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Lot 558
EXTRA LOT: A Ridgway Potteries Homemaker part dinner service, a Bristol Tipped Cigarettes ashtray, other breweriana, glassware, toys and items (3 boxes) Condition report Report by GHRidgeway Homemaker dinner service consists of :6 dinner plates,9 side plates, 6 shallow bowls and 3 deeper bowls, and a milk jug.
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Lot 115
A rare Miniature Room set in the style of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser’s Viennese Succession movement, circa 1908, the wooden (probably birch) cube with double hinged lid and lift-out front panel held closed by hooks and eyes, the exterior decorated with geometric stencilled star pattern fitted with two pairs of black, hinged, window shutters and a turned wooden bell-push as light switch to right side. Interior walls painted in orange with yellow and black chequer and dot frieze. Ceiling with hanging lampshade of strings of green glass beads with light wired to battery compartment wardrobe. Floor with chequer patterned carpet in beige and black. Suite of wooden furniture all painted in grey with white dot border decoration comprising wardrobe with bevel glass mirror door, bed with pillows, mattress, embroidered sheet and blanket with black and green geometric patterned sides and green bobble decoration, bedside pot cupboard and planter, dressing table with metal looking glass, square box table and two stools, two seat sofa with embroidered cushions, two arm chairs with embroidered cushions and seated bisque doll wearing black and white chequer dress , blue card folding screen with hand-painted, white, green and black geometric decoration, two plain white ‘sheer’ curtains hung on metal rings on curtain rail. Walls decorated with two hand painted pictures (woman with cat and winged angel – the latter slightly reminiscent of Gustav Klimt’s painting ‘Hoffnung II’), two embroidered pictures and one bevel glass mirror, all in metal frames hung by cord, 8 5/8x8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (22x22x22cm). History and Provenance: At the end of the 19th century young progressive artists in Vienna set up the break-away movement known as the Secession. Amongst its prominent members were the architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) and the designer Koloman Moser (1868-1918). Both were ‘admirers of English applied art; the mood in the world of Viennese applied art around 1900 was Anglophile and progressive’. Work of the British designers, C.R. Ashbee and C.R. Mackintosh who were viewed as the inheritors of the Ruskin-Morris tradition, featured in their 1900 exhibition and influenced subsequent design developments in Vienna. Ashbee’s work was exhibited regularly in Vienna during the first decade of the 20th century. In 1903 Hoffmann and Moser founded the “Wiener Werkstätte, Produktivgenossenschaft von Kunsthandwerkern in Wien” after Hoffmann had been to England and very probably visited Ashbee’s socialist co-operative, “The Guild of Handicraft”. ‘The declared aim of the Wiener Werkstätte was to vanquish the evils of machine manufacturing and the mass production to which it had given rise. It also wished to re-establish direct contact between consumer and producer.’ Artists wished to unify art and life and interior design offered the opportunity to put this into practice. One of the most notable examples was the Purkersdorf Sanatorium designed by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser in 1904-1906 – ‘a synthesis of form and function, of aesthetics and economy, of the outer form…and the activities pursued within’ – where contrasting squares of colour occur throughout. The use of chequered patterns became a sort of Hoffmann trade mark and they featured again, for example, in his design for the Cabaret Fledermaus in 1907. In 1908 Hoffmann designed the exhibition pavilions for the Kunstschau in Vienna that featured the work of Gustav Klimt and his followers as well as the Wiener Werkstätte. Within that exhibition was a special hall, room 29, which was devoted to Kunst für das Kind (Art for the child) and included a number of dolls houses designed and made by students at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen under the direction of Professor Adolf Böhm. So far it has not been possible to establish whether the doll’s roomset offered here was actually one of those exhibits but it was undoubtedly inspired by and made as a tribute to the work of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser at around this period. It was acquired by the English furniture designer and retailer Ambrose Heal and found its way to England. The period at the turn of the twentieth century was exactly the time when Ambrose Heal (1872-1959) was at his most productive and in contact with the latest design developments across Europe. Before he had set up his own cabinet workshops, his very first bedroom suite designs were manufactured by C.R. Ashbee’s ‘Guild of Handicraft’ in 1897. Ambrose Heal (he was knighted in 1933 and elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 1939) was the man who was responsible for establishing the high design standards for which the Heal family furnishing business in London became known. He had begun using chequer patterns in his designs as early as 1900 but from 1902 it featured prominently not only on furniture but as a border to the company’s advertising. He would therefore have followed with interest its subsequent adoption and development by Hoffmann. Another interesting parallel is that from 1908 onwards Heal’s began to specialise in children’s furniture so that they were invited to furnish an ‘Ideal Modern Nursery’ at the ‘Children’s Welfare Exhibition’ held at Olympia in 1912. An inventory carried out in February 1914 at Ambrose Heal’s home, ‘The Fives Court’, Pinner, by Maple & Co. for the purpose of insurance, listed under the contents of the drawing room “Viennese small wood dolls house & toys £2 2s 0d”. It has remained in the family ever since.
Lot 141
Lot No: Rare Talfourd toys Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass wooden articulated figures, 1920s, twenty-six brightly painted figures including Alice, White rabbit, Mad Hatter, Cheshire cat, Jabberwock, King and Queen of Hearts, White King and Queen, Dodo, Duchess, Frog and Fish footmen, Mock turtle, Humpty Dumpty, Cook, March hare, Gryphon, Walrus, Bill the lizard, Dormouse, Red Queen, White Rabbit as a Herald, Gentleman with handkerchief, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee with sword and umbrella and three oysters together with a wooden garden with hedgerow, two fir trees, two stands and tea set, (in generally excellent condition, Red King slight loss to one foot and one tree to hedgerow broken).
Lot 142
Collection of wooden toys including ‘The smallest doll in the world’ peg doll, tiny jointed wooden doll in a green egg, together with Erzenburg carousel, marching soldiers, buildings, people and animals, tea set, two spring novelty toys in wooden eggs, boxed ‘The pleasure Punt’ toy, dominos and more, (some loss, damage), (lot).
Lot 143
Collection of Erzgebirge wooden toys, 1920s, good selection of painted wooden toys including Fire engine with ladder, Omnibus, van, six open wagons carrying various loads, Torpedo style racing car, horse drawn wagon and coach, fairground rides including swings, see-saws, and rocker, covered stools, selection of people and Bandsmen, locomotive with tender and wagons, selection of wood and cardboard painted buildings including Post Office and church various animals, lamp posts, signs, trees, hedges, fences and more (generally fair to good condition, some loss), Omnibus 2 ¼” (6cm) long, (lot).
Lot 181
Farnell Alpha Toys golden mohair Teddy Bear, circa 1930, with large glass eyes, stitched nose, mouth and claws, felt pads, jointed at neck, shoulder and hips, label to left foot, (overall fair condition, some mohair loss to right side of head, stomach and small area to back, professional restoration to felt paw pads), 19” (48cm) tall.
Lot 195
Nine Replica Steiff Teddy bears and soft toys, including limited edition Teddy bear ‘Old Gold’ 01865/4000, boxed with certificate, 201/2” (52cm) tall, British collectors 2006 ‘Old brown bear’, 00836/3000, 15 ¾” (40cm) tall, limited edition somersaulting bear, reddish blonde, 01011/2006, 11 ¾” (30cm) tall, all with outer packaging, together with Teddy bear with elephant stencil, 01149/1904, boxed Molly Hund, teddy -bar, 1905, and loose Petsy, Fox and Starly parrot, (9 items).
Lot 318
1980s-00s Toys & Action Figures, including a Kamco Saturn Robot, Micro machines Super City, in original boxes, loose Tomy Mr Money Robot, Star Wars Micro machines, action figures including Thundercats, Bucky O-Hare, Battle Trolls, Transformers, Toxic Crusaders, Batman and others, F-VG, boxes F-G (qty)
Lot 83
Assorted Diecast, buses, cars, industrial and commercial vehicles by Great British Buses (4) including a Leyland PD3/Queen Mary, Espewe Modelle 39, Matchbox (6), Majorette, Base Toys (2), Britbus, Armour Collection (1), Oxford Diecast (10) and others, including a DAF01CS James Irlam and a Matchbox MOY 07405 Leyland Titan TD1, together with a quantity of partially constructed and adapted buses, a Shell Motorised Atlas Book and a Matchbox 'Collecting Matchbox Diecast Toys' the First Forty Years, book, some in original boxes, P-E, boxes F-E (70+)
Lot 458
20th Century Bagatelle Game, wooden pyramid shaped metronome system stamped 'maelzel, made in Germany', Vulcan jigsaw puzzle depicting a traction engine, in original box and unchecked for completeness, together with a selection of card and board games, reference books and postcards related to diecast and tinplate toys, F-G, boxes F (qty)
Lot 289
Pelham Puppet Jumpette 'Noddy', small round wooden head, painted features, faux hair, blue eyes, early composite open hands, wearing a blue pointed hat with bell, red shirt and blue shorts, red feet. Madame Alexander Doll, reference 19 C65, composition, in a wig, original hair cut off, dressed in nightwear, two rabbit soft toys, Mettoy Walt Disney Movie Viewer and a china tea set, P-VG (6)
Lot 953
Gauge 1 Trains and Radio Control Gear, including a two-car streamlined battery-electric train by Dickie toys (China), a Continental Bierwagen fitted with electronic device, and a van marked 'EVR' with electronic sound equipment within, together with a quantity of batteries and radio control transmitters, receivers and servos, matching not guaranteed, overall F (qty)
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