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Click here to subscribeTwo amethyst and pearl rings,: including an amethyst and seed pearl cluster ring, estimated amethyst weight ca. 1.60ct, stamped '9CT', length of ring head ca. 1.5cm, ring size O; and a 9ct gold amethyst and cultured pearl five-stone ring, with hallmarks for London, 1961, length of ring head ca. 2cm, ring size O, total weight ca. 6.1gms.
A 9ct gold opal cluster ring, pair of earrings, pendant and bracelet,: the ring with hallmarks for London, 1971, diameter of ring head 1.7cms, ring size O; the earrings with post fittings and hallmarks for London, 1987, length ca. 1.2cm; the pendant with hallmarks for London, 1989, length ca. 2cm and the flattened curb-link bracelet, with hallmarks for London, 1989, length ca. 19cms, total weight ca. 14.7gms.
Pears Christmas Annuals for 1912-1921 and 1923 folio magazines illustrated with colour plates by A. Wallis Mills, Hope Read, Ernest H. Shepard, H.M. Bateman, Leon Bakst, Mabel Lucie Attwell, John Hassall, Frank Reynolds, H.M. Brock, Charles Robinson, W. Heath Robinson, Steven Spurrier etc, bound in original wrappers (some wear), also included are a number of the separate presentation plates including colour prints by W. Russell Flint "The Bloom of Youth", John Everett Millais "The Boyhood of Raleigh" and "Bubbles"; F.D. Millet "Between Two Fires", William Affleck, Frank O. Salisbury & another after Sheridan Knowles
Early 17th century, gold posy ring, 2.29g, 2 cm diameter; rectangular in cross-section and decorated on the outside with a central panel of a rectangular link chain design ending in a lozenge followed by scroll tendrils and then by banded links and another lozenge with scroll tendrils; on the inside in Roman square capitals is the inscription +save me o god. About very fine with slight wear to the outside £600-£800 --- Provenance: Found at Thundridge (Hertfordshire), before 1997 and therefore not recorded on the PAS
FRANCE, Richard Wagner, 1904, a bronze plaque by O. Yencesse, 55 x 42mm (Niggl 2263; Coll. R. Marx 155; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl. 51, 208; BDM VI, 695; A.u.E. 965; cf. DNW M2, 2650); Enfant aux Roses, 1906, a bronze plaque by O. Yencesse, named (République Française 1925, à Mademoiselle Théodorine Tarzile Boland), 54 x 33mm (Maier 196; Coll. R. Marx 159; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 7; Jones, Art of the Medal, 334a; BDM VI, 695; cf. DNW 187, 782); Conciliation Internationale, 1907, a bronze award medal by O. Yencesse after E. Carrière, for the Groupe Parlementaire Français de l’Arbitrage International, 45mm (Coll. R. Marx 175; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 5; BM Acq. 1983-7, pl.49, 161; BDM VII, 695; cf. DNW M1, 1666) [3]. Very fine £120-£150
FRANCE, Paul-Henri d’Estournelles de Constant, 1907, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, 50mm (cf. PBE 1024; cf. ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 18); Art Décoratif, 1912, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, 50mm (PBE 1011; Coll. R. Marx 158; BDM VI, 698; BM Acq. 1983-7, pl. 49, 162); Amédée Godard, 1912, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, 50mm (cf. PBE 1027; Coll. R. Marx 166) [3]. Second very fine, others nearly so £100-£150
Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Sceatta, Secondary series O, type 40, standing female figure holding two long crosses, cross of pellets on torso, triquetra beside head, rev. beast left, head reverted, 1.02g/6h (SCBI Abramson 603; Abramson 55-30; N 114; S 807B). Obverse struck slightly off-centre, otherwise very fine, good metal, extremely rare £300-£400
FRANCE, Amour Maternel, 1912, bronze medals by O. Yencesse for Canale (2), first on behalf of Le Comité National de l’Enfance, mother kissing her baby who sleeps in her arms, revs. flowering violet, first named (À Mme Parmentier, 1933), 50mm and 27mm (Maier 198; Coll. R. Marx 157; Classens 82; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.50, 205; BDM VI, 698; cf. DNW 187, 785) [2]. Softly executed in this artist’s familiar style, about very fine and better but some staining to first £50-£70
FRANCE, L’Ange de Reims, 1914, a bronze medalet by O. Yencesse, 25mm (BM Acq. 1978-82, p.50, 207; BDM VIII, 304); L’Ange de Reims [1914], a bronze medal by O. Yencesse for l’École Rocroy-St Leon, 1927, 50mm; Essence Moteurine Paix et Cte Pétrole Fides, 1917, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, 50mm; Henry Bazin, 1917, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, 40mm [4]. Very fine, first with loop for suspension, third pierced for attachment £80-£100
FRANCE, Champagne Henri Abelé, Reims, 1917, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse for Henri-Marie-Joseph-Louis Abelé, St Rémy filling an empty vat with wine, rev. overflowing fountain of champagne, vine branch with grapes above, 50mm. Good very fine, rare; in original gilt and maroon card box £60-£80 --- Maison Henri Abelé, founded in 1757, is the fifth-oldest champagne house in France
ITALY, International Exposition, Milan, 1906, a bronze plaque by O. Yencesse for the Comité Française, naked boy seated, decorating a vase, rev. Italian female with baskets stood in front of the Italian entrance to the Simplon Tunnel, from which a train exits, 71 x 52mm (cf. PBE 1030; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 8; Coll. R. Marx 163; BDM VI, 695; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl. 51, 201; cf. DNW 54, 961). Very fine £70-£90
Æthelred II (978-1016), Penny, Intermediate Small Cross / CRVX type mule, Winchester, Beorhtmær, byrhtmær m¯o pin, diademed bust left, no sceptre, 1.64g/6h (Winchester Mint 543; SCBI Copenhagen 1368; SCBI Mack 910; BEH 4158; N 773/770; S 1150/1148). Peckmarked and crimped, otherwise about very fine, very rare £400-£500
Æthelred II (978-1016), Penny, Last Small Cross type, London, Eadmund, eadmvnd m o n lvn., late London D dies, reads angor, 1.17g/6h (Lyon, BNJ 1998, p.24; SCBI Copenhagen 742; BEH 2322; N 777; S 1154). Lightly pecked and crimped with some surface deposits, otherwise very fine, grey tone £120-£150
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Poems London: by N. Biggs, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third edition, 12mo (15.5 x 9.6cm), contemporary marbled calf, advertisement leaf to rear, bookplate (Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baron Gilmour, 1857-1939), rubbed, joints cracked; Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original wrappers, half-title, 4 pp. advertisements (dated November 1816), bookplate to half-title (J. R. Hutchinson, motto 'perseverando'), housed in customer green cloth chemise and slipcase with a copy of The Siege of Corinth, 1816, second edition, 8vo, original wrappers, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplate; Idem. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with Doge's speech on p.151 beginning 'What crimes?'), 8vo, original boards, half-title, advertisement leaf, inner hinges strengthened, occasional spotting; and 19 others, poetry (these not collated), including: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Two Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1854 (first edition, original wrappers); Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 1852 (first edition, original wrappers); William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, 1870 (Centenary Edition, 6 volumes, contemporary straight-grain red morocco); Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV. and XVI, 1824 (first edition, boards, Baron Gilmour bookplate); Swinburne, A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876 (4 copies, first editions, original wrappers); and similar including more by Byron (27)
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978] Collection of autograph manuscripts all written on rectos only unless stated, mainly on foolscap sheets, secured with paperclips, and comprising: [Autobiographical reflections], begins 'From my earliest childhood I was sure I was going to be a poet', mentions Chaucer, Charles Doughty, Robert Burns, 4 ff.; [Reflections on haggis and Burns Night], 5 ff., apparently incomplete at end ('What is a haggis? It is not a wild animal hunted in the Scottish mountains ... It is, in fact, an excellent dish, but it looks barbarous, and that is probably the secret of its function ... The annual Burns Supper is a peculiarly Scottish phenomenon which has nothing to do with love of poetry ...'); [Reflections on Robert Burns and the 'Burns cult', possibly a Burns Supper speech], c.1960, 3 pp., rectos and versos, annotations in another hand; [Speech in Scots, on an unidentified occasion, possibly held in MacDiarmid's honour], c.1950, begins 'Sae faur as the feck o' my feelins are concerned ... I feel like the Yankee millionaire risen frae the gutter', 12 ff; [A critique of the Tory party with reference to Karl Popper], c.1970?, 4 ff., newspaper cutting referring to Ted Heath's Vietnam policy taped to final leaf; [Short piece on Scottish poetry], ('Attention has been concentrated on the rebirth of poetry in Lallans, and it is not sufficiently realised that along this there has been a notable development of poetry in Gaelic ...', 2 ff.; 'Mackintosh Memorial Trust. Statement regarding the future of the Cranston Tearoom in Ingram Street' ('Glasgow City Council has a worse record and reputation in regard to cultural matters than any other corporation in the United Kingdom'), 4 ff.; 'Address by Hugh McDiarmid [sic], President of the Dunedin Society, at the Annual General Meeting, 5/8/47', 21 ff., in pencil; [Speech to the 1320 Club], 5 pp., rectos and versos, with MacDiarmid's autograph corrections; 'Hugh MacDiarmid on BBC TV and Radio from Scotland', begins 'In my preview of BBC TV and Radio from Scotland in the Radio Times on 18th September I commented on the upsurge of a new creative spirit in Scottish arts ...', 4 ff.; (1 folder)Note: Many if not all of these pieces appear to be unpublished.
Miro, Joan Femmes Texte de Claude Simon. [Paris]: Maeght, 1965. First edition, trade issue, large folio, [9]-20 pp. text, woodcut frontispiece in colours, similar vignettes to title-page and colophon leaf, 23 offset lithographic plates in colours, all loose as issued in yellow wrappers, housed in original yellow card portfolio, ties extant, very slightly distressed at extremities; Chagall, Marc. Chagall Lithographe. [Volume 1 of 6]. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1960]. First edition in German, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 11 lithographic plates, illustrations throughout the text; Beaulieu, Paul. O visages ... poème satirique de Jean-Louis Vallas. Paris: aux dépens d'un amateur, 1952. First edition, one of 67 copies on Vergé pur chiffon, from the total edition of 85, 4to, 33 etched plates, text, in bifolia, loose as issued in original wrappers and card folder; Jansem, Jean. Oeuvres graphiques. New York: Touchstone Publisher Ltd., 1970. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 8 lithographic plates; Manet, Edouard. The Raven. Poem by Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1978. 'Limited edition' (limitation not stated), large folio, 16 pp. text, 4 lithographic plates, all loose as issued in portfolio and slipcase (slipcase partially split at foot) (5)
A group of silver & white metal rings. To include; blue stone floral band ring, oval abalone ring, faceted black stone ring, red cabochon floral daisy ring, pale pink cabochon ring. All above marked 925. Also includes; simulated pearl ring, white faceted stone ring, white stone eternity style ring, blue & white stone halo ring & gold tone white stone cluster ring. Marked silver total weight 36g. Sizes; L.5, M, M.5, N, O.5, P.5, Q, S, T.5
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