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Lot 1573
Good Collection of Pottery & Crested Ware, including Morecambe, Barrow-in-furness, Preston, Kendal, Lancaster, Ingleton, Blackpool, Douglas, etc.; Pin cushion in form of a hat, opens to store thimbles; Toby Jug; Oriental ware; Dressing Table Set and other items + Good Box of Collectibles comprising brass bed warmer with wood handle; black Parasol; shooting stick with seat; RHO Hills foot warmer; pair of bellows; model Coronation Coach & Horses; and a collection of boxed flatware, including faux amber handle butter knives, boxed teaspoons, etc.
Lot 253
A Hampshire Regiment metal mounted swagger stick, with regimental crest to top and brass tip end, 70cm, together with another short stick with metal terminal and removable tip revealing a screw thread, 60cm a Dring & Fage measuring stick 92cm and a framed modern replica message from General Montgomery commander in Chief of 21 Army, on the eve of D Day, 31cm
Lot 68
* Pioneer Aviation. An archive of letters, cards and photographs relating to the pioneering aviation designer and inventor John William Dunne (1875-1949), circa 1897-1918, consisting of approximately 16 letters and cards, and 19 various photographs, including (in chronological order): and others including two autograph letters by May Dunne to Mr Egerton on Parsonage Farm, Minster, Isle of Sheppey headed paper, a framed large format photograph of Dunne in his flying machine, circa 1913, several photographic portraits of J.W. Dunne, and three original aviation magazines (Flight, number 130, June 24, 1911, featuring an article on the Dunne monoplane, and 2 copies of Aeronautics, number 306, August 28, 1919, with an article on John William Dunne in the series Pioneers of British Aviation), all original printed wrappers, stapled as issued, together with J.W. Dunne’s walking stick with silver clasp inscribed with his nameQty: (small box)NOTESJohn William Dunne (1875-1949) was a highly important figure in the earliest years of British attempts at flight. Around 1900, in discussion with the author and fellow aviation enthusiast H.G. Wells, Dunne studied the problems of stability and control of an airborne machine. Between 1902 and 1904 Dunne produced several test models, and in 1906 he began to develop a tail-less, swept-wing arrowhead configuration which was to become his trademark. That same year, he was assigned to the newly established Air Balloon Factory in Farnborough, where the D1 glider was built. It was secretly tested at Blair Atholl in the Scottish Highlands, although it was not at that time successful. Dunne left the Balloon Factory in 1909, and with financial investment from Lord Tullibardine of Blair Atholl, formed the Blair Atholl Aeroplane Syndicate, taking up hangar space on the Royal Aero Club’s new flying ground at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey. A larger flying machine, constructed by Short Brothers and weighing almost 2000lbs with a 50 h.p. Green engine, was tested at Eastchurch successfully on 20th December 1910 and officially observed by Orville Wright and Griffith Brewer. In 1913 the Nieuport Company made an order for the version of the D.8 biplane (with Gnome engine), that the syndicate had built for Major A.D. Carden, Royal Flying Corps (in which he obtained his Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate in June 1912). In August 1913, Commandant Felix piloted the D.8, now fitted with an 80 h.p. Gnome engine, across the English Channel to Villacoublay, near Paris, and gave further demonstration flights in France to great acclaim. Dunne later became even better known as the author of An Experiment With Time (published in 1934), in which he claimed that in dreams we are able to foresee future personal experiences, a notion which, although widely discredited today, influenced various writers including H.G. Wells, J.B. Priestley, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Graham Greene, Nabakov and others.
Lot 58
A fine second half of the 18th century brass-mounted mahogany stick barometer with hygrometer and thermometerGeorge Adams, No.60 Fleet Street, London. Instrument Maker to his MajestyThe arched case with adjustable wheatear hygrometer set above a hinged glazed hood door over a long trunk terminating in a hemispherical cistern cover, the centre of the trunk inset with an imposing mercury thermometer behind a hinged glazed door, the flat bulb measuring 3 inches in length and registering against a scale marked from 25 to 95 degrees, the lower numerals bracketed as 'WINTER', the upper bracketed as 'SUMMER', the signed silvered dial above reading from 28-31 inches and with manual vernier scale, with three weather predictions. 108cms (42 1/2ins) high (1)Footnotes:George Adams was arguably the best known and respected maker of scientific instruments in the latter half of the 18th century. King George III appointed Adams to be his Mathematical Instrument Maker in 1760, and about 20% of the Royal Collection emanated from his Fleet Street workshop. The firm passed to George's son, George Junior and then to Dudley. Perhaps his most iconic instrument is the silver 'New Universal' microscope formed in solid silver now on display at the Science Museum, dating to about the same time as the current lot, 1763.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 60
A very rare first half of the 19th century Scottish burr maple bow-fronted stick barometer with sliding bar for relative day recordingsAdie & Son, EdinburghThe Biedermeier-style case with rectangular cornice over a brass plaque with sliding bar to alternately reveal 'Yesterday' or 'Today', the trunk with two ivory recording knobs and terminating in a plinth cistern cover with inset ivory float for zero-ing purposes, the signed silvered dial with twin scales and verniers reading from 26 to 31 inches. 109cms (42 1/2ins) high (1)Footnotes:The Adie family supplied laboratories and the thriving scientific community in Scotland in the first half of the 19th century with the best instruments that money could buy. Such was Alexander Adie's standing in the scientific community, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819. He took his son John into partnership in 1835 while based at 58 Princes Street. After 9 years they moved just four doors along the road. In 1857 Richard Adie took over the firm, although he continued to trade under the earlier name. In 1877 the firm moved to 37 Hanover Street. Their work is always of the highest quality. Alexander is probably best known for his invention of the sympiesometer in 1818.The pared-down elegance and use of light burr maple in the current lot is an echo of the Biedermeier style prevalent in Europe in the 1820-40 period, proving that the firm were well aware of the latest European fashions.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 61
A good late 18th century mahogany stick barometer with hygrometer and thermometerBenjamin Martin, LondonThe arched case surmounted by an engraved hygrometer scale read via a fancy blued steel hand, over carved decoration and canted front angles, the long trunk with visible tube framed by a moulded edge terminating in a hemispherical cistern cover, the signed silvered dial mounted with a mercury thermometer and manual vernier reading against a 27 to 31 inch scale, with seven weather predictions. 97cms (38ins) high (1)Footnotes:Benjamin Martin described this type of barometer as a 'Triple Weather Glass' or 'Aerometrum Magnum'. Perhaps it's finest attribute is the improved hygrometer which works by means of an extended gut line mounted at the rear of the case, one end is fixed and the other is held under tension via a spring loaded rack and pinion set-up. Martin (1704-1782) was a skilled scientific instrument maker, after establishing a school in Chichester during his late twenties, from 1738 onwards he went on to present lectures and demonstrations on experimental philosophy to audiences in Reading, Bristol, Bath and London. From 1756 he returned to London where he worked as an optician and made scientific instruments and globes. He was also an author covering topics such as natural philosophy, theology, mathematics, language and geography. On 14th January 1782, Joshua Lover Martin applied for a patent which was to produce a revolution in manufactuing: it was for the process of tude-drawing. Unfortunately by the time the patent was granted on 28th March, his father Benjamin, whose invention it was, had died - bankrupt.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 317
A 19th Century African Rhinoceros Horn Axe, the slender slightly curved and tapering haft, with hand forged steel fan shape blade incised with bands of crosses, the tapered tang inserted into the ovoid head, 66.5cm, approximately 320gm excluding bladeProvenance: - Hodnet Hall, Hodnet, Shropshire CONDITION REPORT: Rust pitting to blade, with small nicks to the edge. Fine splits to the haft, with areas where the hairs stick out.
Lot 345
A Small Collection of Early 20th Century Zulu/Nguni Beadwork, including a Cache-sexe with double rolled belt set with a modesty panel and fringe and worked in white, blue, red, pink and ecru glass beads, a modesty panel worked with bands of ecru, white and red glass beads, five various necklaces, an anklet and two belts; a Zulu Knobkerrie, of lignum vitae, with small globular head and cylindrical haft; a Zulu Pointing Stick, with slightly offset triangular section head (12)
Lot 182
A First World War Burnley Special Constable's Mahogany Truncheon, transferred with crowned GR cypher, the Coat of Arms of Burnley, SPECIAL CONSTABLE, 1914-1919, in colours and gilt, with ribbed grip, the pommel stamped HIATT & CO BIRMINGHAM, 38.5cm; an Ebonised Wood Swagger Stick, with silver pommel to the Church Lads Brigade, hallmarks for Birmingham 1906 (2) CONDITION REPORT: . Transfer of coat of arms is slightly scuffed, otherwise good. Pommel has a slice cut through to the underside.2 - Silver pommel is dented.
Lot 215
A Quantity of German Third Reich Medals, Badges, Tinnies and Stick Pins, including a boxed Faithful Service Decoration for 25 years, a War Merit Cross with Swords (2nd class), a Defence Medal, a Winter Campaign in Russia 1941-42 medal, a BDM gold award for rowing, four copy shields and other copy badges etc
Lot 46
* George V (King of Great Britain & his two sons Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Albert, the Duke of York). A group portrait of the 'Three Kings' in full Royal Air Force uniform, taken by Richard Williams of the R.A.F. (1934-48), an original celluloid film negative, showing the King and Princes facing the camera standing in a row, the Duke of York with hands clasped in front, King George V with his left hand holding a walking stick, and the Prince of Wales with both arms by his side, 24 x 19 cm, together with 8 modern prints of similar size produced from the negative, plus 2 press photos of Queen Elizabeth II with Fred Mulley MP, 1977, two modern reprints of Bassano photographs of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, plus Beaton (Cecil, 1904-1980). Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, c. 1958, gelatin silver print plus duplicate, 24.5 x 20 cm, one in an aperture mountQty: (15)NOTESBelieved to be only the second known photograph of all three Kings together it was evidently taken on the same occasion and within a few moments of the other photograph and from a near-identical view point and distance. The only notable differences are that the Prince of Wales' hands are unclasped here and there is no visible sunlight or shadow.
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