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Lot 85
- Entered from a private collection and current ownership since 1987 - Supplied new to Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al Hamad Al Sabah via Saad & Trad, Beirut - Later imported from America and entrusted to marque specialist P&A Wood for conversion to right-hand drive specification - 6230cc V8, automatic transmission, power assisted steering and air conditioning fitted - Reputed to have covered just 58,000 miles from new - 1 of just 82 chassis bodied to design number 2011 by H.J. Mulliner Introduced in Autumn 1962, the S3 Continental was notable as the last Bentley to be coachbuilt on a separate chassis. Powered by a 6230cc OHV V8 engine allied to four-speed automatic transmission and reputedly capable of nigh-on 120mph, the newcomer was ferociously expensive. One of the more striking designs available, H.J. Mulliner's 'Flying Spur' made precious few stylistic concessions to its four-door practicality. Inspired by the heraldic symbol bestowed upon the Scottish Johnstone Clan for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English on horseback, the model's distinctive moniker came courtesy of H.J. Mulliner's Managing Director, Harry Talbot Johnstone Esq. Understandably popular among contemporary celebrities such as Jayne Mansfield, Fanny Craddock, Sir John Mills, Harry Belafonte and Keith Richards, just 312 S3 Continentals were completed between 1962 and 1966. However, H.J. Mulliner only bodied 82 chassis to its design number 2011. According to its accompanying copy chassis cards, this particular example - chassis BC92LXB - was supplied new via Saad & Traad of Beirut to Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al Hamad Al Sabah (the extended Al Sabah family includes the present Emir of Kuwait). Originally finished in Carribbean Blue with Off White leather upholstery - the same combination it pleasingly sports today - the Bentley was also specified with Colonial suspension, electric windows all-round, Dunlop white-sided tyres and a 'Made in England' bulkhead plaque. Apparently resident in America thereafter, the Flying Spur was first UK road registered on 7th February 1972. Numerous copy invoices on file from Rolls-Royce and Bentley specialists P&A Wood show that they have known the decidedly elegant four-seater for some forty odd years. As well as looking after the Bentley for previous custodians Bernard J. Crowley Esq., J.J. Burton Esq. and Ian Scoggins Esq. not to mention installing a heated rear window and air-conditioning, the renowned Essex-based firm sold it to the vendor on 5th February 1987 at an indicated 41,715 miles. The subject of an article in the Third P&A Wood Newsletter entitled 'The Missing Registration Document and the Mouse!' chassis BC92LXB was described thus: 'We had a Bentley S3 Flying Spur with very low mileage for sale. It was a car which had been imported from America and which we had converted from left- to right-hand drive for a customer who wanted a very good low mileage example . . . It soon became apparent that there was a mouse in the car. We tried everything to find the mouse but just like in the cartoons it was probably laughing at us while we almost dismantled the whole car! . . . The history file had been left on the back seat and everything was there except for the Registration Document . . . The buyer took the car for the weekend and on the Monday telephoned Paul to say he had found the document. "Where was it?" asked Paul. The buyer explained that when he switched the heater on it blew out all over him! The mouse had used it for its nest in the heater ducts. He took it in good spirits and sent us all the pieces in an envelope. We had the car back but never did find the mouse!' Assorted old MOT certificates suggest that the Bentley has covered just 17,000 or so miles over the last twenty-nine years. Part of an impressive private collection during that time (and stabled alongside several other Continentals), the sports saloon has benefited from in-house maintenance plus attention to its ignition (2002, 2008), brake system (2008, 2010), windscreen seal (2010) and fuel pumps. Treated to a £14,730 bodywork restoration / respray in 2009-2010, more recent work has seen the wood veneers refinished and the sump cleaned out. A globe-trotting Flying Spur with an enviable history, 'RYT 15' shows a highly credible 58,000 miles to its odometer. A great way to share Bentley Continental motoring with friends.
Lot 316
1916 ALLMAN’S PURE IRISH POT STILL WHISKEY40 Under Proof (34%abv), fill level to shoulder, with driven cork showing visible shrinking, all consistent with age. Original label present but worn. Extremely scarce.Distilled in 1916 by the (long vanished) Bandon distillery in West Cork and bottled by the (long vanished) Nun’s Island Distillery in Galway, the bottle may be the oldest unopened expression of Irish single pot still whiskey sold in modern times. Originally owned by a Captain R.E. Palmer and bottled by the Galway Persse family who once supplied their whiskeys to the House of Commons, the bottle was even strangely proximate to the turbulent politics of its age. Its distillery’s owner, Richard Allman, had even served as Liberal MP for Bandon during the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell’s Home Rule movement and, aside from its connections to Irish history, the distillery he presided over ran almost directly alongside the legendary rise and tragic collapse of Irish whiskey itself.Founded in 1826 following the 1823 excise reforms often credited as the midwife of Irish whiskey’s first great global boom, the Bandon distillery survived the rise of Father Mathew’s Cork Total Abstinence Society, the Famine, and stiff competition from its enormous Dublin and Belfast competitors to become one of the most celebrated Irish producers of the age. When the English journalist Alfred Barnard (often regarded as the father of whiskey commentary) came to visit in 1886, he described it as the most successful rural distillery in Ireland, with barley plentifully supplied by local farmers and an internal village of around 200 employees including coopers, carpenters, coppersmiths, maltmen, and of course, the master distiller “C. McPherson”. The malting facility was second only to Guinness and aside from its own barrels, the distillery also imported specially sherry-seasoned casks from Cadiz. Although this is now common practice in the world of fine whiskeys, Allman claimed to have been one of the first distillers in Ireland to do so. At a timewhen Irish whiskey was outselling Scotch three cases to one, Allman’s whiskey even earned a popular following in Scotland and would have been a key brand there during the 1860s when, according to Scottish whisky historian Charles MacLean, imported Irish whiskeys like Allmans were actually outselling their Caledonian cousins in Edinburgh itself!From the perspective of whiskey history, however, the bottle’s real importance to posterity may actually lie with the writing on the label. Today, the resurgent Irish whiskey industry and its admirers are very eager to talk about a style called “Irish pot still” or “single pot still” whiskey, a uniquely Hibernian varietal closely tied to the recipes and procedures that first put Irish whiskey into snifters around the globe. Although it mustbe batch-distilled in a pot still (a device also used to make almost all single malts and many artisan American whiskeys), the style is actually defined by the grain ingredients run through that still (a mixture of malt with a fine grist of “green” unmalted barley for texture and spice). Whiskey made in a pot still without the green barley is not, by this definition, “Irish pot still whiskey”. Originally introduced as a means of dodging the notorious Malt Tax, the use of raw barley has been a feature of Irish whiskey since the 18th century and although the less efficient green barley produced lower yields, the practice was so ingrained in the tasteof many Irish whiskeys that the practice remained even after the tax was repealed in October 1880 (coincidently only a few months after Richard Allman entered parliament).Although the recipe was undoubtedly a staple of Irish distilling, the practices of the Bandon distillery provide critics with one of the clearest arguments that, even in Victorian times, this ingredient-based definition was clearly understood as, according to Barnard, the distillery separated its barley into raw gristing and malting facilities and ran them through two distinct runs in order to make “both Old Pot Still Whisky, designated Irish, and Pure Malt Whisky, both of a superior quality”. The bottle here comes from their Pure Irish Pot Still stock. To contemporary connoisseurs, this bottle is arguably a touchstone to the provenance of Irish whiskey’s distinct culinary heritage.For all that history, however, the Bandon distillery was hit by the same twentieth century factors of war, prohibition, and competition from cheaper more rapidly produced blended whiskeys that decimated the country’s old pot still classics and almost resulted in the extinction of the style. In 1925 Bandon was forced to close, missing its own centenary by just a few months. Trading as “Allman, Dowden and Co.”, its agents continued selling off stocks until 1939, which is most likely the reason for this expression’s bottling in Galway (on the grounds of yet another proud Irish pot still distillery closed during the collapse). Very few bottles have survived to modernity and, although the Old Still Bar (converted from the distillery offices) proudly retained a bottle until 1971, most of the contents boiled away in a tragic fire that struck the pub that year.Like the Irish pot still industry itself, the once notorious liquid pride of Cork simply evaporated through the bottle’s cork and left the world without a taste. That is, until the discovery of this bottle today.
Lot 21
Cn. Lentulus (76 – 75 BC), denarius, rev. terrestrial globe between rudder and sceptre, wt. 3.92gms. (Syd.752); L. Julius (141 BC), denarius, rev. Dioscuri r., wt. 3.79gms. (BMC.899; Syd.443); M. Volteius M. f. (78 BC), denarius, rev. Ceres in chariot r., wt. 3.74gms. (BMC.3160-78; Syd.776), all very fine (3)
Lot 280
An English 6 inch terrestrial table globe on wooden stand, Philips, London, 1930`s, the sphere applied with twelve coloured gores with countries coloured according to political allegiances with annotations for major cities, trade routes and principal topographical features, the North Pacific with trade label PHILIPS` 6 inch, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, LONDON, GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE, GEORGE PHILIP & SON Ltd, 32 FLEET STREET, PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN, pivoted via the poles within a metal meridian arc and mounted on a single tier circular ebonised wooden plinth H26cm
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