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Click here to subscribeCinema Interest - Peter O'Toole Original 1968 Large Sheet Poster (Quad) For The Film 'Great Catherine' Along With Promotional Stills Large scale poster (folded) in very good condition 30 x 40 inches. Along with two colour 10 x 8 promotional stills and cinema campaign booklet. Very good condition, please see accompanying image.
Cinema Interest - Peter O'Toole Original 1969 Large Sheet (Quad) Poster For The Film 'Goodbye Mr Chips', Along With Several Original Promotional Documents Approximately eight items in total to include original large scale cinema poster in very good condition, three colour lobby cards, colour press pamphlet 'Facts for editorial reference about the making of Goodbye Mr Chips' and deluxe colour programme. Also, Spanish film poster (portrait orientation) Very good condition. Please see accompanying image.
Railway Interest comprising (1) Railway 30 Ephemera 1882 - 1887 Collection of 25 items including railway letters, invoices, waybills, traffic notice Xmas 1887 (cover missing) etc. All from a railway enthusiast's private collection. (2) N & S Joint Line Mundesley - Hand Drawn and Coloured Tracks and Signals, Proposed Alterations to Connections, Scale 1/500, Site Plan / Key Plan, Stamp of District Engineers Officers, Norwich, Plan 17N 91 A. Date 14.3.38. (3) Handrawn and Coloured Official Plan G.E.R March Signal Plan, White more Junction, Cambridgeshire, Diagram of Signals, with Reference Points Official Plan Showing Cost Allocation of Signalling, Signed and Dated In Ink, July 30 th 1888, 3 August 1888. (4) Railway 31 Ephemera 1881 - 1887 25 items to include letters, waybills, invoices, Traffic Notice No. 3 January 1882. Per. Way Noice NED 5a w/ending 21.1.1882. (5) Railway 28 1886-1889 Ephemera A collection of items to include railway letters, invoices, traffic notice and correspondence. 24 items in total. These were part of a railway enthusiast's private collection.(6) Plan of Hadleigh Proposed Perm - Way Alterations to Track Layout, Post 1948, Updated - Attached Label - Notes That It would Support This Plan are Missing / Destroyed. Label W91 / 25440 / 2. Plan No 51 LIW 79A, Hadleigh Essex - Please See Photo.
Folder Containing A Large Collection Of Admiralty Charts, Scale 1:75000, Folio, Chart Numbers To Include 183, 536, 1125, 1229, 1346, 2045, 2049, 2131, 2173, 2220, 2254, 2424, 2450, 2454, 2696, 2702, 2723, 2724, 2767, 2836a, 2925, 2926, 2927, 3636, 3725 etc Some With Fleetwood Trawlers Supply Stamps
Railway Interest Comprising (1). N & S Joint Line Mundesley - Hand Drawn and Coloured to Tracks and Signals, Proposed Alterations to Connections, Scale 1/500, Site Plan - Key Plan, Stamp of District Engineers Office, Norwich, Plan No 17N 91 A, Date 14.3.38. 2.Great Eastern Railway, Heacham And Wells Branch, Introduction Of Train Staff And Metal Key System. Instruction No2410, 2nd December 1922. The Great Eastern Railway Instructions For Working Between Victoria Dock Signal Box A. Instruction No 1020 January 1913. Two Hand Drawn Maps On Linen Acton Well To Reading Via Feltham. And Temple Mills To West Norwood And Hither Green. Drawn By GS Perring. 8.5.1943.3.Great Central Railway, Great Central And Great Walton Railways Joint Comity Papers In Respect Of Exemption From The National Insurance Art. Dated 1917. With Southern Railways Proposed Junction. And G.E.R Blue Print Of Proposal To Close Fransham Signed Bsx. Dated 31st July 1922 (4) Folder of Working Instructions ( 8 ) Items, Good Various Lot. Please See Photo. Includes Instructions respecting the cleaning, trimming and lighting of oil signal lamps, Coronation Scot Train Euston to Glasgow .London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Supplementary Operating Instructions, Instructions to signal men at Rose hill Junction Box, High Harrington (5) British Railways, London Midland Region 1. Comprising of General Appendix 1 -10 -1960, sectional appendix Western Line Crewe and North thereof 01-10-1960, Manchester, Sheffield and Wath, working instructions 1954, the instructions for dealing with bullion and specie, 10-11-1963 and Working instructions for the Manchester and Bury electric service 01-10-1972. (6) Original Re Signalling Notices - Grange Junction to Norton Bridge and Colwich Re Signalling, Special Notice 30G, Introduction of Colour Light Signalling Between Whitmore and Basford Hall Junction Special Notice 706G, Stafford No 1 Milford and Brocton Transposition of Lines, Special Notice 500G.
A Late 19th /Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Marble Portrait Bust - Possibly Queen Alexandra Of Denmark Large scale bust in white marble raised on circular marble pedestal, her hair adorned with an ornate Kokoshnik tiara, her decolletage draped with carved pearls. Some chips/damage in places - does not detract, please see accompanying image. 65 inches in height, 49 inches at widest point
GEORGE III FIGURED MAHOGANY AND BRASS TABLE CLOCK WITH PULL REPEAT, SIGNED 'WILLIAM BLACK, LONDON, the 7" silvered dial with silent/ strike dial to the arch, powered by a twin fuse movement with scroll engraved back plate and bell mounted to the top, housed in an arch topped case with carrying handle, scale pattern side frets and moulded base with ogee bracket feet, 16" (40.7cm) high
CIRCLE OF MENGS (18TH CENTURY)The Last Queen of Cyprus, Catherine ConraroOil on canvas, 74 x 60cm Catherine Cornaro was born in 1454 to a well-known and powerful Venetian family. Her father Marco Cornaro was the great-grandson of the Doge of Venice (1365-68), whom he was named after. Her family had long associations with Cyprus, especially with regards to trade and commerce. In the Episkopi area, in the district of Limassol the Cornaro family administered various sugar-mills and exported Cypriot products to Venice.On the occasion of her marriage by proxy to James II of Cyprus at the tender age of fourteen she became the queen consort. The match was particularly favorable to the Venetians as it secured their economic and political interest in Cyprus. Upon James sudden and unexpected death, Catherine who was pregnant at the time was appointed as queen regent. An office she held for a short twelve months following the tragic death of her infant son James III. She reigned as queen regent of Cyprus from 26 August 1474 to 26 February 1489. The kingdom had long since declined, and under her rule, Venetian merchants controlled the island. In February 1489, the Venetian government persuaded Catherine to cede her rights as ruler of Cyprus to the Doge of Venice-and by extension the Venetian government as a whole-as she had no heir. She left the island and upon her return to Venice, she was led to Asolo where she lived until her death in 1510. Her cessation of power marked the end of the mediaeval kingdom of Cyprus.She was painted by many fifteenth century artists, amongst them Titian and Bellini. The artistic depiction of her ranges from typical royal portraits, such as this present example to more large-scale compositions such as Ernest J Preyer’s painting of Venice paying homage to Catherine in the form of lavish gifts, which she willingly accepts. However, as a woman in the 15th century, Catherine had little or no choice in regard to her marriage or position in society. It is difficult to imagine, at such a young age to find herself, having lost both her husband and young child, as the Queen regent of a foreign country. Her loyalty and indeed duty to her family, who held profound influence over her reign, were the determining factors in her abdication.
Albert POWER (1881 - 1945)Head of Terence McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, in Brixton Prison, (1920)White marble, 32cm high, 26cm wideSigned and dated 1920Terence MacSwiney was born in Cork in 1879, son of John MacSwiney and Mary Wilkinson, and was one of eight children. In 1885, his father emigrated to Australia leaving Terence and the other children in the care of their mother and his eldest daughter.Terence was educated by the Christian Brothers in Cork city, but left at fifteen to become an accountancy clerk and continued his studies and matriculated successfully. He continued in full-time employment while he studied at the Royal University (now UCC), graduating in 1907.In 1901 he was a founding member of the Celtic Literary Society, and in 1908 he founded the Cork Dramatic Society with Daniel Corkery and wrote a number of plays for them. Described as a sensitive poet-intellectual, MacSwiney’s writings in the newspaper Irish Freedom brought him to the attention of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was one of the founders of the Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, and was President of the Cork branch of Sinn Féin. Following the rising, he was interned under the Defence of the Realm Act in Reading and Wakefield Gaols and subsequently interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917. It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy of the Cork distillery-owning family. In the 1918 general election, MacSwiney was returned unopposed to the first Dáil Éireann as Sinn Féin representative for Mid Cork, succeeding the Nationalist MP D. D. Sheehan. After the murder of his friend Tomás Mac Curtain, the Lord Mayor of Cork on 20 March 1920, MacSwiney was elected Lord Mayor. On 12 August 1920, he was arrested in Cork for possession of seditious articles and documents. He was summarily tried by court martial on 16 August and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Brixton Prison.In prison he immediately started a hunger strike, while eleven republican prisoners in Cork Jail went on hunger strike at the same time. On 26 August, the British cabinet stated that “the release of the Lord Mayor would have disastrous results in Ireland and would probably lead to a mutiny of both military and police in the south of Ireland.”Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike gained world attention. The British government was threatened with a boycott of British goods by Americans, while four countries in South America appealed to the Pope to intervene. Protests were also held in Germany and France. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike, but despite this he fell into a coma on 20 October 1920, and died five days later after 73 days on hunger strike. His body lay in St George’s Cathedral, Southwark in London where 30,000 people filed past it. Fearing large-scale demonstrations in Dublin, the authorities diverted his coffin directly to Cork, where his funeral attracted huge crowds. Terence MacSwiney is buried in the Republican plot in Saint Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork. Arthur Griffith delivered the graveside oration.The present work was made after Albert Power’s visit to Terence MacSwiney in Brixton Jail as the Lord Mayor was dying. Power, whose name is synonymous with Irish nationalist sculpture, was born in Dublin and entered the stone carving profession as a young apprentice to the Smyth family. At 13, he began evening classes at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where he picked up important figure-drawing and other fine art skills from William Orpen, and sculptors John Hughes and Oliver Sheppard. As a student he absorbed the ethos of the new ‘Irish art’ movement, not only through the school’s involvement with the Celtic Revival, but also through the wider mood of nationalism then prevalent. Amongst his many commissions were bronze busts of the new Irish President, Arthur Griffiths, and the army chief Michael Collins. He also completed death-masks for both men which were added to the Cenotaph on Leinster Lawn next to Dail Eireann. Power died in 1945 of complications following an accident in his studio.
Aviation - The Cody Flyer Circa 1911-12 - A 12 page sales catalogue illustrating the aircraft and detailing three different models of this machine with prices ranging from £750 to £1,800. Also illustrating and detailing Mr. S.F. Cody's new Monoplane. With 8 aircraft photographs and one full page scale drawing, in red card cover size 7½" × 10". Plus its original printed brown envelope from Cody's Flying School at Farnborough. Very interesting publication with full page photograph of Cody who was the first man to fly in an Aeroplane in England. He flew at Hendon a lot and other air shows. Also, another 4 page Catalogue with 6 photographs and interesting information. Plus a Handbill illustrating his "Man lifting large Kite" with explanation. (3)
Original Classics Bedford OB Coach Diecast Model 'West Yorkshire' scale 1:24 CP1, FWW 596, limited number of 1000, with interior and exterior working lights (one front exterior light appears not working. See images online), lights working at time of cataloguing, in cream and red, sliding door and roof, unboxed and appears in good condition
A pair of Spode Krater vases c.1820, the squat forms with high handles and raised on square bases, richly decorated in pattern 1166 with fine flower sprays reserved on a blue and gilt scale ground, iron red factory and pattern marks, the covers lacking, 27.5cm dia. (2) Cf. Bonhams, The Contents of Trelissick House, 24th July 2013, lot 585 for a single vase and cover.
A Worcester two-handled basket c.1770, the oval form painted to the interior with colourful long-tailed birds standing amidst leafy plants, reserved on a blue scale ground, the openwork sides applied to the exterior with pink flowerheads, twig handles issuing from further applied flowers, square seal mark, 22cm across.
9 pre-war O gauge coarse scale freight wagons by Milbro (Mills Brothers). 4x flat wagons, an open wagon, 3x box vans and a bogie box van. All of wooden construction with French railway markings. Ex-Coluzzi collection, with the catalogue from the original sale included in the lot. GC-VGC. £100-150
A large quantity of Various Makes. 8x EFE including Leyland PD1 Highbridge, Leyland TD1 High Front and Leyland Windover Coach, all Southdown. STD, STL and Leyland TD1 Open Stairs double deck, all London Transport. 15x 1:76 scale Classix including Ford Thames, Austin K2, Morris J van, NCB Milk Float, Trojan van, Austin K8 van, Austin FX3 Taxi. Various liveries.193 Oxford 1:76 scale including Wolseley 18/85, Jaguar SS saloon, Austin Atlantic, Tricycle van, Alvis Speed Twenty. 4x Oxford 1:43 scale including Austin Seven saloon and Austin Low Loader Taxi. Togther 8x Trackside and 2 Corgi Trams plus a few other items. All except 3 boxed, minor wear to a few. Contents VGC-Mint. (64) £80-120
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