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Click here to subscribeA pair of Derby figures of the Welch Tailor and his family, he and his wife astride goats with babies and kids in receptacles on their backs, a Derby model of a lowing recumbent cow, and a pair of figures of musicians, possibly Bow, the lady playing a zither, her companion holding music scores, raised on tall rococo bases, mid 18th century, damages and restoration, 16cm max. (5)
* Clint (George 1770-1854). The Court for the Trial of Queen Catherine from Shakespeare’s Play Henry VIII, pub. William Cribb, Jan. 1st. 1819, mezzotint engraving on laid after G.H.Harlow, proof after letters but before title, small engraved remarque of a bust of William Shakespeare in central lower margin, trimmed to or on plate mark, laid on modern paper, some marginal water staining, together with another copy of a later state with engraved open letter titles with some repaired marginal tears, each approx. 640 x 790mm, with a small etched explanation plate identifying the actors and actresses playing the principal roles, slight spotting, 210 x 255mm. Clint made his name painting and engraving theatrical subjects and this image is arguably his most famous. (3) £150-250
2x sets of Subbuteo Football Table Games: to incl 1963/64 football combination edition, boxed with celluloid teams including red shirts and white shorts and blue shirt with white shorts, balls, goals, chalk, fixture card and elementary playing rules plus a green baize pitch together with Premier League Pro Edition boxed c/w cards, game board, rules, crowd barrier (24 in all) and three teams incl Brazil, West Germany and one blue-and-white, bench set, camera crew and one spare West Brom Albion player - good lot.
Pele signed photograph, plus ephemera and book: to incl a signed colour photograph of Pele in his last match Comos v Santos (playing for each team, swapping sides at half-time) plus a brochure and an unopened copy of "The Illustrated Life of Football`s Greatest Player" which includes rare photographs, removable treasures, sports memorabilia and more (G) (3)
1962 World Cup football winner`s gold medal awarded to Brazil`s Amarildo (Tavares da Silveira): the contintental gold medal stamped .750 (18 carat)and inscribed on the obverse FIFA and embossed with the original Jules Rimet figure and on the reverse inscribed Campeonato Mundial De Futbol, Copa Jules Rimet, Chile 1962 and stamped Peka c/w suspension ring. Note: The 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup, was held in Chile returning to the continent of South America after 12 years. It was won by Brazil, who retained the championship by beating Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final. Brazil`s Pele, the hero of 1958, was injured in the second group match against Czechoslovakia and was replaced by Amarildo. In the first round, Brazil topped their group with Czechoslovakia finishing second, above Mexico and Spain. Brazil went on to defeat England in the quarter finals 3-1, meeting the hosts Chile in the semi final where they found themselves 1-0 down after 15 minutes but turned the game round and won 4-2. Brazil again found themselves a goal behind in the World Cup final, however, just like the previous final four years earlier, Brazil soon hit back, equalising through Amarildo, then Zito and Vav‡ with the match ending 3-1 to Brazil, being only the second team in the history of the competition to successfully defend their title. Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, also known as Amarildo (born in Rio de Janeiro, June 29, 1939) was a Brazilian football player who played as a striker. His career lasted from 1957 to 1974 and he was capped 22 times for Brazil , from April 1961 to June 1966, and won the 1962 FIFA World Cup as a replacement for the injured Pele and in the process gaining the nickname "The White Pele" - scoring 3 goals including one in the final and was Brazils 3rd highest goal scorer in the World Cup just behind Garrincha and Vava on 4 each. Besides playing in South America he also played in Italy for Milan, Fiorentina and Roma. He won one "Coppa Italia" in 1967 with Milan, and the Italian title ("Scudetto") in 1969 with Fiorentina. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a World Cup winner`s medal associated with one of the most successful teams ever in the World Cup and is sold with papers of provenance and photograph of Amarildo with his medal
* Sinatra v. Karpov. A group of four press photos by John Rimington of Frank Sinatra and world chess champion Anatoli Karpov playing chess at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, [1979], playing with ornate pieces on a raised board with a bust of Caesar on the wall as a backdrop, all photos showing both players smiling and in one shaking hands at the end of the game, John Rimington’s name and indistinct Las Vegas wetstamps to versos, each 20 x 25cm. The Spokesman Review (18 May 1979) reported: “Singer Frank Sinatra has been invited to the Soviet Union for free chess lessons from the world’s chess champion, Anatoli Karpov. A spokesman for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas said Karpov attended a Sinatra performance at the resort and extended the invitation. Karpov presented Sinatra with an elaborate chess set, then proceeded to checkmate him in a quick game”. Provenance: John Rimington, see lot 300. (4)
* Golf. Card Golf. A full set of sixty chromo. playing cards (with designs by A.A. Sukey), printed in Bavaria, c. 1895, the set comprises Drive (6), Stroke (24), Obstacle (12), the Approach (6), On the Green (6) and Hole (6), generally in good condition, some minor dust soiling, seven cards have light corner creases and one has a small edge chip (60)
British School, circa 1810- Study of Robert "Romeo Coates, in his custom-built carriage with the heraldic of a crowing cock and the motto While I live, I`ll crow; pencil on buff paper, with inscription, 27x40cm, (unframed) Note: Robert Coates was born in Antigua in the West Indies as a son of a wealthy sugar planter. His lack of any skill in acting was obvious to his contemporaries. When he inherited the estate in 1807, he moved to Bath. He eventually drew the attention of the manager of the Theatre Royal Bath and begun to appear in plays in 1809. Later he appeared in Romeo and Juliet in the part of Romeo - in a costume of his own design. The costume had a flowing cloak with sequins, red pantaloons, a large cravat and a plumed hat - not to mention dozens of diamonds - which was hardly suitable for the part. The audience cracked up with laughter. Coates was convinced he was the best actor in business - or at least that is what he claimed. He forgot his lines all the time and invented new scenes and dialogue on the spot. He loved dramatic death scenes and would repeat them - or any other scenes he happened to take a fancy to - three to four times over. Coates claimed that he wanted to improve the classics. At the end of his first appearance as Romeo he came back in with a crowbar and tried to pry open Capulet`s tomb. In another of his antics he made the actress playing Juliet so embarrassed that she clung to a pillar and refused to leave the stage. Eventually no actress would agree to play the part with him. The audience usually answered with angered catcalls and embarrassed jeering - and loads of laughter. His fellow actors would try to make him leave the stage. If Coates thought the audience was getting out of hand, he turned to them and answered in kind. His fame spread and people would flock to see whether he really was as bad as they had heard. For some reason, Baron Ferdinand de Geramb became his foremost supporter. Even the Prince Regent would go to see him. In 1811, when he played the part of Lothario in The Fair Penitent in London`s Haymarket Theatre, the theatre had to turn thousands of would-be spectators away. In another performance in Richmond, several audience members had to be treated for excessive laughter. Coates went on with his antics. Once, when he dropped a diamond buckle when he was going to exit the stage, he crawled around the stage looking for it. Outside the stage Coates tried to amaze the public with his taste in clothing. He wore Furs even in hot weather. He went out in a custom-built carriage with a heraldic of a crowing cock and the motto While I live, I`ll crow. In receptions he glittered from head to toe with diamond buttons and buckles. His predilection for diamonds of all kinds gave him the nickname "Diamond Coates".After 1815 his performances decreased in frequency and his star eventually faded alongside his remaining fortune. He moved to Boulogne-sur-Mer, married and had two children, both of whom predeceased him. In old age he and his wife moved back to London. Robert Coates died in London in 1848 in a street accident, when a Hansom Cab hit him as he was leaving a performance at the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane.
A late 18th/early 19th century French fan, gouache painted on skin, depicting a couple playing a lute in a woodland scene with a flower girl, flanked by floral and scroll border, on mother of pearl sticks with gilt inlay, together with an 18th/19th century possibly Anglo-Chinese ivory fan, painted in a slightly provisional manner with possibly Dutch figures, gilt embossed detail, and a number of ivory, wooden and other fans, (a lot).
A 20th century silk embroidered floral panel in verre eglomise frame, together with a small wool tapestry depicting two children dancing to a lady playing a lute, two other framed pieces, a small piece of cream silk wrapped in paper with writing stating `a piece of bridal dress of Queen Victoria`, a handkerchief with a small crowed V monogram to corner, (6).
A bronze green patternated figure of a deity, raised on a square base, height 11.5 cm, a hardstone carved figural group, depicting a female playing whilst an elder looks on, height 14 cm, a hardstone figure of elder, height 6 cm, two door knockers, a green glass lion, a jadite sphinx cat, together with other oriental items, (a lot).
Metcalf (John of Knaresborough). The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough. With Many Entertaining Anecdotes of his Exploits in Hunting, Card-Playing &c., Some Particulars Relative to the Expedition Against the Rebels in 1744. . and also a Succinct Account of his Various Contracts for Making Roads, Erecting Bridges, and Other Undertakings, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire, 1st ed., pub. Peck, York, 1795, etched portrait frontispiece, bound with A Description of Buxton and the Adjacent Country; or the New Guide, for Ladies and Gentlemen, Resorting to that Place of Health and Amusement, Compiled by W. Bott, Buxton, Manchester, 1796, scattered light spotting, contemporary half calf, some wear to spine, 8vo, plus Peck (Edward), A Sketch of the Life and Eccentricities of the Late Mr. Lumley Kettlewell, of the City of York..., pub. York, 1821, publisher’s advert leaf at front, few wood eng. illusts. and one eng. port. plt., contemp. sheep, crudely repaired with bookcloth to board edges and spine, 12mo (2)
COLLECTION OF BORDER FINE ARTS BIRD AND ANIMAL FIGURES comprising: a pair of grouse; an owl; a baby brown owl; a baby barn owl; a sheep group; a pair of collies; a single collie; a group of collie pups playing by a fire with their mother; and two groups of a yellow labrador with a gun and shot duck (10)
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