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Lot 383
Royal Marines, a diamond regimental brooch, the central globe within a rose cut diamond laurel wreath mount, beneath a rose cut diamond and enamel crown an lion, 3.3cm long Condition Report:**+ Overall light wear commensurate with use. All diamonds are present and appear original, no damage to the enamel. One small area of soft solder on the back holding in a joint. No signs of other damage or repair.
Lot 372
WWII – a fine archive of possibly 400 letters written to members of the Chamberlain family of Birmingham, mostly by Dorothy, the fiancé of the son of the family, Stanley Chamberlain. The letters cover the period from 1938 through the War, and reflect the day to day activities of ordinary people finding themselves in an extraordinary situations – under restrictions of movement and thought by their own authorities, and under threat of death at any time from the frequent air raids, and of course facing the grief at the loss of friends and loved ones in foreign fields. A fine archive. Many of the matters discussed in these letters might seem at first somewhat commonplace, but when read in the context of knowing that these were written under the conditions of the war, they reveal many facts which official histories have perhaps ignored : ‘...we are just listening to messages from Cairo. Mother is shedding a few tears over them. I suppose they are rather touching when you think of the miles they are away...there’s a bit of stink at school, because four senior children have left to Bourneville Schools. Their parents wrote to Brad & told him they couldn’t contemplate sending their children for winter months to a coal fired school as coal was going to be so scarce...I don’t blame the parents...last year they worked in coats & gloves and were still cold...’ ‘...a fortnight’s sweet ration is due. So if you take the 3 sweet ration books round the corner you should get quite a goodly amount at 8oz each for the 2 weeks...spend the whole amount anyway, otherwise the coupons will be valueless...’ ‘expect you too have heard nothing but last night’s air raids on all sides ! Of our 220 children, 65 noble little souls turned up this morning, so I devised a rest period when they nearly all went to sleep ! we had a real family re-union last night just in a corner of the hall that is between three interior walls & has three means of exit...the anti aircraft were working really hard – the Queen’s Park one shattered our gas globe – when a weak voice said ‘I think I’m going to faint’...but the funniest part was the all clear sounding at full blast while the anti-aircraft guns were practically drowning it...’ The archive also includes a somewhat sardonic list entitled ‘How to live on three shillings a week’.
Lot 199
A 17th Century Style Brass Ten Branch Chandelier. The two tiers of four over six graduated S-scroll branches with dished drip trays having wax ejection apertures and centred by knopped candle cups. The centre column terminating with a pendant globe & finial. 22 ins (56 cms) in height, 23 ins (59 cms) in width.
Lot 83
A Walter Moorcroft vase of footed globe and shaft form decorated in the Hibiscus pattern with large tube lined flowers and foliage over a deep blue ground, impressed and hand painted marks, retains paper label, height 21 cms, together with a small ovoid vase in the Anemone pattern over blue ground, height 10.5 cms, S/D.
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