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Lot 35
A collection of jewellery including Victorian stick/ hair pin set with pearls and enamel, Austro- Hungarian necklace, silver pendant set with mother of pearl, mother of pearl sewing related items, filigree necklace and brooch, silver cufflinks, yellow metal cufflinks set with coins etc, in a Chinese lacquer box and a tooled leather box
Lot 372
BIG JOE WILLIAMS - LP COLLECTION. A collection of 12 x LPs. Titles include Big Joe Williams - Piney Woods Blues (DL-602, Ex/VG+), Blues On Highway 49 (32-191), Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick (LBL83207E), Blues For 9 String (BV1056), Big Joe Williams And Sonny Boy Williamson (BC 21), Nine String Guitar Blues (Delmark 627), Malvina My Sweet Woman (OL2804), Crawlin King Snake, At Folk City and Don't You Leave Me Here (616011). The condition is generally VG+ to Ex+ with most records grading at least Ex, some sleeves may drop slightly below.
Lot 189
A COLLECTION OF 7" GOLDMINE SOUL SEVENS. A collection of 18 7" Goldmine soul reissue singles. Titles include John Bowie - You're Gonna Miss A Good Thing d/w The Nomads - Something's Bad (GS057 - Ex), The Capitals - I Can't Deny That I Love You d/w Celeste Hardie - You're Gone (GS031 - Ex), Connie Clarke - My Sugar Baby d/w Checkerboard Squares - Double Cookin' (GS049 - Ex), Jimmy 'Soul' Clarke - (I'll Be Your Championn) I'll Be Your Winner, Del-larks - Job Opening, The Salvadors - Stick By Me Baby, Romona Collins - You've Been Cheatin' & The Superlatives - I Still Love You in generally Vg+ to Ex condition. Other artists include People's Choice, Stanley Mitchell, The Agents, Jewel Akens, Melvin Davis and Epitome of Sound majority in Ex condition.
Lot 227
PAIR OF DEHUA 'BUDDHIST LION' INCENSE HOLDERS QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 清 德化白瓷佛獅香插（一對）each moulded in mirror-image as a lion seated on a high podium, one of the front paws stepping on a brocade ball, near the rear with a pole for incense stick (2) 18cm high each Private Scottish Collection, Inner Hebrides; Inherited from the current owner's great-grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill Gardyne (1831-1923)蘇格蘭私人收藏，內赫布里底群島；繼承自現任藏家曾祖父，查爾斯．格林希爾．加戴恩中校（1891-1923）
Lot 262
CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE INCENSE STICK HOLDER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 金地粉彩鴛鴦蓮池紋香插 及 藍釉小膽瓶（共兩件）finely painted with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond on the top of the middle flange, whilst the underside painted with five bats in iron-red, the domed base similarly adorned with a lotus pond; together with A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED VASE, covered in a sky-blue glaze with fine craquelure (2) the ink stick holder: 7cm high; the vase: 9.7cm high The incense stick holder was acquired from the Hong Antiques, Bangkok, who noted in the original receipt "A Miniature candle holder, decorated with goldwash design of mandarin ducks & lotus pond, Chinese for the Thai market, circa 19th century, Qing dynasty."香插購自曼谷Hong Antiques，收據註「袖珍燭插，飾以金地蓮池鴛鴦，清十九世紀，中國爲泰國市場製。」
![[PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION, YORKSHIRE] GROUP OF SIX CHINESE DEHUA 'BUDDHIST LIONS' WARES 德化白瓷佛獅擺件、香插及香爐（共六件）comprising: th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c7e5c753-3c17-4722-9751-b28a00cc15da/67f48a40-c3bf-4f05-a3ac-b28a00cd5c6b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 182
[PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION, YORKSHIRE] GROUP OF SIX CHINESE DEHUA 'BUDDHIST LIONS' WARES 德化白瓷佛獅擺件、香插及香爐（共六件）comprising: three foo dog figures; a pair of joss stick holders; and a rectangular censer with a Buddhist lion as finial on the cover (6) largest: 34cm high Private English collection, Yorkshire 英格蘭私人收藏，約克郡
Lot 187
A small parcel of 19th and 20th century collectables, etc, including a hallmarked silver propelling swizzle stick, a gold plated propelling pencil, a late Victorian ruby glass double ended scent bottle, lacks one cover, a "The Acme Thunderer" whistle, a modern Henry VIII pictorial paperweight and a small quantity of military items (1 box)
Lot 184
A mid 20th century brass boot stick stand and a quantity of assorted sticks and umbrella, one reproduction walking cane with compass to handle (Games Room) PLEASE NOTE ITEMS ARE FROM A SOUTH DERBYSHIRE PROPERTY AND BEING SOLD IN SITU, COLLECTION IN PERSON FROM PROPERTY AND DETAILS TO BE ARRANGED VIA THE OFFICE
Lot 353
Commander Wyatt Rawson, R.N.: “Did I not lead them straight?” Sir Garnet Wolseley: “You did, old fellow, and I know you were well to the front.” A famous exchange as Rawson lay mortally wounded after navigating the Highland Brigade through the night by the stars to Tel-el-Kebir in September 1882; ‘No man more gallant fell that day,’ wrote Sir Garnet, in recommending his Naval A.D.C. for posthumous promotion. The exceptional Victorian exploration and campaign group of four awarded to Commander Wyatt Rawson, Royal Navy, whose sledging exploits in the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 are the stuff of legend, his 132 days on the ice witnessing much hardship and many adventures, exploits that are today commemorated by the appropriately named Cape Rawson and Mount Wyatt Earlier, in the Ashantee War, in which he was wounded at the battle of Amoaful in January 1874, he was twice mentioned in despatches and specially promoted to Lieutenant, but it was for his navigation of Sir Garnet Wolseley’s desert force through the night to Tel-el-Kebir and subsequent death that he is perhaps best remembered Ashantee 1873-74, clasp, Coomassie (Lt. W. Rawson. R.N. H.M.S. Himalaya. 73-4); Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Comdr. W. Rawson. R.N. A.D.C.); Arctic Medal 1875-76 (Lt. W. Rawson. R.N. H.M.S. Discovery.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, some minor marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £40,000-£50,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000, acquired privately from the Douglas-Morris Collection. The ‘Coomassie’ clasp is unique to H.M.S. Himalaya. Wyatt Rawson was born in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales on 17 August 1853, the youngest son of Christopher Rawson; his elder brother rose to be Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, K.C.B. Young Wyatt passed some of his formative years in Canada, where he gained his first taste of sledging and ice work, prior to following in his brother’s footsteps and joining the Royal Navy as a Cadet in Britannia in May 1867. Appointed a Midshipman in H.M.S. Minotaur in the following year, he removed to the Narcissus in December 1870 and was advanced to Sub. Lieutenant in January 1873. A year later, Wyatt joined the Himalaya as an Acting Lieutenant, the commencement of his distinguished part in the Ashantee War, in which he served ashore on attachment to Active’s Naval Brigade and was severely wounded by a bullet in the thigh at the battle of Amoaful on 31 January 1874. He was twice mentioned in despatches for his valuable contribution to the Brigade’s transport services, the second of those ‘mentions’ from Commodore Hewett stating: ‘He did very excellent work while attached to the Land Transport Service, not only for the Naval Brigade but also in assisting the Control which has been very noticeable. His energy and tact did much to encourage the carriers, and as there was often very great difficulty in procuring people to transport stores and provisions to the front, the value of Mr. Rawson’s services cannot be over-rated. There being a vacancy in the Himalaya for a Lieutenant, I gave this officer an acting order to fill it, and he has proceeded to England in that ship.’ That special promotion to Lieutenant was confirmed 31 March 1874 and, no doubt, came with the blessing of Sir Garnet Wolseley, who, by all accounts, had been much impressed by the young naval officer. When, soon after his return to the U.K., it was announced that Arctic exploration was to be resumed through Government agency, young Rawson was, according to his obituary notice in the Royal Geographical Society’s Journal, ‘one of the foremost and most eager of the volunteers and was appointed Third Lieutenant of the Discovery in April 1875.’ On arrival in Arctic waters, in Lady Franklin Bay, Rawson was transferred to the Alert, the expedition’s second ship, in order to report back to Captain Nares in the Discovery the former’s selected wintering position, when known. He consequently joined the Alert with a sledge crew in late August 1875, but his efforts to get back over the ice to the Discovery in October were thwarted by prevailing conditions. By way of consolation, the furthest point he and his sledge crew reached was subsequently named Cape Rawson. A tough winter in the Alert ensued, when it is said the long, dark hours were brightened by Rawson’s cheerful disposition. And with the return of the sun in the Spring of 1876, he set off once more for the Discovery, this time travelling with Lieutenant Egerton and the Danish dog-driver Petersen, with nine dogs. What followed was a nightmare struggle for survival, Petersen in particular succumbing to frostbite, his feet and hands remaining frozen. But for the exertions of Rawson and Egerton, the Dane would certainly have died. At one point, as they struggled to regain the Alert, the dogs bolted past Rawson, who held on to their harness for dear life, and was dragged along by them. But his iron grip saved the day and Alert was reached that evening. Captain Clements Markam, who had accompanied the Alert as far as Greenland, later wrote: ‘The work of these two young officers on this occasion stands out conspicuously amongst the many deeds of devotion to which the annals of Arctic adventure abound.’ Of subsequent events, an excellent summary appears in the above quoted obituary notice: ‘Rawson and Egerton started again on their perilous errand on March 20th, and, after many adventures and much hardship succeeded in reaching the Discovery on the 24th. Rawson was incessantly employed on sledging work for the remainder of the season. Returning to the Alert on April 4th, he pioneered a route across Robeson Channel to the Greenland coast from the 10th to the 18th, and again crossed to Greenland with Lieutenant Beaumont. Rawson accompanied that distinguished Arctic traveller along the northern coast of Greenland until May 10th, when the two explorers ascended a hill, afterwards named Mount Wyatt, 2050 feet above the sea. The return journey was then commenced by Rawson, with a dying man on the sledge, and he reached Polaris Bay on June 3rd. From that time, his services were devoted to the succour of returning explorers. On one occasion he attacked and killed a musk ox without a gun, and armed only with a stick and a knife which he fastened to the end of it; ever on the lookout to procure fresh meat for the sick. On the 22nd he started on a journey for the relief of Beaumont, and he did not return to his ship until August 3rd. He was away sledge travelling for 132 days; and his coolness and sound judgment, indomitable perseverance and inspiring cheerfulness showed him to possess all the highest qualities of an Arctic explorer.’ Yet he was still just 23 when the expedition returned home in November 1876. In the following year, he was appointed to the Alexandra, bearing the flag of Admiral Hornby in the Mediterranean, and he continued to serve on that station and in the Sea of Marmora until 1880, when he was invalided home to the R.N.H. Haslar, suffering from rheumatic fever. Having then in the interim married Maud Hegan, to whom he had been attached for several years, he joined the corvette Champion on the Pacific station. And his next appointment, to the royal yacht Victoria & Albert in October 1881, made his future advancement all but certain. Meanwhile, however, plans were afoot for the campaign in Egypt and, mindful of his earlier encounter with Rawson in the Coomass...
Lot 329
The M.V.O. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lascelles, The Rifle Brigade, formerly Aide-de-Camp to Sir William Peel as a fifteen year old Naval Cadet with Shannon’s Naval Brigade The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. (4th Class) breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse officially numbered 434, in its Collingwood & Co case of issue, this also numbered 4/434; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (H. A. Lascelles, Naval Cadet. Shannon) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, first initial corrected; Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (Capt. H. A. Lascelles, 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde. 1873-4) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, contact marks, otherwise about very fine, the first extremely fine (3) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, March 2005. Henry Arthur Lascelles, the fourth son of the Right Honourable W. S. S. Lascelles, P.C., M.P., and the eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle, was born on 4 December 1842, and entered the Royal Navy in 1855. In March 1857 he was one of seven Naval Cadets who sailed in H.M.S. Shannon (510 officers, men and boys, under Captain William Peel, V.C., R.N.) for the China Station. On the Shannon being diverted to India and the formation of the famous Naval Brigade, Lascelles accompanied the first party of 408 officers and men under Peel’s personal command up the Ganges on 18 August 1857, to Allalahabad, where the entire Brigade concentrated by 20 October. On the 27th, Lascelles continued the journey up country to Cawnpore with a party of 170 men and two 8-inch howitzers under, Shannon’s gunnery officer, Lieutenant Young, R.N. However, when the larger part of this detachment went on with the main body of the Naval Brigade to take part in the Second Relief of Lucknow, Cadets Lascelles and Watson, both barely fifteen years old, were left behind in an entrenched camp north east of Cawnpore with Lieutenant Hay’s rifle company of some fifty Bluejackets and Marines, and two naval 24-pounders, in General Windham’s force. Towards the end of November 1857 a body of rebels, which was being continually reinforced, appeared to the south of the city. To prevent them concentrating, Windham applied to Sir Colin Campbell for permission to take offensive action. Having received no answer after a week he determined to attack the main body. On the 25th a successful advance was made and four guns were taken from the mutineers of the Gwalior Contingent. Three days later, however, Windham was surprised by the enemy who opened a rapid artillery fire on the British forward camp. The Naval guns were immediately sent up to the junction of the Delhi and Calpee roads and returned fire for half an hour before running out of ammunition, whereupon the enemy infantry came on in strength and the British infantry, consisting of two battalions of the Rifle Brigade and H.M’s 88th Regiment, were ordered to fall back. As the Bluejackets and Marines were frantically trying to harness their guns to bullock teams, a shrapnel shell burst overhead causing the draught animals to stampede. In the words of Cadet Watson it then became ‘a case of every man for himself’, and the guns were temporarily abandoned. The ensuing rescue bid to retrieve the guns was made by the Bluejackets, the 88th and the Rifle Brigade who used their rifle slings in place of the missing traces. Lascelles, having determined to distinguish himself, went forward with the rescue party, but being too small and lacking the strength to be of much use in dragging the guns away, seized instead the rifle of a wounded man of the 88th Regiment and joined them in a bayonet charge. With the evacuation of Lucknow completed, Sir Colin Campbell returned to see off the rebel forces harassing Windham’s entrenchment. Cadet Watson wrote, ‘On the 29th Lascelles and I were looking over the parapet when we saw a round shot kick up the dust just outside, and over it came, just over us. Lascelles slipped and I bobbed to avoid it, and over we went both of us together! Such a jolly lark we had, and everyone laughing at us. On the 30th Sir Colin Campbell, from Lucknow, having heard the news of our being shut up, arrived with a large force to our rescue, with jolly old Captain Peel.’ Peel, the remarkable son of the great statesman, Sir Robert, now appointed Lascelles and Watson his Aides-de-Camp. Captain Oliver Jones, R.N., a Half-Pay officer who had come out to India ‘for a lark’ to see what fighting could be done, was evidently impressed with the youngsters’ sang froid: ‘Peel’s A.D.C’s’ he wrote, were ‘fine little Mids., about fifteen years old, who used to stick to him like his shadow under whatever fire he went, and seemed perfectly indifferent to the whizzing of bullets or the plunging of cannon-balls’. Early on the morning of the Third Battle of Cawnpore, on 6 December, Peel called his A.D.C’s and told them that there was to be ‘a grand attack’ and that they were ‘not to run and blow and go head over heels and get out of breath’. At about nine o’clock they moved off on foot, jogging alongside Peel’s horse, and after a preliminary bombardment of the rebel position, the enemy were driven back. The real work of the day then began with Lascelles and Watson joining the pursuit through and beyond the rebel camp for no less than ten miles. ‘It was most awfully exciting’, Watson told his Mama afterwards, though he was also forced to admit, ‘the only way I could keep up ... was to say to my self “Hoicks over, Hoicks over, Fox Ahead!”’. That night Lascelles and Watson slept deeply if not comfortably under a captured gun. Lascelles went on to take part in the capture of Futtehghur, the action of Kallee Nuddee and the final capture of Lucknow where with Mate Edmund Verney, Lieutenant Vaughan and Midshipman Lord Walter Kerr, he went forward amidst the dead and the dying to have a look at the Kaiserbagh. Here, however, they met Sir Colin Campbell who interrupted their sight seeing by ordering them to man a captured gun and turn it on the enemy still holding out close by. For his services in the Mutiny Lascelles received a mention in despatches on 29 July 1858 from Vaughan, who had been instructed by the late and much lamented Sir William Peel, who had died from smallpox, to write a letter to their Lordships at the Admiralty giving an account of the movements of the Brigade and bringing to their Lordships attention those whom he had not had the opportunity of publicly mentioning in despatches. Thus, Vaughan concluded his list with the names of Mr H. A. Lascelles and Mr E. S. Watson, ‘Aides-de-Camp to Sir William Peel, and always in attendance on him in action.’ In 1860, Lascelles left the Navy and was commissioned Ensign in the Rifle Brigade. Promoted Lieutenant in 1865 and Captain in 1872, he embarked with the 2nd Battalion in 1874 to take part in the second phase of the Ashanti War, during which he was present at the battle of Amoaful, advance guard skirmishes and ambuscade actions between Adwabin and the River Ordah, the battle of Ordahsu and the capture of Coomassie. He retired as a Major in February 1882 and was given the Honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married the following year, Caroline, the daughter of the Hon. C. Gore, and became Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War. He eventually settled in West Sussex at Woolbeding House, near Midhurst, where he was instrumental in raising considerable funds for the building of the King Edward VII Sanatorium a...
Lot 438
The outstanding and unique Great War D.C.M., M.M. and Two Bar group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer William Brown, R.N.V.R., Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (Tyne Z 618 C.P.O. W. Brown. Hood: Bn: R.N.V.R.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (TZ-618 A.S. W. Brown. Hood Bn: R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 Star (TZ. 618. W. Brown. A.B. R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (T.Z. 618 W. Brown. C.P.O. R.N.V.R.), together with Northumberland and Albert Edward Dock Employees Tribute Medal, ‘War Service 1914-18’, 9 carat gold, hallmarked Chester 1918, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to W. Brown, M.M. & 2 Bars. D.C.M.’, with rings for suspension, mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (6) £20,000-£24,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2016. M.M. London Gazette 26 March 1917. Tyne Z 618 Petty Officer Brown, Wm. R.N.V.R. “On the 3rd-5th Feb. 1917 in the attack on Puisieux trench, showed great presence of mind and courage in getting together a fresh Lewis gun crew from reserves in different parts of the line to take place of one which had been wiped out. This proved to be of valuable service in repelling counter attacks.” (Ref. WO 95/3115 ‘Actions for which medals were awarded to N.C.O’s and men of the Hood Battalion on operations north of The Ancre February, 1917’) M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 9 July 1917. M.M. Third Award Bar London Gazette 19 March 1918. Recommended for Immediate award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal: “On the 30th Dec. 1917 in the attack on Welsh Ridge, P.O. Brown was in the support line which was heavily barraged, small parties of the enemy had penetrated down the communications trench past Hero, and the enemy was pressing heavily, driving our bombers slowly back. P.O. Brown with great initiative, collected a few men, and pushed to the assistance of the bombers who encouraged by his example, attacked with great vigour and after severe fighting, in which P.O. Brown displayed conspicuous courage, the enemy was entirely ejected from our line, retreating in disorder, and suffering casualties from our rifle and Lewis gun fire.” (Ref. ADM 137/3064 Hood Bn. War Diary) The following extract is taken from the Hood Battalion War Diary for 7.30 a.m. on 30 December 1917: ‘Sub-Lieut. Weir at once organised the “C” Company platoon into a large bombing squad and led by Petty Officer Brown of “B” Coy, it bombed up the top until the supply of bombs ran out, the Germans having a large supply of stick bombs and egg bombs carried by men in tight order temporarily forced them to give ground. A supply of bombs was then organised by Lt. Mandsley from the support company and the party was then able to again bomb up the trench. At this point Sub-Lt. Price of “B” Coy was wounded and Sub-Lt. Sanford O.C. “A” Coy. During the enemy bombing attack two German officers reached our “B” Coy Hqrs at Regt 68. These were met at the head of the dug-out by A.B. Brown “B” Coy officers’ cook who threw a mills bomb at them killing one and wounding the other. The party was at this time able to bomb up, right up Ostrich Trench and up to the supply head.’ D.C.M. London Gazette 18 February 1919; citation published 10 January 1920: “On the 29th September 1918 in the attack west of the Escaut Canal when the company was held up and the officer wounded, this Chief Petty Officer took command of a platoon and by skilful leadership captured a machine gun, and then turned the machine gun on the enemy inflicting heavy casualties. He displayed fearless and able leadership.” William Brown was born on 7 April 1892, at Percy Main, Northumberland. He joined the Tyneside Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 23 October 1914, his trade being a coal-teamer. He served in Gallipoli until May 1916, and afterwards in France, being demobilised on 7 February 1919. In April 1920 he received one of 158 solid gold medals made for presentation to ‘War Heroes’ employed by the Tyne Improvement Commission at the Albert Edward and Northumberland Docks. Full details of the ‘Welcome Home’ and presentation of medals at North Shields was reported in Shields Daily News, full details of which accompany the group together with detailed research and an R.N.D. cap tally.
Lot 449
The Second War submariner’s D.S.M. group of five awarded to Engine Room Artificer A. J. Cooper, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in H.M.S. Snapper, prior to her loss with all hands in the Bay of Biscay in February 1941 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (M.35070 A. J. Cooper., E.R.A.1. H.M.S. Snapper.) impressed naming, small correction to ship’s name; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, extremely fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 9 May 1940: ‘For daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty’s Submarines against the enemy.’ Arthur John Cooper was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 1 December 1903, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Artificer in August 1919. Having volunteered for submarines in the summer of 1926, he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in December 1936 and joined H.M.S. Snapper as an E.R.A. 1 in the following year. He was to remain likewise employed up until her loss in February 1941. Snapper was commanded by Lieutenant W. D. A. King, R.N., on the outbreak of hostilities, and commenced her operational career with a series of patrols off the Dutch coast. As related by King in his wartime memoir The Stick and The Stars, it was not until her transfer to Norwegian waters in April-July 1940 that Snapper fired her first shots in anger. ‘We planted one round of high explosive from the 3-inch gun into her forepeak. The result could hardly have been more spectacular. She was carrying aviation spirit and went up in a sheet of flame. Half a dozen figures raced to the side and hurled themselves into the still, ice-blue, ice-cold water which had just thawed and poured out from the frozen Baltic. As they swam towards us a mast appeared on the horizon and I reckoned the hour for enemy aircraft was nigh. I hesitated between my desire to rescue the swimmers and fear of risking my crew and ship. We nosed gently from one survivor to another, with two men hauling them in over the saddle-tanks and lowering the exhausted wet bodies down the forehatch, which is about 20 ft. lower than the conning tower and a dangerous place for the crew to be when there is a likelihood of an emergency dive. The last swimmer was dragged over our casing just as the first aircraft appeared. Deciding to abandon this one man and get the vital forehatch closed, I ordered, “Clear the foredeck and dive.” But Geoffrey Carew-Hunt, my third officer, begged, “Let me get him down, sir.” Weakly I snapped, “Do it quick.” Looking back, I think I should have been heartless. The risk to my ship was unjustifiable. While perhaps fifteen seconds ticked by, Carew-Hunt bravely dragged the wet German down the steep cluttered forehatch and shut it. I waited with my eyes fixed on that approaching black dot in the pale sky, then we gurgled under the translucent sea, urgent to slink away from the huge column of smoke which must draw attention for miles.’ Of the six Germans dragged aboard, two succumbed to their icy ordeal. Snapper went on to sink several other German ships in her favoured hunting grounds of the Skagerrak and Kattegat, among them the merchantman Florida, the auxiliary minesweepers M 1701 H.M. Behrens and M 1702 Carsten Janssen and the armed trawler V 1107. She also attacked the armed merchant cruiser Widder but her torpedoes on that occasion were wide of the mark. Command of Snapper having then passed to Lieutenant G. V. Prowse, R.N. on Christmas Eve 1940, she was ordered to patrol the Bay of Biscay off Ushant in February 1941. Nothing further was heard from her, and it is possible she fell victim to a minefield. Another possibility is that she was sunk by a depth-charge attack delivered by the German minesweepers M-2, M-13 and M-25 on the night of the 10th-11th, west-south-west of Brest. Either way, there were no survivors. The son of Lieutenant-Commander A. J. Cooper and his wife Ada, and the husband of May Katheleen Cooper of Weymouth, Dorsetshire, Arthur is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. The whereabouts of his L.S. & G.C. medal remains unknown, but it may have been among his possessions at the time of Snapper’s loss. More certain is the fact he never received his D.S.M., the award being sent to his next of kin. Sold with copied war patrol reports for April-May 1940, extracts from The Stick and the Stars by Commander William King, R,N., who had moved to the command of another submarine before Snapper was lost, and several copied photographs of Snapper.
Lot 385
An early 19th century Oberammergau carved wooden travelling icon salesman, finely carved features, blue frock coat and red waistcoat both with gilt buttons, long black gaiters with gilt buttons, walking with walking stick, a wooden frame held on head with padded rest and back board with a display of thirteen religious paintings in gilt frames and naturalistic carved base —8 ¼in. (21cm.) high (some wear, corner of top of frame broken and glued, flaking to underside of frame near head)
Lot 319
A mid to late 19th century Thüringen man walking with a basket of eggs nodder, papier-mâché older man with large nose and thin face, dark green cap with peek, grey jacket, neckerchief, light grey waistcoat with one hand tucked into it, holding a basket of eggs and walking stick in the other hand, walking on a painted wooden base —6 ½in. (16.5cm.) high
Lot 389
A mid 19th century Thüringen composition street vendor nodder, the man with open shouting mouth, brown hair with chin strap beard, blue cap, blue smock with colourful neckerchief, patched black trousers, basket on back for selling wares, walking stick and a painted textured wooden base —6 ¼in. (16cm.) high — see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 148, fig 2 for this actual item
Lot 419
A mid 19th century German papier-mâché large headed Dandy gentleman nodder, with two curls of blonde hair either side of temple, starring eyes with raised eyebrows, moulded grey top hat, green tailcoat with red handkerchief protruding for tails, red bow tie, light brown waist coat and trousers, a walking stick in one hand and a flower in the other, on painted wooden base indistinctly inscribed ‘Ni co V i er’, and pencil G to underside of base —8 ¼in. (21cm.) high (slight cracking and repair)
Lot 88
A pair of mid 19th century German composition old Chelsea and Greenwich Pensioners, one old soldier in red coat with tricorne hat with peg-leg and walking stick, snuff box in waistcoat pocket and the other with bald head smoking cigar in blue uniform with amputated arm, both seated on twig seats and with hole in hand to hold object, one on textured wooden base —8in. (20cm.) high (some crazing and ageing, on missing base)
Lot 138
A pair of late 19th century Thüringen ugly arguing nodders, the composition man and woman with bulging eyes, open mouth with teeth, nodding heads, her in yellow headscarf holding a tinplate dish with three sausages, him in white cloth pointed hat, blue smock and holding stick aloft, both on composition cobbled circular base —8 ¼in. (21cm.) height to top of stick (slight wear)
Lot 324
A mid to late 19th century Thüringen Derby and Joan elder couple, papier-mâché, the man resting hands on a walking stick and the woman drinking tea from a milk glass cup and saucer, on twig chair and textured circular wooden bases —6 ½in. (16.5cm.) high (bases do not match and him missing glasses)
Lot 422
A mid 19th century Thüringen papier-mâché figure of an angry man match striker, with head turned to the left, heavily furrowed brow, brown side glancing eyes, broad nose and menacing curled up mouth showing teeth, wide primed hat, black tailcoat, yellow waistcoat, black britches, white socks and buckled shoes, leaning on a walking stick and with handkerchief protruding from back pocket, possibly Mr Brownlow from Dicken’s Oliver Twist and match strike down back, on painted wooden base —10 ¾in. (27cm.) high (some wear and slight damage)
Lot 243
A mid to late 19th century baby deliverer (Kinderbringer) or doll seller nodder, with red painted and moulded cape, blue tunic and stripped trousers, hunched back, holding six babies and a stick in one hand, on circular wooden base —6 ½in. (16.5cm.) high (repaired chip to chin, glued at ankle and head of baby on shoulder)
Lot 86
A GOLD CHARM NECKLACEComposed of a cable-link chain with swivel clasp, suspending various charms such as a Donkey, a piglet, a dog etc...chain in 9K gold, charms 18K and 9K gold, chain length approximately 90cm Condition Report: Chain: stamped on swivel '9c full'Charms:- Charm with engraving 'RAF' stamped 9K gold- Pig: stamped K18R- Egg: stamped 750- Old man with stick: stamped 18KSwivel clasp closes securelyTotal gross weight approx. 28.1g
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