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Click here to subscribeA pair of silver plated candlesticks, R&J Slack, Strand, with trailing vine decorations to the stems, 29.5cm high CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
Antonio Joli (1700-1777)/A View of Naples from Mergellina/oil on canvas, 67.5cm x 97.8cm/Note: In the eighteenth Century Naples was one of the great cities of Europe,'In size and number of inhabitants she ranks as the third city of Europe, and from her situation and superb show may justly be considered as the Queen of the Mediterranean' wrote john Chetwode Eustace in 1813. By then Naples had enjoyed a golden age of nearly eighty years as the royal capital of the richest Italian state. The reign, from 1734, of Charles VII, first of the Neapolitan Bourbon rulers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (he was also, from 1759, King Charles III of Spain) saw the construction of the Teatro San Carlo and the palaces of Caserta, Portici and Capodimonte (which now houses the famous art gallery), the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the founding of the Naples Archaeological Museum. Music and painting flourished, and those travellers who extended their Grand Tour beyond Rome were amply rewarded by the experience. Residents including Sir William and Lady Hamilton greeted visitors such as the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, Casanova, Mozart, Angelica Kauffman, Joseph Wright of Derby, Jacques-Louis David, Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun (who described the city as a 'lanterne magique ravisssante') and Goethe (who remarked that nobody who had seen Naples could ever be really unhappy).The definitive portrait of Naples in its heyday is that provided by Antonio Joli, whose depictions of the city over several decades make him to Naples what his (almost exact) contemporary Canaletto was to Venice. Joli was not, in fact, Neapolitan by birth. Most of the leading Neapolitan view painters were from elsewhere. Born in Modena, Joli was partly trained in Rome, where he worked until 1725 under Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765), the outstanding Rome based view painter of his generation. During the following three decades Joli became the most widely travelled of the Italian view painters of the eighteenth Century, designing scenography as well as view painting throughout his career. It is as a scenographer that Joli is first recorded, in 1732, in Venice where he remained until after 1740. He is mentioned in the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova as 'the celebrated theatrical scene painter' (G. Casanova, History of My Life, ed. Baltimore & London, 1997, I, p. 200). Joli may have visited Dresden before productive periods in London 1744-1749 and in Madrid 1749-1754. After returning to Venice, where he became a founder-member of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, he embarked in 1756 on a tour of Southern Italy and Sicily with his most important patron John Montagu, Lord Brudenell (1735-1770), for whom he executed an unrivalled series of at least thirty-eight views of Southern Italy, Florence, Sicily, Malta and Southern France. These include his celebrated group of views of Naples, where he is first recorded on 21 April 1759 (R. Toledano, Antonio Joli, Turin, 2006, nos. N.VI.7, N.VIII-XIV, N.XIX.1, N.XX.1, N.XXIV and N.XXVII.6-7, all illustrated). Apart from a brief return to Venice, where he is recorded on 28 December 1761, Joli was resident thereafter in Naples, working for visitors and for fellow residents such as Sir William Hamilton. Joli must have been familiar with Naples long before this date. He is indeed described as 'Napoletano' in inventories of the collection of the great Venetian collector Field Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, who paid him for a view of Naples in 1736, one of the first records of the artist as a painter of views (Toledano, op. cit., p. 298, no. N.I.1, illustrated). It is the setting of Naples in its glorious bay, in the shadow of Vesuvius, which gives it its unique character. The heart of the city is here seen from the West. Near the left edge is the Torretta of Chiaia or of Piedigrotta, built in 1564 as a defence against Turkish raids. Just beyond it is one of the fountains erected along the shore between the Castel dell'Ovo and Posillipo by Luís de la Cerda Fernández de Córdoba Folch de Cardona y Aragón, 9th Duque de Medinaceli (1660-1711), Viceroy of Naples 1692-1706, and beyond that the Riviera di Chiaia stretches to Pizzofalcone and the Castel dell'Ovo off the point. The city is overlooked by the imposing walls of the Castel Sant'Elmo, built by the Aragonese Viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo in 1537-47, on the Vomero Hill behind to the left. Immediately below it to the right is the Certosa di San Martino, the great Carthusian monastery, on whose expansion Cosimo Fanzago worked for thirty-three years in the mid-seventeenth Century. Six variants by Joli of this composition are published by Toledano, all of very roughly similar scale, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (two) and in private collections (Toledano, op. cit., pp. 310-15, nos. N.V.1-6, all illustrated). As one would expect of Joli, the boats differ widely between most of the versions, including this. In three versions, however, the differences are limited; those are Toledano's N.V.1 and N. V. 2 (sold with a pendant showing the Gulf of Pozzuoli at Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2015, lot 20) and a previously unknown version sold (with a pendant showing the temples at Paestum) at Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2019 (lot 78). The British three-master prominently shown in the foreground in our painting does not recur in any of the others and suggests that the painting was intended for a British patron. Our thanks go to Charles Beddington for preparing this catalogue note/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: A 4 inch tear to the top right of the picture, extensive re-touching to the sky and an areas of the sea on the right hand side, a 1 inch area of restored damage near the right hand edge, a restored hole to the top of the hill on the left hand side. re-lined 1974Provenance:- Private Collection Gloucestershire. Acquired from a Gloucestershire house sale circa 1965 (catalogued as Dominic Serres).
An Edwardian black opal ring, the oval flat topped opal approximately 13mm x 8.8mm x 3.4mm, claw set, size R, stamped 15ct, total gross weight approximately 2.4g CONDITION REPORT: Condition - minor scratches to surface, chips and nibbles to girdle, particularly around one claw, good play of colour.
Railway and Tramway Badges and Buttons, various examples, Glasgow Corporation Tramways cap badge 1822, by J R Gaunt Rd No 471272(solder repairs to back), Gold Coast Government Railways cap badge and button, BR (W) enamelled totem cap badges, all with some wear, Guard and Porter both by J R Gaunt, Foreman by J Pinches, oval blue enamel LNER badge, GWR Railway Service badge, LMSR cap badge, GWR cap badge, uniform buttons, GWR, Brighton Corporation Tramways, Sheffield Transport, LNER, Manchester Ship Canal, Midland Railway, SR and GW & MID brass stitch on emblem, F-G, (24)
British Rail and Other Train Related Uniforms Caps, Badge and Signal Flags, various items, five black peaked caps, three unbranded, two with stitched BR insignia, one dated 1962 both size seven, J R Gaunt London enamelled BR (W) totem cap badge, red cloth hand signal man arm band, two pairs of red/green signal flags, one set with wooden handles (differing sizes) and a number of mainly jackets, green cloth with BR logos and plastic buttons, label reads Eastern 17391 W Selbourne diesel driver, Grantham, similar green jacket and trousers, jacket label inscribed diesel driver Worksop, trousers T Maidment diesel driver Doncaster, two black winter jackets, and two blue and one grey cloth engineers jackets all with BR plastic buttons, and unbranded blue cloth jacket and an EWS branded maroon set of overalls, F-G, (Qty)
Block Bell By R E Thompson & Co, teak/mahogany cased, labelled R E Thompson & Co Instruments Hersham Surrey, with original bell, split to top of case and some chips in worn condition, one end replaced with a Bakelite panel and with interior electric terminals, replacing original leaver, 27cm X 19cm, F
Three Early 20th Century Copper One Gallon Cream Churns GWR, all with lids inscribed individually, J R Trevail Cream Via GWR Taunton 33, Robert Granville Cream 36 Via GWR Taunton 33,FW Tredwell via GWR Taunton 33, each with two loop carry handles, all dented with age, 26cm high, 18cm diameter, G, (3)
Railway Lantern From S Junction Box Streatham, of cylindrical form, with loop handle brass plaque S E R, internal Lynlight burner stamped S B R, red and blue internal lenses, main clear lense all undamaged, metal plaque inscribed S Junction Box Streatham and oval brass plaque London Brighton & South Coast Railway, 33cm high overall rust, FCondition Report - Please see additional image(s).
A Gauge 1 (narrow gauge) Live Steam radio-controlled 'Europa' 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive by Pearse Models, equipped for gas-firing, with twin outside cylinders, finished in gloss black with brass trim and red wheels, single-channel R/C kit fitted for speed/reverse control and with pressure gauge and lubricator tank to cab, complete with the appropriate R/C Control Unit and instructions for both, bottle of steam oil, lighter and other accessories, all G-VG (2 boxes)
A Gauge 1 Live Steam Spirit-Fired GWR 2-8-0 Locomotive and Tender No 29 built by Campbell Wandswater in about 1936 for Victor Harrison renowned friend and patron of Wenman Bassett-Lowke, finely built to robust standard and neatly painted in GWR green, with early automated control system via associated linked Courtice-Harrison Control Van (see following lot), with governor-controlled hydraulic mechanism in van which regulates steam to twin cylinders on track gradients, G; see The Bassett-Lowke Story, New Cavendish Books, Fuller, R, New Cavendish Books, 1984, p.127 for illustration of this locomotive running on Victor Harrison's Hurst Line, which ran at Bishop's Stortford from 1933 to 1953; provenance - purchased by John Van Riemsdijk, thence to Roy Scott in 2001 and to John Moroney in 2007, with copy of letter dated 12/1/01 to Roy Scott from John Van Riemsdijk giving details of this locomotive and the control van, its function and 2007 purchase invoice
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled 'Surabaya Steam Tram' 0-4-0 Locomotive, a unique scratch-built model, with much fine detail and finished in plain black as No. B1239, one of the world's last working steam tram engines found in Java in the 1970's, the model with substantial brass frame and motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G-VG, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Indonesian Railways Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 Locomotive and Tender, another unique scratch-built model, with much fine detail and finished in plain black as No. B5004, an equally famous survivor found still working in Java in the 1970's, the model shown as running as an oil burner, with substantial brass frame and motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G-VG, in wooden carrying case NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Indonesian Railways 0-4-0 'Tramway' Locomotive and Tender, a scratch-built model by Neil Butcher, with much fine detail and finished in plain black as No. B5226, a lightweight class used to supplement the tram engines at Surabaya, the model shown as running as a wood burner, with substantial brass frame and motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G-VG, in wooden carrying case NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Indonesian Railways 2-6-6-0 'Mallet' Locomotive and Tender, a scratch-built model by Neil Butcher, of a Swiss Locomotive Works machine supplied to PNKA, with much fine detail and finished in plain black as No. CC5009, the model shown as running as an oil burner, with substantial brass frame and motor driving the rear bogie, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G-VG, in wooden carrying case NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Indonesian Railways 2-12-2 Tank Locomotive, a scratch-built model by Neil Butcher, of a PNKA heavy suburban tank loco, with much fine detail and finished in plain black as No. F1018, the model shown as running as an oil burner, with substantial brass frame and motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G-VG, in wooden carrying case NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated, all are flanged, sideplay to two central axles only - this will require very large radius track!
A Gauge 1 battery-powered Russian Railways 2-6-2 Locomotive and Tender, from an Occre kit, adapted and now finished in gloss green as No. C68, as running as a coal burner, with powered bogie to tender and free-running loco wheels, radio controlled, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, F, some repairs needed to (dummy) valve gear, in wooden carrying case
A Gauge 1 battery-powered American CPRR 4-4-0 Locomotive 'Jupiter' and Train, from an Occre kit, adapted and finished in blue and red, with motor to loco driving wheels and battery pack in adjacent tender, radio controlled, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, together with a wood-finish coach, all F-G, basic models of fairly crude construction, in wooden carrying cases
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Wisbech & Upwell Steam Tram 0-4-0 Locomotive, from a Wagon & Carriageworks brass kit, with much fine detail and finished in BR 'cycling lion' era brown and black as No. 68083, the model with Canon motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall VG, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Beyer-Peacock industrial 0-4-4-0 'Garratt' Locomotive, a scratch-built model by Neil Butcher, of the well-known locomotive 'William Francis' of Baddesley Colliery and now preserved at Bressingham, with much fine detail and finished in plain black, with substantial motor driving the rear bogie, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall VG, in wooden carrying case NB - wheels appear to be NON-insulated
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled Midland Railway Kirtley 0-6-0 Locomotive and Tender, from a Slater's kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in MR crimson as No. 786, the model with substantial motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may well be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled British Railways '9F' 2-10-0 Locomotive and Tender, from an unidentified kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in late-totem BR black as No. 92190, the model with substantial motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, smokebox lamp iron missing, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 14xx class 0-4-2 Tank Locomotive, from a Mercian kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in GWR green as No. 1420, the model with substantial motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 77xx class 0-6-0 Pannier Tank Locomotive, from a Mercian kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in Great Western green as No. 7714, the model with substantial motor, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 27xx class 0-6-0 Saddle Tank Locomotive, appears scratch-built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in plain black as No. 2735, the model with Canon motor and gears, appears fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall F-G
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 66xx class 0-6-2 Tank Locomotive, believed from an unidentified kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in Great Western green as No. 6654, fitted with Canon motor/gearbox, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 25xx class 'Dean Goods' 0-6-0 Locomotive and Tender, believed from a Mercian or similar kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in Great Western black as No. 2568, fitted with Canon motor/gearbox, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 22xx class 'Collett Goods' 0-6-0 Locomotive and Tender, believed from a Mercian or similar kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in Great Western green as No. 2289, fitted with Canon motor/gearbox, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
A Gauge 1 battery-powered radio-controlled GWR 68xx class 'Grange' 4-6-0 Locomotive and Tender, believed from a Mercian or similar kit, built to a reasonable standard with a few blemishes, finished in Great Western green as No. 6840 'Hazeley Grange', fitted with Canon motor/gearbox, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, overall G, backhead casting presently detached/loose, in wooden carrying case, NB - wheels may be insulated, but not confirmed
LGB Catalogs, Manuals, Bruder Large Scale Vehicles, RIKO R/C Tracter Various catalogs from 70's to 00's G including 2003 Dealer Hardback Catalog VG, 0026 Track Planning Manual G various Garder Railway magasines G, various construction and farming vehicles G, unopened Bruder 02911 truck and Lieber loader in original box VGC
Just The Ticket Kitbuilt Gauge 1 battery powered Network SouthEast red/blue/white Class 50 Diesel Locomotive, motors to four axles, fitted with R/C gear not run with individual controller, but originally set to run with a 2.4gHz transmitter, built to a fair-good standard and finished to an amateur standard, F
Hornby 0 Gauge LNER Tender Pullman Coach and other Accessories Tender F, drawbar damaged, grubby, bogie Pullman Car 'Iolanthe', P-F , lacks one wheel set, T20M red Transformer, No30 BR green Tender, two blood and custard Coaches, red bogie well wagon, Home Signal with blue base, oval of 3-Rail track, L/H and R/H points, Wayside Halt and Bing Signal (lacks base), generally F (qty)
Hornby Series 0 Gauge No 4 Station Signal Box and Clockwork Track, No 4 Wembley Station with closed Arch and mottled cream platform, in original box with Wembley Label to lid end, G, lacks both ramps, box F, base damaged at one end, unboxed, Signal Box, Home Signal with green base, Buffer Stop, oval of clockwork Track, L/H and R/H points, Hilco Platform Weighing Machine and die-cast blue Ethyl Petrol Pump (lacks top), F-VG (qty)
Very large quantity of Hornby 0 Gauge clockwork Track Points Turntables Level Crossing Buffers Signals and Accessories other makers loose Rolling Stock and Accessories and Britains Farm animals, Hornby and other makers clockwork track, Curves (100+), Straights (70+), R/H Points (5), L/H (8), Right Angle Crossings (3, one boxed), Diamond Crossing (2, one boxed), Turntables (2, both boxed), No 1 Buffer Stops (8, three boxed), No 2A Buffer Stop (boxed, fatigue damage), Level Crossings (5, two boxed), No 3 Station (poor), Junction and Single Arm Signal (prob Brimtoy), Meat and Furniture Containers (both boxed), Train Station Indicators (3), Hornby Rolling Stock, No 30 Coaches (2), M1 Pullmans (2), LMS Open Wagons (2) No 30 Tender and 6161 Loco (tested ok otherwise poor), Mettoy black 0-4-0 tender Loco + coach and Signal Box, (clockwork requires attention), Mettoy Safetylectrc Loco, Tender and two Coaches, Chad Valley Coach and three wagons and Ubilda LMS red 4-4-2 Tank Loco, Britains playworn Farm Animals, Trees (2), Hedges (2), Farmers (5) Bee Hives (2), Kennel, Milk Churns (7), Polar Bear, Porter and Arab, P-VG, boxes F-G (large qty in five boxes)
Hornby 0 Gauge LMS crimson lake Locomotives, clockwork No 1 Special Tank Locomotive no 2120, wheels and motion replaced, No 1 Special Tank Locomotive no 70, fitted No 1 6 volt electric motor and No 2 Special Tank Locomotive no 6954, fitted with modern R J Cooper 12 volt mech, wheels and motion, F-G (3)
Hornby 0 Gauge LMS crimson lake Locomotives, E320 Royal Scot locomotive and tender no 6100, with smoke deflectors, now fitted with modern R J Cooper 12 volt mech, wheels and motion, F, retouching to tender and E220 Compound locmotive and tender no 1185, sans-serif, F, retouching to tender, one wheel set fatigued, with serif lettering (2)
Elettren Finescale 0 Gauge Continental 17" Wagons-Lits Dining Car , uncommon earlier series in tinplate, finished in CIWL blue livery with yellow lining and gold lettering as car No. R-025, with interior detail and appears fitted with lighting, VG, slight rusting to steel parts, a few small paint chips, especially to cantrail level on one side, roof and corridor connections grubby
An 0 Gauge (narrow gauge) radio-controlled 0-6-0 Baguley-Drewry Diesel Shunter by Roundhouse Models, with jack-shaft drive design, finished in grey with black frames and yellow trim, 'wasp-stripes' to buffer beams, instructions indicate fitted with sound (but not tested), together with the appropriate R/C Control Unit, all G-VG (2 boxes)
An 0 Gauge/Gauge 1 (narrow gauge) Live Steam radio-controlled 'Lady Anne' 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive by Roundhouse Models, equipped for gas-firing, with twin outside cylinders, adjustable gauge wheels, finished in gloss black with brass trim, full R/C kit fitted and with pressure gauge and lubricator tank to cab, complete with the appropriate R/C Control Unit and instructions for both, all G-VG (2 boxes)
Large collection of Lionel 0 Gauge Fast Track including Points, boxed, Operating Track, electric uncoupling Track, 90 Deg Crossover (2), Transition Track (2) and Station Platform, electric Y (Wye) Point and manual R/H Point, all in original boxes, packaging, unboxed, 0-36 Full Curves (34) Half Curves (2) and Quarter Curve, 0-48 Curves (10), 10'' Straights (41), Power Straights (4), 5'' Straight, 4.5'' Straight, 2'' Straight, Lighted Buffer Straights (2) and Straight Bridge section, generally VG-E, boxes G-VG (100+)
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