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Lot 640
EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January-December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. Fountain pen ink signature (`Edward P`) as Prince of Wales, on a page removed from an autograph album. Together with a silver vesta case by Garrard & Co., bearing the hallmark of Sebastian Garrard, London, 1920, and bearing the engraved initial E and Prince of Wales feathers to one side, apparently presented by the Prince of Wales to Cyril Evans, Gymnasium instructing officer on board the SS Olympic. With four matches present and contained in the original Garrard & Co. presentation box. Small tear at the head of the album page, just affecting one letter of the signature. G to about VG, 2
Lot 305
BAILLIE JAMES STEELE, GLASGOW a collection of his personal effects, including portrait photograph, eighteen carat gold 1902 Coronation Celebration medal with box, nine carat gold Corporation of Glasgow Celebration of Peace 1919 medal with box, Corporation of Glasgow Children`s Day 1902 medals (including one silver) with case, Corporation of Glasgow Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, Children`s Fete medals with case (including one silver), set of Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee medals with case, gilt and enamel medal engraved `James Steele Preceptor 1917-19-20` with case, a Presentation golf club, with silver band engraved `Presented to Ex Baillie Steele on the occasion of the Opening of Alexandra Park Golf Course 1st June 1907`, Council Diary, family correspondence (including early 19th century), family photographs and paperwork, nine carat gold cufflink set in box, enamelled and other badges, wallets, Victorian snuff mull, and a Victorian Sports Cap with portrait photograph of the owner
Lot 439
A Second War and Korea group of Four, to CAPT. E.G.C. SOBEY. R.A.O.C., comprising 39-45 Medal, Korea Medal, United Nations Medal with KOREA bar and Coronation Medal, complete with miniatures, Regular Army Certificate of Service, together with RAOC Officer`s dress cap, Sam Browne belt, assorted RAOC and Middlesex Regiment insignia including a good OSD bronze Middlesex cap badge, Regimental ties, brass Middlesex Regiment bed plate, a silver presentation cigarette case stamped .835, a Kukri and 4 Britains` Middlesex Regiment hand painted soldiers. Together with his father`s medals, a First War Pair and Meritorious Service Medal, to 17 SJT. A.E. SOBEY. R.A.M.C. on the pair and 464011 SJT A.E. SOBEY R.A.M.C. complete with box of issue. (Parcel) Captain Edward George Sobey served with the Middlesex Regiment in Korea. Lt. Sobey led 12 Platoon against a Company of the enemy from the Naktong River Bridge Head and led further bayonet assaults on heavily fortified hill top positions.
Lot 125
An early 19th Century square coromandel and brass bound decanter box, the hinged cover with brass roundel initialled "A" with coronet, opening to reveal a four division fitted interior of four canted rectangular glass decanters and stoppers, each with faceted cut shoulders and lipped rims, two with crescent shaped labels for whisky (one silver, the other unmarked), Bramah lock and brass escutcheon, 32 cm wide x 24 cm high (ILLUSTRATED)
Lot 283
An early 20th Century Continental silver (unmarked) and pink guilloche enamel decorated box, the metalwork with foliate and wriggle work engraved decoration, the top sliding and opening to reveal a gilt-washed interior with inscription "From Léonie Jurgend...." and bearing numbers "6/299/9", 8 cm x 5.3 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
Lot 577
Attributed to Theodore Russell (British, 1614-1689) Portrait of Honora de Burgh, 1st Duchess of Berwick (1675-1698), wearing Pearls oil on canvas 34 x 27cm (13.26 x 10.53in) Provenance: From a Norfolk country house On the basis of a label on the reverse reading ‘Lady Berrick’ and of the similarity of this portrait with other authenticated likenesses, the painting is believed to be a portrait of Honora de Burgh, dowager Countess of Lucan and Duchess of Berwick. Honora de Burgh (also de Burgo, Burke or Bourke) was one of the most enchanting yet tragic figures associated with the early Jacobite cause. She was born in 1675 at Portumna Castle, County Galway, the youngest daughter of William Burke, the seventh Earl of Clanricarde. In 1689 she married Patrick Sarsfield (circa 1660-1693), one of James II’s military commanders in Ireland who was created the 1st Earl of Lucan in 1691, at Portumna Abbey, when she was only fifteen years old, almost twenty years younger than her husband. Following the defeat of James II’s forces at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, Honora fled her home at Lucan in County Dublin and eventually settled with her husband at the Jacobite court in exile at St Germain-en-Laye outside Paris. Now aged nineteen she threw herself into the social life of the courts of James II and Louis IV. She was reckoned among the most fashionable and beautiful women of her time and is said to have introduced the French court to ‘les contredanses Anglais’. Saint-Simon recalled: ‘Elle etait a la premiere fleur de son age, belle, touchante, faite a peindre, une nymphe’. Her husband’s death in battle in 1693 left her widowed with a young son. Two years later she married the young James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670-1734), the eldest of James II’s illegitimate sons by Arabella Churchill, and the commander of the French force in the fighting in which Sarsfield had perished. FitzJames had been created Duke in 1687, served his father at the siege of Londonderry, the Battle of the Boyne and then fought in the French army against England, as a result of which he forfeited his titles in 1695. Honora bore him one son but shortly afterwards became ill following a miscarriage. She was taken to Pezenas in Languedoc in the hope that the milder air might cure her consumption but died there aged twenty-three in 1698 after only four years of marriage. She was buried in the English convent at Pontoise; her heartbroken husband had her heart preserved in a silver box and interred at Pezenas. Her elder son James Francis Edward Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1693-1719), served in both the French and Spanish armies; he died unmarried in St Omer aged twenty-six. Her younger son was James Francis FitzJames Stuart (1696-1738), or Jacobo Francisco FitzJames Stuart, and succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Berwick (albeit never recognised as such), 2nd Duque de Liria, 2nd Duque de Xerica, but lived his entire life in exile. Further portraits of her are reproduced in Charles Petrie, Marshal Duke of Berwick (London, 1953), from an original in the British Museum, and in Piers Wauchope, Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite war (Blackrock, 1992), from an original in Kilkenny Castle We are grateful to Dr Joachim Whaley for his help with the catalogue entry
Lot 368
A late Victorian/Edwardian mahogany vanity box with parquetry inlaid mother of pearl panel, the hinged lid revealing an array of fitted glass toilet bottles, boxes etc with engraved silver plated lids, a manicure set with mother of pearl handles, a lift out tray revealing a lower compartment and a spring loaded "secret" jewellery drawer with blue silk lined compartments and watch pocket. (as viewed, one pot missing and another with some damage)
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