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Comprising: a cedarwood circular table, seven Cape Regency side chairs, a table with a central short frieze drawer, a Cape Regency bench, and a rosewood puzzle box; And A Money Box, the rectangular top carved with a lion, the front and back carved with images of Paul Kruger and Queen Victoria respectively and inscribed 'MADE BY B POW ST HELENA 16.6.1901, each side carved with the English and the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek coat of arms respectively, restorations the money box 12,5cm high, 17cm wide, 12,5cm deep PROVENANCE Acquired by Lt Col Henry Octavian Percival Wright during his tenure on the island and brought with him when he emigrated to South Africa, thence by descent. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Wright arrived on the 3rd of February 1901 on St Helena as a major on the H.M.T. Canada under the command of Captain Maddox. He was the Officer Commanding Troops at Broad Bottom Camp and a document from the National Archives in the UK in Wright's own hand records him as being 'Reserve of Officers'. He was born on the 10th October 1849 in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire and died aged 74 in Kalk Bay and was buried in Muizenberg. He was called out of retirement by the Crown to take command of the Boer prisoners on St Helena and accepted a position as a loss adjuster to the British and Boer farmers of the Eastern Cape rather than return to England.
The ribbed pear-shaped body rising to shaped foliate rim painted to the top with iron-red blossoms, the body painted with two cartouches containing a low table with a basket of flowers amongst large chrysanthemums, all reserved on a dense brocade and floral ground, minor age wear, minor gilt loss23,8cm highPROVENANCE Basil Brady Collection
Augustus Petermann & Hermann HabernichtGotha: Justus Perthes, (1866) [c1880]Copperplate engraving, centerfold, outline and relief colour; sides, top and small section of bottom taped to window mount; soiling line along inner edge of window mount, some foxing, lower left corner: Gezeichet v, H, Habernicht; rev. 1878, lower right corner: Gest. V. C. Stier, Terrain v. C. Jungmann; verso: blankfrom Stieler's Hand-Atlas No. 7133 by 40,6cmPetermann was a German cartographer who was appointed as director of the geographical institute of Justus Perthes in Gotha in 1854, after spending most of his early career in England. At Gotha he introduced innovative and progressive ideas based on both his German and English experience.He also started the first European geographical journal. The map contains a great deal of information and shows the route of explorers such as Livingston, Krapf, Ladislaus Magyur, Silva Porto, Speke, etc. There are also detailed insets of Table and False Bay on the map.LITERATURECartwright, Maps of the South Western Cape of Good Hope, #224Scott, V., Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers (K-P), Riverside: Early World Press, 2003
A large antique 19th Century Georgian heavy oak gate leg table / dining table of elongated rectangular form having two crescent leaves. Single drawer to one end having a brass knob handle with all being raised gun barrel supports united by peripheral stretchers. Measures when closed 67cm x 122cm x 51cm.
A group of 1940’s and later further to include a mahogany standard lamp with turned column and circular base, mahogany hexagonal coffee table by Pratt & Son having a hexagonal top with shaped edges raised on square feet united by cross stretchers with a turned central column along with a rectangular coffee table with angular supports.
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