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Lot 128
Charlotte Brontë & Sedbergh School association.- Wooler (Rev. William Upton, pupil at Sedbergh School, later vicar of West Wycombe, nephew of Margaret Wooler, headmistress and part-owner of Roe Head School, Mirfield and friend of Chalotte Brontë 1818-85, 1848-1938) 2 diaries written as a schoolboy at Sedbergh School, autograph manuscripts signed, 243pp., pencil drawing at beginning of first vol., poem at end of last vol. "Bull's Run", original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, a few ink marks, some slight fading, 8vo, 1865-66.⁂ Mentions receiving and sending a letter to Aunt Wooler, Margaret Wooler, friend of Charlotte Brontë. With a reference to Charlotte Brontë's most famous work: "I again got completely entranced in 'Jane Eyre' as nearly to neglect my work went to the News Room at noon. Finished Jane Eyre at afternoon."Other entries include: The death of a schoolfriend. "Tues 13 June 1865 Pinck [Robert Henry Pinck (1849-65), born at Durham] poor fellow, went out bathing at noon with Rutter & Armstrong & was drowned. I could not believe it at all at first, when I heard it. Armstrong tried to save him but he was frightened of being dragged to the bottom himself, it was at Lord's Dub, there was immense excitement in the town about it. No school in the afternoon. Day went to Hawes to tell his parents." Other entries include, playing cricket and croquet; studying the classics; school life, "Got 100 lines in the afternoon for coming into the school in a illegitimate way viz by a ladder in at the window... ." - Wooler.
Lot 129
ROTARY, A LADY'S SWISS 18CT GOLD WRIST WATCH, ON A 9CT GOLD BRACELET the cream dial with alternate raised gilt baton and Arabic numerals and hands, round two-piece case with Swiss marks and stamped '18K' over '0,750', on a 9ct gold square-section herringbone bracelet with a ladder clasp, Birmingham 1960, Swiss 17 jewel movement, Cal.AS976, the case bracelet and glass weigh 11.8g gross
Lot 128
GIRARD PERREGAUX, A LADY'S SWISS 18K WATCH, ON AN INTEGRAL BRACELET STAMPED '14K' the satinised-golden tonneau-shaped dial with raised black and gilt baton numerals and hands, tonneau-shaped two piece case with Swiss marks and stamped '18k' over '750', on an integral satinised woven bracelet with a ladder clasp stamped '14K', Girard Perregaux 17 jewel movement, No.7509-251, the case bracelet and glass weigh 31.7g gross
Lot 69
A 9ct gold mechanical Oriosa wristwatch, silvered dial with gold baton hour markers and Arabic numerals at the quarter points, signed 'Oriosa Swiss, 21 Jewels Incabloc', with double wheat link bracelet and ladder clasp, London 1964, 10.08g, with box, together with a 9ct gold mechanical Bernex wristwatch, Chester 1951, on a rolled gold expanding bracelet, and a steel Frey mechanical wristwatch
Lot 819
A simply stunning example of a Large Scale Distler Fire Station comprising tinplate lithographed building with two opening doors that displays wonderfully to include also a Distler Open Fire Engine in red with yellow ladder and 4 seated firemen plus clockwork motor that drives rear wheels and rings bell. Incredibly hard to find in this condition.
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