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Lot 502
AN ARCHITECTURAL CAPSTONE - OF JACOBITE INTEREST LATE 17TH CENTURY of triangular outline, cross sword and sceptre, with initials I E K, dated 1698 below, surmounted by crown 45cm high x 39cm at widest point Note: The Earldom of Kintore and Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall was created in 1677 and first issued to John Keith, maternal grandson of the Earl of Mar and the son of the 6th Earl of Marischal. The 10th and last Earl Marischal was John Keith (c. 1693-1778), a staunch Jacobite, he managed to escape to the Continent after actively participating in the rising of 1715, where he was able to serve the Jacobite court at Avignon and be its ambassador to Spain and then Prussia, dying in Potsdam in 1778. Although the original location of this stone is untraced it presumably graced a lintel or doorway above one of many properties owned by John Keith. It is tempting to consider it may have been removed after the '15 in defiance of his participation from one of his forfeited estates.
Lot 339
A COLLECTION OF ITEMS RELATED TO THE LEITH TOWN HALL LIBRARY 20TH CENTURY to include a presentation trowel for the laying of the foundation stone 1929, Birmingham 1929; a matching presentation Mason's mallet and a leather bound visitor book containing numerous signatures including that of Sir Harry Lauder with a caricature (3) Note: Leith Town Hall and Library is a B-listed complex of three buildings situated on Ferry Road in North Leith. The building, made from sandstone ashlar (highly characteristic of Edinburgh) was designed by architects Bradshaw, Gass and Hope in an interwar classical style. The structure has a socially historical significance attached to it. This complex was gifted to the Burgh of Leith by Edinburgh council following the merger of Leith into Edinburgh on 10th October 1920. The significance of these ceremonial pieces date back to when the work on the building first started, when the Lord Provost of the time, Sir Alexander Stevenson, laid the foundation stone on 11th October 1929. The laying of the foundation stone by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh was highly symbolic as it represented a union between Leith and Edinburgh, which had been notoriously divided for many years.
Lot 458
A BRONZE JACOBITE 'BRAVADO' MEDALLION DATED 1749 obverse, a standing figure of a Highlander, the targe with motto within QUIS CONTENDAT MECUM (Who can contend with me) and raised sword, motto NULLUM NON MOVEBO LAPIDEM UT ILLUD ADIPISCAR 1749 (I will leave no stone unmoved to obtain that, 1749), the reverse with open displayed Jacobite rose head, legend around MEA.RES.AGITUR (My affairs are at issue) 31mm across, 16.4g Literature: 'The Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement', N Woolf, item 61:1a 'British Commemorative Medals, and their values', C Eimer, item 624 Note: Perhaps one of the most commonly encountered Jacobite medallions, it shows the strength and support Charles Edward was gaining. No two symbols can show greater connection and power to the cause than the fighting Highlander in full dress or the Jacobite rose so commonly encountered in all aspects of Jacobite art. The mottos and legends offer little disguise in the support of the Stuarts and are an open display of force towards the Hanoverians. Unlike many medallions which show a gentle or political side to propaganda this is a defiant show of force, giving rise to this medallion being called the Bravado medallion. The maker, although unrecorded, is possibly connected to the Capture of Edinburgh medallion as there are many similarities in the engraving of the Highlander and the lettering to the legends. This connection assumes that this medallion was locally produced in Scotland for distribution around followers and supports still loyal after the failure of the uprising. Mass produced and widely issued, there are two variations of dies used for this medal and it appears to have been produced in silver, bronze and gilded bronze over a number of years as striking and die quality varies.
Lot 470
J K Rowling. The Works, comprising Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone., Chamber of Secrets, paperbacks, The Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition., The Goblet of Fire, first edition., Order of The Phoenix, first edition., and The Half Blood Prince, first edition, together with Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, parts I and II, Special Rehearsal edition script, first edition. (7)
Lot 460
Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, first edition and Edward Lear, The Book Of Nonsense, twenty-ninth edition together with Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith,Francois Voltaire, Candide or Optimism, 1939, A Sewell, Black Beauty, 1894 and William S Stone, The Ship of Flame, 1945 and Thy Servant A Dog (7)
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