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Lot 50
A Collection of 35mm camera and lenses, including Nikon F301 with Nikon lens, Nikon F301 camera body, 133mm series E, a Nikon FE with Nikon 50mm lens, a Nikon zoom lens 36-72mm, a Nikon F60 with Nikkor 28-80mm lens, a Nikon EM with Nikon Series E 50mm lens, and a nikon zoom 70-210mm series E.
Lot 4
RASHID JOHNSON (B. 1977)Carver 2012 signed on the reverseburned red oak flooring, black soap, wax and spray enamel in artist's frame184.2 by 125.7 cm.72 1/2 by 49 1/2 in.This work was executed in 2012.Footnotes:ProvenanceHauser & Wirth, New YorkPrivate Collection, US Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Curated, 24 September 2014, Lot 230Acquired directly from the above by the present ownerSince the turn of the millennium, there are but a handful of artists that have captured the spirit, the tumult, and the ideas of an unravelling twenty-first century, those who occupy a rarefied place in the nascent contemporary canon. Rashid Johnson is unquestionably an artist of this calibre. His practice has delivered some of the most compelling visions of human experience that relate directly to black history and the history of the United States, and as such have been powerful images amidst the social unrest and political evolution of the last twenty years. His is lauded and highly sought-after by institutions and private collectors alike, and the present work, Carver from 2012, is definitive of Johnson's career as a voice in the broader artistic and cultural discourse. With typical verve and vigour, the work lays bare an intensely layered and worked surface of black wax and soap over a burned wooden support. It is pure materiality and conjures not only the splashy expressive canvases of Abstract Expressionism or the reserved palette and fabric of Minimalism, but an organic reality that speaks to the spectator through the painting's almost rudimentary construction. Born in Chicago in 1977, Johnson studied photography at the School of the Art Institute, graduating in 2005. His early work showed a deep engagement with the photographic medium as documentary form and conceptual linchpin, consistently citing broader influences and inspirators from art and history through portraiture. His multi-disciplinary practice took shape rapidly, however, underpinned by these questions of identity as he developed a relationship with his materials that was personal and alchemical. 'The materials I've used over the last five to 10 years were things that were close to me, that reminded me of certain aspects of my experience growing up', Johnson has stated; 'for example, the relationship I had to Afrocentrism through my parents in the late '70s and early '80s. My mother would always have shea butter around, and she wore dashikis. I was celebrating Kwanzaa, hearing this unfamiliar language, Swahili, and seeing black soap and chew sticks around the house, things that were about applying an Africanness to one's self. [...] I was forced to negotiate what that period and those objects meant for me. I saw these things, as I got older, in Harlem, in Brooklyn, being sold on the street. I always thought to myself: What is the goal now with these materials? What are people trying to get from them?' (the artist interviewed by Christopher Stackhouse, ArtNews, 3 April 2012, online).Whilst Johnson's work relates closely to the plurality of black experience, his aesthetic concerns have remained frontal in his work. In the vein of Jannis Kounellis and Joseph Beuys, the nature of objecthood and materiality confronts the formality of abstract painting. Perhaps most akin to his contemporary Mark Bradford, the work's associations with blackness are at once profoundly material and peripheral. In the present work, like much of Johnson's practice, the title lends a contextual opening to the piece – Carver. This can be read in so many ways: primarily, as a nod to George Washington Carver, one of the most eminent agricultural scientists of the twentieth century who revolutionised the agricultural economy of the south. Carver was born into slavery before abolition in 1865, at which time he sought an education, receiving a Master of Science at Iowa State University. He identified peanuts, soy and sweet potatoes as alternative crops to cotton that had been over-farmed and depleted the soil across southern farmland. Johnson has consistently nodded to the writers and intellectuals that have been massively inspirational to him, citing James Baldwin, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker as various touchstones. Yet, the title can also be read as pure gesture – a possible nod to the action painting of Kazuo Shiraga or Jackson Pollock. In the surface of the painting, the motion of 'carving' comes vividly to life, and Johnson the named 'carver' of the present work. In the physical and passionate surface of Carver there is a beauty and violence. The piece impresses upon the spectator an emphatic presence, as a silhouette against the burnt wood support and that of the artist himself throwing molten wax and black soap across the surface of the piece. The soap offers up a material that is meant to cleanse the body. Yet, as a work of art, it becomes an element that may cleanse the mind or soul, or yet an aesthetic question – to alleviate the work of an accrued intellectual bearing. Such examples as this, of Johnson's large-scale paintings, tackle questions of formality and painterly resolve as a method of highlighting a conceptual and cultural thread. Carver is undoubtedly one of the most refined of these works, its composition wonderfully balanced and materials sumptuously dense. It is through this social and art-historical matrix that the artist gives rise to a novel type of abstraction – one borne of a materiality and formality that places a cultural lens over the work whilst serving to embolden the visceral experience of the painting. A contemporary artist whose work has been at the forefront of contemporary practice for nearly two decades as one of the most significant voices of his generation, Rashid Johnson's Carver is a painting that benefits from a strong associative title and magnificent scale. Having been selected for inclusions in global Biennales, his work resides in institutional collections that include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The present work is an impeccable example of his practice, displaying Johnson's masterful, effortless hand with his quintessential materials, and encapsulates the indelible impact and legacy that he has already established as one of the key names of the twenty-first century.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 20
"Zeus wird von Hera auf dem Berg Ida eingeschläfert"Wien, 1808, Johann Weichselbaum (1752 - 1840)Porzellanbild. Rund. Sign. Weixlbaum: p:. Schwach erkennbare Bindenschildmarke, Jahresstempel 808, Drehernummer 6. D. 33 cm. Nach einem Gemälde von Andries Cornelis Lens (1739 - 1822), das 1775 für M. de la Ferté in Paris gemalt wurde und seit 1783 in der Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien nachweisbar ist. Johann Weichselbaum, ausgebildet an der Wiener Akademie unter Heinrich F. Füger, war ab 1772 Dessin- und Figurenmaler an der Wiener Porzellammanufaktur, ab 1797 Obermaler und Vorstand der Klasse für Historienmalerei.
Lot 16
1979 BMW R100T/RS Spares Being sold without reserve Including a dashboard fairing front grill Windscreen, side panels Left and right lower fairing panels-BMW R100RS Top right fairing ? new, unused Nose cone plus lens and shroud Fairing front T-piece and lower support RS starter cover Two R/H rocker box covers Clutch cable measure New centre stand, subframe Parcel carrier and numerous accessories with levers, grommets, fairing screws and other items
Lot 66
A fine Great War ‘1917’ FE2d and DH4 Ace’s M.C. group of three awarded to Major H. R. Harker, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force - a skilled Flight Commander with 57 Squadron, who extricated his bomber formation from a dog fight with a vastly superior numbered German force led by Lothar Von Richthofen, 30 April 1917. A veteran of such skirmishes during ‘Bloody April’, Harker went on to claim at least 5 Victories before tragically succumbing to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘1917 Awarded To 2nd Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) H. R. Harker. R.F.C. “Consistently Set A Splendid Example To His Brother Officers” Died 27.2.1919 Major In R.A.F.’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted upside down (Capt. H. R. Harker. R.F.C.) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 9 January 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. For nearly a year he has carried out extremely valuable work in taking aeroplane photographs and leading bombing raids far behind the enemy lines, often in the face of great opposition and trying weather conditions. On a recent occasion while returning from a successful bombing raid his formation was attacked by more than twice its number but by his fine offensive spirit and skilful leadership the enemy were dispersed. He has consistently set a splendid example to his brother officers.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 27 May 1919. Howard Redmayne Harker was born in May 1891, and was the son of Mr and Mrs J. D. Harker of Prestwich, Manchester. He was educated at Laurence House School, St. Annes-on-Sea, Rossall School and Manchester University. Harker had been a member of the university O.T.C., and upon leaving in 1913 was employed in the Experimental Department of the Royal Air Craft Factory. Eventually, despite deferment because of important war work, he successfully obtained a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916. Harker gained his Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 2945) in May 1916, and having completed his flying training advanced to Flying Officer the following month. He was posted for operational flying with the newly formed 57 Squadron (FE2d’s) to France, 16 December 1916. The Squadron were employed on fighter reconnaissance duties, and Harker achieved their first victory when flying with Second Lieutenant V. D. Fernauld (an American) as his observer, 24 March 1917. The Combat Report gives the following: ‘FE2d A/1954, armed with 2 Lewis guns, Pilot 2/Lt. H. R. Harker, Observer 2/Lt. V. D. Fernauld engaged a hostile aircraft at 1145, east of Lens, at 9,000ft. The H.A. was a signle seat tractor biplane with one or two fixed guns. The H.A. was engaged from above on his right side with the sun behind the FE2d. A burst of about 20 rounds was fired, from almost directly above the H.A. at a range of less than 50 yards, by the Oobserver. The tracer bullets were seen entering the engine and fuselage, and H.A. went down practically vertically, twisting about....’ The superiority of the German aircraft was to come to the fore the following month, known as ‘Bloody April’, when the Squadron lost a number of pilots in combat. Harker wrote home, 7 April 1917: ‘We are having quite a busy time of late for reasons which you will gather by the time you get this letter and see its date. We are engaged in the somewhat arduous and occasionally mildly exciting task of gaining what the politicians love to call ‘The supremacy of the air.’ I have for the third time been appointed acting Flight Commander and may possibly remain so this time. The man who relieved me of my temporary command the last time went over the line yesterday morning and the unkind Huns promptly shot him down and he landed within 50 yards of our outposts in front of the Hindenburg line. He is now in ‘Blighty’ I expect. He was luckier than the other four machines, which did not return all... This particular patrol were asked to do a well nigh impossible task which we have not been required to repeat so you need not think I am likely to follow them... It is somewhat parky in the upper atmosphere just now and many of us are suffering from mild frostbite...’ A ‘scrap’ with Lothar Von Richthofen Harker led a bombing formation, 30 April 1917, which had a brush with Lothar von Richthofen: ‘Forty minutes after his destruction of the 16 Squadron BE, Lothar Von Richthofen and his command, together with elements of Jasta 12, spotted a formation of FEs in the morning light. The FEs, led by Captain H. R. Harker (A6401), were from 57 Squadron. Earlier at 06.50 the British had spotted German fighters over Lécluse but, outnumbered as they were, had decided that discretion was the better part of valour and withdrew. At 07.00 over Vitry, they were approached by yet another formation of enemy scouts, six above them and three others at their own altitude. In the initial attack, two of the FE’s fell, one to Lothar, the other to the leader of Jasta 12, Adolf von Tutschek.... Another of the FE’s (A1966) was picked off by the three enemy scouts operating at the lower level.... An enemy machine was also hit, going down two miles SW of Douai. Yet another of the German planes went down under the fire of the FE’s, landing near to Vitry at 07.15. The German losses were soon more than made good by the arrival of reinforcements.... Still the Germans continued not to commit themselves to an all-out attack, a situation which allowed Harker and three other FE’s to edge their way slowly back to the British lines.’ (Under the Guns of the German Aces, by N. Franks and H. Giblin refers). It is highly likely that the above action is one the one referred to in the recipient’s M.C. citation. Harker advanced to Acting Captain and Flight Commander after ‘Bloody April’. The Squadron re-equipped with DH4’s in May 1917, and was tasked with long range bomber reconnaissance. It moved to Boisdinghem the following month, and joined the 27th Wing as part of V Brigade. The latter was employed in support of the British Army during the Ypres Offensive, and this new role seems to have suited Harker as he added at least another 4 enemy aircraft to his score between 18 June - 21 August 1917 (some sources credit him with 7 enemy aircraft shot down). Having completed his tour with 57 Squadron, Harker returned to the UK at the end of August 1917. Subsequent appointments included as Acting Squadron Commander of 3 I.T.S., and also instructing at No. 2 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping, R.A.F. Andover. He advanced to Acting Major in October 1918, and tragically succumbed to the then raging Spanish Flu pandemic, dying at the Officer’s Military Hospital at Tidworth, 27 February 1919. Major Harker was mentioned in despatches for his work at Andover, and this was posthumously gazetted. He is buried in the Southern Cemetery, Manchester. Sold with a large amount of copied research, including photographic images.
Lot 79
‘In a fight against large odds he is perfectly happy and an excellent shot, he has on several occasions proved his capabilities under very trying circumstances and on one occasion, at considerable risk and very great discomfort, saved a machine from a forced landing by standing on the plane and holding together two ends of a petrol pipe.’ The superb and extremely rare Great War Royal Naval Division ‘Gallipoli and Western Front’ D.C.M., Royal Naval Air Service ‘North Sea Patrols’ D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer W. G. Chapman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Chief Mechanic, Royal Naval Air Service, who was awarded the D.C.M. for brave deeds with the Drake Battalion at Antwerp 1914, ashore at Cape Helles, 1915, and in France, 1916. Subsequently joining R.N.A.S. Great Yarmouth where, as an exceptional engineer and fearless crew member, Chapman displayed the utmost gallantry in action on numerous long distance flying boat patrols, 1917-18, often engaging in fights with enemy scouts and fast seaplanes; gallantry for which he was awarded the D.F.M. and was Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (Lond: 10-3044 Ch: P.O. W. G. Chapman. Drake Bn: 63/R.N.D.); Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (224573 Sergt.-Mech Chapman W. G., D.S.M. R.A.F.); 1914 Star (L.10/3044 W. G. Chapman, A.B. R.N.V.R. Drake Bttn R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (224573. Ch. Mech. W. G. Chapman. R.A.F.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, with M.I.D. oak leaf, nearly extremely fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917, citation published 13 February 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has performed consistent good work with the Division since its formation.’ Annotated Gazette states ‘Gallipoli’ and ‘France’. D.F.M. London Gazette 21 September 1918: ‘He has been a member of a seaplane crew on practically every long-distance patrol. He has taken part with zeal, gallantry, and coolness in numerous engagements with hostile aircraft.’ M.I.D. London Gazettes 1 May 1918 and 2 June 1943. Note: In common with their Royal Marine counterparts, when coming under Army command during integrated land operations, the N.C.O.s and men of the Royal Naval Division were unusual in their eligibility for both the D.C.M. and the D.S.M. This complexity is undoubtedly responsible for the erroneous post-nominals ‘D.S.M.’ being impressed on Chapman’s D.F.M. rather than ‘D.C.M.’. This administrative error was replicated in the London Gazette entry for his award. William George Chapman was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, on 10 April 1895 and was raised in Southwark, London. An electrical engineer by occupation, he joined the London Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 23 October 1913 and was mobilised for war on 2 August 1914, immediately seeing service in the North Sea. Posted as an Able Seaman to the 1st (Drake) Battalion of the newly formed Royal Naval Division on 22 August, he participated with the 1st Naval Brigade in the Antwerp operations during October 1914, making good his return to England the same month. Gallipoli Petty Officer Chapman embarked with ‘A’ Company of his battalion in February 1915 for ‘an operation in the Mediterranean’, arriving at Port Said, Egypt on 29 March. A week later he was re-embarked for Gallipoli where the Drake Battalion was landed at 8.30pm on 26 April onto the Cape Helles beaches barely won by the main landings the previous day. At 8am on 28 April, with the entire Naval Division now on land, the Drake Battalion - attached 87th Brigade, 29th Division (and the only battalion of the R.N.D. to be engaged that day) - was thrust into the assault inland towards Krithia and Achi Baba. Suffering heavy losses, the tired, demoralised and virtually leaderless troops were soon stopped by the resolute Ottomans and the First Battle of Krithia was all over by nightfall. Digging in just above the W Beach headland, the Drake Battalion were next involved in the successful repulsion of a Turkish counter attack on 1 May (Battle of Eski Hissarlik) and would be employed in further attempts to push inland on 6-8 May (Second Battle of Krithia), 4 June (Third Battle of Krithia) and the Action at Achi Baba Nullah on 12/13 July. All to no avail and at great cost. In fact, so numerically weakened had they become, the Naval Division played little part in the later struggles at Cape Helles in August and September. Finally, and somewhat anticlimactically, on 8 January 1916 the men of the Drake Battalion, together with the rest of the British Empire forces, left their trenches for the last time, returned to the beaches so hard won, and left the peninsula. Battle of the Ancre - D.C.M. The Royal Naval Division (now renumbered the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, comprising of the the 188th, 189th and 190th Brigades) was ordered to France in May 1916 as part of V Corps, 5th Army and so following four months peaceable employment in the Aegean, Chapman returned to the Western Front now in the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Disembarking at Marseille on 7 June 1916, the Division took it’s place in the fighting line between Lens and Vimy Ridge in the Angres-Souchez sector on the Western front. Here, the life of the Division was almost uniformly without incident and it was moved to the IV Corps training area in mid September. Two months later, the Royal Naval Division, commanded by the increasingly unpopular Major-General Shute, was thrown into the Battle of the Ancre, 13-18 November 1916, during the final stages of the Battle of the Somme, advancing along the River Ancre to capture Beaucourt. The Drake Battalion, of the 189th Brigade, lost half their effective strength in the opening stages of the attack, including their C.O. Lieutenant-Colonel Tetley killed, and many more were scattered. The remaining body of three officers and eighty petty officers and men now came under the command Colonel Freyburg of the Hood Battalion whose composite force went on to execute a series of brilliant advances before capturing Beaucourt Village. Freyburg was awarded the Victoria Cross: ‘Again at a critical moment in the battle Colonel Freyburg retrieved the situation by himself leading the assault, followed by a mixed detachment of his own men, details of Drake, Hawke, Nelson and H.A.C., and the 13th K.R.R.C. In a moment Beaucourt was ours, the garrison of eight hundred surrendering, almost without a pretence of resistance.’ (The Royal Naval Division by Douglas Jerrold refers). Jerrold goes on to state that ‘the success of the Hood and Drake Battalions was both brilliant and astonishing, and it was decisive’. However, it could scarcely redeem the severe losses suffered by the two Naval Brigades. For the Drake Battalion’s part, only three officers and some 280 petty officers and men survived the battle unwounded. Immediately after the Ancre, on 5 December 1916, Chapman was discharged to the R.N.A.S. as a C.P.O. Mechanic, having been rated exceptional in his assessment. He was awarded the D.C.M. (London Gazette 1 January 1917) for his gallantry with the Naval Division since its formation, the annotated gazette entry for the award stating ‘France’ with an additional side note stating ‘Gallipoli’. Whilst the timing of this D.C.M. is consistent with other Ancre awards, in later interviews Chapman would describe his D.C.M. as a Gallipoli award. It seems most correct, however, to take the citation at face value and regard it as a decoration for distinguished conduct...
Lot 83
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Lance-Corporal W. J. Taylor, 42nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded by gun shot to the left leg on 12 November 1917 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (192830 Pte. -L.Cpl.- W. J. Taylor. M.M. 42/Can: Inf:); Military Medal, G.V.R. (192830 L.Cpl. W. J. Taylor. 42/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (192830 L.Cpl W. J. Taylor. 42-Can. Inf.) the first three housed in a fitted leather case, the last loose, traces of verdigris to VM, minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 28 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was in charge of a Lewis gun team which took part in the capture of an enemy strong point. He kept his gun in action with great success, and beat off determined counter-attacks by the enemy. He showed splendid courage and determination.’ M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917. The original Recommendation, dated 29 June 1917, states: ‘In the vicinity of Avion, south west of Lens, during a successful raid on the night of 8-9 June 1917 in which 9 Officers and 420 other ranks of this Battalion took part, Lance-Corporal Taylor, while in charge of a Lewis Gun, did excellent work by engaging and putting out of action an enemy machine gun which threatened to hold up our right flank. After gaining our objective he lost no time in getting his gun into position and opened fire on a party of Germans in front of our position, inflicting heavy casualties. His promptness and disregard of danger saved is many lives.’ William John Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 16 October 1892, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto, Ontario, on 23 September 1915. Initially posted to the 92nd Battalion, he arrived in England on 29 May 1916, and served with the 42nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 August 1916. Awarded both the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, he was wounded by gun shot to the left leg on 12 November 1917, and was admitted to Keighly War Hospital two days later. Returning to Canada in September 1918, he was discharged on 31 October 1918. Sold with a Royal Highlanders cap badge; and copied record of service and other research.
Lot 135
Victorian Brass & Mahogany Magic Lantern,English, c.1890, signed to an ivory plaque at the front 'Archer & Sons 49 Lord Street, London', the body constructed of French polished mahogany with lacquered brass fittings, push/pull focus with leather bellows, tinplate lined lamp housing, brass-bound lens housing with rack and pinion focusing with two lenses, in original black painted mahogany case Please note this lantern contains no asbestos CITES - this item contains ivory and cannot be exported from the UK. This item has been declared to HMRC as containing less than 10% ivory. The details of the registration are: Reference: PT4AB8VA Date of payment: 26 May 2022
Lot 353
A Selection of Leitz Lenses & Accessories,to include a Summar 12cm f/4.5 lens, optics VG-E, also with two Summar 8cm f/4.5 lenses, optics G-VG, also with two Summar 42mm lenses, optics G-VG, also with a Summar 24mm lens, optics VG, also with a range of Leitz accessories, lenses, & attachments,
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