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Lot 46
A Crimean War medal group comprising Crimea medal with four clasps engraved to SERJT MATHW YOUNG SCOTS FS [? indistinct under glass] GDS, together with Sardinian issue Turkish Crimea Medal, in burr maple veneered framed and gilt mount under glass together with Colour Serjeants' bullion-embroidered rank insignia, marksman's badge and collar badges, also a portrait in oils (14.5 x 11 cm), service documents including Duplicate of Attestation, Parchment Certificate of Service, and Royal Hospital Chelsea admission certificate, four autograph manuscript testimonials from officers of the Regiment, and a Malacca cane with ivory pommel engraved SERT M Young. [4270 Matthew Young, of Riccarton, enlisted in 1852 at Kilmarnock, aged 17, he suffered frost bite and was discharged being unfit for further service in 1867 having served four years abroad, latterly in Canada as Hospital Steward following his injury, he was admitted to the Royal Hospital in 1867]
Lot 467
A Georgian tortoiseshell tea caddy, of bombe form, having white-metal and ivory string inlay, a vacant white-metal cartouche, and conforming keyhole escutcheon, raised over four ball feet, opening to reveal a fitted interior, comprising two tortoiseshell covered compartments with ivory finials, 18 x 11 x 16 cm high
Lot 167
Anglo-Indian Diaries.- Lock (Caroline Louisa, maiden name Cardew, wife of Colonel Edward Seppings Lock, 82nd Foot, grandson of Sir Joseph Lock, of Bury Knowle House, Headington, Oxford, died of Enteric Fever at Pieter Maritzburg, Natal, 1837-86, 1837-1913) Anglo-Indian diaries and accounts, 5 vol., (comprising 3 vol. diaries, 1 vol. accounts book and 1 vol. cash book not used), autograph manuscripts, diaries together 421pp. (17pp. of addresses in 1 vol.), accounts 15pp. excluding blanks, some ff. loose and working loose, original uniform black morocco, gilt, 1 vol. cover detached, 2 vol. spines splitting, all spines rubbed, g.e., 8vo, housed in a handsome polished Coromandel case with gilt metal strapwork and key plate stamped 'G. Betjemann & Sons', the hinge engraved 'Charles Nephew & Co, Calcutta', inset with three Wedgwood jasperware porcelain plaques and lock stamped 'S. Morden & Co' (with key), the case spring loaded to raise the contents once opened, 130 x 210mm., 1866-67, 1867-69 & 1869-71; and 4 other related items, comprising: a sixteenth plate ambrotype portrait photograph of Caroline Lock contemporarily inscribed on the rear with name and marital status, with two small locks of Caroline Lock's hair in envelopes dated 1860/1865 presented in a morocco leather case, and a watercolour portrait miniature painted on ivory of Maria Ballachay née Lock (Edward Seppings Lock's sister), 70 x 60mm., in a period gilt frame inscribed on verso 'aunt Ballachay née Lock Headington', framed size 170 x 155mm. (5 pieces).⁂ The life of a Victorian military wife, in England and India. In England. The family stay at Bury Knowle House in Headington, and visit Oxford frequently, attending Christ Church Cathedral at the ordination of Harry Rendle, feeding deer in Magdalen Park, attending a flower show at Wadham College, watching the procession of the boar's head on Christmas Day at Queen's College, "a curious sight". She attends the consecration of St Barnabas Church, Jericho, "very high, the bishop of Oxford preached" [Samuel Wilberforce], visit Brasenose College, lunch at All Souls College and lunch at Oxford University Press. With numerous entries relating to the Ballachay family, visiting her mother in Taunton Deane, the birth of her children, living in Portsmouth and Chatham, "Ed went to Gravesend on the velosipede [sic] etc.[Amritsar]. "Went to Amritsar by train. A large party with Mrs. Holroyd, the 6th were encamped there, had breakfast in the camp, then went to the Golden Temple, the sacred temple of the Sikhs then onto the gardens where we had tiffin & croquet came back by train a noisy party coming & going!"
Lot 750
Fine Flemish ebonised cabinet on stand, Antwerp 17th century, the rectangular hinged top enclosing a paper lined interior and painted panel to the reverse, above a pair of panelled doors with painted panels to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with raised ripple mouldings, comprising ten drawers with sperate interior linings around a central colonnaded cupboard door enclosing an architectural mirrored interior with eight further small square drawers and an ivory and ebony parquet floor, with pull-out to reveal three secret drawers, over a single long drawer and upon the later ebonised stand, the cabinet 36" wide, 33" high, 17.25", 57.5" high overall **The Cabinet is decorated with fourteen inset panels depicting Landscapes with Figures comprising, a Hunting scene with Figures on Horseback, Hounds nearby, 8.5" x 25.25"; two further Landscapes with Figures and a Dog beside a Lake, also Figures on Horseback on a Country lane with a Windmill in the distance, each 14" x 10", ten further smaller Landscapes, one with Figures on a Stone Bridge approaching Classical Ruins, each 4" x 9" and lastly another small oil on panel depicting three Figures beside a Rocky Waterfall, 5.5" x 7.5" **The style of the work is reminiscent of Joos de Momper, however there were Flemish and Dutch workshops in the 17th century who were producing works of this type for inclusion into such pieces of Furniture *** Provenance - from a private estate
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