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Lot 143
Africa.- Ethiopia.- Haile Selassie I (Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975).- Coronation of Haile Silassie I, photograph album, 33 photographs of the coronation festivities, some related ephemera and newspaper cuttings on c. 60pp., 1f. central tear, cuttings taped down, ink ownership inscription "E. O. Springfield, The Palace, Khartoum, Sudan" to front pastedown, original printed boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio, [1930].⁂ An excellent album of photographs, stamps, letters and other ephemera covering the coronation of Haile Selassie I.The album was compiled by an E. O. Springfield and includes his 11-page typed account of the ceremony. Of particular note amongst the ephemera is Springfield's seat ticket for the coronation, and a manuscript letter in Amharic from the British Minster to the Empire of Ethiopia, Sir Sidney Barton, requesting safe passage for Springfield, translated as, 'Let the bearer (Mr. E.O. Springfield) pass, he is carrying food to the Emperor'. Included is a group photograph of the British delegation featuring a twenty year old Wilfred Thesiger, attended the ceremony as honorary attaché to the duke of Gloucester. Whilst British Consul-General and Minister Plenipotentiary to Addis Ababa, his father, Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, had sheltered the Emperor's young son in 1916; the elder Thesiger died in 1920, so it was a touching tribute to the Thesiger family for the late Consul-General's son was invited to the coronation ceremony.A complete list of the ephemera is available upon request.
Lot 348
Genealogy.- Langham/Musgrave family.- Pedigree roll of the line of descent from Edward I to Sir James Langham Bt. and children, manuscript on a single vellum membrane, hand-coloured line of descent from Edward I and manuscript names within roundels, ending with the children of Sir James Langham & his wife Juliana Musgrave, short tear in left corner not affecting pedigree, some slight surface wear, slightly browned, 307 x 804mm., [c. 1790s].⁂ A pedigree roll drawn up in support of Langham's appeal for a peerage in right of his wife, Juliana Musgrave who could trace her lineage back to Edward I, and through his youngest daughter, Elizabeth's (1282-1316) marriage to Humphrey de Bohun, fourth earl of Hereford and ninth earl of Essex (c. 1276-1333). Langham, in a letter to William Pitt, 4 January 1788, requested "the high honour of an English peerage", pleading his service in the army, his estate of "unencumbered landed property in Northamptonshire and Somersetshire of £10,000 p.a.", and his connections with the aristocracy. Langham's appeal failed with Pitt declining to raise him to the peerage. Langham's son tried again some years later and was similarly unsuccessful. Sir James Langham, seventh Baronet of Cottesbrooke (1736-95) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1784 to 1790. He was the son of William Langham and his wife Mary Drought, daughter of Anthony Drought. He inherited the baronetcy from his uncle Sir John Langham, sixth Baronet in 1766. He was sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1767, and elected Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire in 1784, holding seat until 1790. Langham married Juliana Musgrave (1741-1810), daughter of George Musgrave (1717-42) of Nettlecombe and Combe Sydenham in Somerset, and sister and heiress of Thomas Musgrave (1741-66). By his wife he had four children including the eldest son and heir, Sir William Langham, eighth Baronet (1771-1812); and younger son, Sir James Langham, tenth Baronet (1776-1833). The roll includes the names of Sir James' & Juliana's children, William, Marianne, Charlotte & James.
Lot 215
A set of four Regency rosewood and brass dining chairs, the top rail with reeded scroll cresting and inlaid with brass bell flowers and foliage, between eared uprights, over a double rail back and caned seat with loose cushion, on moulded sabre legs, 34½in. (87.5cm.) high, 19½in. (49.5cm.) to seat cushion. (4)
Lot 217
A pair of French Hepplewhite carved beechwood spoon back chairs, 18th century, the serpentine seat and back upholstered in printed silk (stained), raised over an anthemion carved seat rail and foliate and scroll carved legs with scroll toes, 35½in. (90cm.) high, 24½in. (62.25cm.) wide, 18in. (45.75cm.) to seat, faults. (2)
Lot 335
An Edwardian mahogany and marquetry open framed salon settee, the shaped back with marquetry cresting rail over three pierced vase splats, an ivory watered silk seat and slightly scrolled arms with marquetry inlaid label supports, raised on square tapered legs, 42in. (106.25cm.) long, 31¼in. (79.5cm.) high. * Provenance: Miscellanea (Cornwall) Ltd., Truro, 1964
Lot 337
An Edwardian mahogany and marquetry open armchair, the slightly arched, rectangular back with marquetry cresting rail and label splat, over shaped arms and a stuff over seat in ivory watered silk, raised on square tapered legs with spade toes and peripheral stretchers, 21in. (53.25cm.) wide, 35½in. (90cm.) high.
Lot 387
A French Normandy chestnut box settle, early 19th century, the three plank seat below shaped upright arm swith candle boxes and brass bosses, the base with a pair of panelled doors with brass hinges and escutcheons, enclosing two slides, raised on shaped stile feet united by a shaped apron, 70½ x 22¾in. (179 x 57.75cm.), 38½in. (97.75cm.) high.
Lot 83
A French Louis XV style salon settee, late 19th / early 20th century, painted pale grey and reupholstered in silver-grey and ivory stripe, the elliptical back with curled ribbon carved showframe with foliate cresting, over padded foliate carved arms on scroll supports and a bowfront seat, raised on tapered stop fluted legs, 76½in. (194.25cm.) long, 40¼in. (102.25cm.) high to back.
Lot 2
Late 19th century Dutch painted and carved wood settle, the scroll carved pediment with central lion crest, the panelled back decorated with the Battle of the Medway (1667), when the English naval fleet were defeated by the Dutch under Lieutenant Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, whose portrait features to the centre, the bench seat flanked by lion mask carved arms, raised on pierced scroll carved legs, 172cm wide, 165cm high, 44cm deep
Lot 212
William IV mahogany and leather upholstered library armchair, the arched button back above a leather cushion flanked by long arms on turned supports, the front edge slightly bowed above the ring turned tapering legs and castors, 67cm wide, 89cm high, 68cm deep, the seat with cushion 38cm high
Lot 29
Pair of George III mahogany carved shell back hall chairs, possibly by Gillows of Lancaster, the arched shell back above arched sweeping supports and solid seat above turned legs Susan E. Stuart illustrates and describes similar chairs in her book, "Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, page 203, plate 177"
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