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Click here to subscribeMetal props a small collection including a card case formerly belonging to Norman Hunter, the Mysterious Ball & Brass, the Ball and Tube, the Card and Bill Tube, all with instructions, and seven others; other small tricks including Ken Brooke`s Penknife Routine, the Billet Pencil by Jan`s Magical, a Century Line Bottle Levitation, the Abba Dabba Zippo Gag, and Loyd`s Bunko Blocks, all with instructions; and others.
Gamage (A.W.) Gamage`s Magical Catalogue, covers loose, with the bookplate of Jeffery Atkins, 4to, [c.1905] § Morphet (Fred) Wonders of the 20th Century, covers loose, small 8vo, Philadelphia, [c.1905] § Secrets of Ancient and Modern Magic, small 8vo, Palmyra, [c.1910] § Magical Supply Co. Catalogue no.3 of Super Class Magical Goods, oblong 4to, [1928] § Hutchinson (Wilford) Conjuring Apparatus and Books on Magic, 8vo, [c.1930] § Wandman (Walter) Magical Apparatus, two catalogues and a number of leaflets, 8vo and 4to, [c.1935] § Clive (Paul) & Co. Catalogue of Magical Effects, 8vo, [c.1938]; Conjuring Catalogue, 8vo, [1938] § Leffell Devices, 4to, Baltimore, 1944-45 § Brooke (Ken) Greetings from Veroni House of Magic, 8vo, [c.1950] § Burtini`s Magic. Quality Props, 8vo, [c.1950], illustrations, original wrappers, and nine others, 8vo and 4to(19)
Tom McGuinness (1926-2006), Miners Underground fixing Props, Signed and dated (19)88, pen, ink and watercolour, 36cm by 55.5cm. Born at Witton Park in County Durham, educated at the local Roman Catholic School, St Chad`s. 1940-1944 worked in the timber trade, then started in the coal industry as a `Bevin Boy`. Remained in mining for 39 years. Attended evening classes at Darlington Art College and became a member of the Spennymoor Settlement, a pioneering community arts group. Made redundant in 1982. See illustration
7 Dinky items BBC TV Roving Eye Vehicle (968) a green Karrier truck complete with roof camera, man and plastic aerial, matching TV Expanding Mast Vehicle (969), Hillman Minx in blue and grey, Ford Anglia, Bedford CA Kodak, Fiat 2300 Station Wagon Pathe News, Renault 16 Tour de France with roof banner Paramount Pictures and tailgate-mounted camera and man. Together with c30 lead/white metal items – farm animals and props, domestic pieces, figures, by Britains, Crescent etc. 968 boxed, minor wear, vehicles QGC to VGC, minor/some chipping, white metal items QGC. .
A CARVED MAHOGANY RAF EMBLEM with turned centre and carved laurel leaf decoration, surmounted by a coronet and with outstretched wings on either side, all on a stepped base, inscribed beneath "Made in the workshops at RAF depot Drigh Road, Karachi, from broken props in 1930", 39" wide. See Illustration.
A puppet theatre set, owned by Britten Kerr (c.1890-1960), of Gateshead, member of the Newcastle Magic Circle, Magician & Puppeteer, to include: a theatre with hand-painted panels, 50in. x 26in. x 70in. high; eleven hand carved and painted wooden headed puppets, various other puppets, stage props, and a script for Jack and the Bean Stalk.
A good Fire Brigade group of six awarded to Chief Officer T. H. Mather, who commanded East Ham Fire Station at the height of the Blitz, prior to taking command of a flotilla of fire-boats at Bristol: he would later recall the devastating raid of 7 September 1940, when around 200 Eastenders were killed, and another 800 wounded, and dealing with the carnage caused by an explosion aboard a ship carrying 15,000-tons of fuel at Avonmouth Docks British War and Victory Medals (Bosn., M.F.A.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Association of Professional Fire Brigade Officers Long Service, silver (Chief Officer, 1929), mounted as worn from two separate wearing bars (excepting the Defence Medal), generally good very fine (6) £400-450 Thomas Harold Mather was born at Port Talbot, Wales in August 1890, and first entered the Fire Brigade with an appointment in the Liverpool Fire Salvage Corps in 1912. Having then served in the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary in the Great War, he returned to his former profession with an appointment in an industrial fire brigade in Birkenhead, and thus ensued a long and memorable career best summarised by a feature which appeared in the (Portsmouth) News on 14 August 1970: Three huge fires - when the bombers set Britains biggest gas-works ablaze, when Bristol suffered its biggest petrol-ship explosion, and when 600 homes were razed in Hartlepool - were recalled by a Portsmouth man who remembers them better than most people. Drawing on a well-worn pipe in his quiet flat at Vernon Court, London Road, North End, former Chief Fire Officer Thomas Harold Mather reminisced on his 80th birthday over his career in the fire service. Mr. Mather, one of only two Honorary Life Members of Britains senior fire organisation, the Institution of Fire Engineers, made history during his career by becoming the first professional Chief Fire Officer in two local authority brigades. He remembered his three largest blazes, one of which was a peace-time fire, and two of which were wartime fires. First he recalled the "Great Hartlepool Fire" of January 1921, when flames destroyed part of Hartlepools docklands and residential areas. Mr. Mather was in charge of some of the fire-fighters, and he recalled how "great piles and stacks of pit-props and dock goods were blazing, and the great poles carrying overhead tramlines had buckled over like hair-pins. The fire swept through the docks and into houses. Before it was out, 600 families were homeless," he said. "About one square mile of the city was ablaze at one time." Later in his career, while Chief Fire Officer of East Ham in London, Mr. Mather was in charge of fire-fighting during the Blitz when the biggest gas works in Britain and two of the largest dock installations were both in his care. "On the night of 7 September 1940, the bombers hit the gas works in a particularly bad raid and before we had the fire under control, we had 40 fire engines on the scene. We suffered these kind of raids night after night until the fire service was nationalized," he said. During the latter years of the War, Mr. Mather moved to Bristol where he was in charge of 13 fire-boats - and it was there that he had "the biggest petrol fire of my whole career. It happened at Avonmouth Docks when a ship carrying 15,000 tons of petrol exploded, causing the petrol to cascade into the engine room where three engineers were drowned in petrol. The fire spread and soon the whole ship was blazing from end to end. There were fire engines on the dock side, and I had my fleet of fire-boats on the seaward side," he said. His distinguished career in the fire service started in 1912 when he joined the Liverpool Fire Salvage Corps after being in the Merchant Navy. From Liverpool he went to the Birmingham Fire Brigade, and then his maritime interests tempted him to join the Navy during World War One. While based in Portsmouth he watched as a Zeppelin flew over the city. At the end of the War, he moved to an industrial fire brigade in Birkenhead and then he made history by becoming the first professional fire chief at the Seaham Harbour Combined Fire and Ambulance Brigade. There he was in charge of two fire brigades and an ambulance. He then became the first professional Chief Fire Officer at Gellygaer, near Cardiff in South Wales, where he was in charge of a main station and six sub-stations. In 1928 he moved to the East Ham Fire Brigade as Chief Fire Officer, and there he stayed for 14 years, including the initial years of World War Two. After getting Blitz experience, he moved to Plymouth where he became Commandant of the Regional Fire School for nearly a year. Because of his maritime experience he was then moved to Bristol, where he took charge of the fleet of fire-boats. He remained there until the end of the War, and in 1946 he retired and moved to Portsmouth. Mather was awarded the Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 Medals while serving as Chief Officer at East Ham (the official rolls refer); sold with original cutting of the above quoted newspaper feature, and an old picture postcard of East Ham Fire Station, the reverse ink inscribed, Supt. T. H. Mather, Fire Station, East Ham, E. 6.
Coal Mining, Richmond, Virginia and Co. Durham. Manuscript diary of John Smith, mining overseer, from Sept. 22 - Dec. 31st 1839 and Nov. 10 -Dec. 26 [1840?], ink and pencil, 8vo, contemporary sheep, clasp, 158pp., covering the journey to and from the USA and including an account of a visit to the Black Heath coalmines of Chesterfield County, Virginia, "the negroes... sing all the time that they work... the coal is 16 yards thick but there is only 12 foot taken... sometimes the rufe and pavement do meet within 3 foot of each other... The rufe was... falling and the gap were the strongest that I did ever see, if you went 1 yard before the centre it would knock you down in a moment". Smith mentions experimenting with gas burning in lamps and trying "to carry in the Are" which due to the falling roof was too dangerous, getting "an old negro to mortace the props and crown tree and last it over with strong timber" to make it safe. Eventually he makes it over the fall "did see two or three boys but we can not get any of them out on account of the fall". Smith visits another mine on fire "lately there was 8 negroes burnt to death" "We got 16 bodys out to night, we have boxes we take down and putte the bodys in but they are sore gone... when we do lift them sume times the heads and sume times the hands and feat do fall off" . Note: A short but evocative diary of mine experiences in Virginia and Co. Durham with grim details of the human cost of coal mining.
Public Houses. A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms: or, a Guide to Good Fellows. Being a Description of the Manners and Customs of the most Eminent Publick Houses, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. With a Hint on the Props (or Principal Customers) of each House. In a Method so plain that any Thirsty Person (of the meanest Capacity) may easily find the nearest Way from one House to another, Dedicated to the Brewers, printed & sold by T. Bickerston, [1866?], numerous woodcut illusts., orig. cloth, slightly faded, slim 8vo (1)
Roderic O'Conor, 1860-1940 Jeune fille allongee sur le divan rouge Signed; stamped on the reverse atelier O'CONOR Oil on board 47x60cm.; 18.5 x23.5in. Executed circa 1910-11, the model’s pose, with knees raised and hands joined behind her head, was a favourite one that O’Conor returned to in a number of drawings and paintings dating from the first, second and third decades of the twentieth century. He clearly took pleasure in the interplay of angular and curved shapes that the pose afforded, with its alluring combination of openness and modesty. The particular model seen here was painted on several occasions by O’Conor. With her slender forms and full head of hair, she was characteristically depicted in sumptuous settings that exploited richly coloured (especially red) drapes and generously proportioned armchairs and chaises longues. Here, unusually, she looks directly out of the picture at the viewer, drawing our gaze towards her in a fashion that runs counter to the standard intimiste approach of candid observation. O’Conor cleverly deploys bright studio lighting to heighten the contrast between the luminous flesh tones and the saturated colours of the fabrics. No extraneous still life or furnishing props are allowed to detract from the intensity of focus the artist has brought to his subject on this occasion. Jonathan Benington
Dinky, collection of 6 aircraft, 5 unboxed to include 62M light transport, blue registration G-ATMH, 1 prop missing (G), 60M four engined flying boat, silver, 2 props missing, some repainting (F), 60V Whitley Bomber, gliding hole (F), 62G long range bomber (F) and 70C Viking air liner (G), plus a 718 Hawker Hunter a/f in bubble box (x6).
11 tinplate novelty toys and other items: including Inter-Continental Air liner friction drive passenger plane with revolving props, 3 Army helicopters clockwork drive by MYK of Japan, large and small flying boats, training plane, Universe Televiboat with TV screen, double barrel space gun, a friction drive Cessna plane, most manufactured in Far East. All boxed, one with end flaps missing. Items VGC
Toy theatre. Ombres Chinoises, Paris, Pellerin & Co., n.d., c.1900, comprising main die-cut stage surround with col. litho. design showing orchestra in pit and various theatrical and Chinese motifs, with two wooden rollers and rolled sheet of coloured patterned paper to reverse, together with two col. litho. backdrops with orig. punched holes, the first titled 'Palais de l'Electricitie, Exposition 1900' and showing the Palais brightly lit at night, the second titled 'Combat Naval Devant 'Port-Arthur' (Guerre Russo-Japonaise') and depicting a dramatic naval battle, two wire figure supports, two printed sheets of uncut human and animal silhouettes numbered 4 (Personnages Divers) and 5 (Les Metamorphoses), approx. seventy-five cut and card-mounted silhouettes of scenery, props and human and amimal figures, all contained in orig. box with col. litho. design to upper panel showing landscape view of Paris incl. Eiffel Tower, with audience of mainly Chinese figures in traditional costume looking on, some wear, mainly to edges, overall approx. 400mm x 500mm (1)
Toy theatre ( ). Schreibers Kinder-Theater, pub. Munich, early 20th century, comprising numerous chromo. landscapes and backgrounds, scenery props and many cut-out figures, together with five printed scripts in orig. printed wrappers, all contained in contemp. cloth covered cardboard box. ((-))
A rare Skybirds wooden airport, comprising large hanger building with triple sliding doors to front, approx 18½” x 8” x 3”, finished white with grey roof and separate tower for roof approx 6” x 4” x 3½” with clock to top, airfield apron approx 22” x 18” finished grey and green with 2 light pits, anti aircraft gun and 5 figures including pilots, plus 3 Diecast and Tinplate single wing aircraft by Johillco (props broken or missing, one wing detached). QGC for age (some woodwork to base, paint loss to figures)
5 Dinky aircraft: light racer DH Comet (60g), G-R ACE registration, long range bomber B-17 (62g), light transport plane (62m) in dark blue, G-A TMH registration, four engined liner (62r) in mid blue G-A TPV registration; and a twin engined fighter (70d), QGC to GC some wear, chipping. All with props.
Montague Dawson, F.R.S.A., R.S.M.A. (1895-1973) Study of two model frigates in the artist's studio signed 'Montague Dawson' (lower left) pencil and watercolour 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)"At first sight, the fully-rigged model occupying the main thrust of this rather whimsical picture seems to be a Royal Navy frigate of the early to mid-eighteenth century but, as in any painting, whatever its subject, appearances can sometimes be deceptive. Despite her single gundeck and numerous other features so reminiscent of a typical naval frigate, it is more likely this vessel was a privateer which, if true, would make her - quite literally - the model for one of Dawson's very popular works 'The Duke and Duchess '. This splendid depiction of the two famous Bristol privateers sailing in company in the first decade of the eighteenth century has been widely reproduced and is deemed to have all the ingredients of a classic Dawson historical narrative. This particular model occupied a prominent place in Dawson's studio, as evidenced by the photograph of the artist illustrated within the introduction to Ranson's book, and may even have been one of the artist's favourite 'props' given that it inspired its own portrait. The other model, more obviously a frigate of the Royal Navy judging from her characteristic 'rampant lion' figurehead, is only partially rigged and has her topmasts 'down' as if she is laid up and in reserve. Much less distinctive than her fully-rigged companion, it is less apparent which works she might have inspired although her lines and general appearance would have provided useful guidance for many of Dawson's pictures of real historical incidents.
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