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Lot 576
* Almanack fan. Botanical calendar fan, London: Publish'd as the Act directs, by John Cock & I.P. Crowder, Wood Street, Jany. 1st. 1794, double-sided folding paper fan, the hand-coloured engraved leaf with divisions for each month of the year, January to June on recto, and July to December on verso, each month with a poem and appropriate engraved botanical vignette, above information regarding holidays, phases of the moon, etc., toned, folds splitting in places, a few small losses to lower edge, some archival tape repairs to upper and lower edges (mainly to latter), mounted on wooden sticks, 28 cm (11 ins), together with:Literary fan. Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Publish'd as the Act directs by the Proprieter, Apl. 1. 1796, folding paper fan, the leaf with 3 hand-coloured oval stipple engravings 'Yorick & the Monk', 'La Fleur & Madame de L.', and 'Yorick & the Glovers Wife', hand-painted with lily flowers between, and with quotations from Sterne printed beneath, browned, slightly chipped and frayed to lower edge (with a small paper repair), mounted on bone-tipped wooden sticks, 25.5 cm (10 ins) QTY: (2)NOTE:First item rare: not in the Schreiber Collection.Second item: Schreiber Collection 76, p.16.
Lot 578
* Dance fans. Eighteen of the most Favorite Country Dances, circa 1789, folding paper fan, engraved with musical notation and lyrics for dances including The Haunted Tower, Miss Dykes Fancy, Paynes Jigg, Kiss Me Sweetly, The Harriot, The Fife Hunt, a few small discreet repairs to closed tears, mounted on wooden sticks, black ink contemporary inscriptions to upper and lower guard sticks respectively 'The Gift of Master Fletcher Gwernhayfed' and 'The Gift of Mr. Lloyd Fletcher', 24.5cm (9.75ins), together with:Duchess of York, circa 1791, folding paper fan, stipple-engraved with an oval portrait of Frederica Charlotta Ulrica, Duchess of York, surrounded by musical notation and lyrics for dances including Duchess of York's Fancy, The Russian Tippet, Miss Bentick's Fancy, Shuter's Hornpipe, Money in Both Pockets, The happy Lass, trimmed to right-hand edge with loss of a fold and corresponding stick, toned, some paper repairs on verso, mounted on bone sticks, 24.5 cm (9.75 ins)QTY: (2)NOTE:Two rare dance fans, each without imprint, and therefore probably pirated copies.The first item is not in the Schreiber Collection; we have seen only one other similar, with the same title but different dances, published by Sudlow in 1789. We have been unable to trace the romantic Mr Lloyd Fletcher, but presume the place name is a corruption of Gwernyfed in Wales. The second item is similar to Schreiber Collection 11, p.4, published by Thos. Weightman in 1791. An early example of royal wedding memorabilia, the fan commemorates the marriage of Princess Frederica of Prussia and Frederick, Duke of York, second son of George III, which took place in 1791.
Lot 581
* Historical. Chronological Tables of English History, Publish'd 17th. April 1789, by J. Pike, No. 36, Cheapside, hand-coloured double-sided folding paper fan, each side engraved with 2 rows of 8 medallion portraits of monarchs with text below (William the Conqueror to George II), a trifle rubbed and toned in places, but overall in good condition, mounted on wooden sticks, 25.5 cm (10 ins), together with:The United Sisters, London: Publish'd by Ashton and Hadwen, Little Britain, Jan. 1. 1801. Enter'd at Stationers Hall, folding paper fan, the leaf a stipple engraving by George Wilson, depicting three female figures with linked hands representing England, Scotland, and Ireland, flanked by a unicorn and a lion, with entwined rose, thistle, and shamrock motif above, and the royal arms below flanked by 4 lines of verse 'Fair Sister Isles ... blest as free', 1 or 2 fox spots and folds a little toned, but generally in good condition, mounted on wooden sticks, 25 cm (10 ins)QTY: (2)NOTE:First item rare: not in the Schreiber Collection (which lists no fans published by Pike); we have been unable to trace another at auction or in an institution, or indeed any other fan by J. Pike of Cheapside.Second item: Schreiber Collection 36, p.71 (silk; unmounted). Commemorating the Acts of Union passed on 2nd July 1800 and 1st August 1800; the twin Acts united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The union came into effect on 1st January 1801.
Lot 586
* Souvenir fan. The Crescent Buxton, circa 1790, folding paper fan, with oval engraving printed in black of a large neo-classical semi-circular building, titled to lower edge, and enclosed in a double border of silver spangles (a few missing), slightly dusty and toned, mounted on bone sticks, 24.5 cm (9.75 ins), together with:Neoclassical fan. A pictorial engraved fan, circa 1800, folding paper fan, the leaf engraved in pale blue with 3 oval depictions of Grecian urns, each within a border of spangles (some missing), on a hatched dotted line ground, hand-painted borders of laurel leaves and berries in gold and blue to upper and lower edges, both side edges with 1 or 2 folds adhered together (right-hand guard stick lying on top of next stick), occasional small holes and splits to folds (one with slight loss), verso with hand-painted laurel wreath in blue, and with 3 folds strengthened with paper, mounted on bone sticks, loss to mother-of-pearl rivet, 24 cm (9.5 ins)QTY: (2)NOTE:First item: rare commemorative fan celebrating Buxton Crescent, designed by John Carr of York, and built for the fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789, as the centrepiece of his Georgian Spa development at Buxton, Derbyshire.See Schreiber Collection, 108, p.82: a slightly different view to ours, etching with aquatint, printed in blue. The British Library holds an unmounted leaf with the same etching as the Schreiber fan, but printed in green (1891,0713.453), as does The Fan Museum.Second item also rare: we have not been able to trace another example of this fan.
Lot 594
* Children's clothes. A Regency boy's linen skeleton suit, late 18th/early 19th century, hand-stitched cream linen skeleton suit, comprising a long-sleeved shirt with stand-up collar of fine white linen, front with 2 tucks either side of opening, latter with 3 (of 4) metal button closures stamped '1' within a wreath and lettered 'United States of America' around edge, back of shirt with 6 tucks, lower edge of shirt with 8 further buttons, matching, for attaching the trousers, latter with front pockets, and cuffed at ankles, with button closure (buttons replaced), several very small holes (largest 5 x 5 mm), waist with a few rust marks (from buttons), chest 74 cm (28 ins), sleeves 25 cm (9.75 ins), waist 30 cm (11.75 ins), length of trousers 56.5 cm (22.25 ins), overall length 84 cm (33 ins), together with:A Victorian boy's velvet dress, hand and machine-stitched all-in-one ensemble comprising conjoined waistcoat, jacket, and skirt: maroon grosgrain taffeta waistcoat with collar, and front closure with a metal hook and stitched loop and 7 mother of pearl buttons (1 or more replaced?); waistcoat sewn into a wine-coloured velvet jacket edged with maroon taffeta and lined with cotton twill, with flap pockets, long sleeves, embellished with scalloped cuffs and mother of pearl buttons, and 11 long laps at rear, closure below collar with button missing; matching velvet skirt with wide taffeta trim, attached to waistcoat with stitching at waist, front closure with 4 buttons as before, 7 metal hooks and corresponding loops on inside, overall some small light marks, and 1 or 2 tiny holes, chest 66 cm (26 ins), sleeves 39.5 cm (15.5 ins), waist 64 cm (25 ins), overall length 68 cm (26.75 ins), plus 3 19th century christening gowns, generally in good conditionQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Second item from a collection which came from the family of Thomas Crewe Dod (1754-1827) of Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire.First item: a rare survival of a boy's outfit made during a period of great transformation in the history of children's clothing. Prior to the 1780s boys had been attired in tailcoats and breeches in imitation of those worn by men. The last two decades of the 18th century saw the introduction of the infinitely more practical and comfortable skeleton suit, typically composed of a jacket or shirt and long trousers which buttoned together as here. This suit of cool linen is finer and less structured than the formal suits generally seen in family portraits, and was likely made for hot summer days, with the comfort of the child in mind, though perhaps not intended for boisterous play. Children's, and particularly boys', clothing is incredibly scarce, and the survival of a cream lightweight skeleton suit in such good condition is highly unusual.
Lot 635
* Needlework. A collection of embroideries and other related items, 18th & 19th century, comprising: a small 18th century hairwork landscape, Continental, finely hand-worked in back stitch on cream silk, depicting a figure at a large well, with a windmill in the distance, and a building with steep roof to the right, laid over card with contemporary stitching to edge, toned, 8 x 12 cm (3.25 x 4.75 ins); an 18th century embroidery of a songbird perched on a leafy branch, worked in long and short stitch on cream silk backed with cotton, using silk threads (predominantly light brown, cream, and green), silk ground perishing, tack holes to edges, 18.5 x 22.5 cm (7.25 x 8.75 ins); a small polychrome beadwork picture on perforated card (toned), of a Turkish gentleman smoking a hookah, rose border to upper and lower edges, 13 x 14.5 cm (5.25 x 5.75 ins); a blackwork picture on linen-backed silk, of a castle in a rocky landscape, circa 1800, silk ground beginning to perish, 17.5 x 23 cm (7 x 9 ins); an early Victorian hand-coloured Berlin chart of a mother and child flanked by a palm tree and a pagoda, 8 x 10 cm (3.25 x 4 ins), contemporary glazed mahogany frame with hanging loop to top edge (13 x 15.5 cm); a pair of flower embroideries on paper, circa 1820, toned and foxed, sheet size 23 x 21 cm (9 x 8.25 ins), and 2 others similar, another on paper, Victorian, browned, and one on linen, circa 1800, stained; 7 Victorian tapestry pictures, various (floral, historical, children, animals, etc.), in gros or petite point, 33 x 33 cm (13 x 13 ins) and smaller; and a gros point dolls' house rug, 12 x 8.5 cm (4.75 x 3.25 ins), mounted on card, together with a circa 1900 Art Nouveau design of stylised berries, leaves, and flowers, gouache in brown tones on cream wove paper, with 'E.S.K.' oval blindstamp lower left corner, sheet size 31.7 x 19.5 cm (12.5 x 7.75 ins) QTY: (18)NOTE:The embossed stamp 'E.S.K.' on the final item listed indicates that the work was entered for examination at the South Kensington School of Art.
Lot 423
A unique opportunity to purchase an ARMORTEK TANK (unmade) - 4 large boxes of tank parts of 1/6th scale being a Tiger Tank release 3 dated 18th April 2005, this large scale metal tank is in unopened boxes and we are unsure of the completeness of this item, more information maybe obtainable from ARMORTEK
Lot 2140
A Chinese black lacquered coffee table, with hardstone, ivory and gilt-painted decoration and inset glass top. 91x45x54cm. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018 on account of it being made before 3rd March 1947 with less than 10% ivory by volume. Ivory declaration submission reference 6JKU4BUD
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