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Lot 203
A GERMAN FARING "TWELVE MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE", 3¾"X3½"X2½", another "Last in bed to put out the light", 3"x3", "Returning at 1 o`clock in the morning", 3½"x2", "Robbing the mail", with restoration to ladies head, 3"x3½", "The Welsh tea party", head restored, 3½" high, and another "Sleeping Beauty" 2½" high. see illustration
Lot 736
An Edwardian double chair back kidney shaped settee, upholstered in basket of flowers and swag patterned silk type material in light green and with exposed boxwood and ebony strung showframe, with serpentine front and raised on legs of square section terminating in brass capped brass castors (see illustration).
Lot 181
Henry Moore reclining figure (not in c.) mixograph in colours circa 1974 signed in pencil numbered 6/50 published by Mixografia Mexico City with their blindstamp on handmade wove paper the full sheet printed to the edges in good conditio some pale light-staining sheet 495 x 630mm ***The Mixographic process was developed for and with the assistance of the artist Rufino Tamayo. Essentially it is a lithographic process however the image is printed with extremely heavy relief giving the work a sculptural quality. .
Lot 414
Vassilis Sperantzas (b.1938) untitled the rare lithograph printed in colours 1970 signed dated and inscribed E.A. in pencil with full margins in good condition apart from light browning at edges of sheet 400 x 500mm. IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 49
WESTLEY RICHARDS. A RARE .177 'HIGHEST POSSIBLE' (FIRST MODEL) AIR PISTOL, serial no. 186, circa 1910, 9in. barrel, air cylinder stamped 'WESTLEY RICHARDS HIGHEST POSSIBLE AIR PISTOL', open heart- shaped frame stamped with the patent number and date, and Westley Richards logo to horn grips (light pitting overall, sear spring at fault).
Lot 306
A DECORATIVE GERMAN TWO-HAND PROCESSIONAL SWORD IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19th century, with 48in. double-edged waved blade, the long ricasso covered with black leather and with two downcurved side -lugs, iron hilt with large arched quillons, double oval side-rings, leather-covered grip, and faceted pommel (some light surface corrosion).
Lot 450
A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK OFFICER'S PISTOL SIGNED BASS, LONDON, circa 1815-20, with 8in. octagonal twist sighted barrel signed 'LONDON' towards the breech, border and foliate engraved tang also incorporating the rear -sight, flat border engraved bolted lock signed 'BASS' and with stepped tail, semi-rainproof pan and roller, walnut full stock with chequered butt, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, and later horn-tipped ramrod (some light discolouration to metal parts), Birmingham proof marks.
Lot 455
BOUTET. A FINE CASED PAIR OF FRENCH 20-BORE FLINTLOCK OFFICER'S PISTOLS, early 19th century, each with 10 3/8in. swamped octagonal multigroove rifled sighted barrel signed 'BOUTET DIRECTEUR ARTISTE MANUFACTURE A VERSAILLES' and with two gold-inlaid bands at the muzzle and gold-inlaid Empire style decoration including 'NB' maker's mark at the breech, gold-lined touch-hole, foliate and border engraved tang, border engraved lock respectively signed 'BOUTET DIRECTEUR ARTISTE' and 'MANUF. A VERSAILLES' and with stepped tail,semi-rainproof pan and roller, figured walnut full stock with chequered butt, set trigger, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard (one cracked at tang) with foliate finial, and original ivory-tipped ramrod, in close-fitted brass-bound mahogany case relined in green leather with accessories including brass- mounted translucent horn pistol-flask, bullet mould and loading rods, the exterior with shaped brass escutcheon. Other Notes: Nicolas-Noel Boutet rightly claimed to be the finest gunmaker of his period in Paris. He was born in 1761 to Noel Boutet who held the position of Arquebusier des Chevaux Legers du Roi (Gunmaker to the King's Light Cavalry). Boutet trained under his father and his career was already assured when he married Louise-Emile Desaintes, the daughter of another royal gunsmith. He continued under his father until, in time, he assumed his position. This status quo remained until the French Revolution; following this Boutet was appointed Director of the new government's arsenal at the Palace de Versailles. In this new position he directed the manufacture of standard issue military arms but his interests lay in the making of fine presentation guns and swords. He received the highest accolades for his Fusils d'Honneur; these were specially made muskets given to soldiers in recognition of their bravery. In addition, he was charged with the building of very fine pistols and sporting arms which were presented to favoured officials and foreign dignitaries by the government. In 1804 Boutet took his son, Pierre- Nicolas, as business partner and they remained the most respected makers in Paris long after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. Boutet died in 1833 after having served France through the most tumultuous of times; when he began his apprenticeship France was still a monocracy but he lived through her transition to republic, followed by a brief rise of the Royal Family and then once again to republic.
Lot 513
NORFOLK. A CASED 14-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, circa 1850, with 32in. rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed 'NORFOLK. BURY ST. EDMUNDS' on the rib, border engraved patent breeches each with pierced platinum plug and engraved with a pheasant on the rib between, border and scroll engraved tang decorated with a vignette of a hound, finely engraved locks each with stepped tail and signed 'NORFOLK' and engraved with scrollwork and a differing scene involving a spaniel flushing a woodcock on one side and a pointer on the other, hammers each engraved with scrollwork inhabited by a pheasant and a snake, figured walnut half-stock with chequered grip, scroll engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with a scene involving a pointer and trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, and brass-mounted ramrod with worm (some light discolouration and some scattered shallow corrosion marks to mounts), London proof marks, in fitted brass-cornered oak case lined with green baize (partially relined) with some accessories including black leather- covered Hawksley powder-flask with white metal top and brass-mounted leather shot-flask, the lid with trade label (maker's name indistinct), the exterior with brass circular escutcheon.
Lot 554
E. & W. BOND. AN 18-BORE PERCUSSION OVERCOAT PISTOL, circa 1830, with 6in. octagonal sighted twist barrel signed 'E & W BOND 45 CORNHILL LONDON' (signature worn), scroll engraved breech and tang, the latter incorporating the rear-sight, scroll engraved bolted lock signed 'E & W BOND', figured walnut full stock (some bruising), chequered butt, scroll engraved iron mounts, white metal escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrod (iron parts with some light surface corrosion), London proof marks.
Lot 1433
HOLLAND & HOLLAND. A 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 30929, 28in. nitro chopperlump barrels, tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. 98, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON.', wall thicknesses just below recommended minimum, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 choke in both, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, Holland & Holland patent single trigger, best bold Royal scroll engraving, bright finish overall, 15in. replacement semi-pistolgrip stock, light repair to fore-end wood, weight 6lb. 8oz., in its lightweight leather case.
Lot 1722
GALLYON & SON. LTD. A 12-BORE BOXLOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 12031, 28in. nitro barrels, rib engraved 'GALLYON & SONS. LTD. CAMBRIDGE & KINGS LYNN.', some pitting, 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 3/4 choke, automatic safety, bouquet and scroll engraving, the toplever and triggerguard engraved with the horn of plenty, retaining slight traces of original colour-hardening and finish, 14 7/8in. stock (light damage at butt), weight 6lb. 10oz. The gun was completed circa 1960.
![Wrought Ironwork An album of Blacksmiths drawings, nd [early 20th century], oblong folio, includes designs for gates, railing](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2773977/19_468x382.jpg)
Lot 19
Wrought Ironwork An album of Blacksmiths drawings, nd [early 20th century], oblong folio, includes designs for gates, railings, staircases, brackets, light pendants, inn and other signage, (worn and charred binding); with a bound quantity of `The American Blacksmith` magazine, 1908-10, (worn)
Lot 116
Wanklyn (Joan) Guns at the Wood, A Record of St. John`s Wood Barracks, 1972, oblong folio, signed and numbered ltd. edition, dust wrapper; Hunt (Leslie C.), The Prisoners` Progress, nd, cloth; Lowe (W.D.), War History of the 18th (S.) Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1920, folding map, cloth; with a quantity of others (qty)
Lot 324
A Large Album Containing a Good Collection of Edwardian Postcards, including a large selection of railway related cards, overseas and English topography, artists signed, Hold to Light cards, shipping line advert and other shipping related cards etc; Two Small Albums containing mainly real photographic cards.
Lot 18
A RARE SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, formed entirely of steel, with slender double-edged blade cut with three short fullers and blunted at the base (tip chipped), the hilt formed with a pair of long panels extending over the lower portion of the blade, a pair of rounded spatulate horizontally recurved quillons, integral grip formed swelling towards the pommel and interrupted by a moulding at the base, and compressed spherical pommel chiselled with fluting and petal mouldings (polished, areas of light pitting), 93cm; 36 1/2in blade. Provenance: The Bikaner Armoury. A number of related swords are preserved in the Junagarh Fort, Bikaner. See R. Elgood 2004, pp.88-89.
Lot 29
AN INDIAN SWORD, TALWAR, 19TH CENTURY, with curved blade of kilig type, cut with a pair of fullers of differing length (areas of rust, polished bright), earlier steel hilt of characteristic form chiselled with a pattern of raised ribs over the langets and the grip, including knuckle-guard rising to a recurved beak finial, disc pommel fitted with a large pierced foliate washer, engraved over its surface with patterns of scrolling foliage and with gold-plated finish, in its velvet-covered wooden scabbard (light wear) , 70cm; 27 1/2in blade
Lot 172
Captain John Richard James Hart (1798-1838). The eldest son of General George Vaughan Hart. Royal Military Colleges, Marlow and Sandhurst, 1812-14; ensign, 52nd Foot 1813; lieutenant 1814; lieutenant, 74th Foot, 1816; half-pay 1817; lieutenant, 35th Foot, 1819; lieutenant, 86th Foot, 1820; lieutenant, 4th Light Dragoons 1821; captain, half-pay, June 1825; captain, 10th Foot, July 1825; half-pay 1827. . Served in France and Flanders 1815-16 (battle of Waterloo 1815); Ireland 1816-17; England and Ireland 1819-21; India 1821-25. Said to have been a Justice of the Peace, Co. Donegal, an Alderman of the City of Londonderry and also `Commandant of the City of Derry Yeomanry`. A COMPANY OFFICER`S SHORT-TAILED COATEE OR JACKET, 52nd (THE OXFORDSHIRE) REGIMENT OF FOOT (LIGHT INFANTRY), 1814-16, of scarlet cloth, with light buff collar, lapels and cuffs; the body lined with linen; white metal, half-domed buttons bearing an embossed 52 within a laurel wreath, with OXFORDSHIRE beneath; (some wear, fading and slight moth damage and lacking two buttons and its light infantry pattern `wing` epaulettes). Broadly conforming to the officer`s jacket of 1812 illustrated in Franklin 2008 (p. 223), this jacket lacks the triangle of lace in the small of the back and appears never to have had tail ornaments. Although John Hart received his commission as an ensign in the 52nd in 1813, his father was determined to keep him at the Royal Military College for `at least a year` [letter G.V. Hart to his elder brother John: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D3077/B/8/31] and so it is unlikely that he wore this jacket before joining his regiment in 1814. Since he left the 52nd by exchange to the 74th Foot in July 1816, this suggests a period of, at most, 18 months during which Hart can have worn this jacket and in this period Hart served with his regiment at the battle of Waterloo, in the subsequent pursuit of the defeated French army and in the occupation of France. The wear to the cloth of this jacket is consistent with hard service use and this, together with its preservation in the family, lends credence to the belief that Hart wore this jacket at Waterloo and in France and Flanders during 1815 and 1816. The 52nd, comprising the hastily-amalgamated 1st and 2nd battalions of the regiment, was one of the strongest infantry regiments at Waterloo, going into battle `with upwards of a thousand bayonets` [Moorsom 1860, p.259]. Stationed initially in the second line and on the centre-right of the Allied position, the regiment formed part of the 3rd Brigade within the 2nd Division of II Corps, being brigaded with 71st Highlanders and two battalions of 95th Rifles. As the battle progressed, the brigade was moved further to the right as reinforcements; the 52nd then moved forward to engage the advancing Old Guard of the French Army. By moving swiftly to its front and then wheeling left, the 52nd was able to pour immensely destructive fire into the left flank of the Old Guard columns, a manoeuvre that caused the columns eventually to break and retreat, whereupon the 52nd formed part of the final advance south across the battlefield to occupy the original French positions. Exposed to cannon-shot, grape and small-arms fire for much of the second part of the battle, the 52nd suffered 38 officers and men killed and 168 wounded. John Hart wrote his father a letter after the battle in which he gave his own version of the events of the day [reproduced in Hart 1907, pp. 50-52].
Lot 174
AN INFANTRY COMPANY OFFICER`S EPAULETTE AND WAIST SASH, CIRCA 1816-21, the epaulette`s gold lace strap terminating in a crescent of twisted gold wire and loose gold bullions over a yellow fringe; lacking its underneath reinforcing strap, some bullions detached; the sash of crimson netted silk with silk tassels, 67 inches long and 7 inches wide (unstretched) or 3 inches wide when folded. The styles of this epaulette and sash place them in the second decade of the nineteenth century and their provenance makes it likely that both were worn by Lieutenant John Hart in one of the line infantry regiments in which he served from 1816 to 1821. Between 1810 and 1829, company officers of line infantry regiments wore a single epaulette on the right shoulder (although there were many regimental and other exceptions to this rule): thus, this epaulette may have constituted Hart`s badge of rank once he had left the 52nd and before he joined the 4th Light Dragoons. Of the line infantry regiments in which Hart served 1816-21, the officers of both the 74th and 86th wore gold lace on their coatees and thus wore gold lace epaulettes: this epaulette therefore seems most likely to relate to Hart`s service in one of those two regiments; the form of the sash makes it most likely to have been worn by Hart in a line infantry regiment, rather than one of light infantry, whose sashes might be expected to have been of specific `light infantry` form.
Lot 178
The following three lots, because of their date-range, may have belonged to General George Vaughan Hart or either of his sons, John Richard James or George Vaughan, or all three men. FOUR PAIRS OF GENTLEMAN`S PANTALOONS, CIRCA 1790-1820, in varying weights of unlined white cotton, three pairs with a four-button waist and one pair with a two-button waist, three pairs with tie-flies and one with a button-fly, all with French bearers, with tie-tighteners at knees and centre backs (varying conditions but all with staining and some damage). Pantaloons were fashionable wear for European gentlemen from the 1790s until circa 1820 and were worn in civilian clothes as well as in naval and military uniform, frequently being made in stretch cotton kerseymere and generally worn with pumps or soft knee-length boots of the type known as `hessians`. These pantaloons resemble what would now be known as `jodhpurs`, a type of legwear derived from the Indian pajama trousers, and this fact, together with their very light weight and manufacture from thin cotton, may indicate that they were made in India for wear in the 1790s by General George Vaughan Hart. However, British naval officers also wore white pantaloons, with hessian boots, until the 1820s and so they may equally have been worn by Commander George Vaughan Hart during his early days in the Royal Navy.
Lot 215
A FINE SOUTH GERMAN ETCHED COUTER FOR LIGHT FIELD USE, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AUGSBURG, for the left elbow, made in one piece, open at the rear, shaped to the point of the elbow, embossed at the front with a transverse medial ridge, and widening towards its inner end where it is formed with a central pucker that curves in slightly over the inside of the elbow, the front fitted with a pair of latten eyelets for arming-points, the upper and lower edges decorated with notched inward turns accompanied by finely etched borders of interlinked, foliate-tailed dolphins on a stippled and blackened ground (lightly patinated overall, a short section of the turned lower edge missing at its inner end)
Lot 233
TIPU SULTAN - Narrative Sketches of the Conquest of Mysore, effected by the British Troops and their Allies, in the Capture of Serigapatam, and the Death of Tippoo Sultaun ... The Third Edition. Edinburgh: J. Denovan, 1801. 8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece (a few spots and some light staining). Contemporary wrappers (detached). With 4 other books of related interest comprising a fourth edition of the above work, Edward Moor`s A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little`s Detachment, and of the Mahratta Army, commanded by Purseram Bhow, during the late confederacy in India, against the Newab Tippoo Sultan Bahadur (London, 1794), M. Wood`s A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the late decisive War in Mysore (London, 1800) and Alexander Beatson`s A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun ... and of the Siege of Seringapatam (London, 1800). (5) This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
Lot 235
DIROM, Alexander (1757-1830). A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which terminated the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792. With maps and plans illustrative of the subject, and a view of Seringapatam. London: W. Bulmer, 1794. Quarto (270 x 215mm). Engraved frontispiece, plate, maps, most folding, folding table (some light spotting). Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt (joints split but holding, rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Cooke (armorial bookplate). Second edition. This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
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