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Click here to subscribeA GENTLEMAN'S STAINLESS STEEL TAG HEUER QUARTZ DIVERS WRIST WATCH CIRCA 2000s, REF WAB1112, black dial, Yellow Seconds Hands, Unidirectional bezel, sapphire crystal, DATE APERTUREMovement: Quartz, ETA F06.111.Case: Diameter approx. 39mm, embossed diver's helmet decorated case back, crown signed.Bracelet: Original Tag Heuer, flip clasp, numbered 3093, signed.
* Helmet. A Wolseley helmet belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel G.D.V. Russell, 1 st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, khaki cloth with regimental badge, in its black metal hat box inscribed to the owner and with various luggage labels including one for Deolali and another inscribed with the owners address in Ireland (Qty: 1)Lieutenant-Colonel George Dane Varian Russell was born in 1899 he served in the ranks for 86 days and was commissioned 2 nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 5 July 1917 and was wounded on the Western Front, he also served with East Lancashire Regiment from 5 July 1918, promoted Captain with the regiment 2 June 1931, Major 1 August 1938 and Lieutenant-Colonel 24 May 1945 Deolali transit camp in India was established in 1849 for British Troops, it was notorious for its unpleasant environment, boredom and the physical problems of soldiers that passed through it. Its name is the origin of the phrase “gone doolally”
* WWII Helmet. A WWII "Tommy" steel helmet, painted in green with decal for Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, with mesh net cover and original lining, dated '1938' (Qty: 1)The Fife & Forfar Yeomanry took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in June 1940 and saw action at the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945.
* WWII Medals. A group of five to Private H. Williams, Devonshire Regiment 1939-1945 Star, France & Germany Star, War Medal, Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension and two 6 year bars and four rosettes, (5615174 Pte C.H. Williams. Devon.), Defence Medal, good very fine, swing mounted for wear, with a photograph of the recipient in uniform plus Devonshire Regiment cigarette case, regimental cap badge and rifle shooting medals, together with a 1914-15 Star (2332. Pte. R. Bonner. 4-Lond.R.), Victory Medal (2332 Pte. R.V. Bonner. 4-Lond.R.), Victorian helmet plate etc (Qty: 7)
A George III silver seven bar toast rack, segmented arcading, gadroon border and squat ball feet, makers mark probably T and I S, Sheffield 1815, 208.4 gms together with a George III silver helmet shaped cream jug, with bead edge, gilt interior, on square form base, John Lambe, London 1787, 3.3 ozt 105 gms (2)
West German M34 Fire Helmet. Alloy comb to crown. Original black paint. Marked "DIN14940". Complete with leather neck protection flap, leather liner size 55 and black leather chinstrap. And a British Fire Brigade Helmet in white. Dated 1981. Complete with size Medium liner and black leather chinstrap. (2)
AN VICTORIAN OFFICERS HERTFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY HELMET. An 1871 pattern officers helmet of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, complete with plume and chinstrap. Traces of gilding in places, with the inner skull cap present. The Victorian crown surmounts a prancing stag on a field, with a few small wear knocks evident. See Illustration
CEYLON MOUNTED RIFLES a qty of items relating to J R B Goodfellow, including a CMR Cap Badge, a set of large and small buttons by Hobson & Sons, London, CMR Helmet plume, cloth badges, 2 Ceylon MR pair of shoulder titles, etc. Also with some items relating to the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps including badges and buttons, and Dragoon Guards buttons, shoulder titles etc. Also with some Masonic regalia, also associated with J R B Goodfellow, including an apron in a leather case, marked Bro J R B Goodfellow, Lodge Charity, masonic photographs etc.
AVIATION INTEREST an interesting collection of items relating to Captain William Frederick James Harvey DFC & BAR, MC, MBE (1897-1972), to include part of a Bristol Fighter propeller mounted with a barometer (H O Quinn, London), a Royal Flying Corp flying helmet and photograph of Captain Harvey, and a photocopied copy of the typescript of Pi in the Sky, A History of No 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps & RAF in the War of 1914-1918 by W F J Harvey MBE, DFC, TD. *Captain Harvey served with the Signal Company of the Royal Engineers (TA) until he transferred to the RFC in 1916. In December 1917 he was posted as a pilot to 22 Squadron, flying Bristol Fighters. In 1918 he was promoted to Captain and took command of 'B' flight, he and his observers accounting for no less than 26 aircraft and balloons. He was awarded the RAF's first DFC and Bar to this. After the War he wrote many magazine articles for Air Pictorial and wrote a history of his old Squadron.
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (French, 1814 - 1883), Cornelia and her sons, the draped and crowned central female figure enthroned and holding a scroll, attended by a nude boy and draped youth, a Roman style shield and helmet to either side, signed ‘J. Clesinger, Rome. 1860’ and ‘F. Barbedienne. Fondeur.’ And stamped ‘Reproduction Mecanique, A. Collas’ to the rear, 40cm high, 45cm wide CATALOGUE NOTES: French nineteenth-century sculptor Clésinger took the subject matter of Cornelia and her sons from Roman history. After the death of her husband, Cornelia Africana (2nd century BC), daughter of Roman war hero Scipio Africanus and symbol of maternal virtue, famously refused to remarry in order to fully dedicate herself to her children. Her sons, Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, would become Roman Tribunes. The elements of Roman armour scattered around the group may allude to the sons’ future careers, or perhaps to the family’s military heritage and activity. The present bronze was cast after a larger group by the Parisian foundry of Ferdinand Barbedienne. Barbedienne was renowned for producing smaller reproductions of famous sculptures, a mechanical process patented by his business partner, Achille Collas.The marble model of this group was sold at Sotheby’s New York, ‘Important 19th Century European Paintings and Sculpture’, 3 May 2000, lot 78 For another bronze version cast by Barbedienne similar to the present example please see Sotheby's London, 5 October 2000, lot 150
A French gilt bronze and marble mantel clock by Gille L'Aine A Paris, 18th century, the 6 inch white enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic outer seconds ring, twin train movement with outside count wheel and striking on a bell, within a case symbolizing Triumph surmounted by a bow and quivers of arrows, a cherub to one side holding an oval portrait of a victorious general wearing a victory laurel, the base with helmet, shield and fasces and cast cloud scrolls on a rounded rectangular bowfront plinth inset with cast ruyi heads and flower and berry corners raised on milled bun feet, 44cm high, 18cm deep, 37cm wide
A French Empire gilt bronze mantel clock attributed to Pierre Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), emblematic of victory, the 4 inch white enamel dial with Roman numerals and 8-day movement, with silk suspension striking on a bell contained within a cannon case, surmounted by a classical figure of Minerva in plumed helmet and long dress above a panel of trophies of war and attendant putti within a leaf and berry cast frieze and between cast laurel wreaths and raised on four griffin paw feet, 45cm high, 9cm deep, 30cm wide. Note: See L Montanes Catalogo Ilustrado del Museo de Relojes de las Bodegas
An Edwardian Devonshire Regiment Officer's Home Service 1878 pattern blue cloth helmet by Hawkes & Co, London:, gilt metal cross piece, spike and spine on a dark blue four panelled skull, regimental crest surmounted by a Tudor crown, Tudor rose cockades, chain link chin strap and gilt edged peak, signed as per title to lining.
A WWII ERA BRODIE STYLE STEEL HELMET, painted in cream colour, with initials 'F.G', along with black line around the body, Fire Guard use, with original leather and canvas liner, with PSC? maker logo embossed into body of rim, these types of helmet were issued to 'Fire Watches' in London during the German 'Blitz'
A RARE VICTORIAN LARGE ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS AND PORCELAIN STRUT TIMEPIECEBy Thomas Cole, No. 1833, London, circa 1863, retailed by C. F. Hancock, 39 Bruton Street, LondonThe shaped case variously stamped 1833, with fleur-de-lys finial, above an engraved border with octagonal bezel holding the bevelled glass, with out-scrolled feet, a hinged strut with roller to the reverse, the domed cover inscribed C. F. HANCOCK, 39, Bruton St. LONDON, with fixed winder and sliding aperture to reveal the escapement, the shaped movement with lever escapement and plain steel three-armed balance, the oval porcelain dial within an ormolu mask, the white chapter ring with Roman numerals, painted to the centre with two figures, one representing Diana, wearing a crescent in her hair, and her companion Mercury with winged helmet, a ribbon-tied vine garland above, and an oak and laurel trophy below30cm highThomas Cole (d. 1864) was the brother of the celebrated clockmaker James Ferguson Cole (d.1880), the 'English Breguet'. They were born in Nether Stowey, Somerset; their father James Cole was a clockmaker. In 1823 Thomas and James entered into partnership at 3 New Bond Street, London. When the partnership was disolved in 1829, Thomas went to work independently as a watchmaker. By 1845 he described himself as a 'designer and maker of ornamental clocks'. He exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in his own right as well as having products he made on stands of at least four different firms, each of unique design, to ensure no conflict of interest. He exhibited again at the Paris Universelle of 1855 and at the International Exhibition in 1862, where he was awarded a medal. Elected a member of the Royal Society, he was also a member of the British Horological Institute.His innovative design and quality of work was encapsulated by Charles Frodsham, who in his official report of the 1862 Exhibition notes 'nothing could exceed the beauty of design and good taste of the varied models and general excellence of workmanship'.See John. B. Hawkins, Thomas Cole and Victorian Clockmaking, Sydney 1975, p. 75, which illustrates a strut timepiece of nearly identical pattern with silvered dial, which sold at Bonhams, London, 16 December 2015, lot 118. A similar porcelain dial strut timepiece, No. 1700, is illustrated in colour by Hawkins on page 80 and again on page 87.A virtually identical strut timepiece, by Cole, No. 1720, with silvered dial, decorated with polychrome roses, was sold at Chiswick Auctions, London, 5 December 2018, lot 193.
FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PROFESSOR HANS VON BERTELEA RARE AND UNRECORDED SILVER-METAL-MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER-REPEATING AND STRIKING TABLE CLOCKThe dial and movement signed Daniel Quare, London, circa 1710, the movement attributed to the late Tompion/early Graham workshop, the replica case second half 20th CenturyThe domed-top case surmounted with a knopped baluster handle, and applied with foliate cast repoussé panels, the rectangular door, inset with a glazed panel, flanked by two shaped escutcheons and outlined with an arched beaded profile, flanked with a pair of cast and pierced spandrels, the sides each with an arched, pierced panel, with metal bead outline, with glazed back door, also with metal bead outline, on silver-metal gadrooned feet, the fire-gilt break-arched dial signed Dan. Quare LONDON in an oval cartouche amongst a design of profuse engraving, surmounted by a mask of Mercury, the messenger, wearing his winged helmet and with crossed attributes of the Caduceus and horn below, surrounded by ribbon-tied foliate scrolls, with calendar aperture above, flanked to each side by a silvered subsidiary for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, above a silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands, Roman chapters and Arabic five-minute markers, well divided with inner 15-minute divisions and outer 12-minute divisions and Gothic cross half-hour markers, with finely pierced cast spandrels, enclosing a finely matted centre, with false pendulum aperture; the twin train fusée movement, of phase two type, with profusely engraved backplate within an outlined border, signed in an oval cartouche Dan. Quare LONDON, with fruit-filled scrolls to top and base, flanked to each side by a winged female caryatid, amongst foliate scrolls, with seven knopped latched pillars, rack strike, with pull-quarter repeat on Tompion's system via double-cocked interconnected blued-steel levers, with pivoted verge escapement and scrolled-foot bell stands, the front plate with chamfered cusp feet to the cocks45cm high PROVENANCEThe late Professor Hans von Bertele (d. 1984), then by direct descent.Previously unpublished and unrecorded, this clock belongs to a group of seven table clocks, each signed and retailed by Quare, but whose movements are likely to have come from either the late Tompion/early Graham workshop, or from the workshop of one of their employees.The movement displays several features that allow this attribution - notably the robust construction, the repeating mechanism with its double-cocked arms on the back-plate, its cusped cocks, and the finishing, which is of the highest standard. The beautifully engraved back-plate, with naked winged female caryatids, is by Graver 195, who has been tentatively identified as Henry Adeane.The group of Quare Tompion clocks are illustrated, described and discussed in Richard Garnier and Jonathan Carter's The Golden Age of English Horology, Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection, Winchester 2015, pp. 286-295. There is variance between Tompion's known workshop practice and the group of seven: for instance, the group each have four pinned dial feet, whereas Tompion would use three feet, each latched. On this piece there are four latched dial feet. Another variance is that the dials on the group of seven all incorporate Quare's Indian mask spandrels, whereas this dial does not.These details, together with the fact that Tompion and Graham never used arched dials for their standard two-train striking clocks, all help confirm that Quare provided the dials and cases for these movements.Jeremy Evans has proposed that a possible candidate for this output was James Tunn (see Garnier and Carter, p. 295). He was bound to Ambrose Gardner in the Goldsmith's Company and would have been free around 1689. He was listed close to Quare's Exchange Alley premises in the early 1690s, and it has been suggested that he might have been working for him as a journeyman. In October 1697 he had his own business in Ely Court near Hatton Garden and it is likely he would have been one of the principal clock outworkers supplying Tompion. A clock by Tunn (Sold Christie's, New York, 23 April 1988, lot 35.) is illustrated in Richard Barder The Georgian Bracket Clock, Woodbridge 2001, colour plate 1, p. 50. The similarities between the dial illustrated by Barder, and the dial of the clock being offered here - they are almost identical with fine engraving and fire gilding - strongly suggests that they came from the same - ie Tunn's - workshop.Professor Hans Bertele von Grenadenberg (d.1984) was born in Austria. During the second half of the last century he formed a collection of clocks which comprised the best examples of work from England, France, Switzerland and Austria, amongst others. Highly respected in his field, he wrote prolifically and published learned articles in Antiquarian Horological Journal and The Horological Journal, amongst others. He was also an avid art collector, whilst professionally he was an industrial electrical engineer. His book on chronometers, first published in Munich in 1981, with an English language version published 10 years later, is a standard work. COMPARATIVE LITERATURERichard Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock, Woodbridge 2001.Richard Garnier and Jonathan Carter, The Golden Age of English Horology, Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection, Winchester 2015.Antiquarian Horology, September 1982, Guy Boney, Tompion-Quare Collaboration, pp. 462 - 466.Jeremy Evans, Jonathan Carter and Ben Wright, Thomas Tompion 300 Years, Stroud 2013. Richard Garnier and Leo Hollis, Santon 2018, Innovation & Collaboration, The early development of the pendulum clock in London, No. 117, p.378. Bellmans is grateful to Jeremy Evans for his assistance with the catalogue entry.
Original vintage theatre advertising poster published by the Cuban National Council for Culture for the 1967 Cuban musical stage play Los Munecones / The Dolls by the notable Cuban playwright Hector Quintero (Remigio Hector Quintero Viera; 1942-2011). Colourful surreal space age style collage artwork by Aldo Melendez (b 1948) showing a small creature with a long tail and wearing a hat standing on the helmet of an astronaut asking a question in pink - s' buenos o malos? / good or bad? - to antique human statue figures in front of a green circle against a bright yellow background with pink and black plants below and the title in stylised pink letters and green letters above. Fair condition, creases, small loss and tears on top right corner, faint creases and tears on margins. Country:Cuba. Year:1967. Designer:Aldo Menendez. Size (cm):58.5x43
Original vintage World War One propaganda poster for National Baby Week 1st - 7th July "Save the Babies" featuring artwork in black and white by the British artist Sep. E. Scott (Septimus Edwin Scott; 1879-1965) showing Britannia wearing a helmet and carrying a baby in one arm, protecting the young child and two more small children holding her robe in the foreground against the dark figure of Death carrying a scythe behind them, the text above and below in stylised lettering. Issued by the National Council of Baby Week. The first Baby Week was held in Britain in 1917. Fair condition, trimmed on top and bottom, folds, minor loss, backed on linen. Septimus Edwin Scott (1879-1965), who signed his name Sept E. Scott, was a British painter, illustrator and comics artist. Scott was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, on 19 March 1879, and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. By 1903 he was exhibiting his landscape and portrait paintings at the Royal Academy. He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1919, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1920 and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1927. As an illustrator, Scott contributed to periodicals including The Graphic and The Red Magazine, painted colour plates for editions of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island, and illustrated a number of Ladybird Books. He also illustrated the book An Incurable Disease written under the pseudonym Roland Dunster by Lord Stevenson. During the First World War he painted propaganda posters for the Ministry of Munitions, and from the 1920s he worked in advertising, painting posters for Lifebuoy soap, Mars chocolate bars and Players cigarettes, among many other products. His art was probably most widely known through railway company posters such as one for the London & North Eastern Railway to advertise rail services to Newcastle's North East Coast Exhibition, which was open from May to October 1929. In 1948 he was recruited by Amalgamated Press comics editor Leonard Matthews to draw historical adventure comic strips. He illustrated the pirate series "Captain Flame" for Knockout from 1948 to 1953, and "The King's Captain" for Comet from 1951 to 1952, both strips written by Matthews. He drew five issues of Thriller Comics Library, which also reprinted his "Captain Flame" and "King's Captain" serials, and painted 108 covers for the title, and several for Cowboy Comics Library, War Picture Library and Swift. He also drew strips for the nursery titles Playhour and Jack and Jill, and contributed illustrations to the educational magazine Look and Learn. He worked in comics until shortly before his death in 1965. Country:UK. Year:1918. Designer:Septimus Edwin Scott. Size (cm):
Original vintage World War Two poster Russian Relief - Give published to promote donation to the Russian Relief in order to defeat the Nazi, with a striking monochrome design showing a USSR boot crushing a Nazi helmet. This is an original stencil design hand printed on the thick card paper. Excellent condition. County: USA, year of printing:1940s, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 46x36. Russian War Relief (also known as the Russian War Relief Fund, and The American Committee for Russian War Relief) was the largest American agency for foreign war relief. It had the "express and exclusive purpose of giving succor to the Russian people at a time of crisis". The chairman of Russian War Relief was Edward C. Carter, chairman of the National Committee for Medical Aid to the Soviet Union, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Russian Institute and secretary general of the Institute of Pacific Relations. From 1942, the fund was headed by Allen Wardwell. On July 29, 1941, one month after Germany's attack on Russia, a group met in New York and established Russian War Relief, Inc incorporated in New York on September 12, 1941. Fred Myers, who later founded the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), served as director of public relations and was later promoted to Executive Director.
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