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Click here to subscribeSWANSEA EARTHENWARE COFFEE-POT c.1797-1810, of bellied form with dome top and tear-drop finial, attributed to Haynes, Dillwyn & Co, in rare blue ‘Landing Fish’ transfer, 24cms highProvenance: private collection Powys, Rowland Williams collection labelComments: chip to rim of cover and foot, hairline, old restoration to spout
RARE PAIR OF SWANSEA CAMBRIAN POTTERY PUTTI in the form of swag wearing flower pickers and their baskets and with single flower in other hand to outstretched arm, standing on square bases, aside floral bocage, enamel decorated over the glaze, circa 1790, 12.5cms highProvenance: private collection ConwyComments: damage and old repairs, most significantly is repair to one arm
WELSH (& OTHER) POTTERY GROUP comprising rare Llanelly-type pottery plum preserve pot (lacks lid), 9cms diam, a Llanelly floral fruit dish with moulded border, a daisy moulded child's plate, a Llanelly cherry decorated small bowl and another, three Asiatic Pheasant transfer dinner plates (8) Provenance: private collection Cardiff
RARE YNYSMEUDWY POTTERY VINEGAR JAR having narrow neck and spurred handle to a footed baluster body, decorated with blue banding and applied beadwork, 19cms highProvenance: private collection Shropshire, see Fig. 325 'Ynysmeudwy & the Williamses' by Mike Trew which describes the model as very rare with only 'two examples known' to the authorComments: surface marks, localised crazing only
Rare Imperial German Vice Admirals Flag, good untouched example of an Imperial German large flag for that of a Vice Admiral, with large Maltese cross to the centre and single small circle to the top corner. Enforced taped edge with rope and remains of ink stampings. The flag has faded and worn. Measures 152 x 142cms. Some holes and old repairs.
Scarce WW1 Imperial German Lubeck / Hamburg Enlisted Ranks Field Cap “Kratzchen”, untouched example of a field grey field cap with red piping and red central band. Cap is complete with original Reichs pattern and Lubeck / Hamburg cockade. Interior with cloth lining which you can just see the remains of some writing and date 1916? The cap shows wear and has some heavy moth damage but rare to find with the Lubeck / Hamburg cockade
Books - Regimental Histories, General Stannus Geoghean. The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiments. Volume II From 1900 to 1922. 1st Edition 1927. Significant World War one content. Unusually good copy in rare dustwrapper, together with Volume one, 1911 rebacked professionally, History of 29th Worcestershire) Foot 1694 to 1891, Everard 1911, Ever Glorious, 22nd Cheshire Regiment Volume 1 Rigby, & History of Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume 1, Porter, 1899 (5)
Rare 3rd Battalion (Militia) The Leicestershire Regiment Drum Majors Sash, fine example of the full dress example with large bullion embroidered crowned regimental insignia to the centre, battle honours for VESTIGIA, NULLA and RETRORSUM. Fine bands of brocade braid to the body. Red leather covering to the inside. Some areas of moth damage to the central badge and some lightly loose stitching but a very rare item for this regiment.
CHRISTIAN DIOR LINGERIE VINTAGE Morgenmantel, Gr 42, Koll.: 70er Jahre. SAMMLERSTÜCK. RARITÄT. Hellblaues Modell mit Spitze-Dekor an Säumen und Federdekor am Saum, Knopfverschluss. Altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren vorhanden, Saum wurde nachträglich geändert. | CHRISTIAN DIOR VINTAGE dressing gown, size 42, coll.: 70s. COLLECTOR'S PIECE. RARE. Light blue model with lace decoration at hems and feather decoration at hem, button closure. Signs of wear due to age, hem was subsequently altered.
CHRISTIAN DIOR LINGERIE VINTAGE Morgenmantel, Gr. 42, Koll.: 70er Jahre. Herstellergröße 44. RARITÄT. SAMMLERSTÜCK. Pinkfarbenes Modell mit Knopfverschluss, großen Aufgesetzten Taschen und Volants am Ärmelsaum. Tragespuren vorhanden, auf Grund des Alters. | CHRISTIAN DIOR VINTAGE dressing gown, size 42, coll.: 70s. Manufacturer's size 44. RARE. COLLECTOR'S PIECE. Pink model with button closure, large patch pockets and flounces on the sleeve hem. Traces of wear present due to age.
HARRY POTTER: 'THE END IS NIGH' 2001-2010 - Film / Production Crew Issued Clothing: - A very rare stunts worldwide, black, size 'XL' T-Shirt - unworn - PROVENANCE: These came from a private vendor who worked for many years on the production crew of numerous films and was issued these items as were all crew members - Authentic item and comes with an Excalibur Auctions Certificate of Authenticity
STAR WARS: IX (which became THE RISE OF SKYWALKER) (1 in lot) Production Crew Issued Clothing: - A very rare - black, 'M', Locations Department T-Shirt - unworn - PROVENANCE: These came from a private vendor who worked for many years on the production crew of numerous films and was issued these items as were all crew members - Authentic item and comes with an Excalibur Auctions Certificate of Authenticity
A very rare c. 1968 chess set made by Giuseppe Ronzan & Sons (Italy) and retailed by Abercrombie & Fitch. Titled 'Jungle Chess Set' on oval brass plaque, the hardwood frame board composed of 16 tiles with stylised jungle foliage decoration. The hand-decorated ceramic chess pieces as jungle beasts to include lions (kings 15.5cm high), lionesses (queens), cheetahs, elephants, zebras and various monkey pawns (8 and 8.5cm high). (Board size approx. 65cm square) Condition Report: The items have been consigned privately and barely used. The board is in very good condition with no major problems. The boxes that the pieces are housed in have some damage and have been repaired with sellotape to keep the sides together. Two individual pieces have very minor chips - a dark monkey pawn with a double pinhead-sized chip to the inside of the ear, the other is a white monkey pawn with a few small chip to the underside of his left-hand front foot.
Indian Prime Minster P V Narasimha Rao signed 1972 RAF Nocton Hall cover. Rare only 10 issued. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
A second model Bahnschutz (Railway Leaders) dress dagger by Carl Eickhorn Solingen, adopted 1938. This exceptionally rare dagger bares the iconic Eickhorn flaw on the crossguard (two small dots). In overall very good condition with near mint blade. Also with this lot is a rare Bahnschutz belt buckle
Antarctica and Polar Exploration - Marr (Scout [James], of the Quest Expedition), Into the Frozen South, With Twenty-nine Half-tone Illustrations, first edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Bernacchi (L.C., O.B.E.), A Very Gallant Gentleman ('No Surrender Oates'), first edition, second impression, London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., May 1933, rare in dustjacket, purple cloth, 8vo, (1); Ponting (Herbert), The Great White South [...], tenth impression, 1932, cloth, 8vo, (1); another copy, later; further related works, including Captain Scott, Shackleton, Edward Wilson, Nansen, Fuchs & Hillary, Folio Society title, 'coffee table' books of various expeditions photographs, vintage Penguin paperbacks, etc., [approx. 35]
Ireland - [Lever (Charles)] & Browne (Hablot Knight, illustrator), Confessions of Con Cregan, The Irish Gil Blas, 14 parts in 13 (as issued), first edition, London: W. S. Orr & Co., [n.d., 1849], illustrated with wood and steel engravings, adverts throughout (occasionally with pictorial vignettes), rare in original pictorial green wrappers, 8vo, [13] Provenance: Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (aka "The Squire"; 1792 – 1863), his ink MS ownership inscription to the upper-cover of each part, No. 1 only dated 1849 in MS, No. XIII & XIV inscribed and underlined: "Perfect" (the previous "12 Missing" having been struck through); by descent through the Chandos-Pole family and removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Ireland, The Protestant Ascendancy, Talbot of Belfast and Mickleham's Annotated Family Bible - three parts in one: The Holy Bible [...], [issued with and prefixed by] The Book of Common Prayer and [...] Psalter or Psalms of David, both parts Oxford: John Baskett, 1738, [the Bible issued and illustrated with] Sacred Geography Contained in Six Maps [...], London: Richard Ware, 1725, BCP & HB with re-issued engraved frontispieces and additional title-pages bearing Richard Ware's imprint, each part printed in parallel columns, 6 fold-out engraved maps of the Holy Land, engraved biblical narrative plates, the front free endpapers enclosing 3pp of ink manuscript inscribed by 'Sir Charles Henry Talbot, Bt., [...] [who] records on the fly pages herein, between the years 1750 to 1797, various information about his children, grandchildren, and relations, including the dates upon which his children were inoculated against small-pox by such pioneers in this practice a the Baron Dimsdale' (the latter being a rare insight into domestic medicine within the Georgian aristocracy, particularly viz. vaccination), contemporary red morocco binding (tired, rubbed, spine split), the covers and back gilt in the Harleian manner, the former enclosing black morocco onlays gilt with the Cross and IHS christogram, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1] Provenance: Sir Charles Henry Talbot, 1st Baronet of Belfast, Co. Antrim, & of Mickleham, Surrey, (1720-1798); thence by family descent, sold by kind permission of The Right Honourable The Earl of Shrewsbury, DL.
Local Interest - Farey (John, Senior), General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire; with Observations on the Means of their Improvement. Drawn up for the Consideration of The Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, three-volume set, volumes I & II second editions, volume III first edition, London: Printed by B.M'Millan [...], 1815, pp: xlvii, 532, [2], [2], & illustrated with 3 folding tables (belonging to vols. II & III too), 2 folding hand-coloured maps, 2 similar geological sections, & 1 hand-coloured plate of strata; xx, 522, [2], [2], & illustrated with 4 plates; xxvii, 725, [2], & illustrated with 2 plates and 1 folding county map, uniformly bound and rare in original publisher's two-tone cloth, titled paper labels to each spine, 8vo, [3]
Pre-Raphaelites - Rossetti (William Michael), The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature/In Poetry, Literature, and Art, Nos. 1-4, 1901 facsimiles of the rare and short-lived 1850 periodical, illustrated original wrappers (loose, chipped, etc), 8vo, (4); further books and ephemera, including Instructions for Officers who Survey Makers of Vinegar and Sweets in the Country, London: Printed in the Year [1778], disbound, 4to, (1); Norfolk (Crab and Lobstery Fishery) Order of the House of Commons, 24 February 1880, (1); Author's Presentation Copy of a Provincial Imprint, Baxter (Dudley, B.A. Oxon), Three Historic Pageants, inscribed and dated by the author in ink MS, Barnet: St. Andrew's Press, 1910, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Georgian and later printing proposals/advertising, various; loose sheets of manuscript; early Edwardian and later theatre programmes; livery company dinner menus and their programmes; etc., [collection]
Travel and Exploration - Signed &/or Dedicated Copies, Syria, Altounyan (Taqui): In Aleppo Once, signed by the author, first edition, London: John Murray, 1969, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Jillian Willet, red cloth gilt, [&] Chimes from a Wooden Bell: A hundred years in the life a Euro-Armenian family, dedication copy from the author, first edition, London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1990, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (2); East Africa, Somalia, Jubaland, Blake (Major Wallace), Quod, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, [n.d., 1926], original publisher's blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Flandrau (Grace), Then I Saw the Congo, first edition, London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., 1929, rare in pictorial dustjacket (chipped, further losses), grey cloth, 8vo, (1); Allen (Percy), Burgundy [...], London: Francis Griffiths, 1912, colour and b/w plates, original red cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Peter Fleming, including China, (6); Baden-Powell, (1); North and Latin America; etc., [aprrox. 30]
Wells (H.G.): The New World Order [...], first edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1940 [i.e., 1939], original cloth only, 8vo, (1); The First Men in the Moon, first edition, fifth impression, London: Macmillan and Co., 1925, rare in dustjacket, original blue cloth, 8vo, (1); The Fate of Homo Sapiens, first edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1939, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); A Year of Prophesying, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); New Worlds for Old, first edition, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908, red cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); others, mostly first editions, [19] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
World Wars One and Two, Literature and History - Churchill (Winston S.), The Second World War, six-volume set, mixed editions: volume I second impression of the first edition, volume IV second edition, volumes II, II, III, V, & VI first editions, original publisher's dustjackets over black cloth gilt, 8vo, (6); The Wipers Times [...], first complete edition, London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1930, original brown cloth, 4to, (1); Folio Society titles, (7); twenty-one books by or about Siegfried Sassoon, his works mostly reprints, (21); Bibliography, John Marrin Rare Books' The Great War catalogues, odd nos. between 65 & 74, original wrappers, (8); British Advance on the Somme, Detachable Postcards, original wrappers, (1); Ian Hay, (3); etc., [approx. 55]
Graham Chapman, a signed 10x8 French Live at the Hollywood Bowl film photo. A comedian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python team. Playing the role of Colin Bomber Harris, (a wrestler who fights himself), he has added the iconic line, the one-neck-over-shoulder-Gerry Ford. He played the lead in the Python films, Holy Grail and The Life of Brian. A rare signature due to his early death from cancer in 1989, aged 48. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Rare 9 Red Arrow Pilots Signed The Queen Mothers Century First Day Cover. 119 of 225 Covers Issued. 80p St Helena Stamp With Year 2000 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Rare early Royal Humane Society instituted 1774, awarded 1788, a cherub protects the flame of life, LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN, rev oak wreath, legend around, HOC PRETIVM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT, engraved in centre, Mr s.h.short restored t.mason may 19 1788, 51.5mm, with shaped oval suspension loop .lightly toned and extremely rare
WINNIE THE POOH INTEREST: A large collection of books, papers and objects from the study of A.A. Milne's biographer, Ann Thwaite, including material from two big Winnie The Pooh exhibitions, one in the V&A and one in Tokyo. The books include mint signed copies of Thwaite's prize-winning 'AA Milne:his life' (Whitbread Biography Of The Year 1990) and the Japanese translation of 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' (2018). The most interesting item is a rare china Eeyore, from a set from the 1930's- see page 138 of Thwaite's 'The Brilliant Career Of Winnie-The-Pooh' (not included as out of print)
A large Clarice Cliff Bizarre Inspiration circular charger, circa 1930, painted with a rare variant of the Inspiration Rose pattern against a shaded turquoise scale ground, blue printed and orange script factory marks, diameter 46cm (minor firing crack to footrim). Provenance: previously in the collection of Desmond Jones.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A rare pair of Derby Russian shepherd and shepherdess figures, circa 1820-40, based on Jean-Baptiste Tilliard's 'Les Bergers Russes', he leaning against a pile of rocks whilst playing a flute, she leaning on a tree stump, raised on naturalistic gilt edged circular bases, red printed factory marks and incised 'No. 393' to bases, height 26cm (some restoration).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A rare Royal Doulton Art Deco Syren shape coffee pot, jug and sugar bowl, 1930s, in the Cresta pattern, various printed marks to bases, height of coffee pot 20cm, together with a three-piece Duveen pattern service in the same shape, comprising teapot and cover, jug and sugar bowl (minor faults to Duveen pieces).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A rare Dutch Delft blue painted marriage plate, dated '1740', inscribed 'Edw "d and Eliz "h Fuller Norwich 1740', within a circular panel surrounded by trellis and three fish, diameter 22cm (restored), together with another Dutch Delft plate, inscribed with a French verse, diameter 23cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A rare Bernard Moore flambé glazed rectangular tile or plaque, dated '1905', depicting a Viking longboat on a stormy sea with low relief blobs of glaze amidst the waves, 18cm x 23cm, held within a wooden frame, signed and dated to lower left corner.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
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