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Click here to subscribeA 19th century mahogany 'dog fighting' stool, the rectangular moulded seat supported on solid end supports carved with scrolling vines, one headed with carved dog masks, with label to underside 'Antique Dog Fighting Stool, Owned by John Smith of Towcester, 1865', 46cm wide, 27cm deep, 46cm high
A pair of George I walnut single chairs, each with a shaped back splat a veneered frame and a tapestry drop in seat on shell carved cabriole legs, with club feet #600-800Lot 676. A George II 'cockfighting' chair, the mahogany frame with curved flat arms and buttoned upholstery, on acanthus carved front cabriole legs
A Victorian Gothic carved oak chair, the upholstered back rest within a channelled oak frame with pierced foliate carved crozier terminals, above a sprung seat supported on carved inverted bow front legs united by a turned stretcher and with pierced carved brackets and brown ceramic castors, 108cm high
A Lady's Brown Leather 18 inch Side Saddle by Champion & Wilton, with suede seat, top and lower pommels, the saddle flap stamped with maker's name 457 & 459 Oxford St., London, patent number 19123, enclosed by the short skirt. (Panels in need of restoration). **This saddle was purchased from the George Shaw Sale
*Royal Archive. An album of fifty autograph letters signed from Royalty and Court Officials, etc., 1796-1902, including Princess Charlotte to Lady Belgrave (1796), part of a letter from Lady Grosvenor to Lady Wilton concerning the visit of George III in 1808, Princess Augusta to Lady Grosvenor on the death of Princess Charlotte, 1817, eleven autograph letters signed from the Duchess of Kent ‘Victoria' [mother of Queen Victoria] to Lady Grosvenor, Lady Grosvenor to Hon. Mrs Harbord, concerning the visit of the Duke of Sussex, 1829, King William IV to Lord Robert Grosvenor (third person, one page letter signed by the King ‘William R'), Lord Lansdowne to Grosvenor and his reply, Hayter to Grosvenor, Lord Gray to Grosvenor, thirteen autograph letters from Prince Albert either signed or initialled and sent to Lord Grosvenor, 1840-61, generally one or two pages, plus letters from Prince George (three), Princess Helena (three), Princess Mary Adelaide (three), Princess May, Crown Princess Stephanie and Princess Victoria Patricia, and C. Phipps, the majority of these later letters after the death of Prince Albert in 1861 are to Lord or Lady Ebury, plus the Commission appointing Robert Grosvenor, as Comptroller of the Household on 23rd November 1830, signed at head by the King ‘William R', one page, folio, two envelopes with the initial of Prince Albert, a Queen Victoria funeral card (1901), and two incomplete letters with some account of Queen Victoria's visit to Moor Park in 1846, written in an unidentified hand, the majority of items sellotaped along the inner margin to album guards and in most cases affecting handwriting at left margins, bound in early 20th-century green morocco gilt by C. Fox with the Grosvenor family motto ‘Noblitatis Virtus Non Stemma Character' embossed to upper cover, sl. rubbed, 4to. Robert Grosvenor, First Baron Ebury (1801-93) was a British Whig Politician. When the Whigs came to power in November 1830 under Lord Grey, Grosvenor was appointed Comptroller of the Household. In 1846 he was made Treasurer of the Household and in 1847 he was elected to Parliament for Middlesex, a seat he held until 1857. In September 1857 he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Ebury. He married Charlotte, daughter of Henry Wellesley, First Baron Cowley, in 1831. From the family of the great great grandson of Robert Grosvenor. (1)
*Scotland. Scarce Royal Letter Patent, being a vellum grant from Charles I, given at Halyrudhous on 18th June 1631 , know that on the advice and consent of our well-beloved cousin William, Earl of Mortoun, Lord of Dalkeith and Aberdeen, controller of the treasury in Scotland and also with the advice, consent and trust of our well-beloved cousin John Lord Stewart of Traquair, and with consent of the rest of the Lords in Scotland, give, grant, bequeath by us forever to our well-beloved John Sinclair of Stevinstoun, merchant and burgess of our town of Edinburgh, his heirs and assigns, all and singular, the ecclesiastical lands of the church of Pencaitland, , with an old mansion and its lands, with barns, glebes or crofts, together with tithes, etc., the document goes on in great detail to list and grant various other houses, lands, coalmines, mills, doves and dovcots, smithies, cattle, peat moors, turberies, forests, fisheries, roads, etc., with a fine listing, containing names of all the various Earls and Lords acting as witnesses, suspended from the document is one of the most attractive of all the Great Seals, being the Great Royal Seal for use in Scotland of Charles I, showing a view of the City of Edinburgh from the north with arthur's seat and the Pentlands in the distance, on the right is the castle and nearby the old Weigh-House, and prominent feature showing Old Greyfriars with the church of St Giles, etc., with an accompanying 3 page translation and details of seal (1)
*British & Foreign Topographical Views. A collection of various 18th & 19th c. British and foreign topographical engravings, lithographs, etc., including approx. twenty-five litho. plts. from Dumont D'Urville, Voyage de la Corvette L'Astrolabe, 1833, six hand-coloured litho. views of the Crimea, from Simpson's Seat of the War in the East, 1855-56, five hand-coloured litho. plts. from Joseph Nash's Mansions of England in the Olden Time (including title), each mounted on card, an 18th c. hand-coloured bird's-eye view of St. James's House, by Kip, an engraved view of the town and harbour of Liverpool, by T. Dixon after I. Jenkinson, with later hand-colouring, etc. (a portfolio)
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