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Click here to subscribeWorksplate THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC COMPANY LTD ROBERT STEPHENSON & HAWTHORNS LTD LOCOMOTIVE WORKS ENGLAND 3004/8256 1961 ex British Railways Diesel Class 20 originally numbered D8097 and 20097 in 1974. Allocated new to 65A Eastfield and withdrawn in September 1989 and stored at Stanton Gate, then moved to MC Metals Glasgow where it was scrapped in 1991. Rectangular cast brass measures 10in x 4.5in. In lightly cleaned condition.
dating: about 1870 provenance: Belgium, Round, rifled, 11 mm cal. barrel, octagonal at the base marked 'J. CHAINEUX BREVETE' on a side, with high foresight; grooved, engraved and burnished, ten-shot cylinder. Frame engraved en suite. Serial number '201'. Loading gate and extractor. Wooden grip scales. Sospension ring. length 29 cm.
dating: Third quarter of the 19th Century provenance: USA, Round, rifled, long, 20', 44 rimfire cal barrel with traces of markings. Foresight, adjustable rear sight. Visible groove, dents on the inside. Brass frame, the upper tang with single screw. Working mechanics. Tubular magazine, smooth walnut fore-end. Walnut butt with restored block on one side. Brass butt plate with loading gate. Three bands, the last one very close due to the shortening of the barrels. length 99,4 cm.
dating: about 1680 provenance: Italy, Made of convex wood decreasing downwards and with levers pointed to the top, reinforced from behind with two wooden plates. The front completely covered in boiled leather depicting in bas-relief a battle between knights in front of a city gate and surmounted by a god within a crown of clouds and rays. The border with a stripe decorated with floral motifs. The back covered in leather (some missing parts), at the centre there is a leather lack of an ancient paper with remains of hand inscriptions. Two handles. Interesting shield from the end of the 17th century, certainly not built for battle but for parade. dimensions 44.8 x 65.3 cm.
dating: Third quarter of the 19th Century provenance: France, Round, micro-rifled, 14,8 mm cal. barrel at the nozzle, with octagonal base, with foresight and markings 'F' and 'L' in circles, 'MI', date '1862. Breech with tang and fixed rear sight. Backward spring lock marked 'M.re Imp.le de Chatellerault', 'G' mark under star. Working mechanics, but the first trigger has no safety lock. Three-quarter wooden stock with visible stamps on the left side. Iron mounts. Butt-plate with loading gate containing a tip to be screwed to the ramrod. length 25 cm.
dating: Third quarter of the 19th Century provenance: USA, Round, rifled, 44 rimfire cal. barrel (bore with some dents, visible groove along the entire length), adjustable and foldaway rear sight in three heights, two-lined marking with Henry patent of 1860 and King patent of 1866. Brass frame with no external markings. Working mechanisms. Smooth, wooden butt and fore-end (the former with restoration in the lower part of the butt side). Some dents. Two iron bands, one with foresight. Saddle ring on the left side. Serial number '18xxx' marked on the inside. Brass butt plate with loading gate. Brass-tipped iron ramrod inside. The serial number marked on the inside and the range of the numbering (between 15500 and 23000) make this interesting example the second model of the legendary 'Yellow Boy'. See Flayderman's Guide, 9th Edition, p. 307 (5K-029). length 100,5 cm.
dating: 1870 provenance: England, Round, rifled, 9 mm cal. barrel, octagonal at the base, high foresight; smooth, blued, six-shot cylinder with marks of the test bench of Birmingham. Frame engraved with floral motifs and with serial number '3xx'; loading gate and extractor. Checkered, wooden grip scales. Suspension ring. length 29 cm.
dating: Third quarter of the 19th Century provenance: USA, Round, rifled, 27', 44 Rimfire cal. barrel, with Winchester company New Haven address, 'KING'S IMPROVEMENT' and patents. Foresight, foldaway and adjustable rear sight. Visible groove, clean bore. Brass frame, the upper tang with single screw. Working mechanics. Serial number '13xxx' on the inside of the lower tang, together with a cross mark. Smooth, walnut fore-end. Smooth, walnut butt with partially legible matching serial number. Brass butt plate without loading gate. Rebluing and restorations. length 117,4 cm.
dating: about 1870 provenance: Belgium, Round, rifled, 11 mm cal. barrel with high rib and foresight; grooved ten-shot cylinder engraved with floral motifs, provided with the mark of the test bench of Liegi. Frame decorated en suite and with serial number '194xx'. Loading gate with extractor. Checkered dark wooden grip scales. Suspension ring. Working mechanics. Refreshed finishing. Mark 'N' under crown. length 30 cm.
dating: circa 1880 - 1890 provenance: France, Octagonal, 6.35 cal. barrel, with foresight, marked 'A' under star and 'R' under crown. Grooved, fifteen-shot cylinder. Smooth frame with serial number '3307' and 'DD B.te'. Loading gate, hammer with safety lock and folding trigger. Hard rubber grip scales finely checkered. Refreshed burnishing.Working mechanics. length 18 cm.
dating: Second quarter of the 19th Century provenance: Paris, Micro-rifled, octagonal, damascened and blued, 13 mm cal. barrel with golden decorations at the edges, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, silver foresight; four-barrel cylinder decorated en suite, signed 'LE LYON A PARIS', 'RUE DE RICHELIEU'; PAR BREVET D'INV.ON', 'ET DE PERFECTION' and numbered 1 to 4, all marks in gold; engravings at the lateral discs of the cylinder, the front one provided with loading gate; percussion lock and counter-plate both engraved and decorated with gold and silver motifs, signed 'LE LYON A PARIS' and 'LE LYON BREVETE'; fine, briarwood stock in two parts, strongly sculpted butt, checkered with scales at the neck, steel mounts engraved en suite, trigger guard with effigy of deer, at the front part a pressure system which makes the cylinder revolve. Small, brass-tipped ebony ramrod. Beautiful weapon of great precision and elegance. In exceptional condition, the gun almost entirely preserves its original finish. This weapon was patented by Le Lyon in November the 10th 1826 and was awarded with the bronze medal at the 'Exposition Universelle' in 1827, it received again a prize in Paris in 1834. Published on the cover in 'Gun report', USA. See 'Der Neue Stockel' Vol. I pag. 734. Le Lyon is documented in Paris, Rue Richelieu, from 1827 to 1834. Provenance: William Locke collection, USA, illustrated on 'Guns and rifles of the world' (Howard Blackmore) 1973, page 529. length 109 cm.
dating: about 1885 provenance: London, Rifled, 22SH cal. barrel with rib, marked on the left side 'Examined by Watson Bro.s 44 Pall Mall London', ribbed six-shot cylinder, engraved as is the frame. Loading gate, folding trigger. Mother-of-pearl grips (a few chips). Kept in its original leather case. length 9.8 cm.
The rare and remarkable Peninsular, Waterloo and Bhurtpoor group of three awarded to Troop-Sergeant-Major John Lakin, 16th Lancers, who was wounded in the leg at Fuentes d’Onor in May 1811, in the side at Burgos in 1812, and was noted in regimental records ‘for distinguished conduct in the field’; he later served as a gamekeeper and gatekeeper at Windsor Great Park, and lived in the reign of four monarchs Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nive (J. Lakin, T. Serjeant M. 16th Light Dragoons) the clasp for ‘Nive’ mounted upside-down; Waterloo 1815 (Corp. John Laken, 16th or Queen’s Light Drag.) fitted with replacement bar suspension; Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Troop Serjt. Major J. Lakin, 16th Lancers) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, heavy edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (3) £14,000-£18,000 --- Only 10 men of the 16th Light Dragoons got all three of these medals. This is the only known surviving such group apart from the one to Thomas Armstrong held by the regimental museum. Broken groups are known to four others (one of whom also got a L.S. & G.C. medal) and four remain lost/whereabouts unknown. John Lakin was born in the Parish of Sutton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and enlisted at Birmingham for the 16th Light Dragoons on 19 July 1805, aged 18 years, for unlimited service. He was promoted to Corporal in July 1815, to Sergeant in October 1821, and to Troop Sergeant-Major in July 1824. Discharged at Meerut, India, in October 1827, Lakin returned to England for his final discharge on 22 May 1828, in consequence of ‘being inactive from corpulency’. His discharge papers record that he was ‘wounded in the leg at Fuentes d’Onor, and in the side at Burgos 28 Octr. 1812’, whilst the regimental history of the 16th Light Dragoons records him as having been distinguished in the Peninsula: ‘The following N.C.O.’s and privates were noted for distinguished conduct in the field:- Sergt.-Major Blood, Sergts. Baxter, Drawbridge, Greaves, Malony, Kearney, Blythe, Ashworth, Lincoln, Collins, Jolly, and Lakin; Corporals Cox and Yates; Privates Hurst, Fitzpatrick, Michel, Castans, Arthur, Weedon, Daly, Bulpot, and Pemberton.’ John Lakin died from ‘natural decay’ at Queen Anne’s Lodge, Windsor Great Park, on 23 February 1877. An obituary notice published in The Windsor Gazette & Eton College Journal on 3 March 1877, gave the following information: ‘Sudden Death of a Waterloo Veteran - On Friday last week Mr John Lakin, keeper of the lodge to Queen Anne’s-ride, died suddenly at the advanced age of 89 years. Mr Lakin when a young man joined the 16th Lancers, then commanded by the Earl of Harcourt, and first saw active service in India, for which he received a medal (Bhurtpoor). He fought through the Peninsula campaign under the Duke of Wellington, was present at the crowning victory of Vittoria, at Salamanca, Fuentes D’onor, and the bloody fight of Talavera; and finally he took part in the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo, receiving a sword stab in the leg and a gunshot wound in the side, but he was not placed hors de combat, and fought till the French were utterly routed. The deceased had medals and bars which tell of the glories he participated in. He attained the rank of sergeant-major and at the age of 40 years, in 1828, he was discharged with a pension from the Chelsea Hospital. After leaving the army the deceased came to Windsor, and entered the service of George III, as gamekeeper in the Great Park. As gamekeeper and gatekeeper he served under that monarch, George IV, William IV, and her present gracious Majesty. He was 43 years the keeper of Queen Anne’s-ride lodge, where he died last Friday. Mr Coroner Marlin held an inquest on the body at the Windsor Castle Inn, King’s-road, on Monday. The evidence went to show that the deceased had enjoyed on the whole very good health, and there had been no necessity to call in any medical man for a number of years. On the Thursday he appeared in a better state of health than usual, but when his daughter-in-law went to see him next morning he said he did not feel very well. He took a little breakfast and had beef-tea for dinner. After dinner he said he would try to go to sleep, but when his daughter-in-law went upstairs to see him, between three and four o’clock, she found him dead. Mr Surgeon Pearl was sent for. He stated that he found several marks on his arms and one on his side, but he did not think that they were caused by violence. It was explained by relatives of the deceased that he had to be carried up and down stairs by his son, and he “Tumbled about” a good deal. The Doctor thought Mr Lakin had died from natural decay, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.’ And from the Evening Post of 28 February 1877: ‘A WATERLOO VETERAN. Mr John Lakin, a Waterloo veteran, has just died at Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor Great Park, in his 90th year. He took part in the whole of the Peninsular war with the 16th Lancers, and attained the rank of sergeant-major. He was afterwards appointed by the late Lord Harcourt as keeper in Windsor Great Park, a post he filled until the day of his death - upwards of fifty years. In fact, he was the oldest royal servant of her Majesty. He lived in the reign of four sovereigns, and he had often said with pride that he had addressed them all personally - viz., George III, George IV, William IV, and her Majesty.’
Three: Private C. Gibbons, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds at Salonika on 17 May 1917 1914-15 Star (11597 Pte. C. Gibbons. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11597 Pte. C. Gibbons. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine Three: Private C. C. Norcott, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 11 February 1916 1914-15 Star (17625 Pte. C. C. Norcott, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (17625 Pte. C. C. Norcott. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly extremely fine Three: Private F. Webster, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (13270 Pte. F. Webster, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20, this erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (13270 Pte. F. Webster. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a Regimental Sports Medal, bronze, engraved ‘Recreational Training - Macedonia - March 1918 - 7 (S) Battalion Oxf. & Bucks Lt. Infty, Pte. F. Webster’, very fine (9) £140-£180 --- Charles Gibbons was born at Kennington, Oxford, and resided at Cowley, Oxford. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War in Salonika. He died of wounds on 17 May 1917, and is buried in Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston, Greece. Charles Cyrus Norcott was born at Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Slough, Buckinghamshire. He served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 11 February 1916, aged 17. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Frank Webster attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War. He later served with the Royal Fusiliers and transferred to the Army Reserve on 1 February 1919.
British War Medal 1914-20 (8) (16555 Sjt. S. H. Owens. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 233556 Pte. C. W. Day. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 8598 Pte. W. J. Hall. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 16535 Pte. G. Hinton. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 27431 Pte. D. Lee. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 4196 Pte. F. G. Ralph. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 5519 Pte. G. Richardson. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 21292 Pte. G. C. Steward. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) generally very fine and better (8) £120-£160 --- Charles William Day was born at Dover, Kent and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 May 1915, and was killed in action on 25 September 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. William John Hall was born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 November 1914, and subsequently in Salonika, where he was reported missing presumed killed in action on 9 May 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial. George Hinton was born at Horspath, Oxford in 1893 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 May 1915 and was killed in action on 22 June 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. George Richardson was born in Oxford and attested there for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 1st/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. George Charles Steward, a native of Windsor, Berkshire, attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 18 November 1915. He served with the 1st Garrison Battalion during the Great War in India, and was discharged suffering from Malaria in May 1919. The British War Medal is his sole medal entitlement for service in the Great War.
‘The whole business was horrible, as one never knew who was for or against you. An innocent looking civilian would walk past the barracks, see our position and then go to a house and snipe. The fighting in France I think was infinitely preferable to this and in this others concur.’ (Personal memoir of the Easter Rising by Major G. A. Harris, Dublin University O.T.C.) ‘I do not know how I should have got on without him, he did everything, and was always cheerful and active and never seemed to get tired, though the strain was great. He organised the defence most efficiently...’ (Colonel F. W. Shaw, Commanding 2nd (H.S.) Gn. Bn. R. Irish Regt.) The important and unique inter-War C.B.E. (Civil), 1916 ‘Easter Rising - Defence of Beggars Bush Barracks’ D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. (Military) group of eight awarded to Major and Adjutant G. A. Harris, Dublin University Officer Training Corps, Territorial Force, who led his poorly armed column of above age military reservists - ‘The Gorgeous Wrecks’ - in a week long defence of Beggars Bush Barracks during the 1916 Easter Rising: arranging his veteran volunteers to the best possible advantage and by keeping up a constant fire on all surrounding houses occupied by the rebels, Harris prevented them from making an attack, and ‘bluffed them into thinking the garrison was much larger than it really was.’ Sold with an important archive of related material including the recipient’s unpublished diary of the Defence, written during the siege on ‘Beggars Bush, Dublin’ headed writing paper. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major G. A. Harris.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major G. A. Harris); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, last seven mounted as worn, minor green enamel damage to wreath on DSO, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £8,000-£12,000 --- C.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 3 June 1927: ‘Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 24 January 1917: General citation but awarded in connection with services rendered during the Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin, April 1916. O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 25 January 1917: general citation but in connection with services rendered during the Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin, April 1916. George Arthur Harris was born in 1879 at Longford, Ireland, into a family with successful business interests and long Ulster associations. He won a scholarship to Trinity College Dublin, where he gained a gold medal in mathematics, played rugby for the 1st XV and assisted in the foundation of the Dublin University Officers’ Training Corps before graduating via open competition to an appointment as a first-class clerk at the Admiralty in London in 1903. The following year he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales’s Own (Civil Service) Rifle Volunteer Corps but, having chosen to return to Dublin, in 1910 he was appointed an officer of the Dublin University Officer Training Corps. Appointed to the command of the Infantry Unit in 1911 and promoted to Major in February 1913, it was in this capacity that Harris was serving on the outbreak of war in 1914. Additionally appointed to the command of the 1st Dublin Battalion Volunteer Training Corps from August 1915, Harris was leading a party of these veteran volunteers on military manoeuvres in the Dublin Hills on 24 April 1916 when he received news that Sinn Fein had risen in Dublin. Easter Rising Following the armed insurrection of around 1800 Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916, the VTC were ordered to return to Beggars Bush Barracks at once. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Browning, the senior officer present, split the volunteers into two columns placing the larger party under Harris. These part time reservists, many of them lawyers, doctors and other professional men were mostly above military age - the Irish Rugby Union also had its own contingent. Unofficially termed the ‘Gorgeous Wrecks’, they wore civilian clothes with an armband emblazoned ‘GR’ - Georgius Rex. As a Volunteer Force they had no ammunition and many of their rifles were dummies for training purposes only. Unarmed and militarily ineffective then, this body of men was led back by Harris who recorded his experiences over the following days in his contemporary personal diary of the Easter Rising written on Beggars Bush Dublin headed note paper. Of the journey back to the Barracks, Harris notes: ‘I immediately collected them and marched back via Anglesea Road having a protective screen in front. All went well until I arrived at the corner of Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road where I heard from civilians that they heard that the Sinn Feiners were sniping at the Barracks. I sent on two motor cyclists for information and they brought back word from the Barracks that the road was fairly clear. So I ordered the GRs to go up in small parties of four or five. I went on horseback with the foremost parties. As I rode up Haddington Road several shots were fired at me and one man was hit at the Barrack Gate. All the rest of the party got in without further casualty. The wounded man was carried in by Elie and Stranthers of the VTC who displayed great gallantry. The wounded man (Clery) unfortunately died during the night.’ (Harris’ diary refers) Meanwhile, Browning’s smaller party, taking a different route, had run into a rebel ambush at the corner of Haddington and Northumberland Road. Fourteen men were hit, five of them fatally. One of these casualties was Browning, mortally wounded at the head of the column. He was rushed into the Barracks where he died two days later. Major Harris meanwhile had already arrived to find it garrisoned by around twenty seven men of the Catering Corps. He set about organising the defence of the barracks immediately: ‘On getting into Barracks I found that I was senior Officer and took over command. I discovered that there were only about 15 rifles in the Barracks with a lot of disabled and convalescent soldiers, in addition to women and children. The troops with me - about 80 - had only unserviceable rifles for which no ammunition was available. There were large stores of ammunition and it was of the utmost importance to hold the Barracks, as it formed the first link between the city and troops coming from England. I arranged the troops round the wall to the best possible advantage, and by keeping up a constant fire on all surrounding houses occupied by the rebels prevented them from making an attack, and bluffed them into thinking the garrison was much larger than it really was.’ Harris had all the bricked up portholes opened and strategically had the ammunition, food etc. stored in the central block which he proposed to hold as a final post. Sniping continued from houses all around: ‘During the night Colonel Sir Frederick Shaw arrived and took over command, but I was ordered by the Irish Command Headquarters to remain and assist him. The night passed wearily in expectation of attack. All next day we h...
Pair: Private C. E. Heberle, 4th Field Butchery, Australian Imperial Force British War and Victory Medals (14917 Pte. C. E. Heberle. A.S.C. A.I.F.) very fine 1914-15 Star (8087 Cpl. L. A. Deale. 15/A.S.C. A.I.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (20906 Gnr. C. A. Betland. 7 F.A.B. A.I.F.; 2955 Pte. P. Chapman. 1 Pnr. Bn. A.I.F.; 11869 Pte. W. J. Phillips. 3 D.S.C. A.I.F.; 2537 Dvr. E. J. O’Halloran. 1 D.A.C. A.I.F.; 2397 Dvr. W. Dawkins. 10/A.S.C. A.I.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (1616 Pte. E. Betland 17 Bn. A.I.F.; 2967 Pte. A. Coe 5 F. Amb. A.I.F.) very fine (10) £200-£260 --- Percy Chapman, a native of Newcastle, New South Wales, attested for the Australian Imperial Force and served with the 1st Pioneer Battalion during the Great War. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 29 September 1917; he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Eugene John O’Halloran, a native of Crowlands, Victoria, attested for the Australian Imperial Force and served with the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Battery during the Great War. He died of dysentery in Malta on 10 October 1915, and is buried in Addolorata Cemetery, Malta. William Dawkins, a native of Ballarat, Victoria, attested for the Australian Imperial Force and served with the Australian Army Service Corps during the Great War. He served at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front, and was wounded by shell fire on 8 August 1916, and by gun shot to the right arm on 9 August 1916. He had a very poor disciplinary record, and went AWOL at Colombo, Ceylon, on his voyage home. Alec Coe, a native of Sydney, New South Wales, attested for the Australian Imperial Force and served with the 5th Australian Field Ambulance during the Great War. He died of wounds on the Western Front on 25 September 1917, and is buried in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with copied research.
A heavy quality Jacobean style dining room suite, in oak and elm, comprising a wake style oval drop leaf dining table with double gate leg action, when closed 203cm long, 60cm wide, 77cm high, and ten chairs comprising a set of six, each with rectangular backs and over stuffed seats studded in brown leather, including two carvers and a set of four similar chairs with carved and turned front legs.
[SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird's Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868. Three-color chromolithograph, visible area 520 x 748 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Three tears to side margins crossing image, some minor creasing to right margin, some overall browning or staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, showing a southwest view of the San Francisco peninsula, with Golden Gate in the upper right and Telegraph Hill bottom center. The view is based on a painting by Charles B. Gifford, which was copyrighted and published in 1868. A second state was published in the same year, and Reps records three additional states published in 1869, 1872, and 1873. VERY RARE IN ANY CONDITION: according to online records, we trace no example of this print at auction since 1918; we trace only 7 copies in institutions of any state. Reps 308.For condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
A RARE QUEEN ANNE OAK DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLE EARLY 18TH CENTURY with a single drop-leaf on a single gate support, with a hinged top revealing a vacant compartment, on turned and block legs and Braganza style feet, with a curved front stretcher 69cm high, 57.5 x 58cm (open) Provenance Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
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