A George III gold-mounted glass locket containing four locks of hair held in place by initials fashioned from gold wire below a crown surmount between two bevelled later glass discs the gold rim inscribed 'Hair of JAMES (son of King JAMES VII) of his consort and their sons CHARLES [Bonnie Prince Charlie] EDWARD & HENRY' the reverse inscribed '1745' and 'Francis Farquharson of Monaltrie' on a small suspension chain diam. 5.5cm. Francis Farquharson of Monaltrie was a fascinating character and a figure thoroughly entwined with the Jacobite cause. He was born in 1710 the son of Alexander the 1st of Monaltrie and daughter of Anne Farquharson of Finzean. As a young man he managed the estates of Inveracauld acting as commisoner for his uncle John Farqhuarson. However he soon became embroiled in the machinations of the uprising of 1745 (it is this date that probably relates to that on the locket). It has been suggested that his cousin Anne Lady Mackintosh (whom Jacobites knew as 'Colonel Anne') forged this relationship between Bonnie Prince Charlie and Francis. His father was deeply unimpressed by this allegiance and promptly deprived him of his commission. This was though not before Francis had succeeded in raising an army of 300 men from the very land he managed. He was an extremely popular man and by all accounts enigmatic; often referred to as the 'Baron Ban' as a result of his good looks and golden locks. He led his small army and took part in the battles of Inverury and Falkirk until he was finally captured at Culloden. He was taken by sea to London and thrown into the tower. Once again his luck or winning ways won through with a last minute reprieve on the very morning he was due to be executed. He then spent a period as a prisoner in Marshalsea then Southwark Gaol eventually finding himself on parole in Berkhampstead. He had friends who petitoned for his release these included the Ministers of Kincardine O'Neill and Alford. His dramatic reprieve fired rumours that this had come about as a result of the romantic intentions of a beautiful wealthy Catholic women who held great influence at Court. Perhaps this gossip was sparked from his involvement and later marriage to the beauty Margaret Eyre of Hassop in Derbyshire. His new wife adored him and her wealth enabled him to return to his beloved Scotland in 1766 a pardoned but affluent rebel and rebuild his standing in the area. His home had been burnt in reprisal for joining in the uprising so he built a new one at the foot of Craigendarroch and called it Ballater House. In addition he helped create much of the bustling town of Ballater that we see today developing the area and laying the foundations of the modern tourist industry. He also was involved in the construction of a bridge over the River Dee in 1790. Francis Farquharson of Monaltrie had a great impact on Royal Deeside - one which can still be seen today. It would have been seen as entirely fitting for the name of such a romantic figure; a man entwined with the Jacobite cause and local land to be engraved upon a Jacobite relic. It is likely that this lot may have been made after his death as a memento of this great and much loved man by his family.
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Balmerino Sixth Baron [Arthur Elphinstone] (1688-1746). Manuscript copy of the dying speech of the Rt. Honorable Lord Belmerino undated (paper watermarked no date) folio two sides previous folds. Note: Arthur Elphinstone sixth Baron Balmerino was a Jacobite who upon the arrival of Prince Charles in Scotland in 1745 was one of the first to join his standard. His importance was recognised in his appointment as colonel and captain of the second troop of life guards in attendance to the prince. After the battle of Culloden in 1746 Elphinstone was captured and sent to London to be committed to the Tower along with the Earls of Kilmarnock and Cromarty and tried with high treason. In August 1746 he was finally brought to Tower Hill for execution eye-witness accounts say "he came upon the scaffold in his regimentals and tye-wig. His coat was blue turned up with red and brass buttons; his countenance serene his air free and easy; he looked quite unconcerned and like one going to a party of pleasure or some business of little or no importance." After presenting the executioner with a fee of three guineas he proclaimed "O Lord! Reward my friends forgive my foes bless King James and receive my soul!".
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A Victorian Walnut Work Table], the shaped rectangular top enclosing a mirror, a removable fitted tray and well under, the body with applied shaped mouldings between tower corners, on pierced shaped end supports, stretchers and legs, with castors, 72cm by 55cm by 40cm See illustration *Bears the trade label of JAMES ALLAN & SONS, cabinet-makers to Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert, 122 Union Street, Aberdeen.
Canada. Weale (John, pub.), Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Victoria Bridge, over the River St. Lawrence at Montreal, [1860], tinted litho view, light spotting, image approx. 300. x 530. mm, together with six other tinted lithos. from the same work entitled 'Northern Approach', 'Staging for Centre Tube', 'View of Bridge from Tower of Cathedral', 'Works, from the Top of No. 6. Pier, 1858', 'Centre Tube in Progress', 'Works in Progress, 1858' From James Hodges' 'Construction of the Great Victoria Bridge in Canada', 1860. (7)
Thomas Shotter Boys, Nine lithographs from 'Original Views of London as it is', published 1842, comprising: 'London from Greenwich'; 'Tower and Mint'; 'Quadrant, Regent's Street'; 'St James' Palace'; 'Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross'; 'Hyde Park Corner'; 'Hyde Park from Grosvenor Gate'; 'The Customs House'; 'Regent's Street', approx 27 x 47cm (9)
Nicholas, J. B., Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of Saint Katharine, near the Tower of London, London, printed by and for John Nicholas & Son, 1824, 4to (230 x 175mm.), folding frontispiece, plates, and plans, some browning, contemporary boards, rubbed. With a number of other works including James Stores & John Greig's 'Views in North Britain, Illustrative of the Work of Robert Burns' (London, 1805), a third edition of 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax' (London, 1813), a two volume set of Lawrence Oliphant's 'Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Year 1857, '58, '59' (Edinburgh & London, 1859), Luis Quintanilia's 'Franco's Black Spain' (New York, 1946), Percy Fitxpatrick 'Jock of Bushveld' (London, 1908), and a three volume set of James Peller Malcolm's 'Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London' (London, 1811).
Charles Henry Baskett (1872-1953) 'Shoreham' Etching Signed in pencil within the margin lower right Inscribed with title within the margin lower left P. 12.5cm x 18cm Unframed Arthur James Turrell (d. 1871) 'The Mangia Tower' Etching Signed in pencil within the margin lower right P. 36.5cm x 21.5cm Unframed and two other etchings, both unframed Henry Percy Huggill 'Newark Castle' 'Market Place, Nottingham' 'Nottingham Castle' 'Trent Bridge, Nottingham' Each etching Each signed in pencil within the margin lower right Each stamped 'artist's proof' within the margin lower left Each p. 20cm x 25cm
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 7 Vols, facsimiles printed by Charles Whittingham in red and black on hand-made paper, bound in vellum tooled in gilt: 1... Printed by Whitchurch, March 1549, Commonly called The First Book of Edward VI, rebacked in vellum. 2... Printed by Whitchurch 1552, Commonly called The Second Book of Edward VI, spine missing. 3. ...Commonly called The First Book of Queen Elizabeth, Printed by Grafton 1559, spine missing. 4.... King James Anno 1604, Commonly called The Hampton Court Book, part of spine missing. 5. ...As Printed at Edinburgh 1637, Commonly called Archbishop Lauds, much of spine missing 6. ...as Revised and Settled at the Savoy Conference, Anno 1662...Reprinted from the Sealed book in the Tower of London, rebacked in vellum. 7. ...According to the Use of the Church of England, rebacked orig. spine laid down. There is soiling to the vellum, all hinges have been reinforced, some endpapers are foxed, all contained presentation bookplates to Wellington College, folio, William Pickering, 1844 LOCATION C
Hammered Silver Coins, (3), Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Sixpence, 1590,Fifth issue, mint mark hand (S.2578A); James I (1603-1625), Shilling, First Coinage, mintmark thistle (1603-4), value behind head (S.2646);Charles I (1625-1649), Halfcrown, Tower Mint, type 2c. mintmark harp, 1632-33 (S.2769). All fine. (3)
James (P.D.). The Black Tower, 1975; Original Sin, 1994; A Taste for Death, 1986; Devices and Desires, 1989, all 1st eds., all in orig. cloth/boards with d.j.s, d.j. to 'The Black Tower' a little rubbed and chipped at edges, and with sl. damp staining to rear panel and flap, offset to small area of rear board and endpapers, 8vo, together with a second impression of 'A Certain Justice'. (5)
A large collection of books, journals and museum guides relating to the study of arms and armour comprising AROLDI (ALDO MARIO): Armi e Armature Italiane fino all XVIII secolo, Milan 1961, with its original slip-case; DUFTY (ARTHUR RICHARD): European Armour in the Tower of London, 1968; BLAIR (CLAUDE): Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork in the James A.de Rothchild collection at Waddesdon Manor; European and American Arms, by the same; PETERSON (HAROLD L) Arms and Armor in Colonial America 1526-1783; MANN (SIR JAMES): Wallace Collection catalogues; European Arms and Armour, 1962, two vols; STONE (GEORGE CAMERON): A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor (spine detached); FFOULKS (CHARLES): The Armourer and his Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century; PAYNE-GALLWEY (SIR RALPH): The Crossbow, its Construction, History and Management; HELD (ROBERT) (Ed.): Art, Arms and Armour: an International Anthology; Livrust Kammaren BandI-IV; the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, vol. I; VI-XI (incomplete); various exhibition and museum guides including the John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York 1984.
After W Pickett - Set of four coloured engravings 'Views of Bury St Edmunds' to include: East View of Bury St Edmunds; View of Angel Hill, Bury; St James' Tower, Bury; and Abbeygate, Bury each published by Rackham, 1806 and housed in Hogarth frames, two measuring 32cm x 40cm and two measuring 40cm x 32cm
London. 'The Prospect of White - hall from the Park of St. James', together with 'The Custom House', c.1750s, two hand coloured engraved views from Stow's Survey, each approx. 215 x 330 mm, plus Buck (Samuel & Nathaniel), The South View of the Tower of London, 1737, hand coloured engraved view, approx. 200 x 365 mm, all framed and glazed (3)
Pyne (James Baker, 1800-70). View of Lake Como, Italy, pencil sketch, title to verso, approx. 27.5 x 49cms, together with "Presso di Subiaco", pencil study of an old stone wayside shrine, approx. 35 x 37cms, plus "Lariccia", pencil sketch of trees and buildings, approx. 37 x 53cms, and three other pencil sketches, incl. a view across Florence, a study of the Clock Tower, Venice, and a sketch of the Church of the Falute and the Dogana, Venice, each approx. 35 x 50cms or similar (6).
Lewis (Wyndham) Rotting Hill, original cloth, slightly spotted, spine faded, dust-jacket, rubbed, faded at spine, extremities worn, 1951 ~ Spender (Stephen) The Still Centre, original cloth, tanned dust-jacket, worn at extremities, 1939 ~ Burroughs (William) Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts, original boards, dust-jacket, 1979 ~ Hemingway (Ernest) The Old Man and the Sea, original cloth, unevenly faded, 1952 ~ James (Henry) The Ivory Tower, portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription on front endpaper, original cloth, spine faded, head of spine frayed, corners bruised, 1917, FIRST EDITIONS; and 4 others, first editions, 8vo (9).
Mountaineering & Polar Exploration.- Album of ephemera relating to various Everest expeditions and the expeditions of Scott & Shackleton, A.Ls.s., signatures, First Day covers signed, stamps, photographs, newspaper cuttings etc. including: George Sansom (b. 1888); Captain John Noel; John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910-98); Sir Edmund Hillary (b. 1919); Tenzing Norgay (1914-86); Peter Boardman; Doug Scott; Eric Shipton (1907-77); Noel Odell; Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974); Wilfred Noyce (1917-62); Charles Evans; Chris Bonington; Don Whillans; Martin Boysen; Paul Braithwaite; Sir Crispin Agnew; Jim Gavin; Anthony Rawlinson; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); Sir John Ross (1777-1856); Sir Vivian Fuchs; Lancelot Fleming; Major-General Robin Smart; Sir John Mills; David James; Rev. L. Fleming, ephemera, most mounted, bookplate Harold Ogden on front pastedown, photograph album, original rexine, 4to. *** The expeditions and meetings include: British Mount Everest Expedition, 1953; Annapurna South Face Expedition, 1970; Army Mountaineering Association Nuptse Expedition, 1975; The 1976 Trango Tower Expedition; Army Mountaineering Association. Everest '76; Joint British and Royal Nepalese Army Expedition to Mount Everest, 1976; Kishtwar 77, Carlisle Mountaineering Club Himalayan Expedition; Mount Everest 25th Anniversary.
Henry VIII (1509-47), Second Coinage (1526-44), London groat, m.m. rose (S. 2337A); Elizabeth (1558-1603), sixpence, 156[?], m.m. coronet; James I (1603-25), shilling, m.m. escallop; half-groat, m.m. lis; Charles I (1625-49), late Tower shilling, m.m. obscured; other minor hammered (7), including various pence, the James I half-groat very fine, otherwise fair or fine -12
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