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PORTRAIT DE L’EMPEREUR JAHANGIR (1569-1627) Miniature, gouache et dorure sur ivoire, représentant l’empereur Jahangir, debout, de profil, auréolé, richement vêtu d’une tunique brodée de fleurs doré, paré de bijoux en perles et tenant un globe dans sa main droite et son chamchir de la main gauche. Titre en persan au-dessus du personnage. (Petit manque au coin gauche, collée sur un support de velours, encadrée sous verre). Inde du Nord, XIXe  siècle. DIM. A VUE : 15,5 X 7,5 CM
A pair of Victorian silver pepper pots, each in the form of a putti lifting a globe on a square base, Birmingham, 1890, together with three George IV silver teaspoons by Samuel Wintle, London, 1823 Condition Report: There are shallow dents to the tops of the condiments. One of the platform bases has a buckle in two corners. Slightly rubbed hallmarks.
A parcel lot of metal and wood to include copper warming pan, domed kettle and flower trough with lion handles, brass example, Super Materiam Ignis Triumphans advertising ashtray, horse brasses, Rolstar world globe table lighter, Polo lighter, silver cricket medal and others, costume jewellery, oak tobacco jar, liner A/F, two mantle clocks, one mahogany, the other brass, four walking canes etc.
**UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, PROBABLY JAPANESE CIRCA 1920: BURTON HOLMES AND A SAMURAI DISPLAY framed and glazed 26.8 cm; 10 ½ in by 31.8 cm; 12 1/2in Provenance Mrs. Edmond Mark Paulin, Rye Beach, New Hampshire, presented to J.W. Higgins 29 July 1957 JWHA Inv. No. 6233 Burton Holmes was born into a prosperous Chicago family in 1870. From an early age he enjoyed travel, as an adult he roamed the globe each summer for over fifty years and toured American auditoria in winter. During the 1945-46 season, aged 75, he gave 157 two-hour lectures. It was from these lectures that he first coined the term "Travelogue" in 1904 to advertise his unique live stage presentations. Sophisticated and elegantly attired, Holmes has been described as the world`s most famous traveller during the first half of the 20th century. He died in 1958 and his company, Burton Holmes International, survived into the 1970s.
An early English sealed wine bottle, c.1660-70, of shaft and globe type, applied with a circular seal containing a shield of three fleur de lys, with a shallow kick-in base and string rim, 21cm. Provenance: believed to have been excavated in either the Warminster or Devizes area of Wiltshire, c.1960, and thence by descent.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS William III, Dark Boxwood Medallic Draughtsman, c.1700, by Martin Brunner (Nürnberg), palm topped with three crowns, trophies and harp lean against it, REX GVILIELMVS IVSTVS, SIC FLOREBIT RECVPERATOR / ET TRIVMPHATOR MAXIMVS, rev William and priest try and pull Fortune on her winged globe, towards them, AH FORTVNA - BONA ! ME CONDONA, 50mm (MI -; Himmelheber 250 / 254). Good very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, EGYPT Jules, Cardinal Mazarin, born Giulio Raimondo Mazarino (1602-1661), diplomat, and politician, Chief Minister of France from 1642, large struck Silvered-bronze Restitutional Medal, signed F C A G A E, c.1650, bust right wearing cap and cape, rev Atlas passes the globe to a deceived Hercules, HI DVO ILLE SOLVS, 93.5mm, 19th century (cf Maz II, CXV, 1; TN LXVI). Good very fine with high relief.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Great Britain, George I (1660-1714-1727), The Treaty of Passarowitz, Silver Medal, 1718, by J Croker, laureate bust right in armour, rev the King standing below draped hangings, points at Morea on a library globe, PACIS ARBITER, 45.5mm (MI 437/39; Eimer 479; Pax 482; Nuri Pere 1156). Very fine, slight marking to metal behind King’s head.
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS The British Settlement at Bombay, and Victory over a French Squadron, White Metal Medal, 1804, for Mudie’s Series of National Medals, by J-P Droz and G Mills, Neptune reclines against globe, rev Neptune holds trident and Victory, 41mm (Pudd 804.1; BHM 567; Eimer 952; MH 555). Nearly extremely fine.
†COINS, EUROPEAN TERRITORIES, ISLE OF MAN Bank Token Coinage, Castletown, Isle of Man Bank (Quayle, Taubman and Kelly, later Quayle, Cotteen and Lightfoot), Copper Halfpenny, 1811, denomination and date, rev Triune (Pr 58; KM Tn3); Douglas, Beatson & Copeland, Copper Penny, 1811, Atlas supporting globe, rev Triune (Pr 54; KM Tn11). Both extremely fine, toned. (2)
[BINDINGS] Shakespeare, William. Works of, text revised by Rev. Alexander Dyce, fourth edition, nine (of ten) volumes, Bickers & Son, London, 1880-81, half calf with gilt decorated spines in compartments, engraved frontispieces, quarto; Hartwig, G. The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe, second edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1874, plate and text illustrations, octavo; and a further seventeen assorted leather-bounds works, (27 volumes).
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