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Lot 227
KISS - GENE SIMMONS - ORIGINAL 8 X 6 INCH black and white photograph by S.K.R Photos International Ltd. With original back stamp and paper strip stating ` For Your Files - A member of Pop Group Kiss photographed in London May 1976.Original 70s photograph not a reprint. This one pictures Gene with his Bass guitar live on stage.
Lot 224
ELTON JOHN - An original Black and White photograph not a reprint with stamp from S.K.R on the back and paper ` For your Files Elton John Photographed at Wembley Stadium Concert 21st June S.K.R - 23 rd June 75. It measures 8 inches by 6 inches - This is the original photograph not a reprint.
Lot 225
MARC BOLAN Born in 1947 and died in 1977 - This is an original 8 x 6 inch black and white photograph of Marc Arriving at London Airport from his home in France ( Monte Carlo ) taken 20 th Jan 1975. By S.K.R Photos International An original in very good condition with studio stamp and paper info on reverse. Not a reprint original photo of Marc wearing a velvet jacket and bow tie.
Lot 229
KISS - GENE SIMMONS - ORIGINAL 8 X 6 INCH black and white photograph by S.K.R Photos International Ltd. With original back stamp and paper strip stating ` For Your Files - A member of Pop Group Kiss photographed in London May 1976.Original 70s photograph not a reprint. This photo a close up of Gene with his tongue out.
Lot 228
KISS - GENE SIMMONS - ORIGINAL 8 X 6 INCH black and white photograph by S.K.R Photos International Ltd. With original back stamp and paper strip stating ` For Your Files - Kiss pop group Photographed in London at one of they concerts` May 1976.Original 70s photograph not a reprint. This photo depicts Gene on side view with Ace Frehley.
Lot 1518
RUSSIA over 1000 stamps representing a used holding, housed in one substantial well filled volume. Tsarist issues with several 100s of stamps to high values, unchecked for varieties and types, stacked stamp on stamp. Also, a little POs abroad, on to extensive inflation and lots of material from the 1930s/40s, ending with Russian area including British Occupation of Batum, as well as fiscals and unlisted
Lot 1503
AUSTRIA several 100s if not 1000s of stamps, housed in one well filled volume, mint and used from the 19th century first issues onwards. Packed with material, particularly strong in the early 20th century, also including lots of useful sets post WWII with little if any duplication, sometimes blocks of 4. Also noticed miniature sheetsEverything completely uncatalogued, worthwhile to spend time on as much is stacked stamp on stamp, making a challenging viewing
Lot 1399
WORLD well filled centurion stamp album with good range including Canada small and large queens, range of German states, 4 x 1d blacks, 1 - 4 margin and 3 - 3 Margins, also 1840 2d blue x 2, 1 very good 4 margin other close Lilac and green fine used values, good colours, with some Italian states, Norway a number 1, 4 margin, plus skilling values, Queensland to 1/- small queens, USA heads to 90cent red
Lot 661
A pair of Victorian silver bracelets, circa 1880, each with engraved decoration to the central oval links between beaded sides, on a snap clasp, with registration stamp, total weight 82g, length 19cm, together with a gilt metal long guard chain, fitted with a slide and a swivel.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 1
BERNHARDT SARAH: (1844-1923) French stage actress. A large vintage signed and inscribed 14.5 x 12 photograph of the actress in a full-length pose, wearing a long white dress, lying in the lap of an actor, with several other thespians alongside, in a scene from the play Izeyl. Photograph by Joseph Byron of Broadway, New York, and bearing his credit stamp to the verso and pencil signature beneath the image. Signed by Bernhardt in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount, with an inscription in French, dated New York, 1896 in her hand. A few light, minor water stains, just affecting the signature and inscription, and with some light age wear to the edges of the mount. G Izeyl, described as an 'Indian religious drama' by The New York Times was a melodrama by Armand Silvestre and Eugene Morand which ran for one week of Bernhardt's five week engagement at Abbey's Theatre (The Knickerbocker Theatre) on Broadway in January 1896. Set in Himalayan India in the 5th century BC, Bernhardt starred in the title role as a courtesan who tries to seduce the Hindu Christ Buddha, but fails. Joseph Byron (1847-1923) English photographer who founded the Byron Company in Manhattan and specialised in photographing Broadway shows and other stage productions.
![[GANDHI MAHATMA]: (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader during the Indian independence movement. An historic D.S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/490e7209-4b7e-4aa3-9ba4-afab011e768f/f7e8a9bc-abf0-4aea-ae43-afac00da29d1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1600
[GANDHI MAHATMA]: (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader during the Indian independence movement. An historic D.S., B. L. Taneja, by Doctor B. L. Taneja, Director of Pathology, one page, 4to, New Delhi, 22nd January [1948]. The partially printed document, completed in typescript, is an official medical form issued by the Pathological Laboratory of Irwin Hospital, New Delhi, and is a Report on Blood II prepared for Mahatma Gandhi just eight days prior to his assassination (and only two days after having survived an attempted assassination), the report indicating that Gandhi was in fine health for a man of 78 years of age with normal levels of uric acid, cholesterol (150 mgs per 100 c.c. of blood against a normal level of 100 to 200) and plasma protein, a slightly high although average level of sugar (120 mgs per 100 c.c. of blood against a normal level of 80 to 120) and a marginally higher level of calcium (12 mgs per 100 c.c. of serum against a normal level of 9 to 11.5). Signed by Taneja at the foot above his official ink stamp. A rare and incredibly poignant document. Two file holes to the left edge and a couple of small staple holes to the upper left corner, none of which affect the text. VGThe present document once accompanied Gandhi's Report on Blood I document which was prepared a day earlier, on 21st January 1948, also by Dr. B. L. Taneja at the Irwin Hospital in New Delhi. The first report is known to have indicated a Haemoglobin level of 82%, a white blood cell (Leucocyte) count of 7,400, and a red blood cell (Erythrocyte) count of 4,790,000.In January 1948 Gandhi was living (in two unpretentious rooms) at Birla House in New Delhi from where he was conducting prayer meetings in the gardens. The first attempt by Nathuram Godse and his colleagues to assassinate Gandhi took place on 20th January 1948 when a grenade was thrown at the crowd listening to Gandhi speak in a park, leaving him alone on the speakers' platform. Godse's accomplices then lost their nerve and instead of hurling another grenade at the isolated Gandhi they instead fled amongst the crowd who had created a chaotic stampede. On 30th January 1948 Gandhi, accompanied by his great niece and another young lady, made his way on foot to a prayer meeting when he was confronted at close range by Nathuram Godse who fired three bullets into Gandhi's chest. Gandhi was immediately carried to Birla House and, having lost a lot of blood, was pronounced dead approximately thirty minutes later.
Lot 852
LOWRY L. S.: (1887-1976) English artist. A good signed colour 6.5 x 4.5 postcard, the image being a reproduction of the artist's painting Coming out of School (1927), with a postage stamp featuring the same image affixed to the upper right corner and bearing an Art on Stamps Exhibition postmark dated at the Strand Stamp Centre, London, 10th July 1967. Signed by Lowry in ink with his name alone to the lower white border. VG
Lot 509
GARSON GREER: (1904-1996) English actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver. A fine vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity portrait by Frank Tanner (bearing his credit stamp to the verso) depicting the elegant Garson in a half-length pose. A typed caption to the verso makes reference to Garson's performances in the 1941 films When Ladies Meet and Blossoms in the Dust, the latter of which resulted in Garson receiving a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Signed by the actress in bold black fountain pen ink to the image. About EX
Lot 947
SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French Novelist who used the pseudonym of George Sand, her real name being Amantine Dupin. Also known for her romantic affairs with artists, including Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset. An excellent A.L.S., George Sand (..M.lle la quintinie.), two pages, 8vo, Nohant, June 1863, to Mr. Gueneau de Mussy, in French. Written to the first and third page, the first being a blank leaf with the addressee´s name written in Sand´s hand. To the third page, bearing at the heading a blind embossed stamp with her initials, Sand copies an interesting selected part from her new novel Mademoiselle La Quintinie, `Pour atteindre ce cercle du vrai où aucun mal ne tente plus l´homme éclairé et convaincu, il n´est pas besoin de mortification, de cilice, de jeûnes et de luttes avec Satan; non!.....ce chemin s´appelle l´examen sans entraves et la religion sans mystères.´ An attractive document signed by Sand, adding beneath her name the heroine´s name and title of her just recently published novel. Very small folding, otherwise VG
Lot 1573
GUEVARA CHE: (1928-1967) Argentine Marxist Revolutionary & Guerrilla leader, a major figure in the Cuban Revolution. D.S., `Che´, one page, oblong 8 x 6.5 clipped page, n.p. [Cuba], 14th April 1961, in Spanish. The clipped piece bears a text ink stamp to the heading, being the acknowledgement of the document received, stating after the date that `On this day, I notified the present document to the undersigning, having read it in full and giving him a copy signed by me, I attest so..´ Signed below by Che Guevara in his typical small writing. Beneath his signature and in typed letters ''Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara''. Also bearing alongside an official ink stamp of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Cuba. Matted in black above a 4 x 3 contemporary photograph of Che Guevara, unsigned, the image showing Che Guevara giving a decoration, to an overall size of 12 x 14.5 (30cm x 37cm). Very small hole, not affecting the signature or text. Very small overall age wear, otherwise G
Lot 666
MASCAGNI PIETRO: (1863-1945) Italian Composer. A Good A.L.S., `Pietro Mascagni´, one page, 4to, lined paper, Palermo, 14th August 1938, in Italian. Mascagni strongly recommends a musician, stating `Dichiaro io sottoscritto che il Maestro Ignazio Alfanodi Basilio a un elemento distinto per tecnica e per pratica e puo essere di buona utilita nelle esecuzioni di opera liriche e di concerti sinfonici. Ho avuto occasione di averlo per due Stagioni nelle orchestra da me dirette al teatro Massimo di Palermo… ed ho potuto constatare le sue buone qualita di esecutore a di musicista´ (Translation: `I, the undersigning, declare that Maestro Ignasio Alfano de Basilio, has a technique and level and can be of good utility in the performances of lyrical works and Symphony concerts. I had the occasion of having him for two seasons in the orchestra I conducted at the Massimo Theatre in Palermo… and I could note his qualities as performer and musician´) The letter bears a circular ink stamp to the upper left corner. Two small creases, otherwise G to VG
Lot 428
BOGART HUMPHREY: (1899-1957) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1951 for his role as Charlie Allnut in The African Queen. An excellent, vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Bogart in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Bud Fraker for Paramount and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Bogart in blue ink to a clear area of the background, 'For Bill Farrell, good luck, Humphrey Bogart'. One minor surface crease to a dark area at the base of the image and an extremely light stain to the upper edge, VG
Lot 97
JONES ALLAN: (1907-1992) American actor and singer, remembered for his roles in the Marx Brothers films A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937). A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Jones in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. A printed caption neatly affixed to the verso promotes the appearance of Jones in his screen debut in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Reckless (1935). Signed by Jones in bold black fountain pen ink to the image, largely across a clear area. An ink annotation in the hand of a collector to the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person at a Movie Club on 6th March 1936. VG
![[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/490e7209-4b7e-4aa3-9ba4-afab011e768f/8a4a864a-0d9d-45d1-bb96-afac00d5489e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 991
[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of Joyce in the hand of an administrative agent, four pages, 4to, Paris, 21st April 1939, in French. The official Reseau Telephonique de Paris (Paris Telephone Network) document is Joyce's contract to have a telephone line installed at 34 rue des Vignes in Paris for an annual fee of six hundred and sixty francs, the head of the first page stamped Transfert ('Transfer') and a further stamp with manuscript insertions to the third page confirming that the document replaces an earlier commitment to have a telephone line at 7 rue Edmond Valentin and that the minimum duration of the subscription is still in place. The foot of the third page is signed on behalf of Joyce with the observation 'Lu et accepté' (Translation: 'Read and accepted'). A moving document relating to Joyce's last private residence in Paris. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGJames Joyce first came to Paris in July 1920 and would reside in the French capital for almost two decades, although the writer never bought a home of his own. Joyce's health problems afflicted him throughout his Paris years and despite over a dozen eye operations his vision severely declined and by the 1930s he was practically blind, making the telephone an important method of communication and explaining why he was unable to sign the present document.Joyce lived in an elegant apartment at 7 rue Edmond Valentin, close to the River Seine and Eiffel Tower, for five years from February 1935 until April 1939 before moving into a smaller apartment (although blessed with a lot of natural light) at 34 rue des Vignes on 15th April 1939. Finnegans Wake was published whilst Joyce was living in the apartment, which he would leave after six months in mid-October 1939. Following the fall of France in 1940 Joyce and his family travelled to Zurich to flee the Nazi occupation. On 11th January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery and fell into a coma the next day, awaking briefly at 2 am on 13th January before dying fifteen minutes later.
Lot 1496
GEORGE VI: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. Vintage signed 7 x 10.5 photograph of the future King in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by C. Vandyk Ltd. of London and bearing their blind stamp to the lower mount and wet stamp to the verso. Signed ('Albert') by the Duke of York in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1923 in his hand. A large area of uniform discoloration affects around three-quarters of the mount. G
Lot 5
MELIES GEORGES: (1861-1938) French Film Director, a Pioneer of cinema and innovator in the use of special effects. Rare D.S., G. Melies, one page, 4to, Paris, 12th November 1912, the partially printed document being a receipt issued on Melies' attractive printed stationery. The manuscript receipt, in French, is for the sum of 370 Francs, being the payment of royalties due from the sales, in New York, of some of Melies' films. Also bearing to the front a red ink stamp of the Melies cinema manufacture over a tax stamp. Three binding holes to the left border, not affecting the text or signature. VG
![[MUSSOLINI BENITO]: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. Unsigned 9.5 x 7 photograph (24 cm x 18 cm), being](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/490e7209-4b7e-4aa3-9ba4-afab011e768f/484809ca-6e9a-47fc-88d8-afac00d92531/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1370
[MUSSOLINI BENITO]: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. Unsigned 9.5 x 7 photograph (24 cm x 18 cm), being a contemporary copy of the iconic infamous image showing Mussolini hanging. The image bears to the verso an ink stamp of Renzo Pistone, photographer of Milan, dated 29th April 1945, the day after Mussolini was executed. The day before, Mussolini together with his mistress Claretta Petacci, had been captured and executed by Italian partisans at Giulino di Mezzegra, a small village in the province of Como, northern Italy, when the Duce was trying to escape to Switzerland. The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and hanged upside down alongside few other fascist leaders on 29th April 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto, a suburban square of Milan, with a large and angry crowd around committing even physical abuse on the dead corpses. The three other bodies hanging were those of Nicola Bombacci, Alessandro Pavolini and Achille Starace. Only two days before Hitler had committed suicide and a week later with the fall of Berlin the WWII reached its end. G
Lot 79
NEGULESCO JEAN: (1900-1993) Romanian-American film director. A good vintage signed and inscribed 10 x 8 photograph of Negulesco seated in a three-quarter length pose behind the desk in his office as he reads a script and smokes a pipe. Photograph by Longworth for Warner Bros. and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed by the director in bold black fountain pen ink to a largely clear area at the base of the image and dated 1944 in his hand. One very small tear to the left border and a couple of light, minor corner creases, otherwise VG
Lot 6
MÉLIÈS GEORGES: (1861-1938) French Film Director, a pioneer of cinema and innovator in the use of special effects. Rare D.S., G. Melies, two pages, 4to, 16 Passage de l´Opéra, Paris, 9th October 1912, being a receipt issued on Melies' attractive printed stationery "Manufacture de Films pour Cinématographes - G. Melies". The manuscript receipt, in French, is for the sum of 390 Francs, being the payment of royalties due from the sales, in New York, of some of Melies' films. To the second typed page, the document states "On New York sales - Forgive Us Our Trespasses…" Bearing to the front page a payment red ink stamp cancelling the debt with tax cancellation stamp. Three file holes to the left edge of the document, not affecting the text or signature. VG
Lot 1068
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: A good multiple signed First Day of Issue cover honouring the Mayo Brothers and featuring their images and with a postage stamp designed in their honour, post marked at Rochester, Minnesota, 11th September 1964, individually signed by eleven Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine comprising Edgar Adrian (1889-1977, 1st Baron Adrian, English electrophysiologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1932), William P. Murphy (1892-1987, American physician, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1934), Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986, Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1937), Henrik Dam (1895-1976, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1943), Edward A. Doisy (1893-1986, American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1943), Ernst Chain (1906-1979, German-British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1945), Carl F. Cori (1896-1984, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1947), Bernardo Houssay (1887-1971, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1947), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916-2003, American paediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, 1954), Francis Crick (1916-2004, English molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1962) and Edmond H. Fischer (1920-2021, American-Swiss biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1992). All have signed in various coloured inks to clear areas of the cover, and only one is very slightly affected by the postal cancellation. An impressive grouping of signatures of Nobel Laureates. VG
Lot 1183
SLAVERY: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a Cuban hero who freed slaves and leaded the declaration of Cuban Independence in 1868. A good A.L.S., `C.m.de Cespedes´, one page, small 4to, Bayamo, 27th December 1868, in Spanish. The document bears an attractive revolutionary vignette to the heading and the printed title beneath ''Liberator Army of Cuba and its Provisional Government''. Cespedes on this Manumission missive states `En esta fecha y como encargado del Gobierno Provisional, he otorgado carta de Libertad al negro nombrado Jonas, como de 23 años de edad, natural de Cuba…´ (Translation: “On this date, and in my capacity as representative of the Provisional Government, I have granted freedom to the negro named Jonas, of 23 years old approximately, native of Cuba…”) The document bears to the front a blind embossed seal and to the lower left corner an ink stamp of the ''free town council of Bayamo''. Overall age wear, with trimmed edges and few small pinholes. About G
Lot 1478
NICHOLAS II: (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia 1894-1917. Assassinated. An excellent and very unusually extensive D.S., `Nicolas´, in Cyrillic, a clean and bold example of the Tsar´s signature, eighty-seven pages, folio, Tsarskoye Selo, 1st of January 1914, in Cyrillic. The clean document, being a decree to the Chapter of Russian Imperial and Royal Orders, which according to the submitted certification done by the Minister of National Enlightenment regarding successful an faultless services, states in part `We bestow the Imperial and Royal Order of the White Eagle on Privy Councillors… Order of the Holy Great Prince Vladimir, Equal-of the-Apostles… 2nd class on the member of the Council of the Minister of National Enlightenment… 3rd class on the Active State Councillors, rectors and full professors of the Imperial Universities… 4th class on the Active State Councillors, rectors and professors..´ The Tsar orders `We command the Chapter to issue insignias and credentials to the Knights of the Orders. Insignias for non-Christians should be issued for..´ Bearing to the front page an ink stamp dated 8th February 1914. A long number of persons are bestowed, reporting their full names, ranks and merits, including. G to VG
Lot 1024
NOBEL ALFRED: (1833-1896) Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist who bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. The scientist's most famous invention was that of dynamite, which was patented in 1867. An outstanding archive relating to the establishment of a dynamite factory in Italy, comprising - (i) A.L.S., A Nobel, three pages, 4to, Paris, 6th September 1872, to [Paul] Barbe, in French. Nobel provides his detailed requirements for establishing a factory to produce dynamite at Avigliana, near Turin, under the guidance of his agent Casimir Robaudi ('Voici le petit devis pour la Fabrique Italienne et le projet de contrat avec Robaudi') setting out his requirements in a detailed table, with their immediate and defrayable costs, including specifications for brick buildings, power of the traction engines, nitrite grinders, and other machinery, a building to house nitric acid, an ice room, various other wooden buildings for the production and washing of glycerine and dynamite, and for packing the dynamite, cartridge making, water heaters, and enclosures, and remarking that he envisages the quick production and sale of the dynamite, financed by three months' credit. Nobel then proceeds to define the terms of the contract under which the business should operate, giving the outlines for a five-year contract with Robaudi in nine numbered paragraphs, explaining that Robaudi will be named as agent for the Italian business and will be responsible for the costs of selling the dynamite sent to him, for which he can set a price above market rates, provided that the company can cancel the contract if Robaudi's consumption and marketing contravenes their policies, or if the company does not receive payment for the dynamite. Nobel advises Barbe to revise the contract as he sees fit before sending it to Carstens, the merchant in Hamburg. (ii) A fine, large original pen and ink plan of the proposed site of the dynamite factory in the Commune di Avigliana, prepared and signed by the surveyor Giuseppe Ferando, one page, large oblong folio, Turin, 27th July 1872, entitled Planimetria di parte della regione Valoja presso il trucco di San Martino, coloured in two shades of blue (one defining the waterways) and also featuring light pencil drawings of buildings to the left margin. (iii) A pencil sketch of several buildings at Avigliana entitled Croquis de fabrique de nitroglycerine a Avigliana, one page, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d., including the facilities labelled for 'Preparation, separation et lavage a l'eau'. (iv) A finely executed and detailed pen and ink plan of various constructions and buildings, one page, oblong folio, n.p., n.d., captioned in French, including cartoucheries, magasin, filtrage & dynamiterie, lavages, pompe pour l'appareil, glacier & magasin a glycerine, hanger a bomb acide nitrique. Maison de garde, chien de garde etc. (v) A scale drawing from a patent application on transparency paper (some tears and a few large areas of paper loss to the edges) bearing the official oval stamp of Jannot ('Constructeur - Mecanicien') and two other pen and ink and pencil sketches and drawings of machinery and apparatus. (vi) An autograph manuscript entitled Regolamento dei transporti delle Materie infiammabili ed esplodenti ('Regulations for the transportation of flammable and explosive materials') approved by the administrators Bolmira and Guglianetti, twelve pages, 4to, n.p. (Italy), 9th April 1872, commencing 'Flammable materials, such as phosphorus, phosphor matches, gun powder, turpentine, alcohol, and derivatives, objects for fireworks and any other material…..that easily starts or transmits fire, are excluded from transport if the sender has not subjected himself to the cautionary measures established by the administration' and continuing to outline the regulations concerning packaging, supervision, means of transport and other precautions which it is necessary to adhere to. (vii) Small collection of ten manuscript technical and legal documents, in Italian and French, over twenty pages in total, largely 4to, various places, 1870s, some regarding Nobel's patent and one on the printed stationery of the Dinamite Nobel factory at Avigliana. (viii) Autograph manuscript of the Atto di Costituzione della Societa per la Fabbricazione della Dinamite and Statuto della Scoieta Anonima per la Fabbricazione della Dinamite, in all over sixty pages, folio, Turin, 5th June 1873, in Italian, identifying the main shareholders, and accompanied by an eleven-page summary including a manuscript list of the shares allocated to each shareholder. A comprehensive archive relating to the Swedish chemist's important invention of dynamite and featuring an extremely rare autograph letter signed by Nobel himself, particularly desirable owing to its content. Some light overall age wear and minor faults and Nobel's letter with some light, minor staining and a few small tears to the edges. Generally G to about VG, Sml Qty. At the end of December 1871, Alfred Nobel obtained a six-year patent for the exploitation of dynamite from the Italian government, to be financed by both French and German investors. In April 1872, Nobel reached an agreement with five Parisian financiers (and engineers) to found a public limited company. Among the shareholders mentioned in the present archive were Paul Barbe, Amedeo Hoffer (director of the factory), Casimir Robaudi (agent for the Nobel company in Hamburg), Antonio Campagna (formerly mayor of Avigliana), the Hamburg merchants Carl Ferdinand Carstens and Edouard Bandmann, and the Parisian banker Gunzbourg. They acquired land near Avigliana, some thirty kilometres west of Turin, and set up a factory through a commissionaire, Robaudi, obtaining a patent for the manufacture of dynamite. The company established by Nobel continued production until being destroyed during the World War II.
Lot 425
OLIVIER LAURENCE: (1907-1989) English actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1948 for his role as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in Hamlet. Vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of Olivier in a head and shoulders pose in costume as King Henry V of England from Henry V (1944), the British epic film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Photograph by Wilfrid Newton and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Olivier in fountain pen ink at the base of the image, 'To Bernie, with every good wish & kindest thought, Laurence Olivier'. Some damage to the corners caused by pinholes and a tear to the surface of the image, just above Olivier's ear, and a small tear to the right edge. G
Lot 634
HUNT JAMES: (1947-1993) British motor racing driver, Formula One World Champion, 1976. A good signed 10 x 8 photograph of Hunt racing in Dan Gurney's All American Racers Eagle Formula 5000 car at Riverside in October 1974. Photograph by Bob Tronolone of Burbank. California, and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Hunt in bold black ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. VG
Lot 1165
GROS JULES: (1829-1891) French journalist and Secretary of the Societe de geographie who became the President of the unrecognised Republic of Independent Guyana in South America in May 1887, only to be deposed in September 1887. A.L.S., Jules Gros, to one side of his personal printed oblong large 12mo (5 x 3) Visiting Card, featuring his printed name to the centre, as President de la Republique de la Guyane Independante, Vanves, 19th September 1887. Gros writes to authorise Auguste Rey 'a chercher une somme modeste pour la mise en train de l'affaire de la Guyane Indepte. M. Rey, du reste, ne doit rien conclure sans que l´affaire m´ait été soumise' (Translation: 'to seek a modest sum for the start of the Guyana Indept. affair. Mr. Rey, moreover, cannot conclude anything without the matter having been submitted to me'). The card also features the official circular ink stamp of the President. A rare and interesting example of the autograph of Gros dating from the end of his short term as President. VG
Lot 683
GRIEG EDVARD: (1843-1907) Norwegian composer and pianist. A very fine content A.L.S., Edvard Grieg, three pages, to two separate sheets, grid paper, 8vo, Rudolstadt, 3rd September 1883, to Dr. Max Abraham, Director of the edition company Peters, in German. Grieg thanks his correspondent for his help regarding England, although he has still not received further news. Grieg also confirms that he will be playing his piano concerto on the 4th of December at Cologne, that he will conduct the two melodies for string orchestra and that he will play the sonata for violoncello and piano at Leipzig beginning of November but do not know yet who will play with him. Grieg further comments how tired he is to still be at Rudolstadt and expresses his joy because of his return shortly to Leipzig, stating `Unter der Voraussetzungs, das Sie jetzt zurückgekehrt sind, adressire ich diese Zeilen nach Leipzig, um Ihnen für Ihre Bemühungen, England betreffend, meinen besten Dank zu sagen. Ich habe nach Ihren Rath zugesagt, habe aber seitdem nichts gehört. Das Resultat von einer Correspondance mit den Herren Reinecke uund Hiller ist, das ich in Cöln am 4ten December mein Klavierconcert spiele, und die beiden Melodien für Streichorchester dirigire, und in Leipzig Anfang November die Cellosonate in der Kammermusik spiele, - mit wem, weiss ich noch nicht. Über die Eulenburgische Arrangements weiss ich noch nicht. Ich habe jetzt Rudolstadt bald satt und freue mich, wieder nach Leipzig zu kommen…´ Bearing a collection stamp to the upper left corner. Overall creasing, with two small tears to the upper and right edges and with trimmed left edges. G Provenance: from Max Abraham (1875-1922); his nephew Henri Hinrichsen (1868-1942) who died at Auchwitz; after the nazi expoliation was later stored at the Sachsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, and finally returned to the Hinrichsen inheritors.
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