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Lot 1267
A GEORGIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL PEMBROKE TABLE, with a single drawer, on splayed legs, open width 103cm x closed width 56cm x depth 86cm x height 73cm, four oak ladder back chairs, a Georgian oak tripod table, and a Georgian open armchair (condition report: historical ring mark to Pembroke table) (7)
Lot 1244
An 18ct yellow gold opal and diamond bracelet, comprising ten oval opal cabochons alternating with nine pairs of round brilliant cut diamonds, all in articulated claw settings with chevron links, with ladder clasp and safety chain, opal dimensions each approx 6.15 x 4.15 x 1.2mm, total weight estimated as 0.14 carats, bracelet length 200mm, width 4.8mm, gross weight 13.8g, stamped and tested as 18ct AustDiamonds not assessed for colour or clarity due to restriction of settings.
Lot 351
Great Western Railway lower quadrant wooden post Calling on Signal. Complete with enamel arms, post, finial, ladder, lamp bracket, lamp, rodding and balance weight. Stands 88in tall less the finial a complete signal ready to erect. NOTE Successful buyer will have to arrange removal from our premises and will require a van and 2 people.
Lot 158
Great Western Railway lower quadrant wooden post Distant Signal Complete with wooden arm, post, finial, ladder, lamp bracket (no lamp), rodding and balance weight. Stands 96in tall less the finial a complete signal ready to erect. NOTE Successful buyer will have to arrange removal from our premises and will require a van and 2 people.
Lot 78
Midland Railway cast iron Lamp Post complete with ladder bars. Cleary marked Midland Railway Company on the base, it stands approximately 133 inches tall from the base to the top and is in very good condition. From one of the local stations on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway line. Buyer to arrange collection from Rochford Essex.
Lot 126
Midland Railway cast iron Lamp Post complete with ladder bars. Cleary marked Midland Railway Company on the base, it stands approximately 133 inches tall from the base to the top and is in very good condition. Probably ex Rochford station on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway line or one of the adjacent stations. Buyer to arrange collection from Rochford Essex.
Lot 341
An extensive collection of 1970s Ladderax teak modular wall furniture, comprising; nine slatted laddered uprights, large double door glazed bookcase section, three drawer chest section (each 3ft), seven further sundry 2ft modular units to include fall-front compartments, chest compartment, sliding glazed door front compartments, and a collection of 2ft deep shelves, five corner shelves, sundry glass shelves, large number of metal connecting bars, fixtures and attachments etc, some 2ft sections fitted with later electrical componentsLadder supports height 201.5cm.
Lot 783
States of Jersey, 6 Pence (2), ND (1942), serial number 78821 and 123445, uncirculated and good very fine, the second note one rung off a ladder number! (2 notes) BNYB JE1, McCammon JN244 £100-£120 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Lot 73
An excessively rare Second War 1940-41 bomb and mine disposal operations George Medal and Second Award Bar group of three awarded to Able Seaman W. H. Bevan, Royal Navy: the Bar was for making safe a parachute mine that was suspended over the stage of the London Palladium Theatre - when the clockwork in the fuse whirred into action, ‘Bevan slid down the ladder and took a 10 foot drop in his stride’ George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (A.B. William Henry Bevan Bevan, P/SSX. 12136); War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S., G.VI.R., 1st issue (SSX. 12136 (Po. B. 18572) W. H. Bevan, A.B., R.F.R.) good very fine (3) £12,000-£16,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Richard Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003. Just 26 Bars have been awarded to the George Medal since its institution in September 1940. G.M. London Gazette 27 June 1941. The recommendation states: ‘Able Seaman Bevan has helped in rendering mines safe and has shown himself to be cool and courageous when conditions are highly dangerous. In one instance he helped Lieutenant O’Hagan, R.C.N.V.R., with a mine which was endangering the Central Electricity Power Station at Trafford Park, Manchester. The mine was lying with its bomb fuse down and with a fire raging some fifty yards away. Owing to damage to the fuse an extempore cap had been screwed in to press on the hydrostatic valve and Bevan helped to unscrew the keep ring, which was bent. The clock of the fuse started to run off; the extempore safety gear was successful and the mine did not fire. Later, he helped to boil out the explosives from this highly dangerous mine. A successful finish to a fine piece of work that prevented serious damage.’ Note: The above deeds were actually enacted over a several day period, between the 22-26 December 1940, Lieutenant D. J. P. O’Hagan, R.C.N.V.R., originally being recommended for a G.C. for his part in the drama, but, like Bevan, finally receiving a G.M. Both men received their awards at a Buckingham Palace investiture on 27 July 1941. On the night of 22 December 1940, Manchester was for the first time selected as a major target by the Luftwaffe, the first bombs falling at around 5 p.m. and the last in the early hours of the following day. About 270 enemy aircraft were involved and concentrated their attack on the central district and to the north-east. The Trafford Park area was particularly affected, the main bus depot and two railway stations being hit, in addition to the Central Electricity Power Station. G.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 9 June 1942. The joint recommendation states: ‘On 11 May 1941, an unexploded parachute mine was reported to have fallen on the London Palladium Theatre. After a prolonged search over the roof tops, the mine was located through the slates of a gable, and it was obvious that it would have to be approached from inside the building. It proved to be jammed in the girders and rafters of the roof immediately over the stage. Sub. Lieutenant Wright mounted a ricketty ladder to a girder which crossed some eight feet below the mine, and from there, by light of a torch, observed that the fuse was masked by a 9ft. x 3ft. rafter which had fractured under the weight of the mine. Sub. Lieutenant Wright lashed himself in a position from which he could work, and Able Seaman Bevan came up to hold his torch. Then, with a small saw, which was all the cramped conditions would allow, he cut through the rafter, exposing the fuse, and fitted a “gag”. During this period they were in imminent danger. He then turned his attention to the screw-threaded ring which held the fuse in position. Hardly had he touched it when the clockwork fuse began to run. Both men made every effort to escape. Wright succeeded in freeing himself and then jumped on to one of the ropes used for scenery, and slid to the floor. Bevan slid down the ladder and took a 10 foot drop in his stride. Fortunately the gag held - and the mine did not explode. They returned to the mine, not knowing the condition of the fuse, and decided to go on with the process of extracting it. This was successfully accomplished. To remove the detonator, Wright had to lie on the mine, while Bevan held on to his feet. Able Seaman Bevan served in the section for one year and assisted with 15 mines. Both Sub. Lieutenant Wright and Able Seaman Bevan displayed the highest degree of courage and devotion to duty on this occasion.’
Lot 52
A fine C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel W. Adye, Royal Irish Rifles, who was recommended for the V.C. in the Second Afghan War and was taken Prisoner of War at Nicholson’s Nek in the Second Boer War - ‘the most humiliating day in British military history since Majuba’ The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1882, complete with swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lt. W. Adye. Trans. Dep.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Major W. Adye. R. Irish Rifles); Coronation 1902, silver, white enamel chipped on one arm of C.B., otherwise, good very fine or better (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005, when sold with a silver-gilt C.B. badge (£3200). Walter Adye was born in November 1858, the son of Major-General Goodson Adye of Milverton, Warwick, and was educated at Leamington College and Sandhurst. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment (The Royal Irish Rifles) in January 1878, he was advanced to Lieutenant at the end of the same year, and quickly witnessed active service in the Second Afghan War. Adye was, in fact, detached for special duties, and ‘served throughout the second campaign, firstly as Transport Officer on the Kandahar line, having charge, for six months, of the stations of Dozan and Darwaza in the Boland Pass, and afterwards as Brigade Transport Officer, 1st Division, Kandahar F.F., at Kandahar, where he performed garrison duty throughout the siege. During the retirement of troops from the sortie to Deh Khwaja, he distinguished himself by carrying, under a heavy fire, two of the wounded to places of safety. He was present in the reconnaissance of 31st August, and the battle of Kandahar. He proceeded to India in November 1880, to rejoin his regiment prior to embarkation for Natal. He was recommended by H.E. the Commander-in-Chief, and by General Primrose, for the Victoria Cross’ (Shadbolt refers): Adye actually descended by a rope ladder from the Kabul Gate when sallying out to rescue the second man. Having witnessed further active service - back with his regiment - in the First Boer War 1881, Adye was advanced to Captain in November 1884 and served as Adjutant of the Auxiliary Forces 1885-90. Further promotion followed in March 1893, with his appointment as Major, and by the eve of the Second Boer War he was serving as D.A.A.G. to the Army. He subsequently joined Sir George White’s staff out in Natal at the commencement of hostilities, and quickly made his mark with his senior, being described by him as a ‘capital officer’ who knew ‘every inch of the ground’ - the latter accolade presumably on the back of his earlier experiences in the First Boer War of 1881. Be that as it may, and having witnessed the costly affair at Lombard’s Kop, Adye was instrumental in persuading White to let him take a column to Nicholson’s Nek to protect the west flank of the infantry who were assigned the storming of Pepworth, and to block off the enemy’s line of retreat. In the event, the column was commanded by Adye’s regimental C.O., Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton, which from a career point of view was probably as well, for the whole met with disaster: ‘... From earliest daybreak Boer scouts were reconnoitring, and about 8 o’clock mounted Boers could be seen galloping in small groups to the cover at the reverse of the hill on the west. Later, two strong parties of mounted men took position on the far side of the two hills commanding the kopje from the west. About 9 o’clock these two parties had crowned the hills and opened a heavy fire at short ranges right down upon the plateau. Our men made a plucky attempt to return this fire, but it was impossible; they were under a cross-fire from two directions, flank and rear. The two companies of Gloucesters holding the self-contained ridge were driven from their shelter, and as they crossed the open on the lower plateau were terribly mauled, the men falling in groups. The Boers on the west had not yet declared themselves, but about 200 marksmen climbed to the position which the two companies of Gloucesters had just vacated. These men absolutely raked the plateau, and it was then that the men were ordered to take cover on the steep reverse of the kopje. As soon as the enemy realised this move, the men on the western hill teemed on to the summit and opened upon our men as they lay on the slope. They were absolutely hemmed in, and what had commenced as a skirmish seemed about to become a butchery. The grim order was passed round - “Faugh-a-Ballaghs, fix your bayonets and die like men!” There was the clatter of steel, the moment of suspense, and then the “Cease Fire” sounded. Again and again it sounded, but the Irish Fusiliers were loth to accept the call, and continued firing for many minutes. Then it was unconditional surrender and the men laid down their arms...’ (The Transvaal War refers). Adye was one of 954 officers and men to be taken Prisoner of War that day, a bitter blow to Sir George White, and a day that one historian has described as ‘the most humiliating in British military history since Majuba’: it is said that the officers of the Royal Irish Rifles were ‘so exasperated at the exhibition of the white flag that they set to work and smashed their swords rather than give them up’. Adye was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 8 February 1901 refers) and, on being released, served as D.A.A.G. at Army H.Q. from July 1900 until February 1904. He was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in the latter year, when he was appointed a General Staff Officer, and thence to substantive Colonel in October 1907. Appointed C.B. in 1909, he served briefly as Deputy Assistant Inspector of Remounts, Eastern Command, from 1914 until his death in September 1915.
Lot 585
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Dacres C. Beadon, May. 14. 1906) lacking integral top riband buckle, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case no. 34,609: ‘At 10 pm on the 14th May, 1906, owing to a sling becoming detached while a boat was being hoisted on board a ship off the mouth of the Tyne, W. C. Mason was knocked overboard. The night was dark, with a strong wind and heavy sea. At great risk, D. C. Beadon went over the side and succeeded in saving him. Beadon, unfortunately, died 2 1/2 hours later.’ The following additional detail is provided by the The Evening Chronicle of 16 May 1906: ‘Sad Death of a Tyne Works Manager, Through an Attempt to Save a Workman. At Hebburn last night, Mr A. T. Shepherd, deputy coroner, held an inquest into circumstances of the death of Mr Dacres Caris Beadon, outside manager at the St. Peter’s works of Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd who died on board the Russian Volunteer Fleet steamer Smolensk, after immersion at sea on Monday night. Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne, chairman of Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd., gave evidence of identification, and said the deceased was outside manager at the engine works. He was 48 years of age, and resided at Monkseaton. He left the Tyne in charge of the engines of the Smolensk on Monday night. Witness was told yesterday morning that Mr. Beadon had died from the effects of being immersed in the sea. William Matheson, manager of the shipyard of Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. Ltd., said he was on board the Smolensk, which left the Tyne between 5 and 6 o’clock on Monday evening. Between 8 and 9 preparations were made to transfer the workmen from the ship to a steam tug. There was a ground swell, and after one boat had been despatched from the steamer to the tug it was deemed inadvisable to send any more. The captain gave orders for the boat to be hoisted and while this was being done the stern tackle slipped in consequence of the lurching of the ship, and the boat dropped into the sea. There were three or four men in the boat, one of whom named Mason, was in difficulties. Mr Beadon descended a rope ladder to the bottom to get hold of Mason and while he was hanging on he was frequently immersed in the sea. The deceased and Mason were hauled on board as soon as possible and taken to the hospital on the steamer. They were attended to by the ship’s doctor and his assistants. Mr Beadon was unconscious when he was bought aboard. Hot water bottles were applied, and everything possible was done to revive him. He partly recovered consciousness, but shortly after half-past 12 a change came over Mr Beadon and he died.... The Coroner remarked it was a very melancholy occurrence indeed. Mr Beadon seemed to have lost his life entirely through his endeavours to save another man. One could not but feel the greatest sympathy with the deceased’s family and everyone connected to him.... The fifteen or twenty minutes frequent immersion in the cold sea had evidently been too much for his strength, and caused paralysis of the heart from which he died.....’ Sold with copied research.
Lot 348
* Mitchell (Peter Todd, 1924-1988). Manoeuvring a Sculpture, circa 1960s, red and black ink, heightened with white gouache, underdrawn in pencil on buff paper, two semi-nude men lift a large sculpted classical head with ropes, with masonry work and a ladder in the background, signed, mount aperture 46.5 x 62 cm (18 1/4 x 24 1/4 ins), together with Setting in Position, circa 1960s, red and black ink, heightened with white gouache, underdrawn in pencil on buff paper, two semi-nude men set a large sculpted classical head in position on large carved stone mounts, signed, mount aperture 62 x 47 cm (24 1/4 x 18 1/2 ins), both works uniformly framed and glazed (89.5 x 72 cm each)QTY: (2)NOTE:Peter Todd Mitchell was an American painter, designer and writer. He studied art at Yale University and at the Academia de las Bellas Artes in Mexico, and spent the war years in Naval Intelligence. He moved to Paris in 1947 to pursue a painting career, and his first exhibition was at Jean Cocteau's Galerie Morihien. Noted for his textile and wallpaper designs, Mitchell worked with numerous well-known fashion designers, including Alexander 'Omar' Kiam, Norman Norell, Adele Simpson and Claude Staron. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Hanover Gallery in London and the Carstairs in New York City.
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