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Two early 18th Century silk embroideries, circa 1715, both with a jardinière rested on a table top with a burst of flowers to both, 20cm x 23.5cm and 17cm x 22cm, the back of one frame with a printed advert for James Sykes, Stay-Maker, removed from Middle-Row in Holborn to the Golden-Stay and Fox in St Giles Broad-Way; Who Maketh and Selleth all sorts of Stays, Jumps and Boddice, Wholesale adn Retail, housed inside the frames two slips of paper showing figure work for materials, Mrs Rousier Bought of Peter Guerin the 14 April 1715, then with a detailed list of the material purchased with prices, (2)
Two Louis XV Style Oval Coffee Tables With A Matching Side Table and Two Marble Top Pedestals (As Found)Coffee table - (H)52 x (W)117 x (D)63 cmSide table - (H)53 x (W)44.5 x (D)40.5 cmPedestal - (H)97 x (Diameter)39 cm *Please note this Lot is subject to 44% on the hammer price*
Sterling silver cutlery to include a soup ladle 78g, 5 dinner forks 294g makers marks Mary & Elizabeth Sumner 1809 - 1813, 6 spoons 288g makers marks Josiah Williams & Co (George Maudsley Jackson & David Landsborough Fullerton) , five coffee spoons 64g, six tea spoons 130g, three table spoons 226g & two serving spoons 114g
* Trier (Walter, 1890-1951). Which One Next? pen & ink with black crayon cartoon on wove, depicting Winston Churchill supporting a vast tier of different hats upon his head, some horizontal folds, 42.5 x 24.5 cm, framed and glazed, Ireland Bros. framer's label to backboard, together with: ibid., "Aunties 1", pen, ink & watercolour wash, heightened with bodycolour on wove portrait of Clementine Churchill seated by a dressing table holding a pair of lorgnette spectacles, 34 x 22.5 cm, framed and glazedQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Walter Trier (1890-1951) was born to German-Jewish parents in Prague in 1890 and moved to Berlin in 1910 following his studies in art. He was one of the Weimar Republic’s most famous illustrators and is best known for his artwork for Erich Kästner’s perennially popular children’s book Emil and the Detectives and his engaging cover illustrations for Lilliput (the British antifascist pocket magazine published throughout WWII).
* The Dambusters Raid. A remarkable Autograph Letter Signed, ’Wiggy’, School House, Godolphin, Salisbury, Wilts, 20 May 1943, written by 16-year-old Mary Wallis, (Wiggy was a family nickname), to her father Barnes Wallis, upon hearing the news of the success of the Dambusters raid, and reminiscing about the experiments with marbles in the family’s garden which led to Wallis’s bouncing bomb design, 'Hooray, hooray, hooray!!!!! Wonderful marbles. Up the marbles. Cheers cheers cheers. Oh, well done Daddy. I’ve been bouncing round and leaping up and downstairs and beaming at all the staff and hugging all my little friends with exuberance ever since I got Mouey’s [nickname for her mother Molly] card proclaiming the great news. Everybody thinks I’m a bit potty because I’m so pleased but won’t say why … When will it be public property, or don’t you know. As a matter of fact as soon as I read in the paper about the bombing of the dams in Germany I guessed that the kitchen bath tub and that wonderful erection of the garden table and kitchen chairs, and the complicated string-moving-up-and-down business, and the cold, cold water spilt in vain efforts to fill the tub, and the wild shrieks from Lis when the marbles lost themselves in the onion bed, and the impossible task of trying to see whether a minute marble bounced under or over a wobbley piece of string, were not in vain. Really, I have quite a maternal feeling for the little dears after all that…’, concluding with apologies for the paper and that ‘No more is to hand. Must do a Latin unseen, What a come-down. With very much love, congratulations & pride’, written neatly in blue ink on feint-ruled paper with two file holes to left edge, a couple of minor ink smudges and some light, minor creasing and age wear, three very short splits to right edge with no loss of paper or legibility, 2 pages, 4to (20 x 16.5 cm), together with a modern colour digital scan from a photograph of Barnes Wallis with his children in the garden making the experiments, 16 x 24 cmQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the family of Barnes Wallis, by direct descent. An historic and poignant Dambusters letter written in the immediate aftermath of the Operation Chastise attack on German dams, carried out on 16-17 May 1943 by RAF No. 617 Squadron. While too young to fully appreciate what her father’s garden experiments with marbles and a bathtub were about Mary and her siblings knew it was of some importance. It was only some years later when the news of the breaching of the Mohne and Eder dams reached Mary at her boarding school, in a letter from her mother Molly, that the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place and led to this giddy outpouring of excitement and pride in her father’s achievements.
* Japanese Instrument of Surrender. Lithographically-printed document completed and signed in manuscript on board HMAS Burdekin [in Makassar Strait], 8 September 1945, being the Instrument of Surrender by which all Japanese troops in Borneo surrender to Major Edward James Milford (1894-1972), Commander Seventh Australian Division, the two date lines completed in manuscript in calligraphic black ink, and signed in black ink in Japanese characters by Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada as Commander 22 Base Force Dutch Borneo, and signed in blue ink below the second date line by Milford, some overall creasing, a few minor marginal splits and a little spotting, mostly to lower area of document but not affecting signatures, 60.5 x 38 cmQty: (1)NOTESWith the cessation of hostilities in August 1945, HMAS Burdekin was one of a number of ships that made unsuccessful attempts to contact Japanese forces on the island of Ambon. Shortly afterwards, on board ship on 8 September 1945, the surrender of Dutch Borneo by the Japanese was accepted by Major E.J. Milford from Vice-Admiral Michiaki Kamada. A surrender table was arranged on the quarterdeck and the Japanese were received on board whereupon a number of questions were put to Admiral Kamada, and when the matter of signing the surrender was raised he said that he would sign on behalf of the Japanese Navy only. However, General Milford would not accept this, the instrument of surrender was produced and Vice-Admiral Kamada signed. At the conclusion of the ceremony in which Vice-Admiral Kamada also surrendered his sword, Kamada and his staff disembarked. A similar instrument of surrender in which the Japanese surrendered to the Australian general Sir Vernon Sturdee in the South Pacific was controversially sold at auction for AUD $102,000 in 2009. That instrument of surrender was one of three copies made: one for the ship on which it was signed, HMS Glory, one for the Japanese and one for the Australians. It is thought that the copy sold at auction was the Australians' copy and was considered to be a document of the Crown. The Australian War Memorial has in its collection both an original and a copy of this instrument of surrender and it is believed that this is also one of three original copies and therefore in all probability the copy made for the ship on which it was signed, HMS Burdekin. The ceremony of the surrender marked the high point of Milford's military career. Wrongly diagnosed as having prostate cancer, he was placed on the Retired List on 23 April 1948, but lived until 1972. Michiaki Kamada (1890-1947) was tried in a Dutch military court in Pontianak which convicted him of war crimes for the executions of 1,500 West Borneo natives in 1944 and the ill treatment of 2,000 Dutch P.O.W.s held on Flores Island. He was sentenced to death and was executed on 18 October 1947.
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