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Victoria Littna (1921-1991) Still Life of Roses in a jugsigned 'V.LITTNA' (lower right)oil on canvas laid to board49.5 x 39cm;

A group of 21 unframed works on paper, to include Phyllis Mahon, The Three Graces, pastel and watercolour, 59 x 42cm, and another of a nude; a harbour sketch by Paul Wyeth, charcoal and watercolour, 19.5 x 27.5cm; a similar unsigned study, 22 x 30cm; a still life of fish and shells, signed and dated 'MGC 70', watercolour and gouache, 35.5 x 51.5cm; a harbour scene, signed 'F E Starmer', watercolour, 29 x 40cm; an indistinctly signed collage, 76.5 x 57.5cm; two unsigned abstract landscape study, watercolour and gouache, 41.5 x 31cm the largest; two indistinctly signed still life studies with another by the same hand, watercolour, 34.5 x 53cm the largest; an unsigned nude pencil study, 27 x 20cm; Mary King, landscape, watercolour, 22 x 32cm; six unframed fashion drawings; and an indistinctly signed watercolour and gouache study of a bird's nest, 47 x 33cm

MARIA GEURTEN (1929-1998) A collection of hand painted ceramic tiles- still-life studies. Each tile approx. 15.5cm x 15.5cm (5)

HENRY CLIFFE (1919-1983): A framed and glazed mixed media on paper, still-life of plants. Signed botom right and dated '81. Image size 20cm x 27.5cm

FRANK HUMPHREY ALLEN (1897-1977): A framed impasto oil on board, still life study. Signed lower left. Image size 16.5cm x 23cm

VICTOR BURR (1908-1993) A framed oil on canvas still life, vase of white flowers, signed bottom right, Image size 34cm x 24.5cm

GERARD HEMSWORTH (1945-2021) Two unframed limited edition art prints, 'Still life with miracle' and 'till life with fish'. Each hand signed by the artist , one an artists proof dated 1980 and the other numbered from an edition of 60. Each measures 76.5cm x 57cm

A vibrant pastel on paper still life study, pot plant and book in oranges, green and blues, 41cm x 32cm, signed MS, framed and glazed

A circa Mid 20th Century cubist style oil on board, still life of a Tomato vine. Unsigned work. Image size 50cm x 60cm

MARIA GEURTEN (1929-1998) A framed acrylic on board, cubist style figure and still life. Unsigned, studio label verso. Image size 60cm x 89cm

MARIA GEURTEN (1929-1998) A framed acrylic on board, bird and still life. Signed bottom right, studio label verso. Image size 60cm x 89cm

20th century still life of roses, signed E M Wires, oil on canvas, 69.5cm x 54cm

BJ Burke, 20th century, still life of fruit, oil on board, 40x50cm

Elaine Halliwell, 'Poppies and Golden Leaves', still life of a vase of flowers, oil on board, 57x44cm

Rodney Fryer Russell (1918-1996), still life of roses in an ironstone jug, oil on canvas, 46x33cm

Rodney Fryer Russell (1918-1996), still life of tulips in a vase, oil on canvas, 41x31cm

Rodney Fryer Russell (1918-1996), still life of nasturtiums, oil on canvas, 41x50cm

Jill Bretherton - five acrylic still life flower pictures (one unframed some frames a/f)

Jenny Ross - oil still life basket and daisies, 29 x 39cm

An oil on board still life flowers, signed indistinctly, 34 x 26cm

A Victorian oil still life primroses and other spring flowers in the style of Oliver Clare, 22 x 27cm

John Emms (British, 1843-1912)The New Forest Buckhounds signed and dated 'JNO EMMS/1896' (lower left)oil on canvas76 x 109cm (30 x 43in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAnon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 1997, lot 126.Private collection, UK.The two younger men in the painting were local Hampshire residents from the Gulliver family – one was a whipper-in and the other was a kennel-man for the New Forest Buckhounds in 1895. Their descendants are said to still live in Hampshire.Emms particularly specialized in paintings of hounds at kennels and hunts in Hampshire, and the New Forest Hounds, perhaps the area's most well-known pack, were a frequent subject for the artist. A keen huntsman with a consummate interest in the sporting field, John Emms had the rare ability to give real life to his subjects. He was at his very best when painting dogs; with confident use of fluid brushstrokes, he gives weight and solidity to their different physical characteristics as well as their individual temperaments. He used to walk to the kennels every day and return to his studio with one hound after another as he undertook preliminary sketches in working up to the overall composition. Born in Blofield, Norfolk, the son of artist Henry William Emms, as a young man John Emms travelled to London where he worked as a studio assistant to Frederic, Lord Leighton. In the early 1860s, while Leighton was working on the fresco of The Wise and Foolish Virgins for St. Michael and All Angels Church in Lyndhurst, Emms – who is believed to have contributed the owl below the outstretched arms of the angel to right of centre – travelled with the great Pre-Raphaelite painter. This first visit to Hampshire would set the artist on the course that would ultimately define the rest of his career. By 1872 he returned to Lyndhurst part-time while maintaining a studio in London and settled there permanently around 1881. Apart from the great natural beauty of this area of the New Forest, Lyndhurst also offered all manner of different types of hunting - pursuits very close to the artist's heart. A good horseman, avid huntsman and convivial guest, Emms soon found himself in high demand for the horse, hound, and dog portraits he painted for members of the peerage and landed gentry throughout the British Isles. Emms cut a flamboyant figure, always dressed in a long black cloak and matching wide brimmed hat. He and his family led a somewhat bohemian life; when times were good, after selling a painting, he would take his wife Fanny, their three daughters and son up to London to stay in the best hotels and live life to the full. Highly respected during his lifetime, Emms left a great body of work.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Louis Eugène Lambert (French, 1825-1900)A Seated Terrier signed 'L.Eug.Lambert' (lower right)oil on canvas27 x 35.5cm (10 5/8 x 14in).Footnotes:Lambert was born in Paris in 1825. He was a pupil of Eugène Delacroix and learnt painting in the traditional style, copying the old masters at the Louvre. Whilst doing so, he was greatly inspired by the Flemish School, as his canine and cat paintings demonstrate. With a still life of birds exhibited in 1847, Lambert debuted at the Salon. In 1854, he moved to the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris, where he lived with other artists including Toulmouche. Lambert's great success at the Salon was in 1857 with Cat and Parakeet; thereafter, he gained a world-wide reputation as a painter of cats and dogs, and was dubbed the 'Raphael of Cats'. He received medals in 1865 and 1870.In 1874, Lambert was presented with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in the same year he painted Baron de Rothschild surrounded by his dogs.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

†&nbspAttributed to Kim Deuk-sin (金得臣, 1754-1822), Guo Ziyi's Banquet (Gwakbunyang Haengnakdo), a fine eight-panel screen, ink and colour on silk, with two seals of the artist, picture size 452cm x 130.5cmBIDDING FOR THIS LOT WILL BE BY TELEPHONE ONLY AND ONLINE BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS LOT PLEASE CONTACT DREWEATTS TO ARRANGE A TELEPHONE BID (+ 44 (0) 1635 553 553 | ytao@deweatts.com) 本件拍品仅接受电话竞价，网上竞价无效，如您有兴趣，请联系陶映雯博士（ytao@dreweatts.com） Provenance: From a private West Coast collection in the US and first purchased in Tokyo when the family ran the US occupying forces entertainment program in 1946. This eight-panel folding screen depicts a banquet honouring Guo Ziyi (697-781), a famed general of China's Tang dynasty (618-907). In addition to his individual achievements, he lived a long life until the age of 85 with a big family of eight sons and seven daughters who were all quite successful. Thus he became a paragon of Confucian loyalty and fortitude, and even deified in popular religion as a god of wealth and happiness. By the 17th century in China, Guo's reception had become a metaphor for auspicious birthday celebrations in general and was depicted in various media, e.g., blue and white porcelain, embroidery and lacquer, conveying a wish for longevity, wealth, and rank. See a set of twelve embroidered 'Celebration Scene' hanging scrolls, 17th century, at the Metropolitan Museum (accession number 2019.445.1a-I).As such, screen paintings illustrating similar themes delivered a didactic message and emphasised the Joseon admiration for and imitation of Ming imagery. Based on the Chinese prototypes, Joseon's paintings of Guo Ziyi were newly composed in the style of court painting in splendid dark colours, and were mainly produced as folding screens.Kim Deuk-sin (1754-1822) was the son of a royal court painter, Kim Eungri (金印履), and followed in his father's footsteps. He entered royal service as a member of the Dohwaseo (圖畵署), the official painters of the Joseon court. His work showed the influence of Kim Hong-do(金弘道), and excelled at landscape and genre paintings in particular. Scattered worldwide in major museums such as the Metropolitan Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Palace Museum of Korea, there are about 47 screens of the same topic remaining today but mostly painted by unknown artists. Only very few examples are signed and stamped. Compare with a similar screen depicting the banquet by Kim Deuk-sin at the National Museum of Korea (accession number Deoksu 1508). Guo is depicted in the present work at centre of the banquet in his honour, enjoying a dance performance surrounded by his large family in a palatial residence with flowering trees, cranes, deer, and birds. His sons and sons-in-law (八子七婿) standing by his sides are all dressed in official costumes, and his grandsons frolicking in front of him. Covered with auspicious clouds on top, the painting also features cranes, deer, and pine trees wishing for longevity, and peonies symbolising wealth and prosperity are in full bloom. Screens like this would have been used at celebrations and given as congratulatory gifts to distinguished individuals and royal families.김득신 곽분양행락도 8폭병풍朝鮮王朝 （傳）金得臣（1754-1822）《郭汾陽行樂圖八開屏風》設色絹本款識：兢齋，金得臣印 拍品來源：美國西海岸私人家族收藏，其於1946年於日本錄製美軍娛樂節目時購自東京  Condition Report: Overall the screen with some discoloration, fraying and losses, especially along edges and around hinged areas. Hinges partly restored but still with two broken. The back board with wear, losses, and scattered insect damage.multiple areas of silk loss to the painting commensurate with age, small areas of old patch repairs, the central scene depicting the dancer with some scattered black splashes to the lower area. One panel with two punctured areas to the back board.Please refer to detailed images for visual reference of the conditionCondition Report Disclaimer

Didier Chort (b. 1951) British 'Carrement fruits' modernist still life of fruit in a bowl, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 79 cm x 79 cm, within a blue painted frame with gilt corners, signed and titled to the back of the canvasLocation:

BALVENIE 10 YEAR OLD FOUNDERS RESERVE 1L AND BALVENIE 12 YEAR OLD DOUBLEWOOD 1L SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Both 43% ABV / 70cl Qty: 2 Balvenie is part of the Grant’s family and sits beside its sister distilleries, Glenfiddich and Kininvie, in the Speyside burgh of Dufftown. Established in 1892, just a few years after Glenfiddich, Balvenie has spent its life supplying the heart of the Grant’s blend. In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 100 years later, when Kininvie was built, that it was able to seriously market its own single malt. One of very few distilleries to retain its own malting floor, Balvenie is slightly unusual for a modern Speyside whisky in that it still uses a small percentage of peated malt to make its spirit. While the new make it produces is far from smoky, this small amount of peat gives it a distinctive character that has helped it become one of the best-selling malt whiskies in the world.

BALVENIE 1974 15 YEAR OLD SIGNATORY 75CL SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Distilled: 19/12/1974Matured in casks #18103-1813043% ABV / 75cl Balvenie is part of the Grant’s family and sits beside its sister distilleries, Glenfiddich and Kininvie, in the Speyside burgh of Dufftown. Established in 1892, just a few years after Glenfiddich, Balvenie has spent its life supplying the heart of the Grant’s blend. In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 100 years later, when Kininvie was built, that it was able to seriously market its own single malt.One of very few distilleries to retain its own malting floor, Balvenie is slightly unusual for a modern Speyside whisky in that it still uses a small percentage of peated malt to make its spirit. While the new make it produces is far from smoky, this small amount of peat gives it a distinctive character that has helped it become one of the best-selling malt whiskies in the world.

BALVENIE 1980 15 YEAR OLD SINGLE BARREL #14824 1L SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Distilled: 03/11/1980Bottled: 09/01/1998Cask #14824Bottle Number: 12150.4% ABV / 1L Balvenie is part of the Grant’s family and sits beside its sister distilleries, Glenfiddich and Kininvie, in the Speyside burgh of Dufftown. Established in 1892, just a few years after Glenfiddich, Balvenie has spent its life supplying the heart of the Grant’s blend. In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 100 years later, when Kininvie was built, that it was able to seriously market its own single malt.One of very few distilleries to retain its own malting floor, Balvenie is slightly unusual for a modern Speyside whisky in that it still uses a small percentage of peated malt to make its spirit. While the new make it produces is far from smoky, this small amount of peat gives it a distinctive character that has helped it become one of the best-selling malt whiskies in the world.

BALVENIE 10 YEAR OLD FOUNDER'S RESERVE AND TWO MINIATURES SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Balvenie 10 year Old Founder's Reserve40% ABV / 70clBalvenie 15 Year Old Single Barrel50.4% ABV / 5clBalvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood43% ABV / 5cl Qty: 3 Balvenie is part of the Grant’s family and sits beside its sister distilleries, Glenfiddich and Kininvie, in the Speyside burgh of Dufftown. Established in 1892, just a few years after Glenfiddich, Balvenie has spent its life supplying the heart of the Grant’s blend. In fact, it wasn’t until nearly 100 years later, when Kininvie was built, that it was able to seriously market its own single malt. One of very few distilleries to retain its own malting floor, Balvenie is slightly unusual for a modern Speyside whisky in that it still uses a small percentage of peated malt to make its spirit. While the new make it produces is far from smoky, this small amount of peat gives it a distinctive character that has helped it become one of the best-selling malt whiskies in the world.

A superb Second War 1944 Coastal Force ‘Dog Boat’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Leading Seaman D. Falk, Royal Navy: wounded and forced to abandon ship after an action with 11 enemy E-Boats off Le Havre on 9 July 1944, he swam 600 yards, despite shrapnel wounds to both his shoulder and thigh, to tow a life raft back to five of his crewmates; after 4 hours in the water they were rescued, but despite Falk’s efforts two of them died of their wounds later that night Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (A.B., D. Falk. C/JX. 366014); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 5 December 1944: ‘For great bravery in fire-fighting when a Light Craft was set on fire in action.’ Donald Falk served during the Second War manning the twin Vickers machine guns on Motor Torpedo Boat 434, for the duration of its life - from her completion in January 1943 as MGB 115 (later re-designated MTB 434, under the command of Sub-Lieutenant E. A. Archer) to 9 July 1944; on the latter date, as part of the 1st MTB Flotilla, Falk’s crew set off for Le Havre which was still in enemy hands. ‘On the way over the Skipper told us “E” Boats would be coming out “10 at a time”. We were only 2 MTBs. We reached Le Havre at 10:00 a.m. and we had not long to wait. Eleven “E” Boats came out and we immediately attacked them. Eleven to two we did not stand much chance. The gun fire was furious, and we were hit repeatedly. Our boat caught fire. The Skipper shouted “Abandon Ship”. Our other MTB picked up a few of our survivors from the sea. The “E” Boats were still firing on them and they had to leave five of us behind in the water’ (recipient’s account refers). Wounded by enemy shrapnel in the left thigh and shoulder, Falk was one of the five left behind in the sea. ‘After a short while we spotted a life raft in the water approximately 600 yards away. As I was the only swimmer out of the five of us I was the only one with a chance to swim for it. I had no life jacket - the last one had been taken by a non-swimmer. I reached the raft and managed to tow it back to the others - at least then they had something to cling to. We were in the sea for approximately 4 hours before we were picked up by a Canadian MTB’ (ibid). Arriving back in base the five sailors, four of whom were wounded, were put on board a hospital ship, although two would die that night as a result of their wounds. Falk survived and was awarded the D.S.M. for his gallantry during this action, prior to being discharged at the end of the War. Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Wounds and Hurts, and a hand-written personal account of the D.S.M. action. M.I.D. unconfirmed.

A fine and superbly well-documented Second War Hurricane and Spitfire fighter Ace’s ‘Western Desert’ D.F.C. group of eight awarded to Wing Commander J. M. Morgan, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He had distinguished himself pre-War by saving the life of a fellow trainee pilot from a crashed aircraft at No. 10 F.T.S. on 19 December 1938, and optimistically chased an enemy aircraft in a Hawker Henley during the height of the Battle of Britain whilst posted with No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit - Morgan followed it all the way to Swansea before ‘allowing’ a Spitfire to take over. Destined for more glamorous flying opportunities, Morgan was posted to the famous 92 (East India) Squadron at the end of 1941. Like the rest of the squadron’s pilots he was attached to 80 Squadron in the Western Desert, whilst his parent unit was eventually kitted out with aircraft. Having destroyed several enemy aircraft whilst flying Hurricanes, Morgan was now unleashed on 92’s newly acquired Spitfires. Morgan’s flying prowess quickly came to the fore, with him rapidly being appointed a Flight Commander, before receiving the ultimate accolade: the command of 92 Squadron in December 1942 - January 1943. He led from the front, ‘in the course of the fight [7 January 1943] I shot a 109G down in flames, crashing in the sea... and damaged a second. I finally had to fight two 109’s without ammunition for 30 minutes until my aircraft received hits from a head on attack which forced me to take evasive action - the 109’s then beat it home. This was a very shaky engagement with the bullets narrowly missing my head!!!’ Morgan subsequently commanded No. 234 Wing during the short-lived defence of the island of Kos, before being appointed to the command of 274 Squadron in October 1943. Now flying Spitfires as fighter bombers, Morgan led the Squadron into Italy and on many low-level attacks: ‘we attacked several Tiger tanks and armoured cars with front guns in the Capestrano area [24 January 1944]. I strafed a tank on a mountain pass which rolled over the side into the valley below...’ Morgan was shot down by anti-aircraft fire whilst carrying out a low-level strafe near Terni, 28 February 1944. In his words: ‘Shot down over the lines after gun fight - parachuted into captivity.’ He arrived to be interned at the infamous Stalag Luft III, Sagan, just three days after the ‘Great Escape’. Carrying on in service after the war, Morgan commanded 208 Squadron in the Canal Zone at the time of the fighting following the creation of the state of Israel Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1943’; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany, this loose; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type (1902-83), silver (John Milne Morgan, Bletchley. 19-12-38) with integral top riband bar, in John Pinches, London leather case of issue; Queen’s Messenger Badge, E.II.R., silver-gilt and enamel with pendant silver greyhound, badge reverse inscribed, ‘75’, hallmarks for London ‘1964’, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, Second War awards mounted as worn, generally good very fine (lot) (9) £10,000-£15,000 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 5 February 1943. The original recommendation states: ‘This Officer arrived in the Western Desert with No. 92 Squadron at the beginning of July when the Squadron was flying Hurricane aircraft of No. 80 Squadron. Since then he has shown great courage and considerable skill as a leader, both of a Flight and of the Squadron. In fact, a large proportion of the Squadron’s score in the Middle East has been due to this Officer’s determined leading of his Flight. He, personally, has destroyed 5 enemy aircraft, probably destroyed 1 more and damaged 4 others. By his courage, qualities of leadership and his personal example, he has made his Flight into an efficient fighting unit.’ Society for the Protection of Life from Fire: Case No. 17,324: Flight Lieutenant John Milne Morgan, Royal Air Force: Silver medal An account of the circumstances is given in Air Council Letter, dated 31 March 1939, thus: 'To Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 (Training Group), RAF Grantham, Lincs. Sir, With reference to your letter dated 7th February 1939 (No. 23G735/102/P(20)), I am commanded by the Air Council to inform you that they have noted with satisfaction the gallantry and perseverance displayed by Acting Pilot Officer J M Morgan in attempting to rescue Acting Pilot Officer W A Jenns following an aircraft accident at Bletchley on 19th December 1938. The council have caused a suitable note to be made in Acting Pilot Officer Morgan's record and I am to request that the officer may be informed accordingly'. The award was then noted in the SPLF Letter, dated 17 August 1939, thus: ‘To The Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry, S7D, Adastral House, Kingsway, London, WC2. Re: Acting Pilot Officer J M Morgan in Aeroplane crash at Bletchley, near Tern Hill - 19th December 1938. The circumstances of this case have been reported to us and the Trustees have decided to make an award of the Society's Silver Medal to Acting Pilot Officer J M Morgan. At the request of the Group Captain, No. 10 Flying Training School, Market Drayton, I am forwarding the medal to you under separate cover today. We should be greatly obliged if you would advise us of its safe receipt and be so good as to give such instructions as may commend themselves to you for its presentation to the recipient'. Both letter and medal were forwarded for conferral, the details being recorded in RAF correspondence thus: ‘HQ, No. 22 Group, RAF letter - 24 August 1939. To No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit - Re: Pilot Officer J M Morgan. The attached copy of a letter received from the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire is forwarded together with the Silver Medal referred to therein, and it is requested that you will arrange for this award to be presented to the above named officer in a suitable manner, details of the presentation being notified to this Headquarters in due course.’ John Milne Morgan was a native of Balham, London, and was born in 1916. He was educated at Bonneville Road School, Clapham Park and the Henry Thornton School, Clapham Common. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1935, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in 1938. Morgan carried out his initial pilot training at No. 8 E.F.T.S., Reading and No. 10 F.T.S., Tern Hill - being stationed at the latter when he saved the life of Pilot Officer W. A. Jenns when Hart K5795 crashed on 19 December 1938. He was posted as a pilot to No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit, Farnborough in March 1939, and was still serving with the unit when was war was declared in September of the same year. Morgan carried on serving with the unit with its various moves to Carew Cheriton and Cleave, and was doubtless frustrated by his posting as the Battle of Britain evolved. His limited aircraft - the Hawker Henley - did not stop him from having an optimistic go at an enemy aircraft on 6 September 1940: ‘Z.C. 6000. Spotted enemy aircraft 1,000ft below chased to Swansea, Spitfire took over.’ (Log Book refers). Despite such incidences as above, and the ‘ticker tape’ entitlement slip which shows Morgan as entitled to the Battle of Britain clasp, there is no other evidence to suggest that he qualified for the clasp. However, that did not preclude him from other sightings and scrapes with enemy aircraft during the...

A Sea Gallantry Medal group of six awarded to Leading Boatman H. O. Welch, H.M. Coast Guard Sea Gallantry Medal, E.VII.R., small 2nd issue, silver (Henry Oscar Welch, “Bessie Arnold” 28th December 1908) suspension tightened/refitted; British War Medal 1914-20 (162859 H. O. Welch, Lg. Btn., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (162859 H. O. Welch, Boatn., H.M. Coast Guard); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Life Saving Medal, 40mm, bronze, the obverse featuring a lifeboat being rowed towards a sailing ship in distress in high seas; the reverse inscribed (name engraved) ‘To H. O. Welch, he risked his own to save another’s life’; Marine Society Reward of Merit, silver, the reverse inscribed, ‘Henry Oscar Welch, 5th June 1902’, mounted for court-style display, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £700-£900 --- Henry Oscar Welch was born in Chigwell, Essex on 8 May 1876. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class from the training ship Warspite on 13 September 1891 and attained the rank of Petty Officer 2nd Class in May 1903. In March 1904 he transferred to the Coastguard as a Boatman, being advanced to Leading Boatman in January 1912. He served at various Scottish stations until he was demobilised in July 1919. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in May 1905. As a Boatman of the Coastguard at Kildonan, Welch was awarded one of 74 E.VII.R. small second type silver Sea Gallantry Medals for an incident on 28 December 1908. The official citation states: ‘The Bessie Arnold, of Whitehaven, stranded 9 miles from the Life Saving Apparatus Station at Kildonan. A rocket was fired but no one on board secured the line. A body was seen among the wreckage and Welch at great risk entered the surf and brought it ashore, where life was found to be extinct. The other three of the crew were also drowned.’ (taken from BT261/5). The Bessie Arnold had left Millom bound for Glasgow on 26 December 1908. She stranded in a severe gale at Sliddery, on the Isle of Arran. The James Stevens No.2, the lifeboat based at Campeltown was launched and approaching the ship, saw that the crew were still aboard. But as the lifeboat drew near she was thrown onto the schooner’s deck and holed and one of her crew was cast into the raging sea. Remarkably the lifeboatman was rescued and the damaged ship made its way back to Campeltown whilst the coastguardmen on shore began their rescue efforts. Sold with copied service papers and other research.

An inter-War Sea Gallantry Medal and Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society pair awarded to Chief Officer S. C. S. Taws, Mercantile Marine, who died on 3 March 1942 following the torpedoing and sinking of the S.S. City of Manchester off Java Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., bronze (Stephen Corner Stephenson Taws "Selma Creaser" 30th October. 1927) in fitted case of issue; Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, silver (To Stephen C. S. Taws.. 2nd Off. S/S "City of Lahore." For Gallant Service. 30/10/27.) mounted on a black riband with integral top riband bar, in fitted case of issue, edge bruise to latter, very fine (2) £600-£800 --- S.G.M. London Gazette 12 March 1929: 'In recognition of gallantry displayed by them on the 30th October 1927, in saving the lives of the crew of the Newfoundland schooner Selma Creaser, which was in distress in the Atlantic Ocean. Stephen Corner Stephenson Taws, a native of Houston, Renfrewshire, was born in 1898 and was awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Medal for the same action as his Sea Gallantry Medal; further details of that award featured in Northern Daily Mail on 10 December 1927: ‘Outward bound from New York for the Far East, the City of Lahore, sighted on October 30 last, at 5.25am, what proved to be the Newfoundland schooner Selma Creaser showing a flare and as soon as they passed the schooner fired a rocket. Passing under the stern of the schooner the steamer hailed her, and received the reply that they wished to be taken off and had no boat of their own. Heavy weather had prevailed for some considerable time and there was still a big sea running... Due to the heavy weather encountered, the Selma Creaser was badly strained and leaking so badly that her Captain deemed it advisable to set her on fire before leaving. When last seen the schooner was burning furiously.
In the boat sent away by the City of Lahore with the Chief Officer in charge was Mr Taws, Second Officer.’ Taws was subsequently aboard the City of Manchester when she was torpedoed by I53 off Java on 28 February 1942. Joseph Berkley, a member of the S.S. Tulsar, wrote to Mrs Taws on 19 March:
‘On the morning of the twenty eighth of February, I had the good fortune to be in the vicinity of the City of Manchester when she was torpedoed and her lifeboats were shelled by the Japanese. Among the wounded survivors received on board was your husband. My Doctor deemed his condition too critical to permit your husband's transfer to a hospital on shore. Three serious lung punctures required that he be kept quiet in order to have any chance of surviving. The following day, the first of March, which was a day of mass evacuation from Tjilatjap, Java, we left port with Mr Taws on board. In spite of three blood transfusions, oxygen and all other efforts, it was impossible to save his life. One the third of March about 6.40pm he passed away. Next day at 9.00am, I performed the funeral services and we buried him at sea. I hope you will forgive me for sending his remains to the deep, but under the circumstances it was the only thing left for me to do.’ Taws is commemorated upon the Tower Hill Memorial. Sold with an old hand-written copy of the above letter; and copied research.

A rare 'sole entitlement' British War Medal awarded to Able Seaman D. C. Godsiff, Admiralty Yard Craft Service, who operated auxiliary vessels at Chatham Dockyard  British War Medal 1914-20 (D. C. Godsiff. Service with the Royal Navy.) in slightly damaged named card box of issue to ‘Civ.17’, extremely fine £120-£160 --- Daniel Christopher Godsiff was born at Chatham, Kent, in 1891. A civilian contractor, he served during the Great War with the Admiralty Yard Craft Service operating tugs, harbour ferries, launches and lighters. Posted aboard the 700-tonne tug Advice, Godsiff likely had an extremely busy war at Chatham; the tug crews worked to the tides on 12-hour days and were responsible for shepherding up to 205 ships of the Chatham Division Fleet in and out of the dockyard. As civilians working for a civilian service, the men of the A.Y.C.S. wore dark woollen suits and flat hats. Some adapted parts of the naval type 'No. 8 working dress blues'. Placed under a form of naval discipline, they answered to the Captain of the Dockyard and were issued On War Service badges to wear on their clothing to avoid white feather abuse.  The grim reality of war made its impact felt very early on for the people of Chatham. The loss of the cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy on 22 September 1914 resulted in the deaths of some 1500 Chatham Division personnel and sent shock waves through the close-knit community. The U-Boat menace and regular attrition of life from mines heaped considerable pressure on the A.Y.C.S., especially when required to tow disabled ships from the North Sea and Thames Estuary back to the dockyard, often in inclement weather. The tug Advice was further utilised in the salvage of the steamship Irthington from 9 to 14 July 1917.  Aside from the threat at sea, the evolution of warfare meant that Chatham dockyard found itself the target of the first night raid by Gotha bomber aircraft on Britain. At 11pm on 4 September 1917 the unprepared and fully illuminated town was struck by bombs from four enemy aircraft which created havoc. The Drill Hall housing large numbers of naval personnel suffered a direct hit which sent thousands of shards of plate glass screaming down from the roof upon the sleeping men: 'Some had never woken up. Apparently the shock appeared to have stopped their hearts. They were stretched out, white, gaunt, drawn faces, with eyes nearly bolting out of their heads. Others were greatly cut up, mangled, bleeding, and some were blown limb from limb. It was a terrible affair and the old sailors, who had been in several battles, said they would rather be in ten Jutland's or Heligoland's than go through another raid like this.'  Known at the time as the 'Chatham massacre', a total of 136 sailors died. The end of the war brought peace to Chatham, but it wasn't long before resentment boiled to the surface, this time over the award of medals and war gratuities. Despite working alongside Royal Navy personnel, the civilian A.Y.C.S. men found themselves ineligible for both, the Admiralty arguing that they received higher rates of pay than naval ratings during the war, with the presumption that they had already been compensated. Raised in Parliament by Sir. T. Bramsden, Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke and Dr. Macnamara, a 'middle ground' was found where the crews of vessels engaged in open water rescues were recognised. Godsiff and 10 crewmates aboard Advice received the BWM, with a further 20 civilians of the Chatham tug fleet receiving the same. Recorded in 1939 as still aboard the tugs at Chatham, Godsiff died in January 1951. He rests in the Palmerston Road Cemetery.

An interesting British War Medal awarded to Private J. Rother, Middlesex Regiment, later Labour Corps, a British National by birth but of Prussian-English parentage, who likely faced extensive 'Germanophobia', making subtle adjustments to his forename in consequence British War Medal 1914-20 (3133 Pte. J. Rother. Midd’x R.) good very fine £60-£80 --- Juleus Rother was born on 8 February 1897 in the parish of Westminster, London, the son of Julius Rother and Edith Emily Merrett. His father was born around 1869 at Lauben (Oberallgau), near Bayern, and emigrated as a young man to England where he met and married Gloucestershire-born Edith at a church in Hampstead on 12 December 1889. Setting up home in the parish of St. Marylebone, Middlesex, the couple went on to raise a family of four sons and a daughter, Juleus being the second child.  By 1911 the family are shown living at 41 College Place in Camden Town with Julius senior employed as a waiter, one of nearly 60,000 overseas nationals working in the UK hospitality industry at this time. Appreciated for working long hours and taking advantage of Londoners’ growing tastes for foreign cuisine, it is said that nearly 10% of all waiters in the City at this time were of German heritage - indeed Julius senior was clear to state on the 1911 Census for England that he was a 'Prussian resident' and of Prussian nationality. The same document records Julius junior as a 14 year-old office boy living alongside four boarders in the family home: Karl Mety, a 20 year-old waiter; William Koegimaur, an 18 year-old Munich-born waiter; Edward Hausler, a Bohemian-born barman; and Rudolf Milty, a 19 year-old Viennese waiter. The outbreak of the Great War likely had a significant impact upon the finances and life of the Rother family, especially with the children still being young and at school. It is almost certain that income dried up from letting rooms, and any tenants that remained had likely been earmarked for internment on the Isle of Man. With newspapers extolling the horrors meted out by the Imperial German Army in Belgium, British society soon became gripped with spy fever and suggestions that many of those who had worked in the UK for decades were now working in the interests of the 'Fatherland'.  On 14 October 1914 the Daily Mail published an editorial titled 'The Spy Danger and the New Order' which complained about 'the multitude of Germans employed in our British hotels, who also have singular opportunities of learning all that is happening... found at the centres of naval and political intelligence'. Even before the sinking of the liner Lusitania in 1915 and the corresponding anti-German riots in London, it was clear that employment as a waiter or 'enemy in our midst' according to the contemporary press, was no longer a viable option for Julius senior. Family research displayed online notes Julius senior travelling to New York aboard Franconia on 26 December 1914, where he was immediately held by US immigration for special enquiry - almost certainly on account of his nationality. He appears to have been deported from the east coast after barely three weeks ashore. Upon reaching the age of 18, Juleus junior attested for the Middlesex Regiment and was soon posted to the 7th Battalion. He served in the Balkans from 29 August 1915 and was discharged on 24 February 1919. Little is known about his military service, but it is interesting how his MIC notes the spelling of his forename as Juleus, whilst in the medal rolls it becomes Julius and finally the Index of Wills entry for 1962 makes plain his desire to be known as Julian. 

Pictures and Prints - Graham Scott, The Trossachs, signed, oil; M Firfiray, Landscape, signed, oil; Brook, Landscape, signed, oil; L Riley, Still Life of Fruit, signed, oil (4)

David Wilkie, R.A. Scottish 1785-1841, after, The Rent Day, engraving by Abraham Raimbach, 1877, 41cm x 61cm; another, Leon Lherimitte, At The Water Trough, 46cm x 35cm; a 19th century Pears print, The Woodland Gate; a 19th century needlework panel, of flowers; E. Fryer, 19th century, Still Life, oil, 49cm x 36cm (5)

G Evans (20th century)Still Life Composition of Eggs, Coffee Pot and Candlesigned, oil on canvas, 45cm x 60cm

A framed still life oil on porcelain of fruit by B. Hoggar together with four salt and pepper pots decorated by the same artist. Frame 39 x 32 cms

AFTER PETER CURLING "The County Limerick Fox Hounds", hunting study, colour print, limited edition No'd. 615/650, signed in pencil to lower margin left, 46 cm x 58 cm, together with JILL BIDDICK "The Blue and White China", still life study, pastel, signed lower right, 37.5 cm x 29 cm (2)

L GRAHAM-SMITH "Mixed bouquet" still life floral study, signed and dated 1929 lower left, oil on canvas, 59 cm x 43 cm together with another, a companion pair (2)

AFTER ELIZABETH OSBORNE “Still life with blue bottles” a Fischbach Gallery of New York poster dated March 20th - April 7th 1982, 87 cm x 62.5 cm

J F SMITH "Still life study of fruit on a ledge" signed lower right, oil on canvas, 20.5 cm x 25.5 cm together with another similar (2)

JOANNA DUNHAM "Still life study roses in a jar" oil on board, signed lower right, 23.5 cm x 23.5 cm together with another similar, a portrait study of a young woman in the same hand and various other watercolours and oils by the artist (11)

A G FLEMING "Sunlight in the stream", watercolour, signed lower right, inscribed on "Barclays Bank Art Exhibition" label verso, 34 cm x 49 cm, together with a pair of EARLY 20TH CENTURY "Still life studies", watercolours, oval, 30 cm x 25 cm and AFTER GEOFF HUNT "HMS Beagle off Galapagos", limited edition print No'd. 5/195, 42 cm x 50 cm

JOHN DUDGEON “Fruit in a bowl on a table”, a still life study, oil on panel, signed lower right, signed verso, 33 cm x 41.5 cm, together with DEREK BRIDGEWATER “The red house”, a town scene with cars, oil on board, signed and dated 1966 lower right, inscribed on artist's label verso, SARAH HARTLAND “Landscape in yellow and blue”, pastel, initialled lower right, bearing artist's label verso, 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL “Old castle Crom Sept 4th 1854”, study of castle ruins with figures in a punt in foreground, pencil wash, monochrome, unsigned, dated and inscribed to base, etc. (9)

Framed still life, oil on canvas signed Frank Lean, 49 x 39cm

A GILT FRAMED OIL ON CANVAS OF A STILL LIFE

TWO OILS ON CANVAS, ONE OF STILL LIFE FLOWERS, THE OTHER A FLOWER MEADOW, BOTH IN GILT FRAMES

ALBERT WILLIAMS (1922-2010) STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A VASE ON A TABLE ‡ SignedOil on canvasProvenance: With Haynes Fine Art, Broadway 39cm x 49cm

OLIVER CLARE (1853-1927) STILL LIFE OF FRUIT SignedOil on board 17cm x 23.5cm

G BOENI (20TH CENTURY) STILL LIFE OF FRUIT ‡ SignedOil on canvas 19cm x 24cm

FRAMED OIL ON BOARD, STILL LIFE SIGNED BY CEDOLLB

CHRISTINE HILLER [B1948], STILL LIFE OF NASTURTIUMS IN A BLUE & WHITE JUG, GOUACHE WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED 10 X 13”

19THC OIL PAINTING ON WOODEN PANEL, STILL LIFE OF ROSES AND OTHER SUMMER FLOWERS 11 X 17”

Group of assorted furnishing pictures, to include: botanical print,pair of still life watercolours, framed tapestry panel in 18th century style. (4) (B.P. 21% + VAT)

KATHERINE FRYER [1910-2017]. Still Life with Seated Woman. oil on canvas; signed. 59 x 76 cm - unframed. Provenance: private collection, UK. [good condition - a few small surface abrasions, mainly at extreme edges and would be covered by a frame]. Buyers premium of 20% + vat is payable.

CARL CHEEK [1927-2011]. Still Life. oil on canvas; signed. 64 x 75 cm - overall including frame 78 x 90 cm. Provenance: private collection, UK. [condition - a few surface abrasions, particularly in the corners - a very scruffy frame - unexamined out of frame]. Buyers premium of 20% + vat is payable.

KEITH VAUGHAN [1912-77]. Still Life, c.1950. pencil drawing on paper. 15 x 13 cm - overall including frame 30 x 25 cm. Provenance: Austin Desmond Fine Art; private collection, UK. [very good condition - some slight time toning to the paper - darker shade at top left corner is just a shadow - unexamined out of frame]. Buyers premium 20% + vat payable.

Penny Ward : Still life with flowers in a vase, watercolour 49 cm x 40 cm