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Lot 641
PORTLAND HARBOUR: SELECTION OF VARIOUS MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND LITERATURE, including glass picture slides of Portland Harbour, scenes of Portland, extension of the jetty from 1903, and Portland oil tanks from 1905, military records of the stone deposit at the coal scheme, list and index society of the Ministry of Defence of files from 1982, lists and index society of Prime Ministers office class list 1976, literature and information on 152 Squadron from 1939-1940, and others Provenance Geoffrey Carter colletion
Lot 793
A FINE MAORI TAI-AHA FIGHTING STAFF 19th century possibly earlier, elongated form. finely carved terminous point spear head, 134cm long Provenance: By descent from the Family of John Williams (1796-1839). John Williams was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. In 1817, John Williams and his wife, Mary Chawner, voyaged to the Society Islands, a group of islands that included Tahiti. John and Mary established their first missionary post on the island of Raiatea. From there, they visited a number of the Polynesian island chains. Landing on Aitutaki in 1821, they used Tahitian converts to carry their message to the Cook islanders. One island in this group, Rarotonga was discovered by Captain John Dabs of the colonial schooner Endeavour in August 1823, with Rev. Williams on board. The Williamses returned in 1834 to Britain, where John supervised the printing of his translation of the New Testament into the Rarotongan language. Most of the Williamses' missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, in November 1839, while visiting a part of the New Hebrides where John Williams was unknown, he and fellow missionary James Harris were killed and eaten by cannibals on the island of Erromango, Vanuatu, during an attempt to bring them the Gospel. A memorial stone was erected on the island of Rarotonga in 1839 and is still there. The LMS successively operated seven missionary ships in the Pacific which were named after John Williams. In December 2009 descendants of John and Mary Williams travelled to Erromango to accept the apologies of descendants of the cannibals in a ceremony of reconciliation. To mark the occasion, Dillons Bay was renamed Williams Bay.
Lot 601
Second World War Medal Group comprising 1939 - 1945 Star, Burma Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals (mounted on bar), together with miniature group, together with a national service medal in box named to 1816 S/SGT. A.W. Stone. Gilder Pilot Regiment together with dog tags and badges.
Lot 179
A travelling jewellery box containing a cameo brooch and earring suite, two stone set bar brooches, a cameo set pin, three 18ct wedding rings (11.3g) and a further unmarked wedding ring, a bamboo style bangle and a dress ring, both testing to 9ct, together with a 9ct pendant (14.4g) and a pair of enamel and diamond brooches (14)
Lot 188
A single stone diamond ring, stamped '14k', estimated weight of diamond approximately 0.50 carat. The ring is in good sound condition, with light scuffs and scratches to the setting appropriate to its age, and some wear where it has rubbed against another ring. The diamond is secure, and a bright lively stone, its impact maximised by the setting: estimated colour perhaps J, estimated clarity P1 - there is a quantity of small white and grey inclusions under the table facet, which can be seen with the naked eye, though it's doubtful that a layman would notice - or even be able to see them without magnification.
Lot 2115
Charles Dickens signature together with signatures of other eminent figures relating to the Guild of Literature and Art. Some names featuring in the cast of Not So Bad As We Seem include novelists Charles Dickens and W.Wilkie Collins, Punch editor Mark Lemon, artists Augustus Egg and John Tenniel, and writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold. Also on this page are the signatures for Frank Stone, artist (1800-1859), William Henry Wills (1810-1880), and Charles Knight. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Charles Dickens established The Guild of Literature and Art in 1850, a society to benefit struggling authors and artists, and Lytton wrote the comedy Not So Bad As We Seem. It was originally produced on 27 May 1851, at an evening's entertainment to launch the Guild at Devonshire House, the Piccadilly home of the Duke of Devonshire who paid the expenses of the original production. Dickens was both actor and stage manager, and co-opted many of his artistic and literary friends into the cast and production team. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to the Devonshire House event, and its great success was repeated several times during 1851 and 1852, at London's Hanover Square Rooms, and in other large towns such as Manchester..
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