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Click here to subscribeMary, Groat, mm. pomegranate, 1.69g/3h (S 2492); James I, Second coinage, Sixpence, 1605, third bust, mm. obscured, 2.71g/9h (S 2657); Charles I, Tower mint, Halfgroat, Gp D, mm. star, inner circle both sides, 1.10g/1h, Pennies (3), Gp A (2), both type 1a, mm. pellet, 0.49g/12h, 0.42g/12h, Gp D, mm. pellet (two on rev.), 0.48g/10h (S 2832, 2838, 2845); together with other hammered silver coins (7) [13]. Fair to very fine £120-£150
ALIENS (1986) - Uplink Tower Model MiniatureAn uplink tower model miniature from James Cameron's sci-fi action sequel Aliens. The colony of Hadley's Hope was created in model miniature form, and included an uplink tower. Different scales of Hadley's Hope were produced and this was made for the distance shots as the Marines approached the planet.The miniature is made primarily of resin and plastic, with biscuit foam pieces around the base of the legs. It is hand-painted and intentionally distressed to appear weather-beaten and rusted. The model has some wear from production use and age, most notably paint wear which reveals the resin underneath. Some smaller sections have come away, and others have been fixed since production. Dimensions: 35 cm x 37 cm x 42 cm (13 3/4" x 14 1/2" x 16 1/2")Estimate: £5,000 - 10,000 M View all lots from ALIENS (1986)View all lots from ALIEN - ALL ITEMSBidding for this lot will end on Thursday, November 9th. The auction will begin at 3:00PM BST and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Friday, November 10th, Saturday, November 11th or Sunday, November 12th.
A post-War ‘Royal Yacht’ C.V.O., C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Captain J. S. ‘Fish’ Dalglish, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M.S. London during the Yangtze incident and was the first Commanding Officer of Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘C553’, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (Cdr. J. S. Dalglish. R.N.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; together with the related miniature dress medals, both sets mounted for display, good very fine (9) £2,800-£3,400 --- C.V.O. London Gazette 1 January 1955: ‘For services in H.M. Yacht Britannia.’ C.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1963. M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1946: ‘For winding-up operations in the Far East.’ James Stephen Dalglish, widely known as ‘Fish’, was born in Kensington, London, on 1 October 1913, eldest son of Robin Campsie Dalglish, later Rear-Admiral. He was educated at Ampleforth and Dartmouth, and in January 1931 joined the battleship Rodney as a Naval Cadet. He was promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 1 January 1934; Sub-Lieutenant, 1 May 1934; Lieutenant, 1 June 1935; Lieutenant-Commander, 1 June 1943; Commander, 30 June 1948; Captain, 30 June 1954; retired, 31 August 1963. In August 1939 Dalglish was appointed to Kempenfelt as Gunnery Officer of the 18th Destroyer Flotilla, but after less than a month he was posted back to Excellent, where his duties included gunnery training of the armed merchant cruisers. In February 1940 he began a two-year posting in Faulknor, leader of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, engaged on patrols in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway, and then to Gibraltar as part of Force H, escorting warships and convoys to Malta. In February 1942, following a refit at Southampton, Faulknor escorted convoy PQ9 to Murmansk. In April 1942, Dalglish commenced an 18-month appointment on the staff of the gunnery school at Chatham. Having been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander, Dalglish was appointed to the cruiser Swiftsure in September 1943. He served in this ship for the rest of the war, at home and in the Mediterranean, before sailing for the Far East in October 1944, where Swiftsure took part in Operation Iceberg which lasted until the end of May 1945, when the last Japanese resistance on Okinawa was crushed. Following an appointment in April 1947 as Staff Officer Force T, the naval component of the British occupation force in Japan, Dalglish was appointed Staff Gunnery Officer of the 5th Cruiser Squadron at Hong Kong and serving in Sussex. After his promotion to Commander in June 1948, he successfully applied to remain in Hong Kong as Fleet Gunnery Officer on the staff of Admiral Alec Madden. In April 1949, Admiral Madden decided to visit Shanghai for St George’s Day, and he and his staff embarked in the cruiser London. At this time civil war was raging between the Communists and the Nationalists. The capital of Nationalist China was Chungking, which lay on the upper Yangtze. On 20 April the frigate Amethyst was proceeding upstream to relieve another ship as guard-ship there. As she approached Chungking, about 140 miles upstream from Shanghai, she suddenly came under heavy fire from communist batteries on the north bank. One of the first shots struck the bridge, badly injuring the captain and helmsman. Amethyst then went aground and while thus immobilised was hit several more times, suffering 17 killed and 10 wounded. Some of the ship’s company, including the wounded, were evacuated to the south and an uneasy truce developed. Admiral Madden decided that London should go to the assistance of Amethyst and, on the 21st, advanced upstream with her battle ensigns flying. As a staff officer, Dalglish had no particular duties but was assigned to “A” turret where, in his own words, ‘I had precisely nothing to do but to sit at the back of the gunhouse talking with the Ordnance Artificer’. Long before reaching Amethyst, London came under heavy fire, ‘the Communists opened fire at a range of less than a mile with solid armour-piercing (anti-tank) bullets and larger high explosive shells from field guns. London was a very big ship and difficult to miss at that close range, the former penetrated the ship like butter and the latter wreaked terrible damage... London opened fire with everything and I have little doubt that our 8-inch, 4-inch and pom-pom gunfire caused havoc ashore... Poor London was hit over 250 times! The turret I was in was put out of action by armour-piercing bullets severing the electric cables and then an H.E. hit on the turret roof flipped off one of the three armour plates and we were open to the sky! We were achieving nothing for Amethyst so we eventually turned in the river and retreated, with nineteen dead and many more wounded.’ London returned to the U.K. and was eventually scrapped. Admiral Madden and his staff, meanwhile, transferred to the cruiser Belfast, and returned to Hong Kong. Soon after, Dalglish returned to the U.K. and was cheered to receive news during the voyage of Amethyst’s successful escape from the Yangtze. On his return from the Far East Dalglish had a period ashore, first attending the Joint Services Staff Course, then instructing the Sub-Lieutenant courses at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Towards the end of 1952, he was selected to be Executive Officer of the Royal Yacht which was still under construction on the Clyde. First, however, he had to have experience in command and, for the first three months of 1953, he commanded the destroyer Aisne. He took up his appointment to the Royal Yacht (subsequently named Britannia) on 8 April 1953. He and the other officers supervised the final stages of construction, fitting out and selection of the ratings - it was a sought after posting, with over 1,000 applicants for just 200 vacancies. The new company then had to be trained in the peculiarities of service in a Royal Yacht - for example, orders had to be given and executed silently. Dalglish was gratified to learn that the Queen would tour the Commonwealth in early 1954 in the liner Gothic and that the Flag Officer Royal Yachts would accompany her which meant that Dalglish would be the first (acting) Captain of the Britannia. On 14 April 1954, Prince Charles and Princess Anne embarked, escorted by various members of the royal household, and Britannia sailed for Malta, where she arrived on 22 April. The Flag Officer and other officers from Gothic took up their appointments, and Dalglish reverted to his role as Executive Officer. Britannia then sailed for Tobruk where, on 1 May, the Queen and Prince Philip embarked for the final stage of their journey. The following day, the Mediterranean Fleet, commanded by Lord Mountbatten, executed an impressive manoeuvre, steaming past Britannia at 25 knots at a distance of only 300 to 400 yards. On 15 May Britannia conveyed the Queen up the Thames to the Pool of London, right by the Tower. It was a grand occasion, with hundreds of thousands of spectators, hundreds of boats crammed with people, everyone cheering and waving and sirens hooting. Dalglish was still aboard Britannia for the July/August trip to Canada but, having been promoted to Captain in June 1954, left the Yacht in October. He received further recognition for his services to the roy...
A Great War ‘destroyer operations’ D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Rear-Admiral J. V. Creagh, Royal Navy, who, whilst in command of the destroyer Ariel, rammed and sank the U-12 on 10 March 1915 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, frosted silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Cr. J. V. Greagh, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Commr. J. V. Creagh. R.N.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze Palme on riband, mounted court style as worn, minor chipping to wreaths of the first, otherwise good very fine (8) £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006. D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1918: ‘For services in destroyer and torpedo boat flotillas during the period ending 31 December 1917.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1917. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 17 May 1917. James Vandaleur Creagh was born at Taiping, Perak, Malaysia, on 30 August 1883. He passed out of H.M.S. Britannia as a Midshipman on 30 June 1900, and was promoted Sub-Lieutenant on 30 August 1903; Lieutenant on 1 April 1906; Lieutenant-Commander on 1 April 1914; and Commander on 30 June 1916. Creagh was in command of the destroyer Ariel from 9 October 1914 to 29 November 1915, and fought in her at the battle of Dogger Bank. On 10 March 1915, U-12 was sighted on the surface of Fifeness by three Rosyth destroyers of the 1st Flotilla, Acheron, Attack and Ariel. Approaching at high speed the destroyers opened fire and hit the submarine in the conning tower; nevertheless, she dived as Attack passed over her. Within a short time Ariel spotted her periscope 200 yards to starboard and turned to ram. She struck the U-Boat just as it was in the process of surfacing, the earlier damage needing attention. Ariel was considerably damaged from the attack, the whole of her bottom plating was ripped open almost to amidships. The U-Boat sank right away and 10 survivors were subsequently picked up. Creagh received a Letter on Vellum expressing the approbation of the Admiralty. In November 1915 Creagh took command of the destroyer Linnet, and received Their Lordships’ expression of appreciation for his conduct at the time of the mining and sinking of H.M.S. Arethusa, Admiral Tyrwhitt’s flagship, on 11 February 1916. In the destroyer action of 20 March 1916, he fought his ship (Linnet) in a most able manner under fire. Their Lordships expressed appreciation for his conduct in going to the assistance of the S.S. Siberia on 20 November 1916. He was in command of H.M.S. Sylph from 11 January 1917 to 12 August 1919. Commodore Tyrwhitt noted that Creagh served continuously throughout the war and distinguished himself on many occasions with the Harwich Force. Their Lordships expressed appreciation for his services on the capture of German Merchant vessels by the Harwich Force on 16 July 1917, when ‘he showed extraordinary tenacity and ability in bringing his prize safely to Harwich’. Their Lordships expressed appreciation for good services on the occasion of the loss of Surprise, Tornado and Torrent, and for the successful way Valkyrie was towed to base. Their Lordships appreciated the creditable manner in which services were rendered to the S.S. Alfraid in 1919. Vice-Admiral Keyes (DCNS) expressed his appreciation for Creagh’s duties temporarily in charge of Plans Division, 1923. Creagh was invested with his D.S.O. by H.M. the King at Harwich on 26 February 1918. He was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1923, and commanded H.M.S. Shakespeare and the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from 1925 to 1927. He subsequently served on the staff at the Royal Navy War College 1928-30; was Flag Captain H.M.S. Egmont 1931-33; and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King 1935. He was promoted Rear-Admiral on the Retired List in 1935, and died on 14 January 1956. Sold with copied record of service.
Vinyl - Punk / Hardcore Punk, 12 albums to include: Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (UK 1984 double album, SST Records, SST 027) VG+ / EX, Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Blank Generation (US 2005, Sire Records SR 6037) EX / EX, Patti Smith – Horses (Simple Vinyl / Arista SVLP 372) EX / EX, Bad Brains – Bad Brains (US Roir Records RUSLP 8223) EX / EX. The Cramps – Look Mom No Head! (green vinyl, Vengeance Records 673) EX / EX, The Cramps – Smell Of Female (yellow vinyl, Vengeance Records 670) EX / EX, A Date With Elvis (purple vinyl, Vengeance Records, 671), EX / EX, Pagans – Shit Street (US Crypt Records CR 090) EX / EX, The Gun Club – Fire Of Love (Munster Records MR 256) EX / EX, James White & The Blacks – Off White (UK 1979, Ze Records ILPS 7008) VG+ / EX-, R. Stevie Moore – Phonography (Sundazed records LP 5333) EX / EX, Pere Ubu – Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection, Nonlp Singles & B Sides 1975-1980 (Get Back Records, GET 73) EX / EX
Terry Pratchett Discworld "Unseen University" by Bernard Pearson, Limited Edition Number 11 of 250 released worldwide, taken from Bernard Pearsons' original mould by Vincent Cowdrey, Cast by James Cy and hand painted by Karen King, this set is complete with all parts numbered 11 to the underside, with original certificate of authenticity signed by Bernard Pearson dated September 1998, with original Ye Mappe or Cunning Plan Map detailing parts, together with an A4 page detailing the parts in more depth, the height of Tower of Art 53cm
Two George III silver entrée dishes and covers on Old Sheffield plate warming basesPaul Storr, entrée dishes, the bases London 1810, the covers London 1813, both covers stamped 1 and 3, also stamped with number 1110 and scratch number 5681, bases numbered 1 and 4 and both stamped 470S, handle and calyx on one both stamped 1, the handle and calyx on the other stamped 2 and 4Circular form, with a cast frieze of alternating shells and anthemions in relief, the shaped dome cover with a broad band of quilting, removable acanthus leaf and reed handles with two lion head junctions on a leafy roundel / calyx, the entrée dish bases, with gadroon rims embellished with shell and leaf and anthemion motifs, on Old Sheffield plate two-handled warming bases with removable dish, the part fluted sides with four stiff leaf applications above each of the four ornate bracket supports with paw feet.Each of the covers with engraved armorial and the bases with engraved crests for Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry COLE (1772-1842) GCB, height 23cm, length handle to handle 32cm, diameter of entrée dish bases 28cm, weight of silver 128oz. (2)Footnotes:This lot comes with copies of two card indexes, these are headed 'Christies 29th November 1972' 'The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers.' and describe three entrée dishes and covers on plated bases similar to those on offer here.Property of a ladyThe combined engraving represents the complete armorial for Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry COLE, GCB (1 May 1772 – 4 October 1842) who was an Anglo-Irish British Army general and politician.Born Dublin on 1 May 1772, the second son of the Irish peer, William Willoughby COLE (1736-1803), who in 1789 was created first Earl of Enniskillen, by his wife, Anne LOWRY-CORRY (1742-1802) of Tyrone. On 15 June 1815 he married Lady Frances HARRIS (1784-1847) daughter of James Harris (1746-1820), 1st Earl of Malmesbury by Maria AMYAND (1761-1830). They had issue seven children.Cole was a professional soldier with an impressive military career, being first commissioned a cornet in the 12th Dragoon Guards on 31 March 1787. A lieutenancy in the 5th Dragoon Guards was purchased for him in 1791. He then succeeded to the 70th Foot as a captain in 1792 and a major 1793. He was appointed lieutenant colonel in Ward's late regiment of foot in 1794 and lieutenant colonel in the late General Villette's corps in 1799.On 1 January 1801, the day on which the British-Irish Act of Union came into operation, Cole was promoted colonel in the Army and appointed to command the regiment with which his family was associated, the 27th Inniskillings. He assumed the command at Malta in 1805, and from Malta he proceeded to Sicily and commanded his own regiment and a battalion of grenadiers as brigadier-general. As second in command, he commanded the 1st Brigade at the battle of Maida on 4 July 1806. In 1808 he was promoted to major-general and left Sicily in 1809.During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period Cole had served in Ireland, the West Indies, Egypt, Malta, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula. In 1809 Cole asked to be transferred to the Peninsula where he was to gain further distinction when he was given command of the 4th division under Wellington. The 4th division showed its strength at Albuhera where Cole was wounded in May 1811.Cole then left the division and took his seat in the House of Commons, to which he had been elected in 1803 as MP for County Fermanagh. Cole re-joined the Army and command of the 4th division in June 1812, to be present at the great battle of Salamanca in July 1812 when in the attack Cole was shot though the body.On 5 March 1813 Wellington invested Cole with the Order of the Bath (KCB) and promoted to lieutenant general on 4th June 1813.For having served with distinction in the battles of Maida, Albuhera, Salamanca, further successes at Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthez and Toulouse, he received the Army Gold Cross with four clasps, along with the order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal. Cole was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (GCB) on 2 January 1815. Cole missed the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, much to Wellington's chagrin, because he was on his honeymoon, having married three days earlier Lady Frances Harris. On 15 August, however, Cole joined the army of occupation in France, and commanded the division until the final evacuation of France in November 1818.As well as representing Enniskillen and Fermanagh in Parliament Cole retired this position and went on to also serve terms as 2nd Governor of Mauritius (1823-1828) and Governor of Cape of Good Hope (1828-1833). Cole was one of the few successful Cape governors. Ably supported by Lady Cole, he played a prominent part in social philanthropy in the Cape. Colesberg, a town in the Cape, is named after him, as is Sir Lowry's Pass near Cape Town. Cole was also governor of Gravesend and Tilbury from 1818 until his death.Cole was promoted a full general in 1830. In 1833 he returned home with his family. He settled at Highfield Park, Hampshire where he died in 1842. He was buried in his family's vault at St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen and is commemorated in Enniskillen by a statue surmounting a 30-metre (98 ft) column in Fort Hill Park, carried out by the Irish sculptor, Terence Farrell. Erected between 1845 and 1857, The Cole Memorial Column is a prominent feature of the Enniskillen skyline.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
* Wyndham (Charles, 1796-1866, of Petworth, Sussex). Scrap album compiled by Charles Wyndham (5th child and 3rd son of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont and Elizabeth Ilive), of manuscript verse, letters, wash drawings and pencil sketches, including landscapes at Petworth, printed views and illustrations, circa 1800-1840, containing various manuscript verse and letters, including an envelope hand-addressed by Queen Charlotte to the Countess of Egremont, High Clear, Hants, with red seal, a detailed list of the 'Dinner given for 5500 men in the Park at the Mote, 1st August 1799', a verse epitaph on the death of the Rt. Honble George Greville, another on the Duc de Bordeaux, dated Edinburgh 31 December 1831, a handwriiten Total of Expenses for Wyndham's voyage from London to Bombay, dated Solapore, November 1822, a letter of commission from the War Office, dated 27 March 1822, informing Captain Wyndham, of the Second Regiment of Life Guards of his forthcoming promotion to Major in the Sixty Seventh (or the Tenth Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, signed by Palmerston with red seal, a manuscript letter from the Attorney General to Miss Elizabeth Scott, dated Pegwell 5 January 1805, and another letter to Elizabeth Scott of Merton House from Francis James Scott, dated Harrogate November 15 1813, about his tour of Russia, etc., 18 mostly pencil views (but including watercolour and wash landscape studies), including several of Petworth in Sussex, 'Petworth 1837', 'The Tower of Naussan from the Bank behind Ems', 'Petworth Children's Feast', one of Nice, one of Sorrento (?), a pen, ink and brown and grey wash view of 'Part of Goldilands' on whatman paper watermarked J Whatman 1820, etc., lithograph and engraved views of Tunbridge Wells, Mr. Cocking and his balloon and parachute, 1837, various pasted newscuttings and wood engraved illustrations, all mounted (a few loose) onto album leaves, the first page inscribed in red ink 'Album, C Wyndham, commenced 28 July 1837', original dark brown half calf over marbled boards, similarly labelled in red ink to upper cover, rubbed, folio (36 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Purchased by the current owner in the late 1960's from Streeter & Daughter, an antique shop opposite Petworth Church, Sussex (note inserted at front).Charles Wyndham (1796-1866) of Petworth, Sussex was born in 1796, the 5th child and 3rd son of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont and Elizabeth Ilive. The first four children were born illegitimately, before the Earl married Miss Ilive in 1801, so Charles (and his brothers Henry and George) were illegitimate. He married Elizabeth Anne Hepburne-Scott, daughter of Hugh Hepburne-Scott, 6th Lord Polwarth and Harriet Brühl, on 3 October 1835. Wyndham joined the Army by purchasing his commission in the 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) on the 13th May 1813. The 10th Hussars were despatched to Spain and fought at the Battle of Morales in June 1813, taking around 260 prisoners. Later in the month, the regiment also fought at the Battle of Vitoria and then, having advanced into France, fought at the Battle of Orthez in February 1814 and the Battle of Toulouse in April 1814. Following his service in the Peninsular War he was promoted to Lieutenant on the 4th May 1815 and served in the Battle of Waterloo as part of the 2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons (Scots Greys) No 2 Troop, commanded by Captain Edward Payne. During this conflict he was injured, being shot twice, once in the foot, but refused to be returned on the list of wounded.Apparently nicknamed “the handsomest man in the Army” by King George IV, Wyndham was awarded the Army Gold Medal/Military General Service Medal, 1793-1814 with three clasps for Vittoria, Orthez, and Toulouse and the Waterloo Medal 1815.
LONDON PLANS: Nine LONDON Wards- Plans: Baynard Castle; Langbourn; Candlewick x2 (49 x 38 cm); Portsoken & Tower St. (38 x 24 cm); Survey of Parishes St. Andrews Holborn (3); & London Restored after the 1666 fire; Parish of St. Giles (36 x 29.5 cm); St. James Clerkenwell (45 x 42 cm); St. Martin in the Fields (45 x 42 cm); & St. Ann’s (31 x 18 cm); A Plan of London & its environs from Lewis's "Topographical Dictionary". (14)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.
A Douglas Hayward double-breasted mohair dinner suit made for Sir Roger Moore in A View To A Kill1985Comprising a dinner jacket with black satin peak lapels each with a buttonhole, flared double vents, straight jetted pockets and four-button cuffs and one pair of trousers both in midnight blue, the jacket and trousers each labelled 'Hayward - 95 Mount Street, London W1Y 5HG', and typed 'Mr. R. Moore', dated '6.6.84' and numbered '17394'; identical to the suit worn by James Bond in the Eon Production A View to a Kill, for the pre-title sequence including the dinner scene, the fight in the Eiffel Tower and the subsequent car chase through the streets of Paris,Footnotes:'Taxi! Follow that parachute!'James Bond [Sir Roger Moore] in A View To A Kill (1985)The infamous Eiffel Tower chase seen is one of the most dramatic to feature in Sir Roger Moore's reign as James Bond. An identical suit to the present lot is first seen when Bond meets a French private detective named Achille Aubergine (Jean Rougerie), at the fine dining restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. Aubergine discusses with Bond Zorin's horses and discloses that he is holding a horse sale later in the month. Moments later, Aubergine is assassinated at the table by May Day, played by Grace Jones.After the initial shock Bond immediately chases May Day as she races up the tower but is not quick enough to intercept her and she parachutes off in front of him. Bond continues his pursuit and descends the tower in the lift, before stealing a Renault taxi and giving chase through the streets of Paris. During this, the car is split in two and Bond is arrested by French Gendarmerie. May Day later lands on a boat travelling along the river Seine helmed by Zorin, and is able to escape.According to the family all the suits worn by Sir Roger Moore to the films' premieres were production made and from the set, with more than one of each being made for the productions. Sir Roger Moore is seen wearing this suit to the Royal Premiere for A View To A Kill on the 12th June at the Odeon Leicester Square, London. The premiere was attended by Princess Diana and other stars including Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, Cubby Broccoli, Duran Duran, Bob Geldof and Patrick Macnee.Please note that the shirt and bow tie are for illustrative purposes only and are not included in the lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
James Lawrence Isherwood F.R.S.A., F.I.A.L. (British 1917-1989) "Tower Bridge Nocturne" Signed, titled and dated '70 on verso, oil on board.24.5 x 34.5cm (framed 31.5 x 41.5cm)Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.The painting is in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The painting is reframed but not glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.
[Devereux, Robert, second Earl of Essex, 1566-1601]. Manuscript volume containing a variety of copies of earlier documents by and about the Earl of Essex, circa 1620-30, including contemporary reports of parliamentary affairs, 'The Earle of Essex, his appearance… at the Lord Keepers House, 1600 (16pp.), 'The Arraignments of ye Earle of Essex and Southampton in Westminster Hall ye 19th day of February 1600' (22pp.), Advise to his Sonne' (17 pp.), ‘A description of the arraignment of the Duke of Norff.’ (10pp.), a poem beginning 'All that have eyes now wake and weepe’, copies of personal letters from Sir Charles Cornwallis, etc., a total of 139 pages written in more than one neat hand, the pieces with varying numbers of blanks between pieces and sections, a total of 225 blank pages, the hands all legible except 15 pages in thicker ink with loss of legibility due to bleeding and smudging, armorial bookplate of the Wodehouse family (‘frappe forte’) to front pastedown with old ink inscription ‘Wodehouse, Kimberley, 1838’ written on the bookplate, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front flyleaf recto and two quotations from the cleric Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) to verso in an 18th-century hand, 19th-century calf with gilt-titled spine, original calf covers relaid with gilt-tooled lozenge design to centre of both covers, rubbed, small 4to (195 x 137 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Wodehouse family, earls of Kimberley (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).A very rare collection of pieces, in particular a highly important series of documents recording the offences of Essex which led to his arraignment and the culmination of his close relationship with the queen culminating in her signing his death warrant. After his return from Ireland in 1599 Essex was brought before a specially constituted court which preferred three specific charges against him. All material relating to his arrest and trial is of special interest on account of the paucity of the material available.‘No full report of these proceedings is extant. Bacon drew up an apparently complete account, but only a fragment dealing with the first charge (the journey into Munster) survives. The rest has to be gathered chiefly from Fynes Morison's ‘History of Ireland' and paroled accounts of Essex's Irish action published officially after his death. The gist of the accusations lay in the negotiations with Tyrone, and no authentic record of these is accessible’ (ODNB). The accounts as given in the present manuscript volume include speeches by Essex and by Bacon and references to Tyrone.Although most of the volume appears to have been written in the 1620s several of the pieces appear to be copies originally penned at an earlier date. Bacon, for instance, is never 'Lord Verulam’ but always 'Mr. Bacon’. Francis Bacon was created Baron Verulam of Verulam in 1618.Towards the end of the volume the collection includes several letters from the English courtier and diplomat Charles Cornwallis (died 1629) which are personal, one, presumably to his first wife, Elizabeth, ending ‘Faythfull and affectionate husbande’ (22 July 1614). This letter would have been written one month after he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Cornwallis had been suspected of fanning the parliamentary opposition to the king. John Hoskins, who had made himself conspicuous in the House of Commons of England by his denunciation of Scots and Scottish institutions, declared when arrested that he was Cornwallis's agent. Cornwallis disclaimed all knowledge of Hoskins, but admitted that he had procured the election of another member of parliament, and had supplied him with notes for a speech against recusants and Scotchmen. The privy council placed Cornwallis under arrest in June 1614, and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a year, with Hoskins and Leonel Sharp.The untitled poem is a known epitaph (or perhaps two) on King James, and so originally written after his death in 1625. The poem is now ascribed to George Morley (1598-1684): [An Epitaph upon King James], beginning ‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’, 22 lines; and another of 10 lines, running on with no separate heading, beginning ‘For two and twenty yeares, long care’. They were published consecutively as two separate pieces with minor text variations in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), pp. 398-99. The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 online refers to it as 22 lines and notes: ‘Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), … [but] The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley’. All 32 lines are published as one piece and attributed to Edward Fairfax in William Grainge, Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft… (Harrogate, 1882), pp. 18-19.
Sparke (Michael). The Narrative History of King James, for the first fourteen years. In four Parts. I. The State of England at His Majesties entrance, and relation it had to other parts: the lascivious courses at court; with the Lord of Northampton's coming to honour: the division betwixt the Hollander and English, betwixt the Scot and English, betwixt the English and Irish: also the rising of Somerset..., II. The Proceedings touching the divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex ... Also, the arraignment of Sir Jer. Elvis Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson Knight, Anne Turner, ... touching the murthering and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury..., III. A Declaration of His Majesties revenue with assignations and defalcations upon the same, and of all monies brought into His Majesties coffers from time to time..., IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the Burning of two Hereticks, both holding part of the same our Ranters do, being old heresies, newly revived..., 1st edition, London: Printed for Michael Sparke, 1651, additional engraved allegorical title with preceding letterpress explanatory leaf ('The Emblematical Title explained'), folding engraved portrait of Robert Earl of Somerset and Lady Frances Howard, engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 11 additional 17th-century portraits and a map of London, without blank V4 (as often), all edges gilt, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, and printed description of this copy from an auction or bookseller's catalogue tipped onto front endpaper (dated 28/3/44), attractive early 20th-century gilt-decorated red full morocco, minimal marks to extremities, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Wing S4818.Fine copy. The extra engraved illustrations are: portrait of King James by Vaughan, folding engraved map of Londinum by Johann Christopher Beer of 1690, based on the earlier map by Rutger Hermannides, published in Das Den-Geharnische Gross-Britannien in 1661 (Howgego, Printed Maps of London, 38), oval coat-of-arms of James I (in reverse), oval portrait of Prince Henry and his parents, oval portrait of Prince Henry on horseback, portrait of Sir William Wade, folding portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Simon Pass, portrait of Theodore Beza, portrait of Francis Bacon by Crispin de Pass, portrait of Jacobus VI, and double portrait of Frederick and Elizabeth of Bohemia.
More (Morus), Thomas: Utopia. London: Printed for Robert Chiswell 1684. 17,4 x 10,7 cm. 11 Bll., 206 SS. Blindgepr. Ldr. mit Rs. (Einband bestoßen, gedunkelt und berieben. Lederbezug des Vorderdeckels in den Ecken gelöst, mit kleinen Fehlstellen und Einrissen; Rücken ergänzt. Vorsätze leimschattig. Vorderes fliegendes Vorsatzblatt am unteren Bundsteg gelöst. Hinteres fliegendes Vorsatzblatt halb aus der Bindung gelöst. Titel mit hs. Besitzvermerk. Im Fußsteg leicht wasserrandig. Mit wenigen hs. Anstreichungen. Insgesamt gebräunt und vereinzelt alters- bzw. gebrauchsfleckig.) Erste Ausgabe dieser Übersetzung aus dem Lateinischen ins Englische von Gilbert Burnet, dem späteren Bischof von Salisbury. Mit Vorwort und dem Brief des Autors an Peter Giles. - Das von Thomas Morus (1478-1535) wohl in Anlehnung an Platons Timaios als philosophischer Dialog konzipierte Werk „Utopia“ erschien erstmals 1516 in Brabant unter dem Titel „Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia“. Morus, Lordkanzler von England und unter anderem Verfasser der „History of King Richard III.“, schuf mit „Utopia“ eine imaginäre Reise in ein Inselreich, in dem der Leser eine ideale Gesellschaft antrifft, die weder Privateigentum noch Überbevölkerung oder Verteilungsungerechtigkeiten kennt und aufgrund ihrer republikanischen Verfasstheit der Gefahr einer tyrannischen Herrschaft einzelner Personen oder Gruppen zu trotzen imstande ist - eine scharfe Satire nicht nur auf die politische Realität im Europa des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts, sondern zugleich auf den platonischen Gerechtigkeitsbegriff. Der Text begründete die literarische Gattung der Sozialutopie und war so prägend, dass bis heute Romane, in denen der Autor ein fiktives, positives Staatsmodell entwirft, als utopische Romane bezeichnet werden. Thomas Morus wurde nach der Ablehnung des Suprematsanspruchs Heinrichs VIII. 1534 im Tower of London eingekerkert und ein Jahr später wegen Hochverrats hingerichtet. - Mit den Exlibris von Sir James Mackintosh, Joseph Knight, Gilbert R. Redgrave.
Gunnery Specifications of Patents of Invention relating to Fire-Arms, Projectiles, etc. [volumes 1-4:] enrolled under the Act 21 James I. From 15th May 1718 to 10th September 1852 [volume 5:] filed under the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c.183. From 1st October 1852 to 31st December 1853. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1854. 5 volumes, folio (28.5 x 17.5cm), contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides, edges untrimmed, each volume containing approximately 80 patents, separately paginated, each with royal arms to head and publisher's imprint at end, profusely illustrated with lithographic plates (most of them folding), title-page to each volume (except volume 4), volumes 1 and 5 with index at front, bindings rubbed, blind stamps (American Institute Library) to title-pages and endpapers, a few closed handling tears to folding plates Note: Note: No other set traced in auction; the Royal Armouries appear to hold three sets (Leeds, Fort Nelson and the Tower of London), their records suggesting that a further two volumes were published.Provenance: Stephen V. Grancsay (1897-1980), curator of arms and armour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (bookplates); Henk Visser (1923-2006), Dutch resistance fighter, businessman and noted collector of arms and amour (bookplates).
James Ward RA (1769-1859) Village scene with figures outside cottages and a sow and her litter in the foreground Signed JWARD (in ligature, lower left) Oil on panel 75 x 113.5cm; 29½ x 44¾in Provenance: Provenance: Charles Mansel Lewis (1845-1931); And by family descent; Property from Stradey Castle, Wales Literature: C. Reginald Grundy, James Ward, R.A. His Life and Works (London, 1909), p.54, no. 858 Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1885, no.33 LOTS 238- 245 PROPERTY FROM STRADEY CASTLE, WALESThe large Neo-Tudor house at Stradey one mile north west of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire was built by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury from 1847 to 1855 for the solicitor David Lewis. His family had inherited the mineral rich estate which once included virtually all of the present day town of Llanelli from the Mansel family in 1808. His son Charles William Mansel Lewis (1845-1931), a distinguished amateur painter, aggrandized the interior and added a massive tower and link in the 1870s containing his studio.Charles William Mansel Lewis, a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy knew many British contemporary artists including Briton Riviere and Sir Edwin Landseer but was particularly friendly with Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) the society portraitist and social realist painter who painted his family and with whom he travelled on sketching tours in North Wales. Mansel Lewis was a promoter of art in Wales and the Welsh Eisteddfod for which he commissioned Herkomer to design some of the regalia. Mansel Lewis also was a great collector of pictures by contemporary and earlier artists and the lots in this sale were almost certainly purchased by him for his home Stradey Castle.
A white metal seal matrix, English, circa 1600, the oval matrix engraved with a coat of arms comprising shield below an Earl's coronet and with inscription "SIGILL LIBERTATIS BURIE", the matrix 21mm wide, 23.3mm high Note- "The matrix, which is circumscribed by a Latin motto, has quarterly arms beneath an Earl's coronet: HOWARD- (omitting the augmentation granted by Henry VIII to Thomas, Earl of Surrey, after his victory at Flodden in 1513 over James IV of Scotland). THOMAS OF BROTHERTON, Earl of Norfolk (royal arms with a label- son of Edward I). WARREN ARUNDEL (if gules a lion rampant or)- probably most likely here or Mowbray (if gules a lion rampant argent) or Segrave (if sable a lion rampant argent crowned or). At the death, by execution (when all his honours were forfeited), of the 4th Duke of Norfolk in 1572, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Philip, who inherited through his mother the Earldom of Arundel. He, too, was attained, dying a prisoner in the Tower in 1595 when he was succeeded by his only son, Thomas, Lord Maltravers. On the accession in 1603 of James I, Thomas was restored to his title of Earl of Arundel and to the baronies of his grandfather, being re-created also Earl of Surrey. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1611 and Earl of Norfolk in 1644 (the title of Duke of Norfolk being restored to his grandson in 1660, becoming 5th Duke). Despite the absence of the augmentation (which occurs also on contemporary engravings), this seal would appear to be for Thomas, Earl of Arundel, probably between 1603 and 1611. Although other Howard earldoms existed at this time which would have used these quarters (although with Mowbray or Segrave rather than Arundel as the 4th quarter), those arms should have been marked with a sign of cadency- with a crescent for the Earls of Northampton and of Suffolk, and with a mullet for the Earl of Nottingham. The inscription is not recorded, and may have special significance". HOWARD. The hundred of Bury formed part of the Arundel Rape in west Sussex. From the mid 13th Century the rape has consisted of five hundreds or half-hundreds including that of Bury. When Thomas, Earl of Arundel, was restored to his honours with the accession of James I, his land and estates were also returned to him. It is probable that the seal dates from that period.
Title: Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922): Evening on the dune, Mariakerke-aan-Zee, oil on canvas, ca. 1892Description:Work: 145,5 x 208,5 cm Frame: 152,5 x 217 cm Albert Baertsoen (1866-1922) and James Ensor (1860-1949) were close acquaintances. Baertsoen spent the summers in his spacious 'Villa des Hirondelles' on the seawall and he fully participated in society life in the seaside town. The personal contacts between Ensor and Baertsoen date from 1887 or perhaps earlier, because in 1887 Baertsoen was presented by Ensor with a copy of his etchings 'Le Christ apaisant la tempête' and 'Le verger', the latter with the dedication 'A mon ami Baertsoen, James Ensor 87', which suggests earlier contacts. Later Ensor also gave him a copy of 'Barques echouees'. Both artists were intensely involved with graphics at that time. The slightly older Ensor was probably a stimulating example for Baertsoen, and in any case a source of inspiration. Baertsoen's powerful and virtuoso painted seascapes from that period bear traces of Ensor's art, and he certainly also took a good look at his important etching 'Grande vue de Mariakerke' from 1887, the similarities with this canvas 'Avond op het duin' clearly indicate this. In 1889-1890 Baertsoen would make the church of Mariakerke twice the subject of an etching. One of them was published in 1890 under the title 'Village de Mariakerke' in the third album of the 'Societe des aquafortistes belges' (Brussels, 1890). In this 'Avond op het duin, Mariakerke-aan-Zee', drenched in soft light, Baertsoen shows the dune village at the moment when the evening sun illuminates the gables and the tower of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Duinenkerk and the dunes are covered by shadows. When around 1894 the entire site was threatened with demolition as a result of the expansion of Ostend, James Ensor and Albert Baertsoen successfully took on the defense of the dune church. It was restored and later protected as a monument. We would like to thank Prof. dr. Rene Vermeir for this description and additional information (link). Provenance: - Ex-collection Albert Ceuterick, Ghent. - Ex-collection Thermae Palace, Ostende. - Ex-collection De Pesseroey, Deurle. - Private collection, Belgium. Ref.: - The painting has been exhibited at various locations: The Hague (1892), Ghent (1892), Namur (1892), Berlin (1893), Paris (1894), Ghent (1925), Ghent (1972), Vinkem (1984), Hondschoote-Vinkem (2004) and Ghent (2022). - Rene Vermeir, Catalogue raisonne Albert Baertsoen, P.1892/11 (link).
John Wayne Crew Gifted Coffee Mug from Brannigan (United Artists 1975) photographs, and related Production Documents includes, a white ceramic coffee mug with gold-painted handle, image of Tower Bridge, London and Brannigan, London July 1974 in black text on the front, the back reads Dave from Duke, the manufacturers details on the bottom reads Ketchum Originals, 1105 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, Cal. 90813 , Height 3 ½ inches; a black and white photograph of John Wayne with three crew members from the Transport Department taken during the production's after picture party, left to right, Dave Goddard, Ken Tuohy, The Duke, and Don Archell, with actor, producer, and John Waynes eldest son, Michael Waynes business card beneath Signed on the verso by John Wayne Good Luck John Wayne, framed and glazed, 11 x 8 ¾ inches overall; a pair of Production Cast Lists, typescript on blue sheets, both titled with the early working title of the film, Joe Battle, the first, three pages dated 21.6.74, the second, two pages dated 31 July 1974; a Production Unit List, typescript on pink sheets, nine pages, dated 21.6.74, the Cast Lists and Unit List marked Wellborn Limited, 125 Mount Street, London W1 on first pages; a group of six stapled unit drivers Credit Dockets (Ambassador Radio Cars) dated 14.7.74-12.8.74, listing driving duties cast members John Stride, Judy Geeson, James Boot and others to various London locations, including St. Thomas Hospital, Beckton Gas Works, New Scotland Yard and Tower Bridge for rushes; together with three colour photographs of John Wayne with crew members, vs. the largest 4 x 6 inches. (13) From the 1950s, John Wayne began gifting custom-made coffee mugs to the cast and crew of his films and although the design differed with each film, they all had the signature gold handle.From the 1950s, John Wayne began gifting custom-made coffee mugs to the cast and crew of his films and although the design differed with each film, they all had the signature gold handle.Provenance: The vendor was a Unit driver on numerous films including Brannigan and was gifted this mug from 'Duke'. Throughout the productions the vendor would frequently drive and chaperone members of the lead cast and crew.Condition Report: overall good conditions.the Cast and Unit Lists - with signs of wear from use on the production.
A FINE EARLY 18TH CENTURY GILT TOOLED LEATHER AND SILVER MOUNTED POCKET BOOK RELATING TO SIMON FRASER, LORD LOVAT the gilt tooled leather with panels of intricate floral scrolls, tulips emanating from vases and flower head borders, the hinged cover secured by a two-piece engraved silver clasp with flower head and twin buds, the interior with vellum and paper pages, one titled page inscribed ‘Memd. 30th Novem: 1738, took the oaths of Allegiance & Adjuration at the Court House on Tower Hill’, with National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland label L.1955.39, together with various papers Provenance: Provenance:Property of a Gentleman – Previously from the collection of Sir Colin MacRae (1869-1952) of Feorlinn and Lady Margaret Crichton Stuart (1875-1964) Note: Note:The inscribed note within the pages of this pocketbook is intriguing and appears to show the varied allegiances Lovat was so famous for. The ‘Allegiance and Adjuration’ mentioned in 1738 is likely Lord Lovat confirming his undivided support for the newly born Prince George William Frederick, eldest son of Frederick Prince of Wales, who would later be crowned King George III in 1760 who was born in June of this year.Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1667/ 8 - 1747) came from a line of Jacobites which included his father, Thomas, who had played a powerful role in the Jacobite rising under John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, in 1689, for which he suffered imprisonment.Simon had a rather colourful and, in some cases, unseemly early life, trying to bribe family members to change inheritance and lands to his benefit. Trying to force his cousin to marry him when his bribery failed, however marrying her protector under duress in her stead, only to call the marriage a sham years later when its value was not apparent – having married two other women while not divorced from her.Trouble followed him most of his early life and it took a pardon from King William, only after he had been found guilty of High Treason. However, this plea to King William was for personal gain only and he was still harbouring his Jacobite feelings. Shortly after, he made two trips to the Jacobite Court in St Germaine. To further enhance his relationship in the Stuart court, and after King William’s death, he converted to Catholicism and met with Mary of Modena and the titular James VIII and III. He aligned himself with the Duke of Perth’s factions and was promoting an uprising from as early as 1703.By 1715 he had bought his pardon and returned to London. By this time, the Duke of Argyll had convinced him to support King George I. He headed north towards Inverness and took and held the city on behalf of King George. His fortunes now changing for the better, he appeared a Hanoverian. However, the disbandment of his forces and the city handed to others meant his income fell and his rise was short-lived. This likely helped push him away from the Hanoverians and before long back to the Jacobites.This change of allegiances was as blatant as it was regular, and it appears it was only his highly regarded charm that kept him out of trouble, balancing the possibilities of uprising and establishment. This renowned charm got him not only into, but more often out of, some rather tricky situations between King George and King James on both sides.By 1745 it was clear that his Whig allegiances had not given him the power, land, and full title he had expected, and this seems to have sent him back, for a final time, to the Stuart cause. As early as 1690 King James had promised him reward for his support as Lieutenant-General of the Highlands; furthermore, the Pretender might be willing to elevate him to a Dukedom. In 1739 Lovat was the first to join the association formed to invite the Pretender to land in Scotland; his allegiance was secured by the promise of a patent of a dukedom.Although a player from the outset in the return of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Lovat was not at Glenfinnan in August, in part, due to feigned sickness possibly in part as the promised patent of Dukedom had not reached him. This countered with the non-arrival of the French troops, part of the original party’s plans perhaps caused him some points of thought.Even throughout the campaigns, once he had pledged the Lovat Fraser’s and himself to the cause, he was keeping all avenues open and wrote regularly to the Whig hierarchy, still hoping that if they could not turn him, they could at least secure his neutrality.By 1746 Lovat was in his 80’s and hardly a player on the battlefield. This fell to his son and heir who was threatened by disinheritance not to take part. He indeed was captured and imprisoned in Inverness, only to escape with help from local friends.After the defeat of Culloden, Prince Charles fled and sought shelter from Lovat, who urged him on and promised men for another battle, presumably seeing his hopes, land, fortune, and life slipping from his grasp. Charles declined and left, Lovat fled his home too, and en route seeing his previous castles burned in retribution by William, Duke of Cumberland. In his escape, he is recorded as having a close shave with Hanoverian troops sailing up Loch Morar and he hid in a hollow tree to evade capture. However, the tree could not hide him, and he was spotted and taken prisoner to Fort William.Transported to London, he was interviewed and famously sketched by William Hogarth, whose engraving became in high demand. Lovat at this time was described by the Gentleman's Magazine thus: “Lord Lovat makes an odd figure, being generally more loaded with clothes, than a Dutchman with his ten pair of breeches; he is tall, walks very upright considering his great age, and is tolerably well shaped; he has a large mouth and a short nose, with eyes very much contracted and down-looking, a very small forehead, almost all covered with a large periwig; this gives him a grim aspect, but upon addressing anyone he puts on a smiling countenance”.He was tried for High Treason before the House of Lords and gave his own defence, much evidence was given and debated, was legally questionable. At the end of his case, in inimitable fashion and charm, he replied: “Nothing except to thank your lordship for your goodness to me. God bless you all, and I wish you an eternal farewell. We shall not meet again in the same place; I am sure of that”.While public executions always attracted crowds, that of Simon Lord Lovat attracted a huge crowd by any measure. Perhaps the larger-than-life character, his life story and advanced age convinced more to turn out for this. Due to this popularity, the crowds were huge and too much for the erected scaffolding platforms to hold, resulting in their destruction under the weight of the crowd, killing 20 spectators. True to his character, Lovat found this implausibly funny and was seen to laugh heartily and loud all the way to the executioner's block. It is reputed that this is the origin of the saying to ‘laugh your head off’ Lovat apparently laughing till his final moments. This seems a little extension of the truth as his final words are recorded, taken from Horace 'Dulce et decorum patria mori' Lovat was beheaded and latterly buried at Tower Hill on April 9th, 1747.
Rushworth (John, editor), The Trayl (sic) of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Upon an Impeachment of High Treason [...], first edition thus, London: Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and Ricahrd Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1680, portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White, black-ruled, dedication leaf with historiated initial, contemporary panelled calf, some scuffs and minor losses, rebacked preserving some of the original spine with its morocco labels for when bound as part of Rushworth's State Trials, folio (32.2 x 21.5cm), [Wing R2333] Provenance: 1) J: Trelawny, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. Loosening ffep with pencilled provenance attribution to The Reverend Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet (1650-1721), one of the Seven Bishops tried and imprisoned in the Tower of London by James II's orders. 2) Wm Heysham Esq:r/Greenwich in Kent, Jacobean armorial bookplate to pastedown incorporating a maritime anchor. Almost certainly the same William Heysham (1691-1727), MP for Lancaster (1716-1727), described by a Lancaster Quaker as ‘an indolent man and of no service’.
An Elizabeth II silver Tower of London plate commemorating Her Majesty's Tower of London 900th Anniversary 1078-1978, limited edition 137 of 900, London 1978 by St James House Company, weight 292g, diameter 20cm, boxed with certificate.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
ENGLAND. James I, 1603-25. Silver shilling, ND (1603-1604). Tower (London) mint. First coinage, mm: thistle. Obv: IACOBVS•D:G′.ANG′.SCO′.FRA′.ET•HIB′.REX•, crowned first bust right; mintmark above, XII (mark of value) to inner left. Rev: •EXVRGAT•DEVS•DISSIPENTVR•INIMICI•, coat-of-arms; mintmark above.Fine. Reference: S-2645; KM-13; North-2072.Die Axis: 4h.Diameter: 31 mm.Weight: 5.46 g.Composition: Silver.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. Additional 6% fee charged on the Saleroom. Delivery cost will be added to your order.
James Butler - MBE RA (1931-2022) - Large bronze of St Peter & St Paul cast for York Minster. St Peter holding keys in one hand and a Church in the other, and St Paul holding a sword and book. 56cms high.This sculpture was a limited edition and was cast for York Minster in 1988. Following the fire in 1984, this sculpture was designed as a roof boss for the lantern tower as part of the repairs.*Artist Resale Rights may apply to this lot.
*** Please note that the description of this lot has changed *** London.- Dredge (James) Thames Bridges, from the Tower to the Source, 77 plates, illustrations, pp.247-248 with marginal tear, short tear to final free endpaper, contemporary morocco, gilt, gilt dentelles, broken upper hinge, slight rubbing to edges and spine extremities, oblong 4to, [1897].
Family group: Four: Deck Hand F. J. Watson, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed when the dredger Mercurius hit a mine and sank, 28 June 1916 1914-15 Star (DA.5334, F. J. Watson, D.H., R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5334DA); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Frederick J. Watson); Victory Medal 1914-19 (5334D.A. F. J. Watson. D.H. R.N.R.) generally good very fine One: Private F. S. Watson, 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles British War Medal 1914-20 (7844 Pte. F. S. Watson. 7-C.M.R.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (7844 Pte. F. S. Watson) generally good very fine (6) £180-£220 --- Frederick James Watson was the husband of Caroline Elizabeth Watson, and resided with her at 21 Cathcart Street Lowestoft. Watson served during the Great War as a Deck Hand with the Royal Naval Reserve. He was killed when the dredger Mercurius (operating out of London) hit a mine and sank with the loss of six lives, 28 June 1916. Watson is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial. Frederick Samuel Watson was the son of the above, and was born in Lowestoft in August 1893. He served during the Great War with the 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles in the UK. Private Watson died of influenza, 27 November 1918, and is buried in the Lowestoft (Normanston Drive) Cemetery.
* Gillray (James). Overthrow of the Republican Babel..., H. Humphrey, May 1st 1809, etching with contemporary hand-colouring, some marginal toning, small margins, two horizontal folds, some adhesion scaring to the verso, 400 x 320 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM Satires 11327. A highly detailed and complex satire. A huge tower of documents topples over, led by the acquittal of the Duke of York and his Mistress, Mary Ann Clark on charges of corruption. Gillray implies that this is a mortal blow to the reform of a duplicitous and self-seeking establishment and that both sides of the political divide were mired in corruption.
Mauchline whitewood photograph album. Mauchline Ware photograph album, circa 1880, six thick card leaves bound concertina-style, containing a full complement of twelve albumen print topographical images (by James Valentine), including Kelso & Kelso Abbey, Floors Palace, Botanical Gardens at Floors Palace, Spitchel Linn, Kelso, Small Holm Tower, St. Catherine's Window, Dryburgh Abbey, Melrose Abbey from the S.W., Jedburgh Abbey from the River and Norham Castle, image size approx. 11 x 16 cm, original sycamore covers, the upper cover with large oval photographic view of Kelso Abbey, with printed vignette view to each corner, the rear cover with large oval photographic printed display of ferns and foliage, original red morocco spine (minor wear), brass clasp, 18 x 24 cm, together with: Tartanware binding. The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869, ten mounted photographs, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, some scattered spotting, all edges gilt, original papier maché Tartanware boards (Prince Charlie tartan), upper board with inlaid faux oil painting vignette of Melrose Abbey, original gilt decorated crimson morocco spine, 8vo (210 x 137 mm), with Tartanware binding. The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1892, all edges gilt, original papier maché Tartanware boards (Stuart tartan), upper board with oval photographic portrait of Burns, rear board with four abalone stud feet, original red morocco spine, lettered in gilt, a little rubbed and a few minor marks, 8vo (182 x 123 mm), with 7 other tartanware bindings, various sizes from 16mo to 8voQTY: (10)
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of Joyce in the hand of an administrative agent, four pages, 4to, Paris, 21st April 1939, in French. The official Reseau Telephonique de Paris (Paris Telephone Network) document is Joyce's contract to have a telephone line installed at 34 rue des Vignes in Paris for an annual fee of six hundred and sixty francs, the head of the first page stamped Transfert ('Transfer') and a further stamp with manuscript insertions to the third page confirming that the document replaces an earlier commitment to have a telephone line at 7 rue Edmond Valentin and that the minimum duration of the subscription is still in place. The foot of the third page is signed on behalf of Joyce with the observation 'Lu et accepté' (Translation: 'Read and accepted'). A moving document relating to Joyce's last private residence in Paris. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGJames Joyce first came to Paris in July 1920 and would reside in the French capital for almost two decades, although the writer never bought a home of his own. Joyce's health problems afflicted him throughout his Paris years and despite over a dozen eye operations his vision severely declined and by the 1930s he was practically blind, making the telephone an important method of communication and explaining why he was unable to sign the present document.Joyce lived in an elegant apartment at 7 rue Edmond Valentin, close to the River Seine and Eiffel Tower, for five years from February 1935 until April 1939 before moving into a smaller apartment (although blessed with a lot of natural light) at 34 rue des Vignes on 15th April 1939. Finnegans Wake was published whilst Joyce was living in the apartment, which he would leave after six months in mid-October 1939. Following the fall of France in 1940 Joyce and his family travelled to Zurich to flee the Nazi occupation. On 11th January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery and fell into a coma the next day, awaking briefly at 2 am on 13th January before dying fifteen minutes later.
Various Folio Society works, to include The Princes in the Tower, Roberts (Andrew) A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 19900, James (Omar) Ghost Stories, Nesbit (E) The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods and New Treasure Secrets, presentation three volume edition in outer slipcase, etc. (1 shelf)
A mid 19th century, portrait oil on board, with note indicating a portrait of Captain James Sothern, together with a list of No.4 Company Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery at Dover Castle 9th April 1859 and commanded by Captain Sothern, a photograph of his home 'Tower House' Salisbury and sale particulars of The Auction of the contents of his house and wine cellars after his death.
Original vintage travel poster by London Transport - The Tower is London's greatest (and grimmest) show-place. Since the Conquest it has been fortress, palace, mint, treasury, observatory and even royal menagerie. It has also provided rough hospitality for a host of reluctant guests, some long-term, others merely breaking the sad journey to the block and axe... Here are a mixed dozen. Historians and regular visitors to the National Portrait Gallery may like to try to identify them. The rest of us will have to read the small type. - the poster features a colourful stylised illustration of the Tower with the Union Jack flag flying above, a crow between the trees set over a pink and orange striped background, and images of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Archbishop Laud, James Scott Duke of Monmouth, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Earl of Strafford, Simon Fraser Lord Lovat, Judge Jeffreys, Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, Sir Thomas More. Very good condition, creasing. Country of issue: UK, designer: Hans Unger, size (cm): 102x64, year of printing: 1968.
This print is of the rendering of the architectural design of the Miami News Tower (Front Elevation) of The Miami Daily News building owned by newspaper publisher James M. Cox (American, 1870-1957). Designed by Leonard B. Schultze (American, 1877-1951) and S. Fullerton Weaver (American, 1880-1939) in 1925, This photograph is represented in the 1991 book, 70 Years of Miami Architecture, by Millas J. Aristides, published by the Bass Museum of Art. Issued: c. 1990Dimensions: 22.20"W x 30.80"HCountry of Origin: Miami, FloridaProvenance: The Bass Museum of Art Condition: Good condition.
CROMWELL (OLIVER) - GLOUCESTERSHIREExemplification under the Great Seal of the Lord Protector referring to the letters patent granted by Henry III to the Abbot and monks of the Abbey of Flaxley, in English and Latin, docketed 'An Exemplification at the Request/ of William Boeve[y] Esq from Oliver Cromwell/ Abbotts Woods...'; decorated initial letter 'O', surrounded by elaborate strapwork and foliate design with capital letters on the upper line; signed at foot as examined by William Glascock and Thomas Bulstrode as Masters of Chancery in Ordinary; with the Great Seal of the Protectorate in brown wax, held by red and white silk and string ties, obverse depicting the coat of arms flanked by the lion and unicorn, reverse depicting Oliver Cromwell on horseback, seal complete, images worn, on one skin of vellum, initial and first line slightly rubbed, light dust-staining particularly at folds, pin holes to vertical edges, 432 x 740mm., seal 145mm. diameter, Westminster, 22 June 1657Footnotes:Flaxley Abbey in the Forest of Dean is a former Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151 by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford, allegedly on the spot where his father was killed in a hunting accident. Henry II and Henry III used the abbey as a hunting lodge and, as this document shows, Henry III gave a grant to Flaxley Abbey of Abbot's Woods in 1227. After the Dissolution, the Abbey and lands were granted to Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, who oversaw the execution of Anne Boleyn. James Boevey (1622-1696), a London merchant, lawyer and philosopher, purchased the Abbey in 1648 with his half-brother William, the 'William Boeve' mentioned in our document.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
The unique and important 1936 ‘Palestine’ Military Division O.B.E., Second War R.R.C. and Second Award Bar group of ten awarded Chief Principal Matron W. M. Coulthurst, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge; Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, with Second Award Bar, reverse dated ‘1945’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Matron W. M. Coulthurst. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, mounted as originally worn by Spink & Son Ltd, St. James, generally good very fine (10) £3,000-£4,000 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 11 May 1937: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April - October 1936.’ R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1942. The original recommendation states: ‘Miss Coulthurst opened the R.A.F. Hospital, Littleport, at the outbreak of war with speed and efficiency. She was posted to Torquay in April 1940, and has since maintained a high standard of efficiency.’ R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 14 June 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Operational Commands 1 August 1944 - 31 January 1945 - Middle East. This lady was appointed Chief Principal Matron in March, 1944 and since then she has visited all hospitals and units where personnel of P.M.R.A.F.N.S. are serving in the Mediterranean, Middle East, India, Iraq and Aden. She has dealt with many problems in the most tactful and understanding manner and has been a great help to the Matrons in opening up new general hospitals in India. Miss Coulthurst has been a tower of strength to the Nursing Service in overseas commands.’ Of a total of 100 R.R.C. and Bars issued, only 4 have been awarded to members of Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the award to Miss Coulthurst was the first. Moreover, her O.B.E. (Military) was the first ever operational award to a member of the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. - the sprinkling of earlier awards having been associated with the New Year and Birthday Honours Lists. Approximately 39 General Service Medals with clasp ‘Palestine’ were awarded to P.M.R.A.F.N.S. Winifred Maud Coulthurst was born in Salford in 1887, and was appointed Sister in the Royal Air Force Nursing Service in May 1920, advancing to Senior Sister in the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. in January 1930. Coulthurst was promoted to Matron in January 1932, and Chief Principal Matron (the equivalent rank of Group Captain) in March 1944. She served in Basrah, Iraq; Aden in 1929 and in Palestine in 1936 before her initial posting of the Second War at Littleport and the Torquay Palace Hotel Convalescent Hospital. The following detail is given of her time at the latter in Sky Wards, A History of the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service by Mary Mackie: ‘The Officer’s Convalescent Hospital now flourished near Torquay, in the former Palace Hotel at Babbacombe. By the end of 1939 it had achieved its full capacity of 249 equipped beds and, after minor alterations, four bedrooms on the second floor had become an operating theatre. Patients recuperating in cosy rooms holding two or three beds, rather than in crowded wards, found the hospital a pleasant spot.... Matron W. M. Coulthurst led a nursing team of twenty-one members of the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. - four senior sisters, ten junior sisters and some VAD nurses - plus a number of nursing orderlies. Other staff included R.A.F. doctors and dentists, administration and supporting personnel, and about eighty civilian ancillary workers, most of whom were former hotel employees. Altogether, Torquay gave employment to around 200 people.... The hospital became known for its lively and optimistic atmosphere. BBC correspondent Macdonald Hastings, writing in London Calling, the overseas journal of the BBC, in October 1941, describes it as being like a country club, but with incomparable amenities: ‘wooded grounds with velvet lawns, tropical trees, luxurious flower beds... golf course, tennis courts, squash courts, swimming pool, archery butts, and gymnasium.’ Against this idyllic backdrop: ‘Disaster struck on the bitterly cold, wet morning of 25 October 1942. A Sunday morning, around 1100hrs. Most of the patients were in their rooms, shaving, dressing or reading Sunday papers. Domestic staff tidied up, kitchen hands prepared Sunday lunch, and nurses readied themselves for doctors’ rounds. Fred Payne, gowned and masked, was assisting in the operating theatre. Fluffy Ogilvie was on the first floor... As Fluffy and the MO went into the patients’ room, ‘we both saw, through the large windows, German planes, with their Swastikas clearly visible. There was no time to be brave or heroic, we dived under the bed...’ After preliminary machine-gun strafing, the enemy dropped high-explosive 500 kilo bombs. The first scored a direct hit on the east wing. The second landed in the road, its blast shattering windows, doors and partitions in the west wing and severely damaging the operating theatre. Lamps over the operating table fell on to the unconscious patient and a door flew across the room and knocked out Fred Payne. The floor where Fluffy Ogilvie had taken cover lost its door and windows. Rain and cold air rushed in, but all four patients, plus doctor and nurse, had survived. The latter pair dashed out into the hall to find ‘dust and rubble everywhere and, where there had been a further room, just one big gaping hole... The first body we came to was that of ‘Tinkle’ Bell. I saw her hand and arm sticking out beneath the heavy masonry. I also saw... two bodies which seemed to be hanging from the girder. The bomb had gone through all the floors down to the basement...’ Two platoons of the local home guard had been carrying out exercises close by. Two of their number died in the attack but the rest came to help, along with local air raid precaution volunteers... Through the rubble and dust, shivering against the cold winds that swept through shattered windows and gaping holes in brickwork, men carried laden stretchers to where doctors and nurses made rapid diagnoses, applied dressings and splints, and administered what drugs they could; amid such chaos and destruction they could offer little more than first aid.... Nineteen people died, one was missing, another forty-five suffered injury. Had it not been a Sunday, casualties would have been even worse because many patients would have been in the basement gymnasium and its milk bar, which had been flattened.’ After Torquay, and advancing to Chief Principal Matron, Coulthurst say extensive overseas postings for the remainder of the war. Chief Principal Matron Coulthurst retired in January 1947. In later life she resided at Limehurst St Margaret’s Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, and died at the Royal Infirmary Manchester in April 1950. Sold with the following related items and documents: Riband bar; named Buckingham Palace enclosure for R.R.C. Second Award Bar; Air Ministry letter of appreciation on the occasion of recipient’s retirement, signed by Philip Noel-Baker, then Secretary of State for Air, dated 16 January 1947; newspaper cuttings and photographic image of recipient; with copied research.
A Great War D.S.M. group of four awarded to Chief Stoker H. C. Tibble, Royal Navy, a long-served submariner decorated for his part in J5 during Operation 'BB', the daring plan to ‘flush out’ enemy submarines near their bases; his submarine had previously had the good fortune to escape a 'blue-on-blue' torpedo from Captain Naismith, later of V.C. fame, during the Cuxhaven Raid on Christmas Day 1914 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (278813. H. C. Tibble, Sto. P.O. Submarine Service 1917.); British War and Victory Medals (278813 H. C. Tibble. Ch. Sto. R.N.) the Victory Medal with officially re-impressed naming; Naval L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (278813. H. C. Tibble, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Titania.) contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 9 November 1917: ‘For services in submarines in enemy waters.’ Henry Charles Tibble was born at Battersea, London on 14 November 1875, the third son of Andrew and Frances Tibble. He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 22 January 1895, at Portsmouth and saw extensive service aboard a wide range of ships and shore bases, including the cruiser Tauranga which served in Australian waters. Returning home, he joined Drake on a tour of the Caribbean Islands in 1903, before returning to Portsmouth the following year and joining the submarine depot ship Thames on 16 March 1905. From here Tibble commenced an early career in the silent service, transferring to Mercury in 1906 and Vernon, the torpedo school ship at Porchester Creek, on 14 January 1913. On 24 August 1913 he joined Dolphin, the submarine depot and school at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, before joining depot ship Adamant at Harwich for service in the Submarine D6 on 9 September 1913. The Cuxhaven Raid: A narrow escape As the Christmas Truce took place on parts of the Western Front, Tibble found himself in the thick of the action on Christmas Day 1914 during the Cuxhaven Raid, when combined British air and sea forces attempted to destroy the German Zeppelin base. As part of a line of 11 submarines placed between the surface ships and the German coast, D6 had seen the British seaplanes return and land on the sea. Twice rising to the surface to see if she could help the crews, she firstly had a lucky escape when she was misidentified by Captain Martin Naismith (later Admiral V.C., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.) in the E11, who, mindful of orders to destroy British seaplanes that could not be brought home, focussed his attention upon machine gunning three empty seaplanes instead from the conning tower of his submarine. Rising for a second time, D6 found the German airship L-5 fifty feet directly overhead: 'With machine gun bullets clanging against his hull, he (Lt. Cdr. R. C. Halahan, Captain of D6) quickly submerged and headed for home.' Tibble transferred to Maidstone and again Dolphin, before being appointed to the newly commissioned H7 on 1 July 1915, which had only been completed in Montreal a few days earlier. On 16 February 1916, he joined J5, which was commissioned in May 1916 under the command of C. P. Talbot. It was a pretty inauspicious start; sailing for a patrol off the Dogger Bank on 10 July, J5 had great trouble with depth keeping and on one occasion hit the bottom at 140 feet. On 31 July, she was in collision with H.M.S. Vixen and had to be re-docked at Blyth for repairs to the stem and bow shutters to No. 1 tube. Before the end of 1916, J5 was in dock on three further occasions and during the latter half of the year Commander E. C. Boyle, who had won the V.C. aboard E14 in the Sea of Marmora, assumed command. Operation 'BB' In June 1917, Admiral Beatty, flush with naval intelligence that predicted that a succession of U-boats would pass outward-bound through the North Sea between the 15th and 24th, decided to flood the area around the northern part of Scotland with four flotilla leaders, forty-nine destroyers and seventeen submarines, including J5. The surface ships were deployed in such as way as ‘...to force enemy submarines to dive through certain areas occupied by destroyers so they would be on the surface whilst passing through adjacent areas occupied by our submarines’. During the ten days allocated, 19 German submarines passed through this zone, 12 homeward bound and 7 outward bound; there were 26 sightings and 11 attacks made, eight by destroyers and three by submarines. For J5 and her crew, it had been a relatively quiet period but all that changed on 25 June when the British ships began to return to base and the Germans surfaced; J5 released four torpedoes from 6000 yards range at the conning tower of an enemy submarine. They missed and the Germans replied with the deck gun. On 9 July, through her periscope and in rough seas, J5 fired two torpedoes from 2000 yards at U-86; one hit the fore part of the submarine but failed to detonate. Between 28 July and 21 August 1917, J5 sighted enemy submarines on three further occasions. Returning home, J5 was docked at Newcastle from 9 January to 26 March 1918. In the meantime, three members of the crew were duly honoured for their patrol; Tibble was awarded the D.S.M., Artificer Engineer William James Williams received the D.S.C., and Commander Cecil Ponsonby Talbot received a Bar to his D.S.O. A near fatal error Tibble remained with J5 for the rest of the war and had a lucky escape on 26 May 1918, when her Captain sighted a German submarine on the surface. Altering course, J5’s speed was increased and her deck gun was manned. On closing to 8,000 yards the target was identified as hostile and orders to fire were issued. However, after firing eight rounds, two of which may have been hits, the gun jammed and the J5 dived; she had been running however with the ventilators open, and in haste, these were not shut on diving. Surfacing again with a large bow-up angle and only 500 yards from the U-boat, the J5 was quite unmanageable. There was an estimated 40 tons of seawater in the engine room, chlorine was being given off from the batteries and a flare had been triggered. Luckily, in this moment of extreme vulnerability, the U-boat decided to make off after firing a few ‘desultory and inaccurate’ rounds, perhaps also damaged. Following the conclusion of the Great War, the Admiralty presented the six remaining boats of the ‘J’ Class to the Australian Government. For Tibble, he could be glad of his transfer from D6, which had been sunk by U-73, in June 1918. He was demobilised on 20 January 1919, and eventually discharged from the Submarine Reserve on 10 April 1922. He is also entitled to the 1914-15 Star. Sold with copied service record and other research.
A Large Selection of Super 8 Format Motion Picture Films, to include titles such as: 'Complete Ride on the Roller Coaster', 'Walton Noveltoons Naughty But Mice', 'Eight O'Clock Special: Leeds to Bradford in 2 Minutes', 'London to Brighton at 500 M.P.H.', 'The Sound of Music', 'Pollytix in Washington', 'M.S.2 Keystone Railroads', 'Red Skelton: Seeing Red', 'When Worlds Collide', 'Tales from Hoffnung', 'The Three Musketeers', 'James Stewart: The Defiant Virginian', 'Airport', 'The Man on the Eiffel Tower', a production trailer for Bruce Lee's first kung-fu film 'Big Boss', 'Man Turned Monster', 'Out of this World', '8408 Nacht über Deutschland', 'Mighty Mouse at the Circus', 'Laurel & Hardy: Darkest Africa', '8415 - Der Endkamp', 'The Ugly Duckling', '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Monster from Under the Sea', 'Charlie the Cop', 'Charlie Chaplain in the Adventurer', a standard 8 copy of 'Noddy in Toyland',
James (P.D). The Black Tower, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1975, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, together with:Innocent Blood, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1980, lightly toned, original red cloth gilt, boards lightly marked, dust jacket, 8vo, withThe Black Tower, 1st US edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, original black cloth, boards faintly marked, dust jacket, spine lightly toned and rubbed, 8vo, with 11 others by P.D JamesQTY: (14)NOTE:Provenance: from the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber and Faber.
James I, Second coinage, Sixpence, 1605, mm. rose, fourth bust, 2.79g/6h (S 2658); Charles I, Tower mint, Shilling, Gp E, mm. crown, 5.49g/6h (S 2791); Shilling, Gp F, mm. anchor, 5.62g/11h (S 2796); Shilling, Gp G, mm. triangle, 5.52g/12h (S 2799); together with Farthings (3) [7]. Varied state £80-£100
Elizabeth I, Sixth issue, Sixpence, 1593, mm. tun, 2.93g/11h (S 2578B); James I, First coinage, Sixpence, 1604, mm. thistle, 2.79g/7h, Second coinage, Sixpence, date obscured, mm. escallop, 2.50g/2h, Third coinage, Sixpence, 1623, mm. thistle on rev. only, 2.78g/5h (S 2648, 2657, 2670); Charles I, Tower mint, Sixpences (2), Gp A, 1625, mm. lis, 2.65g/5h, Gp E, type 4.2, mm. triangle, 2.80g/3h (S 2805, 2816) [6]. Fair and better £120-£150 --- Provenance: Barry Cooke Collection
James I, Second coinage, Shilling, mm. escallop, fourth bust, 5.43g/1h (S 2655); Charles I, Tower mint, Sixpence, Gp F/E mule, mm. triangle, 2.55g/12h (SCBI Brooker 643; S 2817/2816); Charles II, Sixpence, 1683 (S 3382); Anne, Sixpence, 1711 (S 3619); together with Sixpences of William III (2) [6]. Poor to about fine £30-£40
A 19th century Queen Anne revival walnut eight day longcase clock movement. The clock with a brass arch dial signed 'James Bush, Tower Street, London', with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar finished with a silvered Roman numeral chapter ring. Arched hood and fluted front corner hood pilasters over a rectangular long trunk door on a single panel box base and shaped bracket feet. Measures approx. 234cm x 48cm x 26cm.
NAVAL INTEREST: A GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF BOXCharles, Collins & Sohne, Hanau, circa 1825 The hinged cover with central engine-turned panel within an unusual border of applied yellow, white and rose gold foliage and scrolls on a matted ground, the interior engraved with two crests and an inscription detailing the presentation of the box to Capt W H Webley Parry by the wardroom officers of H M S Price Regent, length 8.4cm, weight 85gms.Footnotes:William Henry Webley Parry (1764-1837) was born on 3 March 1764, the youngest of seven children, many of whom died early, of a leading lawyer, William Webley.Webley entered the Navy in 1779 aboard the Britannia 100, Captain Charles Morice Pole, the flagship of Vice-Admiral George Darby in the Channel Fleet, who succeeded to the command of that force in September 1780 with Captain James Bradby serving as his flag-captain. Webley was present at the Relief of Gibraltar in April 1781, and following the change of government in March 1782 and the return to service of a number of senior officers he continued on the Britannia under Vice-Admiral Hon. Samuel Barrington and Captain Benjamin Hill. An obituary has stated that in 1782 his ship formed part of a squadron sent to intercept an East India fleet that was departing from Brest, and Webley was credited with towing the 'frigate' Lively alongside a French frigate, being slightly wounded under fire; however this claim has not been verified. He did serve under Barrington at the Relief of Gibraltar in October and the subsequent battle of Cape Spartel, and he received the admiral's personal approbation when acting as his aide-de-camp in the latter engagement.Webley was next employed aboard the Grampus 50, Commodore Edward Thompson, who was appointed to command off West Africa in July 1783. Having briefly returned home in 1784 suffering from yellow fever, Thompson died aboard the Grampus of a tropical fever on 17 January 1786, and Webley suffered the disappointment of not having an acting-lieutenancy confirmed. He then joined the sloop Nautilus 16 under Captain Thompson's nephew, Commander Thomas Boulden Thompson, remaining on the African station and surveying the coast from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Negro. The Nautilus returned to Portsmouth in July prior to leaving port at the end of September, and in the following April Webley was involved in the colonisation of Sierra Leone. Further service took the Nautilus to the North American, West Indian and Newfoundland stations prior to her being paid off in December 1788. A period aboard the Salisbury 50, Captain Edward Pellew, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Mark Milbanke at Newfoundland, followed from June 1790, in which vessel Webley was finally commissioned lieutenant on 21 September 1790, and the Salisbury was eventually paid off in December 1791.Webley was aboard the Amphitrite 24, Captain John Child Purvis, at the start of the French Revolutionary War in February 1793, as Pellew's request that he be appointed his first lieutenant aboard the Nymphe 36 had been rejected by the Admiralty because he was deemed insufficiently senior. After the captaincy of the Amphitrite changed hands in May he joined Captain Samuel Hood aboard the Juno 32, going out to the Mediterranean. He was the third lieutenant of this frigate when she sailed in to Toulon on 11 January 1794 after the port had been re-occupied by the French, and Webley was mentioned by Hood in his dispatches for his prominent role in engineering her escape by audacious seamanship. He continued with the Juno during the Corsican campaign from February, being present in the attack on the Martello Tower in the bay of that name, and after commanding thirty seamen in the assault on San Fiorenzo and serving as an aide-de-camp to Major-General Thomas Dundas he later commanded a boat at the capture of Bastia.Webley next volunteered his services as the first lieutenant of the San Fiorenzo 36, Captain Charles Tyler, which French frigate had been salvaged at the capture of Calvi, but when that officer was removed to the Diadem 64 during August 1794 whilst sailing the prize to Gibraltar, Webley rejoined Hood, who in the meantime had been appointed to the Aigle 36. A year was spent in the eastern Mediterranean, and after Hood transferred to the Zealous 74 in April 1796 Webley remained aboard the Aigle to which Captain Tyler had been appointed, seeing service in the Adriatic to assist the Austrian army from August. In the spring of 1797 the Aigle rendezvoused with the Mediterranean Fleet in the Tagus, having passed though the defeated Spanish fleet following the Battle of Cape St. Vincent on 14 February, and it was later reported that during this period Webley had gallantly jumped into a heaving sea with a rope to rescue three men who had fallen overboard from the frigate.Rejoining Captain Hood in the Tagus as the senior lieutenant aboard the Zealous 74, he commanded a boat in attacks upon the blockaded Spanish fleet in Cadiz during the summer of 1797, and from 21-25 July was present in Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson's unsuccessful assault on Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Returning to Cadiz, Webley boarded and carried a Spanish vessel, the Isabella 10, and when the Zealous was sent into the Mediterranean as part of Nelson's detached force in 1798 he fought at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August. As a reward for his participation in the battle he was promoted commander, but he spent the next nine months on the coast of Egypt and Syria, being dispatched on one occasion to confer with the pasha at Acre, and it was not until June 1799 that he reached England with dispatches from Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent and Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson.In August 1800 he was appointed to the sloop Savage 14, which arrived at Plymouth on 20 October with a convoy from the Downs via Portsmouth and by the end of November was back in the Downs. On 9 December she set off for Portsmouth prior to returning on 21 December, nine days later she departed for Portsmouth with two East Indiamen and a fleet of coasters and victuallers from where she again returned to the Downs, having been briefly forced to turn back for the Hampshire port due to adverse winds. On 8 January she departed the Downs for Le Havre with French prisoners of war, by the 16th she was back off Deal, and thereafter she appears to have remained on the Kentish station through February. The pattern of convoy duty to Portsmouth resumed throughout the spring and summer until 21 August when she arrived at Sheerness with a convoy of victuallers from the Downs, prior to going into harbours for repairs. Here a court-martial dismissed the vessel's surgeon for drunkenness and for not attending to his duty, and the vessel also experienced a tragedy when a ship's boy lost his life after tumbling down the main hatchway.On 23 September 1801 the Savage left Sheerness for the Downs, and two days later she sailed from that station for the westward in the company of the Amazon 38, Captain William Parker, which was flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson, although that frigate soon put back. Webley's command then reportedly went out on a cruise in November, was back in the Downs by December, and undertook a further cruise in the new year. She came into the Downs from Plymouth on 12 March 1802, prior to apparently enjoying another cruise, and on 21 April she arrived at Portsmouth from the Downs, with Webley being praised in the Press for helping to preserve the cargo of a richly-laden vessel that had gone aground on Beachy Head. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Danish silver beaker cup, the base with triple turret tower mark with '52' below and makers mark 'M' 10cm tall, a Queen's Silver Jubilee commemorative spoon by Roberts & Belk Ltd 1978 boxed, two James II inspired trefid rat tail spoons by Francis Howard Ltd, Sheffield 1979, boxed, and a caddy spoon with thistle head finial, 220g gross.
A Composite English Pikeman's Armour Circa 1640 Of blackened iron, comprising a pot helmet with two-piece rounded skull with low turned comb, the base of the skull with a row of dome-headed rivets between incised lines, the downturned brim with recessed turned border with rivets en suite and struck with the mark of the London Armourer's Company, crowned 'IR' mark (James II armoury mark) and maker's initials 'F' of John Frankling (some rivets missing, peaks damaged), gorget of two plates each with turned borders, the front plate with maker's mark 'WC' of William Crouch, breast-plate with medial ridge drawn-out to a point above the skirt, turned and gilt at the line engraved neck and arms, and struck beneath the former with maker's mark 'ID', possibly of John Dawston, together with a further crowned 'IR' arsenal mark, back-plate shaped to the back and also struck with crowned 'IR' mark, rectangular tassets each of six simulated upward-lapping lames and with turned gilt borders, riveted hinges, and two pivot-hook and pin catches for later adjustable shoulder-straps reinforced with riveted plates: on an adjustable wooden stand mounted on a black painted wooden plinth Footnotes: Provenance H.M. Tower of London Tiverton Castle, Sotheby's Summers Place, Antique Arms and Armour, 7 December 1998, lot 3011 A number of similar armours with contemporary munition finish and gold painted borders and rivets are in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. For further information regarding the makers and their marks see Thom Richardson, The London Armourers Of The 17th Century, 2004, passim For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
The important ‘Defence of Lucknow’ Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to James Luffman, a 15-year scholar at La Martinière School - a ‘Ragged Fusilier’, one of only two boys wounded during the siege and one of the six senior boys who bore arms Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (James Luffman.) fitted with contemporary silver ribbon brooch; together with the Punjab 1848-49 medal awarded to his father with clasps for Chiliamwala and Goojerat (James Luffman.) this correctly impressed but with rank and regiment neatly erased, toned, good very fine (2) £2,000-£2,600 --- Luffman’s mutiny medal has always been associated with a two-clasp Punjab medal, also named to James Luffman. It has a well executed erasure both before and after the impressed naming consistent with the rank and regiment having been obliterated. Research by Major H. E. Dadley in conjunction with A. J. Farrington of the India Office Records confirms that the Punjab medal belongs to James’s father Staff Sergeant James Luffman, 3rd Company 1st Battalion Bengal Artillery, with the medal roll confirming the clasps for Chilianwalla and Goojerat. It further transpires that there is only one man named Luffman on the Punjab medal roll. Fifty-eight medals were awarded to the Foundation boys and staff of the La Martinière School and are highly prized for their uniqueness and rarity – this one to James Luffman more so as he was one of only two boys wounded during the Defence. These boys boarded at the school and came under the auspices of the Claude Martin Charities being deemed as being from straightened but deserving families. On 13 June 1857, at the command of Sir Henry Lawrence, the scholars all marched from the Martinière to the Residency on a journey that, over the next 6 months, would turn these schoolboys into men and earn for them the soubriquet “The Ragged Fusiliers”. The siege commenced on the 1st July 1857 when Luffman was just a few days shy of his sixteenth birthday. With the firing of the first shots most of the servants fled the Residency so the military authorities impressed the younger boys of the Martinière to undertake domestic chores including, sweeping the compounds, the drawing of water, grinding the daily rations of corn to make bread and some to cook the boys meals. Others tended to the sick officers and others to take messages between garrisons. Later, Brigadier Inglis requested that as many boys as possible should be sent to pull the punkahs over the sick and wounded at the General Hospital. For this purpose 36 were told off in reliefs of 12 each and changed every 12 hours. The boys’ health suffered greatly and two died. The junior boys were used as night watchmen and for digging the wells for the “filth” of the Establishment whilst six senior boys bore arms defending the Martinière Post, operating the semaphore system on top of the Residency Tower and in supervising the younger pupils. L. E. R. Rees wrote of their plight:
‘The poor Martinière pupils, who go about the garrison more filthy than others, and apparently more neglected and hungry even than we are, are made use of to drive away these insects (flies) from the sick in hospital, and others. That they, too, should contribute their share of usefulness is but just and fair; but that they should be placed in menial attendance upon the healthy great in the garrison is, in my opinion, far from right. But I shall say nothing more on this subject, lest I assume a tone of censure.’ The Martinière Post, after the Judicial Garrison, was the most exposed defence in the Residency. Johannes’ House kept up an incessant rifle fire from just outside the perimeter with “Bob the Nailer” causing the most nuisance. The Post was defended by men from the 32nd Regiment of Foot, civilians and six armed senior boys from the Martinière named as: James Luffman, Edward Henry Hilton, David Aratoon, John Hornby, George Roberts and Samuel Wrangle. The wounding of Luffman is best described by Edward Hilton from his book “The Tourist's Guide to Lucknow”. Hilton spent much of his latter years given tours to local visitors and is well placed to give the most accurate account. The boys who carried arms used to take 20 or 30 rounds and go to the top of the house in which we were located and fire through the loopholes at the enemy and at whatever seemed a fair target. There were pumpkins and other vegetables which would have made a welcome addition to our cuisine growing in Johannes’ garden outside the line of our defence. We found it very tantalising to know that we must not venture to forage in this garden for the vigilance of the enemy’s marksmen was untiring and they never lost an opportunity of picking off any member of the garrison who was so incautious to expose himself. Seeing that the coveted vegetables were not available for us we did our best to make them unfit for the enemy and found some diversion in firing at the gourds. This “sport” was put an end to by the following circumstances: ‘Shortly after the boy Smith had been hit by one of the enemy’s marksmen, known to the boys by the soubriquet of “Jim the Rifle” located in the Johannes’ warehouse facing our post, Luffman and myself, with the intention of avenging this, went on the the roof of the building in which we were quartered and which overlooked the enemy’s position to try and get a shot at the rascal; we both used the same loophole. While on lookout one of the lads, S. Hornby, came to the roof with a supply of ammunition, and, while our attention was thus diverted our mutinous opponent across the way fired at us. His bullet struck Luffman’s musket, [which was in the loophole], glanced along the barrel and lodged in his left shoulder. As already mentioned he fortunately recovered but our target practice had to be discontinued owing to the ammunition being put out of our reach.’ 
James Austen Luffman was born on 5 July 1841, the eldest of three sons to Sergeant James Luffman, Bengal Artillery, and his wife Mary (née Bowers). Mary died on 4 August 1852, at Peshawar leaving James with the unenviable task of taking care of his three children. He sought assistance from the Claude Martin Charities who accepted the two elder brothers, James Austen and John Thomas, at the Martinière at Lucknow, with the younger, William Collins, being accepted at the sister Martinière School at Calcutta. The boys were orphaned on 11 June 1858, when their father died at Raneegunge, where he had been working as a Dak Agent for the Inland Transport Company. The Principal Registry of Probate, England, handed guardianship, until full age, to their lawful aunt Anne Still who, with her husband John, had been resident in India before returning to England living in Sudbury, Middlesex. At the denouement of the mutiny James Luffman joined the East Indian Railways together with “partners in crime” John Hornby and Edward Hilton, an understanding expected of all Martinière boys that they serve at least a year within the railway establishment. On 26 March 1859, he joined the Indian Police and performed non-gazetted appointments in and around Oudh until being gazetted on 16 January 1879 with the rank of District Superintendent of Police, a position he held until retirement on 25 October 1894. His record of service showed he worked variously in Bahraich, Hardoi, Partagarh, Jalaun, Gorackpur and Rae Barelli. It should be noted that at this time gazetted appointments in the police were generally filled by military officers or appointees from England making promotion and gazetting of locally enlisted officers discriminato...
Pieter Stevens Van Gunst and Leers after Adriaen Van der Werf, engraving, 'Johannes Baro de Churchill, Dux et Comes du Marlborough ...', visible sheet 62 x 40cm General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (1650 – 1722) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. From a gentry family, he served first as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill.Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, but he was a key player in the military conspiracy that led to James being deposed during the Glorious Revolution. Rewarded by William III with the title Earl of Marlborough, persistent charges of Jacobitism led to his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower of London. William recognised his abilities by appointing him as his deputy in Southern Netherlands before the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, but not until the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 did he secure his fame and fortune.
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