A presentation vase to Lieutenant William Robinson RFC who won the V.C. for attacking and destroying the Zeppelin airship SL-11 on the night of 2 September 1916. Made from an empty 175mm shell case writhen stem, with applied copper decorative bands to base and rim, with two brass and copper lions heads, ribbons and wreaths around the top and engraved plaque `Presented to William Robinson Esq, Zeppelin strafer 39Sqn R.F.C.` Height 34.5cm; With Photostat details. GC illustrated on Plate 21. Note: on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1916, a fleet of sixteen airships embarked on the biggest raid so far. Among the pilots scrambled to counter this was Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, originally with the Worcestershire Regiment, but now fighting with the Royal Flying Corps, soon to become the Royal Air Force. Flying an obsolete B.E.2c, Lieutenant Robinson encountered a Shutter-Lanz SL-11 airship over north London and engaged it in a David and Goliath encounter. Attacking from beneath, Robinson strafed the ship with machine-gun fire. The SL-11 burst into flames and crashed in a field behind the Plough Inn, Cuffley, killing all sixteen men on board.
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An impressive WW1 silver platedy presentation vase to Flight Sergeant Ernest Haxton, Royal Flying Corps. Wreath embossed rim the body tapering slightly into 3 scalloped feet on plain base. Brass bordered copper presentation panel, with applied RFC badge at the top, inscribed `Presented to Flt. /Sergeant Ernest Haxton for his daring action in attacking German airships on the 1st October 1916. From the Officers of the 39th Home Defence Squadron`. Makers mark `Wallace Trophy 338-16` on base. Height 40.5cm diameter of top and base 16.5 cm. Together with Haxton`s `Soldiers Small Book`, showing that he enlisted into the RFC in Dundee in 1913. Also his leather bound Aviators Certificate as a pilot. Issued by the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom on behalf of the Federation Auronautique Internationale- British Empire, dated 15 July 1916 with photo of E Haxton in uniform. GC some very light denting. Illustrated on Plate 22.
A Moorcroft Pottery limited edition two handled vase, The Stone Mas of Quissac, circa 2010, designed by Emma Bossons, each side decorated with a building above fruit and flowers against a blue ground, No. 23 of 75, impressed and painted factory marks to base, signed by Bossons, height approx 33cm.
Four Plant and Tinsley Production Moorland Chelsea Works Trial pieces of pottery, each with triangular and banded decoration heightened in silver lustre, comprising a flared conical bowl, a high shouldered vase, a baluster vase and a tapering vase with flared rim, black printed, painted and incised factory marks to bases.
A triple ring neck cut glass decanter, early 19th Century, with associated stopper, another decanter and stopper, four wine glasses, and a collection of ceramics, including two Royal Doulton series ware plates, a ewer, a jug, a Burleigh Ware vase, a Noritake vase and a bisque figure (faults and repairs).
A Carlton Ware New Mikado pattern mottled blue ground circular bowl and stand, gilt and enamelled with a chinoiserie landscape, black printed bluebird mark to bases, pattern No. `2728` (faults and restoration), a Carlton Ware blue ground vase and cover decorated with a peacock amidst flowers (restored), together with a group of ceramics, including a Clarice Cliff Bizarre My Garden pattern vase (cracked), a Sylvac wall pocket and some Poole (faults and restoration).
An Ernst Wahliss porcelain two handled vase, circa 1900, decorated with a gilt enriched blue poppy beneath the foliate moulded neck and handles, iron red printed factory mark to base with black painted numerals and incised `5897`, height approx 15cm, together with a purple malachite pressed glass footed bowl.
A Royal Crown Derby bone china part dessert service, circa 1896, painted with floral sprays and scattered sprigs against a pale yellow ground within a gilt rim, comprising twelve plates and two oval dishes, red printed and impressed factory marks to bases (one plate cracked), together with a Wedgwood bone china vase and a pair of Wedgwood coffee cans and saucers.
A Bursley Ware Charlotte Rhead charger, designed by Eddie Sambrook, tubelined with pink, blue and lilac flowers within scroll and beaded borders against a grey ground, printed and tubelined factory marks including `T. L 95 A` to base, diameter approx 30.5cm, together with a Poole pottery globular vase decorated with an abstract pattern.
A Doulton Burslem bone china vase, early 20th Century, the ivory glazed body of lobed spherical shape gilt and enamelled with blossom branches beneath the relief scroll moulded shoulders, height approx 9.5cm, together with a Doulton Burslem bone china jar and cover, early 20th Century, the high shouldered body decorated in low relief with roses enriched with gilt leaves on a pink and yellow shaded ground between ivory glazed relief scroll and foliate moulded detail, heightened in gilt, height approx 15cm.
A Meissen porcelain vase, 20th Century, of flared form painted with opposing sprays of flowers within gilt banded decoration, crossed swords in underglaze blue to base, together with a German plate decorated with a floral spray within a raised blue and white border, a `Sèvres` porcelain ewer decorated with a bust portrait of a young girl, and a Continental porcelain perfume bottle and stopper decorated with flowers within eau-de-Nil borders and gilt scrolls.
A Julia Donnelly for Siddy Langley glass vase, dated 1987, of gently ovoid shape with pink splashes and orange streaks against a white ground in a clear body, together with a small group of glass including two handkerchief vases and a large blue glass bottle vase with black wirework cage exterior.
An English porcelain green ground vase and cover, Staffordshire late 19th Century, painted with floral bouquets within gilt foliate scroll framing within the gilt overlaid green ground, unmarked, together with a blue glass part dressing table set, two paperweights and a satin glass basket (faults).
A set of six champagne saucers with star cut decoration, a late 18th Century wine glass, the bucket bowl engraved with a bird, thistle and rose on a central knop stem and conical foot, a Poole pottery blue glazed vase of ovoid form decorated with iridescent splashes and two Poole pottery models of bears.
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