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Lot 56
MIXED VOLUME. SEVERAL ITEMS BOUND TOGETHER-HISTORY OF NORWICH-NO TITLE PAGE AND FINAL PAGES MISSING. 5 EARLY ISSUES OF THE TABLE BOOK INCL. REF. TO ROBERT AND GEORGE BLOOMFIELD. PHILANTHROPOS-THE CHARACTER OF THE JEW BOOKS. LONDON 1821 8 PAGES. 2 ISSUES OF THE FAMILY JOURNAL 1848 INCLUDING THE YELLOW DOMINO BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT. THE SPEECH OF ALDERMAN CRISP BROWN ETC. ETC. TOGETHER WITH MR. CUBITT`S REPORT CONCERNING THE YARE NAVIGATION NORWICH (1818). THE SECOND REPORT OF MR. WILLIAM CUBITT TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED FOR TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE BEAST MEANS OF MAKING NORWICH A PORT BY JOINING THE RIVER YARE AND WAVENEY AND OPENING A HARBOUR AT LOWESTOFT. NORWICH 1821. ISSUE 65 OF THE NEW WONDERFUL MAGAZINE-THE BERMONDSEY TRAGEDY . THE MURDER AND ROBBERY OF PATRICK O`CONNOR, THE GAUGER. LAMARTINE, A DE-RAPHAEL OR THE PAGE OF LIFE AT TWENTY. LONDON 1849
Lot 143
1981 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 16mm Original Celluloid Film (58mins) A production of Trans World International, brought to you with the compliments of Black and White Scotch Whiskey from the famous house of Buchanan. Commentator - Dan Maskell, Introduction and Observations - James Hunt, supplied with a DVD copy. Note: This film is produced in a very compelling documentary style frequently employing unusual but beguiling camera angles. A very sympathetic sound track weaves in and out of the storyline especially where used in conjunction with clever close-up, slow motion sequences. The film begins with Fred Perry & Argentinean Enrique Morea (official of ITF) in discussion (seated on terrace overlooking the courts) at Wimbledon Championships 1981. There are short all0action clips of Borg (going for his 6th title), McEnroe, Mandlikova, Austin, Navratilova, Evert-Lloyd, scenes of the Old Court No.1, Connors, Amritraj, McEnroe, Gerulaitis, Shriver & Sue Barker, The late James Hunt sits among the crowded tea gardens drinking champagne, and remarks: "...for only the second time in the history of Wimbledon we have no seeded British Player". He then takes an informed look at the first week`s events. Virginia Wade (20th consecutive appearances) is defeated by Ann Hobbs in the 2nd Round. - John Lloyd loss to Louis Clerc, - Hunt: "British Tennis has a lot to think about" - Kathy Rinialdi (14 years and 91 days) becomes the youngest ever player at Senior Wimbledon. -And a woman umpires on the Centre Court for the first time. McEnroe has an argument with the umpire whilst playing Tom Gullikson. His comment to Referee Fred Howles (Umpire) becomes a part of Wimbledon history: "This guys an incompetent fool!" "He`s the pits of the world!" James Hunt interjects with informed observational comments throughout. "Only four Men`s Seeds have made it through the first week" - "On evidence of the quarter-finals, Tennis on this surface is glorious to behold". We then see Chris Lloyd, Mandlikova, Navratilova and 18-year-old Tracy Austin playing Pam Shiver with coach Don Candy watching attentively. More action follows including - Borg v Connors, McEnroe v Frawley, Lloyd v Shriver, Mandlikova v Navratilova. Before we see the 2 finals we are taken back to Perry and Morea who have discussion about the semi-finals and the big names who have gone out - Lendl, Vilas, Jaegar, etc. Friday 2nd July is Ladies` day - Princess Diana is shown (3 ? weeks before the royal wedding) in the Royal Box are The Duchess of Kent, Mrs. Thatcher (PM) and Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Hunt remarks: "...and in the crowd unless my eyes deceive me a squad o young ladies from the St. Trinians". There follows extensive coverage of the two finals, with |Hunt offering constructive commentary here and there. A prelude to the men`s final shows both of the finalists walking inside the men`s changing rooms, McEnroe with Flemming, and then Borg shakes hands with James Hunt. An excellent time capsule never seen on TV!
Lot 290
Scarce 1919 Australian Imperial Forces Cricket Team XI signed album page: signed in ink by the entire squad of 15 players, to incl. H.L. Collins, J.M. Gregory, Oldfield, Pellew, J. Taylor (test cricketers), together with another album page with handwritten verse signed by O`Connor plus a newspaper cartoon of the Australian cricket team in Scotland. (3).
Lot 304
1935 Cricket and variety autographed album: many pages are signed back to back but notable cricket signatures incl. England players: Wyatt, Hammond, Macaulay, Sutcliffe; Surrey County Cricket Team; Middlesex County Cricket Team, to incl. G. O. Allen; Surrey, Essex, Gloucestershire, Leicester, Somerset, Kent, variety incl. a fine Gracey Fields and Eric Worswick. (90).
Lot 354
4x Famous English and Australian Test Cricketers resin portraits in relief: each laid down on black velvet background c/w name plate to incl. Herbert Sutcliffe (b. 1884 - 1978), Walter Hammond (b. 1903 - 1965), Wm O` Reilly O.B.E. (b. 1905 - 1992) and Sir Donald Bradman (b. 1908 - 2001) - the greatest of all Australian batsman - overall 10 x 8".
Lot 453
1931 Australian Rugby Union team individual players portrait photographs: for the tour to New Zealand comprising 23 x Official Wallaby Studio Portraits of each player wearing his Australian kit by The Crown Studios, Wellington c/w embossed studio logo to the bottom right of each photograph and also stamped onto the back along with the copyright. Each one has the name of the player in pencil on the back to incl. the Captain - S J Malcolm, plus team members P B Judd, E W Love, L Palfreyman, F Wyatt, M C White, B Palmer, J Perrin, H Primrose, F Reville, J Ritter, Dr A W Ross, J Steggall, H Tolhurst, C H Towers, W G Bennett, E Bonis, O Bridle, J Clark, P Clark, D L Cowper, W H Heminway and N Herd. Each photograph measures approximately 6" x 8" (23) Scarce collection of significant importance with regards to the inaugural match for The Bedisloe Cup. Note: The first The Bedisloe Cup which is still competed for annually commenced in 1931/32 depending whether you`re an Australian or New Zealander.
Lot 79
* ST PARASKEVA IN A SILVER OKLAD OIL ON PANEL, MAKER`S MARK G.M IN CYRILLIC, ST PETERSBURG, 1860 27 by 22.5 cm. Related literature: For similar icons, see Y. Piatnitsky, O. Baddeley, and E. Brunner, eds., Sinai, Byzantium, Russia: Orthodox Art from the Sixth to the Twentieth Century, London, 2000, cat. no. R-216, p. 426.
Lot 237
SEREBRIAKOVA, ZINAIDA 1884-1967 Bathing Nude signed and dated 1927 Pastel and pencil on paper, 47 by 62 cm. Provenance: Private collection, UK. Authenticity has been confirmed by Catherine Boncenne, niece of the artist. Related literature: For similar works, see V. Kruglov, Zinaida Serebriakova, Zolotoi Vek, St Petersburg, 2004. Serebriakova’s lovely pastel Bathing Nude, which she executed in 1927, is one of the earliest in a series of portraits of a young, dreamy model who became the artist’s favourite “life model” between the end of the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s. In Serebriakova’s best works of this period, we time and again encounter this same, invariably pensive girl from a Parisian Russian family. She poses lying serenely on sheets with a red scarf (Nude with a Scarf, 1932); blowing out a candle before going to sleep (Nude with a Candle, 1934); sleeping (Nude, 1927); washing herself in a bath-house, long tresses of hair over her shoulder (The Bathhouse, 1926); and rubbing herself dry and relaxing (Reclining Nude in a Light Cherry Cloak, 1934).The nuances of the way the model is portrayed vary in each case, and some of the works are less finished than others. These variations are determined by the goals Serebriakova set herself in each occasion. For example, the work presented for the auction, similar to Torso for which the same model sat and which is now in the State Russian museum, is one of the more lively and gentle studies. It is executed in pastel, which brilliantly conveys the nuances of air and colour and is so well-suited to the purpose that even the seemingly misplaced strokes of chalk all but enhance the impression of the vibrancy of life. As an artist specialising in life drawing and painting, Serebriakova occupies a special place in the history of the art of her native land. She had no systematic training, but she did possess a natural taste in relation to how to portray a human body. The young artist had her first lessons in the laws of human anatomy during a brief period of study in the school of M.K. Tenisheva and in the studio of O. Braz in St Petersburg. Her education was continued in Paris (1905 to 1906), where she made a detailed study of the Louvre collection and made sketches from works by Brueghel, Watteau, and Fragonard that had made an impression upon her. Serebriakova produced her first “female bathers” in early 1920s, thus laying a foundation to a whole series of works that would bring her international recognition. Following a move to Paris in 1924, Serebriakova revisited her avourite topic and spent quite some time doing life drawing and painting. Thus, she created another version of her renowned work The Bathhouse, featuring the same model that sat for the pastel presented for the auction. However, the artist’s principal achievements between the late 1920s and the 1930s were her studies and her life sketches in pastel and oil, in which Serebriakova refrained from attempting, similar to Kabanel, to transform her life models into abstract “bathers” or heroines of ancient mythology. She filled her albums with entire series of “nudes” lying, sitting, and standing in various poses, drawn with astonishing ease and with a fine understanding of the female body. Serebriakova herself explained her passion for drawing and painting the naked body in a letter which she wrote from Paris to A. Savinov: “I have always had a passion for the theme of the nude, and the subject of The Bathhouse was merely a pretext for this purpose, and you are right that this is ‘simply because a young and clean human body is a nice thing’. At the beginning of my time here, that is from 1922 to 1934, I had a number of acquaintances – nice young Russian girls – who would agree to sit for me. Then they would go off and get married, and after that they would no longer have any time to act as models. I did not have the money to draw and paint professional life models, and I began to content myself with drawing and painting still life instead, and also managed to find some joy of painting in this ‘quiet life’ also …”
Lot 247
Defence Medal (7) six unnamed, one impressed (2278 B. Crumpsty, A.B., R.N.) this with contact marks and slight edge bruising; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, very fine and better (9) £40-60 Defence Medal, unnamed, with Ministry of Food Ration Book bearing the name and address, S. Abrahams, Flat 233C Clayhall Ave., Ilford, Essex, together with two Clothing Coupon booklets. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Mrs Florence A. Bell, 39 Temple Road, Croydon, Surrey, together with a named identity card of the Salop County Council Public Assistance Committee. Defence Medal, unnamed, and A.R.P. Badge with Borough of Camberwell Civil Defence Services Certificate of Appreciation named to Mr W. J. Bilby. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Miss M. A. Chantler, 48 St. Dunstans Street, Canterbury, Kent, with forwarding slip. Defence Medal, unnamed, attributed to Herbert Harry George Pawley, a Private in the Home Guard serving, 23 October 1942-31 December 1944. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Mr W. H. Riches, 26 Lingfield Crescent, Eltham, London S.E.9, with forwarding slip. War Medal, unnamed, in card box stamped Deceased and with the label Staff Sjt. G. A. Paish, E.A.A.S.C., together with a registered envelope addressed to Mr Paish G. A., c/o Mrs A. Paish, Gloster Villa, Cirencester, Glos, U.K. and an associated slip. Staff Serjeant George Alfred Paish, a Mechanic with the East African Army Service Corps, died on 2 August 1940, aged 39 years. He was buried in the Ndola (Kansenshi) Cemetery, Zambia and was the son of Alfred and Emma Paish of Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Lot 594
A Second World War Middle East operations M.B.E. group of five awarded to Group Captain O. E. Bartlett, Royal Air Force, a long served Explosives Officer (X) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed, generally good very fine (5) £250-300 M.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942. The recommendation states: This officer has been responsible for the organisation of the forward supply of fuel, ammunition and explosives to the Squadrons. By his pertinacity and resourcefulness he has overcome many unforeseen problems. There have been many instances when he has navigated not only the first R.A.F. convoys but also Army convoys. On one occasion he was successful in overcoming Army opposition to a certain journey which he carried out and ensured sufficient petrol for immediate operations. An example of his coolness is found when he took a Royal Air Force convoy through from Maddalena to the Army Co-Operation Squadron attached to XIII Corps, whilst the Army was carrying out a local withdrawal. This action saved the bulk of the aircraft from being lost and ensured reconnaissance for the Army. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1943 and 8 June 1944. Owen Edward Bartlett, who was born in Forest Hill, London in January 1917, was granted a short service commission as a Pilot Officer in the R.A.Fs Equipment Branch in September 1939, his earlier ambition of qualifying for his ôWingsö having been dashed at the Civil Flying School at Reading, where his examiner noted that his general flying was very dangerous. Possibly encouraged by this ôdangerousö assessment, he decided to pursue a career as an Explosives Officer, in which field he qualified in early 1940, and in March of the following year he was embarked for the Middle East. In his capacity as an explosives expert, Bartlett subsequently served in this theatre of war until January 1944, when he was evacuated home on the sick list, a period that witnessed him serving as an Acting Squadron Leader in command of assorted Maintainance Units (M.U.), in addition to periods of attachment to R.A.F. Headquarters in Malta, and in the Levant, Palestine, in 1943. And while ôMalta G.C.ö must have offered plenty of scope for an officer of his trade, it was in fact for his earlier work in command of No. 121 M.U. in North Africa that he was awarded his M.B.E. and two ômentionsö. He ended the War as an Explosives Officer at Greenham Common. Granted a permanent commission as a Flight Lieutenant in September 1945, Bartletts post-war career encompassed many commands, including nuclear bomb storage sites at R.A.F. Barnham and Faldingworth, and having been advanced to Group Captain in January 1967, he was placed on the Retired List in February 1972. He died in July 1979. Sold with the recipients original M.B.E. warrant and M.I.D. certificates (2), these in original envelopes; together with what would appear to be a wartime photograph of him taken in North Africa.
Lot 642
A Great War Western Front M.M. / M.S.M. pair awarded to Serjeant Alfred O. Edwards, 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (the Stockbrokers Battalion), awarded the M.M. for a V.C. action on 8/9 March 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (Stk.-389 Sjt., 10/R. Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Stk-389 Sjt., 10/R. Fus.) good very fine (2) £340-380 M.M. London Gazette 25 April 1918. M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war. On 12 August 1914 the Lord Mayor of London raised the first of many Pals Battalions from the businessmen of the City of London. It was the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, known colloquially as the Stockbrokers Battalion. One of those who joined at that time, reporting for duty at the Throgmorton Street Recruiting Centre was Mr Alfred O. Edwards who came from Balham. Alfred Edwards was accepted and given the early 10th Battalion number ðSTK/389. On 22 July 1915 after an inspection by King George, the Battalion landed at Boulogne and concentrated near Tilques; Private Edwards landed on 30 July 1915. The 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers became part of 111 Brigade, 37th Division. The battalion remained in France and Flanders for the whole of the war. From 9 July to 17 November 1916 they took part in the Battle of the Somme, fighting at Poizieres, High Wood and Mametz Wood. In 1917 they fought in the Third Battle of the Somme, at the Menin Road, Polygon Wood and Passchendaele. On the night of the 8/9th March 1918 the Battalion was heavily involved in the intense fighting following the launch of the last major German assault. In this battle Lance-Corporal Charles G. Robertson earned an immediate Victoria Cross ôFor most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in repelling a strong attack by the enemy - although severely wounded he mounted his gun on the parapet of a shell hole and although alone, put up the most determined resistance and undoubtedly prevented the enemy from making a more rapid advanceö. Twelve days later on 21 March, the Corps Commander Lieutenant-General Sir A. J. Godley inspected the Battalion and presented Sergeant A. O. Edwards with the Medal Ribbon of the Military Medal and congratulated the battalion on its fine work on the night of the 8th/9th March. He went on to say that he was proud to have such a battalion under his command and that he felt that wherever the battalion was, the line would be safe. In 1923 Quarter Master Sergeant Alfred O. Edwards retired from the Army. He was one of 219 soldiers awarded both the M.M. and M.S.M. for the Great War. With copied m.i.c. and roll and war diary extracts.
Lot 1223
A gentleman`s hunting cased Loehr patent perpetual pocket watch, with a weight driven automatic movement, the inner case detailed Perpetuale Patent No 1600, the enameled dial with black Roman hour numerals and with a subsidiary dial at 9 o`clock, otherwise detailed Loehr Patent, the case with engine turned decoration.
Lot 1363
BOX 113. LIQUERS, O`Mara`s with a Hint of Caramel,Bloom Mountain Organic Irish Cream Liqueur,Carolans Irish Cream,Feeney`s Luxurious Irish Cream Liqueur,O`Mara`s with a Hint of Caramel,County Cream Liqueur,O`Mara`s with a Hint of Mint Chocolate, Brogan`s Irish Cream Liqueur,County Cream Liqueur,Bloom Mountain Organic Irish Cream Liqueur,O`Mara`s with a Hint of Mint Chocolate, O`Casey`s Irish Cream Liqueur
Lot 54
Leonard Robert Brightwell - `The Birds About Town - In The Zoo (Sparrow to Cuckoo) "Go on! - Show a bit of spirit, lay an egg in his nest!"` and `Percy. "Good Gracious William - what`s happened?" Bill. "Say kid I just don`t know, but I been feeling this way ever since I tried a bit o` this stuff them American visitors is always leaving about"`, two watercolours with ink, both signed, one dated `23, approx 40cm x 29cm and 37.5cm x 28cm respectively, both within titled mounts and ebonized frames.
Lot 1047
A Japanese Satsuma circular bowl, Meiji period, the interior enamelled and gilt with a gathering of figures within a Ho-o bird and floral border, beneath a simulated brocade band and key fret rim, the exterior with butterflies, gilt signature to base, diameter approx 12.4cm (hairline crack to rim).
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