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Lot 1145
A pair of antique teak columns, with carved capitals, the columns partially green painted and each raised on a stone plinth. Height 225 cm, width across capital 31 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: Both pillars are structurally sound with no loose joints. Please note that both capitals do lift off. Both capitals are in generally good order with no significant losses. There are some stress fractures to the timber. The columns themselves are in generally good order. There is significant paint loss and rubbing and again stress fractures to the timber but no real problematical areas. One column has a timber loss to the bottom left hand rear corner above the stone base. This is the only significant loss. Clearly there are numerous surface scratches, marks and dings as one would expect. The stone bases are again structurally sound but do have numerous nibbles, scuffs and edge losses. These are worst around the bottom edge where there are some significant losses and edge chips. One base does not have any paintwork, the other still has the remains of some present.
Lot 275
A 9 ct gold Art Deco opal ring, Size N, stone dimensions 10 mm x 8 mm. CONDITION REPORT: The ring is structurally sound. There is no significant wear to the shank. It is a little misshapen. The stone is not loose in its mount. The very top surface of the stone is a little cloudy through rubbing. There are no significant scratches however. There are no cracks to the stone.
Lot 284
An 18 ct gold diamond cluster ring, with centre green stone, size L. CONDITION REPORT: The shank is structurally sound with no issues. It is not misshapen. The emerald has all of the usual inclusions and minor surface marks and scratches as one would expect. There are no loose stones. The diamonds are small but appear to be in generally good condition.
Lot 285
An 18 ct gold jade ring, with carved stone. Size L/M. CONDITION REPORT: The jade stone is in generally good order with only minor surface scratches. Three of the four claws have had tipped repairs. The illusion surround to the small diamond has slight scratches. The shank is solid and not significantly worn.
Lot 325
A 9 ct gold slave type bangle, with multi coloured gold inlay and textured finish, London hallmark 1982 maker A.C. Co. Width 6.3 mm, depth 1.46 mm, Diameter 68 mm, 20.2 grams. CONDITION REPORT: The chain length is 40 cm. The red stone is 14 mm x 8 mm. It is +/- 5 mm deep at the deepest point. The internal diameter of the bangle is actually 65 mm. The external diameter is actually closer to 67 mm than 68 mm.
Lot 627
Len Roope, watercolour "Blencathra" viewed from the stone circle, 20 cm x 27 cm, signed and dated 1970. ARR (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The watercolour is in good condition. The colours are strong and bright. We can see no evidence of any discolouration or any issues with the picture. It is simply mounted and in a serviceable oak frame.
Lot 15A
FOUR COLOURED PRINTS OF JAPANESE SCENES comprising No. 70 "Two Stone Basins for holy water (Omizuya) Shiba TOKIO", No. 93 "Temple at Shiba, TOKIO", No. 224 "(Kankorio) Government Silk manufactory, TOKIO, and No. 597 "Mr Shirose Gardens NIIGATA" each print on card measures 36 x 29 cm (4) Condition Report:All four have a degree of foxing
Lot 475
The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Mr. E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, who served as Special Correspondent for the Daily Express in South Africa during the Boer War; a noted and widely travelled journalist and author, his entertaining remembrances were published in 1924 under the title ‘Moss from a Rolling Stone’ Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. B. Hodgetts. “Daily Express”) good very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts was born in Berlin in 1859, a British subject by parentage, and was educated at Moscow. During a highly cosmopolitan career, he served as Russian Correspondent to The Times, the Daily Graphic and and Reuters for several years, was Paris Editor of Dalziel’s Agency, Foreign Editor of the New York World, Librarian to the Institution of Civil Engineers and wrote many books, the first of which - Personal Reminiscences of General Skobeleff - was published by W. H. Allen & Co. in 1884. He was fluent in many languages and widely travelled from a young age, spending time on the Continent as well as in America, Russia and Asia Minor - his experiences of the the latter two were related in two well-received travel memoirs: In the track of the Russian famine; the personal narrative of Journey through the famine districts of Russia, published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1892 and Round about Armenia: the record of a journey across the Balkans through Turkey, the Caucasus, and Persia in 1895, published by Low, Marston, 1896. He translated Johann David Wyss’s The Swiss Family Robinson into a widely read English language version in 1897 and throughout this period authored many articles for The Strand Magazine and The Pall Mall Gazette. Following the outbreak of the Boer War, Sir Arthur Pearson secured the services of Brayley Hodgett to cover the conflict as Special Correspondent for his soon to be launched newspaper, The Daily Express. Having embarked for the Cape in the Dunvegan Castle in mid February 1900, Brayley Hodgetts is known to have been invalided with enteric fever during his time in South Africa. Returning to London, he continued to write, his books now beginning to focus mostly on Russian and German historical themes: The court of Russia in the nineteenth century, Methuen 1908; The House of Hohenzollern: two centuries of Berlin court life, Dutton 1911; The life of Catherine the Great of Russia, Brentano’s 1914 and Glorious Russia : its life, people and destiny, Bristol 1915. In the 1911 census, however, he describes himself as an author of literature and Secretary of a public company in the Dynamite Trade; his book entitled ‘The rise and progress of the British explosives industry’ had been published two years earlier. Towards the end of his career, in 1924, his wrote an entertaining and anecdote filled personal memoir, ‘Moss from a Rolling Stone’, in relation to which the following article appeared in The Scotsman, 31 March 1924: ‘Mr E. A. Brayley Hodgetts makes a very agreeable companion in his recollections of what has been a varied and active career. As a journalist and foreign correspondent he has visited many lands and met all sorts and conditions of men; and he records his impressions effectively, bringing many a good story to his aid. He was born in Berlin - “because a man is born in a stable he is not necessarily a horse, and my being born in Berlin of British parents did not involve the forfeiture of my birthright as an Englishman” - and his earliest recollection of Berlin was - “seeing a rather flush faced officer, clean shaven, in a military cap, and with strange, dreamy, blue eyes, driving in an open carriage. That was Frederick William IV., the mad king of Prussia!” Subsequent memories cluster round New York after the Civil War, London in the ‘eighties, Berlin under William II, Paris under the Republic, St. Petersburg under Alexander III. There are chapters on experiences in the Near East and in South Africa . Among well-known figures of whom there are glimpses in the course of the reminiscences are Ruskin, Bronte Harte, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain, Clemenceau, King Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II.‘ He died at Kensington, London in 1932.
Lot 611
An interesting British War Medal awarded to Captain N. A. Rew, Royal Engineers, who post-War designed over 40 War Cemeteries for the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. N. A. Rew.) very fine £60-£80 --- Noel Ackroyd Rew was born in Streatham, South London, in 1880 and was educated at Berkhamsted School and the Slade School of Fine Art. An architect by profession, he attested for the Inns of Court O.T.C. on 7 February 1916, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 21 October 1916. He served with the 93rd Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front, was appointed Adjutant (with the rank of acting Captain), and was gassed at Armentières, being removed to No. 7 General Hospital. Relinquisihing his commission on account of his wounds (the effects of gas had temporarily blinded him), he resumed his Architectural career, and was employed by the Imperial War Graves Commission. From 1919-28 Rew designed a total of 42 War Cemeteries in France and Belgium, including Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium, and Rancourt Military cemetery on the Somme. One of his best-known designs was for Orchard Dump cemetery in France, where he chose an attractive local stone for a rubble wall linking two shelter features. He died in 1971. Sold with copied research including details of the various C.W.G.C. Cemeteries that he designed.
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