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Lot 213
A mixed collection of large vintage lenses. Lenses are: 1) Bolco condenser lens - Dia 10 - focus 20 - for use with a magic lantern, 2) Taylor and Hobson 3 1/2 x 3/12 90mm x 90mm Cooke Process Lens Prism - No. 220181 - Made by Taylor - Hobson, England - Pat No. 242755 - with original leather case, 3) Hunter - Penrose London Lens Prism - housed in Taylor Hobson leather case. 4) a very large possibly projector lens - diameter approx. 21cm.
Lot 130
ADVERTISING INTEREST, a double sided Wills's Woodbine Cigarettes enamel sign, red and black lettering on a white rectangular sign, 30.5cm x 45.5cm (12 inches x 18 inches), s.d., a Huntley & Palmers Biscuits tin in the form of paper lantern lithographed with Japanese decoration, wire handle, RGD No.556543, height 15cm, a sealed tin of W.D. & H.O. Wills 'Passing Clouds' 50 cigarettes and a sealed tin of Benson and Hedges Super Virginia 50 Cigarettes (4) (Condition report: the enamel sign has chips all around the edges and larger sections of lost enamel and rusting to the drilled edge, the biscuit tin has extensive wear to the lithograph, especially on the ridges, the two tins of cigarettes are a bit worn/ slightly rusted to the ends and some small tears in the paper bands)
Lot 3312
Peking Teppich. CHINA, um 1920, 340X280 cm. Der mittelbraune Teppich mit dunkelblauem Rand zeigt ein reduziertes Muster von chinesischen Symbolen, wie z.B. Blütenzweige, einen knorrigen Baum, Schmetterlinge, eine Laterne sowie zwei auberginefarbene Kreismmotive. Starke Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren, abgelaufene Stellen, insgesamt dünn.| Peking carpet. CHINA, around 1920, 340X280 cm. The medium brown carpet with dark blue border shows a reduced pattern of Chinese symbols, such as flower branches, a gnarled tree, butterflies, a lantern and two eggplant circle motifs. Heavy signs of age, worn and thin.
Lot 283
Thomas Macaulay, Leeds, a Victorian brass miniature lantern clock, the opening case sides engraved with fleur de lys, rampant lions and Yorkshire rose heads, both sides signed Thomas Macaulay, the fusee watch movement signed Ben. Gray & Just. Vulliamy, London, circa 1760, 17cm. Movement working 09/11/22, but not guaranteed. Benjamin Gray and Justin Vulliamy formed an important partnership working in Pall Mall from 1743 until 1762. Vulliamy was the son-in-law of Gray and between them, they made many fine clocks and watches which are exhibited in museums around the world. Justin Vulliamy was the first of the Vulliamy family to arrive in England from Switzerland and also the first to receive Royal Patronage.
Lot 1138A
2 boxes of glass Magic Lantern slides, with the majority relating to Bee's and Bee Keeping. Some with retailers labels including George Rose, Newton & Co, G H Hewison etc. Some slides with annotated labels, all housed in two wooden cases. *CR: Mixed condition, some slides with damages. *BP 22.5% (18.75% plus VAT) plus a lot fee of £8 inc. VAT on each lot.
Lot 1557
A large 19th century Dutch silver candle lantern, with relief embossed figural and foliate decoration, ruby overlay bevelled glass with fish mounts, import hallmarks London 1897, height 30cm, 26oz grossNo damage or repairs, high points slightly worn, small acanthus leaf near foot is slightly bent inwards, no cracks to glass, hinge door working, base has been drilled with fitting attachment for electric light, hallmarks clear
Lot 486
ARTS & CRAFTS COPPER AND BRASS HALL LANTERN,the tapered leaded glass shade set with polychrome panels, 48cm high, with chain suspension, wired for electricityCondition fair. One glass panels missing. Two of the scroll mounts aren't screwed to the base, so attention will be required. Wear and tarnish as with age. Turns on at time of testing.
Lot 351
A large collection of booklets, pamphlets and documents forming the private reasearch archive of Professor Sergi Ivanovich Tomkeieff, FRSE FGS, comprising of various box files containing many geological offprints, some with 'Authors compliments written to top edge', covering research on the Giants Causeway, Geological Maps, a number of offprints by G. W. Tyrrell, geology of the Lizard, Cornwall, notes, maps documents and offprints related to Aran, Scotland, Various note books including a handwritten book titled 'An Account of the Appleby Geological Excursion of 1921, James Hutton, with photographs and geological drawings, several boxes of photographs from field trips and geological surveys, lantern slides and other photographs (a lot) Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College. He was Author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous). He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76
Lot 624
19th Century brass twin-fusee lantern style clock, the 6.25-inch Roman dial with inner quarter hour track, framing a Lothbury-style centre engraved with tulip, other flowers and foliage, faux alarm dial with winding squares, chain fusee movement stamped CV 106, the case with typical strapped bell surmount and pierced dolphin cresting over three pinned doors on ball feet, 38cm high
Lot 136
* Warships. A collection of approximately 500 half-plate glass plate negatives of warships, early to mid 20th century, together with approximately 35 half-plate glass plate negatives of helicopters, 140 quarter-plate glass plate negatives of warships and 30 naval lantern slides, contained in card photographic boxes, plus 7 cine reel tins containing 16mm cinefilm of boating at Cowes, Falmouth, etc.QTY: (4 cartons)
Lot 139
* World War One. A group of 50 diapositive magic lantern slides of scenes from the First World War, 1914-18, many with negative number and letter 'F' in the negative, white china ink captions to lower edges, titles include The King and President Poincaré decorating a Maresciallo of carabinieri, Czecho-Slovaki 1918 (Italian Alpino uniforms with Bohemians' national colours), Alpinis with Polish prisoner (friendly Austrian), Italian field hospital at Raune on the Bainsizza, September 1917, The attack on San Gabriele & Santa Catriana, Visitors on the (?)Jayliamento cheering their liberators, November 1918, Germans & Austrians gloating over execution - from a captured photograph, etc., most of the captions with initials BCG, presumably the name of the person who prepared them for showing, additional initials and numerals to tops of sealsQTY: (50)
Lot 397
* The Wreck of the Glencairn. An original manuscript account describing the events of the wreck of the Glencairn, by apprentice seaman Colin C. Watson, c. 1907, written up after the event in a fair hand, describing the events from leaving Rochester bound for Portland, Oregon, striking a rock off Tierra del Fuego, losing two crew members and the ensuing events on shore, a little spotting and creasing, old pin to top corner, 13 pages (over 3,000 words) on 13 leaves, 4to, together with a testimonial for Colin C. Watson serving as an apprentice in the "Glencairn" and "Fifeshire" for a period of 12 months, signed by the Master, John Nichol, one page, 4to, plus a contemporary cabinet card photograph of the young Colin C. Watson in naval attire, slightly trimmed at foot of mountQTY: (3)NOTE:A harrowing eye-witness account of the wreck of the Glencairn by an apprentice on board. The Glencairn left Rochester on 9 May 1907, bound for Seattle, with twenty-five crew plus the Master's wife and child, the boat carrying 2,375 tons of cement. It struck rock off Tierra del Fuego and the party was forced to abandon ship, two crew members being lost when leaving. The letter carries on to describe Watson's version of the story until their fortuitous rescue by Lucas Bridges. Bridges gives his own account of events when he encountered the shipwrecked party in his autobiography 'Uttermost Part of the Earth' (1948). Chapter 46, pp. 463-72.Watson was to continue his naval career, serving as a P & O Captain for some thirty years. See following lot.A full transcription of this manuscript is available on request.Selected extracts:' We were to go through the Maine Strait between Hadon Island and the mainland (Tiera del Fuoga). I happened to be at the wheel at the time we were making the entrance of the strait. Suddenly a furious snow squall sprung up and the land was obliterated from view. I noticed a slight shock followed by a heavier one and say out to the Captain “We are on the ground Sir”. The next instant we had crashed upon a sunken ?, and the men came running aft in response to the shrill whistle of the First Mate summoning them. The squall was but the precursor of a typical Cape Horn Blow. Wind and sea increased rapidly and soon the decks were being swept by heavy seas which thundered over the poor old stricken ‘Glencairn’ smashing up rails, doors etc. and smashing everything moveable over the side. With terrible difficulty we succeeded in launching our two lifeboats. One was taken forward and then commenced the task of loading the boat. The Captains wife and child and the Stewardess were about to be lowered into the boat in which three men were busy fending her off the ships side when a huge sea capsized her carrying away the panels? by which she was secured to the ship. Powerless to help we saw one of our unfortunate shipmates drown before of our eyes, one man had disappeared entirely whilst the other had succeeded in clambering up on the overturned boats stern and sticking his feet in the lifelines clung desperately to the heel. He soon drifted out of sight into the whirly snowstorm.The Captain then called for volunteers to go off in the sole remaining lifeboat to attempt a rescue. The foreign element in the crew objected to this. I pleaded that it was madness to risk the lives of all in an attempt to recover one man. I pointed out that should the boat be lost we should all inevitably drown. They asked him if he wished to imperil the lives of his wife and child. He quietly replied that while there was a chance to save the man he would see that some effort was made and ordered away the boat in search. Then followed a scene which is terrible to relate. Half mad with fear and convinced of their doom they broke into a whisky case they had pilfered from the lazaretto? whilst provisioning the boats. Sea ? continues to sweep the decks and one by one they fell dead drunk their bodies washing about the decks.''The second mate explained the impossibility of landing, heavy seas and precipitous cliffs, and then for the first time did the Captains wife break down. Throughout all the previous horrors she had maintained a calm courage – an unwavering faith that God would save her and the dear ones - and now at last the appalling hours in the open boat, and the apparently hopeless possibility of being saved crushed her hitherto plucky spirit. Yet another ghastly night we spent, the vessel noticeably sinking beneath us. Early the next morning before daylight the first mate and I crawled down the fore hold? to see how the water was forward. It was a ghastly sight. Muddy dark water swishing about the hold and thousands of rats squealing with fear perched all round the slingers?. The feeble light from our lantern accentuated the horror of it - the rats did the rest. We both lost nerve and made a rush to get on deck again. When daylight broke we were labouring and wallowing in a still heavy sea and the water nearly up to our scuppers. We then launched the dinghy - a mere cockleshell - and one by one filled the lifeboat and the remainder by the dinghy. It was a dangerous business - poising oneself on the rail and then taking a flying leap into the boat.''To my astonishment I saw the Captain who was ahead of me endeavouring to make himself understood to a couple of natives. Huge fellows they were, both of them well over six feet; clad only in a guanaco skin - carrying bows and arrows, and accompanied by two exceedingly gaunt and hungry looking dogs. They were quite friendly - much to our relief – for we had understood that the natives had cannibalistic proclivities. They belonged to a wandering Tribe of Ona and their Chief being able to speak a little Argentine helped matters a lot, one of our crew being also able to speak the language. They conducted us to a gap in the cliffs and soon found ourselves at their encampment, consisting of a few wigwams and populated by about twenty natives - men women and children.''I was in the search party, going down to the shore was just in time to see our old ship break up. The foremast fell forward followed by the main. The riggers fell aft and an hour later the jigger disappeared. Then she broke up completely and by afternoon the shoreline a couple of miles was strewn with wreckage. I made an excellent “find” - a drowned hen, and a piece of salt pork which I carried in triumph to the camp. Unfortunately very little of an edible nature washed ashore. My only rival as a caterer being an A.B. who had got a dead pig.For a week we existed in this manner eking out our scanty stores with mussels and shell fish gathered on the rocks. We also killed a sea lion portions of which we ate. The natives were good to us and gave us portions of a guanaco they had shot. Our cooking was somewhat primitive. We cut sharp twigs? And sticking a piece of meat on the end held it in the fire and then holding it in our fingers gnawed the “charred” outside “raw inside” flesh. The shell fish soon became nauseous and the sodden biscuits were getting “horribly less” as the 2nd mate put it and so the Captain and his AB interpreter held a conversation with the natives. We then learnt that many miles up country lived a man named Bridges engaged in sheep farming. The 2nd mate and one AB, therefore set out with an Indian guide to endeavour to find this white man. Succour from the reward? was impossible and on the hope that these two would bring us help rested our hopes.'
Lot 5
* Astronomical Slides. A set of 12 hand-painted panoramic lantern slides and 1 lever slide of astronomy, c. 1900, including 2 slip slides, showing planets and planetary movement and eclipses, the illustrations numbered on the wooden supports from [1] to 41, the panoramic slides 36 x 10 cm, all in wooden supports and contained in a bespoke wooden slide box lacking lidQTY: (1)
Lot 91
* Magic Lantern Slides. A group of 4 hand-painted kaleidoscopic chromotropes with single turning handles (one missing), together with 2 others of a banjo player and a ship moving across the sea, plus 2 single lever lantern slides (one in need of attention) and a group of 70 hand-painted magic lantern slides, mostly slip slides, all in wooden supports, depicting various humorous scenes, a few defectsQTY: (78)
Lot 92
* Magic Lantern Slides. A group of 65 mostly photographic magic lantern slides of WWI, etc., c. 1914-20, including Zeppelins, barrage balloons, Belgian refugees, English nurses, a shelled gas holder, Scarborough, in the trenches, Rheims Cathedral after bombardment, a hospital train, and one group photograph of No. 2 Team from the Schneider Trophy, contained in a contemporary wooden slide box with leather belt tieQTY: (65)
Lot 93
* Magic Lantern Slides. A group of 83 photographic and some lithographic magic lantern slides relating to the Russian civil war (1917-1919), depicting people, scenes and views from the North Russian Campaign, Arkangelsk, Murmansk, etc., plus Sir Ernest Shackleton in polar kit and Rev. A Simmons in Arctic uniform, etc., many images seemingly contemporary copy prints and including some of postcards, contained with an old typed list in a worn wooden slide boxQTY: (83)
Lot 98
* Middle East. A group of approximately 160 photographs mostly relating to Egypt, Sudan, c. 1920s, many apparently in connection with the construction of the Sennar Dam (opened 1926), gelatin silver prints, showing engineer and construction scenes, views, people and generic shots, the 13 largest photographs 23 x 27 cm but the majority approximately 13 x 14 cm and similar sizes, together with a group of 12 related photograph albums, containing approximately 250 largely small-format good quality snapshots, presumably taken and acquired by the same engineer, mostly relating to Egypt and surrounding region, plus photographs of Britain and Europe, etc., images approximately 8.5 x 5.5 cm and similar small sizes, tipped in and pasted in, sporadic captions, various bindings, some wear, 8vo/oblong 8vo, plus 6 related lantern slidesQTY: (a small carton)
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