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Click here to subscribeGeoffrey Alan Baker 1881-1959- "Girl In A Green Dress"; oil on canvas, signed and dated, inscribed verso, 41x30cm: European school early 20th century, portrait of a vicar; indistinctly signed in pencil: Manner of Doris Clare Zinkeisen 1898-1991- Circus Performer; oil on board, dated 53, verso, 61x48cm: British School mid 20th century- "The Game Larder"; oil on canvas, signed and inscribed, 61x50cm,(4)
LARGE ORMOLU TWO TRAIN FIGURAL MANTEL CLOCK, the movement with outside countwheel and striking on a bell, the 4.25" dial within a drumhead casing formed as a barrel and surmounted by a seated hunter holding a game bird above a leaping dog, over an ornate base cast with game birds, fish and fruiting vines upon a shaped stand, 23" high, beneath an oval glass dome and ebonised stand
The Avengers: 1969 Annual (Atlas pubs. Co.), paperback books - The Floating Game 1967, The Laugh was on Lazarus 1967, Heil Harris 1967 and The Eagles Nest 1976; Arrow Games 5592 The New Avengers Jig-Saw Puzzle 1976 in original box; Cornerstone Trading Cards - set of ninety-nine The Avengers in Colour 1993
Space Subject Games: Masudaya Rocket Target Game; Hausemann and Hotte Robot; Cadaco Moon Shot; Merit The Amazing Magic Robot; Mulder Apollo; Good Companion Series 65 Rocket Workshop Jigsaw Puzzle and Randall (Merit) Two Stage Rocket Set and Space Patrol Walkie-Talkie, in original boxes, F-VG, some small parts missing, boxes P-G (7)
James Stinton (1870-1961) Pheasants watercolour, signed 13cm x 18cm, painted oval Born in 1870, James Stinton was the youngest son of John Stinton senior (and John juniors youngest brother). He started with the Grainger factory specialising in game birds on ornamental vases, plate centres and coffee sets, moving to the Royal Worcester works when Graingers was taken over. James is well known for his watercolours, mostly of the same subjects painted on porcelain. James retired in 1951 at the age of 81.
A GERMAN WEHRMACHT "TAK-TIK" GAME, circa 1940, : Wehrmacht-Modell 12, the moulded plastic pieces in red and blue, depicting: infantry, German eagles, panzers, artillery shells, Luftwaffe, and bombs, approx 4cm high, in original card box with instruction leaflet, and black and white chequered board in card.
A Victorian mahogany games compendium, the hinged cover and doors enclosing a fitted interior with a boxwood and ebony Staunton chess set, the kings 6.5cm high; thirty boxwood and ebony draughts; bone dominoes; six bone dice; Steeplechase, with six painted lead horses with riders, fences and water hazard; boxwood dice shaker; wooden gavel; eight numbered bone cubes; morocco whist and bezique markers; rosewood and strung cribbage board with four bone pegs; various stained bone counters and a morocco board for chess, backgammon and "The Steeplechase Game", box 33cm wide
A set of Indian ivory chess-men, late 19th century, natural and red stained, the kings and queens with double flanged ovoid stems beneath pierced and carved mace heads and barbed finials, kings 7.5cm high; in a marbled box, with smiling mask handle; an ivory game of Spellicans, in a boxwood case
Staff Sergeant James Moore RA DCM First World War Diaries 4 vols 1915-1918 engraved whistle and various documents First World War Ypres 1915, 1916 1917. Morval 1916; Mons 10.11.18; First World diaries of Staff Sergeant James Moore kept on the Western Front between February 1915 to December 1918, four volumes including certificate of employment during the War 18.2.15 - 26.1.19 as a fitter. Protection Certificate and a Certificate of Identity 41571 Fitter Staff Sergeant Unit 115 HB, address 1, The Crescent Northwich, Cheshire. Year of birth 1885. Medical category A1; together with an Exemption Card Brunner Mond & Company Ltd., confirming that on 10th September 1914 he was engaged in work connected with the manufacture of materials for use in the production of munitions of war and that he was "requested" by Lord Kitchener not to enlist but to remain at his work. Clearly he left his reserved occupation and joined up in the Royal Artillery. Boots Pocket Diaries four volumes with some wear through having been carried at the Front, but generally in legible condition having been written in pencil. Being sold with his whistle engraved with battle honours and a fragment of ribbon. Extracts from the diaries include the following; "Bombardment all along the line commences at 2.30 a.m., I have a walk at 11.00 a.m. towards Ypres and see about sixty German prisoners who are elderly and evil looking. My brother Tom was killed during the bombardment."Guns are almost afloat, we are knee deep in water"."Hundreds of Germans are escorted past our battery before noon, and at least two thousand before night"."Still at Corbie, I have put the DCM ribbon up and the AOC chaps are very curious as to how it was won, so I told them it was not won in their workshops"."We send three GS wagons away at 8.00 a.m. to new position, I go up after dinner, horrible sights our wagon and gun wheels go over lots of German bodies, the stench is horrible going down, we get shelled - one killed one wounded, return to our old position.""Lovely day we arrange to play the French at football after tea, nine of us beat fifteen of them by seven goals to one"."Lovely day, our new stock of records arrives, we have a very good night"."Nice day today, our battery took all principal prizes at the horse show, Gun Team, Wagon Team, stripped heavy draught, NCO's drill order". "Right Section play Left Section at cricket 80.48 I get five wickets for twenty one runs"."I take part in a scratch game of football, I have my shoulder put out in the first minute and go to the MO".A more detailed summary has been prepared by the auctioneers and is available on request. They provide a chilling and matter of fact account of a gunner's life in the First World War.Provenance: By family descent Sergeant J. Moore RA received the Distinguished Conduct Medal which is referred to in the diaries and other First World War medals. DCM London Gazette 198 1916 For conspicuous bravery and ability in repairing guns under heavy shell fire by his coolness and courage he was able to carry out difficult repairs and keep the only gun left with the battery in action when it was badly needed. James Moore's medals were sold at Bonhams on Wednesday 24th July 2002 lot number 272. His son whose birth is referred to in the diaries married the present vendor. She never met James who survived the War but died at a relatively young age.
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