Robert John Welch, Photographer (1859-1936) - a Collection of Nineteen Magic Lantern Slides of the West Coast of Ireland, showing the native people about their daily pursuits, cottages and hovels, some initialled WJDW for William James Dickson Walker Footnote - William James Dickson Walker (1854-1926) was a distinguished expert in the textile industry, and a member of the Congested Districts Board (CDB) in Northern Ireland, for which work he was awarded a CB. It is probable that these photographs were taken by Welch, but used by Walker in conjunction with his work for the CDB
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A First World War Photograph Album, containing twelve black and white photographs belonging to Private William Jones, 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Robin Hood Sherwood Foresters, who was captured by the Germans at Bullecourt in 1918. Some of these photographs were taken in the POW camp where he was being held. Private Jones's portrait photograph is on the second page of the album; a Collection of Forty Second World War Photographs, taken between August 1942 and January 1943 by a photographer attached to the 8th Army in North Africa, each annotated in ink to the reverse; also, thirty six Second World War ARP training magic lantern slides
A Collection of Fifty Nine Magic Lantern Slides, military related themes including Victorian coloured printed battle scenes, black and white photographic Royal Navy shipping scenes, the Great European War, Training Kitchener's Army, Nursing scenes etc; also, thirteen First World War magic lantern slides relating to wounded soldiers and the Red Cross (72)
Africa - a Collection of One Hundred and Forty Five Magic Lantern Slides, most by George Washington Wilson, showing tribes people, village life, scenery and industrial scenes, including some duplicates; also, eighty magic lantern slides, including some hand tinted examples, showing missionary life in Sierra Leone
A rare Dominion square lantern shaped glass petrol pump globe, fully stamped underneath: Property of Dominion Motor Spirit Co. Ltd., slight discolouration particularly to one side, otherwise in excellent condition; sold with a copy of Dominion News, showing a similar globe to the front cover.
Charles II brass lantern clock, John Ebsworth at ye Cross Keys in Lothbury, Londini (London), circa 1670, the 15.5cm diameter Roman dial with half hour divisions and inner quarter hour track framing engraved tulip decoration and Arabic alarm dial with iron single hand, the posted countwheel bell-striking movement with verge and crownwheel escapement, internal pendulum and standard London third period frame with column turned corner posts beneath dolphin-pierced frets, urn finials and strap work mounted bell, the sides with hinged brass doors, 38cm high, together with a later oak bracket Literature - Loomes, Brian, Lantern Clocks & Their Makers records John Ebsworth as apprenticed in 1657 to Richard Ames and free in 1665. his progression through the court of the Clockmakers Company saw him become Assistant in 1682, Warden in 1694 and Master 1697. he died in 1699. Condition: Disclaimer - Please see item 20 of our Conditions of Sale relating to clocks, watches and mechanical items - minor rubbing to wax numerals plus some spotting and a small hole to chapter ring, hand maybe a replacement, movement would benefit from a clean, has probably been converted from verge and crownwheel to anchor and back to verge - cut-away to rear edge of roof, sold with later bracket, and 'longcase clock' weight, side doors possibly later, rear door lacking or never had one, private provenance
Primus Junior Lecturers' Series coloured lantern slides, three boxed sets, Puss in Boots, in one chapter containing eight slides with reading, Peter Pan, in three chapters and Robinson Crusoe, together with Natural History Slides Junior Lecturers Series, Animals, in six chapters, each containing eight slides with reading
Seven mahogany framed magic lantern slides, each hand coloured and with moving glass panel, Eastern man throws head up, figure with geese, trap door, vegetable man, man with basket on his head and goose pecks his nose, a merry party in a boat, with brass handle to move it and dancing figure, one frame impressed Stereoscopic Company 110 Regent Street
*English School. By the fireside, circa 1850, watercolour with traces of pencil, highlighted with bodycolour, interior cottage scene with five peasant children gathered around a small fire in a large beamed fireplace, with a farm worker in smock dozing in a chair beside, and his wife bending over a wicker cradle, with carved oak chair, bundle of hanging joined tapers, pewter pots, a lantern, bellows, and various other household accoutrements, very slightly rubbed in places, 36 x 49cm (14.25 x 19.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)
An interesting and varied collection of curiosities, including a 19th century fisherman's fleam, knotted with birds' feathers, oval penwork box and cover, picked out with green reserves, 6.5cm wide; Victorian Orientalist Magic Lantern slides, (4); Harrods Stationery Department visiting cards: Charles B.M.McBurney, King's College, Cambridge, [1914 - 1979, famous Paleolithic archaeologist], advertising box en suite, c. 1933; a Victorian brown shellac memento mori mourning locket, hinged cover moulded in a high relief with a nest of chicks, enclosing two locks of hair, c. 1880; a Japanese lacquer rectangular box and cover, enclosing clippings of family members' hair; a pair of Victorian glass photographic portraits, of a lady and a child, bevelled ovals, 3.4cm high, fitted case en suite; a Japanese mujo softwood macabre bead, carved as a human skull; brass gaming tokens, as George II guineas, (6); a 19th century lace sample, 28cm long; a pair of late George III steel spectacles, c. 1820; mother-of-pearl batons, various; teeth, various; shells, driftwood and other natural history specimens (qty)
A collection of pictures and prints to include two still life paintings with flowers to black grounds, one monogrammed J Best lower-left, a maritime scene watercolour on artist's board of steam tugs guiding in a passenger ship, signed John J Best lower-left, 27 x 33cm, a photogravure of a young lady and blossoms, a watercolour of an elderly couple gardening and two Oriental prints, one of a gentleman in a bamboo forest, the other of a gentleman leading a horse by lantern light (7).
A rare late 19th century diapositive lantern slide of a Javanese (Wayang) Shadow Puppet Theatre troop:, circa 1870, the circular image showing the theatre frame surrounded by musicians with an audience to one side, mounted in a wooden lantern slide frame, image size 7.5cm diameter, frame size 9cm x 17.3cm.
Two hand painted panoramic magic lantern slides of the Royal Carriage Procession to the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851:, one depicting the Royal coach being pulled by a team of six horses, the other of a group of seven caricature figures representing the Corporation of the City London, comprising Beefeaters and a John Bull type figure, one holding a Corporation banner, another with a flag dated 'First of May 1851', both in mahogany mounts 10.3cm, x 38.3cm,
9ct GOLD HEAVY CURB PATTERN CHARM BRACELET, with padlock clasp and five 9ct gold charms viz a violin in a case; a lantern with interior captive pearl; St. Christopher medallion; a boot and a drum shaped glazed case containing a folded £1 note; also a 9ct gold STONE SET FOB SEAL, 86.8gms gross

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