Newmarket Horse Racing and the Joel family circa 1940s/50s. Leather album compiled by Mrs Solna Thompson Jones (nee Joel), wife of horse trainer Henry Thompson Jones, with photographs, press cuttings and ephemera of his race winners etc. variously dated between 1949 and 1954; an Asprey & Co. leather-bound album of telegrams, press cuttings, congratulatory letters and cards celebrating the 21st Birthday celebrations of Solna Joel, (daughter of mining magnate Stanhope Joel) and the Newmarket Town Plate races won by herself and Betty Richards; a scrapbook of Solna Joels’ skiing holiday to Switzerland in 1947 together with family photos; Champion Racehorses 1974 Volume 1, pub. Crawford & Gilbey, no. 51 from the edition of 2,000 copies, with certificate awarded to Stanhope Joel for the achievements of ‘Dahlia’ Champion Racehorse of the year (1974), the cover inset a silver-gilt medallion after John Skeaping RA.; and a signed and framed photograph of Stanhope Joel inscribed ‘To Stan with love from Daddy 1/12/23’. (5)
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EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) A lengthy autograph letter signed, 'David' (also signed a further three times at various breaks in the letter), 8pp., 4to, H.M.S. Renown, at sea, 18th – 21st August 1919, to Freda Dudley Ward (‘Fredie darling beloved little sweetheart mine’). The Prince of Wales, writing in pencil, sends a love letter to his mistress in London ahead of his arrival in Canada, sending news of speeches he has made (‘what I think of all this official work & these cornie [sic] pompous stunts….tho I really do feel that I’ve at last turned the corner as regards public speaking….’), informing her that he will be spending a day at Prince Edward Island (‘I don’t think it will be very strenuous as its such a pip squeak province’), expressing his desire to have been given a silver fox skin, letting her know how much she is missed (‘I do love you, love you, my very own blessed little Fredie darling & I find life very hard & dour without you……it’s hell when we are parted sweetheart & when I can’t hear you say all your divine things which is what keeps me alive….’), stating that he is looking forward to going West and hoping to receive another letter from her (‘there’s only one type of letter for me & that’s my precious beloved little baby’s, only one writing that I search madly for when the letters are being sorted & my poor little heart is beating so fast….’), further making reference to the Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden with whom the Prince had dined (‘…he’s such a stick & deadly dull except re politics & I can’t tackle him on that subject’), asking to be sent some books of poetry with her favourite verses or lines marked, lamenting the fact that fog has prevented him from playing golf, commenting that he is feeling home sick, and concluding in romantic terms, ‘You can never know what I feel like…..or how I dote over YOU & worship you darling, darling of my heart!! Au revoir and may God have you in his safe keeping beloved one till your very very own devoted & adoring little boy Your David returns to YOU!! Bless you, bless you for ever & ever & I send millions & millions of paper baisers tho what rotten substitutes for our proper ones which must be easily the most divine & marvellous ever known!!’ and in a postscript intimately writing ‘Mrs Thpider sends her love & baiser to Mr. Thpider, she is looking after me vewy well tho she’s vewy bored & fed up & sad at her long separation from her little husband. I hope he’s as well as she is sweetheart!!’. Accompanied by the original envelope bearing a black wax seal to the verso.Freda Dudley Ward (1894-1983) Marquesa de Casa Maury. English Socialite, the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales from 1918-23. Before leaving England for his tour of North America the Prince and his lover exchanged signet rings with spider motifs, which they called ‘Mr and Mrs Thpider’, as referenced in the letter. Ward remained a close confidante of Edward's until 1934 when his relationship with Wallis Simpson began. Condition report: light age staining in places, previously folded twice for enclosing in the envelope. No particular other problems. Property of a collector.
Treen, a mystery object ! An early 20th century patinated (possibly boxwood) hexagonal staff (some historic splitting) having a gearstick-shaped oak terminal with central circular silver metal coloured plaque E.K. from W.M.C. 1939, the staff locating into a sectional, circular base (105cm high)
Lots 469 - 520 comprise 506 silver denarii discovered by an amateur detectorist in March 2018 on cultivated land in Lincolnshire - the proceeds to be divided equally between the landowner and the finder in accordance with the Treasure Act 1996. The coins span the period from Mark Antony (32-31 BC) to Antoninus Pius (147 AD) and are mostly of the Trajan and Hadrian periods. Eight denarii: 3 x Mark Antony (32-31 BC), 2 x Nero and 3 x Galba; from the Lincolnshire 2018 hoard. (Rome mint). (Brit. Mus. cat. # 1-8) 1 x RRC 544/16. Obverse: [ANT AVG] III VIR R P C (ship). Reverse: LEG XIII (eagle between two standards) (Triangular punchmark). (3.05g)1 x RRC 544/27.Obverse: [ANT AVG] III VIR R P C (ship). Reverse: LEG XIII (eagle between two standards). (3.48g)1 x RRC 544. Obverse: [ANT AVG III VIR R P C] (ship). Reverse: LEG […] (eagle between two standards). (3.18g)1 x RIC I 47. Obverse: NERO CAESAR. Reverse: AVGVSTVS [GER]MANICUS (Nero standing left holding branch and Victory). (3.26g)1 x RIC I 53. Obverse: NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS. Reverse: IVPPITER CVSTOS (Jupiter seated left). (3.17g)1 x RIC I 167. Obverse: IMP SER GALBA AVG (legend unbroken), (bare head of Galba, right). Reverse: S P Q R /OB/ C S (in oak wreath). (3.30g)1 x RIC I 186. Obverse: IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG (laureate head of Galba, right). Reverse: DIVA AVGVSTA (Livia standing left). (3.23g)1 x RIC I 189. Obverse: (laureate bust of Galba, right). Reverse: DIVA [AVGVSTA] (Livia standing left). (3.34g)
A pair of Chinese ceramic and white-metal-mounted ornamental shoes; the ceramics decorated with temple dogs with brocade balls, the white-metal mounts with dragons and fen in high relief on either side. Two-character mark to the white-metal soles. (star crack to one ceramic base, 12cm high)Condition Report: one of the shoes has a star crack to the porcelain insole inside. The silver coloured mounted bases look quite discoloured but the other porcelain shoe appears to be in good overall general condition with no cracks, chips or restoration noted. Both appear to blue four character marks painted to the inside.
A late 19th century silver-mounted lady's easel-style dressing table mirror: elaborate and ornate Rococo-style frame decorated in repoussé with flowerheads, C-scrolls and further foliate-style ornament; large vacant cartouche; hallmarks for Henry Mathew and assayed Birmingham 1899 (32cm full height x 23cm widest point at lower supports)
The last letters sent from the Gallipoli theatre by Lt. Hon. Kenneth R Dundas RNVR (Anson Battalion) to his wife, Claudia, together with a 3,300-word letter to Mrs Dundas from his comrade-in-arms, the poet-dramatist, Lt. Hugh Moreton Frewen RNVR, describing the last days of Lt. Dundas, his death, his battlefield funeral (‘a wonderful threnody’) and arrangements for his personal effects. Also to include letters and telegrams of condolence from Viscount Melville and other members of the family; a small photograph (6.8 x 4.5cm) of KRD and another (possibly Frewen) in a dugout; a fine 12” silver Albert chain (maker’s mark of John Thompson & Son, London date mark 1898); the silver photograph frame (8.8cm in diameter) referred to in Frewen's letter and with later explanatory note penned by Mrs Dundas; various other family papers to include the 1915 Grant of Probate of the Will of KRD and the 1916 Epitome of the Will of Thomas Alderman Hougton (1828 -1918).Letters from KRD to his wife dated 29.05.1915, 27.07.1915, 29.07.1915, 31.07.1915, 04.08.1915, 06.08.1915 and one other undated, probably an 'in the event of my death letter', which begins ‘My own sweetheart, We go into action again shortly and the chances of living through it are small. I write to you now therefore to say what I can to comfort you…’, which, Mrs Dundas refers to in a note to her son, 'reached me after Hugh Frewen's came, and I think it saved my life.' Moreton Frewen’s 3,300-word letter, written the day after Dundas’ death, goes into some detail and quotes Dundas directly, “Frewen, I want to tell you the buzz. We’ve come to the wrong beach…” and also his last words, “Go and help others.”. Frewen continues, ‘I want you to hear Mrs. Dundas, in its full details, what had happened, so that you may judge of what a perfectly heroic death he died. It was glorious. Sir Philip Sidney’s was no finer. He died as he had lived, true to the traditions of his name and race, a Scot, a Dundas, and a true and heroic gentleman … he even tried to free himself from their hold [the medical officers attempting to ligature his carotid artery] on the artery that he might no longer detain them.’Frewen’s letter is perhaps one of the longest, best-composed, most poetic and emotional letters of condolence sent from the beaches of Gallipoli. Written in pencil in an Active Service Compendium notebook with 1914 and 1915 calendars, it consists of 31 pages, some loose, and begins:Aug. 8th 1915 “C” beach, Anafarta Bay, Gallipoli Peninsular Dear Mrs Dundas,Though we have never met, I write to you as a dear friend, for an inscrutable providence has ordained that we meet in spirit to share the same grief – a grief too poignant for words. For nearly 3 months I have shared with your husband the same life in camp and in the field, we always messed together and occupied the same quarters, whether a ‘dug-out’ in Gallipoli or a tent at Imbios ...' (Full transcript available on request).
A pair of early 20th century cut-glass decanters; the star stoppers above double pouring silver-mounted necks, both hallmarked, one neck mount rubbed, one marked Asprey London, each with facet-cut neck and bottle-shaped bodies finely engraved with vertical stiff leaves and stylised flowerheads (33.4cm high)Condition Report: The spire shaped stoppers have a couple of pin head sized nibbles to the extremities of the pointed top on one of them, the rest of that stopper looks good. The other stopper is in very good overall order with no problems noted. The decanters have scratches and wear to the underside of the star-cut base as expected and commensurate with age. The main body on the first decanter look good, cutting sharp and crisp with no problems noted, neither to the hallmarked silver mount. The second decanter has also scratches to the underside of the base and also has wine stains to the very bottom which could be removed with cleaner. The glass appears in good order although the glass inside the neck underneath the silver mount has discoloured through wine usage, the silver mount is marked Asprey, London is in good overall original condition but hallmarks rubbed.
An early 20th century cranberry glass and silver overlay tea caddy; the body decorated with two opposing sides of Chinamen picking tea and the other opposing side decorated with flowerheads and scrolling tendrils etc., both the lid and the neck of the caddy with maker's mark J.H.W, assayed Birmingham 1902 (14.5cm high)Condition Report: The vase is a little scratched underneath commensurate with age, conditional overall is generally good. The glass looks OK and silver in good condition. There is a matchhead piece of silver away near the lip at the top.
A pair of cut-glass silver-mounted scent bottles; each with spire stopper above a bottle-shaped body, the shoulders carved with hobnail designs and stylised flowerheads within lozenges, the silver mounts with maker's mark of W&C Hartman and assayed London 1863 (15.5cm high including stopper) (some cracking of glass to tops under silver collars) (2)
A very fine 19th century silver-plated claret jug marked for Elkington & Co: the hinged circular lid with cast lion rampant holding a shield as a vacant cartouche above a signed collar mounting decorated in high relief with two masks of Bacchus; the cylindrical body very finely hand-cut with ferns in the late 19th century Aesthetic taste, upon spreading star-cut base (27cm)Condition Report: The glass itself is very finely etched and the quality of the silver plated mounts is extremely good. Upon close inspection the underside of the star-cut base has minor scratches and blemishes expected and associated commensurate with age. The main glass has no problems, no cracks chips or restorations are noted. The glass within protected by the mount also looks in good condition. The jug has come from a private collection and is in excellent condition.
A pair of hand-cut mallet-shaped decanters with hallmarked silver collars and mushroom stoppers, silver marked for Mappin & Webb and assayed London 1930 (one stopper with damage to the lower section; one decanter unfortunately cracked), together with one other 19th century decanter of square form and with a later cork stopper mounted with a silver-plated fox (3)
A circular hallmarked silver jewellery box with black velvet interior; the hinged lid vacant cartouche and repoussé decorated with C scrolls, further scrolling foliage and two birds (one open winged) flanking the vacant cartouche on outset circular foot, maker's mark B&Co, assayed Birmingham 1975 (8.75cm diameter at base)
A good lady's dressing table set in its original case. Seven pieces in silver-mounted tortoiseshell with piqué work: hair brush, clothes brush, handheld mirror, silver-mounted comb and three glass dressing table requisites. Fold-down front and two keys. The case and silver with the mark of Mappin & Webb Ltd, Regent Street, London W.
An unusual hallmarked silver medallion in high relief. The obverse centre with the busts of the Four Emperors. The centre of the reverse with Victoria between two cavalrymen, and Apollo driving his quadriga above. Both sides’ centres with surrounding chariot and infantry battle scenes. London assay mark and maker’s mark ADG. (approx. 6.3cm in diameter and the rim 0.5cm). (153.5g)
An unusual hallmarked silver medallion in high relief. The obverse centre with the busts of the Four Emperors. The centre of the reverse with Victoria between two cavalrymen, and Apollo driving his quadriga above. Both sides’ centres with surrounding chariot and infantry battle scenes. London assay mark and maker’s mark ADG. (approx. 6.3cm in diameter and the rim 0.5cm). (153.5g) Mounted in a square glazed Spink frame.
An unusual hallmarked silver medallion in high relief. The obverse centre with the busts of the Four Emperors. The centre of the reverse with Victoria between two cavalrymen, and Apollo driving his quadriga above. Both sides’ centres with surrounding chariot and infantry battle scenes. London assay mark and maker’s mark ADG. (approx. 6.3cm in diameter and the rim 0.5cm). (153.5g) Mounted in a square glazed Spink frame.
A variety of mainly silver spoons (some silver plate): enamelled preserve spoons, teaspoons, coffee spoons etc. To include an early 20th century hallmarked silver example with enamelled finial in the Liberty style. Together with a pair of late 19th century green-glass and silver-overlaid scent bottles (both with damage).
A pair of hallmarked silver mustards with blue-glass liners. Of spherical, squat shape and with gadrooned rims and on three shaped feet. Marked for Jays, Oxford St., W, assayed Chester 1931. The liners non-matching. (Total silver weight excluding glass liners, approx. 253g.)
An ornate hallmarked silver photograph frame. Decorated in repoussé style, the vacant cartouche flanked by two cherubic figures to the upper corners, and two putto heads to the lower corners. Maker's mark RC, with modern Sheffield assay marks. (22cm highest x 16.5cm widest)Condition Report: Good, no major problems although it is noted that the silver is tarnished and would benefit from a clean.
Six hallmarked silver cases: a kidney-shaped cigarette case with profuse foliate engraving (1907); a smaller hallmarked kidney-shaped example (Birmingham 1902); an early 20th century hallmarked silver carte-de-visite; another example with a clip-on lid; a rectangular silver cigarette case and one further carte de visite by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd, assayed London 1925 (total weight approx. 264g) (6)
A George III period heavy hallmarked silver snuff box of rectangular form; the hinged lid with unengraved central oval cartouche surrounded by bright cut engraving, the body and underside also engraved, gilded interior, maker's mark of RL ID, assayed London 1801 (5.75cm, approx. 39.3g)Condition Report: Clear hallmarks, the lid closes flush, the engraving ' a little' rubbed commensurate with polishing, possible old repair to the inside of lid edge. Some surface scratches as expected with usage - some interior gilding re-touched.
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