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Lot 63
1934 Velocette KSS Bike Year: 1934 Bike Make: Velocette Bike Model: KSS Bike Reg No.: Un-Reg Bike Frame No.: KTL4661 Bike Engine No.: KSS5058 Bike Colour: Black The overhead cam 350 cc Velocette engine came into being in 1925, and within twelve months had won it`s first Junior TT, fitted in a new frame designated KSS. The effect of the win made the machine so popular and demand so phenomenal that Velocette had to invest in a new factory to keep pace. Situated at Hall Green, the Birmingham facility then became the home of Velocette for many years to follow. K series engines were produced here at the rate of around 1000 a year until the thirties depression so affected sales of luxury and performance bikes that the company had to refocus efforts on the less expensive 2 stroke and overhead valve powered roadsters. Over the years these GTP (2 stroke) and MAC (ohv) machines became almost equal in performance to the `cammy` models which had to be upgraded to Mk2 form in 1935 to maintain the performance edge. Always expensive to manufacture and not easy to maintain the KTS (touring) and KSS (sporting) versions continued in production subsidised by sales of the less expensive models, but giving the company a broader range of products to offer the public. This unregistered Velocette KSS 350 OHC is one of the last Mk 1`s and was discovered in Wales in 2010. A 1934 model it looks to be in pristine condition and has been subjected to a comprehensive restoration over the last two years, having many new parts fitted including piston, oil pump etc. and is stated to be in good running order. The vendor reports that the machine is all good and a competition gearbox has been fitted which is stamped with the original identifying numbers. This historic motorcycle is recorded to have been sold by distributors Vic Challenor Motorcycles of Stoke to first owner Mr W.S.Platt of Burslem. It would seem an ideal opportunity for a new owner to experience the joys of vintage motorcycling on a most excellent product of the pre-war British Motorcycle Industry. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 4001
2003 Caterham Super Seven Car Year: 2003 Car Manufacturer: Caterham Car Model: Super Seven Car Reg No.: FD03EFR Car Chassis No.: SDKRDKRR630022568 Car Colour: Yellow / Blue Automotive genius though he was, one imagines that the late Colin Chapman would be rather surprised that the Lotus Seven he launched at the 1957 Earls Court Motor Show, and then sold the manufacturing rights for in 1973, was still being built, bought, raced and enjoyed the world over, courtesy of Caterham. These days, though there is an ever-widening choice of chassis and engine options, the traditional narrow-bodied version of the car is still based on the Series 3 Lotus Seven. And, while few if any of the components are interchangeable between the Lotus and today`s Caterhams, the Chapman-penned concept and general configuration remain unaltered and, though many times copied, have never been bettered. For a while in the `60s, Sevens were banned from racing in the USA for being `too fast`. The model hit the same problem on this side of the Atlantic the following decade, prompting the then boss of Caterham Cars, Graham Nearn, to produce T shirts with the slogan "Caterham Seven..the car that`s Too Fast to Race.". They continue to embarrass all manner of usually vastly more expensive machinery, and with engines ranging from the 1.4-litre K Series to 2.3-litre Ford Duratec, 0-60mph is attainable in anything from 6.5 to just 3.1 seconds. This right-hand drive Super Seven was built in 2003 and purchased by the vendor direct from the manufacturer on April 1st 2006 for ú15,000. It is powered by the 1588cc version of the Rover-derived K Series engine mated to a five-speed manual gearbox, and is finished in Yellow with a Blue centre stripe and Black interior. A clearly little used example, it is regarded by the vendor as having "very good" bodywork, paintwork, interior trim, engine and transmission. `FD03 EFR` comes complete with a fresh MOT. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 4038
1951 Jaguar MK V 3.5 Litre Drophead Coupe Car Year: 1951 Car Manufacturer: Jaguar Car Model: MK V 3.5 Litre Drophead Coupe Car Reg No.: JJW 591 Car Chassis No.: 640391 Car Colour: Cream Although press attention was primarily focused on the XK120 Roadster at the 1948 London Motor Show, it was another of the Jaguar stand`s debutants which held the key to the marque`s immediate future. Drawing on the stylistic heritage of its SS Jaguar predecessors, the imposing MKV was embellished via a bold radiator grille, partially recessed headlamps, curvaceous C-posts, rear-wheel spats and distinctive twin-blade bumpers. Destined to underpin many a `Big Cat`, the newcomer`s box-section chassis was equipped with independent torsion-bar front suspension, a leaf-sprung `live` rear axle and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes. Unwilling to risk using the unproven XK DOHC engine in such a volume application Jaguar chose to fit the MKV with its tried and tested `2.5 Litre` (2664cc) and `3.5 Litre` (3485cc) straight-six units. Developing some 104bhp and 126bhp respectively, these Harry Weslake tuned OHV powerplants were allied to four-speed manual transmission and gave class-leading performance; the 3.5 Litre variant being capable of over 90mph. Available in either four-door saloon or two-door drophead coupe guises, the luxuriously appointed four-seater accounted for some 10,466 sales between January 1949 and July 1951. Though, a mere 977 of those were right-hand drive 3.5 Litre Drophead Coupes. The right-hand drive MKV offered is one of those rare and increasingly desirable 3.5-litre Dropheads that, according to its Heritage Trust certificate, was manufactured on June 29th, 1951 and delivered to the supplying dealer, Attwoods, on July 12th. The accompanying green log book shows it was registered on August 29th of the same year and further history informs us that Richard Place & Co., chartered accountants from East Grinstead, sold the Jaguar to a Mr K W Holliday of the same town on February 8th 1960. He apparently ran the four-seater until 1975 and then stored it until 1991. It was in September of that year that Mr Claude Levi, also of East Grinstead, acquired `JJW 591` for a reported figure of ú18,000. Some ú22,000 worth of restoration was carried out in his care - not least a complete retrim. The Jaguar then passed to a Mr J Linton in September 1997 for the princely sum of ú40,000, at which point the mileage was said to have totalled 39,920. Though the MKV came into the vendor`s possession as long ago as January 2006, the indicated (but unwarranted) mileage still only stands at 44,473. He has used the Drophead Coupe for several events in Lincolnshire and nearby Norfolk as well as selected Jaguar Drivers` Club ones (collecting various awards along the way). He informs us that the car is "a pleasure to drive" and has "very good" bodywork, Cream paintwork, Red leather trim, engine and four-speed manual gearbox. This most charismatic of cats comes complete with sundry tools, old MOTs from the last 15 years and one valid into February 2013. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 1299
The 1914 Star to 4321 CPL J.H.L.CRUICKSHANK. R.A.M.C, the 1914-18 British War Medal and The 1914-19 Victory Medal to 4321 S.SJT.J.H.CRUICKSHANK. R.A.M.C, with three ribbons and two boxes of issue, died 23rd March 1918, served with 93rd Field Ambulance and is buried at Souchez, The 1914-18 British War Medal to K.1338 A.V.GIBBS. STO.1 R.N, The French Croix de Guerre 1914-15, three cap badges, another badge and a commemorative medal 1902.
Lot 636
A pair of Chinese Mandarin squares or rank badges, late Qing dynasty, embroidered in silk and metallic threads and depicting a wild goose rising from clouds to represent the fourth rank for a civilian, in later frames, 28.5cm by 27cm (2) Provenance on reverse stating: ``Given to my aunt in 1948 by C K Yuan, it belonged to his Grandmother, and is hand stitched. The Grandfather was Sec of State (or equivalent) for province of Shantung Boo.`` WE DO NOT STATE CONDTION IN THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION – Before bidding please ensure you are satisfied with the condition of this lot – For details of condition please contact the auctioneer.
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Lot 417
Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer`s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with facsimile` manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer`s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (1806-1869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box. Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562. Heirs of Hippocrates 283: In 1552, a small `pocket` edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an `anatomy` of the sixteenth century. The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, `for no other reason that one can see,` comments Cushing, `unless to save the nun`s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure` (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.` Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine`s copy of Estienne`s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545). (1)
Lot 364
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY SILVER POCKET WATCH, ALBERT AND WATCH STAND, the silver cased pocket watch with gold coloured Roman hours, the engine turned dial framing a subsidiary seconds dial and central floral decoration ,the case marked Birmingham 1900, maker K & Co; the watch suspended by an Albert with graduating links, T-bar and Maltese cross medallion, the stand having a finial topped circular oak rest raised on a short spreading stem and circular base, marked Birmingham 1926, maker AWP. 12cm(h) 196grams (watch and albert.)
Lot 406
Gandhi typewritten letter signed ‘M K Gandhi’ to Sgt N ER K Poduwal in Rangoon dated As at the Ashram Sabarmati 8th May 1929 apologising for not replying before ‘...so long as there is need for supporting all those whom you mention it will be wrong to give up the present job. My advice therefore is that you should take hold of every able bodied member of the family and suggest to him and her that they should take their full share in family support...meanwhile you must hold on to the remunerative job that you have...’ 1p 4to good condition with some ms and typographical corrections.
Lot 416
Gandhi a small wooden casket containing a small glass topped box containing a soil and blades of grass taken from the spot where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. The casket comes with a letter of provenance by P P Nambiar dated September 24th 1996 saying that the recipient :’...has today received the most sacred of all relics a fraction of the pinch of soil I collected on 30 January 1948 from the spot where the Father of our nation M K Gandhi fell to the bullets of his assassin...’ The item is also accompanied by a copy of ‘True but never heard before’ by P P Nambiar being his personal reminiscences and in which he describes collecting this soil sample on the day Gandhi was murdered: ‘...in my search I found a drop of blood on the grass almost dried. I cut the grass and also took two pinches of soil from the brink of the pothole which I wrapped in a piece of Hindi newspaper found nearby. This is in my box even today. I keep it in a jewellery box brought by me from Indo-China in a later year. To me it is a treasure of immense sentimental value...’
Lot 306
A collection of Danish and English jewellery, to include; a silver-gilt and yellow enamel leaf design bracelet by David Anderson also a silver and white enamel leaf brooch by the same designer; a silver and green hardstone spray brooch of abstract design; also a silver and green hardstone ring, size approx. `K` uk; a silver brooch of abstract design by Lennart Haglund; a Finnish silver pendant of abstract double scroll design, by `Erik Granit` dated 1972 also a Scottish silver and enamel pendant, By Norman Grant with associated silver hoop link necklace, makers mark `NG`. (a lot)
Lot 105
A folio of assorted watercolours, engravings, maps, etc, to include AFTER JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth", hand-coloured strip map, a further JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth" hand-coloured strip map, HENRY K. BROWNE 04 "On the Wandle, Mitcham", river scene with trees along the bank and buildings in the background, watercolour heightened with white, titled and signed, J. TWIGG "Street scene with mother and child and further figures in the street and church rising in the background", watercolour, signed and dated bottom right and a further selection of other pictures and prints
Lot 536
Snowman (A. Kenneth). Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, with a Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell, 1st ed., 1966, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j. and cardstock box, 4to, together with Davey (Neil K.), Netsuke. A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection, pub. Sotheby, 1974, col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth (dampstained), in sl. frayed d.j., folio, plus McKechnie (Sue), British Silhouette Artists and Their Work 1760-1860, pub. Sotheby, 1978, numerous illusts., some col., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other antiques ref., mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG. (3 shelves)
Lot 464
A Starr Arms Model 1858 .44 Calibre Double Action Percussion Cap Six Shot Army Revolver, the 15cm steel barrel stamped K to the right side and W to the left side, the blued cylinder stamped K W and numbered 20967, the blued frame stamped STARR ARMS. Co. NEW YORK to the left side and STARR`S PATENT JAN.15 1856 to the right side, the walnut grip with inspector`s cartouche RKW to each side
Lot 257
"Olympics: A rectangular badge inset with blue and red enamel depicting a skier and stating "FIS Wettkampfe 1936 Innsbruck", reverse of the badge in raised form "ALOIS KLAMMER ABZEICHENERZEUGUNG INNSBRUCK M.THERESIENSTR.20" together with an enamelled Olympic five ring badge on reverse "GES. GESCH." (2) "Condition: part enamel missing from letter K of Innsbruck
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