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Lot 713
A cased set of six Art Deco hallmarked silver and enamel coffee spoons, makers mark `JF` Birmingham 1957 together with a cased set of six Art Deco hallmarked silver and enamel teaspoons, makers mark `JF` Birmingham 1957 also a cased set of six Art Deco hallmarked silver and enamel cocktail sticks, makers mark J O LTD, Birmingham 1957 and a cased set of six silver handled fruit knives, Sheffield 1967 and a silver teaspoon, Birmingham 1922
Lot 124
RICHARD O`CONNELL. Signed and dated 1995 in pencil, monoprint on paper, abstract composition "Concert at St David`s Hall Cardiff", see verso, together with two albums of pencil drawings and wash on paper, mainly modernist female nude studies, some signed and dated 11 3/4" x 8 1/4" (smallest) 23 1/2" x 16 1/2" (largest).
Lot 386
Robert O. Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), Portrait of Albert Fisher, The Bishop, signed pencil drawing, 24 x 16.5cm. Framed together with Mr Fisher`s Plymouth Magistrates` Court £5 fine, dated 22.12.72, for the offence of `drunk`. Albert Edward Ernest Fisher was one of the close group of Plymouth vagrants who became a subject for Lenkiewicz. This drawing was bought by the present owner in 1972, together with the fine which had been paid by Lenkiewicz.
Lot 443
Robert O Lenkiewicz, (1941-2002), Megan and Isaac, oil on canvas 176 x 212cm. Catalogue note from Megan Clay: "This painting was started at the end of my confinement with Robert`s son Isaac Eden Clay Lenkiewicz. I was in labour whilst sitting for the painting and three days after Isaac was born Robert added him to the picture. Isaac, who is now 21, is the youngest son of Robert and an artist in his own right."
Lot 1
Military Cross Medal Group awarded to Major/Flight Lieutenant Bernard Green who took part in `The Great Escape` from Stalag Luft 3 in March 1944. To be sold on the instructions of his daughter Miss J Green and comprising: George V Military Cross, 1914-15 Star (inscribed), 1914-20 War Medal (inscribed) and 1919 Victory Medal with MID leaf spray, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, 1939-45 War Medal with MID leaf spray and Special Constabulary Medal for long service. A full set of miniatures, a full set of ribbons and a set of ribbons minus 1935-45 War Medal. Together with World War I associated ephemera and postcard photographs relating to Major Bernard Green, and the East Kent Yeomanry, Royal East Kent mounted Rifles and Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Light Infantry, including a Roll Book belonging to Major Green for No 1 Platoon, `A` Company. World War II ephemera collected by Flt Lt Bernard Green, including items of particular interest relating to `The Great Escape` of which there are photographs of POWs and a collection of `Sweetheart` letters from Stalag Luft 1 (7), Stalag Luft 2 (2) and Stalag Luft 3 (27). A programme and two ticket stubs for the film premiere of `The Great Escape` from the World Charity Premiere screening on 20th June 1963, which Bernard Green attended. Various books relating to `The Great Escape`, including `Scangriff` - Spotlight on Stalag Luft III (2), Brickhill [Flt Lt Paul] - The Great Escape, and Brickhill & Norton - Escape to Danger with inscription by Bernard Green, etc. Also Bernard Green`s RAF officers cap and dress tunic with medal ribbons and `AG` cloth badge and a further collection of related letters, certificates, service books, invitations, services association information, passport, and a collection of vintage postcards. Together with this lot two copies of The Illustrated London News, various books, and a collection of vintage maps and guides, formerly the property of Bernard Green. BERNARD `POP` GREENOn 23rd/24th March 1944, 76 Airmen escaped from POW camp Stalag Luft 3 at Sagan in Poland. Their escape through the tunnel `Harry` and the story of the days that followed became known as `The Great Escape` and has now become part of British folklore.Bernard Green was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire on 23rd December 1887.He was educated at Clifton College, London University and Cambridge University.At the outbreak of war in 1914 Bernard joined the Royal East Kent Rifles as a private.He was subsequently commissioned into the Buckinghamshire Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire light Infantry as a Second Lieutenant in June 1914.In 1917 he was mentioned in despatches, and in 1918 was awarded the Military Cross. He became a specialist machine-gunner, and when he resigned his commission in 1920 he was granted the rank of Major, although modestly it was a title that he very rarely used. Between the war years he worked for the family paper making firm, and in 1926 became a Special Constable, eventually achieving a long service medal.In 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War Bernard Green applied for a commission as an officer air gunner with the RAF Volunteer Reserve. In December 1939 he took up active service as Pilot Officer 76904, at the RAF Number 3 Bomb Gunnery School.It`s not clear why, in July 1940, at the age of 53 Bernard took up a place as rear gunner on a Hampden bomber. The plane was flying out of R A F Waddington with 44th Squadron on a mine laying mission. It may have been due to shortage of men or his strong sense of duty and loyalty to his squadron. In the early hours of 20th July the Hampden was hit by flak off the coast of Denmark and ditched into the sea in Tannis Bay, 300-400 metres off shore at Kandestederne. Two of the crew perished, but P/O Green and P/S Farrands survived and swam ashore. Later that morning Bernard Green came into contact with a party of local peat cutters and refused the opportunity of concealment from the enemy, as he knew what the consequences would be for his rescuers if found. A unit of German soldiers had been alerted and soon arrived to collect him.Bernard Green was sent to Dulag Luft in Oberursel where he was interrogated and then sent on to Stalag Luft 1 at Barth. Subsequently he was moved to Stalag Luft 3 at Sagan, in Poland.It seems that Bernard Green took a very active part in the daily operations of escape work at Stalag Luft 3. He was a popular character and would have been a father figure to the majority of the much younger men, hence his nickname `Pop`. He was certainly known to have acted as a `penguin` in distributing the waste soil over the compound as tunnel `Harry` took shape. The events of the Great Escape have been well documented and are known to many through John Sturges` classic film. One fact that many are not aware of is that there was thick snow on the ground in that part of Poland in March 1944. Green and others did make their escape after overcoming the shortfall of the tunnel and gathered with a group of about twelve others all dressed as Czech workmen. They walked for some distance through the woods in thick snow and eventually made their way to a railway station south of Sagan. It was from there that they travelled about fifty miles and alighted from the train just short of Hirschberg.Continuing on foot and approaching a village that was impassable because of heavy snow in the fields, Bernard Green was captured by a German soldier as walked straight through the village.Flight Lieutenant Green as he was now known following promotion, was eventually taken back to Stalag Luft 3 and spent 14 days in the "cooler". Sadly, as is well known, many of the escapees were not so lucky. Bernard Green spent the rest of the war at Sagan. At 57 years old he was surely the oldest of the men who attempted such a brave escape.In 1947 Flight Lt Green was mentioned in despatches as published in The London Gazette on 7th January. In June 1963 Bernard and his wife attended the World charity film premiere of `The Great Escape` at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square.He died following ill health on 2nd November 1971. The account of the personal military history to be available on view with the items, and facsimile copies of the documents only to handled on view, unless by special arrangement
Lot 48
LUCAS, SUZANNE. A large quantity of ephemera largely associated with her extensive travels in the 1930`s and 1940`s, comprising, briefly: photographs and postcards of Ismailia; photographs of the Suez Canal; an album of photographs of India; postcards of Hitler and Mussolini; a group of 15 postcards of the Winter Olympics 1936, with tickets and a lapel silk flag; tickets, certificates, advertising & hotel billheads, menus, invitations to dances largely military at Ismailia, "1st Brigade Motorisee du Congo" etc. A signed photograph of the dancer Harald Kreutzberg, various ballet programmes, Ballets Russes Monte Carlo etc. with covers designed by Picasso, Cocteau etc. Also a quantity of paper currency, various autograph books, one inscribed "Suzanne Craven Lucas, c/o Suez Canal Company, Ismailia" Also approximately 200 colourful hotel luggage labels for hotels in Luxor, Grenada etc. With an original pastel drawing by E. Marcel-Laurent presented to Admiral & Madame Lucas in 1941. Together with her passports for this period and much else
Lot 69
OMNIBUS EDITIONS published by Hodder & Stoughton; all in very good d.w`s; ORCZY, BARONESS. The Gallant Pimpernel, 1939; Scarlet Pimpernell, 1939; BUCHAN, JOHN. A Five-Fold Salute, 1939; Adventures of Dickson McCunn, 1940; Four Adventures of Richard Hannay, 1940; HENRY,O. Best of O. Henry, 1940 & more O.Henry, 1938 (7)
Lot 80
LOUDON, J.C. Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 1828; FARRER, R. The English Rock Garden, 2 vols 1938 & 11 others, gardening. With GOLDSMITH, O. Animated Nature. Hand-coloured plates, 2 vols, 1848; SOWERBY, J.E. Ferns of Great Britain, 1855; WOODWARD, M. Gerard`s Herbal, 1927 and 9 other volumes on plants, fungi etc (27)
Lot 10
A single stone opal ring, mounted in white gold, the large oval stone with good variation of colour, the opal 0.9375" x 0.6875", finger size O, in fitted case With a receipt, in the name of Mrs Craven (the mother of Suzanne Lucas), dated 9th September 1943, showing the "18ct Gold Single Stone Fire Opal Ring" was purchased from Leighton, 7-11, Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, W1, for the sum of £15/0/0.
Lot 26
H. M. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 100th birthday, commemorative 18ct gold cup, No.1 of a limited edition of 25, height 4.25", diameter 3.25", weight 8.5oz With a letter addressed to Mrs Lucas, dated 5th January 2001, from Richard O. A. Jarvis, confirming her purchase of "The Queen Elizabeth Centenary Cup". The issue price was £4,950.00
Lot 30A
WWI MILITARY MEDAL GROUP with bronze death plaque, scroll and effects of `2068 Pte Walter Oliver Key, Queen`s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry`, comprising MM `2068 Pte W O Key I/I R.Glas:Yeo:`, 1914-15 Star trio `2068 Pte W O Key, Q O R.Glasgow Y`, his Glasgow Yeomanry ID tag (B-Squadron), HLI glengarry badge and dog tags, portrait uniform and other photographs, newspaper clipping (Shettleston MM), condolence letter (April 1918), Christmas 1914 tin, a variety of period embroidered postcards, and an enlarged period copy of congratulations (for bravery) letter of `22531 Pte G Key 2nd Bn H L I 10th Sept 1918`
Lot 47
THE WWII INITIALLED SUITCASE AND PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM of `No. 996475 W/O Robert Burns D F M, R A F`, the interior of the suitcase bearing his service details and the album detailing some images e.g. `242 Squadron Pilots North Africa` and two Focke-Wulfe and ME 109 grounded in Tunisia 1943, loose photographs and ephemera, his cigarette and matchbook cases, tunic buttons, two framed Steam Engine photographs `Fowler Traction Engine sunk in the mud-River Scarpe in background April 1917` and `John Allen & Sons Ltd, Oxford-Steam Ploughing Engine No.67 (built 1913), on show at the Royal Show July 1950`, and two steam engine framed colour prints Note : W/O Robert Burns originally from Kirkcudbright.
Lot 203
A GERMAN FARING "TWELVE MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE", 3¾"X3½"X2½", another "Last in bed to put out the light", 3"x3", "Returning at 1 o`clock in the morning", 3½"x2", "Robbing the mail", with restoration to ladies head, 3"x3½", "The Welsh tea party", head restored, 3½" high, and another "Sleeping Beauty" 2½" high. see illustration
Lot 309
A HORNBY GWR 6699 ENGINE, 062, GREEN LIVERY, HORNBY DUBLO CORRIDOR COACH, BREAK THIRD, FIRST THIRD, FISH VAN D1, OPEN GOODS WAGON, ANOTHER, PARK ROYAL VAN, A HORNBY 00 CURVED RAIL BOXED, ELECTRIC POINTS, BOX WOOD WAITING ROOM, GOODS MERCHANDISE H MODEL FOR GAUGE O INCLUDING EGG BOXES, 00 TRANSFORMER, CONTROLLER, BASSETT`LOWKE 1948 RAILWAY CATALOGUE, MECCANO MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1948 AND OTHER ITEMS, QUANTITY.
Lot 372
GARETH REES: EARLY RAILWAY PRINTS, 1980, 1st edn, obl 4to, orig cl, d/w + O S NOCK, 3 ttls: THE BRITISH STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE 1925-1965, 1983, 4to, orig cl, d/w; GREAT NORTHERN PRE-GROUPING RAILWAY SCENE NO 2, 1979, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w; HISTORIC RAILWAY DISASTERS, 1983, orig cl, d/w + J N MASKELYNE, 2 ttls: LOCOMOTIVES I HAVE KNOWN, 1959, 1st edn, obl, 4to, orig cl, d/w; A FURTHER SELECTION OF LOCOMOTIVES I HAVE KNOWN, 1962, 1st edn, obl, 4to, orig cl + three others Railway interest (9)
Lot 381
FRANK BOOKER: THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, 1985, 2nd edn, orig cl, d/w + O S NOCK, 5 ttls: BRITISH TRAINS PAST AND PRESENT, 1951, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w; SOUTHERN STEAM, 1966, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w (laminated); SIXTY YEARS OF WESTERN EXPRESS RUNNING, 1973 revised edn, orig cl, d/w (laminated); plus two others similar (6)
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