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Collection of Ephemera & Vintage Costume Jewellery, comprising: Vintage copper photo frame, measures 9.5" x 7.5" approx., decorated with columns with flowers and birds; a gold toned and black set of wide necklace and bracelet; a diamonte choker; a boxed set of Orient Line to Australia playing cards by Waddington; and a box of round playing cards (8 Spade missing) has spare card.
An early-20th century felt, clockwork pig, by Schuco, standing, playing the fiddle, feet stamped ‘Schuko Patent’ and ‘Made in Germany’, 12cm high, with a Triang-Wakouwa jockey on a horse, transfer printed marks and stamped on the metal base ‘Made in England, Triang-Wakouwa’, and ‘Patent number 580314’, 13cm high, a fake fur and felt monkey glove puppet and a German card, cylindrical box, which when shaken simulates the sound of a cockerel, 6cm high (4)Condition report: Pig – no key. Felt dirty and faded on the front. Paint chips on the metalwork. Not known if working, as no key. Jockey – several later spots of paint. Paint chips on jockeys upper arms chipped. Glove puppet – fake fur very worn in places.
Playing card, gambling and other interest books to include Beeton's Book of Acting Charades, The Mott St. Poker Club 1888, Ten days at Monte Carlo at the Bank's Expense by V.B., Middleton's Astronomy and the Use of Globes 1862, Cavendish on Whist, Hoyle's Games, Systems and Chances by R.W. Richardson, signed by the author and signed note from the author to Lord Braye, Potter on Gamesmanship and The pawnbrokers act 1872 by Francis Turner
2 boxes very diverse incl. wooden figurines, squeeze bottle, Chinese guards, 2 display cabinets with taxidermy and carvings, wayang puppets, Wedgwood Jasperware, old photo album, cocktail sticks, Indian knife in sheathed sheath, machete, bone playing card box, brass miniature cannon/signal cannons miscellaneous
A 19th century Louis XV Revival gilt metal mounted kingwood and marquetry shaped rectangular card table, hinged top enclosing a baize lined playing surface, above a shaped frieze, profusely inlaid throughout with sprays of flowers, leafy stems and musical trophies, tapered serpentine legs, 77cm high, 87cm wide, 47cm deep, c.1880
A Chinese export lacquer rectangular games box, decorated in gilt with leaves and bands of motifs, the cover centred by an armorial within a ribbon-tied wreath, enclosing an arrangement of playing card boxes and counter trays, 46cm long, 38cm wide, c.1820Heraldry: Crest of Buck, Denholme, Yorkshire
A George III satinwood and rosewood card table, folding top inlaid with a navette shaped patera, enclosing an inset baize lined playing surface, above a deep frieze, bowed foreangles, outlined throughout with boxwood and ebony stringing, tapered square legs, 70cm high, 91cm wide, 44cm deep, c.1790
A Victorian walnut and marquetry card table, hinged discorectangular top inlaid with stylised anthemions within a heart-shaped burr reserve and outlined with boxwood and ebony stringing enclosing a baize lined playing surface, fluted meandrous grasped quad-columnar supports centred by a spire finial, outswept legs, 72.5cm high, 99cm wide, 48cm deep, c.1880
An Edwardian rosewood rectangular card table, hinged satinwood banded top enclosing a baize lined playing surface with tooled and gilt edge, above a frieze with parquetry bat wing brackets to angles, tapered square legs, sabre X-stretcher centred by a turned urnular finial, casters, 72.5cm high, 91.5cm wide, 45.5cm deep, c.1905
This lot will be auctioned on Wednesday, June 30th. The auction will begin at 9:00am PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on June 29th or July 1st. An Alex Tavoularis-signed death card from Francis Ford Coppola's war drama Apocalypse Now. After his unit killed Viet Cong members, Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) placed custom-made playing cards on their bodies as a warning. This cardstock Queen of Spades card features a dark green, black, white and orange "DEATH FROM ABOVE" graphic on the back. It is signed "AT" by the film's production illustrator, Alex Tavoularis, and set between two pieces of transparent acrylic. It exhibits minor signs of use and wear, but remains in excellent overall condition. Dimensions: 6" x 4" x 1.5" (15.25 cm x 10.25 cm x 4 cm) Estimate: $400 - 600
Late 19th/early 20th century Bezique marker and playing card set, each marker with incised gilt Barons coronet and monogram in leather case, by Edwards & Sons, Regent Street, also containing a Clarence card from Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen MotherCondition report: Markers in good order, the leather case is in poor order
Nicole Frères, G. Baker-Troll & Company, A large and complex Swiss multi-instrument cylinder music box, 19th centurythe sectional seventy-two tooth comb interspersed with twenty striking pins, before a castanet and drum, flanking six bells, playing over twelve airs, the marker stamped ‘G. Baker-Troll & Company, Geneva’, the regulator stamped ‘ Nicole Frères’, with original song card, in an inlaid rosewood case, 49.5cm cylinder.83 x 39cm, 36cm high.
Games & Puzzles.- Benham (W.Gurney) Playing Cards: History of the Pack..., first edition, 1931 § Dummett (M.) The Game of Tarot from Ferrara to Salt Lake City, 1980 § "Cavendish". The Laws and Principles of Whist, tenth edition, 1874; The Laws of Piquet, ninth edition, 1901 § B⁂* (Lt.-Col.) The Whist-Player, 1856 § Cadogan (Lady Adelaide) Illustrated Games of Patience, Second Series, 1887, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, the first two with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed; and 12 others on card games, v.s. (18)
JUDAICA - GAMEThe New Game of the Jew, engraving on 12 sections mounted on linen, comprising a central hand-coloured representation of a Jewish money-lender seated at a table holding bags of money (235 x 170mm.), surrounded by 10 numbered compartments, one of which has the 'Directions for Playing' the game, dust-soiling, folding into publisher's card slipcase, original hand-coloured engraved pictorial label ('The New Fashionable Game of the Jew' above an image of the Jewish money-lender) on the upper cover, age-soiled with a few light spots, overall image 490 x 435mm., J. Wallis, 27 May 1807Footnotes:An early nineteenth century parlour game, based on anti-semitic stereotypes of a Jewish money-lender.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Victorian Circassian walnut and ebonized rectangular games box containing a compendium of games. To include turned and carved contrasting chessmen, bone and ebony dominoes, parquet cribbage board and chequers. The lower drawer containing a bezique set. 35 cm long x 21 cm wide x 15 cm deepCondition report: One pale wood chequer is a replacementOne ebony Rook is missing47 of one style of playing cards50 of another style playing cards28 dominoes16 counters of each colour includingtwo pale wood non-matching designs1 ebony colour non matching designOne cribbage board4 plain bone pegs4 red stained pegsOne chess board OK2 card bezique markers2 ivorine bezique markersThe box has an old scratch to the top
A Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel K. C. Raikes, Monmouthshire Regiment, who served on the staff of S.H.A.E.F. in the Second World War, and was thanked for his contribution to the planning of the Operation Torch landings in North Africa The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. K. C. Raikes, Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. K. C. Raikes); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1946, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, the M.B.E. still with the 1st type riband, light contact marks to first and third otherwise very fine (8) £600-£800 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. Kenneth Cochrane Raikes was born at Malpas, Monmouthshire on 9 May 1889, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford, serving in both Officer Training Corps. He joined the Royal Fusiliers on 15 September 1914, and was rapidly promoted to a commission in 1st Battalion the Monmouthshire Regiment on 20 October 1914. He served with the Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 February 1915, and was slightly wounded by gunshot later that year; he is also recorded as having been Company Commander of D Company. Appointed to be Staff Captain G.H.Q. France in February 1918, and D.A.Q.M.G., G.H.Q. France, in February 1919, he was promoted Captain in December 1921. For his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 9 April 1917 and 8 November 1918), and his service records indicate a brief period of three weeks’ service in Egypt during the Great War. Raikes saw further service during the Second World War in France from 10 September 1939 to 17 June 1940, and was promoted Major in June 1940. He subsequently served with No. 1 Movement Control Group, and in December 1941 was appointed to Western Command Movement Area Home Movement Control Group. A letter to the recipient from Major-General N. G. Holmes, dated 16 November 1942, itself forwarding on a letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, congratulated him on a brilliant piece of staff work in the movement and loading of ships for the Operation Torch landings. In 1943 he served as D.A.Q.M.G., Abergavenny, followed by the same post in Chester 1944. In January 1945 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. to S.H.A.E.F., and was promoted Acting Lieutenant Colonel in June 1945. Awarded the Efficiency Decoration the following year (London Gazette 14 March 1946), he relinquished his commission on account of age on 19 August 1948. Raikes was a keen cricketer, playing the occasional First Class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club, and Minor Counties Cricket for Monmouthshire from 1908 to 1934, making 116 appearances for the county. He died at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, on 29 November 1973. Sold together with the recipient’s Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.; two Mention in Despatches Certificates (these both mounted on card); and extensive copied research, including First and Second World War Service papers; letter of thanks for his ‘brilliant piece of staff work’, for Operation Torch; and an original group photograph taken in front of the Pyramids, in Egypt, believed to include Raikes.
A late Victorian tortoiseshell mounted playing card box of rectangular form, the slightly domed top bearing silver trump motifs (by Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings (Frank) Shepherd, Chester 1896), 10.2 cm x 7.3 cm x 5.7 cm high approx, together with a 19th Century gilt embossed leather covered travelling inkwell / wax seal set with integral well, vesta and candle holders, 8 cm x 5.7 cm x 3.5 cm high approx
TEA CADDY ETC. A black lacquered tea caddy, the lid hand painted with Russian figures taking tea from a samovar. 10 x 8 x 7cm. Also, a playing card box with inlaid decorative panel. Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.
Postcards, Paul Brinklow Collection, a Gale & Polden published RP selection of 11 cards of The Duke of Yorks School London showing 'The Colonial Contingents Camp' (10) and the Canadian Contingents Coronation all showing military in uniform, inspection of troops, Scottish Regimental group, troops in horse drawn charabancs etc, sold with 1 printed b/w card from the Wellington series showing 'Band Playing on the Green' (gd)
A MOST UNUSUAL .500 & .650 (40-BORE & 16-BORE APPROXIMATELY) FIVE-CAVITY COMBINATION GANG-MOULD, UNSIGNED, early to mid 19th. century and probably Continental and possibly for a Le-Mat revolving rifle, of bronze scissors construction to throw four .500 calibre balls and one .650 calibre ball simultaneously in a no.5 'playing card' formation, offset round integral handles, each fitted with a copper collared wood file handle (some age splits, loss to one handle), overall length 9 3/4in., weight approximately 2lbs..

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