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Click here to subscribeTwo snakes & ladders-style Spanish football games titled Gol Atomico, 1940s/50s, with wooden cases enclosing a numbered paper playing surface, one with buttons to turn a central die, the other with a button to change the paper surface to another similar game, 39cm, 151/4in. square; sold with another, smaller game with a numbered paper playing area, a small skill game titled Juego de Foot Ball & a paper & cork game titled Gol!!, all Spanish (5)
A boxed German football game titled Tipp-Kick, circa 1930, containing die cast goalkeepers & outfield players with kicking mechanisms, a cloth pitch, a pair of goals & printed instructions, 49 by 15cm191/4 by 6in; sold with two further boxed football games, Match, with a numbered card playing board; & Campeonatos del Futbol, containing a painted wooden pitch centred by a numbered spinning wheel, a pack of numbered cards & some tiny painted wood footballers (3)
An early boxed French football game titled Foot-Ball, circa 1910, the box lid with a highly decorative chromolithographic print of a football match, the interior with a further decorative playing surface with numbered hole targets, two wooden footballers with kicking mechanisms & a cork ball; sold with three boxed Spanish sporting jigsaw sets titled Rompecabezas Deportivo (4)
Three boxed football games, Foot-Ball-Michel, French, circa 1930, painted lead figures, felt-lined pitch, goals, accessories & printed instructions, 24 by 55cm, 91/2 by 213/4in; sold with Pase-Chu Futbol de Mesa, a similar but more recent Spanish football game; & Futbolin Electro Magnetico, wooden case, tinplate playing area, fitted for electricity
A child's pearlware plate, printed in brown with a bird and a birds nest in a branch, and picked out in colours, the honeysuckle and rose moulded border with brown line rim, 15.2cm diameter (6"), circa 1825, another, moulded with a daisy bead border, a small plate, printed in black with figures playing cards
West Ham United. The Thames Ironworks Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited share certificate, 1899, eng. certificate printed in purple ink, with some manuscript additions and signatures, approx 45 x 34.5 cms, framed. The original Thames Ironworks Football Team was formed in 1895 with the backing of Arnold F.Hills, the Chairman and Managing Director. It pioneered playing under electric lighting. set up on poles, in matches against Arsenal and West Bromwich Albion in 1896. In the 1898/99 season the Club turned professional and changed its name to West Ham United in 1900. Its ground, the Memorial Ground, Canning Town, was built by Hills for the staff and was in use between 1897 and 1904. (1)
*Grahame (Elspeth, widow of Kenneth Grahame). Series of three autograph letters signed, Church Cottage, Pangbourne, Berkshire, 20th July & 21st December 1932, 19th June 1933, to Mr. [Ivor] Barnard (the first two addressed as 'Ratty', 'If may call you by the name that we so knew and admired you by'), thanking him in the first letter for his kind sympathy and continuing, 'Kenneth looked back with great delight on your really wonderful impersonation, and interpretation of the Rat at the "Lyric" last year, & spoke of it with the most discerning appreciation. The Rat was both wise & loveable, and you made your audience feel you to be so - a wonderful contrast to the magisterial Badger the timid mole, and the swashbuckling Toad. You simply were the Rat, and even the children sitting near kept exclaiming "I love Ratty"! I thought you might like to know what great pleasure, and what perfect satisfaction your conception of the part gave to Kenneth, and of course to me also', the second a very long letter regretting that Barnard will not be playing the role of the Rat in the forthcoming season and hoping he will take his children to see it and tell her how it is, that she can not bear to go and see it without Kenneth, saying how great the play is and how everyone should spread the word to help establish it.
*Lean (David, 1908-1991). Three typed letters signed ('David'), 25th November 1946, 27th March & 17th April 1947, to Ivor [Barnard], the first saying how he was just back from Paris where he had visited the Louvre and seen several Gauguin paintings of which he had brought back four reproductions for him, concluding 'I am terribly looking forward to what you think of our picture. At all events I think you will be pleased with yourself. I was always a great hand with my actors!', the next letter thanking him for his and saying that they are hard at work on the script of "Oliver Twist" which is quite a tough job, thanking him for the photograph of his son, and saying he will bear both of them in mind for small parts, the last asking 'if you would be good enough to consider playing a very small part in "Oliver Twist". It would not last longer than one or two days. It is the Chairman of the Workhouse Board and he has a speech to make', continuing to say that they hope to get really good actors for all the small parts but if he has feelings that he should not accept 'don't hesitate to tell me', a few minor splash-marks, together with two typed letters signed from the producer Ronald Neame (22nd May & 31st July 1945), concerning his 'first rate' screen test and the shooting details for "Great Expectations", concluding, 'I hope you like the script - we think it is one of the best we have done', all on Independent Producers Limited letterhead, 1 page, 4to. Barnard played Wemmick in Lean's "Great Expectations", and in keeping with Lean's request took the small part of the Chairman of the Workhouse Board in "Oliver Twist". (5)
*Leigh (Vivien, 1913-1967, & Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989). Autograph letter signed ('Vivien'), Notley Abbey, Long Crendon, Bucks, n.d., to Barney [Ivor Barnard], in response to his 'sweet and sympathetic' note, saying 'All is well again and it's very nice to be back', with best wishes for Estelle's recovery, 2 pages, 8vo, together with a Typed letter from Vivien Leigh, letterhead of The Australia Hotel, Sydney, 13th July 1948, thanking Barney for his letter and telling him how his son Pip got very fine laughs when he was playing "William", mentioning how thrilled Larry is that he liked "Hamlet" and concluding, 'We are both feeling better now, though Larry has hurt his knee and uses a crutch in "Richard" to very good effect, I may say even going so far as to break it over 'Brackenbury's' back the other night!!', signed by Olivier ('Larry') only, with a five-line postscript in his hand, mentioning how Pip 'keeps us mightily engaged with his wit - referring to his dressing mate Oliver Hunter's jock-strap - he said "Rough cradle for such little pretty one" (Richard III)! Yr devoted L.', 1 page, 4to (2)
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