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Click here to subscribeA Group of Nine 4-wheeled 0 Gauge Freight Stock and Tank Wagons by Milbro and Others, comprising an early Milbro ‘Pratt’s Spirit’ tank wagon no 46213, G, a ‘Mex Fuel’ tanker by unknown maker, two ‘Dowlow Lime wagons and seven assorted private owner coal wagons, all except Milbro fitted with finescale wheels, mostly G-VG (11)
A Gauge 3 Spirit-fired ‘Vulkan’ 0-2-2 Steam Locomotive and Tender by Ernst Plank, with twin oscillating cylinders driving front axle, brass dome, drain cock, chimney with dummy headlight, safety valve and whistle valve, complete with original 3-wick burner and fine large ‘EP’ plaque to rear of locomotive, overall length complete approx. 15”, G-VG, whistle-top missing, cab, underframe, tender and all wheels repainted (2)
A Scratchbuilt Live Steam Spirit-fired Two-Cylinder Compound Horizontal Mill Engine, designed and built by H S Bond circa 1930, with 4” diameter flywheel, regulator, reversing lever, simpling valve and other features, the boiler with water gauge, safety valve and side-fitting burner, overall G-VG, slight rusting to flywheel and boiler casing
A Scratchbuilt Gauge I Live Steam Spirit-fired Freelance 4-6-0 Locomotive and Tender ‘Lady Winifred’, to designs by H S Bond and dated 1925, various details resembling the SR ‘King Arthur’ class, the model featuring twin cylinders, lever-reversing, whistle, regulator, pressure and water gauges, displacement lubricator, hand pump and spirit tank to tender, with etched nameplates and no 2 to cabsides, made to a very high standard and painted in green with no 1928 to tender (possibly the year of completion), together with a framed detail of Bassett-Lowke design standards, a glass plate negative showing this and other models on display, a display case, and a quantity of home-made brass track apparently used to operate the model (box with 4 items, display case + track)
A Scratchbuilt approx. ¾” Scale Live Steam Spirit-fired Freelance Traction Engine, with engraved plaque to smokebox ‘Made by H S Bond’ and believed to be circa 1930, with two compound cylinders, regulator, water gauge, safety valve, disengagable gear drive to wheels and other details, with original spirit burner, engineered to a high standard and painted in green and black with red wheels, G-VG, oily
A cased set of six George VI hallmarked silver teaspoons, Joseph Elliott & Sons, Sheffield 1940, also a quantity of electroplated items to include a galleried serving tray, a spirit kettle on stand, a teapot, a cigarette case, a boxed pair of souvenir spoons and a quantity of mixed chromed flatware.
A good collection of Hornby Meccano 0 gauge model railway items with tinplate locos 6781 LMS (black), 6100 'Royal Scot' (burgundy), 2509 'Silver Link' and further example in green, carriages including 3888 and 6844 LMS, 1584 and 1585 LNER 'The Silver Jubilee', 'Mitropa Schlafwagen' (red and cream), tenders and wagons including 'Motor Pratts Spirit' (green), 'Castrol Oil' barrels on red wagon, LMS (burgundy and green), 'Meccano' coal (red) etc, trackside architecture and furniture including lithograph printed station with hinged doors, 'Ripon' sign and fence section (x2), boxed No. 1 Crane Truck and Hydraulic Buffer Stop, signal post, 'St. Leonards-on-Sea' sign, refreshment stand, 'Try Your Weight' scales, etc, conductors and passengers, a quantity of straight and curved track and a number of vacant boxes. CONDITION REPORT: All in playworn condition.
ADAM & EVE; a rare specially produced and authorised exact facsimile of the original sculpture by Charles Sykes who created and designed the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy mascot in 1910 and which was trademark registered for use on Rolls-Royce cars from 6th February 1911. This statue is one of four exact facsimiles being part of a collection from Palace House, the Hampshire home of the late Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. They were authorised by Lord Montagu to be produced in limited numbers by Heredities Ltd of Westmorland, the other three items in the collection were the Spirit of Ecstasy (or Flying Lady), The Whisper and St Christopher. Each piece was mounted on a block of rare Orton Scar marble with green glaze to base. The incised name of Adam & Eve and the signature of Charles Sykes can be seen on the side of the figure, height 34.5cm, approx 2.6kg (af). CONDITION REPORT: This item is made from resin, it has been broken off, or at least severely damaged, at feet and crudely reglued.
A boxed Mamod T.E.1 Traction Engine with filler funnel, steering extension, scuttle and spirit burner, with instruction sheet. CONDITION REPORT: All components in play worn condition with surface wear to painted decoration commensurate with age, box generally frayed but Mamod label remains relatively intact with minor marks etc.
A Baule Wood Mask, Ivory Coast, with high combed coiffure, scarifications to the domed forehead and cheeks, pursed lips and knotted beard; a Baule Sun Entertainment Mask, with pierced slit eyes, pursed lips and pierced rayed border; a Yaure Yu (Spirit) Mask, Ivory Coast, with oval face, closed eyes and mouth within a flange rim carved with chevrons highlighted in white pigmentation, surmounted by a headdress carved as the bust of a man with large crescent shape ears (3)
Two Early 20th Century Sepik River Spirit/Ancestor Figures, Papua New Guinea, each of light hardwood, standing wearing a high headdress, with hooked beak shape nose, on cylindrical plinth, the smaller figure bearing traces of red pigment, 35.5cm and 21cm **Provenance:- collected in the mid 1920's by a Manchester civic dignitary whilst travelling in Papua New GuineaTaller figure - the headdress is split and has a knock to one of its extremities, otherwise in good condition. Smaller figure - has a small chip to one of the extremities of the headdress, otherwise in good condition.
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (Stealth Bomber) Interest: a collection of items pertaining to the career of Flying Officer William McGuffie, R.A.F., comprising two Oerlinghausen R.A.F. Gliding Club wood trophies, one as a cigarette box, surmounted by a model of a Horten Brothers Flying Wing glider, the rectangular base inscribed and dated, ''W. MacG. 1946'', the other, surmounted by two model gliders, and a collection of photographs and ephemera pertaining to the recipient Note: The Horten Brothers, both members of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War, designed a revolutionary series of aircraft for the Third Reich based on the Flying Wing concept. Some of these aircraft were based at Oerlinghausen. At the conclusion of the war, one prototype example, the jet-propelled Ho 229 V3, attracted particular interest from the Allied forces, its construction properties allegedly rendering it invisible to radar. The original aircraft was shipped to America where it formed the basis of research, culminating in the design of the Northrop Grumman B-2 SpiritAll items in good condition
*Bodmer (Karl). Chef der Blut Indianer, Chef des Indiens Sangs, Chief of the Blood Indians, published Ackermann & Co., circa 1840, hand coloured aquatint, heightened with gum arabic, C.Bodmer blind stamp to lower margin, slight dust soiling, 360 x 490 mm, together with Mih-Tutta-Hankusch, A Mandan Village, published Ackermann & Co., circa 1840, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, heightened with gum arabic, slight finger soiling and spotting, 310 x 370 mm, with Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri, published Ackermann and Co., circa 1840, 29 uncoloured aquatint views on one sheet (as published), C. Bodmer blindstamp partially trimmed, 405 x 460 mm, plus Sadd (H. S.), The Spirit of - 76, published William Smith, 1862, uncoloured mixed method engraving after T. H. Matteson, some marginal repaired closed tears, slight dust soiling, 460 x 510 mm The first three described items were published in the atlas volume of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's 'Travels in the Interior of North America.'The first image depicts three Indian chiefs from the Koutani, Piekann and Blood Indian tribes apparently in conversation, Abbey Travel 615. (4)
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