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Lot 273
A SELECTION OF CHINA ORNAMENTS to include a Continental Porcelain vase, twin handled with mask reliefs and floral belly decoration, on stand with turquoise banded surround, 31cm high, a single gilded brass candlestick with porcelain column, 20cm high , another porcelain trinket dish with gilt brass mountings, an English earthenware Inkwell fashioned as a chamber stick with pink and yellow decoration, 6cm high, and another oval elevated dish, 19th century English, 5.5cm x 28.5cm
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Lot 64
[LAUDER HARRY]: (1870-1950) Scottish Entertainer. A contorted hazlenut walking stick, 35" in length, apparently previously belonging to and used by Lauder, featuring an inset circular metal disc (possibly a 1922 shilling) to the handle, engraved with Lauder's name. Lightly varnished and with some minor age wear, VG Provenance: The walking stick is accompanied by various typed statements etc., which state that it was presented by Lauder to the American entertainer Danny Kaye in 1949. Apparently Kaye later gave the stick to British comedian Roy Hudd who in turn donated it to a variety auction. Subsequently purchased by an unknown bidder it was then presented to the Merseyside Artists Association, of which Ken Dodd was President, and displayed in their club in Liverpool along with other Music Hall artifacts and ephemera. When the club closed, many of the contents were sold at auction by Cato Crane of Liverpool which is where the current vendor acquired the walking stick in October 2004. Harry Lauder frequently performed in full Scottish regalia, including a kilt, sporran, Tam o'Shanter and a twisted walking stick. Indeed the twisted shrub contorted hazelnut (Corylus avellana contorta) whose parent is the Common Hazel,is also frequently referred to as 'Harry Lauder's Walking Stick'.
Lot 349
AMIS KINGSLEY: (1922-1995) English Novelist. Small series of two T.Ls.S. and an A.L.S. (folding air mail stationery), Kingsley Amis, four pages, 8vo and 4to, London, 4th & 26th June and 12th August 1968, all to Charles Simmons of The New York Book Review. Amis states, in part, 'I should like to do Chesterton's Man Who Was Thursday - published 1908, so very untypical: it was the first book by a supposedly serious writer that really took hold of me.' (4th June 1968), 'It may be bad policy for writers to indulge editors by delivering early, but here I am doing it anyway…I didn't seem to manage to find a good place to stick in the date of the book's first publication. Perhaps you could work it into headline material….Could I bother you to send me a clipping of the Brophy piece? You've whetted my hostile curiosity.' (26th June 1968), 'Oh, well. I asked for it. But you know how horrible it is to write at a specified length and then have to do revisions - so I will meet you not much nearer than half way. 1. What was I like when I first read The Man Who Was Thursday? I think what little we need of this is already implied sufficiently. 2. How old was I, and what else was I reading? The age is pretty clearly there (14 or under), and I think the one reference to other books (about the Devil) is enough….5. I think you're quite right about the Chesterton-Fleming tie up. So, after the mention of Ian Fleming, insert a new sentence: “For me, at any rate, this is much more than a coincidence. James Bond and Gabriel Syme differ in innumerable ways, but they share a quality of romance, of colour and chivalry, almost of myth, that attracts me a lot more deeply than anything about the down-to-earth and up-to-the-minute heroes of writers like Len Deighton and John Le Carre.” (I see that's two sentences, but you see what I mean.)…' (12th August 1968). Some very light age wear and minor area of paper loss to the upper left corner of one letter, not affecting the text or signature, generally VG, 3 Amis became associated with the James Bond novels, which he admired greatly, in the late 1960s when he began writing critical works connected with Ian Fleming's fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or un-credited. In 1965 he had written the popular The James Bond Dossier under his own name and in 1968, the same year as the present letters, wrote Colonel Sun under the pseudonym Robert Markham.
Lot 503
A late Victorian silver incense stick case, of cylindrical form with spiral embossed decoration, having one end to hold incense sticks, the other end as a match holder with strike, with integral rest and pipe to hold sticks while they burn, each end hinged, maker Samuel Jacob, London 1896, length 21cm
Lot 1141
Three similar meat dishes, “Chinese Pagoda” pattern, also known as Colandine, by the South Wales Pottery, was also a standard Bovey Tracey Pottery Co. line. Ill FOB 107/11., diameter 46.5 cm, “Whampoa” pattern meat dish by Llanelly, c1850,(After the Opium War (1839-42), Whampoa, along with Canton, was then a treaty port where ships carrying tea, silk, porcelain and ivories lay at anchor before the long voyage to Britain) width 44.5cm, and a Samuel Moore & Co of Wear Pottery, Southwick, Durham, dish, c1850, bearing the makers mark and title TA-KOO SM & Co., showing a man carrying two exotic birds on a stick, 46.5cm.
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