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Click here to subscribeA collection of approx five hundred and fifty postcards relating to shipping Mostly contained in albums, subjects to include black and white postcards of P&O ships, harbours, American shipping scenes, war ship from WWI onwards, book titled 'The South American Saint Line, History of a Welsh shipping venture' by PM Heaton etc.
William Turner FRSA (British, 1920-2013) - 'Terraced Homes in Hulme', Oil on board, signed and dated 1967, bears old hand written label verso, approx. 50x58cm, framed. CONDITION REPORT: Fair original condition, o damage, no restoration, minor blemishes and dirty, some minor cracking visible. Provenance: From a private client, elderly lady had it for many years, possibly decades, no further information available.
A Kutani Vase,probably mid-18th century, the ovoid body enamelled and gilt with a woman and child in a garden on a tomato-red ground, the reverse with ho-o, diaper, karakusa and other flowers between,36cmThis curious vase is largely in Arita style, but is in an anomalous body. This, with the misfired enamelling, has all the indication of an early piece.
A pair of cloisonné Vases,c.1900, with blade panels of either a dragon and pearl or ho-o with peony against a speckled-green and mustard-yellow ground, the shoulder with shaped panels against a speckled-pink ground, the neck with butterflies,17.8cm, anda smaller Pair,with panels of either a dragon or ho-o,12cm (4)
A pair of cloisonné squat Vases and Covers,late 19th century, with wavy bands of florets and butterflies against an olive green or blue ground on three bun feet,an aventurine ground oval Pot and Cover,a Pot Pourri,with ho-o and an aventurine butterfly, anda spherical Vase,decorated with floral and insect mons, lid missing, andtwo Bowls,3.5 to 7.8cm (10)
An attractive bronzed copper Koro and Cover,late 19th century, in the form of a bejewelled elephant standing four-square with head turned, with ivory tusks, its saddlecloth engraved with ho-o beneath a simulated chaire, the bowl nashiji, the shoulders a cloth tied by a rope and with karakusa, the domed, pierced cover with rat finial and enclosing a silvered burner,31.5cm, pierced wood stand (5)
ORFF CARL: (1895-1982) German Composer. A.M.Q.S., Carl Orff, on a small 8vo card (to the verso of which a magazine portrait of the composer in a head and shoulders pose is neatly affixed), n.p., November 1965. On a holograph stave in black ink Orff has penned three bars treble clef of music from his most famous composition, the cantata Carmina Burana (1937), adding the words ('O Fortuna velut luna') in his hand beneath. One very slight, extremely minor corner crease, VG The present musical quotation of O Fortuna is part of the Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi, being the opening and closing movement of Carmina Burana. The piece, greatly used in popular culture to set the mood for dramatic situations, topped a list of the most played classical music of the past 75 years in the United Kingdom (BBC Radio 2, 2009)
ELGAR EDWARD: (1857-1934) English Composer. A.L.S., Edward Elgar, two pages, 8vo, Forli, Malvern, 4th March 1894, to Messrs. Novello & Co. ('Dear Sirs'). The composer writes to his music publishers and encloses a manuscript (no longer present) of a part-song which he trusts they will find acceptable for publication, remarking 'It is not so difficult as the other part-songs of mine which you publish: I think therefore it might help to bring those forward as the present one, on account of its greater simplicity may become more widely known than its predecessors'. With several ink and bold blue indelible pencil annotations in the hand of an employee of Novello & Co (one stating 'Offer £3.3.0'). VG The song to which Elgar refers to is O Happy Eyes (Op. 18, No.1) which Elgar had originally composed in late 1889, and later revised as illustrated by the present letter. The words were written by Elgar's future wife, Alice, in February 1888, before her engagement to the composer.
ELGAR EDWARD: (1857-1934) English Composer. A.L.S., Edward Elgar, one page, 8vo, Forli, Malvern, 24th March 1894, to Messrs. Novello & Co. ('Dear Sirs'). The composer writes to his music publishers and accepts their offer 'of three guineas for the copyright of my part-song “O Happy Eyes”' and continues 'I presume you will not object to sending me, as before, 2 doz copies free, not for sale but to send to conductors'. VG O Happy Eyes (Op. 18, No.1) was originally composed by Elgar in late 1889, and initially rejected by Novello & Co. As illustrated by the present letter a revised version was accepted by the publishers, however it did not appear in print until 1896 (in the Musical Times). The words were written by Elgar's future wife, Alice, in February 1888, before her engagement to the composer.
[GOEBBELS JOSEPH]: (1897-1945) German Politician, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany 1933-45. An unused 4to sheet of Goebbel's printed stationery, featuring the black printed heading Der Reichsminister fur Volksaufklarung und Propaganda beneath a blind embossed Nazi eagle and swastika, also with the printed address at Wilhelmplatz, Berlin. Together with an unused small 4to sheet of stationery featuring the black printed heading Kanzlei des Fuhrers der NSDAP beneath a blind embossed Nazi eagle and swastika in the upper left corner and the address in Berlin, and two telephone numbers, in the upper right corner. Some light creasing, about VG Provenance: Accompanied by copies of statements of origin signed by Richard O. Rex stating that he personally removed the stationery from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in July 1945 after having been flown in to help establish a medical dispensary for use during The Potsdam Conference. Also signed by a Notary Public as a witness. Together with copies of further supporting detailed documentation relating to Rex and his acquisitions.
Including six British Prime Ministers, two American Presidents, the inventor of television, the vicar who married the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and a host of other famous individuals of the 1930s & 1940s AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION: An excellent collection of over 80 vintage signed cards (mainly oblong 12mo) and some pieces, a few letters etc., by a wide variety of famous individuals of the 1930s and 1940s, each neatly laid down (a few cornermounted) in multiples to the pages of two oblong albums, including (in order of their appearance within the albums) - Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947, British Prime Minister 1923-24, 1924- 29 & 1935-37; on a blind embossed 10 Downing Street card) Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965, British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953; 'W S Churchill', some very slight smudging to a few letters) J. Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937, British Prime Minister 1924, 1929-35) David Lloyd George (1863-1945, British Prime Minister 1916-22) Ian Hamilton (1853-1947, British General) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President 1933-45) Roger Keyes (1872-1945, British Admiral of the Fleet) Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884-1940, Maharaja of Mysore 1894-1940) Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937, British Politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1925) Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940, British Prime Minister 1937-40) Anthony Eden (1897-1977, British Prime Minister 1955-57) John Simon (1873-1954, British Politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937-40) David Beatty (1871-1936, British Admiral of World War I) Samuel Hoare (1880-1959, British Politician) Frederick William Elwell (1870-1958, English Painter) Laura Knight (1877-1970, English Impressionist Artist) John Lavery (1856-1941, Irish Painter) William Reid Dick (1879-1961, Scottish Sculptor) Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972, Scottish Writer) J. B. Priestley (1894-1984, English Author & Playwright) Hugh Walpole (1884-1941, English Novelist) Beverley Nichols (1898-1983, English Author) A. J. Cronin (1896-1981, Scottish Novelist) E. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960, English Suffragette) George Lansbury (1859-1940, British Politician) Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941, British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement; 'Baden Powell of Gilwell') Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907) Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967, English Poet) Laurence Binyon (1869-1943, English Poet) Walter de la Mare (1873-1956, English Poet) Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948, British Land & Water Speed Record Holder) Oliver Lodge (1851-1940, British Physicist involved in the development of wireless telegraphy) Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948, British Navigator who, along with the English pilot John Alcock, completed the first successful nonstop transatlantic flight, June 1919) Alan Cobham (1894-1973, English Pioneer Aviator) Amy Johnson (1903-1941, English Pioneer Aviatrix;'Amy Mollison') Henry O. D. Seagrave (1896-1930, British Land & Water Speed Record holder) Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956, British Marshal of the RAF) Augustus John (1878-1961, Welsh Painter) R. Anderson Jardine (1878-1950, English Vicar who performed the marriage ceremony for the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson; dated 'Chateau de Cande, Monts, 3rd June 1937' in his hand, being the place and date of the wedding) John Logie Baird (1888-1946, Scottish Engineer and Inventor of the world's first working television system) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, American General of World War II, later American President 1953-61) B. L. Montgomery (1887-1976, British Field Marshal of World War II) Archibald Wavell (1883-1950, British Field Marshal of World War II) Edmund Ironside (1880-1959, British Field Marshal) Harold Alexander (1891-1969, British Field Marshal of World War II) Viscount Alanbrooke (1883-1963, British Field Marshal of World War II) Charles Portal (1893-1971, British Marshal of the RAF) Andrew Cunningham (1883-1963, British Admiral of the Fleet of World War II) Jan Smuts (1870-1950, South African Prime Minister 1919-24, 1939-48. Smuts served as a British Field Marshal during World War II) Leon Blum (1872-1950, French Prime Minister 1936-37, 1938) Duff Cooper (1890-1954, British Politician) John Anderson (1882-1958, British Politician) Herbert Morrison (1888-1965, British Politician) Archibald Sinclair (1890-1970, British Politician) R. Stafford Cripps (1889-1952, British Politician) Eamon de Valera (1882-1975, Taoiseach of Ireland 1937-48, 1951-54, 1957-59. President of Ireland 1959-73) Edvard Benes (1884-1948, Czechoslovakian President 1935-38, 1939-48) Julian Huxley (1887-1975, British Biologist) Charles Vyner Brooke (1874-1963, Rajah of Sarawak 1917-46) Arthur Tedder (1890-1967, British Air Force Commander of World War II, Marshal of the RAF) John Slessor (1897-1979, British Marshal of the RAF) H. G. Wells (1866-1946, English Writer of Science Fiction novels) Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French Artist) and many other famous individuals of the period. Most are good fountain pen ink examples. Some light age wear, generally VG, 2 albums
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