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Click here to subscribeA COLLECTION OF FINE IRISH GEORGIAN SILVER TABLE SPOONS, comprising:- a pointed handle George III spoon, Dublin 1791, maker's mark of John Shields- a George III bright-cut engraved spoon, Dublin (lacking date mark), maker's mark of Arthur Murphy- and three fiddle pattern silver spoons of various dates and makers(c.295.5g in all) (5)
MINDSZENTY JOZSEF: (1892-1975) Hungarian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Prince Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom 1945-73. Mindszenty was imprisoned by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party during World War II and was later given a life sentence in a show trial in 1949. He was freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and finally allowed to leave the country in 1971. Signed 6.5 x 8.5 photograph of the Cardinal in a head and shoulders pose wearing his religious robes. Mindszenty holds his head in his hands and several microphones appear on the table before him. Photograph by John Fairfax & Sons of Sydney, captured at a press conference in Sydney in the early 1970s shortly after his release from asylum in the United States embassy in Budapest. Signed ('+ Mindszenty') in bold blue ink with his name alone to the lower white border. About EX
ROOSEVELT MARTHA: (1835-1884) American Socialite, mother of American President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt. A true southern belle, she is considered to have been one of the inspirations for Margaret Mitchell's character Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. A good, lengthy A.L.S., Mittie, six pages, 8vo, Henderson, Herkimer County, 28th September 1882, to [Captain James D. Bulloch] 'My darling Brother', on mourning stationery. Roosevelt commences her letter stating 'I think of you tenderly & most lovingly as seated in that little room at Irvine's writing & thinking & looking so far away in yr. dear brown eyes', adding that she shall 'eagerly look for your book & read it with mingled feelings of pride, interest, love, all deeply permeated with the patient, thoughtful, painstaking truthful writer who tho' the revival of most of the incident must be painful in one sense must still remember thy interest such incidents will lend his book'. Roosevelt continues her charming letter with family news of their recent activities and many references to relatives and mutual friends, in part, '…the four or five months Theodore, Elliott & Corinne spent in Dresden in 1873 is always fresh in their memory - & it gave them such a spur in their German. Nannie being near Linlie will be a great comfort & advantage to her. I long to hear of her departure & first impressions….Bamie & I spend October at Tranquillity - hoping that Alice & Teddie, Corinne & Douglas & Elliott will spend some Saturdays & Sundays with us - November will find us all in the City for the winter. I wish you all could see the glorious view from The Mansion & the Farm House….clear atmosphere with every distant point & range, tree farm in view & blue either overall, then all in melting haze & great soft masses of clouds. Purple & gold sunsets, golden sun sets - then the heavens flecked with soft pink clouds & the distant hills steeped in depths of saphire (sic) blue….We took Tea with old Mr & Mrs Ward yesterday in their most comfortable Farm House which had the usual bead baskets large Bible in the best parlour & our tea was exquisite in its daintiness & brightly cleaned real silver….the Pastor of the primitive little church at the village of Henderson is a most agreeable man, a scholar & very fine preacher - Their House most pretty, cake & home made wine they refreshed us with when we called…..Douglas has gone in his dog cart for our mail at Jordanville. He is also ordering potatoes, buckwheat & maple syrup for all of our tables in the winter….Elliott is seated by Corinne reading Sidney Smith's Memoirs & Letters to her….& they are both laughing at some of the bon mots. Mr. Robinson rises at four a.m. after his toilette, he makes a little fire in his room, boils his water & makes his tea & partakes of it with bread & butter, reads & then has prayers at 7 am for the farmer….He again has prayers for us at half past eight after which we breakfast. Our table is waited on by a young girl formerly Mrs. R's Sunday School schooler. Her little brother Willie follows in John Martin's wake in overhauls far too large for him…..Elliott has been unfortunate in the illness of his horse Jack who foundered the other evening after coming in from the ride….the poor old Horse has his two feet done up & in saw dust while the Vet (as D & E say) from Utica visits him….' Roosevelt concludes by sending her love to Hariott, Jessie, Linlie, Jimmie and Stuart. A letter of wonderful content and quite scarce as a result of Roosevelt's untimely death at the age of 48 from typhoid fever. Some light creasing and very minor age wear, otherwise VGJames Dunwoody Bulloch (1823-1901) American Naval Officer, half-brother of Martha Roosevelt. Bulloch served as the Confederacy's Chief Foreign Agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. Based in Liverpool, he operated blockade runners and commerce raiders that provided the Confederacy with its only source of hard currency. Bulloch arranged for the unofficial purchase of Confederate cotton, and the despatch of armaments and other war supplies to the South. His secret service funds are alleged to have been used for the planning of Lincoln's assassination. Never pardoned by the American Government for his role in the Civil War, he spent the rest of his life living in exile in England. The book which Roosevelt refers to in the present letter was Bulloch's The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe which was published in two volumes in 1883. Hariott Foster (1829-1897) Second wife of Bulloch from 1857. They had five children together, James ('Jimmie'), Jessie, Henry, Stuart and Martha Louise. Irvine Stephens Bulloch (1842-1898) American Naval Officer, brother of Martha Roosevelt. Bulloch served with the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War and was the youngest officer on the famed warship CSS Alabama, firing its last shot before it was sunk off the coast of France at the end of the Civil War. Anna Roosevelt Cowles (1855-1931) American Socialite, eldest daughter of Martha Roosevelt. Nicknamed 'Bamie', she was the older sister of Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of Eleanor Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American President 1901-09, eldest son of Martha Roosevelt. Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860-1894) American Socialite, third child of Martha Roosevelt. Father of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the younger brother of Theodore Roosevelt. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933) American Poet & Writer, the youngest child of Martha Roosevelt. Sister of Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of Eleanor Roosevelt. Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861-1884) American Socialite, the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt from 1880-84. Less than two days after giving birth to their only child, Roosevelt tragically died at the age of 22 from Bright's Disease. Her mother-in-law, Martha Roosevelt, somewhat remarkably died on the same day and in the same house.
KRISHNA RAJA WADIYAR IV: (1884-1940) Maharaja of Mysore 1894-1940. An interesting T.L.S., Krishnaraja Wadiyar, six pages, 8vo, The Palace, Mysore, 8th October 1930, to Sir Stuart [Mitford Fraser], on his attractive colour printed stationery. The Maharaja thanks Sir Stuart for his letter of the 23rd 'It is with considerable interest that I read your views on the present political situation in India and on India's demand for self Government. All eyes are now focussed on the Round Table Conference to be held in London. I wish better counsels had prevailed and the Congress Party instead of making impossible proposals to the viceroy as a condition precedent to their entire entry into the Round Table Conference had actually participate in it. A party that wields such influence in the country might have co-operated with Lord Irwin who has been such a genuine sympathiser if India's aspirations.' Continuing, the Maharaja gives an insight into the role of Indian women in politics 'Two years ago who would have thought that the women of India proverbially shy and backward would develop such a public spirit? … Daughters of merchants dealing in foreign cloth have joined the boycott movement regardless of their father's ruin…For the first time in the history of Mysore two Indian ladies have been nominated this year as members of the Representative Assembly'. And further continuing 'The youth of India have become a most undisciplined lot. They are not under the control of parents nor are they amenable to the discipline of schools or colleges. Their whole time is devoted to politics and they are blindly led by the Congress leaders.' Concluding 'How happy I would have been had it been possible to welcome Lady Fraser and yourself as my guests during Dasara? I only hope it is a deferred pleasure and you will some day before long revisit India and come to Mysore where you spent the best period of your official career.' A letter of fine content. VGSir Stuart Mitford Fraser (1864-1963) British Officer of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Tutor to the Maharajas of Kolhapur and Bhavnagar, and later (1896-1902) tutor and guardian to the Maharaja of Mysore. The three Round Table Conferences of 1930-32 were organised by the British Government to discuss constitutional reforms in India. The present letter was written a month before the First Round Table Conference of November 1930 - January 1931.
KRISHNA RAJA WADIYAR IV: (1884-1940) Maharaja of Mysore 1894-1940. An interesting T.L.S., Krishnaraja Wadiyar, four pages, 8vo, Camp Kemmangundi, 16th December 1931, to Sir Stuart [Mitford Fraser], on his attractive colour printed stationery. The Maharaja thanks Sir Stuart for his letter of the 10th October and reflects on the Mysore Dasara, continuing 'Soon after the Dasara, several Sate problems, which caused considerable anxiety, had to be threshed out and solved… It was by no means a pleasant duty for me to order the cut in the salaries of my officers… Having a strenuous time, I felt the need of a short holiday'. The Maharaja continues in telling his correspondent of travelling in Balehonnur, Chickmagalur 'and other Malnad parts of the Kadur District… While camping there, I had the good luck to bag two tigers in a neighbouring jungle.' Concluding 'As regards the Round Table Conference, I need not say much. It remains to be seen whether the congress will make good use of the opportunity to spurn it. It cannot however be gainsaid that this unhappy country will have to pass through more troublous times on account of the irreconcilable attitude of the Congress.' A letter of great insight. VGSir Stuart Mitford Fraser (1864-1963) British Officer of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Tutor to the Maharajas of Kolhapur and Bhavnagar, and later (1896-1902) tutor and guardian to the Maharaja of Mysore. The three Round Table Conferences of 1930-32 were organised by the British Government to discuss constitutional reforms in India. The present letter was written at the time of the Second Round Table Conference of September - December 1931.
London General Omnibus Company POCKET MAPS dated September 1916 (titled 'Map of some Motor-bus Extensions of the London Underground Railways') and No 12 1922 overprinted 'By the Courtesy of Electric Railway House. Presented with Herts Advertiser Time Table January 1923'. Both have a few very small fold-partings but are generally in very good condition. [2]
London General Omnibus Company 1913 BEDFORD MOTOR-BUS TIME TABLE of in-Town and out-Town Services. A fold-out leaflet with a map of the two networks on either side. Print-coded September 1913, from the period when the LGOC operated services in its own name in Bedford. An extraordinary survivor, in very good condition. [1]
West Ham Corporation Tramways items comprising a June 1908 OFFICIAL GUIDE, TIME TABLE, MAP & HANDBOOK, a 96pp booklet with two fold-out maps (cover has been repaired) plus a 1925 fold-out LEAFLET 'A few facts about your Tramways' with picture of latest tramcar (in very good condition). [2]
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