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Click here to subscribeA SWAINE & ADENEY SILVER MOUNTED COPPER HUNTING HORN of typical flared form with silver mouth piece and mount, marks for London, indistinct maker and date, the body stamped with manufacturer’s details and inscribed ‘Captain T McDougal MFH from E.S.A’. 23cm(L); sold together with a similar Swaine & Adeney brass mounted copper example. 22.5cm(L)
‘WILK’ John William (Bill) Wilkinson (1906-1994) LAKE DISTRICT PLANNING BOARD, CALDBECK AND ULDALE COMMONS, NO HUNTING ink and watercolour wash, Johnny Richardson leading his hounds and terriers past a fox covered dry-stone wall, signed lower left, and dated 1988, within a card mount and moulded frame, under glass. 33cm(h) x 48cm(w)
A rare Australian seaweed pattern transfer printed and painted oval plate from the Fereday service, Spode, Staffordshire, England, made for the Tasmanian market circa 1825 Marked with a central crest of a tree fern with a suspended hunting horn, a running fox below and the motto PER SYRTES AESTUOSAS from Horace’s Ode 1.22 also marked to the reverse Mr.. Dudley Fereday Sheriff (sic) of Van Diemen’s Land.» 32cm long, 21cm deep. Provenance Made for Mr Dudley Fereday, Sheriff of Van Dieman’s Land
A rare Australian seaweed pattern transfer printed and painted oval plate from the Fereday service, Spode, Staffordshire, England, made for the Tasmanian market circa 1825 Marked with a central crest of a tree fern with a suspended hunting horn, a running fox below and the motto PER SYRTES AESTUOSAS from Horace’s Ode 1.22 also marked to the reverse Mr. Dudley Fereday Sheriff (sic) of Van Diemen’s Land.” 32cm long, 21cm deep. Provenance Made for Mr Dudley Fereday, Sheriff of Van Dieman’s Land
A Japanese Meiji carved ivory female figurine, late 19th/ early 20th century, carrying a large flower, wearing flowing robes, height 10cm; a Japanese carved ivory scent bottle, late 19th/ early 20th century, of bottle form, overall decorated with figure hunting dragonfly in landscape and birds, height 7 cm; a Japanese carved ivory figural scent bottle, modelled as an elderly woman, the cover with stone cabuchon, the figure holding foliage, on turned wooden base, height 7 cm, (3).
A 1950s Norman Hartnell navy blue dress and jacket with matching blue, red and white polka dot blouse, labelled Hartnell London Paris, a 1960s Norman Hartnell black chiffon blouse and linen jacket printed with white and yellow bows, labelled Hartnell Le Petit Salon 26 Bruton St W1. A pastel shot silk Norman Hartnell skirt and jacket suit, a further Hartnell three piece blouse, dress and jacket suit in silk brocade with Indian hunting scenes together with a large quantity of hand made and couture outfits from the 1960s and 1970s. (lot) Provenance: The property of a lady of title.
North American Diary. My Diary in America, March 4 to August 30, A.D. 1871, a photographically illustrated diary, written up in a neat fair hand by an unidentified Lancashire (?cotton) merchant, possibly ‘A. Dykes’, with three pages of proposed route, 174 pages of diary on ruled paper (approx. 40,000 words), the diary illustrated with 234 mounted mostly small-format albumen print photos (the majority 7.5 x 7.5 cm and similar, the largest 13.5 x 18.5 cm), the diary ending with four pages of actual route taken and eight pages relating to later Alpine Expeditions made by the same author between 1872 and 1874, the American journey starting with the voyage from Liverpool to New York on boar The Algeria, then from New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Killona, Vicksburg, Jackson, Memphis, Bowling Green, Louisville, Cincinnati, Denver, Georgetown, San Francisco, Calistoga, Modesto, Flornitos, White & Flatch, Yosemite Valley, Coulterville, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Whitehall, Fort William, Saratoga, Albany, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Merrion, Cape May, Long Branch, Newport, Boston, etc., some spotting, a.e.g., contemp. crushed red morocco gilt with gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed, folio (31.5 x 20 cm). The long trip of nearly six months is partly centred on leisure with much socialising, theatre-going, buffalo hunting, and meetings with relatives, friends and fellow British travellers. However, with a series of letters of introduction, the unidentified traveller does get to meet dignitaries, businessmen, librarians, museum curators, senators and even President Ulysses S. Grant himself: ‘Wednesday April 5 : ‘The [Smithsonian Institute] building stands in the centre of a small park, at noon I called upon Judge Barringer who accompanied me to the White House and presented me to the President. General Grant is proverbially a man of few words so that very little passed between us beyond the usual hand shaking process. He welcomed me to the country, hoped I should have pleasant time and I thanked and congratulated him upon the late Republican triumphs in Connecticut to which the sentiment he responded in suitable terms, and I then withdrew, in personal appearance General Grant is a short thick set man, wearing a closely cropped beard & moustache & during our interview was smoking his historical cigar. I called upon Mr Summer and Mr Bayard and in the afternoon I walked up to the Capitol, but as the old Ku Klux story was still going on I remained only a short time. In the evening I dined with Mr Saville…‘. Other incidents described in the early part of the diary include calling upon Mr Victor with a letter from Mr Belcher of Liverpool, calling upon Mr Houghton with a letter from Richardson, Spence & Co. of Liverpool, calling upon Messrs. Lea, his uncle’s agents in New York; going over the print works at Schuylhill; going over his uncle’s mill with Tom at Morristown; going to the Senate and listening to General Blair making a speech on the Ku Klux Klan Bills. While much of the writing is fairly perfunctory, the author occasionally adds in some local colour concerning his thoughts on indigenous people and workers, religion (including Mormons at Salt Lake City), plus architecture, scenery, politics, etc. The photographs are largely taken from life and show views of places mentioned in the text, plus carte-de-visite size portraits of dignitaries and North American natives. (1)
Bull (Henry Graves). Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire, 1888, photographic port. frontis., orig. pict. cloth, lettered in gilt, minor wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Lutyens (F.M), Mr Spinks and His Hounds. A Hunting Story, 2nd ed., [1896], b & w illusts., orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Falkus (Hugh), Salmon Fishing. A Practical Guide, reprinted, 1987, col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, and other natural history and related, including New Naturalist series, Badminton Library series, Lloyds Natural History series, Familiar Wild Flowers, 7 vols., etc. (3 shelves & a carton)
A 19th Century German Hunting Knife, the single edge steel blade stamped THOMA, with steel crossguard, the antler hilt carved with wolves and stags, with gilt tooled leather sheath; a Collection of Knives, including seven fixed blade knives, two ivory handled fleams, seven folding pocket knives with antler grips, three other folding pocket knives (20)
A Georgian Hunting Sword, the 55.5cm single edge steel blade with a narrow fuller to the top edge, the silver hilt with fluted recurving quillons, wrythen fluted green stained horn grip and fluted cap shape pommel, lacks scabbard; an 18th Century Small Sword, with plain 76cm triangular section steel blade, the silver gilt hilt with double shell guard chased with cherubs and foliage, stirrup knuckle bow, wire bound grip and wrythen fluted globular pommel, lacks scabbard (2)
A Zulu Two Handled Wood Meat Dish, of dished oblong form, with amazumpa decoration, pierced side handles, and on four stilt feet, 46cm; Thirteen Pieces of Zulu Beadwork, including a rare single colour blue bead skirt, a bunch-beaded pound necklace, chokers, anklets and bracelets; a Zulu Hardwood Cane, with ovoid pommel and slightly wrythen haft; two Zulu Hunting Spears and a Stabbing Spear, with hide bound hafts (18)
Edwards (Lionel) - Famous Foxhunters, London 1938, colour plates with tissue guards, red cloth; Nimrods Hunting Tours, New Edition London 1926, colour plates, red cloth; Orde (Richard) - The Sedgefield Country in the Seventies and Eighties with Reminiscences of a First Whipper-In, WM.Dresser, Darlington 1904, 1st Edition black and white illustration with errata slip, original red buckram/brown cloth; Paget (Guy) - Bad `Uns To Beat, Collins 1936, 1st Edition colour illustration frontis after Lionel Edwards, original red cloth, d.Wi; Bowes-Lyon (Sarah) Horsemanship As It Is Today, Dent 1933, colour illustrated buge boards with red decoration to upper board; Eardley - Wilmot (Sir John E.) - Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith Esqu, or the Pursuits of An English Country Gentleman, Second Edition, London 1860. (foxed).(6)
A small Irish chased and pierced silver dish ring, by Edmond Johnson, Dublin, 1903, chased with stag hunting scene amongst rococo scrolls and foliage, 4.75” (12cms), 193g; together with another similar, also by Edmond Johnson, Dublin 1905, chased with rural scenes depicting figure, animals and birds, inside a trellis shaped panels, 5” (12.5cms), 137g. (2)
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