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Lot 112
JOSÉ BLANCO CORIS (Málaga, 1862 - 1946).Untitled.Oil on canvas glued to board.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 79 x 58 cm; 92 x 72 cm (frame).Painter, writer and professor at the School of Arts and Crafts of Madrid, José Blanco Coris always showed a deep interest in Japanese and East Asian art, and in fact wrote an important "Manual of Decorative Art" (Madrid, 1916-21) in which he dedicated chapters to the arts of China and Japan. Blanco Coris was trained in his native Malaga, in the School of Fine Arts of the city, where he had Bernando Ferrándiz as his main teacher. He began his career making great history paintings in the nineteenth-century style, such as the "Presentation of Cardinal Cisneros to Isabella the Catholic" of 1881. Also around this time he delved into the themes of gentle realism, reaping a special success with "Children in a Boat" (1883), which won him the gold medal at the International Exhibition in Boston. Already at the beginning of the new century, Blanco Coris will evolve towards a less sweetened costumbrismo, at the same time that he begins to cultivate the still life. In the twenties he presented works of these genres at the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts and the Salones de Otoño. Although he was permeable to the advances of impressionism, in the twentieth century he was especially critical of the avant-garde, always remaining outside them. At the same time he developed a notable teaching career, which he began after failing to obtain a post as a pensioner in Rome in 1888. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Malaga as an assistant in 1891, to later become a temporary professor (1893). He finally obtained the position of full professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid in 1902, developing since then his career in the Spanish capital. Today José Blanco Coris is represented in the Museum of Malaga and in various private collections.
Lot 114
GONZALO BILBAO MARTÍNEZ (Seville, 1860 - Madrid, 1938).Untitled.Mixed media on paper.Attached certificate issued by Don Gerardo Pérez Calero.It has slight damage to the frame.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 31 x 60 cm; 50 x 80 cm (frame).Gonzalo Bilbao begins in the drawing since he was a child and in 1880 he begins his pictorial career. During these years he made a trip to Italy and France with Jiménez de Aranda. In Rome he worked with the painter José Villegas Cordero, and traveled through the different Italian capitals, painting urban and rural views until his return to Spain in 1884. In the following years he visited Rome again, traveled through Spain and also went to Morocco, Paris and Munich. In Spain he worked as a professor of painting, at first as a private individual and, from 1903, as successor to Jiménez de Aranda at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville. In 1904 he married and took up residence in Madrid, where he continued his teaching work at the San Fernando Academy. During his career he participated in numerous exhibitions of fine arts, both national and foreign, being awarded a third medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris (1889) and the International Exhibition of Barcelona (1891), a single medal at the Universal Exhibition of Chicago (1893), and a gold medal at the International Exhibitions of Berlin (1899), Munich (1905), Buenos Aires (1910), Santiago de Chile (1910), San Francisco (1915) and Panama (1916). He also participated in the National Fine Arts, obtaining second medal in 1887 and 1892, first in 1899 and 1901 and honor in 1915. A traditional painter, representative of Spanish costumbrismo, he expressed in his paintings colorful pictures of Andalusian life and its most popular characters, and also practiced the landscape, the figure and the portrait, painting prominent figures of the time as King Alfonso XIII and the actress Carmen Diaz. The light and vitality of his compositions bring his language closer to impressionist aesthetics, focusing on the essential representation of environments and landscapes. Gonzalo Bilbao is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville, where he has a room entirely dedicated to his work, the Prado Museum, the Jaume Morera Museum in Lleida and the Museum of Fine Arts in Cordoba, among others, as well as in private collections both in Spain and abroad.
Lot 122
EUGÈNE BOUDIN (France, 1824 - 1898)."Dordrecht, La Meuse; Study of an Estuary," 1875.Watercolor and graphite on laid paper.Attached photo certificate of authenticity issued by Manuel Schmit in 2016. Registration number in the Manuel Schmit Fine art archive: B-A.7562.The work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Eugène Boudin's works on paper.Signed, dated and located in the lower area.Provenance: Andre Seligmann, New York.Measurements: 22 x 33.5 cm; 39.5 x 50.5 cm (frame).In this work, which is conceived as a sketch, the author captures a view of the city of Dordrech, located in the Low Countries. Boudin captures in the foreground the presence of the canal and in the distance a city that stands out for the presence of windmills, a recurring theme in Impressionist painting, of which Boudin was an admired master. It is worth noting that Boudin made several visits to the city of Dordrech, in which he immortalized urban scenes and seascapes, which were always of his predilection. The 1884 visit was especially prolific, as he made numerous views of the city. The work has a photo certificate of authenticity issued by Manuel Schmit, a scholar who made a catalog raisonné of the artist.Eugène Boudin was one of the first landscape painters of the French school to paint directly in the open air, a plein air, before the Impressionists popularized this practice. He specialized in marine and harbor and coastal views, although on occasion he was also interested in green inland landscapes with animals, such as the cows grazing serenely in this beautiful panorama. He worked both in oil and pastel. His pastel sketches, synthetic and expressive, were widely praised by Baudelaire, and earned him the nickname "king of the skies" from Corot. The son of a dock worker, he began working on steamships as a child, always near the sea, something that would mark his work. However, in 1835 he moved with his family to Le Havre, where his father opened a frame store in which works by Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet were exhibited. Knowledge of these painters, and also of Isabey and Couture, encouraged the young Boudin in his pictorial vocation. At the age of twenty-two he abandoned his work in commerce to devote himself fully to painting, and the following year he began a journey that would take him to Paris and Flanders. In 1850 he obtained a scholarship that allowed him to settle in the French capital, a city from which he would travel frequently to Normandy and Brittany in search of new coastal landscapes. In Boudin's work, from these early years of his career, a profound influence of the masters of Dutch Baroque landscape painting can be seen. In 1859 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, and in those years he met a very young Monet, whom he influenced to leave caricature and devote himself to landscape painting. From then on, both artists would be united by a great friendship, and in fact they would exhibit together in the first Impressionist exhibition (1874). Already fully established as an artist, in the 1870s Boudin made numerous trips, first to Belgium, the Netherlands and the south of France, and already in the 1890s he would travel regularly to Venice. He continued to exhibit his work at the Parisian Salons, and was awarded a third medal in 1881. He was also awarded a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, and in 1892 he was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor. Towards the end of his life Boudin returned to the south of France, finally dying in 1898 in his native Deauville. His works are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, etc.
Lot 41
JOSÉ NAVARRO LLORENS (Valencia, 1867 - 1923)."Valencian group", 1908.Oil on parchment.Signed and dated.Measurements: 21 cm ø; 41,5 x 41,5 cm (frame).José Navarro Llorens was directed very early to painting, and he studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, in his hometown. After his student period we lose track of him, and we will not find him again until 1895 when, according to Pantorba, he participated for the first and only time in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, obtaining an honorary mention. That same year was the year of the consecration of Joaquín Sorolla, who unanimously won the first medal in that contest. Although they were lifelong friends, it is possible that Navarro, given his bohemian and humble character, did not aspire, like Sorolla, to make a brilliant career of official laurels and courtly prestige. It seems that he never intended to project his work beyond a limited local scope, as can be deduced from the fact that, in his early years, he devoted himself to painting costumbrista and gallant scenes for fans. Nevertheless, his early works show a certain influence of the style of Mariano Fortuny, whom Navarro admired, and from whose example he may have been inspired to travel to Morocco in a second stage. This trip must have taken place shortly after finishing his studies, and he devoted himself to painting local, North African and Orientalist themes. At the beginning of the 20th century he was hired to decorate a palace in Buenos Aires, although Navarro never arrived in Argentina. He embarked with such a destination, but during a stopover in Rio de Janeiro the painter decided to stay there indefinitely. In the Brazilian city he continued to work and held an exhibition that was widely celebrated. However, nostalgia for his homeland, the absolute protagonist of his pictorial language, led him to return to Valencia, settling in Godella permanently. There he lived the rest of his life in a simple and humble way, giving painting classes at the town's Academy and painting tirelessly. His style draws from various influences, such as Fortuny, Domingo Marqués or Levantine luminism, but always manifested itself deeply personal, linked to Navarro's own way of understanding the world. His painting refers to Mediterranean clarity through beautiful transparencies, a corporeal luminosity and nervous and vibrant brushstrokes. His is an energetic, robust and vital realism, which turns light into a plastic and even tactile value, rather than a chromatic one. José Navarro is represented in the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia and Asturias, the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga and in the Gerstenmaier collection, among other public and private collections.
Lot 51
ALEJANDRO FERRANT Y FISCHERMANS (Madrid, 1843 - 1917)."Young man with parrot", 1854.Oil on canvas.Presents period frame.Signed and dated in the upper right corner.Measurements: 34 x 23 cm; 54 x 46.5 cm (frame).Scene of interior that stands out for its sobriety in the architectural conception, contrasted with the luminosity of the figures that conform the scene. The painting itself has been conceived by the artist as a game of opposites, not only for what has been mentioned, but also for the protagonists themselves; a woman dressed in regionalist clothes that allude to the deepest traditions of the land, and right next to her a parrot, representing a great exoticism. It should be noted that both harmonize in color, the bird thanks to its plumage and the woman due to the skirt, which is somewhat reminiscent of the clothing of the painting "La Ciocciara", painted by Alejandro Ferrant in 1881 and currently belongs to the collection of the Prado Museum.Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans studied with his uncle, the artist and academic Luis Ferrant y Llausas, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He was a protégé and pensioner of the Infante Don Sebastián. In 1874 he traveled to Rome to reinforce his studies when he was pensioned by the government of Spain in the first promotion of painters of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, together with Francisco Pradilla, Casto Plasencia, Manuel Castellano, Eduardo Sánchez Solá and Jaime Morera. He was director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Madrid, which became part of the Museo del Prado in 1971. His son Ángel Ferrant was an outstanding sculptor of the Spanish avant-garde. As a decorator it is worth mentioning his ornamental work in the Linares Palace in Madrid and the Miramar Oratory in San Sebastian, among others. His best known work as a decorator was the church of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid, where he worked with Manuel Domínguez and Francisco Pradilla. He excelled in drawing, but also in different painting techniques such as watercolor, oil and fresco. He captured a sober and elegant coloring, which in the case of portraits is linked to the baroque tradition by the use of a varied artistic theme in history, genre, religious and landscapes, as well as in portraits and decorative painting. He presented works and obtained several medals in national and international exhibitions. Among his works are Sibyls and Prophets in the dome of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid, The Last Communion of San Fernando, The Burial of San Sebastian and Cisneros, founder of the hospital of Illescas, the latter painting with which he won the first medal at the National Exhibition of 1892.
Lot 59
JULES WORMS (France, 1832 - 1914)."Harlequin."Gouache and watercolor on paper.Presents frame circa 1900.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 55.5 x 39 cm; 73 x 56 cm (frame).During the 19th century a type of gallant painting was developed, in which luxurious interiors were represented, profusely decorated, with characters in theatrical attitudes. This work in particular follows the precepts of this trend, although it is true that the main character is a harlequin, however, it is necessary to pay attention to the unplaced cap of the protagonist, the woman's shoe, which he holds in his hand and especially in the female clothes arranged on the chest of drawers and the armchair. Elements that indicate that the harlequin has been an accomplice of a scene that is no longer visible to the spectator and that remains at the mercy of his own imagination.Born in Paris, Jules Worms was the son of a family of Parisian shopkeepers at the time of the July Monarchy, a period in the history of France characterized by the impulse of the comic tradition within the plastic arts. Thus, Worms began his artistic career as an illustrator of satirical newspapers, after having been trained in the field of lithography. However, his great aptitudes allowed him to enter the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1849, when he was seventeen years old. There he was encouraged by Jean-Baptiste-Adolf Lafosse, a history painter who introduced him to this genre, to which Worms brought a certain comic nuance. In fact, the first work he presented at the Paris Salon, in 1859, was entitled "A dragon making love to a maiden on a bench in the Place Royale", and it was a comic vision of the romances of the time. In the early 1860s he made the first of his trips to Spain, becoming fascinated by its traditions, people and culture, like many romantic painters of his time. Like many of his colleagues, Worms must have spent many hours studying the work of the Spanish painters exhibited in the Galerie Espagnole, created in the Louvre in 1838. This collection of works by El Greco, Goya, Murillo, Ribera, Valdés Leal, Velázquez and Zurbarán, among others, had a profound and immediate influence on the French painters of the time, who learned to appreciate the dramatic light, the expressive brushwork and the themes of everyday life. His trips to Spain became very popular, and Worms himself worked as the graphic correspondent of "L'Illustration" in our country. He also took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1864 and 1866, obtaining a first class medal on both occasions. He returned to France and exhibited his works at the Salon, winning medals in 1867, 1868 and 1869. But Worms would often return to Spain, and even lived for six weeks in 1871 in Granada with the painter Mariano Fortuny, whom he had met in Paris. On his return to his native city he continued to collaborate with various publications and illustrate books, while continuing to paint pictures on Spanish themes. His fame and clientele continued to grow, and in 1876 he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1883 he was appointed Secretary of the French Arts, and continued to exhibit annually at the Salon until the mid-1890s. He was also awarded prizes at the Universal Exhibitions of 1878 (third class medal) and 1889 (medal). Worms is currently represented in the Museums of Fine Arts in Rennes, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Willismtown (Massachusetts) and in numerous private collections, such as the Bellver in Seville.
Lot 95
EUGENIO HERMOSO MARTÍNEZ (Fregenal de la Sierra, Badajoz, 1883 - Madrid, 1963)."Young man with flowers".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Measurements: 75 x 48 cm; 91 x 63 cm (frame).Eugenio Hermoso began his studies at the School of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, with a scholarship from the City Council and the Provincial Council of Badajoz. In 1901 he moved to Madrid to continue his training at the School of San Fernando, and there he also dedicated himself to making copies of the great masters in the Prado Museum. During these years he frequented the Ateneo and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, being praised by intellectuals such as Pío Baroja, Díaz Canedo and Juan Ramón Jiménez. He then began a study trip that took him to France and Belgium, as well as the most important Italian cities: Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice and Milan. On this trip Eugenio Hermoso came into contact with the European avant-garde, meeting the Impressionists and admiring the portraits of Egyptian sarcophagi from the Roman period. In 1912 he embarked for England, exhibiting his work in London that same year. In 1918 he settled in Madrid forcibly and definitively. From then on he frequented the nightly gatherings of the Nuevo Levante café, attended by the brothers Ricardo and Pío Baroja, Ignacio Zuloaga, José Gutiérrez Solana and Rafael de Penagos, among others; and the Maisón Doré café, together with Jacinto Benavente, Manuel and Antonio Machado and Francisco Villaespesa. In 1922 he held his first major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, with public and sales success. Professor at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, he was appointed academician in 1941. Seven years later he was awarded the medal of honor at the National. Under the pseudonym of Francisco Teodoro de Nertóbriga he published his "Autobiography" in 1955, and signed his satirical paintings. He is mainly represented in the Fine Arts Museums of Badajoz and Seville, as well as in other public and private collections.
Lot 350
White, Elwyn Brooks ( "E.B. White") (1899-1985). Charlotte 's Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher 's cloth stamped in blue and black, decorated blue endsheets (some light rubbing); original publisher 's dust jacket (some light chipping, overall browning). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "I-B" on the copyright page in FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with $2.50 price on front flap and four blurbs for Stuart Little on the rear panel. White's children 's literary classic won the John Newbery Medal in 1953, the Horn Book Fanfare in 1952, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970, and the Massachusetts Children 's Book Award in 1984. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
Lot 129
MANN, James ( "James") (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816. 8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher 's gray printed boards, lettering-piece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining). FIRST EDITION of "the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812," (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a "Dissertation on Dysentery" which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His "chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds" (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
Lot 351
White, Elwyn Brooks ( "E.B. White") (1899-1985). Stuart Little. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece, printer 's device on title-page, numerous illustrations. (Very light occasional toning.) Original publisher 's pictorial tan buckram stamped in green and pink, mint decorated endsheets (some light fading); original dust jacket (overall toning, minor chipping, short tear to front panel affecting "s" in "Williams"). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers "10-5" and letters "I-U" on verso of title. In FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with flap priced $2.00. White 's first children 's book, which received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970. [With:] WHITE. The Trumpet of the Swan. Edward Frascino, illustrator. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher 's blue cloth stamped in silver and gold, (some light fading to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (corners of front flap clipped, rust-stain from paperclip on lower panel, a few wrinkles to top edges, some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
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Lot 349
[VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)] "“ A group of 11 works in 11 volumes illustrated and most written by VAN ALLSBURG, comprising: The Polar Express. 1985. FIRST EDITION, later issue with Caldecott medal on cover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts. 1987. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“Two Bad Ants. 1988. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG laid in. "“The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. 1979. "“Just a Dream. 1990. "“The Wretched Stone. 1991 "“The Widow 's Broom. 1992. "A Special Preview of The Widow 's Broom" Laid in. --Probuditi! 2006. [With:] A group of 3 works in 3 volumes written by Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947), illustrated by VAN ALLSBURG, and published in [New York] by Ariel-Viking, comprising: Swan Lake. 1989. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“A City in Winter. [1996]. "“The Veil of Snows. [1997]. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company (except where noted), 4to and 8vo, illustrated, all in Publisher 's cloth stamped in silver, gold, black, bronze and/or blind-stamped, all except one volume in ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
Lot 347
THURBER, James Grover (1894-1961). Many Moons. Louis Slobodkin, Illustrator. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 4to. Numerous color illustrations by Slobodkin. Original publisher 's red cloth, black-lettered on front cover (very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); in original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of the 1944 Caldecott Medal winner, the first picture book written by Thurber, and Slobodkin 's fourth illustrated children 's books. The story was later adapted into an opera by Celius Dougherty, a play by Charlotte Chorpenning, part of the animated film Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966), and an audio version read by Peter Ustinov accompanied by music by Edgar Summerlin. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
Lot 113
ROYAL NAVY INTEREST. A NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY LIEUTENANT JOHN HIATT worked with polychrome silks on canvas, mainly in Rococo stitch, with a trellis design decorated with stylised flowers and animals, crowns and a bird, above a cream coloured band, with the name and date upside down 'Lieutenant John Hiatt Royal Navy 1807', together with another sampler by his wife Ann Fishley, also worked with Rococo stitch and with similar colours, with stylised flowers and a bird, above a brightly coloured tulip and a band in petit point with the name and date 'Ann Fishley October 1803', both in later glazed ebonised frames (2) 24.4 x 16.7cm (max) Provenance Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller. Catalogue Note Lieutenant John Hiatt served on board of the HMS Namur at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent during the Peninsula War in 1797 when he was just 13 years old. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1802 for his general services. In 2008 a St Vincent medal belonging to Midshipman John Hiatt was auctioned in London. Literature The Feller Needlework Collection: 2, p.142 for a discussion of these samplers.
Lot 353
VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BOX & COLLECTABLE CONTENTS along with Otis King Model K calculator boxed with instructions and a Venetian silver overlay atomiser scent bottle, contents include Birmingham 1876 silver WSH football medal dated '96-'97 commemorative medallion Coronation of HM King George V and Queen Mary struck by the maker's of Elect Cocoa, other badges and medallions by Thomas Fattorini and others, Waterman's fountain pen, white metal pencil, brass sovereign case (A/F) and other interesting items
Lot 84A
A small turned wooden box, purportedly inlaid with wood from the mulberry tree planted by William Shakespeare at New Place, Stratford upon Avon, containing a small replica Shakespeare Jubilee medal, the interior lids bearing written paper labels to that effect, 6.5cm diameter, together with a cased pair of opera glasses, a blue and white porcelain box and cover and a water dropper (4)Condition report: The inlay lifting slightly. Some knocks and wear. Surface wear to opera glasses. Leather worn and rubbed. General wear to porcelain.
Lot 223
A medal group awarded to Major Herbert N Jackson, The India General Service medal with Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 bar and The British War Medal 1914-1918, both stamped '2256008 DVR, H.H. Jackson RA', a photograph album with Indian and Afghan views including H/N/ Jackson seated beside an field gun 'halfway up the Kybher Pass' and further views of the Khyber, twenty-four in total, a postcard, presumably depicting Jackson in uniform and thirteen further postcards, nine humorous by W. Quinn, two Afghan Reace Delegates 1919 Camp Landikotal in the late Afghan War 1917 and one otherProvenance: The Peter and Pat Crofts CollectionCondition report: Medals a little tarnished, ribbons dirty.Postcards with expected wear.Album and contents good.
Lot 466
OF KOREAN WAR INTEREST AN RAF OFFICER'S SWORD AND EPHEMERA, 82cm clean blade by Wilkinson, serial no. 99194, etched with scrolling foliage, crowned Royal arms and crowned RAF device, regulation pierced brass hilt incorporating an EIIR cypher and the RAF device, eagle's head pommel, wire bound fishskin grip, contained in its brass mounted leather scabbard, complete with knot, together with assorted RAF devices and badges and a Korean War medal, F/LT J. MAPPIN. Sword associated with the grouping.
Lot 16
MILITARY AND MARITIME INTEREST, an archive of medals, Longines Prima gold plated pocket watch, cuttings and paperwork relating to Captain Emil Ulrich Wahlstrand, comprising a British War medal and a Mercantile marine medal for War Service 1914-1918, both named to E.U. Wahlstrand, he served with the Merchant Navy in WWII on Civilian Shipping in War Zones, together with a boxed French Marine Merchande Courage et Devouement medal engraved 'E. WAHLSTRAND 1933', together with press cuttings and ephemera relating to Rescue of Souls from a French ship 'L' Atlantique' which was in distress and burning mid - Channel on 4th January 1933, Wahlstrand was Captain of SS. Ford Castle at the time of the incident and he and his crew were subject to an act of heroism as they dashed to rescue survivers and escaping the flames, the lot comes with a Longines Prima 18ct gold plated pocket watch with presentation inscription to the dust cover, a plated watch chain, black and white photograph of the Captain, birth, marriage and death certificates, etc (parcel)
Lot 96
WWI medals to include The Military Medal for BARVERY IN THE FIELD (Newspaper clipping reports: "as a result of successfully raiding the enemy's trench during the battle of the Somme"), Victory & War Medal awarded to 472396 (all inscribed) Bravery Medal: 472396 Cpl F.J. COATES 2/COY CAN: M.G.S. Victory & War read 472396 SJT F.J. COATES C.M.G. BDE. Also badges and tags and paperwork (Canadian Expeditionary Force Discharge Certificate plus had written War notes etc
Lot 1467
Lt. Col. George White Hawkes, Distinguished Service Order (George V) Military Cross, 1914-15 star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, together with the equivalent dress medals, also together with a file containing a citation appointing him an officer in Land Forces, 28/12/14, copies of photographs of Hawkes in uniform pre WWI and WWI, a cash account following his death, 3/12/34, two letters of that same year, etc (brother to Corlis St Leger Gillman Hawkes and William Cotter Williamson Hawkes)
Lot 1468
Brigadier General Corlis St Leger Gillman Hawkes, Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George neck badge (CMG) Distinguished Service Order (George V) Queens South Africa Medal (Capt R.F.A.) with Cape Colony Tugela Heights Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and South Africa 1901 clasps, 1914 Star with 5th August - 22nd November 1914 clasp (Major RFA) - British War with oakleaf and Victory Medals (Brig. Gen.) French Croix De Guerre, with associated dress medals, together with copies of photographs, Boer War and WWI, War Office letter, certificate in Signalling 1907 and other documents, two dog tags and a 9ct gold locket engraved "Buie" together with an inscribed presentation Volume of Orders, Decorations and Medals of the World by Capt. H Jocelyn, 1934 (brother to George White Hawkes and William Cotter Williamson Hawkes)
Lot 1469
Lt. Col. William Cotter Williamson Hawkes, Distinguished Service Order (George V) 1914-15 Star (Major 12th Pioneers) British War Medal and Victory Medal (lt. Col.) French Legion of Honour Medal together with a file containing photographs and death certificate (see also lots 1210 and 1212) (see also lots 1210 and 1212) (brother to Corlis St Leger Gillman Hawkes and George White Hawkes)
Lot 116a
7 vintage Action Man dolls and 2 other doll figures, all in military uniform, 6 have gripping hands (of which 2 have damage to hands). One is a German Kommendant with pistol in holster and Iron Cross medal. Lot includes additional clothing, weapons, 'Special Operations Kit' bag and other accessories. All unboxed (9)
Lot 666
WING COMMANDER REX SOUTHERN SANDERS OBE (1922-2017) WWII medal group comprising DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) engraved with date 1944, AFC (Air Force Cross) engraved with date 1953 & Bar, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Burma Star, Defence medal, War Medal, GSM (General Service Medal) with Asia 1945-46 bar, with miniatures, Royal Canadian Air Force Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book commencing 12th August 1942 - 29th July 1954 detailing various operations with signed certification that F/Lt R Sanders had completed his first tour of operations consisting of 33 1/2 sorties including Berlin, Royal Air Force Pilot's Flying Log Book commencing 18th November 1941 - 23rd May 1942, Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers commencing 6th August 1954 - 21st November 1962, together with Legion of Honour French order of merit, cased Bomber Command ribbon, cased medallion recognising service in early Cold War overflights 1950-56, DFC and AFC cases ETC Provenance: direct from family Obituary written by Graham Pitchfork for The Telegraph: Spy Flight’s Navigator Dies aged 94Wing Commander Rex Sanders, who has died aged 94, was the lead navigator of a select nine-man RAF team that flew USAF reconnaissance aircraft on a series of top secret, and highly risky, spy flights deep into the Soviet Union in the early 1950s.London-born Rex Sanders joined the RAF in April 1941 and trained as a navigator in Canada. After completing his training in the UK he was posted to No.78 Squadron based in Yorkshire and operating the four-engine Halifax.Within a few weeks of his arrival, Bomber Command embarked on its most intensive period of operations with the beginning of what became known as the ‘Battle of Berlin’. Sanders made a number of sorties to the ‘Big City’, which he described as ‘quite difficult’. He also attacked other major cities before the bombers were switched to targets in France in preparation for the D-Day landings.On the night of June 5, 1944 he attacked gun batteries on the Channel coast unaware that the air and sea invasion was about to begin. He recalled, “Coming back my radar showed the Channel chock-a-block with ships. I told the crew: 'This is it'.”Sanders was rested after completing thirty-three operations. In eleven months his crew were only the third in their squadron to complete a full tour of duty. Well over half had been lost. He was awarded the DFC. After the war he specialised in navigation and in 1951 he was selected for a ‘special flight’. In August three RAF crews flew to a USAF base in Louisiana to train on the North American RB-45C four-engine jet reconnaissance aircraft. The leader of the team was Squadron Leader John Crampton and Sanders was his navigator. In the following February the crews were briefed on their secret flight codenamed ‘Ju-Jitsu’. Four RB-45Cs were flown to an RAF base in north Norfolk where they were shorn of their USAF markings and repainted with RAF roundels (one aircraft was to act as a spare).After Crampton and Sanders had flown a practice flight along the Berlin Air Corridor to test the Soviet reaction – there was none – Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave approval for the top-secret flights. The three aircraft took off on April 17, 1952 and headed for Denmark where they refuelled from airborne tankers. Crampton then turned south east for Russia flying at 36,000 feet. Electronic intelligence was gathered and photographs taken of the targets and, after an uneventful flight, the aircraft landed back at Sculthorpe after a ten-hour flight.The three crews returned to normal duties but the special unit was reformed in April 1954 for another series of flights. On the 28th, Crampton and Sanders headed for Kiev; the longest of the three flights. Sanders had just taken some photographs when the RB-45 came under anti-aircraft fire. Realising that his aircraft had been identified and was being tracked by ground radars; Crampton applied full power and turned west, towards Germany, some 1,000 miles away. General Vladimir Abramov, Commander for the Kiev region, revealed in later years that he had ordered MiG fighter pilots to try and ram the spy aircraft but they were unable to reach 36,000 feet to intercept the RB-45C.This highly clandestine Cold War episode remained a closely guarded secret until 1994 when the BBC and the Daily Telegraph disclosed some details. Sanders was among retired RAF personnel interviewed on BBC's Timewatch programme a few years later. The RAF and USAF commanders considered the flights valuable and Crampton and his crews were decorated, Sanders receiving the AFC, adding a Bar for the second flight.After completing the RAF Flying College Course, when he made a hazardous flight to the North Pole in a Canberra, Sanders specialised in guided weapons before he served in charge of operations on a Thor Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Site in Norfolk.After two years as the Air Advisor to the Pakistan Air Force he assumed command of RAF Aberporth on the Welsh coast from where air defence missiles, including the Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile, were tested.His final appointment was a five-year tour in the MOD Operational Requirements Directorate. His secret work resulted in his appointment as OBE. He retired in December 1977.(Photograph 9 of Rex Sanders included in the obituary - not included in lot) Auctioneer's Note: Wing Commander Rex Southern Sanders DFC AFC & Bar OBE was a Royal Air Force navigator who won a DFC for his service during the Second World War and an AFC for his part in secret photographic and radar reconnaissance missions behind Soviet lines during the Cold War in the 1950's. Operation Jiu Jitsu - the cover story was that the RAF was evaluating the mid air refueling capabilities of the RB-45 when secretly vital intelligence was being gathered on the Soviet infrastructure, defences and offences. Sanders was the lead navigator of a select nine-man RAF team that flew USAF reconnaissance aircraft on a series of top secret, and highly risky, spy flights deep into the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. In August 1951, three RAF bomber crews flew to a USAF base in Louisiana to train on the North American RB-45C four-engine jet reconnaissance aircraft. The following February the crews were briefed on the operation. Four RB-45Cs were flown to an RAF base in north Norfolk, where they were shorn of their USAF markings and repainted with RAF roundels. Comments: viewing in person highly recommended
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