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A Magnificent Late 19th Century Solid Silver Alms Dish Makers Mark for Samuel Smith, etched to back 'Ramsgate Congregational Church, presented 1924' the borders etched with repeating acanthus leaf design, the centre monogrammed. Fully hallmarked, Sheffield 'F' 1923, with makers mark HW ( Horace Woodward ?) 36.4 toz
Royal Interest A Collection Of Medals And Ceremonial State Visit Ephemera All relating to A Mr A.D Stockdale, a chauffeur working for the British government and Royal family during the 1980's. To include typed letter on Buckingham Palace letterhead, dated 4th June 1981, granting permission for the restricted wearing of a medal from the king of Nepal. Certificate for silver medal of Honour granted by France, Medagli Di Classe, along with various dinner menus, dance invites to Windsor castle from the 70's, 80's and 1990's. Along with an invitation to Princess Margaret's cocktail party 20th December 1973. And a handwritten letter dated March 1985, signed Edward.
* Stereoviews. Switzerland Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, circa 1901-03, a complete set of 100 arched top gelatin silver print stereoviews, original numbered card mounts with printed captions in various languages, housed in a faux three-volume cloth gilt book box, slightly rubbed, together with a copy of the original accompanying book, by M.S. Emery, no date, booklet of 11 folding maps on nine sheets present and loosely inserted in rear book pocket, cloth slightly damp-marked, 8vo, plus a group of 26 stereoviews of The Great War, published by Realistic Travels, circa 1918, plus four photographic stereoviews of early aviation from the "Flight" series (two torn), a Holmes type stereoscope by Underwood & Underwood, in good working order (Qty: A small carton)
* Fenton (Roger, 1819-1869). Hampton Court on Thames [from Photographic Art Treasures, Part II ] published by The Photo-galvano-graphic Company, December 1856, photogalvanograph on india paper, printed caption details to lower margin, 21.5 x 27.5cm, original mount with embossed stamp lower left, some light dampstaining and dust-soiling, together with four albumen prints and one gelatin silver print of English churches and scenery, 21.5 x 28cm and similar sizesPaul Pretsch launched his short-lived Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company in London in 1856 and it was the first commercial attempt to print photographs, printing directly from photo-sensitised plates using the photo-chemical process.(Qty: 6)
India. An album of 43 mounted photographs, circa 1860s, albumen print views of Benares, Lucknow, Delhi, Akhbar and Agra, etc., all somewhat faded with some spotting, annotated in bold red ink to lower right corners of images, approximately 22 x 27cm and similar sizes, mounted mostly back to back on stiff card album leaves in a broken and disbound album, together with another album of later India photographs, circa 1908, a total of approximately 57 gelatin silver prints including small snapshots, some captioned in the negative including photographs of the Amir at Peshawar, Peshawar Mall, Lord Kitchener and staff, Amir's visit to Peshawar, plus photographs of polo, processions, military groups and functions, etc., largely uncaptioned, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and soiled, both oblong folio (Qty: 2)
* Jackson (William Henry, 1843-1942). Four portraits of Native Americans, circa 1880, albumen prints, all numbered in the negative and identified as Standing Buffalo (4222 & 4223), White Eagle (4218) and Chipeta, Ouray's Squaw (4203), the first three 18 x 10.5cm, the last 15 x 9.5cm, mounted with four further photographs (later gelatin silver prints of young African American man and woman (approximately 9 x 6cm) and two photographs of four men gathered around a well or shaft head (on rectos of four album leaves) (Qty: 8)
* Miscellaneous photography, late 19th and early 20th century, including a quantity of cartes de visite, cabinet cards, loose photographs and album leaves, plus two photograph albums, including a mixture of albumen and gelatin silver print views, scenes and snapshots (Qty: a carton)
Photograph albums. A group of eight photograph albums, late 19th and early 20th century, containing mounted albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, mostly UK scenes, plus some European views, mostly smaller-format images, sporadic captions, various bindings and sizes (Qty: a carton)
* Travel Photography. A group of approximately 75 photographic views, mostly 19th and a few early 20th century, albumen prints and a few gelatin silver prints, including views of Chile, Canada, Burma, Malta, Germany, Guernsey, Italy, Cape Town, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, etc ., various sizes, some on mounts (Qty: approx. 75)
Banking album. Portraits of Eastern staff during a visit of Mr C. Lewis, December 1909/July 1910 [title cover], containing 60 professional gelatin silver print photographs of Lewis in formal group portrait photographs with other staff members at the various places he visited, all window-mounted on 15 card leaves, mostly 21 x 27cm and similar, the mounts neatly captioned with city or town name to upper margin and official personnel to lower margins, many of the photographs including local unnamed personnel in formal dress, all edges gilt, contemporary padded morocco over boards, upper cover titled in gilt, worn and covers detached, oblong folioPossibly the Wallace Brothers Sassoon Bank Limited. The places visited are Bombay, Calcutta, Rangoon, Penang, Ipoh, Singapore, Quala Lumpor, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, Kobe, Yokohama, New York and Taiping.(Qty: 1)
* Beken of Cowes. A group of 12 photographs of small racing yachts, 1940s/1950s, gelatin silver prints, all but two with details in white china ink to lower margin, many now partly indistinct, approximately 28 x 23cm and similar, all loosely contained with a related smaller-format photograph of a yacht in a contemporary album, stiff card wrappers, oblong folio, together with a related book of Beken photographs (Qty: 14)
* Brandt (Bill & Beaton , Cecil). Three gelatin silver print photographs printed from the original negatives held by the Imperial War Museum, circa 1975, including two by Bill Brandt, circa 1940, showing Londoners sheltering from the Blitz in the Underground, and one by Cecil Beaton, circa 1940, showing a bare-chested man in profile in front of a van advertising tea as the soldiers' drink, images 29 x 31cm or the reverse, one Brandt photograph with corner crease and small marginal split, each with Imperial War Museum photograph wetstamp and pencil number details to verso (Qty: 3)
* Bufka (Vladimir Jindrich, 1887-1960). Two real photo postcards of young women, both signed in ink diagonally by the sitters to lower area, one dated 1911 and one dated 1919, both with photographer's blindstamp lower right, a little gouache added to background of one card, both postally unused, the first with album mounting remains, plus a vignetted gelatin silver print of Emperor Franz Ferdinand walking behind a horse, margins frayed, image 11 x 13cm (Qty: 3)
* Capa (Robert, 1913-1954). Poland Today, 1949, vintage gelatin silver print showing a woman seated among ruined buildings feeding pigeons, some in flight, Magnum Photos and other credit stamps plus press captions to verso, some corner creasing and short horizontal split to left margin, 21 x 34cm (Qty: 1)
Central Africa. Three albums of ethnographic studies, circa 1930, 287 gelatin silver prints (5 x 5 cm) window-mounted rectos and versos in grey thick card leaves, comprising village scenes, local types (mainly female and bare-breasted), and portrait studies depicting scarification and lip-plugs, one window-mount empty, embossed Photo Plait ticket to front pastedown of 2 of the albums, contemporary simulated crocodile-skin cloth bindings, small 4to (17 x 17 cm)The style of lip-plugs and scarification resembles that of the Sara people, who reside in what are now Southern Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic, although one of the images depicts the French steamship Alphonse Fondère, which is recorded as operating on the Congo River; these photographs may have been taken in the environs of the Ubangi River, a major tributary of the Congo in the modern-day Central African Republic,(Qty: 3)
China. A group of four personal photograph albums relating to the London Missionary Society and the creation of Peking Union Medical College, circa 1907-15, a total of approximately 290 mostly window-mounted gelatin silver print snapshots, the majority of Peking scenes and people, plus classes and patients at the Peking Union Medical College, sparcely captioned but with mention of various western missionary names including Edwin Robert Wheeler and his wife Emily (nee Meech), Dr Wenham, J.M. Stenhouse, Ethel Livens, the Stucke and Cormack families, images mostly approximately 7.5 x 10cm and similar sizes, a few photographs loose, plus four leaves of manuscript notes (in more than one hand) giving information on some of the photographs, contemporary cloth, rubbed and marked, one volume with spine near detached, non-matching 8voThough there is no indication, the albums may have been compiled by Edwin Robert Wheeler and his wife Emily Gertrude Meech. They both worked at the Peking Union Medical College with the Baptist Missionary Society in the early years of the twentieth century and married in 1910. SOAS Archives, University of London, have three original photographs and photocopies of six additional photographs depicting scenes in Peking between 1912 and 1916 from Edwin Robert Wheeler (GB 102 MS 380897). Peking Union Medical College was founded in 1906 and later funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It is now affiliated with Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.(Qty: 4)
China. The Hankow Flood Pictures, 1931, published by Zenith Studio, Hankow, [1931], 30 gelatin silver print photographs with printed captions in Chinese and English on mounts beneath, images mostly 9 x 14.5cm, mounted back to back on fifteen leaves, a little marginal soiling, small stain affecting upper cover and first three photographs, original printed wrappers with cloth spine tie, slightly soiled, oblong 8voA remarkable record of one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded, with estimates of the death toll varying wildly between the more conservative local estimates of 145,000 to Western sources suggesting a toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people. A commission was set up to investigate flood control and eventually plans were drawn up for the Three Gorges dam project which then lay in mothballs until the modern era. The project was restarted in the 1980s and the hydroelectric Three Gorges Dam began full operation in 2012, becoming the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity.(Qty: 1)
* China. A group of 103 medium format 6 x 6 cm gelatin silver print negatives, showing people, views and scenes in rural China, each negative contained in a sleeve with a gelatin silver print made from the negative, 8 x 11cm, most with manuscript information to versos, and contained in numbered sleeves (some with press stamps to versos in a broken card box with three glass plate negatives believed to be by the same photographer Commander Rodger) (Qty: approx. 200)
* Czech Photography. An assorted group of Czech photographic subjects, 20th century, mostly vintage gelatin silver prints, including 15 Czech pop photographs including three large photographs from the underground movement, 11 experimental photographs, various dates, 10 studies of surface textures, 1960s/1970s, a group of 24 rural scenes, 1920s/1940s, seven miscellaneous colour-tinted photographs and a group of seven vintage gelatin silver prints by Jovan Dezort, four or industrial subjects (18 x 18cm) and three of motorcycle racing (30 x 23cm), each with Dezort's wetstamp to versos (Qty: 74)
* Evans (Walker, 1903-1975). New York skyline, circa 1930s, gelatin silver print, printed later, slightly bruised to lower left corner with small blank paper loss to blank margin, light horizontal crease in upper sky area and small crease to upper right corner, a little damp wrinkling to left margin, 36.5 x 49cm, Library of Congress reproduction stamp to verso (Qty: 1)
* Ferdinand (Franz, 1853-1914), Archduke of Austria-Este. Portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and their three children, Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, Princess Sophie and Maximillian, Duke of Hohenberg, circa 1910, gelatin silver print, 22 x 16cm, negative no. 106 in the image lower right, original card mount with German inscription to lower mount in an unidentified hand, mount soiled and with surface paper loss, together with a group of seven contemporary studio photographic portraits of unidentified Europeans including some duplicates, plus eight postcards, three featuring Archduke Franz Ferdinand, some postally used with English and German messages (Qty: 16)
* Ferguson (Frederick W., FRPS). An archive of approximately 130 exhibition photographs, circa 1930s/1960s, mostly large-format bromide silver prints, subjects including landscapes, some portraits and genre subjects, sizes 59 x 51cm and smaller but mostly large format, many pencil signed on mounts to rectos or versos and with photographer's name and address plus many exhibition and prize labels, partly contained in old wooden boxFrederick W. Ferguson of Grotton Hall, Saddleworth, Yorkshire; also Oldham and Rochdale. He exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, 1943-63, London School of Photography, 1946-58, and numerous other photographic societies, mostly in the Midlands and the north of England.(Qty: approx. 130)
* Francis Frith Archive. A group of 24 good views of English towns and villages, circa 1910-20, gelatin silver prints, locations include Epping, Battle, Salisbury, Droitwich, Deal, Sandwich, Lytham St Annes, Bray, Liverpool and Birmingham, many photographs featuring people and early vehicles, approx. 14 x 21cm and similar sizes (Qty: 24)
* Halsman (Philippe, 1906-1979). Winston Churchill at Chartwell, 1951, gelatin silver print printed circa 1980 on glossy double weight paper, showing Churchill from behind looking across the grounds at Chartwell, Toni Parks Collection wetstamp to verso, a little light corner creasing to lower corners, mostly affecting blank margin, short split to right margin with pin head loss of emulsion in grassy area, 27 x 26cm (Qty: 1)
* India. A photographic archive relating to the Honourable Colonel and Mrs St John in India, circa 1920s, including an album beginning with their arrival at Quetta on 3 November 1927 to take over the charge of 'The Baluchistan Agency', containing approximately 70 mounted gelatin silver prints of officials and functions, etc., some captioning in white china ink throughout, photographs 10 x 16cm and smaller, some damp-staining, contemporary limp cloth, together with a second album containing a further 45 related uncaptioned gelatin silver prints, mostly small format but including two larger photographs, 23 x 29cm, contemporary boards, both oblong folio, plus approximately 50 further related photographs including 12 earlier albumen prints of India, 19 x 23cm, mounted back to back on brittle paper leaves, and seven larger gelatin silver prints, approximately 23.5 x 28.5cm, relating to the official work of Mr and Mrs St John in the local community and including one studio portrait of four Indian children in traditional dress, inscribed 'Pat', 'Bubbles', Mickey' and 'Joey' to lower part of image, 22 x 28.5cm, plus two photographic portraits (one not from life) in Asprey leather gilt desk frames (Qty: a carton)
* Industrial Photographs. A group of seven photographs of railway engineering works, circa 1906-22, gelatin silver prints, numbered, titled and dated in the negative, places include Peterborough, Bow, St Albans, Dewsbury, Luton and Barnoldswick, a few corner creases and one with small corner loss, 24 x 29cm and slightly smaller (Qty: 7)
* Leedham (Bernard, active circa 1920-1930). A group of four female nude studies, circa 1930, vintage gelatin silver contact prints, two with Leedham's wetstamp to verso and one inscribed 'Pretty awful', plus four related negatives of female nudes by Leedham, all 10 x 7.5cm (Qty: 8)
* McBean (Angus, 1904-1990). The King and I, 1953, a group of 10 vintage gelatin silver prints of the production of the play at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, all featuring Valerie Hobson and three including Herbert Lom, plus other cast members, all with Angus McBean wetstamp to verso, 19 x 24cmProvenance: From a small archive of photographs from the legendary costumiers B.J. Simmons of Covent Garden. See also lots 290, 324 & 325.(Qty: 10)
* Middle East. A group of approximately 320 photographs of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and India by Ella K. Maillart, circa 1930s and later, small-format gelatin silver prints, including contact prints, people, scenes and views, most with manuscript or typed captions to versos, some with red pen mark-up lines, mostly approximately 8 x 11.5cm, contained in four small card boxes (Qty: approx. 320)
Namibia. Photograph album, circa 1905-10, 23 matt gelatin silver prints window-mounted rectos and versos in linen-hinged moiré-silk-effect thick card leaves (mount aperture 11.7 x 16.6 cm), depicting village scenes, views and ethnographic types including Herero warriors, in Windhoek, Keetmanshoop, Omaruru and elsewhere, printed marginal captions in German, occasional minor oxidation along edges, tear to one mount, contemporary red cloth binding, slightly rubbed, oblong 4to (19.4 x 27 cm)This album appears to date from around the period of the Herero Wars, which culminated in the genocide of the Herero and Namaqua peoples by the German Empire.(Qty: 1)
* Nicholas II (Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918). Reception by the Tsar in the Semi-Circular Hall, Alexander Palace, 4 February 1917, gelatin silver print photograph by K.E. von Gan & Co., showing a large group of officials, military officers and dignitaries posing for the photograph with Tsar Nicholas II seated at the centre front, 21.5 x 28cm, original card mount with photographer's studio details printed to versoThis is in all probability the last group photograph taken in the Tsar's palace of Tsarkoe Selo, and probably taken by Karl Gan [or Hahn]. Following the 'February Revolution', Nicholas II chose to abdicate on 2 March (O.S.) / 15 March (M.S.). The photograph was taken at the reception given to the Milner Mission in February 1917. The United States was not yet in the war and the triple Mission (political, strategic and supply) from the three major Western allies in Europe did not leave the British Isles until seven months after the Kitchener Mission had been sent to the bottom of the North Sea with the loss of the missioners themselves and all hands onboard. In the meantime the battle of the Somme had been launched from the British and French trenches in reply to the attack which the Germans had made even earlier in the year at Verdun. Both battles were maintained until the late autumn, and in December Mr Lloyd George, who had succeeded Lord Kitchener in June at the War Office, succeeded Mr Asquith as Prime Minister of Britain. The five men seated either side of the Tsar are (left to right) Lord Milner, the Italian ambassador, the British ambassador (Sir George Buchanan), the French ambassador (Monsieur Paleolouge) and Monsieur Doumergue (President of France). A few old typed and manuscript notes identifying some of the sitters is included with the lot in an envelope addressed to Right Hon. Lord Walter Layton (seen standing behind the British ambassador). A copy of the same photograph is held in the New College Archives Milner collection, Oxford.(Qty: 1)
* Nigeria. A group of approximately 100 photographs by W.K.R. Hallam of the Nigeria police, Kano, Nigeria, vintage gelatin silver prints showing scenes in villages and rural communities, plus leather garment manufacture, including some duplicates and multiples, printed captions tipped to most versos, 20 x 25cm or the reverse, together with multiple copies of a short typed article on Moroccan leather from northern Nigeria by Hallam (Qty: approx. 100)
* Nozicka (Aloys, born 1934). Two untitled abstract photographs, 1960 & 1970, vintage gelatin silver prints, 29.5 x 22.5cm, tipped on to card mounts, signed by photographer in ink to verso with dates added later in pencil, small pencil numbers 78 & 79 in another hand (Qty: 2)
* Nudes. A group of 14 vintage gelatin silver print female nude studies, probably Czech, 1950s/1970s, including nine individual nudes, circa 1950s/1960s, 21 x 17.5cm, together with three of a Czech modelling shoot/camera club, circa 1960s, 28 x 17.5cm and slightly smaller, plus one related of two male photographers at the session, plus one other close-up detail of knees and a female hand, plus a large experimental photograph, circa 1970s, wetstamp of Miroslav Feszanicz to verso, 33 x 27.5cm (Qty: 15)
Perkins Engines. An album containing 56 mounted and loose photographs of trucks, lorries, power boats and other machinery being operated by Perkins diesel engines, circa 1950s, vintage professional gelatin silver prints, 15 x 20.5cm, some mounted two to-a-page on card album leaves with typed captions on mounts beneath, but many removed and without captions, contemporary rexine, slightly rubbed and soiled, oblong folioF. Perkins Limited was established on 7 June 1932, in Peterborough, to design and manufacture high-speed diesel engines by Frank Perkins and Charles Wallace Chapman. The company was purchased by its largest customer, Massey Ferguson, in 1959.(Qty: 1)
* Press photographs. A collection of over 500 gelatin silver print press photographs of the British royal family, mostly circa 1950s, together with a group of over 500 press photographs of Second World War interest, all with stamps and many of the war ones with press captions, various sizes, some edge curling throughout and occasional fraying (Qty: a carton)
* Press Prints. A group of four press print photographs, circa 1970s/1990s, later gelatin silver prints of photographs by Ansel Adams, Bruce Weber, Andre Kertesz and Alfred Stieglitz, publicity labels to versos, together with two vintage gelatin silver prints by Fay Godwin of Avebury with Creative Camera wetstamp to verso and Jill Freedman of a clown (from Circus Days, 1975), photographer's wetstamp to verso, all 24 x 22cm and similar (Qty: 6)
* Prince of Wales's Tour of India and the East, 1921-1922. A group of approximately 100 press photographs of the Prince's tour, gelatin silver prints, showing local people, officials, processions and scenes from the Tour, mostly with press agency wetstamps and printed captions tipped on to versos, plus approximately 70 further press print photographs, circa 1920s, mostly British subjects including some royalty and society interest, etc., mostly 20 x 25cm but including some smaller, some corner curling and marginal creasing and tears (Qty: approx. 170)
* Railways. A large collection of approximately 3,500 postcard-size photographs of mostly British railway interest, all modern gelatin silver prints, many from older negatives, some with annotations, stickers and stamps to versos, unsorted and contained in a two drawer metal cabinet (Qty: approx. 3500)
* South Africa. A group of approximately 500 small-format photographs of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, gelatin silver prints including contact prints, some with press captions to versos, 7.5 x 11cm and similar, contained in five small card boxes (Qty: approx. 500)
* Southampton Docks. A large collection of photographs about Southampton docks, 1930s/1960s, gelatin silver prints, many of royal visits and ship launches, the majority approximately 20 x 15cm, a total of approximately 200 photographs, many loose and some contained in two albums (Qty: a small carton)
* Tanner (Godfrey Dickson ,1876-1964). An album containing approximately 490 gelatin silver bromide prints of India and Sussex, circa 1910-15, including approximately 270 photographs of India, plus 220 of Sussex scenes, photographs approximately 9.5 x 7.5 cm and similar small format sizes, mounted as multiples on 32 stiff card leaves, contemporary cloth, slightly rubbed and dampstained, oblong folio, together with a group of approximately 200 loose gelatin silver bromide prints by Tanner of Europe, Africa, Middle East, etc., mostly landscapes, natural history, etc., many on mounts, various sizes (Qty: approx. 200)
* Twentieth Century Photography. A group of approximately 130 gelatin silver prints, mid to later 20th century, assorted subjects including the London Blitz, astronauts, group portraits, interiors, fashion, etc., some colour photos, various sizes, some with stamps or marks to versos (Qty: a folder)
Uganda and Kenya. 'Mit Leica und Agfa-Kino in Afrika. Tagebuch (12. Juli 1933 bis 16. März 1934) von Hellmut Schumacher. Band III', 172 gelatin silver prints (various dimensions, most 8.5 x 11.5 cm, several 12.5 x 17.5 cm) mounted rectos and versos to black card leaves, depicting views, big game, village scenes, and numerous local peoples including warriors, hunters, women and children variously identified as 'Suk' (i.e. Pokot), Kavirondo, Nandi, Turkana or Kikuyu, manuscript numbering (350-521) and German captions to mounts in white ink, 30 double-sided typescript text-leaves bound in, comprising 6 preliminary leaves (title-page and list of contents) to front, and 24 leaves (paginated 109-158) transcribing the photographer's journal interleaved throughout, contemporary broad-weave cream cloth binding, large gelatin silver print of giraffes under an acacia tree inset under transparent plastic to front board above manuscript title 'Uganda and Kenya', slipcase, folio (28 x 21 cm)A thorough visual record contextualised by the photographer's interleaved typescript journal, in which the entries are tabulated throughout with reference to the numbering accompanying the images.(Qty: 1)
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