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The Bury Football Club Co. Ltd. Cash Book from May 27 1898 to May 14 1904 cashbook, recording club receipts and payments over a six years period during what has proved to be the most successful period in the club’s history with victories in the F.A. Cup in 1900 and 1903, the ledger recording a payment of £1,289 and 7 shillings from the Football Association for its share of the gate receipts in 1900, a figure that rose to £1,605 and 14 shillings in 1903, all in all a fascinating insight into the financial running of a football club in the late Victorian/Edwardian era.

A QUANTITY of Coins and Lloyds Share Certificates, 1961-1995.

Railwayana: GWR, a folder containing a selection of ephemera inc. tickets, luggage labels etc. Also included is a share certificate dated 15 January 1942 and warrant for delivery of goods dated 23 November 1938 (gd/vg) (26)

Paper Money: A quantity of European & World paper money including American and Russian notes, an 1866 £20 share certificate for Charles Laffitte & Co and a 1976 Jamaican presentation folder etc (qty)

DERBY CO Share Certificate dated 4 February 1934. Good

TOTTENHAM 1898 A very scarce piece of Tottenham Hotspur memorabilia, this item is a Tottenham Hotspur share prospectus dated April 1898. This prospectus was for the issue of shares when Tottenham Hotspur became a Limited Liability Company for the first time in 1898. This four page document notes that the members of Tottenham Hotspur voted to become a Limited Liability Company at a meeting in March 1898. Accordingly it was decided to raise £8,000 by the issue of 8,000 £1 shares, the Subscription List opening on April 7th 1898. The money raised would enable the new Company to purchase from the original Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, all the assets of the Club including Fixtures, Contracts with players, Effects and other properties of the Club. The new Limited Company would also accept responsibility for all liabilities of the Club. The prospectus also states that the new Limited Company would continue to carry on from the premises of the Club at Northumberland Park, Tottenham as the lease had been secured for three and a half years. However they also intended to purchase a suitable ground at the earliest opportunity. This , almost priceless historical document , consists of four pages and includes details of the Club to date, the uses of the money once it has been raised, details of Directors and Club Officials , Bankers, etc details of Season Ticket prices to Shareholders and Non-Shareholders and rules and regulations relating to the share issue and the objects of the new Company. The document has some ageing on approximately half of one page where it has been folded and occasional small tear along folds. Other than the defects noted, the document is in good condition and does not have any writing on it. Very rare. As described (Fair-generally good)

McLean-Victorian Publishers` Book-Bindings 1974 § Appasamy (Jaya) Indian Paintings on Glass ex-library copy with stamps New Delhi 1980 § Impey (Oliver) The art of the Japanese folding screen Oxford 1997 § Rosenthal (Eric) On `Change Through the Years: a History of Share Dealing in South Africa Johannesburg 1968 illustrations original cloth all but the last with dust-jackets; and c.25 others miscellaneous mostly bibliography v.s.(c.30)

Scotland, The Falkirk Bank Co, One Pound, 1 October 1821, no. 112/139, on watermarked paper, signatures of Alex Ramsay and accountant (Douglas 1). A couple of tiny holes at centre and some adhesive residue on back, otherwise good fine, rare When the bank was wound up in 1825 each £100 share was worth £1,500

* Northamptonshire. A group of thirty folding vellum deeds, 18th & 19th c., together with four 17th-c. vellum land deeds, the majority relating to properties in Northants, together with a group of approx. forty printed sales particulars for properties in and around Rothwell, Northants, c. 1900, plus a small bundle of other related documents including eight five pound share certificates for Rowell [Rothwell] Gas, Light, Coke and Coal Company Ltd., 1861, a Union Fire Insurance Society certificate dated 1815, each printed with eng. vign. and manuscript insertions, etc. (40)

AUTOGRAPH (?) PREACHING MANUSCRIPT. [SERMONS] the twenty-one sermons written in ink in a clear and easily legible hybrid secretary-italic hand on 542 leaves, paginated, the contents and textural references listed in "A catalogue of the Sermons contained in this Boke" including The Godlie Mans Guide, The husbands happiness, A Muzzle for ye mouth and Whordoms Wages, each ending with 1p. invocation, catchwords, references and marginalia, several with preaching dates from the 1630s to 1650s, preceded and followed by two p. of prayers (one of those at the front missing) including one for Charles [I] and Prince Charles, the latter`s name struck out presumably during the Commonwealth, and THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, black letter, text in two columns, title within woodcut border, large woodcut initial letter at head of first psalm, some with music, ending with a final MS leaf of "The Psalmes Digested into a breefe Table... accordinge to... Mr Beza", London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1620, two works in one volumne, 8vo (195 x 147mm) contemporary calf centrepiece binding (worn, frayed and wanting spine) tooled in blind with frame and fleurons Provenance: B[arnabas] Pool, Rector of Brailsford (ownership inscription on end pastedown). According to Lichfield Diocesan Registers, Barnabas Pole was given the living of Brailsford, Derbyshire on 18 June 1668, which he held until his death on 6 December 1698. On his monument in the church, his name is spelt Poole and the stone lintel over the door of the early 16th c (former) rectory at Brailsford is inscribed "Restored by/Rev`d J G Croker/1883/Rev`d B Pool/1682". Several of the sermons share titles with those of Immanuel Bourne (1590-1679) whose published sermons appeared between 1617 and the mid 17th c. A preacher at St Christopher`s Church, London, he held the living of the nearby parish of Ashover from 1622 until his pronounced sympathies for the Puritan cause compelled him to return to London on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. There he was appointed preacher at St Sepulchre`s Church. Whilst it is conceivable that the present lot is Bourne`s own preaching manuscript, Pool could well have obtained it from a scribe, who carefully copied at least some of Bourne`s published sermons. Hardly any manuscript material by Bourne is known to have survived other than two hastily written letters to Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet (1593-1671) of Hopton Hall (Derbyshire Record Office) and his signature on a document dating from the end of his life (British Library).

Tom McEwan (1846-1914); oil on canvas "The Kitten`s Share", signed lower right, titled and dated 1901 verso, 44 x 34cm, framed (Illustrated).

Antonio Mancini (Italian, 1852-1930), Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Williamson, aged 12, signed upper right "A Mancini 1908", oil on canvas, 124 x 66cm (48.36 x 25.74in) Provenance: A gift from the sitter, Miss Elizabeth Williamson, to Sir Richard Stone, and by descent. Elizabeth Williamson was the grand-daughter of Mrs Charles Hunter, a society hostess who owned the Villa Barbaro in Venice, and was friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. Mrs Hunter was a collector and philanthropist of the arts, and a close friend of Sargent who painted her. It was Sargent who introduced Mancini to Mrs Hunter, and she commissioned the portrait of her granddaughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth`s mother, Phyllis, was one of the three beautiful Misses Hunter painted by Sargent in 1902 and now in the Tate Gallery. "Once you have stood in front of a Mancini painting you never forget it" - this daring claim was made by Ulrich W Hiesinger, author of `Antonio Mancini`, in the sought-after catalogue for the Philadelphia Museum of Art`s Antonio Mancini exhibition in 2009. The present cherubic portrait of twelve year old Elizabeth Williamson is evidence of this. Antonio Mancini was a tortured and impoverished artist who was born in Rome but brought up in Naples. In his day his neighbours called him "Il pittore pazzo" - the crazy painter, because of his passion for art and his disregard for social convention. In 1893 one of his contemporaries wrote: "Mancini is Énuts, but he`s a nice nut Éthe fact is he has a fly buzzing around in his skull". Despite this he was considered John Singer Sargent`s favourite artist and it was on Sargent`s recommendation that Mancini ventured to England where his social inadequacies were spotlighted. Mrs Hunter, sister of the noted composer Dame Ethel Amyth and wife of coal magnate Charles Hunter, acted as his sponsor and protector. Mrs Hunter was a prolific supporter of artists, writers and musicians and joked that her lifetime`s goal was to spend her husband`s vast fortune. American writer Edith Wharton, a close friend of Mary Hunter`s, describes the weekends that Mary would gather society around her as life "on a large scale". Mancini, with his poor command of English and unconquerable shyness, would become impenetrably silent in this grand environment and would retreat to his room to paint self portraits, many of which he later destroyed. Mary Hunter introduced Mancini to Hugh Lane who became a great patron of Mancini and several works are now in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Ireland. The portraits there share the marks of Mancini`s graticola - or perspective grid - as shown in the present portrait of Elizabeth Williamson. The grid-like marks that show themselves across the surface of the lower parts of the painting are tributes to Mancini`s obsession with perspective and the elements of tone. Mancini would construct a grid in front of the sitter and then another over his work and painted between the blocks. Perhaps due to his unconfident nature, Mancini never relinquished his grids and his thick impasto strokes are a modern, almost proto-Cubist, innovation. Mancini takes great care over Elizabeth`s rosy-cheeked face which is highlighted by white. The paint on her clothes is laid on with much more aggressive lumps of paint, the result of which suggests the conversion of light into a solid form. The painting of Elizabeth`s hands and legs shows how far Mancini has moved away from his early meticulous figurative paintings in favour of work that shows his passion and anguish in every stroke. Elizabeth was said to be a good sitter and in fact Mancini has painted her three times and her brother Charles. Oral tradition says Mancini became so aggravated by the children`s governess fussing over them that he threw a tube of paint at the poor lady. Elizabeth responded in her best beginner`s Italian: "Piano ÉPiano, Signore!" before resuming her pose with an air of gentle scorn. The artist was so touched by her maturity that he fell on his knees to beg her forgiveness

Various collectables incl Snow White Puzzle 1920`s, Railway memorabilia, Star Wars videos, A 1937 Share Certificate Badges etc.

A collection of commemorative coin issues, including D Day Landings, Royal Weddings, and a German share issue.

Share Certificate fine example of a share certificate for the East London Water Works dated 1808, partially printed on a single leaf of parchment with ms insertions and featuring a fine embossed seal of the company depicting an allegorical figure of Old Father Thames. Rare.

ELGAR EDWARD: (1857-1934) English Composer. Good A.L.S., Edward Elgar, three pages, 8vo, Malvern, 21st February n.y., to `My dear Greene`, on the attractive printed stationery of the Worcestershire Philharmonic Society. Elgar announces `I should have been delighted to further Kennerly-Rumford`s case but it is too late: as a matter of fact I did not suggest anybody-I held my hand in this & in the choice of music because I was afraid my private views might do some chap an injustice.` The composer continues `We have read with great joy of your triumphs: I wish I could share in them someday in the humble capacity of composer-perhaps when you return you might bring something`. In a postscript he adds `You are to be called to sing Vatergruft in the Cathedral`. With slight traces of former mounting, about VG Robert Kennerly Rumford (1870-1957) British Baritone, husband of Clara Butt.

HUSKISSON WILLIAM: (1770-1830) British Statesman, the world`s first railway casualty when he was run over and killed by George Stephenson`s locomotive engine Rocket. A.L.S., W Huskisson, three pages, 8vo, Board of Trade, 26th June 1827, to a gentleman. Huskisson returns a letter (no longer present) and informs his correspondent that he does not share the confidence of his own correspondent in Liverpool, explaining `The Circular from Mr. Rush appears to me to relate to passengers who may be on board British ships arriving in the ports of the United States from our Colonies. The trade with these Colonies being interdicted under the authority of the Act quoted by Mr. Rush, the object of his letter is to state that the interdict does not extend to passengers`. Very slight traces of former mounting to the verso and a small tear at the head of the page, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG Richard Rush (1780-1859) American Secretary of the Treasury 1825-29, and previously U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1817-25.

The New Brighton Association Football & Athletic Club, Co. Ltd. A share certificate dated 07/07/1925. This was an allocation of 50 shares to William George Robinson of Wallasey. The share certificate is signed by the Secretary and two directors.

More, Hannah "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education..." vol two only, Cadell 1826, the thirteenth edition, library plates inside front cover, full calf Mason, Otis Tufton "Woman`s Share in Primitive Culture" Macmillan and Co. 1895, frontis, portrait, illustrations and photographic plates, library stamps and plates, Moore, Doris Langley "The Woman in Fashion" Batsford 1949 (3)

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, £25 Share Certificate, 1846 and a collection of others, mostly 19th century

Nine US Railway share certificates, earliest 1886 (9)

* Gillray (James). Doctor Sangrado curing John Bull of Repletion with the kind offices of young Clysterpipe & little Boney, pub. H.Humphrey May 2nd. 1803, etching on wove with bright original hand colouring, laid onto an old album page, trimmed to plate mark, 265 x 365mm (10.5 x 14.5 inches) A satire based on a character from the novel `Gil Blas` by Alain-Rene Lesage where Dr Sangrado prescribes warm water and bleeding for every ailment. Dr Sangrado in Gillray`s caricature is Lord Addington who had controversially appointed his very young son to the lucrative clerkship of the Pells on a salary of £3000 per annum. Addington bleeds John Bull whose blood falls into the young boys hat and also into that of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sheridan and Fox hold out bowls of hot water hoping for a share of the riches being bled from John Bull. (1)

* Gillray (James). Introduction of Citizen Volpone & his Suite at Paris - Vide The Moniteur & Cobbetts Letters, pub. H.Humphrey, Nov. 15th 1802, etching on wove with original hand colouring, closed repaired tears to margins not affecting image, mount stained and toned overall, 255 x 360mm (10 x 14 inches) Charles Fox and his obese wife, together with Lord and Lady Holland, Sir Robert Adair, Arthur O`Conner and Erskine are making their abeyance to Napolean Bonaparte. Fox was certainly introduced to Bonaparte at a levee held at the Tuilleries, where Napolean was extremely polite and complimentary to Fox. Gillray, who did not share Fox`s republican sympathies, has depicted - somewhat unfairly - Fox and his party as sycophants fawning at Napoleans`s feet whereas in true life they met as equals. (1)

Paine (Thomas author and revolutionary D.s. “Thomas Pain” “Elizabeth Pain” &“James Castley” with 3 identical wax seals with initials manuscript indenture on paper 1p. 37 lines 2 duty stamps in left margin (1 ink 1 blind-stamped) laid down on thick paper tears along folds large tear along central fold between sentences but affecting a few letters above and below a few other tears and wormholes but entirely legible some damp marks mostly at tail some soiling and browning wax seals cracked (seal opposite Thomas Paine`s signature lacking small piece of wax at head one other chipped) framed and glazed (can be viewed out of frame) 475 x 610mm. Lewes 4th June 1774. ***Thomas Paine`s deed of legal separation from his wife Elizabeth Ollive signed a few months before his departure for America this document highlights the collapse of Paine`s affairs in England. “Articles of Agreement Tripartite Indented had made and agreed upon the Fourth day of June in... One thousand and Seven Hundred and Seventy ffour Between Thomas Pain of Lewes in the County of Sussex late Excise Officer of the first part Elizabeth Pain Wife... (late Elizabeth Olive Spinster) of the second part and the Reverend James Castley... Clerk of the third part. Whereas certain unhappy Quarrels and dissensions have arisen (and which now do in part subsist) between... Thomas Pain and... Elizabeth... for Putting an End to which They... have mutually agreed to live separate and apart and previous... Pain hath consented thereto... that the said Elizabeth shall have and take a few fixtures now remaining in their late dwelling... and valued by Mr. Verrale at about Twenty five shillings And whereas Samuel Olive... Did give and Devise All that his Messuage or Tenement... Situate in the parish of St. Michael`s... in Lewes In Trust to divide the same between his ffour children... in equal shares... Now the said Thomas Pain hath also consented and agreed that... Elizabeth shall have her share of the said monies... and... Elizabeth hath agreed to give up to the said Thomas Pain the sum of Forty Five Pounds in her possession on or before the Sixth day of June... and Thomas Pain shall... permit... Elizabeth... to live separate and apart from him... Thomas Pain... shall not nor will at any time hereafter slander or defame his said wife... James Castley Indemnified... the said Thomas Pain... of from and against Payment of all manner of Debts... which... Elizabeth Pain... shall contract Signed Sealed and Delivered (being first duly stamped) by the said Thomas Pain and James Castley in the Presence of John Ollive William Wright Signed sealed... by... Elizabeth Pain in the Presence of John Ollive Thomas Pain Elizabeth Pain James Castley.” - Indenture. Paine originally from Thetford in Norfolk drifted to London and the South East as a young man and worked in a variety of jobs including on privateers and as a stay-maker his father`s profession. In 1768 he was appointed to the position of excise officer for Lewes in Sussex and moved into rented lodgings with Samuel Ollive an innkeeper and his family. Soon after he went into business with Ollive setting up a tobacco mill as an independent source of income. “Samuel Ollive died in July 1769 leaving his widow Esther and daughter Elizabeth in poor circumstances. For propriety`s sake Paine took up lodgings elsewhere but the following year he joined the Ollives in opening a shop and on 26 March 1771 he married Elizabeth (c. 1749-1808) who was at least ten years his junior. The following year he was nominated to press the excisemen`s case for improved pay and conditions in London.” (Oxford DNB). From then on Paine`s fortunes took a turn for the worse. The excisemen`s case failed then in 1773 the tobacco mill business collapsed and in the following year he was dismissed from his job at the excise. “Moreover in May 1774 Paine and his wife separated with a formal document being signed on 4 June 1774.” (Oxford DNB). The above is that document of separation detailing Paine`s and his wife`s assets. At a low ebb Paine with the forty five pounds from his estranged wife booked a passage to America where he would start his controversial career as a revolutionary and pamphleteer. The document is signed “Pain” he changed the spelling of his name to “Paine” at a later date. Provenance: From the basement of a shop in Hastings located in the 1970s. The above document has been cited many times in biographies of Paine but only Moncure Daniel Conway in his Life of Thomas Paine 1892 seems to have seen and quoted from this document. With thanks to Dr. Mark Philp for his assistance in cataloguing this item..

A QUANTITY OF SHARE CERTIFICATES, COUPONS, PRINTS ETC

Cooke (Rev. James). Reference to the Annexed Plate of a Patent Drill-Machine, with a Six-Share Horse-Hoe, Annexed and Comprized in one and the same Instrument, under a New Patent: Also, a Simple Hand-Hoe, London, n.d. [plate dated 1st Jan 1789], 20 pp., drop-head title, one engraved plate, untrimmed, a few spots, later wrappers, 8vo. Not in BM. (1)

BRADFORD P.A. Interesting collection of items relating to the last few years of this famous old club, includes Share certificate, Accounts 69/70, Supporters Club Membership Diaries (4), season ticket books 67/8 and 68/9, Fixture card 69/70 (final Lea

Share and Stock Certificates, mainly Yorkshire including: Metropolitan Railway Carriage Wagon Company 1860`s; the Aeadian Charcoal Iron Company Investment Warrants 1869; Bradford Commercial Joint Stock Bank 1867; Exchange notes; Yearly Reports Yorkshire Bank 18709, 1877, 1878; The Bradford Club Agreement; The Bradford Cemetery Company Share Certificates etc

A rare member`s gentleman`s badge for the Ayr Western Meeting of 1912, in gilt-metal & enamel share

An archive relating to Whitehaven Races in the 1880s, race cards, correspondence including for race entry fees, Memorandum & Articles of Association, telegrams, receipts, share allotment forms, manuscript report of the Directors to the Shareholders and other miscellaneous items (a qty.)

A scrapbook containing Major Walter Clopton Wingfield memorabilia including a rare example of his signature on a banker`s cheque, other items comprising a visitor`s card, a manuscript outlining the arrangements and wording he wished to have on his tomb stone, a set of accounts written on the back of an envelope, a share certificate for an investment in a restaurant, two postmarked envelopes addressed to him, a receipt from a utility company, a receipt for rates and charges, an invitation for a dinner at his regimental club, and a receipt for his medical attendance and residence at The Priory, Roehampton. Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833-1912) was the inventor of lawn tennis in 1874 which he called Sphairistike after the Greek for "ball games". Wingfield was living at Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, in north Wales, when he patented the new sport. He also was the author of the first book of the game The Major`s Game of Lawn Tennis. His honours include the Royal Body Guard and Captain, First Dragoon Guards. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997

FREUD SIGMUND: (1856-1939) Austrian Psychiatrist. An important T.L.S., Freud, two pages, large 4to, Vienna, 10th November 1924, to `Lieber Herr Doktor!` (Paul Federn), on his personal printed stationery, in German. Freud writes, in full, `I am sorry that you have taken the affair U. [Urbantschitsch] so seriously, and I believe there is no reason for that. If you consider submitting your demission in the Society on these grounds, you will certainly receive a vote of confidence. My confidence is not shaken. Therefore, it will probably be best that you do not undertake anything like that. You have shown in this case, as you have in others, that you are in danger of going too far when you are helping someone to get out of a bad situation. That is just one of your traits which we have already got used to. In the present case, of course, you mustn`t have been so confident that my admitted sympathy for U. was going to be strong enough to force him upon the Society against its will. You also know that when it comes to emotions, it depends on the quantities. Qualitative analysis alone does nothing. Furthermore, I have not made it a secret to you and the others that the growing realisation of his untruthfulness mad it impossible for me to undertake further steps in his favour. When you thus say that I disavow you, I can only answer that I have made my attitude completely clear, of which you only knew a portion. After all, I had just recently received a new proof of his unreliability in the matter of the examined letter, and you yourself had made a new contribution to this topic in the Society with the story of the uncured patient. Only for the sake of the discussion do I state again that I still don`t share your opinion about Bernfeld`s conduct. It is quite right that the analysed must bare all his flaws to the analyst, in turn he may be assured of his confidentiality. However, if there is among these flaws an incurable one, which makes his acceptance in the Society appear unadvisable, then this duty of confidentiality becomes second to the duty of not bringing harm to the cause. In all these points I am used to judge more severely than you, but I am of the opinion that minor differences must not interfere with cooperation, since a complete agreement among different people can never be achieved and would not even be desirable. In the hope that these frank words will help you over the slight shock, I am with cordial regards,`. A letter of exceptional content relating to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and with excellent associations. A couple of very minor splits to the central vertical fold, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG. Paul Federn (1871-1950) Austrian-American Psychologist. Federn was deeply influenced by Sigmund Freud`s Interpretaion of Dreams and in 1904 became devoted to the field of psychoanalysis. Federn was an important, early follower of Freud and became his official representative in 1924, the same year as this letter was written. It was also in this year that Federn became Vice President of the Vienna Society, extensively referred to in the letter.Rudolf von Urbantschitsch (1879-1964) Austrian Psychiatrist and Psychologist, author of Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness (1952). Urbantschitsch was analysed by Federn from 1922-23. After the completion of the analysis he became a prolific speaker, causing criticism among some fellow analysts. Indeed, as a Catholic, an aristocrat, and a monarchist, Urbantschitsch was an exception in the social make-up of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Through his intense lecturing he contributed to vulgarising the discoveries of psychoanalysis and alienated his fellow colleagues, as the letter illustrates. They felt that he presented psychoanalysis in a simplified fashion. This criticism, and his love affairs (two of which resulted in suicide) contributed to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society`s rejecting his request to renew his membership and in 1924, the year of this letter, he was even refused the status of a guest.Siegfried Bernfeld (1892-1953) Austrian Psycholgist, an important member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, who served as its secretary and librarian.

CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Intriguing T.L.S., Winston S. Churchill, one page, 4to, n.p. (London), 19th April 1939, to Mr. R. G. Beeson, on the blind embossed stationery of the House of Commons, marked Private. Churchill thanks his correspondent for their letter which he has read and considered and continues `I do not think a trap of the kind suggested would be effective. The Admiralty profess great confidence, which I must say I share, in their power of dealing with submarines.` In concluding Churchill remarks `We never thought the Italians very formidable in the War, nor did their enemies.` Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, and some light overall age wear, G

DIKAIA, Obol, c. 500, head and neck of ox right, terminating in dotted truncation, rev. four-part incuse square, 0.25g (cf. Barron, The Silver Coins of Samos, pl. 5, 1a and 2 [Trihemiobols]). Good very fine; unpublished in the standard references The proposition by J.M.F. May in ‘The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera, c. 540/35-476/5 B.C.’, NC 1965, p.2, that Dikaia-by-Abdera might have been a colony of Samos is substantiated by this coin and those in the following lots. They not only have a provenance from the region but also share types directly derived from Samian prototypes which probably precede the Herakles issues of Dikaia

Dixie Family - an interesting collection of 19th and 20th century muniments of the Dixie baronet`s of Market Bosworth Hall and Lea Grange Warw. This family became extinct 30 years ago, the last bart. leaving two daughters only one of whom tried to claim the (extinct) baronety under the 1976 Sex Equality Act! Includes correspondence, estate and legal papers, mainly from 1868; general correspondence 1880s to 1970s; estate sale catalogues of Oct 1884 and April 1918, with printed estate maps, etc., also correspondence, including a typescript copy of order from Lord Nelson to Capt. Hardy for the promotion of Alexander Dixie RN given from Victory 1804 & retirement gazetting as Capt. RN 1851 of Sir Alexander Dixie, two letters from the Duke of Rutland 1812 & 1813, MS survey of Lea Grange, tax papers, share certificate and London Gazette for 3/9/1872; etc

An ormolu mounted white marble and biscuit porcelain ‘Venus’ mantel timepiece. The design attributed to Benjamin Vulliamy, late 18th/early 19th century. The French eight-day movement with platform lever escapement vertically mounted on the backplate and white enamel Roman numeral chapter ring to the engine turned-gilt dial within a rope-twist bezel, in a case with gilt compressed urn surmount above shaped upstand housing the movement and dial, raised on a half rotunda temple-form base with conforming ovoid pedestal vase finials above the gilt-capped Tuscan columns enclosing a figure of a semi-clad Classical female holding forth a dove flanked by male and female putti, the former with a basket of fruit the latter with a birdcage, the figures set on a shaped gilt plinth with mirror behind, the whole on stepped curved base, some restoration, 49cm high. Provenance: Christies, King Street Out of The Ordinary The Discerning And Individual Taste of Christopher Gibbs And Harris Lindsay 10th May 2006 lot 236. Where the case is attributed to Benjamin Vulliamy and the figures to Derby. The design of the current lot clock is perhaps related to the model celebrating the triumph of Love with Euterpe produced by Vulliamy with Duesbury Derby figures modelled by Johann Jacob Wilhelm Spangler in the early 1790’s. Both share the use of bisque porcelain figures within a well conceived and detailed temple-form case. The proportions and refined detailing of the current lot confirms the fact that this clock was conceived by someone highly versed in Classical Arts and Architecture such as Vulliamy.

DIGBY, Henry, Harley Street, London, Esquire, Share No. 1872 in the Vauxhall Bridge Company (incorporated 1809) for making the bridge and convenient roads thereto, signed and sealed by the Clerk to the Company, 4 March 1826, Royal 40 (1)

A Kodak Easy Share C513 digital camera and case

Three framed share certificates comprising The Chinese Government 5% Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913, The Buenos Ayres Lacroze Tramways dated 1913 and The Societe d Electricite Odessa 1910. A note on the back of the Chinese Government loan note states that one day this could be redeemed

A FINE AND RARE 32 BORE D.B. RUSSIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY IVAN PUSHKIN, TULA, CIRCA 1790, with individually forged two-stage barrels faceted over the forward portion, retained by a shaped silver band incorporating the fore-sight towards the muzzle, formed with a broad flat at the breech, inlaid in silver and two colours of gold with elaborate panels of scrollwork enclosing the maker`s inscription in Roman and Cyrillic characters, a pair of birds-of-prey above a cornucopia and all framed by slender panels of martial trophies, silver lined vents, the breech tang fitted with a moulded back-sight and damascened in silver and two colours of gold with scrolling foliage (the barrels very slightly shortened and the back-sight added in the gun`s early working life), stepped bevelled locks inlaid with trophies-of-war beneath the pans and bouquets on the tails, the cocks and top-jaws decorated en suite, figured walnut half stock inlaid with delicate patterns of silver wire scrollwork behind the rear ramrod-pipe, ahead of the trigger-guard, and about the tang (the fore-end with minor repairs), the latter incorporating trophies-of-arms, chequered grip, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece on the left, inlaid with further trophies-of-arms and scrolls in silver wire on each side, the spine and behind the trigger-guard, inlaid with an engraved gilt copper plaque decorated with a cupid mask on the left and right hand sides, a garland incorporating a trophy-of-hunting beneath, the cheek-piece applied with a further gilt-copper plaque decorated with a pair of birds above a bouquet of flowers and garlands formed as an inverted Imperial Crown, engraved steel mounts damascened in silver and two colours of gold, comprising butt-plate decorated with a pair of game birds entwined by a garland supporting a cornucopia, trigger-guard with shaped terminal matching the butt-plate and with a trophy-of-war incorporating a fasces on the bow, rear ramrod-pipe decorated with a trophy and a pair of fronds, vacant gilt copper escutcheon, and engraved bone fore-end cap, and complete with its steel-tipped ramrod (the decoration with light wear and minor losses), 77.5cm; 30 1/2in barrels. Signed Tula firearms are notably rare and few by this maker are recorded. Another is preserved in the Moscow Kremlin and another, formerly in the Clay P. Bedford collection, is illustrated in W. B. Gusler and J. D. Lavin, 1977, p. 226-227. The Bedford gun and the present example both share a number of features that are characteristic of high quality Tula gunmaking of this period. Namely, the use of silver and two colours of gold on the steel mounts, fine silver wire on the stock, and inlaid gilt copper plaques. The style and use of damascene about the tang of the Bedford gun is identical to that of the present gun`s butt-plate and trigger-guard. Both guns share the use of the inverted Imperial crown on the cheek-piece, all of which are indictative of this maker`s work. See J.F. Hayward, 1963, p. 268 and ill. 79C.

* Share Certificates, Debentures, Postal History & Old Cheques. A large quantity of various shart certificates, debentures, old cheques and cheque books, 18th to early 20th c., the earliest dating from 1883, envelopes with penny reds, and other stamps, as well as pre-stamp postal history, early insurance certificates with engraved vignettes (-)

Watson, James. The history of the art of printing, containing an account of it`s [sic] invention and progress in Europe... Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, 1713. First edition, small 8vo, 24, xlviii, 64, folding plate of wood engraved ornaments, title in red and black, modern half calf gilt, folding plate torn and tidily repaired without loss. Note: James Watson was the son of an Aberdeen merchant who advanced money to two Dutch printers to set up a printing house in Edinburgh; the business failed and reverted to the elder Watson, who obtained the sole licence to print almanacs in Scotland. The younger Watson set up as a printer in 1695. In 1700 he was imprisoned for printing a pamphlet attacking the Darien adventure, but was released when the prison was stormed by a mob. Also in 1700 he began publishing the Edinburgh Gazette and in 1705 founded the Edinburgh Courant. In 1711 he obtained a share of the patent of king`s printer. [DNB]

Share certificate Colchester Brewing Company Ltd No 1327

A HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA ITINERARY BOOKLET 1954, a black and white team line-up photograph of the tour side, framed and glazed, 16.1/2 x 20.1/2in. (41.8 x 52cm) overall; a similar tour of Canada and America itinerary booklet, May-June 1958; another The International Soccer League, May-June 1964; four share certificates and a miscellaneous collection of modern Hearts ephemera (a lot)

Mixed spirits; Santa Teresa Gran Reserva, Fernandes Black Label VS, Bushmills Original Blended Irish Whiskey, Angel`s Share, Martell VO Brandy, Finlandia Grapefruit, Distillerie d`Aumagne Fins Bois Cognac, Savanna Creol Single Cask, Whytehall Whiskey, Braastad XO Superior Tres Vieille Reserve, Ballycastle Irish Cream, Mitjans White Rum.

Gold Mining share certificates, various, three pre 1900, two with all coupons, good condition (4)

Two boxes containing framed prints, Share Certificates, postcards, etc.

Seven Canadian mining share certificates from the 1920's; together with some related papers.

Twelve Framed Bond and Share Certificates, including: 1904 Egyptian Delta Light Railways; 1907 Cairo Electric Railways; 1939 Electricity and Ice Co Alexandrie; and others

Twelve Framed Bond and Share Certificates, including: 1905 Bank of Bengal; 1913 D'Electricite D'Odessa; 1945 Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad Co; Glasgow and South Western Railway-Ardrossan Stool Havana Rantoul and Eastern Rail Road Co; and others

A globe watch, with skeleton back, paste set buckle, mesh bracelet, propelling pencil, paste ring, chain, jade ring and compass charm with mining share certificates. Visit www.sworder.co.uk for larger image and condition reports.

A Good Collection of Mid XIX Century Penny Red Covers, having a railway interest, being shareholders and solicitors letters for the Manchester And Leeds, York Newcastle And Berwick and other railways; Together with a Selection of Railway Parcel Stamps, including Mint BR Newspaper 1' six-sheet, other associated ephemera including share documents.

LIQUEURS; Kahlua French Vanilla, Drakes Whisky Cream, Sambuca Stardust Liqueur, Heering Coffee Liqueur, Oude Meester Ginger Liqueur, Angel's Share, Walders Creamy Liqueur, Lemon Z, Gabriel Boudier Bartender Triple Sec, Coole Swan Premium Irish Cream Liqueur, Heather Cream Original Scottish Cream Liqueur, Pages Vedrenne Le Birlow. £60-90

LIQUEUERS; Pages Vedrenne Crème de Mure, Drakes Whisky Cream, Angel's Share, Pages Vedrenne Le Birlow, Vana Tallin Cream Liqueur, Old Pulteney Liqueur, Tia Kala, Coole Swan Premium Irish Cream Liqueur, Gabriel Boudier Bartender Triple Sec,Merlyn Welsh Cream Liqueur, Oude Meester Pepermint Liqueur, Walders Creamy Liqueur. £60-90

A Sunderland Dock Company share certificate, 1846; a ticket to the opening of the Durham Junction Railway; two 19th Century political hand bills; and other Durham related ephemera. (qty)

Sir Peter Blake (b. 1932). Memories of Place- Paris, 2005. Collage and mixed media. Signed and Inscribed . 'Memories of Place. 'Paris'. . A walk through the Tuileries gardens . from Place de la Concorde . to the Louvre. Peter Blake' along lower edge. 32cm x 26cm. Exhibited: Waddington Galleries, London, Peter Blake 1-10 (Collages, Construction, Drawings & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, . 19 October - 12 November 2005, Catalogue No. 8a, page 46, reproduced pages 25 and 46, detail on the front cover. Memories of Place - Paris was one of a group of eight collages on this theme, exhibited in Blake's one man show at Waddington Galleries in 2005. . He presented the exhibition as a numerical ascent, with each of the ten groups consisting of the number of works that corresponded with its catalogue number. In the Memories of Place series (No. 8) he assembles sentinal memorabilia collected from eight walks in England, France and America. In one he looks back to a day trip to Brighton many years ago with his two little girls, whilst in another he has assembled the debris from around the rocks outside David Hockney's beach house in Los Angeles. Each work is accompanied by a short narration which invites us to share his experience more vividly. Peter Blake is renowned for his love of gathering and collecting the ephemera of life, of memories, of dreams and whimsies, sometimes mingled with those of other historical fantasists. Possessions he regards as symbolic of his relationship with his world, carefully questioning the personal significance of each object in this respect. The scraps of tickets, fragments of plastic, driftwood, pebbles and sycamore leaf in A walk through the Tuileries Gardens are evocative and ephemeral souvenirs, gathered at the time and collated later perhaps with a whiff of romance. His image takes us, in turn, on a stroll down the wide gravel, under the autumnal trees, a lingering taste of saucisson and red wine on our palate and with a sudden impulse to take a turn on the Carroussel.. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.

A collection of various antique share certificates, 19th Century and later, Russian, Chinese etc.

Four American share certificates, framed and glazed.

Share certificate - Daniell & Son Breweries Ltd, 1893 Debenture (1)

A group of assorted pictures and prints including a pair of hunting prints, a pair of reproductions of Beatrix Potter characters, a watercolour of a house, a set of four hand coloured engravings of Generals, a modern oil street scene, two Chinese Government share certificates, a woolwork firescreen, engravings of Stoats, butterflies and others. (qty)