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Lot 31
A rare Martin Brothers stoneware grotesque ewer/spoon warmer modelled as a reptile creature, covered in a thick and pitted brown and buff glaze incised 12 -190 R W Martin & Bros, London & Southall 25cm. wide Literature Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters Richard Dennis Publications, page 140 figure 221 for a comparable form.
Lot 138
Ladies` diamond cluster ring, comprising nineteen stones, total weight 0.25 carats, white gold setting, yellow gold shank, size K or 5.1/2 US & a ladies` ruby & diamond half eternity ring, comprising four rubies with small brilliant cut stone set between each, white gold settings, yellow gold shank, size R or 8.1/2 US, both 9ct h/m (4.0g) (2)
Lot 276
Georgian diamond set ring, comprising marquise shaped gold & silver setting with a total of twenty one graduated old cut stones set in three rows, total weight approx. 1.50 carats, yellow gold replacement shank with split shoulders, stamped 18ct, size R or 8.1/2 US (3.3g) boxed & with 2006 valuation certificate for £1350
Lot 718
World, AR: Austria 20 kreuzer, 1853 A, Greece, drachmas, 1873 A and 1883 A, Haiti 20 cents, An 14 A, Hungary korona, 1896, India rupees, 1840 and 1880, Netherlands, Gelderland 2 stuivers, 1786, Papal States, 1 lira, 1866 R and 10 soldi, 1868 R, Romania 1 leu, 1910, Russia 25 kopecks, 1877 and Spain, 40 cents, 1866 and peseta, 1903, mainly fine or better (14)
Lot 754
WWII Medals: War Medal and Stars for 1939-45, Africa, Italy and Atlantic, plus ARP badge (in postal box addressed to R. Whatling), War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and France and Germany (in postal box addressed to M. W. Bowland), Defence Medal (in postal box addressed to H. Bowland) and War and Defence Medals with Stars for 1939-45 and Africa, mainly extremely fine (15)
Lot 893
Cigarette Card sets in album, comprising Players `Butterflies` 1932 (50/50), Gallaher `Butterflies & Moths` 1938 (48/48), Cavanders `Foreign Birds` 1926 (25/25), Carreras `Birds of the Countryside` 1939 (50/50), Wills `Gardening Hints, A Series` 1923 (50/50), `Garden Hints` 1938 (50/50) and `Old English Garden Flowers, Second Series` 1913 (50/50), Gallaher `Garden Flowers` 1938 (48/48), Wills `Garden Flowers` 1933 (50/50), `Garden Flowers by R Sudell` 1939 (50/50), `Wild Flowers, A Series`, not adhesive (50/50) and `Flower Culture in Pots` 1925 (50/50), in plastic wallets in album, mostly good to average condition, a few soiled and damaged (12 sets) (Care! High international shipping costs)
Lot 777
A set of six George II walnut ladder back dining chairs, by Giles Grendey. Giles Grendey was one of London`s most successful 18th century furniture makers. He was apprenticed in London Joiner`s Company in 1709 and became `free` in 1716. By 1720 he was running his own workshop, taking his first apprentice in November 1720. Grendey set up shop in St. John`s Square, Clerkenwell, where it remained for the rest of his career. His dwelling house was close by at No.2, Lyon Street. In 1729 Grendey was elected to the Livery of the Joiner`s Company and served as Upper Warden in 1747 and 1757, before becoming Master in 1766. By this time he was 72 years old and had probably retired from full time business. By 1779 he had moved to a country estate in Palmer`s Green, where he died on 3 March 1780, aged 87. Grendey`s workshop was on the site of the former London house of the Earl of Aylesbury. It was far larger than most furniture shops, and this suggests that Grendey was both ambitious and well funded. When his workshop was struck by fire in 1731 over £1,000 worth of stock destined for export was destroyed. Yet compared with contemporaries such as Thomas Chippendale, relatively little is known of Grendey`s work. Known documented commissions are few and cannot easily be reconciled with extant furniture His reputation rests primarily on surviving pieces bearing his trade label. About fourteen labelled items and suites are known, including the spectacular Lazcano commission of at least seventy-seven red and gold japanned items, now widely dispersed. The Newport church chairs were first recognised and published by Simon Jervis in 1974. No documentation survives and it is not known how and when these dining chairs came to be in Newport Church.. The chairs can be approximately dated by the style of the label which, although fragmentary, corresponds to the shorter of two versions employed by the Grendey workshop. Other furniture bearing this label can be dated on stylistic and technical grounds to the 1740s or later, and so the present chairs are likely to have been made in the middle years of the 18th century. The ladder-back style derives ultimately from the so-called `Dutch chairs` of the early 18th century; these ladder-backed, turned and rush-seated chairs were imported from Holland in huge numbers from the late 17th century onwards, and were also widely copied by English chair-makers. The Grendey examples are `polite` versions of the form, demonstrating its acceptance into mainstream English furniture-making. Chairs of this type were typically furnished with rush or `matted` seats, a cheap and popular alternative to the more expensive upholstered drop-in seat. The present boarded seats are replacements, installed some time before 1974. The rush seat now fitted to no. VI was made while the chair was on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Marks and stamps: the chairs frames are not numbered, but the later boarded seats are numbered I to V in ink on the undersides. Chair no. V and the labelled chair are stamped T C on the inside of the back rails (other chairs may be stamped but the later seats obscure much of the seat rails). This stamp is hitherto unrecorded. Others chairs bearing Grendey`s label are also stamped with various initials, assumed to be those of journeymen employed in Grendey`s workshop. Selected literature: R. W. Symonds, `Giles Grendey (1693-1780) and the Export Trade of English Furniture to Spain`, Apollo (1935), pp. 336-342. R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, `Georgian Cabinet-Makers VIII - Giles Grendey and William Hallet`, Country Life (1942), pp. 176-77. R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 3rd edn. (1955), pp. 47-48, 144-5. Christopher Gilbert, `Furniture by Giles Grendey for the Spanish Trade`, Antiques, XCIX (1971), pp. 544-50. Simon Jervis, `"A Great Dealer in the Cabinet Way" - Giles Grendey (1693-1780),` Country Life (6 June 1974), pp.1418-1419. G. Beard & C. Gilbert, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, Leed, (1986), pp. 371-372. Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds (1996), pp. 31-2, 238-249.
Lot 216
A good mid-19th century Sevres porcelain cabinet cup and saucer, with hand painted in puce with a gentleman inspecting an artist`s work, with harbour and ships in the background, the saucer decorated with figures outside a tent, within landscaped surroundings, gilt rims, printed green oval mark S55, printed crowned `N` Dore R Sevres, 56, incised marks, cup 6.5cm, saucer 12.2cm (2)
Lot 283
A Martin Brothers stoneware oil lamp, 1880, two sides pierced for mounts and incised `R`, inscribed round lower section `R.W.Martin London 1880`, fitted Hinks no. 2 Duplex burner, 56cm to top of shade. This vase is interesting for the bird decoration, which is not by the hand of any of the three Martin brothers who worked in the pottery, nor akin to any of the assistants the Martins employed. Visitors would occasionally decorate pots, and this is presumably one of them.
Lot 144
`A Pictorial History of the Carousel`, `The American Carousel Organ - An Illustrated Encyclopedia`, `A Zoo on Wheels`, `Fairground Art` (hardback), `Little Italy`, `Everybody`s Favourite - Story of R. Edwards & Sons`, `In Retro - Nottingham Goose Fair (1973)`, `Showman`s Guild of Great Britain - All the Fun of the Fair`, `Travelling Fairs`, `William Taylor Bioscope Show (1968) (10).
Lot 226
A Victorian walnut cased Fortuna polyphon musical disc player, with double comb mechanism playing 25 7/8" discs (65.6cm), with 66 assorted discs. This instrument is believed to have been originally sold in Edinburgh by the retailer R Felvuschenn, 86 St Vincent St., Glasgow and can be found in The Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments. The case has a pediment with turned finials above glazed door housing the internal mechanism, a disc bin below, height approx 225cm, width 84.5cm.
Lot 87
History of the Confederate States Navy original pictorial cloth gilt New York 1887 § Spears (J. R.) The History of Our Navy...1785-1898 vol.5 broken original cloth New York 1899 § Miles (Nelson A.) Harper`s Pictorial History of the War with Spain light water-staining to lower margin original pictorial cloth New York &London 1899 § Allen (E.W. editor) The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas limited edition original half vellum soiled New York 1917 § Hichborn (Philip) Standard Designs for Boats of the United States Navy title foxed contemporary half roan worn spine defective upper cover detached Washington D.C. 1900 plates and illustrations rubbed; and a quantity of others American naval and maritime v.s.(c. 100)
Lot 320
Starkey Pyrotechny Asserted and Illustrated first edition title with outer edge trimmed and a few minor repairs to edges very small section torn away from lower corner of L4 just touching part of 1 letter of catchword lacking final blank lightly browned modern red crushed morocco gilt g.e. [Duveen 563; Ferguson II 401] small 8vo R. Daniel for Samuel Thomson 1658. ***”Very rare” (Duveen). .
Lot 355
Combe (William) The English Dance of Death 2 vol. first edition in book form additional hand-coloured aquatint title and 73 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Rowlandson some slight foxing and browning bookplates of H.A.J. Silley on front pastedowns handsomely bound in modern polished red morocco gilt g.e. by Sangorski &Sutcliffe 8vo R. Ackermann 1815-16.
Lot 26
Two 1939-45 War Medals, a Defence Medal, an Africa Service Medal to 224532 J. R. Goldberg, a UN medal `In The Service of Peace`, a French medal inscribed on the reverse `Decerne a Mr Edward Palmer Le Grand Ami de la France/ Paris le 12 Aout 1910` (French silver marks), and a cased Imperial Service Medal. (7).
Lot 55
A collection of mainly Great War militaria, including a GVR `Welcome Home` banner, a cloth backed `War Map of Europe`, postcards including silk examples, a field spirit stove and mug/pan in a brown leather case, `A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesapotamia 1914-18` by Major R. Evans, and other items.
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