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Click here to subscribeA composed suite of 9ct gold and amethyst jewellery, comprising faceted oval brooch, pin clasp with safety chain, 3cm wide, marked 375, 9.2g; a large 9ct gold and amethyst dress ring, size R, unmarked, 4.9g; 9ct gold necklace with pendant, marked 375, 6.4g; pair of stud earrings, marked 375, 0.9g (5)
A 9ct gold necklace, suspended with a 9ct gold diamond and sapphire flower head cluster pendant, total diamond weight 0.10ct, marked, 1.8g; a pair of 9ct gold green stone stud earrings, 0.8g; a single 14ct cubic zirconia stud, 0.4g; a 9ct white gold expanding mesh ring, size approx. Q/R, marked 375, 0.8g; a pair of unmarked droplet earrings, the butterflies marked 375
Reference books and booklets - including Horowitz(E) and Mann(R), Victorian Brass Needlecases, n.d., Gullers(BD), Antique Sewing Tools and Tales, 1992, d.w., Thompson(HL), Sewing Tools and Trinkets, Volumes 1 and 2, 1997 and 2002, Jowell(B), Antique Sewing Machines, 1985, d.w., two other books and thirty booklets, Shire Guides, etc. (37) From a distinguished UK Private Collection
A mixed lot, sewing, comprising a Tunbridge stick ware acorn thimble case, 4.8cms, a Georgian silver engraved needle case, dents, 6.5cms, a pair of mother of pearl snowflake thread winders, five other thread winders, a bead work pin cushion, 5.5cms, and a wooden inlaid tooth pick or needle box with mother of pearl shell thumb piece, 7.7cms, and a paper needle packet case 'Eugenie Needle Case, R. Wyers, Redditch', on suspension cord, 7.6cms. (12)
A rare silk pin disc one side with a colour printed map of Scotland, the obverse England, the former inscribed to edge 'R. Miller, 24, Old Fish St', losses mostly to the England map around the edges, pin stuck edge, 5.2cms dia. † Richard Miller's premises were close to the Church of St. Mary and South and East of Paul's Church Yard, London. As well as maps he published children's books and his business was at its zenith in the 1820's. His catalogue published in the back of some of his books include games and jigsaws and 'Fancy Articles' including 'Satin Medallion Pincushions' for a shilling 'that feature portraits of the Royal Family and other famous persons from Lord Nelson to worthy divines copied from the subjects on the preceding list of prints'.
A fine knitted pin ball dated 1777, worked in near black and cream, one side inscribed 'A Trifle From Ramsgate 1777', with animals, birds and other motifs, the obverse 'Ann Pearse' over a pair of birds divided by a motif and within a geometric border, girdle and cord lacking, small stitched repair between R and I of 'Trifle', the ball circa 5.5cms.
* George IV (1762-1830). King of Great Britain, 1820-30. Document Signed by King George IV, ‘George R’, and countersigned by the Duke of Wellington, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, Windsor, 5 April 1827, a pre-printed commission on vellum, completed in manuscript, promoting George Wulff (d. 1846) to Colonel Commandant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, embossed paper duty stamp, a few contemporary official manuscript notes, some soiling, 30 x 39 cmQTY: (1)
* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. A group of 4 signed Christmas cards, c. 1954, c. 1958, 1967 & 1970, all folded off-white card with gold embossed crest to front, each signed 'From Elizabeth R' in ink beneath the printed message inside and each facing a mounted photographic illustration, the first a black & white photograph of the Queen in royal regalia in Buckingham Palace, the second a reproduction colour photograph of Birkhall, the third a colour photographic reproduction of the Queen Mother 'Off Newfoundland', and the last a black & white photograph of the Queen Mother in a garden, minor marks to upper boards of first and last cards, 23.5 x 18.5 cm and slightly smaller, plus 2 postally unused envelopes of similar size with the royal crest printed in red to lower flapQTY: (6)
* George VI (1895-1952). King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Christmas card for 1949/50, signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in blue ink, ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, with ‘1950’ added by the King beneath printed message, the facing black and white photographic image showing the couple with their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, all wearing kilts and standing by a loch, folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, minor spotting to external folds, 15 x 17.5 cm, VG/fineQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
* Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). English writer, art critic and artist. Autograph Letter Signed with initials 'J. R.', Venice, 13 May 1869, on embossed Denmark Hill letterhead, to Ned [Edward Burne-Jones], revealing his new enthusiasm for the artist Carpaccio, 'There's nothing here like Carpaccio! There's a little bit of humble pie for you. Well. The fact was, I had never once looked at him; - having classed him in glance and thought with Gentile Bellini and other men of the more or less insipient and hard schools. - And Tintoret went better with clouds and hills. But this Carpaccio is a new world to me; only you have no right to be so fond of him...', with a daggered footnote about Tintoret, 'I don't give up my Tintoret - but his dissolution of expression into drapery and shadow is too licentious for me, now', and concluding that he is going that morning to the Academy to see 'your St George of the Schiavoni', 2 pages on rectos of his Denmark Hill letterhead, a little soiling and paperclip indentation to upper margin not affecting text or signature, 8vo, tipped into an old autograph dealer's gilt-titled grey folder, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Ruskin's attention was first seriously drawn to Vittore Carpaccio (1465-1525) by Edward Burne-Jones after the completion of his monumental Modern Painters (1843-60). This letter is quoted in a footnote in The Works of John Ruskin edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, London: George Allen, 1903-12, 4.356; and there is a detailed essay titled 'Ruskin and Carpaccio', Works, 24.xlviiiff. which collates all of Ruskin's references to Carpaccio.
* Henry VIII (1491-1547). King of England and Ireland, 1509-1547. Document Signed, 'Henry R', given under the king’s signet at Windsor Castle, 2 January 1514, warrant on vellum in English, with the sign manual of Henry VIII at head, to Sir Andrew Windsor, knight, keeper of our great wardrobe, to deliver to Lord Kurson [Sir Robert Curson, Lord Curson], 14 yards of crimson velvet ‘and as much black boogi [budge] as shall suffice for furring the same gown’, some light soiling, later filing annotation '60' to top left corner, lower blank left corner cut away, faint endorsement: xxs xxv to verso, 144 x 246 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Sir Robert Curson, styled Lord Curson, and Baron Curson in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (c. 1460-1534/5), soldier and courtier, was of Blaxhall, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. Little is known of him before he was knighted in 1489, but he was one of the king's champions, wearing the red dragon of Wales and the queen's favour on his helmet in tournaments at Sheen and Westminster in 1494 on the creation of Prince Henry as duke of York. On 29 August 1499 he obtained a licence to leave his post as captain of Hampnes Castle in the Calais marches in order to fight the Turks under the aegis of the emperor Maximilian I, with whom he conversed about Henry VII’s murders and tyrannies, and obtained an assurance that the emperor would assist a Yorkist attempt on the English crown. On 21 October 1501 Curson was publicly proclaimed a traitor from the pulpit at Paul’s Cross. Surprisingly he was not punished, but was soon after made a baron of the Holy Roman empire. From 3 June 1509 his annual fee was set at £400 and so it remained until 1520, when he (or his son Robert) attended the Field of Cloth of Gold. Although he never became an English peer, his title Lord Curson seems to have been recognized at court from about 1513 when as master of the ordnance in the rearward he served under Brandon in the French campaigns. Staunchly conservative in religious matters, at Ipswich in 1515 he cut down boughs to stoke the fire under the Lollard Nicholas Peke. Sir Andrew Windsor (c. 1466-1543) of Stanwell in Middlesex and the Middle Temple was an Exchequer official who became Keeper of the Wardrobe in 1506 and served in the office for the rest of his life. He survived the fall of his brother-in-law Edmund Dudley, witnessed the marriage of Princess Mary to Louis XII in 1514, signed the peace and marriage treaties with France in 1518, and two years later accompanied the King to the Field of Cloth of Gold. He acted as steward for several major estates, sat as a justice of the peace in several counties and as a member of parliament. He was created Lord Windsor in 1529.
* George VI (1895-1952). King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. A pair of Christmas cards for 1950/51 & [?1951/52], signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in blue ink, ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, the first with ‘1950’ added by the King beneath printed message and facing mounted colour photographic image showing Buckingham Palace gardens in spring, the second undated and with facing mounted black and white photographic image looking over trees with Windsor Castle in the distance, both folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, the first with some overall light spotting, VG & fine, plus a third undated Christmas card [1954?], signed by the Queen Mother, ‘from Elizabeth R’ with facing mounted gelatin silver print photograph of Elizabeth in royal regalia in Buckingham Palace, some overall spotting, 20.5 x 17 cm, VGQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
Cricket Broadside. Cricket. On Monday, October 1, 1798, a Match of Cricket, will be played on Tunbridge-Wells Common, between Mr R Hoskins and Mr Day, (of Mayfield) for Ten Pounds. The wickets to be pitched at 10'Clock, and the Game played out, Tunbridge Wells: Sprange, Printer, [1798], letterpress broadside on laid paper, some overall spotting and browning, 250 x 195 mm, tipped on to a later paper backing sheetQTY: (1)NOTE:A very rare and early cricket broadside. The printer would be Jasper Sprange (1746-1823), a printer, bookseller, and postmaster. The Tunbridge Wells Museum owns the Sprange Collection which contains over 300 sheets of proofs kept by Sprange in two albums as a record of the printing he completed between 1800 and 1802.A Mr Hoskins is identified as a lodging-housekeeper at 17 The Parade in The Directory: Or, The Ancient and Present State of Tunbridge Wells... , Tunbridge Wells: Jasper Sprange, 1808, p. 33. Mr Sprange is also listed at 1 The Parade. Hoskins, tailor, is listed at Bath Square, p. 31. As no initial for Hoskins's first name is given it is not possible to say whether this is the same man as who appears on the broadside and the identity of the other 'Captain', Mr Day of Mayfield, Sussex, is entirely unknown.The match which took place on Tunbridge-Wells Common refers to what is now known as Higher Common Ground which was used as a ground by Kent County Cricket Club in the nineteenth century and is now the home ground of Linden Park Cricket Club. It is known that cricket was played on the Tunbridge Wells Common since at least the eighteenth century and the first recorded match on the ground took place in 1782. The first first-class cricket match was held on the ground in 1844, when a team of Married cricketers played a Singles' team. Kent County Cricket Club first used the ground in 1845 and county matches were played on the ground until 1880. In 1882 a first-class match took place there between a United Eleven, captained by W.G. Grace, against the touring Australians. The ground has been used by Linden Park Cricket Club since 1906.
* Edward VIII (1894-1972). King of the United Kingdom, January to December 1936. Typed Letter Signed as Duke of Windsor, 'Edward', 23 September 1941, addressed to the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, acknowledging the Lord Mayor's desire to keep a cheque given by Edward as a souvenir of their meeting, as well as sending his best wishes to the inhabitants of Cardiff after enemy bombing, 1 page, 8vo, with envelope, together with other Lord Mayor of Cardiff ephemera interest, including: Clement Attlee (1883-1967), typed letter signed, 11 Downing Street,16 July 1941, to the Lord Mayor thanking him for his hospitality, two telegrams one from the king's escort 'Elizabeth R', thanking the Lord Mayor for his kind and loyal message on her birthday, the other from George VI, thanking the same for his kind message on the anniversary of his coronation, blank greetings card depicting a young lady sewing a flag with 'For Freedom' and printed inside 'With Best Wishes from Her Majesty the Queen', with envelope, and a dinner menu from a meeting between His Majesty the King and His Majesty the King of Norway, 27 August 1941, etc., plus a very small autograph book with signatures of various figures including Emlyn Williams, Hugh Gaitskell, Sybil Thorndike, Margaret G. Bondfield [first female Cabinet member], Marie Burke, etc., (the last three on same page),King of the United Kingdom, January to December 1936. Typed Letter Signed as Duke of Windsor, 'Edward', 23 September 1941, addressed to the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, acknowledging the Lord Mayor's desire to keep a cheque given by Edward as a souvenir of their meeting, as well as sending his best wishes to the inhabitants of Cardiff after enemy bombing, 1 page, 8vo, with envelope, together with other Lord Mayor of Cardiff ephemera interest, including: Clement Attlee (1883-1967), typed letter signed, 11 Downing Street,16 July 1941, to the Lord Mayor thanking him for his hospitality, two telegrams one from the king's escort 'Elizabeth R', thanking the Lord Mayor for his kind and loyal message on her birthday, the other from George VI, thanking the same for his kind message on the anniversary of his coronation, blank greetings card depicting a young lady sewing a flag with 'For Freedom' and printed inside 'With Best Wishes from Her Majesty the Queen', with envelope, and a dinner menu from a meeting between His Majesty the King and His Majesty the King of Norway, 27 August 1941, etc., plus a very small autograph book with signatures of various figures including Emlyn Williams, Hugh Gaitskell, Sybil Thorndike, Margaret G. Bondfield [first female Cabinet member], Marie Burke, etc., (the last three on same page)QTY: (approx. 16)
* Henry VIII Letters Patent. Vellum deed in Latin relating to lands in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire; Westminster, 12 May 1540, being a Crown grant (letters patent) for £108, the first line written in elaborate strapwork – Henricus Octavus Dei Gracia Anglie et Francie Rex Fidei Defensor – with a fine portrait in the initial H of the king enthroned beneath a canopy with the motto VIVAT REX and the Tudor royal emblems of a cross of St George within the Garter, a crowned lion sejant bearing a standard charged with a fleur-de-lys, a crowned Tudor rose, a dragon rampant bearing a standard charged with the cross of St George, a monumental fleur-de-lys, and a sun in splendour charged with a coronet of Prince of Wales feathers, 44 x 72 cm, two large fragments of the second great seal of Henry VIII appended on green and white silk cords; the text giving details of the Crown to Richard Combes: 1. the reversion of the dairy of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire and of the meadows and pastures belonging to it, with the rent of £4 reserved on a former lease and the stock of one bull, twelve cows, one boar and one sow leased with the dairy; 2. the capital messuage of the manor of Hemel Hempstead with all the buildings, yards, ponds, gardens and orchards adjoining and belonging to it, the meadows called Burie Mede and Horse Lees and the pasture called Cowe Lees; 3. the watermill called Burie Mill with the watercourse and the fishing of it; 4. the revenues of the capital messuage, lands and watermill from 29 September 1539, without rendering any account; all in in Hemel Hempstead, formerly part of the possessions of the late College of Ashridge in Buckinghamshire, excepting and reserving two barns within the manor called The Whete Barn and The Ote Barn for the reception of the tithes of grain; to hold of the Crown in chief by the twentieth part of a knight’s fee and a rent of 12 shillings payable to the Court of Augmentations; Recites: lease of the dairy of Hemel Hempstead, its stock and the right to occupy the manor places of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, with the buildings, barns and stables, for 60 years from 29 September 1535 at £4, Thomas [Waterhouse], Rector of the College of Ashridge in Buckinghamshire, and the convent, to John Waterhouse and Richard Combes of Hemel Hempstead, gentlemen, 14 May 1535; later marginal annotation Molendinum (mill) against the third element of the grant, tested by F. Assheton; examined by R[ichard] Cupper [of Wookey in Somerset, Strand Inn and the Middle Temple, clerk of the Chancery c. 1537-1541], framed and set within a green velvet mount, glazed, 61 x 94 x 4.5 cm overallQTY: (1)NOTE:A very attractive document with a fine portrait of Henry VIII and part of the second great seal, concerning a dairy and lands less than one mile away from the legendary landmark, the Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead.The College of Bonhommes at Ashridge was founded in 1283 by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall. It was the only house of this order in England, except the small college at Edington in Wiltshire. The last rector, Thomas Waterhouse, assisted at the trial of the relapsed heretic, Thomas Harding of Chesham, who was condemned to death in 1532. He signed the Acknowledgment of Supremacy in 1535, and surrendered his house 6 November, 1539, receiving by way of pension the rectory of Quainton. The rest of the 16 brethren received benefices or pensions of £6 or £7 a year; two of them were living in 1552 as incumbents of Ayot St Peter and Dachworth; both were married. The old rector himself lived till 1554, and seems to have held steadily to the religion in which he had been bred, bequeathing to several churches at his death the vestments which he had contrived to keep as personal property all through the reign of Edward VI. (VCH Buckinghamshire 1 (1905), pp. 386-90).The first grantee John Waterhouse was perhaps the grandfather of Richard Combes – John’s daughter Agnes had married a Robert Combes. The royal grant of a charter to the borough of Hemel Hempstead is said to have been an outcome of the king's favour to Waterhouse, who received a grant of arms in 1533 and died 11 August 1558 (Baker Men of court 1632). Having received this grant from the crown in 1540, Richard settled the property on himself and his wife Alice in 1557, and the family remained in possession in the middle of the 17th century. The house forming the subject of the grant indicated must be The Old Bury.It is said that John Waterhouse entertained Henry VIII in the Bury, of which the porch, surmounted by an upper story on which the arms of Richard Combes are carved, is still [1908] standing. Local tradition has named it 'Charter Tower,' and made it the site of the granting of the charter, but the porch is of later date than 1539. Richard Combes is alleged to have pulled down the old house and to have built another, which in its turn was demolished in or about the year 1790, when Mr Ginger built a new house on its site. The existing house is more modern, and is a square building of brick. The Bury was the property of Mr Hilton in 1819, and the residence of Mr Harry Grover, solicitor and banker at Hemel Hempstead, from about 1800 to 1850, and of Lieut-Col. William H. D. Jones in 1899. It is now [1908] inhabited by Mr George Crawley. VCH Hertfordshire 2 (1908) pp. 215-230; The Bury, Hemel Hempstead on Wikipedia.
* Brunel (Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859). British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Autograph Letter Signed, 'I. K. Brunel', 18, [London, SW], 17 October 1857, to R. H. Wyatt of Great Western & Brentford Railway and the Duke of Northumberland, concerning a memorandum made by Mr Griffith and himself and 'you will find that the alterations in blue ink are not in accordance with this memorandum but directly in variance with it, some general soiling and creasing, 2 pages with integral docketed blank and institutional stamp, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The Great Western & Brentford Railway Company was incorporated on 14 August 1855, and construction of the line and dock at Brentford began on 3 March 1856, with Isambard Kingdom Brunel as chief engineer. As Brunel underestimated the cost of building the dock, it was necessary to raise additional capital under two further acts of parliament passed in 1857 and 1859. The line and dock were officially opened on 15 July 1859.
* George II (1683-1760). King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1727-1760. Document Signed, 'George R', Kensington, 10 September 1727, manuscript commission on vellum appointing Angus Maceleod to be Captain in Lord Molesworth's Regiment of Foot in Ireland, signed by the King upper left and countersigned 'Carteret' by John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690-1763) as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland lower right, some general spotting and light browning not affecting legibility, 1 page, 31 x 41 cmQTY: (1)
* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. A group of 3 signed Christmas cards, 1960, 1971 & 1985, all folded white card, the first and last with gilt embossed crown to upper cover, each signed 'From Elizabeth R' in ink below printed message inside, and each facing a mounted photograph of the Queen Mother with her grandchildren, the first a black & white photograph of the Queen Mother with Charles, Anne and Andrew in a garden, the other 2 colour photographs, the first showing the Queen Mother with Charles, Anne and Andrew as children, the final photograph taken indoors surrounded by her four grown-up grandchildren, Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward, 2 small stains and one slit to upper board of 1985 card, 23.5 x 18.5 cm and similarQTY: (3)
* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort of King George VI, The Queen Mother. Document Signed, 'Elizabeth R', St James's, 17 February 1975, a pre-printed pardon with typed insertions, concerning Frances Gardner who was convicted of causing a motor vehicle to wait in the restricted street and fined £4, pardoning him and remitting unto him the fine, signed upper right in black ink and signed by Princess Anne, ('Anne') in blue ink beneath, red wafer seal to upper left corner, 2 pages, folioQTY: (1)
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 1952-2022 & Prince Philip (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Christmas card, [1952], signed by both below printed message in blue ink, ‘Elizabeth R’ and ‘Philip’, facing mounted black and white photographic illustration of the couple with their two children Charles and Anne on the steps of Balmoral, folded stiff card with gold embossed crown to the front, some spotting away from signatures inside and out, 21.5 x 17 cm, VGQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976). Hall joined the Royal Navy in 1911, serving in the First Balkan War and then continuing to serve during both World Wars. Commander Hall was wounded when HMS Rodney was bombed off Norway. In 1945 he joined the Royal Household, as Chief Clerk to the Board of the Green Cloth, where he remained for ten years, during which period he was appointed to foreign Orders of France, Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Abyssinia.
* Elizabeth (1900-2002). Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. A group of 3 signed Christmas cards, 1974, 1979 & 1989, all folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, each signed 'From Elizabeth R' in ink below printed message inside, and each facing a colour reproduction photograph of the Queen Mother, the first of her inspecting the Black Watch of Canada in Montreal, the second in a carriage for the installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of Dover and the last at Castle of Mey, each 19 x 22 cm and similar sizesQTY: (3)
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 1952-2022 & Prince Philip (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Christmas card, 1953, signed by both in blue ink beneath a colour photographic illustration of the couple in Coronation regalia with their children Charles and Anne in Buckingham Palace, ‘Elizabeth R’ and ‘Philip’, with ‘1953’ added by Elizabeth beneath, folded stiff card with gold embossed crown to the front, some overall spotting, 25.5 x 20.5 cm, VGQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
* George VI (1895-1952). King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Christmas card [for 1945], signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in blue ink, ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, with ‘from’ added by Elizabeth beneath printed message, the facing photographic image showing the couple waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V.E-Day, 8 May 1945, with their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret either side, folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, 15 x 17.5 cm, fineQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976). Hall joined the Royal Navy in 1911, serving in the First Balkan War and then continuing to serve during both World Wars. Commander Hall was wounded when HMS Rodney was bombed off Norway. In 1945 he joined the Royal Household, as Chief Clerk to the Board of the Green Cloth, where he remained for ten years, during which period he was appointed to foreign Orders of France, Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Abyssinia.
* Charles III (born 1948). King of the United Kingdom, formerly Prince of Wales, 1958-2022. Presentation colour photograph, signed by Charles as Prince of Wales, 'Charles, 2002', head and shoulders portrait wearing a jacket and tie, image 95 x 76 cm, on original card with red ink signature and date at foot, housed in an original green leather desk frame by Ettinger, London, with gilt fleur-de-lys embossed at head of arched top, together with 2 similar presentation black & white photographs of Anne, Princess Royal (born 1950), both head and shoulders portraits, one signed and dated 'Anne, 1983' on lower mount, the other 'Anne, 2002' on lower mount, both presented in blue morocco presentation desk frames, gilt embossed 'A' surmounted by a crown at head of arched tops, all 19.5 x 13.5 cm overall, plus a larger presentation colour photograph of Sarah, Duchess of York, with signed inscription for Adrian to lower mount, 'with my bestest wishes and huge thanks for all your help, Sarah, The Duchess of York', presentation green morocco desk frame with gilt-embossed 'S' surmounted by a crown at head of arched top, 32 x 23 cm, plus a signed colour photograph of Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, signed and dated June 2002 to lower mount, framed, 23 x 19 cm, all glazed, plus a colour photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mounted on card, image 20 x 14.5 cm, ink autopen signatures of 'Elizabeth R' dated 2002 and 'Philip' to lower mount, light diagonal crease to lower left corner and a little smudging to dateQTY: (6)
* George VI (1895-1952). King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Christmas card for 1948/49, signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in blue ink, ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, with ‘1949’ added by the King beneath printed message, the facing black and white photographic image showing the couple in an open carriage for their Silver Wedding celebration, folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, 18 x 15 cm, fineQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
* Historical Autographs. A collection of approximately 180 cut signatures, 19th century, all cut and mounted as multiples on rectos and versos of 10 buff paper album leaves, including autograph of King George III, 'George R' (55 x 90 mm), 2 specimens of his wife 'Charlotte R', the Duke of Wellington (all on first page), the remaining autographs largely British politicians, gentry, etc., including Nelson & Bronte [brother of Lord Nelson], Galloway, Downe, Dundas, Lady Wilmot, Lady Montagu, Lady Halford, Lady Galloway, Thomas Fitzgerald, William Frederick, Darlington, Limerick, Admiral Harvey, Sir William Pilkington, etc., all tightly cropped to signature without subscriptions, leaves loose, 19th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt, heavily rubbed, 8voQTY: (10)
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 1952-2022 & Prince Philip (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Christmas card, 1955, signed by both in blue ink beneath a black and white photographic illustration of the couple seated on a garden wall with their children Charles and Anne standing either side, ‘Philip’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, with ‘1955’ added by Philip beneath, folded stiff card with gold embossed crown to the front, some overall spotting, 20.5 x 17.5 cm, VGQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
* Whitefield (George, 1714-1770). Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Autograph Letter Signed with initials, Kilrush, Ireland, 16 November 1738, to James Hutton, Bookseller, without Temple Bar, London, in full: ‘On Tuesday when our water was quite gone and all reduced to greatest traits G[o]d brought us on shore near this place. I am now on my way to Dublin, chearful, in good health, and nicely equip’d by a Sergius Paulus whom G[o]d has commended to receive and sustain us. A Captain of a ship who I hope was effectually converted by the way in my Fellow Traveller. Pray and give thanks for us both. Particulars you shall have when I read you my journal. If you send me a letter to Coventry directed at Mr. (?)Gravenol’s to be left there till call’d for, I know not but it may meet me. For we are to pass thro’ Coventry. Oh dearest James I long to see you and take sweet council with you and our other d[ea]r friends. Oh when will it once be! I wrote my other letter some time past, therefore excuse all improprieties. Once more forget not to pray for yours eternally, GW’,‘G. Whitfield’ added in another later hand at head and the date over-inked, 2 pages with integral address leaf with ‘SHIP’ handstamp, a little dust-soiled, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:A very rare autograph letter by ‘the first international celebrity’, who is widely considered to be the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century, and one whose fame stretched to both sides of the Atlantic. It is estimated that Whitefield (or Whitfield) preached more than 18,000 formal sermons, visiting North America (he made 13 hazardous Atlantic crossings, eventually dying in America), Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Netherlands.This letter is written on Whitefield’s safe arrival from America in the west of Ireland, after over nine weeks on board. An account of the journey and his arrival in Ireland can be found in A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, from his Arrival at Savannah, to his Return to London (London: James Hutton, 1739), pp. 14ff. ‘This morning [16 November], about 11 o’Clock, after being most hospitably entertain’d by Mr Mac Mahon, and furnished with three horses, I and my servant, and my new Convert set out for Dublin, and reach’d Kilrush, a little town, about eight Irish miles from Karrigholt, about two in the afternoon, where we were sweetly refreshed, and tarried the remainder of the day with Captain Coc, who last night with his whole crew was like to be shipwreck’d’ (ibid., p. 30).James Hutton (1715-1795), Moravian leader, who may be called the founder of the Moravian church in England. He was educated at Westminster, and apprenticed to Mr. Innys, a bookseller of St. Paul's Churchyard. About 1736 he opened a bookshop of his own at the Bible and Sun, west of Temple Bar. Before the end of his apprenticeship he had met the Wesleys at Oxford, and when they left for Georgia in 1735 he accompanied them to Gravesend. Though he fell out with John Wesley, who vainly tried to persuade him away from Moravianism, they were later reconciled. In 1738 and 1739 Hutton published George Whitefield's Journal.Of additional interest is the well-struck ‘SHIP’ handstamp, believed to be the earliest recorded of the second type Dublin Ship letter mark. Only a handful of British ship letter marks are known to exist from pre-1750.
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of the United Kingdom, 1952-2022 & Prince Philip (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Christmas card, 1954, signed by both in blue ink beneath a black and white photographic illustration of the couple on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with their children Charles and Anne, ‘Elizabeth R’ and ‘Philip’, with ‘1954’ added by Elizabeth beneath, folded stiff card with gold embossed crown to the front, some overall spotting, 18 x 20.5 cm, VGQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
Civil War Broadside. His Majesties Proclamation forbidding all His loving Subjects of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, to raise any Forces without His Majesties Consent: or to enter into any Association or Protestation for the assistance of the Rebellion against His Majesty, Given at Our Court at Oxford, this sixteenth day of February, in the Eighteenth yeere of Our Reigne, [London, 1643], printed broadside, ‘C. R.’ in large letters (without royal arms) at head, closely trimmed not affecting text, some overall browning, a little see-through from contemporary inscription to verso, 1 page, folio (325 x 225 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:King Charles I’s proclamation forbidding the inhabitants of the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire to gather forces against the Crown.Wing C2645.
* George VI (1895-1952). King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Christmas card for 1947/48, signed by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in blue ink, ‘George R’ and ‘Elizabeth R’, with ‘1948’ added by the King beneath printed message, the facing black and white photographic image showing the couple with their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on the upper deck of HMS Vanguard as they arrive at Cape Town at the start of the Royal Tour of the Union of South Africa in 1947, folded card with gold embossed crown to the front, some light overall spotting, 15 x 17.5 cm, VG/fineQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: By family descent from Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, RN (1892-1976).
British School, mid 19th century- The Siege of Kahun; watercolour heightened with scratching out on paper, inscribed 'Nuffoosk Pass / Attempted relief of Kahun on the 31st Augt. 1840.' (upper edge), bears inscription on the upper edge of the mount, and bears inscribed paper attached to the lower edge of the mount, 28.5 x 41.5 cm. (mounted / unframed). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present work was possibly executed by Thomas Wingate (1807-1869), a Lieutenant in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and who made a series of watercolour drawings of the opening campaigns: the storming of the fortress of Ghuznee [Ghazni] in July 1839 and the subsequent assault on the fortress of Kelat [Qalat] in November 1839. A similar drawing to the present work was also taken by George Boyd (1800-1850) for plate 3 of R. Kirk's,' Views of defiles and mountain passes in Affghanistan' (London, 1841). A source from the British Library describes how '[d]uring the First Afghan War (1839-1842) a detachment of British troops were stationed at the fort of Kahan in Baluchistan under the command of Captain Lewis Brown. The force of 140 men held off attacks from Baluchi tribesmen from May until September 1840 before a relieving party under Major Clibborn approached. In an attempt to storm the Naffusak Pass Major Clibborn’s forces were repulsed receiving heavy losses; of 650 men, 179 were killed and 92 wounded. Many of his force died of heat and thirst. The fort of Kahan was forced to capitulate with the honours of war.' The inscription on the upper mount edge reads '[?] was successfully defended by Major Lewis Brown. / Kahun [?] afterwards on The Colours of his Regt. the 5th Bo. N. I. [Bombay Native Infantry]'.
Gerard Chowne, British 1875-1917- Still life of hollyhocks in a twin-handled vase; oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Chowne 1907.' (lower right), 53.7 x 36 cm. Provenance: with R. Robertson & Sons, St Andrews. Private Collection, UK. Note: Chowne worked across genres, producing portraits and landscapes as well as still life paintings. He was undoubtedly best known for his floral still lifes, of which the present work is a particularly charming example. Here, the impasto on the blooming flowers and buds creates a striking sense of depth.
Philip Alexius de László, PRBA, Hungarian / British 1869-1937- Portrait of William Richards Castle, Junior; oil on canvas, signed and dated 'd László 1921.' (lower left), bears old label inscribed 'Castle. Jr. - Mr Wm R / 1818 P St., Washington DC' attached to the reverse of the frame, bears old printed label 'No. 11948' attached to the reverse of the frame, 91.5 x 62.3 cm. Provenance: The sitter. Anon. sale, Bonhams, New York, 1 November 2012, lot 142. Private Collection, Spain. Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 'Seven Portraits by Philip de László', 10-24 November 1921. Literature: Sitters’ Book II, opp. f. 22: William R. Castle, Jr July 3, 1921. Helen Wright, 'Philip A. de László, 'Art and Archaeology', Vol. XII, no.6, December 1921, p. 241. Philip de László, 1931 diary, 9 December entry, p.347. DLA109-0243, 'De Laszlo: Special Exhibition of His Portraits,' The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, 21 November 1921, p.19. The de László Archive Trust, 'The Catalogue Raisonné of Works by Philip de László (1869-1937) [online]', no.4035. Note: De László made his second visit to America in April of 1921. Before his arrival, an exhibition of his work took place at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which then travelled to Knoedler’s in New York. This led to a number of important commissions, including those of President Harding [de László Archive Trust catalogue no.5569] and General Pershing [no.6887]. The sittings for those works took place at the White House interlaced with those for the present portrait, which took place on 3 and 11 July. According to the artist’s appointment book, sittings had also been arranged for 4-6 July; however, these were cancelled. The artist presented Castle with a rejected portrait of Charles Evans Hughes [no.41], who was also sitting at this time, and who signed the artist’s Sitters’ Book 16 July. William Richards Castle, Junior was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 19 June 1878, eldest son of William Richards Castle (1849-1935) and Ida Beatrice Lowrey (1854-1926). His father, a lawyer and politician in the independent Kingdom of Hawaii, was from a wealthy family that had founded the agricultural giant Castle & Cooke, and maintained extensive holdings there. The sitter married Margaret Farlow (1880-1970) of Boston on 3 June 1902 and they had one daughter, Rosamond (born 1904). Castle graduated from Harvard College in 1900 and served as English teacher and assistant dean from 1904 to 1913. At the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the executive staff of the Red Cross in Washington, D.C., where he became director of the Bureau of Communications. In 1919 he became a special assistant in the Department of State, and by 1921 was chief of the Division of Western European Affairs, the position he held at the time he was painted. At the pinnacle of his career Castle served as Under Secretary of State 1931-33. Castle’s interests outside of politics were diverse. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1932, belonged to the Somerset Club in Boston, the Harvard and Grolier Clubs in New York, and the Metropolitan Club in Washington. He served as an overseer of Harvard College from 1935 to 1941. He was also an author, publishing two novels, The Green Vase (1912) and The Pillar of Sand (1914), and two non-fiction works Hawaii Past and Present (1915) and Life of Samuel Northrup Castle (1960), a biography of his great-grandfather. Castle died in Washington on 14 October 1963. His diaries were donated to Harvard and his papers to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library upon his wife’s death in 1970. In this strikingly vivid portrait, he is presented half-length turned slightly to the right, full-face to the viewer, dressed in a dark suit and tie with a wing collar, his arms crossed, and a gold ring on his wedding finger. We are grateful to Katherine Field for writing the catalogue entry for this portrait, which is included in the Philip de László catalogue raisonné, currently presented in progress online: www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com (no.4035).
WWI brass shell case paperweight together with with a Royal R B Ordinance Corps belt and group of WWI medals to include: 1914-15 Star, 1914-18 War Medal, 1914-19 Victory Medal (all to different recipients), together with a commemorative medal Tobruk Siege 1941. (B.P. 21% + VAT) War Medal - Alexandr Audrade ( no Number or Regiment). Star - Private A Marshall ASC M2 - 051721. Victory Medal - DRVR T W G Thornton 542184 R E.
An interesting collection of waistcoat pocket fly tins: Scarce R Wheatley Patent Kilroy tins, 3 ½" x 2 ½", good hinge, closes well, light use. R Wheatley Dry Fly tin 3 ½" x 2 ½" with 6 spring windows and aid memoir in lid, quantity of dry flies. R Wheatley slim alloy tin for wet flies 3 ½" x 2 ½", 30 small slips, and 21 medium, good hinge and closes well, quantity of wet flies. Derwent plastic box 4" x 3" Ethafoam lined with quantity of river flies. Orvis 6-section clear box (5)
A large selection of salmon flies and tubes: R Wheatley slim alloy swing leaf tin, 5" x 3 ½" x 1" with 30 large, 56 medium clips. Good hinge and closes well, with a large collection of various size doubles. A plastic 6-compartment box with a collection of singles, Jock Scott silver doctor and Sandy's shrimp, various sizes. Plastic 5-section box with over 70 various size and weight tube flies. Small box with small quantity of doubles named Hot Orange and Orange Squirrel (4)
E R Craddock Redditch trout fly rod 9' 2pc alloy down locking reel seat, MCB. Noris Shakespeare 1632 trout fly rod 8' 6" 2pc alloy down locking reel seat, MCB. Unnamed whole cane fly rod 10' 6" 3pc (tip 5" short and missing ring), brass sliding reel fittings and collar, ceramic lined butt ring, cloth bag by The Dreadnought Casting Reel Co, Isle of Wight (3)
R Forshaw of Liverpool "The Palace" split cane trout fly rod No 5B 9' 2pc line 5#, alloy down locking reel seat and collar, red agate but/tip rings, cloth bag. Millwards Redditch Flycraft Mk II split cane trout fly rod No 9937, 8' 9" 2pc alloy uplocking reel seat, lined rings throughout, MCB (2)
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