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Late 19th/early 20th Century Continental School - Oval Miniature Head and Shoulders Portrait of a Gentleman in Uniform, and Oval Miniature Half Length Portrait of a Lady, a pair of watercolours on ivory, both within gilt metal frames with ribbon, bow and garland surmounts stamped 'M.W. Carr & Co' verso.
IAN WILSON-WWII BBC WAR CORRESPONDENT collection of his reports/recordings on vinyl, Allies Encircle The Ruhr 1 April 1945, Hermann Goering-An Impression 9 May 1945; a script despatch dated May 5th 1945 from Dachau Concentration Camp, with recording for Poland National Day, his portrait photograph, miniature medal group (1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War), British War Correspondent embroidered slip-on shoulder title, sleeve badge, photograph album containing personnel of 22 Squadron RAF (Gibraltar 1945), Third Reich Hitler Youth armband, a red and white armband with inscription in ink 'Dachau 3.5.1945', BBC War Report 6 June 1944-5 May 1945, Oxford University Press 1946 (with handwritten dedication and references to Ian Wilson), BBC letter of thanks dated 23rd May 1945, two Victorian pewter mounted hip flasks, cigarette case (Ghana), recorded despatches by Robert Reid-The Work of the Signal Corps 1 April 1945, Chester Wilmot-Osnabruck 4 April 1945, Wynford Vaughan Thomas-Supply Columns 4 April 1945, and Thomas Cadett-Devastation in Berlin 9 May 1945. Note: Ian Wilson was a reporter with The Glasgow Herald during the 1930s, BBC War Correspondent WWII, and correspondent in Ghana 1950s
A Chinese ivory portrait miniature, by Yee Cheong, c. 1887, the ivory sheet finely painted from a photograph in watercolours, with an attractive young girl, warped, 9.5cm x 14cm contemporary silk case, with applied label later inscribed 'Hong Kong April 1887'. Visit www.sworder.co.uk for larger image and condition reports.
By direction of the Sudbury Museum Trust: Enoch Fairhurst, (1874-1945), Miniature portrait of Mrs Mary Sharpe, wearing a blue coat with fur collar, signed, watercolour, contained in brown leather easel case with folding hinged lids and brown velvet lining. Mrs Sharpe was born Mary Ann Freeman in Haverhill, Suffolk in 1848 and died at Ferring in Sussex in 1930. Visit www.sworder.co.uk for larger image and condition reports.
English School, circa 1810: Miniature Portrait of a Gentleman, with grey hair, blue eyes and wearing a blue jacket, oval, 6.5cm, with plaited hair beneath glazed panel to the reverse; and Another, circa 1810, depicting a young gentleman with brown hair and sideburns, brown eyes, wearing a white neckerchief and black jacket, oval, 7.4cm, with hair locket to the reverse (converted to a brooch with pin fastener) (2)
John Bryan: Profile Bust Portrait of a Lady, circa 1800, dexter, black painted on plaster with scratched detail, she wears a broad ribbon in her frilled and embroidered headpiece, oval, 9cm, within domed verre eglomise, in a deeply moulded stained pearwood frame, original label pasted on reverse inscribed John Bryan Miniature Painter No.34 Stationers Court, Ludgate St, 20.5cm high overall See illustration
English School, circa 1740: Miniature Portrait of a Young Gentleman, with long powdered curly hair, brown eyes, wearing a lace jabot and light blue velvet jacket, oval, 6cm, on copper, in later papier mâché frame; and English School, early 19th century: Portrait of a Robert Durham and Mrs Durham, he wears a black jacket, she wears an embroidered mob cap and ruff, oval, 7cm and 6cm respectively, in black papier mâché frames (3). A label on the reverse of the Robert Durham miniature states He was a Unitarian, Robert Durham (Yorkshireman) Builder & Undertaker, buried on the kings .... near to ... Symans Church, London. Married a Miss Ovens and afterward a Miss Stamp. Died rich = born in 1747. He was my great grandfather G G W Gordon. On the reverse of the Mrs Durham miniature My great grandmother Mrs Durham formerly a Miss Ovens & I think the writing is my aunt Elizabeth Durham (Sprinter) but I don't know my great grandmother's christian name. G G W Gordon
J T Mitchell: Miniature Portrait of a Gentleman, circa 1830, with grey hair, blue eyes, wearing a white collar and cravat, and navy jacket, oval, 6.7cm; and Two 19th Century Portraits, one depicting a pretty young woman with ringlets, 9cm by 7.4cm, the other a young gentleman with sideburns, oval, 7.5cm, both in papier mâché frames (3)
English School, circa 1800: Miniature Portrait of a Young Gentleman, said to be James Morrison, son of Humphrey Morrison of Dunstan Steads, with grey powdered hair, grey/blue eyes, wearing a jabot and brown jacket, against a sky background, oval, 5.4cm, in a gold metal frame with hair locket to the reverse, in a crushed morocco silk lined case with old paper note My great-grandfather James Morrison, son of Humphrey Morrison of Dunstan Steads, M Davison See illustration
English School, circa 1830: A Family Group Portrait Miniature, depicting a mother with black curly hair and wearing a puff-sleeved black dress, with her five children, one of the young boys holding a toy gun, within a curtain draped interior, 17cm by 22cm, in a gilt brass slip frame, the narrow main frame carved with fruiting acorns, ribbons and leaves, stamped WW on the backplate, 24cm by 29cm overall See illustration
English School, late 19th century: Portrait Miniature of a Lady, in 18th century costume, her powdered and pearl decorated hair in an elaborate coiffure, wearing a lace trimmed dress enriched with pearls, signed Andrew Pinxt, oval, 6.5cm, in gilt metal frame with blue glass reverse panel See illustration
Attributed to George Engleheart (1752-1829): Miniature Bust Portrait of a Lady, circa 1790, with short brown curly hair, grey-blue eyes and wearing a coral bead necklace and pleated lace trimmed white dress, against a cloudy sky background, initialled E, oval, 8.5cm high, the reverse with seed pearl trimmed hair locket within a guilloche machine turned blue glass covered border, gold metal frame See illustration
A George V 9ct Gold Small Compact or Pill Box, London 1929, circular, inset with a profile portrait miniature of a pretty young woman with curly brown hair, blue eyes and wearing a pearl necklace, a rose held to her throat, against an illuminated blue graduated ground, within a narrow engraved band of scrolls, machine turned ground, internally with mirror beneath the lid, 3.7cm diameter See illustration
An Unusual Edwardian Silver Pocket Cigarette Case, with secret inner gilt compartment containing an oval portrait miniature of an Edwardian Lady, engraved with O'Callaghan family crest and Latin motto "Fidus Et Audax" (Faithful and Bold), and monogram to the reverse. Birmingham, 1905, Maker's mark D&F. 4.5ozs. Lots 173-187 bear the family crest of The O’Callaghan Family of Maryfort, Co.Clare, namely a dexter arm, embowed, couped at shoulder, in hand a sword, thereon a snake. Some pieces were presented to C.L. O’Callaghan as Master of The Fingal Harriers Hunt, founded in 1881 and still in existence, while some trophy cups were awarded for Croquet tournaments held at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne between 1910-21, and were presented by the 9th Duke of Devonshire, Victor Cavendish, also Mayor of Eastbourne. The O’Callaghan family have ancestral links to the 7th Duke of Devonshire and the Cavendish family. Cornelius O’Callaghan (1741-97) was made 1st Baron Lismore with the peerage continuing with the 1st Viscount Cornelius O’Callaghan (1775-1857) (son of 1st Baron Lismore) and becoming extinct in 1898 on the death of George Ponsonby O’Callaghan (1815-1898) 2nd Viscount Lismore.
A 19th Century .930 silver oval table snuff box, probably French, the hinge lid decorated in relief with a crown issuing acanthus swags framing three glazed portrait miniatures including one of Napoleon, enclosed by a border of green, red and blue pastes, the sides decorated with foliate scrolls, length approx 9cm (one portrait miniature indistinct and wear to others).
A Victorian rotating pendant fob seal of triple sided design, each side engraved with a shield, a bar of music and Eastern script, an oval portrait miniature frame, glazed with the portrait of a gentleman, a mother-of-pearl pocket knife, a plated military whistle and eight excavated thimbles.
19th century Continental miniature School - half length portrait of a young child in a pink shirt leaning against a gold orb, oval, on porcelain, 1.25" x 1", within a brass pierced and engraved foliate frame; together with three differing Continental miniatures on ivory of women within brass moulded frames (4)

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