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Lot 511
Late nineteenth century / early twentieth century diamond single stone ring with old cut diamond measuring approximately 4.5mm diameter in heavy gold claw setting on gold shank - Continental hallmark Ring size approx N½-O Weighs approx 3.2 grams Further images and condition reports available at www.reemandansie.com
Lot 363
A magnificent George III musical bracket clock circa 1820, by the noted maker Santiago James Moore French, of 15 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London, the eight day striking movement with quarter chiming and cylinder playing six musical airs on twelve bells, the backplate signed `French Royal Exchange London` within an oval cartouche, the arched white enamelled Roman dial similarly signed, with painted floral spandrels and arch cartouche, pierced brass hands, beneath paired chime/not chime and musical air subsidiary dials, the airs titled `O Dolce Concento`, `The Tank`, `Roast Beef`, `Russian Dance`, `The Padlock` and `Tekeli`, in an ebonised case with gilt bronze mounts, the caddy top surmounted by a detachable flambé finial with storage compartment beneath, over a pierced floral lattice frieze flanked by four smaller flambé finials, above an arched glazed door with pierced ormolu spandrels and an arched rear pierced grille door, both flanked by canted corners with swagged musical trophy mounts, the sides with floral latticework panels and gilt bronze carrying handles, raised on a plinth with central ormolu battle trophy mount, on four ormolu foliate scroll feet, 35½in. (90cm.) high, 16¼in. (41cm.) wide.
Lot 314
Posters - Three film posters, comprising `The Likely Lads`, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes, printed by W.E. Berry of Bradford; James Herriot`s `It Shouldn`t Happen to a Vet`, starring John Alderton, Colin Blakely, Lisa Harrow, and Bill Maynard, with artwork by Thelwell, printed by Lonsdale & Bartholomew of Nottingham; and `What`s Up Doc?`, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O`Neal, each approximately 76cm x 101cm, (3).
Lot 323
Bust of John Travers Cornwell ïHero of JutlandÍ No.580 by Caledonia China, inscribed ïJohn Travers Cornwell-The Boy Aged 16-Hero Of Jutland Battle-Faithful Unto Death, impressed: ïHMS ChesterÍ on cap band, (Blackness), 108mm high, See Robert Southall, Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (The First World War through the eyes of the Heraldic China Manufacturers) Milestone Publications, 1982, p.22 John ñJackî Travers Cornwell was born as a third child into a working-class family at Clyde Place, Leyton, Essex (now in Greater London). His parents were Eli and Lily Cornwell. The family later moved to Alverstone Road, East Ham. He joined the Boy Scouts but left school at the age of 14. At the outbreak of the First World War, ex-soldier Eli Cornwell volunteered for service and was fighting in France under Lord Kitchener. The older brother Arthur also served in an infantry regiment in Flanders. In October 1915, Jack Cornwell gave up his job as a delivery boy and enlisted in the Royal Navy, without his fatherÍs permission. He had references from his headmaster and employer. He carried out his basic training at HMS Vivid Keyham Naval Barracks at Plymouth and received further training as a Sight Setter or Gun Layer and became Boy Seaman First Class. On the Easter Monday of 1916, Cornwell left for Rosyth, Scotland to join his assignment in the navy. He was assigned to HMS Chester. Battle of Jutland - HMS Chester On 31 May 1916, the Chester was scouting ahead of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland when the ship turned to investigate gunfire in the distance. At 17:30 hours, the Chester soon came under intense fire from four Kaiserliche Marine cruisers, each her own size, which had suddenly emerged out of the haze and increasing funnel smoke of the battlefield. The shielded 5.5-inch gun mounting where Cornwell was serving as a sight-setter was affected by at least four nearby hits. The ChesterÍs gun mountings were open backed shields and did not reach the deck. Splinters were thus able to pass under them or enter the open back when shells exploded nearby or behind. All of the gunÍs crew were killed except Cornwell who, although severely wounded, managed to stand back up, and despite the entire gun crew around him dead or wounded, he remained standing at his post for more than 15 minutes until the Chester retired from the action with only one main gun still working. The Chester had received a total of 18 hits, but partial hull armour meant the interior of the ship suffered little serious damage and the ship was never in peril. The situation on deck, however, was dire. Many of the gun crews had lost lower limbs due to splinters passing under the gun shields. British ships report passing the Chester to cheers from limbless wounded gun crew laid out on her deck and smoking cigarettes, only to hear that the same crewmen had died a few hours later from blood loss and shock. After the action, ship medics arrived on deck to find Cornwell the sole survivor at his gun, shards of steel penetrating his chest, looking at the gun sights and still waiting for orders. Being incapable of further action, the Chester was ordered to the port of Immingham. There Cornwell was transferred to Grimsby General Hospital, although he was clearly dying. He died on the morning of 2 June 1916 before his mother could arrive at the hospital. Three months later, Captain Robert Lawson of the Chester described the events to the British Admiralty. Though at first reluctant, the Admiralty eventually decided to recommend Cornwell for a posthumous Victoria Cross and King George V endorsed it. The recommendation for citation from Admiral David Beatty, reads: ñThe instance of devotion to duty by Boy (1st Class) John Travers Cornwell who was mortally wounded early in the action, but nevertheless remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders till the end of the action, with the gunÍs crew dead and wounded around him. He was under 16 years old. I regret that he has since died, but I recommend his case for special recognition in justice to his memory and as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him.î Jack Cornwell was initially buried in a common grave (Square 126 Grave 323) in Manor Park Cemetery, London, but his body was exhumed on 29 July 1916 and he was reburied with full military honours also in Manor Park Cemetery Square 55 Grave 13. Jack CornwellÍs father Eli, who died on 25 October 1916 was buried in the same grave on 31 October 1916 having died from bronchitis during home service with the Royal Defence Corps. The epitaph to Jack Cornwell on his grave monument reads, ñIt is not wealth or ancestry but honourable conduct and a noble disposition that maketh men great.î On 16 November 1916, CornwellÍs mother received the Victoria Cross from King George V at Buckingham Palace. Court painter Frank O. Salisbury made a portrait of Cornwell, using his brother Ernest as a model, depicting him standing in his post. The Boy Cornwell Memorial Fund was also established. After that, the rest of the family was effectively forgotten. After Eli CornwellÍs death on 25 October 1916, his stepbrother Arthur Frederick Cornwell was killed in action in France on 29 August 1918. Impoverished Alice Cornwell died at Stepney on 31 October 1919 at 745 Commercial Road in rooms she was forced to take when her sonÍs memorial fund refused financial aid at the age of 48. The two of her children remaining at home were granted £60 a year in a pension from the fund after AliceÍs death, but this proved insufficient and they both emigrated to Canada in the early 1920s. Jack CornwellÍs elder half-sister, also named Alice, loaned JackÍs Victoria Cross to the Imperial War Museum on 27 November 1968. SalisburyÍs portrait of Cornwell hangs in the Anglican church within the Royal NavyÍs Initial Training Establishment HMS Raleigh, perhaps selected as an appropriate place also because the shipÍs Chaplain, The Rev. Cyril Ambrose Walton, was also killed during the action. A Rare Bust of Sailor by Savoy China, inscribed ïHMS LionÍ, on round glazed base, (Macclesfield), 135mm high, (2)
Lot 478
GEORGE DENHOLM ARMOUR "A frugal mind-Doctor "Will........ ma time o` life", a study of a gentleman in a motor car beside a horsedrawn carriage with a couple seated inside, pen, ink and pencil, signed lower right, and 19th CENTURY GRAND TOUR "A Classical scene of two figures with a winged figure close by", watercolour, heightened with white, contained within a contemporary giltwood and gesso frame
![CLARK (THOMAS), HUNTSMAN TO THE OLD BERKSHIRE HUNT [UNPUBLISHED MS] DIARY OF SPORT WITH THE O[LD] B[ERKSHIRE] H[UNT] 1856-57](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10086/2828029/423-20119215527_468x382.jpg)
Lot 19
AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE PLATE, LONDON paintged in blue, red, green, manganese and yellow with a Chinese fenced garden with ferns and a prominent tree, the border with swags, in feathered rim, 23cm diam, c1790 Comparative Literature: Britton (F), English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, 1982, plate 12.65. ++Three spots of rim flaking at 10 o`clock, no cracks or chips and a pleasing example
Lot 38
A WEDGWOOD SOLID BLUE JASPER WARE THREE PIECE BULB VASE ornamented in white jasper with the Dancing Hours, attributed to John Flaxman, Junior, 16cm h, impressed mark and O, c1800 and two other Wedgwood solid blue and white jasper ware vases and covers, April 1888 and c (7) ++All damaged and repaired/restored
Lot 750
PHYLLIS BENTLEY, O Dreams, O Destinations, An Autobiography, 1st 1962, Gollancz, nr Fine in VG Dustjacket. Signed neatly in ink on title page by the author. WITH John Braine, Room at the Top, 1957 repr, G in G DJ, inscribed `With best wishes from John Braine` on endpaper AND The Vodi, 1st 1959, G in G DJ, inscribed on endpaper `To George and Hilda Royston Best wishes - John Braine`. Two photos accompany the books showing Braine c 1960 in a pub with friends, one inscribed on the rear `with Hilda and George`. AND Life at the Top, 1st VG in VG DJ signed on the title page (4)
Lot 729
After Martin Sharp, Australian b.1942 and King Kong- `Sex`, BO2, publ by Big O Posters Ltd London, poster screen printed in red and blue on silver, 75x50.7cm: together with twenty-nine other examples of the same poster: After David Vaughan 1944-2003- `Buddha`, BOP5, publ by Big O Posters Ltd London, poster, screen printed on silver, 75x50.7cm: together with four other examples of the same poster, (35), (unframed). Note: see David Vaughan, obituary, The Telegraph, 13th December 2003
Lot 80
A fine Second World War Bomber Command operations D.F.C. group of six awarded to 170130 Flight Officer Stanley Fisher, Royal Air Force, a Flight Officer who flew with 15 Squadron and was involved in the Nuremberg Raids, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated `1944` and privately engraved `170130 F/O Fisher.S.`; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence Medal and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Elizabeth II, mounted as worn together with his uniform `Wings`. * In 1940, together with two other officers, he was awarded the King`s Commendation for rescuing a man trapped in a bombed house. The three policeman had spent eight hours digging to free the man.
Lot 117
Pair of Chinese porcelain wall plates, 20th century, painted in famille rose enamels with ladies at leisure in a garden, (rim chip to one charger) diameter 32.5cm. Condition report: The charger on the right hand side of the image has a rim chip at 11 o`clock which measures 1cm x 5mm. There are very fine minor glaze scratches.
Lot 190
Brown Westfield and Moore plaque signed S. Ellis painted with a beagle within a forest landscape, impressed marks to base, late 19th century (retouched enamel flaking) 48cm diameter Condition report: Patches of glaze flaking to the rim between 12 and 3 o`clock painted over in bright green enamel. Overall heavy crazing and some peppering.
Lot 206
Two Brameld plates and meat dish circa 1820 printed with `Returning Woodman or Peasant` pattern in blue transfer, impressed marks to bases, (some chipping) the meat plate measures 32cm wide. Condition report: Meat plate: 1.5cm rim chip, crazing, minor glaze wear to rim. Medium plate: minor worn chip where a metal plate holder has been, restored rim chip at 7 o`clock. Small plate: firing crack to centre, minor glaze wear to edges.
Lot 219
Pair of pearlware plates circa 1780 painted with an oriental figure stood outside a pagoda within feather and leaf moulded borders (rim chips, hairline to one plate) (2) 25cm diameter Condition report: One plate has a 5cm hairline crack at 8 o`clock, there is a 7mm rim chip and several tiny rim nicks. The second plate has three rim chips 1cm wide (max.) and several rim nicks. Both plates have feint stained crazing.
Lot 221
Derby lozenge shape footed dish and a plate painted by Billingsley circa 1786 painted in the Sevres style with a landscape within a blue gilt and white dotted border, numeral 7 and puce painted marks to base, (rim of dish broken and stapled, two large enamel flakes to plate) (2) 33cm wide Condition report: Large section of the rim broken and stapled back together. The staple holes are not drilled through the face of the dish. There are small chips around the fault lines. The plate has two large sections of the enamel missing from the rim at 4 and 6 o`clock. There is very minor gilt wear to both pieces.
Lot 288
Wedgwood terracotta plate moulded after designs by Theodore Deck with a heron at the water`s edge, impressed marks and 1874 date code, also a bamboo moulded teapot (crack) and a majolica plate painted with an exotic bird, (pierced rim damaged) (4) 23cm diameter Condition report Terracotta plate: No damage or restoration Teapot: several small rim chips to cover, large stained body crack from rim to base, chip to footrim. Majolica plate: section of rim between 11 o`clock and 6 o`clock broken and restuck.
Lot 313
Wedgwood footed lobed dish signed E. Lessore painted with `Darwin`s theory` in which cherubs discuss an illustration on a scroll, impressed marks and 1867 date code to base, (section of the rim broken and restuck) 31cm diameter Condition report: section of the rim between 6 o`clock and 9 o`clock broken into four and restuck,
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