POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL Approximately forty-seven cards, including real photographic views of Gallowtree Gate, Leicester; London Road, Leicester; St. Mary's Church & Castle, Leicester; Parish Church and New Pump Room, Royal Leamington Spa; Luccomb Common; Marine Hotel, Hunters Quay; Rydal Water and Nab Scar (by Abraham of Keswick); Clitheroe Castle; Flatford Mill; The Head of Ullswater (by Abraham); The Ancient House, Butter Market, Ipswich; Harewood House; Town Hall, Birmingham (by Lewis of Walsall); Caban-Coch Dam and Resevoir (by Pickfords of Aberystwyth); Pump Rooms and Parade, Leamington Spa; Glanrafon, Llyfnant Valley (by George & Son); The Bridge, Barmouth; Shakey Bridge, Bentham; Municipal Golf Links, Allerton, Liverpool; Coniston Water & Village (by Abrahams); and West End Pier, Morecambe, (loose).
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*An Scarce Officer’s Tibet and N.W. Persia Group of 5 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly, 2nd / 1st Madras Pioneers, late 32nd and 64th Pioneers, Indian Army, comprising: Tibet 1903-05, single clasp, Gyantse (Lieut. H. St. G. H. Harvey. Kelly 64th Pioneers); British War Medal (Maj. H. St. G. Harvey Kelly.); General Service Medal, 1918-1962, single clasp, N. W. Persia (Major H. St. G. H. Harvey Kelly.); India General Service Medal, 1908-1935, single clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj, H, St, G, H, Harvey-Kelly, 2-1 M, Pnrs,); Jubilee Medal 1935; Group loose, with original riband bar, lightly polished and cleaned, very fine or better (5). The Harvey-Kelly family were a landed family from Westmeath, Ireland, and Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly was born in 1880. He passed out from Sandhurst in 1899, following which he received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant (Unattached List) in the Indian Staff Corps on 17 January 1900, as shown in the original warrant included with the lot. Soon after he was made a 2nd Lieutenant with the 32nd Pioneer’s, and sent to join Younghusband’s Tibet campaign of 1903-05, where he was present at the action at Niani (also spelt Naini) on 26 June 1904, on the strategic main road leading to Gyantse. As recorded in his personal journal, the storming and subsequent capture of this heavily fortified monastery was his first experience of battle (‘My first show!’), and he wrote: “2 Coys 32nd were ordered to attack under B- [Colonel Herbert Ralph Brander, C.B.] skirmished around selected house + garden about 150 yds from the village, and as we approached on the other side the enemy opened fire. A row of 4 houses loopholed & barricaded doors + windows, nothing to be seen but puffs of smoke, and we in a ditch, open fields between us, firing at the loopholes…maxims chattering, 7 pounders banging. After a while the enemy fire died down and then ceased. ‘That’s all that then, said B-, if they know what’s good for them – they’ve bolted. I’m going to rush the house.’ which with a wild yell he proceeded to do. Up we jumped and followed him but no sooner had we shown ourselves than the enemy’s fire recommenced. They had been waiting for a better target. On we ran, one man down on my left, & so up to the first house. B- hammered on the door, so did the Sepoys, not a sound from within and no way of getting in. No signs of Tibetans, must have bolted. Gun cotton was left behind by order…Orders came from Colonel Hogge – 23rd will clear the houses, 32nd the garden in the middle of the village. The garden was a walled in enclosure – loopholed – gateway bricked up, and a clear run of 60 yards to reach it. B started giving orders to circle behind…we followed, not a sign of the enemy, our own shrapnel playing hell’s bells above our heads. B reached the gate and we had the bricks down, waiting to rush them. Another minute and we were in. Not a soul in the place. Having carried out our orders, there we sat in the shade of a tree and had tiffin…until it was time to march to Gyantse.” Harvey-Kelly also took part in the operations at and around the mountain fortress at Gyantse, between 5 May and 6 July 1904, and then during the march to Lhassa between 14 July and 3 August 1904. Afterwards he served in the 64th Pioneers between c. late 1904 and 1907, and then in North West Persia and Waziristan between September 1919 and May 1921 with the 2nd Battalion / 1st Madras Pioneers. He retired from service in the Indian Army in 1928, whereupon he joined the South Indian Railway as Executive Officer, Golden Rock Colony. He worked in this capacity until 9 October 1935, when he decided to leave India and return home, having been presented with the King’s Silver Jubilee medal at a Durbar in Trichinopoly just weeks before on 3 September 1935. He appears to have spent his retirement in Bedford, where his sons attended Bedford Modern School. He sons served with distinction in the Great War: Herbert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly was a famous pilot - the first to land in France and the first RFC pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft before being shot down in Bloody April and dying from wounds. Another son, Charles Hamilton Hume Harvey-Kelly, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Baluch Light Infantry, served as Military Attaché to Kabul, and won the D.S.O. This group offered with an original warrant, portrait photograph, an original copy of the ‘Farewell Address’ to Harvey-Kelly from the Golden Rock Colony, letter from the South Indian Railway Co. confirming his nomination for the King’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, and other related research. Harvey-Kelly’s archive, including his journal and photographs of the Tibet expedition, will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s London, Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 November 2016
Collection 90+ early 20th century glass photograph lantern slides circa 1900 depicting China, probably mainly Peking (Beijing) and environs, the majority of slides with manuscript numbers/letters, images include manuscript text slide simply "Peking" with Chinese characters above and below (1A), section of Great Wall of China (2B), river scene with large wooden junk and other boats (5A), large Christian church, riverside location (7A), outdoor sculpture/temple/shrine? of steel globular design supported by traditional carved dragons etc (?D), rural peasants, another section of large fortified wall (presumably Great Wall) incorporating large building (10B), city/settlement (1E), temple (8E), Chinese Empress (?), another manuscript text slide, hand coloured "Peking and the Pekingese", "Temple of Heaven" (Beijing), Archers (4G) faded, Westerner on horse-drawn cart (11F), Chinese gate Great Wall possibly, Shanhaiguan? etc, housed in two contemporaneous wooden cases, manuscript ownership signature T Child, Chelsfield, Kent + another wooden box containing approximately 70 similar glass photographic lantern slides circa early 20th century depicting mainly UK churches and cathedrals (3)
after David Roberts (British, 1796-1864), three tinted lithographs, originally published in 'Sketches in the Holy Land, Syria, Egypt & Nubia', (1842 -49), comprising: 'Fountain of Siloam, Valley of Jehoshaphat, 1839'; 'Gate of Damascus, Jerusalem, April 14th 1839'; and 'Golden Gate of the Temple shewing part of the Ancient Walls'. (3)
ARTHUR GIARDELLI, (British, lived and worked in West Wales, 1911-2009), 'Gate Holm From Marloes', signed with monogram, watercolours. 40 x 57cm.Provenance: estate of Phillip Y. Davies, deceased. CONDITION REPORT: Picture appearing in good condition, the frame and mount rather grubby externally.
A nickel plated six shot 5mm pinfire open frame double action revolver with sighted octagonal barrel, length approx 6cm, foliate engraved cylinder and frame with loading gate and folding trigger, chequered hardwood grips (trigger axis and pin replaced, ejector rod missing, action defective).
SELECTION OF BRITAINS & JOE HILL CO AND OTHERS LEAD FARM AND 300 ANIMALS in various scales/sizes to include ostrich approx 3" (7.6cm) high, ACCESSORIES including dog kennell, dovecote, two wheel hand cart, gas standard lamp of typical form, 5 1/2" (14cm) and WOOD & PRINTED PAPER ANIMAL STALLS with exterior wood fencing and hinge gate 8" (20.3cm) x 6" (15.2cm) SMALL NUMBER OF MILITARY AND OTHER LEAD FIGURES approx 100 pieces in total
A large quantity of jewellery, to include a silver five row twisted link gate bracelet with padlock, a silver ingot on chain, a silver black onyx seal on chain, a freshwater pearl on necklace, two identification bracelets, a silver articulated fish on chain, a Clarence H Clutterwek silver plate pocket, a silver pocket watch and a gold plated pocket watch with enamel inlay, damaged
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) LOVE DUET, FROM THE PLAY GOD'S GENTRY BY DONAGH MACDONAGH, 1951 lithograph; (from an edition of 525) with Dawson Gallery framing label on reverse 14½ x 10½in. (36.83 x 26.67cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland Decorations by Louis le Brocquy. Set and printed by hand at the Dolmen Press in an edition of 525 copies & published on Saint Stephen's Day being the opening day of the play at the Dublin Gate theatre 1951.
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