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Lot 93
A collection of specialist injection moulded and vac formed short run kits in 1:72 scale, models by Veeday include a Fokker D8, a Pfalz D12, an Aeroclub Hawker Hector, a Sea Vixen, a Skybirds De Havilland Hornet, A Veeday Albatross D11 and Pfalz, a BE2C, a Merlin Models North American F64 Fury, a Merlin Models Meteor, and De Havilland DH9A, a Merlin Skyrocket, Pegasus models include a Supermarine Swift, and a Vickers Gun Bus, Air models include a vac form Grumman Cougar
Lot 265
18th century brass equinoctial ring dial, unsigned, the chapter ring graduated 1- XII Roman numerals, the inside edge with quarter hour sub divisions, the equinoctial ring with a 90 degree scale, having sliding throne and suspension ring, the bridge with sliding pinhole sight, calendar scale to one side and days to the other, 15.5cm diameter
Lot 62
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) My River (1950) Oil on board, 35.5 x 46cm (14 x 18") Signed, inscribed with title verso Provenance: Previously in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H. Merkin, New York Exhibited: 1951 Dublin, "Jack B. Yeats Exhibition", The Victor Waddington Galleries, Catalogue No. 1 Literature: "Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings" by Hilary Pyle, London 1992, Catalogue No. 1017 The river in the title is Drumcliffe River which enters the sea north of Sligo town as part of a complex series of estuaries. Sharing its name with the village of Drumcliff the river had great personal significance for Jack Yeats. It features in another late painting, Low Tide, the Drumcliffe River making its way to the sea, 1954 (Private Collection) and Yeats's last workbook contains a sketch of it. The artist's great grandfather had once been minister of the church of Drumcliff, while Jack had spent his childhood years with his maternal grandparents in nearby Sligo. More recently in 1948 the body of W.B. Yeats was re-interred in the cemetery at Drumcliff, a poignant event for his younger brother. In this painting the river - a deep blue meandering element in the left foreground - makes its way towards the ocean and becomes blended with the surrounding waters and rivers. Ben Bulben forms a dramatic backdrop to the scene, its cliff-like side silhouetted against a glowing sun. The reflected light is depicted in the golden flecks of colour on the shoreline and on the white waves in the right foreground which mirror the powerful chromatic effects of the sky. The small scale and light tonalities of My River is found in other works of this late period and like many of these the painting pays homage to Yeats's deep attachment to Sligo. Filled with life and movement the landscape also acts as an analogy for human endeavour, painted by an artist who continued to develop his practice into old age. He was almost eighty when he completed this work. Dr. Roisin Kennedy Dublin August 2012 1. H. Pyle, Jack. B. Yeats, III, p. 1062.
Lot 20
A Rare Sudan Pair to Private T. Stevens of the 21st Lancers, who Charged and Suffered a Severe Spear Wound to the Chest at the Battle of Omdurman, September 2nd 1898, Queen’s Sudan Medal (3881 Pte. T. Stevens 21/L’CRS.) Khedive’s Sudan Medal 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (3881 Pte. Stevens. 21st Lrs.). The Battle took place at Kerreri, 11 km north of Omdurman., Lord Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian troops, he arranged his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga, close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right, the British and Egyptian cavalry was placed on either flank. Abdullah’s Dervishes, numbered around 50,000, including some 3,000 cavalry, split into five groups—a force of 8,000 under Osman Azrak was arrayed directly opposite the British, in a shallow arc along a mile of a low ridge leading onto the plain, and the other Mahdist forces were initially concealed from Kitchener’s force, Abdullah al-Taashi and 17,000 men were concealed behind the Surgham Hills to the west and rear of Osman Azrak’s force, with 20,000 more positioned to the northwest, close to the front behind the Kerreri Hills, commanded by Ali-Wad-Helu and Sheikh ed-Din. A final force of around 8,000 was gathered on the slope at the right flank of Azrak’s force. The battle began in the early morning, at around 6:00 a.m. After the clashes of the previous day, the 8,000 men under Osman Azrak advanced straight at the waiting British, quickly followed by about 8,000 of those waiting to the northwest, a mixed force of riflemen and spearmen. The British artillery opened fire at around 2750 m, inflicting severe casualties on the Mahdist forces before they even came within range of the Maxim guns and volley fire. The frontal attack ended quickly, with around 4,000 Mahdist casualties; none of the attackers got closer than 50 m to the British trenches. A flanking move from the Ansar right was also checked, and there were bloody clashes on the opposite flank that scattered the Mahdist forces there. Kitchener was anxious to occupy Omdurman before the remaining Mahdist forces could withdraw there, he advanced his army on the city, arranging them in separate columns for the attack, the British light cavalry regiment, the 21st Lancers, was sent ahead to clear the plain to Omdurman, the 400-strong regiment attacked what they thought were only a few hundred dervishes, but in fact there were 2,500 infantry hidden behind them in a depression, after a fierce clash the Lancers drove them back (resulting in three Victoria Crosses being awarded). On a larger scale the British advance allowed the Khalifa to re-organize his forces. He still had over 30,000 men in the field and directed his main reserve to attack from the west while ordering the forces to the northwest to attack simultaneously over the Kerreri Hills. Kitchener’s force wheeled left in echelon to advance up Surgham Ridge and then southwards. To protect the rear, a brigade of 3,000, mainly Sudanese commanded by Hector MacDonald, was reinforced with Maxims and artillery and followed the main force at around 1350 m. MacDonald was alerted to the presence of around 15,000 enemy troops moving towards him from the west, out from behind Surgham, he wheeled his force and lined them up to face the enemy charge, the Mahdist infantry attacked in two prongs and MacDonald was forced to repeatedly re-order his battalions, the brigade maintained a punishing fire, Kitchener, now aware of the problem, began to throw his brigades about as if they were companies, MacDonald’s brigade was soon reinforced and the Mahdist forces were forced back and finally broke and fled or died where they stood, the Mahdist forces to the north had regrouped too late and entered the clash only after the force in the central valley had been routed, they pressed Macdonald’s Sudanese brigades hard, but the Lincolnshire Regiment was quickly brought up and with sustained section volleys repulsed the advance, a final desperate cavalry charge of around 500 horsemen was utterly destroyed. Around 10,000 Mahdists were killed, 13,000 wounded and 5,000 taken prisoner, Kitchener’s force lost 47 men killed and 382 wounded, the majority from MacDonald’s command. One eye-witness described the appalling scene. ‘They could never get near and they refused to hold back . . . It was not a battle but an execution. The bodies were not in heaps-bodies hardly ever are; but they spread evenly over acres and acres. Some lay very composedly with their slippers placed under their heads for a last pillow; some knelt, cut short in the middle of a last prayer. Others were torn to pieces’.View on dnfa.com
Lot 657
KNIPE (JAMES ALEXANDER) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND PART OF FRANCE SHOWING ALSO THE INLAND NAVIGATION BY MEANS OF RIVERS AND CANALS THE RAILWAYS AND PRINCIPAL ROADS AND SITES OF THE MINERALS second edition, engraving in fine original and vivid hand colouring backed on linen, scale 1 inch: 10 miles, with sections, ornate armorial title (slight offsetting) dedication to Prince Albert and pasted contemporary label of J Tennant, Mineralogist, London, 160 x 136cm, marbled covers with pink label, published for the proprietor by Stanford (et al) 1859, gilt tooled green morocco slip case
Lot 846
A JAPANESE DAGGER, HAMIDASHI the bone saya caved with figures, beneath pine and clouds in scale patterned borders, blade 32cm l, 52cm overall, Meiji, tang unexamined Scabbard with small hole beneath the parasol of the lady at the top, the extreme end of the scabbard chipped and lacking the plug, ingrained dust and dirt with some natural discolouration but not noticeably split or chipped
Lot 954
A REGENCY BRASS INLAID MANTEL CLOCK the painted dial signed Shirley & Son 2 Gracechurch St London, with pierced steel hands, the brass twin fusee movement with shouldered plates, in rectangular case with ebony mouldings, lobed pediment, brass pineapple finial and scale side frets, on ball feet, 50cm h Dial with worn and discoloured paint and two old repainted areas. The case with the odd minor knock and chip to mouldings, the inlay original, heavily encrusted with dirt and grime
Lot 958
A REGENCY MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK signed on the painted dial BUDGEN CROYDON and with pierced steel hands, the twin fusee movement with engraved and shouldered backplate and striking on a bell, in brass mounted, breakarched and pad topped case with ball finial, ebony stringing and inlaid beneath the dial with a satinwood oval, flanked by stop fluted pilasters with lion mask and ring handles, scale side frets and ball feet, 50cm h William Budgen (1750-1824), clockmaker of Croydon and London. Glass in back door broken, the case of attractive dry appearance. Ball finial repaired, two shrinkage cracks on the curved part of the top of the case. Wear to the paint on the dial but not repainted, minor vertical veneer shrinkage crack across the satin wood oval
Lot 162
FIVE SPODE COFFEE CANS one with lavender blue ground and Worcester type gilt reserves of polychrome swags and flowers, another painted with tightly clustered flower sprays on a gilt scale ground, the third gilt with a wide band of leaves between lozenge borders, the others bat printed, 6.5cm h, SPODE 225 in red, or unmarked, c1805-10 All fine examples
Lot 283
A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BOWL enamelled on the exterior with two `Mandarin` scenes of numerous figures, including a group around a gaming table or playing with cups on an iron red scale ground with vignettes of birds and flowers, the interior with a peony beneath iron red trellis inner border with sepia panels, 26cm diam, Qianlong In fine condition not cracked or restored.
Lot 300
A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PUNCH BOWL WITH EUROPEAN SUBJECT DECORATION the exterior finely enamelled to either side with two boar hunting scenes with three mounted huntsmen and a pack of hounds divided by floral reserves with panels of puce and purple scale or turquoise caillouté edged with leaves and gilt C scrolls, on a fiery orange ground of gilt tendrils, the interior with a flower filled vase in conforming guilloche border, 28.5cm diam, c1770 Rim chipped, a crack riveted and one section of the side broken out and restuck but entirely free from any recent or professional restoration
Lot 452
A VINTAGE MODEL TOY AIRPLANE AND WOODEN BOAT GROUP, MID 20TH CENTURY. Eight pieces all contained in original boxes comprising four Rico Japan wooden model boats, length 10 inches and 14 inches; a Testors wooden B-29 bomber; an Ideal Spanish Galleon; a Strombecker P-61 C Black Widow (mostly incomplete) and a one quarter scale architectural model home.
Lot 478
A GROUP OF EIGHT 19TH/20TH CENTURY QUILTS, COMFORTERS AND APPLIQUE TEXTILES. Comprising a small Krazy quilt with feather stitching, an early Krazy quilt top with fan shapes, a fine star pattern quilt top, a double wedding ring quilt top, a fish scale layered felt carpet and a floral applique stitched panel.
Lot 1166
An Islamic bronze jug, possibly ancient, the cover with finial, with shaped spout and spherical top, flared neck, circular shoulder and baluster body, with shaped handle, rasied upon flared circular foot, overall with typical encrustation, height 25.5 cm; an applique a jour pot with cover, of circular form, the reticulated cover of flower and foliate form, the body of fish scale and foliate design, diameter 8 cm; two Islamic gilt metal and polychrome vases, of differing size, decorated with foliage and figural panels, height of tallest 20 cm, (4).
Lot 408
A CLOISONNÉ ENAMELWARE VASE, of baluster form, converted to a table lamp, the turquoise ground decorated with dragons chasing the flaming pearl, above a stylised wavy blue and green border; together with a pair of cloisonné enamelware vases, of baluster form, the dark blue ground decorated throughout with scrolls, floral motifs, acanthus leaves and fish scale pattern, 24cm high
Lot 882
An American bombsight, type T-1-B, by AC Spark Plug Div. G.M.C., serial No. AF44 D02301C, incorporating E-1 roll stabilizer by Sperry Gyroscope Co, finished in crackle black, together with a 1/24 scale plastic model of a Mk II Spitfire with well detailed cockpit, removable engine panels, etc.
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