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Click here to subscribeVictorian Royal Irish Regiment Officers Home Service Helmet Plate, gilt crowned star with laurel wreath and garter. To the centre of the plate is a red felt backing and silvered crowned harp on shamrock wreath. Lower section of the plate has silvered three part scroll with regimental details. Reverse of the plate is fitted with three lug fittings. Some wear to the gilt finish of the plate.
Victorian Royal Irish Regiment Officers Glengarry Badge and Collar Badges, gilt crowned garter glengarry badge with red felt centre and crowned harp within shamrock wreath. Reverse of the glengarry has the brass backing plate. Badge appears to have been re-lugged at some time. White metal officers collar badges with two lug fittings on the reverse, the badges have toned. (3 items)
Royal Irish Rifles , Royal Ulster Rifles and Royal Irish Regiment Collar Badges consisting of brass universal crown worn by 83rd foot pre 1881, 5x post 1875 83rd foot brass collar badges, 2x 86th (Royal County Down) foot collar / forage cap badges, post 1881 Royal Irish Rifles blackened bronze collar badge, kings crown post 1903 example, post 1913 example in white metal, 5x North Irish Brigade blackened collar badges, chromed pipers North Irish Brigade collar, post 1902 WW1 small type OSD bronze collar badge, large OSD collar badge, pre 1881 18th (The Royal Irish) regiment of foot harp collar badge, six variations of post 1881 Royal Irish Regiment collar badge, 3x variations of officers silvered Royal Irish Regiment collars, two Victorian Wexford Militia collar badges, 3x white metal flaming grenades worn by Kilkenny Fusiliers Militia, plus others. Various conditions. Many of these badges are the actual ones illustrated in History of the British Infantry Collar Badge by Colin Churchill. (40 items)
An enamel shield bar brooch - With the engraving 'Nec Temere Nec Timide' - Tests as 9ct gold - Width 4cms - Together with a harp pendant, suspended from a fine belcher-link chain and a further pendant - All with marks indicating 9ct gold - Total weight approx 8.9gms Condition Report: Good to fair - With light surface scratches - Metal pin
A collection of walking sticks including a bog oak example carved with shamrocks and a harp, with silver collar, another example with silver collar, a horn handled example, etc, also a silver handled umbrella and a bone handled parasol with mother of pearl tips (7). CONDITION REPORT: Each example has traces of use, eg. rubbing, scratches and minor splits. One silver mounted example has a loss to mounting. The other umbrella has dent to edges of handle.
Four carved Irish bog oak thimble stands, including one with bog oak thimble, comprising; a bun form example carved with harp, dog, shamrock, etc., complete with carved bog oak thimble, inscribed "ERIN", stand 5cm diameter, an owl form example with glass eyes with a silver thimble, 6cm, a saucepan with silver thimble, 6cm, and a cauldron form example, 3.5cm. (4)
A pique work tortoiseshell brooch AF; a faux tortoiseshell locket; two faux tortoiseshell and mother of pearl inlaid buttons; a bogwood brooch in the shape of a harp; a white metal double dogs head brooch; a faux tortoiseshell brooch in the form of a dolphin; various other brooches, pendants etc.
A 19th Century glazed earthenware Game Pie Dish, cover, liner and stand, with embossed decoration, and a small similar Dish and Cover en suite; also a Second Period Belleek two handle Pot and cover, decorated with ivory leaves, a Second Period Belleek Harp, 22cms (8 1/2") high, and two other Belleek items. (a lot).
A good mid-19th Century coral Necklace, in a contemporary circular French brass mounted box with hand coloured engraved top; a carved bog oak Bracelet with shamrocks and harp; a collection of agate Balls and two tortoiseshell Combs, in a decorated 19th Century French cardboard box. A lot. (1)
A large Irish silver Salver, engraved with Head of Eamon de Valera, as President of Ireland, by Jack Coughlin, Lim. Edition, 11" diameter; a heavy silver Eamon de Valera Commemorative Medal, Lim. Edn., cased; Irish silver, "Irish-American 1776 - 1976 Commemorative Strawberry Dish, engraved with harp & American eagle; and an Irish Silver Plate engraved, "The Choir St. Patrick's Cathedral," Dublin, all v. good. (4)
An attractive Irish Victorian yew wood and arbutus Killarney Work Table, the moulded hinged top decorated with fern and ivy leaves, and three panels of ruins, the reverse with harp and trailing shamrocks, over a fitted interior, on a faceted baluster centre pillar with shaped quadruple base profusely decorated with shamrocks etc on ball feet, 76cms (30") high, 58cms (23") wide. (1)
A Gilt Metal and Porcelain Mounted Striking Mantel Clock with Garniture, signed Levy Freres A Paris, circa 1870, surmounted by a cherub playing a harp, dark blue porcelain cherub panels, globe shaped dial with Roman numerals, twin barrel movement striking on a bell, backplate signed and numbered 342, 31cm high, with dark blue porcelain and gilt metal mounted ewer shaped garniture, 24cm high 09.06.15, Case surfaces are faded, porcelain panels in the base with minor scratches, globe shaped dial has been re-painted, slight rubbing to the paint around the winding holes, movement plates with small scratches and needs cleaning, one of the garniture with a crack to the bottom side of the neck and scratch marks to the top side.
MARX BROTHERS THE: Groucho Marx (1890-1977) American Film Comedian, one of the Marx Brothers. Vintage dark fountain pen ink signature ('Groucho Marx') on a page removed from an autograph album. With a neatly attached newspaper portrait to one side and annotated and dated by a collector to the base of the page, 23rd May 1948; Chico Marx (1887-1961) American Film Comedian, one of the Marx Brothers. Vintage bold black fountain pen ink signature ('Kindest regards, Chico Marx') on a page removed from an autograph album; Harpo Marx (1888-1964) American Film Comedian, one of the Marx Brothers. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Marx seated in a half length pose playing his trademark harp. Signed in blue ink at the head of the image with slightly weaker contrast; Zeppo Marx (1901-1979) American Film Comedian, one of the Marx Brothers. D.S., Zeppo Marx, being a signed cheque, Los Angeles, California, 14th February 1973. The cheque is drawn on the Security Pacific National Bank and is made payable to the Southern California Gas Company for the sum of $23.33. The signature is not affected by any bank cancellations. VG, 4
An 18th Century Westerwald salt-glazed stoneware jug with relief moulded decoration depicting an English Royal Coat of Arms depicting lion and unicorn with crown and shield, the shield bearing harp and fleur de lys, within scraffito and blue glazed stylised floral and foliate decoration, 30 cm high CONDITION REPORTS General wear, small scratches and slightly dirty. There is pitting throughout from original firing. There are a couple of pin head size chips to the blue glaze on the body. Otherwise appears in good sound condition.
A collection of 19th century and other black basalt wares including a coffee pot with ridged moulding and figural knop, a teapot of oval form with moulded classical figure decoration and figural knop with white mount to the spout, a further teapot of squat form and a jug with shamrock, thistle, rose and harp decoration and impressed mark to base Wedgwood
A French Empire ormolu mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, with a silk suspension to the pendulum, the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the rectangular ormolu case with applied frieze to the front depicting young cherubs with bows either side of a classical stand, with the case surmounted by a figure of a cherub playing a harp with a bow and arrows to his side and a garland of flowers, standing on chased ormolu bun feet, height 35cm.
King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours King David, demi-grisaille miniature from an illuminated Book of Hours, on parchment [Low Countries (probably Bruges), c .1460] Single leaf, with a full-page arch-topped miniature, enclosing David kneeling in ermine edged robes in a rocky landscape with his blue crown with gold fleur-de-lys and harp before him, all before a wide river with tiny boats and a mountainous background with a medieval town, as God appears to him in the upper right corner, all in demi-grisaille, with full border of acanthus leaves, other foliage, thistles and a bird (all in grey tones heightened with gold), inner edge with small tri-lobed blue flowers, modern pencil fol. no. 36 on reverse, gold frame of miniature with few small flakes, else excellent condition, 90mm. by 70mm., framed This is a charming example of grisaille illumination on a tiny scale. Silver was notoriously difficult to master in the book-arts, and the single great period of flourishing of books in this and associated grey-tones was under the wealthy patronage of artistic communities in the Low Countries (most notably Bruges) by the Burgundian dukes. See Sotheby s, 10 July 2012, lot 14, for a similar miniature, from a contemporary Book of Hours, there ascribed to the Mildmay Master.
The Mckell Medical Almanack, - in German, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Alsace, c in German, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Alsace, c .1445] 12 leaves, single gathering, set out as medical-astronomical prognostications followed or proceeded by calendar for each month, most probably wanting a last leaf with the prognostications for December, else complete, double column of 32 lines in a fine prickly German vernacular bookhand, with capitals touched in red, 2-line initials in alternate red and muted turquoise-blue, rubrics and major feasts in red, each column of prognostications headed by an elaborate crocketed golden arch containing the sun or the moon (as a man's face wearing a cowl peeking out from a golden crescent) above a half-page depiction of an astronomer looking skyward or seated reading (11 in total), each calendar leaf with the occupation of the month within a large gold-edged roundel (approximately 50mm. in diameter), above a similarly sized portrait of the zodiac symbol for the month (often partly illuminated), slightly trimmed at outer edges (with small loss to edge of three illustrations), small spots and cockling in places, erased inscription (perhaps Early Modern ex libris) on last leaf, else very good condition, 205mm. by 105mm., eighteenth- or nineteenth-century binding of white vellum over stiff pasteboards, with single gilt-fillet and small ducal coronet in centre of front board, rebacked, fitted gilt-tooled leather case This is the long-lost Mckell Medical Almanack from the workshop of the celebrated artist Dietbold Lauber, last recorded and seen exactly sixty years ago, and previously available to scholarship only in black-and-white facsimile Provenance: (1) Commissioned c .1445 by a patron in the diocese of Strasbourg (the Calendar leaves having the local saints, Erhard, Gangolf, Udalric and Lendelinus amongst others), from the workshop of the artist Dietbold Lauber in Alsace. (2) Col. David McCandless Mckell (1881-1962) of Cillicothe, Ohio, fellow of the Morgan Library and an American friend of the Bodleian, who collected medieval manuscripts and children's books. This volume was exhibited in the library of the University of Kentucky in March 1958, accompanied by a published study by Rosy Schilling and a separate black-and-white facsimile. The manuscript itself has not been seen since then. Saurma-Jeltsch published her study in 2001 and likewise Mackert in 2012 without seeing it, and both list it as 'untraced'. Text and Illumination: Variants of the text here enjoyed great popularity in Germany in the fifteenth century both as part of larger works, or as a work in itself (as here) similar to the later so-called shepherd's calendars. In some manuscripts it is followed by short treatises on the planets, human temperaments and other medical matters, but as Schilling observed in 1958 the individual layout here suggests that this text always stood alone. It opens with predictions on what will happen in the year depending on which day of the week the first day of January falls on (if Monday the weather will be extreme and there will be little honey and much manslaughter ; if a Thursday the weather will be fine, but there will be little wine ; if a Friday many will have sore eyes ), and includes entries for January advising against bleeding but advising for drinking strong wine with ginger, for February advising bleeding only through the thumb and to eat hot food and drink also warm wine , for March advising to eat roast meat and often bathe, this is healthy and to be bled and cupped often, with further months receiving instructions to consume certain medicinal herbs, eat no meat from the feet of animals, abstain from all smoked meats, not go often to women , as well as offer predictions about thunder, weather changes or meteorites bringing war and death in their wake. It was clearly a prestigious commission for a wealthy patron, and Schilling identified the artist as a member of the workshop of the artist and publisher Diebold Lauber in Hagenau, Alsace. As she notes, the same artist also worked on a Legenda Aurea (now in Berlin, Staatsliche Bibl., Germ. Fol.495), and a Book of Chess (now British Library, Addit. MS.21458). Lauber administered a substantial workshop, which produced over 50 surviving illustrated manuscripts in the German language, dating from between c .1427 and 1470, with a combined total of more than 6000 miniatures. They have been comprehensively surveyed by Saurma-Jeltsch (including the present manuscript, see above). They represent a crucial point in the development of illustrated German literature, and stand at the intersection, not only of art and economic history, but also of religious, linguistic, and literary history. Written in the vernacular and endowed with ambitious programmes of pictorial decoration, the books signal a 'coming of age' of vernacular literature (J.F. Hamburger in Medium Aevum , LXXII, 2003, p. 362). The significant illuminations are: (1) fol.1v, enthroned astronomer with golden crown and ermine cloak, gazing at a golden star above; (2) fol.2r, a three-faced king at table and the water-carrier with a golden ewer; (3) fol.2v, a man warming his hands and feet by a fire over which sausages are smoking, and two pale brown fish; (4) fol.3r, a finely detailed portrait of the astronomer with a turban-like headdress with a two flowing tails, again pointing at a golden star; (5) fol.3v, the astronomer again in the same position wearing a red and blue pointed hat; (6) fol.4r, a man pruning vines and a ram with golden horns straining its neck and poking out its tongue to reach leaves of a bush it stands against; (7) fol.4v, a maiden with flowers and a docile-looking red-brown bull; (8) fol.5r, the astronomer pointing to a star; (9) fol.5v, the astronomer in a blue robe seated and reading a book at a desk, with an angular banderole inscribed Es wert ein Zeichen geschehen ; (10) fol.6r, a nobleman with hawk and horse, and the twins naked with a golden harp; (11) fol.6v, a man mowing grass and a bright red lobster; (12) fol.7r, the astronomer crowned and enthroned, holding a book; (13) fol.7v, the same as a robed figure with tight-fitting hat with a tassel on top; (14) fol.8r, a man harvesting corn and a large yellow lion poking his tongue out at the scene above; (15) fol.8v, a man threshing and the Virgin with gold wings pointing at a tree; (16) fol.9r, the astronomer before a book on a lectern; (17) fol.9v, the same seated with a book under his elbow; (18) fol.10r, a man sowing and a pair of gold scales; (19) fol.10v, pressing grapes and a green and brown scorpion; (20) fol.11r, the astronomer with a flowing headdress; (21), fol.11v, the same clean-shaven, seated and reading; (22) fol.12r, the knocking down of the acorns to feed hogs, and a centaur with bow and arrow looking at a magpie in a tree; (23) fol.12v, killing the hog and a seated ram with golden horns, poking his tongue out. Publications: Rosy Schilling, 'A facsimile of an Astronomical medical calendar in German (Studio of Diebolt Lauber at Hagenau, about 1430-1450): from the Library of Colonel David McC. McKell', University of Kentucky Libraries Bulletin 18, 1958; Rosy Schilling, 'Astronomical medical calendar: German, studio of Diebolt Lauber at Hagenau, 15th century, c. 1430-50', University of Kentucky Libraries Bulletin 18, Occ. Contribution 97, 1958; L.E. Saurma-Jeltsch, Spätformen mittelalterlicher Buchherstellung. Bilderhandschriften aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers in Hagenau , Bd. 2, 2001, p. 17; C. Mackert, 'Ein typisches Produkt aus der Spätzeit der Lauber-Werkstatt? Zur Handschrift der 'Leipziger Margarethe'', in Aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers, 2012, pp. 299-326; and listed on the online Handschriftencensus : Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters , as no.14903
A Set of Six Empire Ormolu Mounted Chairs France circa 1810, in the manner of Jacob Desmalter, each having a domed back with scroll corners and richly mounted in finely chased gilt bronze, the back panel has a shaped lower edge and is mounted with a gilt bronze harp framed with a foliate wreath, the chairs are supported on sabre legs front and back, mounted at the front with further neo-classical gilt bronze enrichments and terminating in claw feet, 49cm wide, 85cm high, 48cm deep
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