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Lot 1056
A collection of books (approx29) Hunting interest, to include: Mr Spink's and His Hounds - A Hunting Story, F M Lutyens, Vinton and co, c. 1910; The Irish RM and his Experiences; SURTEES, Mr Sponges Sporting Tour, Ask Mamma, Mr Faceys Romford Hounds, Plain or Ringlets, Robert Smith Surtees, in four volumes 1860 with red tooled leather spines. Mr Sponges Sporting Tour, The Jorrocks Edition, blue illustrated binding. And four other volumes of Mr Sponge, Handley Cross, Mr Romford , illustrated by Leech. Complete Memoires of George Sherston, Further Experiences of an Irish Rm, etc. Across Country 1st Ed, red leather binding. Squire Obaldeston Autobiography; Thought upon hunting, Beckford. , Tally ho by Moyra Charlton 1st Ed, illustrated Lionel Edwards. Silver Fox and Mr Knox's country Somerville and Ross. Echos of the hunting horn by Lynch. Riders of many lands by Dodge, in red binding, and The Fox's Frolic Neilson and Burnand.
Lot 1057
A collection of books of Equine and Country and Dog interest, to include: G J Whyte-Melville: Uncle John; Cerise;Market Harborough and Inside the Bar; Songs and Verse and The True Cross; Sarchedon A Legend of the Great Queen; Sarchedon A Legend of the Great Queen;Black but Comely; Roy's Wife;Katerfelto; Kate Coventry;Riding Recollections; Satanella: A Story of Punchestown; Rosine and sister Louise; Tally Ho, Moyra Charltong, Lionel Edwards; Thoughts upon Hare & Fox Hunting in a Series of Letters to a Friend, Peter Beckford; ,Heavy Horses Breeds and Management, Biddell, Douglas, Dykes, Flemingm MacNeilage, Murray, Trotter, Vinton and Co,1894,First; Light Horses Breeds and ManagementBlew, Dixon, Fleming, Shaw,Vinton and Co,1894,Second Edition; Small Horses in Warfare, Sir Walter Gilbey,Vinton and Co,1900,First; The Great Horse Or The War Horse: From the time of the Roman Invasion till its development into the Shire Horse, Sir Walter Gilbey, Vinton and Co,1899,Second Edition; John and Jennifer's Pony Club, Gee Denes and Lady Kitty Ritson; The Dogs of War Wherein the Hero Worshipper Portrays the Hero and Incidentally Gives and Account of the Greatest Dogs' club In the World, Water Emanual, Cecil Aldin, Bradbury, Agnew and Co1906, Ex Libris - Viscount Bearsted; All Creatures Great and Small; Banjo The Puppy by Stoke and Harnett.
Lot 927
PUCCINI GIACOMO: (1858-1924) Italian Composer. A.L.S., `Giacomo´, one page, to an Italian postcard, Cartolina Postale Italiana, 5.5 x 3, Milan, 2nd May 1895, to his brother-in-law Raffaello Franceschini, Pescia, in Italian. Puccini is about to start an eight to nine days trip journey and reports so to his correspondent, adding that he will try to be in time to a meeting Franceschini has proposed him, stating `Caro Vino, ora parto con Elvira per Venezia, Trieste, dove assisto alla Manon - Budapest - Vienna e vicevers, al mio ritorno (8 o 9 giorni) procura di indicarme le ville e vengo...´ (Translation: "Dear Vino, I am now leaving with Elvira for Venice, Trieste, where I attend the Manon - Budapest - Vienna and vice versa, on my return (8 or 9 days) try to tell me the place and I will come...") Postmarked to the verso. Small overall age wear and light staining, otherwise GRaffaello Franceschini (1854-1942) husband of Puccini´s one-year younger sister, Ramelde Puccini (1859-1912). Franceschini was working as tax collector in Pescia. Puccini and his brother-in-law maintained a long-time friendly relationship, and used to share the hunting journeys.Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Turin. Manon Lescaut was Puccini's third opera and his first great success. The opera was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in January 1907 in the presence of the composer, and with Lina Cavalieri in the title role, and Enrico Caruso as des Grieux. Since then it has been one of the most acclaimed and performed operas of Puccini.
Lot 1554
LOUIS XV: (1710-1774) King of France 1715-74. A rare and interesting full manuscript letter in the hand of the King, A.L.S. `Louis´, one page, 4to, Compiegne, 21st September 1766, to Ferdinand Duke of Parma, in French. The King states `Mon petit fils, est-il vrai que le Prince de Brunville ressemble à votre pauvre père, je le croirais assez par ses portraits, et par tout ce qu´on m´en a dit. J´ai encore eu un bon rhume, mais il va mieux depuis que j´ai pris du petit lait pendant deux jours... L´été nous est revenu, et j´ai eu plus chaud hier à la chasse que je n´en avais encore eu de cette année, cela fera grand bien à la vendange´ (Translation: "My grandson, is it true that the Prince de Brunville resembles your poor father, I would believe it from his portraits, and from everything that I have been told about him. I had a bad cold again, but it's better since I took whey for two days...Summer has returned to us, and I was suffering the heat yesterday while hunting more than I have been earlier this year, it will do a lot of good for the harvest...") Further Louis XV announces his immediate travelling plans, saying `Nous partons tous d´ici dans le courant de cette semaine, ainsi ma précieuse lettre sera datée de Versailles...´ (Translation: "We are all leaving here during this week, so my precious letter will be dated from Versailles...") To a postscriptum at the base of the letter Louis XV states `Nous eumes hier une belle cérémonie qui est celle de l´ordination qui fut faite par l´év[êque] de Soissons dans la chapelle, il y avait vingt-neuf ordinants´ (Translation: "Yesterday we had a beautiful ceremony which was that of the ordination which was carried out by the Bishop of Soissons in the chapel, there were twenty-nine ordinants") With blank integral leaf. Bearing to the verso the addressee in the King´s hand `A mon frere, et petit fils Ferdinand infant d´Espagne, duc de Parme et de Plaisance´, also bearing a very attractive royal crowned red wax seal in fine condition. VG Ferdinand I (1751-1802) Duke of Parma and Piacenza 1765-1802. Grandson of King of Spain Philip V
Lot 1405
HEMINGWAY ERNEST: (1899-1961) American novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1954. An exceptional A.L.S., Ernesto, seven pages (two bifolia), 8vo, n.p., n.d. (February 1941; ´Night before we get to Hawaii´), to George [Brown], on the printed stationery of the Matson Line. Hemingway writes (in bold pencil) a social letter full of wonderful anecdotes relating to his recent activities, beginning by reporting on a trip to Los Angeles where he had enjoyed the hospitality of Gary Cooper, ´Stayed with Coopers who met us with the big new cadillac double funeral hearse he bought his wife for Xmas and they had a dinner that night with one swell broad (Carole Landis) that all the marrieds or uglies jumped all over because she got a little drunko´, adding ´But she was only 22 and I said to them they should have seen what guys like me or Cooper were like when we were drunk at 22´, continuing to refer to a mixed doubles tennis match, ´Coopers wife (Rocky) and I beat Cooper and Marty 5 sets of tennis to win 11 dollars in two days. But no money changes hands......I think Marty and I could beat them but Mrs C. likes to win very much......She has very extensive taught ground strokes but she has a high bouncing serve that I could set myself and murder so it is better for her happiness that we are partners´, remarking that Martha was ´much prettier´ than the other ladies in Hollywood and ´looked like a human being instead of a kennell (sic) entry but I shudder to think what would pass with the Colonel faced by them blondes altho lots of them were 22-23 years old which is aged in the Colonel´s book´, also reporting on a visit to San Francisco, ´We ate very well and saw Mike Ward, an old pal, and his wife and Selznick shipped up Ingrid Bergman to look her over for Maria for the picture. She is perfect. Really swell. Not like those Hollywooders´. Hemingway also comments on his experiences on the boat that they are travelling on, ´it has been rough as a bastard all the time. The gym guy wouldn´t box. He rubs too and he says he is afraid it would hurt his hands altho he says he teaches boxing (he comes from Hollywood too where I guess hands hurt easy. Probably his thumbs swell up). It was a shame because I was going to left hook him in the profile.....But I worked on the big bag instead but couldn´t rouse no really dirty feeling against it on such short acquaintance and when you get close to it the fucking thing seems sort of dead and helpless and not like ones fellow man. I practiced hitting it in the balls a little´, and further writing ´Tomorrow we get into Honolulu. It sounds more like a 1/2 jig Coney Island or Polynesian Miami Beach all the time´, before concluding ´Marty sends her love. We got a bang out of the wire. I miss you and the reading Colonel and working out and all the fun we have, but will be back soon with a lot of new lies and stories´. A truly wonderful and characteristic Hemingway letter, written with energy, humour and a touch of rudeness, giving an exact idea of what conversations between the writer and his friends might have been like. The stories that delighted his friends are preserved here in an autograph letter, so that we may now share in the delight too. VGGeorge Brown, who owned a gymnasium in New York, was a friend of Hemingway´s for more than a quarter of a century and coached the writer in the sport of boxing. It was Brown who drove Hemingway home to Idaho from the Mayo Clinic in 1961 shortly before the Nobel Prize winner committed suicide. Brown was also one of the pallbearers at Hemingway´s funeral.Hemingway mentions another friend in his letter, Taylor Williams (´the Colonel´), who would be a regular hunting and shooting partner of the writer. Furthermore, Hemingway writes of his time with his good friend Gary Cooper and of meeting Ingrid Bergman, the two actors who would go on to star together in the film adaptation of For Whom The Bell Tolls in 1943. Hemingway also writes of the attractive young actress Carole Landis who, despite her relatively short lifetime (Landis also committed suicide, at the age of 29), was married four times. In addition Hemingway writes affectionately of his third wife, the writer and war correspondent Martha ´Marty´ Gellhorn (1908-1998), whom he had married in 1940.
Lot 531
KUBA MASK Democratic Republic of Congo Wood, shell H.35cm NOTE The Kuba live in the Lower Kasai region of central Zaire in a rich environment of dense forest and savanna. Organised into a federation of chiefdoms, the almost 200,000 Kuba are a diverse group of over eighteen different peoples unified under the Bushong king. They share a single economy and, to varying degrees, common cultural and historical traditions. Agriculture is the main occupation, supplemented by hunting, fishing, and trading. The name Kuba comes from the Luba people to the southeast. The Kuba call themselves the children of Woot after their founding ancestor.
Lot 78
A late 18th/early 19th century carved coquilla nut snuff box, in the shape of a hunting/gun dog, glass eyes and compartment to underneath opening to show snuff compartment, approx. 6.2cm long. Further details: the hinged cover underneath has small chip to corner near hinge, some scratches, marks and general wear commensurate to age/usage.
Lot 121
Hunting interest: A 19th century carved horn beaker, with hunting scenes depicting riders on horseback and hounds, with white metal mounts to top and base rim, approx. 9.3cm high x 6.3cm diameter. Further details: signs of scratching, minor loss and general wear commensurate to age/usage, some tarnishing and wear to white metal areas.
Lot 284
Gwendolen White (British, fl.1910-1915) Tobacco box and a fruit bowlilluminated white woodthe box depicting Virginia, Russia, Turkey and Egypt with inscription relating to tobacco and signed to the underside 'Dennis his box', the bowl with inscription relating to fruit, together with some loose transfer pencil designs, a letter from 1915 and a business card**conditionreport**Tobacco box - shaped and made like a tea caddy but the inscription clearly relates to tobacco, with central gilt monogram now rather dark and faded, the inscription 'when all things were made none was made better than tobacco / there is no herb like unto it under the canopy of heaven' and around the frieze 'to be a lone mans companion, a bachelor's friend, a chilly man's fire, a sad man's cordial, a wakeful man's sleep & a hungry man's food'. Depictions of a native American Indian smoking a pipe, a crouched Cossack, a Turkish man smoking a huqqa and an Egyptian man holding a carpet, inscription regarding Dennis to the underside, 18cm wide, 10cm deep, 9cm high, overall rather dirty and dark, housing inside a business card for Decorative Illumination on Wood Gwen Plunkett of St Francis, Lancing, Sussex and Cecyl White Orchard Cottage, Long Hope, Gloucester. The bowl equally darkened with numerous panels and the inscription around the frieze, 'Come by come by sweet two time and sound to I come by, goblins cry, come by, our orchard fruits come by', running above small panels depicting goblins and fruit, with further inscriptions below. Rubbed to the inside, 23cm diameter, 10cm high. Comes with tracing paper designs of Georgians at a musical soiree, dancing medieval figures and a hunting party, together with a plain postcard addressed to Miss Gwen White, 338 Camden Road N and dated 24 July 1915, stating 'congrats to the infant on having been awarded ¼ dozen gold medals from Benjer of 81 Inverness Terrace West.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
Lot 501
A COLLECTION OF SEVEN HUNTING TROPHIES (7)20th Century Comprising two unmounted stag heads, the largest 80cm high, three impala/antelope skulls on wooden shield mounts, the largest 63cm high, a skull on wooden mount, 21cm high, and a silver-plate mounted Indian set of boar tusks and tail on wooden mount, 26cm high
Lot 123
A BAG OF ASSORTED POCKET, FRUIT AND TWO KNIVES, to include eight fruit knives, two with mother of pearl handles, two butterfly knives with scissors, four pocket knives, two with extra attached tools, a hunting knife slide out blade, wooden handle and hoop for suspension, together with a 'William Rodgers' throwing knife with sheath (condition report: buyer must be 18 years or older, all have some wear to the blades and will require some attention)
Lot 2466
° ° A collection of Folio Society books: Flora Thompson - Lark RiseDickens in EuropeThe Small House at AllingtonDoctor ThorneLa Dame Aux CameliasFramley ParsonageBarchester TowersQueen Victoria - Our Life In The HighlandsLord of The RingsDickens' LondonLives of George and Robert StephensonTravels through France and ItalyTravels In West AfricaLife of MichelangeloMemoirs of a Fox Hunting ManThe WardenCold Comfort FarmGoodbye to BerlinThe Great Enterprise (no sleeve)Out of AfricaThe English Governess at The Siamese CourtThe Private Lives of The Tudor Monarchs (no sleeve)Music at Court (no sleeve)Wren's London (no sleeve)Bayeux Tapestry (no sleeve)Shadow of Vesuvius (no sleeve)Voyage of The BeagleSherston's ProgressRise and Fall of AthensMan of Singular VirtueEscape from TerrorMiddlemarchTravels of Marco Polo
Lot 360
A porcelain pitcher featuring a dog handle and bas-relief hunting scene, lightly colorized in brown, greens, pink, and black details against a white background. Impressed backstamp on bottom. Dimensions: 7.25"L x 5.5"W x 6.5"HManufacturer: WedgwoodCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 2035
Munnings A.J. (ills) , Mottistone Lord [ General Jack Seely) " My Horse Warrior" Hodder and Stoughton 1934, (3rd imp.) pictorial endpapers, blue cloth, dust wrapper with Folio Society Sassoon, Siegfried " Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" and " Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" both with slip cases, and "Sherston's Progress" and Scott, Brough "Galloper Jack - A Grandson's Search for A Forgotten Hero" MacMillan 2003, photographic ills. dust wrapper (5)
Lot 57
Stoneware plates designed with dog motifs in center. Set includes 2 Springer Spaniel plates D6353, Hunting Dog D5770, Scottish Terrier D5386 and Pointers D5781. Royal Doulton backstamp. Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: 1"H x 10.5" dia.Manufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 55
Set includes 3 stoneware plates depicting hunting scenes with men and their dogs - Jock of the Bushveld, Scottish hunter and his dogs and A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Royal Doulton backstamp. Issued: c. 1912 - 1934Dimensions: 1"H x 10.5" dia.Manufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 64
A small group of silver, including a presentation trophy cup, Birmingham 1947, inscribed ‘Town of Kelso Cup for Hunting Stock’, 18cm high; also a Continental silver mustard, import marks; a cased silver presentation spoon; and a case fitted with two Edinburgh glass bowls and two silver butter knives, 498g (gross) weighable silver (a lot)
Lot 68
A group of hunting related silver, including an Edwardian silver horn, hallmarked Chester 1908, of slender tapered form, 30cm long, 40g; a silver and glass bottle hip flask, with hinged lid, and removable tot cup base; another silver hip flask, 162g; and a cast metal plated novelty fox, 13cm long (4)
Lot 633
superb 17th Cent. Flemish cupboard in oak with particularly fine and richly decorated ornamentation with fluted columns, friezes with hunting scenes, heads of figures and amours, full figures, which symbolize "Hope, faith and love", ... || Prachtige zeventiende eeuwse Vlaamse zgn beeldenkast in eik met bijzonder fijn en rijkgesculpteerde ornamentiek in de vorm van gecanneleerde zuilen, friezen met jachttaferelen, koppen van figuren en amourtjes, paneeltjes met lieflijke scènes en met volle figuren, die symbool staan voor "Hoop, geloof en liefde" - met vier deuren - 235 x 173 x 72 cm
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