A pair of George I silver candlesticks by Joseph Bird London 1719 each raised on a spreading hexagonal foot tapering upwards to the knopped stem supporting the hexagonal sockets marked to the base and with the town mark to the socket engraved with armorials also with later unmarked nozzles 18.75cm high (stick only) 21.75cm (with nozzles) 26.75oz (31oz with nozzles) Family Records of the present owner indicate specifically in a 1947 inventory that the arms are those of Hafodunas and that their then owner had come by them as heir to his mother Mary Elizabeth Wynn Griffith whose own grandmother had been heiress of Penllech and Hafodunas. The (Wynn) Griffiths of Llanfairisgaer were extensive landowners in Anglesey Caernarvon and Merioneth. Members oftimes filled the post of Sheriff (the earliest recorded being that in Anglesey 1395/61) and Receiver General (of the Royal Rents) for North Wales (at various times from 1631 onwards). A collection of family papers rent rolls etc from the 16th century onwards is held in the National Library of Wales
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a Tri-ang Minic No.72M, articulated Brewery Lorry, post-war, red cab with a green trailer, good condition, complete with eight wooden barrels, boxed; a Tri-ang Minic No.33M, Steam Roller, post-war, green with grey plastic wheels, good condition, boxed (box lacking one end flap); a Tri-ang Minic No.78M, U.S. Army Jeep, olive with black plastic wheels, good condition, unboxed; and three other Tri-ang Minics, (6).
a pre-war Dinky No.29c, A.E.C. Double Decker Bus, cream and green with a grey roof, 'Dunlop Tyres' advertisements, generally good condition (front nearside wing cracked; hubs with fatigue crazing); a pre-war Dinky No.33rd, Mechanical Horse and Trailer, 'L.M.S. Express Parcels Traffic', maroon and black, generally good condition (hubs with fatigue crazing); a post-war French Dinky No.35a, Simca 5, green, good condition; and a small quantity of models by Dinky, Matchbox and others.
Twenty-four Corgi Classics commercial vehicle models, including a Bedford O Series Pantechnicon, 'Camp Hopson'; No.25001, Leyland Beaver Platform Lorry, 'British Railways'; No.16102, Scammell Highwayman Crane, 'Southdown'; a Bedford O Series Box Van, 'L.M.S.'; a Thorneycroft Van, 'Keiller'; No.97125, Bedford O Series Box Van, 'Post Office Telephones'; and others, generally mint or near mint, all boxed (some in appropriate but incorrect boxes).
Twenty-nine Lledo Vanguard 1/43 scale light commercials and cars, with five two-model sets, including No.VA3012, Austin A40 Van, 'Lyons Caterers'; No.VA14009, Mini Van, 'Castrol'; No.VA11007, Morris Minor Van, 'Caffyns'; No.ST1002, St. Andrews Ambulance Service Vans of the 1960s; No.PO2002, Post Office Telephones Service Vans of the 1960s; No.WV1002, Whitbread Service Vans of the 1950s & 1960s; and others, generally mint or near mint, all boxed.
A Timpo Toys streamlined racing car, metallic pale bronze, fair condition; a Dinky No.39e, Chrysler Royal, post-war, grey, fair condition; a Dinky No.29c, A.E.C. Double Decker Bus, pre-war, maroon, with a cream upper deck and grey roof, playworn (hubs fatigued); and a small quantity of other models, (box).
Postcards - A collection of topographical and other cards, including views of the Church and Post Office, Stone; and The Pier, Penarth; with artist-drawn cards by Mabel Lucie Attwell (1), Lance Thackeray (1), and Tom Browne (2); with a quantity of greetings cards; and a collection of cigarette and trade cards, (box).
OF GRAF SPEE INTEREST Two albums of various postcards and photographs taken by a rating aboard a R. N. Ship, giving an account of the Battle of the River Plate and the sinking of the Graf Spee and burial of her captain, also comprising photographs of various embarkations en route for the voyages of H. M. S. Shropshire and H. M. S. Ajax during the war and immediate post war period (2). * The Graf Spee was one of the most famous German Pocket Battleships. After the battle of the River Plate she sought sanctuary in Uruguay, but was returned . Her Captain famously scuttled the ship after leaving port, rather than face the waiting vessels of the R.N.
A post 1952 Tank Regiment car badge, the reverse inscribed 'Presented to Lt. Col. T.H. Gibbon O.B.E. by W.O.S. & Sgts. 6th RTKS', a brass bugle by Boosey & Co bearing inscription 'Presented to the 16th Battalion Tank Corps by Lt. Col. Hon. D. Bingham' and a modern skene-dhu by Nowill & Sons Sheffield.
The 1914-18 British War medal and the 1914-19 Victory medal to '2. Lieut. J. Evans', also paperwork to include discharge certificate, also a 1914-15 Star to 'Lieut. D.O. Evans. R.W. Fus.', the 1914-18 British War medal and the 1914-19 Victory medal to 'Lieut. D.O. Evans', died 12th February 1916 and buried at St Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebour L'Avoue, with the remains of the original boxes, a black enamelled badge detailed 'TVAC', a medallion commemorating the Investiture of Edward Prince of Wales, mounted as a brooch, cased and two 1935 Silver Jubilee commemorative medallions.
Ransome (Arthur). A complete set of FIRST EDITIONS of the twelve 'Swallows and Amazons' stories, all in dust-jackets, and generally in remarkably bright condition, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1930-1947, comprising Swallows and Amazons, 1930; Swallowdale, 1931; Peter Duck, 1932; Winter Holiday, 1933; Coot Club, 1934; Pigeon Post, 1936; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, 1937; Secret Water, 1939; The Big Six, 1940; Missee Lee, 1941; The Picts and the Martyrs, 1943; Great Northern?, 1947, all but the first with b&w illusts., dec. endpapers to each, top edges a little dusty, all orig. cloth in d.j.s., overall generally in excellent condition, with the exception of some browning to the spine and lower cover of the 'Swallows and Amazons' d.j., and some sl. edge wear and fading to the d.j. of 'Missee Lee', 8vo A superb collection in generally excellent condition. In addition, three volumes ('Secret Water', 'Missee Lee' and 'The Picts and the Martyrs') have been signed by the author on the half-title. (12)
*Whistler (Rex, 1905-44). Original design for a tombstone, c.1926, pen and wash on paper, approx. 205 x 120mm, together with an autograph letter signed addressed to Miss Cynthia Lewin refering to the design, with orig. envelope post marked 15th Nov 1926, and with The Poetical Works of John Keats... by H. Buxton Forman, 1929, orig. pen & wash drawing to front blank entitled "To Clodagh with Love and Best Wishes from Rex W.", a.e.g., contemp. gilt dec. green calf by Bumpus, 8vo, and with two letters signed by Laurence Whistler, dated Nov 10th & 15th 1960, plus other related material Cynthia Lewin was born in 1906 in Cambridge. She died in 1938. She was profoundly deaf. On a skiing holiday in Switzerland she was buried alive in an avalanche, which she did not hear coming towards her. Clodagh Lewin was one of Cynthias three younger sisters. Clodagh was born in Cambridge in 1908 and died in Lancaster on 2001. She was an artist and a student at the Slade School of Art where she possibly met Rex Whistler. (-)
A late 19th century mahogany Carlton House desk, the curved superstructure gallery with two post slots, fitted drawers and pigeon holes, the leather writing surface hinged and raised on ratchet, over base fitted three frieze drawers with cast brass handles, raised on square tapering supports, 150 cm (59 in) wide
Tagore (Rabindranath) The Post Office 1914; Mashi and other stories 1918; Glimpses of Bengal selected from the Letters 1921 § Frazer (R.W.) A Literary History of India 1898 § Keith (A.Berriedale) A History of Sanskrit Literature Oxford 1928 original cloth a little rubbed; and c.40 others Indian literature and history many by Tagore 8vo (c.45)
Property from the Estate of Peter Cochrane Victor Pasmore, 1908-1998 Garden with weeping ash Signed with initials Pen and ink 18x24cm.; 7x9.5in. To be offered across Contemporary Art Evening, Day and Olympia sales in 2006, the collection of the late Peter Cochrane Documents the progressive and adventurous taste of an influential dealer and inspired collector. At Arthur Tooth & Sons in Mayfair, Cochrane was instrumental in introducing new European and American artists to a British audience. The champion of an emerging generation of post-war artists, Cochrane's collection comprises masterworks by Howard Hodgkin, Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn among others and documents his special passion for new modes of abstract painting. Provenance The Redfern Gallery, London, whence purchased by Peter Cochrane, December 1947
Bryan Wynter, 1915-1975 Still life with tea pot And fish Pencil, watercolour and gouache 31x39.5cm.; 12.25x15.5in. (4) Executed circa 1950. To be sold together with three drawings on transfer paper by the same hand. The following works were a design for an unrealised lithograph in three colours. The colours were to be Rose Bengal with ultramarine, Burnt Siena with chrome organe and Hooker's Green. This group demonstrates the use of transfer paper for the making of colour lithographs during the late 1940s and 50s. It was probably commissioned by the Redfern Gallery and Millers Press to be sent to the Master-Printer Louis Ravel in Paris. Exhibited London, Redfern Gallery, British Prints of the Post-War Years, 1986, no. 121
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