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Click here to subscribeUnusual Victorian Britannia metal tantalus with 3 contemporary rectangular glass spirit decanters with hobnail cut shoulders and star cut bases (all stoppers chipped and 2 decanters chipped at collars) retained by a pair of 4 bar gates, 1 gate resoldered at post end, and padlock missing, 34 x 38cm
BOER WAR. Group of fourteen letters about 70pp, various sizes, written by Captain Eyre Lloyd to his mother in Ireland, December 1899-August 1901. Describing in some detail actions he was involved in, criticising senior command, and other matters. Including letters written from Modder River (3) ("The boers...fired continuously... from all along their positions...shot so many of their own side that they believe we did attack and think they have gained a great victory" "I am not alone in my criticism...all the officers blame Methuen...there is no need to carry out a frontal attack on his strong position"): Bloemfontein (4): Roonstad: Donkerhoek ("We see the Boers shooting everyday, I wonder what it all means"): Middleburg (2) ("Johannesburg Commando of 80 men and 250 horses hiding in a donga"): Colonel Benson's column ("...sent off towards the Oliphant's River on intelligence received in Pretoria, of course there is nothing much here but they always think they know best sitting in offices in Pretoria"): and other places. Some letters written in pencil on sheets taken from a field notebook but completely legible. All with original envelopes, many with field post office marks. Together with a further 29 envelopes with postmarks. Letters generally in sound condition, envelopes with some tears and blemishes. (quantity).
WORLD WAR I and later. Series of over fifty letters from the front from Captain (later Major) Donald Mackenzie to his mother, 1914-18 describing his work as an artillery officer. All with original envelopes with Field Army Post Office and censor markings. Several hundred pages in all. "Yesterday I took eighty men to B-------...for washing purposes, every man was given a bath". "Everything continues to go well...one man was killed...a stray shell came over". "There has been a battle raging for the last few days...got through a large number of shells...have had two turn's in the Observers station...the Gs know that we use it...all Field Artillery Guns are called 'Pip Squeaks' (June 1915). Together with Mackenzie's medals (1914/15 Star (with 1914 bar), War Medal, Victory Medal, Defence medal and miniatures). Also included with this lot are a series of letters from South Africa, 1922-25 where he was a gunnery instructor, all with original envelopes, and a suitcase filled with notebooks of various compositions by him including poems and limericks; also a few watercolours. A few blemishes, envelope tears etc, but majority in sound condition. (box and suitcase).
SUDAN and EGYPT. Working diaries of Carl Giegler Pasha for 1876, 1877, 1879, 1881-1887, contained in series of Lett's Rough Diaries. The earliest diaries deal with Giegler's travels in installing telegraph lines, but from August 1881 (when the first reference to the Mahdi is briefly recorded) the diaries are concerned with Giegler's actions in putting down the rebellion. Entries, however, are tantalisingly laconic, in contrast to a detailed and dramatic report which Giegler wrote in November 1882 to Sir Samuel Baker on his campaign. In May 1882, for example Giegler and his native force were defeated but made a remarkable recovery and were eventually victorious, all dramatically described to Baker, but rating little more than "completely defeated the rebells" in the diary. Apart from his letter to Baker Giegler also wrote a memoir of his service in the Sudan which was published in an edited edition in 1984: this presumably also drew on his diaries. In 1883 Giegler left the Sudan (his appointment to succeed Gordon as Governor General being blocked) and took a post in Egypt with the Suez Canal Company. Included with this lot are extensive research notes of the vendor. Laconic as the later diaries are, they provide a fascinating insight into the life of an important (if largely unknown to the general public) figure in the C19 history of the Sudan. The covers of all diaries show signs of wear to greater or lesser degree; one is rodent nibbled and damp affected. But contents are generally legible. (small box).
Picture Post. Hulton's National Weekly, approx. 675 orig. issues, October 1 1938 - 11 August, 1951, num. b&w illusts. from photos., all orig. printed wrappers, a little rubbed and occn. light soiling, with some staples rusted, one or two covers torn or missing, slim folio. Includes two issues featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover - 13th August 1949 and 22nd October 1956. (approx. 675)
A good post-Regency oak housekeepers cupboard, enclosed by a pair of sliding four-panel doors, the fluted pilasters and frieze joined by draught mouldings, the projecting base with a central cockbeaded drawer above a panelled cupboard, three drawers and a slide to each side, turned handles, on toupie feet, 74in wide, 86im high, c.1825
After Bram van Velde - Untitled abstract composition, publ. by Gallerie Maeght; lithograph in colours, 31.8x49cm: together with a mixed folio of mostly post war lithographs after different hands, mostly European, including: R. Ubac, Vibert, M. Asselin, E. Baj, E. Pignon, A. Masson, J. Arp, G. Braque, and others, various sizes, (unframed), (a lot).
A Regency oak and mahogany crossbanded dresser, West Midlands, early 19th century, the two-piece rack with pierced apron centred by an anthemion carving above three open racks flanked by crossbanded lozenge centred cupboard doors over three cockbeaded crossbanded drawers with oval brass stamped swing handles and unusual carved apron raised on ring turned tapering front legs and post back legs, 76" wide, 18" deep, 82" high
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY OAK DOMESTIC POST BOX, of rectangular shape, the hinged sloping top with brass slot inscribed "Letters" above a bevel glazed panel enclosing a printed label "Post leaves Llanstephen P.O." and times, above a front with bevel glazed panel with a shallow drawer beneath, with label "Telegrams" below, the sides with two alcoves. Width 18.5". Height 9.5". Depth 8.5".
Oor Wullie original artwork (1939) drawn by Dudley Watkins from the "Fun Section" of The Sunday Post dated 26 November 1939. Wullie does his neighbour a favour but leads his horse round in circles through Mains O'Smeaton, Balbughties and Nether Ruthven until 'Wee Eck' gets him oot o' trouble. The earliest piece of Oor Wullie art ever offered at auction, barely three years into the wee lad's adventures. Indian ink on card. 21 x 16 inches
A Royal Worcester Porcelain White Glazed Seat Figure of a Scotsman, from the "Countries of the World" Series, modelled by James Hadley, circa 1899, wearing tam-o'shanter and kilt, seated on a wooden post on a cobble effect canted rectangular flat plinth, impressed mark, printed mark in green, year mark for 1899, and "913i", {15cm high}.
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