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Click here to subscribeA Victorian Silver Model of a Moorland Game Bird, Neresheimer & Co Ltd of Hanau, Import Agent Berthold Muller, Chester, circa 1900, modelled with detachable head, 5cm high; and A Continental Glass and Gilt Metal Scent Bottle, circa 1920, the globular red body with a gilt metal pedestal foot and beaded tapering cover inset with a watercolour of a monument, 10cm high (2)
Richard Henry Brock (exh 1897-1915) Eight pencil and watercolour sketch-designs for book wrappers, mainly stories for Blackie and Nelson publishers, with titles - The Moonstone, Sappers and Miners, Playing the Game by Kent Carr, The Woman in White, David Copperfield, Cap'n Benny, Gwenda's Friend from Home, and Neighbours at School, two other watercolour working illustrations, a pencil sketch for 'The British Girl's Annual' (Cassell & Co) 1914, a pen and ink design for the cover of "Scout", and H.M.Brock's cover artwork for 'Marcella' by Mrs Humphry Ward (13)
A mid 19th century Chinese lacquer games table, allover decorated gilt oriental scenes, the rectangular top with a central drop-in cover decorated figures playing a board game, released from the underside with steel bar to reveal a chequer board on the reverse the interior with backgammon the frieze with three drawers fitted turned ivory handles revolving on a birdcage to a turned stem and triform base with carved paw feet, 31.5in (80cm) h, 24.5in (62cm) w, 20.25in (51.5cm) d. Central top panel with cracks, old repairs to frieze.
Games: Chad Valley Motor Ride, Lotto, Bushranger, Noddy's Ring Game, Blow Football, Kay Secret Service Set, Stocks & Shares, Pot Shot, Star Wars Escape from Death Star with two pins and wristwatch, Batman The Game in original boxes, Escalado, puzzles by Philmar and Tower Press in original boxes, unchecked, some boxes unopened
Pair: Driver L. G. Deadman, a member of the Mechanical Transport Company, British South Africa Police, in the Great War British War and Victory Medals (MT-95 Dvr., B.S.A.P), together with the recipient’s original illuminated ‘disabled’ and ‘honourably discharged’ certificate, dated ‘16.2.19’, very fine and rare (2) £100-120 Leslie George Deadman ‘put in considerable service with the B.S.A.P. Mechanical Transport, operating in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland .. and will be particularly remembered for his services to the game of bowls, playing for Rhodesia some years ago’ (his obituary notice, The Outpost, October 1960, refers).
Hoyle (Edmond) A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, 1746, [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille, 1745, [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet ...Some Rules and Observations for ... Chess, 1746 [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon, 1745, signed by author to deter pirate editions, contemporary calf (very worn, upper board detached and held by taped hinge
An early 19th century mahogany cased musical game By Ann Young the crossbanded case embellished with chequer and chevron bandings enclosing a two-part playing board overlaid with paper printed with staves, keyboards, key signatures etc., pierced with numerous diagonally set holes, the base with central lidded partition containing space for dice shakers and printed patent label with Royal cypher, the sides with two small drawers 44cm wide, 10.2cm high, 27.3cm deep Note: Ann Young, of St James Square, Edinburgh, was awarded the patent for this games box in 1801. It was the first British patent awarded to an educational game designed for 'amusement and instruction.' It contained six games which were designed, not only to be 'amusing and interesting' but also the teach 'the fundamental principles of the science of music'. There is a similar example in the National Museum of Ireland. For further information on Ann Young and the patent, see: 'Inventing Music Education Games' by David Ghere and Fred MB Amran, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
A STARKER LEOPOLD: THE CALIFORNIA QUAIL, University of California Press, 1977, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w + LESLIE M TUCK: THE SNIPES A STUDY OF THE GENUS CAPELLA, Ottowa, 1972, 1st edn, orig pict cl + W L McATEE (ED): THE RING-NECKED PHEASANT AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA, Washington, 1945, orig cl + WILLIAM L ROBINSON: FOOL HEN THE SPRUCE GROUSE ON THE YELLOW DOG PLAINS, University of Wisconsin Press, 1980, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + ROBERT J WHEELER: THE WILD TURKEY IN ALABAMA, Alabama Department of Conservation, 1948, orig printed wraps + J STOKLEY LIGON: HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT OF MERRIAM’S WILD TURKEY, New Mexico Game and Fish Commission, 1946, orig printed wraps + A W SCHORGER: THE WILD TURKEY IT’S HISTORY AND DOMESTICATION, University of Oklahoma Press, 1966, 1st edn, orig pict wraps (7)
W B TEGETMEIER: PHEASANTS THEIR NATURAL HISTORY AND PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT, 1911, 5TH edn, enlarged, orig cl gt + DAVID HILL AND PETER ROBERTSON: THE PHEASANT ECOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION, 1988, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + G R POTTS: THE PARTRIDGE PESTICIDES PREDATION AND CONSERVATION, 1986, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w + PETER HUDSON: RED GROUSE THE BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF A WILD GAME BIRD, The Game Conservancy Trust, 1986, 1st edn, orig cl gilt, d/w + COLIN WILOCK: THE BOOK OF THE WOOD PIGEON, 1995, 1st edn, orig cl gt, d/w + M K COLQUHOUN: THE WOOD PIGEON IN BRITAIN, H M S O, 1951, Agricultural Research Council Report Series No 10, orig wraps, (6)
REUBEN MYRON STRONG: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIRDS, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, 1939-59, 4 parts, orig wraps + JOHN C PHILLIPS: AMERICAN GAME MAMMALS AND BIRDS, A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS 1582 TO 1925, Boston and NY, 1930, tipped in compliment slip sigd, cl worn, + ANDERS H ANDERSON: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARIZONA ORNITHOLOGY, University of Arizona Press, 1972, orig wraps, (6)
KEITH BROCKIE: KEITH BROCKIE’S WILDLIFE SKETCHBOOK, Melbourne, 1981, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + NORMAN McCANCH: A LIGHTHOUSE NOTEBOOK, 1985, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + COLIN McKELVIE: A COUNTRY NATURALIST’S YEAR, Ill Rodger McPhail, 1993, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + BRUCE PEARSON: AN ARTIST ON MIGRATION, 1991, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + BOB RIDGES: DECOY DUCKS, NY, 1988, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + HERBERT ATKINSON: THE OLD ENGLISH GAME FOWL, 1981, reprint, 4to, orig cl d/w + R C STEELE AND R C WELCH (EDS): MONKS WOOD A NATURE RESERVE RECORD, The Nature Conservancy [1973], 1st edn, errata slip tipped in, orig pict cl (7)
A late 18th Century pale blue painted Spa box of rectangular form, the hinged cover decorated in black with a scene of five peasants participating in a game of skittles, within a rococo scroll border cornered with titled landscape vignettes, the sides with further landscapes, the interior containing four similarly decorated smaller boxes, length approx 18.5cm.
Eleven sets of cigarette cards, butterfly, moths and bird subjects, to include Wills British Birds 1915, British Butterflies 1927, John Players Poultry 1931, Aviary and Cage Birds, Game Birds and Wild Fowl 1927, Butterflies 1932, Godfrey Phillips British Birds and Their Eggs 1936, Gallahers Butterflies and Moths 1938, etc. (11)
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