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Click here to subscribeTobacciana - A collection of early 20th century advertising packaging / boxes to include a cardboard illustrated lid of a Cigar Box depicting Simon Bolivar. Habana. Made in Havana Cuba, a Players Navy Cut 10 cigarettes packet, a S. E. I. T. A. match box, a Stanley Gibbons Ltd tin, Victoria Tasteless Army & Navy stamp mounts (with contents), an Analgesic Balsam box Warrick Cros Ltd, a Calverts Carbolic Tooth Powder box and an Allenburys Pastilles tin.
BRUCE (WILLIAM SPEIRS) - SCOTIA EXPEDITIONReport on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. Scotia, vol. 3 [Botany], 4 (part I, of 2), 5, 6 and 7 [Zoology], plates and maps, publisher's brown cloth gilt, Scottish flag device on spines, slightly rubbed [Rosove 52-2.A1, etc.; cf.Taurus 52], 4to, Edinburgh, Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, 1912[-1908-1912]; and another, reprint of The Log of the Scotia Expedition, edited by Peter Speak, 1992 (6)Footnotes:'With the blessing of the Scottish Geographical Society, Bruce raised funds for the Scottish national Antarctic expedition in the well-equipped Scotia (1902–4). The entire crew and scientists were virtually all Scottish, and the funds came from Scottish subscribers... Two summers were spent in biological and oceanographical work in the Weddell Sea and the south Atlantic... This highly successful expedition returned to Scotland with large scientific collections which formed the basis of the Scottish Oceanographical Institute, founded by Bruce in Edinburgh in 1907' (ODNB).Provenance: Vol.3, inscribed by William S. Bruce to 'Wm. Smith... many thanks for fine picture, Wm. S. Bruce, New Year 1909'. The colour frontispiece depicting Weddell Seals and Emperor Penguins was painted by Smith; Vol.6, Zoology Dept. of the University of Adelaide, bookplate and stamp, with pencil signature of Douglas Mawson.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR & THE CONVENTION OF PEKINGManuscript fragment from a document confirming British and French occupation of the Shantung Promontory, signed by Vice Admiral Sir James Hope ('J.Hope') as Commander in Chief and Charles Cousin-Montauban ('Ch de Montauban'), General commanding the French expedition, and two others, with the Imperial colonial stamp depicting a crowned eagle in black ink, beneath the subscription in English ('Given at Tientsin/ the 14th November 1860') and French ('Fait á Tientsin/ le 14 Novembre 1860'), later note in red pen ('signature of the Allied Commanders in Chief to the Convention regulating the occupation of Chefous & the Mia Tao Islands'); the reverse with a fragment of text outlining point one of the treaty, in English ('...Agreed that the Shantung Promontory shall [be] held in terms of the [C]onvention of Peking of His... as follows vixt. [1]st that the Port of Chefoo [s]hall be held by a French... Naval or Military...'), and in French adjacent, ending '...Le port du Chéfou sera occupé par une force fran[çais] de terre ou de mer...', one leaf, written recto and verso, roughly cut from a larger sheet, dust-staining and spotting, c.140 x193mm., Tientsin, 14 November 1860Footnotes:'THE SHANTUNG PROMONTARY SHALL BE HELD IN TERMS OF THE CONVENTION OF PEKING': Confirmation of terms that the Shantung Promontory in North Eastern China should be held by the French following the defeat of the Chinese by Anglo-French forces. The Convention of Peking comprised three treaties concluded between the Quing Dynasty and Britain, France and Russia in 1860, regarded by the Chinese as the 'unequal treaties' due to their one-sided terms. The Treaty of Tientsin which had been signed in June 1858 between France, Britain, Russia and the United States on one side and the defeated Qing Dynasty on the other, opened up Chinese ports such as Chefoo and the Yangtse River to Western powers. Chefoo, located on China's north-eastern coast, was designated an international trading port in August 1861, with no less than seventeen nations establishing consulates there.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Photographer Milton Greene photo of Marilyn Monroe from the 1956 black sittings. Marilyn in black stockings and black bra, mounted and framed, bearing Milton Greene credit stamp on back. There is a small ding near the bottom of her legs and some of the perspex has cracked in the corners. 33 cm x 44 cm. CONDITION REPORT: Unknown age.
A collection of interesting small wooden boxes, including a Tunbridge ware stamp box and a Mauchline ware box decorated three views of Shanklin/Provenance: The Estate of Anthony J Beeson CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
A Victorian silver postage stamp box, C & C, Chester 1899, of three hinged compartments, retailed by Lund, 8cm wide and a silver handled magnifying glass, Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings Shepherd, Chester 1901 CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
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