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HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - a charming letter to The Lady Tryon in registered envelope with 'ER' to corner - dated November 3rd 1979 on Clarence House crowned ER headed paper 'My Dear Dale, I wonder if you and Antony would be free to come and shoot at Windsor on Monday Dec 3rd? It would be lovely to see you both again, and if you can manage this day, do come to Royal Lodge on Sunday. It seems an age since I have seen you, and it would be a joy to welcome you once again - I am, yours sincerely Elizabeth R'
A Tiffany green patinated copper and glass letter rack and utility box of Etched Metal and Glass pattern, decorated with stylised pine needles, letter rack 25cm w, stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1008 [rack] or 5 [800, box], early 20th c Literature: Koch (R), Louis C Tiffany's Glass Bronzes Lamps, New York, 1971, plts 108-110.
A Wedgwood Argenta salad bowl and servers, with EPNS mounts, the bowl on three lobster feet and printed and painted with seaweed and other plants, the servers with lobster claw handle, bowl 25.5cm diam, impressed mark and date code for August 1885, moulded registration mark, painted C2454 in black, the mounts by James Dixon & Sons Literature: Reilly (R), Wedgwood 1989, vol II, plt 580. ++In fine condition
A Derby figure of a garland shepherd, the young woman in a pink bodice and flowered skirt stooping to place a garland about the neck of a ewe, on sprigged mound, 20cm h, William Duesbury & Co, patch marks, dealer's label, c1765 Provenance: R & M Andrade Ltd. ++Old restoration to the hat brim and one front leg of the ewe; a couple of tiny pinhead sized nicks around the edge of the sleeves and some typical but minor chipping of the flower petals etc. A chip on the front edge of the base visible in the illustration caused during firing and decorated to disguise the same at the factory
A rare Private Trade famille rose coffee cup, one side finely enamelled and gilt with the monogram R P in a scrolling foliate cartouche with boot 'crest', the reverse with a workman and assistant at a cobbler's bench beneath the inscription "I must Work for Leather's dear", in a similar cartouche hung with boots, a glove and shoe beneath an iron red and gilt spearhead border, 5.5cm h, c1750. ++Handle broken off and glued back into position with glue residue, pinhead sized rim nick but of fine quality and most unusual and attractive
CESCINSKY (HERBERT) AND MALCOLM R WEBSTER - ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS, second edition, illustrated, half buckram, teg, London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1914; - uniform with - English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, three vols; Fridtjof Nansen - Farthest North, two vols, 1897; and about forty others (45 approx). ++++
GREGYNOG PRESS. BRIDGES (R) - EROS AND PSYCHE A POEM IN XII MEASURES woodcut title, plates and illustrations after E Burne-Jones, the initial letters designed by Graily Hewitt otherwise in Gregynog type in red and black on handmade paper, one of 300 copies, full white pigskin gilt with title to the spine, teg, part box and slip case, Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1935. ++++
STEVENSON (R L) - A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. ILLUSTRATED BY MILICENT SOWERBY, new edition, colour illustrations, vellum gilt, London: Chatto & Windus, 1908; [C L Dodgson] 'Lewis Carroll' - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. illustrated in colour by A E Jackson, pictorial cloth gilt, dust jacket, box, London: nd [c1910]; two Ameliaranne Stories by M Gilmour illustrated by S B Pearse and about forty other children's books, illustrated by Margaret Tarrant, HBN (The Pussy Cat Hunt) E Aris (Madam Mouse) Randolph Caldecott, Harold Ernshaw and others, published by Frederick Warne & Co, E P Dutton & Co, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Blackie & Son, Gale & Polden Ltd, Ernest Nister and others, all c1900-early 20th c (40 approx). ++++
ASTRONOMY. THE WONDERS OF THE TELESCOPE OR A DISPLAY OF THE WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS AND OF THE SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE. WITH TWELVE PLATES, 12mo folding plts, early ownership signature to the front pastedown of R Holmes 1806, morocco boards detached, London: Richard Phillips, 1805; [Derbyshire] William Barron, Head Gardener - The British Winter Garden being a practical treatise on evergreens. their mode of propagating planting and removal. as practiced at Elvaston Castle, 1852; C-F Volney - Travels Through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784 and 1785, third edition, two vols, 1805; R H Newell - The Theoretical Works of Oliver Goldsmith with. illustrative engravings by Mr Alkin [sic], aquatints, early ownership signature to the front pastedown of W Whitear, original boards detached, 1811 (5). ++++
[PENNANT (Thomas)] - ARCTIC ZOOLOGY VOL I INTRODUCTION CLASS I QUADRUPEDS [and] VOL II CLASS II BIRDS, engraved plts, some folding and titles, both with early ownership signature of R Whitear, diced calf gilt, London: Henry Hughs, 1784; - Synopsis of Quadrupeds, plts and engraved title, ownership signature of R Whitear to the title, Chester: J Monk, 1771; - British Zoology, vol IV [only], plts and engraved title, early ownership signature of S Whitear to the ffe, London: Benjamin White, 1777; - British Zoology vols I-IV [only], plts, some folding, uniformed tooled calf gilt, early ownership signature of W Whitear to the title, London: Benjamin White, 1768-70 (8). ++++
JOHNSON (RICHARD) - THE ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD, second edition, engraved frontispiece, brown cloth gilt, London: T Richards, 1882; Leitch Ritchie - The Wye and its associations a picturesque ramble, 1841; J James - An Essay on the philosophical construction of Celtic nomenclature. in reference to. Wales, 1869; Mrs Arthur Traherne - The Ghost of Tintern Abbey, presentation copy, Clifton 1901; [Welsh Antiquarian Pamphlets, inc] McKenzie E C Walcott - St David's The Cathedral of SS Andrew and David and several others similar [bound as one vol], Tenby: R Mason, nd [c1900]; Mary Curtis - The Antiquities of Laugharne Pendine and their neighbourhoods. , second edition, 1880; J R Phillips - Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches 1642-1649, two vols [and an additional copy of vol I] uncut, 1874; and John Randall - The Severn Valley, 1882 (10) . ++++
COXE (WILLIAM) - AN HISTORICAL TOUR OF MONMOUTHSHIRE ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS BY SIR R C HOARE. A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTY AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS, two vols, half titles, folding map and engraved plates, some also folding, contemporary quarter calf worn, London: T Cadell & W Davies, 1801; Henry Gastineau - Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views comprising the picturesque scenery towns castles seats of the nobility & gentry antiquities etc, two vols, nd [c1830] [Thomas Pennant] - A Tour in Wales MDCCLXX [and inked III] wanting title, engraved plates some folding, later buckram, teg, engraved bookplate of the 6th Duke of Portland, London: Henry Hughes, 1778 (5). ++++
WARRINGTON (WILLIAM) - THE HISTORY OF WALES IN NINE BOOKS, fourth edition, two vols, plates, contemporary tooled green morocco gilt with red labels, engraved bookplate of J C Severn of Penybont Hall, Brecon: the Author, 1823; W Sotheby - A Tour through parts of Wales sonnets odes and other poems with engravings from drawings taken on the spot by J Smith, plates, later cloth, London, 1794; Jodrell (R P) - The Political Works of Richard Paul Jodrell. , engraved portrait, tree calf, London 1814; two others (6). ++++
TICKELL (R EUSTACE) - THE VALE OF NANTGWILT A SUBMERGED VALLEY ILLUSTRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE OF THE ELAN AND CLAERWEN VALLEYS IN RADNORSHIRE SHORTLY TO BE SUBMERGED BY THE RESERVOIRS FOR THE WATER SUPPLY OF BIRMINGHAM, oblong folio, illustrated, title in red and black, half title inscribed in pencil No 113, quarter vellum soiled, pictorial boards, gutta percha perished, plates and text loose, London: J S Virtue & Co Ltd, 1894; Iorwerth C Peate - The Welsh House a study in folk culture, second revised edition, Liverpool: 1944 (2) . ++++
Dame Laura Knight,DBE, RA (1877-1970) BALLERINA signed, dated March 1943 and inscribed R[oyal] O [rdnance] F[actory] Newport, pen and ink, 14 x 13.5cm, unframed Provenance: Drawn by Laura Knight for the father of the present vendor who was eNgaged in war work at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Newport, Monmouthshire. In March 1943 Knight visited the factory to paint a woman at work and the following month her picture of Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was voted the most popular painting in the RA Exhibition. ++++
George Marks (1857-1938) AUTUMN GOLD signed, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 41 x 32cm Exhibited: R I. ++Some foxing but the colours still fresh and well preserved. Undisturbed in the original giltwood and composition exhibition frame. With on the reverse the R I back label inscribed with the title, artist's address Shere Guildford and price £21 and also the label of Walter Stewert Carver and Gilder London W
Inger Maria Burton née Whitehead (1828-1897) AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS OF VIEWS TAKEN IN MALTA THE IONIAN ISLANDS JAMAICA AND INDIA one hundred and eight, one folding, one signed, two signed with initials, many dated 1859-1896 and inscribed verso, pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, 12.5 x 18cm - 34 x 50cm, folio [63 x 47cm], worn half scarlet morocco gilt with gilt tooled label I.M.B. to the upper board, aeg The views include Akrotiri (May 23rd 1859), Gibraltar, Tenerife, mainly larger views in the Blue Mountains and elsewhere in Jamaica including Newcastle and Craigton Church (Septr 22nd 1860), telegraph stations, a camp scene, the Cabul River looking North towards Afghanistan, Port Said (2), Nowshira [sic], Locarno/Lugano, a village above Grignasco, San Gregorio Varese from the garden of the Hotel Excelsior, Monte Carlo, Lincoln and other English, Welsh and Scottish views. Inger Maria Burton was the daughter of the Reverend George Davenport Whitehead of Burton by Lincoln and incumbent of Saxilby, Lincolnshire. She married in 1859, Henry Augustus Burton (1832-1892), the son of a Lincoln solicitor. He enlisted as Ensign in the 14th Regiment of Foot in 1855 and retired as Lieutenant Colonel in January 1881. Accompanied by his wife on service overseas, the genesis of the watercolours in the present album is reflected by his Service Record (National Archives) - Home 1855-57, Malta 1857-1858, The Ionian Islands 1858-60, West Indies 1860-64, Home 1864-80 and East Indies 1880-82. He served in the Afghan Campaign in 1880 and in the Kama Expedition of the same year. He and his wife had no issue. Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist's cousins, the Severn family of Penybont Hall, Radnorshire. For an account of the Cheesment-Severn-Whitehead families see Oliver (R C D), The Squires of Penybont Hall Radnorshire 1755-1926, Llandrindod Wells, 1971. ++In finely preserved fresh original condition throughout
R J Hammond (Exh 1882-1911) SPRINGTIME NEAR EVESHAM WORCESTERSHIRE; THE BORDERLAND OF SOMERSETSHIRE a pair, both signed, inscribed on the selvedge, 40 x 60cm (2). ++The first work relined with fragment of the selvedge with inscription preserved on the stretcher. Both works in good clean condition and painted in a typical bright palette
A set of Regency quartetto tables attributed to Gillows, each with a rectangular top of maple, bird's eye maple or rosewood, the smallest table inlaid for chess in rosewood and satinwood and banded in differing combinations of birch or burr birch, on rosewood turned baluster spindle legs with stretchers, 74cm h; 60 x 40cm (4) A similar set of tables at Leighton House, Lancashire, is likely to have been supplied by Gillows circa 1810. Leighton House was bought by Richard Gillow in 1822 from his cousin, Thomas Worsick. See Edwards (R) & M Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, revised edition, 1955, p221, fig 193. ++Much accretion of dust and grime over time. The odd minor structural repair but free from replacements or repolishing and of particularly finely preserved deep colour/patina
Blacksmith repair. A dated Creamware teapot, 1787, the cylindrical body inscribed R IC H, And, Eliz, Howit, 10cm, metal replacement lid (2)? This extraordinary and disfiguring addition was to replace only the handle, the body is, in fact, intact. One can only speculate whether the Howits were pleased when the pot returned from the forge
A collection of six Royal Worcester coffee cups and saucers, to include; four Jas Stinton decorated coffee cups and saucers, various dates to include; 1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926, each painted with a cock and hen pheasant, within gilded rims, and another similar example also by Jas Stinton date code for 1923 (a/f), and a coffee cup and saucer painted by R Austin with a peacock amongst pine cones (a/f), all cups with gilt interior, cups 4.7cm high, saucers 9.7cm diameter (12)
Darlington. Mowbray (J.). A Plan of the Revd. Mr Sisson's Estate called High Parks in the Township and Parish of Darlington, 1776, hand-drawn plan, 355mm x 155mm, some colouring in outline, mounted with later typed notes on recessed sheet, framed and glazed (glass broken); Richardson (R.). A Plan of Miss Johnson's Estate at Darlington in the County of Durham, 1761, hand drawn and coloured plan, 202mm x 756mm; Dixon (T.). Plan of Pierremont Estate situate in the Parish of Darlington in the County of Durham, 1842, 423mm x 613mm; with three others (6)

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