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Lot 1397
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (2001) - SCREEN USED SPECIAL EFFECT PROP ENVELOPE - HARRY'S HOGWARTS ACCEPTANCE LETTER - One of the special effects versions with printed faux wax seal - used in the scene where envelopes come down the chimney - PROVENANCE: This item comes to us from a vendor with close associations to the film industry who advises that it was received directly from the Props Team who worked on the production and comes with an Excalibur Auctions certificate of authenticity. - Near Fine
Lot 72
Broadside. Directions necessary to be observed by Persons who would collect Subjects of Natural History, letter-press, 235mm x 370mm, London: [Andrew Peter Dupont, c.1760] The directions begin, 'Remember, if the Ship touches at any Port in her Passage, to collect any of the undermentioned subjects' before listing ten categories of natural history, including 1. Shells, 2. Sea plants, Corals, etc.,3. Land and Sea Crabs,Lobsters, etc., 4. Sea Stars, 5. Sea Eggs, 6. Ores, Metals and Minerals, etc., 7. Earths, Clays, Stone, etc., 8. Woods, Seeds and Fruits, 9. Lizards and Snakes, Birds, Frogs and Toads, etc., 10. Butterflies, Insects, etc. Such directions were common in the mid-eighteenth century and this example has been attributed to the naturalist Andrew Peter Dupont. We are grateful to the Natural History Museum in London for their assistance with this lot.
Lot 111
Jones, Inigo. The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain, first edition, 7 wood-engraved double-page plates, 3 folding, one with upper margin cropped, shaving image, lacking portrait frontispiece, A1-D4 stained, contemporary reverse calf, repaired and rebacked, corners worn, folio, London: James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman, 1655 [Wing J954]
Lot 103
Charleton, Walter. Chorea Gigantum, or, The most Famous Antiquity of Great-Britan, Vulgarly called Stone-heng, Standing on Salisbury Plain, first edition, 2 folding wood-engraved plates, one with fore-edge soiled and cropped, imprimatur leaf, upper margin cropped with occasional loss to running title, worming to upper margin of B3 to D4, with occasional loss of text, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 4to, London: Henry Herringman, 1663 [Wing C3666] RARE.
Lot 119
Webb, John. A Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored: In which the Orders and Rules of Architecture Observed by the Ancient Romans, are discussed..., first edition, licence leaf, signed recto 'Ri. Sackville' engraved illustrations in text, occasional rust-marks, title and first signature working loose, contemporary calf, worn, bookplate of Salisbury Museum Library, folio, London: R. Davenport, 1665 [Wing W1203] It seems likely the signature is that of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622-1677).
Lot 62
Lake District, Manchester & elsewhere.- Skemp (Hettie, of Sunny side, Worsley, Manchester, & later 31 Hopwood Avenue, Eccles, married William K Dawson) Recollections and diary, autograph manuscript, 119pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original half morocco, slightly rubbed, 4to, 26th January 1891- 23rd February 96.⁂ Lake District. 4th May 1891. "Here I am at the 'Swan Hotel' Newby Bridge, staying here with Uncle William... . We got a conveyance to Lak[e]side, where we got a steamer from one end to the other of the Lake... I went in the cabin part of the time. We had a ¼ of an hour at Ambleside where we had a cup of tea. We went back by the steamer as far as the ferry. We went for a lovely drive, we passed Esthwaite Water, & Blelham Tarn & had a peep at Ambleside, besides a lovely mountain view. In the morn we went to the 'Bowder Stone', in the aft... went to see 'Lodore' we afterwards went on, into see a wood & saw another little waterfall, a very peculiar one, as it sinks into the earth & gets lost: Uncle calls it 'The Lost Chord'." 13th May 1891. "We went by the first train to Keswick Station... & went to Bassenthwaite ... got into a boat, & were pulled for two miles on the lake. We arrived at Keswick, & got into the conveyance... & then had a lovely drive, right round the other side of Derwentwater." 14th June 1893. "... I went up Helvellyn, it was a hard climb but we did enjoy it; the view from the top was lovely. We had a lot of boating & I learnt row with two oars. In the morning Will & I got up before 6.0. and were on the lake at 6.40... ."A lively account of the life of Hettie Skemp, written in the 1890s, but starting in 1873 and ending with the beginning of her married life in 1896. Skemp records living on the outskirts of Manchester and incorporating holidays in the Lake District, Cheltenham, Colwyn Bay and the Mumbles. Much of the diary includes her family (including an uncle sent to prison for three months for embezzlement, and another uncle, Asaph, who was declared insane and sent to an asylum), and her fights with her stepmother, "she told me, 'I was a bad naughty girl & a constant source of trouble & annoyance. Also that the sooner I left home the better, she for one, would be very glad". Much of the diary concerns Hettie's courtship from her teenage years by her boyfriend and subsequent husband, William K Dawson. She records married life at the age of 23, "I have lost my best of presents", settling into her own house, buying a piano and a puppy, and becoming pregnant.
Lot 56
American Civil War.- A.L.s. from Jonathan Beatty of the Ohio 13th Regiment of Infantry to his wife and child, in original envelope addressed in ink manuscript, 1f. folded sheet with embossed crown device to upper left corner, horizontal folds, short closed tears, very faint even browning, a very little staining and soiling, envelope soiled, stamp excised but traces of ink postmark, 8vo, addressed and dated "Camp 7 miles East of | Murfreeboro Stone | River Ford | Tenn | May 1st 1863".⁂Jonathan Beatty (?1827-?) enlisted 18th August 1862, wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga, discharged 20th May 1865.Among its many engagements during the war, the 13th Regiment saw service at the Battle of Stone's River.The letter concerns, first, the receipt of other correspondence and the whereabouts of money sent to Beatty's brother Henry. Beatty notes the discharge of a comrade 'Haron' and the sickness affecting another, named 'Sam Baker'. He remarks on the pleasant climate in the camp, and wishes he could remain "...all sumer | or till the war is ended or my time out"; he states that he enjoys the abundance of corn and of clover. Of the war Beatty writes: "[T]he report is here that old | Brag or Johnston is south | 20 miles of Murfreeboro | with one hundred thousand | men and is a going to tact | us so we dont know what | Day he will a tact us | we have orders to be ready at a moments notice. I suppose that he will be a | long some time be fore long | as we expect a big battle | it a Pears that the rebs | are all moving up | this way. Tha want to give | General Rosencranze | a nother trial. I hope if tha come that | old Rose will clean them | all out of Tenesee | and sho them no Quarter a tal". The envelope is addressed: "Mrs Caroline Beaty | Massillon Stark County | Ohio | Box 413".
Lot 33
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER JEWELLERY INCLUDING A LOCKET AND A MOURNING BROOCH centred with a half-pearl cluster within a black-enamel surround and a gold scrolling frame (originally with a central glazed panel), approx. 37mm x 19mm; a Victorian gold foliate engraved oval locket, approx. 50mm high overall, 30mm wide, 10g gross; two gold curb-link brooches (one with a steel pin), 7.3g gross; a pointed-oval locket back brooch; 2.9g; a small diamond single stone bar brooch, indistinctly stamped '15ct(?)', 2.9g gross; a gold and pale-blue paste 'sprig' bar brooch. 2.1g gross; five various gold-plated collar studs; a small oval 'Back & Front' locket; and an opaque-white chalcedony oblong brooch
Lot 15
A MODERN 9CT GOLD AND CARVED EMERALD SINGLE STONE RING the pale-green round cabochon emerald approx. 25mm diameter, carved with a rosette within stiff-leaves in Indian Moghul style, rub-over set within a rope-work decorated border on a plain shank with split shoulders, London 1974, size O, 15.7g gross
Lot 390
Smoky Quartz Statement Bracelet, 100cts of smoky quartz, the centre front, rectangular, cushion cut stone being 20cts, each of the further five oval cut stones being 16cts, all measuring .8 inch x .6 (2cms x 1.4), creating a dramatic bracelet, set in 14ct gold vermeil and silver, fastening with a lobster claw clasp; 7.5 inches long
Lot 16
18ct White Gold - Superb Quality 5 Stone Ruby and Diamond Dress Ring. Fully Hallmarked for 18ct. The Rubies of Natural Pigeon Blood Colour, The Round Brilliant Cut Diamonds of Top Colour and Clarity. Est Ruby Weight 0.60 pts, Est Diamond Weight 0.50 pts, Ring Size - J. Condition Excellent In All Aspects.
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