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Lot 720
PJL Targets - Malik - Massoz printed - A rare complete set of x25 Belgian / Flemish police firing range shooting target posters, each poster featuring an armed man with hand gun in a variety of poses . Posters designed by Malik and printed by Massoz. Print to bottom ' For Law Enforcement Only '. Each measures 88cm x 64cm.
Lot 162
"Trench Life in the Front Line World War I By S.W.Appleyard" Great War Diary 1915-1917 Compiled by the Author, 9th Territorial Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) and his niece Mary and presumably roneod for immediate family. Photograph and copy of diary page neatly stuck into book along with maps and plan. 68pp., ills., Well written detailed account with a particular good description of the lead up to the Somme and July 1st attack opposite Gommecourt. The author being wounded and taken back to England to recover. An earlier account of the capture of three Germans wounded close to the British line is recounted in much detail together with the distorted press report of the same incident. Tipped in copy of his medal record from the previous owner. Generally in very good condition in red cloth with black edging to spine. A rare example of a good diarised account on front line action on the Western Front.
Lot 170
"Trench Log Book" Army Book 419, printed November 1916. "In the event of Enemy penetrating into our trenches this Book to be removed to a position of SAFETY or DESTROYED" Sections include Danger points, Enemy's Trenches, Points where enemy exposes himself etc. Blank but an important example which we haven't seen before. Rare,
Lot 220
D-Day Landings Interest, Original Normandy Beach Panoramas, very rare set of five Beach Panoramas produced by Allied Intelligence Teams to aid the D-Day invasion. These extensive folding panoramic photographs show the shoreline from the Seaward side and identify key features and defences (with reference numbers). Dated February and March 1944, they are consecutive in Official green folders and cover the Invasion beaches, Sword, Gold ( 2 sections) & Juno. Booklet A, Trouville to Franceville Plage c.390 cms, Booklet B, Ouistreham to Luc-Sur-Mer (c.215 cms), Booklet C, Lion-Sur-Mer to Vaux (c.690 cms), Booklet D, La Rivere to Le Hamel (c.310cms), Booklet E. Arromanches -Les- Bains to Port -En-Bessin, c.480cms) The Green booklets have target templates in their pockets and one has a tipped in Top Secret Appendix showing updates for Underwater Obstacles dated 19th May 1944. Covers have a little fading, some panoramas are in sections and one has marginal damage (no loss to shore and landscape image) Overall an exceptionally rare and historic collection (5)
Lot 52
Book - Die Chinesische Armee in ihrer Neu-Organisation und Neu-Uniformierung, J.C.Hill, Published Leipziz c. 1890. 24pp., and excellent folding coloured plates of uniforms, swords, badges, accoutrements etc. Unusual stamp of M.Berman Film Costumiers Cranbourn Street London, Neat stamps throughout and brown taped support to binding. Rare item (1),
Lot 141
Martin Braun Notos Royal wristwatch, gold, men, rare, accompanied by accessories Martin Braun Notos Royal wristwatch, gold, men, rare, reference MB261WRGC, automatic movement. Black dial, Arab numerals, three registers and date at the 12 o'clock. Black crocodile skin strap and gold buckle. Documents and accessories: Martin Braun certificate, international guarantee card undated, instruction manual, original box.
Lot 104
"Starburst Diamonds 2000" - rare De Beers hourglass, with 2000 natural diamonds, limited edition The hourglass contains 2000 natural octahedron-shaped diamonds suspended in a silicone fluid. The approximate carat mass of the diamonds is 36 ct. and their estimated travel time is 12 minutes. h=14,5 cm
Lot 495
A rare limted numbered signed framed print by renowned photographer Ian Beesley - this is number one of just 25 and shows the graves at Heysham Head over looking Morecambe Bay and the Lakeland Mountains - there is Black Sabbath interest as this photo was used as the sleeve for one of their greatest hits collections - 64 cm wide by 55 cm high - a lovely piece that has across the board appeal
Lot 44
dating: about 1880 provenance: Tibet, A very rare shaman fetish based on an original goat's head with horns (does not require any kind of Cites), almost completely covered with white and yellow metal plates (some detachments), partially engraved. A very powerful amulet/fetish that was used to break down the barrier between the two worlds, so that the shaman could speak to the dead before reincarnation. dimensions 11.5 x 37 x 24 cm.
Lot 52
dating: Late 19th Century provenance: Ethiopia, Long cloak in bordeaux velvet, richly embroidered in gilded thread with floral and geometrical motifs, opening on the breast with small, brass buttons. Lined with light-blue cloth. Signs of use. Pants in brown velvet, legs richly embroidered in polychrome at the base and with small, brass buttons. Complete with a leather shield, covered with velvet (worn) and brass mounts. Wide, leather belt, with numerous places for cartridges. Fine and rare together.Waist 140 cm, length of the pants 100 cm. length various cm.
Lot 528
dating: 1860-66 provenance: USA, Octagonal, rifled, 24', cal. 44 centerfire barrel, with traces of finishing, provided with white metal fore-sight, marked on the back 'HENRY'S PATENT OCT. 16. 1860 / MANUFACT'D BY THE NEWHAVEN ARMS CO. NEWHAVEN CT.' and with serial number '7xxx'. Core in good conditions with well-defined groove. Foldaway and adjustable rear sight. Tubular magazine, integrated in the barrel (revolving front part, for charging), complete with iron spring and brass lever. Brass frame with rear extractor. In working order. Loading lever complete with locking mechanism, lower tang with stamp 'E'. Walnut butt with iron loop for the strap on the left side (the second loop mounted on magazine's side). Brass butt-plate with gate. A rare, iron, dismountable ramrod inside. A fine example of one of the most sought-after rifles in the field of antique American arms collecting. See 'Flayderman's Guide' 9th Edition. Pages 305-306 (5K-023). length 111 cm.
Lot 529
dating: 1857 - 1860 provenance: USA, Faceted, cal. 31 barrel for 3-1/2', with ring-nut revolving in the front part, remains of marking 'NEW HAVEN CONN. / PATENT FEB. 14 1854' on the back. Tubular magazine integrated in the barrel, openable by rotating the front segment. The ammunition push slide is missing the flap. Brass frame in one piece with the grip. Sides engraved with flowers and leaves. Charging lever with circular ring, iron elevator block. Some pitting on the iron parts. Grip with antique grip scales (one with small restore), stamped with serial numbers matching on the pistol. SN '2xx'. In working order. A well-known and rare arm. New Haven production: in this model made in only 850 specimen circa. See Flaydermans' Guide 9th Edition, pages 304-305. 5K-014. length 22 cm.
Lot 535
dating: 1875-1890 provenance: USA, Octagonal, rifled barrel for 28', with marking in two lines with company's address and patents until 1887, well marked, with fore-sight and adjustable rear sight, caliber caption at the base on the left side '40-60-260'. To be cleaned inside, visible groove. Frame with rampant horse of the company on the left side, lower tang with serial number '4565'. Traces of antique bluing. Walnut butt and fore-end (checkered). Iron butt-plate. Realized in circa 6400 specimens (total production of carbines and rifles). The most rare model of Lightning series. See 'Flayderman's Guide' 9th Edition. page 123. length 118,5 cm.
Lot 100
dating: first quarter of the 19th Century provenance: Italy, Round, smooth-bore, 18 mm cal. barrel, with clutch for a bayonet, remains of two marks at the base, one unreadable, the other with letters 'BP'. Interesting lock signed 'Pietro Beretta' and 'BRESCIA', stamp 'PB', brass pan. Wooden, three-quarters stock. Iron mounts with remains of stamps. Iron ramrod. Socket bayonet (length 47 cm). Rare gun on the type of Mod. 1814 carbine, Piedmontese for Carabinieri, but of Brescian production. length gun 114 cm.
Lot 148
dating: 16th Century provenance: Germany, In iron, of rare 'X'-shape in the central part, finely hammered with Maximilian type groove, made in three, riveted parts. A smooth escutcheon on the front, central part of 'X'-shape with smooth bands, raised and roped central part. Cheek-piece fixed with rivets. Mobile nape-guard fixed with leather strings (restored). Remains of original leather strings inside. Very scarce. Provenance: Collection Dr. Zwanger, NY,See a very similar chanfron in Erbach collection illustrated and described in '101 Arcydziel Dawnych Mistrozow XV-XVIII Wieku, Malbork, 2002, nr. 68 height 66 cm.
Lot 158
dating: 17th Century provenance: Italy, Straight, single-and false-edged blade, flat first part with marking 'MCDXX' (probably a commemorative date of an event of 1420) and, on the other side 'GINAMM'; second part with central fuller and rear groove. Beautiful, iron hilt with shell-guard, flat quillons, curved toward the blade, engraved with floral motifs, loop-guard decorated en suite and with end chiselled with a grotesque head. Faceted pommel. Original, wooden grip with remains of wire binding and moor's heads. Rare and unusual. length 73.5 cm.
Lot 195
dating: provenance: Germany, In iron, with big mouthpiece provided with a central hole, and two bands with adjustable latch and a chin screen. A rare replica of a 16th century original, made in 1857 for a city history exhibition in Bamberg in Southern Germany. See an almost identical specimen in 'Tortura Inquisizione Pena di Morte' by Aldo Migliorini with description on pages 96/97.Provenance: Museum of Torture and Death Penalty in San Gimignano. dimensions 23 x 20 cm.
Lot 27
dating: 19th Century provenance: Japan, With light, wooden structure, partially lacquered in black, with golden drawings with floral motifs and Manji-mon. External borders are not lacquered and provided with hooks for mounting on a bow. Leather lower part, with gilded Manji-mon as well. The two quivers provided with nineteen arrows in all, without tip, with gilded plumage. Rare in pair. Era: late Edo period. height total circa 87 cm.
Lot 284
dating: Mid 19th Century provenance: Algeria, Smooth-bore, octagonal, 16 mm cal. barrel, narrowed toward the nozzle, the base with brass rear sight, Liege test-bed stamp and with collection number, fore-sight; tang plated with brass foil, engraved; very rare, iron flintlock, partially covered with brass foil, finely engraved with floral motifs, extremely wide pan and batterie, signed below and probably dated in Arabic. Wooden stock, slightly engraved, with metal inlays, pierced so as the barrel bracket. Iron ramrod. Small parts missing and defects. An outstanding lock, probably of Turkish origin. length 162.5 cm.
Lot 393
dating: Third quarter of the 19th Century provenance: Italy, Faceted barrel, with tubular magazine, marked with 'VENDITTI & C.I LANCUSI' among the flowers, pitting areas in the center; silver frame with iron lateral plates, decorated with engraved flowers; trigger-guard, cock, barrel and silvered magazine; trigger-guard with lever, ring-lever action. Grip with walnut, checkered grip scales; butt-plate with a ring. Scarce. Extremely rare variant of this classic that boasts one shot less than the other specimen. The use of silver is unusual. This could be an unknown first model.Pietro Antonio Venditti, Torre Annunziata and Naples (1828 - 1878). After being released from forced labor, following a conviction for murder, he opens his first business in Torre Annunziata; after several patents he made his famous repeating pistol, building it for ten and even twenty-six shots. See 'Der Neue Stockel', Vol. II, p. 1324.Specimen illustrated in 'Pistole' by A. Sala, p. 121. length 30.5 cm.
Lot 58
An important pair of German late 18th century ormolu and brass mounted mahogany 'mechanical' reading/writing/card/games tables attributed to David Roentgen (1743-1807)Circa 1785, each with a triple foldover top, the first hinged top enclosing an inset baize playing surface, the second inlaid with a chess and draughts board, the third surface on one table inset with a baize surface incorporating a hinged rest and a lever-activated opposing 'pop-up' hinged box, enclosing an ebony and stained fruitwood inlaid backgammon playing surface encompassed by ivory playing discs, flanked by two compartments with line-inlaid tambour sliding lids, the other table inset with a gilt-tooled leather surface incorporating a hinged writing rest and a lever-activated opposing 'pop-up' hinged box, enclosing a void interior, each with panel mounted friezes and flute mounted angles, with a catch-activated release for the rear gateleg and a secret drawer, on four detachable screw-in square tapering legs each with two mille raie outer facings headed by collar mouldings, terminating in moulded block and peg feet, each: 99cm wide x 48.5cm deep x 81cm high, (38 1/2in wide x 19in deep x 31 1/2in high) (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly with Didier Aaron, Paris.Purchased: Koller Auctions, Zurich, 26th March 2015, Furniture, Porcelain and Decoration, lot 1184.Auction ComparablesA single games table of this same type sold Sotheby's, Zurich, 7th December 1994, lot 257. Another similar Roentgen table, albeit a very slightly earlier model dating to circa 1780, sold Christie's, London, 7th July 2008, Important European Furniture, lot 535.Forerunners and Further ComparablesTwo precursors to the offered lot, in terms of form, Neoclassical design and multifunctionality, feature in W. Koeppe, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, 2012, New York, fig.'s 24 & 27, pp.'s 108-9 & 116-119, which was published to accompany the important and hugely successful exhibition of the same title held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2012. The first table is dated circa 1774-1780 and the second 1774-1775, and as a result of their earlier dates of production both of these incorporate marquetry which is totally absent on the offered pair.However the closest comparables to the present tables include one, dated 1780-1783, also illustrated and analysed in W. Koeppe, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, fig. 45, pp.'s 163-5. And another, circa 1785, that is housed at the Palace of Pavlovsk in St. Petersburg features in both Greber, J.M. Abraham und David Roentgen, Mobel fur Europa, 1980, Starnberg, Bd. 1, S. 235, Bd. 2, S. 320, 321 and in D. Fabian, Abraham und David Roentgen, Das noch aufgefundene Gesamtwerk ihrer Mobel- und Uhrenkunst in Verbindung mit der Uhrmacherfamilie Kinzing in Neuwied, 1996, Bad Neustadt/Saale, fig. 103, p. 62. The New Restrained Roentgen StyleThese 'tables a jeu a quatre variations', examples of which are very rare to come across in pairs, display all of the features typically found on those pieces emanating from the workshop of Neuwied-based David Roentgen during the 1780s. By that time Roentgen's output had become increasingly restrained, incorporating the linear forms and antique elements of the new Neoclassicism. Instead of marquetry which had gradually fallen out of fashion, Roentgen took to simple but costly mahogany veneers with sparingly elegant use of gilt bronze ornamentation, thus completing the process of artistic emancipation from his father, Abraham Roentgen (1711-93). And yet arguably the most notable feature of David's works were now their complex mechanisms, in this case the rising box for 'tric-trac', the lateral compartments with tambour covers, the detachable screw-in legs, and the skilfully concealed, or essentially 'secret', drawer.The Development of Roentgen's Mechanical Furniture The earliest mechanical tables of Neoclassical design by David Roentgen were supplied in 1771 for the country house at Worlitz on behalf of Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau, where they are still located, D. Fabian, Abraham und David Roentgen, 1996, No.'s 47a-b. Roentgen provided a further pair to his main client of the mid-1770s, Prince Charles of Lorraine, Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, but these are now housed at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, D. Fabian, Op. Cit, No.'s 67 & 68. Both sets employ abundant colourful marquetry but by the 1780s Roentgen had rejected this aesthetic in favour of plain mahogany with delicate mounts and this proved to be preferred by the princely patrons throughout that decade, as evidenced by the Pavlovsk model which was delivered along with many other items to the Russian court from circa 1783 onwards, Op. Cit, No. 103. For his most mechanically complicated pieces, Roentgen worked closely with Peter Kinzing, a highly gifted clockmaker likewise from Neuwied, and after they had supplied Marie Antoinette with an automaton in 1785, the position of Ebeniste Mecanicien du Roi et de la Reine was even conferred upon Roentgen. This was a rare and distinguished Royal appointment which one of the most famous cabinet makers of the 18th century, Jean-Francois Oeben (1721-1763), had previously been honoured with in 1760, during the reign of Louis XV.Famous Admirers of RoentgenInterestingly, it was this mechanical element of Roentgen's output that was held in the highest esteem by his peers and various notable contemporary figures. Roentgen was even revered by the literary, cultural and scientific polymath and major German Romantic, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) who epitomised the zeitgeist. Goethe, author of the seminal Faust, Parts I and II probably encountered a games table similar to the offered examples while working at Weimar Palace as Privy Councillor to Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. This is believed to be the case due to an 1810 inventory of the assembly room at the Weimar Palace which documents a: 'game table veneered with mahogany, and decorated with brass mouldings. With a hidden 'Tocadille' [backgammon board]', 3 feet 4 inches long, 1 foot 8 inches deep. By Rontchen.', W. Koppe, Idem, p. 164.Analysis of the Offered LotAt first appearance the present tables are misleadingly simple in form and decoration, but it is clear that Roentgen's choice of superb mahogany veneers is perfectly matched and beautifully highlighted by his restrained, yet visually striking, use of both gilt bronze and brass mounts. The natural grain of the mahogany is effectively manipulated so that it runs horizontally along the length of the leaves whereas the flame figuring is vertical on each frieze. The mounts are brilliantly incorporated into the overall scheme to create a visually thrilling sense of depth. In particular, the projecting mouldings are brought out with bronze applications, the mille raie fields on the front and outer side facings of the legs are gilded, and the classical fluting to the angle blocks are lined with brass.In relation to the mounts, evidently Roentgen was influenced by the practice of contemporary Parisian ebenistes, who ordered their mounts directly from specialists working solely within that field. By 1779 Roentgen was employing the same process and in fact many of his mounts from that date onwards were supplied by the renowned maitre-doreur, Francois Remond (1747-1812) who was also based in Paris, C. Baulez, David Roentgen et Francois Remond, Une Collaboration Majeure dans l'Histoire du Mobi... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 85
Sir Alfred Gilbert, A.R.A., R.A., M.V.O (British, 1854-1934): A rare and probably unique patinated and parcel gilt bronze 'double size' figure of St Georgeordered by John Charles Williams of Werrington Park, Launceston, Cornwall directly from the sculptor and probably cast by Broad & Son, circa 1895-6the figure with helmeted downcast head modelled in contrapposto and clad in elaborate armour with shell cast pauldrons and winged poleyns, one arm raised and with a slightly turned hand, the other arm down and outstretched, his straight sword with a corpus crucifix to the hilt (now lacking finial), on swirling base, raised on an ebonised shallow square plinth, the figure, 88cm high, 93cm high overall including wood plinth base Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Charles (J.C.) Williams (1861-1939), Werrington Park, Launceston, Cornwall.Ordered by J.C. Williams in 1895 as apparently the first part of a commission for four double size figure replicas, St George being the first figure representing England, the others as the second part of the commission being saints representing Ireland, Scotland & Wales (these three figures apparently never realised).Thence by descent.John Charles Williams (1861-1939) of Caerhays Castle, St Austell, Cornwall was an English Liberal Unionist politician, collector and keen horticulturalist, noted for his philanthropic interests in botany.Affectionately known as 'J.C.', he was the second son of the miner, landowner and banker John Michael Williams (1813-1880) and Elisabeth Maria (d. 1884), of Caerhays Castle and was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The Williams family of Caerhays, Burncoose and Scorrier were prominent owners of mines and smelting works for several generations during the Cornish Industrial Revolution. In 1882 'J.C.' Williams acquired the estate of Werrington, an 18th century house with earlier origins (then in Devon, but since 1974 in Cornwall) as his home and set about furnishing with furniture and artworks, some possibly from an earlier dispersal sale of the original contents but the majority acquired himself from other sources following the fashions of the day. His own wealth combined with the fact that his elder brother Michael Williams took over running the family's business interests meant that he was able to devote time to collecting including amassing three major noted mineral collections and in particular his interests in breeding rhododendrons, camellias and daffodils amongst other plants. He married Mary Christian Williams (1861-1922), the second daughter of Sir Frederick Martin Williams, second baronet of Tregullow in 1884 and in that same year he returned to live at Caerhays Castle when his mother died. However, he remained Squire of Werrington Park even when he returned to his ancestral home as he reputedly enjoyed the good hunting on the Werrington estate and as such it is recorded that the he and his family lived partly at Caerhays and partly at Werrington in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Elected at the 1892 general election as the MP for Truro, he held the seat until he stood down at the 1895 general election and was also High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1888, and Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall from 1918–36.During the Great War Werrington was turned over to the Red Cross becoming Auxiliary Home Hospital Werrington and accepting injured troops from the frontlines in France and Belgium. Mrs Williams is recorded as being 'Officer in Charge and Organising Secretary' and the hospital treated 1128 patients between January 1915 and March 1919.John Charles and Mary Christian Williams had five sons and one daughter: The Honourable Charles Williams of Caerhays Castle, Conservative MP for Tavistock 1918-1922 and Torquay 1924-1955.John Francis Williams, killed in 1916 serving as Sub-Lieutenant of the St. George flotilla on the 'HMS Russell'.Alfred Martin Williams, CBE, Conservative MP for North Cornwall 1924-29.Robert Williams, killed in 1915 serving as Second Lieutenant of the 1st Guards Brigade, 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards at the Battle of Loos.Peter Michael Williams, known as 'PM', High Sheriff of Cornwall, 1952.May Williams, who nursed her father after her mother's death. Alfred Gilbert's St George and The Duke of Clarence MemorialAlfred Gilberts depiction of St George can perhaps be described as the emblematic zenith of the New Sculpture movement. However its conception and realisation on what was perhaps Gilberts most prestigious commission of the his career, that of the tomb of the The Duke of Clarence in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle was also the cause of much controversy.Ten years previously however, Gilberts accent to the position of England's premier sculptor had seemed a natural and inevitable progression following the death of his former master and sculptor to the Royal family, Joseph Edgar Boehm in 1890. His success was subsequently sealed with the most prestigious commission of the day from the bereaved Prince and Princess of Wales to design a tomb for their eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale who had tragically died from influenza on the 14th January 1892. Summoned three days after the funeral to discuss plans with the royal couple, Gilbert's preliminary sketch for the tomb of her grandson was approved by Queen Victorian on the 6th March 1892.Although the finished tomb itself was a tour de force of the sculptors art incorporating an effigy of the recumbent Prince in his Hussar uniform beneath the figure of a kneeling angel holding a heavenly crown realised in bronze, brass, aluminium and white & coloured marble, it was the extraordinary hybrid Gothic and late Victorian surrounding grill designed to pay homage to the tombs of Cardinal Wolsey / Henry VIII that led to the inception of the figure of St George.After seeing a monograph of the Wolsey / Henry VIII tomb prepared by the scholar Alfred Higgins and also seeing its inspiration which was the earlier tomb of Henry VII, Gilbert decided to emulate the use of such similar grills to these tombs incorporating twelve polychrome niche figures of saints into a fantastically elaborate design. The royal family were then consulted as to which saints should be represented. These were in order around the tomb, St George, The Virgin, St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Michael, St Margaret, St Patrick, St Catherine of Siena, St Edward the Confessor, St Hubert of Liege, St Ethelreda of Ely, St Nicholas of Myra and St Catherine of Egypt. Of these saints, St George is undoubtedly the most famous and was the first to be cast. Epitomizing the last traces of Pre-Raphaelitism merging into Art Nouveau but perhaps also idiosyncratically paying homage to the armour of French and German medieval tomb figures rather than those of the Italian Renaissance, the warrior saint is depicted as a sinuous long limbed effete youth clad in fantastical separately cast armour incorporating swirling shell motifs. The first figure of St George, cast in 'white metal' by George Broad & Son with carved ivory hands and face, was presented to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Delivered to Sandringham in November 1895 and intended as a private 'household' memorial to the Duke of Clarence it was subsequently installed in the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Sandringham.The second figure of St George, cast in aluminium, again by George Broad & Son with carved ivory hands and face was the model that was installed at the tomb. As the first of the twelve saints surrounding the tomb to be cast, it was unveiled by Queen Victoria and positioned in its niche in July 1898. Nevertheless at that moment in time, five figures of saints were still missing and it was not until 1928 that the tomb was actually finally completed, thirty six years after the o... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 27
A rare late 18th century relief-carved lime wood panel depicting a vase of flowers, signed and dated Putman 1790possibly an allegory relating to the Declaration of the Rights of Manthe finely carved flowers including roses, ranunculus, narcissus, poppies and lilac, the vase decorated with a frieze depicting Britannia and Plenty flanking two oval pendants - one with a brazier on a plinth, the other with a cockerel standing on a reeded plinth with a laurel wreath to the base, the pedestal foot resting on a platform scattered with four coins or medallions, three decorated with portrait bust, the last vacant, two busts bearing striking resemblances to Benjamin Franklin & the Marquis de Lafayette, the whole supported by four recumbent lions and centred by a sea serpent,, signed and dated to the left hand bottom corner fecit . putman . Sculp . 1790, later mounted in a glazed and carved and parcel gilt rectangular box frame, the panel, 55cm x 38cm, the frame, 71cm x 53cm Footnotes:The Declaration of the Rights of ManThe Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789) is a human rights document which originated from the French Revolution and was enacted by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. Inspired by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, the Declaration was the fundamental statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of popular conceptions of individual liberty and democracy in Europe and worldwide. Drafted by the Abbé Sieyè, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Thomas Jefferson it was subsequently included in the beginning of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and the Fifth Republic (1958). The Declaration, the Magna Carta, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, and the 1789 United States Bill of Rights, hugely influenced part of the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1819
(THH) A rare pair of Grand Tour type alabaster relief portrait plaques of Charles Edward Stuart 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' and Henry Benedict Stuart, each in an octagonal ebonized and brass mounted frame, with applied and engraved decoration, 29.5cm wide, each with bronze 'Legitimacy of the Jacobite Succession' medal suspension.
Lot 170
dating: about 1880 provenance: Timor, Slightly curved, single-edged blade, probably Japanese, of a simple manufacture, with kanji at the base. Big, wooden hilt, embossed with anthropological figure and floral motifs, decorated with animal hair. Complete with rare, wooden scabbard in two parts, decorated en suite and with metal bands. Scarce. length 80.5 cm.
Lot 379
dating: early 20th Century provenance: Kalimantan, Straight, single-edged blade, flat on one facet, with remains of brass inlays. Deer horn hilt with copper wire bindings on the grip and pommel of rare shape, with remains of brown horsehair. Scabbard with bone and leather plates. Complete with Piso Raut. length 66 cm.
Lot 380
dating: early 20th Century provenance: Kalimantan, Single-edged blade of rare shape, carved as a wing, with gilded copper inlays. Deer horn hilt with rattan covering on the grip and chiselled pommel. Wooden scabbard, chiselled and pierced with leaves. Complete with a small Piso Raut. length 66 cm.
Lot 765
dating: 19th Century provenance: Sulawesi, Undulated double-edged blade, in fine pamor, with wide base and curl. Ukiran and scabbard richly decorated with embossed silver foil and with cabochon stones (mostly turquoises and rose stones). Ukiran portraying a deity with partially gilded necklace. Warangka completely covered with silver foil and adorned with a prestigious toli-toli bow. Small defects and parts missing. This very rare kris is decorated with mounting of the gifts of the kingdom of Gowa-Tallo in South Sulawesi. length 48 cm.
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