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Lot 99
Bank of England, Frank May, £5, Newcastle on Tyne, 15 July 1889, serial number P/24 68640, ink numeral at top left and reverse, toning along right margin, minor staining in body of note, a lovely original very fine, ‘English Paper Money’ only lists two known examples in private hands and this example is the plate note, excessively rare! EPM B206a £8,000-£12,000
Lot 903
Circle of M V Dhurandhar Fine Watercolour Depicting the Exterior of an Indian Surgery in the 1920s; unsigned watercolour from circle of M V Dhurandhar at the Sir J J School of Art, Bombay (Mumbai); very rare and interesting scene of social history, finely painted on paper, fixed to a contemporary board, good definition throughout and with vibrant colours; dated to reverse 20/6/23; framed and glazed, painting size 15 inches (36cms) x 21.5 inches (54cms) NB: Vendor indicates the previous owner stated the painting was specially commissioned, along with two others, by an Edinburgh doctor, from whose family he acquired it, in 2009, when working as a missionary in India, Along with the 1923 date to the reverse, the painting is indicated to be one of three,
Lot 107
Rare Gun Metal Double Dial Calendrier Breveté Pocket Watch 53mm Gun Metal And Gold Plated Calander Watch, White Enamelled Dial With Roman Numerals, Central Moon Phase With Subsidiary Seconds, Reverse Dial With Silver Rotating Dial For The Days Of The Week, Central Gilt Date Dial With Gold Pointer, Aperture For The Months, Marked To Edge German Manufacture.
Lot 617
Masonic Interest - A Rare Early 19th Century Masonic Sunderland Lustre Jug, two black transfer printed panels depicting Masonic symbols and text 'And God Said Let There Be Light & There Was Light' and 'Let the Brotherly Love Continue', the border with names of the zodiac. Various symbols and number spaces. Height 3.75".
Lot 660
Rare Possible Prototype Wedgwood Bough Pot in the Manner of Christopher Dresser, a biscuit coloured vessel with three trumpet shaped stem or 'bough' holders, with blue painted, Aesthetic inspired, decoration, c1880s, the whole suggesting the quirky, 'ahead of it's time' work of designer Christopher Dresser; 7 inches (17.5cms) in diameter x 6 inches (15cms) high. PLEASE NOTE: Unable to find any references to this item of Wedgwood, the vendor consulted the Wedgwood Museum where it transpired that no-one had seen the design before and there were no comprehensive records of Dresser's designs, thus suggesting it may have been a prototype which did not go into production and is therefore very rare. Condition Report - Some Scuff Marks, Very Small Chip to Top of One Trumpet, Hard to see, Some Discolouration.
Lot 679
Collection of Wedgwood, comprising a rare Lilac Jasperware 9.5" plate with grapevine design to edges and Aurora and her horses and chariot to centre, Blue Jasperware Biscuit Barrel 8" tall, Vase 5.5" tall, Heart shaped lidded trinket box, a small table lighter, and a 'Mother Plate' in box, together with two Green Jasperware round trays in boxes, and two round ashtrays. All in good condition.
Lot 54
Manchester United legends Multi signed ESSO FA Cup Centenary Medals collection 1872 1972 includes 12 fantastic signatures such as Matt Busby, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Pat Crerand, Nobby Stiles, Tony Dunne John Aston, Alex Stepney Denis Law, David Sadler and a rare complete set of FA Cup Centenary medals. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 12
Football. Pele Signed 16 x 12 inch colourized photo, shows Pele with Bobby Moore. Superb item one of only 75 signed, minor bleed on autograph but rare and highly collectable. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 107
Ultra rare Star Wars Sebastian Shaw signed album page in Autograph Book collection includes,W.E Johns author of the Biggles Books, Roland Green Bird Artist, Issy Benn and Frederick Greenwood BBC Announcer. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 65
HMS Tiptoe visitors book with 846 autographs inc four Donald Cameron VC and two Bell Davies VC. Incredibly rare signatures of Lt Cdr (later Commander) Donald Cameron VC and Lt (later Vice Admiral) Lancelot Richard Bell Davies VC, CB, DSO, AFC. As far as we know, no copies of these signatures have appeared on the market. They are significantly rarer than, say, Guy Gibson. has over 100 pages of text, signature list etc. A rare opportunity to acquire an important Visitors' Book that was kept in HMS Tiptoe between Nov 1947 and May 1952. Its 846 signatures, most of which have been identified, are a Who's Who of the Royal Navy. Cameron has signed the book four times; Bell Davies has signed it twice. There is some bleeding on some pages, but priced just for the rare VC autographs. Comes with list of the signatures. Includes many Killed in Action during the war with huge array of Admirals and important medal winners. Full list of signatures included, following hundreds of hours of research. Sure to have some valuable and scarce autographs. Includes Commander Donald Cameron VC, David Riley Johnston OBE, DSC Lawrence Hugh Oliphant CBE, DSC Robert Thomas Smith MID x 2Cedric William Crocker Green DSM Lt Michael Timothy Hickie DSC Lt [later Vice Adm] Lancelot Richard Bell Davies VC, CB, DSO, AFC Commander Donald Cameron VC Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] David John Lisle Foster DSC Capt Hugh Christopher Lee Browne CBE, DSO Lt Cdr Edward Talbot Stanley DSO, DSC, MID Vice Admiral (E) Sir Denys Chester Ford KCB, CBE Lt John Arthur Davis DSC Lt (E) Alfred Lewis Giordan DSC Surgeon Lt Eric Arthur Penn DSC, MRCS, LRCP Lt Cdr John Dennis Martin DSC Lt [later Lt Cdr] John Norman Devlin DSC, MBE Lt [later Lt Cdr] Andrew Thomas Chalmers DSC, MID Wilfred Allan Plummer DSC Lt Cdr Arthur John Wright Pitt DSO Cdr Edward Talbot Stanley DSO, DSC Commissioned Engineer Albert Ewart John Hodge MID Lt Phillip Rutter Wood DSC, MID Capt [later Admiral Sir] Gerald Vaughan Gladstone GBE, KCB Lt Ian Macfarlane Stoop DSC Possibly Lt Cdr Robert Stuart Scott Ingham OBE, DSC Lt Cdr Herbert Anthony John Hollings MBE, DSC, MiD Skipper Lt Harry Leonard Lang DSC, RD, RNR Lt Cdr [later Cdr] Cecil Gordon DSO Lt Cdr Robert George Pierson Bulkeley DSC Instructor Lt Clifford John Jones MID Lt [later Capt] Donald Roy Saxon DSC, MID, RCN Lt [later Cdr] Charles Brian Mills DSC Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] Gerald Slingsby Mellor DSC Lt John Hateley Blacklock OBE, MIDL (E) [later Rear Admiral] Derek Garland Spickernell CB, CEng, FIMechE, FIET, FIMar Cdr (E) Richard Frederick Hermann Schlesinger Tolson DSC Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] Gerald Slingsby Mellor DSC Lt Cdr (E) Robert George Lane DSC, MIMarE Lawrence Hugh Oliphant CBE, DSC Lt Donald Cameron Douglas MID Cdr [later Commodore] Sir Thomas Erasmus Barlow, 3rd Baronet, DSC, DL Lt Cdr (S) Gerald Huthwaite Moore CBE, MID Lt Cdr Peter Edward Newstead DSC Capt Casper Silas Balfour Swinley DSO, DSC, ADC Lt [later Cdr] Charles Brian Mills DSC Cdr [later Capt] Stewart Armstrong Porter DSC, MID Temp Lt Cdr Herbert Frank Metson DSC Cdr [later Capt] George Edward Hunt DSO, DSC, MID x 2 Lt Michael Timothy Hickie DSC Lt Donald Cameron Douglas MID Lt Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald DSC, MID Lt Cdr Peter Edward Newstead DSC Lt Reginald Patrick Fitzgerald DSC, MID Lt Donald Cameron Douglas MID Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] Richard John Sutton DSC Lt Cdr Jack Whitton DSC Lt Cdr Guy Stewart Chetwode Clarabut DSO, DSC, MID Lt Cdr [later Rear Admiral Sir] Michael Francis de Halpert DSC Lt Cdr Jack Whitton DSC Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] Richard John Sutton DSC Cdr (E) Edward Hort Player DSC Lt Cdr Henry Carty Gowan OBE, MID Lt Cdr [later Capt] Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford DSC, MIDL (E) [later Vice Admiral Sir)] John Stuart Crosbie Lea F/O Gerhard Hegland DSC (500909)Senior Commissioned Engineer Joel Clifford Edgecombe Blamey DSC, DSM Lt [later Major] Michael Mancell Aldworth VRD, MID Lt Cdr [later Vice Admiral] Iwan Geoffrey Raikes KCB, CBE, DSC Cdr [later Capt] George Edward Hunt DSO, DSC MID x 2 Lt Cdr James Stuart Launders ADC, DSO, DSC Cdr Edward Talbot Stanley DSO, DSC, MID Lt Cdr James Anthony Lawrence Wilkinson DSC Lt Cdr John Dennis Martin DSC Lt Cdr [later Rear Adm] David Hepworth CB Cdr (S) [later Rear Admiral] Morrice Alexander McMullen CB, OBE Cdr (S) [later Rear Admiral] Morrice Alexander McMullen CB, OBE Lt [later Admiral Sir] Derek Roy Reffell KCB Cdr John Douglas Hayes DSO, MID x 2Air Commodore Henry Edward Forrow CB, OBE, OAR4 (04007) Lt Col George Burnett Stevenson MID (52699)Capt Archibald George Forman CBE, DSC, MID x 2 Lt Cdr Robert Francis Gerard Elsworth DSC Ian Edward Fraser VC, DSC, LoM, RD, JP Lt William Albert Perren MID Lt Cdr Henry Carty Gowan OBE, MID Lt Cdr Douglas Lambert DSC Capt Casper Silas Balfour Swinley DSO, DSC, ADC Capt Douglas Henry Reid Bromley DSC, MID x 2 Lt Cdr (E) Ronald Henry Bull DSC Cdr (L) Thomas Joseph Roger Kirkby MID Vice Admiral Albert Lawrence Poland KBE, CB, DSO, DSC, MID x 2Capt Basil Jones DSO, DSC, MID Rear Admiral (E) Ronald Gordon Murray CB, CBE Lt Cdr [later Cdr] Donald Hay MID Lt Cdr David Swanston DSO, DSC Lt [later Admiral Sir] Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert KCB, OBE Lt [later Cdr] John Hateley Blacklock OBE, MID Lt Cdr [later Rear Adm] David Hepworth CB Cdr Edward Talbot Stanley DSO, DSC, MID Cdr Donald Cameron VCL (E) John Watkins Northwood MBE, DSC, MID, MIMarE Lt Cdr James Stuart Launders ADC, DSO, DSC Lt Cdr Brian Cochrane Longbottom MID Cdr Donald Cameron VC Lt Cdr [later Capt (Hon)] Richard Femister Tibbatts DSC Lt Cdr [later Vice Admiral Sir] Ian Stewart McIntosh CB, MBE, DSO, DSC Lt Cdr [later Capt] Stanley William Clayden DSC Lt Cdr Sybold van Ravesteijn ON4, BK x 2, OHK5, OV1, XX, DSC Lt [later Rear Admiral] John Bethell Hervey CB, OBEL (E) [later Lt Cdr] Ernest Redver Head OBE, MID Lt Cdr (E) [later Cdr] Gerald Slingsby Mellor DSC Squadron Leader Sidney Frank Tolman MID (73914) Cdr Alec Murray McKillop DSC, MID x 2 Lt [later Admiral Sir] Allan Gordon Tait KCB, DSC, MID Capt Ian Agnew Patterson Macintyre CBE, CB, DSO, LegH Charles Learmonth Bedale DSC, RN Captain Francis Howard DSC, RN Cdr John Bertram de Betham Kershaw DSO Cdr (E) [later Reverend] Oliver John Frank Lockwood St John DSC Capt Hugh Christopher Browne CBE, DSO Capt [later Rear Admiral] Bertram Wilfrid Taylor CB, DSC, MID Lt Cdr [later Cdr] John Raymond Henry Bull MBE, DSC Lt Cdr Bruce Collins MBE, MID Capt [later Vice Admiral Sir] Maxwell Richmond KBE, CB OBE, DSO, RB, CdeG, MID x 2 Cdr Ralph Grosvenor Jenkins OBE, DSC, MIDG/C [later Acting Air Vice Marshal] Fergus Alexander Pearce CBE, MID x 2 (26187)Capt [later Admiral of the Fleet Sir] Michael Le Fanu GCB, DSC, LoM, MID Lt Cdr Edmund Roger Stone MIDF/L [later G/C] Basil William Parsons CBE, DFC, AFC, MID (133754) Lt [later Vice Adm] Lancelot Richard Bell Davies VC, CB, DSO, AFC. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 156
Football Autographed Man United 1968 Lot, A Superb Lot Of Signed Items Relating To Manchester United's 1968 European Cup Winning Team, To Include 1) A Superbly Produced Brochure / Magazine For The 1968 World Club Championship, Signed To Their Respective Posters By Law, Dunne, Crerand, Foulkes, Aston, Stepney And Sadler Using A Fine Blue Marker, Each Player Adding Best Wishes : 2) Commemorative Cover For The European Cup Final, United Defeated Benfica 4-1 And Has Been Signed By Crerand, Aston, Stepney And Sadler Using A Fine Black Marker : 3) A Large Invitational Card To A 40th Anniversary Dinner Held At Old Trafford To Commemorate Victory Over Benfica, Signed In Blue Biro Pen By Dunne, Crerand, Foulkes, Aston, Stepney And Sadler : 4) Programme For A Friendly At Old Trafford Against Sporting Lisbon, The Front Cover Has Been Signed In Fine Blue Marker By Goalkeeper Alex Stepney : 5) A Rare (Unsigned) Menu For The 31st Annual Former Mufc Players Sportsmans Evening At Old Trafford In 2016, With Guest Of Honour Sir Bobby Charlton.. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 32
Shirley Eaton signed 10x8 black and colour photo with rare inscription I'm beginning to like you Mr Bond. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 46
Patrick Heron (British, 1920-1999)Soft Discs in Red : September 1962 signed, titled and dated 'PATRICK/HERON/SOFT/DISCS/IN RED :/SEPT 62' (verso)oil on canvas76.2 x 121.9 cm. (30 x 48 in.)(unframed)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Waddington Galleries, London, 1963, where acquired byPrivate Collection, U.K., thence by descent to the present ownersPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedZürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Patrick Heron, January 1963, cat.no.1152The present work was purchased in 1963 by a foremost modernist British architect and has remained in the same family collection ever since. The architect forged relationships with many well-known artists (including Louis le Brocquy, Graham Sutherland, Augustus John, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Keith Vaughan) and Patrick Heron had become a close acquaintance. At the time of the acquisition of the present work the architect wrote to Heron, expressing the synergy between Heron's painting and his own approach to spatial practice. Heron's response was as follows:November 1st : 63 I have been meaning to write and thank you for your very interesting and kind letter of 22nd September : but we have been away for a bit - and in any case I was so interested in what you wrote that I wanted time to consider it. So I delayed. Now I hear from Leslie Waddington that you have bought Soft Discs in Red : September 1962 – a picture I included in my show at Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, in January this year. I'm very glad to know it was you who bought this picture!What you say about your house is extremely interesting - & I'm flattered that you should feel that my painting has influenced it in any way. What you say about putting the windows where you wanted them (from the 'inside') and thus as it were 'discovering' when they came in the elevation (which you do not plan as a separate entity) is fascinating because this is precisely what I do with the 3 or 4 'shapes' that I have in my pictures : I do not 'design' their position in relation to the ground of the picture – or in relation to its 4 edges. I find the position of each 'colour-shape' by intuitive trial and error and it is only afterwards (sometimes quite a long time after) that I begin to see, consciously, just what the exact formal positions of the component 'shapes' are, and either to like them or dislike them.I like very much indeed what you say about seeing the different colour-shapes differently at different moments. This is absolutely true. One gazes at the painting and, as one gazes, first one & then another colour-shape swim forward, or backward : and then they may well do the opposite. What matters is that there should be this illusion of a gentle movement backwards and forwards : a sort of swelling and contracting of the visual images involved. From what you say it sounds as though your windows, with their different frames do the same thing, as it were in your eye...Meanwhile – many thanks for your letter. I'm delighted about the red painting.Yours everPatrick Heron 'In the ideal museum of twentieth-century art, his best colour paintings will be on the wall between those of Matisse and those of the Americans Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Barnett Newman – with the German Expressionist Emil Nolde not too far away. And there they will continue to sing' (The Times, Obituary of Patrick Heron, 22 March 1999).As The Times obituary passage surmises, it is often the case that in retrospect an artist's output is neatly framed within a set narrative of their influences, peers, and legacies. Speaking most generally such framing is ordinarily the preserve of the critic, the art the preserve of the artist, and the former follows the latter. However, Patrick Heron is a rare breed, an artist-critic, whose contributions to both fields are notable and, significantly, concurrent. At key points throughout his career the dynamic of this dual role impacted Heron's painting. As he deeply considered his own place within the broader dialogue of art theory, he periodically shifted his practice in accordance with his critical conclusions. One such shift - instigated by the influence of American painting on British art - culminated in 1962 and was announced by Heron through a small group of works to which the present lot belongs.In January 1963 Heron sent this group of works to Zürich for exhibition at Galerie Charles Leinhard. There Soft Discs in Red : September 1962 hung alongside oils such as Blue Painting with Discs : September 1962 (British Council Collection), Tall Purple : September 1962 and Big Green with Reds and Violet : 1962 (both Heron Family Collection). To accompany the exhibition Heron published a text entitled A Note on my Painting : 1962, which was republished in Art International in February 1963. This note was Heron's first statement concerning his own painting since 1957, and in it as Sara Matson outlines, Heron 'in effect announced the formal position he had reached as an abstract painter after four years of determined withdrawal from critical writing to focus on his art. With the lively exchange between the art worlds of London and New York gathering pace throughout the 1950s, in recent years Heron had silently consolidated his allegiance to the modern pioneers of the Paris School and their contemporary heirs, while negotiating the ground-breaking developments of a new generation of American abstract painters and the influence of their trans-Atlantic advocates.' (Sara Matson, Patrick Heron, Pavilion, London, 2018, p.115).Heron's 1962 statement includes three conclusions to which he had arrived through this period of consideration, and each of which is readily apparent in Soft Discs in Red : September 1962. He states that - 'I do not find myself 'designing' a canvas'; I do not 'draw' the lozenge-shaped areas of soft squares. And these forms are not really 'forms' at all, but simply areas... materializing under my brush when I start to saturate the surface of the canvas with, so to speak, varying quantities of this colour or that' (Heron, A Note on my Painting : 1962, exh.cat, Galerie Charles Lienhard, 1963). In the present work the four eponymous discs 'materialize' by varied processes; in one case an absence reveals the red ground beneath, the second is an applied eclipse of opaque brown, the third is a scumbled form of energetic focus and the final a soft orange form which hovers beneath the picture plane. In his statement Heron continues to a second conclusion 'I therefore have the feeling that colour determines the actual shapes, or areas, which balance one another (but statically I hope: all compositions...should be tranquil) in my painting' (ibid.). In this case Heron achieves tranquillity by the interjection of the vertical bar-form which divides the canvas at a point unequal in terms of space but balanced in terms of pictorial weight - the scale just tipped by the inclusion of the slightest appearance of brown pigment at the extreme right edge. Successful as the work is in these two respects, undoubtedly the most impactful aspect of Soft Discs in Red : September 1962 is the sheer power of its unbroken red palette. This resonates far beyond its four-foot span and demonstrates the most revolutionary point of Heron's note - 'for a very long time now, I have realised that my overriding interest is colour, Colour is both the subject and the means, the form and the content : the image and the meaning in my painting today... It is obvious that colour is now the only direction in which painting can travel. Painting still has a continent left to explore, in the direction of colour (and in no other direction)' (ibid.). ... 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Lot 16
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson A.R.A (British, 1889-1946)Hampton Court signed 'C.R.W. NEVINSON' (lower left)oil on canvas62.3 x 48 cm. (24 1/2 X 18 1/8 in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceSale; Phillips, London, 10 November 1987, lot 58With David Messum, London, 1988Sale; Bonhams, London, 8 July 2016, lot 78, where acquired byLady DugdaleExhibitedLondon, Leicester Galleries, Paintings and Watercolours by C.R.W. Nevinson, October 1921, cat.no.6London, David Messum, British Impressions, A Collection of British Impressionist Painting 1880-1940, 23 June 1988, cat.no.68Literature'The Queen', Magazine, 15 October 1921'Drawing and Design', Magazine, July 1922'Drawing and Design', Magazine, June 1922Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson's fame rests primarily on the pictures he executed in his capacity as an Official War Artist during the First World War.However these now iconic works constitute but a small component of Nevinson's extensive output, which is overall more broadly concerned with the various themes of industry, leisure and landscape.In the immediate post-war years of 1919-1922 Nevinson painted pictures which he referred to as his 'peace' works. Despite his futurist and vorticist roots, Nevinson did not consider himself a 'modern' and publicly declared in the introduction to his first peace time exhibition; 'I wish to be thoroughly disassociated from every 'new' or 'advanced' movement; every form of 'ist,' 'ism,' 'post,' 'neo,' 'academic' or 'unacademic.' (C.R.W. Nevinson, catalogue introduction to the exhibition New Works by C.R.W. Nevinson at the Leicester Galleries, London, 1919). Indeed the 'peace' pictures, with a defiantly lyrical air, are a sharp turn away from the stylized mechanical aesthetic of his preceding output. This stance was upheld with his rather sharp-tongued review of 'isms' in his 1921 exhibition introduction where he introduced his public to 'Gagaism' ('The international curse of the senile who dominate all official Art Societies, especially in France') and 'Babaism' ('The propagandist sheep who bleat of pure art and significant form, and butt inanely for little periodicals').Nevinson's tendencies towards public declarations, often pointed and unsympathetic to his peers and supporters, invited rather unkind retort. He recalls 'The only oasis I had was in the friendliness and generosity of Oswald Greene, brother of the present Master of the Rolls, who used to drive us every weekend to his houseboat at Hampton Court' (C.R.W. Nevinson, Paint and Prejudice, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1938, p.203). It is presumably on such a trip that Nevinson painted the present oil. Archetypal of the peace time works Hampton Court celebrates the leisure pursuits of the great British public in the immediate heady years of the interwar period. Our scene is likely a depiction of the view looking west from atop Hampton Court Bridge. The pier depicted at the left of the composition still stands today. The canvas throngs with the lively hubbub of the summer regatta. Yet rather than the full spectacle of the event, Nevinson chooses to direct our eye to the relaxed couple in the foreground, the young lady's hand lazily enjoying the fresh water. This simple, tranquil gesture is the antithesis to the wrought anxiety of the war works, a testament to how diverse Nevinson was as an artist.The July 1922 Drawing and Design review remarks 'to say that Hampton Court is a masterpiece of perspective in form, tone and colours, is to give no hint of its rare individual charm...' ('Drawing and Design', Magazine, July 1922).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 35
Ivon Hitchens (British, 1893-1979)Summer Nude No.2 signed 'Hitchens' (lower left)oil on canvas45.7 x 81.3 cm. (18 x 32 in.)Painted in 1950Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired byRichard G. CollinsWith Offer Waterman, London, where acquired by the present ownerPrivate Collection, U.K.Summer Nude No.2 is a rare and important example of detailed figure painting by Ivon Hitchens. It was not until the Leicester Galleries mounted an exhibition of twenty-seven figurative pictures in 1950, the year the present work was painted, that this aspect of his oeuvre was properly brought to wider public attention and due to the few examples that exist, there have been limited opportunities to consider it since. Hitchens had always been interested in and keen to paint the human form. As a student at the Royal Academy Schools there would have been a strong emphasis on draughtsmanship and he would have drawn from antique casts and live models. However, as he forged his own career, a lack of money made the hiring of a professional model difficult and his move to the Sussex countryside gave him unlimited access to landscape. The twenty-seven paintings that were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, and the present work, came about due to a unique and prolonged period Hitchens had with a professional model in 1948.Summer Nude No.2 has clear affinities with the figure painting of Matisse and there can be little doubt he was a strong influence. Colour was intrinsic to Hitchens' style throughout his career and the present work showcases a confident variety of vibrant tones typical of the season that is being depicted. The form of the figure is composed through rhythmically placed patches of intense orange, conveying the heat at this time of year, and outlined by confident blue lines. Further variations of colour frame the work within an interior with the subtle and sparing use of white alluding to the bed that the nude is resting upon. The prominent use of green, both immediately around the figure and beyond, is a luscious reminder of the English landscape at this time of year and its fundamental importance to the artist.We are grateful to Peter Khoroche for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 507
A VICTORIAN SILVER MOUNTED CLARET JUG BY WILLIAM & GEORGE SISSONSSHEFFIELD 1873With a pierced circular thumb piece to the domed cover, beaded borders, a scroll handle, chased with strapwork and foliate decoration and engraved with a crest within an oval reserve, the glass etched with conforming decoration, on a beaded moulded spreading base, 28cm (11in) highThe crest for JACKSONThis is the very rare and probably assumed crest of the JACKSON family of Ballybay, co. Monaghan, Ireland. It is expected the owner of the crest and item to be a descendant of John JACKSON (1700-1779) of Ballyreagan, co. Down, whose son the Revd. James JACKSON (1720-1792) was at sometime priest at Ballybay. It is likely that the Revd. James JACKSON's daughter married into the JACKSON family of Ballybay, uniting the families under the name JACKSON. Condition Report: Hallmarks are clearSome play to the hingeCover sits wellDecoration goodNo apparent cracks or chips to the glassSlightly wobblesLight scratches and wear commensurate with age and useCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 661
A 1970S EMERALD AND DIAMOND THREE STONE RINGthe step cut emerald with canted corners estimated to weigh 1.80 carats, between two old brilliant cut diamonds, approximately 1.50 carats total, to a pierced gallery, Birmingham 1975 platinum hallmark and PJF maker's markSIZE/DIMENSIONS: Finger size M 1/2GROSS WEIGHT: 5.3 gramsGemmological Certification Services, Emerald Report 8139-56, Date stating: Colombia, Minor amount of oil in fissuresThis emerald presents distinct growth structures, creating a rare optical effect known as : 'gota de aceite'Condition Report: There is some abrasion to the emerald crown facet edges, bright stone, there are a few typical inclusions. The diamonds are bright and lively, colour estimated I, clarity VS and SI. There is thinning to the claws commensurate with use, some are quite thin, the outer claws holding the diamonds have worn off and so need retipping, wear to the setting commensurate with use.Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 519
A JOSEPH HOLDCROFT MAJOLICA STICK STAND, CIRCA 1880 modelled as a heron with a fish in its beak standing on one leg beside a clump of bulrushes forming the stick or umbrella container, almost circular naturalistic mound base 83cm high, some losses Holdcroft"s, from their Sunderland Pottery works at Longton, produced two patterns of bird stick stands in majolica at this period, the heron seen here and a stork with an eel in its beak. These models were also produced as spill vases. Although the stork stand may be found on occasion, the heron version as a stand (rather than as a spill vase) is very rare.
Lot 78
Set of 12 rare Royal Worcester plates commissioned for the Nawab Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur, believed to have been commissioned to commemorate the birth of his daughters, the plates dated 1909, finely decorated with a floral border and gilt design on blue ground, the Rampur cipher displayed to centre, 28cm diam (12). Note: Nawab Hamid Ali Khan was Nawab of the Princely state of Rampur from 1889 to 1930.
Lot 62
Very rare Chelsea raised anchor period quatrefoil basket decorated to the interior with a Kakiemon design of opposing circular phoenix and scattered flowers beneath a gadroon rim, the exterior with basket weave moulding in Meissen style, 23cm diam. Note: For a similar pair of baskets see John Austin Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, pg59 and also Christies Sale December 2004 Lot 302, although the decoration is in the Kakiemon taste, the inspiration is likely to be from the Meissen red dragon pattern rather than Japanese in origin.
Lot 230
A Rare Flintlock BlunderbussBy Robert Wogdon Of London, Circa 1775-80With heavy swamped barrel with brass fore-sight and signed 'Wogdon' along the breech flat, plain tang, signed flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, figured full stock, brass mounts comprising shaped flat bevelled side-plate, butt-plate and trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, brass ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod (barrel and lock with light pitting), London proof marks and Wogdon's barrelsmith's mark 42 cm. barrel Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's South Kensington, Antique Arms, Armour And Collectors Firearms, 22 June 2011, lot 167LiteratureJohn O'Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, 2019, p. 247, cat, No. B3This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 96
A rare Australian 'Slaz 43' bolo bayonet, and an American model 1917 bolo knifeThe first stamped 'SLAZ 43', no. 3582, the second no. 37830, dated 1917The first retaining most of its original finish, in its canvas scabbard with copper throat mount; the second of characteristic form (one grip with old wear), in its canvas-covered leather scabbard (minor damage); together with an American M1 Garand bayonet (surface rust and some pitting, scabbard missing), and an Italian 'sciabola-baionetta' M91, no. QD2231, in its steel scabbard (4)Footnotes:Examples of the first are recorded with serial numbers up to 5000, however less than 2000 are believed to have been produced. Manufactured by Slazenger Sports Equipment, the 'Slaz 43' was trialled for the Australian military as a paratrooper's sidearm for jungle warfare. It was ultimately rejected due to its weight and unwieldiness, and surviving examples are rareFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 237
A Rare Early Flintlock BlunderbussBy Dolep Of London, Late 17th CenturyWith three-stage russet barrel flared at the muzzle and turned at the girdle, border engraved octagonal breech becoming polygonal, signed in capitals along the top and decorated with foliage fore and aft, foliate scroll engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock decorated with foliage in front of the cock and with safety-catch at the tail, rounded cock engraved en suite, flame-burnt moulded full stock with apron (minor chips) around the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising side-plate cast and chased with symmetrical foliate scrolls, vacant foliate escutcheon with a 'Green Man's' mask above, butt-plate with engraved tapering tang and decorated with strawberry foliage on the heel, trigger-guard en suite, the decorate terminating in a monster-head on the bow, and with pointed finials, turned baluster ramrod-pipes, and later brass-capped ramrod, London proof marks and indistinct barrelsmith's mark 52 cm. barrel Footnotes:Andreas Rheinhold Dolep, 'Dutchman', was one of the most important gunmakers of the later 17th and early 18th Centuries. He was born in about 1648. In 1681 he worked for Sir Philip Howard, Commander of the Queen's troop of Horseguards, and was fined in 1686 for unproved guns, but made free of the Gunmakers' Company by redemption in the same year at the request of Lord Dartmouth. He was granted denization in 1691 and married in 1687. He died in 1713Dolep made fine and ingenious firearms, many of them multi-shot. For a description of further examples of his work see W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 228-248, pls. 83-86, and 88-91This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 190
A Rare Saxon 18-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol (Puffer) Of The Trabantan Bodyguard Of The Elector Christian I (1586-91) Or Christian II (1591-1611)Dated 1591With reblued slightly swamped two-stage barrel with lines on the muzzle, mid-point and in front of the breech, octagonal breech dated along the top flat and incised with foliage on the top flats at the girdle and rear of the breech, the left top flat deeply struck with a shield-shaped barrelsmith's mark, a cockerel and plant, initials 'CH' above, the bottom flat with rectangular stamp 'I.I.B' (Neue Støckel 3380), plain tang, flat lock stamped 'CH' and now case-hardened, enclosed wheel with flat cover, sprung sliding pan-cover with release button formed as a screw, flat cock acting against a chiselled spring, and pivoting button safety-catch also acting against a chiselled spring, blackened full stock stamped in imitation of natural staghorn and sparsely inlaid with white staghorn or bone panels engraved with blackened foliate scrolls, the panels either side of the tang en suite, ball pommel inlaid with a white staghorn or bone roundel engraved with the arms of Saxony and the Hereditary Archmarshalship of the Holy Roman Empire, reblued iron trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap, ramrod-pipe and trigger-plate all engraved with blackened overlapping foliage, original ramrod with tip en suite, and in fine condition 33.5 cm. barrel Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Saxon Royal Armouries, Dresden John Haines, Iowa, USA Raymond J. Petry, Pennsylvania, USAThomas Del Mar Ltd In association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 27 June 2012, lot 484The barrelsmith's mark appears to be unrecorded but it has been suggested that it is that of Clemens Hahn of Dresden. See R.E. Brooker & H. Lehner, 'The Military Pistols of Saxony', American Society of Arms Collectors, Bulletin No. 31, 1975This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 143
A Rare .577 Percussion 1858 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol With Detachable Shoulder-StockDated 1859With leaf-sighted barrel rifled with four grooves, plain tang, dated border engraved flat lock engraved 'Tower' and with 'VR' crowned on the tail, figured full stock stamped with supplier's name 'Moxham' on the side flat, rounded butt pierced for the shoulder-stock and indistinctly stamped with inspector's marks, and regulation brass mounts, the shoulder-stock (lanyard ring missing) with border engraved steel attachment mount with spring catch, and with brass butt-plate, and stirrup ramrod (some wear and light rust patination overall) Ordnance proof marks (2)25.4cm. barrel Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Daniel Williams Collection of Antique Firearms & Edged Weapons, sold in these Rooms 28 November 2018, lot 71One of an order of 1,379 for yeomanry units. See Robert Brooker, British Military Pistols..., 2016, pp. 245 and 246, fig. 55This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 196
A Very Rare German 32-Bore Wheel-Lock Superimposed Load All-Metal Belt PistolProbably By Valentin Klett Of Suhl, Dated 1609With swamped two-stage barrel overlaid with riveted bands of brass at the muzzle, mid-section and at the rear of the octagonal breech, the latter incised with maker's initials 'VK' and dated '1609' along the top flat, rectangular tang secured by a short screw through the stock, flat lock incised with maker's mark (Neue Støckel, 4688) and retained by three side-nails, fitted with two crescentic external wheels each overlaid with an engraved fan-shaped gilt-brass mount secured by a screw, scalloped pans each with foliate engraved manually-operated sprung pan-cover with release button shaped as a screw, cocks with chiselled and engraved decoration, on differing baluster arms and each with eagle-head terminal (restored), and engraved gilt-brass bridles each pierced with a heart, the full stock with incised line borders and cusped along the upper edges of the fore-stock, the butt incised with maker's initials behind the tang screw and with wire-bound leather-covered grip lined in wood, hinged ball-pommel with sprung button catch and encircled by an applied band punched with circles, the lid (steel terminal replaced) with applied pierced brass mount retaining traces of gilding, trigger-guard en suite, replacement blued trigger with external spring, external pivoting safety-catch acting against a spring, later steel belt hook, and no provision for a ramrod 26 cm. barrel Footnotes:ProvenanceGeorge L. Hudson, USAFrank H. Bivens, USAProfessor J.L. Shaw (1912-2011)Thomas Del Mar Ltd In association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 5 December 2012, lot 302LiteratureF. Theodore Dexter, Forty-Two Years' Scrapbook of Rare Ancient Firearms, 1954, pp. 44-45idem, Half Century Scrapbook of Vari-Type Firearms based on the Pictorial and Descriptive Catalogue of the Frank Bivens, Jr., Inspirational Collection, 1960, p.16, pl.3David R. Baxter, Superimposed Load Firearms, 1360-1860, 1966, p. 50, pl. 30Baxter suggests that the VK mark is possibly that of Valentin Klett. Støckel lists a father and son of this name, working 1580-1603 and 1603-22 respectively. The Klett family have been described as one of the most important gun making families of Central Europe. They are first recorded in 16th Century in Suhl, moving to Salzburg-Ebenau around 1634. During the course of the 17th Century they made a number of technically ingenious firearmsFor another German wheel-lock superimposed load pistol, dated 1600 and with the same mark on the lock, see Sotheby's London, The Visser Collection..., Part I, 3 July 1990, lot 131For more information see J.F Hayward, The Art of The Gunmaker, Volume One 1500-1660, 1962, pp. 196-198This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 273
A Rare Irish 40-Bore Percussion Four-Barrel Box-Lock PistolBy Wm. & Jon. Rigby, Dublin, Circa 1829With turn-off barrels numbered respectively from '1' to '4' and each engraved with a waved band at the muzzle, border engraved breeches and action decorated with characteristic scrolling foliage, the latter signed in gothic letters on a scroll over each side, hammer engraved en suite, with rotating nose and operating on three bents, chequered figured rounded butt, folding trigger, and two vacant silver escutcheons (some old rust patination) 4.5 cm. barrels Footnotes:For an almost identical example, perhaps the pair to this pistol, see Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 9 November 2000, lot 155See also D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, pp. 50 and 52, pls. 20a, bThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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