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Click here to subscribePatrick Ronan (Ronayne) (19th Century) Irish. “Five and Ten or Who Shall?”, also known as ‘Two People Playing Cards’, Circa 1825, Oil on Canvas, 10.75” x 13”, together with an Aquatint and an Oil, of the same subject. Provenance; Reproduced in Strickland, ‘Two People Playing Cards, Volume 11, Page 299.
Rosie Ablewhite - Guy Gibson at the Petwood Hotel, oil on board, initialled lower right, 44cm x 34cm, framed This is the original and only 10 Ltd Edition prints were made from it. One print hangs in the Petwood Hotel, one went back with the Canadian Lancaster last year and hangs in the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, a third hangs in the Glamorganshire Golf Club. After the Dam Busters raid took place in May 1943, widely hailed as a turning point of the War, Gibson spent his two week post-raid leave in Penarth, playing golf on most days. While he was on that leave he had a call from the Air Ministry telling him that he had been awarded the VC. Ernest Moore immediately telephoned the steward at The Glamorganshire and asked him to lay on as many drinks as he could find, and the whole family went down to celebrate in style at the Clubhouse.
George Cruikshank (after) - Carousal and Plunder, The Palace of The Bishop of Ferns, 10cm x 14.5cm (unframed); a quantity of 18th Century engravings of Castle Acre Monastery in Norfolk; a Victorian scrapwork album the leaves variously stuck with children, flowers, dogs; a set of late 19th Century hand printed pack of playing cards, (Ace of Spades missing) etc. (qty)
Cream: two original 1st print Fillmore Auditorium post cards - 22nd-27th August 1967 and 29th August to 3rd September 1967 both in very good condition, sold with five unpublished colour photographs of the band in and around the Sausalito Inn where the band were staying while playing the Fillmore
Swiss musical box by Karrer-Hoffman, 6936, playing eight airs on a 28cm barrel and single piece comb, in a rosewood effect case with inlaid floral lid, overall length 51cm. Condition report: All clocks and watches are sold without warranty. Comments regarding the going condition of clocks and watches relate to their state at the time of cataloguing and those comments may no-longer be correct at the time of sale or delivery. Buyers should assume that all lots will require servicing to be useable and reliable. Clocks and watches are not tested for accuracy, duration or water tightness.The mechanism winds and plays but appears to be worn; the teeth and tips seem to be complete and intact - we have not removed the damper bar; part of the inside casing is missing; the airs sheet is in poor condition; the lid is slightly warped; overall the case is in good condition. There is a youtube video - https://youtu.be/o8I_FHk9W4M
Swiss musical box, 19th century, playing eight named airs including Rule Britannia, on a 15.5cm barrel with a single piece comb and three bells, in a rosewood effect case with marquetry lid, length 42cm. Condition report: All clocks and watches are sold without warranty. Comments regarding the going condition of clocks and watches relate to their state at the time of cataloguing and those comments may no-longer be correct at the time of sale or delivery. Buyers should assume that all lots will require servicing to be useable and reliable. Clocks and watches are not tested for accuracy, duration or water tightness.Winds, changes tune, runs to unwound; teeth and tips complete; the bells ring; some distress to the airs card; the case is in fairly good condition. There is a youtube video - https://youtu.be/K_1NdUf9DqY
A polyphon and ten 23cm (9 in) metal discs, the doors of the mahogany cabinet cross banded in rosewood about central figured walnut rectangular insets, the discs playing on two 9cm (3.5 in) combs, the ebonised interior with a window onto the clockwork motor in the base, the cabinet 52cm (20.5 in) high There is a gallery missing from the top of the cabinet and one foot is currently loose from the base but present. Four teeth are broken from the combs
A late 19th century German walnut floor-standing Symphonium music box with nine discs, the door with arched glazed panel onto the clockwork two 17cm (6.75 in) comb mechanism playing 49cm (19.25 in) diameter metal discs, the penny slot to one side above the hole for the winding handle, the cabinet 96.5cm (38 in) high Good
A set of five Meissen ladies seated stimulating their senses, one smelling a rose taken from the basket beside her on a table, another eating and drinking, one looking at the mirror on her dressing table, another playing a clavichord and the last feeding the bird at the entrance of its gilt cage on the table beside her, crossed swords marks, 15.5cm (6 in) high (5) (R) The first lady has the most restoration and the others minor work done to them. The bird cage has a metal band round its base now in the last mentioned group
A Meissen fifteen piece monkey band, each of the figures singing or playing an instrument, a drummer beating the drums held by another figure, the keyboard player carried with his instrument on the back of a monkey, the music stand for the conductor only not marked with the crossed swords, the conductor 18cm (7 in) high (15) (R) Many of the details of these figures have been tidied by a restorer
A Royal Doulton stoneware tobacco jar and cover by Hannah and Lucy Barlow, dated 1883, incised with a frieze of kittens playing and resting, above a band of stiff leaf foliage and beadwork borders, in shades of green, blue and brown on a buff ground impressed mark and date, incised monograms 12.5cm. high
A Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug, dated 1883, swollen cylindrical form on foot, modelled in low relief with athletes playing the Eton Wall Game, variously kicking and running with a football and a scrummage taking place, a C H Brannam vase and an angular jug probably Ault designed by Dr Christopher Dresser impressed marks, damages 19cm. high (3)
MUDDY WATERS WITH LITTLE WALTER - A great early EP of Muddy Waters with Little Walter playing "Mississippi Blues" (Vogue EPV 1046). The record is in lovely clean Ex condition with just a couple of very light surface marks. Tri-centre in excellent shape. The sleeve is in VG+ condition with some minor creasing and some staining on the reverse.
HISTORY OF ROCK/SOUNDS - Issues 1-121 of History of Rock (including 3 copies of issue 5 featuring Elvis), 18 issues of Sounds (predominantly 1989), 35 issues of Magnet, Sounds Colour Magazine issues Psycho Killers and The Punk Years, a Virgin Records singles catalogue, a set of NME playing cards (missing King of Spades) and a single issue of Flipside, Record Mirror and Smash Hits.
PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS - great collection of 38 photographs taken of Paul & Linda McCartney along with their family and bandmates. To include photos from their 1972 tour, France 1975, Scotland 1978 and Nice 1980. The majority have been taken by Rose Martin and include a great shot of Laurence Juber playing guitar in front of Ringo Starr, an amusing picture of Paul pretending to stab Linda with a knife and some great shots of the family together. These have come from the collection of Rose Martin who was Paul's housekeeper for over 25 years.
ALAN HUNT, African Wilderness Portfolio (The Sappi Portfolio), including pencil signed Limited Edition prints, 'Contentment', 'Who's The Fairest of Us All ?', 'I'm The Boss', 'Quiet Approach', 'Two's a Team', 'Worth The Risk ?', 'The Bachelor Club', 'Overall View', 'The Waterhole', 'Not Playing Safe', 'The Beauty Salon', 'Striped to Confuse', within a presentation box (13)
A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN PIETRA DURA CARD BOX, the rectangular pietra dura panel inlaid with playing cards and counters in a moulded ebonised surround, the sectioned interior with applied white metal disc with initials HMB, the moulded body on ball feet. 27.5cm(w) x 20.5cm(d) CONDITION: Some cracking and small losses to panel, some wear to ebonised wood, split to top inner panel, but generally ok.
A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER BOX, MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912) the hinged lid signed and decorated in relief with birds and butterflies amidst foliage, the sides with stylised foliage, 21cm wide; together with a Japanese black lacquer box and cover, Meiji period, oblong with in-curved corners, the cover with hens and chicks in relief, the sides with scenes of boys playing, 19cm wide (2)
A SET OF THREE FRENCH SILVER SALT CELLARS, D.G. GARREAU, PARIS, 1819-38 each slightly tapered cylindrical and pierced below a formal leaf rim with a maenad playing a lyre and another blowing a double aulos between columns and stiff leaves, 950 standard 7cm high, 215gr (6oz)excluding two blue glass liners
A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT AND OXIDISED SILVER TAZZA AND COVER, FREDERIC-JULES RUDOLPHI, PARIS, CIRCA 1845 the cover set with carbuncles between a chased border of scrolling leafage below a bagpipe playing putto finial, the dish bordered by rock crystal cabochons between cast and pierced scrolls and yawning bat masks, with acid etched borders to the underside, the gem-set knopped pedestal and base with further cast borders, the openwork feet of beetles and leafy twisting branches, apparently no maker's mark, boar's head standard mark 20cm high, 718gr (23oz) all in This tazze was probably designed by Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume (1816-1892), the prolific goldsmith and sculptor, who worked for Rudolphi, as well as for Froment-Meurice and others. For a Rudophi silver perfume bottle, with the same cast feet as the present tazza, see Victoria & Albert Museum No.919-1844. The V. & A. notes on the bottle: "This vase was purchased for £40 [in 1844] and is one of the Museum's earliest acquisitions. It demonstrates not only Britain's acknowledgement of the continuing high quality of workmanship and the inventiveness of design in the French decorative arts, but the perceived need for British goldsmiths and designers to improve their skills by studying the best French examples."
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND PAINTED DOUBLE LOUPE, MAKER'S MARK INDECIPHERABLE, PARIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY the shaped case painted with vignettes of cherubs playing with telescopes and trophies of Cupid's quiver and further telescopes, the smaller hinged lens of approximately five times magnification, the larger lens of perhaps two and a half magnification 7.5cm long
Two Staffordshire enamel counter dishes late 18th/early 19th century, of basket form, one painted with playing cards, the other with travellers beside Classical ruins, and an unusual oval enamel patch box painted with a hunting scene to the lid, the base with a stag and a black boar, some damages, 8cm max. (3)
Five Derby porcelain figures c.1770-80, one of a lady seated and playing the mandolin, another of a girl with an apron of flowers standing before flowering bocage, three of putti standing with baskets of flowers, some damages and repairs, 19.5cm max. (5) Provenance: from the estate of the late Peter James Rankin.
A large French porcelain pastille burner or vase and cover late 19th/20th century, modelled as a richly caparisoned elephant bearing three seated Chinese figures on his back, one playing a mandolin, the other holding a pierced gilded vase, the shaped base moulded with a Tibetan buddhistic figure, red dt mark, some damages, 31cm across. (2)
Two Chinese porcelain coffee pots 18th century, one painted with Chinese figures in a garden setting, one playing the flute and another preparing tea, the other with large famille rose chrysanthemum sprays, fitted with an English silver and wood handle, hinged to the cover, the other cover lacking, 25cm max. (2) Provenance: from the Geoffrey Godden Reference Collection.
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