There are 43904 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeCharlotte Rhead, two tube-lined rectangular tiles: one decorated with a goose boy playing his pipe, three geese beyond, 15.5 x 8 cm; the other with a boy playing his pipe to a girl at a window, 15.5 x 8 cm, both in parcel gilt frames. (2) * Provenance: From the Estate of Richard Harry Rhead Cronin, son of Marie Elizabeth Adolphine Rhead (sister to Charlotte Rhead)
Chinese Watercolor Painting, Signed Liang Yan Painting, China, a portrait of a man smoking a pipe, watercolor on paper, signed Liang Yan (1943-), framed, 28‚Äù x 19 1/4‚Äù. Provenance: From the collection of Zhang Guohe, born January 1922. A former Colonel of Chiang Kai-shekís army, he attended the Japanese surrender in Hunan Zhejiang, in August 1945. After completing a law degree at the University of Chicago, he joined the United Nations in 1949, where he rose to the position of Chief of Examinations and Training in the Personnel Office. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Zhang would regularly return to visit China. While on one of his trips he met with Soong Qing Ling, the wife of Sun Yat Sen, on July 29th of 1979. Mr. Zhang passed away in early 2013 surrounded by his family in Boston, Massachusetts. Starting Price: $400
A late 19th Century Mettlach half litre stein, transfer printed with a seated figure of a hunter in Bavarian costume smoking a pipe amongst stylised foliage, with moulded bands and pewter mounts, signed R Buch, approx. 22cm high with a Petrus Regout Maastricht soup plate transfer printed with lady on horseback in landscape.
A late 18th-1st quarter 19th Century, Native American calumet peace pipe, North American, Great Lakes region, possibly western Great Lakes Ontario,Minnesota,Manitoba; probably Ojibwe or Odawa cultural origin of wood, porcupine quills, horse hair catlinite bowl, `peace pipes` were used in alliance ceremonies and were often presented afterwards to European/British participants, they were, and still are, considered to be highly sacred items by tribal peoples, approx. 100cm long. Provenance; Pipe was given to grandfather of the vendor, b.1850 – d.1902, doctor practicing at St Leonards-on-Sea, probably c. 1880-1900, a gift from a ‘grateful patient’, who may have been a retired British Officer. It is possible that the treaty occasion was in Canada, between 1850-1870, and that the British officer later retired to St Leonards. A/F.
An interesting American .45” percussion plains rifle, 46½” overall, heavy octagonal barrel 30” with 9 groove rifling, the top flat stamped “I. Marsh”, the left hand flat stamped “Remington”, and with single standing rearsight and blade foresight; the typical flat lock of flintlock form engraved with game birds and traces of maker’s name “G....ollcher”; the maple halfstock with pewter fore end cap, brass trigger guard and deeply concave butt plate and decorative inlaid GS sideplate and plaques. GWO & basically GC (some wear to barrel, nipple drum replaced, lock pitted, one ramrod pipe resoldered, no ramrod). Plate 12 NoteThis is a rare early example of a barrel by the fore runner of the Remington dynasty.
A rare early 19th century West Indies carved horn pipe tamper, with a head finial having braided hair and a pewter collar, replaced base, 3Όin (8.2cm) high, an 18th century boxwood squirrel pipe tamper, 3Όin (8.2cm) high, an 18th century boxwood pipe tamper with chip carved geometric decoration, a 19th century treen boot and leg pipe tamper, a 19th century treen shoe pipe tamper and a brass bust of the Duke of Wellington pipe tamper. (6) See Alastair Leslie, 300 Years of Tobacco Stoppers, 2012, pp 244-245, plates 319-321 for similar examples of West Indian tampers.
A 19th century turned walnut stem bowl, 3Ύin (9.5cm) high, a 19th century turned sycamore powder bowl, the lid inset a mirror, 4Όin (10.8cm) diameter, a fruitwood cribbage, inlaid initials I.W, and applied brass suit symbols, 14in (35.5cm) long and a mahogany choir master`s pitch pipe, with sliding stop, 18th century, 16in (40.6cm) long. (4)
SPORT: Selection of signed hardback books by various sportsmen and women and a few other famous individuals including The People's Champion - My Autobiography by Nigel Mansell, A Year in the Life of Frankie Dettori by Frankie Dettori, A Year in the Sun - The Captain's Story by Michael Vaughan, Don't Tell Kath - My Autobiography by Ian Botham, Warning! The Silence of the Lamb is Over...My Autobiography by Allan Lamb, Put to the Test - England in Australia 1978-79 by Geoff Boycott, Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken by Murray Walker, My Story So Far by Paula Radcliffe, A Lifetime in a Race by Matthew Pinsent, The Champion Trainer's Story by Martin Pipe and Richard Pitman, Annabel - An Unconventional Life by Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Always Alex - My Story by Alex Best, Himoff! The Memoirs of a TV Matinee Idle by Richard Whiteley etc. All are accompanied by the dust jackets. G to generally VG, 24
WODEHOUSE P. G.: (1881-1975) English Writer. T.L.S., P. G. Wodehouse, one page, 8vo, Remsenburg, New York, 26th November 1971, to Mr. J. B. W. Thomas. Wodehouse thanks his correspondent for an 1899 edition of the Haileyburian and continues 'I was stunned and horrified to hear that Haileybury had beaten Dulwich 27 to 15, not merely because of the defeat but because it made me feel how things had changed since my time. In a Haileybury-Dulwich game in the old days the side that got three points ahead took it for granted that they were going to win. Scoring was never more than a try or two tries to nil. Twenty-seven points! What on earth has happened to the defence? Odd how one never forgets one's school football. I can still remember those stern forward struggles in that famous Haileybury lower corner.' In a holograph postscript Wodehouse asks for his typing to be excused, commenting 'My faithful old Royal is at the cleaners and I am using a beastly little portable which slides all over the desk.' Together with a signed and inscribed postcard photograph of Wodehouse seated in a three quarter length pose smoking a pipe. Signed in red ink to the lower white border. Accompanied by the front panel and printed return address of the original envelope. Some staining to the letter, just affecting the text but not the signature, and a heavy vertical crease to the image of the photograph. FR to about G, 2
Loading...
