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Lot 6211
Queen LPs to include A Night At The Opera (EMTC 103) - 1975 UK pressing with 3-corner diecut sleeve - Very Good to Very Good Plus including embossed gatefold sleeve; News of The World (EMA 784) - 1977 UK pressing with diecut inner sleeve - Very Good Plus in Very Good gatefold sleeve; Jazz (EMA 788) - 1978 UK pressing with glossy inner sleeve - Very Good in Very Good embossed gatefold sleeve with poster still attached; The Game (EMA 795) - 1980 UK pressing with inner card sleeve (rounded corners) - Very Good in Very Good "mirrored" sleeve and Greatest Hits II (PMTV 2) - 1991 limited edition UK double album with pictorial inner sleeves - Very Good in generally Very Good gold embossed gatefold sleeve. (5)
Lot 80
Game/Shooting Interest: A set of eight commissioned Modern silver gilt replica World War I shell shaped tumblers / beakers, each engraved with a peg number in Roman Numerals from I to VIII, with central vacant circular cartouches, all hallmarked by G J Dennis, London, 2000, Millennium mark, height approx 14cm, diameter approx 8cm, total weight approx 86.77 ozt (2,698.8 grams)
Lot 230
TURING (ALAN)Autograph mathematical calculations setting out a problem in n-dimensional geometry, commencing with the construction of an n-dimensional equilateral triangle meeting certain conditions, going on to pose the problem of how many sets of integers there are satisfying a given equation involving the triangle's coordinates, and reasoning his way to a solution expressed as a function of n, written in ink on the plain verso of squared mathematics paper, folded for delivery and hurriedly inscribed 'ROLF' in ink on reverse, further annotated with a phone number written in pencil in Noskwith's hand, two pages on a bifolium, dust-staining particularly on reverse where folded and exposed, creased at folds, folio (335 x 207mm., 335 x 415mm. opened), [Bletchley Park, 1941 or 1942]Footnotes:TURING & EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES: RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS AT BLETCHLEY PARK.These pages of closely written calculations by Alan Turing (1912-1954) were found amongst the papers of Rolf Noskwith (1919-2017), a cryptographer who worked closely with Turing in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park (see lot...). Together they worked on German Naval Enigma Codes from June 1941 until Turing left for America in the Autumn of 1942 to assist the US Navy's codebreakers. According to Professor Jack Copeland, who has kindly deciphered Turing's 'elegant' mathematics, as he puts it, these calculations '...form an excellent example of the recreational mathematics that went on at Bletchley Park. Turing's extensive recreational mathematical work while at Bletchley included, for example, his correspondence with Max Newman (published in The Essential Turing), his 1942 paper with Newman in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, and his seminal work on computerized chess, mechanized learning, and other aspects of what he called 'machine intelligence'...'. The importance of such 'recreational mathematics' was therefore not to be underestimated. Noskwith, in his own account of life at Bletchley, remembers '...We all recognised his genius; perhaps for this reason he was known as 'Prof'. We regarded him as eccentric but I can not remember any specific eccentricities. By the time of my arrival in Hut 8 the basic principles of the work were well established so that there was less scope for his genius... and [he] left altogether in late 1942. While he was with us he was always approachable and ready to help with technical problems. It may have been my fault that I did not find it easy to communicate with him...' (Noskwith, R., 'Hut 8 from the Inside', in ed. Erskine, R., Smith, M., The Bletchley Park Code-Breakers, London, 2011, chapter 12, p.192). Turing's solution is not dated but as he only worked with Noskwith for just over a year, it can be assumed that it was written between June 1941 and late 1942.These calculations are not merely a complex mathematical exercise, they also serve to demonstrate the culture of intellectual enquiry and collaboration that pervaded amongst the recruits to Bletchley Park. Turing and his colleagues had a deep-rooted interest in problem solving and puzzles and that this should continue alongside their more serious work on codebreaking is unsurprising. Patrick Mahon, later head of Hut 8, in his History of Hut Eight 1939-1945 (alanturing.net), notes that their success lay not in the fact that the men and women working at Bletchley thought it a worthwhile job per se, but that they thought '...the problem was an interesting and amusing one...' and that '...the work of Hut 8 combined to a remarkable extent a sense of urgency and importance with the pleasure of playing an intellectual game...' (chapter XII). Their leisure time was therefore, to a certain extent, an extension of their intellectual interests and, indeed, Noskwith writes of his colleagues' reluctance to leave work at the end of a long shift, so engrossed they were in the challenges of the day. However, it must be said that there were many other activities at Bletchley to occupy their time - tiddlywinks, table-tennis, rounders, tennis, cricket, musical societies and much else. Noskwith talks of the active Dramatic Society who '...put on plays and reviews of a high standard, there was a lot of music and we played chess and bridge. Most men went about in old sports jackets and shabby corduroy trousers. Once when a visiting Admiral was taken around the site by the Director he is reported to have asked: 'What are all these velvet arsed bastards doing here?'... There really was a spirit of camaraderie among the cryptanalysts and a sense of a common purpose. I can recall no personality clashes or big outbursts of temper. I attribute this to the fascination of the work, the satisfaction of getting results, exemplary leadership and, above all, the personalities of the individuals...' (Noskwith, p.192).As is shown by the papers in the accompanying lot, Noskwith was recruited fresh from Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of 22 and was assigned to Hut 8 under Shaun Wylie: '...I entered a completely different new world when I learned that the German Navy enciphered its signals using a machine called Enigma... our function was to produce cribs, a crib being a guess of what a portion of a particular signal might be saying. A correct crib, tested on the bombes (...developed by Alan Turing), would lead to the solution of a day's keys...' (Noskwith, p.186). In October 1941 he was responsible for the breakthrough in finding the crib for the complex Offizier code: '...I was not expecting to be successful and went home on leave before the testing on a bombe was complete. Wylie promised to confirm a positive result by sending me a telegram containing the name of a fish. When a telegram arrived with the word 'pompano' I had to look it up in a dictionary to make sure that 'pompano' was a fish...' (Noskwith, p.188). Developments in technology meant that during the last year of the war Noskwith was one of only four cribsters required to remain in Hut 8 – Patrick Mahon, Joan Clarke (Turing's one-time fiancé), Richard Pendered and himself - working on a shift rota round the clock but 'always dependent on a big supporting cast' of secretaries and Wrens who ran the bombe machines in spartan conditions. 'All the main keys were broken regularly during this period...' Noskwith notes (p.190) and throughout the course of the war Hut 8 successfully decoded about 1,120,000 messages, with the largest number of messages registered in one day being 2,133 on 13th March 1945. We are grateful to Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing (www.AlanTuring.net) for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 105
TRAVEL JOURNALS – OPIUM WAR, SOUTH AFRICA AND EUROPEGroup of five manuscript travel journals, first half nineteenth century, comprising:i) Journal of a European tour, taking in the field of Waterloo ('...to see the monuments which are erected to different officers who fell, I saw the names of several poor fellows whom I knew by sight and a few whom I had been acquainted with... got out with a guide to the oak tree on the side of the road called Wellington's tree... purchased a piece of this tree from a boy who cut it off with a chisel...'), Paris, Geneva, Milan ('...the amphitheatre built by Buonaparte, a wonderful piece of work...') and Turin, 68pp, original vellum with cloth ties, 4to (202 x 150mm.), June to August 1818. ii) The 'Private Diary' of Foster Brooke of HMS Druid written during the Opium Wars, sailing from Plymouth Sound to Sydney, Australia ('...a wonderful place considering the short time it has been in existence – only 50 years...'), and on to China ('...three hundred Chinese soldiers had marched into Macao... some preparing at a small village called Cow-loon...'), reporting on the death of the commander Lord Henry John Spencer-Churchill ('...congestion of the brain... There is not his equal in the service... The ship is painted all black...'), and describing encounters with the Chinese, two pencil illustrations and one of Chinese fire junks in coloured crayon, 80pp, half calf, marbled boards, worn, 4to (228 x 180mm.), 24 August 1839 to 11 September 1840.iii) Journal of a Mediterranean tour to the Holy Land and Egypt, written by Richard Brooke on RYS Circassian, travelling via Spain, Malta, Corfu, Greece, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus and Italy, illustrated with some 30 watercolours and pencil drawings, and 25 prints, mostly tipped in, bookplate of Richard Brooke, c.200 pages, half calf, marbled boards, worn, spine detached, 4to (235 x 187mm.), 11 October 1845 to 30 June 1846.iv) Journal describing the route from Rustenburg to Victoria Falls, March 1873, including annotated line maps, inscribed on front cover 'Given to me by the Hon Guy Dawnay, 1876' with press cutting stuck in reporting Dawnay's fatal mauling by a wounded buffalo in 1889, c.60 pages, original paper wrappers, 8vo (212 x 132mm.), March 1873.v) Journal of a shooting expedition in South Africa led by L.P. Dubois ('...the dogs went after it... & found them fighting with an enormous iguana...'), with list of game shot pinned onto front endpaper, c.60 leaves, dark blue calf, 8vo (177 x 112mm.), 26 October 1876 to 15 April 1878; together with a manuscript cookery book, 136 numbered pages, half calf marbled boards, worn, 8vo (184 x 115mm.), late nineteenth/early twentieth century (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 8
Cricket. Collection of 15 Unsigned Mini Cricket Bats All Showing Images of Legends of the Game Such As Shane Warne, David Gower Nasser Hussain, Mike Gatting, Brian Lara, Graeme Thorpe. All Brand New. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 195
A QUANTITY OF RADIO CONTROL MODELS AND ASSORTED TOYS ETC., to include boxed RC 1970's Hong Kong made plastic 1:12 Formula 1 Car, No.8001, appears complete and in fairly good condition, with instructions, unboxed RC Mud Slinger Shocker Jeep, unboxed RC Honda CBX, all with hand controllers (none tested), unboxed Tiger Electronics Brainshift electronic game (not tested), boxed Next Game 1:24 scale metal 'Build Your Own Mini Cooper' kit, looks to be sealed in original packaging, unboxed Petite Typewriter Mattel Burbank Toys Jack in the Box, puzzles, yo-yo's etc. (2 boxes)
Lot 152
A BOXED GRANDSTAND ASTRO WARS ELECTRONIC GAME, No.11183, not tested but appears complete and in good condition, with original guarantee card, a boxed Hasbro Star Wars Micro Machines Podrace Arena, missing figures but otherwise appears complete, boxed X-Box 360 Street Fighter IV Collector's Edition, containing game disc, Ryu & C.Viper collectable figurines and strategy guide but missing 'The Ties That Bind' DVD movie, box damaged, assorted Terminator and Watchmen DVD and Blu-ray discs in various collectable cases (8)
Lot 83
A BOXED KENNER STAR WARS ELECTRONIC BATTLE COMMAND GAME, no.40370 , sealed shut with tape, tape on top looks too be the original and tape has been placed over the base of the box, contents not checked for completion or tested, wear to the corners and creases on various panels, some slight tears to the top of the box, overall colour on the box is good, provenance from a Palitoy rep during the seventies/ eighties
Lot 80
A QUANTITY OF BOXED GALOOB STAR WARS MICRO MACHINES SETS, Millennium Falcon, Endor, The Death Star, Darth Vader/Bespin Transforming Action Set and The Death Star Action Fleet Set, contents not checked but Millennium Falcon and Death Star both still sealed with original Sellotape, with a boxed Tiger Electronics Star Wars Electronic Galactic Battle Space Combat Game, not tested, appears largely complete, damage and wear to boxes (6)
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