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Art Deco emerald and diamond ring with three rectangular step cut emeralds surrounded by a border of old cut diamonds in platinum setting on 18ct yellow gold shank, ring size MWeight 2.6 grams. Very good condition commensurate with age. Platinum setting, 18ct gold shank (not hallmarked but tests as 18ct). Tiny gap between the setting and one shoulder, possibly needs a repair but seems secure. Slight scratches to the emeralds commensurate with age.
Two Boxes of Photographic Technique Books, titles include The Photographer's Handbook, The Book of Photography by John Hedgecoe, Lens, Light, and Landscape by Brian Bower, Great Action Photography edited by Bryn Campbell, The Step by Step Guide to Photography by Michael Langford, darkroom technique and other titles
THE CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND - ONE STEP BEYOND LP (US ORIGINAL - TOWER - ST 5153). A beautiful, original US LP pressing of The Chocolate Watchbands 1969 3rd studio album One Step Beyond (ST 5153, 1969 US pressing on Tower Records. ST5153 ? matrix. Record is in sharp Ex condition. Sleeve has bright, glossy covers and light edge storage wear. Strong VG+ condition).
70s ROCK & PROG - LP COLLECTION. A lovely collection of 34 rock LPs. Artists/ titles include Peter Gree - The End Of The Game (K44106, record Ex/ sleeve VG+), Climax Chicago - Tightly Knit (SHSP 4015), Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (K56344), Geno Washington - Hand Clappin', The Who - Sell Out (612 002, record G/ sleeve VG). Three Dog Night - Harmony, Faces - First Step, A Man And A Woman OST, CCS - S/T, The Electric Light Orchestra - The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach. Alan Clarke - I've Got Time, Dave Clark's Time. Cliff Bennett, Neil Innes, Roger McGough, Candy OST, Jeremy Taylor, Jon Anderson, Bread, Freddie Mercury, Manfred Mann, Mike Batt, Hollies, Rod Stewart/ Faces - Live. Condition is generally VG to Ex+.
AN ELIZABETH II SILVER CIGARETTE BOX, rectangular engine turned pattern box with vacant cartouche, raised on four step feet, black lacquer base, wooden interior with divider, hallmarked 'Harman Brothers' Birmingham 1959, approximate dimensions length 16.5cm, width 11.5cm, depth excluding feet 3.5cm (condition report: general light wear, opens and closes with ease and sits flush)
Three Victorian and later gold and gem set brooches. Comprising; an oval cabochon chrysoprase approx. 12.5mm x 10mm, rub-over set between Arts and Crafts style honesty leaves and entwined tendrils, unmarked, approx. 35mm wide overall, 4.3g gross; an early Victorian gold and garnet brooch of lozenge-shaped outline with a central rectangular step-cut garnet within an embossed floral surround, the back with a woven-hair glazed panel and inscribed 'Isabella Smith 28th Jan. 1841', steel pin, 28mm wide overall. 2.8g gross; and an early 20th century small oval amethyst single stone bar brooch, stamped '9ct', steel pin, 48mm long overall, 1.7g gross
An Art Deco gold, sapphire and rose diamond square cluster ring. Centred with a square step-cut sapphire within a rose diamond four stone surround, set in platinum-flashed gold on a D-section shank stamped 'Plat' & '18ct', size P+, 2g gross Condition Report: The mount in overall good condition for age, general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. Would benefit from a thorough clean. The centre stone not tested and with worn facet edges. The diamonds a little dull but may brighten up when the ring is cleaned (one diamond a later replacement)
Eminent Victorians – Nonconformists – Anti-Slavery Activists Collection of letters to and from members of the Read, Rawson, and Wilson families of Sheffield, 19th century-early 20th century Approx. 90 in total, all autograph unless otherwise stated, a few items mounted in 20th-century 4to blue half calf album, the rest loose, with quarter morocco solander box. Letters include:William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), American abolitionist and journalist, Birmingham, 1877, 3 pp., to Mary Anne Rawson, arranging to visit her at Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (‘It is rare indeed that friends are permitted to see each other, after so long a separation, especially if an ocean intervene … You speak of your advanced age. But I have kept step with you, and we shall meet relatively as to our years as we stood in 1840 …’), the letter mounted in album opposite an albumen print photographic portrait of Garrison;George B. Cheever (1807-1890), American abolitionist minister, 2 letters, 1886, both to ‘My dear Sir’, 3 pp. and 2 pp., recalling a visit to ‘your dear and honoured aunt’, i.e. Mary Anne Rawson (‘We can never forget her kindness, and the charm of her household circle’), mentioning abolition (‘With what exceeding pleasure you must all have looked back upon your own God-guided efforts in behalf of the millions of slaves, by God’s great mercy and Divine Providence as free as ourselves, and needing only to be educated and trained in the knowledge and grace of the blessed, gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’), enclosing photographic carte-de-visites of Cheever and his wife (both present), etc.;William Booth (1829-1912), general of the Salvation Army, to Mr Wilson, 1902, 2 pp.;Evangeline Booth (1865-1950), daughter of William and his successor as general of the Salvation Army, 1896, To Mr Wilson, typed letter signed, 1 p.;Agnes Weston (1840-1918), philanthropist to sailors, 1 p., 1895, to Mr Wilson, declining an invitation;Newman Hall (1816-1902), nonconformist divine, 2 letters, 1863 and undated, the first to Mary Anne Rawson, 6 pp., the second to ‘Dear Madam’, concerning an invitation to Sheffield from Mr and Mrs Wycliffe Wilson;W. E. Nightingale (1794-1874), father of Florence Nightingale, 1843, ‘My dear Sir, Many thanks to you and to Miss Read for your most liberal invitation to stay at Derwent Hall …’, 2 pp.;Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), Congregational minister and abolitionist, 2 letters, to Joseph Read, 1827, 1 p., and to Mrs Read, undated, 2 pp., on preaching and social engagements;Thomas Rawson Birks (1810-1883), Church of England clergyman, theologian and opponent of Darwinism, 9 letters, all to members of the Read family, 1820s-60s, on religion, family matters, etc. With 2 letters from Agnes and Anna Birks;Thomas Barnardo (1845-1905), philanthropist and founder of Dr Barnardo’s Homes, 1877, to Mary Anne Rawson, regarding her gift of a parcel of cloth jackets for Barnardo’s children;Richard Winter Hamilton (1794-1848), Congregational minister, 3 letters, all to Joseph Read, 1827, 1833 and undated, 1, 2, 1 pp.;and numerous others, including from John Pye Smith (Congregational minister and abolitionist), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (as Viscount Cranborne, 1936, on Foreign Office stationery), Thomas Binney (Congregational minister and abolitionist, to Mrs Rawson), Constance, Lady Battersea, George Rawson (hymn-writer, a bifolium of hymn lyrics), Goldwin Smith (historian), Nathaniel Micklem (Congregational minister and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford), J. Rendel Harris (biblical scholar, 2 letters), politicians, divines, etc. Together with a selection of relevant engraved portraits, cartes-de-visite and printed ephemera, and an ambrotype apparently showing Mary Anne Rawson seated among family members The John Rylands Library (University of Manchester) holds a related collection of papers bequeathed by a member of the Wilson family in 1923 and catalogued as the ‘Rawson/Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers’ (GB 133 Eng MSS 414-415, 741-744). Their description summarises the lives and activities of successive members of the Read, Rawson and Wilson families: ‘Mary Anne Rawson, née Read (1801-1887), of Wincobank Hall, Sheffield, was a noted campaigner against slavery. She was the daughter of Joseph Read (1774-1837) and his wife Elizabeth, both prominent Nonconformists and philanthropists. Joseph Read controlled the company which became the Sheffield Smelting Company. Mary Anne's sister, Elizabeth Read (1803-1851), was married to William Wilson (1800-1866), and was the mother of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914). Sometime in the late 1820s, Mary Anne Read married William B. Rawson, a banker of Nottingham. The marriage however was very short-lived, as William Rawson died sometime during the 1830s … Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914) was born in Nottingham, the son of William Wilson (1800-1866) and Elizabeth, née Read (1803-1851), Nonconformist radicals; his father was the chairperson of the Nottingham Anti-Slavery committee … In 1866, after the death of his father, Wilson joined his brother at the Sheffield Smelting Company. The success of the business enabled Wilson to pursue a career in politics, championing ultra-progressive Liberalism … Wilson's son, Alexander Cowan Wilson (1866-1955), was a well-known Quaker philanthropist. Alexander Wilson moved to Manchester in 1916 where he continued in the family tradition of campaigning against slavery and conscription’.Provenance: By descent to David R. Wilson (1926-2020), bookseller and ornithologist (obituary: British Birds, vol. 113, issue 9, pp 560–561).
Stevenson, Robert Louis ALS and a small archive autograph letter signed 'Robert Louis Stevenson', no date but July 1874, addressed Yacht Heron, Oban, written on both sides of one leaf, 20 x 12.5cm, on Robert Louis Stevenson's monogrammed notepaper, to "My dear Colvin", writing that he is well, "I am better; but I am not strong yet", discussing the weather and a near-capsize that morning in Oban, then writing: "I like the life amazingly and feel like if I could live thus for three months, I might have a chance of pulling through: however they are after me at home..."; with an accompanying letter from J. Cathcart White sending the letter to Allan Stevenson on Robert Louis Stevenson's death;Photograph. Robert Louis Stevenson and family on the porch at their home, Vailima, in Samoa, May 1892, albumen print, 23 x 18.5cm, showing Stevenson, his wife (Fanny), mother, stepchildren and step-grandchildren with several local people;Osbourne, Lloyd [Robert Louis Stevenson's stepson] Autograph note, signed, dated 14th July 1896, Vailima, Samoa, addressed to Messrs D. and A. Stevenson, Gentlemen, discussing the return to them of some of Robert Louis Stevenson's papers, single folded sheet, 27 x 22cm, tears;Strong, Isobel [Robert Louis Stevenson's stepdaughter] Autograph letter, signed, undated, Honolulu, Hawaii, addressed to David Stevenson Esq.: "Dear Sir, my mother begs me to write and tell you that we return to Samoa in the latter part of April. As soon as we get home we will collect all the papers, diaries etc. about Mr . Stevenson's forefathers and send them to you..."and several other letters sent by family members and well-wishers, including Sidney Colvin, in the months and years following Robert Louis Stevenson's death(quantity) FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS
Natural History. [Yellowback] Mayhew (Edward), Dogs: their management, first edition?, London: George Routledge and Son, n.d. [c.1858-65], original pictorial binding, 8vo, Lyell (Sir Charles), Elements of Geology, sixth edition, London: John Murray, 1865, original publisher's boards, repaired, 8vo, Cooke (Mordecai Cubitt), British Fungi, fifth edition, London: W.H. Allen, 1884, colour plates, original cloth, 8vo, idem, Rust, Smut, Mildew, & Mould: An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi, fourth edition, London: Hardwicke and Bogue, 1878, colour plates, original cloth, 8vo, [Horticulture] Nicholson (George, editor), The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, four-volume set, London: L. Upcott Gill, n.d. [c. 1880], illustrated, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, 4to, Step (Edward), Wild Flowers: Month-by-Month, two-volume set, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1905, colour & b/w plates, contemporary three-quarter morocco over cloth, gilt, 8vo, further botany, Bouverie's Horse Buyer's Guide, fourth edition, 1874, original binding, 16mo, Robinson's New Family Herbal, n.d., original cloth, two works by Charles Roberts, etc., (17)
A SELECTION OF OCCSIONAL FURNITURE, to include two trolleys, a torchere stand, a four tier corner what not, a Bevan Funnell nest of two tables, an oak side table, a white drop leaf table, a chess table and set of pine folding step ladders (condition report: all with wear and tear, such as surface marks, scuffs, stains, rickety frames, other imperfections) (9)
A late 20th century hessonite garnet dress ring, unmarked gold set with 9ct rectangular step-cut garnet, garnet weight calculated from measurements: 10.72 x 9.66 x 9.06mm, setting height 17.1mm, size M, 5.7gGarnet has 1 small table facet edge chip and light facet edge nibbles but a strong orange saturation, with small internal crystal inclusions, shank has a small join mark on backing, marks rubbed

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