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Lot 247
Georgian Play.- Poole (John, playwright and writer, 1785/6-1872) Paul Pry, manuscript prompt book, titles and 118pp., title loose, central folds, browned, morocco-backed boards, worn, covers detached, spine defective, 8vo, 1826.⁂ Prompt book for one of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century.Prompt book made by R.J. Collier, prompter of the Theatre Royal, Hull, in 1826, for the production of Paul Pry which had first been performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on 13th September 1825. Cast list as recorded here is that of the original London production, including: John Liston (c. 1776-1846), actor; played Paul Pry ("Paul Pry, with his catchphrase 'I hope I don't intrude', was a unique creation, dressed in baggy striped trousers tucked into hessian boots, tail coat, and top hat, and accompanied always by an umbrella" - (Oxford DNB); and Lucia Vestris [née Bartolozzi], (1797-1856), actress and singer ("a fashionable star... [Vestris] even acquired a signature tune when she introduced the song 'Cherry Ripe' into John Poole's Paul Pry at the Haymarket in 1825" - (Oxford DNB)."[John] Liston played the title role in Paul Pry, which opened at the Haymarket on 13 September 1825. 'Go where you would 40 years ago', noted The Times on 31 August 1866, 'you could not, by any means, avoid Paul Pry.' It was, perhaps, the most popular single piece on the London stage since The Beggar's Opera in 1728." - Oxford DNB.
Lot 135
A rare mid-19th century Canadian brass-strung mahogany two-day marine chronometer with Lund-type auxiliary compensation and exhibition provenanceA. B. Smalley & Son, Saint John, New Brunswick, Number 3712The three-part case with replaced top lid and double brass strung lines to the front, the centre section with brass 12-point star button above a mother of pearl signature plaque, A. B. Smalley & Son, 3712 the lower section with inlaid brass 12-point star escutcheon and campaign handles. Internally, the case has a full length hinge, retaining bar, safety key in its quadrant, gimbal lock and the remains of an applied horological advert....Brewers Canal, Antwerp.The 3.75-inch silvered dial signed A. B. Smalley & Son, Makers to the Admiralty, Saint John, New Brunswick, the minute band framing Roman numerals, with gold hands, the subsidiary power reserve dial at XII running from 0-56 in 8 hour increments and instruction to wind at 24 hours, large observatory-style seconds subsidiary between V-VII, engraved 3712 Auxiliary Compensation in red. The spotted full plate movement with four tapered pillars and maintaining power to the chain fusee, free sprung blued steel helical balance spring with diamond endstone and Earnshaw type escapement, cut and compensated bimetallic balance with timing screws and unique bimetallic auxiliary compensation to the upper end of each of the circular weights, in a weighted, gimballed bowl, punch numbered 2022. Ticking with a Tipsy key. Please note, this lot will be subject to US Fish and Wildlife regulations if imported into the USA 20cms (7.5ins) highFootnotes:Exhibited 'Your Time', an exhibition by the Northern Section of the Antiquarian Horological Society at Prescot Museum, February-April 2008; Williamson Museum & Art Gallery, Birkenhead February-April 2008. Exhibit P60.Arthur Ball Smalley was born in London around 1841 and initially worked in the city before relocating to St. John, New Brunswick Canada in 1870 to marry one of the residents, Deborah Tucker May. May was originally from Nova Scotia and was about nine years Smalley's junior; although she describes herself as English, it does not seem that she had ever been to the U.K. before her marriage, which raises the question of how she met Smalley. Interestingly, it states that Smalley's 'point of origin' was Massachusetts; perhaps this was where his ship docked, and he travelled up to New Brunswick from there, or he may have initially established himself in Massachusetts and met May there?Smalley described himself as a jeweller throughout his career, the British Horological Institute noted that he was 'a leading watchmaker of St. John's, New Brunswick', though it remains unknown to which Company, if any, he served his apprenticeship. He was an occasional contributor to the Horological Journal, particularly as regards chronometers, with which he seemed to have a particular interest. In 1876, he submitted a model of a new marine chronometer balance to the British Horological Institute; it comprised of a backwards Z-shaped balance wheel, with both sections of the arm at right angles to each other. In 1881, the family was living at 201 Douglas Ave. and it seems likely that the shop was located in a different building. This was certainly the case by 1894, where the shop address was listed as 91 Prince William St. Smalley and May would have seven children including Arthur Cobden, who would become a jeweller as well, and it seems carry on the work in the shop. By 1901, the shop had been renamed from A.B. Smalley to A. B. Smalley & Son.It is unknown when Smalley died, both he and May were still living in 1917, and attended one of their children's weddings. It is tentatively suggested that they had both died by 1928, though this is far from certain. No records can be found of Arthur Cobden after about 1913; whether he died or simply moved out of New Brunswick is unknown. It is known, however, that the shop at 91 Prince William Street ceased trading in 1919; after this date it became a chocolate makers and then a spice shop. In 2008, the shop gained listed status in New Brunswick and remains famous, among other things, for being the site of Smalley's Jewellery.John Richard Lund (c.1806-78) took out Patent number 9969 in 1843 as part of the effort to combat the problems caused by middle temperature error in marine chronometers. Essentially, the correcting weight which was attached to the balance had a secondary compensating feature comprising of a bimetallic curb connected to weight held internally on a pivoted arm. The effect of this device under heat was to alter the radius of gyration in a non-linear fashion. The beauty of the design is that these correcting weights could be placed on balances 'after market'. An excellent coloured drawing of his set-up is illustrated in Betts (2017) 'Marine Chronometers at Greenwich', OUP, Figure 4.47.4. The current lot has a similar bimetallic curb attached to both weights, each terminating in a gold screw. Beta (1902) 'Jottings', The Horological Journal, Vol. 44 (11), pg. 149.Smalley, A. B. (1901) 'Poole', The Horological Journal, Vol. 44 (2), pg. 24.Smalley, A. B. (1894) 'Mathews', The Horological Journal, Vol. 37 (3), pg. 42.Parks Canada (2008) 'Smalley's Jewellery', Canada's Historic Places. Available at: https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=9303Smalley, A. B. (1894) 'Timing Watches', The Horological Journal, Vol. 37 (1), pg. 13.Smalley, A. B. (1877) 'American Watchmaking', The Horological Journal, Vol. 19 (7), pgs. 97-98.Smalley, A. B. (1876) 'Solid Angular Rim Balance', The Horological Journal, Vol. 18 (12), pg. 176-177.New Brunswick Cananda (2022) Provincial Archives of New Brunswick: Smalley [Online], New Brunswick, Minister of Finance. Available: https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/FEDS/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA&fn=zuWSDOdvu5AynbwtiE4mbNYc7zV25D3uV4vO8iY6DY8=&gn=17cfXq9OXL/4vY3WiHPN75ZkEjrRCjekjSDOEV2ewMM=&y1=1820&y2=1950This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 68
An extremely rare late 18th century weight driven walnut-cased floor standing regulatorHenry Ward, BlandfordThe obelisk-form case with shallow pointed arched top over tapering sides to an upright rectangular base on a plinth with moulded lip, the circular dial aperture set into the front of the full-width hinged door. The 9-inch one-piece engraved silvered dial with curved aperture to show the minutes via a rotating minute ring with Arabic fives read against a tapering blued steel pointer, below the minute aperture sit two engraved subsidiaries, to the left is a 24-hour dial with Roman hours marked in three hour intervals marked to the nearest quarter of an hour (i.e. four divisions per hour) read by a simple blued steel tapering hand; to the right hand side is a twice 0-60 second subsidiary dial, marked in individual seconds and named every ten, again read via a simple blued steel tapering pointer. The weight driven movement with unique inverted truncated pyramid shaped backplate (suggestive of a parallelogon) secured directly on to the back of the dial via three 7cms (2.75ins) long turned pillars, the single going train consisting of two large (c.13cms (5ins)) finely cut wheels with screwed collets and eight-leaf pinions driving a 7.5cms (3ins) 'scape wheel with 60 pins. The steel impulse and exit pallets are set directly on the pendulum rod. The pendulum is set on a substantial brass bracket mounted on the walnut block, and is constructed in three parts - two steel arms centred by a zinc core, of octagonal section, set at the upper end with a pair of steel pallets mounted on a brass block, the lower end terminating in a very heavy spherical brass bob with additional auxiliary timing weight (the largest bob approximately 13cms (5ins) in diameter and weighing approximately 10.5kg (approx 23lbs). 1.78m (5ft 10ins) high. Footnotes:Henry Ward was born around 1776; it is unknown where he was born, though he would spend most of his working life in Blandford, Dorset. However, his brother Richard, described as a watchmaker, lived in Middlesex. The details of his early career remain unknown, though, in 1797 a Henry Ward is listed in the Charing Church warden's book as having been involved with the upkeep of the clock for that year. Unlike many of the other listed clockmakers, his place of residence is not recorded. In 1804, Henry Ward of Blandford supplied and installed a turret clock to Milton Abbey, though the actual movement appears to have been manufactured by John Thwaites in London. This, along with his brother's place of residence and the Charing Church records, suggests Ward may have at least been apprenticed in London. In 1805 he received his first of four awards from the Royal Society of Arts, in the form of 15 guineas for a new simplified striking system. This system was noticeably different from other striking systems, as it did away with a separate striking train, instead using the pendulum to power the hammer via front plate levers: The hammer and the pallets are joined together with a rack; a lever is attached to the pallets and once the clock is striking, the pallet lever moves the rack tooth by tooth. Each movement of the rack connects with the hammer tail and causes a blow to be sounded. Ward notes that he uses this system with a deadbeat escapement. Interestingly Edmund Beckett Denison, later Lord Grimthorpe, in his Rudimentary Treatise On Clocks, Watches, & Bells For Public Purposes advocated for a crutch-less escapement. He noted that an escapement which had the pallets on the pendulum would be much more effect, though he did say that this was 'hardly possible [...] to manage behind a clock of regulator size.'Less than two years later Ward had received another award from the society, this time in the form of a silver medal, for his compensation pendulum. This pendulum consisted of two hammered iron rods on either side of a zinc rod, all secured by several screws along the length of the rods. These screws acted as adjustment, according to Ward; unscrewing the screw by one thread, would result in an alteration of the clock's going by about one quarter of one second per day. Ward was quite thorough in his experimentation, making up two pendulums, one using un-hammered iron and the other with half-hammered iron, and observing the change in their respective timekeeping based on the temperature. He even installed a rudimentary heat lamp in each clock case, to be able to test increases in temperature without being dependent on the weather. He eventually refined his pendulum to have chamfered edges and hammered iron rods, both of which he claimed further stabilised the clock's rate. This same year, he also received 10 guineas from the Society, for his invention of a locking crank mechanism for telegraph machines. His final prize from the society would come in 1814, in the form of another silver medal and five guineas for a simplified equation of time complication. This manifested itself as a minute dial with two hands; one hand recorded mean time, and the other tracked solar time. Ward explained in his submission to the Society that he thought it was essential to depict solar time, as the difference between it and mean time could be as much as -14/+16 minutes depending on the day of the year. That this complication was uncommon on standard domestic clocks, Ward ascribed to the cost, expertise, and skill of manufacture necessary. He viewed his complication, which relied on a cam, quadrant rack and a few additional wheels, as simplified and easier to make, with the hope that it would be adopted by more manufacturers. Unfortunately, Ward would die less than a year later, on 23rd February 1815. He is listed in the Blandford Forum burial records for 5th March of that year. Interestingly, he is listed as 'Henry, Ward Snr' opening up the possibility that a son of the same name was still alive as of 1815, though this conjectural child has not yet been located. His brother Richard, and his friend James Ferris, the latter of whom worked from Poole, having been apprenticed to Thomas Wright of London, served as the executors of his will. Richard Ward continued to work in London, at 27 Banner St., St. Luke's until at least 1853. A possible description of his house from 1815 suggests that he had three paying lodgers in his house at that time. This same source also references Mary Ann Ward, who was the daughter of Richard Ward; it seems likely that this is the same Richard Ward, though this cannot be confirmed.Passing reference has also been made to a Henry J. Ward, who was apprenticed to a Thomas Mayne as a watch finisher in 1792 at St. Luke's, London. Assuming Henry J. Ward was 14 at the time of his apprenticeship, he would have been born two years after Henry Ward. Whether this is actually Ward's younger brother, or simply an amusing coincidence, remains unknown.An early 19th century turret clock is known by Ward; it has a pinwheel escapement, with pendulum mounted pallets and a vertical fly. He seems to have been partial to a pinwheel escapement as several of his more complicated clocks used one. Longcase clocks of 30 hour and eight-day duration, as well as silver pocket watches, including one with a duplex escapement, are all known by him as well.Kelly (1843) Post Office London Street Directory, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.University of Leicester (2022) Historical Directories of England & Wales: London 1808-1915. Available at: https://specialcoll... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 228
A collection of various Denby twin tone green glazed dinner wares and a box of various china wares to include Osborne China "Glendale" tea set, Royal Doulton "Wildflower" dinner and tea wares, Czechoslovakian part tea set, Crown Ducal vase, Shelley vase, Poole Pottery biscuit barrel, Queen Victorian Diamond Jubilee beaker, etc
Lot 933
JOHN POOLE, MAKER TO THE ADMIRALTY, FENCHURCH. LONDON. A LATE 19TH CENTURY MARINE CHRONOMETER the brass bowl with a 4" silvered engraved dial having Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds and power reserve dials fronting a chain driven fusee movement with Harrison maintaining power, bi-metallic compensated balance wheel with diamond end stop, blued hairspring, and Earnshaw detent escapement. Missing outer box.The chronometer is not in working condition and will need attention.
Lot 339
Concert Programmes plus, eleven programmes comprising Rockpile, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Rod Stewart, Roxette, Barry Manilow, Classical Spectacular (four) and Jim Davison - sold together with Slade B.C. Enterprises Special Magazine and sixteen Mister Softee Cards with artists including The Beatles, Donovan, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Fortunes, Sandie Shaw, Dave Clark Five and more - various conditions
Lot 3
Collection of Poole pottery, printed and impressed marks, including a Delphis pattern orange brown bowl, 16.2cm dia, assorted bowls and vases painted with colourful flowersprays, two brown glazed vegetable-shaped dishes, a sugar bowl and cover, two turquoise glazed dolphins and two seals, together with a group of Art Deco style Honiton pottery jugs, vases and dishes
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