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A Miscellaneous Group, including a pair of portrait photographs of King George V and a signed Queen Mary; a Post Office money box and key; an Italian brass desk knife; a cased toothpick; a Dunhill cigarette lighter; a Queen Elizabeth II timepiece; a British Red Cross badge; and binocularsThe portrait of King is undisigned is in reasonable condition, the leather strut is completely detached, general wear to the leather, Queen Mary with a wide border of heavy fading/discolouration, strut is very loose but still attached, general wear to the leather.Both inscribed verso; personally presented to Lt Col... (see images)
Oysters.- Oysters and their cultivation. Compiled from authentic sources by order of the Board of Directors of the South of England Oyster Company, final f. printed in red recto and with advertisement verso, title and final verso stained, occasional lighter staining elsewhere, lightly browned, 20th century dark blue straight-grain crushed morocco, gilt, rubbed, no printer, 1865 § Murrey (Thomas J.) Oysters and Fish, title with wood-engraved vignette, lightly browned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges worn, faded and rubbed, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1888; and 7 others, Oysters, v.s. (9)
[Menon.] The French family cook: being a complete system of French cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of moderate Fortune and Condition, first edition in English, final advertisement f., water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary sheep, rebacked in a lighter brown modern calf with burgundy label, corners worn, covers little rubbed and marked, [Bitting p. 554; Cagle 872; Maclean p.101; Oxford p.121-122; Simon BG 714], 8vo, Printed for J. Bell, No. 148, Oxford Street, nearly opposite New Bond Street, 1793.⁂ First edition in English of his La Cuisinière bourgeoise, Paris, 1746.
East India Company, Madras Presidency, European Minting, 1803-8, Soho, copper 20 Cash, 1803, heavy issue, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. bist kas chahar falus ast [Twenty cash make four falus], xx . cash in exergue, 11.98g/6h (Prid. 190 [Sale, lot 384]; Stevens 5.110; KM. 321). Extremely fine, a hint of original colour £60-£80 --- Provenance: Bt R. Weir (Unionville, ONT) August 1998. Owner’s ticket. The English entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) received his first coining order from the Company in 1786. Once his Birmingham manufactory had been established, Boulton’s coins were sent to St Botolph’s Wharf in London and thence shipped to the Far East on the Company’s vessels. Robert Wissett (1750-1820), the Company’s secretary who was Boulton’s chief contact, had enquired about the possibility of a coinage contract for Madras at the turn of the century, but Boulton’s full order book meant that it was another two years before such an order could be considered. Sir Charles Wilkins (1749-1836), the Company’s librarian and a noted linguist, designed the coins, the dies for which were engraved by the sculptor John Phillp (1778-1815), an employee of Boulton. The three larger denominations were struck first, the initial order arriving at St Botolph’s Wharf in early November 1802; the tiny Cash coin was problematic to make and it was not until January 1803 that Boulton devised a way of manufacturing them, but ultimately almost half of the entire order, which amounted to a total of 37,936,000 copper coins across the four denominations, comprised these single Cash. A second order of coins for Madras was first mooted in September 1807, but delays caused by the decision as to whether Boulton or the Company would provide the copper for them meant that coining did not commence until late in 1807 and continued until February 1808. Subsequently two further batches of coins were struck, in June-July 1808 and December 1808 to June 1809, and it is these that are almost certainly of the lighter weight standard; in all a total of 86,515,000 1808-dated copper coins were struck. A large percentage of the light issue was lost in the sinking of the Admiral Gardner, a Company ship, on her sixth voyage to the East, on the Goodwin Sands on 25 January 1809. Currency coins dated 1803 and 1808 are common in low grades but difficult to find in EF or better condition as they saw a wide contemporary circulation
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Later Uniform coinages, 1830-5, Bombay dies, copper Proof Half-Anna, 1832/1246h, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. scales, half anna above, adil [Justice] between pans, date below, edge plain, 10.89g/6h (Prid. 204 [Sale, lot 495]; Stevens 5.15; KM. 250). Extremely fine and toned, extremely rare [certified by NGC as a Pattern, graded PF 61 BN] £2,000-£2,600 --- Provenance: P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection SNC (London) May 1980 (3843), ticket. Owner’s ticket. The building of a new mint at Bombay commenced with the laying of the foundation stone on 1 February 1825. But as far back as 1820 the Company had been engaged with Boulton, Watt & Co for the necessary minting machinery, with its emissary, Capt (later Major) John Hawkins, Bombay Engineers, making several visits to Soho, but work did not start until February 1823 and the presses, along with the sub-contractors to operate them and Hawkins himself, did not leave England until the autumn of the following year. Numerous local setbacks ensured that the first trial pieces, thought to be the ‘lion and palm’ coppers struck at the end of 1828 and described in a letter from Hawkins to Boulton in February 1829 (see Lot 562), met with a mixed reception. The Court of Directors ordered the new machine-struck coinage, of half-, quarter- and twelfth-annas, be made to a lighter weight standard, which caused concern, but manufacture of quarter-annas began on 22 November 1830 and twelfth-annas early in 1831. The old Bombay mint was closed in April 1831 and staff transferred to the new facility, but the increasingly-ill Hawkins had died two months earlier. A small number of half-annas dated 1832 were struck and a few appear to have escaped into circulation; 12 proofs were sent to London for approval by the Court of Directors, but the Bombay die-sinker, a Mr Clarke, had resigned in an apparent fit of pique, causing the mint engineer, Capt Frederick McGillivray (†1838), Royal Engineers, to request a complete set of new matrices from the mint at Calcutta
Two Tekke Bokhara rugslate 19th centuryone with more geometric borders and a red field with three rows of guls, the other example of similar design, more faded in colour, (2)Length 157cm, width 119cm, Length 150cm, width 112cmCondition: The darker example has losses to the side cords. The lighter example is more faded and and has a 7cm repair and a smaller repair.This lot must be collected from the Auction venue by 1pm Friday 10th February. Please arrange transport before this deadline. Uncollected property will be transported to our offsite storage facility and collection can be arranged by appointment only. Additional fees of £20 apply for the transport
British Army WW1 King's Liverpool Regiment medal group of four comprising 1914/1915 Star, War Medal, Victory Medal and Edward VII Territorial Force Efficiency Medal with bar named to 18 WO Class II H W Johnson to War and Victory Medals, Company Sergeant Major to 1914/1915 Star and Sergeant to Efficiency Medal, together with his miniatures, silver War Badge, Princess Mary Christmas tin and trench art lighter. See lot 210 for the WW1 medals awarded to Warrant Officer Johnson's son.
[Austen, Jane] Sense and Sensibility A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice". London: printed for the author, and published by T. Egerton, 1813. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), mid-late 19th century tan half calf, green morocco title labels to second compartments, volume numbers gilt to fourth compartments direct, comb-marbled sides, edges sprinkled red, with the half-titles, without the final blanks (O10, N8, O4), moderate spotting to outer leaves, occasional lighter spotting elsewhere, bindings rubbed, [Gilson A2; Keynes 2]Note: Note: Second edition of Austen's first-published novel and the work she chose over Pride and Prejudice 'to launch her career as a published writer' (ODNB). The first edition appeared in 1811, attributed on the title-pages to a 'Lady'. Austen 'introduced several alterations into the text' of the second edition (Keynes).
A large novelty electroplated whiskey distillery smoking compendiumunmarkedIn the form of a whiskey distillery, the building created using sheet metal with various hinged compartments for cigarettes and cigars, to the side two whiskey barrels for matches and at the top of the distillery a lift off roof revealing a wick lighter with flint wheel, the whole mounted on a rectangular wooden base, with the original shaped wooden carrying case, height 46cm, length 46cm.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare matched pair of novelty silver ink pot and lighter as Port and Starboard lanternsHenry Bourne, Birmingham 1899 and Deakin & Francis, Birmingham 1893 Spherical glass bodies in red and green encased in a silver wire frame with circular covers and bases, the port side modelled as an inkpot, the hinged cover with fixed loop handle, the starboard side modelled as a lighter / taper, screw fitting cover, the upper rim inscribed 'Henceforth wherever thou may'st roam, my blessing like a line of light. Is on the waters day and night, and like a beacon guides thee home.' from Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam, height 10cm.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYAL INTEREST: an Edwardian silver table lighterLondon 1901 Classical urn shaped, with a central burner and two holes either side, originally created for individual removable wands to be lit and drawn up to the cigar or cigarette, plain polished silver body supported by three cast and applied legs, topped by rams' heads and embossed with classical motifs terminating in cloven feet, a circular hoop attached inscribed 'PRESENTED TO HON. H. G. BRAND BY HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII / H. M. YACHT VICTORIA & ALBERT. 7TH SEPT. 1902', height 12.5cm, diameter 9cm, weight 6oz.Footnotes:Admiral Sir Hubert George Brand, GCB, KCMG, KCVO (20 May 1870 – 14 December 1955) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.Brand was the second son of Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, Governor of New South Wales, and the grandson of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, Speaker of the House of Commons. His mother was Susan Henrietta Cavendish, daughter of Lord George Cavendish. His three surviving brothers also gained distinction: Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden, and the Honourable Roger Brand were both Brigadier-Generals in the Army while the Honourable Robert Brand was a businessman and civil servant who was raised to the peerage as Baron Brand in 1946.Brand joined the Royal Navy in 1883. Appointed acting Sub-Lieutenant on 14 September 1889, he was confirmed in this rank in June 1891, and promoted to Lieutenant on 30 June 1892. He was promoted to Commander on 1 September 1902, corresponding to the time this silver lighter was presented to him by King Edward VII, while aboard the Royal yacht Victoria & Albert. He served in World War I as Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord and then as Chief of Staff to the Admiral commanding the Battlecruiser Squadron from 1916. On 26 June 1919, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Hertfordshire. After illustrious wartime service, he became commander of the King's Yachts from 1919 and then commanded the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from 1922, before becoming Naval Secretary in 1925. He went on to become Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel later that year, then Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet in 1927 and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1929. In addition, he was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King in 1931, before retiring in 1932.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good Victorian novelty silver 'Punch' lighterCharles Thomas Fox & George Fox, London 1847 underside also engraved with lozenge registration mark for 1844 Modelled as the figure of Punch in conventional dress, the hinged hat opens to reveal the removable oil reserve, on a stepped shaped rectangular base, height 18.5cm, weight 9.5oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
English School, Portrait of Princess Victoria,watercolour, signed B E Hill?,24.5x18cm.Condition report:Not inspected out of the frame. No evident tears or rips to the paper. Allover discolouration with age. Some lighter patches running down the line of her chin, collarbone and to the left of the central jewel. The top left corner has a dark arch which could be a shadow of an earlier oval-shaped mount, with a similar shadow faintly evident towards the lase of the portrait.

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