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Click here to subscribe615-638 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: dd NN hERACLIUS Et hERA CONSt legend with Heraclius on left and Heraclius Constantine on right, seated facing on double-throne, each holding cross on globe in right hand, small cross above. Rev: dEUS AdIUtA ROmANIS legend with cross-potent on globe on three steps; K in right field. MIB 140; DOC 64; Sear 798. See Wildwinds.com (this coin"). 6.52 grams. Good very fine.
Dated 1816 AD. Bahia mint. Obv: crowned arms dividing date with mark of value to left and JOHANNES D G PORT P REGENS ET BRAS D legend with traces of original coin showing. Rev: globe over cross with SUBQ SIGN NATA STAB legend with obverse of original Mexico mint 8 reales clearly showing, including mintmark. KM# 307.1.26.68 grams. Very fine and better, a little weak in legends from being an overstrike. Scarce.
235-236 AD. Rome mint. Obv: IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG legend with laureate and draped bust right. Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVG legend with Providentia standing left holding wand and cornucopia, globe at feet. RIC 13; BMC 15; RSC 77; Sear 8315.3.45 grams.[No Reserve] Good extremely fine; near as struck.
19th century or earlier. Copying Koinon of Bithynia issue. Obv: AVT KAIC TRAI ADRIANOC CEBA, laureate head right. Rev: KOI-NON BEIQYNIAC, octastyle temple, pediment decorated with globe and acroteria. BMC 10; Waddington RecGen 41/45; SNG von Aulock 284; RPC III 992.25.64 grams.[No Reserve] Good very fine.
161-180 AD. Obv: AYT K M AYR ANTWNEINOC CEB, Marcus Aurelius seated left of curule chair, holding globe, and being crowned by Nike flying left behind him. Rev: IEROPOLITWN TWN PROC TW PYRAM, draped bust of Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy, bunch of grapes before head. SNG von Aulock 8677-8678; Franke KZR 16; Weiser 2; Imhoof MG 22; Prowe III 2185; SNG Tahberer 794-797.15.05 grams. Fine.
1809 on 1781 and 1835 on 1829 AD. Authorised 18 April 1809, 20 reis on 10. Obv: crown over X with date below WITH MARIA ET PETRUS II D G PE BRASIL REGES legend; shield countermark. Rev: globe with CIRCUMIT ORBEM PECUNIA TOTUM legend. Authorised 1835, 40 reis on 20. Obv: 20 within wreath with date below and 'R' mintmark for Rio de Janeiro mint and PETRUS I D G CONST IMP ET PERP BRAS DEF legend; countermarked '40'. Rev: crowned arms within wreath with IN HOC SIGNO VINCES legend. KM# 270 variant (host date for this issue not listed)/KM# 466 variant (host date for this mint not listed).5.80, 28.20 grams.[2, No Reserve] Coins fine and better; marks very fine.
Cast 1920 AD. A large bronze commemorative cast plaque with four pins to the reverse, depicting two nude standing winged male figures each extending an arm towards the other above a heater-shaped panel with raised text The first direct flight across the Atlantic was made on 14-15th June 1919, on a Vickers-Vimy Aeroplane, fitted with two Rolls-Royce engines of 560 HP each. Pilot Captain Sir John Alcock K.B.E., D.S.C. Navigator Lieutenant Sir A. Whitten Brown, K.B.E. This tablet is erected by Rolls Royce Limited in appreciation of the care and skill displayed by Mr. F. Henry Royce, the Engineer-in-Chief, and his assistants in the design of the engines and of the experimental staff and of all workers at Derby in connection with their construction.The reverse inscribed SINGERS Bronze Founders Frome. The plaque sculpted on commission from Rolls-Royce by Sir William Reid Dick (1879-1961); the eagle-on-globe, which originally surmounted the plaque, now lost. Cf. The Times, London for 13 July 1920, p.17; and cf. Wardleworth, Dennis, William Reid Dick, Sculptor, Routledge, 2016, p.50; and see Dictionary of National Biography, biographical entries for Alcock, Brown and Dick.65.5 kg, 101cm (39 3/4"). Property of a Hertfordshire country gentleman; rescued from a scrapyard in Bishop's Stortford, Essex; UK, in 2002. John Alcock (1892-1919) and Arthur Brown (1886-1948) made aviation history by making the first non-stop flight, taking some sixteen hours flying time, across the Atlantic Ocean, only a few months after the end of the War. After flying from St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland, taking some sixteen hours to complete, Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air, presented them with the Daily Mail prize (first offered in 1913) having achieved the flight in less than than the seventy-two hours stipulated; shortly afterwards they were invested with the KBE by George V at Windsor Castle; both men had been aviators during World War I and both had been prisoners of war; Alcock held after engine failure over Turkey and Brown being shot down over Germany. Alcock died in an airplane crash at Rouen, France while test flying a new Vickers Viking plane on 18 December 1919 and Brown died naturally on 4 October 1948; the Vickers Vimy airplane they made their pioneering flight in is preserved today in the Science Museum, South Kensington, London; several monuments to their achievement are still existing today: three in Newfoundland, one at the landing spot in Ireland, with others at Heathrow Airport, London and Manchester Airport (a few miles from the birthplace of Alcock); a Royal Mail postage stamp was issued in 1969 to mark the 50th anniversary of the flight; Rolls-Royce, whose Eagle engines were installed in the aircraft, paid their own tribute and commissioned this plaque from the late sculptor Sir William Reid Dick RA, RSBS (1879-1961, knighted 1935 and appointed King's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland by George VI in 1938) in 1920, believed originally sited at one of the Rolls-Royce factories; possibly at Derby. The sculptor made or contributed to many important works sited around the world in stone and bronze and these included, in London, the Kitchener Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, the Air Force Memorial at Westminster, the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Grosvenor Square, the Statue of George V at Westminster and, elsewhere, the figure of Lady Godiva at Coventry, the Arras Memorial and other War Memorials and the statue of David Livingston at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Fine condition. An important piece of aviation history and a work by a renowned sculptor.
A reproduction early 18th century style mahogany fender stool, with tapestry seat, on cabriole legs, 89cm wide, an early 20th century mahogany bookrack, by The Globe Wernicke Co Ltd, 64cm wide, Edwardian inlaid mahogany cane seat chair, and a George III style mahogany swing toilet mirror, 19th century (4).
A Pilkington Lancastrian solifleur vase by Richard Joyce, the globe and shaft form vase externally decorated with a continuous band of armored knights on horseback against a powdered blue ground, with 'RJ' cypher to underside, 19cm high CONDITION REPORT: Some minor surface scratching to the enamelling, some minor fritting to the foot rim, very finely crazed throughout.
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