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Click here to subscribeMICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Minotaur - Rising, 1971. etching, edition of 75, artist's proof X/X. Signed in pencil [rare, most were stamped with studio stamp signature only]. 59 x 78 cm [overall including frame 65 x 85 cm]. [very good condition - unexamined out of frame]. 'Opening price' is NOT the reserve. Buyers premium of 20% + VAT is payable.
A rare Dinky Toys Vulcan Bomber (749/992). Silver body (aluminium) with rounded wing tips, RAF decals to wings and fuselage, correct pale blue windows to cockpit. Complete with original undercarriage. One of the few examples (possibly 500) produced and sold to the Canadian market in 1955/56. VGC-Mint. Plate 8 and see Front Cover.
An extremely rare American .177” Haviland and Gunn 1872 Model air pistol, 5¼” overall, of blackened one piece cast iron construction, with screw in breech plug and air chamber in the butt, the brass mainspring retaining plug stamped “Pat’d May 21.1872”. GWO & C, the breech plug should have an integral hook which engages the projection in the base of the butt for cocking, but this appears to have been removed and replaced with a ring to aid removal. With a photocopy page from a catalogue outlining the history of the company.
Rare German Wenka 35mm Coupled Rangefinder Camera. (film advance very slightly rough, otherwise condition 5F) #5733 with Schneider Xenar 50mm f2.8 lens (condition 5F). This 'First B' version has speeds to 1/800th, an interchangeable lens with a 40mm thread and a film frame size of 24x30mm. {Cabinet 1}
Dallmeyer Lens Collection. Comprising Dallmeyer Serrac 8 1/2" f4.5 lens (condition 5F) rear thread 2 1/4" diameter, with locking flange; Dallmeyer Wide Angle 5 1/4" f6.5 lens (condition 4F) rear thread 1 1/4" diameter, with locking flange; Dallmeyer Anastigmat 2" f3.5 lens in Synchro-Compur shutter, speeds slow in rare M42 screw mount (condition 5F). Also Serrac 3" f4.5 lens (not threaded) & others.
Rare BLACK Minolta SR-2, Minolta's first SLR 1958. #1108243, (condition 5/6F) with Rokkor PF 55mm f1.8 lens, surface cleaning marks (condition 5F) with Minolta Rokkor PG 135mm f2.8 telephoto lens internal marks (not fungus?) with original case, in need of cleaning/service. Also a copy of "The Minolta Way". {Cabinet 6}
An extensive Pentax Auto 110 system. To include two Auto 110 camera bodies with 24mm lenses, one with auto-winder, two 18mm lenses, two 50mm lenses, 70mm and 20-40mm Zoom and plus various flash caps keepers etc. Also a rare 18mm PAN focus lens and a rare Soligor 1.7x Tele-converter. Also an uncommon, fitted Pentax 110 outfit case.
MPP Micropress 5x4 Press Camera Outfit with Rare Microflash. Comprising MPP body, focal plane shutter slow (condition 6F) with Schenider Xenar 135mm f4.7 lens in Syncro-Compur shutter, speed slow from 1/60th; MPP 120 roll film back; uncommon MPP 'Star Wars light sabre" style Microflash unit; film pack holder; Polaroid back; 9 DDS (various conditions); wire finder; instruction book; Gossen LunaSix meter etc. All in fitted outfit case.
RARE Stereo Daguerreotype “Mortality” by Thomas Richard Williams (1824 - 1871). Overall in very good condition, with minor internal marks (to the glass?), right hand imgage shows slight surface discoluring*. Probably circa early 1850s as rear has an affixed card with the address of the T R Williams studio shown as 236 Regent Street, London. This fine image shows a tastefully arranged, if macarbe, composition of objects and is a different version of a known T R Williams image (see p177, "A Village Lost and Found" by Brian May & Elena Vidal, Francis Lincoln Ltd & London Stereoscopic Company, 2009). Versions of this image are also known by other titles, including “Memento Mori” and “The Sands of Time”. Also see http://londonstereo.com/trwilliams/processes.html. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA, have several stereo cards of this image in their collection http://tinyurl.com/ybq8r6xy as well as a similar Daguerreotype showing the same items but in a slightly different composition and with the book open at a different page. http://tinyurl.com/yan4yr95. Very difficult to photograph so the images shown may not do justice to the item - viewing in person is recommended.
An Uncommon 1920s Kodak Model BB 16mm Cine Camera Outfit for Colour Filming. Comprising Kodak Model BB cine camera (condition 4F) with standard f1.9 lens with French instruction book and a boxed 78mm f4.5 long-focus lens. Also includes a combined blue, red, green filter set for additive colour filming on the early, lenticualr version of Kodacolor cine film, plus a rare Kodacolor projector unit (in makers box) which fits to the side of a Kodak Model A for projection in colour and a Kodak splicing set. Also a Kodascope 16mm projector in fitted box (not tested).
RARE Ensign Multex Model 0 127 CRF Camera. #21804 (Leading blind sluggish, sometimes slightly open when winding on, hence 5H). With Multar 50mm f3.5 lens & original lens cap, in makers ERC. Also original instruction book (some pages detached, but present) and a small selection of Ensign catalogues & brochures. {Cabinet 4}
Three pairs of silver salt spoons, various dates and makers, George III/Victorian, comprising:- a rare Kings shape variant with shell at terminal, by James Ede & Alexander Hewat, London, 1808; also two Victorian Provincial pairs, both by J. & J. Williams, one Old English pattern, Exeter, 1874, crested and one Fiddle pattern, Exeter, 1868, initialled "IW", wt. 82 gm. (6). There is a fair bit of wear to the shell on one spoon of the first pair
RARE ANTIQUE BOOK 'His Pilgrimage, 1614' by Samuel Purchas (1577-1626), second edition of the first book of compiled travel accounts of approximately one thousand contributors, with notables including Hawkins, Columbus, Sir Francis Drake etc, 'Relations of the World & The Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered From the Creation Unto this Present' divided as nine books over 918 pages, plus the table of the principle things contained (which is absent after SE) contents of the chapters and catalogue of authors, title page missing, book opens at 'To The Most Reverend Father in God, George and by the Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbyrie etc', this is a dedication to George Abbot, Purchas having been appointed his Chaplain in 1614, possibly in original cover and binding (poor condition) with some small tears/losses in the early pages, staining appears pretty much throughout with heavy stains to the bottom right corner from page 277 right through to the end
A COPELAND PARIAN FIGURINE titled 'Corinna, the Lyric Muse' after W Brodie, Sculptor, a classical Greek style study of the poet seated and scantily clad with pen and parchment to hand, her lyre propped against the side, 'W. Brodie Sc' & 'Copeland' impressed to the side, 55 cms high overall (some damages and losses, a rare figure)
A rare paper pin wheel to commemorate the Great Exhibition, the centre with a view of the exhibition building encircled by “Exhibition Pins For all The Nations 1851” and around the outer border “Peace on Earth and Good Will To Men/Peyton and Iles London and Birm. Iles’s Patent” complete with pins, 6.6cm dia
A rare etui, attributed to Palais Royal, circa. 1840, in the form of a Roman style helmet in gilded metal and mother of pearl, the peak and other elements with engraved decoration, the interior with gilt metal thimble, scissors, stiletto, needlecase and bodkin, 13cm high. Please note this lot will not be able for physical viewing until 12 noon Monday 28th November
A rare glass egg form finger etui attributed to Palais Royal, circa 1860, the egg on a ring and chain to a gilt top mount, elaborate gilt hinge mount the egg with six titled architectural panels set within a ground of coloured sands and ground minerals, the interior probably later fitted with white metal miniature tools comprising stiletto, needlecase, bodkin, scissors and thimble (holed), 9cm excluding chain
A rare late 18th Century ivory shuttle French, probably Dieppe, the upper face pierced and carved with a young lady on a terrace carrying a basket of fruit within garlands of flowers, ribbands and scrolls on a trellis ground, the obverse plain save for a panel of two diamonds, 16.5 x 4.2cm A very similar shuttle is illustrated in Whiting (G) Old-Time Tools and Toys of Needlework Page 244 then in the collection of Mrs De Witt Clinton Cohen, New York It is likely that this shuttle was originally composed of two corresponding panels and that the plain obverse is a replacement. The pierced and carved face has some minor loss and old repairs, the fragility of shuttles of this nature mean survival is very rare.
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