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Lot 302
Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly, 9 issues, vol.1. no.1, complete with 4 lithographs, some biro annotations, becoming disbound, December 1937; vol.1 no.3, lacking all lithographs, December 1938; vol.1 no.4, lacking most lithographs, March 1939; vol.2 no.8, complete with 1 lithograph by Bonnard, Sept-Nov 1940; vol.4 no.13, includes pochoir frontispiece of 'La Chute d'Icare' and portraits of Angele Lamotte, lacking half p. of double page lithograph 'Danse', 1945; vol.5 no.19/20, tipped-in plates, 1946; vol.6 no.21/22, complete with one lithograph frontispiece, 1948; vol.6 no.24, illustrations, 1950, some pp. working loose, original wrappers, some fraying and rubbing to extremities, Paris; and an issue of XXe Siècle, No. 4, Christmas issue, without lithographs, 1938, folio (10) *** Includes the rare pochoir La Chute d'Icare by Matisse in vol.4, no 14.An excellent selection from Verve, featuring lithographs and covers by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, Astride Maillol, and others.
Lot 13
Ballard (J. G.) The Terminal Beach, first edition, light creasing to endpapers, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, a few short nicks and repaired tears to head and foot with some light accompanying creasing, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1964.*** An early collection of Ballard's short stories, including the dystopian "Deep End" and "Billennium" as well as "The Drowned Giant", recently the subject of an animated adaptation. Rare in the dust-jacket in good condition.
Lot 31
Bowen (Elizabeth) The House in Paris, first edition, faint scattered spotting to first few pages, original cloth, extremities very lightly bumped, dust-jacket, fading to spine and upper edges, otherwise sharp and excellent, 8vo, 1935.*** An early title by Bowen, rare in the jacket, especially in such crisp condition.
Lot 196
Proust (Marcel) Swann's Way, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 2 vol., first editions, vol.1 second impression, vol.2 first impression, light browning to endpapers, ink ownership inscription to vol.2 endpaper, original cloth, vol.1 top edge spotted, vol. 2 with small patches of soiling, early issue dust-jackets priced at 7/6, very light browning to spines, light finger-soiling to panels, a few minor nicks to head or foot but near-fine example overall, 8vo, 1923-22.*** Rare in dust-jackets. The present examples have a list of other works by Proust in translation, stating that The Guermantes Way is "in preparation", indicating that these jackets likely date from 1923/24.
Lot 150
Laski (Marghanita) The Village, first edition, endpapers with strip of toning and faint ownership stamp, original cloth, lightly soiled, dust-jacket, short closed tears to joints and spine tail, light rubbing along upper joint, otherwise excellent and sharp, 8vo, 1952. *** A rare first edition in the jacket. Known primarily for her novels The Victorian Chaise-Longue and Little Boy Lost, Laski has seen a resurgence of popularity in recent years, as a result of her being reprinted by Persephone Books. Works by Laski are rare to find in such condition.
Lot 310
Masefield (John) The Midnight Folk, illustrations by Roland Hilder, ink ownership inscription and light foxing on half-title, original cloth, light rubbing to spine ends, dust-jacket, light surface discolouration, neat and expert repairs and restorations along joints and to upper panel, in effect an excellent copy, 4to, 1931. *** Rare to find this first illustrated edition in a dust-jacket.
Lot 94
Ford (Ford Madox) The Good Soldier, one of 300 copies signed by the author on front free endpaper, book-label "S.J.S." to rear pastedown, glacine dust-jacket, browned, chipped, broken and loosely inserted at rear, light toning to upper cover, small patch of abrasion to head of upper cover, very slight rubbing to spin tips, a bright and excellent example, slip-case, printed paper label to spine, 8vo, New York, 1927.*** Printed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first edition, a cornerstone of modern literature, rare in such bright condition.
Lot 31
A RARE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN BRUNSWICK PERCUSSION RIFLE with full walnut stock, brass trigger guard, steel ramrod and brass butt plate, stamped PJ Malherbe CIE/ALIEGE Imperial Crest no. 567, stamped to the brass butt plate, with fitted bayonet, 118cm longNote: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. By bidding on this Lot you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Lot 50
A RARE WWII FAIRBAIRN-SYKES FIGHTING KNIFE with roped and ringed grip, the distinctive textured nine rope rings interspersed with rings, in leather scabbard with horizontal tabs, 15cm blade (2)In the autumn of 1942, the Rodgers firm also produced the wartime Fairbairn-Sykes knives known as 'the Beads and Ridges model or Beaded & Ringed'. So named due to its noticeable grip pattern of rings of tiny beads, spaced with sections of rings.Note: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. By bidding on an edged weapon you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Lot 26
Local, HAMPSHIRE, Winchester College, a silver award medal by R. Yeo, bust of William of Wykeham left, crozier behind, rev. wreath, edge named (Charles Blackstone), 39mm, 39.35g (BHM –). Some edge nicks and marks, very fine, rare £100-£150 --- Charles Blackstone (born c. 1759), Fellow of Winchester College and Curate of Wimering (Hants) in the 1790s. His date of birth would suggest this medal was awarded c. 1777.
![Marriage of Princess Alice and Prince Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, [1862], a uniface cast bronze medal, unsigned [of German ori](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9aca3867-5e47-4374-a964-b15c00b8c151/23578bee-f972-44fa-a660-b15d009a3968/468x382.jpg)
![Flight of Prince James, 1688, a silver medal, unsigned [by C. Wermuth], Father Petre seated right on lobster, holding infant](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9aca3867-5e47-4374-a964-b15c00b8c151/bd4da8e0-6bca-460f-9a81-b15d009aa4e5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 83
Flight of Prince James, 1688, a silver medal, unsigned [by C. Wermuth], Father Petre seated right on lobster, holding infant prince, French ship to right, rev. windmill on shield, rosary around and Jesuit cap above, 32mm, 14.48g (Woolf 4:1b; MI I, 643/71; E 300 var.). Very fine and toned, rare £150-£200 --- Provenance: Bt Spink
Lot 146
William IV, Coronation, 1831, a gold medal by W. Wyon, bust right, rev. bust of Queen Adelaide right, edge named (To John Ramsbottom Esqr M.P. for New Windsor), 33mm, 27.57g (BHM 1475; E 1251). Obverse edge bruise at 9 o’clock, some light hairlining, otherwise about extremely fine and rare £4,000-£5,000 --- John Ramsbottom (1778–1845) was a British Whig politician and landowner, MP for New Windsor (Berkshire) from 1810 until his death in 1845.
Lot 36
Local, LONDON, Brentford, Egglesfield House School, a silver award medal by T. Wyon, boy holding open book and branch, rising sun behind, rev. named (Presented to R. Sulivan at Egglesfield House School July 22 1811), 42mm, 30.00g. Good very fine, a rare early prize medal £80-£100 --- Built in the 18th century and much expanded c. 1792, Egglesfield House was acquired around 1810 by Rev J. Morris D.D. for use as a young gentlemen’s boarding school. By 1840, it had reverted to being a private dwelling and since 1880 it has housed St Mary’s Convent.
Lot 168
Centenary of the Foundation of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, 1839, a silver medal by C.F. Carter, bust of John Wesley left, rev. Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate, 65mmm, 123.50g (BHM 1895; E 1329a; Taylor 127b). Minimal hairlining, extremely fine or better, rare in silver; in contemporary fitted case [catch faulty] £150-£200
Lot 141
Birmingham Political Union, 1830, a silver medal by C. Jones, radiant crown, ribbon below, rev. lion reclining on rock, 43mm (BHM 1452). About extremely fine with some toning, very rare, pierced at top for suspension, with embroidered ribbon; in contemporary fitted case [this slightly damaged] £200-£260
Lot 11
Local, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge University, Athletics, a frosted silver award medal by Munsey, arms, rev. winged foot of Mercury within wreath, named on outer silver band (1884 C.H. Lowe Trinity Coll.), 50mm, 86.25g. Virtually mint state, set in glazed lunettes joined by a silver band, very rare £80-£100
Lot 16
Local, CHESHIRE, Sandbach School, Evans Medal, a silver award medal, unsigned, rev. named MDCCCLXXXIX C.P. Greenwood), 44mm, 45.00g; Wilmslow, Hawthorn Hall, silver award medals (2), unsigned, angel with trumpet, rev. named (Thos. Briggs Xmas 1849), 34mm, 15.00g; pupil studying at table, rev. named (Hawthorn Hall S. Charlton June 20th 1867), 44mm, 35.50g [3]. First about extremely fine, others about very fine, second gilt, all hairlined from cleaning, rare £100-£120
Lot 18
Local, CORNWALL, Truro School, a silver gilt award medal, first type, unsigned, sapling, exergue named (Gulielmo Richards, Dignissimo, 1807), rev. legend in six lines above wreath, 47mm, 61.40g (cf. Baldwin 93, 490, DNW 137/417). Surfaces dirty, nearly very fine, rare in silver; with loop for suspension [this buckled] £80-£100
![Flight of Prince James, 1688, a silver medal, unsigned [by C. Wermuth], Father Petre seated right on lobster, holding infant](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9aca3867-5e47-4374-a964-b15c00b8c151/fb290f7b-dd95-4584-a53e-b15d009aa5ad/468x382.jpg)
Lot 82
Flight of Prince James, 1688, a silver medal, unsigned [by C. Wermuth], Father Petre seated right on lobster, holding infant prince, French ship to right, rev. windmill on shield, rosary around and Jesuit cap above, 32mm, 15.54g (Woolf 4:1b; MI I, 644/72; E 300 var.). About extremely fine and attractively toned, rare £200-£300 --- Provenance: Bt Spink
Lot 46
Local, LONDON, Merchant Tailors’ School, Montefiore Hebrew Prize, 1838, a frosted silver medal by B. Wyon, arms with camel supporters, rev. legend, named on silver outer band (Stratford Leitch AD MDCCCXL), 51mm. Virtually mint state, set in glazed lunettes joined by a silver band, very rare £200-£300 --- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885), 1st Baronet, FRS, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. He was the first Jewish liveryman of the Merchant Tailors' Company. For many years Montefiore would attend Speech and Prize Day and present the medal himself.
Lot 190
, Marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, 1863, a white metal medal by T. Ottley, busts of the Prince and Princess within oval medallions, rev. legend within wreath, two radiant crowns above, 65mm (W & E 931A.1; BHM 2767). A few minor edge knocks, otherwise brilliant extremely fine, rare thus £80-£100 --- Provenance: Royal Berkshire Collection
Lot 5
General, The Society of St Gregory, a large silver award of merit medal by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, bust of the Pope right, wearing ornately embroidered cope and stole, rev. legend in 9 lines, edge named (Geraldus D. Dillon MCMXVIII), 76mm, 218.40g. Polished, extremely fine, a very rare and impressive medal £120-£150 --- The present Society of St Gregory is the national society for liturgy and music in the Roman Catholic church in Britain.
Lot 209
Grand Inventions Competition, 1897, Medal of Merit, a silver award by The Mint, Birmingham, crowned and veiled bust left, rev. bicycle, press, and telescope & lathe within circles, date in centre, 39mm, 27.25g (W & E 3275J.3). Fields lightly hairlined, otherwise extremely fine and toned, very rare; in fitted case by Rayner & Co., Patent Agents, 37 Chancery Lane W.C. £100-£120
Lot 39
Local, LONDON, City of London School, J.T. Conquest Prize, 1838, a silver gilt award by B. Wyon, frontal elevation of the school, rev. named (Jacobo Smith Reid, Studiis Feliciter Inceptis Praemium Datum Est MDCCCLXIV) 58mm, 35.85g (cf. BHM 1680; cf. E 1279; cf. Taylor 120a). Extremely fine and apparently very rare with this reverse £80-£100 --- James Smith Reid, FBA (1846–1926) was an English author, scholar and historian. Educated at the City of London School, which was then in Milk Street, Cheapside, he was appointed the first Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, serving from 1899 to 1925. He was author of numerous articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) and a great number of Latin textbooks. He also translated Cicero's Academica.
Lot 297
ITALY, Michelangelo, 1673, a silver medal by G.L. Hérard, bare-headed bearded bust of Michelangelo right, m angelvs bonarotvs patritivs florentinvs, rev. fæliciter ivnxit, attributes of painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry in landscape, 56mm, 64.15g (Jones II, 285). Extremely fine, toned, extremely rare in silver £1,000-£1,200
Lot 44
Local, LONDON, Mayfair, a silver award medal, unsigned, Athena seated left crowning pupil with wreath, rev. named (This Medal was awarded to Master Thomas McCave for Diligence Improvement and Good Conduct St James’s Square Academy Midsummer 1865. Alexander Hunter Principal), 44mm, 32.90g. With suspension loop, good very fine but hairlined from past cleaning, rare £60-£80 --- In the Harrods Directory for 1870, Alexander Hunter is listed as running ‘The Commercial and Classical’ Day School, St James’s Square.
Lot 1
General, British School, c. 1802, a silver palette-shaped award medal or ticket, unsigned, Prince of Wales feathers, rev. named (The Honble Genl Henniker No 21), 54 x 44mm, 28.80g. Very fine and very rare £100-£150 --- Lieut.-General Sir Brydges Trecothic Henniker, 1st Baronet (10 November 1767 - 3 July 1816) was a politician and British Army officer. He was MP for Kildare Borough between 1797 and 1800.
Lot 193
Rochdale, Littleborough, Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club, a silver award medal, unsigned, rower standing facing holding oar with ornate wreath border, rev. named (July 26th 1873 Challenge Fours W. Lord [Stroke]), 41 x 31mm. Good very fine and very rare £80-£100 --- The Rowing Club can be identified from its initials due to a newspaper article from August 1874 naming Lord as Stroke in the Maiden Fours race at the Agecroft Regatta in Salford.
![GERMANY, SMS Möwe, [c. 1915], a satirical cast iron medal by P. Leibküchler, undated, seagull flying right holding fish in mo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9aca3867-5e47-4374-a964-b15c00b8c151/2d8e82c8-c0f2-4df1-a9b2-b15d0099c011/468x382.jpg)
Lot 31
Local, LANCASHIRE, Liverpool (?), Hebrew Schools Old Boys’ Association, a silver award medal, unsigned, Bible and Star of David, rev. inscription, edge named (Senior Girl 1915 Sadie Greenberg), 38mm, 25.25g. Extremely fine and very rare £80-£100 --- The attribution to Liverpool is uncertain but an Association of this name was active there at the time. Their Roll of Honour shows a Pte S. Greenberg serving with the King’s Own Royal Lancs. Regiment, possibly a relative of the recipient.
Lot 62
Local, WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design, a silver award medal by Allen & Moore, from a design by T Clark, three female students of architecture, painting and sculpture, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to Mariane Sanders Free Scholar January 1856), 64mm, 101.00g. Sometime cleaned, very fine and rare £60-£80
Lot 43
Local, LONDON, Marylebone, a silver award medal, unsigned, pupil studying at table, named (Mr John Matheson, Margaret Street, Cavendish Sq to William McCutcheon Aged 12.), rev. (For being the First in Geography and Latin June 26th 1826), 44mm, 35.00g. Very fine with suspension loop and ring, rare £80-£100 --- The London Morning Herald for 8 August 1828 carries an announcement of forthcoming examinations at the Establishment of Mr John Matheson, Cavendish Square, 75 [?] Margaret St.
Lot 79
Military and Naval Reward, 1685, a silver medal by J. Roettiers, draped bust of James II right, rev. trophy of arms with naval action behind, 64mm, 92.25g (MI I, 617/29; E 282). Usual die flaw on obverse rim below Roettiers’ monogram, several rim bruises, marks in fields and on edges, otherwise very fine, rare £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Bt Spink
Lot 66
Local, YORKSHIRE, Leeds, a silver award medal, unsigned, ‘Teacher of the French Language’ in cartouche, ‘M. Lustrac Leeds’ around, rev. named (1er Prix de Français remporté par M. Thos. Ward chez M. Rd. Kemplay Leeds l’an 1811), 38mm, 21.00g. Very fine or better, very rare £60-£80 --- M. Lustrac posted an advertisement for French language lessons for young gentlemen in the Leeds Intelligencer, 8 January 1810. The Hull Packet newspaper, 31 October 1809 mentions the following... ‘Leeds... the Scholars of Mr. Richard Kemplay’s Academy, wearing cockades of Royal purple, with Jubilee medals pendant on their breasts...’
Lot 3
General, Royal College of Art, a silver award medal, unsigned (by W. Gardner), crowned cypher, rev. named (Awarded to Peter Arthur Bucknell for Special Distinction in the School of Design 1946), 50mm, 78.20g. Extremely fine and very rare £100-£120 --- The following excerpt from the Royal Mint Annual Report for 1939 was kindly sourced by Dr. Kevin Clancy, Director of the Royal Mint Museum. “The Royal College of Art instituted a medal for award to a few students distinguished in the Diploma examination each year. The medal was designed and modelled by Mr William M. Gardner, a student of the college from whose plaster-casts the dies were produced and the medal struck by the Mint. The obverse of the medal consists of the initials R.C.A. upon a knot, surmounted by a crown and encircled by the inscription Royal College of Art. On the reverse is engraved an inscription embodying the name of the recipient, the subject in which distinction had been gained and the date. The first five medals were presented to the selected students by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, on the 14th of July 1939”. William Gardner went on to do design work for the Royal Mint over the next three decades. His work included the reverses of the 1953 brass Threepence and of the 1982 Twenty Pence. Peter Arthur Bucknell was an expert on fashion and author of the standard reference book ‘Evolution of Fashion’. His co-author and illustrator was Margot Hamilton Hill (Daniels), a contemporary at the RCA, who, as well as an illustrator was also a theatre designer and lecturer on the history of fashion and theatre.
Lot 67
Local, YORKSHIRE, Sheffield, Haywood’s & Bolton’s Academy, c. 1803, a silver award medal by J.G. Hancock, P. Kempson and S. Kindon, view of St Paul’s cathedral, rev. named (Given to M. Habershon Aged 18 for Mathematical Learning), 48mm, 44.10g (cf. BHM 541; cf. E 1074). Struck from a die for the Peace of Amiens celebrations at St Paul’s, only fine but extremely rare £80-£100 --- Messrs Haywood and Bolton ran an academy for young gentleman at Attercliffe near Sheffield from c. 1798. It would seem that their partnership was soon dissolved (Manchester Mercury, January 1804). It is possible that the recipient was one Matthew Habershon (1789-1852), a native of Yorkshire who was articled to the the well known Gothic-revival architect William Atkinson in 1806. It may be that the latter found his new apprentice’s mathematical skills to be somewhat lacking. Habershon would not have turned 18 until 1807 but given that Mr Haywood probably still held stocks of the medal, it is possible that it could have been awarded after his ex-partner’s departure.
Lot 12
Local, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge University, Jesus College, Langton Victor Ludorum Medal, 1864, a frosted silver award medal by Peters, conjoined arms, rev. wreath, named on outer silver band (1872 F. Salmon), 50mm, 90.40g. Virtually mint state, set in glazed lunettes joined by a silver band, very rare £80-£100
Lot 111
Admiral Vernon and the Duke of Argyll, 1739, a pinchbeck medal signed I.M., half-length figure of Vernon three-quarters right, hand on cannon, ship to right, rev. Argyll standing, resting left arm on column, 40mm (Adams NLv 4-D; Betts 245; MI II, 560/188; E 553). Cleaned, otherwise very fine, rare £120-£150
![The Jacobite Princes, [c. 1738], a copper medal, unsigned [by E. Hamerani(?)], undated, armoured and draped bust of Prince Ch](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9aca3867-5e47-4374-a964-b15c00b8c151/eb7c1d7b-7e13-4928-ba61-b15d009bb4f9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 32
Local, LANCASHIRE, Rochdale School of Art, a matt silver award medal, unsigned, half-length figure of artist with palette and brush, rev. palm-frond, edge named (Presented to H.B. Carpenter by the Club 1902), 58mm, 76.80g. Extremely fine and very rare £80-£100 --- Henry Barrett Carpenter (1861-1930), artist and long-time headmaster of Rochdale School of Art. His publications include ‘Suggestions for the Study of Colour’, published by Rochdale Art School, 1915 and ‘Colour: A Manual of its Theory and Practice’ published by Batsfords in 1933.
Lot 14
Local, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge University, Symphony Chorus, a frosted silver award medal by Peters, arms, rev. CUSC within wreath, named on outer silver band (1872 W.H. Madden Clare Coll.), 50mm, 80.00g. Virtually mint state, set in glazed lunettes joined by a silver band, very rare £80-£100
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