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Lot 260
A Geo. V medal group to include O.B.E. 1914-15 Star with 5th Aug-22nd Nov 1914 bar, British war and Victory naming 2. LIEUT. L.N. STONE. R.G.A., together with miniature examples, WW II War and Defence. (10) Leslie Norman Stone O.B.E (1892-1977) served in both World wars and was promoted to temporary Lieutenant in 1915. He served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and the Ministry of Munitions, which was created during WW I to coordinate the distribution of munitions for the war effort in response to the Shell crisis of 1915. By 1918 Stone was assistant Inspector of Carriages within the ministry, while Winston Churchill was Minister of Munitions. Churchill himself recommended that Stone be awarded the O.B.E. in 1918 and a signed letter of congratulations from him is included in this lot. His appointment is listed in the London Gazette of 15th April 1919, edition No. 31296. Between the Wars, Stone appears to have been a prolific inventor of engineering and electrical components. This lot includes patent applications relating to a form of extensometer and improvements for the electrical wiring of motor vehicles. He is also on record for inventing a non-stop printing mechanism (patent filed 1938) as assignor to R. Hoe & Co. of New York, which enabled the continuous printing of newspapers to allow late news insertions.
Lot 31
SELECTION OF GOLD AND OTHER JEWELLERY comprising a nine carat gold cross pendant with floral and scroll decoration, a nine carat gold dice charm, a nine carat gold stone set miniature shoe, a nine carat gold single stone ring, a nine carat gold cameo earring, a stone set unmarked gold pendant on nine carat gold chain, and a twelve carat gold filled locket pendant
Lot 328
Three small staddlestones, a natural stone column with a long curving top edge and a quantity of staddlestone tops CONDITION REPORTS Bases approx 35cm high. Tops vary from 54cm wide, to 49cm wide. Three of the tops have about 1/3 to half of the top missing, and the others have various chunks missing.
Lot 44
A Chinese famille-rose washbowl, a Samson porcelain armorial mug and an Oriental ginger jar decorated with prunus blossom, an Oriental terracotta teapot decorated with roundels depicting figures in a landscape, an Oriental carved soap stone tray and a small gourd shaped trinket pot CONDITION REPORTS Wash bowl has firing faults, wear to painted decoration, deliberate scratching to base. The mug handle has been broken off and restored badly, areas of loss to paint and enamel. Ginger has no lid, and has been drilled, has firing faults. Teapot has no lid and has significant losses around the rim and spout, paintwork flaking around top. Soapstone tray has losses, cracks and has been reglued. Gourd trinket box appears sound. All items have wear, surface scratches and crazing.
Lot 5
Cheyne (George) - An Essay on Regimen, first edition , contemporary calf, 1740 § Salzmann (C.G.) Gymnastics for Youth, ?translated by Mary Wollstonecraft, folding engraved frontispiece and plates (?after William Blake), browned and water-stained, frontispiece with small hole repaired causing slight loss, contemporary tree sheep, rebacked, Philadelphia, 1802 § Willich (.F.M.) Lectures on Diet and Regimen, fourth edition, 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary sheep, 1809 § Smith (John) The Pourtract of Old Age, second edition, imprimatur leaf, folding table, old ink signature on title, lightly water-stained, some worming, modern half cloth, 1676, the first three rubbed ; and 5 others on health and regimen, 8vo et infra (9) The first advocates moderation in both food and drink, and a diet of milk and vegetables by which the author himself had reduced his weight from thirty-two stone.
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