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Click here to subscribeGRACE HARDIGAN [AMERICAN 1922-2008], COLLAGE & WATERCOLOR, 1970, 30" X 22", "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED": 30" x 22 1/2" image and paper; signed and dated upper left; framed. Provenance Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, MI and Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit labels; was exhibited on the Detroit Institute of Arts `Art Train`.
A collection of thirteen motor racing programmes, including German Grand Prix Nürburgring 1956 and 1962, 1000km sports car races Nürburgring 1961 and 1962, Zandvoort Grand Prix 1961 and 1962, Italian Grand Prix 1967, Monaco Grand Prix 1973, 2003, 2006 and 2009, and Belgian Grand Prix 1962 (condition varies).
A collection of motoring books, including Lucas The First 100 Years by Harold Nockolds in two volumes, The Jaguar File All Models from 1922 by Eric Dymock, Sports Car Heaven Aston Martin DBRI V Ferrari Testarossa by Chris Nixon, Stirling Moss The Authorised Biography by Robert Edwards, Hitler`s Motor Racing Battles by Eberhard Reuss and The Motoring Century, The Story of the Royal Automobile Club by Piers Brendon, and twenty-two copies of The Bulletin Of The Vintage Sports Car Club, 1998-2008.
A collection of 61 photographic postcards, all of Chislehurst, Kent, circa 1910-1916, including 5 relating to the Chislehurst Fire-Brigade Display June 1912, 3 of the presentation to Captain Burton, 2 of Chislehurst Flower Show 1912, 3 relating to the Duchess of Albany`s Visit to Chislehurst, May 24th 1913, 6 of the 1st Annual Sports & Gala 1914, 7 of military interest, 3 relating to the Wounded Belgian Soldiers, and others titled `Accident to a Steam-Roller... 1912`, `Collision at Chislehurst`, `Fete Chislehurst` and `Lower Camden, Chislehurst`.
A collection of cigarette cards, all sets, including 50 Adkin & Son `Wild Animals of the World`, 25 Carreras `Races, Historic & Modern`, 25 Teofani `Sports and Pastimes [plain back]`, 25 Churchman `Sports & Games in Many Lands`, 25 B. Morris `Marvels of the Universe`, 25 Kinney Bros `Leaders` and 25 Millhoff `Men of Genius`.
A quantity of various Matchbox and Dinky Toy items to include a DY902 Classic Sports Car Gift Set containing a Porsche, a Mercedes and a Ferrari mounted on wooden plinth, other items include two Convoy Action packs, a Matchbox Motor City, two Team Convoy Sets, two Standard Convoy models, three blister pack sets of three miniature models, two blister packs of four Matchbox miniatures and a very large quantity of Matchbox and Siku catalogues, Matchbox catalogues include the 1966 Collector's Edition, the 67 68 and 69 Editions plus several from the 1980s
An official programme for the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, London 1948, information sheet for the games, four press photographs and a felt pennant, together with a BOA International Sports Contest programme, Wembley 1947, and a British Empire v USA International Athletic Meeting programme, White City Stadium 1948 (9)
1964 MGB Convertible Registration No BUC 333B, Chassis No GHN3/44557. This classic English sports car is traditionally finished in red with red leather upholstery and red carpets. It was extensively restored in the 1990s including a new body shell and doors and has been very well maintained which is backed up with a large history file with service bills and MOTs from 1972 to the present date. It is supplied with new MOT and road tax and appears to be in generally very good order throughout - a rare early example with excellent history
An historic archive of correspondence relating to the re-establishment of the Olympic Games, including amongst others: i) a signed manuscript letter from Pierre de Coubertin written 25 days before the Opening Ceremony of the 1896 Athens Olympic Games ii) a signed manuscript letter from Crown Prince Constantine, President of the 1896 Olympic Games Organising Committee iii) a signed manuscript letter from Demetrius Vikelas, first President of the International Olympic Committee iv) a signed manuscript letter on 1896 Athens Olympic Organising Committee letterhead v) a signed manuscript letter dated 7th March 1896 from the future twice serving Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau, being a covering letter relating to an enclosure of a newspaper article he wrote about the re-establishment of the Games vi) a letter dated 14th March 1896 from Michel Breal, originator of the idea of a race from Marathon to Athens at the 1896 Games other signed manuscript letters all with Olympic content from: a) Count Charles de Moisys, b) a member of the Rodocanachi banking family c) Jules Claretie, General Director of the Theatre Francais d) Delegate Francis Charmes of the Chambre des Députés e) François-Auguste Gevaert on headed paper from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles f) Henry Houssaye, a French historian and academician who wrote extensively on ancient Greece g) Delegate Paschal Grousset (politician, journalist and science fiction writer) on headed paper from the Chambre des Députés h) M. Hanotaux, French Minister for Foreign Affairs i) In French, undated and unsigned, on Greek headed paper from the Pan Hellenic Gymnastics Club with salutations appearing to be addressed to the King of Greece j) the lot including further letters all in a green leather album dated 1896, some items tipped in, others loose The Pierre de Coubertin letter is in French and dated 12th March 1896. The Baron’s lengthy letter seemingly makes sure the recipient knows the re-establishment of the Olympic Games was the author’s idea. Some of the hand writing is difficult but broadly speaking it translates to English as follows: [? Perhaps a name] asks what I think of this idea: I think it a good one and I believe I have several reasons for doing so. The most important of these is most assuredly because of the great care that others are taking to claim it. I don’t know of anything written or published before 25 November 1892, the day I publicly proclaimed my project at a conference at the Sorbonne, that it would be good to establish an international Olympic Games, then every four years, for the champions of the world in an athletic contest-well, of course, no-one actually said it but now we find a large number of people did think it-only, how strange! They didn’t think to say it out loud. Well that’s where we are, one can’t always think of everything! So you wish to know if I am still in the same [?]. With regard to [?] I have taken the initiative. Good god, yes-and I’ll stick it out a long time, in all likelihood, as I am stubborn by nature. So that even if-and it’s not impossible-the 1896 Olympic Games were going to fail and those of 1900 not take place, I would still persist in wanting to establish an institution which, so long as it was well tailored to modern needs and particularities, can by itself produce for 20th century athletics the beneficial effects generated by ancient athletics. I am among those who are in rebellion against the anti-human theories of the Middle Ages, which still weigh us down. I firmly believe in the noble moral characteristics of physical activity. In education, musculature should above all be considered in relation to character-via physical education we can give moral education. For this it is necessary for athletics to develop in conditions of elevation, disinterestedness and grandeur. That is the entire reason for the rebirth of the Olympic Games. In summary, there aren’t many big problems to conquer, there is some jealousy to overcome, that’s all. National jealousies coming from history, sporting jealousies coming from a certain narrowness of mind which opposes some forms of physical exercise and others-gymnasts can’t bear ‘sports’, [?] and bicycle are at war, fencers with foils denigrate fencers with epees! These differences will disappear little by little and the Olympic Games themselves will pacify quarrels. I don’t mean those between nations but between sportsmen! That’s already a good result! Peace is something so good, so precious, so perfect that one can never make too much of an effort to shore it up and make it last. Was it in my ant colony! The letter from Crown Prince Constantine Diadochos is in Greek, on a letterhead with a crown from the General Administration of the Army, no date but a blank for 190x. The Crown Prince talks about ‘the good days of the Olympic Games’ and also about peace. The signed item from Demetrius Vikelas is in Greek and not dated and reads more of a formal statement than a piece of correspondence, and talks of the symbolism of reviving the Ancient Games, the construction of the Panathinaikou Stadium, the international character of the occasion, ancient Greeks’ traditions, the representatives of the different nations who met in Athens, just as the representatives of the cities of the ancient Greeks were met by the Alpheion, the peaceful competition, and the close association with foreign visitors. Further translation of letters in this archive have been prepared during the research of the lot, and is available on request from the auctioneer. The original recipient of these letters is unknown, he is never named. The recipient would certainly be Greek but with strong links to France. He may have been a director of a Committee or possibly the Pan Hellenic Gymnastics Club. In general the papers can be characterised as a mixture of official statements and correspondence, and letters of support for the Olympic project. Provenance: Demetrius Caclamanos, and thence by family descent. These letters were originally in the possession of Demetrius Caclamanos who at the time of the Olympic revival was a young journalist. He was born in Nauplia, Greece, in 1872 son of General George and Arpasia Caclamanos, and grandson of Panayotic Caclamanos, one of the heroes of the Greek War of Independence. Demetrius left journalism in 1907 to enter the Diplomatic Service. He was Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1910, and then served as a counsellor at the Greek Legation in Paris until 1912. He was Charge D’Affaires in Rome from 1912 to 1914, and then served as Minister to the United States in 1915, Minister to Petrograd 1915-1918 and as Minister to the Court of St James in London from 1918 to 1935. When he retired he was afforded the title of Minister Plenipotentiary of the 1st Class for Life. In addition to various foreign orders, he wore the Grand Cross of the Order of George I and was Knight Commander of the Order of the Redeemer. Away from politics, Mr Caclamanos was a director of British Investors Co. Ltd. and of the Shipping Marine Union, London. He was a member of St. James’s Club, London. He was an expert in matters of Greek history and published two acclaimed works, Greece in Peace and War, and [Lord] Byron in Greece, as well as translating into modern Greek the writings of Thucydides (c. 460 BC-c. 395 BC).
A private archive of Stanley Vivian Bacon the British gold medal winning wrestler from the 1908 London Olympic Games, being an extensive and rarely seen documentation of the career of an early Olympic Games gold medal winner and athlete, extensive mostly contained in a large album pasted with pictures, programmes, tickets identity cards, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera, pasted chronologically covering Bacon’s career as a wrestler between 1904 and 1928, over 300 items in the album, of which 80+ are related to the Olympics in Athens 1906, London 1908, Stockholm 1912, Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924 & Amsterdam 1928, highlights including Bacon’s competitor’s card from Antwerp, further details are available on request; sold with a separate scrap book relating to the Stockholm Games of 1912, and a quantity of loose private photographs, also Army service papers, documents, magazines with content relating to Bacon etc. Stanley Bacon (1885-1952) won the gold medal at the 1908 London Olympic Games in the middleweight freestyle competition. He also competed at Stockholm in 1912 and Antwerp in 1920. He was still involved in wrestling at the Paris and Amsterdam Games of 1924 & 1928, latterly as a judge. Stanley Bacon was the eldest of five brothers who were all top-flight British wrestlers, whilst Edgar & Ernest Bacon also competed at Olympic level. Between them they accumulated 30 British Championship titles, Stanley half of these. By profession Stanley Bacon was a civil servant and an enthusiastic supporter of their sports club where he was diving and middleweight boxing champion, and played in the 1st XV at rugby.
A 1908 London Olympic Games poster titled ‘Olympic Champions at the Stadium’, London, July 1908, published by A W Gamage Ltd, Holborn, London, with the slogan ‘The Sports House of the World’, 70 of the individuals portrayed are numbered and identified on a key, framed & glazed, 78 by 91cm., 31 by 36in.
The 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games gold prize medal awarded to the British swimmer Jennie Fletcher for the 100 metres Freestyle Relay, 33.5mm, struck in silver-gilt (as usual for 1912 1st Place team awards), designed by Erik Lindberg and Bertram Mackennal, two maidens crowning a victorious athlete, the reverse with a herald proclaiming the Olympic Games, Jennie Fletcher became Britain’s first female Olympic swimming medallist when she won an individual bronze in the 1912 100 metres freestyle final behind two Australians (Fanny Durack, who was using the then brand-new ‘Australian Crawl’ technique, and Mina (Wilhelmina) Wylie). In the relay event gold went to the British team of Bella Moore, Jennie, Annie Speirs and Irene Steer ahead of West Germany and Austria. Jennie swam an outstanding second leg to help earn the British girls a World Record as well as Olympic victory. Born on 19 March, 1890 in Leicester, the seventh of nine children in a family of five girls and four boys, Jennie Fletcher attended Mellow Street Board School and participated as often as possible in swimming competitions and exercises. She later wrote: “Swimming to me was my greatest pleasure and no encouragement was needed for me to compete in polo, diving or swimming. There was no mixed swimming in those days but with special permission my brother Ben was allowed to pace me.” From the age of 11 she was coached at Leicester’s Cossington Street Baths by the celebrated Jack Jarvis, whose characteristic freestyle employing the ‘Jarvis-Nuttall Kick’ had already brought him numerous awards (including two Olympic gold medals for the 1,000 and 4,000 metre open water races swum in the River Seine, Paris, in 1900). Jennie recalled: “Most of the early swimming was single arm and trudgen with the scissors kick going to the crawl in the latter stages. My training was not regimented but consisted of long walks, [and] skipping accompanied by deep breathing exercises.” In 1906, at the age of 34, Jarvis added a silver and two bronze medals to his own Olympic tally in the interim Athens Games, by which time Jennie was challenging for her first British record for the Ladies’ 100 yards freestyle. She went on to win 6 Amateur Swimming Association titles for the distance before 1912, setting a new world record in 1909. Working long hours with her father, who nevertheless gave her great support and encouragement as an amateur, she succeeded in winning numerous trophies and awards. She retained the Dewar Shield after winning it three years in succession, broke her own record on 11 occasions, and became British champion 6 times. At the London Olympics of 1908 it was decided, after much deliberation, that swimming competition for Ladies would be permitted; however uncertainty and a late decision meant that in the event there were too few entries to proceed. At the time this must have come as a huge disappointment for Jennie, whose parents had recently declined on her behalf the opportunity of a professional tour of America with the celebrated Annette Kellerman. At Stockholm in 1912, however, there was a strong British Ladies’ contingent, chaperoned by Jack Jarvis’s sister. Jennie later said: “The crowning moment of my career was when King Gustav of Sweden placed the classic laurel wreath on my head, put the gold medal round my neck, and said, ‘Well done, England!’”. In 1917 Jennie married Henry Hill Hyslop and the couple settled in Canada, where they farmed and had six children. Jennie died in 1968. Provenance: Bequeathed by the recipient Jennie Hyslop, née Fletcher, to her son Henry Irving Hyslop (1920-2000); bequeathed in turn by H.I. Hyslop to his daughter (and Jennie’s granddaughter) Heather, on behalf of whom it is now offered for sale. A copy of H.I. Hyslop’s Will, including codicil dated 1994 specifying the bequest to Heather of “… my mother’s gold medal from the 1912 Olympics… “ is included in the lot, together with a contemporary portrait postcard captioned ‘Jennie Fletcher Worlds 100 yds Champion’, showing Jennie wearing Leicester Ladies’ Swimming Club costume and a championship medal (see illustration). Copies of other relating documents, including a letter written by Jennie in 1965 to the compiler of a sports encyclopedia, are also offered with the lot. Other items of memorabilia relating to Jennie’s swimming career, including her Olympic laurel wreath, were donated by her daughter to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
A 1924 Paris Olympic Games gold medal winner’s Sevres porcelain vase, designed by Guillonet and executed by Bracquemond, with hand gilded laurel branches on a rich blue ground, four pate-sur-pate medallions depicting the Olympic sports of boxing, shot put, wrestling and javelin on a jade green ground, a magnificent, beautiful and very rare prize trophy afforded to gold medal winners at the Paris Games of 1924
A polychrome Delftware plate commemorating the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, with central Coat of Arms of the City of Amsterdam, the rim with black & white vignettes of the Olympic Sports of football, rowing, athletics, diving/swimming, cycling & tennis, attractively mounted in blue velvet within a maple veneer frame, diameter of plate 23cm., 9in., overall 40.5cm., 16in. square
A 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympic Games cased bronze prize medal and diploma presented to Guy Dugdale for the Great Britain four-man bobsleigh, the large medal, 10cm., 4in. diameter, designed with a victorious charioteer in a quadriga above winter sports motifs and inscribed GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, the reverse with Olympic Rings and the legend IV OLYMPISCHE WINTERSPIELE 1936, in original presentation case; sold together with Dugdale’s bronze medal diploma; 8 b&w press photographs from the Games; and a congratulatory telegram from Carol Dugdale (11) Guy Carol Dugdale (1905-1982) was a British bobsleigher in the 1930s and won this Bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Games in the four-man bobsleigh. His team-mates were Frederick McEvoy, James Cardno and Charles Green. This was one of only three medals that Great Britain secured at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Famously they won gold in the ice hockey, whilst Cecilia Colledge claimed silver in the women’s singles figure skating.
Unused yardage of cloth featuring sports the 1936 Summer and Winter Olympic Games at Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with a repeated square pattern on a green ground featuring the Olympic sports of swimming, alpine skiing, fencing, athletics, pole vaulting, diving, discus, speed skating & shot put, interspersed with borders bearing further athletics portrayals, Olympic Rings, Laurel and flaming torches, approx. size 89 by 178cm., 35 by 70in.
Donations will be made to Derian House Children’s Hospice (Registered Charity No.1005165) and Hope & Homes For Children (Registered Charity No.1089490). An official flag of the Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen [German Sports Federation] from the Olympiastadion Berlin, the red flag bearing the emblem of the German Sports Federation under the Third Reich, being an off-centred vertical white band becoming circular in the middle enclosing a black eagle and swastika emblem, 1.86 by 3.25 metres, 6ft 1in. by 10ft 8in.
1948 London Olympic Games memorabilia, comprising a complete set of eight daily programmes and admittance ticket stubs for the athletics at Wembley Stadium; together with a programme and ticket stub for the India v Great Britain field hockey final at Wembley Stadium; a ticket stub for the football semi-final at Wembley Stadium between Great Britain and Yugoslavia; a triangular motor car aerial pennant bearing 1948 Olympic insignia; two souvenir magazines (one stamped SPECIMEN COPY NOT FOR SALE IN THE U.K.); two copies of the official British Olympic Association Report of the 1948 Games published by World Sports; and a World Sports official magazine of the BOA for August 1948 (25)
A very rare 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games participation medal for the equestrian sports held at Stockholm due to Australian quarantine regulations, designed by J. Sjoesvaerd, in bronze, Classical horseman above Olympic Rings, blank reverse There were only 158 participants at the Stockholm events. Over 12,000 medals were made for the main Melbourne Games in 1956.
A group of six Olympic programme posters for the 1968 Mexico Games, images for modern pentathlon, wrestling, shooting (creased), equestrian sports, boxing & fencing, all 44.5cm., 17 1/2in. square, unframed, rolled, generally in very good condition except for shooting, creased; sold together with two larger 1968 Olympic, one depicting handball, the other an aerial photograph showing the Olympic venues, but both in poor condition; the lot also including a small Mexico ‘68 poster, 30cm., 11 3/4in. square (9)
A group of Olympic Games commemorative medals awarded to an IOC member, comprising: i) a cased participation medal for Seoul 1988, bronze ii) a cased medal from the Seoul 1988 Olympic Organising Committee, with a compliments card from Tae Woo Roh, President, gilt iii) an octagonal medal, horseman archer, reverse bearing facsimile signature of Juan Antonio Samaranch and Seh-Jik Park, bronze iv) IOC Session Istanbul 1987, bronze v) IOC Session Baden-Baden 1981, silver & enamel set in Lucite vi) IOC Session Rome 1982, white metal vii) IOC Session Lillehammer 1994, white metal & enamel; sold together with a Pan American Sports Organization medal, An AENOC General Assembly medal 1987, An ANOC General Meeting badge 1984, ANOC General Meeting badge Seoul 1988, a reunion badge in Lisbon 1985, and an unidentified medal (13)
A quantity of tin-plate items for restoration. Most bearing the legend ‘Made in England’, most made by Mettoy some clockwork. Including High-wing monoplane, Two forward control tipper lorries, 6-wheeled ‘Refreshments’ lorry, Fire engine. Citroen saloon car, Breakdown Service lorry. Sports car. Fighter aircraft. Together with two x ‘Overhead Railway’. SEL stationary steam engine. Two ‘Lynx’ all-steel model construction sets. 6 KAY Midge mechanical vehicles – saloon car, ambulances, railway engine etc. Also two Griffon Tempest aeroplane kits and a few other items. Together with a small quantity of spare parts. FC-GC. Viewing recommended.
10 Dinky Toys including several sports cars across the decades, some for restoration 2 x Armstrong Siddeley green, grey, 2 x Jaguar blue, red, Alvis, Sunbeam Talbot (repainted), Triumph 1800, Triumph TR 2, Austin Healey, Frazer Nash. AF to QGC, significant chipping/minor damage/missing tyres/drivers/windscreens etc to some, some for restoration.
Efficiency Decoration with suspender for Territorial issue, G VI R type, reverse date 1950, EF in case. Pair: 1914-15 star, Victory medal (L9327 Pte G Kemp E Kent R), GVF (no BWM present), with a 2nd Class Cert of Education named to Kemp 8th June 1914 for Arithmetic, Writing and Composition; Victory medal (W H Green 18th Lond. R) GVF; 3 R Marines sports medals, un-named, an HMS Renown silver and enamel brooch (AF), 9 sundry other items. (18)
Third Reich cloth insignia: pair of musician’s wings of the air signals branch of the Luftwaffe (minor moth); large blue on white woven eagle and swastika for sports vest; printed black eagle and swastika on yellow armband; and part only of a heavily embroidered banner or similar with swastika superimposed on cross with sword behind and surrounded by oak wreath. Average GC
A Third Reich “Afrika” commemorative cuff title, an “SS Feldgendarmerie” cuff title; a “Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht” printed armband; a black on white sports vest eagle and a TN black on white swastika in cog wheel; also a silver plated infuser spoon with Hitler Youth device on the handle. Average GC
Two Dinky Toys racing cars: 111 Triumph TR2 Sports, salmon pink with blue interior/hubs, RN `29` (VG, white paint to driver cracked, in G/F box with correct colour spot); 133 Cunningham C-5R Road Racer, white with dark blue stripes, tan interior, RN `31` (VG, some tan paint to blue driver, in G box).
[MAXWELL, WILLIAM HAMILTON]. The Field Book or Sports and Pastimes of the British Islands. W. Tweedie, n.d. [c.1850] (defects to head and tail of spine). Lithographic frontispiece, vignette on title and text illustrations -- YOUATT, WILLIAM. Cattle; Their Breeds, Management and Diseases, New Edition, 1864 (spine defective). Text illustrations. With 9 vols. of The Badminton Magazine, v.y. 8vo., mostly orig. cloth. (11)
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