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Lot 709
GROUP OF FIGURES AND OTHER CERAMICS, including a German shield shaped dish, Royal Worcester spherical vase, bisque porcelain figural tea handle, two Italian winged cherub figures, Tuscan model of a perched bird, floral encrusted boot, Wedgwood circular dish and a Sevres potthe Sevres pot 10.5cm high
Lot 478
Worcester blue and white bowl, in the rock strata island pattern, circa 1770-80, open crescent mark, 15cm diameter; also a Worcester blue and white tea bowl and saucer in the cannonball pattern; a similar tea bowl and a damaged Worcester tea bowl in the rock strata island pattern (5) (Please note condition does not form part of the catalogue description. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view and a condition report is not already available, please ask for one and it will be provided in writing).
Lot 474
Flight Barr & Barr Worcester footed urn, circa 1815-40, with double serpent moulded handles, and decorated with passion flower, rose and other flowers in colours against a matt green ground, over a square foot, impressed marks with crowned FBB, height 20cm (Please note condition does not form part of the catalogue description. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view and a condition report is not already available, please ask for one and it will be provided in writing). Wear to the gilt line at the rim. Slight scratches to the handles. Some minor scratches and blemishes to the body. The body ground appears quite matte, as if restored, however this does not show when viewed under UV light. The stem is different in colour and appears to have a more gloss like finish, but again no restoration stands out when viewed under UV light. The hollow of the base is plaster filled. The base itself has a slither chip to one of the corners.
Lot 445
Two Royal Worcester candle snuffers, Mrs Caudle, circa 1908, height 7cm, and Night Owl, circa 1922, height 8cm (Please note condition does not form part of the catalogue description. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view and a condition report is not already available, please ask for one and it will be provided in writing).
Lot 395
A mixed lot of British, German, and Scandinavian silver plate, stainless steel and other flatwares, to include a Garrard Regent plate part cutlery set, Lindshammar stainless steel salad servers with glass handles, Royal Worcester Evesham ladle and other items Location:If there is no condition report shown, please request
Lot 268
Collection of 18th century English porcelain tea ware items to include: Worcester tea bowls and teacups, Caughley and a Liverpool Pennington 'Two Quails' design teacup. (9) Provenance: The Audrey White Collection. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Worcester saucer - restored. Imari bowl - hair-crack. Most of the cups have small but noticeable chips.
Lot 249
Pair of Royal Worcester porcelain dessert dishes, of square form, probably painted by George Cole, with fruit within a yellow border with panels of flowers and gadrooned gilded rim. 22.5cm wide approx. Puce printed marks to the reverse, dated 1926. Together with a pair of Royal Worcester dessert dishes of square form, probably by Raby, with flowers and foliage within a cobalt blue and gilded border with panels of flowers and gadrooned rim. Puce printed marks to the reverse, 1906. 22cm wide approx. (4) (B.P. 21% + VAT) Some light wear to the gilding in places, but no obvious chips, cracks or restoration.
Lot 262
Collection of 18th century blue and white transfer printed tea cups to include: Worcester, Liverpool etc. Four cups with handles and one tea bowl. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Bowl - no obvious damage, cups - three have chips and hair-cracks, one cup - no obvious damage. See image of cup that is un-damaged.
Lot 234
Collection of Royal Worcester porcelain vases to include: a bottle vase with painted fruit signed 'E Townsend' shape No H307, 20.5cm high approx., two similar vases, one hand-painted with roses, the other with a brace of pheasants, shape No's G957 signed 'M Hunt', a baluster hand-painted rose vase shape No H285 and another two handled hand-painted rose vase. (5) (B.P. 21% + VAT) No obvious damage. The two with gilded necks have been checked under UV light and appear good.
Lot 313
An entire letter from Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, Lucien, of postal, historical and literary importance, with a Shrewsbury connection. Having been a supporter of the Revolution and of his brother, Napoleon, by 1810 that relationship had cooled and Lucien (Prince of Canino and Musignano) set sail with his family from Italy to start a new life in the USA. The ship sheltered in Sardinia from storms and he was taken prisoner by the British and brought to this country where he became a paroled prisoner. He spent time at Lord Powis’ house “Dinham” near Ludlow and then purchased “Thorngrove” near Worcester. As part of the parole arrangement he and his family were restricted to a 10 mile radius of Thorngrove and his mail was subject to inspection by his “minder” (Lt Col Francis Leighton of Shrewsbury, a retired army officer) before being posted. Leighton had an arrangement with the postmaster in Worcester whereby the latter would only accept mail that had Leighton’s “secret mark” to denote it had been inspected. This letter, in Lucien’s hand and with part of his LB seal remaining, was written at Thorngrove and posted in Shrewsbury on 25th November 1813 to Cambridge; received there 27 Nov. There is no trace of any “secret mark” so perhaps it was smuggled to Shrewsbury to avoid censorship. The letter is to Francis Hodgson, Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge and a friend of Byron. Hodgson had translated the poetry of Juvenal into English and Lucien was seeking his help to translate his own epic poem “Charlemagne” (or “The Church delivered”) into English. The request obviously bore fruit as Lucien’s epic 24 book poem was translated by Hodgson working with Samuel Butler and a copy eventually presented to King George IV whilst Prince Regent in 1815. To include a translation of the original French, various notes/pictures etc. The letter has been professionally conserved.
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Lot 48
Bowlker (Richard [& Charles]). The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: containing A particular Account of the several Sprts of Fresh-Water Fish, with their most proper Baits..., 1st edition, Worcester: M. Olivers, [1758?], title and dedication with red ruling to text, minor spotting to first and last few leaves, neat 19th-century inscriptions to front free blanks, early 19th-century crimson half calf, gilt lettering and star motifs to spine, extremities slightly worn, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Westwood & Satchell p. 39.
Lot 20
The Naval General Service medal awarded to Rev. Thomas Hardwicke, Chaplain of the Dreadnought at the battle of Trafalgar, one of only three Chaplains to receive the medal for this action Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Thomas Hardwicke, Chaplain.) good very fine £10,000-£14,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Baldwin’s, July 1955; Fergus Gowans Collection. Confirmed on the roll as Chaplain aboard H.M.S. Dreadnought at Trafalgar. 28 N.G.S. medals were issued to Chaplains, including 3 for Trafalgar. Thomas Hardwicke was the son of Samuel Hardwicke, of St Peters, Worcester, and was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He matriculated on 23 June 1789, and gained his B.A. in 1802, and M.A. in 1805. Made Fellow from 1822 to 1837, he was then Provost from 1831, and B. and D.D. in 1836. Hardwick was appointed to be a Chaplain in the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Illustrious in May 1804, and to the Dreadnought on 16 May 1805, in which ship he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. Returning to his studies at Oxford University, he was later rector of Neen Sollers cum Milson, Shropshire. He died on 20 February 1855.
Lot 230
‘Admiral Gaunt – the ‘nautical Sherlock Holmes’, the Americans called him – had a distinguished record in intelligence work as his triumphs in counter-espionage … bear testimony. He was a gallant, bluff, uncompromising man in the Roger Keyes tradition and he did not suffer fools or fainthearts gladly. In consequence, he had many enemies, not only in the Admiralty, but in the Foreign Office where his probings and promptings into the efficiency of their own intelligence systems caused many heart-burnings even as late as World War Two.’ The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, by Donald McCormick, refers. The important Great War Naval intelligence K.C.M.G., C.B. group of five awarded to Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, Royal Navy The multi-talented Gaunt excelled in his wartime role as Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., his counter-espionage work costing the Germans dearly, not least his role in the notorious ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair He had earlier won rapid promotion to Commander for his gallant exploits in Samoa at the turn of the century, when amidst civil unrest he defended the British Consulate and raised ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars: it’s a remarkable story, immaculately recounted of in the pages of his autobiography, The Yield of the Years The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, some minor enamel chips; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1915; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. R. A. Gaunt. R.N.); United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, the last four mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- K.C.M.G. London Gazette 20 September 1918: ‘To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, R.N., C.B., C.M.G., late Naval Attaché to His Majesty’s Embassy at Washington.’ C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘To be Additional Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, C.M.G., R.N.’ U.S.A. Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) London Gazette 29 April 1919. Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt was born at Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia on 25 May 1869, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. It was intended he studied for the Law, but he pleaded with his father for a career at sea and was duly enrolled at H.M.S. Worcester, the training ship for officers of the merchant service. Having then served in clippers and obtained his Second Mate’s ticket, in addition to gaining an appointment as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve, he transferred, with the assistance of his brother, to the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant in October 1895. Gaunt’s Brigade Gaunt joined the three-masted sloop Swift in the Philippines in 1897, where he witnessed shocking scenes and executions, before removing to the Porpoise, also bound for the South Seas. And it was in this capacity that he came to play a memorable role in ongoing strife in Samoa, where local rebels, with German backing, were a threat to American and British interests. Apart from attending the British Consulate at Apia during a rebel attack, he raised and commanded ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars in subsequent operations. His autobiography describes in detail not a few encounters of the close kind, one such case being an attack on a rebel chief’s village at Malea: ‘I was last out of the village, with an enormous great Chief right on top of me, luckily as it turned out, for he masked the fire of the men who were potting at us. Just as he was towering above me ready to kill, I slewed around. He fired from his hip and missed me clean. I fired low, determined not to miss him, and being a rotten shot killed him stone dead on the spot. In a fraction of a second I was in the undergrowth, and without the slightest desire to win any medals legged it for the beach … ’ In due course, with a lull in operations, ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ was disbanded, but he was presented with a sword by loyal Samoans who credited him with having saved the life of their King. Their Lordships of the Admiralty were equally impressed, for he was mentioned in despatches and promoted to Commander for ‘special services’ in June 1901. Naval Intelligence: spooks, sleuths and that telegram A posting on the China Sation at the time of the Russo-Japanese War ensued, as did his promotion to Captain in June 1907, but it was a summons to the Admiralty in the summer of 1914 that changed his life forever. He was invited by the First Sea Lord to take up the post of Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., and so, in May 1914, he departed for the United States. It was, Gaunt later explained, ‘work which was to bring me some of the most astounding adventures that ever befell any man in the Great War.’ As it happened, one of his first ports of call on arrival was the German Embassy, where he was introduced to the ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, and his two attachés, Captain Franz von Papen and Captain Karl Boy-Ed. All three would shortly be at odds with Gaunt, for the war was but weeks way. When the storm broke, one of his first missions was to try and prevent the departure of German liners from New York for use as raiders. That effort led to an early encounter with Franklin Roosevelt and represents the opening chapter of his genuinely fascinating wartime career, a clandestine sojourn described grippingly in the pages of The Yield of Your Years: from German agents and ‘sleuths’ trailing his every move to all the machinations one might expect of counter-espionage operations. Caught up in the Lusitania story – his men are believed to have apprehended German agents who boarded the liner before her departure from New York on her final voyage in 1915 – and likewise in the loss of the Hampshire and Kitchener in 1916 – when he received intelligence of an Irish nationalist plot – Gaunt was rarely out of the picture. He was created C.M.G in the latter year. One of his most important tasks was to counteract the effects of German propaganda in North America, and, in that respect, he gained prominence for his many successes. That prominence – particularly in Intelligence circles – was further enhanced by his subsequent appointment as a Commodore 1st Class and Liaison Officer to the United States of America. Moving about the highest echelons of power Gaunt played a pivotal role in the ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair. Working closely with his London boss ‘Blinker’ Hall in Room 40 at the Admiralty, he helped persuade the President and his advisors that the intercepted telegram was genuine. The telegram, sent in January 1917 from Arthur Zimmermann, the German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to his Mexican counterpart, was indeed genuine and its contents devastating for Germany: because, in the event of the Americans entering the war, it contained an offer of military support for Mexico to invade the southern states of the U.S.A. The British interception and decryption of the telegram was an intelligence triumph, and, in April 1917, the Americans finally entered the war.
Lot 106
H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship, gold presentation medal 45mm, the obverse with bust of young head Victoria facing left, the reverse with inscription ‘Presented by her Majesty the Queen’ and engraved in the centre (To Charles George Budge H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship 1886) fitted with a decorative straight bar and uniface double-dolphin suspension in silver-gilt, total weight 63.65g, minor marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare £1,400-£1,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Charles George Budge was commissioned from H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship as Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve on 2 August 1886.
Lot 85
The outstanding group of five awarded to The Reverend Edward A. Williams, Chaplain of the Pearl in the Indian Mutiny, being frequently mentioned in despatches; he was author of ‘The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an account of the operations of the Naval Brigade in India’, published in 1859 Baltic 1854, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Rev. Edwd. A. Williams, Chaplain. Pearl.); Jubilee 1887 with bar 1897; Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911, light contact marks to the first two, otherwise good very fine and better (5) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Edward Adams Williams was born on 26 March 1826, the second son of Henry Williams of Glasthule, Co Dublin, whose ancestor settled at Rath Kool when William III carried on a successful campaign in Ireland. His mother, née Esther McClure, was a descendant of two Huguenot families, de la Cherois and Crommeline, who were invited by William III to settle in County Antrim and improve the damask manufactures. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1848, obtaining the Divinity Testimonial. Ordained by the Bishop of Worcester and subsequently, in 1849, given the curacy of Lye, Worcestershire. He joined the Royal Navy when appointed as the Chaplain of H.M.S. St George on 3 March 1854, seeing service in the Baltic campaign of 1854. He received the additional rank of Naval Instructor on 25 April 1855, and a month later was re-appointed to H.M.S Hawke as her "Chaplain & Naval Instructor", and was present at the attack on the forts in the Gulf of Riga during 1855, earning the Baltic Medal. He was appointed as the ship's Chaplain to H.M.S. Pearl on 3 May l856, and served the whole time ashore with Pearl’s Naval Brigade prior to being ‘paid off’ on 15 January 1859. From 27 November 1857 Pearl’s Naval Brigade became the only wholly European manned part of the Sarun Field Force. The Reverend Williams was Mentioned in Despatches on the following occasions: by Captain E. S. Sotheby, R.N., in letters dated 28 December 1857, 1st March, 9th March and 29th April 1858, and also by Colonel F. Rowcroft, Commanding Sarun Field Force, on 22nd February and 6th March 1858. He subsequently served aboard H.M. Ships Royal Adelaide, Reserve Depot Ship, Devonport (1860-62), and Impregnable, Training Ship, Devonport (1862-64). His final sea appointment was aboard H.M.S. Cadmus on the North America and West Indies Station commencing 28 February 1865. His last naval appointment was to H.M.S. Excellent, Gunnery Training Ship at Portsmouth, on 4 April 1868. In 1872 he was appointed Secretary of the Church Missionary Society for the Metropolitan District. From 6 March 1875 he became the Chaplain serving with the Royal Marine Artillery, Portsmouth, until 19 May 1880, when he was transferred to Sheerness Dockyard as the Chaplain for 18 months prior to serving in a similar capacity in Portsmouth Dockyard until retired in 1886 as the senior Chaplain, but not chosen to be the Chaplain of the Fleet. He received the appointment as Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1898, retaining this similar honour to Edward VII and George V until he died at 5 Queen's Gate, Southsea on 13 April 1913 aged 87 years. He was buried at Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea on 16 April, but due to the inclement weather, with agreement of his relatives, the event was to a large extent shorn of the ceremonial element. The coffin of polished oak, covered with a Union Jack, upon which was placed his stole, war medals and coronation honours and his badge as Honorary Chaplain to the King, was borne to the cemetery on a naval field-gun carriage drawn by bluejackets. It was preceded by a Naval firing party, who fired three volleys above his grave witnessed by mourners, who included a few veterans from the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny. The ceremony ended with a Naval bugler sounding the ‘Last Post’. Williams was author of The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an account of the operations of the Naval Brigade in India, published in 1859. Concerning the landing of the Naval Brigade, Williams claimed: ‘This is, I believe, the only example of the Royal Navy leaving their ships, and taking their guns seven or eight hundred miles into the interior of a great continent, to serve as soldiers, marching and counter-marching for fifteen months through extensive districts, and taking an active part in upwards of twenty actions.’ Of the thirteen chapters of the book, eleven relate to the activities of the Naval Brigade. Prior to the ship’s arrival at Calcutta on 12 August 1857, she had spent over a year after leaving England on a voyage which included the passage of the Strait of Magellan, the punishment of Peruvian revolutionaries who had plundered a British ship, and visits to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Hong Kong, where the Pearl stayed only a month before being ordered to Calcutta. Thereafter Williams faithfully chronicled the movement up country of the Naval Brigade and the actions which it fought under Captain Sotheby’s immediate command and in support of Indian Army units, but he had little to say concerning his own duties as chaplain: ‘After parade came daily prayers, for the men of the Naval Brigade, which lasted about ten minutes. This custom not being unusual on board a “man-of-war” was continued throughout the campaign.’ He spoke of the war as “brutalising, in which quarter was neither given nor received. No European that fell into their hands could expect anything but a most cruel death... and therefore prisoners were not taken.” Williams was formerly Hon Editor of the Anchor Watch, and the last survivor of the founders of the Royal Naval Scripture Reader's Society, of which he had been the first Honorary Secretary when it was inaugurated at Devonport in 1860.
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