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Click here to subscribeBOX 139 - AUSTRALIAN WINE Busby Estate Langhorne Creek Chardonnay 2017Trentham Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013Busby Estate Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2017Shingleback Davey Estate McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017Beresford Classic Chardonnay 20172015 Nest Egg ShirazMiles from Nowhere Shiraz 2017Shingleback Haycutters McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017Casella Black Stump Reserve Shiraz 20172014 Farmer's Leap ShirazColdstream Hills Reserve Chardonnay 20172017 Nest Egg Chardonnay
BOX 140 - AUSTRALIAN WINE Red Knot McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017Shingleback Davey Estate McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017Busby Estate Langhorne Creek Chardonnay 2017Shingleback Davey Estate McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017Beresford Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2015Shingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2016Jim Barry The Forger Shiraz 2016The Gaffer Shiraz 2016Rosemount Estate GSM 20172015 Farmer's Leap Cabernet SauvignonWynns Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 20142017 Nest Egg Chardonnay
Ten bottles of wine comprising; 1996 Chateau L'Eglise-Clinet pomerol, 2008 Chateau L'Eglise-clinet pomerol, 1985 Chateau Batailley Pauillac, 2005 Chateau Pichon-Longueville Pauillac, 1997 Chateau Smith Hatu Latite, 2003 Chateay Smith Haut Lafite, (2x) 1990 Chateau Giscours Margaux, 2005 Duca Bortini De Monteblloe Squinzana and a 2011 Vaio Armaron Serego Alighieri Classico. (10)
A silver wine funnel/aerator, Francis Howard, Sheffield 2011, with a modern clear glass decanter; together with a silver mounted Bohemia glass decanter and pair of tumblers, Laurence R Watson, Birmingham 2009, boxed; a silver mounted ships decanter, Carrs, Sheffield 2005, boxed; and another silver mounted decanter, Carrs Sheffeild, 2004
HAHN OTTO: (1879-1968) German Chemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1944. Hahn is considered the father of nuclear chemistry. A lengthy A.L.S., Otto, six pages, 8vo, n.p., 1st January 1918, to 'Mein Liebling' (his wife, Edith Junghans), in German. Hahn writes an informative social letter to his wife following Christmas and New Year's Eve and states, in part, 'Unlike last year, I did not write two letters to you yesterday. But at least we were able to talk briefly. Actually, I was about to give up, because I had tried to ring Julius' apartment twice before, but nobody picked up…..I would have loved to talk with you a little longer, but we were playing Skat in the next room, and that is important. Also, the colonel wanted to talk to you and wish you a Happy New Year, but you were already gone again and Julius was on the line…..Our celebration last night was very cozy. I had a crazy amount of work during the day…..So we had the usual meal last night, nothing fancy, with the exception of a kind of chocolate dessert with real whipped cream (we do have a cow in the stable!). For drinks with dinner and after, we had planned for the three of us (colonel, medical director, and myself) two bottles of burgundy mixed with one bottle of champagne. There was supposed to follow a punch at midnight……But we never got around to the punch because we prolonged our “Turks Blood” so that in the end, between 8pm and 3am we had consumed 3 bottles of champagne, 2 bottles of burgundy, ½ bottle of red wine, totalling about 2 bottles of alcohol each. Quite a lot, but spread over seven hours, it was tolerable. At the same time, with only short interruptions around midnight, we played wonderful Skat…..At 12, we lit the tree and interrupted the Skat…..I did not give away the rest of my cookies; I still had 1 box of berry cookies which we had after midnight…..I (and others) also enjoy the English mustard which arrived yesterday. O for it!......Judging from your mother's letters, they don't appear to be starving in Plotnick, notwithstanding the milk soup every night. Even the hunt dinner seems to be well put together…..These days, I haven't had much time for my own reading. I am still reading about the very exciting theatre director, even though I find many characters in it very idealised. Do you recall that I wrote a card to Bergrat Knochenbauer…..I had had goose at his place exactly one year ago, and in my note I asked him about his son who was on the front. Today, by way of an answer, I got an obituary. His son, 21, died of his injuries…..Isn't that sad? Yesterday…..I sent you 100 marks. That includes your gift from Santa. Also, do not forget to buy yourself, not from this money, the taffeta before it gets more expensive……' VG Otto Hahn married Edith Junghans (1887-1968), a student at the Royal School of Art in Berlin, on 22nd March 1913. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Hahn was recalled to the army in a Landwehr regiment and the following year was transferred to Berlin as a human Guinea-pig testing poisonous gases and gas masks. Hahn was also sent on frequent missions to the front to find suitable locations for gas attacks and, at the end of the war, was involved in a secret mission to test a pot that heated and released a cloud of arsenicals.
FLEMING IAN: (1908-1964) British Author, creator of the secret agent James Bond. T.L.S., Ian Fleming, with holograph salutation and subscription, two pages, 4to, Kemsley House, London, 20th June 1956, to Antony Terry in Bonn. Fleming thanks his correspondent for the 'wonderful welcome' that he had given to himself and his wife, remarking 'It was a splendid evening and a miraculous way of explaining to Anne the mythos of Teutonia in the briefest possible time' and further writing 'We took your advice and ploughed on out of the Rhineland and into Bavaria and were very glad to get there. The rest of the trip went of well except that I had….to scrape the barrel really desperately in order to make anything out of Interpol this year. They clamped down on me very tightly'. Fleming continues to inform Terry that he has been sent a copy of Time Right Deadly ('and I am going to do what I can to shovel it into the Kemsley machine') and adds 'I can only say that the first chapter looks very promising and the jacket is excellent, though the cover looks to me cheap and a bit old fashioned. You should see that they do better with the next one', further sympathizing with Terry, 'Having had a quick glance at Bonn I am very sorry for you having to stay there, and I do urge you to get around Germany and the neighbouring countries as much as you can. We will always welcome any suitable excuse if it is likely to produce good copy for the Sunday Times, and it is just a question of you keeping your eyes and ears open and then sending me a cable proposing some exploit'. In a postscript Fleming comments 'I have just had a charming letter from Rachel, for which please thank her most warmly. It is clear that you made a great mistake in missing this fancy dress party though I can't, for the life of me, see your resemblance to Himmler'. Accompanied by an unsigned original typed carbon copy of a letter from Terry to Fleming, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Bonn), 13th May 1956, discussing his forthcoming trip to Germany and stating, in part, 'I think Eva Braun's suite (£6 a night) at the Hotel Dressen will be available if you want it…..Or there is the older and more sedate Schaumburger Hof, also on the Rhine, with the room (No. 22) where Queen Victoria slept, in the hotel where she became engaged to Albert. I have booked both provisionally for you. The Schaumberger Hof is, of course, old world and much less luxurious than the Dressen, but on the other hand the room where Hitler slept ist auch etwas, as the Germans say…..There is not much to say about the food in this part of Germany except that it is universally wholesome but not exceptionally good anywhere nowadays…..the sausages are certainly up to standard, but gastronomy, no. The trout….taste like wet face tissues…..When you get bored with wine and food you may want to get on down to Bavaria using the autobahn…..unless you want to take in Munich (which is certainly worth seeing and quite the most sophisticated West German city, though that is not saying much…..If you do not like the sound of either Eva Braun's or Queen Victoria's hotels there is the famous Petersberg on the hill overlooking the Rhine just opposite where Chamberlain stayed…..' Two file holes to the left edge of each letter, not affecting the text or signature, G to VG, 2 Antony Terry (1913-1992) British Journalist, a former European Editor of The Sunday Times who was first hired in 1949 by Fleming (at the time the Foreign manager for the newspaper). Terry's obituary in The Independent stated that he was 'one of the paper's most valuable assets, a one-man listening post, a fastidious checker of facts, a burrower into dark corners and a traveller who never complained of fatigue'. The spy thriller Time Right Deadly (1956) to which Fleming makes reference to in the present letter was written by Antony Terry's wife, Rachel Terry-Ames (1915-1999) under her pen name of Sarah Gainham. Terry-Ames was hailed by critics as 'one of the three or four most important female practitioners of the modern spy thriller'.
FORD JOHN: (1894-1973) Irish-American Film Director, Academy Award winner. A good collection of twelve A.Ls.S. and two T.Ls.S., most signed Pappy, mainly on picture postcards although a few letters on folio sheets of feint ruled paper, various places, 1942-64 and a few undated, all to Meta Stern. The director writes a series of social letters to his friend, stating, in part, ‘We are all well and send our love. However, life here is not all hula girls’ (also signed by four others and written on a postcard from the Moana Hotel at Waikiki and postmarked by the US Navy, March 1942), ‘No kidding, this is Pappy writing you a letter at long last, but when I start to write there just doesn’t seem to be anything to say. I think I’m getting war weary. The boys all came through the invasion in great style……Meta, war is hell, especially in Washington. I’m a wreck…..Willy-nilly Navy may order me to M.G.M. for temporary duty (God what a war) to direct “They Were Expendable”. The money, of course, I will use as trust fund for my boys….’ (14th September 1944, signed ‘The Director’ in bold pencil and accompanied by an unsigned carbon typed copy), ‘St. Pat’s day greetings. Tell the ladies of the “Green Valley” club that we have our party on my return’ (14th March 1955), ‘Start in coupla days. Looks good. Swell cast etc.’ (26th March 1956), , ‘finish to-morra, cast weather swell. Its been really fun. 4 days ahead’ (3rd April 1956), ‘Iceland bound…..wrapped up in blankets & sister is it cold……this is fairly legible for a guy writing with gloves on, eh?.....Mark the saluting Demon is aide-de-camping all over the place – gold ropes on his shoulder – sir this, sir that & has everything all screwed up. My address is Rear Admiral John Ford USNR….Navy No 510….New York. Hell Meta I’ll write when I get there. My hands are freezing…..We are now turning South & going to the Azores!!!! S-H-I-T’ (‘Somewhere in the Artic’, n.d.), ‘Quite a movie colony here – Raoul Walsh…..Harry Cohen’s, Geo. Sidneys, L. K. Sidney, Alfred Hitchcock und frau & assorted characters whom I know not….’ (n.d.). Also including an original telegram (received copy) from Ford to Sterne, dated 18th April 1947 and stating, in part, ‘Please have Hank Fonda remake following lines because of dirty negatives quote I have no wine for the mass stop quote Is there any in the house stop……’. Some light creasing and age wear to the letters and one with a large tear crudely repaired with Sellotape and just affecting a few words of text but not the signature. FR (1), G to generally VG, 16 Meta Stern (1899-1975) American Researcher & Script Supervisor who worked on various films, mainly during the 1940s and 1950s, including twelve which were directed by John Ford, amongst them The Grapes of Wrath (1940), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and The Quiet Man (1952). John Ford served as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, making documentaries for the Navy Department. Commissioned as a Commander in the United States Navy Reserve, Ford won two Oscars during this time. The director filmed the Japanese attack on Midway and was also present at Omaha Beach on D-Day. His last wartime film, mentioned in the present letters, was They Were Expendable (1945) which provided an account of America’s disastrous defeat in The Philippines. Ford repeatedly declared that he disliked the film and had never watched it, complaining that he had been forced into making it. Ford remained an officer in the United States Navy Reserve after World War II, returning to active service in the Korean War and being promoted to Rear Admiral on his final day of service.
NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) French Military and Political leader, Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A very fine D.S., Bonaparte, as General in Chief of the Army, three pages, folio, Cairo, Egypt, 27 Fructidor, year 6 (13th September 1798), in French. The lengthy manuscript document is in the form of a report prepared for Napoleon, providing plans for the loading of a cargo to be made of products from Egypt and to be sold in Smyrna and Salonika, giving very detailed instructions for the transportation of the Egyptian produce, comprising rice, ammonium salt, incense and coffee, to markets in Greece and the Levant and for the subsequent use of the local monies generated in income, the report justifying the selection of produce ‘Because the English, in case they come and visit, would be more easily persuaded that this shipment belongs to locals who never allocate all their funds to one good’ and ‘because the coffee would facilitate the outright sale of all the rice, in case it was abundant in Smyrna and in Salonika, where a lot of it is shipped and sold when there is a lack of rice from here. From then on, buyers who would like to buy coffee, since it is a much sought-after commodity, would have to buy a quantity of rice equal to the quantity of coffee they would ask for. This way, the deal would only be quicker, and infinitely more profitable’, further stating ‘Ammonium salt would find its place, for there is such a lack of it in the Levant, where they haven’t received any of it from England for a long time……And although it is expensive here, it deserves our attention, especially if the quantity produced could be larger. Incense, because of its great consumption by the Greeks, in their homes and in their churches, would be an excellent good. We would need fine quality, and white. This constitutes, at all time, an easy trade’, adding that ‘The same applies to good quality hemp, since I have heard there won’t be any of it shipped to Turkey, as well as seeds and other drugs in Constantinople, but as it is not a good time to put together a large shipment because of its scarcity, we can choose goods that are easier to obtain, while making sure to give preference to the ones that can facilitate the trade of rice, which should be the base of the load’. The author of the report also remarks ‘This shipment’s net proceeds would be spent right away on wet goods such as wine, spirits, fine linseed oil. I would buy the wine in Santorini, Naxos, or any other island in the archipelago where they produce it in great quality. I would prefer these islands to Tenedos, because although the wine there is as good in colour and in taste, they are less busy - I could make purchases and load the ship in much less time. Besides, the load would look like it is destined to be shipped to Russia, which they do in that area now and again. This pretext would hide the destination all the more since I have known the merchants of the said islands for several years; they know I was conducting business in the Black Sea when I was settled in Bucharest’, continuing to inform Napoleon that ‘I could also load dry fruits, such as figs and various types of raisins. I will arrive just as the shipments to Russia begin, and very certainly nobody will assume that what I bought was to be shipped to Egypt. It will, moreover, be up to me to take all the precautions, for a swift and fortunate return, the season we are about to enter being the most favourable for such venture’ also adding various reasons why he is ‘convinced that I would easily escape our enemies’ vigilance’ and recommending a sailing ship and Captain named Hadgi Ourea Dipsara based in Alexandria, whom he has known for a long time, adding ‘It would be his decision to choose a suitable night to slip away without being seen’ and concluding ‘He would certainly succeed thanks to his vessel being in a superior running order, and well-found since he has 25 men, then would go to the harbour to find the 250 barrels, which is more than adequate for the goods referred to above. They will be loaded in appearance for various Greek and Turkish recipients, and branded as such. To add more credibility to the operation, each part will have an accompanying letter written in the oriental style.’ At the conclusion of the report appears a statement in another hand, reading, in full, ‘Desirous of favouring the said commercial undertaking, as much as to have news of what is happening on the archipelago as to procure wine for Egypt, Citizen Poussielque will draw up a report for me concerning the means at our disposal for procuring the above mentioned cargo’. The instruction is signed by Napoleon at the conclusion. A document of fascinating content. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and one very small, neat tear to the upper right corner of the final page, only very slightly running through two lines of text, VGIn 1798 Bonaparte led a military expedition to Egypt which was to serve as a springboard to his goal of achieving political power (a coup was orchestrated by Bonaparte in November 1799 with the result of him becoming First Consul of the Republic). In August 1798, the month before the present document was signed, the British Fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson had captured or destroyed all but two French vessels in the Battle of the Nile which had severely damaged Napoleon’s desire to strengthen the French position in the Mediterranean. His army had succeeded in a temporary increase of French power in Egypt, although it faced repeated uprisings. Citizen Poussielque served as the Chief Administrator of the French Army.
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