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Lot 108
A collection 3x WWII Second World War Soviet Russian Orders to include; Order Of The Red Star with makers stamp to the reverse and numbered 3170603, complete with screw back fitting; 2x Order of the Patriotic War both with makers details and numbered 222433 and 822804, both with screw back fittings along with 2x CCCP badges.
Lot 305
An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German concentration camp letter from Dachau. Written by Josef Pospiech, a Prisoner of War (Number 3538), three pages, 8vo (on the official printed folding stationery of Konzentrationslager Dachau 3K), Dachau, 28th July 1940, to 'Liebe Anni!', in German. Pospiech writes a heartfelt letter to his wife and states, in part, 'I am glad to hear that you are all happy and healthy at home. I feel very healthy here in Dachau as well…..I look forward to receiving your letters with longing and expectation and you write so few. I really want to know how you are all doing at home. As I am only allowed to send a small number of letters I send you and my parents the very best regards from a long distance and am thanking my brother for the money he sent me……When we saw each other for the last time, maybe you have shed many tears but I will never forget you in my heart so pure and clean…..' With an official concentration camp stamp. Rare.
Lot 307
An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German concentration camp letter from Auschwitz, written by Felix Pontowski, a Prisoner of War (Number 10435), two pages, 8vo (on the official printed folding stationery of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz), Auschwitz, 18th October 1943, to his wife, in German. Pontowski writes in pencil and sends his wife a social letter, making reference to friends and family members and stating, in part, 'The letter you wrote together informed me that there is a strong bond of camaraderie between you all. My dearest! I am very happy even though I am not with you and feel very alone. I want to thank Falek (?) again for his charity and the support he is giving to you with his good heart…..I so much want to return to you all and live with you and take care of you…..Please write…..and tell me if you are feeling better after your operation and tell me if you have enough clothes for winter. Please remember I want to find you in good health when I return…..please do not worry about me, I don't need anything…..' With an official concentration camp stamp to the text and some light age wear and minor staining. The postage stamp has been neatly removed, leaving only a partial post mark from Auschwitz.
Lot 269
HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. A fine vintage signed 7 x 9.5 photograph, a compelling image of Hitler seated in a three quarter length pose wearing his uniform featuring a swastika armband. Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann of Munich and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Hitler in bold, dark fountain pen ink across a light area of the image and dated Berchtesgaden, 5th September 1936, in his hand. One minor surface crease, just affecting one letter of the place, and some light silvering to the edges of the image, particularly at the base. About VG Provenance: The photograph was presented to a member of former British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George's party who were guests of the Fuhrer for afternoon tea at Berchtesgaden on 5th September 1936 following a more formal three hour meeting the previous day.During 1935 Lloyd-George had received several invitations from Hitler to visit the 'new Germany'. In 1936 the invitation was renewed in pressing terms by the newly appointed ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Lloyd-George genuinely wanted to see the factories, farms and new motorways of Hitler's Germany and accepted the invitation. On his visit he was accompanied by his daughter, Megan, his son, Gwilym, his personal secretary A. J. Sylvester and Dr. T. P. Conwell-Evans, a Welsh professor at Konigsberg University who had made the initial arrangements for the trip.
Lot 292
NDABUKO: ( - ) Zulu leader, the brother of Cetshwayo and guardian of Dinuzulu whilst Cetshwayo was imprisoned. A rare A.L.S., Ndabuko kaMpande, evidently dictated by the Zulu and written and signed on his behalf, one page, 4to, Maldivia, Saint Helena, 31st July 1896, to Nzuza, in Zulu. Ndabuko states that he has heard his correspondent's letter written to Dinuzulu and continues 'It is only a wonder to me as to where did you get this information from…..Are you dreaming? Or are you thrown under a spell?', further remarking 'I think you must be having some sickness in you. Better a pot [drug] be cooked for you so that the sickness that makes you speak like this can go out of you' and also commenting 'I am wondering whether when you write this letter, and bringing to me, what should the people say? Return word to me urgently and tell me that the pots are cooked and that the sickness which was in you is also out. I am the one you despise……'. With a couple of ink annotations to the upper edge and with an official oval purple ink date stamp from The Castle, St, Helena, 1st August 1896. Some light staining, only very slightly affecting the text, and with a neat horizontal split, neatly repaired to the verso, GIn 1889 Ndabuko had been put on trial, along with his nephew Dinuzulu, by a court whose impartiality had been cast in doubt, for their part in leading an attack on the Mandlakazi whom they defeated at Nongoma in June 1888. Ndabuko and Dinuzulu were found guilty of high treason and exiled to Saint Helena from where the present letter was written. Provenance: The present letter was previously part of the Ray Rawlins collection of autograph letters and historical documents.
Lot 125
SUPERMAN: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and smaller (2) by various film actors and actresses, all of whom starred in Superman (1978), comprising Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder (2), Marc McClure (3; two of the images depicting him standing in costume as Jimmy Olsen alongside Christopher Reeve in costume as Superman), Terence Stamp and Sarah Douglas. All of the images are boldly signed to clear areas and three are inscribed. VG, 8
Lot 159
BRITISH ARTISTS: Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) English Painter. A.L.S., E Landseer, one page, 8vo, St. John's Wood Road, London, 5th January 1869, to Lady Herbert. Landseer asks that, as the 10th is approaching, whether she 'will favour me with some instructions as to trains, station and hours'; Frederic Leighton (1878-1896) English Painter. A.L.S., Fred Leighton, three pages, 8vo, Holland Park Road, Kensington, n.d. (August 1881), to the publishers Trubner & Co. Leighton thanks his correspondents for their 'amiable proposal to lend me the number of the Westminster in question', explaining 'I wish to see an article by Prof. Sidney Colvin on Art & Morality' and adding that he leaves London early on Tuesday morning and would like to take it with him, and will take every care with it whilst entrusted to him. With the oval purple date stamp of Trubner & Co., London, to the first page; Charles Eastlake (1793-1865) English Painter. A.L.S., C L Eastlake, three pages, small 8vo, n.p., 8th December n.y., to Miss. Rogers. Eastlake explains that spending three nights of the week at the Royal Academy library have left him no choice other than 'to devote the remaining evenings (for days I cannot so devote) to my official matters - they soon accumulate & must be attended to', further adding 'Next year I shall be comparatively free & am already happy at the prospect', concluding 'Yours very truly (I must not say “obediently” while I appear to neglect your commands)'. Neatly mounted and with a tear to the lower edge of the final page, not affecting the text or signature. Generally VG, 3
Lot 170
GERTLER MARK: (1891-1939) British Painter. A scarce A.L.S., Mark, to the verso of a colour picture postcard featuring a reproduction of a painting by Rubens, Paris, 1932, to his aunt, Annie Gertler. The artist writes, in full, ‘I heard from Minnie that Harry is better. I am very glad. I hope all goes well still. I will phone when I return to London. Love to all’. Together with an original sepia 4 x 5.5 photograph of Gertler standing outdoors in a full length pose accompanied by the writers and academics Hewy Levy, Walter J. Turner, Edward Arthur Milne, Ralph Hodgson, J. W. N. Sullivan and Samuel S. Koteliansky, who are seated and standing in two rows alongside the artist. The photograph, apparently taken in London in 1928, appears to be signed by several of the individuals to the verso (although not by Gertler himself). Also including a few pieces of unsigned printed ephemera comprising two different invitation cards to exhibitions of Gertler’s works at The Leicester Galleries and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and a small 8vo catalogue of the New Year Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings and Sculpture by Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists at The Leicester Galleries in London, January 1954, featuring works by L. S. Lowry, Ford Madox Brown, Frank Brangwyn, Amedeo Modiglaini, Augustus John, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Wyndham Lewis, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Duncan Grant, Walter Sickert, Terry Frost, John Piper, Ben Nicholson, Edgar Degas and Mark Gertler amongst others. Further including a series of unsigned incomplete autograph letters and notes by Valentine Dobree (1894-1974, Indian-born English Artist, associated with the Bloomsbury Group and the lover of Gertler), four pages, 8vo, Richmond, n.d., to Mark Gertler, in ink and pencil. Dobree commences the first page of one letter ‘Terms like the “aura of my disfigured mentality” and the “rigidity of puritanical labels” occur to me as the memory of my first confused correspondence sweeps into my mind like a dark cloud which flashed thunder……’ further writing ‘I experienced the fever & madness of love, then the idyllic strain of fanciful pleasure, which shocked me out of myself with its sweetness & unrealism. I descended to earth filled with the fright of you’, and also adding a note in the margin, ‘I know I never ought to right (sic) like this to you because you do not love me but you can decide for yourself whether you want me or not’. The other pages state, in part, ‘The unconscious growth of nature creates shapes of life with an unpremidated (sic) spontanity (sic)….The Artist in you is mostly unconscious if it exists at all….sex is definitely unconscious liquid in the mind poisoning the grey matter…..I don’t think anybody else has felt love like I have. It is because I have suppressed myself to such an extent that it has burst upon me…..’Some age wear and creasing, particularly evident to Gertler’s postcard (which also has the postage stamp neatly removed), and a few small tears and areas of paper loss, FR to generally G, 9
Lot 270
STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator, Premier of the Soviet Union 1941-53 and First General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee 1922-53. A good, bold purple ink signature, in Cyrillic, on an oblong 8vo portion removed from the conclusion of a document, most likely dating from World War II. Signed by Stalin in his capacity as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and countersigned in bold purple ink by Yakov Chadaev (1904-1985, Soviet Statesman & Economist) in his capacity as Chief of Administration of the Council of People's Commissars. At the base of the document appears a printed gold coloured design of leaves and there are several lines of Cyrillc text alongside the signatures as well as the circular purple ink stamp of the Council of People's Commissars. Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the left and upper edges, not affecting the surviving text or signatures, otherwise VG
Lot 29
ROBINSON EDWARD G.: (1893-1973) American Actor, Academy Award winner. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Robinson standing in a three quarter length pose. Photograph by Elmer Fryer of Hollywood and bearing his blind embossed stamp to the lower left corner. Signed by Robinson in bold black fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background. A couple of very light, extremely minor corner creases, VG
Lot 142
DYLAN BOB: (1941- ) American Singer & Songwriter, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 2016. A good signed 10 x 8 photograph of Dylan standing in a half length pose holding a pool cue in one hand. Photograph by David Appleby and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Dylan in black ink with his name alone to a clear area of the background. Authentic signed photographs of Dylan are rare. About EX
Lot 281
SMYTH JOHN 'JACKIE': (1893-1983) British Brigadier, Victoria Cross winner for his actions near Richebourg L'Avoue in France on 18th May 1915 during World War I. An excellent vintage signed 6.5 x 8 photograph of Smyth seated in a three quarter length pose resting one arm on the desk at his side. Photograph by Rex Coleman of Baron Studios, London, and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed ('Jackie Smyth') in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area of the background. EX
Lot 209
CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English Archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. D.S., with his initials H C, one page, 4to, n.p. (London), 26th May 1933. The partially printed document is a statement of account issued by the antique furniture valuers and dealers Thos. F. Phipps of Earls Court Road to Carter for the restoration of a stool etc., totaling £6-4-6. Carter has annotated the document at the centre, in full, 'Herewith cheque for seven pounds sterling, the 15/6 credit to next a/c'. With a neatly affixed revenue stamp and official rubber stamp acknowledging receipt of Carter's payment and the credit in hand. Rare. VG
Lot 16
JAMES SID: (1913-1976) South African-born English Comedy Actor, star of Carry On films. Vintage signed 6.5 x 8 photograph of James in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Photowork Studios of Baker Street, London, and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed ('Many thanks, Sidney James') in dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image. Some minor surface and corner creasing, about VG
Lot 121
JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO (VENEZUELAN 1923-2005) UNTITLED (BLACK & SILVER) Signed in pencil and numbered 124/150, embossed with 'Denese Rene Editions' stamp, screenprint 80cm x 50cm (31.5in x 19.5in) Note: John Calcutt was born in Chipping Norton and moved to Scotland in 1969 to study Fine Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, but realising his interests lay in the thoughts, processes and concepts of creation, rather than the processes of making, transferred from Fine Art to History of Art, gaining a MA (Hons) in 1973, specialising in European Art c. 1750-1850. He completed his formal education at the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) in 1974, gaining an MA in Realism in European Art c. 1830-1860. John returned to academia soon after as Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Art and Design at the University of Central Lancashire, where he worked for twelve years before returning to Scotland in 1987 to take up the position of Lecturer in the Historical and Critical Studies Department at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2005 he became Senior Lecturer on the MFA Programme at GSA, before succeeding his close friend Sam Ainsley as Programme Leader in 2007, working with another close friend, the artist Graham Ramsay. He was also Programme leader on the MLitt in Fine Art Practice Course at Glasgow School of Art from 2012-16 and continued to work at the school after he retired in January 2017, when he became Director of Bureau de Change, a pioneering Postgraduate Forum he initiated to nurture recent graduate talent. Although John spent 44 years working within higher education institutions, he was no stuffy academic and loved sharing his deep and wide knowledge with students. He was an inspirational teacher, writer and critic who significantly shaped and informed the contemporary visual art scene in Scotland and beyond, nurturing the careers of many of the countries most celebrated and critically acclaimed artists. His collecting interests included contemporary visual art, books and music, with a particular passion for Pop Art; his home a homage to Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.Provenance: The John Calcutt Collection
Lot 131
JULIO LE PARC (ARGENTINIAN B.1928) SÉRIE 23, NO. 1-3, 1971 Signed in pencil, numbered 63/200, embossed with Edicion Denise Rene stamp, screenprint 73cm x 72cm (28.75in x 28.25in) and three further works from the edition of 200 (4) Note: John Calcutt was born in Chipping Norton and moved to Scotland in 1969 to study Fine Art at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, but realising his interests lay in the thoughts, processes and concepts of creation, rather than the processes of making, transferred from Fine Art to History of Art, gaining a MA (Hons) in 1973, specialising in European Art c. 1750-1850. He completed his formal education at the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) in 1974, gaining an MA in Realism in European Art c. 1830-1860. John returned to academia soon after as Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Art and Design at the University of Central Lancashire, where he worked for twelve years before returning to Scotland in 1987 to take up the position of Lecturer in the Historical and Critical Studies Department at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2005 he became Senior Lecturer on the MFA Programme at GSA, before succeeding his close friend Sam Ainsley as Programme Leader in 2007, working with another close friend, the artist Graham Ramsay. He was also Programme leader on the MLitt in Fine Art Practice Course at Glasgow School of Art from 2012-16 and continued to work at the school after he retired in January 2017, when he became Director of Bureau de Change, a pioneering Postgraduate Forum he initiated to nurture recent graduate talent. Although John spent 44 years working within higher education institutions, he was no stuffy academic and loved sharing his deep and wide knowledge with students. He was an inspirational teacher, writer and critic who significantly shaped and informed the contemporary visual art scene in Scotland and beyond, nurturing the careers of many of the countries most celebrated and critically acclaimed artists. His collecting interests included contemporary visual art, books and music, with a particular passion for Pop Art; his home a homage to Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.Provenance: The John Calcutt Collection
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