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Lot 52
A MATCHED GILTWOOD SALON SUITE IN LOUIS XV STYLE 19TH CENTURY comprising: a canape with a shell cartouche above the upholstered back and serpentine seat, the front rail and cabriole legs with further shell carvings, together with two similar bergeres with scrolling foliate decoration (3) 85cm high, 139cm wide, 78cm deep (max) Provenance Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Lot 526
A RARE PAIR OF ANGLO-CHINESE EXPORT PADOUK ARMCHAIRS IN IRISH STYLE, MID-18TH CENTURY each with a scroll top rail above a pierced and interlaced splat back carved with bird's heads, with a drop-in seat, on leaf and rosette carved cabriole front legs and claw and ball feet (2) Literature See Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, pp.220-234. Catalogue Note This fine pair of armchairs were constructed in China, probably Canton or Macau for an English client possibly an East India Company official. They are based on an English prototype but constructed in an entirely Chinese way. Interestingly the design of the interlaced splat, with scrolls terminating in eagle's heads relates to examples of Irish origin, see The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, p.213, figs. 38 & 39.
Lot 665
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR BY WM. A. & S. SMEE, C.1880 the carved top rail above a vase shape splat and turned spindles, with outswept arms and a shaped solid seat, the cabriole front legs with foliate carving to the knees, tied with an 'H' stretcher, with a gilt metal manufacturer's label to the underside
Lot 95
A MAHOGANY STOOL IN REGENCY STYLE BY GEORGE SMITH, LATE 20TH CENTURY the needlework seat above turned legs and brass castors, the underside with a brass trade label, inscribed 'Handmade by Craftsmen. Newcastle, England. George Smith Mfg. Ltd.' 45cm high, 99cm wide, 43cm deep Provenance Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Lot 44
‘Colonel Cameron, informed by a staff officer of the critical state of affairs, formed the 9th regiment in line under a violent fire, and, without returning a single shot, ran in upon and drove the grenadiers from the rocks with irresistible bravery, plying them with a destructive musketry as long as they could be reached, and yet with excellent discipline refraining from pursuit, lest the crest of the position should be again lost, for the mountain was so rugged that it was impossible to judge clearly of the general state of the action’ (Napier, Peninsular War, book xi. chap. 7, Battle of Busaco, 27 September 1809) ‘We sprang over the wall and moved rapidly against a strong body of the enemy posted outside of the convent, and on seeing these a very galling fire opened upon us from the adjacent buildings which I ordered to be forced. Woodham entering the largest in which he was killed after gaining the first floor at the point of the bayonet. The row was now at its height, some charging those posted at the convent, others clearing the houses of which the windows and other outlets the enemy availed themselves to escape and all uniting in full chase to the village of San Martin.’ (The recipient describes the assault and capture of the fortified convent of San Bartolomeo in front of San Sebastian - from ‘The Letters of Lt. Colonel Sir John Cameron, 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment of Foot, 1808-14’) The rare Regimental Commander’s Peninsula War group of four awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir John Cameron, K.C.B., who first saw action with the 43rd Light Infantry in the West Indies in 1794 at the captures of Martinique, St Lucia and Guadaloupe, displaying his gallantry and winning his captaincy at the storming of the Fortress of Fleur d’Epée; subsequently, as a junior captain placed in command of his sickness reduced regiment, he suffered severe wounds and was captured in the defence of Berville Camp, 4 October 1794, spending 2 years in a prison hulk off Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadaloupe. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 9th Foot in September 1807, Cameron commanded the 2nd Battalion at Vimeiro the following year, and then, assuming command of the 1st Battalion - a position he retained throughout the Peninsula War - served under Sir John Moore in 1809 at Corunna where his intrepid bravery gained the approbation of his superior in command; he returned to Portugal in March 1810 at head of his Battalion, being Mentioned in Despatches for Busaco where he ‘exerted himself with the greatest gallantry in front during the charge, when his horse was killed under him’; was wounded and fell from the breach at the final assault on San Sebastian; and in the fiercely contested Battle of Nive, finding his regiment surrounded by superior numbers, made a successful charge to the rear taking between three and four hundred prisoners - the following day, while reconnoitring, he became engaged en tirrailleurs and had his horse shot from under him once more. Appointed one of the first K.C.B.s on his return from the Peninsula Wars, in which campaign the 9th’s losses exceeded those of any other regiment, and from which his important journals and letters survived to be later published under the title, ‘The Letters of Lt. Colonel Sir John Cameron, 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment of Foot, 1808-14’, he was later appointed Colonel of the Regiment he had commanded for upwards of thirteen years The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s, a contemporary Paris-made breast star, circa 1815, 75mm, silver with appliqué centre in gold and enamels, the reverse centre inscribed ‘Mortier Bijoutier Palais Royal No. 34 A Paris’, fitted with silver pin for wearing; Army Gold Cross 1806-14, for Vimeiro, Corunna, Salamanca, and St. Sebastian, 3 clasps, Buzaco, Vittoria, Nive, the edge of the lower three arms of the cross inscribed ‘Lt. Colonel John Cameron 1st. Bn. 9th. Foot’, with usual oak and laurel suspension ring and swivel-ring gold bar suspension; Field Officer’s Small Gold Medal, the reverse centre inscribed ‘Vimiera, & Corunna. 1808-9.’, 1 clasp, Salamanca (Lieut. Coll. J. Cameron, 9th Foot.); Portugal, Kingdom, Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight’s breast badge, gold, 45mm, some light enamel chips to the first, very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £70,000-£90,000 --- John Cameron was born on 3 January 1773, the second son of John Cameron of Culchenna, Inverness, Scotland and nephew of Cameron of Caltort, Inverness-shire, whose ancestor was a younger son of Lochiel, chief of the clan. He was educated at Eton College and entered the 43rd Foot as an Ensign on 25 September 1787, gaining promotion to Lieutenant in September 1790. In this latter year, Cameron served in the West Indies under Sir Charles Grey and was present at the reduction of Martinique (including the siege of Fort Bourbon and other minor engagements) and at the captures of St. Lucia and Guadaloupe, particularly displaying his gallantry and winning his captaincy in the storming of the fortress of Fleur d’Epée and in the sortie from and the defence of that place. In 1794, Sir Charles Grey returned to England in the mistaken belief that his West Indian conquests were secure, leaving the 43rd Regiment, which had been so reduced by sickness that Cameron, though only a junior captain commanded it, forming part of Brig.-Gen. Graham’s garrison at Berville Camp in Guadaloupe. Cameron led his Regiment in the action of 30 September 1794 and in the different attacks made by the enemy, until 4 October when he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, remaining on a prison hulk at Pointe-à-Pitre for two years. Exchanged for release in 1797, he was immediately ordered to rejoin his regiment in the West Indies, remaining on foreign service again for over three years. He was appointed a Majority in the 43rd Foot on 28 October 1800 and brought his regiment home after it had suffered terrible losses from the West Indian climate. In 1803, whilst stationed in the Channel Islands, he married Miss Amelia Brock, eldest daughter of Henry Brock, of Belmont, Guernsey, and niece of Admiral James Saumarez, notable for his victory at the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar, and first cousin of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by transferring to the 7th West India Regiment on 28 May 1807; from which he was removed to the 9th (East Norfolk) Foot from 5 September 1807. On his return to England, he was then ordered with the 9th Foot to the seat of war in Portugal, where in August 1808 he commanded the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Vimiera before assuming command of the 1st Battalion following the death in action of its commander, Colonel Stewart, at the earlier Battle of Roliça. He would remain its commander throughout the Peninsula War, the Walcheren Expedition and Canada 1814 and 1815. Cameron led the 1st into Spain with Moore during the advance to Salamanca, and afterwards, at the Battle of Corunna where he displayed intrepid bravery, gaining the approbation of his superior in command. In July 1809, Cameron embarked on the expedition to the Scheldt under the Earl of Chatham, in command of the 1st Battalion of the 9th Regiment, and returned the following September to England from where he proceeded, in March 1910, to increase the force in Portugal under the command of the Duke of Wellington, at the head of the 1st Battalion of 9th Regiment (the 2nd Battalion, aside from their participation at Barossa, remained confined to Gibraltar during this period). Likely having received news of the death of his brother, Captain Ewen Cameron, 43rd Regt., at the Battle of t...
Lot 53
A Great War ‘Salonika Operations’ O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. V. Pirie, Reserve of Officers, attached Suffolk Regiment, late 4th Dragoon Guards, who was four times Mentioned in Despatches, and also served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North, 1896-1918 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (Lieut. D. E. [sic] V. Pirie. 4th. Dn. Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Captain D. V. Pirie. Remount Dept.) this a somewhat later issue; 1914 Star (Capt: D. V. Pirie.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. D. V. Pirie.); Greece, Kingdom, Order of the Redeemer, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, Military Division, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, a contemporary tailor’s copy by Jenkins, Birmingham, unnamed, mounted court-style in this order, lacquered, pitting to Egypt medal, otherwise good very fine and better (9) £1,000-£1,400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘For services with the British Expeditionary Force, Salonika.’ Greek Order of the Redeemer, Fourth Class London Gazette 21 July 1919. Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Fourth Class London Gazette 10 September 1918. Duncan Vernon Pirie was born in Aberdeen on 28 March 1858, and was educated at Trinity College Glenalmond, and Clifton College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards, from the Aberdeenshire Militia, in 1879, before transferring to the 7th Dragoon Guards shortly afterwards. Promoted Lieutenant in 1881, he transferred to the 4th Dragoon Guards, and served during the Egyptian Expedition of 1882-84 as an Extra Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Graham, V.C., C.B. Present at the actions of El Magfar, Mahsameh, and Kassassin, for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 19 September and 2 November 1882). His Egypt Medal was presented to him in 1883 at a Royal Levee at St. James’s Palace, overseen by the Prince of Wales. Exchanging into the 1st Life Guards in late 1883, Pirie subsequently served during the Sudan Expedition attached to the Staff of the Cavalry Brigade, and was present at the Battles of El Teb and Tamaai, and then took part in the Nile Expedition with the Heavy Camel Regiment. Present at the action at Kirbekan, for his services he was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25 August 1885). Promoted Captain in the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, Pirie was briefly stationed in Ireland before transferring to the 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars in 1880. After serving as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Ceylon from 1890 to 1893, he returned to the U.K. and was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North in 1896, a seat he held for the next 22 years. Interrupting his parliamentary career, Pirie served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Remounts Department as the Disembarking Officer from 28 July 1900, and then during the Great War with the British Expeditionary Force, initially as a Railway Transport Officer on the Western Front form 28 September 1914, and later as an assistant Military Landing Officer. In 1916 he was appointed temporary Major of the 1st (Garrison) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and served with them in Salonika, and was afterwards in command of the British Garrison on Corfu from 13 December 1917 to 1 August 1918. For his services during the Great War he was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11 June 1918), and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, as well as receiving the Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of the War, Pirie subsequently served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen, and was a Member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland (the Royal Company of Archers). He died at his French home, the Chateau de Varennes, on 11 January 1931. Sold with copied research including a photocopied image of the recipient. For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 619.
Lot 619
The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel D. V. Pirie, Reserve of Officers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State; 1914-15 Star [sic]; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Greece, Kingdom, Order of the Redeemer, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, Military Division, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted court-style in this order, lacquered, very fine (9) £240-£280 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘For services with the British Expeditionary Force, Salonika.’ Greek Order of the Redeemer, Fourth Class London Gazette 21 July 1919. Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Fourth Class London Gazette 10 September 1918. Duncan Vernon Pirie was born in Aberdeen on 28 March 1858, and was educated at Trinity College Glenalmond, and Clifton College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards, from the Aberdeenshire Militia, in 1879, before transferring to the 7th Dragoon Guards shortly afterwards. Promoted Lieutenant in 1881, he transferred to the 4th Dragoon Guards, and served during the Egyptian Expedition of 1882-84 as an Extra Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Graham, V.C., C.B. Present at the actions of El Magfar, Mahsameh, and Kassassin, for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 19 September and 2 November 1882). His Egypt Medal was presented to him in 1883 at a Royal Levee at St. James’s Palace, overseen by the Prince of Wales. Exchanging into the 1st Life Guards in late 1883, Pirie subsequently served during the Sudan Expedition attached to the Staff of the Cavalry Brigade, and was present at the Battles of El Teb and Tamaai, and then took part in the Nile Expedition with the Heavy Camel Regiment. Present at the action at Kirbekan, for his services he was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25 August 1885). Promoted Captain in the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, Pirie was briefly stationed in Ireland before transferring to the 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars in 1880. After serving as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Ceylon from 1890 to 1893, he returned to the U.K. and was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North in 1896, a seat he held for the next 22 years. Interrupting his parliamentary career, Pirie served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Remounts Department as the Disembarking Officer from 28 July 1900, and then during the Great War with the British Expeditionary Force, initially as a Railway Transport Officer on the Western Front form 28 September 1914, and later as an assistant Military Landing Officer. In 1916 he was appointed temporary Major of the 1st (Garrison) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and served with them in Salonika, and was afterwards in command of the British Garrison on Corfu from 13 December 1917 to 1 August 1918. For his services during the Great War he was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11 June 1918), and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, as well as receiving the Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of the War, Pirie subsequently served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen, and was a Member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland (the Royal Company of Archers). He died at his French home, the Chateau de Varennes, on 11 January 1931. For the recipient’s related full-sized awards, see Lot 54.
Lot 66
A fine Great War ‘1917’ FE2d and DH4 Ace’s M.C. group of three awarded to Major H. R. Harker, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force - a skilled Flight Commander with 57 Squadron, who extricated his bomber formation from a dog fight with a vastly superior numbered German force led by Lothar Von Richthofen, 30 April 1917. A veteran of such skirmishes during ‘Bloody April’, Harker went on to claim at least 5 Victories before tragically succumbing to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘1917 Awarded To 2nd Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) H. R. Harker. R.F.C. “Consistently Set A Splendid Example To His Brother Officers” Died 27.2.1919 Major In R.A.F.’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted upside down (Capt. H. R. Harker. R.F.C.) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 9 January 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. For nearly a year he has carried out extremely valuable work in taking aeroplane photographs and leading bombing raids far behind the enemy lines, often in the face of great opposition and trying weather conditions. On a recent occasion while returning from a successful bombing raid his formation was attacked by more than twice its number but by his fine offensive spirit and skilful leadership the enemy were dispersed. He has consistently set a splendid example to his brother officers.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 27 May 1919. Howard Redmayne Harker was born in May 1891, and was the son of Mr and Mrs J. D. Harker of Prestwich, Manchester. He was educated at Laurence House School, St. Annes-on-Sea, Rossall School and Manchester University. Harker had been a member of the university O.T.C., and upon leaving in 1913 was employed in the Experimental Department of the Royal Air Craft Factory. Eventually, despite deferment because of important war work, he successfully obtained a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916. Harker gained his Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 2945) in May 1916, and having completed his flying training advanced to Flying Officer the following month. He was posted for operational flying with the newly formed 57 Squadron (FE2d’s) to France, 16 December 1916. The Squadron were employed on fighter reconnaissance duties, and Harker achieved their first victory when flying with Second Lieutenant V. D. Fernauld (an American) as his observer, 24 March 1917. The Combat Report gives the following: ‘FE2d A/1954, armed with 2 Lewis guns, Pilot 2/Lt. H. R. Harker, Observer 2/Lt. V. D. Fernauld engaged a hostile aircraft at 1145, east of Lens, at 9,000ft. The H.A. was a signle seat tractor biplane with one or two fixed guns. The H.A. was engaged from above on his right side with the sun behind the FE2d. A burst of about 20 rounds was fired, from almost directly above the H.A. at a range of less than 50 yards, by the Oobserver. The tracer bullets were seen entering the engine and fuselage, and H.A. went down practically vertically, twisting about....’ The superiority of the German aircraft was to come to the fore the following month, known as ‘Bloody April’, when the Squadron lost a number of pilots in combat. Harker wrote home, 7 April 1917: ‘We are having quite a busy time of late for reasons which you will gather by the time you get this letter and see its date. We are engaged in the somewhat arduous and occasionally mildly exciting task of gaining what the politicians love to call ‘The supremacy of the air.’ I have for the third time been appointed acting Flight Commander and may possibly remain so this time. The man who relieved me of my temporary command the last time went over the line yesterday morning and the unkind Huns promptly shot him down and he landed within 50 yards of our outposts in front of the Hindenburg line. He is now in ‘Blighty’ I expect. He was luckier than the other four machines, which did not return all... This particular patrol were asked to do a well nigh impossible task which we have not been required to repeat so you need not think I am likely to follow them... It is somewhat parky in the upper atmosphere just now and many of us are suffering from mild frostbite...’ A ‘scrap’ with Lothar Von Richthofen Harker led a bombing formation, 30 April 1917, which had a brush with Lothar von Richthofen: ‘Forty minutes after his destruction of the 16 Squadron BE, Lothar Von Richthofen and his command, together with elements of Jasta 12, spotted a formation of FEs in the morning light. The FEs, led by Captain H. R. Harker (A6401), were from 57 Squadron. Earlier at 06.50 the British had spotted German fighters over Lécluse but, outnumbered as they were, had decided that discretion was the better part of valour and withdrew. At 07.00 over Vitry, they were approached by yet another formation of enemy scouts, six above them and three others at their own altitude. In the initial attack, two of the FE’s fell, one to Lothar, the other to the leader of Jasta 12, Adolf von Tutschek.... Another of the FE’s (A1966) was picked off by the three enemy scouts operating at the lower level.... An enemy machine was also hit, going down two miles SW of Douai. Yet another of the German planes went down under the fire of the FE’s, landing near to Vitry at 07.15. The German losses were soon more than made good by the arrival of reinforcements.... Still the Germans continued not to commit themselves to an all-out attack, a situation which allowed Harker and three other FE’s to edge their way slowly back to the British lines.’ (Under the Guns of the German Aces, by N. Franks and H. Giblin refers). It is highly likely that the above action is one the one referred to in the recipient’s M.C. citation. Harker advanced to Acting Captain and Flight Commander after ‘Bloody April’. The Squadron re-equipped with DH4’s in May 1917, and was tasked with long range bomber reconnaissance. It moved to Boisdinghem the following month, and joined the 27th Wing as part of V Brigade. The latter was employed in support of the British Army during the Ypres Offensive, and this new role seems to have suited Harker as he added at least another 4 enemy aircraft to his score between 18 June - 21 August 1917 (some sources credit him with 7 enemy aircraft shot down). Having completed his tour with 57 Squadron, Harker returned to the UK at the end of August 1917. Subsequent appointments included as Acting Squadron Commander of 3 I.T.S., and also instructing at No. 2 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping, R.A.F. Andover. He advanced to Acting Major in October 1918, and tragically succumbed to the then raging Spanish Flu pandemic, dying at the Officer’s Military Hospital at Tidworth, 27 February 1919. Major Harker was mentioned in despatches for his work at Andover, and this was posthumously gazetted. He is buried in the Southern Cemetery, Manchester. Sold with a large amount of copied research, including photographic images.
Lot 1
A WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR IN GEORGE I STYLE LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY covered in petit and gros point needlework with scrolling leaves and flowers, the front legs carved with flowerheads and on claw and ball feet, with a label to the seat, inscribed 'This chair is the work of Muriel Lady Capel Cure copied from a Queen Anne chair now at Saltram. Given to Theresa Farquhar in 1926.' Provenance Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Lot 320
A set of twelve Jacobean style dining chairs, comprising ten side chairs and a pair of carvers, the side chair 103.5cm high, 47cm wide, the seat 37cm deep, the carver 113cm high, 59cm wide, the seat 48cm wide and 41cm deep; an oak gateleg dining table, 73.5cm high, 65cm opening to 178.5cm long, 123cm wide (13)
Lot 622
A drawer-leaf trestle dining table, 77cm high, 183cm extending to 274.5cm long, 92cm wide; a set of six Jaycee dining chairs, comprising four side chairs and a pair of carvers, the side chair 96.5cm high, 47.5cm wide, the seat 41cm deep, the carver 96.5cm high, 56.5cm wide, the seat 42cm wide and 41cm deep (7)
Lot 729
A 1960's/1970's G-Plan type revolving black leather armchair, the button back extending to angular wing backs and padded out swept arms enclosing the fitted cushion seat, raised upon four coiled springs and a teak 'X' frame on castors, 103cm highPLEASE NOTE: This lot may not comply with current fire regulations and must be fully professionally re-upholstered prior to installation in any setting.
Lot 733
An Ercol 'Chester' elm and beech extending oval pedestal table and four conforming Ercol chairs, the oval table top with fold out leaf raised upon a baluster pedestal, extending to four cabriole supports, 73cm H x 120cm extending to 170cm x 109cm W, along with a set of four Ercol ash and elm 'Quaker' hoop back chairs, 100cm, complete with two sets of detachable seat pads (5)
Lot 176
PLATINUM JUBILEE INTEREST; a 1953 Queen Elizabeth II coronation stool, stamped Waring and Gillow 1953, with a crowned cypher, the concave seat covered in original blue velvet fabric with original dust cover, raised upon limed oak chamfered legs, 48cm H x 45cm W x 31cm.PROVENANCE; with an invitation to the coronation for M.B.E Chaplin to the Queen The Venerable Arthur Selwyn Bean, along with order of service and further documentation
Lot 613
A Regency mahogany toilet mirror in the manner of Gillows, the rectangular mirror raised upon reeded supports and an inverted plinth base, 62cm H x 54cm W, along with a Victorian carved oak hall chair, the openwork back rest with carved foliate and green man detail, above a circular seat raised upon barley twist front legs, 91cm high (2)
Lot 618
A George III armchair, later re-covered in foliate damask fabric, the square back extending to straight arms, enclosing the loose cushion seat, raised upon channelled mahogany front legs of square section, plain back swept rear legs, united by cross stretchers, 95cm H x 74cm W x 70cm DCondition reportSplice repair to the rear right leg, further minor splits/repairs to the front legs, the rear cross stretcher is a later addition, general minor scuffs and wear to the legs.The fabric is in good condition as it is later re-covered and there is only minor play in the chair joints.
Lot 619
A George III mahogany serpentine sofa, later re-covered in damask fabric, the arched shaped back extending to padded scrolled arms, enclosing the three loose seat cushions and serpentine front, raised upon six legs of chamfered square section, united by plain cross stretchers, 91cm H x 208cm W x 68xm D, seat height 51cmCondition reportThe width cross stretchers are a later modification, the RH stretcher is detached but present, both front right and left legs have a splice repair although both are solid with no play in the joints.Overall there is little or no play in the joints and the fabric is in good condition with very little wear.
Lot 634
A set of ten George IV rosewood dining chairs, each with a concave top rail above a drop in upholstered seat and channelled front apron, raised upon tapering and fluted front legs terminating in peg feet, plain back swept rear legs, 88cm highCondition reportAll chairs are firm with little or no play in the joints, two chairs have historic splice repairs to the right rear leg, two chairs have chips to the right rear foot.Three chairs have very minor signs of historic worm in the rear underside rail (one chair having later timber used in the repair/replacement of the back rail), three chairs have some minor play in the top rail, none of the aforementioned faults effect the stability of the chairs.Later re covered seats.Otherwise general light rubbing wear, scuffs and fading commensurate with age and use.
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