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Lot 1163
DAVY HUMPHRY: (1778-1829) British Chemist & Inventor. A.L.S., Sir H. Davy, in the third person, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. ('Sunday Evg.'), to Mrs. Beaufort. Davy sends his apologies for not being able to wait on his correspondent on Monday evening, explaining 'He is engaged out of town'. With integral address leaf (a few small areas of paper loss at the corners and edges). VG. £100-150 Davy's correspondent is Alice Beaufort, the first wife of Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) Irish Hydrographer and Rear Admiral, the creator of the Beaufort Scale for indicating wind force.
Lot 1235
TWOMBLY CY: (1928-2011) American painter of large-scale and graffiti works. Signed postcard photograph, the image depicting an untitled work of the artist. Signed in bold black ink with his name alone to the lower part of the image. Together with Anselm Kiefer (1945- ) German Painter and Sculptor. Signed and inscribed 6 x 4 card by Kiefer. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone. VG. £100-150
Lot 243
A VERY FINE SCALE MODEL OF THE ENGLISH NAVAL WARSHIP SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, the 17th century 102 gun warship, museum quality and replicated to the finest detail with full rigging, pulley blocks, decking, open gun ports, intricate gold latticework and figural embellishment throughout, coat of arms to stern, king on horse figure head, hull having blue painted upper gun deck, white keel, ship displayed without sails, mounted on a mahogany base with brass nameplate, H 94 cm, W 115 cm
Lot 252
A VERY FINE SCALE MODEL OF THE FRENCH WARSHIP LE SUPPERBE, the 18th century warship of three masts and 76 guns, museum quality with full rigging, sails folded and with lifeboat to middle deck, gun ports open, white painted hull with copper sheath cladding to keel, mounted on rectangular base with nameplate, H 90 cm, W 110 cm
Lot 298
A LIFE SIZED PLASTIC REPLICA OF AN 18TH CENTURY SHIP'S CANNON MOUNTED ON A CAST IRON CARRIAGE, the multi stage barrel with raised bands, bearing George III cypher on second reinforce, elevation scale marked on breech, rounded cascabel and breech loop, grey painted cast iron carriage, skeletal in form, crows foot military mark and 32 PR stamped on side Barrel length 300 cm Bore 15 cm
Lot 47
A LARGE SCALE MODEL OF THE JAPANESE BATTLESHIP MIKASA, scratch built to museum quality, revealing guns, decking, mast supports and lifeboats, mounted on a wooden base, L 121 cm, H 65 cm Note: This ship served as the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905
Lot 49
A LARGE SCALE MODEL OF THE AMERIGO VESPUCCI TOGETHER WITH A THREE MASTED SCHOONER, both ships scratch built with very fine detailing, the 'Amerigo Vespucci' with white painted hull, mounted on an oval base, W 98 cm, H 62 cm, the Schooner having brown/black hull and mounted on a wooden trestle, W 112 cm, H 71 cm (2)
Lot 569
A VERY FINE QUARTER SCALE MUSEUM DISPLAY MODEL OF A MOUNTED PAGEANT KNIGHT, fully articulated and handmade with embossed steel lames comprising a knight with lance, shield over shoulder and saddled upright on armoured horse, the knight in Gothic style wearing sallet, three piece breast plate, hexagram besagews, finger gauntlets, fish tail poleyns, arrow ridged greaves, rowel spurs, pointed sabatons and wearing mustard coloured hose. The horse at slow gait, in conforming Gothic bard comprising a ridged chanfron, spurred escutcheon, crinet of six lames, flared peytrel, single lame flanchards, crupper of three lames with rigged tailguard, armoured reigns, red heraldic undercoat and saddle steel, the horse carved in wood having painted eyes, genuine tail hair and mounted on a wooden base, H 113 cm, W 110 cm, overall height 135 cm
Lot 66
A LARGE COLLECTION OF ASSORTED MODEL CANNON, to include a large scale model of a Georgian field gun with grey carriage, L 67 cm, a large scale 19th century field gun on green carriage, L 63 cm, an 18th century bronze Austrian cannon on a wooden carriage, together with seven various ship's cannon with brass and steel barrels complete with wooden carriages, a selection of twenty two die-cast field artillery
Lot 362
An early 19th century rosewood improved Marine Sympiesometer with a silvered scale having an acid and hydrogen gas filled siphon tube against a scale adjustable and mercury thermometer - Height 42 cm - The Sympiesometer was conceived as an alternative to the mercury Marine barometer as it was smaller and portable
Lot 319
A most unusual screw adjustable mahogany drains level by BISHOP & Co Cheapside London with brass sights, the correct level is achieved by means of a liquid in a glass tube or vile and read off a brass scale also engraved BLUNDELL's Drainage Level No 56, 7 June 1847, the scale with Inches Fall in 5 Feet to Inches Rise in 5 Feet in, probably the orig, pine carrying case F
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