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Lot 206
A George V silver cigarette box with engraved decoration, raised on four feet (Chester, 1931), together with a cased silver mounted brush and comb set, a silver mug, various silver napkin rings, two silver spoons and a silver bottle coaster CONDITION REPORTS Cigarette case has general tarnishing, knocks and surface scratches conducive with age and use. One leg appears to be squashed as sits unevenly on the table. Mug is slightly mis-shapen and the base has been pushed in. All items have knocks and dings.
Lot 204
A box containing a silver cigarette box, silver cigarette case with engine turned decoration and gold decoration, a cased silver cruet, a silver pepper grinder, etc CONDITION REPORTS The silver cigarette box has various dents and knocks. Hinge is broken to one side. Corner has chip missing. The silver cigarette case has various spots. Cruet set - one blue glass liner is broken. Has areas of green oxidisation. Champagne bottle pull ? is worn. One of the cauldron salts has a leg missing. Silver pepper grinder has several dents and areas of patination. Squat candlesticks are bent and knocked. All items have wear and tear conducive with age and use.
Lot 240
A late Victorian silver mounted sword stick (London, 1897) and a machette together with a box of assorted decorative plates, china, etc, a three legged stool and a wooden tray CONDITION REPORTS The sword stick - case is splitting in several places, the rubber bung at the end is a replacement. The handle has a couple of holes, one to centre to the front. The blade has some rusting. The machete is modern, crudely made, the blade is pitted and rusting. The three-legged stool has wear and tear to varnish etc, and the legs are badly fitting at the top. The tray is crudely / roughly made. The box of sundry items - have wear and tear conducive with age and use.
Lot 263
A box containing assorted costume jewellery to include a silver cased pocket watch, a 9 carat gold gentleman's signet ring, together with a sundial half hunter ladies pocket watch, various boxed and un-boxed Wade whimsies, commemorative coins, Steiff keyring, etc CONDITION REPORTS All the jewellery is worn and used in varying degrees. The boxed Wade whimsies are all in good condition. Un-boxed Wade whimsies are dirty but generally OK. The Steiff keyring has general wear. The silver cased pocket watch - the front is slightly bent and has difficulty closing. There is some damage to the face. It is not known whether or not the watch is in working order.
Lot 144
A .935 engine turned cigarette case; together with a silver lidded cut glass jar; a silver pill box, with malachite lid; and six other items. Condition Report: The cigarette case is in reasonable used condition, both sides dented and heavily scratched. Initials to front. Both straps present. Marks readable.
Lot 1220
15th century AD. With a published Joan of Arc association dating back over a century, exhibited twice in France in the 1950s and in the Museum of Lancashire Millennium Exhibition, January to December 2000, this ring has a silver-gilt hoop with facetted outer face, expanding shoulders and two rectangular and angled fields to the bezel; the hoop with incised niello-filled florid lozenges and triangles, the design giving the appearance of three crosses, the ends of the shoulders with blackletter 'I' and 'M' (for 'Iesus Maria'), the lateral faces with blackletter 'IHS' and 'MAR' (as abbreviations for Jesus and Maria); a small section inserted later to the hoop, sufficient possibly to enlarge it from a band suitable for a small, feminine finger to a larger male(?) hand; the degree of wear generally evident to the ring, including to the hoop insert, suggesting an extended period of wear, long after the date of making, perhaps indicative of the ring's appeal as a talisman; contained in an antique, small oak casket in the form of an architectural reliquary with pitched and hipped lid, the ridge surmounted by a plain cross in iron, the box red velvet-lined, with a removable rectangular holder (the compartment beneath possibly having once held a small document or label), arranged to display the bezel and purpose-made to hold the ring, indicating the reverence in which the ring was already held when the box was made for it; the ring is very unusual in that the vast majority of rings with angled rectangular bezels have them engraved with pictures of saints rather than being inscribed (generally termed as iconographic rings); inscriptions on such rings are normally on the hoop part. Accompanied by a professional drawing showing the ring extended, with the three crosses forming part of the design to the shank clearly depicted; also with publications, documents, press cuttings and correspondence including a photocopy of the 1917 Oates privately printed catalogue; a cuttings book containing an extract from the Sotheby's sale of 1947 (including an image of the ring), with press cuttings from such publications as the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and Le Figaro at the time of that sale, followed by others (some illustrated, showing both ring and casket) including from English, American and French newspapers and periodicals in the 1950s, from when the ring was exhibited in France (at La Turbie and also at Rouen and Paris); associated correspondence with the mayor of La Turbie and further referring to the 500th rehabilitation anniversary exhibition; typescript research notes and a signed note by Cyril Bunt (dated 1949) discussing Cardinal Beaufort and the ring and its descent to Lady Morrell; papers relating to two interviews with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1953 and 1956; correspondence with the French embassy in London, shipping documents and permissions for the ring to be sent to France for exhibition; a photocopy of the last letter (with transcript) of Joan of Arc; the exhibition pamphlet for La Turbie (4 copies, 3 in English, 1 in French, 1952), the catalogue for the Jeanne d'Arc et Son Temps exhibition (Rouen and Paris, 1956); documents, including the mounted display caption, from the AD 2000 - The Story of Christianity in Lancashire exhibition at the Museum of Lancashire held in 2000; other correspondence of various dates from 1950s to 1980s regarding the ring, most of the letters with envelopes. Property of an Essex gentleman; inherited 1979 from Dr James Hasson of Harley Street, London; acquired Sotheby's sale, 1 April 1947, lot 37; formerly in a private collection (1929-1947); previously with the F. A. Harman Oates collection (sold Sotheby's, 20 February 1929, lot 21); earlier with Augustus John before 1914, the gift to him of Lady Ottoline Morrell; by descent, through the Cavendish-Bentinck family (Duke of Portland) from cardinal Henry Beaufort (1375-1447), who was present at the trial and execution of Joan of Arc in 1431; the ring stated by Joan at her trial to have been a gift from her parents. Supplied with a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Asked if on the crowned heads there were not rings of gold or other substance, she answered: I do not know. Asked if she herself did not have some rings, she replied to us, bishop: You have one of mine; give it back to me. She said the Burgundians have another ring; and she asked us, if we had her ring, to show it to her. Asked who gave her the ring which the Burgundians had, she answered her father or her mother; and she thought the names Jhesus Maria were written thereon; she did not know who had them written; she did not think there was any stone in it; and she was given the ring at Domrémy. She said that her brother gave her the other ring which we had and she charged us to give it to the Church. She said she never cured any one with any of her rings and [130] ......Asked of what substance one of her rings was, on which the words Jhesus Maria were written, she answered that she did not properly know; and if it was of gold, it was not of fine gold; and she did not know whether it was of gold or brass; she thought there were three crosses, and to her knowledge no other signs save the words Jhesus Maria. Asked why she gladly looked at this ring when she was going to battle, she answered that it was out of pleasure, and in honour of her father and mother; and having her ring in her hand and on her finger she touched St. Catherine who appeared before her....; see Quicherat, Jules, Procés de Condamnation et de Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, Paris, 1841-1849 (first publication of the full trial texts); see Barrett, P. W., Trial of Joan of Arc, New York, 1932 (first English translation of the trial texts"). Oates, F. A. H., Catalogue of Finger Rings; Brought Together by F. A. Harman Oates, privately printed, London; Sotheby's, sales catalogues, 20 February 1929 (lot 21) and 1 April 1947 (lot 37); Hasson, Dr James, The Banquet of the Immortals, Poseidon Press, Edinburgh, 1948 (310 copies printed), pp.94-100 for a romanticised account of this ring and the death of Joan of Arc (extract from this work included); The Marvellous and Symbolic Story of the Ring of Jeanne d'Arc Exhibited at the Chapelle St-Jean of La Turbie, n.d (1952; English and French language versions accompanying this lot); Jeanne d'Arc et Son Temps, Paris, 1956, Commémoration du Vme Centaire de la Réhabilitation de Jeanne d'Arc, 1456-1956, Rouen and Paris, p.61, no.190 (original catalogue accompanying this lot"). Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate. Cyril George Edward Bunt (1882-1969) was an art historian and Librarian at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the writer of several books on such topics as the works of Sir Frank Brangwyn, David Cox and Leonard Campbell Taylor, together with a history of Windsor Castle; he researched the pedigree of the ring and its descent through the Beaufort and Cavendish families (typescript history, discussion and genealogical tree included); he corresponded with Augustus John regarding the ring and confirms how John received it. It is worth noting that the Condemnation trial documents were not published (in France) before 1849 and that the first English translation was published in 1932; prior to these publications, the only access to the original documents would have been in the archives in Paris and, as the association between this ring and Joan of Arc is published at least as early as 1917 (the Oates Catalogue), the connection appears to have been made before any details of Joan's description of her rings would have been generally known. The Cyril Bunt typescript documents have only very recently been found. Ring: 4.90 grams, 21mm overall, 18.27mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 17); casket: 127 grams total, 79 x 58 x 77mm (Ring: 3/4 casket: 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 3"). Good condition; surfaces worn.
Lot 2074
10-40 AD. Obv: COF in box with pellet at sides, pellet-in-annulet above and below. Rev: facing head of Medusa with VERI around. The Brodie Hall, Kent, UK, collection; acquired Chris Rudd (with envelope and ticket"). S. 141; BMC 1506; ABC 1271. Chris Rudd, List 117, number 26 (this coin"). Chris Rudd notes: 'It's five years since we sold our one and only other specimen, which came to us from the Tony Abramson collection. Commenting on it Dr Philip de Jersey said: This is one of the rarest of Verica's silver minims, with only seven examples recorded in the CCI, of which four are in museum collections. The Medusa head links the type back to the quarter stater of Tincomarus bearing the same motif (VA 378) but is rather less well defined here; the limitations of the minim dies must have made this an extraordinarily difficult piece of die engraving'. 0.25 grams. Good very fine/very fine. Extremely rare (only nine others recorded, including four in museums).
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