*A PAIR OF RITUAL RATTLES (PUJARI KAICHILAMBU), TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY tinned bronze, in the form of a double crescent, the hollow body filled with pellets, an open slit on each side to emit the sound, the sides with applique Hindu emblems, beadwork and ridge decoration, one inscribed in Tamil 17.5 x 17 x 4.5cm approx. For a picture of a pair of similar rattles and a woman holding two in the playing posture, see Prof. P. Sambamoorthy, 'Laya Vadyas', New Delhi, 1962, p.41. See also British Museum, inv. no. 2005,0716,0.1.3, for a Tiruchirapalli painting of a story teller reciting to villagers with the aid of pujari kaichilambu. ++Surface slightly worn and encrusted
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*TWO PAIRS OF RATTLES (KHARTAL), NORTHERN INDIA, 19TH / 20TH CENTURY carved wood, each with central handle flanked by twin jingles at each end 27, 25cm For a pair of kartals from Uttar Pradesh in the Shrine to Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, see Thomas E. Cross, 'Instruments of Burma, India, Thailand and Tibet', Vol.II, 1982, p.4. For an illustration of a musician in Rajasthan playing khartals, see K. S. Kothari, 'Indian Folk Musical Instruments', New Delhi 1968, pp.16, 19, 23. ++Slightly knocked, generally good
*A SANTAL LUTE (DHODRO BANAM), EASTERN INDIA, PROBABLY JHARKHAND, CIRCA 19TH CENTURY wood and reptile skin, the body with central open face and lower portion covered with skin resonator, the faceted tapered neck terminating in headstock (bohok) in the form of a human head, his gaping mouth with bared teeth and groove running down his chin for the playing string (now missing) 67.5cm high approx. See footnote to the previous lot. ++Worn with chips and losses, including peg, old metal repair to lower body
*A FOLK HARP, MEXICO, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY wood, with steel strings and iron pegs, the tapered faceted sound box with three holes at the back, surmounted by undulating neck, old iron tuning key attached, two projecting support feet below 91 x 53 x 31cm For a drawing of a troupe of Mexican folk musicians, two playing similar small harps, see Alexander Buchner, 'Folk Musical Instruments of the World', 1971, p.113\ ++Several pegs missing, cracks to body, general wear and knocks
*THREE WOODEN FLUTES (GHOR BAANSURI), NEPAL, 19TH/20TH CENTURY each with six finger holes and a slightly larger mouth hole, of straight ridged form, two carved in two sections, the other made from a single piece, the others with bud finial and metal inlaid ring respectively 58.5, 57.8, 56.5cm long The baansuri is used to play both folk and religious music. For a picture of a Hindu sadhu playing a similar flute during the Shivratri festival, see Mani Lama and Arati Thapa, 'Nepal: The Himalayan Kingdom, New Delhi 1996, p.57. For more information on the baansuri, see Ram Prasad Kadel, 'Musical Instruments of Nepal, Kathmandu 2007, p.49 ++Various chips etc. Minor parts such as metal rings missing on probably two flutes
*A PAIR OF COPPER AND BRASS RITUAL HORNS (RKANGLING), EASTERN TIBET, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY copper and brass, each of slender tapered form, the faceted bell of flattened section with slightly upturned profile, fitting into compartments together in original wood case with leather strap 46cm long each This type of horn, always used in pairs, was originally made from the thighbone of a priest, although many metal versions were produced. For an illustration of two monks playing similar horns and a discussion of their usage, see Mireille Helffer, 'Mchod-rol: Les Instruments de la Musique Tibetaine', Paris 1994, p.266f. For a similar example see Thomas E. Cross, 'Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Tibet: The Shrine to Music Museum, Catalogue of the Collections, Vol II, 1982, p.26 ++Horns slightly knocked and dented, wood case with chips and old repair in metal
with hand-signed maker's label 'Constructor de Guitarras, Granada', rosewood fingerboard, bridge and bindings, lightwood back and sides, in hard case With CITES A10 (non-transferable) licence no.614160/01significant dishing between frets, some marks to front from playing, Finish has started to wear through on upper right hand edge of back, appears to have no visible repairs or cracks. Signature handwritten in ink
Circa 1885, Serial No. 152754, Gamme No. 1127, playing twelve regional, folk and march airs, period tunesheet, with single-spring motor, two-part comb with separate right-hand comb for the 9 bells on lever-select, each with engraved detail and plain crown strikers, arranged linier-buffet, in plain ebonised interior under dustlid, in superbly re-figured burr yew inlaid case with domed lid, side handles, fully professionally restored - 27.1/2in. wide, the cylinder 17.1/4in.Plays smoothly, all teeth and tips present
circa 1850, Serial No. unknown, playing 6 obscure Scottish airs, with early single-section comb, Geneva stopwork, tunesheet, in ebonised hardwood case with gilt brass inlaid decoration, start/stop to front and change/repeat to left side - width of case 5 3/4 in., cylinder 3 1/2 in.Plays smoothly, all teeth and tips present
Danny John Jules collection two signed 7x5 black and white photos one dedicated. Daniel John Jules (born 16 September 1960) is a British actor, singer and dancer. He is best known for playing Cat in the sci fi comedy series Red Dwarf and policeman Dwayne Myers in the crime drama Death in Paradise. He was also a protagonist in the hit CBBC children s spy drama M. I. High, in which he portrayed Lenny Bicknall, the caretaker. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Star, Geoffrey Palmer signed 10x8 colour Tomorrow Never Dies promo photograph Palmer was known for playing Admiral Roebuck in 1997, 007 Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Actor, Jurgen Tarrach signed 10x8 colour promo photograph pictured during his time playing Schultz in Casino Royale. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Girl, Caroline Munro signed and kissed 10x8 colour photograph pictured during her time playing 007 Bond Girl. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Girl, Catherine Schell and Sylvia Henriques signed 10x8 colour promo photograph pictured during their time playing in 007, James Bond spy film. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Girl, Cary Lowell signed 10x8 colour photograph. Clery was known for playing Bond girl Corinne Dufour, antagonist Hugo Drax's assistant, in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Girl, Anne Lonnberg signed 10x8 black and white photograph. Lonnberg is known for playing the museum guide and one of Drax's girls in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bond Girl, Luciana Paluzzi signed 10x8 colour photograph. She is best known for playing S. P. E. C. T. R. E. assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
James Bond Roger Moore signed 10x8 James Bond colour photo. Sir Roger George Moore KBE (14 October 1927 - 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. Moore's seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
James Bond Tania Mallett signed 5x3 album page inscribed AKA Tilly Masterson Goldfinger. Tania Mallet (19 May 1941 - 30 March 2019) was an English actress and model, best known for playing Tilly Masterson in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
James Bond Curd Jurgens signed 5x3 album page. Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jurgens (13 December 1915 - 18 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. His English-language roles include James Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Éric Carradine in And God Created Woman (1956), and Professor Immanuel Rath in The Blue Angel (1959). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bernard Lee signed 4x3 album page. John Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 - 16 January 1981), known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lee appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and in television dramatizations. He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen in films such as The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate, and Whistle Down the Wind. He died of stomach cancer in 1981, aged 73. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
James Bond George Lazenby signed 6x4 album page. George Robert Lazenby ( born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor and former model. He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Having appeared in only one film, Lazenby's tenure as Bond is the shortest among the actors in the series. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
A Chinese Yong Zheng famille-rose jar decorated with a boy playing in a garden with a dog, two women, vase of Chrysanthemums, etc (with damage and repair), 15.5 cm high CONDITION REPORTS Has several hairline cracks and has further cracking which has been restored throughout. Losses to the enamel decoration throughout. Some firing faults, surface scratches, etc.
A pair of 19th Century porcelain and cast brass baluster shaped candlesticks, the main bodies enamel decorated with two gentlemen in 17th Century dress in a landscape with floral sprays verso, the brass mounts of scrollwork acanthus and shell decoration stamped to base "L Henry" 23 cm high, a slender porcelain floral spray decorated jug of slender proportions with cover 17.5 cm high, a 19th Century biscuit fired porcelain lidded box as a pack of playing cards with King of Diamonds to top, numbered to underside "1876" 12 cm x 8 cm and a Continental floral spray decorated porcelain inkwell and cover 8.5 cm diameter x 7 cm high CONDITION REPORTS Jug - appears in good condition throughout. Lid with minor chip to underside of rim - see images for further detail and mark. Inkwell - basically sound though with chip to one of the lobes of the liner and could do with a clean arguably.Candlesticks - basically sound though with wear to the gilding of the metalwork and slight wear to the enamelling, minor scratching etc conducive with age and use, but no serious sign of damage "Card" box with damage to lid in the form of firing cracks across the king's head and the striker interior. Chip to the corner underside of same end. Small chips to the rim of the base - see images for further detail
A group of Goebel Hummel figures, comprising The Annual Plate for 1980, boxed, four pin dishes, 1986, 1974, 1994 and 1980, various figures comprising child playing clarinet, child walking with umbrella, child with basket, child playing accordion, child camping, and child perched on fence. (a quantity, AF)
Cardiganshire. Redmayne (William), Cardigan-Shire, John Lenthall [1711 edition], engraved playing card map of Cardigan (Jack of diamonds), with a large uncoloured diamond placed over the county map, with English text above and below the map, 90 x 50 mm, together with Morden (Robert). Cardigan Sh: 2nd edition [1676], engraved playing card map of Cardigan (6 of spades), some dust soiling, 95 x 55 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:William Redmayne's playing cards were first published in 1676 as the 'Recreative Pastime by Cardplay; Geographical. Chronological and Historiographical of England and Wales...,'. This example - published by John Lenthall - was the third and final edition of these cards and can be identified by the decorative borders.Robert Morden’s set of playing cards was published in 1676 as a pack of fifty-four cards, including a title and explanation card. The Welsh and southwest counties of England are spades. There was a second edition published in the same year but they are considered comparatively rare. There was a third edition published in 1680 in partnership with Joseph Pask but these were in a bound volume, and finally in 1773 by H. Turpin, but this edition has no suit marks (to discourage gambling).
Continental fan. A painted fan, mid 18th century, folding paper fan, hand-painted to both sides of the leaf, the recto with 4 children dancing in a river landscape, with a fifth child playing a pipe whilst sitting on the branch of a tree, 2 further figures beside nets on the shore, a fortified building in the background, and borders of floral decoration, folds a little rubbed and marked, faint 10 cm crease (paper fault?), the verso with a large mass of roses and other flower stems, mounted on ivory sticks, guardsticks with brass inlay on a tortoiseshell and mother of pearl ground, 25 cm (10 ins), together with:A painted fan, early 19th century, folding paper fan, hand-painted on recto with a large vignette depicting Hagar and the angel, with Ishmael and an empty water jar to the left, flanked by vignettes of a basket with rake on the left and a pair of sheep on the right, rubbed, and some offsetting from sticks, mounted on bone sticks, probably lacking backing paper, 2 cm superficial crack in lower guardstick, 28 cm (11 ins),Chinese fan. A painted fan, circa 1870s, folding paper fan, hand-painted to both sides of the leaf, the recto with an Oriental gentleman and lady in a landscape with flowers, the gentleman pointing to a bird perched on the bough of a tree, the verso with a large flower stem (toned), strengthened with archival tissue to both sides on left, mounted on pierced ivory sticks, 28 cm (11 ins), and an 18th century Vernis Martin ivory brisé fan, pierced and hand-painted with large central cartouche depicting a seated lady and a gentleman in a landscape, a lady standing to the right with a basket of flowers on her head, remainder with flowers, birds, and figures, rubbed, and some repaired damage, 22 cm (8 3/4 ins), contained in a pink silk-covered fan box (extremities worn)QTY: (4)
Victorian marquetry inlaid games table, the chess board top opening to reveal a baize lined playing surface with cribbage boards to each end, the lower tier opening to reveal a fitted interior with central well, raised on a bulbous stem and quadruple foliate carved cabriole legs, 53.5cm wide
An Arts & Crafts sheet copper wall plaque embossed with a seated maiden playing the lyre, with four enamel corner panels, apparently unsigned, 37.5 x 35cm overall 52 x 52cm, framed.Additional InformationWe cannot give an accurate condition report as the piece is framed with a boarded back. Numerous parts of the piece are dented, Light scratches, scuffs, etc.
NICHOLSON'S COMPLETE PRECEPTOR FOR THE GERMAN FLUTE in a style so perfectly simple and easy that the pupil may be able to attain the art of playing the flute in its improved and superior style of embellishments and wherein the Beauties and capabilities of the flute are developed in a series of rules and instructions for the management of tone, articulation, double tonguing, gliding vibration and other graces calculated to afford great facility in the pupils practice and founded intirely on a new system to which are added a series of original easy progressive lessons for one or two flutes (ad libitum) together with a complete set of preludes, cadences &c, composed by the author in two books price 7/6 each', printed and sold by Preston at his wholesale warehouses, 97, Strand. This appears to be Book one only and has been rebound. Endpaper has signature "Josiah Knight 1818".

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