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Click here to subscribePostcards, a mixed UK topographical collection of 85+ cards, with many street scenes, villages & views, RP's inc. The Lodge Hoghton Towers - The King's Visit, The Bank St Mary's Scilly, Britannia Inn (unlocated), Clerical staff Southend Goods Dept Station House, Old Farm Bourneville, Royal Forest Hotel Chingford, Church Lane Stoke, Lighthouse Swanage, Toll Gate Newport, aerial view of Wye College, Pretoria Avenue Walthamstow, etc (mixed condition, fair/gd)
Postcards, Middlesex, a further collection of approx. 75 cards of Middlesex. RP's include Harrow Fire 4.4.1908, Radnor Road Harrow (Scribbler), High St Pinner, Old Houses High St Edgware, Northwood P.O. Maxwell Road, The Green West Drayton, Ealing High St, Kenton Rd Kenton, Pond and Bridge Golders Hill, Finsbury Park Manor Gate etc. Also good printed street scenes (mixed condition, fair/gd)
Ephemera, a collection of early 19th C ephemera to include 1920s and 30s Harrods receipts (approx. 20), 5 indentures dating between 1813 and 1893, a 1922 Preston Guild Souvenir and Programme on tissue, bank notes, scraps, a 1960 Philips Rome Olympics programme, 'Women's Life For Maid and Wife' magazines, a 1930's scrap book of beauty cuttings, a 1922 tourist book of Nuremburg showing 10 colour scenes, 1960s Cow & Gate booklets etc. (gen gd) (qty)
Collection of four newspaper type printing blocks (three copper, one steel), depicting Winchester city gate, dairy farm scene, umbrellas, and game; one steel printing block depicting 1920s lady holding fabric, 'Beautiful Dress Fabrics'; two carved printing rollers; two metal printing blocks with scroll pattern and Nouveau motif, and two rubber printing blocks, the largest measuring 8.5cm by 4.5cm (11)
Political History. Manuscript. 19th century. Black ink on lined paper bound in black quarter-calf with marbled page edges. 35 numbered pages of writing, titled, 'a Political Journal kept by Sir Edward Knatchbull Bart. Beginning with the Dissolution of the Whig Govt. 1834'. Entries from 1834 to 1848. Some entries are brief, but many are detailed, for instance this one near the beginning of the journal: 'Sun. Jan 25. Went to church at St. Margarets. Paid three or four visits, and called on and saw the Duke of Wellington, with whom I had some interesting conversation about newspapers and the formation of the Govt. The Duke regretted that Sir R. Vyvyan was not in office. While I was at Apsley House, the servant came in and said the Duke of Cumberland was at the gate. The Duke of Wellington said "yes", and turning to me said, "I must". I did not remain two minutes, and upon going out of Apsley House gates, I ran directly against the Duke of Cumberland, who seeing me come from the House, held out his hand and was going to speak to me, but perceiving he did not know me, retreated. I do not know whether he is acquainted with me or not, as yet in my public life it has been my fortune never in society to have met, though I have very often been invited to meet him. All this I have written on this Sunday night Jany. 25th 1835, alone in London, having left my wife and all that is dear to me at Mersham Hotel, and yet there are those who believe that my position compensates for the loss of home and wife and children, who believe that the splendour of the world, and its imaginary greatness, are of more value than domestic happiness, such are not my feelings; I give up, for a time only I hope, all that I most love and value, from a sense of duty, and with the anxious desire of serving my country. The happiest moment of my life will be, if ever I live to see it, when I can with credit retire from public life, and repose in the bosom of my family. That this is true, thou o God, who knowest the very secrets of my heart, best can tell. Oh! of thy mercy, give me health, and strength, and confidence, and courage, and every needful ability to perform to the good of my country, and to the glory of thy name, the arduous duties I have undertaken. Upon thee do I rely, for Christ's sake, strengthen me, and support me in this my time of trial. I suppose henceforth to keep this journal, and if I do not make daily entries, at least to set down shortly, the principal events that befall me.' The final entry in the journal, dated 28 April 1848, is almost three pages in length, criticising Sir Robert Peel, 'I have no particular inducement to continue my entries...but events have occurred which lead me once more to write. I have endeavoured, often times in my own mind, to justify Sir R. Peel's character and conduct in the matter of the Repeal of the Corn Laws - but in vain. Either in 1842, and previously, he was acting a deceitful part, or his mind is of that unstable vacillating cast, as altogether to disqualify him for the position he held, as first minister of this country...The times in which we live are fearful indeed. The French Revolution, the state of the whole of Europe - the condition of England - its dense population, its large national debt, the want of sufficient employment for the people, the misery of a bad harvest, and of deficient crops - if such should be our fate, the dissatisfaction openly aroused, and secretly entertained, the loss of confidence in public men - and the want of a master mind to govern the state, these and such considerations, may make the boldest heart to tremble - but we ought all, and I hope we shall all, strive to do our duty, and may God in his mercy protect us. As to Ireland, I believe the maintenance of the Union will be difficult.' We are unable to ascertain if the manuscript is in the hand of Knatchbull himself, a secretary, or an unrelated person. Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet (1781-1849) was a British Tory politician
George Strigel, London a mahogany longcase regulator: the eight-day duration timepiece movement having a dead-beat escapement, maintaining power, a brass bob to the steel-rod pendulum and a brass bound weight, the ten-inch shallow-arched silvered dial having a conventional longcase layout with Roman hour numerals, Arabic five-minute markings, a recessed subsidiary seconds dial, blue steel spade hands and engraved to the arch in script George Philp. Strigel, Facing Her Majesty's Palace, London, the mahogany case having fluted quarter-columns with cast-brass capitals to the trunk with a shaped moulding to the door, the hood with fluted canted corners and a tall shaped pediment top, the base having a shaped raised panel and standing on a double-plinth with bracket feet, height 216cm.* Biography George Philip Strigel, born 1718, is recorded as working in Pimlico, Stafford Row, near Buckingham Gate, London as Clockmaker to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III who once walked in on Strigel as he was attending to one of the Palace clocks. He was made an honorary Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in April 1781 which is bestowed on those makers who it was believed could advance the interests of the company. Two porcelain clocks signed for Strigel were in Clarence House, the residence of the Queen Mother. A fine complicated watch with seconds and quarter seconds was a part of the famed Courtenay Ilbert collection acquired for the nation and now in the British Museum.Reference. The Philosophical Society of London The European Magazine and London Review Vol.34 Obituary for Mr George Philp Strigel, Watchmaker, in his 80th Year.
An unusual Early 20th century fan in fontange form, the single paper leaf printed with a scene of a Hunt, the seated riders possibly including the Master in a top hat, on a white horse, his companion in a hard riding hat astride a tan horse, both in long red coats, about to pass through a white wooden gate, their hounds anxious to pass through. The verso advertises ALLCOCK'S PLASTERS and shows a male torso with various plaster in position, and, quite unusually, a panel at each side advertising the plasters in Spanish. The fan has presumably been issued by the ''Agentes en España J.Uriach & Cia. Barcelona''. Simple wood monture. Overall height 9 inches or 23cm, and A Folding Fan with extra guards forming a handle, the cream silk leaf applied with bands of red, white and blue ribbons, above painted sprays of flowers and clover. Marked on one handle ''Patentirt'' (patent?). Wood monture painted white. Length of guard, closed, 7 inches or 18cm; Together with a small paper fan advertising a fan exhibition at the Musée d'art et d'histoire Geneve 22 juin - 30 octobre 1994; an advertising fan for the Swiss Fete Des Vignerons, Vevey 1999. Guard length 10 inches or 25.5cm and a small plastic brisé fan with yellow sticks painted with blue daisies, the guards further decorated with gold glittery paint, the upper guard stating ''Tanschule Lukas IX Alserstrasse 18, an annotation on one stick reading HANS PREXL Wein XIX Panberg 6*. Guard length 5.75 inches or 14.5cm (5). There is loss to the left side of the leaf. The centre top of the leaf is crumpled. The lower guard is absent. The upper guard is broken at the rivet and lacks the lower section.
Manuel Figueira (Cape Verdean, born 1938)Maguy estrelas metal da cancela (Maguy metal stars of the gate) signed and dated 'MANUEL FIGUEIRA/ 2003' (lower left); signed, titled and dated (verso) watercolour on canvas99.5 x 100cm (39 3/16 x 39 3/8in).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A 9 CARAT GOLD ONE TENTH BRITANNIA GOLD COIN SET FOUR BAR GATE BRACELET WITH PADLOCK FASTENER the coin bezel set to centre, gross weight 14.5 grams Condition Report : Condition: good, no obvious damage or repair, wear and tear only Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A 9 CARAT GOLD GATE BRACELET with padlock fastener and safety chain, the 6 bar gate bracelet, hallmarked 9 carat gold (modern), weighing approx. 12.4 grams Condition Report : Condition: good overall, scratches wear and tear only Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL & OTHER Approximately 180 cards, comprising real photographic views of Stogursey (by Bailey); New Inn Hotel, Gloucester; Cider Mill Lane, Chipping Campden; and New Street, Birmingham; with views of Old Anchor Gateway, Dunstable; Broad Street, Reading; St. Ann's Gate, Salisbury; Bird's Eye View, Wiveliscombe; Le Pont, Trouville-Deauville; and others, (two albums).
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