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Lot 502
Tom McNeely (Canadian, B. 1935) "Baseball" Signed lower right. Original watercolor painting on Paper. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. The repetitive cries of a concessions vendor peddling freshly roasted peanuts and stadium hot dogs; the resounding crack as bat meets ball; the crowd's deafening roar of approval as the batter sails one out of the ballpark and trots leisurely around the bases -- these are the sights and sounds of America's favorite spectator sport. Legend says Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. Baseball scholars stoutly maintain that the l7th century English game of rounders is the true precursor to the sport, but Alexander J. Cartwright is largely credited with creating in 1845 a standardized version of the game, from which modern baseball evolved. After the Civil War, the game's popularity skyrocketed. Amateur teams sprang up throughout the country, and in 1869 the Cincinnati Red Stockings became America's first professional baseball team. By the early 1900s, America boasted two professional baseball leagues -- National and the American, and in 1905 the first World Series became an annual event. During the 20th century, baseball fever has become a world-wide epidemic, wildly popular in countries such as Japan, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. In 1992, baseball teams from across the globe traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to compete for the first time in the summer Olympic Games. Image Size: 28.5 x 21.5 in. Overall Size: 30 x 22.25 in. Unframed. (B12071)
Lot 511
Don Balke (North Carolina, B. 1933) "American Bison" Signed lower right. Original Watercolor painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which was published on the Fleetwood commemorative cover for the Baby Wildlife of the 50 States, postmarked January 29, 1984. Born on the golden grass of the prairies, the spirited Bison calf runs with a species that almost vanished from the earth. Sixty million strong, the North American Bison were once the greatest spectacle of herd animals in the world. The ground rumbled and great clouds of swirling dust filled the air when these thundering monarchs stampeded across the prairies. Large, hump-backed and sporting a dark, shaggy fur coat, the Bison provided the Indian tribes of the West with everything from food to sled runners. As civilization pushed farther west, however, the Bison were slaughtered by the millions ... and this great animal was brought to the edge of extinction. Today, through conservation efforts the North American Bison is protected on game reserves and their numbers are increasing. The tawny calves of these great mammals are born in May and June of each year, nine months after the mating season. The young bulls seem to love the freedom of youth and run and buck with delight. When the first cold hints of winter blow across the plains, the young Bison are already showing signs of the traditional hump above the shoulders and small crescent horns have begun to show. The herds will roam the plains during the winter months in search of food and shelter. When these cold harsh winds give way to gentle spring breezes, the playful calves will have nearly reached maturity. Image Size: 10.75 x 12.5 in. Overall Size: 20 x 21.25 in. Unframed. (B08522)
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Lot 21
1- Hume and Marshall: The Game Birds of India, Burmah & Ceylon, in 3 volumes. Hume & Marshall, no date [1879] preface dated. With 142 of 146 colour plates (lacking 2 plates in vol.1). Original pictorial cloth; rubbed and most of the covers detached & torn; plates clean; 2- MORRIS, F O: A History of British Birds - 6 Volumes. Groombridge & Sons, 1868. Complete with 358 hand coloured plates. Original pictorial cloth; rubbed and most of the covers detached & torn; a few of the plates loose and with a couple frayed at the edges; otherwise the plates are clean and without any stamps. (9) Provenance: Leicester Museum Reference Library (Most of their books only have their bookplate and no stamps)
Lot 3045
Various makers - unboxed and playworn die-cast models including eleven ships by Tri-ang, Matchbox etc; Dinky Viscount aeroplane; and five military vehicles by Britains, Lone Star etc; together with 'L'Attaque!' military tactics board game with seventy-two tin-plate figures and playing board, boxed with instructions
Lot 255
Golf.- Hilton (Harold H.) and Garden G Smith, The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf, one of 1000 copies, half-title, colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates, 2 photogravures, tissue guards, ink presentation inscription to front endpaper, pp. 51-54 margins frayed with restoration in fleece, occasional marginal soiling and spotting, red morocco, gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, toned, small abrasion to lower cover, joints and extremities rubbed, 4to, 1912.
Lot 257
NO RESERVE Sporting.- Scrope (William) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing on the Tweed, first edition, half-title, additional tinted lithograph vignette-title and 12 lithograph plates, 3 hand-coloured, frontispiece detached, some staining and spotting to plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, sunned and stained, spine faded and ends worn, 1843 § Grimble (Augustus) More Leaves from my Game Book, one of 250 copies, illustrations, contemporary half vellum, a little rubbed and soiled, [c.1917], 8vo (2)
Lot 32
Alphabet Letters.- Collection of bone alphabet characters, 90 characters, in a later wooden box, each character 12mm. high, n.d. [c. 1810].⁂ Jane Austen, in her novel Emma, has Frank Churchill uses a game of anagrams to play a trick on Jane Fairfax, spelling out the name "Dixon", someone Frank persuades Emma that Jane is in love with.
Lot 2204
Collection of thirty one Whisky miniatures - Malts incl; Auchentoshan 70proof (low level), Tomintoul 150th Highland Games, Balvenie 1974 Signatory 684/1300, Glenfarclas 105, Bladnoch, Tullibardine, Penderyn, Classic Malts boxed set of six, boxed Pointers Game Shooting decanter (22), Blended incl; boxed Dewar's White Label flat bottle, J Walkers Black and Red Label etc (9)
Lot 176
Rawstorne, Lawrence. Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game, coloured plates, modern crushed full morocco by Hatchards, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1929; Swann, Alfred J. Fighting the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa, first edition, half-title, plates, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Seeley and Co., 1910; and 40 others, mostly leather bound literature, v.s. (42)
Lot 337
Kipling, Rudyard. A group of three important ALS to Edmund Garrett, the South African journalist and author, discussing writing, politics, mutual friends, life in the Cape and the effects of the Boer War, 10pp., folded, 1899-1904 i) Dated Oct 19 '99, opening with his support of a recent published exchange, 'Dear Garrett, Being neither blind nor deaf, we've kept a pretty close eye on your performances down South, and a paper called the Cape Times somewhat helped us. We saw the game from afar: we cheered and shouted (tho' you never heard us) and were in it up to the hilt', and noting the changing political circumstances, '...you'll be wanted in the period of Reconstruction (it's the making of a new nation. Hallelujah!) as very few other men will be. Before we all die, we'll see the Federated States of South Africa a living reality - same as Canada and Australia...' 'It's after the war that we shall need men to shout + clamour and [indistinct] for restraint - moderation and a lot of unpopular things', and expressing his creative support, 'I also want to write poems (real poems) about the new state when it is born.', on headed paper, The Elms, Rottingdean, Nr Brighton, 3pp. ii) Dated Oct. 16. 1900, noting Garrett's impact in the Cape, 'They wailed about you considerable [?] in Cape Town when I was down there, and with justice for the Cape Times was missing obvious points and generally disporting itself in a butt ended and... band-bellied fashion.' 'Oh Lord! There were times when I yearned to jump into your empty chair and take hold for old sake's sake', and noting his own work, 'But you can bet I will greatly sweat over these yarns and do my level best to make 'em good for my own purposes which (whisper low) are not purely literary and are not bounded by the desire (which I think simply beastly) of making my reputation!! I too want to help the Idea. Isn't it a blessing that Ideas are so much bigger and better and higher and nobler than the man we must knock the notions into or the vessel that holds 'em.' And commenting on Army reform, 'I don't mind the average officer being a common ass. What I fear is his being a [indistinct] fool' and remarking on their mutual friend, the architect Herbert Baker, 'Baker was here for a day and a night a morrow on his way to the Cape. His pranceings [sic] round Hysla (?) (I answer impertinently your letter to Mrs Trotter) have resulted in a rather fine memorial for the Kimberley dead. If you haven't seen it I give you this label...' followed by a sketch by Kipling of a cannon between two columns he describes as 'phallic' before noting the political temperature in South Africa, 'Letters from the Cape reveal a satisfactory state of things in the colony. Both sides are utterly talked out. They are dead sick and weary of the war-exhausted volcanoes' and offering his support, '... I pray you remember what a pleasure it would be to me if I could get or do for you anything that you want got or done.', on headed paper, The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex, 5pp. iii) Dated Aug 10 '04, opening with his delight in a parody in the Spectator, inviting a more intimate correspondence and noting the visit of Herbert Baker, 'Baker was here with his fiancee before he made her his wife and she is a very sweet and graceful person-one likely to be good for J'berg which sorely needs women. It was pleasing to see Baker in love-messing about in worlds not realized.', on headed paper, Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, 2pp. Fydell Edmund Garrett (20 July 1865-10 May 1907) was a British publicist, journalist and poet. He was editor of the influential Cape Times from April 1895 until August 1899, in which position he gained the trust of many notable figures in the political landscape of the day, including Cecil Rhodes, Sir Hercules Robinson, Paul Kruger and Jan Hofmeyr. He returned as a Member of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope in 1898 for Victoria East constituency. Garrett shared quarters in Muizenburg (named 'The Eagle's Nest') with Herbert Baker, the architect. Garrett contributed an article to the Pall Mall Gazette ('Lions in their Dens', April 8th 1890) that caught Kipling's attention and the men later met in South Africa, becoming good friends. On another occasion, the Kipling family spent a day visiting Garrett in Muizenburg and this incident is also referred to in this lot.
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