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Click here to subscribeBELLING; a 1970s floor lamp and convector heater with orange base and fibreglass shade, height 120cm.Additional InformationSome small chips and nibbles to the rim of the fibre glass shade, further dirt, discolouration, some deterioration to metalware etc. Known to be working when last tested but no guarantee of working order and have not tested this item ourselves.
SINGER; an electric and treadle vintage sewing machine and integral stained pine and cast iron table frame, height of the table 76cm, length 106cm, width 51cm.Additional InformationThe sewing machine and motor is sold as a decorative item only, consultation with a qualified electrician must be used before use. In an attic find condition with dirt, scuffs, scratches and general wear throughout.
Daewoo freestanding electric heater and two 2kw upright fan heaters. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Livarno Lux LED spotlight 8.5w and a Fridgemaster mini tower fan H: 33 cm. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Vintage Sportstar Bell and Howell video camera, a Hanimex loadmatic 720 projector and further cameras. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Vintage Ferguson studio 20d music centre radio cassette turntable. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Soundlab smoke effect machine, lacking accessories. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Logik mini hifi system with MP3, docking and CD capabilities. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Modern desktop anglepoise lamp and a pair of table lamps with green shades, H: 64 cm. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Aiwa Z-R500 digital audio system with karaoke facility. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Pair of contemporary table lamps with shades, H: 63 cm. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Michael YoungPrototype 'Magazine' armchair, 1994Steel, vinyl upholstery.66 x 81 x 63.5 cmProduced by Michael Young Studio MY 022, London, United Kingdom.Footnotes:LiteratureThe Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Collections, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1227036/sofa-michael-young, (accessed September 2021), for an example of the unique sofaBonhams wishes to thank Michael Young for his kind assistance with cataloguing the present lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Berthold Lubetkin and Margaret LubetkinUnique sofa, designed for the Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, London, 1936-1938Norwegian yew, sandblasted pine, Cowhide, leather, chromium-plated metal. 77 x 196 x 80 cmFootnotes:ProvenanceBerthold Lubetkin, Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, LondonThence by descentBonhams, London, New Bond Street, 'Important Design', 21 November 2018, lot 169Acquired from the above by the present ownerLiteratureLionel Brett, The Things We See Houses - No. 2, Houses, Middlesex, 1947, p. 49 for the armchairs and daybed'Tall Order', The Architects' Journal, June 1985, illustrated p. 55John Allan, Berthold Lubetkin: Architecture and the tradition of progress, London, 2016, illustrated pp. 303, 305, 307, 562The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Collections, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1458096/-armchair-berthold-lubetkin, (accessed September 2021) for the armchairHighpoint by Nick Wright'There are only four kinds of artistic activity: fine art, music, poetry and ornamental pastry cooking, of which architecture is a minor branch.' So began Berthold Lubetkin's speech to the Art Worker's Guild in 1932. Over a fifty-year career he baked many fine pastries.His origins are opaque. A passport showing his birthplace as Warsaw in 1903 was false. He was born in Georgia, a colonial outpost of Tsarist Russia, in 1901. During the Russian revolution he enrolled as a student at the Stroganov School of Applied Art. He studied carpet design in Berlin, architecture in Warsaw, concrete construction in Paris under August Perret, though achieved few if any formal qualifications. Nonetheless, he worked on the Soviet Pavilion in the Paris Exposition of 1925 and, in partnership, with Jean Ginsburg whose bona fide degree facilitated planning permission, had built an apartment block on Rue de Versailles by the age of 30.Arriving in Britain with two passports, no family or verifiable CV, he was free to become the architect of his own identity. His nationality was International, his faith communism, the denomination Modernism. The penguin pool he designed for Regent Park Zoo became instantly emblematic of the movement. More commissions came; suburban houses in Plumstead, a beach house in Aldwyck, a bungalow cut into the chalk hills of Whipsnade. Then, following the Tottenham factory designed for Gestetner Ltd, he designed Highpoint. 'Nothing,' he said, 'is too good for the ordinary person' and Highpoint is the physical embodiment of that ideal. New materials, concrete, glass, and steel were presumed impervious to the elements, the elemental design to fashion. Although undeniably 'an achievement of the first rank' to quote Le Corbusier, Highpoint now appears very much of its time. Rather than housing the workers of an office equipment manufacturer the apartments were sold to private individuals whilst the white-washed concrete appears an homage to white liner modernism, new in Britain but rehearsed the decade prior on the Mediterranean coast and already rust streaked.It is the adjacent Highpoint II which appears the more prescient, bridging as it does the stark modernity of its elder sibling on one side with Georgian Highgate on the other. Indeed, it's startling to realise that what one takes to be a low linear building shares a roofline with its high-rise neighbour and this dual aspect continues throughout. The choice of Staffordshire blue brick nods to the Victorian engineers such as Brunel whom Lubetkin admired. The glass bricks of the stair wells were contemporary. Then there are the caryatids. Classical figures cast at the British Museum support the modernist portico, these draped ladies passed water though pipes cast within but remain a source of debate. Are they 'pastry decoration'? Are they a recreation of the figures on a childhood home? Or are they the earliest post-modern joke, an acknowledgement that a function of architecture is to entertain? In 1951 Lubetkin wrote 'for too long modern architectural solutions were regarded in terms of abstract principles, with formal expression left to itself as a functional resultant. The principles of composition, the emotional impact of the visual, were brushed aside as irrelevant. Yet this is the very material with which the architect operates.' Alessandro Mendini said much the same fifty years after Highpoint's construction.Preeminent among the residents of Highpoint II was Lubetkin himself who had designed the penthouse for his family and the apartment displays the same meld of old and new. A vaulted ceiling recalls the breakfast room at John Soane's Pitzhanger, suspended from it was a mobile made and installed by Alexander Calder. Expansive glass affords views of London, in the free space below was a suite of furniture designed in the vernacular style of Lubetkin's native Georgia.John Allen writes of Lubetkin: 'No longer content merely to revere the grand tradition of architects who design their own furniture – Aalto, Le Corbusier, Mies, Rietveld – he now steps up to join it. The low chairs and sofa were unique pieces of soft sculpture made personally by Lubetkin and his wife Margaret from hand chosen lengths of Norwegian yew and cow hide from Argentina.' Such a quest seems indulgent but careful selection of the timber is necessary to the design. The rear posts all require the same curvature, even the knots are regularly spaced to create symmetrical aprons and, as with the building for which they were designed, the traditional and avant-guard coexist; fitted into the rustic frames are airfoil sections adjusted via engine-turned bosses.These pieces of furniture are of real architectural significance - evidenced by the Victoria and Albert Museum's acquisition of the third chair. They were designed by the architect responsible for much of Britain's post-war social housing and the Finsbury Health Centre, effectively the first hospital for the NHS. They drew on his early life in Georgia yet sit well in his home on top of Britain's preeminent modernist building. Indeed, so attached was Lubetkin to the furniture that on leaving Highpoint in 1955 the suite went with him. Images of the farm cottage to which he relocated show sofa and chair wedged beside the hearth. Then when he retired to a terraced Georgian house in Bristol the pieces again accompanied him. Throughout a transient life it was as though this suite represented home more than any building. Perhaps home had always been Georgia.Bonhams wishes to thank Nick Wright, co-author, Cut and Shut: The History of Creative Salvage, London, 2012.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Berthold Lubetkin and Margaret LubetkinUnique daybed, designed for the Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, London, 1936-1938Norwegian yew, sandblasted pine, cowhide. 40 x 233 x 89 cmFootnotes:ProvenanceBerthold Lubetkin, Penthouse flat, Highpoint Two, Highgate, LondonThence by descentAcquired from the above by the present ownerLiteratureLionel Brett, The Things We See Houses - No. 2, Houses, Middlesex, 1947, illustrated p. 49'Tall Order', The Architects' Journal, June 1985, illustrated p. 55 for the armchairs and sofaJohn Allan, Berthold Lubetkin: Architecture and the tradition of progress, London, 2016, illustrated p. 304The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Collections, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1458096/-armchair-berthold-lubetkin, (accessed September 2021) for the armchairThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Tobacco ephemera, John & Robert Sinclair, small selection of items including Robert Sinclair Bushranger insert, two invoices & two Company printed envelopes, John Sinclair invoice, typed letter & share transfer document plus 3 paper labels for 'Barneys, The Ideal Tobacco' & one unrelated advertising item for Hindhaughs of Newcastle (gen gd) (12)
Marke Technofix Alpine Express No.300 Clockwork Litho Tin Alpine Station Track With Two Buses This Item Was Manufactured In West Germany In The 1950 / 60's. The Entire Track Is Tin And Measures Approximately 32"" Long (When Full Track Is Unfolded) By 6"" High And 6"" Wide. A Part Of The Track Is Hinged And Folds Under For Easier Storage Or Transport. With The Extended Track Piece Folded Under The Item Is Approximately 21"" Long. There Are 2 Wind-Up Buses Included With The Set But No Keys
Mark of A.V., a silver and black glass bead necklace with two pairs of earrings,Each with A.V maker's mark, London hallmarks, necklace 1988, matching earrings 1992, curl earrings 1988,Each silver element with hammered finish, the necklace with nine shaped, flattened drops, the earrings for pierced ears, necklace total open length 39.5 cm; matching earrings 4.8 cm long; curl earrings 3.9 wide; together with a pair of 'Niels From' silver earrings of inverted shield shape, stamped 'From 925s'; and a pair of tear-drop earrings; and a pair of metal spiral earrings and another spiral item, (12),Property from a private collection. A.V. silver necklace & earrings - with a few tiny marks and abrasions in keeping with age and light natural wear.From earrings: natural wear to surfaces.Tear drop earrings: natural wear to surfaces - the ends that go in the ear are a little bent. Not signed.Metal: some aging spots, old marks, tarnishing and wear.
An Art Deco walnut and rosewood mantel clock, striking on a gong, 22cm highCondition report: Case a little worn.Complete with pendulum and key.Movement not tested. The clock has been running but stops shortly after, we cannot guarantee the clock working due to the nature of the item. Please see additional images.
Late 19th Century Trade Cards, two mid-20th Century loose-leaf albums, many USA interest, also UK, France, Belgium, litho and chromo-litho, including tea, coffee, agricultural equipment and fertiliser, Raymond & Campbell stoves, stove polish, medicine including Ayer's and Scott & Bowne, tonic, Liebig, Puro and other meat extract, soap including Curtis, Davis & Co, Soapine and Pears, hats, sewing machines, pastries, dry goods, clothiers including Franchomme & Cie and Frear's Bazaar and chocolate including Maison Louit (qty, 85 two, three and four-pocket plastic pages, mostly with one item per pocket)
An Aster with Accucraft Gauge One live steam spirit fired BR Class 9F 2-10-0 tender locomotive. A kitbuilt example of this model finished as the single chimney 92059, in unlined black livery. Model features 2 working cylinders with modified Walschaerts valve gear, twin safety valves, pressure gauge, water gauges, hand water pump, etc. With assembly instructions and original box and packaging. Some wear to box. Locomotive appears GC-VGC, some paintwork issues. It would benefit with improvements to the renumbering, BR logo on tender and surrounding paintwork. It is sold without a boiler certificate etc. and is therefore sold as a collector's item only. £3000-3300
A gas fired live steam Markie 1:10 scale Road Locomotive. Single cylinder, hand pump, reverser, safety value, whistle, etc. Body painted in dark blue. 'The Burrell Road Locomotive' to smokebox door. With instruction sheet for steaming, etc. and original boiler certificate (now elapsed). Approx length 520mm. Together with a separate 2-wheel water bowser trailer and 2-wheel gas cylinder trailer.GC, some running wear, etc. Motion turns freely. Please note it is sold without a current boiler certificate etc. It is therefore sold as a collector's item only. £800-1200
A seldom seen Benbros Qualitoys AA Road Service Land Rover. The larger scale example in bright yellow with black roof, complete with roof sign, dropdown tailgate with opening hatch and opening driver and passenger doors. Yellow wheels with black rubber tyres. Complete with often missing spring aerial. Boxed, a good example with just minor wear. Vehicle GC-VGC-chip to passenger side roof, other minor chips, thin paint to doors and some lifting to paintwork. Still a rare presentable item. £70-90
A CHINESE SAGE GREEN EMBROIDERED SILK COAT From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng Elaborately embroidered with gold and silver threads depicting a scene of ducks amongst flowers and foliage 112cm long Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there are loose stitches observed.
A PERANAKAN BEADED BELT WITH BUCKLE From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng Fully-decorated belt executed with stitched-on beaded designs of large floral and bird motifs framed by two narrow yellow borders. The buckle appears to be gilt metal executed with repoussé work of concentric circular and foliated designs. Belt 6 x 67cm; Buckle 7 x 6cm Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. There are minor losses to the beadwork. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there are at least 4 spots near the central "stalks" of the flowers where the bead loss is more prominent,
A PERANAKAN EMBROIDERED VELVET HAT From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng Fully-decorated hat with embroidered floral, foliate and animal designs 23cm long x 18.5cm wide x 8.5cm tall Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there are loose stitches and fraying observed.
A PERANAKAN BEADED MATTRESS RUNNER (TURQUOISE GROUND) From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng Fully-beaded panel depicting alternating motifs of twin flowers and a bird on a turquoise ground. 8.5 x 200cm (beaded portion) Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. There are minor losses to the beadwork. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request.
A PERANAKAN BEADED BELT A bead embroidered belt of maroon background, the design featuring flowerheads, foliage and insects 68cm long x 5cm wide Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there is fraying observed at certain parts of the edges of the belt.
A PERANAKAN BEADED PANEL (PINK GROUND WITH GREEN BORDER) From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng Fully-beaded panel depicting alternating motifs of twin flowers, dusks and garden birds, on a turquoise ground. 13 x 202cm (excluding tassels) Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. There are minor losses to the beadwork. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there are areas of loose beading, broken-off and missing tassels observed.
A PERANAKAN BEADED PANEL From the collection of Dr Ho Wing Meng The design featuring birds amongst flowers and foliage 25cm wide x 15cm long (including tassels) Condition: This is a fragile item with wear that commensurates with its age and use. There are minor losses to the beadwork. It is available for inspection in the saleroom, and additional images or videos are available on request. Specifically, there are some loose stitches and fraying observed.
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