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Lot 801
Diva Faustina Senior AV Aureus. Rome, AD 141. DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, draped bust left with hair waved and coiled on top of head / CONSECRATIO, Faustina standing facing in quadriga galloping to left, holding hasta pura, and accompanied by Sol(?), who leans forward, his arm outstretched toward the horses. RIC 383; Calicó 1780; BMC 302. 7.27g, 19mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare. Two other examples of this reverse type are recorded on CoinArchives, both heavily worn, and neither with a left facing bust. Stevenson, in his Dictionary of Roman Coins, rightly refers to this coin as one of the rarest reverses of Faustina (p.374). Annia Galeria Faustina was born into a distinguished and well connected family; her father Marcus Annius Verus was three times consul and prefect of Rome, and she counted Sabina and Matidia as her maternal aunts. Sometime between AD 110 and 115 she married Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius Antoninus (who would later gain favour with Hadrian, be adopted and succeed to the throne, and be known to history as Antoninus Pius). During her life, Faustina Senior was an advocate for the underprivileged, as well as for girls' education. When she died in AD 141, Antoninius Pius was said to be devastated. To honour her memory he had her deified, built a temple for her in the Forum and issued a prodigious coinage in her name as Diva Faustina. Additionally he established an institution called Puellae Faustinianae ('The Girls of Faustina') to assist orphaned Roman girls. The commemorative coinage of Faustina Senior is unusual in that it survives in large numbers with a wide variety of reverse types, this being explained by the fact that her coins continued to be struck until the death of Antoninus Pius in AD 161. This particularly beautiful consecration aureus is notable for the form in which the apotheosis of Faustina is displayed; a parallel issue displays the funeral pyre of the empress and thus the manner of her ascension to godhood, and here we see her being conveyed to her place among the gods and other deified emperors and empresses. Faustina now holds the hasta pura, one of the insignia of the gods, and of the augusti and augustae after their apotheoses. Two other contemporary issues display further elements of Faustina’s deification; one shows the carriage of her divine effigy in a wagon pulled by two elephants, the other illustrates its destination: the temple that Antoninus Pius built along the Via Sacra on the northeastern side of the Roman Forum for the ongoing worship of Diva Faustina. It is both a charming and moving type that must have been particularly affecting to Antoninus, and on the obverse we see Faustina still draped, in the manner of a living Augusta and beloved wife, and not yet veiled in death and divinity.
Lot 57
PINCHUS KREMEGNE (RUSSIAN-FRENCH 1890-1981)Still Life with Apples, Wine, Vase and Cup, oil on canvas54.3 x 73 cm (21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.)signed lower leftEXPERTISEWe are grateful to Jeannette Kremen for confirming the authenticity of this paintingPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.
Lot 293
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. A.L.S., Daphne, two pages, 8vo, Cannon Hall, Hampstead, n.d. ('New Year's Day'), to [Foy Quiller-Couch]. Du Maurier announces 'Bless you. I can go out and conquer a world now. I'll not be afraid any more' and continues 'I go into the slaughter house on Monday, but as I still have a heavy cold they can't cut me up until its better'. Du Maurier further invites her friend to come and see her, adding 'And wear the blue beret - be you. Yes - I'll work you off your legs, my girl - you wait! Your letter has made me supremely happy!'. Some light overall age wear and creasing and a few small tears and small areas of paper loss at the edges, about G Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. In 1930, apparently around the time of the present letter, the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses.
Lot 294
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, 6th September n.y (1960), to [Foy Quiller-Couch]. Du Maurier notes, at the head of the first page, 'Run out of note-paper. Excuse this odd scrap…..', the first page being a sheet of Buckingham Palace notepaper issued for use by her husband, Frederick Browning, and the second being a sheet of scrap paper with an irregularly torn left edge. Du Maurier commences her letter 'Listen, you were doing very well when I arrived in the Fox's car. I heard you quote Plato, and was much impressed, but I felt that Mrs Singer's nearness and the beaming gaze she fixed upon you may have proved embarrassing. Then someone, a school master I think, called you an “exile“ and soon afterwards we drove away, as I had to rush back to a guest who had arrived by Riviera. But I still think the plaque is too big, and will cause accidents. Incidentally, what is this horrid news about the crests off your father's Memorial stone having been wrenched off and removed by some vandal?' She further writes of having visited Woodgate Creek with her husband ('Guardsman') commenting 'Viaduct path & stream itself quite overgrown. Woodgate's creek and lonely swans and lonely cottage with orchard behind much more my idea of a trysting and a hiding-place, but would it have been part of Penquite land and perhaps inhabited by a keeper in the last century, or even in our young days? We were rather intrigued to learn, from a holiday-maker camping in the cottage, that all the Woodgate woods and hills and I think Lantyan woods too, belong to a lady “up Woking way“. Who could she be? Guardsman felt all that Woodgate valley, and the deserted orchards, had atmosphere of great antiquity, as tho' much cultivated centuries ago, and I agree, but perhaps if it was Penquite land once that would account for it' and further referring to research into her current work, 'It has struck me that if the novel Castle Dor is roughly assumed to be about the 1860's - which dialogue, etc, harmonises with well, - was china clay at the jetties thriving then? I gather the Lostwithiel-Fowey branch line did not appear till about the turn of the century, but I imagine ships loaded just as they do now. The allusion to “railway“ embankment could come out, when Ledru goes up river in a boat. Its great fun pottering through the M.S. and roughing in scraps of dialogue to insert between Carfax and Ledru where I find your Father not explicit enough about the Tristan story - he assumes the reader will understand every allusion which I fear they won't. Also Molly and Johnny's conversations rather detract from story, which instead of meandering around the Bosanko family should begin to quicken at this point, with rather sinister similarities to Tristan story happenings suddenly beginning to strike Doctor Carfax. Invention will have to start with Chapter XXIII, and instead of Carfax by the Town Hall, and the declaration of war for 1914, we might have Carfax at his home (obviously The Haven) & Mark Lewarne coming to him for advice about Linnet of whom he is already suspicious - meanwhile Amyot is hiding at Woodgate creek, & Linnet has sworn the two children to secrecy. Scene now set for lovers hiding in woods just as T and Iseult hid in forest of Moresque as they did in oldest legend. Will get Tregantil into it somehow. Everyone is drawn into the business despite themselves, somehow against their will so that there is a sort of feeling of Fate about the whole thing'. Accompanied by the original envelope. About VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. In 1930, apparently around the time of the present letter, the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. The work which Du Maurier refers to in the present letter is Castle Dor, a historical novel based around the legend of Tristan and Iseult, but set in 19th century Cornwall. The main characters are a Breton onion seller, Amyot Trestane, and the newly wed Linnet Lewarne. Published in 1961, Du Maurier completed the unfinished manuscript of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's last novel. Quiller-Couch's daughter, Foy, had given her blessing for Du Maurier to complete the work.
Lot 297
‘…I saw the Queen being handed the wrong cakes…’ DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 16th August 1962, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier proclaims 'What a typical arrival! Be sure to see all fires are extinguished when you go to bed, and that the doors and windows are locked against burglars' and adds 'I have written my name under yours in Castle Dor, and have returned the book'. She continues to recount a visit from Queen Elizabeth II, 'Well, the Queen..I was so exhausted…from doing 26 vases of flowers the day before that I had lost my nerves when the moment came. I must say, it was rather splendid to see the big Rolls drive slowly up to the front door bearing the Royal Standard, and the Queen, a radiant figure in white, seated within. That was really the best of it. The actual hour passed very quickly really, but nobody hardly touched the enormous spread of tea I had prepared, and out of my eye I saw the Queen being handed the wrong cakes by Angela, and she even got a non-matching plate at one moment instead of the Rockingham! The nice Prescotts helped us, she chatting informally away to Prince P[hilip] about schools, and Colonel Prescott reviving old Grenadier memories with the Queen. The entourage seemed endless (actually we were 14) and disposed themselves about the Long Room, and old Sir Edward Bolitho spilt his tea, and was the only one to munch, and enjoy, a split with cream! The house had been scrubbed, and better scrubbed (I found Mr. Burt, 81 a few days before, washing down the Long Room mantle piece with Jeyes fluid!!) and so much tidied away that none of us have been able to find a thing since. No, I wore neither hat nor gloves, thank goodness. I wrote and asked a lady-in-waiting I knew, and she said "Not at an informal tea in one's own house." My relief was enormous. I haven't a hat to my name, tho' I could have borrowed gloves, and Flave had actually sent down a handsome white bag from Harrods, which I suggest we all borrow in time of need. Anyway, it's a good thing done, and I think the G'sman [Guardsman, her husband Frederick Browning] was very pleased at the honour shown….' Du Maurier also writes of children, 'I still wish they were better at amusing themselves and had more imagination. Paul, who is apt to be scared at bedtime, looked at me as if I were mad when I told him that Kits also used to be rather nervous, but was all right when he had a group of small Indians called Black Wolf and Laughing Thunder on his bedside table to guard him, along with a small soldier on one knee called Terry. "If you like", I said, "I will see if there are any Indians left in the playroom drawer." "But they aren't real", answered Paul, and I saw it was no good. My word, those toy Indians were as real to me as they were to Kits - the "Guarders" we always called them. It is a pity that children seem so factual these days, and I don't see why it should be anything to do with men whirling round in space.' and concludes by briefly referring to her own work, 'I have finished my Glass-Blowing book, and the publishers in England and U.S. very pleased with it. I was afraid they'd find it dull'. A small tape stain to the upper corner of the first and final pages, only very slightly affecting one word of text and not the signature, VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. In 1930, apparently around the time of the present letter, the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. Frederick Browning (1896-1965) British Lieutenant-General of World War II, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Market Garden, 1944. Husband of Du Maurier from 1932. Comptroller and Treasurer to Princess Elizabeth from 1948-52 and later Treasurer in the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Lot 338
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Baden Powell, one page, 4to, London, 12th November 1930, to Goodchild, on the printed stationery of The Boy Scouts Association. Baden-Powell states that he is pleased to hear that his correspondent is starting a Troop Magazine and continues to remark 'I look upon a magazine as a very valuable and useful thing in a Scout Group, but it will only have the success which I wish it if every member makes up his mind to support it to the best of his ability either by reading it or, better still, by writing for it good [articles] or drawing pictures'. He concludes 'I hope the Magazine will have a long life and a big success and I shall be interested to see a copy of the first number'. A few light stains and minor age wear at the edges of the folds, about VG
Lot 597
SIGNED BOOKS: A miscellaneous selection of signed paperback (8) and hardback (22) books by a wide variety of famous individuals including I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy, Upwardly Mobile by Norman Tebbit, Strachan Style - A Life in Football by Gordon Strachan, Good Vibrations - The True Story of Ann Summers by Jacqueline Gold, Scene and Hird by Thora Hird, On Cricket by Geoffrey Boycott, Batman - Son of the Demon by Jerry Bingham, R Crumb Draws the Blues by Robert Crumb, Little Gems by Gervase Phinn, The Bible - The Old Testament according to... by Spike Milligan, An Open Book by Monica Dickens, The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters, The Queen and I by Sue Townsend, Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge (loosely inserted signed card), Ricky by Ricky Tomlinson, The Autobiography by Jack Charlton, Dining with the Duchess by Sarah, Duchess of York, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds (featuring an original pencil drawing) etc., Some of the hardback editions are First Editions and most are accompanied by the dust jackets. Some are signed to custom printed bookplates. Together with a selection of signed album record sleeves by various popular singers, bands and musicians etc., including Brotherhood of Man (Martin Lee, Nicky Stevens, Lee Sheriden and Sandra Stevens), Humphrey Lyttelton, The Three Degrees, The Icicle Works (2; Chris Layhe, Ian McNabb & Chris Sharrock), Tony Christie, Uriah Heap, Gerry Marsden, Bert Weedon, Chris de Burgh etc. A few unsigned and secretarial. Records still present. G to VG, 58
Lot 311
Pair of works, to include one PEG FOSTER framed, signed, dated 1979, oil on canvas, still life of a large vase of peach and white flowers, and one framed, indistinctly signed, 20th Century, oil on canvas, still life of a basket with overflowing red, white and pink flowers, 49.5cm x 39.5cm, 29cm x 39cm (2).
Lot 329
Three paintings to include ALFRED TAYLOR, pair of signed, 19th Century, watercolour on paper, one pastoral scene framed by tree on left with large house in background and one still life depicting vase of wild flowers resting on a book, one unsigned, framed, glazed, watercolour on paper, indistinct inscription to verso, two small studies of walnuts, 12cm x 19.7cm, 23cm x 16.5cm, 7cm x 10cm (3).
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