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Lot 31
British Provincial, Dorset, Shaftesbury, Shaftesbury Bank, Ten Pounds, 10 October 1843, no. 698, for W.B. Brodie & Thomas King, signed by W.B. Brodie (Outing 1919B; Grant 2586). Split and rejoined at centre, printed bankruptcy stamp and handwritten dividend stamp on front, pinholes, otherwise fine, rare William Bird Brodie (1780-1863), banker, bookseller and stationer, Whig MP for Salisbury 1832-43, was the proprietor of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal from 1808 until he was declared bankrupt in 1847. By 1811 Brodie had also taken over the banking business in Salisbury begun in the 1770s by Benjamin Charles Collins (1758-1808), nephew of the founder of the newspaper. Brodie, a former officer in the Wiltshire Militia, was appointed Lt-Col of the Salisbury Volunteer Infantry, a unit formed in the wake of the civil uprising which affected the city in November 1830 (Bennett, OMRS Journal, December 2009, pp.239-42, including a lithograph portrait of Brodie). He was an associate of the photographer W.H. Fox Talbot, published pamphlets on banking and slavery, as well as a book of poems. Thomas King (1806-63), a London banker whose country seat was at Alvediston, Wiltshire, entered into the banking partnership in 1834; after the bank failed he became a gentleman farmer at Norrington
Lot 276
* Ali (Muhammad & Holmes, Larry). A pair of signed seat tickets for their fight at Caesars Palace, [Las Vegas, 2nd October 1980], both tickets printed in brown “Caesars Palace Reserved” with a humorous motif and each signed and inscribed to John, one signed by Muhammad Ali and the other by Larry Holmes, a name and phone number in blue ballpoint pen to reverse of the second ticket, each 9 x 22cm. Ali retired from boxing following his Heavyweight title win against Leon Spinks in 1979, but returned in 1980 to face the current champion Larry Holmes in an attempt to win a heavyweight title an unprecedented four times. Holmes won with a technical knockout in eleven rounds. Provenance: John Rimington, see lot 300. (2)
Lot 570
Edmund Walker c.1820-c.1890- "Docks at Sebastapol with Ruins of Fort St Paul" from "The Seat of War in the East", after William Simpson 1823-1899, publ Jany 22nd 1856 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & co, 13 & 14 Pall Mall East; hand-coloured lithograph, 33x46cm: Smart & Reeve, 9 Diana Place, New Road- "The Waterford Line Schooners Alexander...off the Hook Light", publ by John Lynn, Marine Painter, No 4 Holmes Street Commercial Road London; hand-coloured aquatint, 45x59cm: George Hunt- "Nonparell", after F C Turner, publ Aug 27th 1836 by J Moore, West Street Upper St Martins Lane; hand-coloured aquatint, 43.5x60cm: Liborio Prosperi act 1886-1903- "The Lobby of the House of Commons, 1886", publ for Vanity Fair; chromolithograph, 41x55cm: together with a mixed quantity of 18th and 19th century portrait engravings etc., (a lot)
Lot 781
An early/mid 20th century French cream beaded evening bag with gold and pink floral design and fringing, gilt frame top, together with 2 other beaded and tapestry evening bags, a white ermine hand muff with black tails and a beaded and embroidered panel depicting a floral display flanked by acanthus scrolls, possibly for a seat back, and a navy marabou feather stole, (6).
Lot 1460
* Nine Alva Aalto birch chairs, including seven Chair 66 and two Chair 65, designed 1933-1935 manufactured by Artek, the seats of solid birch with natural birch lacquered top , (with additional chair parts including one red lacquered birch seat), N.B. this lot will need assembly by buyer before use. (a lot).
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