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Lot 421
* Gordon (Charles George, 1833-1885). A long autograph letter signed `C.E. Gordon’, Khartoum, 27th November 1878, to Sir Samuel [Baker], `Thank you for your kind letter, 16 Oct. How well you write, I fear you have difficulty in reading my scrawls’, the letter continuing in a difficult hand, `Although I have made my apologies to you for my rudeness years ago, I think you will not think me breaking(?) impudence, if I mention what happened, at the same time, as I saw the McM[illan] advertisement. They were [?] the church Miss. Nyanza Expedition, and I have been writing to Grant, saying that Utesa was a Negro &c. &c. & that he & the troops might come into collision... `, continuing to give an account of why he had been cross with Baker and apologising once more then moving on to two numbered sections `Cairo Affairs’ and `Slave Trade’, the latter beginning, `Wylde tells me that our slaves have come to Jeddah & that the people are in despair. You must know I advised the seizure of III Dhows belonging to the Turks of Jeddah, who came over with water & food, evidently for slaves. We annexed the Dhows & sent the crews to Jeddah, this has stopped these people ...’, continuing which much detail about the slave trade and politics of it plus some account of his own actions and affairs, ending `As for trade with Blacks or any hope of getting any more ivory, it is over, each [?] having cost us 80 pounds & nothing, but misery. I hope you will come out. As for [?] tribunals, it has been this year, a terrible unhealthy year & I fear if any Europeans could stand the climate, you know the demands for high salaries & compensation which these men would bring forward (I think justly), and it makes me quail to think of the bother & expenses’, sending regards to Lord and Lady Baker and their nephew and finishing with postscript hoping he can ask Lieutenant Watson, R.E., to send Baker a copy of the Equatorial map, 15 pp. on four numbered bifoliums, a few spots and small marginal splits, final leaf sl. browned and worn on centrefold, 4to, together with Baker (Samuel), `The Albert N’yanza, Great Basin of the Nile’ [contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 14th December 1865, Baker’s first printed account of the discovery of the Albert Nyanza, folding map and 29 pp., orig. printed blue wrappers, a little soiling and wear to spine ends, slim 8vo (2)
Lot 656
Miniature books. Picture Book, Images and Verses, by Jean Charlot, Los Angeles, Dawson’s Book Shop, 1974, numerous col. illusts., orig. white boards in dustjacket, contained in orig. board slipcase, 58 x 45mm (2.25 x 1.75ins), (limited edition 296/300 copies), together with six other miniature books pub. by Dawson’s Book Shop, plus Scrimshaw History, by Robert Mount, California, Morro Bay, Tabula Rasa Press, 1986, frontis. and decs. to text, orig. blue sheep, upper cover with inset ivory panel eng. with topsail schooner The Pride of Baltimore, 47 x 36mm (2 x 1.5ins), (limited edition 46/100 copies, signed by the author), plus Struwwelpeter is 137, Und Noch Immer Ein JŸngling, Connecticut, Robert E. Massmann, 1982, mounted photo. frontis., hand-col. illusts., orig. green morocco, upper cover with mounted circular illust., contained in orig. open-ended card slipcase, 51 x 51mm (2 x 2ins), (limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the publisher and illustrator), plus nine other 20th c. miniature books, limited editions pub. in US, incl. Rebecca Press, The Press at the Gatehouse, Junipero Serra Press, Mosaic Press (18)
Lot 408
A late 18th or early 19th century gold and diamond mounted portrait miniature pendant/brooch/bracelet clasp, the oval portrait on ivory depicting a young Naval Officer wearing a blue coat with gold braid within a diamond-set surround of graduated old cut stones in cut-down collet settings with detachable rose diamond-set pendant fitting.
Lot 692
Demetre H. Chiparus 1886 -1947, ‘Etoile de Mare’ (‘Starfish’), A bronze and ivory figure, cold painted and gilded bronze, modelled as a female figure with arms raised over her head, wearing a catsuit decorated with stylised starfish, raised on a shaped and chequered onyx and marble base signed D.H.Chiparus to the top of the base and Etling, Paris to one side of the base, 75.5cm. high.
Lot 224
A mixed lot of silver items comprising: an unmarked dog paperweight the dog lying on a resin base a set of six silver and enamel coffee bean end spoons a German silver mounted wallet with applied motifs a German cigarette case a continental snuff box with chased decoration and an electroplated fish knife with a carved ivory handle. (6)
Lot 225
A set of six silver fruit knives and forks by R. Moseley and Co Sheffield 1931 with mother-of-pearl handles plus a set of six silver fish knives and forks with ivory handles and a pair of Victorian silver handles fish servers modelled as inter-twinned mythical fish with electroplated blades. (3)
Lot 263
A mixed lot of silver flatware various dates and makers comprising: a sauce ladle a pair of sugar nips seven dessert spoons two dessert forks a pair of sugar tongs a salt spoon two spoons a silver-gilt dessert fork and knife with green stained ivory handles approx. weight 16oz plus eleven silver handled fruit knives and forks retailed by Tessier with steel blades and twelve silver handled butte knives. (qty)
Lot 579
A mixed lot of silver items comprising a Victorian silver frame with calendar fittings embossed and pierced with birds and trellis decoration by William Comyns London 1892 plus a pair of novelty photograph frames modelled as life rings with anchor easel backs (one easel back missing) by Alexander Clarke and company Birmingham 1896 and an electroplated mounted ivory carriage badge. (4)
Lot 740
A Louis XVI poudre d’ecaille and gold mounted portrait box the miniature by Guiseppe Tresca signed and dated 1783 the gold mounts by Louis-Jean Glaton with the charge and discharge marks of Henri Clavel Paris 1783 the circular blue poudre d’ecaille cover with inlaid gold stud-work with wirework mounts the underside unscrews to reveal a portrait miniature on ivory of a lady in a blue and pink dress with a white shawl holding a bunch of pink roses under glass with a gold frame with a blue enamel frame and motto ‘HONNI. SOIT. QUI. MAL.Y. PENSE. AMITIE. PARFAITE’ gold lined interior in a later fitted Harvey and Gore case diameter 8cm.
Lot 744
A Louis XVI poudre d’ecaille and gold mounted portrait box by Jean-Baptiste Lizon with the charge and discharge mark of Julien Alaterre Pairs 1772 the miniature attributed to Richard Cosway (1742-1821) oval form the hinged cover with a central inset miniature on ivory of a young girl in a pink dress with a black lace choker the gold frame and borders pierced with ribbons and bows on a blue ground with gold linear inlay gold lined interior length 8.8cm.
Lot 39
A set of six ivory handled silver fruit knives and forks by William Hutton & Sons, London 1904; a Danish silver coloured pickle fork by Georg Jensen, in acorn pattern; other small flatware, mainly spoons, in silver, silver coloured and electro-plate; and a silver hemispherical sugar bowl, London 1920
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