Dickens (Charles).- The Amateur Company of the Guild of Literature & Art... Will Have the Honour of Presenting... Used Up... to conclude with Mr. Nightingale's Diary, Friday Evening, September, 3rd, 1852, at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, playbill, printed in red and black, with a performance of 'the Historical Drama, in Two Acts, by J.R.Planche, Esq. called Charles XII, folds, light offsetting and browning, some light creasing and minor chipping to margins, 3rd September, 1852.⁂ Rare playbill for the only public performance by Dickens of Used Up by Dion Boucicault (the other being a private performance at Rockingham Castle). Dickens took a good deal of pride in his performance and a portrait of him in character by Augustus Egg hung in his dining room in Tavistock House. Other performers include John Tenniel, F.W. Topham, Mark Lemon, Augustus Egg, Wilkie Collins and Frank Stone.
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Dickens (Charles).- An Entirely New and Original Domestic Melo-Drama, in Two Acts, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, now first performed, called The Lighthouse [at] The Smallest Theatre in the World! Tavistock House. Lessee and Manager Mr Cummles. On Tuesday Evening, June 19th, 1855, playbill, printed in red and black, with a performance of Mr. Nightingale's Diary, light surface soiling, some minor creasing and chipping to left-hand margin, 385 x 280mm., 19th June, 1855.⁂ Rare playbill for the first staging Wilkie Collins' melodrama The Lighthouse, performed at Dickens' house and with both writers in leading roles. Wilkie Collins adapted The Lighthouse from an 1853 short story, Gabriel's Marriage; he sent the new play to Dickens in May 1855 who then took over the production with his usual energy. Dickens had constructed a small theatre at Tavistock House in 1851 in order to further indulge his love for amateur theatricals and this therefore became the obvious venue to stage the new play which ran for four nights from 19th June before it moved for a benefit performance at Campden House. As ever Dickens was closely involved with almost every aspect of the production: in addition to his performances he wrote a prologue as well as The Song of the Wreck, sung by his daughter Kate and printed for the first time on this playbill. In a self-referential nod Dickens credits himself throughout as 'Mr. Crummles' the name of the head of the theatre troupe in Nicholas Nickleby. Other performers include Mark Lemon, Augustus Egg, Charles Dickens Jr., Frank Stone and members of the Hogarth family.
A Thomas Smart 18ct Gold Gentleman's Open Faced Pocket Watch, the watch having a fusee movement nr 68, key wind, white enamel face, Roman dial, gold hands, with rose-cut diamond end stone, approx 5 cms diameter. Inner dust cover is London hallmark 18 ct gold. The dial is in fair condition with hairline cracks between the hours 7 and 8.The watch ticks away and moves forward when wound, approx 28 gms.
A 1930s Art Deco gold and cabochon boulder opal ring, possibly an Ethiopian Welo opal, probably 9ct, maker's mark BJT, the high domed 17 x 12mm. oval opal with lovely depth, iridescing shades of green, yellow, red, orange and blue, in a tooth engraved collet setting within arrow head shoulders set with a small triangular cut deep amber stone, ring size L.
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