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Click here to subscribeA mahogany and part ebonised wine cooler in later George III Neoclassical style, 20th century,: of sarcophagus form, with moulded edging above a parquetry Greek key border, moulded base and four carved paw feet; a brass lion's mask and ring handle at each end; with lead liner; 38cm high, 58cm long, 36cm wide
FRANCE, Champagne Henri Abelé, Reims, 1917, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse for Henri-Marie-Joseph-Louis Abelé, St Rémy filling an empty vat with wine, rev. overflowing fountain of champagne, vine branch with grapes above, 50mm. Good very fine, rare; in original gilt and maroon card box £60-£80 --- Maison Henri Abelé, founded in 1757, is the fifth-oldest champagne house in France
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978] Substantial collection of autograph letters the letters signed 'Chris', 'Christopher Murray Grieve', 'Christopher Grieve', or 'C. M. Grieve', various extents, the recipients comprising: 1. Miss A. Milne of Glasgow, 1927, on journalism, ('Once we know exactly who are taking the articles I have other ideas which may get at those papers which aren't, and for the development otherwise of a comprehensive service of articles on the whole range of Scottish national arts and affairs as a help towards colouring public opinion nationalistically and creating a new national spirit'), 3 pp., tear to final page; 2. R. E. Muirhead, chairman of the National Party of Scotland, 1929, on details of party politics, 4 pp.; 3. William 'Bill' MacLellan (1919-1996), publisher, 3 letters, 1946, on revising the proofs for 'A Kist of Whistles', 2 pp., and two dated 1954, on the liquidation of the Falcon Press and the publication of MacDiarmid's 'Joyce poem' (associated correspondence attached), 1 and 2 pp; 4. Peter Russell, 2 letters, 1957 and undated, on MacDiarmid's visit to China and meeting Christopher Logue in London, each 1 p.; 5. Jim Haines, 1961, enclosing a letter from South African poet David Wright, 1 p.; 6. 'Derek', apparently an editor at nationalist magazine Catalyst for the Scottish Viewpoint, 2 letters, 1968 and undated, 1 p. each, both enclosing articles for the magazine, MacDiarmid's autograph fair copies of both articles ('On Skian Dubh's Fifth Birthday', 7 pp., and 'Scotland Trapped in Cat's Cradle of Bureaucracy', 3 pp.) attached, together with an issue of the magazine (Summer 1968); 7. Edward Nairn (1918-2013), bookseller and publisher, 1973, on republishing works by MacDiarmid, 2 pp.; 8. Professor Alastair Fowler, University of Edinburgh, 2 letters, 1972 & 1975, on the publication of MacDiarmid's Complete Collected Poems, each 1 p. Together with: various untitled autograph notes and jottings by MacDiarmid (6 discrete items, first lines including: 'An excellent recent case in point is that of the late Sir George Berry, the distinguished surgeon-oculist', 4 pp., unsigned; 'War, wine and women were said to be the only subjects for song' 2 pp., unsigned); and additional manuscript material by other authors relating to Hugh MacDiarmid: Eric Linklater (1899-1974), signed typescript article on Hugh MacDiarmid, 8 pp., rectos only; 3 letters addressed to MacDiarmid, from David Archer of the Parton Press, Paul Potts (1911-1990) and apparently F. Marian McNeill (1885-1973); and 2 letters from Kenneth Buthlay (1926-2009), scholar of Scottish literature, to William MacLellan (1 folder)
Manuscripts Assortment of journals and other material, 19th-20th century including: Journal of a family holiday in Germany and Austria, July-August 1939, kept by Mary Wilshire (apparently a schoolgirl), c.50 ff., visits to Salzburg, Nymphenburg Palace, Berlin, Marquartstein, references to Hitler's house, popular support for Hitler, Hitler Youth and children under the Nazi regime ('little time to play'), evacuees, etc.; Three recipe books: 1836, 30 ff., kept by 'Mrs Henry Poole, 56 Park Street, Bristol', recipes include ginger wine, gingerbread, Wellington beef steak, medlar jelly, etc.; the 2 others c.1900 and c.1950 and in poor condition; Journal of Louisa [?]Machel, 1856 , governess and instructor in music and German with the Clarke-Jervoise family at 35 Eaton Place, London, and Delvine House ('Castle'), Dunkeld, c.80 ff.; Second Boer War journal, 12 ff., inscribed 'H Company, 2 Bn Dorset Reg[iment], South African Field Forces', front cover detached, ends with relief of Ladysmith; Two schoolboy journals kept by W. I. Letherby, 'A Thesis of Guildford and Environs', c.1925, approx. 70 ff., illustrated with manuscript maps and diagrams, mounted photographs, etc., and a journal of a visit to Oxford, 1926, 25 ff.; British army sapper's notebook, c.1930-40, including notes on explosives (use and storage), smoke screens, anti-tank ordnance, etc., c.34 ff., illustrated with diagrams, wear to binding, a few leaves loose; together with a very large quantity of letters, photographs and ephemera mainly relating to the career or family of Frederick Allan Wilshire (1868-1944), Bristol-based musician, barrister, and judge, including numerous letters of congratulation from members of the legal profession on his appointment as recorder of Bridgwater in 1936 (1 box)
A 19th century oversize trumpet shaped wine glass, faceted stem, circular base, 29cm; a 19th century ale glass, knopped stem, 18cm; a rummer type glass; a wedding tumbler, diamond etched, dated 1830, Josiah and Ellen Fernyhough, Stoke on Trent, with some accompanying genealogical research; other drinking glasses (14)
Ceramics - a George Jones & Sons Old Swansea pattern tea for two, comprising teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, cups and saucers; a Sampson Hancock Derby cup and saucer, painted with flowers; other teaware including Shelley, Aynsley, Royal Worcester, Crown Staffordshire, etc; a Hammersley Lady Patricia two handled wine cooler; qty
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE DRINKING GLASSES, mainly green examples, to include a single apple green wine glass with hollow stem and cut pontil, H 14 cm, a amber wine glass with flared cut bowl and double knop stem, polished pontil, together with a similar green example and a Rhenish green hollow stem wine glass having chip to base etc. (7)
A selection of silver hallmarked napkin rings. and wine funnel. The lot to include an oval napkin ring with engraved initials (hallmarked London 1942), a concave napkin ring (hallmarked Birmingham 1932), a gadrooned border napkin ring (hallmarked Birmingham 1918), a flat back napkin ring (hallmarked Birmingham 1934), napkin ring with engraved floral detailing (marked 800) and a hallmarked wine funnel (marked with date letter n and sterling lion). Total weight 129.7g.
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THACKERAY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: (1811-1863) British novelist of Vanity Fair (1848). A brief, charming A.L.S., W M Thackeray, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. ('Monday'), to 'My dear Senior'. The novelist writes, in full, 'I am yours for tomorrow - only please look to see that I don't eat and drink too much of the good things'. Attractively matted in black and cream alongside an antique engraving of the novelist seated in a three-quarter length pose and holding a pen in one hand. Framed and glazed to an overall size of 16 x 10.5. Some light, minor creasing, a small area of paper loss to the upper left corner and one minor tape stain to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature. About VGBiographers have described Thackeray as 'a genial and modest man, fond of good food and wine'.
CHARCOT JEAN BAPTISTE: (1867-1936) French Polar Scientist and Doctor. A.L.S., `J.B.Charcot´, one page, 4to, Bougival, 30th September 1912, to Doctor Tartarin, in French. Charcot sends a cleanly written letter to his close friend and companion during the Polar expeditions of 1905 to 1910, Doctor Tartarin, expressing his joy having learned that his correspondent will visit him and his wife, and invites him for dinner, further stating in part `We are at my mother-in-law´s home, Madame Cléry, who will be very pleased to meet you for the first time, but because we have just today buried her sister Madame Gérome, we will receive you in the most complete privacy´, Charcot further explains how to reach his mother-in-law´s house, and says `Once at Bougival, either at the tramway office or at the wine trader next door, you can ask for the Cléry property and in 5 minutes you will be here´ VG to EX
MURAT JOACHIM: (1767-1815) Marshal of France, brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte. King of Naples 1808-15. D.S., `J. Napoleon´, with flourish, one page, folio, Naples, 21st December 1810, in Italian. The partially printed document bears the printed heading “Gioacchino Napoleone - Re delle Due Sicilie” and is a decree comprising three articles, the first relating to the municipality of Cautano, near Naples, stating `La rendita del Comune di Cautano pel 1810 e fissata a …. E l´esito ad altrettanta somma da spendersi giusta..´ (“The income of the Municipality of Cautano for 1810 is set at…. and the outcome is just as much the sum to be spent..”) To the second, also relating to the taxes to be applied, states `…nel medesimo comune il dazio sei a tornolo sulla molitura del grano, grani 3 sul granone, grano 1 sull´olio, cavalli, 6 per ogni caraffi di vino, ed altrettanto per ogni rotolo di salame´ (“…in the same municipality the duty is six for the milling of the grain, 3 grains on the granone, 1 grain on the oil, horses, 6 for each carafe of wine, and the same for each roll of salami”) Paper with Pieter de Vries watermark. With blank integral leaf. VG
WALEWSKI ALEXANDRE: (1810-1868) Alexandre Florian Colonna-Walewski. Polish and French Politician and Diplomat. Alexandre Walewski is widely recognized to be the illegitimate son of Napoleon I by his mistress Countess Marie Walewska. An interesting A.L.S., `Le Comte Walewski´, signed twice and in the third person, three pages, 8vo, 11 rue Blanche, Paris, n.d., to Monsieur le Marquis de las Marismas, in French. Walewski, in the third person, tries to sell some jewels to a wealthy banker, and states in part `Le Comte Walewski prend la liberté…. Et qui désirerait montrer a Monsieur le Marquis des bijoux qu´il a apporté ici. Le Cte Walewski profite de cette occasion pour offrir a Mr. le Marquis de Las Marismas l´assurance de ses sentiments distingués´ (“Count Walewski takes the freedom to…. and who would like to show to Monsieur le Marquis some of the jewels he brought here. Count Walewski takes this opportunity to present to Mr. the Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir the assurance of his distinguished sentiments”) Very small overall minor age wear and very small creasing, otherwise G Alejandro Maria Aguado (1784-1842) 1st Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir. Spanish Banker, originally from Sevilla. Aguado was first a soldier fighting in the Spanish War of Independence against the French, and later on the side of Joseph Bonaparte. He rose the rank of Colonel and aide-de-camp to Marshal Soult. Aguado went in exile to Paris in 1815, and through his family connexions in Cuba and Mexico, became a powerful banker. He was naturalized French and possessed large estates in France, including the Chateau Margaux, famous for its wine. He died in Spain leaving an immense fortune and a fabulous collection of paintings which sold at auction.
KUSTURICA EMIR: (1954- ) Serbian-French film Director, Screenwriter and Actor. A renowned multiple awarded filmmaker expressing in his works his sympathies for people from the margins. Signed 8 x 10 colour photograph, the image depicting Kusturica in a close-up portrait pose. Signed in bold black ink to a clear area of the image. Together with GORAN BREGOVIC (1950- ) Bosnia and Herzegovina Composer and Musician. Well-known for his film scores for Emir Kusturica´s films Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream and Underground. Signed 10 x 8 colour photograph, the image showing Bregovic in a head and shoulders pose, celebrating with a glass and bottle of wine. Signed in bold blue ink across the image. VG, 2
`…leaders of the current committees, who do not even know the name of the pioneers of cinematography. Fat wine merchants, who have become cinema tenants..´MÉLIÈS GEORGES: (1861-1938) French Film Director, a pioneer of cinema and innovator in the use of special effects. Rare and lengthy interesting A.L.S., G. Melies, four pages, small writing, 4to, Orly, 4th January 1934, to Auguste-Jules Drioux, in French. A lengthy letter written by Melies during an illness convalescence at home, referring first to his health `Il y a 2 jours, environ, où cela semble aller un peu mieux, quoique je sois encore au lit et d´une très grande faiblesse, mais enfin j´ai pu manger un peu, et digérer, car depuis 6 semaines, rien ne passait! Il faut espérer qu´à force de purges , de lavements, de cataplasmes, de ventoses, sans compter tout le tremblement de cachets, potions, ampoules, etc…´ (“Since 2 days ago, approximately, things seem to be going a little better, although I am still in bed and very weak, but finally I was able to eat a little, and digest, because for 6 weeks, nothing passed through! It is to be hoped that by dint of purges, enemas, poultices, suction cups, not to mention all the trembling of tablets, potions, ampoules, etc..”) Melies further refers to his opinions and relationship with the Mutuelle du Cinema, an association which gets funds from the cinema itself, working for the cinema and its workers, and which should help its members when they get old if they need assistance or medical attention, and mentions also his personal difficult financial situation, and states in part `Vous me demandez de vous dire franchement et sans gêne si la société de la “Mutuelle” ou d´autres sont venus à notre aide dans ces circonstances. Quoi qu´il m´en coûte, je suis oblige de répondre: hélas, non! A un point que nous avons complètement épuisé nos bien maigres économies, et que depuis près de 3 semaines, j´ai du laisser tomber le médecin, n´ayant plus de quoi payer ses visites et les énormes factures de pharmacie qui suivaient invariablement les dites visites´ (“You ask me to tell you frankly and without embarrassment if the “Mutuelle” society or others have come to our aid in these circumstances. Whatever it will cost me, I am obliged to answer: alas, no! To the point that we have completely exhausted our very small savings, and for nearly 3 weeks now, I had to drop the doctor, having no money left to pay for his visits and the huge pharmacy bills that invariably followed the said visits”), further adding `Quant à l´oeuvre de la “Mutuelle”, qui est actuellement dans la plus grande “panade”, les presidents ont été prévenus de ma maladie par le directeur d´ici, mais, malgré qu´on ait pour Georges Mélies la plus grande consideration (en paroles et en écrits du moins) personne n´a daigné se déranger, on ne m´a même pas offert de m´envoyer un médecin, et encore bien moins de m´aider pécuniairement´ (“As for the work of the “Mutuelle”, which is currently in the greatest “mess”, the presidents were informed of my illness by the local director, but, despite the fact that we have for Georges Mélies the greatest consideration (in words and in writing at least) no one deigned to bother, I was not even offered to send me a doctor, and even less to help me financially”) Melies further explains that the Mutuelle cannot afford paying cleaners and cookers and that they have to take care of this too, and his wife who is doing all the work, is exhausted, very old and with no strength to even walk `Plus personne pour la cuisine et le ménage. Allez les vieux, collez-vous y de nouveau!... quand on est malade, et qu´on vous laisse froidement sans le sou, et sans soins, alors cela n´est plus rigolo du tout!..´ (“No one for cooking and cleaning. Come on old folks, stick to it again!... when you're sick, and you're coldly left penniless, and careless, then it's no longer fun at all!..”), and before concluding, sends his furious critics on the boarding directors and announces future protests he intends to lead, saying `il est bien difficile de se faire entendre des gros bonnets des comités actuels, qui ne connaissent, même pas de nom, les pionniers de la cinématographie. D´épais marchands de vin, devenus tenanciers de Cinéma…´ (“it is very difficult to be heard by the leaders of the current committees, who do not even know the name of the pioneers of cinematography. Fat wine merchants, who have become cinema tenants..”) A letter of very interesting content, explaining the difficult last years of Melies and his critics about the Cinéma Mutuelle and the future of the pioneers of the “Cinematographie”. Very small overall minor age wear with a very small area of paper loss and singeing to the upper left corner, not affecting the text or signature. G Auguste-Jules Drioux was editor of the magazine Passez Muscade, publishing a special edition in 1929 entitled Georges Melies. Melies often collaborated with the magazine, publishing his Croquis-magiques.
‘There was something bewildering, yet interesting in the scene which lay before us’CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922. An important typed manuscript, unsigned, with numerous corrections and annotations in Carter's hand, in pencil and ink, ten pages, 4to, n.p., n.d. (1933), being the working manuscript of chapter three ('The Annexe') of Volume III of Carter's work The Tomb of Tutankhamun (1933). The manuscript explains the thrilling moment in which Carter's party enters the crucial section of Tutankhamun's tomb, in part, 'Strange and beautiful objects call for wonder and praise, conjecture and fair words - but are they not all signs of the thought and progress of the Age to which they belong?......In contrast to the comparative order and harmony of the contents of the Innermost Recess, we find in this last chamber - the Annexe - a jumble of every kind of funerary chattel, tumbled any way one upon the other, almost defying description. Bedsteads, chairs, stools, footstools, hassocks, game-boards, baskets of fruits, every kind of alabaster vessel and pottery wine-jars, boxes of funerary figures, toys, shields, bows and arrows, and other missles (sic) all turned topsy-turvy. Caskets thrown over, their contents spilled: in fact, everything in confusion……To exaggerate the confusion that existed would be difficult. It was but an illustration of both drama and tragedy…..Two days of somewhat strenuous work had to be spent in clearing the way to the little doorway…..The southern end of the Antechamber, where the doorway is situated, was occupied by a number of large roof sections of the dismantled sepulchral shrines that had shielded the sarcophagus……The doorway of this Annexe, only 51 inches high, and 37 inches broad, had been blocked up with rough stones and plastered over on the outside. The plaster while still wet had received numerous impressions of five different sepulchral-seals of the king…..The history of this little room may have been unfortunate, but never the less romantic. There was something bewildering, yet interesting in the scene which lay before us. The incongruous medley of material jostled in wanton callousness and mischief concealed, no doubt, a strange story if it could be disclosed. Our powerful electric lamp threw a strong mass of light upon its crowded contents…..The blaze of light illuminated strange objects…..Here a vase and there a tiny figure gazing at one with forlorn expression. There were weapons of various kinds…..a boat of alabaster, a lion, and a figure of a bleating ibex. Here a fan, there a sandal, a fragment of a robe, a glove! - keeping odd company with emblems of the living and of the dead. The scene, in fact, seemed almost as if contrived, with theatrical artifice, to produce a state of bewilderment upon the beholder. When one peers into a chamber arranged and sealed by pious hands of the long past, one is touched filled with an emotion: it seems as if the very nature of the place and objects enforce and hush the spectator into noiseless silent reverence. But here in this chamber, however, where nothing but confusion prevailed, the sobering realization of a prodigious task that lay before one, took the place of that emotion……..Tradition holds that in burial custom each article belonging to tomb equipment has it prescribed place in the tomb. However, experience has shown, that no matter how true the governing conventions may be, seldom have they been strictly carried out……The foregoing are but Such were the general facts and impressions gathered during this final part of our investigations in the tomb……Nothing can ever change the fact that we have undoubtedly found evidence in this tomb of extreme felicity mingled with want of order and eventual dishonour. This hypogeum, though it did not wholy (sic) share the fate of its mightier and kindred mausoleums, it was nevertheless robbed, twice robbed, in Pharaonic times……I am also of the belief that both robberies took place within a few years after the burial. Facts such as the transfer of Akh-en-Aten's mummy, from its original tomb at El Amarna to its rock-cut cell at Thebes, apparently within the period Reign of Tut.ankh.Amen……throw considerable light upon the state of affairs in the royal necropoli at that Age……In any case the evidence afforded by those two burials and by this tomb, prove how the royal tombs suffered even within their own Dynasty. The wonder is how it came about that this burial, with all its riches, escaped the eventual fate of the twenty-seven others in the Valley'. Three of the pages feature relatively lengthy holograph additions to the text and to the verso of the ninth page Carter has drawn two pencil sketches of tomb complexes. An exceptional manuscript. Some light overall age wear and two file holes to the left edge of each page, causing a few small tears and paper loss, none of which affect the text. About VGCarter's drawings of the tomb complex were published in The Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62) : Supplementary Notes, (The Burial of Nefertiti? III) by Nicholas Reeves, the British Egyptologist, as part of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, Valley of the Kings, Occasional Paper No. 5. In the article Reeves provides an explanation of Carter's drawings 'Although at first glance this sketch might appear to record Carter's ruminations on the location of additional chambers within KV 62, a moment's reflection will indicate that this is not the case. The typescript on the reverse of which this drawing was made almost certainly post-dates Carter's failed investigation of the left-hand side of room J's north wall-meaning that, by the time the sketch was made, Carter's hopes of KV 62 being a larger tomb were already in the past……[the] document is a casual attempt to illustrate, for persons unknown, how the Annexe and Treasury within KV 62-pictured in the centre of the sheet-relate to a full-sized royal tomb. The tomb Carter here chose as example, and sketched above KV 62, was WV 22 (Amenhotep III), drawing in neat dotted line the chambers present in that earlier tomb which were missing from the tomb he had found; obviously thrown in as an aside-as reflected in the sloppiness of the line-was Carter's acknowledgement of other chambers running off from the WV 22 burial chamber and of no particular relevance to what he was then attempting to describe.'
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