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Click here to subscribeAccessories: green, grey and cream painted tinplate girder bridge in three sections, overall 820mm long, green and yellow platform with one end ramp 625mm, 0 gauge electric track and points by various makers including Hornby, Lionel, Ives and K-Lines, fir trees, a blind beggar, a memorial stone and a wooden castle, 420mm high, varied condition
[Sparrow, Anthony]. A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions Ecclesiastica; with other Publick Records of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI., Q. Elizabeth, K. James, & K. Charles I. Published to Vindicate the Church of England, and to Promote Uniformity and to Promote Uniformity and Peace in the Same, 3rd ed., 1675, eng. frontis., seperate title to each part, light damp staining to inner margins of initial leaves, contemp. calf, old reback, joints split and spine worn with some loss of leather, 4to. (1)
Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, 1st ed., 1900, col. illusts. throughout, title-page with publisher's circular embossed stamp to fore-margin, and with pencilled name to upper margin in a juvenile hand, some edge-tears and finger-soiling, lacking free endpapers, hinges split and stitching loose, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, oblong 4to, together with The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club, 1st ed., 1896, col. illusts. throughout, soiled title-page and one other leaf detached and frayed, former with faint circular embossed stamp, some edge-tears and finger-soiling, free endpapers browned, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and dust-soiled, corners showing, oblong 4to, plus The Golliwogg in War!, 1st ed., 1899, col. illusts. throughout, some edge-fraying and tears, one leaf with piece excised from lower blank margin, another with large piece torn from lower corner (affectng illust.), stitching strained, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and dust-soiled, corners showing, plus one other similar. (4)
Wheeler (Charles Henry, publisher, Winchester). Wheeler's Hampshire and West of England Magazine, vol. I, nos. 1-12, January-December, 1828 [all publ., the periodical was then incorporated into The CryptÓ], folding map, two eng. plts., ex-libris copy, some soiling, contemp. half calf, rubbed, together with Ferrey (Benjamin), The Antiquities of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hampshire. Second Edition. Revised by John Britton, Bohn, 1841, twenty eng. plts. and plans, some foxing, orig. cloth, faded, lacks backstrip, and King (Edward), Old Times Re-visited in the Borough and Parish of Lymington, Hants., Second Edition, 1900, plts., text illusts., orig. blue buckram, rubbed, hinges weak, and Fowler (Sir James K.), A History of Beaulieu Abbey A.D. 1204-1539, pub. by The Car Illustrated, [1911], full-page and folding plts. and plans, orig. red cloth, spine faded, and others, Hampshire history and topography, 8vo and 4to. (36)
Downame (John). A Guide to Godlynesse, or a Treatise of a Christian Life..., Whereunto are added diuers prayers, and a treatise of carnall securitie, Printed by F. K[ingston] for Philemo[n] Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1629, eng. title with architectural border, separate title to second part A treatise of securitie: diuided into two bookesÓ with two blanks before part title present, some scattered light soiling and old water-staining, old ink inscriptions to title, end of Table and final leaf, orig. endpaper laid down with orig. and later ownership inscriptions of Vibert family members [St Ouen and Penzance, Cornwall], ex libris Prinknash Abbey, 19th-c. half calf, rubbed, sm. folio. (1)
A FabergŽ diamond, gold, enamel and aventurine quartz paper knife, Marked KF in Cyrillic, 56 standard, Moscow circa 1895, with scratched inventory number possibly 32412, the angular handle enamelled in translucent turquoise blue over an engine-turned background, with a central translucent pink sunray inset with a rose-cut diamond within a white line border between chased gold laurel leaves, the moonstone end surrounded by a rose-cut diamond border, the aventurine quartz curved blade with reeded gold mounts, overall length 12 cm, in original fitted wood case, the interior stamped K FabergŽ with the Imperial Warrant, Moscow, St Petersburg and Odessa'. (2)
EDWARD THEODOR COMPTON "Bavarian lake landscapes", a pair, one depicting a hay cart and horses in foreground with figures loading a barge, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1878, indistinctly inscribed on label verso "No. 1 Laudi ... on the ... K ... See, Bavaria", the other depicting a team of two horses with harrows and driver, another team of horses approaching on a path, lakes and mountain rising in background, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1878, indistinctly inscribed on label verso "No. 2 Harrowing ... Lake of Starnberg, Bavaria ...", each 26 x 41 cm
E STANFORD (PUB): REYNOLDS’S NEW CHART OF THE THAMES ESTUARY, col’d chart fdg, bkd onto linen 21” x 24”, orig cl gt worn and soiled + K SOHR: EISENBAHN UND DAMPFSCHIFFROUTEN-KARTE VON EUROPA, engrd col’d map 1894, fdg, bkd onto linen 31” x 36”, orig cl gt worn and soiled + PLAN DE PARIS ACTUEL, col’d plan 1885, fdg, bkd onto linen 22” x 29 ½ “(3)
:A FINE WAFFEN GROIS .300 (W.S.M.) BOLT-MAGAZINE SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. G.G.1006, 25 3/4in. nitro barrel, engraved 'EXKLUSIV WAFFEN GROIS' with ornately chequered, gold-inlaid and scroll engraved block-mounted open sight for 75 and 150 yards, similarly decorated ramp-mounted bead foresight, gold-inlaid and scroll engraved receiver mounted with a K. Kahles 6x42 telescopic sight in quick-detachable mounts, gold-inlaid and scroll-engraved detachable floorplate, 15 1/8in. pull, highly-figured pistolgrip stock with cheekpiece, sling-swivels, engraved blued pistolgrip-cap and 1in. rubber recoil pad, weight 9lb. 8oz.
:WILLIAM EVANS (FROM PURDEYS) .400 / .360 EVANS NITRO EXPRESS BOXLOCK EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE, serial no. 6982, 26in. nitro barrels with matt rib, leaf sights for 100, 200 and 300 yards with silver-inlaid sighting lines and ramp-mounted beadsight with flip-up moonsight, tubes engraved 'WILLIAM EVANS (FROM PURDEY'S) 63, PALL MALL, ST JAMES'S. LONDON.', and '.400 / .360 2 3/4" SOLID METAL CASE". "40 GRS CORDITE POWDER .300 GRS SOFT NOSE NICKEL BULLET"', the breech end mounted with a K. Kahles Helia Super telescopic sight in quickly-detachable mounts, treble-grip action with intercepting sears, automatic safety with gold 'SAFE' detail, removable striker discs, best fine border and scroll engraving, retaining traces of original colour-hardening and finish, 14 1/2in. well-figured pistolgrip stock with cheekpiece, steel pistolgrip-cap, sling eyes and engraved and chequered steel buttplate, weight 10lb. 4oz., in a brass-cornered leather case
Pop and Rock ephemera, programmes etc. including early Rolling Stones souvenir brochure published by J K Smith, another - The Sensational Rolling Stones (Robert Stigwood Associates Ltd.), The Beatles Get Back 1969, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 1969;The Beatles Christmas Show Souvenir Programme 1963-64; Elton John World Tour 1985-1986 and The World Tour 1989-1990, Elton John Sotheby's London sale 4 catalogue boxed set (unopened in original plastic seal); Queen A Kind of Magic Tour 1986 brochure, Michael Jackson World Tour 1988 brochure; few older song sheets, etc (a box, condition varies)
Harold Knight, R.A., 1874-1961 harvesting the sea signed and dated 1900 oil on canvas 135x175cm.; 53x69in. How little do we realise the cost of herring on our breakfast plate! For such realisation it is necessary to experience the relentless battering of an equinoctial gale. In late September and early October, the herring shoal, in its tour around England, passes the Yorkshire coast. It is then that a fleet of Herring Cobbles, caught unaware in the North Sea, has short shrift to get back to shore through the white water breaking on the reefs, whose shallows run further than the horizon line. A (wildified) place is Steers as the locals called Staithes. (Laura Knight, The Magic of Line, 1965, p. 107) In 1895 Laura Johnson and her future husband Harold Knight visited the rugged Yorkshire coastal town of Staithes and were truly captivated by the landscape and its people. After their return to London Laura and Harold discussed the prospect of moving permanently to Staithes and after marrying in 1903 they resided there for fourteen years. The previously unremarkable town of Staithes had been popular with artists since the 1880s. It had attracted painters from the Midlands and the North who wanted to paint similar subjects to those favoured by the plein air painters in Newlyn. Laura summed up the freedom offered by this little town, As long as I can remember I wanted to run wild in a broader life, away from factories, miles from houses in rows, dressed-up shops and the gentility of town where no one knows what their neighbour enjoys or endures. Here in Staithes we share each others joys and sorrows. (Caroline Fox, Dame Laura Knight, 1988, p. 12) Following the precedent of the Barbizon and Hague School of painters, artists in Staithes sought to paint the everyday life of the working class residents. Harold and Laura both developed a great admiration and fascination with the hardiness of the fisher-folk of whom Laura wrote the majority of its people, both man and woman, dedicated to toil of the hardest as they were, and knowing tragedy at first hand. (ibid Knight, p. 107). They believed the fishermen to be the descendants of a Viking race whose ship foundered on the shores and never left, a belief augmented by the sight of one particular example; a majestic figure Ð six foot tall or more, his shoulders and chest enormous, his features aquiline, his pointed beard red; his eyes are the sort of blue that has a special look Ð a sea-eye look one used for big distances Ð his skin is bronzed by the sun and toughened by wind and salt water. (ibid Knight, p. 109) These mortal Poseidons were the models for the small number of dramatic pictures painted by Harold to convey the brutality of the sea and the strenuous courage of the men who worked upon the herring cobbles. Another of these men was Argy (Isaac) Verrill who the Knights befriended and were permitted to accompany to sea in his old cobble. They would often sit around his fireside eating Herring toasted by his daughter Anna-Margaret and listen to his stories of near-death and to his mighty singing voice. It is likely that Argy posed for the present picture and one or more of the other figures, is probably another fisherman friend Mattie Theaker or John Jones. The present view captures the toughness of the Staithes fishermen and the strenuous work as they toil against the ocean. They are dressed in the clothes that Laura described thus; Bleached by weather and sea-water are the garments worn by both women and men. As for the mens trousers Ð never was such a variety of colour found as in the numberless patches. (ibid Knight, p. 109). The pictures painted by Harold Knight in Staithes are rare although several were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1900 and 1904, including The Last Coble of 1900, Evening, Staithes of 1901 and Unloading Herrings, Scarborough of 1902. A small picture of a similar subject entitled Staithes Pier was sold in these rooms, 9 November 1988, lot 4. By 1905 K
A mixed lot comprising: An Edward VII Continental Pill Box, of hinged oval form, with all over embossed scrolling foliate decoration, with import marks for Chester 1901, Sponsors Mark S B L and a further Continental Snuff Box, of hinged circular form with striped decoration and vacant cartouche, with Dutch Assay marks and Makers Mark A K 22 (2)
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