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Lot 298
A rare Australian two shilling Internment camp token OBV centre hole with beads and wreath 'Two Shillings' REV centre hold with beads and wreath 'Internment Camps', very fine condition Manufactured by Melbourne Company Arendsen and Sons. For security reasons tokens were used in Australia and New Zealand in World War II Internment Camps in place of normal currency. After the war tokens were ordered back for melting under supervision. A small amount of tokens managed to avoid destruction
Lot 606
A rare Alexander Ritchie silver Celtic cross and chain the front of the cross is a deeply interlaced Celtic knotwork motif with the following embossed to the reverse 'Iona Reginald MacDonald founded abbey 1203 - obit - 1207' Further stamped with Glasgow hallmarks for 1929 and the spectacles AR makers mark, the chain is made from pretty double palmette motifs linked together with soldered jump rings to a simple shepherds crook fastening to the reverse. Length of the cross 72mm, across the arms 26mm, length of chain 64cm
Lot 706
A 9ct Art Nouveau necklace By John Baker Bennett the five interlaced panels decrease in size from 21mm x 20mm to 13mm x 19mm, the matrix turquoise are millgrain set, the panels are linked with a fine trace chain length 45cm in total. Stamped J.B.B. & Co 9ct. John Baker Bennett was the Bennett in the Anglo German company Murrle Bennett, items with this mark on are quite rare as the company was only in production for a few years.
Lot 175
HAZELBURN 15 YEAR OLD TRADE SAMPLE 1 bottle. Hazelburn 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky. 70cl. 57.1% abv. A rare bottling of Hazelburn matured in a Fresh Bourbon cask, bottled as a sample for trade purposes, these bottles really are one of a kind. In unmarked black carton. Level mid-neck. Excellent condition.
Lot 13
GLEN ELGIN 16YO - MANAGER'S DRAM A rare bottling of the Glen Elgin 16 year old single malt scotch whisky bottled in 1993 as part of The Manager's Dram release, specially selected and bottled at natural strength for malt distillery managers within United Distillers. Bottled in October 1993. 70cl. 60% abv. Level mid-low neck. Excellent condition. 1 bottle.
Lot 252
OBAN 13YO - MANAGER'S DRAM A rare bottling of the Oban 13 year old single malt scotch whisky bottled in 1990 as part of The Manager's Dram release specially selected and bottled at natural strength for the S.M.D. Staff Association. 75cl. 62% abv. Level mid-shoulder. Very good condition. 1 bottle.
Lot 253
OBAN 19YO - MANAGER'S DRAM A rare bottling of the Oban 19 year old single malt scotch whisky bottled in December 1995 as part of The Manager's Dram release specially selected and bottled at natural strength for the malt distillery managers within United Distillers. 70cl. 59.8% abv. Level mid-neck. Very good condition. 1 bottle.
Lot 146
Rare Wade Art Deco enamelled porcelain figure of the harlequin "Anita", seated on a yellow plinth, red printed marks with leaping deer, 16cm high x 16cm CONDITION REPORT: Fairly grubby, some minor paint losses and rubbed sections. Large paint loss under her right ear on black hat. Overpainting where underside of figure's leg joins base (see images).
Lot 1146
A late 19th Century fully functioning miniature percussion muff pistol. It has an engraved frame and barrel with a concealed trigger and ivory grips. Total length approx. 1 5/8". This rare pistol comes complete in its fitted case with bullet mould/barrel wrench and cap tin, marked "Gevelot". The case lid has been detached at some stage
Lot 3076
Scalextric - a rare 007 James Bond Chasing Car Set, comprising Aston Martin, in white with two figures and original sunroof, a Mercedes Benz "Bandit" Car in black, red interior and figures, complete with instructions and original track, rock, gunman and bank, four hay bales, six oil drums, seven yellow cones, six banking wedges, two hand throttles and a Smooth flow Mini model power unit, all in original box; with a Riko Racewell clear plastic bodied metal framed racing car
Lot 102
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Marquise de Casati the rare lithograph printed in colours, circa 1950, signed in pencil, on Japon nacré paper, with full margins, 595 x 300 mm (23 3/8 x 11 3/4 in) IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 119
Taxidermy: A very rare set of Rowland Ward taxidermist tools early 20th century in leather case with Rowland Ward 'The Jungle' 166 Piccadilly, London 19cm.; 7½ins high Rowland, Edwin, and Henry Ward Rowland Ward (1848-1912) was the most celebrated taxidermist in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He built up a hugely successful business that operated from Piccadilly, the most fashionable quarter of nineteenth century London. This business was so strongly based that it continued to operate long after Rowland's death; in fact it survived in London until the early 1970s. In his lifetime he made many influential innovations in the craft of taxidermy, but in these he was simply carrying on, and improving on, a family tradition. His father, Henry Ward (1812-1878) had travelled to America as a young man to serve as taxidermist to the illustrious bird artist John James Audubon (1785-1851), and prepared many of the specimens on which Audubon based the bird portraits for which he became so famous, and which were central to his celebrated book The Birds of America (1827-1839). On his return home, Henry Ward took over a taxidermy firm that operated in the West End of London, and became a significant tradesman in his own right. Henry's oldest son Edwin, and then Rowland, were introduced into the business at an early age and Edwin soon became an important figure on the London zoological scene. Long before his father's death he opened his own studio in Wigmore Street where he produced work of high quality. However, comparatively little is known of him, and he retired in 1879 for unknown reasons and soon after emigrated to the US. This left Rowland as the sole representative of the Ward family and he raised the family profile to heights that even his brother and father had not been able to reach. In addition to his attainments in taxidermy, Rowland became an important publisher and was responsible for the production of many books on natural history and travel subjects. In this endeavour he was building on a tradition begun by his brother who had produced a book called A Knapsack Manual for Sportsmen in the Field (1872) that Rowland later expanded to become his own big success The Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting, a publication so influential that it ran to no less than eleven editions.
Lot 133
Taxidermy: A rare Totcher and Totcher, of Bangalore mounted Tiger's Head Totcher and Totcher were rivals to the better known Van Ingen and Van Ingen, but the more naturalistic nature of their work meant that in their heyday their charges were 1/3 higher then Van Ingen. Such was their prestige that they produced many of the specimens for the Asian gallery of the American Museum of Natural History New York 79cm.; 31ins high
Lot 33
Fossil: A rare Girodis circularis fish Painten, Germany, Lower Jurassic 36cm.; 14ins by 30cms.; 12ins The fossils from Painten near Nuremburg are very special for a number of reasons. First they often occur in a most beautiful state of preservation. Second, the quarry in which they are found is just a few miles from the world famous site at Solnhofen, but the actual fossils come from deposits that are around 500,000 years older. This means that many of them are very similar to those from Solnhofen, but they often have slight, but intriguing, differences. Millions of years ago the actual site at Painten seems to have been a lagoon and it was situated very close to an island. The result of this close proximity to land means that there is a very terrestrial influence among the fossils that are found, as well as there also being an abundance of marine creatures. The site therefore provides an invaluable insight into life in the sea as well as life on land in those long gone days. The third reason for the special nature of these fossils is the pure white of the limestone and it's higher than usual silica content. This, together with high organic content, results in strong contrast with the deep colouring of the fossils.
Lot 60
Lepidopterology: A rare 40 drawer Gurney oak and mahogany collectors cabinet containing part of the Sidney Imber Collection circa 1885 the hinged doors with brass makers plaque, T. Gurney, cabinet maker, Broadway, London Fields S.E. 123cm.; 48ins high by 106cm.; 42ins wide by 51cm.; 20ins deep. drawer size 46cm.; 18ins wide by 40cm.; 16ins deep by 5cm.; 2ins high The tropical collection is contained and displayed in this forty drawer oak and mahogany cabinet by, possibly the finest 19th century entomological cabinet maker, Thomas Gurney. Gurney cabinets are not common and this example in oak is most unusual. Mahogany was the standard but in this case the cabinet is in English oak with mahogany lined drawers faced in figured English oak. Gurney worked to fantastic levels of precision and the jointing and seals of the glazed drawer frames are second to none. The trademark ebony knobs are present and the typical Gurney unit construction of the inner cabinet compartments can be seen when the drawers are removed. Gurney's gilded plate is to the top of the inner side of the right-hand door.
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