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An Edwardian silver mounted purple leather address box, by Thomas De La Rue Ltd, London 1909 and 1910, retailed by Leuchars, Paris, rectangular form, with a clasp, and a pencil, length 20.5cm. Leuchars were acquired by Asprey in 1888, and the Paris Branch was taken over by M Geoffroy, of 2 Rue de la Paix, formerly manager of Leuchars, who continued to buy many of Asprey`s products.
WWII –Mosley and the fascists – Arnold Leese remarkable typed copy of a letter to Leese from Captain E H Batt of the Yacht ‘Alianora’ – the yacht which took Oswald Mosley into exile in the Mediterranean in 1949. Signed off by Leese with initials to base and with a further note in Leese’s hand implicating the Duchess of Windsor as a close friend of Mosley. In his letter Batt describes Mosley as ‘the biggest liar I have come in contact with & he’s a fraud & a charlatan...he threatened to sue me for £400 when I told him yesterday that I wld leave...’ Leese notes at first in typescript :’...I have noticed that O.M. was guest at Antibes on the yacht of Mrs Fellowes. She is three-quarters Jewish high in Kosher Society & a friend of Duchess of Windsor since the latter’s marriage...M visited constantly by Hon Mrs Fellowes ...and by Mrs Simpson...’ Together with a further typescript with two anti-Semitic poems concocted by Leese with two ms insertions in his hand and a typed page of anti-Semitic notes by Leese
A WALNUT CUPBOARD CHEST of Queen Anne design, the upper part enclosed by a pair of crossbanded doors, with feather stringing, the lower part with three long drawers 66 1/2ins. (169cms.) high x 39 1/2ins. (100cms.) wide Provenance: Formerly the property Sir J M Barrie Bt OM Sotheby`s, ex lot 177, December 20th 1937, together with catalogue and bill from Worley & Son, Reigate, 22 January 1938 in the sum £22 and 10 shillings

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