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Click here to subscribeA Rare Early 17th Century Tall Oak Side Table. The plank top having cleated ends above a frieze front drawer with applied moulding and turned walnut knob. The ring & astrigal turned baluster & ball legs joined by run moulded stretchers on bun feet. 32½ ins (83 cms) high. 32 ins (82 cms) wide, 17 ins (43 cms) deep.
A Rare 15th Century Gothic Carved Oak Dressoir. The top section having an ornamental pierced cresting rail flanked by charming dragon finials above three carved tracery panels. The box shelf beneath having two carved sliding panels. The middle section having panelled canted corners flanking a central cupboard door intricately carved with tracery, vine leaves and grapes. The linen-fold panel sides above a lower section with a carved frieze drawer and triple linen-fold backboard adjoining the moulded solid base shelf raised on block feet. 90½ ins (230 cms) high, 35½ ins (90 cms) wide, 18 ins (46 cms) depth.
A Rare 13th Century English Almery. The open upper section having a pierced front rail of carved tracery arches enriched with polychrome. The planked cupboard door on strap hinges centred by a tracery ball flower with an open compartment below. 45¾ ins (116 cms) in height, 30½ ins (77½ cms) in width, 17½ ins (44.5 cms) in depth. [From the Private Collection of Michel Dumez-Onof. A detailed, illustrated 6 page article about this almery was published in Apollo Magazine July 1985].
A Rare & Important 16th Century German Oak Romayne Panelled Coffer. The three plank top with sloped front & back planks above a row of six portrait roundels relief carved with protruding heads encompassed by laurel wreaths with foliate spandrels. The centre panel carved with a bold lion head; its open mouth housing the lock & key above a rectangular panel with an angel holding two crests beneath an arch. The four outer panels of layered linenfold above three horizontal panels of similar design and flanked by caryatid columns carved with clusters of fruit below. Raised on shaped plank feet. [Illustrated in Erbstücke, Thomas Schürmann, page.198 fig.123].
A Rare 18th Century Tortoiseshell Grandmother Clock. The 8 inch (20.5 cm) square brass dial having a silvered chapter ring engraved James Whittaker and bordering the floral engraved centre with calendar aperture. The corners adorned with pierced brass cherub head spandrels. The hood having a moulded cornice above the glazed door flanked by two barley-twist columns. The unusual tortoiseshell case having a long trunk door with applied moulding and a circular pendulum aperture, raised on a stepped box plinth. 70 ins (178 cms) high, 14 ins (36 cms) wide, 9¾ ins (25 cms) depth.
A Rare 17th Century Oak & Ash Side Table of good colour & patination. The two plank top above two long moulded panel drawers ornamented with pyramid studs and having turned knop handles. The flanking tenon blocks bearing lozenge appliqués above large egg turned legs joined by arched stretchers, standing on bun feet 29¾ ins (75 cms) in height, 37 ins (94 cms) wide, 22½ ins (57 cms) deep.
A Rare 17th Century Carved Oak Metamorphic Chair of good colour & patination. The back richly carved in the Renaissance style with a scrolling cartouche to the centre bearing the initials BWE surmounted by a female face mask and flanked by fruiting vines & a pair of gryphons above scrolling sea serpents. The back carved with a Gothic church in a tabernacle arch. The planked seat hinged at the front and folding over to form a table/stool with the back forming the support. The seat frieze fitted with a side drawer and carved with S-scroll husk flowers retained by a pair of lions' heads to each side. 43½ ins (110 cms) high, 19 ins (49 cms) owde, 18 ins (46 cms) deep.
'Football' a rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware frog sculpture by George Tinworth, modelled and glazed in shades of green and ochre incised title, GT monogram, impressed Doulton Lambeth mark 13cm. high. Literature: Peter Rose George Tinworth Harriman-Judd Collection volume 1, page 132 plates 125 and 126 for a salt-glazed example entitled The Football Scrimmage.
An impressive George IV silver dessert bowl, John Bridge for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, London 1824-25. the large clam shell with a surmount of a twin tailed triton blowing a conch, the shell supported by three hippocamps in a wild sea setting and supported by three groups of clam shells, coral and turtles, 38cm high, 42cm wide, 40cm deep, weight 343oz. Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 14th April 1999, lot 213. Note: A similar set of four silver- gilt dessert bowls with covers were made for the Royal Collection by John Bridge 1826-27. Literature: Jones, Windsor, p.160, pl. LXXXI; Bury, ‘Rundell’s’, I, p.152 (one of a set), Exhibited: Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843, Christopher Hartrop, exhibition by Messrs Koopman Rare Art Ltd. 2005
An impressive George IV silver dessert bowl, Philip Rundell for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, London 1821-22. the large well-modelled clam shell supported by three hippocamps in a wild sea setting and supported by three groups of clam shells and turtles, engraved with the crest and monogram of Harriet Duchess of St. Albans, 27cm high, 40cm wide, 39cm deep, weight 298oz/rNote: A similar set of four silver-gilt dessert bowls with covers were made for the Royal Collection by John Bridge 1826-27. Literature: Jones, Windsor, p.160, pl. LXXXI; Bury, ‘Rundell’s’, I, p.152 (one of a set), Exhibited: Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843, Christopher Hartrop, exhibition by Messrs Koopman Rare Art Ltd. 2005. Heraldry: The monogram AGBC is for Angela Georgina Burdett -Coutts, granddaughter of the banker Thomas Coutts and heiress to Harriet, Duchess of St Albans. Literature: J. B. Hawkins, The Al-Tajir Collection of Silver and Gold, London 1983, vol.1, p.164-65. Note: Similar set of eight exhibited Christie’s,’ The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection’, London, 1989, no.151. The design for these salt cellars is attributed to the painted and sculptor William Theed (1764- 1817), on the basis of its close similarity to the artist’s bronze ‘Thetis returning form Vulcan with Arms for Achilles,’ in the Royal Collection and exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition, fig. 171, p.50. Theed supplied designs and worked as the chief modeller for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, and a design drawing for these salt cellars from an album belonging to Rundell’s is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Antiquity Revisited: English and French silver-gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, 1997, pp.48-49), There are at least three variations of this model, each with a differing base: A set of twenty four with oval bases by Paul Storr of 1810 is in the Royal George IVs Palace, 1991, cat. No.95, p.133; a set of four salt cellars with oval base, by William Pitts of 1813, is illustrated in Antiquity Revisited, cat. No.6, p.47;, A set of four, each on rectangular plinth with chased vitruvian scroll border, by Paul Storr from 1812, sold from the collection of Charles and Fay Plohn, Sotheby’s, New York, July 16, 1970, lot. 138. A set of four salt cellars, each with a base similar to the present lot, was produced by John Samuel Hunt in 1855 and sold at Christie’s, London, March 17, 1999, lot.50. As a successor to Paul Storr, Hunt evidently retained and continued to use the moulds.
A named Lloyds Patriotic Fund vase and cover, Benjamin Smith, London 1807-08. of classic Greek Volute Krater shape, the cover with a cast figure of a lion walking on a plain circular base, the separate shoulder with gadroon border, fruiting laurel border and scroll border on matted grounds, the main body with a repoussé florid meandering scroll frieze, on a matted ground with rope twist borders, flanked by a pair of tall vertical handles with rosette bosses and rope twist banding over a rosette terminal and a formal foliate spray, the front with a chased panel of Hercules slaying the Hydra, the verso with Britannia, seated, her raised hand supporting a figure of Victory, all over a formal band of anthemions and foliate sprigs upon the stiff leaf and acanthus chased socle foot, the shoulder with engraved inscription: ‘From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Major Hamill of the Royal Regiment of Malta in Testimony of his gallant conduct at the Battle of Maida in Calabria on the 4th of July 1806 in which the pride of the presumptuous enemy was severely humbled and the superiority of the British troops most gloriously proved’; together with the original fitted oak case with inset brass name plaque and trade label to the lid interior, 39cm high, 123oz, Note: MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. The plain of Maida has been described as being like a ‘great natural amphitheatre’, with the coast forming slightly less than half its circumference and two rivers, the Ippolito and Amato, roughly bisecting the plain, the surface of which was dry dusty scrubland with patches of marsh. A French force estimated at about 7,000 men was identified, camped on the eastern ridge of the amphitheatre and on 3rd July Stuart decided to march his army into the plain early on the following day in order to tempt the French to engage him in battle. At dawn on 4th July 1806 the British brigades formed up and marched off south from their camp on the beach, wheeling left when they reached the river Amato, with the brigades forming three echeloned lines, Cole’s brigade comprising the army’s left flank and third line. As the British brigades deployed, the French came down the slopes to meet them and the first British line, the brigade on the right wing comprising the light infantry battalion and some companies from the Royal Corsican Rangers and Royal Sicilian Volunteers, received the initial French onslaught. As the British right wing became engaged, so Hamill was ordered to take some grenadiers across the Amato to reinforce the right flank and it may have been while in the thick of the fighting in that sector of the battlefield that he received what he later described as a ‘trifling wound’ - probably from a musket ball. The battle swung Britain’s way in the first moments of the action since two close- range, accurate and rapid volleys of musketry from the light infantry battalion broke the French advance on the British right and the collapse of the French left wing was quickly followed up by a British pursuit with the bayonet that wrought carnage. Although the battle was brief, sustained fighting took place along the length of the British line - the 78th Highlanders in the centre sustaining heavy casualties - and at one point it appeared that the British left wing would be driven in, only the timely appearance of a battalion of 20th Foot on the British left flank saving Cole’s brigade from heavy loss and potential collapse. Hamill left little record of his part in the battle of Maida, apart from the deprecating reference to his wound, and so we cannot be sure either where he sustained it or what it comprised. He was, though, one of twelve officers wounded and the only officer from his brigade to sustain a wound. Total British casualties, killed and wounded, for Maida were 327. It was estimated at the time that the number of French killed was about 700; the numbers wounded and captured varied from 1,000 to 3,000. By any standards it was a famous victory and a rare one at that time for the British army: this accounts for the rapture with which news of the battle was received in Britain when Stuart’s dispatch was published in The London Gazette of 5th September 1806. Stuart was knighted, given a pension and permitted to use the title ‘Conte de Maida’ given him by the king of Naples; a gold medal was eventually struck and presented to each of the battalion commanders at the battle. When the Committee of the Patriotic Fund met on 16th September, it resolved that Stuart should receive a vase of the value of 300, ‘in testimony of the high sense entertained by this Committee of his gallant conduct at the battle of Maida, ‘in which the pride of the presumptuous Enemy was severely humbled, and the superiority of the British Troops most gloriously proved’’. At the same meeting awards of 100 each were resolved for each of the field officers (lieutenant-colonels and majors) wounded at the battle, wounded officers of lower rank receiving awards of 50 and 25 and wounded men receiving proportionate financial recompense . Listed among those due to receive an award of 100 was ‘Major Hammill, of the Royal Regiment of Malta’. As was usual with the Patriotic Fund, recipients of awards were contacted by the Fund to ask how they would like their award made: in the form of a sword, or of a vase or in cash. As we now know, Hamill opted for a vase, although there is now no surviving correspondence concerning this. John Hamill was buried close to where he fell in Anacapri but re-interred in the town cemetery in 1831 when one of his descendants visited Capri, saw to the re- interment and erected a plaque to his ancestor’s memory. Restored in 1914, the plaque still remains in the piazza of Anacapri and reads: TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HAMILL A NATIVE OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM IN IRELAND AND MAJOR IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S LATE REGIMENT OF MALTA, WHO FELL WHILE BRAVEL YRESISTING THE FRENCH INVASION OF ANACAPRI ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER 1808, AND WHOSE MORTAL REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED NEAR TO THIS PLACE THIS TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND RESPECT HAS BEEN PLACED BY HIS KINSMAN AND NAMESAKE. OCTOBER 3RD 1831 REQUIESCAT IN PACE According to the records of the Patriotic Fund, Hamill’s silver vase cost 97 7s 11d and was delivered by Messrs. Rundell, Bridge and Rundell on 17th November 1808, some six weeks after his death. In view of this, it must be assumed that the vase was sent to the regiment in Sicily, to which its remaining officers and men had been paroled following the fall of Capri, and then returned to Hamill’s next-of-kin. The vase is recorded in 1918 as being in the possession of a Mr Andrew Hamill Ford of Yatton in Somerset. Stephen Wood MA FSA, Literature: Hopton, R. The Battle of Maida 1806 (Barnsley, 2002). Knowles, Sir L. The British in Capri 1806-08 (London, 1918). Mackesy, P. The War in the Mediterranean 1803-10 (London, 1957). Note: A longer and more detailed account of the life and military service of John Hamill will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Irish Sword, journal of The Military History Society of Ireland. The Lloyds Patriotic Fund Vase originally presented to Major General Sir John Stuart (mentioned previously) also at Calabria, sold Sotheby’s London, 11th November 1971, lot 15 (1,700), 167. MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. Commissioned ensign in 2nd Regiment, The Irish Brigade, with effect from 1st October 1794, he was promoted lieutenant on 25th December 1795. Hamill's first regiment was one of six such regiments raised in Ireland in October 1794 from the remnants of the famous Irish regiments of the Royal French Army. Most of the officers of Britain's Irish Brigade had previously served the King of France and all were Roman Catholics: they we
REEL: Extremely rare Dingley Patent fixed spool reel, the only seen example fitted with a fully operational automatic full bail arm assembly, dark lead alloy gear case, rear plated stamped with Dingley Maker, Alnwick oval logo and Pat. No. 13732/45, left to RHW, 4 screw fixing stem and foot assembly, machined alloy flier and spool with gilt wash, early spool brake mechanism, not seen on this reel before, the spool facing stamped "On", finest condition throughout.
REEL: Extremely rare Howban early alloy tournament style side caster reel in extra large size, manufactured by Howell & Co. , Moseley, Birmingham, 4" diameter alloy backplate with twin red handles to central winding arm, knurled twin brake adjusters to rear, indent spring twisting foot arrangement, 2 steel wires supporting sliding eye line guide, reverse taper alloy drum with locking screw, fine throughout, never seen another in large size.
REEL: Extremely rare Howban early alloy tournament style side caster reel in small size, manufactured by Howell & Co. , Moseley, Birmingham, 2 ¾" diameter, alloy backplate with twin green handles to central winding arm, knurled twin brake adjusters to rear, indent spring twisting foot arrangement, 2 steel wires supporting sliding eye line guide, reverse taper alloy drum with locking cone, ventilated backplate and spool, fine throughout.
REELS: (2) The Art Fargo Spin Caster reel Ohio USA, linear mounted alloy plate foot with lever operated twist arrangement to alloy spool, central rear crank handle, fine condition with factory shaped drawstring bag stamped with maker's details and the Beka Reel, a similar spring loaded casting reel on an alloy channel foot, 2. 5" bakelite spool, referred to in reference book "Fishing Tackle of Yesterday", JMG page 66 as "impossibly rare".
REEL: Extra rare Eaton & Deller 4. 5" diameter extra wide Mahseer brass fly reel, fitted with anti foul crank handle and horn knob, one piece block foot, raised check housing to rear, face plate engraved "Eaton & Deller, 6 Crooked Lane & 1 Bury St, St James's, London, Established Two Centuries", retaining virtually all dark bronze finish, in original red biased lined block leather case.
REEL: An ex rare Allcock Roller Back Aerial reel in the finest condition, featured on pages 69 & 70 of R to R book, 4" diameter alloy narrow drum with nickel silver rim binding to front, 8 holes to faceplate, twin shaped ivorine handles direct to flange, 6 spoke with tension regulator, alloy backplate with 4 factory fitted original brass rollers operating onto ebonite drum rear flange, inner backplate stamped 24199, optional check brass button to internal copper calliper check and blue steel pawl, Allcock's Aerial round Logo to backplate, correct brass foot, one of the finest condition Roller backs to be offered at auction, spins beautiful, retaining all original factory finish, c/w fitted Aerial block leather case with green baize lining. Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL: An unusual rare early wood and brass Nottingham star back reel with gothic brass shaped rear star, featured on page 19 of R to R book, fitted with what appear to be the ratchet button to upright and indicated to by a brass pointer on adjacent arm, but in fast it's a rare early rear mounted drum release button which also acts as a silent brake device, not seen before, early one piece Nottingham centre, twin handles on brass eye plates, shallow drum, curios reel. Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL. Rare Coxon wood back Aerial reel model 4108 with 4 spoke ebonite narrow drum, 3. 5" diameter dark mahogany backplate, no tension regulator (that model was given the A designation) black tapered horn handle, slim ebonite drum flanges, brass star back stamped Patent to foot shoulder return, optional check button to copper calliper check, fine throughout. Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL: A rare Philips 3. 5" diameter alloy trotting aerial style reel, good small size, black ebonised handles with lock screws to brass cusps, 6 spoke, tension regulator, brass Bickerdyke line guide, correct smooth brass foot, optional check button to backplate V spring check, fine condition, spins true. Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL. Fine and rare Allcock's early 4. 5" diameter Aerial trotting reel Model 7590 DB (meaning Dead Black Finish, ref page 58 R to R book)), c 1915 sold by and stamped G Little & Co, 63 Haymarket. London to backplate, superb dark lead finish throughout, twin tapered ivorine handles, 8 hole face plate stamped patent, tension regulator, correct smooth brass foot, backplate check button to internal copper calliper check, superb reel, runs true, c/w maker's fitted block leather case, green baize lined. Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL. Rare Allcock's Britannia Model 5197 trotting and spinning reel, 3. 5" diameter alloy backplate with optional check button to internal copper calliper check, brass and nickel h/duty line guide solid ebonite drum face stamped Patent, recessed brass drum release and tension wheel, twin polished horn handles, 3 screw spindle hub adjuster, pillar drum core, solid backplate, correct 4 pin smooth brass foot, super condition throughout. (See R to R book pages 58,95,96 for ref) Part of the JS collection was used during the research period and feature in the tackle ref-collecting book "Rosewood to Revolution", by J Stephenson 1993.
REEL. An ex rare C Farlow of London "Cooper" multiplier fly reel in alloy, 3. 5" diameter, solid face plate, gear multiplier action, rotating disc folding crank arm and ivorine handle, rim tension regulator, correct smooth brass foot, stunning example in fine condition, rarely seen, ** This reel was invented by Stanley Cooper Esquire and launched in the Farlow catalogue of 1910**
OILERS (3): A rare Hardy watch case oiler of nickel with makers details stamped to hinged face, chain loop, felt interior with 3 trout flies, a Hardy Rippleride Silicone floatant tin 2" diameter, fine and The Harlaw Dry Fly Oiler Patent No520210 bakelite pen style oiler with brush inside removable screw cap, all fine.
HARDY LURES (Qty): A rare Hardy early wood Devon with copper fins stamped with makers details, a 1" nickel Hardy heavyweight Devon, 2 early Sprat Devons, a collection of Hardy baits and harness lures many in makers original cellophane packets inc Hardy Tope Hook rig, Uptrace Harness plus other USA baits some carded.
REEL: Rare early ebonite drum 4 spoke Aerial reel 3. 5" diameter, wide drum model, no tension regulator, tapered ivorine bottle style handles to nickel silver plates, brass line guide, correct smooth brass foot, copper calliper check, backplate stamped with Allcock's circular logo and optional check button, dark lead finish, internally stamped 21641, fine.
REEL: Extremely rare T. Cooke & Son York & London 4. 5" brass trolling winch or salmon reel, to my knowledge only the 2nd one ever seen, it is 6 pillars, 2 holding the foot, each secured with blue steel screws, tapered crank arm with turned iron knob, milled securing nut, smooth constant heavy check, pillar drum core, retaining most of its original finish, c/w a newspaper extract detailing the closure of T. Cooke factory noting "were the prestigious York firm, scientific and optical instrument maker's-and what beautiful microscopes, theodolites, tank-periscopes, range finders and so on used to be produced there".
REELS: (2) Pair of extremely rare and early ebonised English fly reels, originally part of the JS collection, each 3" diameter, one with turned rosewood handle, knurled central screw to square boss, 2 piece brass foot stanchion with soldered wire line guide, in sized rings to front/rear drums, second example having a tapered polished bone handle, 4 pillar central drum core, early raised rear check housing with screw curved brake block to underside of foot, beautifully detailed reels, being very early attempts at producing a check mechanism on lightweight drum fly reels, dating c 1840/60,two of the earliest ebonised fly reels to come to sale in years.
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