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'The Book of Common Prayer,' Full maroon with gilt decorations, marbled (paste) endpapers, gilt edge, contemporary ink signatures to title page, vg, printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Oxford, 1781; (Laurence Sterne and John Hall-Stevenson). 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Itlay. By Yorick: and The Continuation thereof by Eugenius,' new edition, four volumes bound in full calf, rubbed and bumped with joints loosening, ex libris William flesher, T. Osborne, London, 1784; Alexander Preddie. 'The Practical Measurer,' full polished calf, morocco label, plates with some fold outs, vg, Blackie & Son, Glasgow, 1839; With three other works including a roughly bound 'The New Family Herbal' by Matthew Robinson, 1872. (6)

This New England Patriots collector's mini helmet from Riddell is signed by Hall of Famer Joe Kapp which was witnessed and certified by HOF Sports. Certificate of Authenticity and picture of signing event included. Dimensions: 7"L x 4.5"W x 5"HManufacturer: RiddellCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.

Five late 18th/early 19th century English porcelain cups and saucers to include a circa 1800 John Rose Coalport cup and saucer, Caughley blue and gilt circa 1790 cup and saucer, Caughley blue and white tea bowl and saucer, Flight Barr and Barr Worcester circa 1825 cup and saucer and a New Hall blue and white circa 1790-95 cup and saucerIf there is no condition report shown, please request

A COLLECTION OF NEW HALL TEAWARES late 18th and early 19th century, comprising two trios and two cups and saucers, in various patterns (4). Provenance: The Beardmore Collection, Part II.

A group of thirteen cups, ten saucers and a tea plate, 19th century, to include Ridgway, Coalport, and New Hall examples, with painted floral and foliate decoration, with navy to gilt borders, the largest saucer 15.5cm wide (qty)Provenance: The late George John Lewington (1931-2023). Condition ReportWith rubbing to the decoration and gilt. All in need of a good clean.

A collection of twelve porcelain cups and saucers, 19th century, to include , New Hall, Coalport and Minton examples, with painted floral decoration each with gilt borders,the largest saucer 15cm wideProvenance: The late George John Lewington (1931-2023).Condition ReportAll with rubbing and wear to the decoration. In need of a clean. With hairline crack to the Minton saucer. Chip to saucer with floral arrangments with bows. Chip to the base of the cup and heavily crazed to the saucer of the blue and pink floral set with moulded rope edge.

Original color photograph entitled 'The Corps de Ballet' taken at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. Fine art photographer George Lemoine captured the group of female dancers from above and with a long shutter speed resulting in an lively whirlwind abstraction of colors and forms. Lemoine's series of photographs was published in the book 'Radio City Music Hall: Showplace of the Nation Heart of Rockefeller Center.' Stamp on recto: The Corps de Ballet, Radio City Music Hall, Photo by George A. Le Moine, Photographer of fine Arts, 1961. Artist: George A. Le Moine (French, born 1935)Issued: 1961Dimensions: 15.25"L x 13.5"HCountry of Origin: FranceCondition: Age related wear.

A new walnut five drawer hall table on turned reeded legs, 156 by 32 by 76cm high.

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. London. Chapman & Hall 1850. Frontis, stained. Half calf, marbledboards; Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. Paris. A & W Galignanai. 1842. 2 vols. Quarter calf,foxed throughout; Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. Edinburgh & London. William Paterson.(Circa 1889), half calf, Vol 1 only of 4; with All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal conducted byCharles Dickens Volumes XIV 1866; XVII 1867, New Series XXIII 1879, XXIV 1880 plus one otherlacking title; with a further 7 volumes. WAF. (16)

A set of eight Royal Crown Derby paperweights, The Mulberry Hall Shopper Bear, Teddy Bear (Waving), Teddy Bear Edward, Catnip Kitten, Sleeping Dormouse, Long Tailed Tit, New Year Mouse (certificate & signed to base), Orchard Hedgehog (signed to base) all with box and gold stoppers except teddy bears. (8)

Collection of ceramics, primarily early 19th century teapots, to include early 19th century Worcester blue and white teapot with floral decoration and rose formed knop, floral sprig decorated teapot with round body, swirled oval bodied teapot with floral decoration, Two further miniature teapots, a jug commemorating freemasonry in manganese colour, decorated New Hall tea cup and saucer and teapot stand mothers and children pattern, jug with motto, and mug (16)Largest teapot is 18cms with lid.Gardener's Arms Jug - hairline crack and chip to rimBlue and White Worcester Jug - restoration to knop, abrasions and pitting to surfaceTeapot with round body and floral sprig - chip to lid and hairline to bodyFreemason's jug - cracks to bodyTiny chinese style teapot - crack to spoutNew Hall trio - rubbing to gildingMiniature teapot with children and dice - chip to spout, surface staining, niggles round the rimLarge teapot, ovoid swirled form - cracks to body and spout and crack to standFlowers that never fade mug - chips and crackstwo teabowls - one stained, other chip to rimtwo saucers, one chinese style, one floral sprigs - chinese one has crack to foot, other one has wear to the enameltw

* JOHN HALLIDAY (SCOTTISH 1933 - 2021), OLIVE GROVES, LUCERA oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1965 versoframed image size 51cm x 61cm, overall size 68cm x 78cm Provenance: The artist's studio sale, 2021.Note: Born in Kirkcudbright's Atkinson Place in 1933, John Halliday lived for nearly ninety years just two doors along from the house in which he was born. In the intervening decades, his restless life had been one of exploration: creatively, culturally, geographically and personally. Born into a family background where a career in art was not a likely or realistic prospect, Halliday found himself leaving Kirkcudbright Academy at the age of sixteen to take up work as a trainee on the local Galloway News. And there the story might well have ended. But a benign fate, never far away in the Halliday life story, began to take a hand in events. In 1948, Cecile Walton, daughter of the celebrated E.A. Walton, had decided to settle permanently in Kirkcudbright. Although in straitened financial circumstances, she was a woman of some style and flair which extended beyond her art and into her lifestyle. Introduced to Halliday at an Arts Council touring exhibition in St Cuthbert's Hall, Cecile took an interest in the talented teenager. Along with Jean Menzies, John's art teacher at school, Walton worked hard to have him accepted at the Glasgow School of Art despite his lack of formal educational qualifications. But Walton's influence did not end with Halliday's entrance to art school in 1949. Life in Cecile's Millburn studio was a far cry from the more humdrum life-style of Atkinson Place. Despite a lack of money, Cecile did not lack glamour in young John's eyes: "It was a magical place, with its old pot-bellied stove. I remember the furniture, particularly a big bureau, and the chairs were William Morris. She seemed to entertain everybody there, great Sunday lunches in particular, with all kinds of interesting guests from all the arts. And she managed to bring it all off in a single-end in the Millburn." (Tales of the Kirkcudbright Artists: Gordon, 2006). This passion for style and sparkling company left its mark on the young man. His life has been marked by enrichment through association with beautiful objects and with people who have made their mark on the world of the arts and society in general. 1949 was a good year to be arriving at the Glasgow School of Art. Teaching giants such as William and Mary Armour, Geoff Squire and John Miller greatly impressed the young but impecunious Halliday. His digs in a theatrical boarding house adjacent to the School of Art meant he spent more time than most students in the School, drawing every ounce of input from the learning experience before eventually finding himself a tiny studio in the city centre. In his final year at art school, he won two Royal Scottish Academy Awards: the Chalmers Bursary and the award for outstanding Diploma show. Output from this period featured in an exhibition, largely organised by Cecile Walton, in a Castle Douglas gallery shortly after graduation. Here again, fate took a hand. The largest canvas in the exhibition was bought by Douglas Lorimer, managing director of North British Locomotives, who financed Halliday for a year to 'see the world', as he put it. Lorimer's help, together with money from his awards saw John setting out with his friend and experienced traveller, Gerald Ashton, for his first trip abroad - to Sicily. It was a seminal experience, the beginning of a life-long love of this location to which he has returned countless times. An introduction to Glasgow architect Jack Notman led, over the years, to a series of over 70 mural commissions. Ten of these were for panels of famous Scots at Prestwick Airport, others for the Clydesdale Bank, the Bank of Scotland, the Marquis of Bute, Hope Scott, the National Trust for Scotland, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, Glenfarclas whisky, to name only a few. In many of them his love of architecture, symmetry and the baroque technique of trompe l'oeil was fully explored. It is, however, to Whistler, friend of his own patron, Cecile Walton, that his own work is most often compared, a comparison with which Halliday was not unhappy. " It is his half-tones and quarter tones which I really love and these play an important part in my work also. The light in the early morning or evening can only be realised through them. People talk a lot about my preoccupation with light but it is to those tones that I am really referring," he remarks. New York-based Clare Henry, doyenne of international art critics, is among those happy to make the comparison: "Landscape is Halliday's real love, be it a damp day by the Tweed or noon in Sicily...while studies of ancient facades in Venice are positively Whistlerian." (The Herald, 25th November 1998). Richard Jacques in The Scotsman has seen similar parallels: "Specially rewarding are those Whistlerian images of Kirkcudbright and Galloway in which the elements of landscape are seen in a penumbral create an almost magical effect." (The Scotsman, 18th November 1991). Some might also see a parallel closer to home. In his love of penumbral light and muted tones and outlines, Halliday at times forays into the concerns, if not the palette, of another Kirkcudbright artist, Macaulay Stevenson. John Halliday remained however, very much his own man with a vision of Galloway to which he had been drawn irresistibly throughout a long career. Travels throughout Europe, homes across Scotland have resulted in glorious oils, gouache and crayon images from all parts: from Calabria to Coldstream, from the baking sun of Sicily to wintry scenes in Edinburgh.

* JOYCE W CAIRNS PPRSA HRHA HRWA HRBA RSW MA (RCA) (SCOTTISH b. 1947), FITTIE FÊTE monoprint (unique) on paper, signed, titled, inscribed 'monoprint' and dated '03mounted, framed and under glassimage size 78cm x 101cm, overall size 98cm x 120cm Note: In 2018 Joyce W Cairns was elected the first woman President of The Royal Scottish Academy in its 192 year history. Given the extraordinary talent of many Scottish women artists both past and present, this honour reflects the high esteem of the Royal Academicians who elected her and her status as one of the most important and respected artists of her time. Note 2: Joyce W Cairns was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She studied painting at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen from 1966 -71 and The Royal College of Art, London 1971 -74. She was awarded a Fellowship at Gloucester College of Art and Design 1974-75 returning to London where she did the Art Teacher’s Certificate Course at Goldsmiths College, University of London 1975-76. In 1976 she returned to Aberdeen where she taught Drawing and Painting at Grays School of Art until 2004 when she took early retirement to complete the vast body of work which culminated in ‘War Tourist’. It was exhibited for 3 months in 2006 at Aberdeen Art Gallery, attracting nearly 30,000 visitors. Her work is mainly autobiographical based on past memories intertwined with present experiences, woven around the backcloth of the once fishing village of Footdee at the mouth of Aberdeen harbour where she has lived for the past 33 years. ‘War Tourist’ was based on her Father’s war backed up by extensive research following in his footsteps through Europe and Tunisia. She now paints in Dundee working in a house and garden overlooking the Tay which will add a further dimension to her work but still retains a residence in Footdee. Cairns has won many awards and is featured in many publications and in the wider media. Cairns’ work has been exhibited in serious group exhibitions since 1970, as well as having numerous celebrated solo exhibitions in Scotland, London and Canada. Her work is held in numerous public collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, The Scottish Arts Council, BBC Television, Edinburgh City Arts Centre, Fife Regional Council, Fleming’s Bank, Glasgow City Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Grampian Television, Graves Art Gallery & Museum, Sheffield, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Lanarkshire County Council, Manchester City Art Gallery, McMaster Museum, Hamilton, Ontario, Mobil, Perth City Art Gallery & Museum, Shell UK, Tidaholm Government Office, Sweden, The Contemporary Arts Society, The Royal Scottish Academy, University of Aberdeen, University of Strathclyde, Unilever, Aberdeen Asset Management, The National Museums of Scotland, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Asset Management,Asia, Singapore, The British Museum, The Victor Murphy Trust, Pier Arts Centre, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, The Maritime Museum, Irvin, New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, The National Galleries of Scotland. Further biographical information at: www.joycecairns.co.uk

Yeats, (Jack B.) RHA A unique and important group of six early Jack Yeats Catalogues of 'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland,' from the collection of his friend Lady Gregory, two decorated with original watercolour drawings by the artist, a third with buyers' names added in the artist's hand.  Jack Yeats began exhibiting his West of Ireland drawings and paintings about 1899, when he was 28 years old, and over the next 30 years he  held about 30 exhibitions, mostly in halls which he hired himself in Dublin and London, making all the arrangements and paying the costs himself, until eventually he was contracted on a professional basis by Victor Waddington Galleries. The catalogues for his self-organised exhibitions were produced in very small numbers and are now of the greatest rarity. The present group comes from the collection of his friend and supporter Augusta Lady Gregory, with provenance through her family and the collector and publisher Colin Smythe. Four of the catalogues date from 1901-2, within his first few years as a professional painter, the other two from 1910 and 1914. Each catalogue lists the works offered with their prices. Four of the six include printed vignette drawings by the artist. One, a twelve-page booklet sold for threepence, includes substantial contributions by George Russell (AE), W.B. Yeats and others. The following are the catalogues included: * 1901. London, Walker Art Gallery. Sketches of Life  in the West of Ireland and Elsewhere, 3pp (single folded sheet), listing 44 paintings at prices ranging from 3 guineas to 10. This copy uniquely embellished by the artist for Lady Gregory with a stencil of a horse's head on upper cover, circa 2" x 1 1/2", hand coloured in brown wash and cross-hatched in ink. * 1901, 23 October - 2nd November. Dublin, 9 Merrion Row, printed by Sealy, Bryers & Walker. Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland. 4pp (single folded sheet), listing 43 paintings, prices between 3 and 10 guineas, with short extracts from R.A.M. Stevenson, Turgenev ('Always follow the impulse of your heart') and W.B.Yeats. This copy uniquely embellished by the artist for Lady Gregory with a watercolour and wash drawing of a horse's head in blue, circa 1 1/2" square. The date and address inscribed in Lady Gregory's hand on upper cover. * 1902, 18-30 August. Dublin, Wells Central Hall. Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland. Price Threepence. Booklet in blue printed covers, 12pp, listing 37 paintings, prices between 3 and 12 guineas includes three printed vignette sketches by the artist, with articles by A.E. [George Russell] ('An Artist of Gaelic Ireland') and T.W. R[olleston], 2 pages of advertisements at rear for Yeats' plays and the Broadsheets published by Elkin Mathews. * The same exhibition, 3pp (single folded sheet), presumably for those who did not wish to spend 3d on the booklet (above). This copy uniquely inscribed by the artist for Lady Gregory, the titles of paintings which were sold crossed out in ink and with the buyers' names written at side in Yeats' hand: one painting bought by Redmond Morris (later Lord Killanin), one each by a Mr. Byrne, Miss Pamela [Coleman Smith] and R.A. Garnett, and no fewer than seven by the Irish-American lawyer John Quinn. * 1910, 8-21 December. Dublin, Leinster Hall, printed by Tower Press. Pictures of  Life in the West of Ireland. Grey card with printed vignette of an old tramp, 4pp (single folded sheet), listing 42 paintings, prices between 3 and 8 guineas. Traces of mounting (in Lady Gregory's scrapbook) on back. 1914, [29 June] - 18 July, London, Walker Art Gallery. Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland. Grey card, 4pp (single folded sheet), listing 40 paintings (many with Kerry titles), prices between 3 and 40 guineas. The August 1902 exhibition in Dublin changed Jack Yeats' life. It marked his first meeting with the Irish-American lawyer John Quinn, who was brought to the show by Lady Gregory (who was briefly Quinn's lover). A connoisseur of modern European art, particularly the French impressionists, Quinn was bowled over by Yeats' work and bought no fewer than nine paintings (the seven marked in Lady Gregory's catalogue, and two others which presumably he bought later);  the total came to more than £100 , a very significant sum in those days. The day after the exhibition ended, Quinn and Yeats ravelled by train and side-car to Killeeneen in East Galway, where they visited the grave of the Gaelic poet Raftery and took part in a Feis, going later to Lady Gregory's home at Coole nearby. For the rest of his life Quinn remained a friend and a constant supporter both of Jack and of W.B. Yeats, and also of their elderly and impecunious father, John Butler Yeats, whom he minded and supported for the last fifteen years of his life in New York. The 1914 exhibition in London was Jack Yeats' last for more than four years. The Great War began six weeks after its conclusion, brining normal commercial life to a close, and driving Yeats to the edge of a breakdown. Overall, this is a superb collection of early Yeats catalogues. Individually, all these catalogues are rare; as a group, with their attractive decorations and embellishments and their compelling personal association, they are certainly unique.

A group of European ceramics including New Hall, Worcester, Flight Barr & Barr, Chelsea, Bloor Derby, Meissen etc. Condition - poor to fair

Hall (Joseph) The Works..., some contemporary ink marginalia, a few leaves with minor loss or tears affecting text, a couple of pin-holes through text affecting several leaves, the odd spot, Printed by John Haviland for Richard Moore, 1625 § Smith (Henry) The Sermons of Mr Henry Smith: Gathered into one volume... whereunto is added Gods Arrow Against Atheists, loss to A2 and 2E8 affecting text, the odd spot, Thomas Man, Paul Man and Jonah Man, 1631 bound with Twelve sermons, preached by Mr Henry Smith, Printed by John Haviland for George Edwards, 1632, together 2 works in 1 vol., water-staining, later calf, upper cover almost detached, a little rubbed, loss to spine ends § Preston (John) The New Covenant, or, The Saints Portion... 8th edition, corrected, first few leaves with worming to foot and light water-staining to margins, light occasional spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, morocco spine label, Printed by J.D. for Nicolas Bourne, 1634; and 3 others, 17th century Christian literature, vs. (6)

Music.- Vast Collection of Concert Programmes, Signatures of Violinists and Related Ephemera, various programmes, advertisements and leaflets for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Society, Royal Academy of Music, Viennese Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra among others, at venues including Royal Albert Hall, Queen's Hall London, Crystal Palace, The Dome Brighton, McEwan Hall Edinburgh, and Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, a few with pictorial or decorative wrappers, various signatures, inscriptions and signed photographs of notable violinists including Fritz Kreisler, Alberto Lysy, Leonid Kogan, the Hungarians Emil Telmanyi, Joseph Szigeti, Tivadar Nachez, and early woman violinists including Leonora Jackson, Wilma Neruda and Ida Haendel, some lightly foxed, v.s., [1860s-1950s] (c.200) *** An extensive collection of concert hall programmes which span the UK and the globe dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, alongside an array of signatures of notable violinists and other musicians, many of which complement those programmes that list them as performers.The subject of a series of these programmes is the Queen's Hall, London which opened in 1893 to become London's principal concert venue, with several of the leading musicians and composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries performing there, including Claude Debussy and Edward Elgar. In the 1930s, the hall became the main London base of two new orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Magic.- Houdini (Harry) Magical Rope Ties and Escapes, 'British Edition', 7 black and white photographic plates, illustrations, without printed dedication slip to Harry Kellar, title and final f. very lightly browned, light soiling to head of rear pastedown, original printed boards, soiling to spine and lower cover, some rubbing to extremities, Will Goldston, [1921] § Hoffman (Professor [Angelo Lewis]) Puzzles Old and New, frontispiece and illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, very occasional cracking at gutter, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine very slightly toned, extremities rubbed, Frederick Warne and Co., [c.1893] § Hall (Trevor H.) A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850, one of 250 copies signed by the author, plates, A.L.s from the author and prospectus for the work loosely inserted, some foxing, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, short closed tear to head of upper panel, spine slightly sunned, edges rubbed, Lepton, Palmyra Press, 1957; and others magic, card tricks etc, 8vo & 4to (9)

Share certificate for the Liverpool Music Hall, printed on vellum, contemporary ink inscription to verso, some small holes affecting text, lightly browned and creased, 365 x 235mm, Liverpool, 1st January 1795. *** The Liverpool Music Hall opened in 1786 on Bold Street, though it appears to have been reorganised in 1795. This certificate lists the trustees, members, new arrangements, and other related details concerning management and annual meetings. We have not been able to trace another example. 

Bob Dylan - 9 LP records and 1 CD box set, Times they are a changin' and another side of... US 70's reissues, The real Royal Albert Hall 1966 concert 2 x Lp 2016, Hard Rain 2017 reissue New Morning, Nashville Skyline, John Wesley Harding, Before the flood, the bootleg series 1-3 3 CD box set and while the establishment burns.

Lou Reed - 9 LP records, Live recordings - Ultrasonic, Hero and Heroine Dec 26 1972, The Boston Strangler 2 x LP New England broadcast 1976, Winter at the Roxy L.A broadcast 1976 2 x Lp, Banging on my drums 75-77 3 x LP. Hassled in April, Chicago '78 2 x LP, Live in Cleveland 1984 and New York in LA 1989, and live at Alice Tully Hall 1973 RSD 2020.

Circle of John Chase (British, 1810-1879) Interior of the Hall of Justice, Bruges; A church interior with tombs oil on tin, a pair each 20.5 x 30.5cm A similar view of the Hall of Justice by John Chase is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (No. 1040). Overall in good, stable, restored condition.  Remnants of old, discoloured varnish visible under UV light and some notable areas of retouching, principally to the right hand tombin the church interior and around the fireplace and window in the Hall of Justice.26 x 36cm framed

ARCHITECT'S ARCHIVE. An archive of material from the renowned architect John Douglas (1830-1911) of Walmoor Castle, Cheshire. Douglas designed over 500 buildings in Cheshire, North Wales, North West England and in particular at Eaton Hall, home of the Duke of Westminster. He designed many new churches and renovated old ones, often incorporating elements of the Gothic Revival. The archive includes:A folder of sepia photographs of buildings on the Eaton and Oakmere estates, CheshireA folder of watercoloursA folder of loose plates from W M Douglas's Interior DecorationsA folio album of sepia photographs of buildings he designed, 1864-69. 48 photos. Album in poor conditionFamily Bible of the Douglas family. The Self-Interpreting Bible with notes by the late John Brown. Folio, Bungay, 1814. With plates. Contemporary reversed calf. One page of births and deaths of the Douglas family.Folio of prints of buildingsSketch book showing capitals, mouldings and other details. Landscape 8vo.Box of sepia photographs, original drawings and cuttings from The Builder and Building News showing highly ornate designs for wrought iron gates. Probably 100+ illustrations of gates, including a trade catalogue of Hill & Smith, Brierley Hill Ironworks, Staffordshire, 1896.With an extensive file of research material on John Douglas (2 boxes)

Bell (James). A New Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 4 volumes, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co. 1834, title page and contents list, folding engraved map of England & Wales with short repairs to old folds, 45 uncoloured engraved folding county maps, slight spotting, marbled endpapers and foredges, contemporary half calf with contrasting morocco labels to the spines, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Dugdale (Thomas). Curiosities of Great Britain and Wales Delineated, 10 volumes, published by John Tallis, circa 1840, decorative topographical frontispiece, ornate title page and 56 uncoloured engraved maps and approximately 238 uncoloured engraved views, occasional spotting and offsetting, publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines, bumped, worn and a little stained, 8vo, with Hall (Sidney). A New British Atlas Comprising a Series of 54 Maps Constructed from the Most Recent Surveys, published by Chapman & Hall, 1836, calligraphic title page with several marginal closed tears, laid on paper, index, a general map of England & Wales and 47 engraved maps (on 54 sheets), folding Inland Navigation map at rear laid on linen, occasional light spotting, modern quarter cloth with gilt decorated spine, 4to, plus Pigot (James). Pigot and Co.'s Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Essex, Herts, Huntingdon, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex..., London & Manchester, November 1839, calligraphic title, 11 uncoloured engraved folding maps, some toning and slight offsetting to the maps, advertisements bound at rear, publisher's green cloth, re-backed retaining the original spine, spine with partial paper label, large 8vo, and Virtue (James). [The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868], lacking title page and preliminaries, 68 lithographic county and regional maps, upper hinge cracked and weak, contemporary half calf gilt, bumped and worn at extremities, 4toQTY: (17)

Ten Fishing Books - Famous Flies and their Originators 1972 T. Donald Overfield, Fishing A Highland Stream 1987 John Inglis Hall, Trout & Salmon Fishing 1984 Roy Eaton, The Complete Tout and Salmon Fisherman 1979 Jack Thorndike, The Fly 2003 Andrew Herd, The Salmon & Sea Trout Fisher's Handbook 1997 Hugh Falkus, The Illustrated Memoirs of a Fisherman 1993 Bernard Venables, The Art of Lure Fishing 2004 Charles Bettell, The Book of the Perch 1990 Peter Rogers & Steve Burke, The Trout and the Fly A New Approach Brian Clarke and John Goddard - mixed condition

A rare and important Victorian Naval group of seven awarded to Admiral Sir William Loring, K.C.B., Royal Navy, Commodore of the Naval Forces in Australia during the War in New Zealand 1860-61 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (K.C.B.), (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge in 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1874, and breast star in silver with appliqué centre in gold and enamels, the reverse fitted with gold pin for wearing; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William Loring, Lieut. R.N.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 (Commodore W. Loring, C.B., H.M.S. Iris) officially impressed naming; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed, fitted with straight bar suspension and ‘Syria’ clasp; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, small chip to Crescent suspension on this, the K.C.B. set with some chips to green enamel stalk on the star, otherwise generally with light contact marks, good very fine or better (8) £7,000-£9,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. Only 6 medals issued to the Royal Navy with the reverse date ‘1860’, Commodore Loring being the senior officer to receive one. William Loring, the second son of Admiral Sir John Loring K.C.B., K.C.H., entered the Royal Navy in 1826 as a First-class Volunteer aboard the Undaunted. He afterwards served in the Mediterranean, at Home and in the East Indies aboard the Alligator, Britannia, Melville and Wolf. He passed his examination in 1832 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1836. He saw service off the Coast of Syria in 1840 aboard Carysfort, and received the medal with clasp 'Syria' and the St Jean D'Acre Silver medal. He was promoted Commander in 1841 and Captain in 1848. In the Crimean War he served in Command of Furious, and was present at the bombardment of Odessa and Fort Constantine in 1854, and Sebastopol and Kinburn in 1855. He received the Turkish and British Crimea Medals, the latter with Clasp 'Sebastopol' and was also awarded the Order of Medjidie 3rd Class. His services in the Crimea were further recognised by the award of the C.B. in 1855. On promotion to Commodore 1st Class in 1860, Loring commanded the Naval Brigade in New Zealand during the 2nd Maori War. He was promoted Rear Admiral in 1866, Vice Admiral in 1871, Admiral in 1877, and Admiral of the Fleet in 1881. Having been created a K.C.B. in 1875, he died in 1895 aged 81. His obituary in The Times, 7 January 1895, states: ‘The death is announced at Ryde, Isle of Wight, of Admiral Sir W. Loring, in his 82nd year. He was the second son of Admiral Sir J. Wentworth Loring, was born at Fareham in 1813, and educated at Twyford and at the Naval College, Portsmouth. Entering the Navy he proceeded on active service in June 1827. He served on the coast of Syria in 1840-1, being present at the bombardment of St Jean D'Acre and the blockade of Alexandria, and was made Commander, R.N. by “special promotion” for his services under Sir Charles Napier and received the English and Turkish Medals. Again he received special promotions for the successful pursuit and capture of the notorious pirate Lin Gahn, on the coast of China. Subsequently he served at the siege of Sebastopol, Eupatoria, Kertch, Kinburn etc. He was Commodore on the Australian Station from 1856 to 1860, and at the same time in Command of the Naval Brigade at Taranaki during the New Zealand war, for which he received a Medal. From 1862 to 1866 he was Captain Superintendent at Pembroke Dockyard, and Rear Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard 1870-1. About this time he was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral and in 1877 rose to that of Admiral. He was made K.C.B. in 1875.’

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1865 (Sub.-Lieut. John J. F. Bell, H.M.S. Brisk) officially impressed naming, lightly polished, otherwise good very fine £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. 13 Medals with this reverse date to the Royal Navy, including two officers, all to H.M.S. Brisk. A further 10 medals dated ‘1865’ were issued to H.M.S. Eclipse, the supply of medals dated ‘1863 to 1865’ having been exhausted. John Bell was born on 30 September 1843. He entered the Royal Navy on 9 July 1857, when aged 13 years 9 months as a Naval Cadet and immediately went to sea aboard H.M.S. Chesapeake, and whilst in this ship he was promoted to Midshipman on 1 August 1859. On leaving Chesapeake he was next appointed to Nile, January 1860, and in April 1862 he was loaned to Hydra for three months. He returned to Nile in July 1862 and whilst continuing to serve in this ship he was promoted to Acting Sub Lieutenant on 23 March 1863, and later confirmed in this rank with seniority of 20 March 1864. On paying off from Nile he joined Excellent in April 1864 for a course of studies and examination. On passing out he was appointed to Brisk for service on the Australian Station. During the two years he served in Brisk he was landed in New Zealand as part of the Naval Brigade which took part in the closing actions of the Second New Maori War. During September and October 1865 the Naval Brigade took part in the actions at Opotiki and Poverty Bay. On 20 September 1865, Captain John Luce praised his conduct in the operations against rebel natives at Opotiki and stated that 'he showed great coolness under fire'. On promotion to Lieutenant on 21 April 1866, he was transferred to Curaçoa as additional and for disposal. In September 1866 he was reappointed to Brisk and remained with the ship until paid off in January 1869. Next appointed to Royal Adelaide for eight weeks leave he then joined Cockatrice in July 1869. He remained in this ship for three years before paying off in March 1873. He was next appointed to Pembroke in November 1873 followed by Sandfly in November 1875 and Duncan in May 1878. In April 1882 he was posted to the Coast Guard Service and was stationed at Montrose. In 1886 he was transferred to Whitstable. He remained in this posting until placed on the Retired List (Age) with the rank of Commander, having served for 32 years. In September 1890 he was granted a Good Service Pension of £50.00 per annum. He died on 19 September 1900. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

The rare campaign pair awarded to Captain H. T. Wright, Royal Navy, who was mentioned in despatches for his services in Perak and later in South Africa where he commanded the Naval Brigade in Zululand 1877-78 India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Lieut: H. T. Wright. R.N. H.M.S. “Modeste”); South Africa 1877-79, clasp, 1877-8 (Commr. H. T. Wright, R.N, H.M.S. “Active:) small official correction to second initial on this, good very fine (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. Henry Townley Wright was born on 28 March 1846. He entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet aboard the Britannia on 13 September 1859, when aged 13 years 6 months. He passed out of Britannia twelve months later and gained three months sea time. He joined H.M.S. Liffey in September 1860 and served aboard her for nearly two years, during which time he was promoted to Midshipman on 22 December 1861. In August 1862 he joined Royal Adelaide and was reappointed to Liffey in September 1862. He continued to serve in this ship until paying off in July 1865. On promotion to Sub Lieutenant on 21 July he joined the Royal Naval College at Excellent in November 1865 for a period of instruction and examination. On passing out of College in December 1865 he spent six months on shore prior to joining Jason in May 1866. He served in this ship until June 1868, having been promoted to Lieutenant on 3 April 1868. In his new rank he was appointed to Scylla in April 1869 and served a four year commission on the Pacific station. On returning to England he was next afloat aboard Modeste on the East Indies Station which he joined in January 1874. During the two and a half years he served on this ship he took part in the Perak Expedition during 1875-6, raised to punish the murderers of the British Resident Mr J. W. Birch and several of his attendants at Passir Sala on 1 November 1875. Sultan Ismail was believed to have had a hand in the murders and had also been troublesome in recent months. Lieutenant Wright was landed with the Naval Brigade and fought onshore with the Laroot Field Force under Major-General Colborne. He was gazetted with praise for the successful attacks on villages below Blanja (Malay Pirates) and for his services with the Naval Brigade attached to the Laroot Field Force and promoted to Commander for these services. On leaving Modeste in June 1896 he was given the command of Duncan in September 1876, but transferred to Tourmaline in October 1876, serving on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station. Whilst in this vessel he was frequently in action with slavers off Zanzibar. In July 1877 he was transferred to Active serving on the same Station. Whilst in Active he landed in Command of the Naval Brigade and fought on shore from September 1877 to June 1878. During this period the Naval Brigade fought at the battle of Quintana and took part in various operations against the Gealekas, Gaikas and other Kaffir tribes. For these services the officers and men who returned to their ship in July 1878 received the medal with clasp '1877-8'. Commander Wright was mentioned in Military Despatches with praise and recommended for promotion by General Sir A. Cuninghame for services with the Naval Brigade in operations against the Kaffirs. On leaving Active in July 1878 he was transferred to Flora which he commanded until September 1881 when he was placed on shore on half pay until November 1884, when he served for two years in the Colonial Service until dismissed in 1886. He was placed on the Retired List on 17 September 1886, with the rank of Captain. He died on 11 November 1914.

The ‘Yonnie Expedition 1887’ gold D.S.O. group of three awarded to Lieutenant Francis A. Valentine, Royal Navy, who commanded the Naval Brigade attached to the military expedition, one of three such awards for this expedition but unique to the Navy Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamels, with integral top riband bar; South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (Sub: Lieut: F. A. Valentine, R.N, H.M.S. “Boadicea”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1887-8 (Lieut. F. A. Valentine R.N., H.M.S. Acorn.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £8,000-£10,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. D.S.O. London Gazette 9 March 1888. One of three awards of the D.S.O. for this expedition, the other two going to Army officers. Lieutenant Valentine commanded the Naval Brigade attached to the military expedition against the Yonnies in 1887 under Colonel Sir Francis De Winton, being Gazetted with praise and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Only 38 medals with clasp ‘1887-8’ awarded to the Royal Navy. Francis Alfrid Valentine was born on 25 March 1858, at Whixley Vicarage, York. He was the only son of the Reverend William Valentine, Vicar of Whixley. He entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet aboard the Training Ship Britannia on 15 July 1871, when aged 13 years. On passing out of Britannia in 1873 he was awarded a 1st Class Certificate and gained 12 months' seniority and was immediately promoted to Midshipman. On 19 July 1873 he was appointed to H.M.S. Northumberland and served in this vessel until he was transferred to Narcissus on 9 June 1875. Subsequently appointed to the receiving ship Duke of Wellington on 23 May 1877. On promotion to Sub Lieutenant on 18 July 1877 he joined Excellent for a Gunnery Course and College Examinations. On passing out of College he obtained a 2nd Class Certificate in Gunnery and 3rd Class Certificates in Seamanship and Navigation. Following his appointment to Boadicea on 13 September 1878, he saw service in the Zulu war and was awarded the Zulu Medal without clasp. Whilst serving a three and a half year commission aboard Boadicea he was promoted to Acting Lieutenant, during the period 3 March to 13 May 1881 and 18 September 1881 to 3 February 1882, whilst deployed on detached service during anti slave running patrols off the East African coast whilst in Command of Boadicea’s cutter. He was praised by Captain F. W. Richards for his share in the expedition for the destruction of Batanga villages on 22 March 1880. On paying off from Boadicea he was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant on 15 February 1882, and appointed to Thalia on 11 April 1882. He joined Duke of Wellington on 25 March 1882, followed by Osprey on 19 September 1882. In the latter vessel he was to continue his previous service in the suppression of the slave trade. During nearly four years spent in this vessel he spent a considerable time on detached service in Command of Osprey’s various small boats and was deployed far and wide. His patrol areas included the Red Sea, Zanzibar, the Maffic Channel in the Common Islands, and off the east cost of Arabia. On paying off from Osprey he returned to England for a period of well earned paid leave followed by three months on half-pay. He was next appointed to Shannon on 7 August 1886, and to Acorn as 1st Lieutenant on 22 February 1887. During a four and a half year commission aboard Acorn he was landed in charge of a small Naval Brigade from H.M. Ships Acorn, Icarus and Rifleman, which was attached to the military expedition under Colonel Sir Travvers de Winton sent to punish the Yonnies, a tribe of people living in the hinterland of Serira Leone. This service was extremely arduous owing to the density of the forest which had to be traversed and the continual fusillade which was kept up by the concealed enemy from their muzzle loaders which fired rough bits of iron and small shot. During the campaign the Yonnies showed much skill in devising ambush stockades and other obstacles so as to bring the troops to a standstill under their fire. Robari, the Yonnie stronghold, was eventually reached, shelled, set on fire by rockets, and taken. The rebellious chiefs then submitted and the expedition returned to the coast. For his services on the expedition Valentine was specially recommended by Colonel Sir F. De Winton and Rear-Admiral Sir W. J. Hunt Grubbe and in consequence their Lordships awarded him the Distinguished Service Order. He also received their Lordships' expression of satisfaction for the services he had rendered to the military expedition. When Acorn was paid off on her return to England he was appointed to Wildfire whilst he took three months' full pay leave, followed by a further three months' on shore at half-pay. His next appointment was to Audacious which he joined on 23 December 1891. He was then returned ashore on half-pay on 18 September 1892. He next joined President for Transport Duties on 10 February 1893, then again was placed on shore with half-pay on 27 June 1893. He rejoined President for Transport Duties on 24 June 1893 and then retumed to shore on half-pay until appointed to Victory on 14 July 1894. Whilst in this posting he was placed in charge of reliefs for Nyassa and for Special Service Gunboats on 25 September 1894. He was next appointed to Excellent on 1 December 1894, for Instructional Duties on the Acting Sub Lieutenant's Course. Whilst in this posting he became ill and was discharged to Haslar Hospital on 21 August 1897, and died from heart failure on the following day, at the comparatively young age of 39 years. His funeral took place on 24 August 1897, and he was buried in the 'New' Haslar Cemetery in Clayall Road, Portsmouth, the burial service being conducted by Chaplain J. Black of H.M.S. Excellent.

A rare Sudan campaign group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey Oldfield, Royal Marine Artillery, mentioned in despatches for services in the Sudan where he became the first R.M. officer to command a warship Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt: H. Oldfield. R.M.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. H. Oldfield RMA,) naming re-impressed; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class breast badge, silver gold and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 3 clasps, Hafir, Sudan 1897, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (4) £3,200-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class, London Gazette 12 May 1899. Only 27 Queen's Sudan Medals issued officers and men of the Royal Marines; Khedive's Sudan medal unique to a Royal Marines officer with these clasps. Humphrey Oldfield was born on 2 July 1867, the son of Colonel R. Oldfield, Royal Artillery, and entered the Royal Marine Artillery as a Lieutenant in 1884. Following extensive service afloat and on shore in the Mediterranean, he was promoted to Captain in 1895. In 1896 he was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, in charge of a party of ten Royal Marine Artillery N.C.O.'s sent to act as Gunnery Instructors aboard the Nile Gunboats. During this posting he became the first Marine officer to command a warship, when he was given command of the gunboats Matemmeh and later Hafir, serving with the Nile Flotilla commanded by Commander the Honourable Stanley Colville, R.N. He was present at the bombardment of the dervish batteries at Hafir, when he was exposed to a heavy fire and subsequently took part in the bombardment of Dongola. Having previously done excellent service in connection with the passage of the cataracts, and the building of the new gunboat, he was favourably mentioned in Despatches. In 1898 he was appointed Staff Officer to the Governor of Dongola province; and also held the position of Military Commandant at Nagh Humadi, the terminus of the railway from Cairo. In the Sudan campaign of 1898 he served on the Nile as water transport officer, and successfully navigated the gunboat El-Hafir during the passage up the 4th Cataract. He later Commanded the Kailor, a post boat; and was employed on Water Transport during the advance on, and battle of Omdurman. In 1899 he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at headquarters and was present during subsequent operations against the Kalifa. His services were recognised by the award of the British Sudan Medal, the Medjidie 4th Class and the Khedive's Sudan Medal with clasps ‘Hafir', 'Sudan 1897' and 'Khartoum', this combination of medals and clasps being unique to a Royal Marine officer. On his return from the Sudan in 1899 he became an Instructor of Musketry, and was later awarded a Special Certificate on passing the Arsenal Course at Woolwich. He next served afloat aboard Irresistible, Mediterranean Fleet 1904, Majestic Home Fleet 1907, and Albermarle, Atlantic Fleet 1908. Promoted Major in 1908, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912, and Lieutenant Colonel in 1917, he served throughout World War I as a Barrack Master. At his own request he was placed on the Retired List in 1920. Lieutenant-Colonel Oldfield died at Gosport on 12 April 1953, aged 85. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

The unique ‘Nyassaland 1893’ C.M.G., ‘Royal service’ M.V.O., Africa operations group of nine awarded to Admiral Charles Hope Robertson, Royal Navy, who commanded gunboat expeditions against Chief Liwondi and on Lake Nyassa, as well as serving on the gunboats of the Nile Flotilla during the re-conquest of the Sudan The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with ribbon buckle; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ’261’; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Liwondi 1893, Lake Nyassa 1893 (Lieut. C. H. Robertson R.N., H.M.S. Herald); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Comr. C. H. Robertson, R.N.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. C. H. Robertson. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. H. Robertson. R.N.R.); Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Hafir, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (9) £16,000-£20,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, November 1996; Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.M.G. London Gazette 4 January 1895: ‘For various arduous operations against Natives in the Nyassaland Protectorate.’ M.V.O. (4th Class) London Gazette 12 May 1905. In command of H.M.S. Cornwall on the occasion of His Majesty’s cruise in the Mediterranean. Charles Hope Robertson, was born in 1856, entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1869 aged 13 years. He was promoted Midshipman in 1872; Sub Lieutenant in 1875; and Lieutenant in 1879. In 1892 whilst serving as Commanding Officer of the river gunboat Herald, and as Senior Naval Officer on the Zambesi River, he was given the task of transporting up river, and over land, 3 small gun boats which had been sent out from England in sections. It was the intention that they would be reassembled on Lake Nyassa and used to increase the British presence in the face of Portuguese aggression. Whilst engaged in carrying out this task, Robertson heard that the rebel Chief Liwondi had besieged the British Commissioner, Harry Johnson, in a small stockade and at once set out to rescue him. He was joined en route by the gunboat Mosquito. Following the successful rescue, he returned to his original task which he accomplished in half the time allotted by the Admiralty. The gun boats Dove, Adventure and Pioneer were reassembled and launched on Lake Nyassa in June and July 1893. Later in 1893, whilst In command of the new gun boat Adventure, Robertson sailed to punish the rebel Chief Makanjira who had overthrown the friendly Chief Junbe. For these two successful services in East Africa he was promoted to Commander and received the East and West Africa medal with the unique clasp combination 'Liwondi 1893' and 'Lake Nyassa 1893', and awarded the C.M.G. - this being the first time that this decoration was given to such a junior naval officer. In 1896 he volunteered for service with the Nile Flotilla then being assembled for the re-conquest of the Sudan. A brother officer of this time was Commander David Beatty, later of Jutland fame. He commanded the gun boat Zaffir and later the El Teb; in 1897 he took part in the Dongolla expedition, and was present at the action at Hafir. His services in the Sudan were recognised by the award of the Queen's Sudan Medal, the Order of Osmanieh 4th Class, and the Khedive's Sudan medal with clasp 'Hafir' - this being one of 4 such medals to naval officers. Promoted to Captain in 1899 at the young age of 34, he was awarded the M.V.O. in 1905 for services to the King as Commanding Officer of H.M.S. Cornwall, escort ship to the Royal yacht, during Kind Edward VII’s visit to the Mediterranean. He reached Flag Rank in 1908, and in 1909, aged 53 years, he was retired by order of the King. Family papers suggest a degree of over-friendliness with Queen Alexandra that was unacceptable to Edward VII. Promoted to Vice-Admiral on the Retired List in 1914, he volunteered his services on the outbreak of War and in 1915 he accepted an appointment as a Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve. Throughout the War he served in the Auxiliary Patrol, being promoted to Admiral on the Retired List in 1917. Admiral Robertson died on 16 January 1942. Sold with original Warrant of appointment to the Royal Victorian Order, and Commission Warrant for promotion to Rear-Admiral, together with extensive research including records of service and medal verification.

‘Admiral Gaunt – the ‘nautical Sherlock Holmes’, the Americans called him – had a distinguished record in intelligence work as his triumphs in counter-espionage … bear testimony. He was a gallant, bluff, uncompromising man in the Roger Keyes tradition and he did not suffer fools or fainthearts gladly. In consequence, he had many enemies, not only in the Admiralty, but in the Foreign Office where his probings and promptings into the efficiency of their own intelligence systems caused many heart-burnings even as late as World War Two.’ The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, by Donald McCormick, refers. The important Great War Naval intelligence K.C.M.G., C.B. group of five awarded to Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, Royal Navy The multi-talented Gaunt excelled in his wartime role as Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., his counter-espionage work costing the Germans dearly, not least his role in the notorious ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair He had earlier won rapid promotion to Commander for his gallant exploits in Samoa at the turn of the century, when amidst civil unrest he defended the British Consulate and raised ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars: it’s a remarkable story, immaculately recounted of in the pages of his autobiography, The Yield of the Years The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, some minor enamel chips; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1915; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. R. A. Gaunt. R.N.); United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, the last four mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- K.C.M.G. London Gazette 20 September 1918: ‘To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, R.N., C.B., C.M.G., late Naval Attaché to His Majesty’s Embassy at Washington.’ C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘To be Additional Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, C.M.G., R.N.’ U.S.A. Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) London Gazette 29 April 1919. Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt was born at Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia on 25 May 1869, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. It was intended he studied for the Law, but he pleaded with his father for a career at sea and was duly enrolled at H.M.S. Worcester, the training ship for officers of the merchant service. Having then served in clippers and obtained his Second Mate’s ticket, in addition to gaining an appointment as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve, he transferred, with the assistance of his brother, to the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant in October 1895. Gaunt’s Brigade Gaunt joined the three-masted sloop Swift in the Philippines in 1897, where he witnessed shocking scenes and executions, before removing to the Porpoise, also bound for the South Seas. And it was in this capacity that he came to play a memorable role in ongoing strife in Samoa, where local rebels, with German backing, were a threat to American and British interests. Apart from attending the British Consulate at Apia during a rebel attack, he raised and commanded ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars in subsequent operations. His autobiography describes in detail not a few encounters of the close kind, one such case being an attack on a rebel chief’s village at Malea: ‘I was last out of the village, with an enormous great Chief right on top of me, luckily as it turned out, for he masked the fire of the men who were potting at us. Just as he was towering above me ready to kill, I slewed around. He fired from his hip and missed me clean. I fired low, determined not to miss him, and being a rotten shot killed him stone dead on the spot. In a fraction of a second I was in the undergrowth, and without the slightest desire to win any medals legged it for the beach … ’ In due course, with a lull in operations, ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ was disbanded, but he was presented with a sword by loyal Samoans who credited him with having saved the life of their King. Their Lordships of the Admiralty were equally impressed, for he was mentioned in despatches and promoted to Commander for ‘special services’ in June 1901. Naval Intelligence: spooks, sleuths and that telegram A posting on the China Sation at the time of the Russo-Japanese War ensued, as did his promotion to Captain in June 1907, but it was a summons to the Admiralty in the summer of 1914 that changed his life forever. He was invited by the First Sea Lord to take up the post of Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., and so, in May 1914, he departed for the United States. It was, Gaunt later explained, ‘work which was to bring me some of the most astounding adventures that ever befell any man in the Great War.’ As it happened, one of his first ports of call on arrival was the German Embassy, where he was introduced to the ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, and his two attachés, Captain Franz von Papen and Captain Karl Boy-Ed. All three would shortly be at odds with Gaunt, for the war was but weeks way. When the storm broke, one of his first missions was to try and prevent the departure of German liners from New York for use as raiders. That effort led to an early encounter with Franklin Roosevelt and represents the opening chapter of his genuinely fascinating wartime career, a clandestine sojourn described grippingly in the pages of The Yield of Your Years: from German agents and ‘sleuths’ trailing his every move to all the machinations one might expect of counter-espionage operations. Caught up in the Lusitania story – his men are believed to have apprehended German agents who boarded the liner before her departure from New York on her final voyage in 1915 – and likewise in the loss of the Hampshire and Kitchener in 1916 – when he received intelligence of an Irish nationalist plot – Gaunt was rarely out of the picture. He was created C.M.G in the latter year. One of his most important tasks was to counteract the effects of German propaganda in North America, and, in that respect, he gained prominence for his many successes. That prominence – particularly in Intelligence circles – was further enhanced by his subsequent appointment as a Commodore 1st Class and Liaison Officer to the United States of America. Moving about the highest echelons of power Gaunt played a pivotal role in the ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair. Working closely with his London boss ‘Blinker’ Hall in Room 40 at the Admiralty, he helped persuade the President and his advisors that the intercepted telegram was genuine. The telegram, sent in January 1917 from Arthur Zimmermann, the German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to his Mexican counterpart, was indeed genuine and its contents devastating for Germany: because, in the event of the Americans entering the war, it contained an offer of military support for Mexico to invade the southern states of the U.S.A. The British interception and decryption of the telegram was an intelligence triumph, and, in April 1917, the Americans finally entered the war.

Four: Sergeant Henry Skedgell, Royal Marines New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1847 (H. Skedgell. Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Racehorse) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, mounted for display, good very fine or better (4) £2,800-£3,400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. 36 New Zealand Medals issued with this Reverse date, all to H.M.S. Racehorse, of which 9 are to Royal Marines and 2 to Naval Officers. Henry Skedgell was born in 1829 in the parish of Halwell, near the town of Totnes, Devon. He was a labourer prior to enlisting in the 115th Company of the Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines on 17 November 1842, aged 23 years. On attesting he received a bounty of £3.17s.6d. Following recruit training he served aboard his first ship H.M.S. Caledonia from 4 July to 29 November, 1844. He was then transferred to Racehorse which sailed to join the Pacific Station. He served in this vessel from 24 December 1844 to 24 August 1848. During this time he was landed in New Zealand, North Island for service on shore with the ship's Naval Brigade, commanded by Commander J. Hay of the Racehorse and under the overall Command of Captain Graham of the Castor. The Marine Detachment was under the Command of Captain Langford R.M. of the Castor. The Naval Brigade took part in numerous battles, actions and skirmishes including 'Bats Nest' against Chief Ricape Kapeka in December 1845 and January 1846, and also in the up-river actions at Wagnanui in the South Island in December 1846 (ADM 1/5579 refers). On the return of Racehorse to England he was paid off to the Plymouth Division on 25 August 1848. He next embarked aboard Arethusa on 22 January 1849, and remained in this ship for five years until 15 January 1855, when he returned to the Plymouth Division. Whilst aboard Arethusa he was landed with the Royal Marine Brigade on shore and served in the trenches before Sebastopol during 1854-55. His services on shore being recognised by the award of the Queen's Crimea Medal with clasp 'Sebastopol' and the Turkish Crimea Medal. Whilst aboard Arethusa he was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1855. On paying off from Arethusa in January 1855 he served on shore with the Plymouth Depot until he embarked aboard Centurion on 6 April 1856. After 22 days aboard this vessel he was returned ashore before joining Hogue on 24 May 1856. He served in this vessel for just over two years and disembarked to the Plymouth Division on 28 February 1858. On 1 March 1858 he joined Nile for passage to Sans Pareil, serving on the China Station where he took part in the closing operations of the Second China War 1857-60, receiving the Second China War medal without clasp, and promotion to Sergeant on 7 January 1860. He landed from Sans Pareil, as part of the Royal Marine Brigade that saw service in Mexico, 10 November 1861 to 21 April 1862. He next embarked aboard Terror, 22 April to 14 May, 1862, transferring to Nile, 15 May to 23 July, 1862, and then to the receiving ship Imaum based in Jamaica prior to joining Aboukir on 26 August 1862. He continued to serve in this vessel until 4 April 1865, when he was pensioned ashore having completed 22 years and 173 days service, of which 17 years 235 days were afloat and 5 years 305 days were on shore. He appears to have failed to have been recommended for his Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, despite very good and exemplary character assessments. Sold with copied record of service.

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (F. M. Johnson, Bos. Mate, H.M.S. Inflexible) officially impressed naming, small edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and rare £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. Only 20 Medals issued with this reverse date, 5 Officers, 9 ratings and 6 Royal Marines, all serving aboard H.M.S. Inflexible. Frederick Johnson (alias John Johnson) was born in the Parish of Stoke Charles, near Plymouth, Devon. His date of birth is not recorded on his service sheet, but assuming that he was aged 55 when he retired in August 1872 as a 1st Class Bosun this would suggest that he was born in 1818. This fits well with him joining his first recorded ship H.M.S. Partridge on 25 September 1839, as an Able Seaman, aged 21. He served on Partridge for three years 176 days, of which 113 days were surprisingly in the rate of Musician. He paid off from Partridge on 26 June 1843, and signed on aboard Penelope on 14 October as Able Seaman. Two weeks later he was rated Captain of the Main Mast. He continued to serve in this rate until paid off on 20 May 1846, having spent two years 49 days on board. On 13 July 1846, he joined Inflexible as a Bosun's Mate and in this vessel sailed for the Pacific. Whilst aboard Inflexible a small Naval Brigade was landed for service on shore in New Zealand and took part in a number of skirmishes in support of the military operations and fought in the battle of Wanganui on 19 May 1847. On Inflexible’s return to England he paid off on 28 September 1849. By Admiralty Order No. 2348 he was allowed to change his name to Frederick H. Johnson. He was appointed a Bosun 3rd Class on 29 September 1849, and in this rank he joined Poictiers and served in this vessel for nearly a year before leaving her on 30 August 1850. He subsequently served aboard the following ships; Cumberland, 31 August 1850 to 6 January 1851, Boscawen, 7 January 1851 to 26 August 1852, Daring, 27 August 1852 to 24 October 1856, and Wellesley, 25 October 1852 to 27 January 1857. Whilst in the latter vessel he was promoted to Bosun 2nd Class on 28 January 1857. He then served aboard Cressey, 9 March to 24 April 1859, Cadmus, 10 May 1859 to 26 July 1860, Imaum, 27 July to 27 September 1860, and Wellesley, 28 September 1860. Whilst in this ship he was promoted to Bosun 1st Class on 17 July 1862. In this rank he served aboard Royal Oak, 30 April to 20 May 1863, Wellesley, 21 May 1863 to 5 January 1865, Pembroke, 6 January 1865 to 31 December 1867, Wellesley, 1 January to 31 March 1868, Cumberland 1 April to 31 December 1868. His last appointment was to Reserve on 1 January 1869, and on 31 August 1872 he was invalided to shore. His service records shows that he served in total 27 years 93 days of which 17 years 248 days were as a Warrant Officer. Sold with copied record of service.

Four: Major-General W. B. Langford, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was landed in command of all Royal Marine detachments from the various ships present in New Zealand 1845-46, and later fought with the British Legion in the Carlist war China 1842 (W. B. Langford Bt. Major, Royal Marines.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (Captn. W. B. Langford, R.M., H.M.S. North Star) officially impressed naming; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Spain, Carlist, Order of Maria Isabela Luisa, silver cross with two unofficial slide bars inscribed ‘YRUN’ and ‘HERNANI’, some very light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. 3 Royal Marine Officers were awarded the New Zealand War Medal with Reverse Dated 1845-46. William Bookey Langford entered the Royal Marines as a 2nd Lieutenant at the Portsmouth Division Headquarters on 22 January 1828. He embarked aboard his first ship H.M.S. Melville on 18 September 1829 and remained in this vessel until 1 October 1831 at which time he returned to the Portsmouth Division Headquarters. He remained on shore until he was posted to Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven on 5 July 1834. On his return to the Portsmouth Divison Headquarters on 7 July 1835, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 22 March 1836, and in this rank he was posted to the Plymouth Division Headquarters on 23 March 1836. He remained in this posting until he joined the Royal Marine Battalion on the north coast of Spain on 27 June 1836. He served in this posting for four years and was heavily engaged in numerous field actions during what was to become known as the Carlist War. The Royal Marines fought with the British Legion led by Colonel de Lacy Evans, with the local rank of General, and the Government troops known as 'Christinos'. The first contingent of the Royal Marine Battalion landed in San Sebastian from the steamer Royal Tar on 10 July 1835; their strength was slowly built up and in January 1836 it took to the field following the arrival of the Franco Algerine Legion and attacked Arlaban some miles to the north east of Vittoria. Thanks to the strong support of a British Naval Squadron under the Command of Commodore Lord John Hay, the Christinos maintained a strong position on the Spanish north coast. The Royal Marine Battalion was commanded by Major John Owen. On 15 May 1836, the town of San Sebastian was attacked and after a severe fight the Carlist troops were driven from their entrenchments. Following this action detachments of the Royal Marine Brigade were frequently sent on 'special service' to the surrounding area so that the enemy's strength and position might be accurately assessed. In carrying out these operations the small detachment was frequently under fire but gave as good as it got. Captain Langford who commanded a number of these scouting sorties is recorded on his service sheet as being present at the general field action at Toutarabia on 11 July 1836, and also at the general action at Hernani on 16 March 1837, and various minor affairs during the campaign. On his return to England he was posted to the Portsmouth Division Headquarters on 6 September 1840, but was soon re-embarked aboard H.M.S. North Star for service on the China and Pacific station. During his service in the North Star he took part in the closing stages of the first China war of 1842. He was present in July 1842 at the attack on the Chinese entrenched camp, the storming and capture of the city of Chin Keang Foo at the entrance of the South Grand Canal on the Yangtse Kiang River, and the blockage of the Woo song River. For these services he received the 1st China War Medal. On the cessation of hostilities North Star sailed for more southern waters and was part of a small squadron of naval ships off the New Zealand coast where, at the outbreak of hostilities, he was landed in command of all Royal Marine Detachments from the various ships present. In addition he was placed in command of a Detachment of troops from the 96th Regiment and was actively employed in the field against the insurgent chiefs whose strongly stockaded pahs or native villages were successfully attacked and destroyed. He was much praised for his gallantry and was Mentioned in the Despatches which were published in the London Gazette, and for his services received the Brevet of Major on 7 July 1846. On returning to England and paying off from North Star he was appointed to the Chatham Division Headquarters on 9 September 1846, serving in this posting until he was transferred to recruiting duties in Stirling and then Chelmsford on 1 December 1852, then to Antrim in Ireland on 19 June 1853, and finally to Ware on 3 July 1853. Following these services he was reappointed to the Chatham Division Headquarters on 1 October 1853. He was next embarked on 12 December 1853, for service in the Baltic Campaign aboard Boscawen. He was later landed for the attack on Bomarsund in the Aland Islands on 8 August 1854, where he commanded a Battalion of Royal Marines. The fortress of Bomarsund put up a spirited resistance and it was not until eight days later on 16 August that the citadel finally surrendered. For his services during the Baltic campaign he was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 20 June 1854 and to full Lieutenant-Colonel on 14 July 1855. He returned to the Portsmouth Division Headquarters on 30 August 1855, and was promoted to 3rd Colonel Commandant on 14 July 1858. Placed on the Retired List on 10 August 1858, after 30 years' service, he was promoted on the Retired List to Major-General on 24 August 1858. He was awarded a Greenwich Hospital Pension on 7 August 1873, and died on 3 September 1890, aged 80 years.

The important Boer War C.B., M.V.O. group of three awarded to Vice-Admiral R. C. Prothero, Royal Navy, who was severely wounded at the battle of Graspan when in command of the Naval Brigade The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class, breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘147’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (Capt. R. C. Prothero, R.N, H.M.S. Doris) impressed naming, original Spink & Son, Piccadilly court-style mounting, nearly extremely fine (3) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.B. (Military) London Gazette 6 November 1900: ‘For services in South Africa.’ One of 8 such awards to the Royal Navy for South Africa. M.V.O. London Gazette 2 June 1903: ‘Commanded H.M.S. Implacable; H.M’s visit to Malta. Reginald Prothero was born on 15 June 1849. At the age of 13 years 6 months he entered the Royal Navy on 9 December 1862, as a Cadet aboard the Training Ship Britannia. On passing out in June 1864 he was awarded a 3rd Class Certificate and on joining his first ship H.M.S. Victory he was promoted to Midshipman on 1 September 1864. During his time aboard Victory he served for short periods of training in the following ships: Geyser, Warrior, Meednee, Orlando and Liffey. In May 1866 he was appointed to Victoria where he served for 18 months until posted to Excellent in October 1867. On promotion to Acting Sub Lieutenant on 23 April 1870, he joined the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. On passing out of Excellent he obtained three 2nd Class Certificates and was confirmed in the rank of Sub Lieutenant on 22 July 1870. His next seagoing appointments were to Research, April 1871; Royal Adelaide, September 1872; Impregnable, January 1873; and Fantome, November 1873. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 August 1874, and in July 1875 he was granted 9 months foreign leave to accept employment with the Mexican Government. On his return to England he was appointed to the following ships: Magpie, July 1876; Nassau, November 1878; Magpie, November 1878; Tyne, March 1881; Duke of Wellington, June 1881; and Vernon, October 1881. In the latter ship he underwent a Torpedo Course and obtained a 3rd Class Certificate. He next joined Excellent, November 1881 for a Gunnery Course where he was awarded a 2nd Class Certificate. His next appointment was to Assistance, March 1882; he later transferred to Himalaya in December 1882 and remained in this vessel until January 1886. He next joined Spey, July 1886, followed by Canada in September 1886 and Devastation in January 1889. Whilst in the latter ship he was promoted to Commander on 30 June 1889. In his new rank he was appointed to Edinburgh in January 1890; Nile, June 1891;and Achilles in October 1894. Promoted to Captain in January 1895. He was given command of Trafalgar in April 1896, followed by Revenge in December 1896 and Doris in April 1898, as Flag Captain to Rear Admiral Sir Robert Harris, Commander in Chief on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station. Following the outbreak of War in South Africa Captain Prothero was landed in November 1899 in command of a Naval Brigade drawn from H.M. Ships Doris, Monarch, and Powerful. The Brigade joined Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen on 22 November and on the 24th Captain Prothero was informed that he and his men were to have the honour of leading the attack at the battle of Graspan. Following an artillery bombardment of the Boer positions the seamen and marines deployed into a single line on the right of the attack with intervals of four paces between the men. They advanced on the enemy's position led in the centre by Captain Prothero, on the left by Major Plumbe R.M.L.I., and on the right by Commander Ethelston; the two last named officers were killed during the action. The enemy opened a withering frontal fire at about 600 yards which was later supplemented by an equally heavy cross fire. Notwithstanding, the Naval Brigade continued to steadily advance by rushes. Well over six feet tall Captain Prothero had a charmed life; men were being knocked down all around him as he led his men forwards. With the top of the kopje in sight he was struck down and was unwillingly carried to the rear. The Naval Brigade had been decimated and command devolved to Captain A. E. Marchant, R.M.L.I. Captain Prothero in his Despatch relates how the fire was so hot that several times he saw a man hit three times before he reached the ground. There was not a moment of hesitation in the Naval Brigade as they continued to advance to the summit of the kopje, driving the Boers before them until they were in full retreat. In his report to Rear Admiral Harris, Captain Marchant stated that ‘Captain Prothero both before and after he was wounded behaved with great gallantry and coolness and from the ground where he had been struck down continued to urge his men forward until he was reluctantly removed to the rear.’ For this action Captain Prothero was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the C.B. (Military). Following recovery from his wounds aboard Doris, Captain Prothero was again landed to command the Dockyard Defence Corps at Simonstown and acted as Commandant of the town in February 1901 when the Boers were threatening Cape Colony. In November 1902 he was given Command of H.M.S. Implacable and remained in this vessel until promoted to Flag Rank in February 1906. In 1903 he was awarded the M.V.O., for services during the visit of King Edward VII to Malta. Shortly after this appointment he was placed on the Retired List (age) having served for nearly thirty years. In July 1910 he was promoted to Vice-Admiral on the Retired List. He died on 26 May 1927 aged 78 years. In the book 'Fabulous Admirals' by Commander Geoffrey Lewis, A.F.C., R.N., fourteen pages are given to career of Rear-Admiral Prothero when he was serving as a Commander and Captain in the Mediterranean Fleet and provides both an informative and humorous insight into the man who became a larger than life legend in naval circles.

The ‘Gambia 1891-92’ D.S.O. group of three awarded to Captain Ian M. Fraser, Royal Navy, second-in-command of the Naval Brigade and specially promoted to Commander for services in Gambia Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1891-2 (Lieut. J. M. Fraser R.N., H.M.S. Sparrow.) note first initial; British War Medal 1914-18 (Capt. I. M. Fraser. R.N.) mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £6,000-£8,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. D.S.O. London Gazette 10 January 1893: ‘In recognition of services during the recent operations on the West Coast of Africa, resulting in the capture of Tambi and Toniataba.’ One of three such awards to the Navy for these operations. Ian Mackenzie Fraser was born on 15 November 1854, at Dundee. He was the eldest son of the late Captain Ian Fraser, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, of Whitehall, County of Fife, and Charlotte, daughter of the late John Mackenzie of New House, Inverness. He was educated at private school and joined the Royal Navy aboard Britannia on 17 September 1868, aged 13 years 10 months. On passing out in December 1869 he obtained a 1st Class Certificate in Seamanship and a 2nd Class Certificate in Study and was awarded six months sea time. He joined his first ship H.M.S. Duke of Wellington at Portsmouth in December 1869 and on promotion to Midshipman on 23 June 1874, was appointed to the steam corvette Scout. He served five years aboard this ship and saw extensive service in the Pacific being promoted to Sub Lieutenant on 22 December 1874, and on paying off he joined Excellent in June 1875 for study and examination. On passing out he was awarded 2nd Class Certificates in Seamanship and Gunnery and a 3rd Class Certificate in Navigation. He served short periods aboard Duke of Wellington in June 1875, Defence May 1876, and Monarch June 1876, before joining the steam turret ship Thunderer, serving with the Channel Squadron in April 1877. In August 1879 he transferred to the steam frigate Raleigh on the Mediterranean Station, leaving her in December following his promotion to Lieutenant on 8 December 1879. In the rank of Lieutenant he subsequently served aboard the following ships: St Vincent May 1880, Tenedos November 1882, Royal Adelaide July 1886, Devastation October 1886, Boadicea, for Transport Service April 1888, Agamemnon July 1889, Turquoise October 1889, Boadicea June 1890, Kingfisher September 1890, Marathon December 1890, Duke of Wellington March 1891 and Salamander July 1891. In August 1891 he was appointed to the Command of the gunboat Sparrow, serving on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station. Whilst in this vessel on the West Africa coast he was landed as Second in Command of the Naval Brigade drawn from H.M. Ships Alecto, Racer, Sparrow and Widgeon. He was present at the night attack on Chief Fodey Kabba at Marigé, Gambia in 1891. He was highly commended in Despatches and received the thanks of the Governor of Gambia and was specially commented on by him to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. He again served as Second in Command of the Naval Brigade during the operations in the Gambia in 1892, resulting in the capture of Tambi and Toniataba. He was again Mentioned in Despatches, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and, in recognition of his services was specially promoted to Commander. On returning to England in April 1893 he was placed on half pay until joining Crescent in February 1894. His subsequent sea appointments were Camperdown September 1895, Eclipse March 1897, Bonaventure May 1897, Diana June 1897, Cossack in Command July 1897, Pembroke September 1898, Melita in Command October 1898 and Vivid in January 1902. In 1902 he joined the Coast Guard Service and was appointed a Divisional Inspecting Officer at Hastings. He remained in this posting until 17 March 1904 when he was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Captain. Following retirement he was appointed for service as a Commander and Instructor at the R.N.V.R. Depot at Liverpool and served in this capacity from 21 June 1904 to 31 March 1908. He was recalled to active service in July 1915 and appointed to President for Miscellaneous Service under Admiral Commanding Coast Guard and Reserves. In this capacity he served as a Division Coast Watching Officer under the Captain of Bristol Division for Areas 7-8 and 9 with Headquarters at Bangor, Wales. In September 1915 he was reappointed as above but with Headquarters at Blundell Sands. He was demobilised on 21 January 1919 and reverted to the Retired List. He died at Liverpool on 2 December 1922.

The ‘Witu August 1893’ C.B. group of four awarded to Rear-Admiral George R. Lindley, Royal Navy, who commanded the Naval Brigade and was specially promoted to Captain for services at Witu The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lieut: G. R. Lindley. R.N. H.M.S. “Achilles”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu August 1893 (Commr. G. R. Lindley R.N., H.M.S. Blanche.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted for display, minor chips to green enamel wreaths of C.B., some very light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.B. (Military) London Gazette 12 December 1893: ‘In recognition of services in the late actions at Pumwani and Jongeni, and in the proceedings following upon the establishment of the Protectorate over Witu.’ George Robert Lindley was born on 5 July 1850, at Mars Hall, Mansfield. He was the son of R. C. Lindley and was educated at Dover. He joined Britannia as a Naval Cadet on 9 June 1863, aged 13, and on passing out was awarded a 2nd Class Certificate and gained six months sea time. He was appointed to H.M.S. Victoria in September 1864 and promoted to Midshipman on 30 March 1865. He subsequently served in this rank aboard Constance, January 1868, Cadmus, December 1868 and Barrosa, July 1869. Whilst in the latter ship he was promoted to Sub Lieutenant on 27 September 1869. He continued to serve in Barrosa until January 1872 when he joined Excellent for study and examinations. On passing out of College he obtained 2nd Class Certificates in Gunnery, Seamanship and Navigation. In May 1873 he joined Agincourt and was promoted to Lieutenant on 28 September 1873. His first appointment in his new rank was to Excellent for a short Gunnery Course in August 1874, he then served aboard Sultan in November 1874 prior to returning to Excellent in September 1876 for a period of further Gunnery training during which time he was awarded a 2nd Class Certificate in Gunnery. He next served aboard Audacious, July 1879, followed by Achilles September 1880. Whilst in the latter ship he was landed in Alexandria, Egypt for service with the Naval Brigade during July 1882. For this service he received the Egypt Medal without clasp and Khedive's Star. In August 1883 he returned to Excellent to requalify in Gunnery and on passing he joined Belleisle in November 1883, followed by Curacoa in January 1884. He left this ship on promotion to Commander on 30 June 1886. His first appointment as a Commander was to Shannon for the Summer Manoeuvres in August 1887. He then served aboard Cambridge, October 1887, Conqueror, July 1889 and Cambridge, September 1889. He was given the command of Blanche in December 1890 for service in the East Indies Squadron. In August 1893 as Senior Naval Officer East Coast of Africa he was requested by Commissioner Rennell Rodd to accompany him in an expedition to Witu for the purpose of punishing the Sultan of Witu, Furno Omari who had become restless, dangerous and openly defiant and had refused to meet the British Consul General. A Naval Brigade under Commander Lindley was drawn from H.M. Ships Blanche, Swallow, and Sparrow, and landed at Lamu on 7 August 1893. The towns of Pumwani and Jongeni were attacked and destroyed after a brisk fight. The Naval Brigade lost 1 Stoker killed and 2 officers and 6 seamen wounded. Their mission accomplished, the Naval Brigade returned to their ships on 15 August 1893. Commander Lindley was Mentioned in Despatches, awarded the C.B., received the thanks of the Foreign Office and was specially promoted to Captain on 30 June 1893 for his services. On leaving Blanche in November 1893 he spent two years ashore on half pay until appointed to President for Senior Officers Course in April 1894. In July 1895 he took command of Thetis for tactical exercises and in December 1895 returned to President for study at the Royal Naval college at Greenwich. His next seagoing appointments were to Melpomene in command, September 1896 and Marathon in command, April 1897. At his own request he was placed on the Retired List on 23 July 1900 when aged 50. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral on the Retired List in June 1905, and died on 1 August 1918. Sold with 3 Commission documents for Sub Lieutenant, Lieutenant, and Commander; a manuscript Diary of service aboard H.M.S. Victoria; two portrait photographs, one in uniform and one in later life with his wife and two daughters, and a copy of a poem written by Rennell Rodd about the Witu Expedition; together with copied record of service and other research.

The unique K.C.M.G., ‘Benin River 1894’ C.B., and ‘Witu 1897’ D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Admiral Sir Charles Campbell, Royal Navy The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, in Garrard & Co., London, fitted case of issue; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Comdr. C. Campbell, R.N., H.M.S. “Thalia”; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Benin River 1894, Benin 1897 (Capt. C. Campbell R.N., H.M.S. Philomel); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Zanzibar, Order of the Brilliant Star, 2nd Class breast star, silver, gold and enamels, with Tughra of Sultan Ali bin Said Al-Busaiadi (1890-93); together with a privately awarded Life Saving Medal, silver, ‘To Charles Campbell of Sadell, Midshipman R.N., May 1864, in Tunis Bay. He risked his own to save another life’, generally good very fine or better (10) £6,000-£8,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. K.C.M.G. 1905. C.B. London Gazette 21 December 1894: ‘In recognition of services in the recent operations against the Chief Nana of Brohemie in the Benin River.’ ‘Captain Campbell, of the Philomel, has acted as my Flag Captain, and in that capacity has been zealous and energetic, and most anxious to carry out my orders and anticipate my wishes’ (Rear-Admiral Bedford’s despatch refers). D.S.O. London Gazette 25 May 1897: ‘In recognition of services during the recent expedition to Benin.’ ‘- commanded the rear guard at the attack on the city; and by his prompt action at the fire which broke out on the 21st instant saved the lives of the wounded. He is indefatigable, and always ready to work’ (Rear-Admiral Rawson’s despatch refers). One of five awards of the D.S.O. for this expedition. Charles Campbell was born at St Andrews, Scotland, on 26 March 1847, eldest son of John Campbell of Saddell. He was educated at Brenchley Vicarage, Staplehurst, and then at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport and entered the Britannia in 1860, where he gained the diving prize for staying under water one minute 53 seconds (then a record). He next joined H.M.S. Magicienne under Commander H.S.H. Prince Leiningen; after transferring to the Marlborough, Mediterranean Flagship, he saw further service in the Amphion, Royal Oak and Racer. In 1868 he joined Galatea, under Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, and it was in this ship he made a voyage around the world. Promoted to Commander in 1882, whilst commanding Thalia Campbell served as Transport Officer during Lord Wolseley's Campaign against Arabi Pasha, for which service he received the Egyptian Medal and Khedive's Star. In 1885 he was selected by the Admiralty to compile the vocabulary signal book and the Admiralty secret ciphers. On promotion to Captain in 1888, Campbell commanded Lily, and later in the Philomel and the command of the East Coast of Africa from 1891. There, he suppressed the uprisings at Lamu and Witu, captured 11 slave dhows, and rescued the young Sultan of Zanzibar from a troublesome usurper following the death of his father. For this service he received a handsome jewelled sword from the Sultan, and the Order of Zanzibar 2nd Class. Their Lordships conveyed their approval for the manner in which the duties devolving upon him on the occasion of the death of the Sultan of Zanzibar on 5 March 1893 were carried out. On hearing that Chief Nana of Brohemie was being troublesome Rear Admiral Frederick C. Bedford C.B., Commander in Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa, transferred his Flag to Philomel (Captain Charles Campbell R.N.) and proceeded to the Benin River. A Naval Brigade was formed from H.M. Ships Alecto, Philomel, Phoebe, and Widgeon. On 19 September 1894, Nana's town was shelled, and on the 20th two parties were landed, the first under Captain Powell of Alecto and the second under Captain Campbell of Philomel. Captain Campbell, as the senior of the two Captains, was given independent command of the second party and had charge of all of the boats employed, whilst Admiral Bedford accompanied Captain Powell. The town of Brohemie was attacked from two sides and, despite some spirited resistance, was quickly taken. Chief Nana, however, escaped. The Naval Party destroyed considerable quantities of stores and guns, and confiscated £327.00 that had been left behind by Nana in his haste to escape. Their mission complete, the Naval Brigade returned to their boats. Admiral Bedford received the K.C.B., and Captains Campbell and Powell the C.B. ‘for gallant behaviour'. In addition, three D.S.O.s and two C.G.M.s were awarded. All who fought on shore with the Naval Brigade received the East & West Africa Medal with clasp 'Benin River 1894'. In early 1897 Rear-Admiral Harry H. Rawson, C.B., the new Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station, flying his flag in St George, was requested to punish Chief Overiami, who ruled Benin City, for the murder that had taken place in January 1897 of a Mr T. R. Phillips, Acting Consul General and members of his party. A Squadron of ships comprising St George, Theseus, Forte, Philomel, Phoebe, Widgeon, Alecto, Barrosa and Magpie was assembled off Warrigi on the Benin River. A Naval Brigade some 1,200-strong, drawn from the various ships, was landed on 11 February 1897, and Benin city was reached and quickly taken on the 18th. However, Chief Overiami and his generals had escaped. The stench of death was appalling; seven pits forty feet deep with up to 15 bodies in each were found, the dead being intermingled with the living. During the clear-up operations, Benin was accidentally fired and the whole city was destroyed. The Naval Brigade was re-embarked after 18 days on shore. Rear-Admiral Rawson received the K.C.B., three Captains the C.B., and five D.S.O.s were awarded to other officers, including to Captain Campbell. Charles Campbell was the only Naval Officer to be decorated for gallantry in both expeditions, as demonstrated by his mentions in the London Gazettes of 21 December 1894 (for Benin River), and 25 May 1897. Appointed to the Command of the Empress of India in 1897, Campbell was aboard this ship at the Fleet Review and received the Queen's Jubilee Medal. He was Second in Command to Admirals Harris and Noel during the operations in Crete between 1897 and 1899, and commanded the Medway Gunnery School from 1899 to 1902. He was also A.D.C. to Queen Victoria and to King Edward from 1899 to January 1902, and consequently received the 1902 Coronation Medal. Having been promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1901, he was awarded the K.C.M.G., in 1905 and promoted to Vice-Admiral in 1906. He was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 18 October 1906. Promoted to Admiral on the Retired List on 22 July 1910, but unfortunately did not live to enjoy a long retirement, dying on 2 February 1911. Sold with comprehensive research.

Pair: Chief Petty Officer Harry Morris, Royal Navy, who was landed in charge of the small Naval Brigade from H.M.S. Heron on the expedition to Illah in October 1898 and received one of only ten ‘1898’ clasps awarded to the Royal Navy East & West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1898 (H. Morris, C.P.O., H.M.S. Heron); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R. (Harry Morris C.P.O. H.M.S. Heron) impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare (2) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. Only 10 medals with this clasp awarded to the Royal Navy. Chief Petty Officer Morris was the senior non-commissioned officer landed and had charge of the small Naval Brigade. Henry ‘Harry’ Morris was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, on 9 July 1863. He was employed as a Labourer prior to entering the service as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. St Vincent on 14 October 1879, aged 16 years. He was advanced to Boy 1 Class on 20 October 1880, and in this rate he joined Hannibal in July 1881 and Boadicea in August 1881. In the latter vessel he was advanced to Ordinary Seaman in September 1881. In this rate he subsequently joined Rambler, September 1881, Duncan, March 1884, and Wanderer, May 1884. During his service in the last named vessel he was advanced to Able Seaman in August 1884. As an Able Seaman he subsequently served aboard the Duke of Wellington, February 1888, Duncan, April 1886, Wildfire, April 1889, Pembroke, June 1902 and Daphne, October 1892. During a three year commission in the latter vessel he was advanced to Leading Seaman on the 24 October 1892, Petty Officer 2nd Class, 24 July 1893 and to Petty Officer 1st Class on 1 February 1894. In this new elevated rate he joined Grafton, January 1896 and Pembroke, February 1896. In the latter shore establishment he was advanced to Acting Chief Petty Officer on 15 April 1896 and confirmed in this rate on the 27 April 1897. In this senior rate he subsequently joined the small River Gunboat Heron in March 1898 for service on the West coast of Africa. He was landed in charge of the small Naval Brigade from Heron that formed part of a larger force under Lieutenant-Colonels Wilcocks and Pilcher who commanded respectively the expeditions to Bongu and Illah in June and October 1898, sent to punish the Enuos of Lapai and Argunga who had been slave raiding the towns along the Niger River. In an earlier Borgu expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Wilcocks the gunboats Heron and Jackdaw secured the base of operations at Badjibo, However, this service did not qualify the gunboats crews for the clasp ‘1898’, as they did not land. Four men from Heron were later landed in June 1898 and accompanied Lieutenant Colonel Wilcocks during the expedition to Borgu. A further six men under the command of Chief Petty Officer Morris were landed and accompanied the Illah expedition in October 1898. The ten men from Heron, who had taken part in the two expeditions, received the East and West Africa medal with clasp '1898'. Whilst serving aboard Heron he was also awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct medal in February 1899, after 18 years; the lateness of the award was due to having received character assessments of 'fair' in 1881 and 1883, and 'good' in 1882. He was later transferred on the same station to the Jackdaw in January 1899 and served until 'paid off’ on 3 January 1899, when both the gunboats Heron and Jackdaw were transferred to the Nigerian Marine. Morris subsequently joined Pembroke 1 in February 1899 and continue to serve aboard this vessel until pensioned ashore on 7 July 1906, having completed 25 years adult service. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Chatham on 21 July 1906, and was mobilised aboard Pembroke I on 2 August 1914, but only served until 9 October 1914, when he was discharged ashore, medically unfit. His short service of less than 2 months appears not have qualified him for the British War Medal. His service record also states that he was not eligible to receive a war gratuity. Sold with copied record of service.

Six: Captain William Thorp, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches and promoted to Commander for services at Sebastopol Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William Thorp, Lieut. R.N.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1846 (Lieut. Wm. Thorp, H.M.S. Calliope) officially impressed naming; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; St Jean D’Acre 1840, silver, pierced with ring and fitted with additional bar suspension; Turkish Crimea, British issue, pierced with ring and fitted with additional bar suspension, mounted for display, good very fine (6) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. William Thorpe was born on 29 August 1813, and joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on 2 April 1826. On promotion to Midshipman on 14 September 1830, he was appointed to H.M.S. Donegal, and whilst in this vessel he passed his examination and was promoted to Mate on 29 September 1832. In this rank he next served aboard Belvidera from January 1834, and in June 1838 he joined Gorgon, steamer, Captain William Honeyman Henderson, under whom he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, including those against Sidon and St Jean D'Acre. Having been promoted to Lieutenant on 28 June 1838, his next appointment was as 1st Lieutenant of Orestes in August 1842, Captains Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnegie and John James Robinson, serving in the Mediterranean. Next appointed to the steam sloop Medea in October 1844, Captain Frederick Warden, serving on the same station. He then joined Calliope in July 1845 as 1st Lieutenant, Captain Edward Stanley, on the East Indies Station, and whilst in this vessel he was landed in New Zealand for service on shore with the Naval Brigade. He was present at the capture of Bats Nest, Ruapekapeka, on 11 January 1846, and the action up river at Wanganui during May and June 1847. On leaving the Calliope Thorpe was unemployed for six years until he joined the paddle wheel steam frigate Furious in November 1852, based at Portsmouth for service with the Channel Squadron. Next appointed 1st Lieutenant of the steam frigate Tribune, he saw action in the Baltic during 1854 and later in the Black Sea during 1854-55. He was Mentioned in Despatches and specially promoted to Commander on 13 November 1854 for his services at the bombardment of Sebastopol. On Tribune paying off, Thorpe was unemployed for three years until appointed Commander and second-in-command of Asia, guardship, Ordinary at Portsmouth, in December 1858. This was to be his last active appointment; in June 1861 he was placed ashore on half pay, and on 19 August 1868 he was retired, after having served 42 years. Promoted on the Retired List as Captain on 13 November 1869, William Thorpe died on 1 June 1890.

Paul McCartney / Wings Tour Programmes and Tour Packs, collection of Programmes / Tour Packs comprising Out There Tour Pack (Back Pack, Drink bottle, 3D Glasses, Programme), Japan Tour 1980, Wings In Concert 1975, Wings On Tour 1979, New World Tour (3 Programmes and two tickets (Earls Court) in Printed paper bag), On The Run, Behold My Heart (Royal Albert Hall), Standing Stone (Royal Albert Hall), Standing Stone Premier Pack, Back In The World, Paul McCartney Tour 1989/90, World Tour 1989 (2 copies) and Good Evening London (with 2 tickets) - generally all in very good condition

RMS Olympic interest: a fine pair of ormolu and cut-glass ceiling light fittings, each of inverted umbrella form with shell and leaf-scroll motifs throughout including eight hobnail-cut glass panels, and a crystal faceted orb finial, fittings for seven bulbs, 50cms diameter, 38cms high.Provenance: Removed from a property on Lanchester Road, Lanchester, Durham. In situ since her demolition in 1935-1937. These light fittings are believed to be from the First-Class Lounge. They are smaller examples, with matching designs to the panels, of the large electrolier in the Silver Vestibule, Cutlers Hall, Sheffield. Please see an additional image with one of the light fittings in place above the door at the back.History: RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname "Old Reliable". Olympic was withdrawn from the transatlantic service, and left New York for the last time on 5 April 1935, returning to Britain to be laid up in Southampton. After being laid up for five months she was sold to Sir John Jarvis for £97,500, to be partially demolished at Jarrow to provide work for the depressed region. On 11 October 1935, Olympic left Southampton for the last time and arrived in Jarrow two days later. The scrapping began after the ship's fittings were auctioned off. Between 1935 and 1937, Olympics' superstructure was demolished, and then on 19 September 1937, her hull was towed to Thos. W. Ward's yard at Inverkeithing for final demolition which was finished by late 1937.

Worksplate HUDSWELL CLARKE & Co LTD LEEDS D628 1943. Ex 0-4-0 DM delivered new to Springfields Munition factory Salwick and named Mighty Atom, later Sprignfiedls became British Nuclear Fuels producing the fuel for the first commercial nuclear reactor at Calder Hall. Withdrawn and eventually preserved and now on display at the Ribble Steam Museum along with its sister D629 Sparky whose worksplate is featured elsewhere in this auction. Oval engraved brass in lightly polished condition, measures 12.875in x 8.125in.

Worksplate HUDSWELL CLARKE & Co LTD LEEDS D629 1945. Ex 0-4-0 DM delivered new to Springfields Munition factory Salwick and named Sparky, later Sprignfiedls became British Nuclear Fuels producing the fuel for the first commercial nuclear reactor at Calder Hall. Withdrawn and eventually preserved and now on display at the Ribble Steam Museum along with its sister D628 Mighty Atom whose worksplate is featured elsewhere in this auction. Oval engraved brass in lightly polished condition, measures 12.875in x 8.125in.

Worksplate YORKSHIRE ENGINE CO LIMITED MEADOW HALL WORKS SHEFFIELD No 2440 1948 ex 0-6-0 ST delivered new to Samuel Fox & Co Ltd Stocksbridge Iron Works and numbered 4. Oval cast brass in original condition, measures 11in x 6in.

Worksplate YORKSHIRE ENGINE CO LIMITED MEADOW HALL WORKS SHEFFIELD No 2795 1960 ex 0-4-0 Diesel Electrical delivered new to the Round Oak Steel Works Brierly Hill. Oval cast brass, face cleaned, measures 11in x 6in.

If your idea of G-Class ownership doesn’t involve oversized wheels, aftermarket body kits, or even a 5.5 litre fire-breather of an engine, but rather the original styling and everyday usability, this 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300 GE must be considered. It has covered a little over 110,000 miles in its 33 year life, and the cherished registration ‘G20 WAG’ is included in the sale. Its blue bodywork further cements the understated styling and the grey interior is similar to what you’d find in a standard Mercedes-Benz saloon from that era.First registered in April 1991, over three decades ago, this example is powered by a three litre straight-six engine mated to an automatic gearbox. The dark blue colour scheme seems to be a great choice, and the paintwork is in good order. Previously owned by the CEO of Howdens Kitchens, the car resided in Scotland where it was maintained regardless of cost. £14,500 was spent on a complete retrim in grey leather as well as the respray in the blue paintwork you see today. The current vendor purchased the car in 2023 for considerably more than our estimate, but has decided to offer it for sale as it simply isn’t getting used as much as he anticipated it would. The previous owner purchased the vehicle in 2021 and treated the 300 GE to a no expense spared service and maintenance program with Edward Hall Mercedes-Benz specialists costing circa £16,500! The work included a new head gasket, fuel lines, the underside was treated and undersealed, new alloy wheels, new all-terrain tyres and new side steps, it’s safe to say this G Wagen has been in the right hands and pretty much no stone has been left unturned.The history file accompanying the car includes the original toolbox, many previous MoT test certificates, sundry bills including invoice's totalling circa £14,000 for interior retrimming and an overhaul and the more recent invoice for £16,500. Other works include £2,000 spent in 2010, the UK registration document and an MoT test certificate valid until April 2025. Offered with its private and fitting registration number, this is a superb opportunity to acquire a sound 300 GE! Consigned by Fraser Smith HUGE SUMS OF MONEY SPENT INCLUDING £16,500 IN 2021 (AND MUCH MORE, PLEASE SEE HISTORY FILE)EXCELLENT EXAMPLEHUGE HISTORY FILE

Five New Hall Porcelain Teapots and Covers, circa 1790, of silver shape, one painted with gilt swags, berry and leaf sprigs, the others with polychrome borders (one tray)

Five Late 18th Century Teapots, including a pearlware example with swan formed knop and painted in underglaze blue with trailing ribbons, a New Hall silver shaped example and a Flight Worcester fluted pot, together with Sunderland lustre mugs and a printware loving cup etc. (two trays)Blue and white teapot - chip to spout, two chips to the foot, multiple chips to the casolated rim, hairline cracks to the body and heavy crazing.Black and white teapot - with a hairline crack to the base and crazing throughoutFluted oval teapot - hairline crack to the rim, restored handle, chip to spout Oval teapot - paint scratches, chip to spout, glaze scratches to the main bodyRemaining teapot with chips to the cover, hairline crackTwin-handled mug - extensively crazed with a hairline crack to the footOrange lustre mug - multiple hairlines and larger cracks with heavy crazing Pink lustre mug - repairs, hairline cracks, heavy cracks, chips Black and white mug - serveral hairlines and heavy crazing Final mug - with extensive crazing forming into hairlines

The following 17 lots were the possession of a former USA Soccer Executive, New York Cosmos Executive and Soccer Hall of Famer AMERICAN ALL STARS V MACCABI TEL-AVIV 1956 Programme for the Northeast USA and Montreal tour at Triboro stadium Randall's Island, NYC 23/9/1956. Generally good

Impressive one owner collection photo album cont. 352 signed photos and Lonsdale photos of Champion and other Boxers, to inc. Frank Bruno, Joe Calzaghe, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis, Henry Akinwande, etc. Provenance: The previous owner spent their life going to boxing clubs and matches meeting these boxers, a large number of the photos were taken by him and signed in person, some at The International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York

Impressive one owner collection photo album cont. 360 signed photos and promoters cards of Champion and other Boxers, to inc. Micky Ward, Brian Coleman, Paul Busby, Alex Ba Ba, Tommy Eastwood, Mufu Akay, Geard Ajetovic, Louis Veitch, Ross Minter, etc. Provenance: The previous owner spent their life going to boxing clubs and matches meeting these boxers, a large number of the photos were taken by him and signed in person, some at The International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York

AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", boards. A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1722 BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. RARE.AYRES, Ralph ("Radolphus") (fl.early-mid-18th-century).  A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, most written on the rectos only, inscribed on the verso of the first leaf, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", many pages adorned with pen flourishes at the foot (short inconspicuous closed tear to first two leaves, without loss, some light spotting and staining, small hole in final leaf not affecting letters). Contemporary "Dutch" pale green-and-pink floral-pattern paper boards (some rubbing to extremities, the backstrip torn in places, a section of floral paper torn away from the foot of the backstrip and the lower wrapper, an old ink stain to the head of the spine), Oxford, small 4to (190 x 155mm), 1722. A FINE, PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED, MANUSCRIPT, IN ORIGINAL CONDITION, OF RECIPES COMPILED BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. It is unusual to have such a manuscript dated precisely and even more unusual to know something of the person who compiled it. About seven other similar manuscripts inscribed "Radolphus Ayres" and dating from the first half of the 18th-century have been variously identified, although it is possible that some records of those not preserved in institutions have been duplicated as they have appeared in the trade. In light of the fine condition of the present manuscript and absence of old revisions, addenda and food-staining - a common fate of early cookery books - it seems likely that these copies were intended less for use as everyday "working" cookery books and, more likely, as gifts to friends or fellow cooks, in order to preserve the recipes for posterity. Ralph Ayres is recorded as being Head Cook at New College at various times in the 18th-century, with one recipe in the present manuscript referring specifically to the college ("new colledg puddings"). The first entry in the manuscript is unusual in being a "Receipt", or remedy, "... for ye shortness of Breath", but thereafter only recipes or food preservations are included: for example, "Mackrouns", "To make the Ice for the Cake", "To make Oxford Sausages", "To make Naples Bisket", "To pott pigeons or partridges", "To make a Dish of Scottch Collops", "To make a Good Beef Gravey", "To make London Wiggs [i.e. tea biscuits or cakes]", "To make a Quaking puding [so-called because, if properly prepared, it was meant to wobble]", "To make a dish of new Collidg puddings", "To make Ayres' his pancakes", "To make Cheescakes", "To preserve Damsons for tarts", "To make Ginger bread", "To make Ayres' his puding" and "To fricacie a Couple of Rabits or 3 larg Chickins". The last recipe in the manuscript, "To make Shrubb", is written in a different hand, and inscribed and dated, "[?]Transviglo [?]J. W. [indistinct third initial], 8 Sept 1751". Loosely-inserted on two separate paper slips are "To make Grape Wine" (not in the same hand) and "A Receipt to prevent too much sweating in a weak person" (in a different hand, but 18th-century). Two similar manuscripts, in near-identical floral-pattern bindings, are recorded in Oxford: one at the Bodleian (MS. Don. e. 89), dated 1721, and one in the archives of New College itself (NCA 962), dated 1719. The Bodleian record identifies a third from its reproduction in a book privately-printed in 1922 titled A Little Book of Recipes of New College Two Hundred Years Ago. The present location of this third manuscript is unknown but it cannot be ours since it was signed "Radolphus Ayres Cook of Newcolidg in Oxford 1721"; a further similar manuscript, inscribed "Radolphus Ayers [sic], Cook, 1715", was recently handled by Peter Harrington. In 2006, the Bodleian published Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book which contains a facsimile of their own manuscript, edited and with an introduction by Jane Jakeman in which she describes the elaborate traditions and cuisine of an Oxford college dining hall in the mid-18th-century, and more specifically of New College under Ralph Ayres: "It was a cuisine appropriate to the community it served, one which still conducted itself with some formality ... Dinner, usually served in Oxford between midday and 2 pm in the mid-eighteenth century, was the main meal of the day, at which dons were expected to wear white waistcoats, wigs and gowns ... At a dinner [at New College] in 1774 the first course included cod with oysters, ham, fowls, boiled beef, rabbits smothered with onion, mutton, veal chops, port griskins (lean part of the loin), New College Puddings, Mince Pies and roots (vegetables). In the second course were roast turkey, haunch of venison, a brace of woodcocks, snipes, veal olives, trifle, blancmange, stewed pippins and preserves quinces ... At supper, potted and salted meats, important recipes in Ayre's book, would have been consumed. The day might be rounded off with a snack, perhaps a hot pie or some small cakes, served with punch, an egg-flip or a negus of spiced wine and lemon, and at last the weary cooks could repose. Until breakfast, of course!" The book's foreword by David Vaisey, Bodley's librarian from 1986 to 1996, compares the text of the two Oxford copies and the third "lost" one: "The collection of recipes is substantially the same in all three manuscripts: the recipes occur in the same order, and two manuscripts (those from Bodley and from New College) are probably in the same handwriting". Both the handwriting and the order of the recipes in the present manuscript are almost identical to the two copies in Oxford, and its discovery can only shed further light on "Radolphus Ayres" who we can see - perhaps fancifully - as an 18th-century precursor of the modern "celebrity chef". RARE.

Early 19th century New Hall bat-printed and hand-coloured part tea set comprising 4 cups, 4 saucers, teapot with lid on stand. The saucers with puce coloured 'New Hall' marks, the teapot and stand marked with pattern number 1612. (11)

A collection of Rudolf Nureyev and ballet ephemera. Including printed photographs and newspaper clippings, videos of his performances, a copy of his autobiography 'Nureyev, His Spectacular Early Years', a set of twelve Rudolf Nuryev postcards, Royal Opera House Covent Garden programmes, a set of Sally Soames 'Hall of Fame' photographs featuring Nureyev, three copies of 1999 'Rudolf Nureyev Farewell Tour', 1993 tribute show programme, 1990 Edinburgh International Festival 'The Overcoat' programme, two Christies catalogue books for the sale of the Nureyev Estaste (January 1995 1st Weeks Auction NEW YORK) & (November 1995 2nd weeks auction LONDON), and more

*Austin Osman Spare (British, 1886-1956) -Portrait of a nude lady -Pastel -66 x 86cm -Initialled ' aos ' lower left -Provenance: The Artist, from whom acquired by Dr Thomas W. Lumsden and by family descent. -NOTE: An intimate nude from the artist's most accomplished period. By 1922, Spare had separated from his wife, Eily Shaw, and had taken rooms in a new tenement building on Tabard Street, south London. The unidentified subject of the present lot was a recurring model for the artist during this period. Studies in pastel and pen and ink of the same sitter were reproduced in The Golden Hind, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1922-3, vol. 1, nos.1-2), a journal of the arts edited by Austin Spare and Clifford Bax. A further pastel study of the same subject dated 1923 carries alongside the signature the word 'ONE', a symbolic gesture usually found only in Spare's earliest works, and arguably a mark of the personal significance of the model for the artist. Although Spare was not affiliated with a commercial gallery during this period, he did sometimes exhibit. In 1922 he was invited by George J. Mitchell-a fellow student from his days attending the Royal College of Art-to offer works for an exhibition organised by Yeovil District Arts Student's Union Club. Spare submitted four works, including a self portrait, a pastel study from his period of service as an official War artist in the R.A.M.C., and two life studies. Given the scarcity of pastel nudes from this year, it is perhaps significant that the reverse of the present work carries 'No.3' in the artist's hand, and we might speculate that it was one of the two works exhibited. -We are grateful to Robert Shehu-Ansell for providing further research and assistance with the catalogue notes for works by Austin Osman Spare.

ANTHONY BRAXTON AND RELATED - LP COLLECTION. A fine collection of 30 jazz LPs by Anthony Braxton and related. Titles include Neighbours With (120 754, record Ex+/ sleeve Ex), Together Aline (DS-428), Duets With Roscoe Mitchell, Live At Wigmor, Saxophone Improvisations Series F, The Aggregate, Town Hall 1972, Solo London 1988, Moment Precieux, If My Memory Serves Me Right, SSeven Standards 1985 Volumes 1 & 2, Six Duets 1982, Four Pieces, Four Compositions 1973, 3 Compositions Of New JazzRecital Paris 71, This Time, The Montreux/ Berlin Concerts, Creative Orchestra Music 1976, Five Pieces 1975, Music From Mills, Composition No 96, Time Zones, Seven Compositions 1978, Elements Of Surprise, Solo. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.

A late 19th/ early 20th century sailing book, with entries for twelve ships, 'Misty Hall', 'Crofton Hall,' Forrest Hall', 'Hutton Hall', 'Dovenby Hall, SS 'Wennington Hall', SS' Fallodon Hall', SS Howick Hall', SS Newton Hall', SS Foxton Hall', SS Charleton Hall' and SS 'Oaster Hall', 1879-1910, the entries with details of destinations, number of days for journey and cargo. Locations include ,London, New York, Boston,Melbourne, Calcutta, Hong Kong and San Francisco.(together with research notes on vessels)

A GROUP OF CERAMICS, to include a Lladro Girl with Lamb figure, no 4505, sculptor F. Garcia, issued 1969-1981, a Lladro 'Seraph's Head Number 3' wall mask, no 4886, sculptor Vicente Martinez, issued 1974-1985, two Nao figures, a Mason's Mandalay table lamp and vase, height 19cm, a large red earthenware teapot, height 28cm (chipped), a hand painted teacup and saucer, two 'Spode's New Fayence' bowls (restored), a Portmeirion planter (hairline), a Coalport Revelry cruet set, a Cauldon blue and white serving dish, a Minton Haddon Hall oval dish, a collection of hatpins, etc (qty) (Condition Report: most pieces appear ok, sd and as stated)