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Lot 368
The M.V.O., M.B.E. group of three awarded to Miss A. David, whose career in the Foreign Office spanned decades, she flew to Munich with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as part of the official delegation to his infamous 'Peace in Our Time' meeting with Adolf HitleRoyal Victorian Order, Member’s (M.V.O.) ladies shoulder Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘L23’, mounted on bow as worn, in its Collingwood Jewellers Ltd., 24 Conduit St. case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd Type ladies shoulder Badge, silver, in its Royal Mint case of issue; Persia, Empire, Order of the Crown (Taj), 4th Class breast Badge, by Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 65mm including suspension x 46mm, silver-gilt, gilt and enamel, in its Arthus Bertrand, Paris case of issue, slight cracks to Order of the Crown enamel, otherwise very fine overall (3)M.V.O. London Gazette 1 January 1963.M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1949.Order of the Taj London Gazette 21 December 1965:'The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Miss Alison David, M.V.O., M.B.E., Her Majesty’s Royal license and authority to wear the decoration of the Insignia of the Order of the Taf Fourth Class, which has been conferred upon her by his Imperial Majesty the Shahanshah of Iran in recognition of valuable services rendered by her as Private Secretary to His Excellency the Iranian Ambassador in London.'Alison David was born about 1909 and had a decades-long career in the Foreign Office, including acting as the private secretary to Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service during the Second World War. She was included on many international trips in her capacity as a member of the Foreign Office.The Western Press & Bristol Mirror reported on 30 August 1949 that Bevin was taking David with him on a trip in his capacity Foreign Secretary to Washington D.C. on board the Mauritania. The Aberdeen Press & Journal further reported on 1 September 1949 that:'Miss David, who has held her top-ranking job at the Foreign Office since before the war, knows most of the world statesmen. She has been to Moscow, Potsdam and Berlin with Sir William Strang: to Paris, Brussels, The Hague and Strasbourg with Mr. Bevin; and to San Francisco with Mr. Eden. She also flew to Munich with Mr. Neville Chamberlain.'She appears on passenger lists of the Queen Mary between New York and Southampton in 1950 and 1951; sold together with copied research including photographs of David appearing in the same photograph as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saluting the crowd prior to his departure to Munich in 1938, where the Munich Agreement would then be signed, with David departing with Chamberlain on that same flight.Also sold together with original signed warrants and assorted related investiture documents, as well as a vintage print of Queen Elizabeth II mounted on card.For her miniature dress medals, please see Lot 442.…
Lot 946
1960s Football Scrapbook Including magazine and trade card Images of many teams, individual programmes, some bearing signatures including Ron Springett, Derek Dooley, Garry Young, other Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham Players, soccer gift book including Tony Currie, Len Badger autographs (all unverified), Sheffield Wednesday 1929, caricature print by Jimmy Seed.
Lot 500
Salvatore Ferragamo shawl and tie of recent manufacture, comprising a red silk tie with a pipe print throughout, inscribed 'Salvatore Ferragamo Made in Italy', with original tags, care card and box,9cm wide148cm long,together with a Salvatore Ferragamo shawl,of recent manufacture, in cashmere and silk blend, with panelled leopard print central graphic in tones of brown, black, grey and gold, inscribed 'Salvatore Ferragamo', with original box,129cm x 129cm (2)Condition ReportBoth the tie and shawl appearing like new with no obvious flaws or faults.
Lot 507
A Dior leopard print silk scarf, of recent manufacture, with black leopard print panel to a lime green ground, with block boarders and oblique text 'Christian Dior' to a lime green ground, with fringed edges,70cm x 70cmCondition ReportAppearing in good order with no obvious flaws. One of the care labels has been cut off.
Lot 691
*SUSHILA SINGH (1904-1999): A group of six art pottery vases each decorated with a stylised female head, incised marks to the bases, various colours and sizes, the largest 18cm high (6)Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Bournemouth & Poole College.Note: Sushila Singh was a painter, print maker and occasional ceramicist born in India in 1904. Her father, the Queen's counsel Bawa Dhanwant Singh, retired to England to give Sushila the advantage of an education not yet available to girls in India.Sushila's early works were surrealist in nature, with her later work becoming more abstract, yet retaining a dreamlike quality. Sushila held solo exhibitions at the John Whibley Gallery, Exeter College, Oxford, Grabowski and Heal's Gallery, Mansard Galleries and Galerie Niklaus Knoll, Basel, Switzerland.Sushila Singh and Arthur Henry Andrews met whilst students at Hornsey School of Art and latterly Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein, where they graduated in 1929. The pair were married in 1930.Singh and Andrews' works are held in public collections such as the Atkinson Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and the Paintings in Hospitals Scheme, as well as private collections around the world.
Lot 549
Joan Hassall (British, OBE 1906-1988) A group of three woodblock prints, signed in pencil, titled 'Highland Mary, 8 x 8.5cm, 'The Highland Widow's lament' 6 x 8cm, 'Willie Brewed a Peck o'Maut', 10 x 11cm; with a further woodblock print by George Mackley titled, 'The Creek' signed in pencil, numbered edition 15/75, 9.5 x 11.5cm; and an etching by Bert Cobb of a Flat Coat Retriever with Spaniel, 30 x 25.5cm, unframed (5)
Lot 348
A collection of pictures and prints to include J RUSSELL "Map of China", published by Nuttall Fisher and Dixon, Liverpool June 1812", 19 cm x 24 cm and AFTER WILLIAM HAYES "Eagle", coloured engraving by Gabriel Smith, 43.5 cm x 31 cm, AFTER DAVID ROBERTS "Temple of Kababshee Nubia", 23 cm x 43.5 cm, The Turf Gallop advertising print, 35 cm x 26 cm, "Collgiumaedis Christi", black and white engraving, 41 cm x 84 cm (5)
Lot 347
AFTER WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT "Provincial Caprise" colour print bearing blind studio stamp lower left and signed in pencil lower right, 44 cm x 58 cm, AFTER WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT "Chattels" colour print, bears blind studio stamp lower left and signed in pencil lower right, 32 cm x 38 cm and AFTER WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT "Festal preparations Manosque" colour print, bears blind studio stamp lower left and signed in pencil lower right, 44 cm x 58 cm (3)
Lot 397
STONEY DARKSTONE "Embers II", a limited edition photographic print on paper and foam board, 59.5 cm x 42 cm (ARR), STONEY DARKSTONE "Diaphanous I", a limited edition photographic print on paper and foam board, signed "Stoney" and No'd 1/5 lower right, 58 cm x 41.5 cm and STONEY DARKSTONE "Alien I", a photographic print on foam board, signed in pen lower right, 59 cm x 42 cm
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