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Lot 340
Three USA outline kit built coaches, 2x 6 wheel bogie finished green, and a green USA mail railway Post Office No. 788 `Virginia & Truckee` a scratch built body only for a clerestory type early US Mail `Hannibal St Joseph RR`, no wheels finished cream and green and a scratch built wooden KC coach (G)
Lot 431
A CHINESE CANTON IVORY PLAQUE showing the Hongs of Canton, carved in relief, the reverse with carved crest from the Drummond family, 6 1/4" x 4", circa 1800. James Drummond, later 8th Viscount Strathallan first sailed to Canton in 1787 as a `writer` in the East India company`s employ. Fifteen years later he had risen to become President of the Select Commitee, the senior position in the factory, and he remained in this post until his return to Britain in 1807
Lot 428
Dragon: Sd.Kfz.250 Engine with Mechanics, German Communications Centre with Signal Troops, German Army Field Command Post, German Feldenarmerie with Dogs, German Fallschirmjager with Donkeys, German Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer", German Gebirgsjager with Donkey, German Medical Troops and Fallen Comrade (Aachen 1944). (9, all 1:35 scale)
Lot 169
Reconstruction in the City of London 1944: Report improvements and town planning committee to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayer, alderman and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled on the Preliminary Draft Proposals for the Post-War Construction in the City of London 1944 and includes coloured maps and illustrations of constructions. Together with a folio of maps for the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London 1957 – 1960 and Mediaeval London by Cannon Benham and Charles Welch1901
Lot 580
WW1 & WW2 Royal Navy Medal Group on a bar for wear: Lt-Commander Aubrey Richard Courtenay Douton, MID 3 times medal group consists of WW1 Trio 1939/45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star 1942-43 bar, Italy Star Defence and War medal together with Royal Naval Reserve Officers Decoration also comes with a set of miniatures and copies papers and navigation books post WW1 for Orient Line SS Osterley Note: First World War Trio late issue they were issued to him in 1942
Lot 255
* Stanley Cornwell Lewis, MBE, ARCA (Welsh, 1905-2009), Study for Hyde Park, Seated Figure with Parasol, pencil and coloured chalk, 38 x 29cm (15 x 11in). Provenance: Liss Fine Art. Exhibition: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his Contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12 June - 5 September 2010. The artist and illustrator Stanley Cornwell Lewis was born in Wales where he studied at the Newport School of Art from 1923 to 1926. After this he was awarded a place at the Royal College of Art where he studied from 1926-1930. Then in 1930 he won second prize in the Rome Scholarship Awards in Mural Painting. Later that year he returned home to take up the post of Painting Master at Newport School of Art. In 1941 he was called up for initial training in North Wales and joined the Searchlight Regiment of the Gloucester Regiment in Somerset. It was after the war that Stanley Lewis became Principal of Carmarthen School of Art where he taught until his retirement in 1967. It is not surprising that Lewis` work is very much admired, so much so that one of his paintings The Welsh Molecatcher, 1937 was voted the most popular picture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition that year. The work now hangs at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery in Wales. `The Unknown Artist: Stanley C Lewis and His Contemporaries`, containing works never seen before was held at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Bedford Museum from June 12 to Sept 5 2010, sadly a year after the artist`s death.
Lot 27
French and Indian War Map Horn--Forbes Trail to Fort Pitt14" length, triple raised ring with smooth spout, engraved with forts and Royal Coat of Arms. This well-travelled map horn shows every fort from New York to Fort Pitt at the Three Rivers. Wood base and iron carrying staple.While the owner is unknown, the horn has a historic connection to the Forbes Trail that solidified British dominance in the Ohio Territory following the ejection of the French. This extraordinary engraved map horn depicts the sequential forts and way points on the trail from Colonial New York to remote Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) at the strategic Forks of the Ohio. The track departing from the frontier post of Carlisle is the path of the famed "Forbes Road" built by an army of 5,000 British regulars and Colonial militia under the direction of General John Forbes (1707-1759).Following the death of General Braddock during the ill-fated expedition against Ft. Duquesne in 1755, Forbes took command of British forces and commenced building a more direct road through 200 miles of trackless wilderness to attack the French at the strategic Forks. Hewn by hand from the primeval forest, the Forbes Trail was 20 foot wide and traversed the Allegheny Mountains with fortified supply posts (Raystown and Ligonier) at supporting intervals. The rough road was sufficient to support wagons and artillery and was completed in November 1758.The British advance column was attacked and bloodily repulsed on September 15, 1758 causing Forbes to immediately halt operations against Fort Dusquesne. Later in the fall the French at Fort Frontenac were forced to surrender leaving Fort Dusquesne with a much reduced garrison as their fickled Indian allies melted away. The sudden appearance of a large force of Redcoats emerging from the forest gloom so intimidated the few remaining French regulars that Fort Duquesne was burned to the ground and quickly abandoned. Forbes took control of the illusive prize on November 25, 1758 and ordered the post rebuilt naming it Fort Pitt in honor of his mentor William Pitt the Elder, British Secretary of State. Gravely ill through most of the grueling march, Forbes soon returned to Philadelphia where he died on March 11, 1759.Tracing Forbes` route the principal points are as follows: Fort Edward, Fort Stanwix, Crown Point, Fort Henry, Fort Carillon, R. Blockhouse, Mcniel, H.A. Moon, Albany, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Shapsburg, Carlisle, York, Loundon, and Bedford. The horn was likely carved and carried shortly after the construction of the new fort by a participant of the Forbes expedition as the names and locations generally correspond to the names known in 1758 culminating, of course, with Ft Pitt.Today parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and US Route 30 parallel the old Forbes Trail with key road markers westbound in Bedford and Westmorland County. As well as commemorating the Forbes Road and the ultimate capture of Ft. Duquesne, it is appealing to think of this historic horn in practical terms as a sort of portable road map anticipating the thrust of future frontier travel. Of course, the major significance of the Forbes Road in the decades following the French & Indian War was as a major land route into the heart of the prime Ohio country connecting Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Condition: Very good. Nice even patina overall.Starting Price: $5500
Lot 28
Engraved Powder Horn, Moses Walcut14" length, engrailed edge with a 3.5" smooth spout and a notched surface around the opening. A domed wood base with a brass eye in the base. Engraved with the British coat of arms with highlighting behind the guardians and shield ending with another royal lion standing atop the crown. Engravings of soldiers, birds, animals, trees, including a winged griffon with large pointed teeth. Engraved Moses Walcut Horns Made At Fort EDW 1758. 1758 is engraved behind the soldiers. This well documented horn is featured in Jim Dresslar`s The Engraved Powder Horn book on pages 28 & 29, in which Private Walcut`s military service is summarized: drafted out of the 5th Connecticut Regiment of Militia, served 15 days in the 1757 campaign in Capt Rudd`s Connecticut Militia in relief of Fort William Henry. Walcut later served in Col. Fitch`s 3rd Connecticut Regiment from April 13 to November 20, the entire 1758 campaign.During the French & Indian War Fort Edward was a key strategic military post on the east bank of the upper Hudson River, the center of a frontier war zone known in lore as the "The Great Carrying Place." Ft. Edward was constructed in 1755 on the site of an earlier French post and was improved during 1755-56 as an expansive three bastion, Vauban-style fort made of stone surrounded by a dry moat. Opposite the fort was Rogers Island, the base camp of the famous green-clad Rogers Rangers who made their reputation mimicking native tactics during the French and Indian War.The garrison was heavily reinforced in August-September 1757 following the loss of Ft. William Henry (the French burned it) and the horrendous massacre that occurred at the base of Lake George. As the tide of war slowly turned in favor of the British, Fort Edward served as the major staging area and depot for Major General Jeffery Amherst`s British Army during his ultimately successful invasion of Canada in 1759-60. Condition: The horn has a nice white-to-yellow patina. There is a small chip at the base where Fort Edward is engraved. This is an outstanding French and Indian War engraved powder horn.Starting Price: $22000
Lot 162
Capt. George Randolph Dyer, AQM--Lincoln-Signed Commission and Pilot Knob ArchiveComprising an early eagle mast head commission partially printed on vellum, 12.25 x 15.75 in., matted, framed and glazed, 14.25 x 17.25 in., dated 21 February 1862, appointing George R. Dyer as Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers with the rank of Captain. Signed by Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) as President and Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) as Secretary of War (1862-1868), with a later conveyance letter from the Adjutant General’s Office; plus the earlier formal appointment letter to George R. Dyer signed by Secretary of War Simon Cameron (March 1861-January 1862).The archive portion consists of 31 file folders, 24 of which contain primarily wartime personal correspondence coinciding with Captain Dyer’s assignment as Assistant US Quartermaster at the Pilot Knob, Missouri post. The letters span January 1862 to July 1865, but are scant on details regarding the quartermaster operation at Pilot Knob (in fact Geo. Dallas Dyers’ letters are more illuminating). Additionally, there are several pieces of interesting ephemera including Captain Dyer’s original 1885 GAR membership certificate from the Baxter Springs, Kansas Post No.123, an 1864 dated military railroad pass, original telegrams, and two manuscript documents written and signed by noted abolitionist and educator, General Clinton B. Fisk (1828-1890), a personal friend of George R. Dyer. Rounding out the lot are eleven civilian portraits (five are duplicates) of George Dyer taken between the late 1870s (a cdv) and 1892 (mostly cabinet cards) including one view of the regal old gentlemen wearing his MOLLUS medal. A file of 19th century manuscript Dyer biography and George’s printed 1895 MOLLUS “In Memoriam” pamphlet complete the lot.George R. Dyer’s Pilot Knob letters contain no battle content and very little concerning the day-to-day operations of the quartermaster department at the post. There are large gaps in the letters and most consist of newsy correspondence between various friends and family members living back in Chicago, Elgin and Plainfield, Illinois. Even at the Pilot Knob post the presence of family is evident—the captain’s son, George Dallas Dyer, worked as a clerk and died there in 1863 while Mrs. Dyer seems to have visited her husband with some regularity during the war.As the tempo of operations moved further south after 1862, Pilot Knob became something of a Missouri backwater albeit for sporadic guerrilla warfare that flared in a region dotted with Rebel sympathizers. The letters hint at legitimate business dealings as the buying and selling of “contraband horses and mules” became a reoccurring theme. The quartermaster seems to have also speculated locally in food supplies and animal fodder, systematically “hauling it in teams” from a radius around the post. Captain Dyer, who frequently complained of ill-heath, was able to take leave on occasion and just happened to be absent “in the North on sick leave” in September 1864, the one time Pilot Knob came under attack during Sterling Price’s ill-fated Missouri Invasion. After 1863 Captain Dyer hinted once or twice at pursuing loftier goals — a staff position with General Fisk — but remained at his post until his resignation from the army on May 15, 1865.A few excerpts from the letter collection: September 10, 1861 from Patience Huntington, Dyer’s sister: Not all in Illinois were stirred by the prospect of war and buoyed by patriotism. George sister was terse in her feelings: “I am about to employ all my powers of argument and persuasion to prevent you joining the army. Under other circumstances it might be your duty. Were your wife in vigorous health and your children (not so young), and your own health firm I would say no word to prevent it…but our patriotism must not make us forgetful of the virtues we owe to those for whom none can be a substitute…”Having reconciled his conscience with family responsibilities, George Dyer enlisted on October 31, 1861. The centerpiece of that decision is the Lincoln signed commission and accompanying War Department paperwork rarely found together after 150 years. January 8, 1862 to his wife Elizabeth (Howell Kimball) a long letter: Already Captain Dyer confesses his loneliness writing that the pain of being separated from his children is “harder than I thought it would be.” He hopes to return home “some time next month” if he can get a leave of absence. George briefly describes his duties, “I have a vast amount to attend to” and tells Elizabeth that “George (their eldest son George Dallas) arrived the 2nd day of this month and has done very well since he came…” He offers some insight into business matters, “We sold 52 horses & mules that had been taken from the enemy, I had to sell them. They brought 1300. They were very poor and small (and) sold rather low. Some were good but I did not buy for I thought I would rather send all the money home I could for you.” The letter includes a lengthy list of goods that Elizabeth should bring to Pilot Knob — “towels, butter, tea, a lamp or two” — as “some items can’t be had in this country.” He will express his pay, “Only 156 dollars instead of the 200 as I expected but I hope to have George have 60 per month which will help pay for being scattered all over the world.”The family might have been experiencing some financial difficulties as Capt. Dyer then rationalizes the quartermaster job lamenting, “If I can stand it for one year it will help my family some and that is all I am at work for.” He gives some instructions relating to the livestock management at the Plainfield farm and concludes by asking Elizabeth to send “my cane for it would help me to get through the mud which is very deep.”September 15, 1862 to sister Patience: Young George Dallas Dyer has left his Pilot Knob clerkship and joined the army. A proud but fearful Captain Dyer writes, “My poor boy only 17 years old gone to defend his country. Sister he is a fine boy manly as most men of 25 years (see George’s military cdv) & capable of doing any kind of business… He has gone & I hope he will do his duty. He is the youngest man in his company & is the captain. They all like him & I hope he will return the confidence of his company…”November 2, 1862 from Lt. W.F. Crain, 5th Illinois Cavalry: A mundane request asking Captain Dyer for his help in locating and recovering “a dozen lost or stolen horses” from the regiment. The animals were left at Pilot Knob and were due to be returned by cavalrymen convalescing in the hospital.A newspaper article dated January 8, 1863 reported on an abundance of new from Pilot Knob giving scope to the quartermaster operation there as well as featuring the approbations of Captain Dyer’s peers who had presented him with a “superb gold watch” on New Years Eve. The correspondent noted, “An air of unusual bustle and activity pervades this usually quiet town, caused by the arrival of 300 wagons from General Davidson’s Division, Army of Southeast Missouri. They are now loading with commissary stores for his army…” destined for Little Rock. The article quoted the lengthy testimonial “engraved on the case” and showered platitudes, “Our Government has been blessed and cursed with many faithful and unfaithful disburs
Lot 507
*WWII Walther Model PP Semi-Auto Presentation Pistol to an SS Captain7.65 (.32 ACP) cal., 3.75" barrel, S/N 969187. Blue finish, black plastic checkered grips, inscription on right side of slide reads "Unserm Hptstuf Post zum 45 Geburtstage Dein Sturm 1 N 4." Condition: Very good condition with an excellent bore. It retains ca 70% original blue finish with most loss on the slide. The inscription is from the unit for an SS captain`s 45th birthday.Requires FFL or C&RStarting Price: $500
Lot 584
German Schuetzen Rifle by Ed. Girtn Kaufbeuren with London Proof8.15x46 cal., 29" barrel, S/N 5514. Raised relief carved and checkered walnut stocks with an ivory oval on the right side, relief engraved receiver panels, gold and silver inlays on top of barrel, rear peep sight, double- set triggers, Martini-style action, London proofs on barrel and receiver. Condition: Very good condition with a very good bore. The front sight insert is present but damaged, missing the post and wings. The ramrod is missing and the receiver is void of finish. This gun is a work of art with full coverage engraving featuring a woman with a chalice in her hand on the left panel and scenes depicting cherubs in various activities on the rest of the receiver. The stocks are good to very good with several dings and scratches.Starting Price: $1300
Lot 260
POST WAR SILVER LOW PEDESTAL DISH, Birmingham 1966, A SILVER TEA STRAINER, on stand, Birmingham 1944, A PAIR OF WEIGHTED SILVER POSY VASES, Birmingham 1900, a silver MUSTARD POT with blue glass liner, A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS, a cased set of silver teaspoons, a CASE SET OF SIX FILLED SILVER HANDLED TEA KNIVES AND A SILVER BUTTER KNIFE, 12 1/2oz weighable
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