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Lot 721
274 colour slides by Celebrity Photo Agency C/O 1998 at Int?l Achiev Arts Gala Miramar Sheraton 4/5/98 featuring Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Lou Ferigno, Marty Stuart, Sam Moore, Petula Clark, Ann Rutherford, Dobbie Brothers, Bobby Brown, Chaka Kann, Dionne Warwick, Stephanie Powers, Gloria Gaynor, Andrea Thompson, Tippi Hedren and Danny Wise plus 20 Sam Moore colour slides AAA Party La Convention Centre 4/2/98 (274)
Lot 12
Royal Air Force Log Book Grouping of Flight Lieutenant E C Cox Number 15 and 29 Squadrons RAF, Served from 1939-1945, the first log book in the group is his Observers and Air Gunners log which commences with training in December 1939, he first started flying operationally as a wireless operator Air Gunner with No15 Squadron in July 1940 in Blenheim’s, he flew with various pilots including S/L Singer DSO DFC, P/O Lane-Samson DFC and S/L Webster DSO DFC, to name a few. Most of the operations at this time were bombing of the German held Belgium and French ports and invasion barges etc. On the 9th September 1940, he notes as attack on enemy shipping in Oostende, it tells of an engagement with a ME110 and how his aircraft was damaged, loose in this page are two Air Ministry images of the damage to his aircraft from this engagement, written in pencil at a later date by Cox is the comment “May have damaged the blighter!”. In November 1940 he moved to Wellington bombers and began training with them, still serving as part of 15 Squadron. In early 1941 he was involved in the bombing operations targeting the German war machine factories, oil instillations and harbours, with many of the operations noted in detail and congratulation notes from command mounted into the pages. In March 1941 he joined No21 O.T.U. In June 1941 he was involved in a bombing raid on the French capital, Paris, ephemera is added to the page for this operation. The first log book ends on 14th March 1942 when he is posted for training as a pilot. The second log book begins in May 1942 when training to become a pilot. He trains on various aircraft throughout 1942 and 1943, including Oxford’s, Blenheim’s and Beaufighter’s. In October 1943 he is transferred to 29 Squadron, flying Mosquito aircraft. Towards the end of 1943 and early 1944, he was piloting various operations and he notes down a number of engagements with the enemy, including 24th February 1944, “PATROL – DURRINGTON G.C.I 1 HE.177 DESTROYED – OUR BIG NIGHT – A FLT GET 7 AND 2 PROBABLES” a entry is made over the page to state, “E/A LATER IDENTIFIED AS HE.177 FROM II KG 100 AT CHATEAUDON”, just a couple of nights later he notes, “PATROL – 2 CHASES – 1 NEAR THING HUN SHOT DOWN JUST IN FRONT OF ME!”. The second log book ends on 24th April 1944. In June 1944 he is tasked with various operations over the French beach heads, after the Normandy invasions. On 19th September 1944, he enters into his log book “PATROL TO COVER AIRBORNE LANDINGS IN HOLLAND – ARNHEM ABLAZE!”. By the end of 1944 he was posted to No 60 O.T.U and then later in 1945 No 13 O.T.U. The second to last entry in the log is on 22.10.45 “ATTACHED FROM HQ 12 GROUP TO RAF MOLESWORTH FOR NAV DUTIES” with the very last entry being written in pencil dated 10th October 1988 on a Piper Warrior taking off from Headcorn, obviously this was a private flight he took and made a note of it in his original wartime log. Accompanying the log books is a tin of cloth insignia, including his pilots wings, medal ribbon bars and rank insignia etc.
Lot 17
Historic Trophy given to T. O. M. (Tommy) Sopwith by the Aero Club of New York, engraved "Bomb Dropping Contest Won by T.O.M.Sopwith at Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome" This handsome trophy manufactured by the famous firm of Reed and Barton of Massachusetts (producer of the Oscar statuettes) is believed to be of silver gilt and measures some 22cms x 19cms and carries their name on its base together with the number 394 and "gilt". The Nassau aerodrome in the United States closed in 1912 and Tommy Sopwith won the award there in the previous year in July 1911, whilst flying his new Howard Wright Biplane and which he wrote off shortly afterwards. The iconic Tommy Sopwith was both an accomplished pilot and founder of the Sopwith Aviation Company at Brooklands in June 1912 at the age of 24, which went on to design and manufacture the Sopwith Camel, among others, a truly classic aircraft of WWI. Tommy Sopwith lived to be 101 and was involved in both Aviation, Motor Cycling and Motoring. This unique item represents a tangible link with one of our greatest aviation pioneers.
Lot 7
‡ Short quotations from Isocrates, Ad Demonicum, 9, and Menander, Sententia, in Attic Greek, in Greek cursive and capitals, manuscript on large polished wooden tablet doubtless produced as part of a scribal teaching exercise[Egypt, late fourth or early fifth century] Rectangular wooden tablet, used lengthways, with single column of 5 long lines plus a single word on a sixth line in a clear and sloping Greek cursive on one side and a further 2 lines in large Greek capitals on the reverse, one hole at head of board in middle (perhaps for suspension), wood with slight scuffing in places and one small loss of a section at its foot (without affect to text), 140 by 138 by 10mm.; in blue cloth covered folding case A remarkably rare ephemeral witness to the practical teaching of novice scribes in Graeco-Roman Egypt, on wood, a material of such value in Egypt that few survive Provenance:1. Prof. Dr. Pieter Johannes Sijpestein (1934-1996) of Baarn, near Amsterdam; his collection known as the Moen collection (his wife's maiden name), and almost certainly acquired by him in the European and American trade in the 1960s to early 1980s. Much of his collection passing after his death to the University of Austin, Texas, as well as Syracuse University, New York. This his inventory no. 78, and published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik in 1983 (see below).2. Bonhams, 29 April 1991, lot 77, to Sam Fogg.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1359, acquired June 1991. Text and script:This is a 'wooden leaf tablet' employed in Antiquity as a writing master's template for scribal teaching in an important and wealthy scriptorium. Cribiore comprehensively discusses their use from pharaonic Egypt onwards (pp. 65-72), and the value of the raw material - as Egypt produced little wood. Here we have the refined master-scribe's hand copying out the quotation from Isocrates (436-338 BC.; here "... and he exposed his spirit to dangers. Nor did he display an ill-timed craving for wealth, but he enjoyed the good things present like one who was going to die, yet cared for his property as if he was immortal"), the father of rhetorical Greek and founder of the Athenian academy in the Lyceum, on one side in cursive, for students to copy onto papyrus. The pierced hole at the top of the board allowed it to be strung together with other such templates, and handed around the class for copying time and time again. To this, a student has added on its reverse the extract from the Greek dramatist Menander (c. 342/41-c. 290 BC.) in slightly clumsy capitals with a few erasures, finishing this with his initials. The format of such teaching aids has remained relatively unchanged in the region from the Ancient World until the last century (see the 'cricket bat' shaped writing tablet produced in Morocco in the early twentieth century, offered as lot 46 in our 31 March Islamic sale this year [auction moved to 12 June]). As noted by Sijpestein and Agosti (the latter in Pintaudi, p. 38) the combination of Isocrates and Menander here is also found in a poem of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (d. sixth century) and their use together in teaching may well have been ingrained in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Byzantine world. Sijpestein in 1983 dated this piece to the seventh century, and that date was followed by Cribiore in her survey, but it has been recently and convincingly redated to "la fine del IV o addirittura l'inizio del V seculo" by G. Agosti (in Pintaudi, no. 11). This accords well with other surviving examples which appear to cluster in those centuries (see Cribiore, nos. 83, 146 and 317, with slightly earlier examples in 292, 296 and 333). Published:P.J. Sijpestein, 'Isokrates, Ad Demonicum 9 und Ein Monostichon Menandri auf Einer Holztafel', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 52 (1983), pp. 291-92.R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, 1996, no. 229.R. Pintaudi, Papyri Graecae Schøyen, 2005, no. 11, pp. 37-40.C. Pernigotti, Menandri Sententiae, 2008, p. 48 and no. 895.P. Pruneti and M. Menchelli, Corpus dei papyri filosofici, 1.2.2, 2008, pp. 922-24.L. Maurice, The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World, 2013, p. 102.C. Pernigotti, Corpus dei papiri filosofici, 2.2, 2015, pp. 244-46. The present artefact is Mertens-Pack 2736.2, and is published online as TM 61405 and LDAB 2549.
Lot 71
Rental roll for Hackness in North Yorkshire for the years 1622-1639, in Early Modern English, manuscript on parchment[Northern England (Hackness), mid-seventeenth century] Single large rental roll on 3 membranes of parchment, listing the rents received from properties in and around Hackness, with columns marked up with amounts of money and years (marked with 'o' to show account settled), and noting a James Shore acting as owner or a steward for the owner, written in a late English secretarial hand, some damage to edges in places and fading in parts, else good condition, dated 29 September 1639 and with the opening line "The turffgraft is to be payd yearly upon Michell day", 2060 by 240mm. Provenance:1. Written at Hackness in the years 1622-1639, and thereafter becoming separated from the main archive of the manor at a later date (see below).2. Sotheby's 17 December 1991, part of lot 41, alongside the items in the previous two lots, evidently from a lawyer's archive.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1563/3, acquired in Sotheby's. Text:The Manor of Hackness, in the parish of Scarborough, was recorded by Bede as early as the eighth century as the site of a double monastery, and the church there still has fragments of a cross of that date or a century later inscribed with a prayer to St. Æthelburh. In the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period it was a wealthy rural estate, and was the home of Lady Margaret Hoby, whose diary of 1599-1605 is the earliest known such work written by a woman. Early records are scarce for the region, but North Yorkshire Records Office do hold rentals for the estate for the periods 1605-22 (ZF/4/1/1 mic 1432) and 1650-51 (ZF/4/1/2 mic 1432), and the present manuscript is most probably from the same original archive.Please note: This item is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules. As such it cannot be taken out of England and Wales without the consent of the Master of the Rolls, and future owners must inform the secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition.
Lot 272
Vallery C O Geard: "Meissonier", limited edition 4/100, 1898 on Japanese vellum and extra plates for Japanese vellum edition Condition of book:In okay condition. Pages and plates appear to be all there. some minor damages to the corners, minor foxing and discoloration throughout.size in cm 33 1/2 x 26 x 3 1/2
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Lot 359
[Anatomy] Il Corpo-Umano, o Breve Storia, Dove con nuovo metodo Si descrivono in Compendio tutti gli Organi suoi e i loro principali uffizj; Per istruire a bene intendere, Secondo il nuovo sistema, La Teorica, e pratica Medicinale Di Alessandro Pascoli Perugino, Con Licenza De Superiori, Venezia 1772, with frontispiece, title page engraving and 20 numbered plates at rear, bound in half leather with gilt spine
Lot 496
Vinyl Records - LP's including Marvin Gaye - Greatest Hits - TML 11065; Diana Ross And The Supremes - 'Live' at London's Talk Of The Town - TML 11070; Reflections - TML 11073; "Funny Girl" - TML 11088; Love Child - TML 11095; Diana Ross And The Supremes Join The Temptations - TML 11096; The Supremes - A' Go.Go - TML 11039; At The Copa - TML 11026; I Hear A Symphony - TML 11028; The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Heart - TML 11054; More Hits By The Supremes - TML 11020; The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul - TML 11057; Greatest Hits - TML 11042; The Four Tops - Yesterday's Dreams - TML 11087; On Top - TML 11037; Isley Brothers - Soul On The Rocks - TML 11066; Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits - TML 11075 (17)
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