A RARE ONE MINUTE TORPEDO TIMER BY CHARLES FRODSHAM, CIRCA 1944, with 11in. black painted sealed dial divided every ten seconds between 1-10, signed Chas. Frodsham / 27 South Molton St. / London / W.2563, electric contacts, stowage for reset and winding knobs, contained within a substantial oak case with inset carry handles, lid restraints, twin locks and securing catch. Overall measurements -- 6¾ x 16¾ x 16¾in. (17 x 42.5 x 42.5cm.); battery operated switch and wires, -2, Whilst this is spring powered, the electric stop/start and large scale of dial allows for greater accuracy than might be achieved with a stop watch, surprisingly little is known about their commission or precise purpose. How they were activated or arrested in timing a torpedo flight for instance, and why a large (and very expensive) instrument weighing in at 18 kilos would be needed has yet to be answered. Another, No. 2551, is known to have been used/trialled by the Royal Australian Navy; three others are now in the Frodsham Museum, London, and a further one is understood to be in a private collection, making a total of six known examples to date. The serial numbers, if consecutive, suggest there may have been at least fourteen produced but no more are known of at this time.
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Ø A RARE 12IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY THOMAS LORKIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1810, the ebony 'Y' frame with inset ivory plates (one missing) and scale divided to 135º, braced brass index arm signed and inscribed Thos. Lorkin, 89 New Crane, Wapping, London, threaded telescope holder with swivelling pinhole sight, seven shades, two mirrors and pin feet (one missing), contained in original keystone box with loose sighting tube (old wear) -- 16in. (40.5cm.) wide, Thomas Lorkin worked between 1789-1834, but was at this address between 1805 and 1816. The frame seems dated for this period and was perhaps older stock which was signed later.
Ø A 9¾IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT BY D. FILBY, HAMBURG, CIRCA 1840, the ebony frame inset with ivory maker's plate inscribed as per title and scale divided to 105º, braced brass index arm with vernier scale and clamp, threaded sighting tube port with swivel pinhole sight, five shades, two mirrors, and associated bone-topped pencil in cross bar, contained in keystone case with single tube -- 11¾in. (30cm.) wide,
Ø A 10IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT BY CARPENTER & WESTLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1850, the ebony pi frame with inset ivory maker's plate signed as per title and inscribed 24 Regent St. London, scale divided to 105º, lacquered brass braced index arm with vernier scale and clamp, sighting tube, seven shades, two mirrors, pin feet and handle (lacks case) -- 10in. (25.5cm.) wide
A 7IN. RADIUS DOUBLE-FRAMED SEXTANT BY J.B. DANCER, MANCHESTER, CIRCA 1850, lacquered brass frame signed on the arc as per title, silvered scale divided to 155º, braced index arm with magnifier, seven shades, two mirrors and wooden handle, contained in fitted keystone box of issue with four sighting tubes, maker's label inside lid and loose correction certificate dated 1923 -- 12in. (30.5cm.) wide,
A MID-19TH CENTURY 8IN. RADIUS DOUBLE-FRAMED SEXTANT WITH PLATINUM SCALE BY TROUGHTON & SIMMS, LONDON, signed on the arc as per title and inscribed and numbered 'Platina 2507' at centre, scale divided to 150º, oxidised brass frame with quick-release sighting tubes, shades, mirrors and wooden handle, contained in fitted box with 'Husun' test certificate for 1949 and retailer's label for John Parkes & Sons Nautical & Scientific Instruments, Liverpool -- 11¾in. (30cm.) wide; together with a large boxwood rolling protractor by Cary, London, bearing R.G.S. prize inscription from H.M.S. Worcester for 1916, contained in fitted case -- 19in. (48cm.) wide, (2)
A 6¼IN. VERNIER SEXTANT BY CRICHTON & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1860, with oxidised brass ladder frame, polished arc signed as per title, inscribed for owner W.H.W. Grove, R.N. and numbered '4400', silvered scale divided to 150º, vernier with magnifier, sighting tube with rack-and-pinion adjustment, seven shades, two mirrors, wooden handle and pin feet, contained in fitted keystone box of issue with accessories and trade label for 'T.S. & J.D. Negus' inside lid -- 12in. (30.5cm.) wide,
A 7¼IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY J.E. WILLIAMS, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1870, with polished ladder frame, arc signed as per title and inscribed Broad Quay, silver scale divided to 150º, braced index arm with vernier, clamp and magnifier, threaded sighting tube port, seven shades, two mirrors and wooden handle, contained in fitted keystone case with three tubes and retailer's label inside lid for 'Edwin Langford, Bristol' -- 13in. (33cm.) wide,
A DRUM SEXTANT BY BAKER, LONDON, CIRCA 1880, constructed in lacquered brass of typical form, signed as per title above the scale and inscribed 24 High Holborn London, contained in fitted leather case with detachable sighting tube -- 4in (10cm.) overall; together with a modern copy version with faux marks for 'Henry Barrow & Co' and the 'EIC', (2)
A THEODOLITE BY T. DUNN, EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1835, signed on the telescope as per title, constructed in lacquered brass with silvered scale and vernier scales with magnifiers, bubble level and compass, mounted on two-part convertible base for tripod attachment, contained in original fitted box with plummet, the box -- 11½in. (29cm.) wide
A KEW-PATTERN MARINE BAROMETER BY F. DARTIN & CO. LTD, LONDON, CIRCA 1964, of typical form, stamped on the silvered scale with maker's name as per title and Barometer Station Mk 2 Met Ref 1540, gimbal-mounted within painted pine travel case with correction test certificate dated 4th September 1964 and rope handles -- 39¼ x 4in. (99.5 x 10cm)
A POCKET BAROMETER BY NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON, CIRCA 1890, the 1¾in. silvered dial signed as per title and numbered '12057', scale divided to 10,000 feet; the reverse with curved bar thermometer around a Singer-patent night compass, contained in gilt brass case within double-hinged morocco leather travel case with green silk-lined covers -- 2½in. (6.5cm.) wide overall; together with another signed Benn Franks, Hull, Hanley Etc, contained in leather case with thermometer set inside and compass to outside (2)
THE FOLLOWING SEVEN LOTS WERE MODELLED BY MICHAEL FIDGEON (1919-2014). HIS INTEREST IN SHIPS AND SHIPPING BEGAN JUST AFTER WW2 WHEN HE BOUGHT A 28FT AMERICAN LANDING CRAFT AND CONVERTED IT INTO A HOUSEBOAT THAT WAS MOORED AT A YARD IN RICHMOND OWNED BY CHARLES LIGHTOLLER, SECOND OFFICER OF THE TITANIC. HE BEGAN SUBMITTING SHIP MODELS TO THE MODEL ENGINEERING EXHIBITION IN 1968 AND THE MODELS INCLUDED HERE WERE BUILT BETWEEN 1975 AND 1998. THE LADY OF MANN WAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO HIM AS IT WAS THE SHIP THAT BROUGHT HIM BACK TO ENGLAND DURING THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION. THE TITANIC GROUP WAS PRODUCED IN THE 1990'S AND HIS FINAL - PERHAPS FINEST MODEL - WAS THE QUEEN ELIZABETH. A 1/12IN:1FT SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF R.M.S. TITANIC modelled by M. Fidgeon with laminated and carved hull, fitted as appropriate and depicted steaming in a calm sea -- 12½ x 42 x 9¾in. (32 x 107 x 25cm.), historical data
A 1/12IN:1FT SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF R.M.S. CALIFORNIAN, modelled by M. Fidgeon with laminated and carved hull, fitted as appropriate and depicted steaming in a calm sea -- 7½ x 22½ x 5¼in. (19 x 57 x 13.2cm.), historical data, Californian was believed to be the ship that slept as Titanic sank. Her wireless operator having informed Titanic they were icebound was brusquely told to clear the airwaves for passenger traffic. The operator, who'd been on duty for 24 hours, shut his wireless down and went to bed - fifteen minutes later, Titanic struck the iceberg.
![A FINE 16FT:1IN. SCALE ADMIRALTY RECRUITING OFFICE WATERLINE MODEL OF H.M.S. CORUNNA [1945] AS RE-FITTED IN 1962 AS PART OF T](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/975693c8-efdd-4074-977a-a74e00eb4475/67696bd9-f399-480b-d9d9-d54e1716c072/468x382.jpg)
A FINE 16FT:1IN. SCALE ADMIRALTY RECRUITING OFFICE WATERLINE MODEL OF H.M.S. CORUNNA [1945] AS RE-FITTED IN 1962 AS PART OF THE RADAR PICKET SYSTEM, modelled by Julian B. Glossop with carved laminated hull plated with paper and painted, detailed wood and metal fittings including main and secondary armament and central radar/missile control turret, fitted boats and launches in davits and much other fine detailing, depicted sitting in a calm green sea display base with dual detail plaques and maker's label inscribed Julian B. Glossop / Model Maker to the Admiralty, glazed wooden cover -- 13 x 32 x 11½in. (33 x 81.5 x 29cm.), A 'Battle' Class destroyer built at Swan, Hunter & Wigram, Corunna's keel was laid in 1943 but she was not launched until after hostilities in Europe had finished on 29th May 1945 and so was not commissioned until June 1947. Deployed in the Suez crisis of 1956, she was later one of four vessels selected for conversion to a Radar Picket which also included enhanced armament including the new Seacat Missile system. Placed in reserve in 1967, she was broken at Blyth in 1975. Julian B. Glossop began working with Norman Ough and this model is very similar to Ough's style.
Ø AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING 1:48 SCALE MODEL FOR THE CELEBRATED THREE-MASTED ARMED YACHT FALCON, BUILT FOR LORD YARBOROUGH, FIRST COMMODORE OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON, BY LISTS YARD, ISLE OF WIGHT, 1824, the framed hull planked and pinned with copper pins, moulded ebony main wale, main deck pierced for twenty-four guns, finely carved bust-length female figurehead, stern and quarter lights, planked and pinned deck, mounted on slipway brackets attached to mahogany plinth with turned feet. Overall measurements -- 12 x 33in. (30.5 x 84cm.); together with a contemporary watercolour portrait historically associated with the model and, by hearsay, thought to be one Robert Butler, in period frame -- 17 x 15in. (43 x 38cm.) including frame, (2) Provenance: Sotheby's, 16 July 1993, lot 498, where attributed as a merchant ship; UK Private Collection. The second yacht to bear this name for him, Falcon (II) was launched in June 1824 for Lord Yarborough at a cost of £18000 (nearly £1.1m today) in List's yard at Wootton Bridge, Fishbourne, Isle of Wight. Though designed as a private yacht, her full-rig and general appearance prompted one spectator to remark that she more resembled a "20-gun ship-of-war" and she undoubtedly proved a highly impressive flagship to the Royal Yacht Squadron, a role she fulfilled for over ten years. It is notable that one of the main objectives of the R.Y.S.'s pioneers - and of far greater importance than the annual regatta at Cowes - was to improve the form and sailing qualities of warships and to that end, Falcon was the most successful of several experimental craft of her time. Yarborough, the Royal Yacht Squadron's first commodore, was a particularly colourful character in the early history of yachting and employed fifty-four "choice" hands under the command of a naval officer to crew Falcon whenever she raced. A serious accident at sea followed by illness prompted Lord Yarborough to dispose of Falcon and in 1836 she was sold to Captain Clifton on whose behalf Baring Brothers had financed the purchase for £5,500. Fitted with 48hp. paddle propulsion, she sailed for India in January 1838 but had the engine removed upon her arrival at Calcutta when she was resold to Jardine, Matheson & Co. Her new owners put her straight onto the opium run to Macao where her speed enabled her to continue trading throughout the so-called 'Opium War' of 1840-42. This acknowledged speed merely added to her lustre as flagship of the Jardine fleet and once the War was over, her main port of discharge became Hong Kong following the island's acquisition by British troops in 1841. Remaining a frequent sight all along the opium route until the mid-1850s, the end of her career remains shrouded in mystery. Said by some to have been taken by mutineers and by others to have been scuttled by pirates, there is circumstantial evidence that she was wrecked off Breaker Point, a projecting headland 60 miles South of Swatow, although this has never been proven. Recent research by Julian Reid has shed what may be a rare contemporary reference to this model: In 1825 Mr Belsey charged £15 for "a ship's model", perhaps for the use of the builder of Falcon II. Whilst it can now only be speculated upon, it seems highly probable that this is the model referenced. Literature: Reid, J: Original Members of the Yacht Club, Historical Publications Ltd, 2015, p.139-140.; MacGregor, D: Fast Sailing Ships 1775-1875, Conway, 1973 & 1988, p.71-75. Charles Miller Ltd is grateful to Ian McLaughlan for suggesting this attribution.
![Stanford (Edward, Publishers) Ordnance Survey [Map] of Yorkshire, 1865, London, E. Stanford, complete in seven parts with ou](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/135cbed6-2ea5-4f55-bfb2-a73d00f710c4/e1a5778d-abf3-4fd2-ab5d-6a13f687d7ce/468x382.jpg)
Stanford (Edward, Publishers) Ordnance Survey [Map] of Yorkshire, 1865, London, E. Stanford, complete in seven parts with outline colour by hand, each sectionalized and on linen, varying open dimensions but all folding to 8vo size, and each with marbled e.p.s, and bookplate label for C.J. Peacock; (bumped and rubbed) red cloth box with publisher's label preserved (lacking lid). Scale one inch to one mile. Scattered soiling and staining, the maps generally well preserved, without significant loss. The first OS map of the whole ceremonial county (8)
![Ortelius (Abraham) and Lhuyd [Llwyd] (Humphrey) [Map of England and Wales] Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Aucto](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/135cbed6-2ea5-4f55-bfb2-a73d00f710c4/935d5399-75dc-491d-96b0-9aa529acc2f2/468x382.jpg)
Ortelius (Abraham) and Lhuyd [Llwyd] (Humphrey) [Map of England and Wales] Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense, [1574 or later, Antwerp], engraved map with fine early colour by hand, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, plate 380 x 470mm; Latin text with hand-coloured historiated initial to verso Centrefold, margins visible outside platemark, some very minor blemishes and stains; unexamined out of modern frame
Bower (A., Surveyor) The Two Acts of Parliament for the Holderness Drainage with an Index and Plan. 1781, York, A. Ward, folio, 480 x 375mm, title, Index, xvi, pp. 20, the letterpress in two columns followed by several tables, two blank leaves preserved at rear (detached); the block loosely bound by original stitching (title almost detached), the laid paper rather browned, soiled and stained, with tatty extremities, and pp. 15-20 with hole to centre; with Bower's (disbound) folded map 'A Plan of the Holderness Drainage', engraved by Consitt at York, separately dated 1781, the floral cartouche surmounted by an eagle, sheet approx. 825 x 650mm. Scale of Chains lower right. Rather tatty extremities, some soiling and light foxing with some folds splitting at margins. The whole offered with remains of original leather-covered portfolio boards. No sale records nor institutional copy of this very scarce work traced (1)
Goad (Charles E.) Insurance Plans of Goole Yorkshire, March 1896 (-1911), London, Goad, two complete sets of three lithographed plans, comprising Key Plan (sheet 1) and sheets 2 - 3, with additional duplicates of 2 and 3, forming in total eight plans on six large folio sheets (loose, each c.640 x 540mm), all but two hand-coloured. Some plans pasted back to back on linen mounts. The plans, giving details such as street names, building numbers, number of storeys, as well as usages and ownership, have been updated using overlays and show revisions to March 1911. Scale of key plan 400 feet: one inch; other plans 40 feet: one inch. The usual signs of use and soiling and staining, with small tears and nicks to extremities, without loss. These are the only sets of Goad's plans for Goole extant (6)
WORLD ATLAS Ostell's New General Atlas; containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World...A New Edition, 1826, London, Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 4to, publisher's printed pasteboards, detached; titlepage, Contents with publisher's advert to verso, 30 engraved maps by J.C. Russell (complete), hand-coloured in outline. The two world maps are double-page. Boards very rubbed, scuffed and soiled, with frayed extremities, lacking spine, first gathering detached from block; the plates with marginal foxing and finger-soiling, the first map (The World) with hole outside image, ink stains and splitting fold; ink inscription to front pastedown. A scarce atlas in this edition, printed from 'a set of entirely new plates, on an enlarged scale'
COAL MINING and GEOLOGY Hull (Edward) Vertical Section of the Formations over the Western District of S. Lancashire, showing the succession of Strata from the New Red Sandstone, through the Permian Rocks… (for Wigan and St. Helen's Districts), Sheet No. 27, 1861, Geological Survey of Great Britain; engraved diagram by J.W. Lowry, sectionalized and mounted on linen, the darkest layers indicating seams of coal, 975 x 665mm; scale 40 feet to one inch, some soiling and time-staining, unexamined out of modern black frame [with:] Hollinshead Blundell (R.B.B.) Plan of Blackrod Colliery [near Wigan, Lancs.], n.d., 19th century pen and ink with outline colour by hand, compass rose and Scale of Yards, 650 x 920mm; creases, closed tears, soiling and staining; unexamined out of modern frame [plus:] three 8vo books on mining, viz. Dines (H.G.) The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England, 2 vols, 1956 (1969 second impression), d.j.s; Hickling (G.) Sections of Strata of the Coal Measures of Lancashire, 1927; Wilcockson (W.H.) Sections of Strata of the Coal Measures of Yorkshire, Third edition, 1950 (5)
IMPORTANT MAP OF DERBYSHIRE Burdett (P.P.) To The Right Honourable The President, Vice-Presdient…of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c, This Survey of Derbyshire, Began in the Year 1762, and finished in the Year 1767… [c.1767], London, Kitchin and Derby, Burdett. Large engraved map on six sheets laid on linen, partly hand-coloured in outline; rococo cartouche, inset plan of Derby and trigonometry diagram, vignette of rocks lower left. The paper c.1550 x 1040mm, scale one inch to one mile. The expected age-toning and cockling/crinkling to the paper, the extremities tatty and chipped, with a few mostly small tears into the plate (one c.20cm from the top); spots of mould and associated soiling to right margin, getting more pronounced into lower right corner. No loss within printed border. Peter Perez Burdett's map of Derbyshire won him the £100 premium (prize) offered by the Society of Arts to encourage accurate county mapping. He later published the first aquatint in England, and sold his new process to Paul Sandby. A fine draughtsman and noted expert in perspective, he was the first President of the Liverpool Society of Arts and exhibited in London at the Society of Artists. His Derbyshire acquaintances included Joseph Wright, who painted a fine portrait of Burdett and his first wife, Hannah (in the Národní Galerie, Prague). Burdett left for Germany to escape his debts in 1774, working for the Margrave of Baden as surveyor, never to return to England. A scarce example of the first edition of this map, which very rarely appears on the market
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