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Click here to subscribeWWII Second World War Interest - a vintage 1/16 scale large plastic (likely Tamiya) model of famous German Nazi Tank Commander Otto Carius' 217 Tiger Tank. Highly detailed model, professionally painted in the correct 217 livery. No electrics present, but could be fitted with such. Along with a related Tigers In The Mud ' The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius ' book. Model measures approx; 54cm long.
The Great Train Robbery - Bruce Reynolds (1931-2013) & Ronnie Biggs (1929-2013) - autographed 1/43 scale Best Of British Police Cars diecast model Jaguar Mk II Bedfordshire Police car. Signed to the top by both in black ink. Model mint, only ever displayed, and housed in its original box. Mk II Jags of this form from the Bedfordshire Constabulary were the key transport for Police at the time of the robbery. Unique display piece.
Two original WWI First World War period maps, comprising:- Trench Map: Bailleul-Kemmel area. Sheet 28 SW, edition 6. Belgium & France. Coded in bottom l/h corner GS GS (General Staff Geographical Section) 2742 and published by the Ordnance Survey December 1916. On folding linen. Scale 1:20,000. Size 89 by 65 cm. Detailed key. Original owner’s name to reverse. The owner served in the Durham Light Infantry and the Northumberland Fusiliers, and was wounded in France- British Army map of Amiens, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton for the Geographical Section General Staff 1916. Code 2364 to bottom left corner. On folding linen size 88 by 66 cm. Scale 1:100,000. Key gives information on many geographical features and has an explanation of French names for them. Soldier’s name in pencil above front cover.
An original WWII Second World War British RAF Royal Air Force silk escape map. South-east Asia sheets 44 J and K. Two back-to-back escape maps on one folding silk map. Size 95 by 60 cm. Scale 1:000,000. Folds to pocket handkerchief size or smaller. Side J covers French Indo-China (central), Siam (Thailand east) and side K covers an area of French Indo-China (south), Siam (Thailand- part). Maps are in colour with a colour-coded key to heights and a conventional key to features such as mountains, islands, railways, stations, ruins, post offices, roads etc.
Full set of wartime deck plans for RMS Queen Mary, comprising 14 deck plans, each 2ft x 11ft and a scale of 1/8th inch to 1ft, the Sun Deck and Sports deck plan bearing the modificationstamp showing theAdmiralty mark to lower right, together with two discs of digitalised plans, and numerous personal archives. Provenance: the plans were acquired by the vendor in a car boot sale in 1996. They had come from a house repossession at Henley upon Thames belonging to Mr David Gough an Emeritus fellow of Oriel College Oxford who was executor for Miss K Rintoul, daughter of Colonel D Rintoul. The personal archives relate to Miss K Rintoul, her brother DrS Rintoul and Colonel D Rintoul.The vendor did extensive research and Liverpool Museum have verified them as a full set of deck plans. The Maritime Archives and Library, Liverpool, as stated in printed correspondence, hold the original builder's plans of the Queen Mary as part of the Cunard Ships Plans Collection and the collection contains several sets of QM deck plans, including original copies of the trooping conversion plans. The Queen Mary is currently berthed in Los Angeles. Over the years they have shown at Westminster Halls at the Annual Ocean Liner society's meet.
[MAP OF POLAND AND THE BALTIC STATES] ALBRECHT CARL SEUTTERDucatus Pomeraniae Citerioris et Ulterioris. Principatibus, Comitatibus urbibus suis definitae Nova et Ampla Descriptio geographica. Augsburg, c. 1760. Six sheets joined to one large map, 98 x 167.5 cm. Map and title cartouche coloured. Paper slightly browning. First edition of Seutter’s 6-sheet map of Pomerania, first published in about 1760. The map was later re-issued by Conrad Tobias Lotter, with the title re-engraved. Seutter’s map is a simplified version of Lubben’s map, issued in approximately the same scale, but with numerous revisions and improvements. Showing the region on the south coast of the Baltic shared between Germany and Poland, from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the west, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdansk in the east. Created by Professor Lubben of Rostock University on the orders of Philipp II, Duke of Pomerania, who wanted a large-scale map that would be a comprehensive geography and history of the duchy. Although Lubben had mapped the island of Rugen on the Pomeranian coast in 1609, he had very little geographic information to guide him: the only map to precede this one of Pomerania was a small map by Peter Artopaus (later used by Münster and Ortelius). Lubben spent two years travelling throughout the country taking thousands of measurements, it was then another 6 years before the copperplates were completed, by Geelkerken in Amsterdam. However, although a very small number of the sheets printed in 1618 are known to have been presented to the Pomeranian court, the shortage of paper, and the 30 Years’ War intervened, and no known copies of this printing have survived. It was not until 1757, after Geelkerken’s original copperplates were discovered in the in Stralsund (a town featured in a vignette on the map), that the map was reissued. Lubben’s map was the model for virtually all atlas maps of Pomerania of the seventeenth century, including those of Blaeu and Janssonius, and Hondius dedicated his famous wall map of Asia to Lubben: see Shilder, «Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica» VI, pp.150-151. It remained the only map of consequence of the region from its inception in 1618 until the Prussian topographical survey of the eighteenth century.
Fuller (John E.). Fuller’s Computing Telegraph [cover title], Telegraphic computer, a most wonderful and extraordinary instrument, by which business questions, of every possible variety, are instantly performed ..., New York: 1860s, 24pp. booklet describing the use of and instructions for the ‘computer’, toned, some spotting and dust-soiling, edges a trifle frayed and chipped, first leaf with small loss to upper edge, 3rd leaf with long closed tear (repaired), printed front pastedown, inside rear cover with adhered folding lithographed table, entitled ‘Analytical table of mechanical movements ...’ (repaired), rear hinge strengthened, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and marked, some wear to extremities, rear cover dampstained, with accompanying double-sided engraved volvelle set into thick board, comprising ‘Palmer’s Computing Scale, improved by Fuller’ on one side (with the 'Pounds, Shillings & Pence' addition for the English market) and ‘Fuller’s Time Telegraph’ on the other, tartan borders to boards (some loss on edges), dust-soiled and lightly rubbed, some minor marks, square 4toNOTESDate estimated from the statement in the booklet that Hannibal Hamlin is vice-president of the United States (served 1861-1865). The title of this circular slide rule is believed to be one of the earliest examples of the word 'computer' being used to describe a device rather than a person.
Kelmscott Press. The Romance of Sir Degrevant, edited by F.S. Ellis, Kelmscott Press, 1896, wood-engraved frontispiece after Edward Burne-Jones, wood-engraved border to frontispiece and title and initials designed by William Morris, shoulder notes printed in red, original linen-backed boards, 8voQty: (1)NOTESPeterson A47; Tomkinson 47. One of 350 copies on paper. Provenance: F.L.M. Griggs, Campden, Gloucestershire, his neat inscription to front endpaper. Etcher, illustrator and architect Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (1876-1938) was born in Hitchin, Herfordshire, where the neo-Gothic architecture of the newly built chapel he attended with his parents had a lifelong effect on his artistic vision. In 1892 Griggs began work as an architectural draughtsman, later establishing his own studio in Hitchin, and exhibiting his first work, an architectural perspective, at the Royal Academy. In 1900 Macmillan & Co. commissioned drawings from Griggs for the Hertfordshire book in their series Highways and Byways. This became his most substantial achievement: over nearly forty years he illustrated twelve volumes of the series, books which demonstrate his technical virtuosity as well as his visionary talents. In 1903 Griggs arrived at Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, where C.R. Ashbee had established his Guild and School of Handicraft the previous year. The guild's dedication to the preservation of traditional skills and ideals of craftsmanship, following in the footsteps of William Morris, made a great impression on Griggs. He lived there until 1930, quickly making a name as an illustrator, and as an architect working principally on small-scale projects for Campden friends. His major architectural achievement lay in the war memorials he designed during 1919. These works, done without payment, continue to adorn the Gloucestershire countryside at Broadway, Snowshill, Painswick, and Upton St Leonards, as well as his own Chipping Campden, each designed to be appropriate to its setting and the history of the site. He also designed his own family home, New Dover's House, a modern medieval manor house in the finest Cotswold tradition. Like Morris, Griggs was very interested in book design; he set up his own press, and designed several typefaces, notably the Leysbourne (renamed Littleworth), for the Shakespeare Head Press.
CORGI; two boxed limited edition Aviation Archive models comprising AA38405 Blenheim Mk IVF-V5735, QY-D 254 Sqn Coastal Command, Aldergrove, 1941 and AA38504 Messerschmitt BF110G-4/RS Nightfighter, RAF Museum Hendon, 1:72 scale, the former no.591/1100, the latter no.168/1200, both with collector’s cards (2).Additional InformationPackaging generally worn condition, some impacts and stains. Internal components appear good, although please refer to illustrations for particulars.
CORGI; two boxed Aviation Archive models comprising AA31906 D-Day 60th Anniversary Supermarine Spitfire MKVB-4Q, VCS-7 U.S. Navy (Cruiser Scouting Squadron), Normandy, June 1944 and AA32209 Modern Era EF-51D Mustang – 45-11736, Lt. James Glessner, 12th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 18th Fighter Bomber Group, November 1950, 1:72 scale, also a group of Exchange and Mart Lledo and further similar boxed model classic cars.Additional InformationBoxes worn condition, some scuffs, scrapes, impacts, etc. Internal models appear good, but please refer to illustrations for particulars.
CORGI; a large boxed limited edition Aviation Archive model AA36107 Consolidated Catalina IVA No.117 Sqn Royal Canadian Airforce, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1942, 1:72 scale, no.280/1000, with certificate.Additional InformationBox in worn condition, impacts, creasing, stains and discolouration. Internal model appears good, although please refer to illustrations for further particulars. The certificate a little crumpled.
CORGI; four boxed limited edition Aviation Archive models comprising AA31932 Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX Wing Co. ‘Jack Charles’ RAF Biggin Hill – 1000th Kill, AA32516 Ju 87R-2 Stuka - Capitano Raul Zucconi, 208a Squadriglia, 101 Gruppo, Regia Aeronautica - Sicily June 1941 (with collector’s card, no.308/1300), AA34313 Focke Wulf FW190 A4-1/JG 1-Schipol, Holland, 1943 (with collector’s card, no.605/1200) and AA36508 Hawker Typhoon Mk 1B Flying Officer Johns 439 Squadron, 143 Wing RCAF B9 Lantheuil, Normandy, July 1944 (with collector’s card, no.433/1400), 1:72 scale (4).Additional InformationPackaging worn condition, some impacts, scuffs, etc. Internal models appear good, but please refer to illustrations for particulars.
HONEYCHURCH; a kit constructed Georgian-style doll's town house featuring dining room, entrance hall, kitchen, music room, first floor landing, sitting room, master bedroom, second floor landing and second bedroom, well decorated and furnished throughout, with full list of contents available and comprehensive further paperwork and three doll's house publications including "The Doll's House Source Book" by C. Clifton-Mogg, constructed in 2003 to a high standard, 1:12 scale, listed dimensions 66 x 34.5 x 88cm.Additional InformationGood condition, the images used for this lot were taken in the vendor's home. The house and its contents are all already packaged and ready for easy transportation.
GRAHAM FARISH BY BACHMANN; a boxed N scale Longmoor Military Railway special collectors' edition train pack, also eight boxed Graham Farish wagons and a small group of further loose similar gauged model railway including Bachmann and Graham Farish locomotives, tenders, two coaches and wagons.Additional InformationSome light general wear to box otherwise contents appear untouched but we cannot guarantee this, all original components are present, consider loose items likely to be play worn but obviously not tested and no guarantee of working order, some visible scuffs, etc. Postage for this lot would be a medium box.
SATSUMA; a pair of Japanese circular boxes and covers, the lids decorated inside and out with figures within panels against a scale ground, four character mark to underside of base, 5.25cm.Additional InformationThere is a very small chip to the interior rim of one of the boxes, otherwise some rubbing to enamels. Some discolouration to gilt, dust and dirt, minor fritting.
Longines. A fine, rare and historically interesting stainless steel manual wind pilots hour angle wristwatchModel: Lindbergh Hour AngleReference: 3210Date: 1937Movement: 15-jewel Cal.18.69N manual wind, No.5442739Dial: White enamel, black Roman numerals, outer minute track, inner scale calibrated for 180 degrees, inner silvered rotating disc calibrated for 60 seconds and 15 degrees, blued steel hands, blued steel centre secondsCase: Brushed and polished oversized round, hinged snap on back, oversized onion form crown, No.5442739Strap/Bracelet: Brown calf leather Buckle/Clasp: Steel buckleSigned: Dial & movementSize: 47mmFootnotes:On the 20th of May 1927, a young American pilot named Charles Augustus Lindbergh left Roosevelt Airport at the controls of the 'Spirit of St. Louis'. Thirty three and a half hours later, Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget after completing the first ever non-stop solo transatlantic flight. Lindberghs aspirations for aviation were vast and in 1930 he reached out to John Heinmüller, President of the International Aviation Federation and director of Longines-Wittnauer. This relationship cemented Longines part in Aviation history and within 5 months the first prototype of 'The Longines Hour Angle' was tested and ultimately put into production. Designed by Lindbergh himself in partnership with Longines, the watch allowed for accurate determination of longitude during long-distance flights. As a result, pilots and navigators were able to find their geographic location quickly, efficiently and with great accuracy. The current lot is in great condition and bears the features that define this model. A large case, oversized knurled crown and adjustable central disc. Longines have confirmed that within their handwritten registers this watch is recorded as a 'Lindbergh type' wristwatch in stainless steel bearing the reference 3210. It is fitted with a Longines manually wound mechanical movement, calibre 18.69N and was invoiced on 22 November 1937 to the company Wirth, which was at that time their agent for Switzerland.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Heuer. An 18K gold automatic calendar chronograph wristwatchModel: CarreraReference: 1158Date: London Import mark for 1971Movement: 17-jewel Cal.12, Glucydur balance, automaticDial: Brushed champagne, applied gilt baton hour markers with black accents, black outer 1/5th second divisions, raised outer tachymetre scale, subsidiary dials at 3 and 9 for 30 minute and 12 hour recording, date aperture at 6, gilt baton hands with black accents and luminous inserts, black centre chronograph handCase: Polished tonneau form, screw down back, crown at 9, twin fluted chronograph pushers at 2 and 4, No.244039Strap/Bracelet: Brown leatherBuckle/Clasp: Gold plated buckleSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 38mm Accompaniments: Instruction Manual, Heuer sticker to watchmakers cardFootnotes:The Carrera 1158 holds a special place for collectors and is noted as being Jack Heuers favourite model. Not only was Jack enthusiastic about the design but he also connected with these on a much deeper level as he personally presented one to each Ferrari Formula One driver. He is recorded as saying 'These watches have a deep emotional meaning for me, as we have lost drivers to racing accidents.The present lot is from the earliest of the series' being numbered 244029 and the earliest number we have found that have come up for auction.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Louis Vuitton. A Limited Edition 18K gold automatic calendar chronograph wristwatchModel: Tambour VoyageReference: Q10250, Limited Edition No.40/50Date: Purchased 21st February 2012Movement: 21-jewel Cal.217 automatic, No.2892A2Dial: Satin grey sunburst, applied rose gilt Arabic and baton numerals, white outer minute markers, subsidiary dial at 3 for 60 seconds and at 9 for diurnal and nocturnal 24 hour indication, inner central subsidiary dial for minute recording, date aperture at 6, bevel for tachymeter scale, rose gilt skeletonised baton hands with luminous white infill, centre secondsCase: Brushed and polished round, back secured by 6 screws, crown flanked by twin rectangular buttons, Louis Vuitton engraving to the case side Strap/Bracelet: Black Louis Vuitton leatherBuckle/Clasp: Signed 18K gold buckleSigned: Case, dial & movement Size: 44mm Accompaniments: Louis Vuitton box, outer card, International Guarantee, Instruction manual, polishing clothFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Patek Philippe. A fine and rare Limited Edition lady's 18K rose gold and diamond set World Time wristwatch with central moon phaseModel: World Time MoonphaseReference: 7175R-001Date: Purchased 10th March 2015Movement: 35-jewel Cal.240 HU LU automatic, Gyromax balance, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism & 5 positions, gold micro-rotor, stamped with the Seal of Geneva, No.5869216Dial: Black star spangled central disc, champagne chapter ring with silvered dot hour markers, outer champagne and matte silvered revolving diurnal and nocturnal 24-hour chapter, further outer silvered revolving chapter bearing the names of 24 world cities, pierced rose gold handsCase: Polished round with unusual bombé lugs, snap on back, world time adjusting button in band, No.6018192Strap/Bracelet: Associated strapBuckle/Clasp: Signed folding claspSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 38mm Accompaniments: Patek Philippe 175th Anniversary presentation box, outer card, Certificate of Origin, setting tool, brochures, original 18K rose gold folding clasp and spring barsFootnotes:The Reference 7175 was made in 2014 to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Patek Philippe. It was launched as part of a 'his and hers' set of World Time references with the 5575 forming the other half of the pairing. Whilst the 5575 was limited to 1300 pieces, the 7175 was produced on an even smaller scale of just 450 pieces and was available exclusively in rose gold. It is this rose gold combined with diamonds and a centred moon phase that makes this model such an exquisite timepiece to behold exuding pure class.Housed within this reference was the new Cal.240 HU LU explicitly developed to achieve a smooth synthesis between the world's 24 time zones and the lunar cycle. To acknowledge Patek Philippe's heritage, Central European Time is represented by the city of Geneva.Patek Philippe first employed the World Time complication in its wristwatches during the 1930s, when the complication was first invented by Swiss watchmaker, Louis Cottier (1894-1966). Cottier's classic World Time wristwatch depicted 24-time zones simultaneously, with the local time zone of the wearer controlled through a pusher in the case whilst automatically correcting the position of the 24 hour dial.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Breitling. A stainless steel automatic calendar chronograph wristwatchModel: NavitimerReference: A23322-011Date: Purchased 19th August 2008Movement: 27-jewel ETA Cal.7753 automaticDial: Black, applied luminous tipped polished baton hour markers, outer 1/5th second, base and tachymetre markers, bi-directional inner slide rule scale, date aperture between 4 and 5, silvered subsidiary dials at 6, 9 and 12 for seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour recording, polished pointed baton hands with luminous inserts, centre red arrow tipped chronograph handCase: Polished round, screw down back, crown flanked by twin pushers, No.2257171Strap/Bracelet: Black Breitling leatherBuckle/Clasp: Signed steel buckleSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 42mm Accompaniments: Breitling box, outer card, International Warranty, Chronometer Certificate, slide rule, instruction bookletThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (French, 1845-1916)An extremely rare 'undraped version' bronze figure of 'David Apres Le Combat (David after the battle)', the nude turbanned youth with raised right arm as he sheaths his sword, the base signed A. Mercié and inscribed PARIS F. BARBEDIENNE FOUNDER and with A COLLAS BREVETE REDUCTION MECHANIQUE pastille, the head of Goliath with ciseleur's initials CH. C. for Charles Cauchois behind his left ear, light to mid brown patination, 71.5cm high (28 1/8in high).Footnotes:Influenced by the sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance, Mercié executed his composition of David with the head of Goliath in plaster at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1869-1870. With its powerful but graceful curved and undulating planes, the figure united traditional classicism and modern realism winning it a prestigious 'médaille de 1ère classe' at the Paris Salon of 1872. A life-size bronze version of the 'undraped' figure of David cast by the Thiebaut frères foundry dating to the same year is now in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay. Larger plaster versions are also in the collections of museums at Cusset, Dijon and Toulousein France and at the Villa Médicis itself and a marble version was exhibited at the Paris Éxposition Universelle of 1889.The figure of David by Mercié is usually seen in its clothed version with the youth clad in a draped loin cloth. The subsequent lot to the current one in this sale illustrates this more commonly found version. The more demure presentation was presumably seen in the closing years of the 19th century as being fair more acceptable to the general taste of the public at large and versions of this widely reproduced variant were edited in six scaled sizes made possible by the Archille Collas 'Réduction Méchanique' process. However, the offered lot is a very rare Barbedienne edition cast of the original 'undraped' nude version. Although infrequently found, these casts usually measure, as in the the current lot, 72cm high although a cast measuring 92cm has also been recorded. Their rarity almost certainly derives from them being 'special orders' as the subject was probably not considered suitable for a domestic setting. In addition it is possible that these special casts were used on the foundry's exhibition stands to illustrate to potential clients that the model could also be ordered large scale in its originally conceived form for more public spaces.The casting and finishing of all Barbedienne casts was a very specialised process with the chasing and finishing sometimes taking months to complete. This would certainly have been the case with the current lot where the presence of Cauchois's initials under the left ear of Goliath's head, confirming the importance of the cast as he was the star ciseleur at the foundry.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lord Frederick Leighton (British, 1830-1896)A bronze figure of 'The Sluggard', the nude male stretching, on canted square base, inscribed THE SLUGGARD, and signed Fred Leighton, and with inscribed foundry marks, FOUNDED BY J. W. SINGER & SONS, FROME SOMERSET, 52cm high (20in high).Footnotes:Although perhaps better known as a fashionable Royal Academy painter of the late 19th century, Leighton took up sculpture in the 1870's and today is regarded as the father of New Sculpture in England. Leighton's Sluggard, also known as 'Athlete Awakening from Sleeping', was first executed in 1882. Giuseppe Valona, the Italian model who posed for 'An Athlete Struggling with a Python', was again used for the Sluggard. Edgcumbe Staley described the moment when: 'Giuseppe Valona, the model, a man of fine proportions, weary one day of posing in the studio, threw himself back, stretched out his arms and gave a great yawn. Leighton saw the whole performance and fixed it roughly in clay straight off.'A more refined life-size plaster was later exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and was awarded a medal of honour when it was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle three years later. A bronze cast of this plaster, acquired by Henry Tate in 1896, is now in the Tate Gallery.The Sluggard has obvious parallels with Rodin's 'Age of Bronze', exhibited in 1884 and it was perhaps this work which encouraged Leighton to revive his earlier model. The work later became one of the most popular Victorian statuettes when reduced-scale bronze editions were made by Arthur Leslie Collie and cast by the Singer Foundry.LiteratureS. Beattie, p.189 and 260, n.59; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, cat. no.39S. Jones, C. Newall, et al., Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist, Royal Academy of Arts, 1996For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Sir William Reid Dick (British, 1878-1961)A bronze figure of 'The Catapult' or 'Slingshot Boy', the nude figure twisting to the right and aiming his catapult, the naturalistic base signed and dated W. Reid Dick 1911, mounted on veined green marble rectangular plinth base, the figure 63cm. high (24 13/16in high), 67cm high (26 3/8in high) overall.Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Furniture, Works of Art & Carpets, 13th September 2005, lot 263Reid Dick first exhibited his bronze of 'The Catapult' or 'The Slingshot' as it was alternatively known at the Royal Academy in 1911. Measuring 60cm high, this large scale version was first cast by the Italian founder Giovanni Galizia at the Parlanti foundry and is now in the Bradford City Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall. Later reductions in two sizes, 60cm and a smaller and more common 33cm high were cast by Galizia in his own foundry although the model was subsequently cast after the first world war by other foundries. The Victorian Web states that examples of the large size cast measuring 60cm high are rare, citing the Bradford example as being the only known recorded example of this size held in a British public collection. The present bronze measuring 63cm high is however evidently rarer still, as it corresponds in height with an apparently unique bronze figure of the same subject sold in these rooms as lot 297, 4 November 2015, Fine English Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art, sale 22305, which had direct provenance to the sculptor and family descendants. This figure was marked with the foundry stamp for the Morris Singer Foundry, dating it to no earlier than 1927 when the foundry firms of Morris and Singer merged. In addition the surface of this figure, much like the present lot, had a distinctive Verdigris green tone which apparently was Reid Dick's preferred surface finish for patination when he oversaw the casting and finishing process. As such, it is possible that the present lot, although unmarked, may also date from the same period. LiteratureD. Wardleworth, William Reid Dick, Sculptor, Ashgate, p.160H. Granville Fell, Sir William Reid Dick, KCVO, RA, London, 1945, pl. 2J. Cooper, Nineteenth Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and American Bronzes 1830-1915, Devon, 1975, pp. 97-8B. Read, J. Barnes and A. Kader, Leighton and his Sculptural Legacy: British sculpture 1875–1930, London, 1996, p.56This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR TPAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A japanese iki ningyo (living doll) of a basket-peddlerMeiji era (1868-1912), late 19th centuryGesso and pigment over carved wood with, glass eyes, modeled as a vendor of bamboo baskets, the figure realistically rendered, standing, naked save for a fundoshi (loincloth), wearing zori (straw sandals), fixed on a wood stand and carrying his (removable) portable stall suspended with his wares consisting of numerous baskets and containers of varying size and type, all individually woven from split bamboo or rattan; unsigned. The basket-peddler: 41cm (16 3/16in) high including stand; the portable stall: 37cm x 52cm x 20cm (14 9/16in x 20½in x 7 14/16in). (20).Footnotes:ProvenanceA French private collectionDuring the nineteenth century, iki ningyo ('living dolls') played a prominent role in popular urban culture; in Edo (present-day Tokyo), for example, highly realistic images of strange people from imaginary lands were exhibited in the precincts of Sensoji, the great Buddhist temple at Asakusa, and illustrated in 1855 by the woodblock-print artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The earlier, lifesize iki ningyo were intended for domestic consumption and were often arranged in dramatic tableaux, forming part of misemono, exhibitions held alongside temple fairs where animated freaks and entertainments could be enjoyed for a few coppers. In the early years of Japan's renewed contact with the outside world iki ningyo quickly garnered a global reputation, their painstaking workmanship and eerie realism inspiring museums in Europe and the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Essex Museum, to commission lifesize figures of people from everyday life; samurai scenes were also popular.Before long, smaller-scale iki-ningyo like the present lot were commissioned by Yokohama firms catering to foreign travelers; the occupations depicted appealed to wealthy tourist taste and are often the same as those seen in hand-colored photograph albums of the same period, with rickshaw-pullers and basket-peddlers among the favoured subjects. This basket-peddler carries a larger array of wares than most other surviving dolls; compare a slightly smaller example in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands, exhibited in Kumamoto in 2006, www.camk.or.jp/event/exhibition/ikiningyou2/. Further information on iki ningyo and their historical background can be found in Alan Scott Pate, Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll, Boston, Tuttle, 2005, pp. 241-244, and Japanese Dolls: The Fascinating World of Ningyo, North Clarendon VT, Tuttle, 2008, pp. 142-153 (see fig. 212 in the latter publication for a comparable figure of a rickshaw-puller).This 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
Raymond Leon Rivoire (French, 1884-1966)An important large bronze bust of 'Neptune'depicted as the head of the young sea god with stylised wavy hair adorned by a pendant shell hung bandeau at the hairline, signed to one side R. Rivoire, dark brown patination, 52cm (20in) high. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate French collection, by repute the bust originally commissioned by a wealthy patron directly from the sculptor.The sculptor Raymond Rivoire won a gold medal at the salon of 1929, leading to his most important commission and a milestone of the Art Deco era, the colossal marine group 'The God Neptune drawn by a sea horse', for the luxurious and stylish French ocean liner SS Normandie launched in 1932. This sculpture was itself a pendant to his work 'The Goddess Artemis and her greyhound' commissioned for an earlier French Art Deco ship SS Transatlantique launched in 1925 which was subsequently reproduced as scale editions in bronze in the late 1920s.Although the lavish interiors of the Normandie incorporating Rivoire's work were destroyed by fire during a US requisition refit to turn the ship into a troop carrier in New York in 1942, the present head which which is derived from Rivoire's original group, was apparently a special commission for a wealthy client living in Monaco in the early 1930s. The sculptor also produced a second version of the full group, which survives to the present day as a centrepiece of the fountain adjacent to the Reynaldo Hahn Square in the gardens of the Croisette in Cannes.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * AR* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Mantz, Werner -- House of Professor Georgii, Heinestraße 2, Lindenthal, architect H. Walter Reitz. 1928/printed 1932. Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 24 x 18 cm. Signed, dated and annotated by the photographer in ballpoint pen in lower margin; annotated in pencil on the verso. The group of detached houses in Heinestraße, Cologne is probably the earliest example of Neues Bauen in that city. The builder of Heinestraße 2 was the pianist and university professor Walter Georgii. The large-scale form and details clearly show an orientation towards Le Corbusier: the free façade structure with window bands, the inclusion of the roof garden in the rectangular outline of the house, the semi-circular avant-corps with a lookout at the apex, concrete planter boxes, a chimney running through to the attic and curved interior walls and a wide concrete band as a closure above the terrace. The August 1929 issue of Die Welt compared the house to buildings of Le Corbusier and Gropius. – Slight discoloration in lower margin, otherwise a fine tonal print in very good condition.Lit.: Reinhold Mißelbeck/Wolfram Hagspiel. Werner Mantz. Vision vom Neuen Köln. Fotografien 1926-1932. Cologne 2000, ill. p. 59.
Muthesius, Eckart -- Photographer: Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990). Portrait of the architect Eckart Muthesius. Circa 1930. Vintage gelatin silver print. 22 x 16,9 cm. Signed by the photographer in the negative in lower right; photographer's ATELIER JACOBI, Charlottenburg, Joachimsthaler Str. 5 stamp on the verso, mounted along upper edge to board (some wear). The son of Hermann Muthesius, the German architect and interior designer Eckart Muthesius lived in India between 1930-1939. The Maharaja of Indore commissioned him to decorate and design his Palace at Manik Bagh in the modern International Style; it became a large-scale art project and Muthesius incorporated furniture designed by Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer and Ivan da Silva Bruhns. He often returned to Berlin to collaborate on the projects for the furniture for the palace and this portrait was likely taken on one of those visits. Lotte Jacobi portrayed many famous figures of the day such as Albert Einstein, Emil Jannings, Lotte Lenya and Käthe Kollwitz. – Some creases in corners, otherwise in good condition.Lit.: Reto Niggl. Eckart Muthesius. The Maharaja's Palace in Indore. Architecture and Interior 1930, Stuttgart 1996, ill. p. 13.Provenance: Eckart Muthesius Archive
World War I -- Photographer: German Fototrupp der Marine-Fesselball Abteilung. Panoramic view of French Lombartzyde-Stellung (Belgian frontline near Dunkirk). 1916. 89 gelatin silver prints (the whole panorama circa 11 x 386 cm), mounted to boards, detailed handwritten notations above/ below images on mounts, distance scale in upper edge, folded concertina style in cased album (edges rubbed) with handwritten title label in German in ink on front cover, collector's label on inside back cover.A rare military document from WWI. The first pages have an instruction text of how this panorama corresponds to aerial photos of the same area for the exact identification of every position at the enemy lines. – Some oxidation mirroring in edges, some scuff marks/ surface rubbing, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: Robert Lebeck Collection
A Tunbridge ware obelisk form desk thermometer, the stepped base with bands of mosaic the pedestal with three panels of floral mosaic and one of cube work, the ivorine scale with mercury thermometer within three panels of geometric mosaic, 19.5cms high. From the Hamlin Collection of Tunbridge Ware Part 2
* Bedfordshire. Speed (John), Bedford Shire and the Situation of Bedford described with the armes of thos Honorable Familyes that have borne ye titles of Dukes and Earls thereof, George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Bedford, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, slight creasing and fraying to the central fold, strengthened and repaired on verso, 380 x 510 mm, English text on verso, mounted, framed and double-glazedQty: (1)
Birmingham. Beilby, Knott & Beilby (publishers), To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Lewisham &c. &c. the Zealous Promoter of the interests of the Town and Liberal Patron of its Public Institutions, This Map of Birmingham engraved from a minute Trigonometrical survey, made in the years 1824 & 1825, is with permission dedicated..., Birmingham, March 25th 1828, uncoloured engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset plan of the town of Birmingham in the year 1731, large calligraphic cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, some staining, edged in green silk, 1380 x 1290 mm, marbled endpapers, contained in a contemporary calf book box, worn and frayedQty: (1)NOTESRare. Copac lists only four known copies.
* Caernarvonshire. Speed (John), Caernarvon both Shyre and Shire-Towne with the ancient Citie Bangor described, Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell [1676], hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Caernarvon and Bangor, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 510 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Blaeu (Johannes). Comitatus Nottinghamiensis, Nottingham Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, slight overall toning, slight mount staining, 390 x 500 mm, Latin text on versoQty: (2)
Derbyshire. Blaeu (Johannes), Darbiensis Comitatus vernacule Darbie Shire, Amsterdam, 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 495 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Comitatus Nottinghamiensis; Nottingham Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, 385 x 490 mm, French text on versoQty: (2)
* Eastern Europe. Wells (Edward), A New Map of Present Poland, Hungary, Walachia, Modavia, Little Tartary &c. [and] A New Map of Sarmatia, Europaea, Pannonia and Dacia..., circa 1700, two hand-coloured engraved maps, each with an elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, each approximately 365 x 500 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazedQty: (2)
Glasgow. Richmond (George, publisher), New Map round Glasgow from the Ordnance Survey, with Two Miles Radiating Circles, Scale 2 Miles to an Inch, Birmingham, 1884, large scale lithographic map with bright contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1020 x 1340 mm, marbled endpapers, contemporary cloth boards with red morocco gilt title label to upper coverQty: (1)
Gloucestershire. Blaeu (Johannes), Glocestria Ducatus vulgo Glocestershire, Amsterdam circa 1646, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 410 x 495 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Herefordia Comitatus Hereford-Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, 410 x 495 mm, French text on versoQty: (2)
London. Rocque (John), A New and Accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, The Borough of Southwark with the Country about it for nineteen Miles in Length and thirteen in Depth..., Begun in 1741, finish'd in 1745 and published in 1746 and 1748..., Sold by the Proprietor John Roque and printed by W. Edwards at the Globe without Newgate, 1748, title page printed in red & black with the title repeated in Latin and French, inset allegorical vignette, list of subscribers with an index of the Towns and villages in the survey and a list of the Noblemen's Seats, Colleges and Hospitals printed on the verso, double-page general keymap and 16 (complete) uncoloured double-page maps engraved by R. Parr, one map with a small printer's fold, very slight marginal spotting, later endpapers, bookplate of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence, modern red half morocco over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with contrasting green morocco label, slim upright folioQty: (1)NOTESJ. Howgego. Printed Maps of London, 94.4. This is the second of Rocque's large scale plans of London and if assembled would measure approximately 1980 x 3960 mm. The map sheets are clean and bright.
Middlesex. Rocque (John), A Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey in four Sheets, 1757, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, title repeated in French, mileage scale, compass rose and a decorative cartouche showing a surveyor using a waywiser, some wear and splits to the linen along old folds, edged in green silk (frayed), 520 x 685 mm, retaining the boards of a contemporary marbled card slipcase with near-contemporary ink manuscript title to the upper coverQty: (1)
* Saxton (Christopher & Hole Guillaume). Oxoniensis Comitatus vulgo Oxfordshyre qui pars olim Dobunorum [and] Lancastriae Comitatus Palatinus olim pars Brigantum, [1610 - 37], two hand-coloured engraved maps, both with a large decorative strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, each approximately 295 x 310 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (2)
Scandinavia. Rossi (Giacomo Giovani), La Scandinavia Divisa nelli suoi Regni di Svezia, Danemarca, Norvegia, e Paese de Lapponi..., Rome, circa 1678, decorative map engraved by Giorgi Widman with contemporary outline colouring, large martial cartouche and mileage scale, slight spotting, 420 x 555 mmQty: (1)
* Warwickshire. Speed (John), The Counti of Warwick, The Shire Towne and Citie of Coventre described, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Warwick and Coventry, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 385 x 510 mm, English text on verso, framed and double-glazedQty: (1)
One hundred and thirty late Victorian/early 20th century magic lantern slides of volcanic interest, including a photographic slide entitled "Kingston, A Search Party Arriving". Each 8 cm2, contained in three stained wood cases. NOTE: The photographic slide is thought to relate to 14th January 1907 Kingston Jamaica earthquake which registered 6.2 on the Moment Magnitude scale and is described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the worlds deadliest earthquakes recorded in history (see illustration).
Bernard Scale. An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of The Kingdom of Ireland. Published London. 1776 “And may be had of the Author at his House in Dublin”. First edition. 37 hand coloured maps, comprising general maps of Ireland, Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, and Munster and 32 maps of the counties. First hand coloured Atlas of Ireland & extremely rare. Fine contemporary calf. Spine professionally rebacked. Irish armorial book plate. A remarkably clean copy.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Tipperary from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title and scale within a decorated cartouches. Scale in Irish and English miles. 56 x 73cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Mayo from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title within a decorated cartouche. With compass, scale in Irish and English miles. 93 x 65cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Kerry from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title and scale within a decorated cartouches. Scale in Irish and English miles. 72 x 69cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Professionally conserved. V.g.
PETTY, Sir William. A Map of The County of Gallwey from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio. Depicted are towns, villages, parishes, baronies, rivers, lakes, bays, islands, mountains, woods, churches, castles. Title within a decorated cartouche mounted by a harp on a shield. On the ocean a sea monster and two galleys. With compass, scale in Irish and English miles. 96 x 60.5cms. Printed in Dublin by George Grierson in 1732 from the original copperplates of the 1685 first edition. Fine.
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