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Click here to subscribeA collection of pottery, bone china and porcelain jugs, including an Arthur Wood Art Deco example, a Peter Martin Original pig decorated example and others, thank you for looking at this lot which is being sold on behalf of The Alexander Devine Children's Hospice. Due to the value of this lot although we will try and answer any questions, we would prefer that you come and view the item/s in person as we will not be providing condition reportsThank you for looking at this lot which is being sold on behalf of The Alexander Devine Children's Hospice. Due to the value of this lot although we will try and answer any questions, we would prefer that you come and view the item/s in person as we will not be providing condition reports
I.H. Arthur [Maker - England, 1960's Issues] - Carved Wooden 32cm Types of the British Army, comprising: Officer Irish Guards, Officer, 90th Perthshire Volunteers [2nd Cameronians], 1880 & Private 57th Foot [Middlesex Regiment], 1812. Constructed from Carved Wood with Card Belts /Sashes & Metal Weapons, Badges, Buttons Etc. Some age/storage wear otherwise generally Excellent overall, Rare, the First Examples to be Catalogued in the UK. [3]
I.H. Arthur [Maker - England, 1960's Issues] - Carved Wooden 28cm/32cm Types of the British Army, comprising: Trooper - Governor General's Bodyguard, India, 1900 & Officer, 26th Cameronian Regiment, 1880. Constructed from Carved Wood with Card Belts /Sashes & Metal Weapons, Badges, Buttons Etc. Some age/storage wear otherwise generally Excellent overall, Rare, the First Examples to be Catalogued in the UK. [3]
I.H. Arthur [Maker - England, 1960's Issues] - Carved Wooden 32cm Types of the British Army, comprising: Drummer, Coldstream Guards, 1743 & Grenadier Guard, 1745. Constructed from Carved Wood with Card Belts /Sashes & Metal Weapons, Badges, Buttons Etc. Some age/storage wear otherwise generally Excellent overall, Rare, the First Examples to be Catalogued in the UK. [3]
FIVE BOXES OF ASSORTED CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE, to include, Indian Tree vase 575, three vintage Wade trinket pots in the style of a log, a variety of Wedgwood items including cups and saucers, milk creamers, Arthur Wood planter 4473, large glass cake stand on pedestal, variety of drinks glasses, decanters, etc English country Sadler iridescent Pheasant design ginger jar, country cottage design teapots and biscuit jar, Maling planter Dahlia design etc. (sd) (5 boxes)
Arthur Wood, Lord Nelson Pottery, Sylvac, Coalport Pendelfin, Other - A collection of ceramics and glass including mugs, drinking glass, figure, and similar. Lot includes a boxed Lord Nelson Pottery Pomander. A Nottingham City Regatta mug. An Arthur Wood 'Oliver Asks For More' mug, and similar. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (M) NOTE: THIS LOT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR IN HOUSE SHIPPING, PLEASE CONTACT CLIENT SERVICES FOR A LIST OF SUITABLE COURIERS AND A QUOTE.
Art - quantity of books to include the Pre-Raphaelites, Arts & Crafts, 1920's, Blakesley, Rosalind P "The Arts and Crafts Movement", Phaidon 2006, Galloway, Stephen and Orr, Lynn Federle (ed) "The Cult of Beauty, the Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900", Treuherz, Julian, Prette John and Elizabeth and Becker, Edwin (ed) "Dante Gabriel Rosetti", Thames & Hudson 2003, Clutton-Brock, Arthur "William Morris", Parkstone, Lee Marshall (ed) "Erte at 90, the Complete Graphics", Videnfeld & Nicholson 1982, Stone Reynolds (ed) "The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat", Silent Books 1989 and numerous other books, all with dust wrappers (2 boxes)
Doulton Lambverth Stoneware Jug, with silver hallmarked collar and applied hunting and tavern scenes, a smaller example and a releif moulded example; A 'Lambeth' 6 Pint Jug by Arthur Wood, relief moulded with hunting and tavern scenes, Crown Devon Fieldings 'On Ilkla Moor Baht at' jug, a Tyke's motto cup and saucer, Belleek cache pot.
Frances Mabel Hollams (British, 1877-1963)'Bill' signed 'F.M. Hollams' (lower left), inscribed 'Bill' (upper right)oil on panel 38 x 38cm (14 15/16 x 14 15/16in).unframedFootnotes:Believed to be 'Bill Elkin a triple winner: 'Coursing Field Winner', 'Track Record Holder at the White City', and 'Challenge Certificate Champion'. Frances Mabel Hollams was an animal painter who specialised in canine and equestrian portraits. She studied at the Frank Calderon School of Animal Painting in South Kensington, and at the Atelier Julian in Paris, the contemporary 'mecca' for animal painters.One of Hollams' trademarks was to paint the dog or horse on board, sometimes varnished, with the grain of the wood showing through, and invariably with no background and the animal's name inscribed on the board. She worked with great speed in order to satisfy her many commissions. She is alleged to have rarely discussed money for a painting, but her butler always waited to bid farewell to clients with a silver salver on which they were expected to place £25 in cash.In 1899, Hollams was elected an associate of the Society of Women Artists and by 1902 her qualities had been quickly recognised and she made a full member. She exhibited extensively including at the Royal Academy (8); the Society of Women Artists (19); and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (2). In June 1929 she had 'A Loan Exhibition of Oil Paintings of Horse and Dogs', of 66 paintings, at the New Bond Street Walker's Galleries. It was a remarkable tribute, with 54 paintings being kindly lent by many titled and wealthy owners of show champions, pets and famous kennels.In 1937, the New Bond Street dealers Arthur Ackermann & Son paid tribute to Hollams again with 'A Loan Exhibition of Oil Paintings of Horses and Dogs' in which 38 paintings were shown.Hollams' patrons included the Earls of Sefton, Beatty, and Cornwallis. Lord Cornwallis was the Master of the Linton Beagles, and she painted him with his beagles. She also painted for the royals, one of her last oils, executed in 1963, was that of Princess Alexandra Duchess of Kent with a young friend on horseback.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Kristeller (Paul). Early Florentine Woodcuts, with an annotated list of Florentine illustrated books, 2 volumes text/illustrations), limited issue, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1897, some spotting to endpapers, prospectus loosely inserted, top edge gilt, original morocco-backed boards, spines rubbed, 4to, limited edition 23/50, together with Bliss (Douglas Percy). A History of Wood-Engraving, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1928, numerous illustrations, occasional minor spotting, top edge gilt, original buckram (some toning and light spotting), dust jacket, spine toned, a few chips and tears, 4to, with 3 others: A History of Engraving & Etching, from the 15th Century to the Year 1914, by Arthur M. Hind, 1st edition, 1923, A Treatise on Wood Engraving, by John Jackson, 2nd edition, 1861, and Engraving and Etching, by Dr. Fr. Lippmann, 3rd edition, 1906 QTY: (6)
Sheringham (George, Illustrator). The Book of the Fly-Rod Edited by Hugh Sheringham & John C. Moore..., London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931, signed by the illustrator to limitation page, frontispiece plus 11 illustrations (many hand-coloured), armorial bookplate of G. S. Garnier to front pastedown, light spotting to first and last few leaves, top edge gilt, original half vellum over cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, 4to, limited edition 49/195, together with: Grimble (Augustus). The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales..., 2 volumes, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, Ltd, 1904, map frontispiece to both volumes (small closed tear to each where bound), 52 full-page illustrations plus numerous in-text illustrations, armorial bookplate of Arthur Wood to front pastedown to both volumes, original quarter velum over paper-covered boards with title label pasted to spine, minor wear to extremities, lightly damp-stained, 4to, limited to 300 copies QTY: (3)
White (Gilbert). The Natural History of Selborne, 2 volumes, new edition, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1825, 4 engraved plates (1 hand-coloured), spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with:Dewar (Douglas). The Game Birds, Pigeons and Waterfowl of India, 1st edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1936, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout, original green cloth gilt, colour illustration mounted to upper cover, 4to, withFulton (Robert). The Illustrated Book of Pigeons. With standards for judging, 1st edition, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, circa 1880, 50 colour plates from paintings by J.W. Ludlow, further wood-engraved plates in-text, a few light spots, rear hinge cracked, all edges gilt, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plusButler (Arthur G.). Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hull and London: Brumby & Clarke, [1907-08], 107 chromolithographs by H. Grönvold, 8 plates of eggs by F. W. Frohawk, spotted, original brown buckram-backed boards, backstrips marked and rubbed, some marks, 4to, with 22 other natural history works, some leatherbound QTY: (28)
Westwood (Thomas & Thomas Satchell). Bibliotheca Piscatoria. A catalogue of books on angling, the fisheries and fish-culture, with bibliographical notes and an appendix of citations touching on angling and fishing from old English authors, large paper edition, London: W. Satchell, 1883, light spotting to fore edges, bookplate of A. H. E. Wood, Glasset (Arthur Wood, engineer, fly fishing author and inventor of greased line fishing), a wrapper-bound supplement to the work, 1901 loosely inserted (tears and losses to wrappers), top edge gilt, publisher's morocco-backed boards, spine a little rubbed with some fading, small stains to covers, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Large Paper Copy, one of 100 copies printed.
The outstanding Great War Dogger Bank D.S.C. and Antarctic 1902-04 group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Commander F. E. Dailey, Royal Navy, a carpenter by trade, he assisted in the building and fitting out of the Discovery and lent valuable service in Scott’s first expedition, service duly recognised by the naming of Dailey Islands in McMurdo Sound; subsequently Chief Carpenter of the cruiser Lion for much of the Great War, he was present at Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland, the latter action resulting in him being awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne Medal of Distinction for Foreigners Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Chief Car. F. E. Dailey, “Dogger Bank”, H.M.S. Lion, 1915’; 1914-15 Star (Ch. Carpr. F. E. Dailey, D.S.C., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Cd. Shpt. F. E. Dailey, R.N.); Polar Medal 1904, E.VII.R., silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1902-04 (Carpenter F. E. Dailey. “Discovery”); Royal Geographical Society’s Silver Medal for Scott’s Antarctic Expedition 1902-04, the edge officially impressed, ‘F. E. Dailey, R.N.’, where applicable, mounted as worn, generally very fine and better (6) £18,000-£22,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Provenance: Christie’s, November 1987; R. C. Witte Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013. D.S.C. London Gazette 3 March 1915. As per Admiral Beatty’s despatch for gallant services in the action off the Dogger Bank, dated 24 January 1915. Frederick Ernest Dailey was born in Portsmouth in 1873 and served his apprenticeship as a carpenter in Devonport Dockyard, following which, after ‘seven years of practical and theoretical shipbuilding’, he transferred to the Royal Navy and was serving in Ganges when recruited by a friend of Scott’s, a naval officer by the name of Arthur Ewart, for the Antarctic expedition. Scott wrote to Dailey from his residence in Chelsea in November 1900, confirming his appointment as Carpenter: ‘Before you go to Dundee, where the ship is building, I shall hope to see you in London and tell you more of our plans and your work.’ Scott’s first expedition Having duly assisted in the construction and fitting-out of the Discovery, Dailey was embarked for the journey South, a voyage during which he quickly made his mark with Scott, who wrote: ‘In his own department our carpenter, F. E. Dailey, worked with the same zealous care as the Boatswain. He possessed the same ‘eye’ for defects and the same determination that his charge should be beyond reproach.’ So, too, with the expedition’s Deputy Chief Scientist, George Murray, F.R.S., who was compelled to return home once the Discovery reached South Africa. Immediately on his return to the U.K. he wrote to Dailey’s mother in the following terms: ‘I promised your son when I left the Discovery at Simon’s Bay to write and assure you of his good health and and excellent spirits. He was respected and trusted by all his officers and personally I found him most useful and obliging on the voyage out to the Cape. He is a man of such excellent character that I regard him as one of the mainstays of the Expedition.’ A mainstay indeed, for, as verified by numerous published sources, he went on to participate in a number of sledging trips, Dr. Wilson noting in his diary on Wednesday 24 September that Dailey, in company with Koettlitz and Bernacchi, ‘went off man-hauling a lightly loaded sledge towards the west to investigate the old penknife ice Royds had met with in his journey’, and similarly of their return nine days later - ‘They were pretty tired out, but very perky and pleased to get home again.’ Next employed in one of the teams supporting Scott’s ‘Southern Journey’, Dailey was out on the ice sledge-hauling from 2-12 November 1902, before turning back for Hut Point on the latter date; and again six weeks later, having received a ‘Sledging Order’ from Lieutenant C. Royds, R.N., dated 31 December 1902: ‘You will proceed tomorrow with Mr. Ford and Whitfield, with provisions for 14 days, to the depot off the Bluff, the position of which you already know, taking with you 3 bags of provisions, one gallon of fuel and one box of biscuit, as a depot for Lieutenant Armitage ... Owing to the number of parties away, there is not sufficient gear to send a relief party out, should you require it. Wishing you a pleasant trip ... ’ A trip that lasted for 17 days. By this stage, Dailey had clearly established himself as a popular member of the expedition, Dr. Wilson, among others, enjoying his company: Monday 22 June 1903: ‘We sat down to our Christmas dinner to which the four Warrant Officers had been invited, namely the Bo’sun, the Second Engineer, the Chief Carpenter [Dailey] and the Steward. They were great fun and enjoyed themselves well. I had the Carpenter next me at dinner, the nicest of the four. We had the remains of the champagne that was sent on board specially for the King at Cowes. It was by no means bad stuff. The Carpenter asked me what it was about three parts through dinner. He said it wasn’t like any champagne he had ever drunk, because it “didn’t seem to do you any good.” He had done his best and had been unable to get any forrarder on it.’ Champagne interludes aside, Dailey continued to lend valuable service, and was back out on the ice man-hauling with Scott in September 1903, in a journey to the Western Depot, and again in the ‘Western Attempt’ journey of 12-21 October 1903, Scott noting in his journal of the 14th that Dailey was ‘a bit seedy, probably a little overcome with the march.’ Given the prevailing temperature of circa -50, no great surprise. With the arrival of the relief ships Morning and Terra Nova in January 1904, the expedition came to a close, although the Discovery did not break free of the ice until February. And the return voyage was not without incident in terms of Dailey’s post as Carpenter, Wilson noting how he came to the rescue when Discovery’s rudder was ‘smashed up’ at the end of the same month: ‘The only thing to do was to hoist it and put in our spare one. It is at all times a heavy and tricky undertaking, as the rudder weighs about 5 tons. Our spare rudder is a good deal smaller than the broken one and there are doubts as to whether it will steer the ship. How the shaft of our rudder got broken is not quite clear. It may have happened at the glacier, where our stern got a heavy bump, or it may have happened in Wood Bay when we were backing in some very heavy pack. Anyhow the shift is splintered and revolves in the collar with no answering movement of the blade. Dailey the carpenter noticed it.’ Dailey was invested with his Polar Medal by King Edward VII in December 1905, having earlier that year been presented with his Royal Geographical Society Medal by Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, G.C.B., at that time C.-in-C. Devonport. And, as verified by Scott’s post-expedition geological observations, he also left behind a permanent memorial in Antarctica: ‘The Dailey Islands are fine small conical masses surrounded by the ice in the middle of McMurdo Sound. Only one of these - the largest - has been visited, and the usual scoriaceous basalts were procured.’ Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank Dailey served with Scott in t...
A collection of four 20th century illustrated art books. The lot comprising 1946 The Book of Job from the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611, illustrated by Arthur Szyk publ. The Heritage Press, publisher's orig. cloth in gold slipcase; Le Tome I de Soleils publ. Les Editions Arts et Metiers Graphiques richly illustrated in colour & black and white, publisher's wraps; 1994 Wood Engraving & The Woodcut in Britain by James Hamilton publ. Barrie & Jenkins; and The Cecil Aldin Book with contributions by P. G. Wodehouse, Patrick Chalmers et al., illustrated with Aldin's tipped in plates. A smart collection. Largest folio.
A Keith Murray for Wedgwood Art Deco 1930s angular tankard; a Clarice Cliff blue glazed posy ring; a Cobridge stoneware "Corncockle" patterned vase, dated 1998; a small Poole pottery cream jug, and a pair of Arthur Wood cruet pots in Deco design. (6) Further details: chip to base rim of Keith Murray tankard; general wear.
LONDON, THE CITY AND THE EAST END - William HERBERT (1772-1851). The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies, London, 1837, 2 volumes, large 8vo, 19th-century half morocco. With 7 other works of related interest in 9 vols., some leather-bound. (11)LONDON, THE CITY AND THE EAST END - William HERBERT (1772-1851). The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London. London: "Published by the Author," 1837 [vol. II: 1836]. 2 volumes, large 8vo (243 x 155mm). Half titles, wood-engraved illustrations, folding table (occasional light spotting). Attractively bound by Bickers & Son in half morocco gilt (extremities rubbed). [?]FIRST EDITION. Kress C4392. With 7 other works of related interest in 9 vols. including [Richard Thomson's] Chronicles of London Bridge: by an Antiquary (London, 1827, 8vo, frontispiece and vignettes, later calf), Arthur Griffith's The Chronicles of Newgate (London, 1884, 2 vols., large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in dark green half morocco gilt), F. G. Hilton Price's The Signs of Old Lombard Street (London, [1902], 4to, plates, FINELY BOUND by Henry Sotheran in red half morocco gilt with sign motifs in the compartments of the spine) and Joseph Broodbank's History of the Port of London (London, 1921, 2 vols., 4to, plates, some folding, original green cloth gilt). (11)
Collection of approximately fifty five Punk / Post Punk / New Wave LPs and twenty 12" singles includes Joy Division Atmosphere (FACUS 2), New Order Power Corruption Lies (FACT 75), Cocteau Twins Head Over Heals and Sunburst & Snowblind, The Stranglers IV, Live (XCERT), Black & White, The Raven and The Passage Pindrop, A Certain Ratio Sextet, The The Infected, The Cure Boys Don't Cry, Iggy Pop Lust For Life, Bill Nelson Chimera, The Durutti Column LC, The Cramps The Crusher, This Mortal Coil Sixteen Days, Split Enz True Colours, Talking Heads Little Creatures, Fear of Music and two Remain In Light, Simple Minds New Cold Dream, Real To Real, Cacophony, Promised You A Miracle, Sister Feelings Call, Sparkle In The Rain and Life In A Day, The Wild Swans Revolutionary Spirit, Yashar, two Pete Shelley, two Ultravox, Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft, Original Mirrors, Paul Haig, two The Cars, Pillows & Prayers (picture disc), Associates, Europeans, two Human League, Ian Drury, Primal Scream Kowalski, The B-52s, Magazine, The Glove Blue Sunshine, The The Soul Mining, Shiny Two Shiny, Arthur Brown, three Elvis Costello, two The Police, two Robert Fripp, Scritti Politti, Devo, Wood Beez etc, records generally appear Ex, some may grade lower
Collection of twenty nine Rock / Prog Rock / Heavy Rock LPs including Psychic TV Dreams Less Sweet, Jimi Hendrix Re-Experienced, Gong Magick Brother, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Can Limited Edition, King Crimson Three Of A Perfect Pair, Nick Drake Heaven In A Wildflower, Jethro Tull Songs From The Wood and Aqualung, Joe Cocker, Vivien Stanshall, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin Presence, Yardbirds No 4 (picture disc), Bachman Turner Overdrive, Dr Feelgood, Animals, Donovan, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Roxy Music etc, records generally appear at least VG+
A quantity of ceramics including a pair of Royal Doulton Collector's Gallery Edition Classic Florals picture plates, Yellow Iris with Blue Roses; two Noritake conforming cups and saucers; a pair of Old Willow meat plates, other meat plates; a limited edition Capredoni Dartington paperweight; a children's nursery rhyme tea set; an assortment of coronation and royal interest mugs, plates, cups and saucers; others including Royal Crown Derby, Arthur Wood, etc (qty)
FOUR BOXES OF MIXED CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE, to include Royal Stafford 'Roses to Remember' tea set not complete, Poppy England blue and white floral pattern etc, Arthur Wood teapot 3726, two Royal Albert teacups and saucers 4505 with cockerel pattern, Churchill blue and white meat plate, Royal Doulton blue and white water jugs, Copeland Spode serving tureen, vintage Greek 24ct gold plated white vase with pheasant detail, two Royal Albert 'Old Country Roses' teacup and saucer, selection of Rayware, selection of novelty tea pots including vintage Paramount Pottery etc, glassware includes glass art craft bowl, six small crystal glasses, large rounded cut glass decanter with stopper, cut glass bud vases etc, (sd), (4 boxes)
ROBERT TAYLOR 'THE 'DAMBUSTERS', a print depicting the raid carried out by 617 Squadron, signed by Arthur 'Bomber Harris and Harold 'Mick' Martin who was the pilot of the aircraft in the print, published 1980, together with a Alan Wood oil on canvas depicting steam locomotives in an engine shed, signed and dated (19)82, approximate size 49cm x 75cm and a certificate for a Douglas Bader Foundation print
The 1894 Ascot 'Royal Hunt Cup': A monumental Victorian silver centrepiece / cisternCharles Frederick Hancock, London 1893, designed by Charles Bell Birch ARA (1832 - 1893)In the form of a two-handled cistern, oblong in the form of a longship, the rounded bellied ends with applied open-work high upswept scroll handles, with foliate embellishments, each centred with an oval boss, engraved '1894 ASCOT ROYAL HUNT CUP' to one handle, the other 'WON BY MR T WORTON'S VICTOR WILD 4 years 7 st. 7 lbs.', the rim with an applied bead band, either side with a cast Royal stags head issuing from a shaped, pediment with acanthus panels, the body with applied bas relief panels either side, one representing hawking / falconry, and the other a stag hunt, the incidents are taken from Tennyson's Idylls of the King, 'Merlin and Vivien' and 'Geraint and Enid', one figural landscape scene centred with lord and lady on horseback and falconers in front, the other scene centred with an archer poised by a tree, with hounds chasing a stag, below a hill top castle, both panels within a strap-work surround with outswept scroll to the ends, flanked either side with a central broad foliate band in high and low relief over a stippled ground, the whole supported by a stretcher linking eight pedestal scroll supports, the interior with a removable silver liner, with gilded inner surface, with the bespoke painted black wood plinth, height 34cm, length 58cm, weight 330oz.Footnotes:Provenance:Won by Mr Tom Worton by his racing horse Victor Wild.Thence by descent to the present owner.VICTOR WILD WINS THE ASCOT 'ROYAL HUNT CUP'This victory was achieved by the legendary four year old racehorse Victor Wild, a great middle-distance runner, who was owned by the infamous Mr Tom Worton. Tom Worton was an unusual racing horse owner, as he was not a member of the elite ruling classes, but a publican of a well known drinking establishment in Walthamstow. As such, Victor Wild and Tom Worton were extremely popular winners with the public, as they bucked convention and ignited the imagination of the masses. The Ascot Royal Hunt Cup always provides one of the greatest spectacles of the Royal Meeting as a maximum field thunders up Ascot's straight mile course for one of the biggest betting races of the season. First run in 1843, originally contested on a right-handed course over 7 furlongs and 166 yards, although the race's distance was shortened to 7 furlongs and 155 yards in 1930, but was then extended to its present length in 1956. It is now run on a straight course on the second day of the Royal meeting, and usually features a large field. It is one of three perpetual trophies at the meeting, along with the Gold Cup and the Queen's Vase, which can be kept permanently by the winning owners.The previous year on October 5th, 1893 Victor Wild won The 'Hurst Park Club Cup' with a prize money of £1,000 and the trophy, sold in these rooms, The Connoisseur's Library Sale, 14 February 2024, lot 627.For the design of his silverware, Hancock engaged the services of some of the finest modellers and sculptors of the 19th century, including Louis Freret, Baron Charles Marochetti, H. McCarthy, Eugene Lamy, Marshall Wood, Raffaele Monti, Henry Hugh Armstead RA, E. T. Parris and Charles Bell Birch ARA.This cup was designed by Charles Bell Birch ARA (1832 - 1893) for Hancocks & Co.The two bas relief scenes are based on incidents from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, 'Merlin and Vivien''Here when the Queen demanded as by chance'Know ye the stranger woman?' 'Let her be,'Said Lancelot and unhooded casting offThe goodly falcon free; she towered; her bells,Tone under tone, shrilled; and they lifted upTheir eager faces, wondering at the strength,Boldness and royal knighthood of the birdWho pounced her quarry and slew it.'and 'Geraint and Enid''For Arthur on the Whitsuntide beforeHeld court at old Caerleon upon Usk.There on a day, he sitting high in hall,Before him came a forester of Dean,Wet from the woods, with notice of a hartTaller than all his fellows, milky-white,First seen that day: these things he told the King.Then the good King gave order to let blowHis horns for hunting on the morrow morn.And when the King petitioned for his leaveTo see the hunt, allowed it easily.' Literature:Joseph Cannon, 'Memoirs of an Old-Time Trainer - Part II - Victor Wild', The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, July 24, 1936, pp.186-187 and p.216The Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News, June 23, 1894, page 590, with illustrationIllustration:The Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News, July 24 1936, the champion race horse Victor WildFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Autographs and Ephemera - collection of mostly 1920s/30s Sport, Orchestral Musicians, Singers and other autographs, etc inc Real Madrid FC touring Team 1925 with inc Felix Perez, Villeyas, Campo, Felipe, Escobar, Fuesada, etc (approx 18) other signature inc Norman Bird, James and Margaret Riddell, S E Bridgwood, T Meredith, Ellen Terry, Edgar Knight, Dora Roberts, May Blythe, Philip S Bertram, Rupert Bruce, Winifred Nicholson, Margaret Harrison (Violinist), Beatrice Harrison, Julius Harrison (Composer & Conductor), Arthur Catterall, Henry J Wood (1869-1944 Conductor and tutor At R A , Walter Widdup, Denis Matthews, Richard Lewis, Edward Allen, Mary Mukle (Violoncellist) etc contained in two albums and loose, sepia photographs of early Motorcars, Motorcycles and Daily Life, etc, another later Album 1950sinc Billy J Kramer, Les Kellett, etc
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA RDI (1882-1940) Ibi Dabo Tibi, from The Song of Songs Wood engraving on paper Edition of 12 Signed bottom right Provenance: From the collection of Kerrison Preston (1884-1974) and thence by descent. Dimensions: (Frame) 10.5 in. (H) x 10.5 in. (W) (Paper) 5 in. (H) x 5 in. (W)
Art & Collecting.- Schreiber (Lady Charlotte) Journals, edited by Montague J.Guest, 2 vol., 1911 § Brocklebank (Lt. Col. Hugh) A Turn or Two I'll Walk to Still My Beating Mind: Commentary on a Private Collection, one of 250 copies, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Cresset Press, 1955 § Archer (Mildred & W.G.) Indian Painting for the British 1770-1880, signed presentation copy from the authors to Joel Sayre, 1955 § Wood (Christopher) Victorian Painters, 2 vol., reprint, Woodbridge, 1998 § MacGregor (Arthur, editor) Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary, Founding Father of the British Museum, 1994 § Russell (Francis) John, 3rd Earl of Bute Patron and Collector, 2004 § Chaney (Edward) The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods, New Haven & London, 2003, plates and illustrations, all but the second original cloth or boards, the first rubbed, the last four with dust-jackets; and c.75 others on art & collecting, some pamphlets, v.s. (c.80)
Pictorial Cloth.- Macdonald (George) At the Back of the North Wind, wood-engraved illustrations by Arthur Hughes, the Earl of Iveah's copy with embossed stamp to title and pencil note by JC bought "from the house sale at Elveden Hall Suffolk", cover design by ?Laurence Housman, [c.1896] § Kingston (W.H.G.) My First Cruise, sixth edition, miscased in binding for 'Elchester College Boys' by Mrs. Henry Wood, [1866] Whiting (M.B.) Stronger than Fate, n.d. § W[hitten (Wilfrid)] Between the Cupolas, spotting, 1905 § School-boy Life and Incident, n.d. § Murray (E.C.Grenville) Under the Lens: Social Photographs, 2 vol., second edition, 1886 § Adams (W.H.Davenport) A Book of Earnest Lives, third edition, 1889, plates and illustrations, all original pictorial or decorative cloth, the last two with gilt, slightly rubbed; and c.75 others in pictorial/decorative cloth, mostly children's, 8vo (c.80)
The Beggar's Petition, Broadside Ballad, c1830s, Duke of wellington Arthur wellesley Interest. The Beggar's Petition. A political version of the original verses written by Thomas Moss, in 1766. Mention of Grey Peel & Wharncliffe, statesmen in the early 1830s. Printed and sold by J. V. Quick, 42, Bowling green brick lane Clerkenwell, Spitalfields. Double column with large woodcut illustration with hand colouring. Measuring; 25.5cm x 18.6cm. On paper, wood cut heading. Rare. Not in Bodleian. The Woodcut depicting Arthur Wellesley The Duke of Wellington with his hat held out with a man walking past about to drop a coin in. Backed/pasted to the corners to modern paper. *The poem is referenced in the opening pages of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as an example of a poem commonly memorized by young women of the day