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Lot 1201
A 9mm Luger by D.W.M., dated 1916 with full matching serial numbers (3345), a very fine example with moving trigger and toggle and removable magazine, a leather period Luger holster complete with striping tool is also included, the pistol has been sympathetically deactivated to legal requirements with certificate
Lot 469
Watchmakers Topping Tool, Switzerland/French, last half 19th century, unsigned, Brass and Steel Rounding-up Too for the final shaping of watch wheel teeth, with turned wood crank handle to large drive wheel, all mounted on a French polished Mahogany base with drawer containing 21 Carpano cutting wheels and collets, base width 25cm, height 28cm
Lot 472
A Geared, Late 19th Century Watchmakers Lathe, English, Late 19th Century, unsigned, with hand crank driven gear to main steel spindle, 12cm diameter faceplate with 3 fixing points, adjustable tool stock with X-Y control, with adjustable and removable tailstock, missing wooden base block, length 51cm
Lot 161
Michael Ayrton (British, 1921-1975)Night Landscape oil on board24 x 35.5cm (9 7/16 x 14in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Matthiesen Gallery, London, where acquired by the family of the present owner, December 1962, and thence by descentPrivate Collection, U.K.Night Landscape is part of a series of works on this theme which Ayrton painted during the early 1960s, inspired by his visits to Greece and his developing exploration of the legendary flight of Daedalus and his son Icarus out of the Cretan labyrinth built by Daedalus to house the Minotaur. Icarus flew too close to the sun, which destroyed his wings so that he fell into the sea and drowned; Daedalus survived and landed at Cumae, near Naples. This legend, and the associated story of the Minotaur, obsessed Ayrton for almost twenty years, resulting in some of his most powerful works in sculpture and painting, as well as two novels and a full-scale labyrinth in America. At one level the Night paintings record his fascination with the Greek landscape itself, especially Delos and the Cycladic islands; they are also part of his developing vision of the reality of the flight, of which he wrote in his novel, The Maze Maker, a fictionalised autobiography of Daedalus himself. Daedalus recalls nightfall on the wing after their escape:'The night came up, dredged from the sea and filled with gathering cloud. I looked down and saw the sea scuffed with breakers, ruffled and leaden ... I knew and feared the trap and end of night [and] I felt it closing in on me ...Far below I saw the seal-backed shapes of islands sleeping under me. There will be nothing remarkable in this to you, but it was new to me ... I saw how islands chanced above the surface and where, but for a fathom or so, there would have been other islands and I recognised the disorder of the earth's surface poured on its core in a flow like bronze escaped from the kiln and spreading, cooled and wrinkled on the ground.'The colours of the landform in the present lot are very much those of liquid and cooling bronze, insofar as paint can render them, and the vastness of the night sky reflects the horror felt by Daedalus flying through the dark. The Night paintings were important to Ayrton, both as a celebration of his love of Greece and its spectacular interpenetration of land and sea and as a vital visual tool extending his understanding of this ancient myth in practical as well as legendary terms.We are grateful to Dr Justine Hopkins and the Ayrton Estate for their assistance in cataloguing this lot and for compiling this catalogue entry.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 134
A box containing various metal wares including Palmer & Co. of London brass chamberstick, 24 cm high, various other candlesticks, cast brass flat figure of "Medieval woman with hands in prayer", 47.5 cm high, Liberty & Co. copper chamberstick base, bearing stamp "RD 188227 Liberty & Co." (damaged and incomplete), James Keyes pin stapling tool, brick iron, etc
Lot 2213
MSS/Mamod Queens Golden Jubilee locomotive, purple, as new unsteamed in very near mint condition, limited edition /500 with certificate and instructions, missing funnel and tool, box is in excellent condition with wood display base. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)
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