A Faberge Silver-Mounted Rosewood Stamp BoxMoscow, First Quarter 20th Centuryscratched number '18201' to underside of lid rim, marked with '84' standard and assay of Ivana Lebedkin on interior lid rim, additional assay mark of Ivana Lebedkin on exterior of lid rim at front of boxHeight 1 1/2 x width 2 1/4 x depth 2 1/4 inches.This lot is located in Chicago.Note:Similarly decorated examples are attributed to the workmaster Hjalmar Armfelt.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
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CHIPPENDALE, Thomas (1718-1779). The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture. London: J. Haberkorn for the author and others, 1755.Folio (439 x 278 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved dedication, 4pp. list of subscribers, 161 copper-engraved plates (including plate 25 [bis]). (Lacking half-title, some toning and light spotting, a few short marginal short tears.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, tan morocco lettering-piece gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere (front cover detaching, old repairs to hinges reinforced, some light wear). Provenance: J. Hafford (18th-century signature on titlepage); Granville George Leveson-Gowe, second Earl Granville (1815-1891), Leader of the House of Lords (armorial bookplate, note of his sale 10/3/92); Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904), Viceroy of India (armorial bookplate). Second edition of Chippendale's breakthrough furniture design book. The Director was the most extensive pattern book to be created by a craftsperson and the first to have a wider audience outside tradesmen. The immense popularity of the 1754 first edition and subsequent reissues increased commissions for Chippendale's firm and cemented his position as one of the most premier 18th-century cabinetmakers. ESTC T14876.This lot is located in Chicago.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
Four Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Articles from the Carnatic ServiceCirca 1820comprising two plates, an oval dish and an oval platter, each decorated with a central botanical image respectively identified to the underside: Superb Corn-Flag (plate), Winged Passion-Flower (plate), Chinese Lychnis (oval dish), Prickly Comfrey (oval platter); the border of each bearing a cartouche inscribed in Arabic 'Amir Al Hind Nawab Azam Jan Bahadur 1236 Hirji' (date 1820 AD) and with maker's stamp to the underside.Width of platter 12 5/8 inches.This lot is located in Chicago.Provenance:Eyre & Greig Ltd., London, 29 November 1995 (with copy of invoice)Note:The articles in the present lot come from one of two services made by Chamberlain's Worcester for His Highness Willajah Nabob Auzum Jar, the 11th Nawab of the Carnatic, Madras, who reigned from 1819-1825. The botanical images were copied from illustrations in Curtis" Botanical Magazine.Diameter of plates: 10 inches.Width of oval dish: 11 5/8 inches.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
Great Britain Complete numbers in Maltese crosses on cover, nine of the numbers on penny red imperfs including two pairs, the rest of the numbers ('2', '7' and '8') on 1d pink postal stationery envelopes. Some margins lacking and other faults, the ‘4’ is nicely upright tying four margins stamp though with vertical crease. Please inspect.
Great Britain KGV and KGVI Cylinders Packs of MNH cylinder blocks with good ranges of numbers with and without dots including many better types: 1940 Stamp Centenary incl. four 2½d blocks with flaw (total cat. £1,500), 1946 Victory (total cat. £1,200). Also a sheaf of 1935 Jubilee and other cylinder blocks - some of these have been infected by tone spots from the wrapping of Belfast Postmaster-Surveyor's Office stationery, therefore not counted, though it appears a majority of the Jubilees are blemish-free.
Ireland 1927-28 Bradbury, Wilkinson seahorses set in vibrantly fresh mint never hinged corner blocks of four showing the circumflex accent variety on the upper-right stamp of each block. SG.86/88, 86a/88a, cat. £2,660 as hinged singles. A magnificent set of positional blocks for this variety in exceptional condition.
Great Britain 1858-79 1d red mint inscription multiples: plate 106 top two rows of the sheet with full top margin inscription and circled plate numbers at left and right, though missing stamp AA, some perf issues on lower left stamps and some reinforcement; plate 170 right-hand margin strip of seven FL-LL with inscription and ornament. Cat. £2,100 as hinged singles.
Great Britain 1840 1d black plate 11 (R-E) with four margins (wide at top) tied on May 18th 1841 cover to Cirencester by the usual black Maltese cross, alongside Chalford cds. The stamp with a couple of small disturbances at lower edge and a little yellowed around the edges in general, the cover with tear at left side and small biro strike at bottom, still a relatively clean example of this elusive plate on cover. With 1984 RPS cert. Cat. £16,000.
Hungary Collection in four Devon albums, 1871 to 2001, with Franz Josef first issues incl. cds 25kr litho. (SG.7, cat. £500) somewhat rough perfs as usual, 1870s to early 1900s envelope and Turul types with extensive perf and watermark varieties, 1913 flood relief set mint and 1914 overprints set (1k+2f is used), 1919 portraits wmks upright MNH set, 1931 Zeppelin ovpts MNH, 1932 Madonnas used, 1934 Liszt miniature sheet mint and virtually all m/s of the later 1930s incl. 1939 Protestant sheets MNH and used, through to 1945 Reconstruction tête-bêche pairs set MNH, 1946 14th Jan inflation surcharges set MNH, Roosevelt m/ss, 1947 Stamp Day m/s MNH, 1948 bridge m/ss MNH (SG.MS1036a/b, cat. £400), 1950 Five Year Plan set MNH (SG.1082A/1095A, cat. £325), 1951 stamp anniversary sheets mint (SG.MS1199a, cat. £400), etc. Also a good Occupations section, mostly mint, incl. French to 10kr (vlh, signed twice), Romanian with some key issues signed, Baranya better date type B incl. on 40f reapers and 40f Zita, etc, etc.
Great Britain Penny black (plate 1b) tied on London local cover (13 Nov. 1840) by perfect strike of the black Maltese cross during the experimental period of use, with Chancery Lane receiving house pmk in green alongside, the stamp with four very nice margins. Two further receiving house usages with plate 1a (minimum three margins) on cover and plate 2 (four margins) on front tied by another experimental black MX (6 Oct. 1840).
Great Britain 1840 1d black pairs used on cover. Plate 2 horizontal pair in deep shade neatly tied by red MX cancels, the stamps with margins all round save along upper right frame of left stamp. Plate 6 vertical pair with four margins (close but clear at two points), tied by red Maltese crosses from Ennis, Ireland to Petworth, England.
Great Britain Line-engraved range of 72 stamps originally in old glassine envelopes, now arranged on stockpages, including penny black plate 5 G-L with excellent margins, tiny 0.5mm tear in top margin, very wide right-hand sheet margin, with light and quite full red Maltese cross cancel. Then 1841 1d reds and 2d blues, the latter with some attractive four margins examples incl. two strips of three, plus several good 2d stars issues. Stored ever since lifted from contemporary family mail. Also a somewhat soiled penny black cover (stamp damaged) with Feb 16th 1841 backstamps of Dromore and Belfast addressed to the present owner's ancestor, enclosing a blue-bordered Valentine's Day letter sheet with printed poem and colourful telescopic cut-paper illustration.
Great Britain 1840 1d grey-black plate 2 (T-E), a splendid example showing plate wear, with wide and even margins all around and a perfectly central and complete Maltese cross in rich vermilion-red. Light spot of oil in left upper corner of the postmark does not detract from this magnificent stamp.
Great Britain, Postal History, etc. Interesting collection and accumulation in three large cartons and four smaller boxes, chiefly a collection in seven large binders, the first three with a didactic presentation on stamp collecting and history of the posts with Bishop marks of 1753 and 1787, red Bishop mark of 1799 beside Canterbury straight-line, Mulready issues incl. unused 2d envelope and letter-sheet, 1840 1d and 2d both with four margins, through to postal stationery which is continued in the next four volumes along with a very good range of First and Second World War postal history incl. PoW mail, a section on airgraphs, etc. Much more of interest also in the loose material with stockcards, covers, literature, etc, a close viewing is recommended.
Great Britain Stamped-to-Order postal stationery group, 26 items, mainly a study of the 3d rose type, including 'Specimen' overprinted introductory example (date-plug 27.5.59) on centre of single sheet printed with 'EMBOSSED Postage Stamp to be struck upon Paper and Envelopes - May, 1859', a scarce item in very nice condition, plus a range of cut-square unused and used with date-plugs and five- or nine-dot florets, the latter incl. on unused envelope.
Great Britain Line-engraved stamps and covers in three old loose-leaf albums, starting with eleven penny blacks incl. four-margins: plate 5 FF, QA and plate 6 JF, QB; 1d red imperfs including one of the larger albums solely this period with well over 100 numbers in cross, just a handful four margins, two neat number '4' examples only just short of four margins, many other varieties incl. four-margin inverted wmk on cover (stamp lifted), 'Registered Letter' handstamp in blue on 1852 damaged cover, NB: much haphazard mis-identification as black plate printings in this volume. The other green album has perf 'stars' plated on cover including an 1860 correspondence from Lord Brougham with blocks of four etc, though oxidization and faults. Back in the red album corner-letters plates incl. range of mint with blocks of four plates 113, 196, 202, 212, 213, block of six plate 167, etc. Very mixed condition throughout however a very interesting range of material with occasional superb examples. Please inspect.
Great Britain Penny black postal history group of nine covers/fronts with unusual postmarks etc. Includes May 23rd 1840 cover to Dublin with worn plate 1a four margins (close but just clear lower edge, possible faults) and neat red double-square 'Paid MY23M 1840'; Sunday 24th May cover with clear Dudley cds, the tied stamp three-margins (bottom margin with damage slightly into the design) with 1982 RPS cert; double and triple strikes of Maltese crosses on single stamps; Bodmin double-ring cancel solely tying four-margin plate 1b on cover, etc.
Silver etc. A large carton of stamps, coins and postcards, including sterling silver Silver Jubilee stamp ingots (3) and other solid silver ingots with current bullion value approx. £140. The coins with about 100 currency and commem with a little silver from 1920s onwards, a few Irish, etc. Stamps in a couple of schoolboy albums and several FDC binders, and about 200 old postcards to inspect.
Small yet very eclectic holding with Queen Victoria and Kings silver ingot collections (approx. 250g = £140 at time of press), 1946 Victory omnibus set MNH in binder, 1897 ½d Diamond Jubilee 'Commemorative Stamp' label in full sheet of 120 (framed), 1909 edition of John Hendy's 'The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876' a scarce and still very useful study.
Great Britain 'T.P. Pall Mall' receiving house cancel tying plate 1a penny black (heavily worn impression) with red MX on cover to Cambridge with red italic 'Too Late' postmark. The stamp with margin along frame upper right, nevertheless an appealing cover. Also a very attractive four-margined plate 1b example tied on front by bright vermilion Maltese cross and with Botesdale straight-line.
Western Ukraine Intriguing collection of the 1918-'19 overprints on Austro-Hungarian types, about 180 stamps written-up on album pages, including (mint unless otherwise stated) 1918 Kolomyia surcharges with 10sot on 6h and 12h (SG.3/4, cat. £5,250; Sc#7/8, $3,400, with expert's handstamp though we cannot guarantee genuine), Kolomyia 50sot registration stamp used on piece (SG.R6; Sc#F2), Stanislaviv first issue incl. 3hr on 3k mint signed Körner (SG.21b; Sc#24), through to fourth issue incl. 3hr on 3k (SG.63; Sc#97); then Romanian Occupation of Pokutia 'C.M.T.' handstamps over seven pages incl. 60h inverted on 20h deep green (Sc#N3a, $3,000) and on 25h blue both with multiple experts' marks, many others with signatures including probably both genuine and forged Baumgarten monograms. A very good effort on this challenging area.
Philately. A Universal stamp album, including contents of stamps for Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, French colonies, Jamaica, Italy, Portugal, and others, and a German music book, bearing stamp Richard Fliegel Fisch Bach, with internal inscription dated 1868 and titled Allgemeines Deutsches Commersbuch. (2)
A group of Oriental ceramics, comprising a 19thC Japanese Imari vase, with a fluted top, with six character stamp to underside, 30cm high, heavily glued, a Japanese Kutani ware side plate, 18cm high, a Chinese cabinet plate depicting two figures with gilt border, 18cm diameter, heavily glued, and a 19thC Chinese cabinet plate, with Imari and floral design, with past restoration, 22cm diameter. (4, AF)
The fine Ashantee 1873-74 medal awarded to Captain A. W. Baker, known as “Baker of the Bobbies”, who distinguished himself as Commissioner of Armed Police, Cape Coast Castle and Inspector-Commandant of Police in Trinidad Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (Capt: Baker, Commr. Of Police, Cape Coast Castle, 73-74) very fine and a rare award to a Special Service Officer £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2003 and September 2006. Arthur Wybrow Baker was the son of the Reverend John Durand Baker of Bishop’s Tawton, Barnstaple, and the brother of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Durand Baker, K.C.B. (whose medals were sold in these rooms in March 2005). Baker was educated at Rugby, originally commissioned into the 66th Regiment in July 1862, and was advanced to lieutenant in August 1865. Sometime thereafter, having obtained a captaincy, he resigned his commission and travelled to Africa, where, as the following letter to Downing Street from Major-General Wolseley reveals, he volunteered his services to the British cause in 1873: ‘I cannot over state the importance of having this post [Inspector-General of Police] filled at the present moment by an able organizer, and by a man full of energy and of great physical health and strength. No one but a military man would be fit for it, as the efficiency of this police force will depend largely upon the manner in which strict discipline is maintained in it. The management of bodies of armed men is an art that few possess intuitively, and is one that can only be acquired by military service. I have therefore selected Captain A. W. Baker, late of the 66th Regiment, who, having left the army, is one of the many similarly circumstanced who have recently come to the coast at their own expense to join the force under my command. He is no relation of mine and I never heard of him until quite recently, but I have selected him for what I consider to be his especial fitness for the post of Inspector-General of Police. The force at present numbers 438 men, but its efficiency is by no means what it ought to be. It has been hurriedly collected and time has not admitted its organization and the selection of men enlisted being properly attended to: much remains to be done before it can really be a thoroughly efficient force. Captain Baker assumed command of it today [16 December 1873] as explained to your Lordship in my despatch previously alluded to ...’ As evidenced by Wolesley’s subsequent despatch regarding the Coomassie operations, dated 7 February 1874, Baker quickly knocked his police force into shape: ‘The police duties in connection with the recent military operations have been most effectively performed by Captain Baker, Inspector-General of Police. He has rendered the force under my command most valuable service and his zeal and energy mark him out as peculiarly suited for the post he occupies ...’ After his success in Africa, Baker went on to be employed as part of the Police Service in Trinidad. He was appointed Inspector Commandant of Police in 1877, Inspector Commandant & Inspector of Weights & Measures in 1881, and as Inspector of Prisons in 1904. The following is given in The Years of Revolt, Trinidad 1881-1888 by Fr. A. de Verteuil, with regards to this period of his career: ‘Baker, the Chief of Police, Arthur Wybrow Baker was a man’s man. At this period he was over forty, but still a fine figure of a man, over six feet tall and broad in proportion, with dark black hair and moustache and striking eyes. He was a “broth of a boy” as the Irish say, with a loving wife and children. Keen on athletic sports, and well mannered on top of that, he was the clean type of man that everyone in that Victorian age could look up to. Even the French creoles who hated the English officials admired him; “With the exception of Captain Baker”, one wrote, “there is not a single one (of the English officials) that any man with the slightest pretension to respectability would introduce to his family or his club.” As a macho man he appealed to the lower class blacks who could measure his worth even on the purely physical level. As Inspector Commandant - Chief of Police - Baker had been an immediate success. A man of integrity and energy, of coolness in action and firmness in decision, possessing a close sense of identification with most of his men, he won their respect and the respect of all. Even “the very rowdies whom he kept down with a strong hand, admired him for his courage and fearlessness in tackling them”. As head of the Voluntary Fire Brigade, he graced their social functions, with his wife and was in the forefront to put out the frequent fires. When Carter’s Races (on 1st August, Emancipation Day) fell into decline, Captain Baker instituted athletic sports which afforded lots of sport to the police, soldiers and the general public for many years. Before his arrival in Trinidad, he had spent three years in the 66th Regiment in India, and was in command of the Houssas on the West Coast of Africa; and by 1884 he had been in command of the police in Trinidad for eight years. After he had been some years in Trinidad, he relaxed the reins a little and let his subordinate officers have more of a free hand. This was regrettable, as some of them at the very least, lacked sound judgement, and gave the police and Baker a bad name. As a man of colonial experience, he fitted in well with the circle of British officials in Trinidad and particularly with the commander of troops at the St. James Barracks. And so - “He was a man, take him for all in all”. But marred, fatally marred by the stamp of one defect. As a typical British official of the time, he looked down on all non-English mortals, and this in an age of growing Trinidad nationalism. In three years in India he had not acquired a word of Hindustani. So he bravely bore alone “the white man’s burden” to the end for better - or perhaps worse. A strong man, in more ways than one, his impact on Trinidad went beyond the police to politics.’ Sold with a photographic imaged of recipient in uniform, and copied research.
Football. Bobby Moore Signed The World Cup Official Commemorative FDC. Stamp and 30 June 1986 Postmark. Signed in blue ink. Included is an Unsigned Photo Of Bobby Moore. Good Condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Football. Tottenham Hotspur Legend Ricky Villa Signed FA Cup Final Man City V Tottenham Hotspurs First Day Cover. British Stamp with 14th May 1981 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Jimmy Case Signed Liverpool V Borussia Monchengladbach FDC with British Stamp and 12 Apr 1978 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Steve Kindon Signed Huddersfield Town V Carlisle Utd FDC With British Stamp and 19 Aug 90 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Football. Munich Air Disaster Survivors Kenny Morgans, Albert Scanlon, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes Signed Irish Stamps First Day Cover. Irish Stamp with 4. 11. 2008 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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