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Lot 64
Collection of Doctor Who collectors items, including 1973 annual and a sixties annual, USA print single record, and two others, three large edition target books, USA edition graphic novel, five early edition Doctor Who magazines, Cross over graphic novel, poster book, electronic game, also a Batman novel. Condition reports are not available for our Interiors Sales.
Lot 112
Urquhart (David); Ironside (Isaac) (Publisher) Russia and the Corn Trade, comprising: How Russia tries to get into her hands the Supply of Corn of the Whole of Europe [Selections from Urquhart's Progress of Russia]. Robert Hardwicke, 1859; pp. 24. With ''The Contradictions of Lord Clarendon in Reference to Corn'' in Free Press Serials No. IV [Reprinted from the Free Press]. Sheffield: Isaac Ironside, [c.1855]. And The Free Press Vol. XI No. 7, C.D. Colley, July 1863; The Grain Trade of the North-West, Supplement to the Free Press, Aug. 1863; Russia Monopolising the Supply of Cotton as well as that of Corn (From the Free Press, Feb. 1862); and The Free Press Jan. 1856. All bound as one in straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Isaac Ironside founded the Sheffield Free Press in 1851 and rapidly became an outspoken supporter of politician and writer David Urquhart. Urquhart was appointed, via determined self-promotion, to Sir Stratford Canning's mission to Istanbul to settle the border between Greece and Turkey. Mehmet Al Pasha had attacked the Ottoman Empire in 1831, and Britain and France refused to aid Mahmud II of Turkey - leading him to turn to Russia for aid. Whilst there Urquhart became both attracted to Turkish culture and fearful of Russian power in the region. He managed to get on the trade mission to the region in 1833 which preceded the 1838 Treaty of Balta Liman. This was to replace the 1820 Trade Tariff, which expired in 1834. The Treaty ostensibly offered market freedom between Turkey and Britain, regulating duties and abolishing monopolies (an anti-Egyptian measure). The measures helped ensure British dominance of the industrial trade in the region, via the removal of local protectionism which might have helped nascent Turkish industrialisation efforts. Interestingly, the balance of trade was actually in favour of the Ottomans at the time - which of course led to dissatisfaction amongst British merchants. Although heavily involved in the negotiations (at least until his recall by Palmerston for agitation) Urquhart was upset with the final form of the Treaty. A long comparison of the draft with the final Treaty in this collection highlights Palmerston's ''falsehoods''. Dissatisfaction was not one-way however. A heated letter debate between C. Dobson Collett and the Liverpool Financial Reform Committee levels accusations of treason at both Palmerston and Urquhart. The principal concern though is with Russian ambition. In an era where Free Trade and the Great Game formed uneasy companions, Urquhart accuses the government of cutting off the supply of grain from other countries in order to give the Russians the monopoly on European food. A long correspondence between Ironside and Lord Clarendon on this matter is printed here. Concerns about Russian agricultural dominance were not entirely unfounded. Though Russian farming was backward compared to more industrialised nations it nonetheless turned its wheat crop into a significant export commodity. The Baltic Exchange of London developed the market, and American futures exchanges were established hedging wheat futures. It is perhaps unclear how much was due to a massive British governmental conspiracy, but such fears were present. This was the time of the Corn Laws. Ideas of economic protectionism, free trade, and international deals were in direct conflict with labour legislation, a growing Popular political awareness, and a complex series of local conflicts which reflected the desires of nation states. Whether exploding into violence, like the Crimea war, or arms-length engagements, like the spy games on the Afghan border, all Europe had its eyes to Russia, and everything could be judged according to the score in the Great Game.
Lot 584
Football Peter Beardsley 16 x12 signed colour photo pictured playing for England. Peter Andrew Beardsley MBE (born 18 January 1961 is an English former footballer who played as a forward or midfielder between 1979 and 1999. In 1987, he set a record transfer fee in the English game and represented his country 59 times between 1986 and 1996, once as captain, taking part in two FIFA World Cups (1986 and 1990) and UEFA Euro 1988. Good condition Est.
Lot 446
Cricket Michael Vaughan 12x8 signed colour photo pictured in action for England. Michael Paul Vaughan OBE (born 29 October 1974) is a former English cricketer, who played all forms of the game and a former English captain in all formats. He represented Yorkshire in the domestic arena. Good condition Est.
Lot 573
Football Bobby Moncur 16x12 signed colour photo pictured shaking Booby Moore hand before a England v Scotland game. Robert Moncur (born 19 January 1945) is a Scottish former professional footballer. Moncur is most famous for his role as captain of Newcastle United in the late 1960s and of the Scottish national side in the early 1970s. Good condition Est.
Lot 133
Football Nat Lofthouse signed programme Manchester City v Bolton Wanderers 27th August 1958. Nathaniel Lofthouse, OBE (27 August 1925 – 15 January 2011) was an English professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers for his whole career. He won 33 caps for England between 1950 and 1958, scoring 30 goals, with one of the highest goals-per-game ratios of any England player. Good condition Est.
Lot 111
Football Brian Clough signed hardback book titled Cloughie walking on water my life signed on the inside title page 276 pages. Brian Howard Clough, OBE 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager. As a player he was a prolific goal scorer whose career was shortened by a serious injury. As a manager, Clough's name is closely associated with that of Peter Taylor, who served as his assistant manager at various clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They achieved great successes with Derby County and Nottingham ForGood condition Est. Clough is also remembered for doing frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers, and the overall state of the game. Good condition Est.
Lot 550
Tennis Mike Davies 10x8 signed b/w photo. Michael Grenfell Mike Davies (9 January 1936 - 2 November 2015) was a Welsh professional tennis player, entrepreneur and administrator. He had a 60-year career in the tennis business, first as an amateur and professional tennis player, including a period as the number one ranked player in Great Britain and a member of the British Davis Cup team, then as an entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of the professional game. Good condition Est.
Lot 398
DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP: A lengthy original carbon typed statement, unsigned, five pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1945/46), in German, being a witness statement provided to a War Crimes investigator by Julius Schatzle, a former prisoner at the Dachau and Neuengamme concentration camps. The document is entitled Report to the Committee of Former Political Prisoners on the ‘Cape Arcona’ and states, in part, In the second half of April, the Neuengamme concentration camp experienced the same fate as Lublin, Auschwitz, Riga and other camps had done previously. The Allied troops drew dangerously close. With precipitate haste, efforts were made to remove all traces of the infamous activities of the SS. A whole crowd of female SS assistants were occupied in removing, from the political section’s card index records of prisoners, the details of the punishments inflicted in the camp…A special party had to search through the heaps of ash from the crematorium for any unburnt remains of human bones, so that these could be put through the furnace once again…Soon, an attempt was also started to put out of the way the human witnesses od the Nazi regime of terror. It started with the removal of the 10 Jewish children from the hospital’s tuberculosis research wing. Next, 1500 sick prisoners were sent off from the hospital to Bergen-Belsen. On Sunday 19.4.194, a fresh group of 400 prisoners collected together…On this list were the prisoners who were employed in the political section, in the labor unit and in the postal section, together with the doctors and attendants at the camp hospital...The movement operation started in the late evening, and the goods trucks were filled with the prisoners, under the supervision of an SS Obersturmfuhrer and SS Oberscharfuhrer Brinkmann. The place to which they were to go was given as Kaltenkirchen…In Eidelstatt, however, where our train remained standing all day, there came a counter-order. Lubeck was to be our new destination…At one of those enforced halts, we got into conversation with some British officer prisoners. We were able to tell them who we were, the place in which we were apparently going, and that we did not surmise anything good for ourselves. They gave us fresh heart, when they told us that the Fascist front line had given was completely…These British friends also saved us from further air attack. When an Allied aircraft came near, they climbed up on to the railway trucks, and signalled to their comrades in the air…In Lubeck harbour, we saw, to our dismay, the 800 tons cargo ship ‘Athens’ being loaded with prisoners as filthy, tattered and famished as ourselves. An endless queue of pitiable figures kept moving up the gang plank. A short distance away, in the street ditches, lay a row of the dead who could no longer stand up to the hardships of the rail journey. Over 1 ½ thousand sick comrades from our camp were loaded aboard like cattle. Then our convoy of 400 prisoners went aboard…On board, a new terrifying experience awaited us. We were not allowed to enjoy the fresh air in the open which we had already missed in the cramped railway trucks, but were shut up in the hold spaces, which admitted no daylight…It was obvious to every prisoner that we were not setting out on a pleasure trip. On the contrary, the view that came over more strongly to the fore was that we were being taken out to the open sea to be drowned like cats. But the prisoners still found sufficient spirit to resist that idea. In particular, there was a group of Russian officers, with some Jugoslavs and Frenchmen, who were ready – in company with a few German political prisoners – to mutiny and to bring the ship to one of the ports occupied by the Red Army…The re-embarkation did not finally begin until 26.4.1945. In the meantime, the situation aboard the ‘Athens’ had reached a disastrous stage…It should not remain unmentioned that members of the guard tempted the parched prisoners with mess-tins full of water, and that the latter sacrificed their final cigarettes for it – only to find that they had been cheated with sea water. But they drank this dirty salt water….Finally, on 26.4.1945, we were embarked on the ‘Cape Arcona’.,,The first order given by the Hauptsturmfuhrer was that all the Russians were to be put in the banana hold…But even if 12 prisoners were housed in a two berth cabin, it was a great improvement on the ‘Athens’. The situation, however, in the banana hold was intolerable. After two hours, our comrades lay collapsed on the floor by the dozen. The lack of oxygen threatened them all with asphyxiation…If a prisoner was lucky, he got a quarter litre of coffee and half a litre of half cooked turnips in water, with no bread and no fat. If we had not been in the possession of Red Cross parcels, hundred would have died of hunger….The rapid increase in sickness and in cases off death, and above all, the outbreak of typhus, caused us to remonstrate with the SS authorities….According to the roll call, there were, on 3rd May 1945, 4207 prisoners of all nationalities aboard the ‘Cape Arcona’. In addition, there were 19-20 members of the SS, around 20 female SS assistants and 400-500 marines acting as guards, together with a small number of crew…..The rumours and reports about the situation at the front became continually more confused….3 British aircraft appeared over the bay of Lubeck, and started to bomb all the ships. The ‘Cape Ancona’ was the first to be attacked. The white flag was hoisted too late, or else the aircraft did not see it…The whole ship was at once full of dead and wounded. Fire broke out everywhere… Order and discipline broke down completely. A few SS men tried, by using their weapons, to drive the prisoners back into the flames, but they were swept aside like useless chaff. Men stumbled half-crazed through the ship, like living torches, trying to find a way to freedom through the living and the dead. But a few only succeeded in doing so…Slowly it dawned even on the last SS man that the game was up, and they sought safety in flight…Many SS men jumped overboard in full uniform and drowned…Some tried to save the female SS assistants in a lifeboat. In letting it down into the water the ropes became entangled, the boat capsized and all were drowned…Everyman tried, after overcoming yet further numerous obstacles, to get to Neustadt and the British army – on foot or by vehicle, as fortune allowed…..The first British tanks were in front of Neustadt, and they were greeted by all the prisoners with delight. Now for the first time they were free of the Fascist terror……Under the protection of the British army, all the prisoners were…looked after and provided at last with decent food. Many of our comrades went home at the first opportunity…8000 comrades of all nations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America met their deaths, at the moment of liberation, in the flames and waves of Lubeck estuary……’ A statement of highly thought-provoking content accompanied by a full English translation. Some very light creasing and extremely minor age wear and with small staple holes to the upper left corner of each page. A small white numbered sticker is neatly affixed to the upper right corner of the first page. About VG
Lot 389
Football programmes etc in ring folder programmes 1970s incl Fulham, Cardiff, Exeter, Leyton Orient, Charlton, Brentford, Ardath Tobacco Football Teams photocards x 70, Typhoo Tea Football Stars E size x4, 2 magazines plus 2006-7 Trading card game ‘Shoot Out’ squad file with 360 players cards
Lot 466
A RARE 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY CASED BAGATELLE TABLE, stamped 'Thurston, 14 Catherine Street, London', the out folding top revealing a baise lined game interior, with nine natural and stained ivory balls, with numbered arch holes and timber divisions. 125 x 68 x 97cm high** Please note that this lot contains ivory and is subject to CITES regulations when exporting outside of the EU. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.
Lot 154
A CASED SET OF SIX SILVER ART DECO COFFEE SPOONS AND TONGS, Sheffield, 1944; together with a case set of six tea-knives, London (Irish import marks) with stainless steel blades; a pair of pickle forks, Sheffield, 1929; fiddle pattern butter knife, Sheffield 1919; a game knife with upper serrated blade, London 1828; a shell-shaped bon-bon dish, Birmingham and a caddy spoon, Dublin 1985.
Lot 2088
A Victorian Wedgwood majolica glazed game pie tureen and cover, the finial modelled as nesting birds, the whole moulded in relief with floral swags, dead game, tendrils, and winged mystical birds to either side, impressed mark verso, w.28cmCover good but with firing crack where birds sit and further repair to inside cover.Base with vertical crack and hairline to top edge.All grubby and with some staining.
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