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Click here to subscribeHolmes, Randolph Bezzant. Four silver prints of the North Western frontier, Kashmir, circa 1920's, to include a landscape panorama [approx 23cm by 57cm wide], two wood carriers [approx 23cm by 28cm wide], fighter on North Western frontier of Pakistan [approx 23cm by 28cm wide], Pathan woman [approx 28cm by 20cm wide], some spotting to images, framed and glazed (4)
Shetland Islands--Rattar, J.D.. A bit of old Lerwick; The Nill Road; Morning, Shetland; Evening, Shetland; Sandwick, Hillswick; 5 silver prints by J.D. Rattar, each signed and captioned in pencil, the last three coloured and mounted, the first two framed and glazed, image size 23 x 30cm. (5) . Note: J. D. Rattar (1876-1957), born at Fedaland, Northmavine, was the most well known of Shetland's pre-1950 photographers. Jack, like others of his surname, was born Ratter. However early in his career as a professional photographer he adopted the spelling Rattar. . His work included postcards, mounted and unmounted photos and souvenir photos in packs, his earliest photos being photographs of the Fedaland haaf station in 1890/92. After Rattar's death his widow bequeathed his negatives, slides, enlarger and other items to the Zetland County Council. [Cluness, A.T. "A Time to Keep", Scots Magazine, Feb. and Mar. 1957]
* Beaton (Cecil). Dame Edith Sitwell, c. 1960, printed c. 1970, gelatin silver print on card showing a montage of three head portraits of Edith Sitwell, sl. creased at lower left corner, with small tape mark, 295 x 370 mm, together with Donovan (Terence), Rhasaan Roland Kirk, c. early 1960s, gelatin silver print showing the saxophonist with beret and dark glasses playing three saxophones simultaneously, laid onto card, a few minor surface marks and drawing pin holes to top outer corners, 31 x 28 cm, plus Hopkins (Thurston), Sunday on the Round Pond, 1952, vintage gelatin silver print (used for Picture Post, June 1952), printed details to verso, small corner crease to lower right corner, 38 x 30 cm (3)
* China and Japan. An album of approx. 150 gelatin silver print photos, c. 1913-16, including local peoples and the views, motoring and motorcycling interest, all uncaptioned, though first page titled Fred Joy in Japan, approx. 10 x 8 cm and similar, remains of old album marks to versos, inserted into a modern plastic album, 4to (1)
* China, Japan & Vietnam. A collection of approx. 280 gelatin silver photographs and compact prints, c. July 1905 to June 1907, including street scenes, views, temples, festivals, arrivals and departures of military troops (French, German, Japanese, Chinese, British & American), relating to Tientsin, Tonkin, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nara, Osaka, Shimonoseki, plus a few of Tokyo, Ceylon, Aden, etc., many identified and dated in pencil in French to versos, some images referring to the departure of General Kamio and also General Lefevre, and one showing a train with the distant figure of Miss Roosevelt [President Roosevelt's daughter] e -route to Tonkin, all loose, approx. 9 x 12 cm. The identity of the French photographer is not evident. He or she was presumably working in and/or travelling in French Indochina and nearby territories during this period. (approx. 280)
* Churchill (Rt. Hon. Winston S., 1874-1965). A group of thirty-nine good quality gelatin silver print photographs of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and their family home at Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, [1951], all taken by Harold David John Cole, F.R.P.S. and former president of the Royal Photographic Society, eight images showing Sir Winston and Lady Churchill seated on an outdoor swing chair with their grandchildren, one of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill alone, five further photographs of Sir Winston Churchill including two of him seated in his library with a book, four more family related photographs, two of cat on a window-sill, and seventy mostly exterior shots of Chartwell without people, though one showing two gardeners hoeing next to a wheelbarrow with the initials W.S.C., plus five duplicate photos from the same series, all with the photographer's copyright stamp and address to versos, images approx. 18 x 19 cm and similar. Provenance: From the photographer's daughter. Full copyright to these images will transfer to the buyer of this lot with relevant paperwork. The negatives have been lost but should they ever come to light they will be forwarded to the new owner of the copyright. (44)
* Great Britain. Two photograph albums of albumen print and gelatin silver print photographs, late 19th and early 20th century, incl. albumen print views of Scarborough, Whitby, Bournemouth, Ringwood, Launceston, Cardiff, Bristol, Southport, etc., some by Frith or Valentine, a few photochromes, various sizes, mostly mounted two or more to a page and captioned on mounts in ink, the second album showing one image of the presentation of Colours to the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Osborne House c. 1894, the remainder being European views, a few of Cape Town, and most leaves blank, both contemp. half morocco, rubbed, 4to (2)
* Hawaii. An album of 100 mounted mostly gelatin silver prints, c. 1900, including images of life on a sugar cane (?) plantation with images of a settlement, agricultural machinery, one train engine called Waialeale, two photographs of school children outside their classroom, children, people posing by a dead cow, coastal and mountain scenes, family pictures, etc., the last four photographs in the album being cyanotypes, images 9.5 x 14 cm, mounted four to a page and back to back on album leaves, uncaptioned, contemp. cloth, several leaves det., and album crudely rebacked with brown tape, oblong folio (1)
* India & Kenya. An album of approx. 115 mounted gelatin silver prints photographs, early 20th century, showing mostly colonial living scenes in India and Kenya, plus some images of ethnic types in Kenya, approx. 12 x 17 cm and similar, mostly mounted two-to-a-page and back-to-back on album leaves, no captions, contemp. half morocco, rubbed, folio, together with a small quantity of mostly English albumen print views loosely inserted (1)
* India - North West Frontier. An album of mounted gelatin silver prints, c. 1916-19, mostly small-format snapshots of British soldiers, camp life, aeroplanes, etc., relating to the Wilts 2/4 Border Regiment, approx. 70 images in total incl. some loose, images mounted several to a page and captioned on mounts in ink, contemp. half leather, worn, and covers detached, small folio, together with three further photo albums with the same provenance but showing later images, including the Ark Royal and other destroyers in 1939, HMS Norfolk in 1934, the Metro Goldwyn Studios 1934, Naval Operations Teams, including scenes in Panama, Alaska, San Francisco, a further early 1930s image showing a large group outside Fox studios in Hollywood with a young Shirley Temple, etc. etc., orig. cloth, many leaves detached, some photos and cuttings loosely inserted, all oblong folio (4)
* India, Burma & Waziristan. A collection of photo albums and diaries relating to Major Frank O. Hodgkinson, FRGS, ARPS, and his military engineering service in the East, mostly c. 1920s-30s, including a group of eight home-made photographic booklets comprising approx. 110 gelatin silver print photographs of views, people and bridge building and other engineering projects in Burma, the Chinese Shan-States, Paoshan, etc., c. 1938-39, various size photos, all loosely inserted with typed captions on page beneath, a photo album with good quality amateur snapshots from the 1920s of Ladha, Sovavogha sports, Madras Sappers in the Barari Tangi, Sappers blasting near Alea Khel, plus other assorted photo and watercolour albums with the same provenance, various subjects and many items loosely inserted, including two group photographs showing Hodgkinson in Felsted School XV (1917) and school prefects (July 1918), an album of photos including people and views in Bangalore and district in 1916, a group of twelve diaries (1920-32), etc. (a carton)
* Japan. An album of approx. 170 gelatin silver print photographs, mostly c. 1920s/30s (but a few sl. earlier), originally belonging to Hugo Rogers, a banker working in Kobe and Yokohama in Japan, including scenes of a ship launch, sporting events, an earthquake, masonic interest, social life, scenery, etc., and including one regimental photograph and one album print photograph of a large group of Japanese people standing and seated on the ground, approx. 20 x 25 cm and smaller, largely mounted on album leaves and some captioned on mounts, orig. limp cloth, binding broken and leaves det., oblong folio. Hugo Rogers is believed to have been inturned in a Prisoner of War Camp during World War II in Hong Kong. He was a Captain in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I. (1)
* Persia & India. A group of twenty-five gelatin silver prints of Bushire, Persia, October 1918 to May 1919, taken by and relating to Brigadier Frederick Gillies, showing views, people, planes, etc., all with typed captions to versos, plus typed list and accompanying negatives, plus a further eight gelatin silver prints of Ladakh and Kashmir, all people and views, pencil captions to versos, 12 x 18 cm and smaller (33)
* Ponting (Herbert George, 1871-1935). Seven gelatin silver contact prints from Captain Scott's ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, mounted on two sides of a single album leaf and each captioned in ink (Looking north over the sea ice and the Barne Glacier; Capt. Oates considering the ponies in the stable; A Weddell seal at the ice foot - C. Evans; Looking towards Western Mountains on a calm evening; Erebus from North Bay; Ice foot at Cape Royds; The snout of the Barne Glacier looking south), each approx. 17 x 12 cm (the one of the Weddell seal slightly smaller), oblong folio. Provenance: From a family photo album relating to the family of Sir Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford (1855-1931), hospital administrator and reformer, chairman of the London Hospital, 1896-1931. (7)
* Press and Design Prints. A group of gelatin silver prints, c. 1950s-70s, including approx. twenty-five prints by Philip Sayer and John Perkins produced for the Design Council, all but one signed by the photographer, plus a mixed group of press prints showing English views, architecture and design features, approx. 25 x 20 cm, and similar (approx. 120)
* Thailand. An album of forty-eight window-mounted gelatin silver print photographs taken with a Kodak No. 1, c. 1913-15, showing people and scenes concerning road and railway construction in Northern Siam, taken by J. W. Reid, AMIME, images approx. 8 x 13 cm, window mounted two to a page and most with ink captions in English to mounts, contemp. cloth, rubbed, large 8vo (1)
Pair of 19th century percussion travelling pistols by Collins, London, 40 bore, each with spring bayonets, dolphin side hammers, ramrods, bolted locks and silver engraved mounts and escutcheon, within an associated mahogany lined case with original powder flask, cap tin and tools, circa 1840, each 11" long
A silver-mounted desk compendium of aneroid barometer, goliath watch and thermometer Unsigned, circa 1890. The barometer with 2.25 inch circular enamel register calibrated in inches, in watch form case with suspension loop, the keyless open faced lever watch with Swiss bar movement and subsidiary seconds to the Roman numeral enamel dial inscribed Regulateur, each set into hinged foliate scroll decorated silver-mounted rectangular easel case with mercury thermometer to centre, silver mount heavily worn, 20cm wide, B.C. Ref. 286. Illustrated in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETERS Aneroid and Barographs p.100.
A pair of George III satinwood knife boxes, with rosewood crossbanding and stringing, the serpentine fronts with vacant bright cut silver shields to hinged sloping covers inlaid oval marquetry and penwork panels, the interiors with slightly different matrix, 14.5in (37cm) h, 9in (23cm) w, 10.25in (26cm) d. (2)
Lady's dressing case in rich purple leather fitted case lined with matching moire silk lining enclosing dressing and writing instruments with silver backs and tops, two leather jewel cases, inkwells, manicure implements, and ivory glove stretchers etc, all in canvas outer case, by Mappin & Webb
A good mixed box comprising an early 18th century Chinese Imari bowl (hairline), a pair of Victorian green cameo glass beakers, one decorated in relief with a boy holding a flower, the other with a girl, gilt rims, 10.5 cm, a cranberry glass tumbler etched with vine and grape design, a glass elephant, two circular Wedgwood jasper ware plaques, a cut glass wine goblet, a pair of Royal Worcester salts in silver frames (1 a/f), a small ivory elephant and two posy vases (13)
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