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A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF FLORIDA $1200 SHARE CERTIFICATE, for The Southern Inland Navigation Improvement Company, framed and glazed; together with two others (3). Largest: 2ft 7ins x 2ft 0ins.

CUMBRIA SHARE CERTIFICATES. Collection of 9 various certificates incl. Whitehaven & Furness Junction Railway, Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co., Border Counties Railway, Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway, Carlisle Biscuit Co., etc.; also one other item. (10).

A fine George III carved mahogany centre table in the manner of Thomas ChippendaleThe rectangular tilt top with canted angles and a later pierced gilt bronze gallery on a tapered ring turned and wrythen baluster column and a quadripartite base with moulded downswept legs terminating in scroll feet and castors, 64cm wide, 58.5cm deep, 74cm high.The above lot with the unusual quadripartite base relates to a group of of tripod tables linked to Chippendale on the basis of the three tables supplied to the lodging rooms at Harewood House and illustrated in C.Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, Leeds, 1978, p.256, pl.469. These tables share the same leg profile and scroll foot which can further be seen on a table of 'guadalupe wood' made for No.19 Arlington Street in 1764, now at Aske Hall and illustrated in C.Gilbert, ibid., p.257. pl.470. This pattern of leg with the wrythen turned baluster is seen on a table in satinwood from the collection of N.M.L Watson, Esq. and later sold at Christie's London,21 November 1985, lot 52. This was clearly a popular form of table and other tripods attributed to Thomas Chippendale and with this distinctive legs pattern include examples sold Christie's London, 27th November 2003, lot 15, 7th July 1994, lot 68, 27 November 2003, lot 65 and Sotheby's London, 18 November 1994, lot 107.

1956 Duke and Duchess of Windsor: a presentation photograph by Philippe Halsman, the silver gelatine image depicting the couple three-quarter length standing, hand signed in blue biro by both sitters and contained in a good quality frame by Saintyves of Paris, the burgundy leather frame embossed in gilt with crowned monogram, 228 x 176mm overall, frame slightly distressed, together with a two embossed card handwritten in biro note from the Duchess dated May 7th (1957 added in a different hand) commenting on the enclosed ‘small photograph’ and their preference for avoiding photography at their ‘certain or uncertain age’ also referring to this as being ‘their last attempt in New York in October’ (2) Illustrated (commemorative commemorate) *Philippe Halsman’s creative ability behind the lense is well documented. His series of ‘jumpolgy’ photographs capturing the sitter in mid air were not only stylish, amusing but also ground breaking in their approach. He captured the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in this way and almost certainly at the same sitting as this photograph where the couple, variously depicted in mid air, are dressed identically (save for the removal of the Duchess’ oversized buttonhole in all but one photograph) which all share the same backdrop.

Two copper printing plates for printing £100 share certificates for Wollaton Colliery c.1890

A Portfolio of Bond and Share Certificates. Leominster and Bromyard Railway Company £10 Share Certificate No.Z148 9th November 1881, The Wharfdale Railway Company £15 Share Certificate No. 9221 15th August 1846, The Channel Tubular Railway Preliminary Company Five "Darts De Foundateurs" No. 94,646 to 94650, 9th May 1892, The Wandsworth Bridge Company £10 Share Certificate No,854 2nd May 1865, Cherra Tea Company Share of £10each No.11048 to 11057 10th December 1881, The European and America Steam Shipping Company £9 Share Certificate No.9219 4th March 1857, The New Sombrero Phosphate Company £10 Bonds Warrant No.7906 26th October 1871, The Du Preez Gold Mining and Esate Company Fifty £1 Share No 169676 to 169725 25th May 1889, The Aberdare and Plymouth Company Debenture Certificate No.234 16th May 1876, Oriental Bank Corporation £25 Share Certificate No.4765 4th November 1864, The Manchester and Salford Loan Discount and Deposit Company £5 Share Certificate No.3948 17th December 1874, USA State of Louisiana 1000 Dollar Bond No.4945 6th July 1892, USA The Philadephia and Reading Railroad Company 1000 Dollar Deferred Income Bond No.23215 1st July 1882 with Coupons, Chales Laffitte andCompany £20 Share Certificate No.9695 (Laffitte was a well known financial manipulator of the time) 15th January 1866, Columbian National Railway Company £100 Debenture Share No.434 9th March 1903, Argentine Republic City of Santa Fe 6% £100 Bond No.1696 27th March 1889 with Coupons, The Venezuela Central Railway Company £100 Debenture Share No110 12th April 1927 with Coupons, China 5% Hukdang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan 1911, Bond for £20 No.67716 15th June 1911 with coupons, Russia City of Moscow 5% Loan Bond for £20 No.48757 1908, Russia Railway Share Certificate 125 Robles No.26226 1907, Russia Dvinsk-Vitebsk Railroad 4% Bond for £20 No.084495 1894 with Coupons, Russia South Eastern Railway Company 4% £20 Bond No.A14973 1914 with Coupons, Russia City of Moscow 5% £20 Bond No.60159 1908, Russia Troitzk Railway Company 41/2% £20 Bond No.07987 1910 with Coupons (24)

Original vintage World War One poster: "Sir, don't waste while your wife saves. Adopt the doctrine of the clean plate – do your share." Image of a man wearing glasses and smoking a cigar, his food unfinished on the table in front of him with waiters in the background. Designed by William Crawford Young (b 1886). Published for the United States Food Administration by W. F. Powers Co., New York. The U. S. Food Administration, established in 1917, was responsible for the allied food reserves during WWI. Country: USA, year: 1917, artist: William Crawford Young, size(cm): 74x54.

Travel original vintage poster- Cunard Line - Europe & America. In 1839 Samuel Cunard, a Halifax shipowner, was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company together with Robert Napier, the famous Scottish steamship engine designer and builder, to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool–Halifax–Boston route. For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, to raise capital. In 1902 White Star joined the American-owned International Mercantile Marine Co. and the British Government provided Cunard with substantial loans and a subsidy to build two superliners needed to retain its competitive position. Mauretania held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929. The sinking of her running mate Lusitania in 1915 was one of the causes of the United States' entering the First World War. In the late 1920s, Cunard faced new competition when the Germans, Italians and French built large prestige liners. Cunard was forced to suspend construction on its own new superliner because of the Great Depression. In 1934 the British Government offered Cunard loans to finish Queen Mary and to build a second ship, Queen Elizabeth, on the condition that Cunard merged with the then ailing White Star line to form Cunard-White Star Ltd. Cunard owned two-thirds of the new company. Cunard purchased White Star's share in 1947; the name reverted to the Cunard Line in 1950. Country: UK. Year: 1930s. Artist: E. Byatt. Size (cm): 98x63. Fair condition, repaired tears and paper losses in margins.

Travel original vintage poster - Scandinavian Airlines System showing the route map of the airline. Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag (OSE: SAS+NOK, Nasdaq Stockholm: SAS, SAS DKK), trading as SAS Group and SAS AB, is an airline holding company headquartered in the SAS Frösundavik Office Building in Solna Municipality, Sweden. It is the owner of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines Ireland. SAS once owned 19.9% of the now defunct Spanish airline Spanair as well as shares in Estonian Air and Skyways Express. It also owns the aviation services companies SAS Business Opportunities, SAS Cargo Group, SAS Ground Services and SAS Technical Services. In addition, it holds minority ownership of Air Greenland. The conglomerate was founded in 1951 as a merger between the three Scandinavian flag carriers Aerotransport (ABA), Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL), and Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL), after the three had been cooperating on international routes since 1946. Until 2001, the three national companies owned a fixed share of the SAS Group, after which the shares of the three companies were merged. The SAS Group previously has owned the Rezidor Hotel Group and Braathens and has had minority ownership of bmi, airBaltic, Texas Air, Thai Airways International, and Lan Airlines. SAS was a founder of the Amadeus Computerised Reservation System and the Star Alliance, where several of the group's airlines are members. SAS runs the frequent flyer program EuroBonus.Country: Sweden. Year: 1955. Artist: Allmanna Annonsbyran AB. Size (cm): 98.5x61.5. Very good condition, small cracks.

Folder of Mixed Ephemera including World War II Military Photos, Railway Share Certificates, World War Discharge Document, etc

Old Commercial paperwork, ephemera, maps, prints, share certificates and more. Huge box (23Kg) with massive assortment. 

Large Collection of DVD's including Peter Kay's Car Share, approx 100Being sold on behalf of Cystic Fibrosis & GUTS Fighting Bowel Cancer.

BANK OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a group of 15 share certificates dated 1830 with typed letter of explanation

Priestley (Joseph). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain, as a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation, derived from Original and Parliamentray Documents in the Possession of Joseph Priestley, Esq., 1831, double-page engraved map frontispiece and hand-coloured folding sectional plan at rear (slight offsetting), ink name stamp to front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, original cloth, printed paper title label to spine, joints and extremities frayed, 8vo, together with a printed letter from Aire & Calder Navigation Office, Wakefield, dated April 22nd 1844 regarding interest rate reductions on invested money in the project, signed by Joseph Priestley, plus an manuscript document dated 19th June 1797 regarding a share of ninety pounds invested by William Wainman of Carhead in the undertaking of the canal navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, signed by Joseph Priestley and William Wainman (3)

FOUR FRAMED THE REGIONAL ELECTRICITY COMPANIES SHARE OFFERS ADVERTISING POSTERS

J.S Share of Aberdeen, A spliced cane14ft fishing rod, interchangeable top section. J.S Share of Aberdeen, A spliced cane14ft fishing rod, interchangeable top section. 5 splice protectors are all presentDog emblem and writing appear clearTwo tips are the same length

A collection of Russian share bonds, together with Italian examples, various Chinese government examples previously folded, and others, a small quantity please see images for all Chinese bonds (2 sheets), including close ups

Shares, 51 USA share certificates 1930s – 70s

Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd Securities Book, securities book detailing all of share investments made by the Marconi company from 1901 till 1907, the book details hundreds of transactions with purchasing of shares in American, Canadian and South American companies including various rail road companies and civil engineering projects, also shows companies holdings of shares in its own companies and subsidiaries including: Compania Marconi de Telegrafia sin Hilos del Rio de la Stata.The Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd.Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co of America.dark red leather, gold lettering and tooling to edge, original marbled end papers, printed by ‘Whitehead, Morris & Co ltd, London’, folio 40cm x 42cm

A Rare & Important Ledger Recording the Business Transactions of 'Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Company Limited' The book starts with a pasted-down copy of the first statutory meeting of the share holders of The Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Company Limited dated May 10th, 1897. The letter, signed by G. A. Pickard, is followed by hand-written or typed minutes for every meeting. One letter of interest details the 'release of Mr J E Thornton' as one of the company directors. The letter details the concerns of the other directors at his leaving and what this might mean for the company. A very interesting document. During the period of WW1 the 21st general meeting notes 'It will be noticed that the business of the company has increased and that profits have also to some extent increased. Beyond the fact that almost the whole of the business of the company is now conducted between the company and the R.F.C.'After the war, on the 25th February, 1920 Mr Grey Pickard tells the company of the passing of his father.As the company progresses the letter heads on the typed notes change, and various members of the board join and leave. The final entry is for 16th July, 1959.Included with the lot is a number of letters to and from the directors including an original share certificate, an original copy of the articles of association of the Thornton Pickard Manufacturing Company Ltd and an invoice for advertising in the Amateur photographer journal dated 1953.

ATTRIBUTED TO CLEMENT HEATON LARGE ARTS & CRAFTS CLOISONNÉ 'ENAMEL' PANEL, CIRCA 1890 the framed panel centred with the figure of an angel 75cm x 74cmNote: Clement Heaton, an early member of A.H. Mackmurdo’s Century Guild, set up his company ‘Heatons Cloisonné-Mosaic Ltd’ at 6 Berners Street, London in 1887, a year after selling his share in his father’s lucrative stained glass business Heaton, Butler & Bayne for £4,800. He patented his enamelling technique in 1886, inspired by medieval techniques which precluded the firing process and which instead used coloured cements: a mixture of resin, beeswax, sulphur marble dust and coloured pigments. Hardening over time, these cements could be polished to give the soft matt finish characteristic of Heaton’s work and seen in the present example.

Bradford City 1926 Share Certificate: Decorative Square certificate signed by Director and Secretary of the Football League. Bradford City were purchasing a share in the Football League Limited.

Charlton Athletic 1929 Share Certificate: Decorative Square certificate signed by Director and Secretary. Charlton Athletic were purchasing a share in the Football League Limited.

1906 Fulham Football Club Share Certificate: Signed by then manager Harry Bradshaw. Embossed with Fulham Football + Athletic Co. Purchase of 25 shares by man living in the Kings Road. Nice piece of history.

A mixed lot to include glassware, security boxes, Boots Colour Master projector, Kodak Easy Share printer, quantity of DVDs, books on antiques and collectables and similar (2)

Dr Glenn Seaborg Nobel Prize signed white card. American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten trans uranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.95.

A box of approx. 90 LPs mainly soul and black music including Gloria Jones Share My Love sleeve only, Teena Marie, Jackie Wilson, Billy Eckstein, Isley Brothers, Michael Jackson, The Jacksons, Smokey Robinson, Rare Earth etc.

FOUR FRAMED THE REGIONAL ELECTRICITY COMPANIES SHARE OFFERS ADVERTISING POSTERS

LITERATURE: A selection of World War I dated A.Ls.S., by various female writers, novelists and poets etc., mainly British, comprising Rose Macaulay (in part, 'This is, I hope, the last letter I shall write during the war. In fact, I hope it is over already, though we have not yet got the news of it here. I expect there will be great peace celebrations on the Front', 10th November 1918), Maud Diver (in part, 'It has always been my hope that someday some of my novels - at least - might be translated into French. But you are a critical people, with a high literary standard, which I fear I am scarcely likely to reach. I was also told - sometime before the War - that the ideals of my principle characters were too high to suit French taste. But since the war has made you better known to us, it seems to me, rather, that France is the country of fine ideals par excellence…..The news from Flanders is good & (if only the weather will do its proper share in the work) I hope it will be better still before very long…', 15th November 1917), Katharine Tynan Hinkson (in part 'I cannot tell you how much we love France. We have had a dream of sending an Irish brigade to France. I would gladly have given my sons to France. One is now fighting…..he is only 19. And the other just 18 is at the military college, Sandhurst. When it was evident there were not going to be any more recruits for England from here we tried to make a move in the direction of an Irish Brigade for France, but if it would be sanctioned….it is not easy to get at the people just now. Most of the born fighters went out in the beginning I suppose & the rest are disaffected. What is left is not the fighting sort……If an Irish Brigade for France had been sanctioned early in the War it would have been a huge success. The whole business has been badly mismanaged here', 24th February 1917), Eliza Humphreys ('Rita', Mrs. Desmond Humphreys), Violet Hunt Hueffer (in part, 'My husband, Ford Madox Hueffer has been fighting by your side in France & is now home; he has been “gassed”', 4th May n.y.) and Norma Lorimer (stating that she feels writing fiction 'is a waste of time' at this terrible time, 16th September 1917). All of the letters were written to the French soldier and autograph collector Frank Pellissier during World War I. Most with very small, extremely minor pinholes to the upper and lower edges and light age wear, generally about VG, 6

[CAWLEY HAROLD THOMAS]: (1878-1915) British Soldier, Barrister & Politician, a Captain and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General William Douglas of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division of the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during World War I. One of the four sons of Frederick Cawley (1850-1937) 1st Baron Cawley, British Businessman and Politician, who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1916-18. The three youngest sons of Baron Cawley lost their lives in World War I, Harold Thomas Cawley being killed at Gallipoli, during the Dardanelles Campaign, at a crater which subsequently became known as 'Cawley's Crater', on 23rd September 1915 at the young age of 37. He was one of 22 Members of Parliament to lose their lives during World War I. Small collection of A.Ls.S., a few contemporary copies of letters etc., most by British officers serving in Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign, all written to Baron Cawley or his wife upon the death of their son, Harold, comprising Major Reginald Allen of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division (conveying details of the circumstances of Harold's death, 'Yesterday morning at about 1am he was with some men of his company in the crater caused by the explosion of a Turkish mine. The explosion had damaged our firing line trenches, & it was necessary for men to go forward into the crater to cover the repairing of the firing line. It was a position of great danger as the front lip of the crater was within about 7 yards of the Turkish line. There was a great deal of bombing & firing there during the night & the men in the crater had begun to get uneasy, when to inspire them with confidence he went forward to the front lip of the crater & fired with his revolver at the Turks. It was then that he was shot through the head & killed instantaneously…..he was buried yesterday afternoon at Cape Helles…..As many of us as could be spared from our duty went down there to the funeral. He was much loved by all of us at Divisional Headquarters.', 25th September 1915), F. M. Allen (father of Major Reginald Allen; writing to Lady Cawley at the request of his son and conveying a message to her regarding Cawley's death, 12th October 1915), George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale (British Politician & Soldier, Brigadier-General of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division during the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915; in part, 'I was talking to your son in almost the place a few hours before his death as we, my battalion, have taken over that part of the line. It is a great loss….to the whole division. He was liked by all I ever met…..It becomes here a daily sadder lot. I have lost all my old friends in my Bn…..it is sad work this wearing down to the final extinction of us all - out of 1250 men I have 344 left today. The winter I think may accelerate the extinction, as there is not the faintest preparation for any winter shelter for the men such as they have in France - no overhead shelters - no corrugated iron or timber - and when the rain comes the trenches will just melt away….', 27th September 1915), E. T. Kerby (Chaplain to the 127th Manchester Brigade; in part, 'It was my mournful duty on Friday….to read the Burial Service over the body of your son…..the officers and men of his Battalion appreciated the courage with which he gave up his position as A.D.C. and rejoined his Battalion in the trenches after the heavy losses which it had sustained…..It was only the afternoon preceding the night on which he fell that he was present at the funeral of one of his men which I took & I shall always remember his deep concern that one of them had been killed. He is buried in the cemetery on Lancashire Landing - an appropriate resting place for one who displayed the true Lancashire characteristics of grit and courage & for one who represented a Lancashire constituency….', 27th September 1915), J. A. Farley (comrade of Cawley; two letters stating, in part, 'I think it my duty to send you the photo (no longer present) of his last resting place…..and as I have no need to say [he] met his death bravely, as he was in a very dangerous position, and no one but a fearless Englishman would have faced it….as I write this my blood seems to rush through me, to know how bravely Capt. Harold died….', 12th May 1916, and, writing to Lady Cawley, 'I received your beautiful parcel…..the cake was excellent and the other things just came in time…..what I am greatly indebted to you for is the thoughtfulness of you sending me such a beautiful photograph of your dear son, my beloved master…..While I was opening the parcel, I thought about your dear son, whenever you sent him a parcel to Gallipoli, which was very often, he would always say, “Come along Farley, my excellent mother has sent me another parcel, let us see what is in it”. He would open it and if anything he did not want, such as shirts and sock and Hanker chiefs, he would give them to me…..and then he would share out the eatables…..no doubt you have wondered why he left a staff position to go into the thick of fighting, well there is two reasons that I always will stick to, one I will tell you now, the other I will tell you when I come home, it is a reason, the second one, that Sir Frederick will admire his unfortunate son very much for doing…..he was a brave man, and insisted on going to his regiment, and I insisted on going with him…..I know you can never forget the loss of your two noble and brave sons, but you may find a little comfort to know they died a noble death, and as for Captain Harold, he suffered no prolonging pain, he died in a few seconds with a smile on his face…..the bullet went through the left corner of his mouth and I think went straight through his head….', 10th July 1916) and two contemporary copies of letters, one being that of Reginald Allen's letter included in the lot and the other a copy of a letter from Private C. Beach of the 1/6th Manchester Regiment, written from the Headquarters of the 42nd Division on 26th September 1915, to Lord Cawley and stating, in part, '….the Capt. Was always so very happy in the trenches and he took his instant death under a smile. He has a beautiful grave among many other officers of his own company….Know there's the horses, Risbury and Stuffy. They are both very well and under the most careful handling of General King, to whom I am groom. I will let you know of anything that happens to the horses as long as I am about….'. Typical of letters written by soldiers on active service, the majority are in pencil. Some light age wear and a few minor tears etc. to the edges of some letters. G to about VG, 8The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, took place in the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire between 17th February 1915 and 9th January 1916. The only major Ottoman victory of World War I, the Gallipoli Campaign was disastrous for the Allies and many repercussions followed as ill-defined goals, poor planning, insufficient artillery, weak intelligence and logistical and tactical deficiencies at all levels were exposed. Whilst casualty figures vary greatly, it is estimated that over 120,000 soldiers from the United Kingdom were declared dead, wounded, missing or captured as Prisoners of War. Of the estimated 34,072 deaths, the present letters give a poignant first-hand account of the brave circumstances of just one of these fatalities.

 [CAWLEY HAROLD THOMAS]: (1878-1915) British Soldier, Barrister & Politician, a Captain and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General William Douglas of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division of the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during World War I. One of the four sons of Frederick Cawley (1850-1937) 1st Baron Cawley, British Businessman and Politician, who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1916-18. The three youngest sons of Baron Cawley lost their lives in World War I, Harold Thomas Cawley being killed at Gallipoli, during the Dardanelles Campaign, at a crater which subsequently became known as 'Cawley's Crater', on 23rd September 1915 at the young age of 37. He was one of 22 Members of Parliament to lose their lives during World War I. MASTERMAN CHARLES (1873-1927) British Politician & Intellectual who worked closely with David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in designing social welfare projects including the National Insurance Act of 1911. During World War I Masterman played a central role in the main government propaganda agency, serving as head of the British War Propaganda Bureau. T.L.S., Charles F. G. Masterman, two pages, 4to, Wellington House, Buckingham Gate, London, 15th October 1915, to Sir Frederick Cawley, marked Private. Masterman thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'If that little article gave you any kind of solace, I rejoice that I wrote it' and continues 'I would have written a personal letter of sympathy but that it seemed almost useless to say anything under these conditions. You have indeed been heavily hit and given your best for the country', further recollecting time spent with his correspondent and 'those jolly boys of yours', and adding 'I believe Harold would have enlarged and developed his position in the House and would have been found in the Government before the end; but his position and record is better than that of any Government Office to-day'. Together with a newspaper clipping, possibly the article Masterman refers to in his letter, bearing the headlines Capt. Cawley's Exploit - How He Unloaded Ammunition Under Fire. Also including an A.L.S., Charles F. G. Masterman, six pages, 8vo, Victoria, London, 10th May 1925, to [Sir Frederick] Cawley. Masterman apologises for the delay in contacting Cawley, explaining that 'the chaos of party politics, influenza, & the need for immediate journalistic writing' has kept him from working on a final revision, adding that he has 'used every scrap of information that you have been able to give me, & am not entirely dissatisfied with the little memoir of Harold' and also stating 'I knew Harold personally & had the great advantage of letters from him. But I have had no letters from Oswald or Stephen, nor any real account from those who knew them intimately'. Masterman further writes 'I don't know what you intend to do with these manuscripts. If you are issuing them privately I would very gladly write an introduction' and remarks 'Anyhow it is a great story, as I have finally re-read it to-day, of courage, loyalty & devotion, which gives you some special if mournful realisation of what you gave for the saving of this nation in its extremity.' Further including the original typed manuscript referred to by Masterman, seven pages (unfortunately lacking the first page), 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1925), with various holograph corrections, stating, in part, 'Courage - mental and physical, writes Mr. Masterman - was the outstanding element of Harold Cawley's character….In the House of Commons he was at first sensitive and reserved and a little difficult to know…..He was Parliamentary Private Secretary, first to Mr. Runciman, later to Mr. McKenna at the Admiralty and the Home Office……He liked his work and the life of Parliament. But he never came into his own there, nor had time to reveal his real gifts of intellect and character before he died…..For twelve years he had been an officer in the East Lancashire Territorials…..When the war came he had no doubt at all of his duty and action…..Then came the news of the death of his brother in action in France - a brother to whom he was devoted. “I am helped by the report - I hope true - that he finished, as he always rode in life, at the head of the field, and had his share in the capture of the guns”……”There is a splendid dry air in the desert” he writes again, to Mrs. McKenna, “and the lights at sunset are often wonderful. Just then, it sometimes gives you the feeling that it is good to be alive and on a decent horse. I often do a solitary evening ride out into the hills and see the sunset over Cairo with the pyramids in the distance…..Napoleon's fort standing up on a bluff over the old citadel, with the beautiful minarets of the mosque, and the Pyramids behind, built nearly 4,000 years before either of them.” So he describes these days of resting in Egypt, “wintering like so many invalid millionaires” - but days of impatience…..and longing for action - in France; all unconscious that the tremendous tide of war was drifting towards them on the opposing coasts of Europe, and that amongst the tumbled hills of Gallipoli he would find his grave…..At last the call to action comes; and the only thing he was the least afraid of, was (as were thousands of others) of being afraid. He landed at Gallipoli to find a most sanguinary battle in progress……Throughout the summer he was writing the most vivid and courageous descriptions of that long, costly, heartbreaking warfare in impossible country between the Aegean and the Dardanelles…..In the fight of August 4th he wrote home to a friend, “In my battalion every officer but one of those went forward to attack was killed”…..', continuing to describe the circumstances of Cawley's death and concluding '”I hope”, Harold Cawley had written of his brother's death to a friend, “for nothing better than to finish as well when my time comes”'. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, otherwise generally VG, 4 

CHELSEA MISCELLANY A collection of Chelsea miscellany to include Chelsea Books No 1 and 2 from 1970 and 1971, Ossie the Wizard signed by Peter Osgood. Soccer the Hard Way (Ron Harris), Leaping to Fame (Peter Bonetti) and "A History of Chelsea FC" (Ralph Finn), 31 Chelsea Supporters' Club magazines from the late 1960's and 1970's (Chelsea Blue). programmes to include FA Cup Final 1970 (2) plus Replay, Great Britain v Europe at Stamford Bridge 1972/73, plus Special newspaper supplements and brochures covering the 1970 FA Cup Final v Leeds, 1971 ECWC Final and League Cup Final 1972 v Stoke plus an Official commemorative Share certificate of Chelsea Village PLC signed by the 2003/04 squad (printed). Also included are 3 tickets from the 1990's. Generally good

NORTHERN - 60s US PRESSING 7". Quality collection of 23 x 45s that are mainly original issues. Artists/titles include Etta James & Sugar Pie Desanto - In The Basement (Cadet 5539), Dobie Gray - Out On The Floor (CRG-115), Dee Dee Sharp - Standing In The Need Of Love (C-375), Major Lance - Everybody Loves A Good Time (Okeh promo 4-7233), Johnny Maestro - Heartburn (Parkway 987), The Ad Libs - Nothing Worse Than Being Alone (Share # 106), Melvin Davis - Love Bug Got A Bear Hug (Mala 12,009), Boby Franklin - The Ladies Choice, The Daytones, Robert Parker, The O'Jays, Al Kent and The Flamingos. Condition is generally Ex with small cataloguing stickers on the 'play out' side.

MOTOWN & RELATED ARTISTS/70s SOUL LPs. Cracking collection of 87 x classic LPs. Artists/titles include Willie Hutch - Ode To My Lady (STML 12015 Factory Sample stickered side 2 label), Bobby Womack - The Poet and II (EU pressings), Ahmad Jamal - Night Song, Stevie Wonder inc. Talking Book and Original Musiquarium I, Dynamic Superiors inc. You Name It, The Fifth Dimension - Star Dancing, Four Tops inc. S/T (MS704, M5-224V1) and Nature Planned It, Jr. Walker And The All Stars, Patrick Gammon - Don't Touch Me, Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On/What's Going On (double comp), , Chico De Barge, Caston & Majors, Dr. Strut, Eddie Kendricks and Gloria Jones - Share My Love. Condition of the records is generally top Ex+ with the sleeves generally VG+ to Ex+ containing archive stickers that could be removed with care.

MOTOWN & RELATED ARTISTS/70s SOUL LPs. Another smokin' collection of LPs - 87 included here. Artists/titles include Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man, The Temptations - Sky's The Limit, Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down, Gloria Jones - Share My Love, Smokey Robinson inc. One Dozen Roses (US Tamla promo T312L), Pure Smokey, Big Time and Anthology, Stevie Wonder inc. Hotter Than July, In Square Circle and Innervisions, OC Smith - At Home, Jr. Walker & The All Stars inc. Peace & Understanding... and Smooth, Timmy Thomas - Touch To Touch, Billy Preston & Syreeta, Gladys Knight And The Pips - All In A Knight's Work, Motown Disco Classics Vol. 2 and 3, Four Tops, The Undisputed Truth and Mary Wilson. Condition of the records is generally top Ex+ with the sleeves generally VG+ to Ex+ containing archive stickers that could be removed with care.

Leeds & Thirsk Railway Company Bearer Certificate 1846 - (The Leeds & Thirsk Railway opened from Leeds to Thirsk on 9 July 1848) Bearer Certificate for 1 share. Leeds Dec. 20th. Ornate black and blue printing, size 9¼" × 5" (235mm × 125mm)

The Shrewsbury And Hereford Railway Company Certificate for One £20 Share (A 50mile line opened in 1853). 1846. Has fine vignette of Castle in rural landscape. Also Locomotive in embossed seal. Black printing with manuscript annotations, size 10" ´ 6½".

Tuolumne Water Company Share Certificate 1859 - A California Company established in the goldfields to provide water for washing out the gold ore for the mining industry. Certificate for 1 Share. With a magnificent vignette of washing out gold ore. Detailed black printing in San Francisco and with manuscript annotations and signatures. Size 9½" × 6".

Two framed Anglo Western Oils Limited share certificates

Richard Galloway (b.1980). 8 of Spades. Hand painted linocut on Japanese paper. Signed, marked 1/1. 44.3 x 31.5cm. Framed. Richard Galloway: The starting point for my dark narratives is the world around me. I am right there in the middle of the action, at the local barbers, in the boozer or in the betting shop, or rising pre-dawn to accompany dustmen on their morning rounds. Using my vocabulary of marks and motifs I have built up a high street of London hangouts were all the sinners and saints take their roles in my morality play. Dolor conjures up an entirely imagined allegoric snapshot with the vantage point now zoomed out, a fictitious sin-city thriving with ideas of social change, conflict, faith and struggle, while satirical observations celebrate all that is ludicrous and enchanting about English life and society.The new series following on from Dolor shows my environment slipping further away from civility. Cramped layers of futile growth show people bathing, fishing and drinking in the sputum the factories pump out. The children are stuffed with junk food, taking on the characteristics of the hyenas which eat the perishing bodies of the dead because the morgues are bursting. The elected come round to see for themselves but are protected by their own henchmen. Women share damp tunnels with the rats as they breast feed their young touting for work with CV's in marketing experience rather than sex. The streets are shop less the spaces they vacate are now housing the rapists, pedophiles fraudsters and bankers.Any open space is left as no mans land where anything goes. High speed trains deliver more people in on the hour from a volcanic distance which itself is in self destruction as smoke and laver spills from its seams. Helicopter gun ships circle firing rockets to secure the euthanasia. www.richardgalloway.co.uk. Please note that final invoices will include buyers' premium at 27% (inclusive of VAT) added to the hammer price. Ewbank's are waiving all vendor commission for the charity. Transplant Links Community is a UK registered non-religious and non-political charity that saves the lives of children and adults in the developing world who suffer from life-threatening end stage kidney disease. Offering teaching and advice, and carrying out living kidney transplants, sharing their knowledge with local medical teams in a variety of countries - so that sustainable transplant programmes become a possibility for the future.

Collection of share certificates including mining, soap etc

Silver plate including hot water jugs and bon-bon dish, pewter items, walnut writing slope, cigarette cards, share certificates

CLEMENT HEATON (1861-1940)PAIR OF ARTS & CRAFTS PATINATED COPPER AND CLOISONNÉ DECORATED VASES, CIRCA 1890 each decorated with foliate bands in greens and blues above a patinated band (2) 39cm highProvenance: Paul Reeves, LondonLiterature: Ceresole, Anne, ‘The Work in Cloisonné of Clement John Heaton’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, No. 20 (1996), pp. 34-42 Note: Clement Heaton, an early member of A.H. Mackmurdo’s Century Guild, set up his company ‘Heatons Cloisonné-Mosaic Ltd’ at 6 Berners Street, London in 1887, a year after selling his share in his father’s lucrative stained glass business Heaton, Butler & Bayne for £4,800. He patented his enamelling technique in 1886, inspired by medieval techniques which precluded the firing process and which instead used coloured cements: a mixture of resin, beeswax, sulphur marble dust and coloured pigments. Hardening over time, these cements could be polished to give the soft matt finish characteristic of Heaton’s work and seen in the present example.

Edward Sylvester Hynes (1897-1982). Watercolour & ink, depicting three gentlemen speaking in an office, signed by artist, titled in pencil to lower margin 'Would you care to share a room with a conservative sir?', 36cm x 39cm approx.

A Kodak easy share outfit, camera stand, etc.

Fire Insurance. Record of the Constitutional Deed of the Kent Fire Insurance Co. with the List of the Governor, Deputy Governors Trustees, Directors Officers and General Proprieters. December 7th 1802, title and 56 leaves in neat manuscript in different hands to rectos and versos, entry span 1805-09, commencing with the indenture followed by records of meetings, auditors, details of bills paid and unpaid, stocks and share transactions, balance sheets etc, some overall light soiling, blank leaves at end, small book label of Charles Benson, modern half calf over original boards (a little rubbed and soiled), red label to upper cover, folio, with five loose manuscript letters relating to customs matters (1)

A collection of digital cameras to include a Canon Power Shot A20 2.1 mega pixels, a Nikon cool pix 4300, an Olympus Camedia digital camera C-460 zoom, a Fujifilm Fine Pix F700, a Fujifilm FinePix wide zoom, a Canon digital IXUS, Kodak Easy Share C643, a Sony Cyber Shot DSC-W85, A Sony cybershot 5x Carl Zeiss optical zoom a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33. Biggest measures 7cm-high 10cm-wide. 

A collection of vintage mounted and glazed share certificates dating from 1913 to include Societe Anonyme des Cargos Francais share certificate for eight million Francs, The Maikop Spies Company, The Shell Transport & Trading Company, Limited, Societe Recherches et de Forages, The Ferghana Oil Fields Limited, The Russian General Oil Corporation etc.

1857 4d Scarlet-vermilion (SG 4), fine used good to large four margin example tied to entire from St. Johns to Boston by a black grid cancel. Red St. Johns/Paid datestamp for NO.11.1858 and a Boston /Br. Pkt arrival datestamp for the 19th on obverse with a black handstruck "5" cents denoting the US share of the postage. Minor peripheral soiling, nevertheless a scarce franking.

Stark (Freya). Baghdad Sketches, cheap edition, 1939, The Valleys of the Assassins and other Persian Travels, reprint edition, June 1934, East Is West, 1945, Perseus In The Wind, 1948, Traveller's Prelude, 1950, Beyond Euphrates, 1951, The Coast of Incense, 1953, The Lycian Share, 1956, Dust in the Lions Paw, 1961, all 1st editions, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, some covers rubbed with loss, 8vo, together with Thomas (Bertram), Arabia Felix: across the empty quarter of Arabia, 2nd impression, 1932, numerous black and white illustrations, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers toned and rubbed, 8vo, and other Arabian and travel reference including T.E. Lawrence, all original cloth, some in dust jackets, condition is generally good, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

United States Railroad Company share certificates, American, Scottish and other mint uncirculated bank notes, replica coins, and a copy of The Desiderata. (qty)

A box of approx. 90 LPs mainly soul and black music including Gloria Jones Share My Love sleeve only, Teena Marie, Jackie Wilson, Billy Eckstein, Isley Brothers, Michael Jackson, The Jacksons, Smokey Robinson, Rare Earth etc.

A COLLECTION OF CAMERAS - FINE PIX , PENTAX ETC... AND A A KODAK EASY SHARE AND A PICS 2 SD ETC.....

Patrick Scott HRHA (1921-2014)Silver Painting (10/90)Tempera and silver leaf on canvas, 122 x 122cm (48 x 48'')Signed and inscribed versoProvenance: The collection of Brian and Anne FrielPatrick Scott began his trademark Silver and Gold paintings on unprimed canvas as long ago as the early 1970s. The great orbs in silver or gold emerged from similar painted forms that were assumed to refer to the sun and the moon. This was especially the case when planet earth seemed to be threatened by destruction through nuclear activity following the bombings at the end of World War II, and in Ireland, proposals to build a nuclear reactor in County Wexford. Scott though, despite a consistent interest in the environment, was even more psychically connected to the basic forms of circles, squares, cubes and combinations of these architectural and geometric elements.Self-taught as a painter, his professional training was in architecture and design and led straight to an appointment in the offices of Michael Scott and Robin Walker, where his design skills were immediately put to effective and varied use in projects such as Bus Aras, theatre designs for the Abbey Theatre, uniforms for Coras Iompar Eireann, and Christmas lighting for Grafton Street.Scott was an idealist. His art has been dedicated to the sublime and the elemental - the perfect geometric forms that he, like Plato, believed to lie beneath every aspect of our world. For Scott, that also meant the materials used to embody those forms. Looking to the Italians of the Early Renaissance on the one hand and Japanese Zen design on the other, he magicked landscapes out of elemental forms, using real gold, silver or palladium leaf which he attached to pure, unprimed canvases so firmly that he could take the garden hose to them without damaging their glittering surfaces.Silver painting 10/90 was made in 1990, the same year in which he painted Sun Window andMoon Window. All three share the same square format, the same dimensions and the simple combination of an orb hovering seductively above an architectural element. Everything is in its proper place. Nothing remains to be said.Scott won numerous awards during his long career, was elected Saoi of Aosdana and his work can be found in all Irish major collections as well as in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, the European Parliament, Strasbourg, the Mitsubishi Bank, Tokyo and many national and international private and corporate collections.Catherine Marshall,August 2018

Norah McGuinness HRHA (1901-1980)Evening FlightOil on canvas, 51 x 76cm (20 x 30'')SignedProvenance: The collection of Brian and Anne Friel; The Keys Gallery, Derry.Exhibited: ‘Norah McGuinness Exhibition’ The Keys Gallery, Derry, April/May 1979 Cat. No. 2 (Illustrated).Norah McGuinness was born in Derry and kept a close connection with the northwest throughout her life. Despite living in Dublin, London, Paris and New York at various stages in her career, her northern origins were always a major part of her identity. For several years, she had a studio at Rathmullan on the banks of Lough Swilly, where she painted many landscapes of north Donegal. In 1976, towards the end of her life, the Keys Gallery in Derry held an exhibition of her work. Brian and Anne Friel share her association with Donegal and Derry and it is natural that work by her features in their collection.In the foreground of Evening Flight, curlews, with their long beaks and mottled plumage, peck at the piles of seaweed, left behind by the outgoing tide. A large white gull swoops across the picture plane, adding a sense of movement and drama to the scene. (This device of the gliding bird is also seen in McGuinness’s painting, Seaweed Shapes, (1965, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork).) The distinctive chimneys of the Pigeon House and the outline of cranes and the industrial structures of Dublin port are discernible in the background and on the horizon in the painting.In her later years, in the 1960s and 1970s, McGuinness did several paintings of the coastline of Dublin in which she contrasted the vibrant sea-bird life with the more solemn urban aspects of the location. In these works she continued to refine her deployment of cubism, which she had learnt in the studio of André Lhote in Paris in the 1920s. Traces of it can be seen in this work in the schematised form of the seagull and in the geometricized treatment of the buildings. She was particularly fond of Sandymount strand from which both residential and industrial edifices were visible and which would seem to be the inspiration for this work. Subtle and unpredictable colour combinations of blues and pinks unite the diverse elements of the painting. McGuinness produces a refreshingly modern image of Dublin Bay, in which the forms are elegantly orchestrated to create a dynamic and harmonious painting. Much more than a topographical landscape, however, the work is a decorative and skilful arrangement of colour and form. Róisín Kennedy, August 2018

Banknotes/Shares = Norfolk Estuary Company -1847 £50 Share Certificate, Grade GVF.

Caracalla AV Aureus. Rome, AD 204. ANTON P AVG PON TR P VII, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VICT PART MAX, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm. RIC 78 (this coin cited); BMCRE p. 249, note * (this coin cited); Calicó 2843a (same dies). 7.55g, 20mm, 6h. Mint State. This coin cited in H. Mattingly & E. A. Sydenham, The Roman Imperial Coinage Vol. IV, Part I (1936); This coin cited in H. Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum Vol. 5 (1950); Ex Vicomte Gustave Ponton d'Amécourt Collection, Rollin & Feuardent, 25 April 1887, lot 416, sold with old collector's ticket. Septimius Severus’ Parthian campaign was concluded in 198 with the capture of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon. On this occasion Septimius was acclaimed imperator for the eleventh time, and he received the title Parthicus Maximus. This victory was celebrated on the Roman coinage over the next few years, and a triumphal arch built in Rome in commemoration of the event that was dedicated in 203. In the wake of his great success, Septimius elevated Caracalla, who had accompanied him on campaign in the east, to co-augustus. In 204 when this aureus was struck the Imperial family had recently returned from the province of Africa, where Septimius had dramatically expanded and re-fortified the entire southern frontier of the empire along the Limes Tripolitanus. Now focussing on matters other than war, the great event of this year was the celebration of the ancient Etruscan festival, the Saecular Games, which recurred at intervals of 110 years and was commemorated on the coinage struck for both augusti. This event saw Caracalla and Geta associated with the Di Patrii, Hercules and Liber Pater, who were themselves equated with the Phoenician gods Shadaphra and Melqart, the tutelary deities of Septimius’ home city of Leptis Magna in Roman Libya (cf. Roma XV, lot 585 for a full discussion of the importance of the Di Patrii to the ideology of Septimius’ reign). Struck at the same time as coinage emphasising the important ideological connection of his sons to the tutelary deities of his regime, the reverse of this stunning aureus attests that Caracalla shared in the celebration of his father’s Parthian victory as co-augustu: we find Caracalla bearing the title given to his father, Parthicus Maximus, and a traditional representation of Victory. As Caracalla neither gained the military victory as Emperor or as a military leader, this aureus demonstrates that victory was also an abstract attribute associated with the princeps. The willingness of Septimius to share his victory titles with his son reflects his desire to create a strong and lasting dynasty following the principle of succession by birth, a theme repeated often on the coinage.

•THE FIRST MINISTER'S CHRISTMAS CARD 2017 JOHN BYRNE (SCOTTISH B. 1940) SAY IT WITH A KISS! Oil on canvas board, signed, 60 x 50cm (23 1/2 x 19 3/4") John Byrne, renowned Scottish artist, playwright and theatre designer was born in Paisley and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He is famed for his trilogy The Slab Boys and the television series Tutti Frutti. His work features in major national public and private collections. John was commissioned by the Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, to create the original artwork which would form the image for the First Minister's Christmas Card 2017. The picture shows a couple about to share a kiss under the mistletoe. John Byrne says "I had a notion to paint a young couple from my boyhood days in Paisley, having a great time jiving to the music of Jimmy McCracken's 'Big Band' at the Town Hall c.1957 dressed in the style of the day, with a nod to the festive season." The First Minister said "John Byrne is one of Scotland's most celebrated artists and this unique piece of work has a wonderful festive feel while maintaining his inimitable style. As my official Christmas Card last year I was thrilled to have such a beautiful image to share, and I'm glad it will now benefit four charities doing great work in Scotland." The charities which will benefit are Scottish Women's Aid, Food Train, The Teapot Trust and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund. Since the launch of the Charity Christmas Cars initiative in 2007, sales of the artworks and prints have raised more than £170,000 for good causes across Scotland. Condition Report: On inspection the painting and canvas board are in very good condition with there being no issues apparent.

A marriage order of service for H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas Scott 1935, a list of weeding gifts, a volume with correspondence to Miss Pimblett, private secretary to Lady Alice and collection of share certificates

FIFA World Cup Europe Group 1 England V Denmark 5th December 1956 at Molineux with an attendance of 54,083. Historic England footballer signatures obtained by Cliff Edwards in his capacity as scout for West Bromwich Albion and on WBA letterhead. Signatures include Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor, Roger Byrne - 3 Manchester United players who were tragically to lose their lives in February 1958 in the Munich air disaster. The result of the game was 5 - 2 to England with Tommy Taylor scoring a hatrick and Duncan Edwards scoring twice. Roger Byrne was Manchester United Captain winning 33 caps for England, Tommy Taylor 19 caps for England and Duncan Edwards 18 caps and regarded by many as the finest footballer of his day. Other signatures include the England Captain Billy Wright of Wolves, Tom Finney of Preston, and Stanley Matthews of Blackpool, other signatures include the goalkeeper Ted Ditchburn of Spurs, Defender Ronnie Clayton, Fullback Jeff Hall, Mid fielder Jimmy Dickinson and forward Johnny Brooks. The Signatures are in blue pen and Tommy Taylor has signed twice. An incredible piece of Football history which has been in the possession of a then 12 year old boy ever since who has now decided to share the piece and offer it for sale. (1) [L]