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Click here to subscribeA mid-20th century hardwood framed and leather mounted chair, designed by Angel Pazmino for Muebles De Estilo, the seat and back embossed with masks, height 75cm, width 59cm, depth 71cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A mid-Victorian mahogany hall seat, the moulded seat with a recessed shield panel and raised hexagonal handrests, on carved knop and hexagonal tapering legs, height 66cm, width 130cm, depth 38cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A late Victorian cast iron revolving 'Simplex' music stool by C.H. Hare, the brass handle and shaped button seat on splayed legs, height 72cm, width 33cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A pair of Regency mahogany hall chairs with carved backs and solid seats, the seat rails stamped 'Gillows Lancaster', height 92cm, width 50cm (faults).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
A late Victorian Gothic Revival oak hall chair, in the manner of A.W.N. Pugin, the pierced back and sides united by a solid panel seat, height 87cm, width 49cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An unusual East African hardwood and aluminium mounted Kamba stool, Kenya, the dished seat and underside inlaid with overall brass and copper dots, diameter 28.5cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An African carved dense hardwood stool, Igbo tribe, Nigeria, the dished circular seat raised on four carved downswept legs, height 29cm, diameter 27cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An African carved wooden ceremonial armchair, probably Senufo, Ivory Coast, the arms carved with stylized hornbill heads, the seat raised on standing figural supports, height 100cm, width 76cm, depth 70cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
An Elizabeth I oak joint stool, circa 1600, the single-piece rectangular seat above delicate shaped apron panels, on turned baluster legs united by stretchers, height 54cm, width 53cm, depth 31cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
John Russell (Guildford 1745-1806 Hull)Portrait of Colonel Thornton with a hawk pastel59.5 x 44.1cm (23 7/16 x 17 3/8in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Collection, UKLiteratureN. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online version, J.64.2805-2809 (for the other versions)Russell exhibited a pastel portrait of Thornton with his hawk at the Royal Academy in 1786, no. 155, and it was subsequently engraved for the frontispiece of Thornton's book of 1806, A sporting tour through various parts of France. Russell clearly had some success with it since an oval version was recorded in the collection of Lord Rosebery and a painted oval at Castle Howard; two further versions in miniature on ivory are also recorded. The present hitherto-unknown pastel is arguably the strongest of them all. Thomas Thornton (1750?-1823) is thought to have been born in 1750 which would have made him 36 at the time of this portrait. He was famous for being one of the most enthusiastic and flamboyant sportsmen of the 18th and 19th centuries, dividing his time between hunting, racing, shooting, angling and hawking. In the shooting field he was certainly the best equipped - in his words he had 'a greater quantity of sporting apparatus of the most valuable and curious manufacture than any other sporting gentleman in England.' He was something of a legend in his own time, as well known as a bon viveur with a legion of mistresses as he was as a sportsman and collector. Thornton inherited Thornville Royal estate in Yorkshire, but his exuberant lifestyle, which involved keeping two London houses as well as his country seat, taxed his finances and he was eventually forced to sell his estates. Contemporary records chart the progress south of his considerable belongings and retinue after the sale of the Yorkshire property: this included grooms, huntsmen, falconers, kennel-hands and servants, travelling by horse and attended by hounds, following a chain of wagons containing his prize animals. In addition to the live cargo was 'a fantastic arsenal of sporting weapons drawn by Arab mares of the King's stud. The procession was completed by several wagon-loads of wine.'A francophile, Thornton visited France with his mistress before the Revolution and again in 1802 on a sporting trip. It seems probable that while in France, Thornton sought the support of the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, over the circumstances of his court-martial in a bid to regain his reputation. He used the gift of a fine pair of pistols as his introduction. In his Sporting Tour Through France Thornton records 'I was favoured with a letter from General Duroc, containing the thanks of the First Consul for the pistols, which had been very graciously accepted.' One of the pair of gold-inlaid pistols presented by Thornton to Napoleon Bonaparte was sold by Bonhams London, 6 April 2006, lot 396.Following the sale of his estates Thornton leased Spye Park in Wiltshire in 1805 from the Bayntun family. He wanted to replace the Bayntun family portraits with sporting paintings of his own, and commissioned a number of large-scale works from the best sporting artists of the day such as Reinagle, Gilpin and Henry Bernard Chalon. Thornton moved to France during the second decade of the 19th century and in 1819-20 his very substantial art collection – which included works by significant Old Masters – was auctioned off to settle his debts.We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for confirming the attribution to John Russell, upon inspection of colour photographs.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Corgi Toys 261 James Bond Aston Martin D.B.5 from the Film “Goldfinger” gold body, with working ejector seat, rear bullet screen, retractable machine guns, complete with opened secret instructions, leaflet with two bandit figures, cloth lapel badge, model is in near mint original condition, inner display card has plain orange base, in excellent original condition, outer-box complete with all end flaps, which is in good original condition, some edge/age wear, tiny tear to one picture side.
Vintage Corgi Toys James Bond Cars, including boxed E3019 James Bond Octopussy set, Range Rover, Horse Box and jet plane, opened, Citroen 2CV from ‘For Your Eyes Only’ Corgi Junior Citroen 2CV from ‘For Your Eyes Only’ unboxed: 270 James Bond Aston Martin DB5, seat af, Aston Martin DB5, 271 James Bond Aston Martin DB5, missing bandit figure, 269 Lotus Esprit, plus 4 others, all in fair to near mint original condition. (10 items)
Corgi Toys Commer Constructor Gift Set 24, 2 cab/chassis units, 4x interchangeable bodies, milkman, milk crates and bench seat, models are in near mint original condition, with an excellent original lift of illustrated lid box,15/= vintage price label, excellent polystyrene inner tray, correct instruction/Corgi model club leaflet.
Two Siku (Germany) models V 287 Hanomag 900 Tractor, circa 1972, pale greenbody, red plastic steering wheel/seat, red plastic wheel hubs, black rubber tyres, in near mint original condition, illustrated picture box is in near mint original condition and V 291 Deutz Cement Mixer Truck, circa 1972, yellow cab, red chassis/cement mixer barrel, green back, white interior, jewelled headlights, yellow plastic wheel hubs, black rubber tyres, in near mint original condition, illustrated picture box is in very good original condition, some edge/age wear, vintage price label to one non picture side of box. (2 items)
Two Siku (Germany) models V 303 Hanomag 900 Tractor and Limber Trailer, circa 1972, pale green body, red plastic steering wheel/seat, red plastic wheel hubs, black rubber tyres, trailer pale green/red/chrome, solid black plastic wheel hubs, with wooden log load in near mint original condition, illustrated picture box is in fair condition, missing one end flap and inner tab and V 261 Mercedes Benz Metz Escape Ladder Fire Engine, circa 1972, red body/interior, silver plated base and platform, grey plastic ladders, jewelled headlights, clear windscreen, red plastic wheel hubs, black rubber tyres,in mint original condition, illustrated picture box is in fair original condition, with edge/age wear, some storage staining, vintage price label to one end flap. (2 items)
Vintage Scalextric 007 James Bond Aston Martin DB5, white body, machine guns to the front, working bullet proof shield, working ejector seat, complete with James Bond & bandit figure, replacement ejector roof in good condition and Mercedes 190SL Bandit Car, black body, red interior, with replacement shooting bandit figure, missing automatic roll over spring and front bumper. (2 items)
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO CHINESE ‘ORACLE’ BONES, SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH - 11TH CENTURY BC私人珍藏 商代 甲骨 一組 二十二件 公元前 13至11世紀 Short horn water buffalo and Chinese stripe-neck turtle, of various shapes and sizes, twenty-one inscribed with characters, some with cut hollows, burn marks and cracks (22)The largest: 8cmThe smallest: 1.5cmProvenance: The collection of Lt. Col. George Douglas Gray, OBE, MD RAMC (1872 - 1946), thence by family descent来源：乔治.道格拉斯.格雷大校（1872-1946）收藏，家族後人留存至今The oracle bone inscriptions (jiaguwen: ‘writings on shells and bones’) are the earliest surviving writing systems in China. They were discovered at Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty (c.1300-1046, also known as Yinxu, ‘ruins of the Yin’) at the end of the 19th and early 20th century. One of Lt. Col. Gray’s fellow officers was Capt. James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) who was originally a Chinese missionary and contributed to the study of the subject, the author of Oracle Records from the Waste of Yin (1919) who was responsible for the discovery that An-yang must be the site of the ancient seat of the Kingdom of Shang. It is conceivable that this group of oracle bones may have been a gift from Capt. Mellon Menzies to Lt. Col. G.D. Gray during their military service together甲骨文（又称契文、甲骨卜辭，為商朝晚期王室用於占卜記事而在龜甲或獸骨上契刻的文字）中國現存最早的文字系統。它們於 19 世紀末至20 世紀初在商朝最後一個都城安陽（约 为公元前1300-1046 年，又名殷墟）被發現。格雷大校的一位同事是詹姆斯·梅隆·孟席斯上尉（1885-1957），他最初是一名到中国的傳教士，并為該主题的研究做出了贡獻，他同時也是《殷墟中的甲骨文记錄》（1919）的作者，他是第一位推斷出安陽应该就是古代殷商王朝的都城所在地。這组甲骨有很大可能就是梅隆·孟席斯上尉在他们一起服兵役期间送给喬治.道格拉斯.格雷大校的禮物。Condition ReportThe fragments are in good condition with the exception of a repaired break across the lower section of one (2nd from left, top row, as illustrated in the catalogue), and minor age cracks to several.
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