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Lot 135
A late Victorian electroplated five light candelabrummarks rubbed, probably Hawkesworth, Eyre & Co of Sheffield The Corinthian column on stepped square base and issuing four scroll branches, and a pair of Sheffield plate chamber-sticks, each with wick-trimmer and snuffer, height candelabrum 49cm. (3)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 19921
Great Britain - KGV : (SG 456a) 1935 Silver Jubilee 2½d, the famous Prussian blue, superb mint small hinge trace full fresh original gum example (light historical pencil annotation), fabulous fresh colour, perfs and centering. Unusually we've been fortunate to handle probably more than our fair share(!) of this rare colour error stamp within the past five years. Barely an example encountered is in top condition, most come with minor imperfection / blemish. This is the second time that we have handled this example, the first time realising precisely £10,000=. No faults example, accompanied by clear 1956 BPA Expert Committee photo-certificate signed by philatelic 'glitterati' Robson Lowe amongst others. As fresh today, 64 years later. Accompanied by superb colour 'normal' for comparison. Magnificent and RARE Cat £12000 (image available)
Lot 8518
Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 186a) 1888 £1 brown-lilac wmk 'orbs' letters T-A, rare frame broken variety, very fine used exceptional even deep colour, importantly lightly cancelled clear of corner letters and frame break variety, perfectly centred too, design clear of perfs upon all four sides, premium catalogue value example, light boxed plus 'SHEFFIELD' MY 20 (18)89 large part CDS. Charming example of the rare 'orbs' watermark frame broken rarity Cat £13500 (image available) [US2]
Lot 8856
Great Britain - KGV : (SG (357s)) 1912 1d scarlet, marginal horizontal strip of 4, each ovptd. SPECIMEN Type 23, and with 1922 ADVERTISEMENT TRIALS on reverse of each ('P.O. Savings Bank, P.O. Savings Bank, Install the Telephone, Install the Telephone'), light gum crease along top, o/wise fine and fresh u.m. See SG Spec. QV p. 120. Cat. £1800 as hinged. VERY SCARCE MULTIPLE. (image available) [US1]
Lot 117
Large decorated initial on a leaf from an antiphoner, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[Italy (probably Bologna, perhaps Arezzo, second half of the thirteenth century]Single leaf, with a large and tall initial 'V' (145 by 130mm.; opening "Vidi dominum sendentem ...", a responsory for the first Sunday in November), in pale brown acanthus leaves with baubles and red and green knots mounted in its right-hand vertical stroke, terminating in swirling foliage, enclosing intricate interlaced grey-vine foliage with green fruit and orange and yellow leaves, all on dark pink and blue grounds and within a green and light brown frame, followed by a single line of calligraphic ornamental capitals touched in yellow (two with detailed human faces picked out in penwork), simple red initial with blue penwork, red rubrics, 6 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 34mm.), seventeenth-century folio no. '63' on recto, small spots, else excellent condition, 574 by 384mm.Another leaf of this elegant and early antiphoner was offered by Maggs, European Bulletin 16 (1990), no. 26. The elongated shape of the initial and its thin swirling foliage is close to that on a leaf in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (their MS. 96.32.4: reproduced in Choirs of Angels, 2008, p. 31, and ascribed there to Arezzo).
Lot 118
The Ascension of Christ in a large initial on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript choirbook on parchment [Italy (Bologna), first half of fourteenth century]Single large leaf, with a large initial 'P' (opening "Post passionem suam ...", the second responsory of the first nocturn on the feast of the Ascension), in soft white, with coloured acanthus leaves and baubles at its midpoints and extremities, all on dark blue and light brown grounds heightened with white penwork, enclosing a scene of male figures, both bearded and clean shaven, with gold haloes and wearing robes and gazing up as Christ disappears into the clouds above (just his feet visible here), the initial extending into 3 margins with luscious coloured acanthus leaves and large simple bezants (one curl of foliage infilled with light brown grounds and white openwork), one red initial with contrasting penwork, red rubrics, 6 lines of rounded text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 31mm.), some small chips to paint and ink flaking from text in places on reverse, marks to edges of reverse from last framing, a little discoloured overall, else in good condition, 540 by 360mm.; in card mount This leaf is in the style of the B18 Master (formerly named the Second Master of San Domenico), and has his distinctive squat human figures with flatly modelled features formed from broad strokes of colour. He was the driving force behind a large series of choirbooks produced between 1307 and 1324/26 for the Dominican church of San Domenico, Bologna (see G. Freuler, The McCarthy Collection I, Italian and Byzantine Miniatures, 2018, no. 32). However, this leaf is more probably attributable to an associate of his, as it is almost certainly from another dispersed series of antiphonaries from the workshop of the B18 Master, produced at the same time as the producers of the San Domenico choirbooks, partly by the same team of artists, and often sharing the same scheme of illumination. The surviving leaves from this second series have been recorded and discussed by Freuler in The McCarthy Collection, no. 33 (but without the present leaf). There he suggests that they may have been produced for a female Dominican convent, probably those of San Giovanni Battista in Bologna.
Lot 351
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger (Middelburg 1609-1645 Utrecht)Tulips, roses, lily of the valley and other flowers in a glass vase on a stone ledge oil on copper35.6 x 23.3cm (14 x 9 3/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1950 Dr. Fred Meijer discusses the present work in a report from 9 August 2019 in which he dates it to 1633 or 1634. In his 1960 book, The Bosschaert Dynasty Laurens Bol illustrated a somewhat similar composition dated 1632, formerly in The Hague Gemeentemuseum. Another example from 1632 also includes two bluebottles on the ledge, but both these arrangements are somewhat compact and sit tighter in the picture plane than the present composition. In the following year, 1633, Bosschaert seems to have allowed more space around his bouquets and made them less compact, as dated examples from that year indicate. An example dated 1635 is composed similarly and includes the same two flies on the table. The comparisons suggest that the present work was executed in 1633 or 1634. An undated still life of flowers and fruit, which will also have originated in or around 1633, judging from stylistic features, includes several flowers that are also included in the present bouquet. An interesting feature of all of these examples is the shadow of the vase, which has a focused spot of light in the centre.Laurens Bol remarked that Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger might be nicknamed 'The Master of the Bluebottle', since the great majority of his still lifes show a bluebottle in a characteristic pose: tilted forward, licking the surface on which it sits, just like the one on the left on the ledge in the present painting. Still lifes of flowers in a glass vase on a ledge or table top made up Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger's 'core business.' Their inspiration goes back to examples by his father and by Jan Brueghel the Younger in the first decade of the century. While the presence of the bluebottles may have had vanitas connotations (hinting at decay) and the caterpillar (which becomes a butterfly) may have evoked association with the Resurrection, it is probably inappropriate to read too much profound meaning into a bouquet such as this. Essentially such a work of art allowed the viewer to enjoy fresh flowers all year round, as a feast for the eyes.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 160
Korean War Photograph Album 61st Light Anti-Aircraft / Searchlight Regiment Royal Artillery, nice collection of privately taken images during Korean War Service, belived taken by Gunner R.Riddett. Images include Imjin River, HQ Royal Artillery 1st Commonwealth Division. Samechon Valley, Hill 355 Strong Point, Helicopter in flight, close to 120 CP, etc. c.65 images of Korea others include Columbo and Aden. Contained in inlaid "Korea" Album.
Lot 162
German Wartime Photographs, Eastern Front, with a number of troops in action, in Winter Uniforms etc. Also Tanks and armoured vehicles etc., most captioned on reverse. Others affixed to light blue card, another box with German personalities, ie Otto Skorzeny and mixed images including a few British WWII. Some 150 images in all,
Lot 29
Useful Medal Reference Books, including O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary, 1st Edition 1849, Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840 Parts 1 & 2, early example, numerous handwritten corrections, Honour the Light Brigade, Lummis, tipped-in original 1904 images of Survivors (Illustrated bits), news cutting Original Memorial card to Richard Williams, 17th Lancers 1910 etc, 24th of Foot Medal Roll, Holme 1971,Ashanti, McInnes, author signed, For Bravery in the Field, Bate & Smith (6 in all)
Lot 58
Imperial Calendar 1857, compilation in a handsome full leather tooled binding, includes East-India Register (covering Bengal, Madras, Bombay,) Army list for 1857 by F.Clark, & Peers.. Of the UK with numerous ills. c.600pp., in all. With important De luxe copy of Honour the Light Brigade by Lummis & Wynne, 1973, 320pp., in half leather binding. (2),
Lot 97
Important and Unusual Original Training Material Relating to the 3" Stokes Mortar issued at GHQ Light Mortar School, includes Tactical employment of light Trench Mortars" "Emplacements" "Fighting Equipment" and optimistically " Anti-Aircraft Firing" etc. A quantity. Also orders and communication, mostly signed, in the Field 1917 & 1918 Third Army relating to practical issues with the Mortars such as " premature", "packing of igniters" "augmented charges", marking of charges, mortar mountings, Early warning of attacks, admin orders and handwritten orders to disband 61st T.M.Battery December 1918. Nice collection of original material, quantity
Lot 125
A French Model 1822 Light Cavalry Trooper's Sword, the 90cm single edge curved steel blade with a broad fuller and a narrow back edge fuller to each side, the back edge engraved Mre. Impl. de Chaset. Avril 1866...., the brass three bar hilt stamped 25 and with remnants of wire to the grip, with steel scabbard, 110cm; a 19th Century Continental Infantry Hanger, the blade stamped 1SC/160 at the ricasso, rusted into the steel mounted leather scabbard, the brass stirrup hilt with downswept quillon and ribbed grip, 102cm (2). 1 - Rust pitting and grey patching to the blade. Wire binding to the hilt has unravelled with some loss. Orange rust pitting to the scabbard. 2 - Blade is rusted into the scabbard, the locket is loose. No visible marks to hilt.
Lot 70
A Collection of First World War Miniature Crested China, including four bi-planes, three charabancs, a Dug-out, a British Machine Gun, an air ship, a model of a British Search Light ''The Zeppelin Finder'', five tanks, two ambulances etc, by various makers including Shelley, Arcadian China and Carlton China, on three trays. One tank and a shell have chips. Most in good order
Lot 28
Ɵ Conflictus veris et hiemis, a verse in hexameters on the debate between Spring and Winter, attributed to Alcuin of York, with the translations and miracles of St. Lomer, with further additions of Carolingian music, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[France (most probably Blois), c. 873 and tenth century]Fourteen leaves (plus a nineteenth-century parchment endleaf at each end), all conserved in nineteenth century and many remounted on guards and thus uncollatable, wanting 2 leaves after fol. 4 and another 2 leaves after fol. 12 as well as an 8-leaf gathering (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479: see below), last 4 leaves smaller than others (measuring 245 by 167mm.), the verse added to original endleaf at front in double column of 41 and 20 lines in a small and legible Carolingian minuscule with an extended ct-ligature and the characters' names in margin, one descender in lowermost line extended to form an ornate penwork leaf with a bauble mounted in its stem, and main texts relating to St. Lomer in single column of 29-36 lines in two closely related precise and refined Carolingian minuscules, both with et-ligature used integrally within words (but variant forms of capital 'q'/'Q'), the second with an NT-ligature and an uncial 'N' used in main text, crucial names in capitals, some capitals touched in red and others infilled with yellow wash, text opening major sections in capitals touched with red, rubrics of elongated red capitals, small red initials, larger initials in penwork, some with baubles set within their bodies or coloured in green and red, one large initial in delicate blank parchment penwork touched in red and set within dark brown initials terminating in floral flourishes, seventeenth-century scholarly marginalia, endleaf at front reused from a sixteenth-century French choirbook with music on a 4-line red stave, some stains to areas of text, spots from old mould damage at head, margins trimmed often to edges of text, overall good and solid condition on heavy and good quality parchment, 300 by 190mm.; nineteenth-century French brown calf over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with arched frames with floral sprays at corners, with spine gilt with "De S. Launomaro - MS IXe S" An important Carolingian monastic codex, containing a celebrated verse attributed to Alcuin, the leading intellectual light of the Carolingian renaissance, as well as the earliest witnesses to prose and musical texts relating to the Merovingian saint Lomer; this probably one of the last ninth-century codices to appear on the market Provenance:1. The main texts here on St. Lomer (also Laumer and Laudomarus) must have been written immediately after the translation of the saint's relics to a church in Blois in 874 (an event these leaves record), but before the foundation of the Benedictine abbey dedicated to the saint there in 924. Another eight leaves from the centre of this manuscript are the first part of a sammelband assembled in the seventeenth century in Italy (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479; A. Wilmart, Codices reginenses latini, 1937, pp. 651-2, with the whole manuscript reproduced online). Those contain the opening of the life of the saint, which ends abrubtly and is completed by the two words at the top of fol. 10r here.Crucially the opening of the text in the Vatican leaves refers to the saint as 'our patron'. In addition, there is a hitherto unnoticed contemporary or near-contemporary name added to the foot of the first of the present leaves, probably identifying "Raginoldus feldracanum" as an early user or perhaps donor of the codex. The second part of his name is hard to decipher, but a late medieval hand has added "Raginoldus feldra carutasis", suggesting Carnutum/Carnotum or Chartres as his town of origin (the monastery of Saint Martin au Val du Chartres was one of the temporary resting places of the relics and the community on their way to Blois: see N. Mars, Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, 1646, p. 29). His name does not occur in the published research of Dom Mars, but there is an unpublished and mostly unstudied six-volume cartulary of the eighteenth century for the house in the Archives départementales de Loir-et-Cher, ms. 11 H. 128, and search for this name there may reveal much.St. Lomer was born c. 530 at Neuville-la-Mare, north of Chartres, where he was ordained as a monk, before withdrawing into the forest of Perche where he founded the monastery of Corbion in 575, becoming its first abbot. He died in 593 while visiting Chartres and was buried near there, until monks from Corbion stole his relics a few years later to return him to his own community. Following a Viking attack on Corbion in 873/4 the community and their relics fled to Parigny near Avranches and then Le Mans before being offered sanctuary within the walled town of Blois. In the tenth century they moved outside the city walls to the church of St-Lubin, and then again in 1186 to the larger adjacent site they occupied for the remainder of the Middle Ages.2. Dom Noël Mars (1612-1702), the Benedictine monk and Maurist historian of Blois; with his marginal notes and signature, including one on fol. 10r referring to the Acta Sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti, Paris, 1668, in which footnote 'a' on p. 338 evidently refers to this manuscript: "Haec ex MS. Historia S. Launomari Monasterii Blesensis a nostro Natale Mars erudite composite didicimus". The central leaves of the manuscript may well have become detached by the seventeenth century (see below), and Dom Mars conducted much antiquarian research in the archive of St-Lomer in the last decades of that century, and this may explain this section of it ending up in his possession. In 1789 the revolutionary government of the region suppressed the abbey, and seized its church for the parish of St-Nicholas two years later. Its goods and library were dispersed at the same time, with the Vatican leaves then beginning their journey towards Rome. Delisle notes four manuscripts in the BnF. as well as another in the collection of Herzog August in Wolfenbüttel from this medieval library (Le cabinet des manuscrits, 1868, II, p. 406).3. Louis de la Saussaye (1801-1878) of the Château de Troussay, near Blois, local historian, archaeologist, and numismatist, with a note of "un manuscrit du Xe siècle ... dant la bibliothèque de M. de la Saussaye" in Dom Mars' Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, p. 66, n. 2 and 7, n. 2, doubtless referring to these leaves. His sale, 30 September 1887, lot 1148.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 5577; acquired Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 57.Text:Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) was the central intellectual figure of the Carolingian renaissance, and was educated in the renowned cathedral school at York under Archbishop Ecgbert (himself a pupil of Bede). By the 750s he was teaching in the school and came to the court of Charlemagne at the emperor's invitation, serving as 'master of the palace school' from 782, taking over the teaching of the emperor himself and his children, and becoming a guiding hand of the religious and intellectual revolution that was to follow. In 796, when entering his old age,... read more.... To view a video of this item, click here.
Lot 355
A pair of silver sauce boats with scrolled handles and a pair of Scottish silver sauce ladles, 17.5oz troy approxCondition: 1920's marked RM, both have minor dents and surface scratches, sauce ladles have minor rubbing to marks and light scratches otherwise good condition. 3 3/4'' high 7 1/4'' wide 4'' deep.
Lot 124
A Chinese celadon ovoid wine jar and cover, moulded in relief with four reserves of traditional figures below a ruyi frieze, domed cover with outswept meander border, monochrome light green opaque glaze throughout, 26cm high, impressed Yongzheng square markFor a jar of the same shape see Chinese Celadon and other related wares in South East Asia, SACS, Singapore 1979, fig 262, plt 217, lower right.
Lot 530
Toys and Juvenalia - Star Wars action figures, some RARE examples, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, including Yoda Orange Snake, Han Solo ('small head original'), Jawa ('rare plastic cape'), Emperor's Royal Guard, Klaatu, Lando Calrissian (Skiff Guard Disguise), Zuckuss, Snaggletooth, 4-LON, Nien Nunb, Imperial TIE Fighter Pilot, Star Destroyer Commander, Hammerhead, Walrus Man, Stormtroopers, Boba Fett ('light blue'), The Emperor, Princess Leia Organa (In Combat Poncho), Boushh, Admiral Ackbar, 8D8, Luke Skywalker ('yellow lightsaber'), Luke Skywalker (X-Wing Fighter Pilot), B-Wing Pilot, Wicket W. Warwick, Prune Face, etc; a quantity of backing cards, etc
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