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Lot 62

A collection of games and toys, to include Super truck Construction Set, Lehmann Rigi900, Pelham Puppet fairy, Minibrix, a box of Power Prop Flying Gliders, Piggy Cook, Ford Big T, Contraband card game, jigsaws etc (15+)

Lot 77

Vintage toys to include Pelham puppet Pinocchio boxed, Prinztronic Micro Ten deluxe colour tv game boxed, Eurotoys 6300 Intercom Telephone set, a vintage teddy bear, doll and a poster.

Lot 6002

A collection of Jimi Hendrix and The Jimi Hendrix Experience Vinyl Records to include (1) Band Of Gipsies (1970 UK 1st Press Stereo, Puppet Sleeve, Track Record - 2406 002, Back of sleeve has been written on in pen), (2) Electric Ladyland Part 1 (1969 UK Press Stereo, Track Record - 613 010), (3) Hendrix In The West (1972 UK Press Stereo, Polydor - 2302018, Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve), (4) Rainbow Bridge Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1971 UK Press Stereo, Reprise Records - K44159, No 'Made In The UK' declaration on labels, Housed in Matt Gatefold Sleeve), (5) Are You Experienced Backtrack 10 (1970 UK Reissue Press Mono, Track Record - 2407 010, Price - 100 New Pence is printed on rear cover) All Vinyl Conditions are generally Very Good Plus to Excellent, Sleeve Conditions are generally Very Good to Very Good Plus. (5)

Lot 63

A GERMAN BLONDE MOHAIR TEDDY BEAR, c.1914 - 1920, original glued amber and black glass eyes (both with damage), vertical stitched nose, jointed body with original damaged felt pads, no stitched claws, growler works sporadically, woodwool and cork stuffing with kapok to consolidate pads, fair condition with some damage and wear, no makers marks, height approx. 40cm, with a German blonde mohair teddy bear glove puppet, c.1920's, original glass eyes, vertical stitched nose, original felt pads, woodwool stuffing to head, some restorations, fair condition with extensive fur loss and wear, no makers marking, height approx. 20cm (2)

Lot 77

A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED TOYS, Tara? golden plush teddy bear, amber and black plastic eyes, moulded plastic nose, rubber tongue, soft body complete with tail, white inner ears and pads, has fur loss, marking and wear, 'Made in the Republic of Ireland' label to seam on left leg, height approx. 38cm, Chad Valley Sooty glove puppet, amber and black plastic eyes, horizontally stitched nose, rexine pads, has fur loss, marking and wear, Chad Valley label left hand seam, an unmarked golden plush and black terrier, missing eyes, old repairs, with fur loss, marking and wear, length approx. 36cm, a modern ginger plush teddy bear, amber and black plastic eyes, vertically stitched nose, jointed body, original suede pads with four stitched claws to paws and three to feet, working growler, no makers marking, height approx. 36cm, a hardback copy of Playhours by Gladys Peto, published by J.F. Shaw of London in the early 1930's, poor condition but complete with all the colour plates, a boxed Studio Picture Puzzle Co. wooden jigsaw 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' (contents not checked), wear and damage to box, a vintage child's scooter, playworn condition, original solid tyres and plastic grips, looks to have been repainted, no makers marking, together with a collection of pin badges, mixture of advertising and souvenir badges 1980's and later, all pinned to a blue cloth covered board

Lot 4180

Playmates Star Trek figures and vehicles and chess set x seven, includes Classic Star Trek 30th Anniversary Series Galileo Shuttlecraft with Captain James Kirk action figure, Unused, within Good opened packaging. Classic Star Trek 30th Anniversary Dr. McCoy's Medical Kit, Good Plus within Good opened packaging. Classic Star Trek Classic Science Tricorder, Excellent within Good opened packaging. Star Trek Holodeck Series Captain Jean-Luc Picard as "Dixon Hill" Guinan as "Gloria" figure set with Dixon Hill display environment, Star Trek Alien Series Captain James Kirk with Balok and Balok's Puppet figure set with The Corbomite manoeuvre display environment, both Near Mint to Mint within Good Plus packaging. Star Trek USS Rio Grande (NCC-72452) loose vehicle, Good. Character Games Chess set, complete, with instructions, Good to Good Plus, within Fair opened box. Also includes Character Doctor Who 10th Doctor The Journal of Impossible Things and Sonic Screwdriver, Unused, within Good sealed packaging. (8)

Lot 4532

Denys Fisher, Strawberry Fayre Cyborg figure, incomplete, Good, within Fair opened packaging. Denys Fisher vintage Hugo Man of a Thousand Faces puppet, includes accessories, unchecked for completeness, Good, within Fair to Good opened packaging. Sinclair ZX Spectrum, includes power pack, Good, untested, with introduction, basic programming, December 1982 edition software catalogue, 7 x game cassettes. (qty)

Lot 425

TWO BOXES AND LOOSE DOLLS AND SOFT TOYS, to include a wax headed doll with composition lower limbs, dressed in a pale pink lace covered dress height 35cm, a composition fairy doll, a German bisque headed doll wearing a kilt, a Merrythought Millennium teddy bear, two monkeys with rubber faces, a vintage monkey glove puppet, etc (2 boxes + 1 basket) (sd)

Lot 651

A Pelham puppet, 1962 Pinocchio, boxed

Lot 280

Large Bible 1810, 3 books, three lamps one damaged base, puppet, 5 old dolls, samovar missing lid, 2 oriental pots, brass t pot, two metal coffee pots, Mirror storage box with brass detail, 

Lot 406

A Barnsbury Clown puppet, in original box, 29 cm

Lot 223

A collection of vintage toys including a mohair rabbit (Likely Steiff but with missing button), Paddington Bear, Monkey hand puppet etc.

Lot 283

A hand puppet in the form of a wizard, made by The Puppet Company

Lot 353

A Quantity of Miscellaneous, to include, a cased set of six silver teaspoons with sugar tongs, arts and crafts pewter tea set, Ringtons blue and white tea caddys, local advertising glass and stoneware bottles, local maps, art deco sadler tea pot, fly fishing vest, boxed Pelham puppet, 'The Clown' various coins and bank notes, comprising, 1986 uncirculated coin collection, coin album featuring UK and world coinage, a small number of bank notes and commemorative crowns, together with two bottles of 1970 Lafaurie-Peyraguey, half bottles of Ayala & Co champagne, Hakutsuru Sake, etc (four boxes and a tray)

Lot 151

Vintage juvenilia: to include a set of four Walt Disney illustrated story books; a painted wooden puppet 'Pinocchio'; and a Leonardo Collection doll  14"h  boxed

Lot 3338

An Indonesian wayang puppet, cut-out and painted as a figure riding a bull, 30cm long; a bronze mask, textile mounted, collector's display stand, 29cm high overall (2)

Lot 3565

A mixed group to include Tiger Annual 1969 & 1970, The Topical Times Football Book, Blue Peter 3rd, 4th & 5th books, Bully soft toy, Yogi the Bear puppet, boxed Jolly musical monkey plus others. Conditions generally appear Good to Excellent. (13)

Lot 139

A Corgi Toys Austin Healey Sports Car 300 together with a Pelham Puppet and a Matchbox car.

Lot 1969

2 Boxed vintage Pelham puppets (Gypsy/Ballet Dancer) together with an unboxed Pelham puppet boxer dog. NO RESERVE

Lot 214

Laurie Simmons (American, b. 1949). Group of three prints including two photogravures and one photolithograph from the "Ventriloquism" suite, each pencil signed and dated 1986 along the lower right; editioned 16/40 along the lower left. Published by Editions Ilene Kurts, New York, 1986. The photolithograph depicts a close-up of the puppet depicted in the two black-and-white photogravures.Provenance: Distinguished Corporate Collection, Minnesota.As a prominent member of the Pictures Generation, Simmons uses dolls, puppets, and other anthropomorphized subjects to explore objectification, domesticity, and American consumerism. In particular, she explores how these affect women. She's photographed miniature scenes, shot a series focusing on a custom-made Japanese "love doll," and made a feature starring Meryl Streep with a cast of puppets and Alvin Ailey dancers dressed as inanimate objects. Her works are in the collections of the International Center of Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moderna Museet, the Guggenheim Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.Image; height ranges from 18 in to 19 in; width ranges from 12 in to 12 1/2 in. Framed; height: 36 1/4 in x width: 29 1/2 in.Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

Lot 292

Large Italian Sicilian marionette puppet dressed as a knight, 20th century. With a polychrome wooden face, metal and fabric suit of armor, and a hooked pole for display.Height: 80 in x width: 19 1/2 in x depth: 17 in.Condition: Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.

Lot 342

Ephemera, Punch and Judy, 9 items to comprise 4 large die-cut scraps, 3 post cards, an envelope from Puppet-Post and an envelope from the Editor of The Puppet Master (gd)

Lot 1212

A boxed Pelham 'Lulabelle' puppet, together with Waddingtons 'GHQ' board game and 'The Garawayton Hunt' board game (3)

Lot 168

Two Far Eastern carved and painted wooden horses. One made as a puppet with jointed legs. Max. 27cm high

Lot 148

Pelham puppet with box & instructions

Lot 503

A BOX OF ASSORTED BOXED PUZZLES, BOARD GAMES, PUPPETS AND TOYS, including Monopoly Wizard of Oz, Waddington's 'Jack Straws', 'Pit Stop', 'Battleships' and 'Tower of Brahma', a Chad Valley Chiltern Hygenic Toys Sooty hand puppet, two cap guns, etc, s.d. (1 Box)

Lot 894

A early 20th century Armand Marseille bisque headed Doll having sleep eyes, open mouth with two teeth showing (af), composition jointed body (af) numbered 390 1 1/2, fully clothed, length 45cm along with a similar unnamed Doll, Pelham Standard Girl Puppet in original box and a vintage Teddy Bear, all in a vintage Travel Case

Lot 1051

Three Regency verre �glomis� or reverse painted on glass silhouettes, each depicting figural scenes, including one example of figures with puppets and cage, each within birds eye maple frame, each overall approximately H21cm W26cmCondition Report:General wear commensurate with age and use.Example with figures with puppet and cage fairly good overall, however other two examples have some flaking to design. Frames with general wear, including some knocks and splits.

Lot 17

A Carlton Thunderbirds doll together with a Thunderbird puppet of Alan and a Pelham Puppets boxed Thunderbirds doll

Lot 7246

A Tebro Spit the Dog glove puppet and an Alien Productions ALF cuddly toy (2)

Lot 7072

An International Football table football game, unboxed Pelham puppet, games etc

Lot 1348

Harry Everington - Woodstringthistlefoss - A later 20th Century studio pottery wall plaque formed as a puppet theatre with seated figures of Punch and Judy, and the Baby falling to the ground, signed and dated 1978, height 38cm.

Lot 245

A Balinese carved wooden puppet, of a lady in flowing dress, with gilt material, 50cm high. (AF)

Lot 587

Build a bear Star Wars Chewbacca and a dragon puppet

Lot 120

The important ‘Nyasaland’ campaign group of four awarded to Lieutenant A. G. Sherwell, 1st King’s African Rifles, who was employed as Assistant Resident in the Colonial Legal Service and played a prominent role in putting down the Chilembwe Rebellion of 1915. He was subsequently appointed Assistant Advocate General in Khartoum in 1928, and then President of the District Court, Palestine, where he served as a judge in Haifa and Jerusalem Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (Lieut: A. G. Sherwell. Depot Coy 1/K.A.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. G. Sherwell.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted as originally worn, with riband bar, nearly extremely fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- Arnold Guy Sherwell was born in London in 1891, and was the son of J. W. Sherwell, who was the Clerk to the Guild of Saddle Makers, City of London. Sherwell was educated at St. Edward’s School, Oxford and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was a useful boxer during his time at the latter, and graduated in August 1914 to become a barrister (Inner Temple) on the South Eastern Circuit and Central Criminal Court. Sherwell was appointed an assistant resident with the Colonial Legal Service in Nyasaland in late 1914. He was present, and active in this role during the Chilembwe Rebellion of 1915. John Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor who preached resistance to colonialism, and incited a rebellion in January of that year. The plan to create a widespread rebelling largely failed, and devolved mainly on to Chilembwe’s congregation of around 200 men. The planned attack on European estates was largely one on the Bruce estates, where William Jervis Livingstone was killed and beheaded and two other European employees killed. Three African men were also killed by the rebels; a European-run mission was set on fire, a missionary was severely wounded and a girl died in the fire. Apart from this girl, all the dead and injured were men, as Chilembwe had ordered that women should not be harmed. On 24 January, which was a Sunday, Chilembwe conducted a service in the P.I.M. church with Livingstone’s impaled head prominently displayed. However, by 26 January he realised that the uprising had failed to gain local support. After avoiding attempts to capture him and apparently trying to escape into Mozambique, he was tracked down and killed by an askari military patrol on 3 February. As with all such things, there are at least two sides to the story: ‘It is said that after his farewell, Chilembwe tore apart a white cloth and wrote words of surrender on it. The night before, he had handed in a letter to Isaac Chambo addressed to the Resident at Chiradzulu. This day he gave him the white cloth shaped into a flag and instructed him to lead the women and children to the resident and sue for peace. He assured the women that the Europeans would not kill them. He had treated white women and children kindly. Isaac Chambo left for the Chiradzulu boma, the white flag raised high on a pole. Following were fifty-two women and twenty-four children, including Mrs Chilembwe and her two children as well as four other youths. Before they had gone far security forces approached them, fully armed. They were under the command of A. G. Sherwell, to whom Chambo handed Chilembwe’s letter. Sherwell asked where Chilembwe himself was. Chambo said he did not know; that the letter and the flag had been sent to him through a third party. The lieutenant was undeceived. He ordered the soldiers to bind Chambo with ropes against a tree. And Chambo was warned if he did not say where Chilembwe was, he would be shot. Chambo again said he had not seen Chilembwe for several days. Another young man was also tied to a tree. Soldiers were detailed to shoot but at that time another white officer arrived. He ordered the two men to be freed. The soldiers and captives then went back to Michezime village where Chilembwe had been left sitting. As they drew near the village Sherwell put up his telescope and approached it more cautiously. He was afraid in case any army of his own followers protected Chilembwe. Just at that very moment Chilembwe and his nephew saw the security forces. They entered the house by the front door and left by the back door, closing it behind them. The army surrounded the house, thinking Chilembwe had locked himself inside. But Chilembwe had escaped into the bush.’ (The Church History of Providence Industrial Mission by P. Makondesa refers) Sherwell himself chose to write the following letter to the editors of the St. Edward’s School Chronicle, which was published in July 1922: ‘It is always a pleasure to see the Chronicle, and it is interesting to me as an ex-acting magistrate of Nyasaland to read Dudley Smith’s letter. I know Nyasaland pretty well ‘all ways and in every way.’.... I know Smith’s country well as it was not so far from his place that the Chilembwe Rebellion occurred in 1915, in which I had the diversion of rounding up the rebels and capturing the corpse of the rebel (some police patrol in my charge met and shot him in flight) and his unfortunate wife. I say ‘unfortunate’ in that she was a puppet of his, and forced to ape the European against her inclination, and her instincts and upbringing. My own experience is that the planters are unjustifiably down on the Government on most occasions. Usually the local D.C. or A.D.C. has a great deal to contend with in regards to the funds at his disposal for Public Works etc. After all it has been the planter who exploited the country and the native, and in regard to the returns obtained by such exploitation the planter pays very little to the local treasury or the native for their assistance. I think one cannot have a better testimonial to the Colonial Government than the fact that ‘everyone seems agin it.’ It almost merits criticism! I spent 21 months alone, except for natives. I think this also speaks to the credit of the native administration. My district was 4,500 square miles roughly and the native population was about 40,000 to the one European. I apologise for rambling on like this, but the letter brings back interesting and happy memories, as I had about the last piece of real pioneer work to do after this country ceased to be a Protectorate. The scarcely improved it, for the time being, and rather applied in somewhat summary many a very intensive education to the locals which can scarcely be without its dangers, and these may mature in ugly form where many years pass, as is evidenced by the recent happenings in Kenya Colony...’ Sherwell lectured at the LSE, prior to being appointed Assistant Advocate General in Khartoum in 1928. He was appointed a government advocate in 1929, and then President of the District Court, Palestine, where he served as a judge in Haifa and Jerusalem. He died in Jerusalem, where he is buried, in February 1942. John Chilembwe is today celebrated as a hero of independence in modern day Malawi, and ‘John Chilembwe Day’ is observed there annually on 15 January. Sold with copied research.

Lot 523

POP MUSIC, signed sheet music booklets, inc. Susan Hayward (I'll Walk Alone), Gladys Knight (The Way We Were), Deanna Durbin (Ave Maria), Nicky Stevens - Brotherhood of Man (Save Your Kisses), Connie Francis (My Heart), Rita Coolidge (We're All Alone), Sandie Shaw (Puppet on a String), G to VG, 6

Lot 1076

Pelham puppet, Muffin the Mule, head detached. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Lot 1236

Boxed Pelham puppet, Mac Boozle. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Lot 1399

[NUREMBERG TRIALS]: RIBBENTROP JOACHIM VON (1893-1946) German politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany 1938-45. A remarkable D.S., J v Ribbentrop, in bold pencil, one page, folio, n.p. (Nuremberg), 25th January 1946, in German. The partially printed (mimeographed) document, completed in typescript, is addressed to the General Secretary of the International Military Tribunal and is a Defendant's Application for Summons for Witness in which Ribbentrop requests that the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, be summoned to give evidence on his behalf, as 'When presenting his credentials in 1936, von Ribbentrop expressed to the then King Edward VIII the desire of the Reich Chancellor for the closest cooperation between Germany and England. In the course of this audience, King Edward VIII declared that he, too, deemed such a cooperation necessary' and further explaining that such facts are relevant 'To disprove counts I and II of the General Indictment and the respective counts of the special indictments filed up to now'. Countersigned in bold pencil at the foot by Dr. Martin Horn, the Defence Counsel representing Ribbentrop. Accompanied by the official IMT English translation of Ribbentrop's document. Some file holes to the upper edge of each document, light overall age wear and minor traces of professional restoration, otherwise VG, 2 King Edward VIII's beliefs regarding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis have long been the subject of speculation. Many historians have suggested that Hitler was prepared to reinstate the Duke of Windsor as King in the hope of establishing a fascist puppet government in Great Britain after Operation Sea Lord. It is widely believed that the Duke and Duchess (whom the FBI were informed had slept with the German Ambassador in London, Joachim von Ribbentrop, in 1936) sympathised with fascism before and during World War II and were moved to the Bahamas to minimise their opportunities to act on their feelings. Joachim von Ribbentrop was arrested in June 1945 and subsequently convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials for his role in starting World War II in Europe and enabling the Holocaust. On 16th October 1946 he became the first of the Nuremberg defendants to be executed by hanging. Provenance: The present document originated from the archives of Dr. Hans Werner who was responsible for directing the printing of the Record of the Trial of Major War Criminals in 42 volumes and in three different languages (English, French & German) immediately following the Nuremberg Trials. 

Lot 363

1940's-1960's Toys and Games including rare Dan Dare Landing Mats, wooden Dominos set in Selfridges Box (26 pieces), BGL London Diablo Set, Nulli Scecundus Remote Control Helicopter set, four Landing mats incl Col Dan Dare and mail and red cross crates, Chad Valley Escalado, including five horses and linen race sheet (elastic deteriorated), all in original boxes, Pelham Puppet Clown with lead Hands, all wood Dog with white snout and furry Dog, all in one Pelham box (probably for clown) and unbranded Male waiter poppet and Britains lead Shire Horse, F-VG, boxes F-G (qty)

Lot 353

Modern Mainly TV and Film Related Toys, various examples, all boxed, Mattel Barbie B2993 Sponge Bob Square Pants, Character Games 95111 The Simpsons 3-D Chess, Playmates 66044 electronic King Kong arms, factory sealed TLC CD ROM Scooby Doo games SPK8AB Phantom of the Knight, SGW8AB Showdown in Ghost Town, Harry Potter Spearmark 8057 factory sealed cardboard treasure chest, Mattel 42880 Mystery at Hogwarts game, also factory sealed, University Games 01351 factory sealed Sorcerers Stone game, Duracell Drumming Bunny battery operated (untested), Pelham puppet Dutch Girl and unboxed Nintendo DS Lite (untested) with eight cased games includes CSI, Millionaire and manual, G-E, packaging F-E, (Qty)

Lot 360

Pelham Puppet A6 Caterpillar, with green head with both antennas and eyes, pink and blue body, operating sticks and untangled string, in original yellow box, VG, box F-G, tear at one end from removing price tag

Lot 886

A collection of vintage teddy bears, soft toys and a Pelham puppet

Lot 263

Original Simpons Bart Simpson hand puppet, talking Bart Simpson & 1 other

Lot 1249

A very large yellow vintage straw filled, jointed Teddy bear, fitted with growler but not working properly, 32" tall, plus a Pelham Puppet style Scotsman.

Lot 636

Three boxes and contents to include parrot puppet telephone, clock, ornaments, etc.,

Lot 6048

Royal Doulton figure 'The Puppet Maker' HN2253, 'Town Cryer' HN2119, 'The Pied Piper' HN2012 max H23cm (3)

Lot 620

A PAINTED TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A ZEBU, MATURE HARAPPAN PERIODIndus Valley Civilization, ca. 2600-1900 BC. The humped bull standing foursquare, its head with large eyes, a short muzzle, and long curved horns, the animal further modeled with a tail. The eyes, horns, neck, and back encircled by brown-painted stripes.Provenance: From the collection of Paolo Bertuzzi (1943-2022), who was a fashion stylist from Bologna, Italy. He was the son of Enrichetta Bertuzzi, founder of Hettabretz, a noted Italian fashion company with customers such as the Rothschild family, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Paolo Bertuzzi later took over his mother's business and designed exclusive pieces, some of which were exhibited in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA. He was also an avid collector of antiques for more than 60 years. His collection includes both archaic and contemporary art, and he edited two important books about Asian art, Goa Made - An Archaeological Discovery, about a large-scale archaeological project carried out with the Italian and Indonesian governments, and Majapahit, Masterpieces from a Forgotten Kingdom. Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, minuscule nicks, minor smoothened losses, expected old fills and repairs, signs of weathering and erosion, and encrustations.Weight: 651.4 gDimensions: Length 16 cmThe Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age culture in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread. Its sites spanned an area from northeast Afghanistan and much of Pakistan to western and northwestern India. The civilization flourished both in the alluvial plain of the Indus River, which flows through the length of Pakistan and along a system of perennial monsoon-fed rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the Ghaggar-Hakra, a seasonal river in northwest India and eastern Pakistan. The cities of the ancient Indus were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and techniques of handicraft and metallurgy. Both Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa likely grew to a size of 30,000 and 60,000 individuals, and the civilization may have contained between one and five million total population during its florescence. It is also known as the Harappan civilization, after its type site Harappa, the first to be excavated early in the 20th century in what was then the Punjab province of British India and is now Punjab, Pakistan. The discovery of Harappa and soon afterwards Mohenjo-Daro was the culmination of work that had begun after the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj in 1861. There were earlier and later cultures called Early Harappan and Late Harappan in the same area. The early Harappan cultures were populated by Neolithic civilizations, the earliest and best-known of which is Mehrgarh in Balochistan, Pakistan. Harappan civilization is sometimes called Mature Harappan to distinguish it from the earlier cultures.Terracotta figures such as the present lot have been unearthed at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, suggesting a commonality of style and purpose throughout the Indus Valley during the mature Harappan period (ca. 2600-1900 BC). In one excavated example from Chanu-daro a hole was poked in the belly, indicating that it would have been attached to a stick for use as a puppet or a small standard of the kind carried in the processions depicted on some seals. In others, the hole was indeed placed on the back of the animal, thus suggesting an alternative function, perhaps as part of a larger ensemble.Zebu cattle are thought to be derived from the Indian bos primigenius namadicus, a subspecies of the aurochs. Wild Asian aurochs disappeared during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization from their range in the Indus River basin and other parts of the South Asian region possibly due to interbreeding with domestic zebu and the resultant fragmentation of wild populations due to loss of habitat. Believed to have first been bred in northwestern South Asia, between 7000 and 6000 BC, they are understood to have been dispersed by 4000 BC and spread across much of South Asia by 2000 BC.Literature comparison: Compare a related painted terracotta figure of a unicorn, also dated ca. 2600-1900 BC, illustrated by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Cities of the Indus Valley, in Joan Aruz (ed.), Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, 2003, no. 276, p. 390. Compare a related serpentine figure of a bull, 14.7 cm long, also dated ca. 2600-1900 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1986.280. Compare two related terracotta models of a humped ox, 9 cm long, dated ca. 2500 BC, used to draw a toy chariot, in the Brooklyn Museum, accession numbers 37.96 and 37.97.

Lot 20

Two boxes of figurines, statues, Staffordshire style cats, Punch and Judy wooden crocodile puppet etc

Lot 259

Box of Robertson's jam figurines, puppet, Sunderland ware bowl etc

Lot 278

An unboxed Pelham puppet requiring restringing.

Lot 223

A decorative Indonesean puppet having carved wooden body and head with painted detailing.

Lot 853

An Auto-Dux boxed pair of model cars together with a Pelham puppet.

Lot 1031

A Pelham Puppet "Dutch Girl", Commodore Binoculars, 10 x 50, camera's, horn, etc:- One Basket.

Lot 1149

A Boxed Cox EZ Flyers Piper Command, sea battle, Punch and Judy puppet show, all boxed (untested for completeness.

Lot 1170

Diecast Vehicles, by Days Gone, micro machines Star Wars Jawas, Pelham Puppet, etc.

Lot 266

A Pelham Puppets Pinocchio puppet, with painted composite head and plastic limbs (1)

Lot 616

MEISSEN; a large mid-20th century figure designed by Peter Strang, ‘The Puppeteer’, 103/1999 to base, height 48cm, af.Condition Report: Two of the fingers are broken but present, there is also a small section to the green puppet which is broken but is present, there is a crack running around the base of the figure where the cylindrical body meets the square sectioned and a tiny area of restoration around the figures hat.

Lot 337

A late 19th century - early 20th century hand carved and oil painted carved Sicilian folk art marionette puppet depicting a knight in armour. Hand tooled copper medieval armour suit with removeable sword in scabbard, moveable helmet face guard, emerald green silk costume and green fur plume from helmet. H.90 W.30 D.30cm.

Lot 348

A collection of pop culture magazines and annuals from the 1960's through to  the 1970's to include monthly publications about Starsky and Hutch , the Monkees, Superstar 72, Elvis, Photoplay magazineand a Pelham puppet Dutch Girl etc Condition Report:Available upon request

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