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Lot 293
A collection of mixed metal objects to include an Eastern white metal box with chased animal and foliage decoration to five sides, a small pill pot, a spirit measure, a miniature pierced galleried tray, a hallmarked silver dressing table brush (af) and a small niello decorated pot with yachting scenes etc.
Lot 8
Honda F1 Motor Racing history badges in Original blue presentation box with descriptive card. Eight cars 1964 RA271, 1965 RA272, 1966 RA273, 1968 RA301, 1983 Spirit Honda 201c, 1987 FW118, 1974 Camel Lotus 99T, 1990 Marlboro McLaren MP4/5B. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 10
Waterloo Royal Mint £5 Gold Proof Coin in original presentation box with certificates. Struck in 22 carat gold only 500 available. The only official UK coin to mark the bicentenary. In 2015 to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint released a very Limited Issue Battle of Waterloo £5 Five Pound Gold Proof Coin struck in solid 22 Carat Gold Certified. The reverse designed by David Lawrence captures the handshake between a triumphant Wellington and Blucher, the spirit of camaraderie, while the obverse is the stunning effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley. These legal tender coins have been struck to proof quality using specially prepared dies and highly polished blanks. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 9
Elizabeth II Wonderful Quality Pumpkin Form Five Piece Silver Tea And Coffee Service Hallmark, Sheffield 1977 Comprising an impressive spirit kettle raised on quatrefoil base with stylised lotus form feet, the lid and rim with etched scroll and paisley form borders. Together with matching teapot, coffee pot milk jug and twin handle sugar bowl. Total weight, 112 oz. Each piece in very good condition, spirit kettle complete with burner, height 15 inches - 47.5 cm, Coffeepot, 8 inches - 20 cm high, Teapot, 7 inches - 17.5 cm high. Please see accompanying image
Lot 12
Waterloo 200th ann Royal Mint £5 uncirculated Coin in original presentation sleeve with certificate. In 2015 to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint released a very Limited Issue Battle of Waterloo £5 Five Pound Silver Proof Coin struck in solid.925 Sterling Silver. The reverse designed by David Lawrence captures the handshake between a triumphant Wellington and Blucher, the spirit of camaraderie, while the obverse is the stunning effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley. These legal tender coins have been struck to proof quality using specially prepared dies and highly polished blanks. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 126
East-India Company Treaties and Grants from the Country Powers, to the East-India Company, Respecting their Presidency of Fort St. George, on the Coast of Choromandel; Fort-William, In Bengal; and Bombay, on the Coast of Malabar. From the Year 1756 to 1772. Printed in the Year, 1774. Bound with Proceedings of the Governor and Council at Fort William, &c. Respecting the Administration of Justice amongst the Natives in Bengal. Printed in the Year, 1774. 4to, calf-backed marbled boards; pp. [1-3]-258, [1]-10 (List of Treaties); [1-3], 138. Of the three great cities of the Company - Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta - the latter two owed their existence wholly to the eccentricities of man and the vicissitudes of fortune. The original settlement at Fort St. George was not auspicious. Francis Day, the Company Agent who settled there in 1640, evidently had a 'mistris' at St Thome, explaining the decision to pick desolate seafront a few minutes from the Portuguese. Day was so keen, he even offered to cover interest charges on money raised to build there. This became necessary when the original treaty turned out not to require the naik to pay for the fort as the company believed - a perfectly reasonable understanding, only discovered after they had already moved there. Madras would eventually prosper, but against all odds. The story of Fort William and Calcutta meanwhile is a sordid mix of political chaos and corporate greed. The Company was in a difficult position in the 17th century. They were beholden to the treaties of Moghul Emperors, and outside their strongholds had little privilege. That is not to say the Emperors did not need them - they needed gold and silver to prosecute the continual wars of the area. The Company was irritating but necessary. It was into this setting that Job Charnock came. Via a series of strange events, a wheeler-dealer with no military experience would eventually command an assault on one of the most powerful Empires in Asia. With 308 men. Driven out of Hughli, he headed twenty miles downriver and landed at what would eventually become Calcutta. After an increasingly bloody and ludicrous series of engagements a commercial spirit was re-established, and the Company settled at what would become one of its most significant cities. By the time of these Treaties the Company had long considered itself a Sovereign State in India, holding its Presidencies responsible for the enforcement of law, and especially duties, in their regions. The Treaties begin immediately after the French assault and seizing of Madras (returned after the Peace of Aix); the chaos of the Carnatic wars; and the recapture of Calcutta after its ignominious fall - and the attendant horrors of the Black Hole. The tenor of the time can be seen in the concerns for the disposition of the French; the confirmation of ownership and legal powers over settlements; restitution of captured forts and materiel; and careful declaration of shared enemies. The Plenipotentiary powers of Clive and his companions would determine the daily lives of those in Company territories. The Hon. Company remains perhaps unique in the annals of corporate history for blurring the lines between company and nation state. It conducted warfare, signed treaties, and did so not under a national flag, but a corporate logo. Today, it would be as if the Maersk Line or Microsoft deployed a private army to create a city in Pakistan working entirely for their needs. All of Anglo-India was born from the initial forays of the Company; its history is the history of the Raj. This period of Clive of India ultimately created the fusing of mercantilism and monarchy which gave Victoria her Jewel.
Lot 210
A Victorian silver tea kettle on stand, bullet shaped form with a cane wrapped handle, raised on four hoot feet, the hinged cover with ivory pagoda finial and engraved with a crest, with angular support and spirit burner, Mappin & Webb, Sheffield 1887, 32.39 ozt CONDITION:the hinged cover engraved with a crestall three components marks, all marks goodthe original screw for finial has been replaced overall condition good
Lot 354
LINDBERGH CHARLES: (1902-1974) American Aviator who made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic from Paris to New York in the Spirit of St. Louis, May 1927. A.L.S., Charles A. Lindbergh, two pages, 8vo, Illiec, Penvenan, Cotes-du-Nord, 11th July 1938, to ‘Dear Sir Francis’. Lindbergh sends a late reply to his correspondent’s letter and invitation and informs him ‘Anne and I left England the first week in June and have been in Brittany ever since, except for a short trip to Paris which I made’, further continuing ‘I wish that we could have accepted your invitation to go to Cambridge but it was not possible at the time’ and concluding ‘I am not sure when we can be in England again, but I hope we can see you all on our next trip’. Some very light, extremely minor overall creasing, otherwise VG The present letter is written in the years following the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son which eventually resulted in the arrest, trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in 1936. An intensely private man, Lindbergh became exasperated with the relentless public attention in the wake of the kidnapping and trial and travelled to Europe with his family. They eventually settled on the four acre island of Illiec, just off the Breton coast of France, from where the present letter was written.
Lot 398
DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP: A lengthy original carbon typed statement, unsigned, five pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1945/46), in German, being a witness statement provided to a War Crimes investigator by Julius Schatzle, a former prisoner at the Dachau and Neuengamme concentration camps. The document is entitled Report to the Committee of Former Political Prisoners on the ‘Cape Arcona’ and states, in part, In the second half of April, the Neuengamme concentration camp experienced the same fate as Lublin, Auschwitz, Riga and other camps had done previously. The Allied troops drew dangerously close. With precipitate haste, efforts were made to remove all traces of the infamous activities of the SS. A whole crowd of female SS assistants were occupied in removing, from the political section’s card index records of prisoners, the details of the punishments inflicted in the camp…A special party had to search through the heaps of ash from the crematorium for any unburnt remains of human bones, so that these could be put through the furnace once again…Soon, an attempt was also started to put out of the way the human witnesses od the Nazi regime of terror. It started with the removal of the 10 Jewish children from the hospital’s tuberculosis research wing. Next, 1500 sick prisoners were sent off from the hospital to Bergen-Belsen. On Sunday 19.4.194, a fresh group of 400 prisoners collected together…On this list were the prisoners who were employed in the political section, in the labor unit and in the postal section, together with the doctors and attendants at the camp hospital...The movement operation started in the late evening, and the goods trucks were filled with the prisoners, under the supervision of an SS Obersturmfuhrer and SS Oberscharfuhrer Brinkmann. The place to which they were to go was given as Kaltenkirchen…In Eidelstatt, however, where our train remained standing all day, there came a counter-order. Lubeck was to be our new destination…At one of those enforced halts, we got into conversation with some British officer prisoners. We were able to tell them who we were, the place in which we were apparently going, and that we did not surmise anything good for ourselves. They gave us fresh heart, when they told us that the Fascist front line had given was completely…These British friends also saved us from further air attack. When an Allied aircraft came near, they climbed up on to the railway trucks, and signalled to their comrades in the air…In Lubeck harbour, we saw, to our dismay, the 800 tons cargo ship ‘Athens’ being loaded with prisoners as filthy, tattered and famished as ourselves. An endless queue of pitiable figures kept moving up the gang plank. A short distance away, in the street ditches, lay a row of the dead who could no longer stand up to the hardships of the rail journey. Over 1 ½ thousand sick comrades from our camp were loaded aboard like cattle. Then our convoy of 400 prisoners went aboard…On board, a new terrifying experience awaited us. We were not allowed to enjoy the fresh air in the open which we had already missed in the cramped railway trucks, but were shut up in the hold spaces, which admitted no daylight…It was obvious to every prisoner that we were not setting out on a pleasure trip. On the contrary, the view that came over more strongly to the fore was that we were being taken out to the open sea to be drowned like cats. But the prisoners still found sufficient spirit to resist that idea. In particular, there was a group of Russian officers, with some Jugoslavs and Frenchmen, who were ready – in company with a few German political prisoners – to mutiny and to bring the ship to one of the ports occupied by the Red Army…The re-embarkation did not finally begin until 26.4.1945. In the meantime, the situation aboard the ‘Athens’ had reached a disastrous stage…It should not remain unmentioned that members of the guard tempted the parched prisoners with mess-tins full of water, and that the latter sacrificed their final cigarettes for it – only to find that they had been cheated with sea water. But they drank this dirty salt water….Finally, on 26.4.1945, we were embarked on the ‘Cape Arcona’.,,The first order given by the Hauptsturmfuhrer was that all the Russians were to be put in the banana hold…But even if 12 prisoners were housed in a two berth cabin, it was a great improvement on the ‘Athens’. The situation, however, in the banana hold was intolerable. After two hours, our comrades lay collapsed on the floor by the dozen. The lack of oxygen threatened them all with asphyxiation…If a prisoner was lucky, he got a quarter litre of coffee and half a litre of half cooked turnips in water, with no bread and no fat. If we had not been in the possession of Red Cross parcels, hundred would have died of hunger….The rapid increase in sickness and in cases off death, and above all, the outbreak of typhus, caused us to remonstrate with the SS authorities….According to the roll call, there were, on 3rd May 1945, 4207 prisoners of all nationalities aboard the ‘Cape Arcona’. In addition, there were 19-20 members of the SS, around 20 female SS assistants and 400-500 marines acting as guards, together with a small number of crew…..The rumours and reports about the situation at the front became continually more confused….3 British aircraft appeared over the bay of Lubeck, and started to bomb all the ships. The ‘Cape Ancona’ was the first to be attacked. The white flag was hoisted too late, or else the aircraft did not see it…The whole ship was at once full of dead and wounded. Fire broke out everywhere… Order and discipline broke down completely. A few SS men tried, by using their weapons, to drive the prisoners back into the flames, but they were swept aside like useless chaff. Men stumbled half-crazed through the ship, like living torches, trying to find a way to freedom through the living and the dead. But a few only succeeded in doing so…Slowly it dawned even on the last SS man that the game was up, and they sought safety in flight…Many SS men jumped overboard in full uniform and drowned…Some tried to save the female SS assistants in a lifeboat. In letting it down into the water the ropes became entangled, the boat capsized and all were drowned…Everyman tried, after overcoming yet further numerous obstacles, to get to Neustadt and the British army – on foot or by vehicle, as fortune allowed…..The first British tanks were in front of Neustadt, and they were greeted by all the prisoners with delight. Now for the first time they were free of the Fascist terror……Under the protection of the British army, all the prisoners were…looked after and provided at last with decent food. Many of our comrades went home at the first opportunity…8000 comrades of all nations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America met their deaths, at the moment of liberation, in the flames and waves of Lubeck estuary……’ A statement of highly thought-provoking content accompanied by a full English translation. Some very light creasing and extremely minor age wear and with small staple holes to the upper left corner of each page. A small white numbered sticker is neatly affixed to the upper right corner of the first page. About VG
Lot 58
A collection of silver-plated items, including three covered entree dishes, a four-piece tea and coffee service, a two-division saucer warmer on stand with spirit burner, a hip flask, a set of four George III telescopic candlesticks (a.f.), various pierced and plain bowls and dishes, a swing-handled cake basket, two chambersticks, etc.
Lot 186
An Art Deco Alfred Dunhill & Sons "Unique" silver lift arm table cigarette lighter, of rectangular form with curved ends and engine turned body, the front with mechanical wind clock housed within rectangular pull down hinged frame with shaped thumb grip, the clock having rectangular white enamel dial with applied gilt Arabic numerals and minute inner track, movement impressed Dunhill, in working order, clock case hallmarked for imported sterling silver 1927 and numbered 1198, lighter base impressed "AD" within lozenge, assay marks for imported sterling silver 1927, "U.S Patent 1022140", "English Patent 143752", "Canada Patent 306029" and "Made in Switzerland", milled spirit cap impressed "Dunhill Unique Lighter", height 4.2cm x width 3.8cm x depth 1.2cm. (gross weight 59.2g)
Lot 94
A large Inspectors Clinometer of steel construction having visible spirit level with brass cylinder, the cover stamped Clinometers Inspectors mark 2 OS 1916 GA 1958 GDL 592, in a fitted mahogany case with brass label to the lid Clion. Insp. Cased Mk II G.D. Ltd OS 1509 GA., w.24, d.22, h.11cm.
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