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An early George II silver chocolate pot, the tapering body engraved a contemporary entwined monogram, capped and facetted swan neck spout, the hinged bun cover with a detachable baluster finial cover for a swizzle stick, having a capped scrolling pearwood handle, on a moulded foot. 9.25in. (23.5cm.) high. Maker Richard Bailey. London, 1729. 25oz. (782g.).
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* Munnings (Alfred James, 1878-1959). Two pencil studies showing figures and horses, one with a Church tower in the background, initialled A. J. and captioned Kersey, Suffolk, 1931, in the artists holograph, approx. 18 x 23cm, the other smaller also on a loose album leaf, approx. 11 x 17cm, together with a group of nine autograph letters and notes to friend and fellow artist Maurice Codner (1888-1958), mostly undated by c. 1940/43, all but one in pencil, initialled A. J. and two signed A. J. Munnings, discussing art and life and friends, etc., Like two indecent men, we both wonder & think about one another very often. So often that we might be accused of the Act!! well - as you say - Im working - I never stop - nothing ambitious. All studies and executions ... why try immense monsters for that conglomoration at the R.A.? Awful show: though I look back now & recall the hanging & the jumbling - alas! All well with us excepting that Exmoor & its freedom gets a hold on one. You cant leave it - out here we are in the wilds ... I seldom see anyone. I go on working. I think Im getting old as I cant please myself at all ... We now are living in a world war if you like, and Brendon Bracken is a good friend of mine. Well see something done yet on the wireless & in the press for Tradition in Art - what is a Nation? First reply a Nation has a race or races of folk whose life &c &c is BUILT up on its own tradition, and Bye the bye Ive wondered if you ever use terre verte a good color for your portraits - days weeks & months fly by - I dont know what we shall do ... stick to it my lad & dont keep doing those big ones. Try 30 x 20 my size, glad youre well & not blown up - no more, and (written on R. A. printed circular dated 1942), As I sit here in a small room I look outside. It isnt just raining - its bloody well pouring straight down & old Violet went off with the rest of the few as they passed behinds the hounds onto Hawkridge 2 miles away - theyll be wet through before they start - hunting all over England should be stopped. Thats my opinion. People who go wouldnt if the hounds didnt - absolute rot ... What a pity you arent rich and cant get away - you & I should go & stay at Bradley Farm up in the woods & hills near here for a month & live on cream & stuff & work. Three pounds a week - trees galore & stone buildings & the rest & when it rained wed do masterpieces indoors ... write again my lad of wax - any f...g lately?, a total of 23 pp. on various papers, some occn. marks and marginal tears, mostly 8vo, plus two related (13)
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Mother Shipton. The History of Mother Shipton, printed and sold in London, n.d., late 18th c., 24 pp. chap-book, woodcut of Mother Shipton with pointy hat and walking stick to title, three woodcuts to text and woodcut device of the sun to final blank page, title slightly browned and with old ownership inscription at head, paper split to pp. 13-14 without loss of text, folded as issued, 12mo (1)
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Riall (Richard). A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, Ross Press, Bath, 1994, b & w port. frontis., col. plts., b & w letterpress illusts., orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, sm. folio, together with Coykendall (Frederick), Arthur Rackham, A List of Books Illustrated by Him, with Introductory Note by Martin Birnbaum, privately printed, 1922, b & w port. frontis., neat ms. inscription to front free endpaper 'To Lester amico amanter Martin' with stick figure playing a violin beneath, untrimmed, orig. japanese vellum gilt, spine ends. sl. rubbed, minor marginal browning to covers, slim 8vo, (limited to 175 copies), plus Latimore (Sarah Briggs, and Haskell, Grace Clark), Arthur Rackham, A Bibliography, Suttonhouse, Los Angeles, 1936, col. frontis., b & w plts., rough-trimmed, orig. cloth-backed patterned boards gilt, spine faded, in matching board slipcase, 8vo, plus Hudson (Derek), Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work, William Heinemann, 1960, tipped-in col. and b & w plts., letterpress illusts., patterned endpapers, orig. cloth in dusty d.j., with some chipping and edge-tears, 4to (4)
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A silver and blue butterfly wing brooch, designed as a butterfly, a colourless paste and black painted brooch, designed as the head of a blackamoor, a gold mounted stick pin fitted with a tooth, a gold mounted brooch fitted with a larger tooth and a Victorian silver oval pendant locket, Birmingham 1882.
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A silver cased openfaced pocket watch, the gilt fusee movement with a verge escapement, the backplate detailed Field, Tonbridge Wells, No 744, the enamelled dial with black Roman numerals, London 1815 (the outer case lacking), a rectangular brass and enamelled compact and a ruby set stick pin with a trefoil motif.
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