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Click here to subscribeVINERS; a hallmarked silver canteen of cutlery, comprising eight table and eight dessert forks, eight soup and eight dessert spoons, eight tea spoons, and two serving spoons, with eight pairs of fish knives and forks, eight side and eight table knives, 73ozt of weighable silver, Sheffield, 1964, in a teak canteen.Condition Report: Full eight setting service with two serving spoons. Knifes with steel blades have not been weighed.
An Edwardian three-piece silver tea service and a silver salver; tea service by Henry Mattews, Birmingham 1910, comprising a teapot, a twin-handled sugar bowl and a creamer, all of a lobed baluster form with a wide flared lip on stepped spread foot, equipped with leaf-capped ebonised wooden handles and urn-shaped finial, gilt interior; together with a salver by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co., Sheffield 1892, with beaded shaped rim and acanthus foliage, rests on four paw feet, profusely engraved and stippled with strapwork and scrollwork, centred with family crest, 36.0 cm in diameter; Total weight of items 53.6ozt. (4)
An Arts & Crafts four piece silver tea service comprising teapot, hot water jug, tri-handled sugar bowl and milk jug, squat hammered (planished) bodies each on three scroll feet, each handle with leaf terminals, the pots with ebony handles and finials, all hallmarked by Charles Edwards, London, 1914. (4) Gross Weight approx. 35.6 ozt (1107.2 grams).
A MATCHED SILVER FIDDLE, SHELL AND THREAD PATTERN PART TABLE SERVICE VARIOUS MAKER'S AND DATES, ENGRAVED WITH A CREST To include: six Victorian table forks by Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater, London 1841, 20.5cm (8in) long; a matching fork by William Eaton, London 1837; four George IV dessert spoons by William Chawner II, London 1829, 18cm (7in) long; two matching spoons by Willian Eaton, London 1837; eight dessert forks, 17.5cm (7in) long; six Victorian tea spoons by Elizabeth Eaton, London 1855, 14CM (51/2in) long; and a George IV fish slice by William Chawner II, London 1829, 32cm (12 1/2in) long 1917g (61.7 oz) gross
A BRASS LINGAM COVER WITH THE HEAD OF SHIVA, MAHARASHTRA, 18TH - 19TH CENTURYWestern India. Heavily and expressively cast, the serene face with almond-shaped eyes, a broad nose, and full lips framed by a long curled mustache, flanked by wide ears, the head surmounted by a crown with a lappet trim and conical finial pierced with two apertures.Provenance: From the collection of Peter Millett. Peter Millett (1925-2016) was born in Karwar, Karnataka, on the west coast of India, where his father was serving in the forestry department of the British administered Indian Civil Service. His father-in-law encouraged him to take up a career in tea plantation management, and he moved with his wife and three daughters to the Pambra Estate in Kerala in 1958. There he developed a fondness for the working elephants on the estate and immersed himself in local culture. He became fluent in Tamil and after his eventual retirement in England, he started to pursue his favorite pastime, antique auctions with Indian art, a field in which he was a respected expert.Condition: Good condition with old wear, extensive traces of use and some casting flaws, small nicks and dents, light scratches, losses, structural cracks, remnants of ancient lacquer coating. The bronze with a smooth, naturally grown patina with malachite and cuprite encrustations.Weight: 2,526 gDimensions: Height 26 cmLiterature comparison: Compare a related brass Shivalinga cover, dated 17th-18th century, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number AC1995.220.1. Compare a closely related Shiva mask in the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon, illustrated in Subashini Aryan, Masterpieces of Indian Folk and Tribal Art, 2005, p. 63, No. 113.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 18 September 2013, lot 249Price: USD 7,500 or approx. EUR 9,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A large brass lingam cover in the form of a head, India, Maharashtra, 18th/19th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and manner of casting. Note the size (40.6 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's London, 19 March 2013, lot 387Price: GBP 4,375 or approx. EUR 7,700 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A large brass head of a male deity, possibly Karnataka or Maharashtra, India, 19th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and manner of casting. Note the similar size (28 cm).
A scarce Royal Marines M.S.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant Joseph Hetheridge, Royal Marine Artillery, a Crimean veteran who received his award in 1919 Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Field Marshal’s bust (Joseph Hetheridge, Sergt. 6th Company. R.M.A.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, neatly plugged at 12 o’clock and fitted with later straight bar suspension, good very fine (3) £600-£800 --- M.S.M. announced in GO 42 of 1919 and awarded on 24 May 1919. One of 35 award issued with G.V.R. Field Marshal’s bust. Joseph Hetheridge was born in Portsmouth in 1839 and enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery in May 1854, aged 15. He was posted to the new screw steamer Royal Albert, soon to be flagship of the British fleet operating in the Black Sea. Royal Albert was a fine, new warship, launched in 1854; she was a three-decker mounting 121 guns and the largest and most powerful warship at that time. She must have been a very impressive ‘first appointment’ for a 15 year old! Royal Albert led the powerful fleet of 60 British and French warships (with 18,000 soldiers) to seize the Straits of Kertch in May 1855 - the precursor of the campaign in the Sea of Azoff. Hetheridge, however, may have escaped even minimal sea-going duties. Since he was later awarded the Crimea medal with clasp Sebastopol he was presumably part of the Royal Marine contingent landed from the fleet to serve ashore as early as September 1854 - only two weeks after the allied expeditionary force landed in Kalamita Bay. The initial R.M. contribution was 25 Officers and 988 Royal Marines, landed on 29 September, followed a few days later by another 10 Officers and 212 men. Eventually, a force of 2,400 sailors and 2,000 Royal Marines was landed at Balaklava, the Marines formed in to R.M. battalions. Most of the Marines were positioned in a cordon around Balaklava, taking in the village of Kadikoi, and constructed defensive lines of trenches, gun positions etc. (known as "Marine Heights") forming a peripheral defence for the British port. Apart from these positions, some of the Marine Artillery manned the naval guns mounted as part of the artillery force bombarding the city and served throughout the siege; it is presumably this force in which Hetheridge served and earned the Sebastopol clasp. After more than a year ashore, the Naval and R.M. contingents returned to their ships on 11 September 1855, the day after Sebastopol was entered by the allies following the last assault on 9 September. On the 17, amidst great cheering, flag-waving and the sound of regimental bands, they embarked at Balaklava and left the land theatre, having received the ‘hearty thanks’ of the Commander in Chief, General Simpson. Of the approximately 4,500 R.N. and R.M. personnel who had landed, 8 officers and 95 men were killed, and 38 officers and 437 men wounded. Hetheridge was presumably back aboard Royal Albert for her last significant action during the war - the Allied attack on the forts on the spit at Kinburn, to the west of the Crimea, guarding the estuary of the Dnieper. Some of the men of Royal Albert went ashore with rescue parties to put out fires in the damaged forts and rescue stores. This, a month after the fall of Sebastopol, was the last major action of the Russian War in the Black Sea. It is recorded that when Royal Albert returned to Constantinople after the campaign, Hetheridge was one of the ship's Guard of Honour formed to welcome a visit by the Sultan. This ended Hetheridge's first and last taste of war. All this had taken place at the beginning of his career - he was only 16 when it ended - and he went on to serve in the R.M.A. until 1878, including service on H.M.S. Warrior, finally being discharged as a Sergeant after 24 years' total service, of which 21 were ‘of age’. Clearly a man for whom the Marines were a significant part of his life, Hetheridge did not stray far when he ‘retired’ in 1878 for, in 1881, he got a job as a nurse at the R.M.A. hospital in Portsmouth and stayed for 18 years, finally leaving in 1899. Strangely, there is no trace of an award to him of the Naval L.S. & G.C. medal, though fully 43 years after he retired from the R.M.A., he was to receive in 1919 the Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal. But the Crimean War was to linger. For some unknown reason, although Hetheridge received his British medal and clasp for the Crimea, his Turkish medal never arrived. It may have rankled with him and he must have made representations in later years to try to get the medal he was entitled to. Eventually, in July 1913, his local M.P., Bertram Falle (later Lord Portsea), not unsurprisingly took a great interest in naval matters, and took up the case, arranging with the Ottoman authorities for the presentation of this long-delayed award. Hetheridge, then aged 74, was taken to the Turkish Embassy in London, under the patronage of the M.P., and was presented with his Turkish Crimea medal by the Ottoman Ambassador, H.H. Prince Tewfik. The old man was then given a tour of the House of Commons and afternoon tea. A photograph from circa 1920 shows Hetheridge wearing all three of his medals. Hetheridge lived in the same house in Southsea for over 50 years and died there on 31 March 1931, buried in the Highland Road Cemetery. It was widely reported in the local press and elsewhere that he was the last survivor of the Royal Marine force which had served ‘before Sebastopol’ 76 years earlier. Sold with copied research including obituary with photograph from The Globe and Laurel, 1931 (reproduced from Portsmouth Evening News), various medal roll extracts and service details, mostly copied to disc.
A Great War ‘Balkans theatre’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Mary M. L. Johns, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Sister M. M. L. Johns.); France, Third Republic, Medaille des Epidemies en argent (M. L. Johns 1919) the case to first a little worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. France, Medaille des Epidemies London Gazette 21 July 1919. The French award was initially graded as ‘en vermeil’. The correction appears in the London Gazette of 4 September 1919. Mary Maud Lilian Johns was born in Chester on 17 January 1881, the daughter of a tea and provision merchant. Educated at the Ladies School, Rhyl, she trained as a nurse at the Borough Fever Hospital in Ipswich from 1908 to 1910. She then transferred to the Bethnal Green Infirmary from 1910 to 1913, before engaging in private nursing. Accepted for service with the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 30 December 1915, Johns was mobilised on 10 January 1916 and sent to Salonika with No. 49 General Hospital on 20 April 1917. Here she would have been heavily engaged in helping wounded men and those suffering from malaria and other diseases. Transferred to No. 82 General Hospital in Constantinople, she served as part of the Army of the Black Sea from 24 July 1920 to 13 January 1921. Returned home to England, Johns transferred to District Nursing and was selected for the permanent reserve; she was removed in 1934 having failed to report. Sold with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
A Royal Albert porcelain Old Country Roses pattern part dinner, tea and coffee service, seconds, comprising vegetable tureen and cover, oval meat platter, sauce boat on stand, six dinner, dessert, soup and side plates, six fruit bowls, a pair of large place mats, set of six table mats, boxed, teapot, coffee pot, two tier cake stand, pair of graduated sugar bowls, pair of graduated cream and milk jugs, six tea cups, six coffee cups and eight saucers, and a pair of novelty shoes.
ROYAL ALBERT. 38 pieces of Royal Albert 'Old Country Roses' including, a large fluted stand, diameter 34cm, a cake stand, bread & butter plate & a tea service comprising, ten cups, ten saucers, ten tea plates, two jugs, a sugar bowl, a preserve pot & a teapot. Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CANNOT SHIP THIS LOT due to fragility, size or weight. Our recommended carrier is MBE Plymouth on +44 (0) 1752 257224 or info@mbeplymouth.co.uk.
A Royal Albert Old Country Roses part dinner, tea and coffee service, comprising lidded tureens, dinner plates, sides plates, cereal bowls, soup bowls, gravy boat and saucer, teapot, coffee pot, cups, coffee cups, saucers etc.Condition report:Additional photographs of the full collection have been added. All items are 1st quality. Four cups, one soup bowl, one gravy boat and the lid for one tureen have hairline cracks. The floral centrepiece has several losses.
Royal Crown Derby bone china octagonal shape rose bowl, Old Imari pattern, date marked for 1979, width 24cm; together with an extensive Royal Crown Derby table service; including a pair of oval vegetable tureens, eight dinner plates, eight soup plates, eight dessert plates, eight tea plates, eight cups and saucers, and two oval meat plates.Condition report:All pieces are 1st quality. All in very good condition, with little to no wear.
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