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Lot 8
M.W. Huggins (British 1927-) Still life with oranges, signed, oil on canvas.49cm x 79cm (19.25in x 31.25in)Footnote:Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.Condition report:The painting is in good, original condition. There is craquelure and cracking across the surface of the painting with some resultant small flecks of paint loss. The canvas is slightly slack. The painting is ornately framed but not glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.
Lot 166
Follower of Jan Weenix (Dutch 1640-1719) Still life with dead game Oil on canvas 127 x 131cm (50 x 51½ in.) Condition Report: Varnish is dirty and UV showing signs of restoration and retouching underneath- but difficult to make out owing to surface dirt. Visible surface craquelure throughout- some surface marks which may require further attention, please contact us for further images Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 21
λ Evan Charlton (1904-1984) Still life with flowers and skull, Oil and tempera on board Apparently unsigned 50 x 60cm (19½ x 23½ in.) Authenticated to reverse by Felicity Charlton, the artist's widow. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs Guri Scotford and by family descent Condition Report: unglazed- slightly dirty- some paint loss to upper margin- possibly from contact rubbing with frame Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 448
David Young Cameron (1865-1945) `Scottish artist. A signed print of Rannoch with original Walkers Galleries label to rear.W:44cm x H:32.5cm Print dimensions. Together with a watercolour signed AFC Merrill, 1962, Flowers in a vase, A botanical pastel, A print of Early Spring in Scotland J McIntosh Patrick and a Still life with flowers print
Lot 425
ENGLISH SCHOOL “Gypsy woman with child and horses on a roadway”, oil on board, unsigned, image size approx 20 cm x 29 cm, together with EDWARD SHERARD KENNEDY (1863-1895) “Apples and grapes on a stone ledge”, a still life study, watercolour, bears artist’s blind stamp within an oval “ESK” (faded), size including frame approx 43 cm x 50 cm
Lot 340
THE SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD PISTOL AN IMPORTANT FINE EARLY 19TH CENTURY SILVER MOUNTED STEEL SCOTTISH signed McLeod, post 1822the scroll butt pistol of an 18th century style, with flintlock and rainproof pan, stock, lock and barrel of decorated steel with trellis patterns and thistles, silver bar inlays and the silver butt escutcheons engraved with the crest of Scott of Abbotsford to one side and coat of arms with motto WATCH WEEL to the other, the scroll butt with silver button threaded pricker to match the silver ball trigger, with belt hook and steel ramrod below the flared muzzle(34cm long)Footnote: Heraldry: The escutcheons to butt engraved with the armorial and crest (to opposing sides) for the post-1822 arms of Scott of Abbotsford Note: This pistol seems to be tantalisingly connected to a pair of pistols by the same maker which are still within the collection of Sir Walter Scott and on display at Abbotsford. The pistols on display are not only by the same maker but bare a similar armorial engraving. More remarkably the pistols are recorded in correspondence between Scott and McLeod being commissioned by him for King George IV’s visit to Scotland in 1822. Scott’s personal interest in Scottish history and life is well recorded and his collection of historical arms and armour is famous, much of which still decorates his remarkable Borders home, Abbotsford. Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh’s Old Town of Edinburgh in 1771. His father was a successful lawyer, his mother the daughter of a Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University. After suffering polio in 1773, was sent to his grandfather's farm at Sandyknowe in Roxburghshire, living here until 1775, and listening to stories from his grandfather and others, the young Scott developed his life-long love of Border history and folklore. On returning to Edinburgh, he attended the High School and Edinburgh University. In 1792, he became an Advocate, and was appointed Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire in 1799. This allowed him to travel across Scotland in search of history and material to use in his poetry and fiction, eventually publishing his monumental Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders in 1802. It was in the Borders that Scott was happiest. It was there that he wrote the great epic poems The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion and Lady of the Lake between 1804 and 1810. With his fame, fortune and family growing, Scott turned to creating Abbotsford, which was completed in 1824. Sir Walter Scott is one of the most successful authors of all time and is the second-most quoted writer in the Oxford English Dictionary after William Shakespeare. Scott’s creativity, wit and understanding of human nature remain on display in his works, but it is only through visiting Abbotsford that one can truly understand the man himself. Perhaps the culmination of his fame and influence was as the organiser of the Royal visit to Edinburgh of King George IV . This not only impacted early 19th century Scotland but had a long lasting affect bringing back into fashion the wearing of full highland dress, broad swords dirks and highland belt pistols of the type offered here.
Lot 118
David Nahmac beach scene with distant sailing boat under dark skies, signed, oils on canvas framed 40 x 50 cm approx. Together with an indistinctly signed still life study in oils on canvas, framed 51 x 61 cm approx, as well as Perry Humber 'Bluebells at Stackpole Woods', oils on board framed, signed 20 x 42 cm approx. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT) All three appear good with no obvious damaged noted.
Lot 11
An Inter-War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain the Honourable I. J. L. Hay, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, whose account of his capture at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, and subsequent imprisonment, was published in the Daily Telegraph after his release in 1918 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1927; 1914 Star, with clasp (2.Lieut: Hon: I. J. L. Hay. 5/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Hon. I. J. L. Hay); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Comdt. The Hon. Ivan Hay.) mounted as worn, traces of lacquer, about very fine (7) £800-£1,200 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1932: Captain the Honourable Ivan Josslyn Lumley Hay, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. Captain The Honourable Ivan Josslyn Lumley Hay, third and youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Gore Hay, 20th Earl of Errol and Mary Caroline L’Estrange, was born in October 1884 in Sligo, Ireland. He served as Page of Honour to Queen Victoria, 1896-1901, and King Edward VII, 1901, and was educated at Eton, 1898-1901, before being commissioned into the 5th Lancers on 12 June 1901. Mobilised from the Special Reserve on the outbreak of the Great War, Second Lieutenant Hay served with the 5th Lancers on the Western Front from 17 August 1914 and was captured during the retreat near Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, an event which was noted in the regimental history: ‘August 25th. -... The situation became difficult; the whole of the German efforts were concentrated on the British Corps, the left of which was threatened; and on the night of the 25th-26th, the 1st British Corps was attacked in its quarters between Landrecies and Le Cateau. The Coldstream Guards were brought up by motor-car during the night to protect headquarters; the fighting was of extreme violence, but the morale of the British was not lowered. The retreat was carried on methodically, under the direction of Sir Douglas Haig, and the rear-guard retired fighting, the men sleeping little or not at all, and singing, as the marched, such songs as “Annie Laurie” or “Hold your hand out naughty boy.” This day the Hon. I. J. L. Hay, of the Special Reserve of the 5th Lancers, and who had served since the Regiment had embarked at Dublin, was cut off and taken prisoner, where he remained for practically the remainder of the war.’ (The History of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers by Colonel J. R. Harvey, D.S.O. refers) In a letter written to his father, dated 22 June 1918 (later published in the Daily Telegraph), Hay confirms much concerning the systematic brutality shown towards prisoners by the Germans during the early period of the war. The letter begins by describing how he was marched into the town of Le Cateau together with around 60 French prisoners where they were halted in the main street and made to stand with their backs to the houses. Here, two rows of German soldiers guarded them with bayonets held against their stomachs. The letter continues: ‘Two hours later, after the British had retired, a Hun under-officer pricked a French officer with his bayonet. The Frenchman grasped the bayonet to protect himself, whereupon the N.C.O. shrieked, “prisoners resist, Fire!” The guard, who, as I say, were practically touching us, let off four rounds rapid. About eleven Frenchmen were killed and about ten seriously wounded. The poor French officer dropped, riddled with bullets, and after he was on the ground dead, the Huns near him again and again plunged their bayonets into his corpse. Next to me were the only four English prisoners. A Corporal of Horse of the 1st Life Guards fell, luckily for him, at the first shot, hit only in the cheek. A Corporal of the second shared the same fate, shot in the neck. Two Hussars (19th, I think) fell. One got all four bullets in the stomach, the other three in the arms, one in the stomach. Then a German sergeant-major came up and said, “As it is only the French who have mutinied, do not shoot the remaining Englander (me) but shoot all the French, curse them!” The rifle of the front-rank Hun, which was actually touching me, and jammed, and the rear-rank man, a vindictive little brute, who kept shouting “Englander! Schweinhund!”, let his piece off four times in my face, but managed to miss me entirely, though by the four marks against the door against which I was standing two bullets must have passed a hair’s breadth on each side of my face. Luckily I remembered enough German to thrust myself in between the remaining French and the firing party and say to the Hun sergeant-major “you cannot murder prisoners in cold blood. At least send for an officer first.” To my astonishment he agreed, and did so. The officer, on arrival, said humanely, “Enough have been killed; take the swine to the church”. After three days we were marched to Mons. There were five officers of various (three of them wounded) and 180 men of all regiments, and about 800 French. I shall not forget that march. All three days we were continually passing German troops. The cavalry prodded us with their lancers, the artillery and engineers struck at us with their whips, and the tired infantry cursed us, and spat on our clothes as we passed.’ Hay’s letter goes on to describe the remainder of his time in captivity, highlighting further mistreatment in a succession of prison camps: Mons - ‘nine men in a stifling room the size of a London bathroom’; Torgau-am-Elbe - ‘freezing with a diet of coffee and soup’; Burg - ‘sharing with the Russians who were damn good fellows’ and then transferred to a criminal jail with 39 British officers as a reprisal for the treatment of German submarine crews in England; Crefeld - ‘decent commandant, old Hussar officer. Allowed to do exactly as we liked’; Schwarnstadt - ‘Leaky wooden huts, infested with vermin. Conditions intolerable. Beaten from the lager to station, carrying our own baggage, by a special “strafe battalion” sent for the purpose’; Holzminden - ‘Worst of all. If lucky one meal a day, after standing hours in a cooking queue. Knocked out of bed with butts of rifles at dawn most morning. Commandant frequently drunk, and when drunk used to make sentries and guard fire volleys through windows. God knows why nobody was hit.’ In 1918, whilst still in captivity, Hay’s promotions to Lieutenant and Captain were gazetted and ante-dated to 12 June 1914 and 6 August 1917 respectively. He was repatriated on 18 November 1918 and relinquished his commission on 7 December 1921, retaining the rank of Captain. After the war, Captain the Honourable I. J. L. Hay continued his career in the insurance industry and served as Commandant of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary for which services he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1932 King’s Birthday Honours.
Lot 51
Three: Private O. E. Scott, 1st Battalion, King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), who was killed in action during the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914 1914 Star (8438 Pte. O. E. Scott, Royal Lancaster Regiment); British War and Victory Medals (8438 Pte. O. E. Scott. R. Lanc. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Oliver Edward Scott was born in 1886 at Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk and attested for the Royal Lancaster Regiment at Blackburn in 1904. Following the outbreak of the Great War he embarked with the 1st Battalion on the S.S. Saturnia, arriving at Boulogne, France on 23 August 1914 as part of the 12th Brigade in General Snow’s 4th Division. The following day his battalion travelled by train to Bertry and then marched to Ligny. Here on 25 August they were ordered to advanced to Viesly but later withdrew during the night to positions just north-west of Ligny before coming under the command of II Corps just as General Smith-Dorrien decided to make his stand in the rolling country around Le Caudry, to the west of Le Cateau, declaring, ‘Very well, gentlemen, we will fight, and I will ask General Snow to act under me as well.’ Smith-Dorrien’s decision to fight this important delaying rearguard action may well have saved the British from destruction by the massive German onslaught during the general Allied retreat following sustained German successes at the four Battles of the Frontiers. The location, a long ridge running west-east with Le Cateau at its eastern end, was far from ideal. The ground was soft, so easy for the troops to dig in, but it lacked cover, was dominated by a German-held ridge to the north and, worst of all, both flanks were open. The west, held by 4th Division, was absolutely vulnerable to flanking movements designed to encircle II Corps. Snow now set up his Division HQ at the village of Haucourt with 12th Brigade furthest forward on the left near Esnes and Longsart and the Royal Lancaster Regiment on high ground across the Warnelle Brook. Here the King’s Own was caught forming up in the open at dawn and suffered some 400 casualties in a single two minute burst of heavy machine-gun and artillery fire. A clear picture of this disaster can be gathered from the following extract from a letter written by Captain G. R. L. Beaumont, B Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment: ‘We arrived at dawn by the Ligny Road to a spot where subsequently we suffered so heavily. The Battalion was ordered to form close Column facing the enemy’s direction of defences. Companies were dressed by the right, piled arms, and place equipment at their feet. There was a big stir because some of the arms were out of alignment and the equipment did not in all cases show a true line. A full 7 to 10 minutes was spent in adjusting these errors. The Brigade Commander rode up to the Commanding Officer and shortly afterwards we were told to remain where we were as breakfast would shortly be up. Everyone was very tired and hungry having had nothing to eat since dinner the day before. A remark was passed as regards our safety. My Company Commander replied that French Cavalry were out in front and the enemy could not possibly worry us for at least three hours. The picture of this period was as follows:- Three Companies of the Battalion in close Column, the fourth company just about to move up to the left with a view to continuing a line with the 20th who had just commenced to dig in. Just about this time some Cavalry (about a troop) rode within 500 yards of us, looked at us and trotted off again. I saw their uniform quite distinctly and mentioned that they were not Frenchmen. I was told not to talk nonsense and reminded that I was very young. It was early in the morning and nobody felt talkative, least of all my Company Commander? The Cavalry appeared again in the distance and brought up wheeled vehicles; this was all done very peaceably and exposed to full view. We could now hear the road transport on the cobbled road and a shout went up “Here’s the Cooker”. New life came to the men and Mess Tins were hurriedly sought. Then came the fire. The field we were in was a cornfield. The corn had been cut. Bullets were mostly about 4 feet high just hitting the top of the corn stalks. Temporary panic ensued. Some tried to reach the valley behind, others chewed the cud; of those who got up most were hit. The machine gun fire only lasted about two minutes and caused about 400 casualties. The 4th Company moving off to the left was caught in columns of fours. Shell fire now started and did considerable damage to the transport, the cooker being the first vehicle to go. A little Sealyham terrier that we had collected at Horsham St. Faith’s before embarking, and that the troops had jacketed with the Union Jack was killed whilst standing next to the Driver of a General Service Wagon. I mention this as I saw the same Driver the day after still carrying the dog, he was very upset when he was ordered to bury it. The Commanding Officer was killed by the first burst and the Second in Command rallied the Battalion; several of us taking up position to the right of the point where we had suffered so heavily. An attack was organised at once, we re-took our arms and got in most of the wounded. The others were left and taken prisoner later at Haucourt Church that night.’ Further rearguard actions continued under heavy shell-fire throughout the day. Into the evening around half of the King's Own, receiving no orders to retire, remained in position at Haucourt, covering the retirement of the artillery. As the German 13th Reserve Infantry Brigade infiltrated the village supported by extensive artillery fire, street fighting then continued into the night with the King’s Own being known to have delivered several bayonet charges. Private Scott was the Son of Robert and Charlotte Scott, of 61, Churchgate St., Bury St. Edmunds and husband of Emily Buzley (formerly Scott), of 52, Newnham St., Ely, Cambs. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.
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