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An early 20th Century Art Deco demi-lune card console table having a shaped walnut veneered opening top revealing a recess underneath, raised on four tapering legs with acanthus leaf feet, with carved relief decoration to the frieze. Measures 76cm high x 92cm wide x 45cm deep.
A G-Plan retro teak wood 1970's graduating nest of two tables in the Quadrille pattern. The tables having angular legs united by reverse stretchers with graduating table tops above. Measures 49 cm high x 53 cm wide x 43 cm deep. Together with a 1970's retro teak wood quartetto nest of tables raised on turned legs with a series of tables to underside. Measures: 56cm high x 62cm wide x 42cm deep
[JOHNSON AMY]: (1903-1941) English Pioneer Aviatrix. A good hardbound 4to menu for a Luncheon in Honour of Miss Amy Johnson, being ‘A Tribute from Representatives of British Youth & Achievement in all Activities of Life to Her Courage and Endurance during her Historic Flight from England to Australia May 5-24, 1930’, hosted by the proprietors of the Daily Mail at the Savoy Hotel, London, on 6th August 1930, signed to two inside pages by over twenty individuals present at the luncheon, including Richard Richardson (Lord Mayor of Hull, the city of birth of Johnson) and his wife, the Lady Mayoress, the Deputy Lord Mayor, and the Sheriff of Hull and his wife, Woolf Barnarto (1895-1948, British Financier & Racing Driver, one of the ‘Bentley Boys’ of the 1920s and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race in 1928, 1929 & 1930), Eileen Fearnley-Whittingstall (1907-1979, English Tennis Player who won six Grand Slam doubles titles 1927-31), Harry Gordon Selfridge Jr. (1900-1976, Son of Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr., founder of the department store Selfridges), John William Johnson and Amy Johnson (the parents of Amy Johnson), William Morris (1877-1963, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English Motor Manufacturer & Philanthropist), George Sutton (Managing Director of Associated Newspapers), Mildred Bruce (1895-1990, Mrs. Victor Bruce, British Record-Breaking Racing Motorist, Speedboat Racer and Aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s), Sylvia Thompson (1902-1968, English Novelist), Diana Fishwick (1912-1998, English Women’s Golf Champion), H. W. ‘Bunny’ Austin (1906-2000, English Tennis Player, Wimbledon finalist in 1932 & 1938), Tom Webster (1886-1962, English Cartoonist & Caricaturist; alongside an original pencil sketch of a long bearded man standing in a full length pose with the holograph caption ‘I may not look 35, but there! I’m a Russian’), William McWhirter (English Editor of the Sunday Pictorial and Managing Director of Associated Newspapers 1944-50, father of Norris and Ross McWhirter, founders of Guinness World Records), Violette Cordery (1900-1983, British Racing Driver & Long Distance record breaker), Jack Hylton (1892-1965, English Pianist & Band Leader), Lupino Lane (1892-1959, English Actor & Theatre Manager), Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905-1962, English Actress), P. H. Fearon (1874-1948, British Cartoonist for the Daily Mail, known as ‘Poy’; alongside an original pencil caricature of the Brighton hotelier Harry Preston), Richard Hughes (1900-1976, British Writer) etc. All have signed in bold pencil or dark fountain pen inks. The menu includes a Sonnet in Homage to Johnson by Robert Nichols, an essay entitled Dea Ex Machina by Sylvia Thompson and illustrated with six photographs of Johnson taken at various stages of her historic flight, a Guest List organised by profession, and the cover features a reproduction of a painting by Joan Manning Sanders (some tears and age wear). Accompanied by the loosely inserted original printed oblong 8vo invitation card issued to Annie Croft and a printed table plan for the luncheon. With the ink ownership signature of Annie Croft (1896-1995, English Stage Actress, mother of the writer & producer David Croft) to the upper edge of the front cover. The binding is a little loose and with some light overall age wear, G
FREUD LUCIAN: (1922-2011) German-born British Painter. Signed colour 4 x 4.5 reproduction of Freud’s painting entitled Naked Portrait (1972-73) depicting a naked lady lying on a bed alongside a small table with several paint brushes upon it, signed by Freud with his initials (‘L.F.’) in bold gold ink to a clear area of the image. Annotated in pencil in the hand of a collector to the verso, ‘Obtained for me in 2007 by Frank Auerbach. Freud hated signing & apparently this is the best F.A. could do for me!’. Rare. Very slightly irregularly trimmed to the lower edge, otherwise VG Frank Auerbach (1931- ) German-British Painter. Both Auerbach and Freud were prominent members of the ‘School of London’ and Freud painted a portrait of Auerbach in 1975-76
GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH: GEORGE VI(1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52 & ELIZABETH (1900-2002) Queen Consort, the Queen Mother. Signed Christmas greetings card by both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth individually, the folding 8vo stiff cream card featuring an image to the inside of the Royal couple standing in full length poses together alongside their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. The four stand on the upper deck of HMS Vanguard as they arrive at Cape Town at the start of the Royal Tour of the Union of South Africa in 1947. Table Mountain can be clearly seen in the distance. Signed by King George VI ('George R') and Queen Elizabeth ('Elizabeth R') in fountain pen inks beneath a printed greeting and dated 1948 in the King's hand. With gold embossed crown to the front. A couple of very light, small stains to the lower edges, VG
CINEMA: Selection of A.Ls.S. (2) and T.Ls.S. by various film actors and actresses, some of them Academy Award winners, including Ray Milland (recalling his first meeting with Merle Oberon, in part, '….I'd had a date for lunch with my agent……He was already seated at a table for four with a most exotic-looking creature I had ever seen. She looked like something who should be advertising Singapore Airlines, had they existed then, only more exotic…..I never took my eyes off her for the next nine months…..The next time I saw her, in the mid-thirties her name had become Lady Korda…..', 1981), Tilda Swinton, Marlene Dietrich, Patricia Neal, Richard Chamberlain, James Mason, Glenda Jackson, Mary Pickford (resigning as a director of United Artists (Export) Limited, April 1956) etc. A few minor faults, FR to about VG, 10
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