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Lot 251
A Quayle & Tranter limited "hunting" carpet designed by George Bain, the central medallion decorated with a Celtic knot on a cream ground surrounded by various hunting scenes and Celtic knot medallions within a stepped border decorated with various Celtic motifs, bears label verso inscribed "Authentic Celtic Art guaranteed mark of the College of Celtic Cultures Drumadrochit Inverness-shire...", 356 cm x 268 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
Lot 222
An 18th Century German Hunting Hanger, the 48cm single edge saw-back steel blade with a narrow fuller to the top edge, engraved and gilt with a running wolf, the brass stirrup hilt with stylised shell guard cast with busts, foliate cartouche and lozenge motifs, with four sectional horn grip, lacks scabbard.
Lot 224
A 17th/18th Century Continental Hunting Hanger, possibly French, the 60cm double edge steel blade faintly engraved with a figure on a galloping horse and hounds, the brass hilt with small down-turned guard, recurving crossguard with leaf capped quillons, wrythen fluted and tapered horn grip with fluted cap shape pommel, lacks scabbard.
Lot 225
A 17th/18th Century German Hunting Hanger, the 55cm single edge steel blade with narrow fuller to the top edge, lightly engraved with a boar, deer and foliage and indistinctly inscribed, the brass stirrup hilt with cast shell guard, foliate capped quillon and knuckle bow, with facetted horn grip, lacks scabbard.
Lot 240
Four Small Hunting Knives:- one with blade inscribed The Bushman`s Friend by Maleham & Yeomans, with rosewood grip inset with brass bosses and leather sheath; one with blade inscribed Orbon River by C Johnson & Co., Sheffield, with rosewood grip and leather sheath; one with clip point blade stamped George Butler & Co., Sheffield, with leather sheath; one with narrow pointed blade stamped Acier Superfin, with brass mounted antler grip and leather sheath (4)
Lot 118
* Scissor Cut Pictures & Silhouettes. A collection of approx. twenty-five various early to mid 19th c. scissor cut illustrations and silhouettes, including Napoleon on horseback, David and Goliath, La Litiga (Sicilian travelling), The Heronry, hunting scenes, groups of putti, floral still lifes, animals etc., plus six various silhouette scenes on pressed leaves, mostly mounted on old backing paper, various sizes, including some small-format (largest sheet 35 x 26 cm) (approx. 25)
Lot 156
* Persian playing cards. A collection of Persian playing cards for the game of As Nas, 19th c., together twenty cards, hand-painted and lacquered on stiffened paper, incl. three identical pairs, and a set of four identical, plus others similar, each featuring a full-length figure or animals, incl. two lions with the rising sun, the enthroned Shah, the enthroned wife of the Shah, the dancing harem girl, and the figure of a man (possibly a soldier), approx. 60 x 40 mm (2.5 x 1.5 ins), contained in a contemp. Persian papier m?che box, with domed lid, hand-painted and lacquered, with scenes of figures hunting on horseback and cooking, red base with gilt floral and foliate pattern, some minor surface cracking and flaking, 50 x 95 x 70 mm (2 x 3.75 x 3 ins) As Nas cards first appeared around 1700, i.e. in the Safawiden Dynasty. The game of As Nas is made up of five suits, each containing any number of cards divisible by five. Each suit repeats the same design on each card: Padishah - the Shah on a green background; Bibi - the favourite wife of the Shah on a throne against a red background; Lakkat - a dancing harem girl on a yellow background; Sarbaz - the archer, later the soldier, on a golden background; As - the lion from the Persian coat of arms and the rising sun on a black background. The game is thought to have been the ancester of poker as it is played in a similar fashion. (1)
Lot 198
* Austrian hunting tarot cards. Ferdinand Piatnik, 1856, forty-five (of 54) hand col. eng. cards designed by J. Surch, French suits, comprising sixteen (of 21) full-length trump cards with hunting scenes numbered I-XXI, fifteen (of 16) pip cards, and fourteen (of 16) double-ended court cards, lacking Fool card, red patterned versos, a.e.g., rounded corners, 104 x 58 mm (4 x 2.25 ins), together with Austrian tarot cards, Vienna, Aug. Denk & Co., early 20th c., fifty-four col. litho. cards (complete), French suits, comprising Fool card, twenty-one double-ended trump cards numbered I-XXI, pip cards hearts and diamonds 1-4 (ace of hearts with circular ink stamp), spades and clubs 7-10, sixteen double-ended court cards, check-patterned versos, rounded corners, 118 x 67 mm (4.5 x 2.5 ins) (2)
Lot 462
* Williamson (Henry, 1895-1977 ). Autograph letter signed “Henry Williamson”, Georgeham, North Devon, 27 September 1928, to Siegfried Sassoon, addressed as Sir, beginning “Fifteen months ago you bought a copy of a book I wrote called Tarka, and ever since then I have been dreading that you might think it rotten, as it is in parts. This letter, however, is not about my book, nor is it about yours, which I have not yet finished reading. By the way, there is a misprint on page 252, last line “not” should be ‘shot”, I fancy. I found another earlier on, but I have mislaid its place. I am hoping to give the book [“Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man”, first published September 1928], a good long notice in the Daily Telegraph; I like it much, and consider you have done well to cast it in that form. There are a very few, very slight marring dry-touches, which may have been put in in proof or revision - but they don”t matter, except that the excrescences (very slight & scarcely noticeable). Eg. on page 248, bottom, you add “However inhumane its purpose, it was a kindly country scene”, continuing praise Sassoon’s prose, talking about the word “inhumane” in connection with digging out foxes, “But you know all this. They bring up their children to be bloodied on the face: has not enough blood flowed on the face of the earth already, etc.”, then referring to the proof of one of his books (The Pathway, published 1928) which he is sending to Sassoon and which he refers to in the first postscript, “[It] is about an ex-soldier who tries to redeem humanity by getting rid of the parasite “virtues”(?) or narrowness. I have tried to be impartial, but I may not have succeeded”, the letter ending with the comment that he heard that Sassoon had sat near him at the Hawthornden Award, “I wish I”d known at the time, then I would have risked speaking to you. It would have been a risk, as I felt at the time that most people may have been disappointed that the prize was given to an “animal story”, 2 pp. in red ink, with a second postscript saying that he has asked Will de la Mare to keep one of the signed copies of The Fox-Huntingman for him and “would you write something in it for me? I would be extra proud to possess such a copy. But if you don”t want to, don”t do it; I shall understand”, 4to. Curiously, while Henry Williamson shows some coyness about being the recipient of the Hawthornden Prize for “Tarka the Otter” in 1927, it was Sassoon himself who won the Prize the following year for “Memoirs of a Fox-Huntingman”. (1)
Lot 107
A BLUE PRINTED EARTHENWARE PORTER MUG. with a continuous fox hunting scene before a village, 14cm h, c1840; a John Rogers & Son blue printed earthenware Elephant pattern stand with pierced border; a Henshall & Co blue printed earthenware lozenge shaped dish with a floral sheet pattern and a pair of blue printed pearlware Greek pattern plates, all c1820 (5). ++ The lot in good condition, no restoration
Lot 485
ROYAL. A VICTORIAN CIGAR BOX. of moulded octagonal form with divided interior, the lid inset with crowned oval badge of the Prince of Wales and inscribed HRH ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES INDIA 1875, the underside engraved Presented to Lord Suffield on returning from India by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, 24 x 15cm, by R & S Garrard, London 1876, the underside of the lid engraved [presumably at Goldsmiths Hall] Goldsmiths Hall June 10th 1876. This Box weighing 36oz 5dwt was made to receive a stamped silver medal of unknown assay, marked R & S GARRARD PANTON ST LONDON, 39ozs; sold with Russell (W H), The Prince of Wales` Tour a Diary in India with some account of some of the visits of His Royal Highness to the Courts of Greece Egypt Spain and Portugal, second edition, Woodburytype portrait and wood engravings, scarlet cloth, worn, aeg, London: Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877 (2) Provenance: Charles, 5th Lord Suffield; thence by decent at Gunton Park, Norfolk until sold on the Instructions of the Trustees of the Gunton Park Estate, Irelands` (Auctioneers), sale on the premises, 16-17 and 25-26 September 1990, lot 1258, whence bought by the present vendor. A keen sportsman, Charles Harbord, 5th Lord Suffield (1830-1914) was a favourite of the Prince of Wales, his new neighbour at Sandringham House. He served as Lord-in-Waiting and Head of the Household of the Prince. Russell`s Diary which accompanies the lot is full of incident, from lively antics on board the "Serapis" to dramatic accounts of elephant charges and big game hunting: "For Lord Suffield there was the pleasant combination of the duties of a high officer of state about the person of the Prince, and of the pleasures of a keen sportsman - good with rifle and gun, and firm in the saddle - in new fields" and, later "The Prince killed a fine tigress with six cubs... Lord Suffield shot a tiger which assumed a very menacing attitude, and obliged him to fire in self-defence; and an odd lot of porcupines, deer, wild boar, pea-fowl, black-buck, duck, snipe, partridge and plover were laid out before the tents when the shooting parties returned in the evening".. ++ Box - in fine condition with light wear to the top as when purchased at the above mentioned house sale
Lot 572
A GEORGE III 18CT GOLD HALF-HUNTING CASED LEVER WATCH. the enamel dial with roman chapters, inner chapter ring and gold hands, the half plate movement with finely pierced and engraved balance cock and foot and silvered regulation, signed James Rankin Alnwick No 191, the signature repeated on the dust cap, London 1806. ++ The dial with tiny old filled chip on the extreme edge above 12, the movement running for a few seconds before stopping. In good condition with very light wear
Lot 865
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN CHROMO. SCRAPS. arranged thematically by various publishers including Raphael Tuck & Sons, with soldiers from the Artistic Series of reliefs, Victoria Cross Gallery, other soldiers after A Payne, hunting, horse racing, Mazeppa, firemen, Queen Victoria and the royal family including Recovery of the Prince of Wales 1872, Our Royal Artisan and numerous other royal figures and scenes of royal life, several hundreds in modern album
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