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A small collection of mixed ceramics comprising a Carlton Ware preserve pot and cover in the form of a basket, two Carlton Ware leaf dishes, two Carlton Ware jugs, a Radford florally decorated bowl and a small Hummel figure of a girl on a fence (7). CONDITION REPORT: The preserve pot has a little crazing to the glaze, there is a factory chip covered by the glaze. The green dish has some crazing and a tiny chip. The yellow dish has a factory chip under the glaze. The jugs both have cracks. The Radford dish has a little crazing and a small chip to the rim. The Hummel figure has a little crazing to the base, otherwise good condition.
A mixed lot of decorative ceramics comprising a Troika cylindrical vase, height 14cm, signed to base, a Carlton Ware chinoiserie decorated bulbous vase, height 11cm (hairline to rim), a Radford Pottery polar bear, height 14cm, and four further pieces of Radford (7). CONDITION REPORT: Postage within UK - £22.50 +VAT
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A good autograph album containing over 120 signatures by various opera singers and classical musicians, a few stage actors etc., including Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Giovanni Martinelli, Dinh Gilly, Emmy Destinn, Claudia Muzio, Serafina Astafieva, Feodor Chaliapin, Frank Mullings (A.M.Q.S.), Clara Butt & R. Kennerley Rumford, Jelly d'Aranyi (A.M.Q.S.), Ben Davies (A.M.Q.S.), Albert Coates (A.M.Q.S.), Eugene Goossens (a good A.M.Q.S. from Phantasy Quartet, annotated Feroce, November 1920), Luisa Tetrazzini, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Daniel Melsa (A.M.Q.S.), Jan Kubelik (A.M.Q.S.), Marie Hall (A.M.Q.S.), John Coates (A.Q.S.), Fanny Davies (A.Q.S. also incorporating an A.M.Q.S.), Maurice D'Oisly (A.M.Q.S.), Ruth Vincent, Robert Radford, Olga Nethersole, Amelita Galli-Curci, Nellie Melba, Maurice Moscovitch, Lilian Braithwaite, Florence Austral, Agnes Nicholls Harty (A.Q.S.), Evie Greene, Frank R. Benson, Fritz Kreisler, Percy B. Kahn, Clarence Whitehill, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Elsa Stralia, Giorgio Polacco, Rosina Buckman etc. Some of the earlier pages are multiple signed and the signatures (typically of the period) neatly arranged within black ink boxes. The majority are bold fountain pen ink examples, and a couple bear inscriptions to the singer Edna Thornton (or her brother). Together with a small selection of A.Ls.S. and signed programmes etc., relating to Edna Thornton including Elizabeth Asquith (Princess Bibesco), thanking her for taking part in an opera (written on the printed stationery of 10 Downing Street, 9th November 1914), Edward W. Wallington (Private Secretary to Queen Mary) thanking her, on behalf of the Prince and Princess of Wales, for participating in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall and commenting 'The concert was generally admitted to be one of the best ever given in London' (written on the printed stationery of Marlborough House, 3rd June 1908), programmes signed by Hans Richter and others. The letters with some overall dust staining and the programmes with extensive tears, crudely repaired with sellotape and causing extensive staining (only P to FR), the album VG, 5 + album Edna Thornton (1875-1964) English Contralto who sang at Covent Garden 1905-10 and 1919-23.
Vocal Records, 12-inch: eighty, by Vane (2), Vincent (2), Ben Williams, Kate Winter, N. Walker, W. Watcyns, Jones-Hudson and Wilde, Henri Scott, H.E. Stevens (3), H. Thorpe (3), Tibbett (8), Teale, Tree, J. Turner, R. Newell, Oldham (3), G. Parker (2), Passmore, Essex and Pounds, Pounds, Perry (4), Radford (pre-dog 04026, 04028, dog 0226, 9 ‘D’ series), Ripley (2), Richardson (2), Alfred Read (2 private HMV), Darroll Richards, Fabian Smith, Stiles Allen, Bonner, Santley (2), Vaughan Williams (Serenade to Music 1 and 2), McEachern, Evan Williams (G and T 02156, 02162, dog 02173, 02183, 02261, 02268, 04075, 02365, 3 HMV), Watson (2) (80, in H2)
Vocal Records, 10-inch: 137 HMV E series, by Radford, Lett, Mott, Harrison, Dearth, Cooper, Butcher, Coates, Henschel, Gresham and English Singers, T. Davies, Ben Davies, Carmen Hill, Michaelowa, Huguet / Cigada / Pini-Corsi, de Angelis, Segurola, Ansseau / Servais, Demuth, Knupfer, Farkoa, Lloyd, Santley, Fischer, Schumann and others, in L22 and L58
Vocal Records, 10-inch: Fifty-two G and T, GCL, HMV s/s, by Evan Williams, Ernest Crampton, Herbert Cave, Haydon Coffen, Dawson, Carlton, Lane Wilson, Pike, W.T. Evans, Kirkby, Black, Doyle, de Lucia, Santley, Ben Davies, Melba, Farrar, Tubb, Jones-Hudson, Tamagno (G and T 52674 II and VI, HMV 52679), Boninsegna / Cigada (G and T 54264), Moreschi, Perceval Allen (3261 flush lab); and fourteen double-sided, mainly Zonophone Celebrity, by Radford, Newbould, Yarrow / Pike et al and others (66) in L46
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN - Letters concerning the Edgebaston constituency and his agent there, T.Avery Radford. In 1929 Chamberlain (then Minister of Health) exchanged his Birmingham (Ladywood) constituency (where Radford had served as Agent) for the safer City seat of Edgebaston (accompanied by Radford). The letters (all headed from 37 Eaton Square, SW1) comprise: 1) June 1929, 23 lines, t.l.s., expressing warm thanks for his agent's election efforts. 2) to Mrs. Radford, 11 lines, t.l.s., the same. (enclosing a cheque). From 1930, and despite about to become agent for the Chancellor himself, Radford evidently sought pastures new - there are nos. 3) & 4) 2 full t.l.s. testimonials (1930 & 1935), also 5) a covering letter (1933 t.l.s., 11 lines), with 6) a 20 line a.l.s. regarding Radford's proposed departure - Hotel Astoria & Claridge, Bruxelles, Aug. 1930. 7) handwritten testimonial (20 lines, signed) incl. covering note (6 lines, signed, dated Hotel Waldhaus, Sils Maria, Engadine Feb. 1935); 8) a farewell letter of thanks, (Feb. 1935 t.l.s., 18 lines) when Radford had accepted the post of Agent at Norwich; 9) another one (March 1935, t.l.s., 22 lines). Also present are letters from his wife, Anne to Mrs. Radford: 10) t.l.s., 8 lines, 1934, on a family engagement; 11) a farewell letter of thanks, 16 lines, t.l.s., Feb. 1935. Radford had evidently kept in touch, wishing the (now Prime Minister) well for his first Munich visit (Sept. 1938) - 12) printed Downing Street heading, 16/9/38, 9 lines t.l.s. from E(dith) M(ary) Watson, his private secretary, ' The Prime Minister has not yet returned from Munich . . . but I know he would wish me to thank-you for it . . . '; also included in the lot a 2 page typed testimonial for Radford (Jan. 1936) from the Norwich M.P., Henry Stern; 2 Downing Street letters (1956-1967) regarding proposed honours for Mrs. Radford; a few relevant printed invitations; illustrated Chamberlain Election Campaign leaflets (for 1929, 1931 & 1935); & some assorted related items of the period - incl. 10 typed notebook pages by Radford (a personal memoir) 'for Rotary Luncheon'. * the letters, of personal warmth & sympathetic concern, express Chamberlain's private character - as opposed to a percieved somewhat aloof public persona. Illustrated

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