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Lot 1103
Rare Horological Interest Late 19th /Early 20th Century Industrial Master Clock For Measuring Water Volume One component marked 'gauge no.189 'Thousands Of Gallons Per Hour' brass dial, unmarked chapter dial with black baton numerals, raised on rectangular steel plate. Base plate dimensions, 16 x 19 inches. Height at tallest point 14 inches. Please see accompanying image
Lot 1350
Early 20th Century American Photography Interest George Swain (American, 1866 - 1947) A Rare Collection Of Botanical Photographic Slides Hinged slidebox with plaque to lid marked 'CENCO' Central Scientific Co Laboratory Apparatus, Supplier Of Chemicals, Chicago U.S.A'. Containing 29, 10 x 8 inch hand coloured glass slides. Produced in the early 20th century during Swain's long tenure as University Of Michigan's official photographer; each slide depicts an example of the rare flora and fauna of Michigan and the Midwest USA. Fifteen slides bear paper labels with handwritten annotations, titles to include, 'LF6.16 -7171 Lupine Habitat''Bog Douglas L''Showy Orchid''Yellow Orchid''Twin Flower''Cardinal Nest On Honey Locust''Guttation''Spring Beauties, Mich''Trillium Grandiflorum''On Douglas Lake''On Lake Arbutus''Hawthorne W.Va.'A further 13 slides are untitled, bearing small oval paper labels - possibly with numbers, now faded. One slide bearing printed paper label marked 'Made By G.R. Swain, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Subjects to include, Erythronium americanum, Dryopteris, Paeonia etc. All slides in good condition - two with very minor cracks, please see accompanying image.Catalogue NoteGeorge R. Swain was born Born in Meredith, New Hampshire, USA in 1866, he moved to California in 1888 where he passed a county teachers examination and taught for seven years in ungraded country schools. In 1897 he was awarded a degree from the University Of Michigan and gained a Master's degree from the same institution in 1900. Swain was appointed official University Photographer at the University Of Michigan in 1913, where he began work on various educational and botanical photography projects over the next 34 years. Swain made four trips to Europe making photographic records of valued manuscripts for the University collection. A keen writer, botanist and ecologist; in 1924 he participated in the university expedition to Antioch, in 1925 and 1926 he visited Italy, Greece, Mount. Athos and Patmos and worked with the Franco-American committee in Tunisia and Algeria.
Lot 658
A Small Collection Of Animal And Beatrix Potter Figurines Five items in total to include Beswick Beatrix Potter 'Hunca Munca' and 'Mr Jeremy Fisher'. Along with a Beswick 'Cairn Terrier' figure, an unmarked novelty puppy figure and a rare Wade / Coalport Jessie Van Halen hand painted china monkey figure, marked to base 'Coalport By Vanhalen' - missing tail, please see image. Chip to the Monkey Tail.
Lot 664
H & R Daniel Staffordshire Rare Part Tea Set Circa 1825 antique pattern 4058. This pattern features the second gadroon to top edge, cobalt blue, buff, and gold gilt accent, and hand painted flowers, comprising six cups, seven saucers and six shallow cups, along with footed cream jug. The cup is 2.5" high, and the saucer is 5.5" in diameter. There are a few hairline cracks to cup, 1 saucer has hairline crack at the Bottom of the Saucer, 1 cup has a Larger Hairline Crack and The Teapot has a Chip to Top Spout and also some Hairline Cracks.
Lot 107
Pendant . A rare silver and jewelled Tibetan/Newari monster mask drop pendant, 18th/19th century, set with agate, coral, turquoise and tourmaline stones, 9cm high x 7.5cm wide (Qty: 1)The symbol of the benevolent and protective 'monster mask' (Tibetan Tsipater) is of ancient Indian origin (Sanskrit Kirttimukha / face of glory), its use is common to both Tibet and Nepal.
Lot 139
Italian Urns. A fine and rare pair of 18th century white marble garden urns, of campagna form with everted rim, half gadrooning to the lower section with carved heads depicting Turks and Christians, on square pedestal bases, one base cracked and general wear and weathering commensurate with age, approximately 94cm high (Qty: 2)Provenance: Private Collection, Icomb, Gloucestershire; purchased by the vendor from a residence in Chelsea, London, in the 1990s.
Lot 206
Wierix, Hieronymus, 1553-1619. Nemesis (The Great Fortune), after Albrecht Durer, circa 1580-1610, engraving on laid paper, a reversed copy of the engraving by Albrecht Durer of circa 1502, trimmed to plate margins, with some marks and slight damage to upper left corner, with a little loss (not affecting image), with early monogram LB to top margin, and numbered 59 in brown ink to upper left corner of backing sheet, sheet size 334 x 232 mm (13.2 x 9.2 ins), mounted on old laid paper, with pencil inscription to verso 'From the Barnard Collection, Mark Anthony Copy Very Fine & Rare, Maggs Bros, Strand, London, Jan 1897' (Qty: 1)
Lot 280
Brockmuller (Friedrich Franz, 1880-1958). Ploughing, circa 1910, scissor cut silhouette, showing a horse and ploughman by a huge leafy tree, titled in margin lower left and presentation inscribed and signed lower right, silhouette size 50 x 70cm (19.75 x 27.5ins), period ebonsied frame, glazed (Qty: 1)A rare medium for this artist who is more known for his work in bronze, See Lots 145 & 146.
Lot 79
Typewriter. A Blickensderfer No.8 typewriter, manufactured by the Blickensderfer Manufacturing Co. Stamford, Connecticut, US, circa 1909, with decimal tabulator and back-space key, in its original leather case with accessories (Qty: 1)Rare. The Blickensderfer Typewriter was invented by George Canfield Blickensderfer (1850–1917) and patented on August 4, 1891. The Blickensderfer 8 was introduced in 1908 and was the first Blick to boast a tabulator system even though tabulators had been around for some time. This model was a considerable success and more were sold in 1908 than any other model. This machine was more massive and sturdier looking than the 7 with a two-piece typehead casting and a popular backspace mechanism. The tabulator used large nickel-plated levers placed on top of the machine, making it easy to operate. Production peaked in 1910 and declined until production ended in 1917. About 20,000 Blick 8's were produced, accounting for about 10% of all Blick models sold.
Lot 653
Scottish Post 1953 Wilkinson Working Sample Piper's Dirka rare working sample. 12 inch blade, unpolished. Blackened basket weave grip with stud decoration. White metal disk pommel with top Queens crown. Contained in its leather covered, wooden scabbard. Mounts not fitted. Dirk retains original 'Wilkinson Sword Co. Oakley Works' label with instructions 'This pattern must be returned upon completion of order' ... Also a blueprint 1964 for a piper's dirk.
Lot 60
Susie Cooper a rare Grays pottery coffee service boldly painted with fruit within purple and blue banding with gilt highlights, comprising six coffee cans and saucers, jug and sugar bowl, Galleon mark and handpainted stamp . Good condition, no cracks, chips or detectable restoration, very light crazing in the interior of some cups, line of dried cream in jug
Lot 36
δ Marc Chagall (1887-1985)Couverture Jacquette (Mourlot 281)Lithograph printed in colours, 1960, a rare unfolded proof before the edition printed for 'Chagall Lithographe Vol. 1', printed by Mourlot, Paris, sheet 325 x 735mm (12 3/4 x 29in) (unframedδ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 190
Exceptionally rare and important Lowestoft inkwell circa 1770, decorated by the Tulip Painter, with floral designs and divergent tulip, 7cm diam. Note: for similar examples of the Tulip Painter's distinctive decoration style, see Lowestoft porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Sheena Smith, volume 2 page 34
Lot 553
Fine and rare early 18th century French formerly verge gilt brass mantel timepiece, Henry Sully A Versailles, Invenit AO 1721 et Fecit AO 1724, the waisted case with concave and curved pediment with knopped finial and with lattice work panels and classical masks to a shaped and moulded and stepped plinth base on compressed bun feet to a hinged and cast bezel with bevelled glass enclosing a 9.5cm silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with outside minute, inside quarter and half-hour diamond markers to a matted gilt centre with sunk subsidiary seconds and demi-lune name plaque, "H Sully A Versailles, Invenit 1721 et Fecit 1725" to a signed single chain driven movement and with a later fitted lever platform escapement, height 26cm
Lot 3732
Theology - Saint Irenaeus, First Bishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul, Prières et pratiques du séminaire de Saint-Irénée de Lyon, approuvées par Monseigneur l'Archevêque, Pair & Primat de France, Comte de Lyon, second edition, De l'Imprimerie d'Aimé Delaroche, [n.d., 1739], pp: [iv], 268, xxxii, anachronistic woodcut printer's device to title-page, some headers, tacked contemporaneous vellum manuscript palimpsest covers, some inscriptions and various 18th century dates to each pastedown, 16mo (15.3cm x 8.8cm)No copies listed on Copac. Rare but arid.
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