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Lot 177
A good rare early 20th century Glove Wernicke industrial lawyers stacking bookcase filing cabinet with full length fold over glazed doors having filing index drawers with metal linings and further filing drawers to the 3 section deep and tall body. Complete with original Globe Wernicke labels. Measures 146cm high x 105cm wide x 46cm deep.
Lot 10
Two boxes of sundry china and glass to include a table-top globe set with various stone specimens, assorted blue and white "Willow" pattern style china wares, various figurines and a box containing assorted stone eggs, etc, together with a collection of five various pictures to include a print of trees in autumnal colours flanking a path and an Italianate style occasional table
Lot 295
Homann (Johann Baptist) Geographische Universal-Zeig und Schlag-Uhr, hand-coloured engraved plate, engraved letterpress, some staining to edges, repairs to all four corners with some text supplied in manuscript, slightly browned, splitting in two along central fold, 510 x 570mm., Nuremberg, J.B. Homann, [c. 1742]; and 4 pieces, including: an ALs from Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), lawyer and politician; and an ALs from Ellen Terry, v.s., v.d. (5 pieces). ⁂ First mentioned a chart in the shape of a clock to show how the sun's light moves about the earth during a 24-hours day. The text panels show a description of the universal clock, built by the Nuremberg clockmaker Zacharias Land[t]eck. The globe, surrounded by a ring of Zodiac signs, shows California as an island.
Lot 45
1958 Ferrari 250GT PF Coupe Rebodied as a LWB California Spyder - Offered from the stable of one of the UK's foremost Ferrari collectors - Based on an original 250GT PF Coupe chassis (Tipo 508D) which is interchangeable with that of a 250GT LWB California Spyder - Correct-type subframe and bodywork expertly copied from chassis 1487GT (an orginal 250GT LWB California Spyder Competizione that was formerly part of the vendor's collection) For many the Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder - be it in LWB or SWB guise - is simply one of the most beautiful cars yet made. Though, it is the former variant which boasts the greater competition pedigree with a highly impressive 5th place overall during the 1959 Le Mans 24-hours and a class win at that year's Sebring 12-hours. Of the fifty 250 GT California Spyder LWB cars made, just thirty-six are known to have been built with the preferred covered headlamps. A Competizione variant - chassis 1603GT - sold for $18,150,000 in August 2016 so ownership is necessarily a select affair. The vendor of this particular car, chassis 1241GT, has been fortunate enough to own dozens of Ferraris over the past five decades including a 250 GTO and the ex-Pedro Rodriguez 1959 250 GT California Spyder LWB Competizione which he meticulously restored during the late 1990s / early 2000s. Smitten by the enclosed headlamp-equipped ex-Rodriguez machine (chassis 1487GT), he determined to make a precise copy and commissioned a dimensionally accurate wooden body buck which took some 3,000 hours to construct just by itself! A self-confessed perfectionist with a notorious eye for detail he spent years scouring the globe for correct accessories including door furniture, light units, instruments and even the correct boot lock. There was no question of using inauthentic parts even if they were destined to be out of sight so when a suitable fuel tank could not be located a facsimile was fabricated from scratch. A connoisseur of all things Prancing Horse he knew that the later California Spyder LWBs were underpinned by the same Tipo 508D chassis as the contemporary 250 GT Pininfarina Coupe (albeit with a different subframe). Starting life as one of the latter, chassis 1241GT thus required precious little alteration to serve as a donor (though, its brakes were upgraded to four-wheel discs). One of a mere 353 examples made, it had been supplied new to America on December 29th 1958 and subsequently belonged to Charles Wray of Maryland before entering the current ownership via Thomas E Shaughnessy Consulting of San Clemente, California in August 2000. Interestingly, the engine currently fitted to chassis 1241GT had previously been installed aboard chassis 1487GT when the vendor first acquired it (and erroneously stamped up as `1487GT'). The precise origins of the 3-litre V12 remain a mystery despite a radiographic inspection carried out during 2003 suggesting 094C or perhaps 0944C as the internal engine number. However, it is a dual distributor Tipo 128D inside plug unit of the same type that would have powered a California Spyder LWB when new. The gearbox is similarly period correct albeit that it has been upgraded with a fifth gear courtesy of renowned marque specialists GTO Engineering of Berkshire. Fabricated by Clive Smart of Shapecraft UK using the aforementioned body buck, the alloy coachwork was completed and mounted to the chassis during 2003. Painted some two years later, the process of finding bits and pieces and having things done just so meant that the Ferrari was not UK road registered until July 2009. Determined that `1430 MU' should not only look, but also act, the part of a 250 GT California Spyder LWB, the vendor dispatched it to GTO Engineering in November 2015. Some ten months and over £90,000 later, the Ferrari had undergone a thorough engine overhaul (re-ground / balanced crankshaft, new cylinder liners, fresh high compression pistons, replacement bearings and timing chain etc) plus had attention paid to its cooling system, five-speed gearbox, rear leaf springs and back axle etc. Shaken down by Kevin Jones of GTO Engineering including a trip to Prescott Hillclimb, chassis 1241GT started readily upon inspection and sounded decidedly healthy. It is difficult to overstate the amount of time and effort that has gone into transforming this 250 GT from a Pinin Farina Coupe into a California Spyder LWB. Indeed, we would wager that `1430 MU' is more authentic in some respects than a few of the originals (especially if they were restored in less exacting times). Utterly convincing - to our eyes at least - this delectable Ferrari is worthy of close inspection. Offered for sale with UK V5C Registration Document, Maryland Certificate of Title, Ferrari Owners' Club dating letter, radiographic report, `no advisories' MOT certificate valid until June 9th 2017, sheaf of GTO Engineering invoices and numerous restoration photos.
Lot 3
Statuary: A rare Coade stone figure of Britanniastamped Coade, Lambeth and dated 1788damages112cm.; 44ins highBritannia was the Greek and Roman term for the geographical region of Great Britain or Great Britain and Ireland which was inhabited by the Britons and is the name given to the female personification of the island. During the reign of Charles II, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 1672. With the constitutional unification of England with Scotland in 1707 and then with Ireland in 1800, Britannia became an increasingly important symbol and a strong rallying point among Britons. In the 1780’s when this statue was made, the Royal Navy was the most powerful in the world and although now sadly missing this figure would almost certainly have held a trident similar to the figure of Britannia used on British coins. She is also depicted seated astride a globe of the world as befitting the nation’s prominence as the leading world power. This figure would almost certainly have been an individual commission for a building in the city of London, since the shield next to the seated figure depicts the arms of the City of London which is based on the flag of England, having a centred St George’s Cross, with the sword in the upper hoist canton (the top left quarter). The sword is believed to represent the sword that beheaded Saint Paul who is the patron saint of the city.Eleanor Coade (d.1821) opened her Lambeth Manufactory for ceramic artificial stone in 1769, and appointed the sculptor John Bacon as its manager two years later. She was employed by all the leading late 18th Century architects. From about 1777 she began her engraved designs, which were published in 1784 in a catalogue of over 700 items entitled A Descriptive Catalogue of Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory. Then in 1799, the year she entered into partnership with her cousin John Sealy, she issued a handbook of her Pedlar’s Lane exhibition Gallery. The firm became Coade and Sealey from this date and following Sealey’s death in 1813, it reverted to Coade and in 1821 with the death of the younger Eleanor Coade, control of the firm passed to William Croggan, who died in 1835, following bankruptcy. Coade’s manufactures resembling a fine-grained natural stone, have always been famed for their durability.Coade are known to have produced a number of figures of Britannia, including one on top of the dome of Liverpool Town Hall modelled by one of Coade’s leading modellers, J.C.F Rossi. Another was commissioned and made for the Custom House in London.
Lot 914
EDRADOUR, 11 years old, STRAIGHT FROM THE CASK, distilled 7th Aug 1991, bottled 12th May 2003, cask no. 268, one of 922 bottles, matured in Sherry butt, 50cl, 58.3% vol., in wooden box; The Malt Encyclopaedia, volume IV, by Waverley Vintners Ltd, including six 5cl miniatures, in box; a novelty globe bottling for Stylish Whisky, 20cl, 40% vol.; and a quantity of books on Whisky including Alfred Bernard's The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom, Birlinn, 2003, Andrew Jefford's Peat Smoke and Spirit, Headline, 2004 (a quantity)
Lot 347
British Commemorative Medals, British Colonisation, 1670, a heavy gilt-silver Georgian ‘patch’ box, the lid set with John Roettier’s medal, with conjoined busts of Charles II and Queen Catherine of Braganza to r., the inner lid with the globe, centred on Africa and showing the Eastern seaboard of North America, DIFFVSVS IN ORBE BRITANNVS; the base inset with a James II Crown, 1688, 43 x 20.5mm.; total wt 79.40gms., without hallmark or date, most attractive and in excellent condition For medal details see Medallic Illustrations 546/203; Eimer 245; Betts 44
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