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Lot 231
WENDY WOOD (GWENDOLINE EMILY MEACHAM). SUMMER RITE. watercolour, signed. 54cm x 38cm. Provenance; The artist`s estate. Note; Wendy Wood, a pseudonym for Gwendoline Meacham, was a fervent Scottish nationalist as well as an artist. One of the founders of the National Party for Scotland, she left it to establish her own organisation, the Scottish Patriots. In 1932 she led a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, pulled down the union flag and put up the lion rampant. In 1951 she was arrested and imprisoned for incitement to riot after addressing football supporters before a Scotland versus England game. Though less known, her artistic work includes drawings and watercolours for children’s books and the comic ‘Little Dots’. She also worked for the BBC as ‘Auntie Gwen’ in a children’s radio program and, in the 1970s, read Scottish stories for the TV programme Jackanory.
Lot 232
WENDY WOOD (GWENDOLINE EMILY MEACHAM). DESIGN FOR A FESTIVAL. watercolour, signed. 51cm x 38cm. Provenance; The artist`s estate. Note; Wendy Wood, a pseudonym for Gwendoline Meacham, was a fervent Scottish nationalist as well as an artist. One of the founders of the National Party for Scotland, she left it to establish her own organisation, the Scottish Patriots. In 1932 she led a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, pulled down the union flag and put up the lion rampant. In 1951 she was arrested and imprisoned for incitement to riot after addressing football supporters before a Scotland versus England game. Though less known, her artistic work includes drawings and watercolours for children’s books and the comic ‘Little Dots’. She also worked for the BBC as ‘Auntie Gwen’ in a children’s radio program and, in the 1970s, read Scottish stories for the TV programme Jackanory.
Lot 233
WENDY WOOD (GWENDOLINE EMILY MEACHAM). BY THE FULL MOON. watercolour, signed. 44.5cm x 34cm. Provenance; The artist`s estate. Note; Wendy Wood, a pseudonym for Gwendoline Meacham, was a fervent Scottish nationalist as well as an artist. One of the founders of the National Party for Scotland, she left it to establish her own organisation, the Scottish Patriots. In 1932 she led a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, pulled down the union flag and put up the lion rampant. In 1951 she was arrested and imprisoned for incitement to riot after addressing football supporters before a Scotland versus England game. Though less known, her artistic work includes drawings and watercolours for children’s books and the comic ‘Little Dots’. She also worked for the BBC as ‘Auntie Gwen’ in a children’s radio program and, in the 1970s, read Scottish stories for the TV programme Jackanory.
Lot 482
REELS (3): A 6" mahogany/brass star back big game reel with ratchet thumb slide grip to rear, brass lined spool, twin black handles, a Milward`s 5" mahogany/brass star back reel with check in wood ratchet, brass lined drum, deep dished face and a 4.5" mahogany/brass star back with knurled tapered drum adjusting knob, optional check, brass lined (G).
Lot 663
REELS (3): An Allcock`s Commodore 6" Big Game reel, brake lever, Bickerdyke line guide, central drag knob, good, an unusual Allcock`s 4.5" nickel plated reel with odd central brake knob adjuster, ratchet to spine back, good and as Pflueger Pakron 6" wire line narrow drum reel with torpedo handle, rear drag adjuster well made substantial reel.
Lot 799
REELS (2): Rare Milward 5" alloy big game reel with Patent central drag knob on counter balanced brass handlebar, shaped wooden knob, Bickerdyke line guide, side lever check, correct smooth brass foot, retaining some original black finish and a similar Army & Navy of London 5" big game reel with twin ivorine handles, central drag adjuster, German silver line guide, brass side lever check and foot (F).
Lot 212
ACCESSORIES: An English willow game fishers creel with hinged lid and central fish slot, containing 6 boxes of assorted pattern Devon baits, inc Hardy Strathspey, Irish patterns, Bull nose and Reflex, plastic & metal examples, a box of Tube flies and a set of Salter vintage brass weigh scales 0-24lb.
Lot 191
A SMALL QUANTITY OF ITEMS RELATING TO PIGEON KEEPING IN THE 19TH CENTURY, including a pill rolling device for making G W Bentz`s Vegetable Poultry and Pigeon pills, for curing Croup and Canker (2d per box, 2 at roost time), unused paper labels for G W Bentz`s diarrhoea mixture for all caged birds, poultry, pigeons and game and further related items, including a letter of recommendation `Those Pills...which I bought off you entirely saved the life of one of my valuable pigeons`, together with two Kingston Columbarian Society Annual Exhibition, Fly Certificates from 1888 and other items, together with a Treaty on the Art of Breeding and Managing tamed domesticated and fancy pigeons by Eaton, published in 1852 (see part illustration).
Lot 39
Neumann (Arthur A.). Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. Being an Account of Three Years` Ivory-Hunting under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North End of Lake Rudolph, 1st ed., Rowland Ward, 1898, half-title present, frontis., b & w illusts. after J.G. Millais, E. Caldwell and G.E. Lodge, one col. plt., folding map contained in rear pocket, `zebra skin` endpapers (inner joints intact), orig. red. cloth, upper cover lettered in black, spine sl. faded and frayed at head and foot, 8vo. One of the best of the African big game hunting books. Hosken p. 148. (1)
Lot 96
New Naturalist Series, nos. 1-6, 8-40, 42-47, 49-55, 57, 58, 60-71, 76, 83 & 86, mixed eds., 1945-2000, together 69 vols., col. and b&w illusts., num. ex-lib. copies, nos. 25, 34, 43, 46 and 51 are defective, most orig. cloth gilt, all but nine in d.j.s, some with slight loss and chipping to spine ends, 8vo, together with sixty-three other New Naturalist main series and monographs, 8vo. First editions comprise, British Game; London`s Natural History; Britain`s Structure & Scenery; Natural History in the Highlands and Islands; A Country Parish; British Plant Life; Mountains and Moorlands; Snowdonia; The Art of Botanical Illustration; Life in Lakes & Rivers; Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone; Birds & Men; A Natural History of Man in Britain; Climate and the British Scene; An Angler`s Entomology; Sea-Birds; Mountain Flowers; Fish & Fisheries; The Folklore of Birds; The Peak District; The Snowdonia National Park; Nature Conservation in Britain; Woodland Birds; The Lake District; Finches; British Seals; Inheritance and Natural History; British Tits; British Thrushes; The Natural History of Wales; Farming and Wildlife; Mammals in the British Isles; The Natural History of Orkney; British Warblers; The Hebrides; The Natural History of Pollination; Lichens. (132)
Lot 122
Johnson (T.B.). The Gamekeeper`s Directory, and Complete Vermin Destroyer; Containing easy, but efficacious, Instructions for the Preservation of Game... Also for taking or killing all kinds of Vermin... Observations on Poaching... Man Traps, Dog Spears, &c. Directions for destroying Maggots and Ticks in Sheep; Ticks, Fleas, and Lice in Dogs; and Lice, &c. in Cattle..., Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, c.1835, five eng. plts., 12pp. pubs. cat. at rear, some soiling, several marginal tears, one or two blank corners torn away, untrimmed, hinges repaired, orig. boards, rubbed and sl. worn, with new cloth spine, large 12mo in 6s, together with Poachers versus Keepers, an Amusing and Instructive Treatise Concerning Poachers & their Artifices, dealing with the many Phases of Poaching directed against Game both Furred and Feathered, Gilbertson & Page, c.1891, 4pp. pubs. ads. at both front and rear, some light staining, orig. gilt lettered limp cloth, sm. 8vo, (rare), plus Barkley (H.C.), Studies in the Art of Rat-catching, popular ed., John Murray, 1896, early ms. name at head of title, edges foxed, free endpapers browned, orig. pictorial tan cloth gilt, a bright copy, 8vo, plus eleven other items relating to rabbiting, trapping, vermin control, agricultural implements, etc., mostly 19th and early 20th c. (14)
Lot 187
A PALISSY/ROYAL WORCESTER EARTHENWARE TEA/DINNER SERVICE, "The Game" Series, decorated with underglazed brown transfer with game birds and highlighted with colour, comprising six 30cm x 24cm oval plates with hare and pheasant, four canted sandwich pl ates 27cm x 14cm, four 20cm plates, four 23cm plates, one large oval vegetable tureen and cover, a pair of circular tureens and covers, sauce boat, three 29cm dinner plates, a large oval serving plate 31cm x 40, tea pot, milk, sugar and two coffee po ts (lidded), seven saucers and one other (larger - 8), a fruit bowl 20cm diameter, three breakfast bowls 23cm diameter and two side plates 18cm diameter
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