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Lot 10338
Great Britain - Covers - QV : 1820s-1950s Just how often does an original archive turn up these days? Looking back, I remember being on the periphery of the discovery of the ‘Corsini’ correspondence – even today when such letters turn up they seem to be avidly snapped up. But, all those tales of Solicitor’s cellars and crate-fulls of penny blacks on cover seem to be flights of fancy don’t they. Well, not any longer; I’d say this is the first original archive we’ve seen in thirty years. That’s remarkable, utterly remarkable. Understandably the vendor wished to keep the entire archive intact, preserving it for posterity. Unfortunately (but fortunate for the owner) the discovery of a 4 margin 1d black rare Plate XI on cover within the archive significantly ‘skewed’ the value of the archive increasing the estimate value by 5 figures upward so that the archive ‘intact’ - valued at £20,000+ was sufficient to deter most buyers. The plate XI cover has now been sold - thereby presenting postal historians and historic wine researchers/ wine aficioandos an unique unparalled opportunity to acquire the entire archive (excluding one cover only for which a scan is available) at a much more affordable collector/researcher’s price. This being the archive of Pulling & Co., Wine merchants of Hereford. The archive includes price lists, advertising cards, invoices dating from the 1820s, many 100s – at first we thought probably high hundreds of items housed in three large tubs, but when the team actually waded through we counted an extraordinary approximately 3,400 items of which in the region of half appear to be philatelic with a substantial balance in documents, receipts, invoices, uncancelled letters, and including hundreds of ‘Pulling’s’ own brand bottle labels, cards/marketing material etc. Highlights include 1d black Plate 10 on entire letter (4 margin but aged) from Worcester MY 11 1841 tied black Maltese Cross, close at top right otherwise four margins. There are a few other 1d black covers and a three margin 1840 2d blue on 1843 cover from Dublin, very late usage. Noted are many imperf and perf 1d red covers including much postmark interest, Irish, Spoons, etc. Invoices to Pulling & Co. postmarked from Cognac, France include four 1851-52 covers bearing Ceres imperf 40c orange pairs and three with Ceres imperf 40c orange horiz strips of four, including one 4 margins and unfolded – SG catalogue £600 - £700 each stamp depending upon shade and excluding premium for strips. An original lot, offered completely intact as received and condition variable throughout, but obviously including ‘plum’ items, excellent lot for a wine enthusiast with huge scope for research. Although perhaps not of pecuniary value what I particularly like about this archive is the social history and the fabulous engraved ‘letterheads’ and designs of invoices and receipts redolent of the period. This archive is the only lot offered in this auction which may be personally viewed at our offices, strictly by appointment only. HEAVY LOT - OVERSEAS BIDDERS PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR SHIPPING COSTS (image available) [US4]
Lot 47
Food and drink.- Cogan (Thomas) The Haven of Health: Chiefly made for the Comfort of Students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health... Hereunto is added a Preservation from the Pestilence : With a short Censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford, black letter, title with woodcut device to recto and arms of Edward Seymour to verso, woodcut initials and head-pieces, neat repairs and restorations to head of title with two letters of the first word partially filled in by hand, gathering ❡❡ with neatly repaired tear to top inside corner, small hole to I2 and L4 with loss to a few letters, Q4 with small rust-hole to lower margin, paper flaw to margin of 2A1, 2F4 with small patch of soiling to verso, very occasional light marginal damp-staining, the odd spot, occasional ink notes in a contemporary hand, a bright and sharp copy, contemporary calf, edges strengthened and repaired, later endpapers, [cf. Cagle 621 & 622 (first edition of 1584); Simon BG, 360 (1605 edition); Gabler G16620 (1606 edition)], small 4to, By Thomas Orwin, for William Norton, 1589.⁂ Rare, we can trace only two complete copies at auction in the last 80 years. 'Thomas Cogan, a physician, considered wine the healthiest of all beverages and remarked: "Life and wine for the likeness of nature are most agreeable. And this is the cause I think why men by nature so greedily covet wine; except some odde Abstemius, one among a thousand perchance, degenerate and is of a doggish nature; for dogges of nature do abhor wine'. This preference for wine as a beverage had at least one modern medical justification. Water purification was not developed until much later, and physicians of the 17th and early 18th centures cautioned against the indiscriminate use of water.' - Gabler. Provenance: Katheryne Egerton (ink inscription).
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Lot 160
Wine.- [Charleton (Walter)] Two Discourses. I. Concerning the Different Wits of Men... II. The Mysterie of Vintners, or a Discourse Concerning the Various Sicknesses of Wines, and their Respective Remedies at this Day commonly Used... Delivered to the Royal Society, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, title a little foxed and soiled and with small hole to outer margin, short tear to foot of B1 with minor loss to catchword, final 2ff. with damp-staining to margins, worming to lower margin, trimmed a little closely at head, the odd spot or patch of soiling, ink ownership inscription to first divisional title, bookplate to pastedown, 20th century calf, spine a little rubbed and faded, [Cagle 597; Gabler G16010; Simon BG 335; Wing C3694], 8vo, by R.W. for William Whitwood at the sign of the Golden-Lion in Duck-Lane, near Smithfield, 1669.⁂ A good copy of a work often found in poor condition or even defective. Charleton's formulations on the concept of brain function are said to have influenced Locke's own writings on the subject. Provenance: Ebenr. Jenkins (ink ownership inscription dated 1794); Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889, bookplate).
Lot 168
Africa.- Frejus (Roland de) The Relation of a Voyage made into Mauritania, in Africk ... to Muley Arxid King of Tafiletta, &c. For the Establishment of a Commerce in all the Kingdom of Fez, and all his other Conquests, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, woodcut decorations, 3 advertisement ff. misbound at end of first part, occasional light marginal browning or soiling, modern antique-style calf, [Wing F2161], small 8vo, by W. Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, at the white Hart in little Brittain, 1671.⁂ First edition of this rare account, no copy has appeared at auction since 1985. Translated from the French work published the previous year, the first part gives an account of the journey while the second provides more detail of the people and society including wildlife, foods and the method of making wine used in the Jewish communities.
Lot 107
A pair of silver salts; with a silver mustard pot, same design, maker and later date, only mustard with glass liner; a small silver drum shaped mustard with liner; a pepper; a salt; a salt spoon; four coffee spoons; a metal knife; a metal stone set box; and a Coalport Sherry wine label, 260 g (8.3 troy ozs) gross
Lot 15
Asprey, a set of six Italian silver gilt, enamel and glass wine glasses, stamped Italy, import marked for London 1983, sponsor's mark of Asprey & Co. Ltd, the clear glass bowls each etched with an 18th century lady and gentleman in a band of formal scrollwork, the stems and bases in silver gilt with coloured guilloche enamelling, 17.5cm high (6 7/8in) high, in a fitted case from Asprey & Co. Ltd
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