 75 x 125 x 30mm, plus other misc. games (a carton)
Lot 97
* Harris (J., pub.). Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third, 1803, folding hand-col. eng. game sheet sectionalised on linen, slightly dust-soiled and rubbed, (lacks counters), together with two rule books (pub. 1804 & 1815 respectively), 1804 rule book torn and frayed, contained together in orig. wallet, worn eng. paper label to one side, game sheet approx. 560 x 525mm (22 x 20.5ins) (1)
Lot 98
Havell (Robert). The Natuorama; or, Nature’s Endless Transposition of Views on the Thames ..., The drawings taken from nature, by R. Havell, Jun., pub. Havell and Co., c. 1825, hand-coloured aquatint cut-out arched viewing frame, and eighteen hand-coloured aquantint cards with grey-wash border to head and foot, numbered 1-18, each 20 x 13.5 cm, loosely contained within orig. morocco-backed cardboard box, with hand-coloured aquatint illust. to upper cover (some discolouration and wear to edges), with publisher’s printed label mounted to verso of upper cover, 8vo. Not in Abbey. A rare moveable pictorial and instructive game, allowing the user to compose a variety of pictureseque views, enhanced perspectivally with the aid of the viewing frame showing the poet Pope in his grotto. (1) Addition: Comes with later cloth box
Lot 107
* Moveables & Transformation Pictures. A collection of twenty various Victorian moveable illustrations and humourous transformation scenes, including four mid-19th c. French lithographic scenes with lift-up flap, pub. Aubert, including three hand-col., a printed maze game, entitled I Can”t Get in and I Can”t Get Out, pub. W. Spooner, a pictographic booklet entitled The Picture Letter and another by Catherine Sinclair, 1866, six hand-col. moveable scenes of figures at home and on the street, four colour-printed fold-out Valentine sheets, two early 19th c. French hand-held moveables, one entitled C”est la Couronne de l”Amour et de l”Himen, and the other entitled Le Sans Soucie, etc., various sizes (largest sheet size 36 x 27.5 cm) (20)
Lot 112
* Passmore (J., publisher). The Laughable Game of What D”ye Buy, by Professor Punch, c.1850, twelve hand-colored engraved cards (illustrating different trades), and seventy-two letterpress cards (being twelve groups of six cards each with the details of the trades), instruction booklet present, orig. wooden box with sliding lid, eng. hand-col. illustrated glazed label to lid, trade cards approx. 60 x 50mm, letterpress cards approx.55 x 43mm, box approx. 125 x 150 x 35mm (1)
Lot 120
* Wallis (John, publisher). The Geography of England and Wales, Accurately Delineated... , Including the Boundaries, Extent, Products, Manufactures &c. of each County with Directions for Playing an Entertaining Game, 1799, forty-nine (of 52) letterpress printed playing cards, folding explaination leaf present, contained in orig. box, printed paper label to one side, box torn & worn (with loss of some text to title label), cards approx. 120 x 80mm (1)
Lot 129
* De La Rue (Thomas, and Co., pub.). The New and Diverting Game of ‘Golliwogg’ consisting of Forty-Eight Pictorial Cards, Depicting the Most Famous Characters and Scenes in the Above Works. Adapted, drawn in fac-simile, and elaborately rendered in Colours from Florence K. Upton’s Original Designs, c.1910, forty-eight colour-printed pictorial cards in sixteen sets of three (complete), first leaf (of two) of rules, 90 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. slipcase box (rubbed), inner slipcase with early ms. notes on one side, outer slipcase lacking sides, pictorial label on upper cover, together with Mickey Mouse Playing Cards, c.1930s, standard English pack, complete, incl. Joker and Scoring card, contained in orig. cardboard box, some minor wear to extrems., and small label on one side, 90 x 58 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), plus another De La Rue pack (for the French market), non-standard, with Shakespearean double-ended courts, lacking the five and the queen of diamonds and the queen of clubs (3)
Lot 149
* Indian playing cards. A set of Ganjifa circular playing cards, 19th c., ninety-six cards (complete), comprising eight suits of twelve cards each, hand-painted and varnished on stiffened paper, each featuring detailed images of people and animals, incl. enthroned figures, tigers, servants, people riding camels, elephants, and horses, and a bullock pulling a chariot, patterned on versos, diameter 49 mm (2 ins), contained in orig. wooden box with sliding lid, rubbed, hand-painted with servants, figures on horseback and camels, elephants and tigers, 80 x 161 x 79 mm (3 x 6.5 x 3 ins) Ganjifa is the best known Indian card game, and is characterised by secular illustrations; the eight sets were intended to symbolize the eight administrative units at the imperial court of the Moslem moguls. (1)
Lot 156
* Persian playing cards. A collection of Persian playing cards for the game of As Nas, 19th c., together twenty cards, hand-painted and lacquered on stiffened paper, incl. three identical pairs, and a set of four identical, plus others similar, each featuring a full-length figure or animals, incl. two lions with the rising sun, the enthroned Shah, the enthroned wife of the Shah, the dancing harem girl, and the figure of a man (possibly a soldier), approx. 60 x 40 mm (2.5 x 1.5 ins), contained in a contemp. Persian papier m?che box, with domed lid, hand-painted and lacquered, with scenes of figures hunting on horseback and cooking, red base with gilt floral and foliate pattern, some minor surface cracking and flaking, 50 x 95 x 70 mm (2 x 3.75 x 3 ins) As Nas cards first appeared around 1700, i.e. in the Safawiden Dynasty. The game of As Nas is made up of five suits, each containing any number of cards divisible by five. Each suit repeats the same design on each card: Padishah - the Shah on a green background; Bibi - the favourite wife of the Shah on a throne against a red background; Lakkat - a dancing harem girl on a yellow background; Sarbaz - the archer, later the soldier, on a golden background; As - the lion from the Persian coat of arms and the rising sun on a black background. The game is thought to have been the ancester of poker as it is played in a similar fashion. (1)
Lot 159
* Spanish playing cards. A pack of playing cards, c.1810, forty hand-col. eng. playing cards, comprising twelve full-length court cards (one supplied in facsimile), and twenty-eight pip cards (complete), dusty, some rubbing, foliate pattern on verso, 86 x 55 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), together with An incomplete pack of playing cards, Madrid, Jose Martinez de Castro, 1810, hand-col. eng. imprint card, plus thirty-one (of 48) hand-col. eng. cards, comprising nine (of 12) full-length court cards and twenty-two (of 36) pip cards, patterned on verso, 86 x 55 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), plus A pack of playing cards, mid-19th c., forty-eight hand-col. eng. cards, comprising twelve full-length court cards and thirty-six pip cards (complete), all with two indices, patterned versos, 86 x 56 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins) All three sets with the national suits (swords, clubs, cups and coins). Although the full Spanish pack comprises forty-eight cards, most have forty cards, the number which is required by the national game of hombre. “The Spanish cards made around 1800 are of a particularly high artistic quality” (Hoffmann, The Playing Card, 1973, p.15). (3)
Lot 175
* Alice in Wonderland. The New and Diverting Game of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Consisting of Forty-Eight Pictorial Cards, Adapted, drawn in Fac-simile, and Elaborately rendered in Colours, from Sir John Tenniel’s Original Designs, by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson, Thomas de la Rue & Co. Ltd, c.1910, forty-eight colour-printed pictorial cards (being sixteen sets of three cards each), maroon waterlily pattern to versos, folding instruction card present, contained in orig. printed box with pictorial card to front, ink ownership signature to one side of box, card dimensions 91 x 62mm (approx. 9.5 x 2.5ins) The printed text to the side edge of the box states “Manufacturers to His Majesty Thomas de la Rue & Co., Ltd. 110, Bunhill Row, London.” which therefore dates the cards to after 1901. (1)
![* [Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville]. A family photo album, formerly belonging to John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (1883-1941](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2781321/466_468x382.jpg)
Lot 466
* [Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville]. A family photo album, formerly belonging to John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (1883-1941), the album containing approx. 200 mounted b & w snapshots from 1900 to 1902, showing Wodehouse and his family at the family home at Witton Park, North Walsham in Norfolk, at Eton College, on holiday in Scotland, including photographs of his father Lord Wodehouse (first Labour peer in House of Lords), his grandfather the 1st Earl of Kimberley (Liberal politician and one time Foreign Secretary), his siblings Babe (Lady Isabel), Edward and Philip and his mother, the Eton photographs showing the Eton College Rifle Volunteers, various sports including the Wall Game, Fives, steeplechase and the Field Game, a few images now missing, mostly numbered and neatly captioned on mounts throughout, images mostly approx. 8 x 8 cm, album leaves with some browning and edgewear and several leaves detached, contemp. half morocco, disbound with upper cover present, oblong folio. Lord Wodehouse, 3rd Earl Kimberley, was a cousin of the novelist P.G. Wodehouse and is sometimes cited as the basis for the character of Bertie Wooster. Clearly, P.G. Wodehouse based a lot of his characterisation on his personal experiences and including his many uncles and aunts, this album providing a Wodehouse family snapshot at a time Pelham was enjoying his first publishing successes. (1)
Lot 485
ROYAL. A VICTORIAN CIGAR BOX. of moulded octagonal form with divided interior, the lid inset with crowned oval badge of the Prince of Wales and inscribed HRH ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES INDIA 1875, the underside engraved Presented to Lord Suffield on returning from India by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, 24 x 15cm, by R & S Garrard, London 1876, the underside of the lid engraved [presumably at Goldsmiths Hall] Goldsmiths Hall June 10th 1876. This Box weighing 36oz 5dwt was made to receive a stamped silver medal of unknown assay, marked R & S GARRARD PANTON ST LONDON, 39ozs; sold with Russell (W H), The Prince of Wales` Tour a Diary in India with some account of some of the visits of His Royal Highness to the Courts of Greece Egypt Spain and Portugal, second edition, Woodburytype portrait and wood engravings, scarlet cloth, worn, aeg, London: Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877 (2) Provenance: Charles, 5th Lord Suffield; thence by decent at Gunton Park, Norfolk until sold on the Instructions of the Trustees of the Gunton Park Estate, Irelands` (Auctioneers), sale on the premises, 16-17 and 25-26 September 1990, lot 1258, whence bought by the present vendor. A keen sportsman, Charles Harbord, 5th Lord Suffield (1830-1914) was a favourite of the Prince of Wales, his new neighbour at Sandringham House. He served as Lord-in-Waiting and Head of the Household of the Prince. Russell`s Diary which accompanies the lot is full of incident, from lively antics on board the "Serapis" to dramatic accounts of elephant charges and big game hunting: "For Lord Suffield there was the pleasant combination of the duties of a high officer of state about the person of the Prince, and of the pleasures of a keen sportsman - good with rifle and gun, and firm in the saddle - in new fields" and, later "The Prince killed a fine tigress with six cubs... Lord Suffield shot a tiger which assumed a very menacing attitude, and obliged him to fire in self-defence; and an odd lot of porcupines, deer, wild boar, pea-fowl, black-buck, duck, snipe, partridge and plover were laid out before the tents when the shooting parties returned in the evening".. ++ Box - in fine condition with light wear to the top as when purchased at the above mentioned house sale
Lot 308
A COMPOSED PAIR OF HANOVERIAN ROYAL D.B. PIN-FIRE SPORTING GUNS MADE FOR ERNST AUGUST, CROWN PRINCE OF HANOVER, CIRCA 1878. one 16 and the other 14 bore, with rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in gold on the ribs by the barrelsmiths `Albert Staelhe in Wienn` and `H. Scherping in Hannover` respectively (one rebarrelled in its early working life), finely chiselled breech tangs decorated with a hound beneath a tree, the crowned Royal cypher, and enriched with gold scrolls, rounded Lefaucheux type actions operated by a rotary underlever, chiselled with scrollwork and game vignettes enriched with gold, back-action locks decorated en suite with the actions, figured walnut half-stocks with chequered grips and raised cheek-pieces (light bruising), chiselled steel trigger-guards en suite with the locks and actions, reinforced with a piece of scrolling horn, engraved steel butt-plates with the numbers `1` and `2`, and a pair of sling swivels (the steel parts with areas of pitting). 74cm; 29 1/8in barrels. Provenance. The Crown Prince`s Gunroom, Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden. Schloss Marienburg
Lot 309
A 16 BORE HANOVERIAN ROYAL D.B. PIN-FIRE SPORTING GUN MADE FOR ERNST AUGUST, CROWN PRINCE OF HANOVER, BY H. SCHERPING IN HANNOVER, CIRCA 1870. with rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed on a matted rib, engraved breech tang decorated with the crowned Royal cypher, rounded Lefaucheux type action operated by a horn rotary underlever, engraved with scrollwork and enriched with panels of gold scrollwork, signed engraved locks chiselled with game vignettes in gold frames, figured walnut half-stock with chequered grip and raised cheek-piece, chiselled steel trigger-guard en suite with the locks, reinforced with a piece of scrolling horn, engraved steel butt-plate with the number `9` on a small oval escutcheon adjacent to the heel, and a sling swivel (the forward sling swivel missing, steel parts with areas of pitting). 75.2cm; 29 5/8in barrels. Provenance. The Crown Prince`s Gunroom, Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden. Schloss Marienburg
Lot 11
MINTON GAME DISH MID 19TH CENTURY polychrome painted, the cover with a recumbent dog next to a shot gun and cartridge bag on a woven surface, the oval dish with twig form handles decorated with holly leaves and berries, each side with a cartouche, one containing a hare, the other a pheasant, impressed marks, date code probably for 1848 (damages) 35cm wide
Lot 67
ROYAL INTEREST PAIR OF JAPANESE SHIBAYAMA WHIST MARKERS LATE 19TH CENTURY in a leather case inscribed with gilt Prince of Wales feathers and `Christmas 1894`, the markers with pegs each decorated with a different bird or insect in mother of pearl and hardstones, the body decorated in gilt and hardstones with partridges amongst flowers and foliage each marker 6cm wide, 9.5cm high Note: The box containing these whist markers is inscribed with the Prince of Wales feathers which suggests that it was either a gift to or from the Prince of Wales in 1894. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) was a keen card player and gambler. He is known to have a baccarat marker inscribed with the Prince of Wales feathers. In 1891 he was caught up in the Tranby Croft affair, when it was revealed that he had played an illegal game of Baccarat for money the previous year. On 8th September 1890, Sir William Gordon-Cumming and the Prince were among the guests at a house party at Tranby Croft, the country house of shipbuilder Sir Arthur Wilson. That evening the guests played baccarat, a gambling game which was illegal in England but was a favourite of the Prince. During the evening, several players observed Sir William apparently cheating by altering the amount of the bets he had on the table after he won or lost a hand. Sir William denied any wrong-doing but finally agreed to sign a pledge that he would never play cards again in exchange for an agreement that the matter would be kept secret. It did not, however, remain secret and Sir William was shunned by society. He decided to take his accusers to court and the Prince of Wales was called as a witness and was forced to admit to his participation in the evening`s events. Sir William lost the case. The Prince of Wales continued to gamble, but more discreetly, giving up baccarat and taking up whist instead.
Lot 8
Bell (W.D.M.). The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, 1st ed., pub. Country Life, 1923, half-tone plates (one loose with frayed margins), occasional light spotting, original buckram-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, 4to, provenance: C.E.D. Stiebel, owner label and signature, inscribed in pencil beneath: ÒIn memory of old MacAllister who spent some years with Karimoja Bell, Mac sent me this book, 1948. MacAllister back in Uganda living at Fort Portal - very old - but still bagging his 3 elephants each yearÓ, together with Rowland Ward`s Records of Big Game. African and Asiatic Sections Giving the Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights and Horn & Tusk Measurements, 10th ed., 1935, illustrations, original buckram, slightly rubbed, 4to (2)
Lot 42
Jessen (B.H.). W.N. McMillan`s Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, 1st ed. (for private distribution only), 1906, b & w port. frontis., numerous b & w plts. & illusts. from photos. and drawings, large folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. red cloth, lettered in gilt, slightly faded to spine and upper board, large 8vo (1)
Lot 106
An `Old England` herring-bone tweed lady`s hunting/sporting suit, French, circa 1920, labelled, comprising: tweed jacket with single large pocket (for small game), the matching breeches with leather reinforcements to the inside legs buttoned side flaps, chest 107cm, 42in, waist 72cm, 28in (2)
Lot 364
UNUSUAL AND RARE BLACK FOREST CUCKOO AND JACK AUTOMATON AND MUSICAL THREE TRAIN WALL CLOCK, the well carved chalet type case with stag and crossed muskets to the pediment above a game bird and hare flanking the circular dial with white ivorine chapter and pointers, the three train weight driven movement with skeletonised brass plates and wheel trains activating the half hour and hour strike on a gong, the going train and the third train integrated to a musical mechanism on a 74mm rotating pin barrel and comb, the cuckoo and jack appearing in open hatches above the dial. 70cm high inc. pediment, 50cm wide
Lot 6
n/v. Victorian leather bound game book register dated 1837 with guilt embossed leather pigskin boards "Clungunford House Game Register" c/w brass lock. The book covers the period from1837 right up to WWI then from 1958 -1974. To include an original photograph of shooters and guests at Downton Hall in 1914. Overall height 10.75" x 15.5".
Lot 76
Early 20th c French `Le Spirobole` tennis game: comprising a four-piece brass coloured pine pole, (overall 6ft) complete with the attached ball and a pair of wooden, concaved gut-strung play rackets. Supplied with an original French advertising leaflet describing the game and how to play it, with illustrations of two people playing.
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