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A SILVER PLATED LETTER OPENER by Elkington & Co., engraved `Bolts & Nuts, etc. Retailers : Guest, Keen & Nettlefold Limited`, a plated skewer, a plated letter opener, a silver and mother of pearl folding fruit knife, a Victorian silver butter knife engraved with a junk, an American sterling silver table spoon an Elkington and Co. presentation spoon with figurehead terme and one other spoon
(NAVAL HISTORY) A LLOYD`S PATRIOTIC FUND SILVER AND SILVER GILT VASE and cover, of Adam design, with Greek key border, leaf cartouche and embossed leaf circular base, 12" high, approximately 32 ozs., London 1804-5 by Samuel Hennell, with inscription "This Cup is presented by the Underwriters of Lloyds Coffee House to Captain George Keyzar of The Ship - Irlam - as a testimony of his gallant conduct in beating a French Privateer of superior force on his voyage to Barbadoes (sic) July 1804" (see illustration) This lot is sold with a painting from the family purporting to be Captain Keyzar Note: Captain George Keyzar is mentioned as one of a number of captains on the Barbados-London-Liverpool shipping route involved in the manumission (setting free) of slaves on behalf of free coloreds and others in Barbados. He is mentioned on 9 deeds in relation to manumission. (See Pedro L. V. Welch, `"Unhappy and Afflicted Women?": Free Colored Women in Barbados: 1780-1834`, Inter American University Press, 1999) The loss of the ship Irlam under Captain Keyzar
A SILVER ENGRAVED BUTTER KNIFE with carved bone handle, Birmingham 1828 by John Bettridge, a Victorian silver and bone handled cake knife, Birmingham 1857, makers H & T, four other silver butter knives, one with mother of pearl handle, one bone handle and two silver pickle forks, Birmingham, 1864 98)
* Playing cards. A collection of Souvenir playing cards, 20th c., from Britain, Turkey, New Zealand, Gran Canaria, Channel Islands, Spain, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Brussels, China, etc., e.g. Taj Mahal Palace Hotel; Churche’s Mansion, Nantwich, Spanish bullfighting cards; Morit Orgueil Castle, Jersey; The Norfolk Broads; Oxford and Cambridge University, together with two decks of Film Star Playing Cards, plus royalty playing cards (1977 Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and Wedding of Charles and Diana, multiple copies), plus a collection of playing cards produced in and relating to America, e.g. Concave Sides, 1929; New York Consolidated Card Company; Congress Playing Cards; Crooked Deck Playing Cards; Steamboat Playing Cards, some in boxes, tins, wallets, etc., some incomplete, approx. 200+ (2 cartons)
* Tute (George William, R.E., R.W.A., b. 1933). A set of illustrations for Country Matters by Duff Hart-Davis, pub. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988, together twenty-four orig. pen & ink illustrations on paper (complete), of birds, animals, farming pursuits, deer stalking, etc., twelve illustrating the months of the year (head-pieces), full-page illusts. approx. 210 x 150 mm (8 x 6 ins), head-pieces approx. 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 ins)^, together with a copy of the book in which the illustrations appear, orig. boards in d.j. George Tute is a printmaker, wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at Blackpool School of Art, at the Royal Academy School (under Sir Henry Rushbury), where he won silver and bronze medals for mural painting, and the Courtauld Institute. Tute taught at the York School of Art and then at the University of the West of England where he became Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers and was the first Chairman of the revived Society of Wood Engravers. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Kew Gardens and Newport Art Gallery. He has undertaken many projects as a freelance book illustrator, mainly working with wood engraving and he has worked several times for the Folio Society. He has also worked for the Readers Digest Association, Batsford and Penguin. Work by George Tute is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. (25)
Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st U.S. ed., pub. Doubleday, New York, 1938, endpapers browned, original red cloth with silver band, d.j., some chips and small losses, flap corners clipped, 8vo. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to title: ‘With best wishes from Daphne du Maurier, 1987’. (1)
* Williamson (Henry, 1895-1977 ). Autograph letter signed “Henry Williamson”, Skirr Cottage, Georgeham, North Devon, 24th January 1929, to Lady Cynthia [Mosley], “You will see by the careful script that I have turned over a new leaf. I send 2 sketches: both 2nd. rate. You may have either or both, if they won”t tarnish the Silver Ship. Don”t hesitate to reject. I am not sensitive, thank heaven, anymore: quite crusty. I am going to write stories for children in 1933 probably, when I”ve cleared off tons of loose & dusty masonry”, with a concluding paragraph that she can have his preface to the forthcoming “The Star-Born”, one page with integral blank, somewhat soiled and a little creased, 8vo, together with a later autograph letter signed to Mr. Etheridge, 23rd July 1963, thanking him for his Decade poems and the Welsh costume book, continuing with recent news, sl. creased and marked, one page, 8vo, plus an initialled personal postcard in green ink, postmarked 20th January 1930, to Eni Osborne, “I think the impression given to Mr. T.T. Bond was unique: usually I am merely rude & stupid on all occasions. It is nice to think that work which is so distasteful to oneself might give slight pleasure here & there to some other human beings, particularly to the children you mention. I know those places. No one is superhuman. Don”t despair over your own work. I assure you there is more than enough in production of my own”, a little creased and soiled (3)
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