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Lai Fong of Calcutta (fl.1890-1910) The four-master County of Edinburgh at sea signed, inscribed and dated 'Lai Fong/Calcutta 1895' (lower right) oil on canvas 18 x 23? in. (458 x 59.1 cm.)"The iron four-master County of Edinburgh was almost the last in a fleet of splendid commercial sail - known affectionately as Craig's 'Counties' - completed for R. & J. Craig of Glasgow between 1863 and 1887. County of Edinburgh , like all her sisters from 1875 onwards, was built on the Clyde by Barclay, Curle & Co. and launched from their yard in 1885. Registered at 2,160 tons gross, she was an enormous vessel and measured 285? feet in length with a 42? beam. Ordered for the jute trade, the last three 'Counties' were all designed with their stowage capacity receiving as much attention as their speed, with the result that County of Edinburgh regularly loaded at least 16,000 bales of jute on every homeward passage. Often seen racing in company with her own sisters, County of Edinburgh was the fastest in the Craig fleet and did the run from Cardiff to Bombay in 92 days on her maiden voyage and thence home from Calcutta to Dundee in a speedy 123 days. The years from 1899 - 1902, under Captain Tode, were probably her best when she took to carrying oil from Philadelphia to the Orient or coal from Cardiff to Cape Town, after which she was sold to German owners in 1903. Reduced to a barque and renamed Frieda , she sailed under German colours until just before the Great War when she was resold to Finnish owners, and was last recorded as a casualty of the Alabama (Mobile) hurricane which drove her ashore on 5th July 1916.
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J. Fannen (fl.1891-1901) The cargo steamer Kathleen outward bound signed and dated 'J. Fannen/1899' (lower left) oil on canvas 20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.3 cm.) "The iron screw steamer Kathleen was built and owned by R. Irvine & Co. of West Hartlepool. Completed in 1880, she was registered at 1,602 tons gross (1,033 net) and measured 257? feet in length with a 34? foot beam. After twenty years in service, she was sold to new owners just after 1900 and disappears from record soon afterwards, possibly after renaming.
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George R. Cummings, 20th Century Shackleton's Endurance arriving at Grytviken, South Georgia signed, inscribed and dated 'George R Cummings/Edinburgh 2004/Copyright' (lower left ) and 'Shackleton's "Endurance"/Grytviken South Georgia/1914.' (lower right) oil on canvas 22 x 38 in. (55.8 x 96.5 cm.)" Endurance was a steam-assisted barquentine built at Sandefjord, Norway, in 1912. Intended for tourist cruises in the Arctic, she was chosen by Ernest Shackleton to convey his 1914-16 Trans-Antarctic expedition party to the Weddell Sea from where he and six men would cross the continent via the South Pole. After leaving England in August 1914, Endurance cleared her last landfall on South Georgia on 5th December and entered the pack ice in the Weddell Sea on the 11th. A month of intermittent progress followed but, by mid-January 1915, the ship was stuck fast in the ice from which she never escaped. Although Endurance was subsequently crushed and sunk, her crew was eventually rescued after Shackleton's legendary mission to get help which is now recognised as one of the most epic journeys in the history of exploration.
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Tipp & Co, American outline tinplate saloon car with clockwork drive recently working, spring loaded brake wheel, opening rear doors and boot, adjustable steering. Car body overpainted in black, wheels and driver in original lithography, circa 1930, see page 159 Toy Autos 1890-1939 by Victor Gollancz (R)
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Duchene (Captain). The Mechanics of the Aeroplane, A Study of the Principles of Flight, trans. John H. Ledeboer and T. O'B. Hubbard, 1st English ed., b & w illusts. to text, orig. red cloth, a little rubbed and slightly faded to spine, one or two marks, together with Matthews (R. Borlase), The Aviation Pocket-Book for 1918, 6th ed., revised and enlarged, 1918, b & w illusts., orig. blue cloth, spine faded, small 8vo, plus Lanchester (F.W.), Aerial Flight, 2 vols. (Aerodynamics & Aerodonetics), 3rd ed./2nd ed. respec., 1911/10, b & w illusts., orig. blue cloth, rubbed and soiled with some staining and fraying to head of spine of 2nd vol., contemp. ownership inscription of Captain Robin Grey, Grenadier Guards & R.F.C. to front pastedown of each vol., and Grahame-White (Claude & Harper, Harry), With the Airmen, 1st ed., 1913, b & w illusts., col. plts. etc., orig. cloth, rubbed and some soiling and wear, partly cracked on inner hinges, plus other aviation interest, incl. technical works, handbooks, meteorology, and a quantity of vintage aviation maps (2 cartons)
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* Lesech (R., French Aviator). An early 20th c. sepia postcard showing R. Lesech, sitting in the cockpit of a Deperdussin monoplane, signed, together with a small black and white photograph of Lesech, signed and inscribed 'To my friend Roy Jackson', mounted side-by-side in a single frame, glazed (1)
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* WWI 'Combats in the Air' Report. Original pre-printed report (Army Form W.3348) with typed insertions, concerning two observation balloons shot down by Captain H.W. Woollett flying a Sopwith F.1. Camel of No. 43 Squadron, dated 22.4.18, signed in pencil by Woollett, his commanding officer and R. Hills, 51st Wing, gilt frame, glazed (1)
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* Poster. Le Mans. Sweeping triumph for David Brown 1st Aston Martin, R. Salvadori-C. Shelby (average 112.5 m.p.h.-2701 miles-new 3-litre records), 2nd Aston Martin, M. Trintignant-P. Frere., reprint poster printed in black and green, SIGNED by Salvadori, Trintignant and Frere, approx. 100 x 70 cms. (1)
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Rudd (Colour -Sergeant R.). The Early History of the 17th (North) Middlesex Volunteer Riffles (Formerly the 29th), 1859 to 1889, pub. 1895, b & w frontis. (torn to lower edge with some marginal loss), b & w plts., some minor finger soiling, orig. cloth gilt, slim 8vo, together with Tamplin (J.M.A.), The Lambeth and Southwark Volunteers, A Century of Voluntary Service in the Volunteers and Territorials 1860-1960, pub. 1965, col. frontis. and b & w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, with Davis (John), The History of the Second, Queen's Royal Regiment, now the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, vol. 6 only (Officers' Services from 1661 to 1904), pub. 1906, b & w plts., endpapers renewed, orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, 8vo, with Stoneham (Charles), Historical Records of the Middlesex Yeomanry 1797-1927, pub. 1930, col. and b & w plts., folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, plus six others related (10)
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Smith (R. Bosworth). The Life of Lord Lawrence, 2 vols., 7th ed., 1901, port. frontis. to each, folding map and folding plan, orig. cloth gilt in bright condition, together with the New York edition of the same work, 1883, plus Verner (Col. Willoughby), The Military Life of H.R.H. George, Duke of Cambridge, 2 vols., 1905, eleven ports., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, faded and rubbed on spines, all 8vo, with other military biographies and reminiscences (3 shelves)
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