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Click here to subscribeA handwritten note sent by HM Queen Elizabeth II to Sybil Smith. The note is one-sided and is written on lined notepaper. It reads "To Sybil Smith From The Queen Windsor Castle. I send you my best wishes and hope you have a happy evening with many remeniscences of old days. Elizabeth R" Sybil Smith was a riding instructor to the Queen, when the Queen was a child.
A signed 1952 Christmas Card from Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh. With gilt crown to cover, interior with photograph of the Royal couple at Balmoral with the young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, signed 'Elizabeth R Philip'. Sent to Horace and Sybil Smith, former riding instructors to The Queen.
A 1954 Christmas card signed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Gilt crown to cover, interior with a photograph of the Queen waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, accompanied by Prince Philip and a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Signed ‘Elizabeth R 1954’. Sent to Horace and Sybil Smith, former riding instructors to The Queen.
A 1955 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Gilt embossed crown to the cover, interior with black and whte photograph of the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh sitting on a garden wall with a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne standing on the wall on either side of them. Signed 'Elizabeth R 1955'. Sent to Horace and Sybil Smith, former riding instructors to The Queen.
Two partial Christmas cards sent by HM The Elizabeth II, missing front covers. The first from 1957 with a colour photo of the Royal Family with corgis in a woodland and signed underneath Elizabeth R. The second with a colour photo of the Royal Family at Windsor. The signature Elizabeth R separated from the main body of the card. Also with 2 postcards, a cut Christmas card front cover and 2 envelopes. The cards were sent to Horace and Sybil Smith, former riding instructors to The Queen.
A 1971 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Twin gilt Royal cyphers to the cover. Interior with a colour photograph of the Royal Family and signed 'Elizabeth R 1971.' With original envelope. Also for interest, a newspaper clipping of an article about the 1971 Royal Christmas Card. Card sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
1974 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth II Christmas card with twin gilt Royal ciphers to cover. Colour photograph of the Royal Family on a carriage to interior and signed 'Elizabeth R 1974.' With original envelope. Card was sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to Queen Elizabeth.
A 1975 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth. Cover with twin gilt Royal cyphers. Interior with colour photograph of the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh wearing the Mantle and Insignia of The Order of The Thistle. Signed 'Elizabeth R 1975.' With original envelope. Card sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
A 1977 Christmas Card sent from HM Queen Elizabeth II with embossed '1977 Silver Jubilee' crest to the cover. Interior with colour photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arriving at the Silver Jubilee Thanksgiving ceremony in the Gold State Coach and signed 'Elizabeth R 1977'. Sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
1983 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth. Cover with colour photo of members of the Royal family on board The Royal Yacht. Inerior with gilt embossed Royal cyphers and signed 'Elizabeth R 1983.' With original envelope. The card was sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
1984 Christmas card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cover with printed photo of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh standing by a lake with a corgi. Interior with two gilt cyphers, signed 'Elizabeth R 1984.' With original envelope. Card sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
A 1987 Christmas card sent by HM The Queen. Cover with a photograph of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh along with their eldest four grandchildren. Twin gilt royal cyphers to interior and signed ‘Elizabeth R 1987’. With original envelope. Sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
A 1988 Christmas card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cover with printed colour photograph of The Queen holding a baby Princess Beatrice with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother standing to her side. Interior with twin Royal ciphers and signed 'Eizabeth R 1988.' With original envelope. Card sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
1989 Christmas Card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cover with black and white photograph of the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh in a carriage with 'Sark' printed underneath. Interior with twin Royal cyphers and signed 'Elizabeth R 1989.' With original envelope. Card was sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
A 1990 Christmas card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. Cover with printed colour photograph of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh with one of their corgis. Interior with twin Royal cyphers and signed 'Elizabeth R 1990.' With original envelope. Card was sent to Sybil Smith, former riding instructor to The Queen.
A 1991 Christmas card from HM Queen Elizabeth II. The cover is a photograph showing the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh in ceremonial Order of the Garter robes. Twin gilt ciphers on the inside cover. Inscribed 'Elizabeth R 1991' inside. In original envelope. Recipient Sybil Smith was The recipient of the invitation was Sybil Smith, a riding instructor to HM Queen Elizabeth II when she was a child
A George II brass-studded leather-covered travelling trunk, Henry Nickles London, of wood with domed lid and covered in Russia leather, richly decorated with tulip and other patterns, the initials E R, rosette, pierced crown escutcheon, the brackets to the sides pierced with hearts and crescents, iron carrying handles and lock, the interior retaining the original marbled lining paper and engraved trade card of "Henry Nickles Trunk-Maker at the Corner of St Pauls Next Cheap-Side Handulet Makes & Sells all sorts of Campaine Trunks Portmanteau trunk & leather portmanteaus, leather baggs & cloth cloake baggs, plate cases & perewigg boxes & guilded nest of trunks, fire buckets & all sorts of other leather wares wholesale or retail at reasonable rates", 56cm h; 57 x 107cm, key Provenance: Colonel Sir Edward Geoffrey Hippisley-Cox CBE, DL (1884-1954) by whom acquired in the early 20th c for the collection he was forming at his home Gournay Court, West Harptree, Somerset; thence by descent to the present vendor Sir Edward Hippisley-Cox leased Gournay Court from the Duchy of Cornwall in 1913, later, in 1928 purchasing the house from the Prince of Wales. The trade card and the trunk were photographed by Sir Ambrose Heal (1872-1959). His record sheet with three mounted photographs and notes, including "This leather trunk containing Nickles' trade-card in the lid is in the possession of Col E G Hippisley-Cox of Gornay Court West Harptree Somt..." It and the rest of Heal's archive is in the British Museum (Heal 120.57) Good and original condition with localised losses mainly on back, unrestored and not hitherto offered for sale
WWII, attributed group of three, 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star and War Medal, attributed to Sergeant James Robert Elding RAF with photographs, RAF cloth wings insignia and American silver brooch, photographs and research J R Elding of Wysall Nottinghamshire, a pilot, was amongst those killed on Liberator AL591 which crashed eight miles from Gander Airport USA in February 1943. He is buried in Gander War Cemetery
Medial Interest. Chesterfield Medal in Dermatology of St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London, awarded to H G Burford MB, ChB Oxon, 1929, silver, by John Pinches, London, oval 54mm, cased and two bronze medals, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, to G H Burford for Natural History 1879-80, cased and P R McCowan for Diseases of the Skin 1911 (3) Good condition
Reprints and Facsimiles. Two copies of Browne (Sir Thomas, Knight) & Keynes (Geoffrey Kt., editor), A Letter to a Friend Upon occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend, each one of 750 copies, unnumbered, Boston: David R. Godine, 1971, printed by Vivian Ridler at the University Press, Oxford, in Fell types on watermarked Hale Paper Company paper, original gilt-lettered black morocco over papered boards, marbled endpapers, each slipcased en suite, 4to, Gray (Thomas), Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 1747, one of 550 copies, Oxford: Printed by Frederick Hall at the Clarendon Press, 1924, original marbled limp wrappers, folio, [Möller (Anton)], Anton Moeller's Danziger Frauentrachtenbuch 1601, Danzig: Richard Bertling, 1886, anachronistic woodcuts, original printed vellum over boards, joints split, milled brass clasps, 4to, etc., (5)
English Naive Artist, 19th c - A Fisherman and Child, his catch by his feet, monogrammed HB, oil on millboard, 37 x 26.5cm, R. John P***, Cornish harbour town, signed in pencil, watercolour, another landscape watercolour, (3) The fishermen with losses, craquelure. Cornish harbour good. Early 20th c landscape watercolour fair.
Wilhelm Kage for Gustavsberg, an Argenta box, the cover decorated with a seated lady smoking, 9cm wide, a circular dish with floral decoration, shape 1002, 13.5cm diameter and a small circular dish marked Rotary R C Stockholm 1938 beneath, 9cm diameter 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
A fine pair of Royal Worcester plates, by Raymond Rushton (1886-1956) dated 1940 and 1941, with acid gold rims, fully painted with 'Bluebells Kew Gardens' and 'Ripply Wood', both signed R Rushton, 27cm diameter, factory marks in blue/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection CONDITION REPORT: In very good order overall.
Another Royal Worcester cabinet plate, dated 1939, this one by Raymond Rushton (1886-1856), painted all over with a view of Lake Derwent, signed R Rushton, with an acid gold border, 27cm, factory mark in blue/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection CONDITION REPORT: In very good order overall.
A Royal Worcester earthenware plaque by Albert Binns (1862-1882), sgraffito decoration of the head of a St Bernard, printed mark with date letter S/Note: Albert was the young son of Worcester factory owner R. W. Binns. Albert died aged only twenty, having created just a small number of sgraffito plaques/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection CONDITION REPORT: Flat chip to the edge of the rim which is approx. 1.3cm wide and a further much smaller chip to rim, otherwise there is some minor wear.
Raymond Rushton (1886-1956): A Woodland Stream/signed R Rushton/6cm x 18cm, Albert Gyngell (c.1840s-1894): Thatched Cottages, signed A. Gyngell, 16.5cm x 24cm, Michael Powell (born 1945): three monochrome drawings of Worcester Cathedral, the Malvern Hills and Elgar's Birthplace, and Francis Clark (born 1948): a farmyard scene, 16.5cm x 21cm/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection 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
Richard Sebright (1868-1951)/Primroses on a Woodland Bank/signed R Sebright/watercolour, 21.5cm x 27cm, framed/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection/see illustration 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
A Fujifilm X-Pro 1 Digital Camera, serial no 22MO3550, shutter working, appears to function as should, body G-VG, with Fujinon Super EBC XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS Aspherical lens, auto focus working, barrel VG, elements VG, with two batteries, charger, manuals, two firmware update cards, warranty cards and Fujifilm M mount adapter
A mid-19th Century lacquered brass John Browning Wenham Compound Binocular Microscope, serial no. 407, with pair of eyepieces, rack and pinion focusing, R and J Beck double nosepiece, circular stage, condenser, mirror and Y-shaped foot, and bull's-eye condenser on stand, in mahogany case, 440mm high, circa 1870, F
A late-19th Century lacquered brass R & J Beck Microscope Accessory Case, including mid-19th Century Andrew Ross objectives, apparently original to case - 1/2in with correction, dated 1856 and 1/4in with correction, in cans, seven Beck objectives, in cans, three eyepieces, four graduated Lieberkuhns, Abbe condenser with five dark ground stops, polariser and analyser, stage bull's-eye condenser, stage parabolic illuminator and later double nosepiece, in fitted mahogany case, 355mm wide, G-VG
Formerly the Property of J R Dallmeyer, grandson of J H Dallmeyer, who worked on railways in Palestine and the LNER in the 1930s Various Instruments, black-enamelled drawing instrument case, instruments and case numbered 264, 335mm wide; anodised brass five-draw Dallmeyer Pocket Telescope, in leather case, 150mm long retracted; Casella spinning hydrometer/thermometer; slide rule; Massi Tools steel pocket tape measure, retailed by Frank Hirsh 'The White House', Hashmal str. No. 1, Tel-Aviv, Palestine'; 3.5in. telescope objective; Cine-Kodak lens; No. 3-A Folding Pocket Kodak; Halden Calculex calculator; Negretti and Zambra Pocket Forecaster; penknife engraved Dallmeyer York; penknife with silver guards engraved RD; and other items; (a lot)
A late 19th Century cloth UK and Overseas Travel Album, commercial images, Pieter Both Mountain, Mauritius (1), steam corvette HMS Racoon, 1870 (broken up 1877), local Italian photographer - Rev'd R W Coote and Clements Good at Temple of Pompeii, May 12 1881, and Scotland - including Valentine - Gairloch, Cawdor, views of Denmore House, Aberdeen, and lodge, walled garden and grounds, 1882 (now demolished) (8),
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