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Lot 4
AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY YELLOW TOPAZ AND TURQUOISE NECKLACE, CIRCA 1825Composed of graduating cushion-shaped foiled yellow topaz links, each within a frame of gold cannetille, interspersed with floral motifs and highlighted with round-shaped cabochon turquoises, gemstones in closed-back settings, mounted in gold, length 38cmNapoleonic classicism came to an end in 1820, bringing forth immense changes in style of both fashion and jewellery. A more natural style and silhouette came into vogue that year with the lowering of the waistline. Motifs of leaves and flowers which had been stylised in the Napoleonic era flourished and became more organic and representational. After a decade of European war, precious metals and stone were scarce and highly expensive. This period saw the rise in economical jewellery, employing less expensive gemstones and delicate, often elaborate, cannetille work to give an expensive and luxurious effect. The gemstones, originating mainly from Brazil of amethyst, topaz, aquamarine and chrysoberyl were mounted in clusters and closed foil settings to compliment and match in colour. The ornate gold work, formed of wire, granulation, tendrils and scrolls was complemented with small leaves and shells in different coloured gold.
Lot 21
Garden Statuary: A rare Bromsgrove Guild lead figure of a girl holding a butterflyearly 20th centurythe base stamped H.W. Cashmore & Son craftsman, Westminster SW80cm high The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was established in 1894 by Walter Gilbert who took over a foundry in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It was first involved with decorative ironwork, but the business soon expanded into a great many other fields. By 1900 Gilbert had gone into partnership with a Mr McCandlish and had taken over further premises in the town which housed bronze and lead foundries, as well as wood and stone carving studios. By 1908 they had established W.H. Cashmore in Victoria Street as their retail outlet and as a result of their most famous commission, the iron and bronze gates outside Buckingham Palace, they were issued with a Royal Warrant appointing them metal workers to Edward VII (an honour repeated two years later under George V). Unlike the majority of other contemporary English manufacturers of garden ornaments most of the Guild's figurative subjects were modelled in the popular styles of the day. In 1921 the Guild became a limited company, but by this date some of the members had left to start companies of their own. However the Guild continued to produce a variety of garden ornaments for many years finally closing in 1966.
Lot 24
Sculpture:•▲Steven Gregory Bag Man 1993 Bronze, edition of 9 127cm high Steven Gregory was born in South Africa in 1952 but has lived in London since the 1960's. He studied sculpture at St Martins School of Art. Gregory has exhibited widely both in the UK and globally, including Germany, France, Italy, Iceland, New York and Czech Republic. In 2002 he exhibited in Thinking Big, 21st Century British Sculpture, at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice. In 2005-2006 Gregory held a solo exhibition Skulduggery with Cass Sculpture Foundation. In 2006-2007 Damien Hirst, who has been a collector of Gregory's work since 2002, included some of Gregory's skull sculptures in his Murderme exhibition In the darkest hour there may be light at the Serpentine Gallery, London. In 2007 Gregory had a solo exhibition Steven Gregory, Bone Stone Bronze at the Nicholas Robinson Gallery in New York. Steven Gregory is also a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibitions in London and continues to maintain a strong presence of work at the Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex where other bronzes in this edition were exhibited. Their exhibition notes remarked; Anthropomorphic paper bags cast in bronze. These insectile apparitions have amused, enthralled and have even made skin creep, as they are variously funny, intriguing and sinister. Like circus clowns they emerge jauntily from the woodland, their bag bodies in attitudes of buffoonery, frolic and mischief. The sense of carnival is at once fun and a little scary in this bag parade. As children, we all at some point put our heads in paper bags. To hide from the world and yet be part of it, with an assumed identity unlike our own, is as basic as learning to walk. Masks are as old as human ritual, they hide, alter and also protect - and so do paper bags.
Lot 19
Garden Statuary: Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope: A rare H.H. Martyn and Co lead figure of Panearly 20th century79cm highGertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857-1944) was an English sculptor and painter. She was the niece of John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope and the cousin of Evelyn Pickering de Morgan, both of whom were noted pre-Raphaelite painters. She exhibited paintings during the period 1886-1909 at both provincial and London galleries, but is known to have produced perhaps only three sculptures including this model which was cast in both bronze and lead by H.H.Martyn of Cheltenham. The three - a female nude, A Pan and a lyre playing Orpheus were allocated to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council for display at Cannon Hall Museum housed in her former family home. The works are regarded as fine examples of the small-scale domestic bronze that was popular in late 19th century Britain, and are notable also because women rarely had the opportunity to work as sculptors at the time.The firm of H.H Martyn was established in Cheltenham in 1888 and by the 1920's employed over 1000 craftsmen as wood and stone carvers, modellers of decorative plaster, sculptors, artists in wrought iron, large and small scale casters in all metals, fine furniture makers and artists in Stained Glass. They were appointed Architectural Decorators to His Majesty the King in 1916 for work at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. The company were involved in many architectural and interior projects including the Speakers Chair and dispatch Boxes for the House of Commons, St Paul's Cathedral Pulpit; and the façade of Selfridge's Oxford St, to name but a few. Their foundry was responsible for a huge variety of commissions, from the screen and gates originally at Marble Arch to the over life size bronze figure of Sir Winston Churchill by the sculptor Oscar Nemon, commissioned for the London Guildhall. The company also fitted out the first class areas of over 100 ships including The Titanic and Canberra, as well as the Queens Mary and Elizabeth for the Cunard line. Early in the First World War, their craftsmen were called upon to turn their hands to aircraft production, leading to the establishment of the Gloster Aircraft Company in 1917.They enjoyed a close connection with the Bromsgrove Guild, whose founder Walter Gilbert later worked for H.H. Martyn and produced a range of garden sculptures and ornament in bronze, lead and composition stone including these examples in which the quality of casting is comparable to the work produced at the Bromsgrove Guild. Provenance: The Hearne, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham home of Alfred W Martyn Managing Director of H.H.Martyn & Co from 1917 to 1939 and thence by descent.Literature: The Best, H.H. Martyn and Co, Specialists in Architectural Decoration and The Gloucester Aircraft Company, John Whitaker, Promenade Publications, 1985, a copy of which is included with this lot.
Lot 1058
A pair of good quality weathered contemporary cast composition stone garden urns in a Georgian style, the circular squat lobed bowls with egg and dart rims and square bases approx 2ft diameter x 2ft height (AF, some damage), together with a further contemporary terracotta flower trough of rectangular form with acanthus detail
Lot 309
A collection of Vintage British Quad film posters (30 x 40 inch) including Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Romancing the Stone, The Sea Wolves (Roger Moore), Shout at the Devil, Ben Hur RR, Death Wish, McVicar, Dogs of War, 10 to Midnight, Stand Up Virgin Soldiers, The Evil that Men do. All folded, various conditions. Total: 11 Quads.
Lot 298
A collection of Vintage British Quad film posters (30 x 40 inch) including Superman, The Greatest (Muhammad Ali), Force 10 from Navarone, Goodbye Norma Jean, The Stone Killer, Indiana Jones (text), Saturday Night Fever (poor), Herbie Goes Bananas (pr), Herbie Rides Again (pr) plus All that Heaven Allows. All folded, various conditions. Total: 11 Quads.
Lot 205
A Large collection of Vintage British Quad film posters (30 x 40 inch) including Highlander, The Untouchables, Waterworld, Every Which way but Loose, Any Which way you can, Bandelero, Lassiter, Young Sherlock Holmes, Belstone Fox, Revenge of the Nerds, Fiddler on the Roof, Jewel of the Nile, St Ives, Wicked Lady, A Touch of Class, Erik the Viking, Private Function, A Star is Born, Gladiator, Stone Killer, Educating Rita, Bugsy, Police Academy, Robin Hood, To Be or not to be, Into the Night, Cotton Club, La Bamba, Concrete Jungle, The Killer, The Mission, Dead Again, A Few Good Men, Kramer vs Kramer, Still of the Night, Sophie's Choice, Black Widow, The Verdict, Batman & Robin, Poltergeist 2, International Velvet, Ski Patrol, Two Minute Warning, Star Chamber etc. All folded, various conditions. Total: Over 180 Quads.
Lot 528
Collection of modern picture sleeve 7 inch singles including The Rolling Stones, The Stone Roses - One Love ORE17, Seal, A-HA, ltd. ed., Righteous Brothers, Bob Geldof, Elton John, Brian May, Scorpions, Michael Jackson, Genesis, Alice Cooper, Queen, Was Not Was, Roy Orbison, The Human League, Bruce Springsteen, Crowded House, Madonna, Alannah Miles ltd ed. Black Velvet, Jimi Hendrix, etc Excellent conditions (60+)
Lot 278
20 quads HIGHLANDER original British Quad film poster plus "An Officer and a Gentleman / American Gigolo" double-bill plus other Quads inc Tucker, Young Guns, Scandal, Heartbreak Ridge, Year of Living Dangerously, Police Academy, Porkys II, Raw Deal, Clockwise, Otello, Assassination, Romancing the Stone, An Officer and a Gentleman, Mona Lisa, Educating Rita etc. All folded, 30 x 40 inch. (20)
Lot 469
large collection of LP vinyl records including 11 Bruce Springstein- Four sealed, and John Martyn - solid air, I LPs 9226A, al Stewart, past present and future gatefold X65726, Dave Stewart, the Stone Roses oRE LP 502, spirit - 12 dreams, Simon and Garfunkel, the the, Eurythmics, soundtracks, Stealers wheel, Steely Dan x5, Rod Stewart sealed, Richard Thompson x2, 10 CC etc. 74 records in excellent condition
Lot 470
CD BOX SETS including many sealed - The Stone Roses 1989 - 2009 CD, LP & USB set, King Crimson - 40th Anniversary KCCBx1, Duane Allman, War of the Worlds 7 disc deluxe, Sandy Denny live at the BBC, Genesis 1981 - 2007, 1970 - 1975, Simon & Garfunkel collection, Cash Unearthed, Dusty Springfield - Definate Dusty 00972, ltd. ed. The Beatles red & blue ltd. ed. 13 original studio recordings, Neil Young, The Doors - complete studio recordings, Dylan ltd. ed. deluxe box set. Excellent conditions.
Lot 475
box of LP vinyl records including Frank Zappa - hot rats RSLP6356 gatefold, strictly commercial Ltd edition, weasels ripped my flesh Ltd sealed, the strawbs from the Wychwood and grave New World, supertramp crime of the century +2 others the Stranglers Plus one other, 10 CC, talking heads, stone the crows, Slade, small faces limited edition ogdens nut gone flakes, Spandau Ballet, Bruce Springstein, simple minds, Donovan, free, garbage, Steve Hackett, Roy Harper jugula. etc over 100 records in very good condition
Lot 573
Collection of 7" singles + E.P.s including The Rolling Stones, EP DFE 8590, The Animals are back EP SEG 8452, Black Sabbath - Paranoid 6059 010, Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser WIP-6029A, The Who, The Jam, Small Faces F12317 (unboxed DECCA), Free - Mouthful of Grass, WIP 6082, The Sex Pistols, The MJ6 - - Tracey's Theme, The Specials aka Live, The Move, Otis Redding on Stax 601031, The Kinks 7N15813, David Bowie, Prince, Gary Numan, The Stone Roses etc. Various conditions (50+)
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