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Lot 170
A pair of Staffordshire Pottery theatrical figures, both leaning on plinths, she with a parasol and he, possibly Lord Byron, wearing a blue sash, 8in (20.25cm) high, together with two similar theatrical groups of musicians, one restored, and a theatrical figure of a seated musician playing the guitar, damaged (5) Provenance: The Hugh Thomas Appleton Collection of Staffordshire Pottery figures.
Lot 40
A WALES INTERNATIONAL RUGBY UNION JERSEY 'WORN & PRESENTED BY W.D MORRIS, V FRANCE 1974', bearing stitched crest and No.6 to reverse, Dai 'The Shadow' Morris was voted into an all-time greatest Wales XV rugby side as blindside-flanker, he gained 34 caps between 1967 and 1974 scoring six tries, he was one of Neath RFC's greatest servants playing 414 times. Dai Morris is somewhat of a South Wales working class folk-hero and was said to have worked shifts in the coal mine in the morning and turned-out for his country in the afternoon. 'The Shadow' it is said, is the one of the most hardworking, sensitive and modest Welsh rugby legends Provenance: Llandaff North Rugby Sports& Social Club Ltd
Lot 281
TWO 1920's WALL CALENDARSfor 'G.Morison & Sons, Manufacturing Confectioners, Grange Street, Kilmarnock.', both with photographic images, the 1925 calendar with lady and horse portrait entitled 'Friends', the 1926 example with lady playing piano 'The Lost Chord', 36.5cm x 24cm and 39.5cm x 26.3cm respectively
![A PRAXINOSCOPE THEATRE, BY E.R. [RAYNAUD], PARIS circa 1880, comprising a 21.5cm diameter drum with a twelve-section mirrore](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7432e1f5-2c61-4fac-8741-a6b40117ee5b/ec200f39-4b23-464e-d63b-f5df9ce55219/468x382.jpg)
Lot 857
A PRAXINOSCOPE THEATRE, BY E.R. [RAYNAUD], PARIS circa 1880, comprising a 21.5cm diameter drum with a twelve-section mirrored centre, on a turned support and surmounted by a candle-lit prop and (replacement) paper shade, in a mahogany box with a (replacement) printed paper theatre curtain to the viewing board, and original printed paper theatre foyer and front door interior detailing, together with a subject list of twenty motion strips, the box now containing seven motion strips (one incomplete; most torn and repaired), showing a juggler, dogs jumping through a hoop, a girl feeding poultry, and children playing, overall 40cm long when assembled.
Lot 513
Theora Hamblett (American/Mississippi, 1895-1977), "Girl at the Duck Pond", 1974, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, 10 in. x 8 in., framed. Note: Theora Hamblett began her professional career late in life, dismissing the abstract style popular at the time for something more personal and unique. Many of Hamblett’s paintings concentrated on her childhood memories, especially of the chicken farm in Paris MS where she spent her childhood. In nearly all of her landscape paintings, she included animals or people, with the belief that those additions gave life to the scenes. She also painted many landscapes that featured children playing games to evoke a sense of nostalgia. After an accident that broke her hip and required surgery in 1954, she began to paint her dreams and visions, with many of her visions showing religious scenes. The same year, New York gallery owner and famous collector, Betty Parsons, discovered Hamblett's work and subsequently one of her paintings was included in a 1955 show of new acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art. In "Girl at the Duck Pond" offered here, the scene showcases two of Hamblett’s hallmarks – pattern and color. Almost obsessively flat areas of color off-set by the equally flat subjects are in drastic contrast to the highly patterned trees. The resulting effect of the foliage evokes movement and accentuates the background, drawing the eye to the key figures of the girl and ducks. Ref.: Wertkin, Gerard, ed. Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 243-244. "Theora Hamblett." Greg Thompson Fine Art. www.gregthompsonfineart.com. Accessed Oct. 24, 2016.
Lot 269
Fine Swiss Paillard Interchangeable Cylinder Music Box, c. 1890, marked "Manufactured by C. Paillard & Co., Ste. Croix, Switzerland" and with Washington D.C. retailer's label, burled walnut, ebonized and satinwood inlaid case, gilt handles, 6 cylinders playing 6 songs each, with conforming storage box, h. 11 1/2 i1/2 in., w. 43 in., d. 16 in., cylinder dia. 2 1/2 in
Lot 234
*Naval General Service, 1793-1840, single clasp, 14 March 1795 (R. Honyman, Lieut. R.N.), with segment of original ribbon, old cabinet tone, once very gently polished with light hairlines, otherwise good extremely fine and lustrous. Admiral of the Blue Robert Honyman was born in December 1767 at Orphir, Orkney, son of Sir Patrick Honyman of Clestrain Hall, Stromness (a descendant of Robert, first Earl of Orkney, natural son of James V of Scotland) and Margaret Sinclair; half-brother to William Honyman, Lord Armadale. Educated at Edinburgh, he entered the Royal Navy on 20 April 1782 as Captain’s servant aboard H.M.S. Queen under Captain Patrick Sinclair, his father-in-law, and saw service in the North Sea. He reached the rank of Midshipman the following year in September 1783 whilst aboard the Hyaena on the Irish Station, and then was again promoted to Lieutenant on 21 October 1790 whilst employed aboard the Powerful. On the renewal of hostilities against the French in 1793 he obtained a position aboard H.M.S. Diadem and sailed for the Mediterranean, where he was present at the occupation of Toulon. He was later present aboard H.M.S. St George, the flagship of Sir Hyde Parker, where he was wounded during Admiral William Hotham’s action on 14 March 1795 against the French Fleet off the coast of Genoa (also known as the Battle of Genoa). Fighting alongside their Neapolitan allies, the British won the encounter and captured two French ships of the line in the process; the Ça Ira and Censeur, with Captain Horatio Nelson playing a prominent role in the battle. Receiving a second commission by promotion on 13 August 1796, Captain Honyman assumed command of the sloop Tisiphone on 4 May 1797, and during that same year he was responsible for the capture of the French privateers La Prospére (14) and Le Cerf Volante (14) with a total of 136 men. He achieved the Post-rank of Captain on 10 December 1798, and in 1800 conveyed Admiral Robert Montagu to Jamaica. Whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Leda off the coast of France Captain Honyman took the opportunity to attack an enemy gunboat flotilla on 29 September 1803, driving two gunboats onshore. In another attack on 24 April 1805 he discovered 26 enemy vessels rounding Cape Grisnez, and during a two hour encounter he succeeded in cutting off seven schuyts, carrying a total of 18 guns, 1 howitzer and 168 men travelling from Dunkerque to Ambleteuse. Captain Honyman and the Leda continued to see action during the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope and the capture of the Rolla brig and Volontaire frigate at Table Bay. Honyman also played a part in the operations at Rio de la Plata, and in the capture of the privateer L’Adolphe (18) in December 1807, prior to her wrecking near the entrance of Milford Haven on 31 January 1808, for which Honyman was acquitted of all blame owing to the understandable mistakes of the pilot made in terrible conditions of fog and adverse weather. He became Rear-Admiral on 27 May 1825, Vice-Admiral on 10 January 1837, and full Admiral on 19 February 1847. He was elected M.P. in 1802 for Orkney and Shetland whilst serving the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant, retiring from further parliamentary work in 1807. He was married to Margaret Henrietta Knight, and he died in Paris c. 21 March 1848, as recorded in contemporary newspapers. John Graham of Fintry described Honyman in 1805 as ‘the most warm hearted worthy man I ever saw.’
Lot 279
*An Scarce Officer’s Tibet and N.W. Persia Group of 5 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly, 2nd / 1st Madras Pioneers, late 32nd and 64th Pioneers, Indian Army, comprising: Tibet 1903-05, single clasp, Gyantse (Lieut. H. St. G. H. Harvey. Kelly 64th Pioneers); British War Medal (Maj. H. St. G. Harvey Kelly.); General Service Medal, 1918-1962, single clasp, N. W. Persia (Major H. St. G. H. Harvey Kelly.); India General Service Medal, 1908-1935, single clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj, H, St, G, H, Harvey-Kelly, 2-1 M, Pnrs,); Jubilee Medal 1935; Group loose, with original riband bar, lightly polished and cleaned, very fine or better (5). The Harvey-Kelly family were a landed family from Westmeath, Ireland, and Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly was born in 1880. He passed out from Sandhurst in 1899, following which he received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant (Unattached List) in the Indian Staff Corps on 17 January 1900, as shown in the original warrant included with the lot. Soon after he was made a 2nd Lieutenant with the 32nd Pioneer’s, and sent to join Younghusband’s Tibet campaign of 1903-05, where he was present at the action at Niani (also spelt Naini) on 26 June 1904, on the strategic main road leading to Gyantse. As recorded in his personal journal, the storming and subsequent capture of this heavily fortified monastery was his first experience of battle (‘My first show!’), and he wrote: “2 Coys 32nd were ordered to attack under B- [Colonel Herbert Ralph Brander, C.B.] skirmished around selected house + garden about 150 yds from the village, and as we approached on the other side the enemy opened fire. A row of 4 houses loopholed & barricaded doors + windows, nothing to be seen but puffs of smoke, and we in a ditch, open fields between us, firing at the loopholes…maxims chattering, 7 pounders banging. After a while the enemy fire died down and then ceased. ‘That’s all that then, said B-, if they know what’s good for them – they’ve bolted. I’m going to rush the house.’ which with a wild yell he proceeded to do. Up we jumped and followed him but no sooner had we shown ourselves than the enemy’s fire recommenced. They had been waiting for a better target. On we ran, one man down on my left, & so up to the first house. B- hammered on the door, so did the Sepoys, not a sound from within and no way of getting in. No signs of Tibetans, must have bolted. Gun cotton was left behind by order…Orders came from Colonel Hogge – 23rd will clear the houses, 32nd the garden in the middle of the village. The garden was a walled in enclosure – loopholed – gateway bricked up, and a clear run of 60 yards to reach it. B started giving orders to circle behind…we followed, not a sign of the enemy, our own shrapnel playing hell’s bells above our heads. B reached the gate and we had the bricks down, waiting to rush them. Another minute and we were in. Not a soul in the place. Having carried out our orders, there we sat in the shade of a tree and had tiffin…until it was time to march to Gyantse.” Harvey-Kelly also took part in the operations at and around the mountain fortress at Gyantse, between 5 May and 6 July 1904, and then during the march to Lhassa between 14 July and 3 August 1904. Afterwards he served in the 64th Pioneers between c. late 1904 and 1907, and then in North West Persia and Waziristan between September 1919 and May 1921 with the 2nd Battalion / 1st Madras Pioneers. He retired from service in the Indian Army in 1928, whereupon he joined the South Indian Railway as Executive Officer, Golden Rock Colony. He worked in this capacity until 9 October 1935, when he decided to leave India and return home, having been presented with the King’s Silver Jubilee medal at a Durbar in Trichinopoly just weeks before on 3 September 1935. He appears to have spent his retirement in Bedford, where his sons attended Bedford Modern School. He sons served with distinction in the Great War: Herbert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly was a famous pilot - the first to land in France and the first RFC pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft before being shot down in Bloody April and dying from wounds. Another son, Charles Hamilton Hume Harvey-Kelly, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Baluch Light Infantry, served as Military Attaché to Kabul, and won the D.S.O. This group offered with an original warrant, portrait photograph, an original copy of the ‘Farewell Address’ to Harvey-Kelly from the Golden Rock Colony, letter from the South Indian Railway Co. confirming his nomination for the King’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, and other related research. Harvey-Kelly’s archive, including his journal and photographs of the Tibet expedition, will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s London, Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 November 2016
Lot 192
MICHAEL HARTNETT: A FAREWELL TO ENGLISH, edited Peter Fallon, Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1978, enlarged edition, original plain card wraps, dust-wrappers plus PEARSE HUTCHINSON: THE FROST IS ALL OVER, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1975, original playing card wraps, dust-wrapper, plus PEARSE HUTCHINSON: WATCHING THE MORNING GROW, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1972, original plain card wraps, dust-wrapper, plus JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN: SELECTED POEMS, Edited Michael Smith, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1974, original printed wraps plus EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN: ACTS AND MONUMENTS, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1972, original plain card wraps, dust-wrapper, plus DESMOND O'GRADY: THE HEADGEAR OF THE TRIBE, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1979, original plain card wraps, dust-wrapper (6)
Lot 103
Japanese Very Finely Carved and Signed 19th Century Ivory Netsuke of a Geisha Girl Playing a Musical Instrument In a Kneeling Position. Signed to Shoulder - Please See Photo. 1.75 Inches High. A Top Quality Netsuke In Wonderful Condition. Cannot be Exported Outside the U.K without a Cita Certificate.
Lot 1123
Walnut Cased Fine Quality Table Top Polyphon Music Box, Playing 15.75 Inches Metal Discs, Mar, Work to Cover. Comb as 78 Teeth. Wonderful Tone, Manufactured by Polyphon, Musikwerke A G of Lipzig. 1895 - 1918. Complete with Lidded Cabinet Box, Containing 19 Discs of 15.75 Inches Diameter. Size - 10.25 Inches High, 21 Inches Wide & 19 Inches Deep. Excellent Quality and Condition.
Lot 91
Edmund Blampied RE (Jersey, 1886-1966), Study of a bearded man playing a musical instrument; and a secondary study of a bearded man without his hat, pen and ink on wove paper, signed 'E. Blampied Dec' '08', in plain gold frame, 12 5/8 x 8¾in. (32 x 22.2cm.), * Condition: Surface dirty and scattered foxing. Acidic mount.
Lot 34
A near pair of 19th century Sevres porcelain chargers, one with incised interlaced Ls mark, the other incised 'G1N', with celeste blue borders decorated with trailing foliage and flowers, one with central pictorial of a caped gentleman serenading his female companion, the other depicting a gentleman and his female companion dancing while a seated figure playing a hurdy gurdy looks on, 16¾in. (42.5cm.) diameter, both restored. (2), * Provenance: Christies 19th Nov. 1998, lot 160., ** Condition: One (with two figure decoration) has been broken and repaired, with a section out and repaired to left side of the decorated well. Oversprayed paint visible verso. Both have some gilt wear throughout. The other (with the three figures) has been broken in two places to the rim with large pieces detached, which has been well restored.
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