A group of furniture, including a wall mounted teak two door glazed display case, with castellatted upper and lower mouldings, and brass effect hinges, 70cm high, 153cm wide, 25cm deep, together with an oak sideboard, with carved geometric detail and floral designs, on plank feet, with cross brace, 90cm high, 150cm wide, 43cm deep, and a wall mounted display case, with two bevelled glazed doors, with five glass shelves, above three small drawers, with brass drop handles, castellated over hanging pelmet, 81cm high, 90cm wide, 18cm deep, and a display cabinet, with two glass glazed doors, and over hanging upper carved castellated pelmet, 109cm high, 95cm wide, 33cm deep. WARNING! This lot contains untested or unsafe electrical items. It is supplied for scrap or re-conditioning only. TRADE ONLY
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A GEORGE I GILTWOOD GIRANDOLE MIRROR IN THE MANNER OF JOHN BELCHIER, CIRCA 1725 156cm high, 78cm wide John Belchier (d.1753) is first listed in 1717 as a cabinet-maker at 'The Sun' on the south side of St. Paul's Church yard and described himself as 'a cabinet and looking glass-maker' who 'grinds and makes all sorts of fine peer and chimney glasses and glass sconces.... at reasonable rates'. His most significant commission was for John Mellor at Erddig, Wales, a commission which included a state bed, pier tables, and numerous pier glasses, along with an impressive bureau-cabinet. Significantly it is Belchier's bureau cabinets that are most frequently labelled, and due to his ability to work with glass all have mirrored doors to the cabinet sections. His work at Erddig is discussed by Martin Drury, 'Early Eighteenth Century Furniture at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-48, in which many of the pier-mirrors are illustrated. Condition Report: Overall there are some scratches, marks, chips, cracks and abrasions consistent with age and use.There is some aging and craquelure to the gilding. There are some repairs some with fine visible cracks and with some later gilding. The mirror plates are probably not original though finely bevelled. There is some evidence of old worm.The crest with a later brace support.Impressive design, execution and design.Please see all the additional condition report photographs through the link on the condition report email as a visual reference of condition - they are a vital part of this report. Condition Report Disclaimer
A WILLIAM III WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK RICHARD FENNELL, KENSINGTON, CIRCA 1695The four finned and latched pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with plates measuring 6.75 by 5 inches and anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 11 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and calendar aperture to the concentric 'button' decorated matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword-hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed Rich. Fennell, Kensington to lower margin, with fine scroll-pierced sculpted blued steel hands and applied winged cherub mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles, in a case with ogee moulded cornice and plain frieze over floral marquetry trail decorated hinged glazed dial surround applied with three quarter columns to angles, the sides with rectangular glazed apertures and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with floral bloom decorated convex throat moulding over 42 inch rectangular door centred with a circular lenticle and with three shaped marquetry panels decorated with bird inhabited floral sprays and scrolling foliage into an ebonised ground, with half-round edge mouldings, the sides veneered with twin panels within crossbanded borders, the base with stepped ogee top mouldings over conforming rectangular marquetry panel within crossbanded surround, on a moulded skirt base.210cm (82.5ins) high, 47.cm (18.5ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep. Provenance: Private collection. Inherited by Mr. & Mrs. Curling Hunter, 9, Westbourne Terrace, London, and thence by descent to the vendor. Richard Fennell is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in about 1656 and began his apprenticeship with Matthew Crockford in 1669. He then transferred to Thomas Bagley and finally gained his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company after ten years, in 1679. He is believed to have married Ann Hedderil at St. Duke's Place in 1693 but did not sign the Clockmakers 'oath of allegiance' in 1697. He worked in the outskirts of the city in Kensington and is known for longcase, lantern and table clocks including a small series of miniature brass table timepieces - an example of which was exhibited in the 'Horological Masterworks' Exhibition held at The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 29 March - 22 June 2003 (item number 48). Clockmakers Company records suggest that he was in arrears for his quarterage in 1705 and is believed to have worked in Kensington until at least 1715. Condition Report: Movement is in clean working condition having the appearance of being recently cleaned/serviced. There is no visible evidence of alteration or obvious replacements with the exception of the escapement pallets which are probably 'service' replacements. The backplate has some punch marks around the pivot holes to tighten them as well as at the location of one of the movement pillars where it is interference fitted to the backplate. The dial is in good condition with some mellowing to the silvering evident. The minute hand is a replacement and the hour has been repaired. The movement is fitted with a replacement seatboard however it rests directly onto the cheek uprights of the case with no visible evidence of adjustment to the latter hence we are inclined to believe that the movement and dial are most likely original to the case. The case is generally in relatively untouched original condition and of good colour. The hood has a replacement top board (but no evidence of ever being fitted with a caddy superstructure) and the front frieze would have almost certainly been faced with fretwork (is veneered in walnut). The hood columns are also replacements. The rear top cornice mouldings have been cut at an angle to rear (to allow the case to stand in the corner of a room) otherwise faults are limited to minor bumps, scuffs, shrinkage and couple of small veneer repairs commensurate with age and use. The front glass has a crack to the lower right-hand corner and the left hand glass is also cracked. The trunk and base are generally in sound original condition. The throat moulding has bumps/chips to the rear left-hand corner and a corresponding small veneer patch to the left. The clamp to the top of the trunk door is dislodged but still just attached and leaning forward due to movement of the crossgrain edge mouldings. There are some localised losses to the marquetry along the join of the crack. The lower clamp has a crack along the join and the joint is loose (but no significant losses to the marquetry) and there is general lifting/curling to the edge mouldings. The plinth appears to retain its original structure and veneers but with additional blocks etc glued to the inside to brace the structure; the skirt is a later addition. The front has a horizontal crack albeit with minimal losses. Otherwise faults to the case are limited to relatively minor historic bumps, scuffs, bruises, shrinkage, wear and a couple of minor localised veneer repairs.Clock has pendulum, two weights and a crank winder, but no case key. Condition Report Disclaimer
Semiotics and Art Criticism to include: Beardsley (Monroe) Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958, 8vo; Corbett (David Peters) The Modernity of English Art 1914-30, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997, 8vo, signed and dedicated by the author; Waddington (C.H.) Behind Appearance: A study of relations between painting and the natural sciences in this century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969, folio; Caws (Mary Ann) They Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception ..., Princeton University Press, 1981, 4to among other volumes on art criticism, art history and semiotics (qty) The Library of Roger Cardinal Roger Cardinal (1940-2019)Roger Cardinal was one of Britain’s most distinguished art historians, best known for defining what is generally known as Outsider Art - that is, art by people with no formal training. He began his career as a lecturer at the French department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, subsequently moving to Warwick University and finally to the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he taught for fifty years and held a professorship.Roger Cardinal was not only a leading authority on Outsider Art, but also on Surrealism. He was a prolific writer and a master of literary style. His eloquent, percipient writings include several books on a wide range of subjects such as Outsider Art (1972), German Romantics in Context (1975) Figures of Reality (1981), Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989), The Cultures of Collecting (1994), and Kurt Schwitters (2011). He also acted as a curator and was a regular contributor to art-historical publications.Cardinal’s interest in art lay in its margins - the neurodiverse, psychotic, uneducated, autistic, self-taught and ‘other’. His fascination with artists such as the violently psychotic Adolf Wölfli lay in their creativity rather than in the sensationalism of their lives. Certainly, it did not lie in the resale value of their work. That outsider art should have its own multimillion-dollar annual fair in New York and specialist departments at Christie’s auctioneers ran quite contrary to Cardinal’s thinking.Much of Roger Cardinal’s library has recently been donated to the Tate Gallery including the handwritten diaries that he kept his whole life. Cardinal often used books as working tools, heavily annotating in the margins - as with many volumes in the current sale. The library offered reflects Cardinal’s varied interests and fluent command of French and German. Alongside a large collection of art reference works in his specialist subjects, we also find collections of books on fairy tales and science fiction.
CHARLES BOSWELL A 12-BORE BOXLOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 17531, for 1919, 30in. nitro barrels, tubes engraved 'CHARLES BOSWELL. 126. STRAND. LONDON. W.C.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 3/4 choke, some dents, treble-grip action, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, border and partial acanthus scroll engraving surrounding vignettes of a nye of pheasant on the left, the right with a brace of partridge, the underside with a solitary pheasant, retaining traces of original colour-hardening and finish, 14 1/2in. figured stock including 1/4in. extension, weight 6lb. 12oz., in a brass-cornered leather case S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act
W.W. GREENER A 12-BORE 'GRADE F.H.35' FACILE PRINCEPS EJECTOR, serial no. 52539, for 1904, 30in. nitro barrels with matt rib engraved 'W.W. GREENER. MAKER. 68, HAYMARKET. LONDON. WORKS ST. MARY'S SQUARE. BIRMINGHAM.' and with a brace of partridge at the breech end, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 3/4 choke, treble-grip action with side bolsters, manual side safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, William Baker patent fore-end ejector mechanism, patent no. 17292 of 1896, use no. 786, border and acanthus scroll engraving, retaining much renewed colour-hardening and finish, 14 3/4in. figured replacement stock with horn-inlaid drop points, weight 6lb. 15oz., in a canvas and leather case S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act
The Naval General Service medal awarded to Commander Henry Bourne, Royal Navy, for his services as Junior Lieutenant of the Spartan in a brilliant single-handed action with a French squadron off Naples in May 1810 Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Spartan 3 May 1810 (Henry Bourne.) a few surface marks, otherwise good very fine £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: Wallis & Wallis, October 1995. 34 clasps issued for Spartan 3 May 1810. Henry Bourne entered the Navy on 12 May 1801, as First-class Volunteer on board the Neptune 98, Captain Edward Brace, bearing the flag in the Channel of Vice-Admiral Gambier. He served as Midshipman, for a few months in 1802, in the Camilla 20, commanded by the same officer and by Captain Henry Hill, then rejoined Vice-Admiral Gambier in the Isis 50, at Newfoundland. He became attached, in January 1804, to the Melpomene 38, Captains Robert Dudley Oliver and Peter Parker employed in the Channel and Mediterranean. He was made Lieutenan on, 4 January 1808, into the Fame 74, Captain Richard Henry Alexander Bennett, off Cadiz, and, on 11 June 1809, removed to the Spartan frigate, Captain Jahleel Brenton. In October of the latter year he assisted at the reduction of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo; and on 3 May 1810, he signalized himself by his exemplary conduct and gallantry, as Junior Lieutenant of the Spartan, whose force amounted to 46 guns and 258 men, in a brilliant and single-handed victory gained by that ship, in the Bay of Naples, after a contest of more than two hours, in which the British sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 22 wounded, over a Franco-Neapolitan squadron, carrying altogether 95 guns and about 1400 men. Mr. Bourne was subsequently employed with Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, who succeeded to the command of the Spartan, on the coast of North America, where he aided in the capture of numerous privateers and other vessels, until promoted to the command of the Rattler sloop, of 16 guns. He was promoted to Commander on 6 November 1813 and was superseded from the Spartan on 24 January 1814. Bourne was granted a pension for wounds on 2 December 1815. With the exception of a few months in 1829-30, when he served at Sheerness as Second-Captain of the Donegal 78, Captain Sir Jahleel Brenton, he held no further appointment.
The fine Great War Q-ship operations D.S.C. group of three awarded to Engineer Lieutenant N. S. MacKinnon, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action in the Cullist in the Irish Sea on 11 February 1918, having already been decorated and ‘mentioned’ for services in her against enemy submarines: at the time of his death he had received at least one more bravery recommendation Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917 and privately engraved, ‘Eng. Lieut. Neil S. MacKinnon, 23rd Jan. 1918’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Eng. Lt. N. S. Mackinnon. R.N.R.) together with Memorial Plaque (Neil Shaw MacKinnon) nearly extremely fine (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004. D.S.C. London Gazette 22 February 1918: ‘For services in action with enemy submarines.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 29 August 1917. Neil Shaw MacKinnon, who was born at Leith, Edinburgh on 23 April 1877, was commissioned as a Temporary Engineer Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in May 1917, the very same month in which the Q-ship Cullist was commissioned by Lieutenant-Commander S. H. Simpson, R.N., shortly to win a brace of D.S.O.s for his command of her in several lively encounters with enemy submarines. As it transpired, MacKinnon was to serve as his Engineer Lieutenant throughout this period, right up until his death in action on 11 February 1918, when the Cullist was torpedoed without warning and went down in two minutes. His mention in despatches was for services on the occasion of the sinking of an enemy submarine on 13 July 1917, the latter having been sighted on the surface at 11,000 yards range, from which distance it began shelling the Cullist. After firing 38 rounds without recording a hit, the enemy began to close the range to 5,000 yards and fired a further 30 rounds which started to straddle their target. At 1407 hours Cullist returned fire, her gunners getting the range after their second salvo and numerous hits were recorded on the enemy’s conning tower, gun and deck. Then an explosion was seen followed by bright red flames, and three minutes after engaging the submarine it was seen to go down by the bows leaving oil and debris on the surface - the latter included ‘a corpse dressed in blue dungarees, floating face upwards.’ But it was for actions fought by the Cullist on 20 August and 28 September 1917 that MacKinnon received his D.S.C. On the former occasion an enemy submarine was sighted on the surface and opened fire on the Cullist at 9,000 yards range. After 82 rounds had been fired by the submarine, just one of them scored with a hit on the water-line of the stokehold, the shell injuring both the firemen on watch and causing a large rush of water into the stokehold, which was overcome by plugging the hole and shoring it up. Several time-fused shrapnel projectiles were also fired at the Cullist but without effect. The submarine then closed the range to 4,500 yards at which time the Cullist returned fire and scored two hits in the area of the conning tower, upon which the submarine was seen to dive and contact was lost. During the second duel, which was fought on 28 September 1917, Simpson gave the order to open fire at 5,000 yards range - ‘thirteen rounds were fired of which eight were direct hits, causing him to settle down by the bowstill while about 30 feet of his stern was standing out of the water at an angle of about 30 degrees to the horizon. He remained in this position for about ten to fifteen seconds before disappearing at 12.43 hours.’ Soon afterwards Simpson spotted another enemy submarine and set off in pursuit, on this occasion to no avail. Nonetheless, he was able state in his official report that much credit was due to the Engine Room department, ‘who worked up to, and maintained a speed of 13 knots for four and a half hours, being 1.5 knots in excess of this ship’s previous full speed.’ And in official Admiralty correspondence dated 10 November 1917, the first suggestion that MacKinnon should be awarded a D.S.C is muted, the First Lord adding his approval five days later. Yet another brush with the enemy took place on 17 November 1917, when the Cullist was sighted by an enemy submarine which opened fire at 8,000 yards range. Within five minutes the enemy had the range and a shell glanced off the Cullist’s side, damaging one of three officers’ cabins before bursting on the water line. After disappearing in a bank of fog the submarine re-appeared and continued to shell the Cullist with such accuracy that for 50 minutes the decks and bridge were continually sprayed with shell splinters and drenched with water from near misses. In all, the enemy fired 92 rounds, while the Cullist returned fire from 4,500 yards, 14 rounds being fired at the submarine of which six were seen to be direct hits. The submarine, although badly damaged, was able to turn away, dive and escape. Once again, Simpson recommended his engineering officers, Mackinnon and a Sub. Lieutenant Wilson, their C.O.’s official report stating: ‘These officers are stationed in the Engine Room and Boiler Room during action and have always kept their department in a high state of efficiency and ready for any emergency, stimulating all ratings under their orders with their good example.’ On 11 February 1918, however, the Cullist’s luck ran out and she was torpedoed without warning in the Irish Sea and sank in two minutes. The enemy submarine then surfaced and asked for the Captain, but was told that he had been killed. The Germans picked up two men and after verbally abusing the remaining survivors, made off. Simpson, who had been wounded, was pulled into one of the rafts, and the survivors were subsequently rescued by a patrol trawler. Sadly, however, their gallant Engineer Lieutenant was not among their number, undoubtedly having gone down at his station in the Cullist. Aged 40, he was the son of Donald and Jessie MacKinnon of 1 Royston Terrace, Edinburgh and is commemorated on the Porstmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with comprehensive research.
The 2-clasp Naval General Service medal awarded to Thomas E. Davis for his services as Captain of the Maintop in the Virginie at the capture of the Dutch frigate Guelderland in May 1808, and as Able Seaman in the Berwick at Gaieta in July 1815 Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Virginie 19 May 1808, Gaieta 24 July 1815 (T. E. Davis.) a very minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £7,000-£9,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Peter Dale Collection, July 2000. 21 clasps issued for Virginie 19 May 1808, and 89 for Gaieta 24 July 1815. Thomas E. Davis is confirmed on the rolls as Captain of the Maintop in the Virginie, at the capture of the Danish frigate Guelderland in May 1808, and as Able Seaman in the Berwick at Gaieta in July 1815. ‘The thirty-eight-gun frigate Virginie, Captain E. Brace, on May 19th, cruising in latitude 46° North, longitude 14° West, saw and chased a strange sail, which proved to be the Dutch frigate Guelderland, thirty-six guns. At a quarter to ten p.m. the Virginie got near enough to hail the stranger and order her to strike, which she refused to do, and was fired into by the British frigate. An action commenced, during which, in wearing, the Guelderland fell on board her opponent, but the night was so dark, and the swell so great, that the British were unable to board. About eleven p.m., the Guelderland, having all her masts and bowsprit shot away, surrendered, with twenty-five officers and men killed, and her captain and forty-nine men wounded. The Virginie had one man killed and two wounded, and her chief damage was caused by her prize running foul of her during the action.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers). ‘Gaieta, in the Kingdom of Naples, held out in the cause of Napoleon, for several weeks after the Battle of Waterloo. An Austrian force under Baron de Lauer, invested the place by land, and the British ships Malta, eighty, Captain W. Fahie, and Berwick, seventy-four, Captain E. Brace, blockaded it by sea. After several bombardments, the Governor being informed by Captain Fahie of the surrender of Napoleon to Captain Maitland in the Bellerophon, capitulated on August 8th. The casualties on board the British ships in these operations were - Malta, four men wounded, Berwick, one man wounded.’ (Medals of the British Navy by W. H. Long refers).
The Second War bomb disposal operations D.S.C. and George Medal group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Commander D. Law, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve: having diffused around 40 UXBs in the period 1940-42, he went on to carry out equally gallant work at Calais and Zeebrugge in October 1944, carrying out an examination of the lock-gates for booby-traps at the latter place when enemy troops were positioned just 40 yards away Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1942, officially dated ‘1945’ and privately engraved ‘Lt. Cdr. David Law, R.N.V.R.’ George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Lieut. David Law, R.N.V.R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted court-style for display, good very fine and better (6) £6,000-£8,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006. G.M. London Gazette 28 April 1942: ‘For gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This officer has dealt with 39 bombs, one of which was embedded in six feet of concrete with only the filler-cap showing. The bomb could not be withdrawn owing to the lack of purchase. Also the existence, close by, of important installations, made it impossible to destroy it on the spot. It was essential to remove it as soon as possible, the safety period therefore having to be ignored. Everyone was sent away while Lieutenant Law gently chipped a hole in the concrete with the least possible vibration and scraped out the sand underneath with his hand until he found the fuse. This he discharged, but then had to remove it by hand as it was not possible to rig up remote control apparatus. He tested it roughly for spring in case a Zus. 40 booby-trap was present and then removed the fuse. Afterwards the hole was made long enough to take out the bomb. A bomb had fallen into the bunker of a ship. A channel was cut through the coal to the spot where it was assumed that the bomb lay. This was between 8-12 feet down and 16 feet in. The tail of the bomb was found and gradually the fuses were exposed and discharged. The bomb was hoisted out. The flooded engine room could then be pumped out and a second bomb was found with the fuse downwards. Lieutenant Law, by careful use of wedges and a crowbar, turned the bomb until he could get at the fuses and discharge them.’ D.S.C. London Gazette 16 January 1945: ‘For gallantry and devotion to duty in operations leading to the capture of Calais and Zeebrugge.’ The original recommendation states: Lieutenant-Commander Law was one of two Bomb Safety Officers attached to the Port Reconnaissance Party which entered Calais on 1st October. Information was received from Prisoners of War that the enemy had p[laced demolition charges in the Main Control Bunker (concrete shelter) and it was found that the bunker was on fire inside. Lieut.-Comdr. Law, with his assistant Sub-Lieut. Swain, entered the bunker, wearing oxygen breathing apparatus and succeeded in extinguishing the fire and neutralising seven 500-lb charges which were already hot. On 18th October, prior to the capture of Zeebrugge, this Officer, with the same companion, undertook to obtain information regarding the state of the lock-gates at this port. At the time, the German line was about 40-yards east of the lock-gates and the British line was 800-yards west of them. The two officers succeeded in making their way under cover of darkness to a suitable position where they waited until daylight and were able to make the necessary detailed observation of the lock and gates and to establish that any attempt to capture the position intact was pointless. Lieut.-Comdr. Law showed courage of a high order, initiative and devotion to duty.’ David Law, a native of Clydebank who graduated from Glasgow University prior to the War, was attached to the Director of Unexploded Bomb Department (D.U.B.D.) from as early as December 1940, so we may be sure that many of the 39 bombs referred to in his G.M. recommendation were very much of the “Blitz” period. But his gallant deeds in a ship’s bunker - those cited in the same recommendation - were actually enacted on the 2 October 1941, when he was called to the S.S. Sturdee Rose at Milford Haven, which merchantman had put in to port after being attacked by a brace of prowling He. 111s. He was duly awarded the G.M., which decoration he received at an investiture held on 30 June 1942. Law was serving in the Torpedo and Mining Department by the time of his subsequent acts of gallantry at Calais and Zeebrugge in October 1944, and was invested with his D.S.C. at Holyrood Palace on 27 September 1945, shortly before his release from the R.N.V.R. Sold with a quantity of original documentation and artefacts, including his commission warrant for the rank of Temporary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., dated 15 January 1943, with seniority from 29 September 1940; a superb album of copied photographs taken from the recipient’s original archive (approximately 40 images), the whole detailing the events of a UXB incident in the Grimsby area, and fully captioned with explanatory notes; an unused “Unexploded Bomb Report” card and a copy of the Civil Defence training pamphlet Notes On The Detection and Reporting of Unexploded Missiles (H.M.S.O., 1943); Admiralty letter notifying him of the award of his D.S.C., dated 20 January 1945, with three others relating to investiture arrangements; and the artefacts including his R.N.V.R. uniform epaulettes and cap badge, cloth “UXB” sleeve badge, wooden R.N. B.D.S. (Royal Navy Bomb Disposal Section) wall-plaque and wartime White Ensign, the leading edge ink-inscribed, ‘D. Law, R.N., B.D.S.’
‘The performance of duty by this rating has had a tremendous effect on the operations carried out by “Torbay” and there have been occasions when his efficiency has saved the submarine from probable disaster.’ High praise indeed. Commander A. C. C. ‘Crap’ Miers, V.C., D.S.O., R.N., in his assessment of Petty Officer Telegraphist E. K. Kember, D.S.M., in August 1942. The Second War submariner’s D.S.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Petty Officer Telegraphist E. K. Kember, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services in H.M.S. Truant in Norwegian waters in 1940 and in H.M.S. Torbay in the Mediterranean in 1941-42; a key player in the achievements of the latter submarine, which was skippered by V.C.-winning Commander A. C. C. Miers, R.N., he also won a ‘mention’ following Torbay’s part in Operation ‘Flipper’, the ill-fated raid on Rommel’s H.Q. Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (J. 133432 E. K. Kember, L. Tel., H.M.S. Truant) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with small M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted court-style for display, good very fine (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 --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 9 May 1940: ‘In recognition of daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty’s Submarines against the enemy.’ Bar to D.S.M. London Gazette 7 July 1942: ‘For gallant service in successful patrols while serving in H.M. Submarine Torbay.’ The original recommendation states: ‘For great skill and exceptional devotion to duty during seven war patrols, as Higher Telegraphist Detector, in H.M.S. Torbay, in the course of which he has brought his department to a very high standard of efficiency, and been responsible on frequent occasions for enemy ships being sighted and subsequently sunk after he has reported the bearing on which to look out. On ten occasions of it being necessary to communicate submerged with other submarines on patrol, to check position or pass intelligence reports, he has been completely successful, sometimes at very long range, and on twelve occasions of carrying out special operations in shallow waters off the enemy coast, or making reconnaissances and attacking shipping in enemy harbours, the efficient working of the supersonic sounding machine, and the ranges obtained by S.S.T. of the beach and coastline have been invaluable. Upon no other rating has so much depended on numerous occasions of enemy A./S. searches, hunts and counter-attacks, and the success of the operations and the safety of the submarine have frequently required him to remain at his post for periods exceeding ten hours without relaxing his vigilance, and on many of these occasions, I have relied implicitly upon him, and never in vain. His alertness on 20 December [1941] when, due to a gyro failure, a torpedo commenced to circle may have saved the submarine, since he gave me warning in time to take the submarine deep.’ Ernest Kynoch Kember was born at Glandford Brigg, Lincolnshire, on 24 February 1914, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Telegraphist in the early 1930s. Volunteering for submarines in the following year, he qualified as a Higher Telegraphist Detector in September 1938, the same year in which he was advanced to Leading Telegraphist. Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, he joined H.M. submarine Truant, and he remained likewise employed until February 1941, gaining advancement to Petty Officer Telegraphist and his first D.S.M. in the same period. The latter distinction arose from Truant’s early operations in Norwegian waters and, more specifically, her torpedo strike on the German light cruiser Karlsruhe on 9 April 1940. Truant was positioned off Kristiansand when she launched her attack, one of her torpedoes striking the enemy cruiser amidships on the starboard side, blasting a large hole in her hull and allowing thousands of tons of water to flood in. The flooding disabled her engines and electrical generators, which cut off the power required to operate her pumps. The order to abandon ship was given and the enemy torpedo boat Greif took off her crew before scuttling Karlsruhe with a brace of torpedoes. Kember was next deployed in Truant to the Mediterranean, in which she operated out of Gibraltar, Alexandria and Malta with notable success. In September 1940, she forced the scuttling of the German merchantman Tropic Sea and torpedoed and sank the Italian merchantman Providenza, the latter in a position off Ischia. And in December 1940, in the course of her 14th and 15th war patrols, she torpedoed and sank the Italian merchantman Sebastiano off Calabria and the tanker Bonzo off Punta Stilo, in addition to surviving a depth-charge attack from the Italian torpedo boat Alcione north of Tripoli, an attack that ‘shook Truant considerably. Returning to the U.K. in the new year, Kember joined the Torbay in April 1941, the commencement of his time under Commander A. C. C. ‘Crap’ Miers, R.N., who, over the coming months, would be awarded the V.C. and a brace of D.S.O.s for his aggressive leadership and mounting toll on the enemy. And that toll – and Torbay’s very survival – was largely owing to Kember’s skills as a Higher Telegraphist Director. So, too, in part to Miers’ unusual tactics when under depth-charge attack. Peter Padfield’s War Beneath the Sea explains: ‘His technique when hunted differed from that of most C.O.s; he never dived below about 80 feet - whether or not there was, as in this case, a ‘feather-bed’ layer - believing that the submarine’s frame and vulnerable hatch and other openings were in a better condition to resist the shock waves from depth-charges when not already under extreme pressure at maximum depth; further that he could more easily come up to periscope depth to review the position from 80 feet. By shutting off all auxiliary motors and maintaining the lowest speed compatible with holding trim, he hoped to remain undetectable by the Italian passive listening devices ... ’ If Torbay’s third war patrol in July 1941 was typical of her mounting Mediterranean score - her final ‘bag’ on that occasion amounting to the Italian submarine Jantina, the freighter Citta di Tripoli, the tanker Strombo, and several local troop and supply transports, including caiques – it also resulted in mounting controversy regarding the use of her guns against enemy soldiers and crew in just such troop-carrying caiques. The first indication of that controversy arose on 4 July, when Miers surfaced to engage with guns an enemy troop-carrying caique and schooner, between Andros and Euboea - having sunk both vessels, two Lewis guns were used from Torbay’s bridge to destroy ‘everything and everybody’. Then on 9 July similar tactics were employed against another troop-carrying caique - also laden with petrol, ammunition and food supplies. And it was on this second occasion that matters appear to have got out of hand, although it is worth noting that the enemy showed stout resistance on being boarded - a Corporal in the Special Boat Section had to shoot a German he saw about to hurl a grenade, and one of Torbay’s officers was compelled to dispatch another who was in the process of raising his rifle. Interestingly, this was not the first time that the R.N. had attracted adverse commentary from enemy survivors, German Naval High Command having alre...
The 2-clasp Naval General Service medal awarded to Commander W. S. Stanhope, Royal Navy, for his services as a Lieutenant in the Berwick at Gaieta in 1815, and in the Impregnable at Algiers in 1816 Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Gaieta 24 July 1815, Algiers (W. S. Stanhope, Lieut. R.N.) nearly extremely fine £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: J. B. Hayward & Son, June 1975; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000. Approximately 88 clasps issued for the attack on Gaieta, near Naples. William Spencer Stanhope/Roddam was born on 4 January 1793, fourth son of Walter Spencer Stanhope, of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire. He entered the navy in March 1806, as First-class Volunteer on board the Ocean 98, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of his cousin Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman in the Ville de Paris 110, until the death of that veteran hero in March 1810. After several appointments he was promoted, August 1812, to the rank of Lieutenant and removed to the Berwick 74, Captain Edward Brace. In that ship he co-operated in the reduction of Genoa and the siege of Gaieta in July 1815. Following Captain Brace, in July 1816, into the Impregnable 104, he fought, on the 16th of the next month, at the battle of Algiers. In 1818 he assumed the surname and arms of Roddam, having inherited, in 1806, the estates of his kinsman and godfather Admiral Robert Roddam, and dispensed also with his former forename of Spencer. Soon afterwards he was placed on half-pay and did not serve afloat again. He was promoted to Retired Commander in October 1854, and died in late 1864, aged 70.
The fine Second War Coastal Forces D.S.M. group of six awarded to Leading Seaman J. J. Phillips, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was decorated for his deeds as a Coxswain in a brilliant night action in the Channel in March 1943, when M.G.B. 333 accounted for two E-boats, one of them by ramming at high speed: such was the calibre of the bravery displayed that night that five members of 333’s crew were decorated and three more mentioned in despatches Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (DX.1349 J. Phillips. L. Sea.), impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (1349 J. J. Phillips. A.B. R.N.V.R.) mounted court-style for display, extremely 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 --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007. D.S.M. London Gazette 1 June 1943: ‘For skill and gallantry in action with enemy light forces.’ A brief account of the action for which Phillips was decorated appears in Dog Boats at War by Leonard C. Reynolds, O.B.E., D.S.C.: ‘On 28-29 March 1943, it was one of the customary defensive patrols that brought the opportunity for confrontation with the E-boats against which, night after night, the boats lay in wait ready to repel their attacks. Lt. D. G. Bradford. R.N.R., was leading the unit in his own 333, with 321 (Lt. P. L. Stobo, R.N.V.R.) in company. While lying ‘cut’ (i.e. stopped with engines not running to enable a listening watch for E-boat engines), he suddenly heard them, started up, intercepted their course and having sighted them, tracked a line of five moving slowly. Why so slow, he could not fathom. He was able to approach very close, pour a broadside into the last in line, and then take on the next ahead. Stobo in 321 had gone after the others, so Bradford decided to ram, and sheared off the last twenty feet of her hull, which broke away. He circled back and could find little trace of either E-boat, so chased off to find the first three. When he found them stopped in a group, he opened fire and they were away at full speed. A group of prisoners of war later admitted that their E-boat, S. 29, had been scuttled after action damage from British M.G.Bs’. Phillips’ C.O. that night, Lieutenant D. G. “Don” Bradford, R.N.R., would later command the 31st and 55th M.T.B. Flotillas, and ended the War as one of the most decorated officers in Light Coastal Forces, having won the D.S.O., three D.S.Cs and a brace of “mentions”. A colourful character by any standards, his pre-war career included service as ‘an Adjutant in the Bolivian Army during the Gran Chaco War and as an Ensign in a cavalry regiment of the International Brigade in Spain, and in both he had been wounded’. Perhaps it is not surprising, therefore, that Phillips would recall that his skipper had ‘a revolver stuck in his belt’ on the night of 28-29 March 1943, and that ‘around the bridge lay Mills bombs and cutlasses’. As Peter Scott would put it in his Battle of the Narrow Seas, ‘fighting was in his blood’. Joseph John Phillips, who joined the R.N.V.R. in Bristol in 1935, commenced his wartime career with an appointment in the cruiser H.M.S. Diomede, then employed on northern patrols. In early 1941, however, he volunteered for Light Coastal Forces, and joined M.L. 451 that March, in which motor launch he served for 12 months, operating out of Immingham, Lincolnshire, on air sea rescue patrols. Then in July 1942, he joined M.G.B. 333 as her coxswain, the commencement of an eventful operational commission under “Don” Bradford, but one that came to a halt when he was “busted” down to Able Seaman for being found drunk at sea - but not before winning his D.S.M. for the above related action off Smith’s Knoll. Phillips subsequently joined M.T.B. 702 at the end of 1943, as a Gunner on one of her 6-pounders, but had reclaimed his Coxswain’s post in the same boat by the war’s end. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in 1945 and was demobbed in October of the same year. Sold with a photograph of Phillips and his two brothers, and a hand-written résumé of his career.
The outstanding Great War D.S.C., D.F.C. group of six awarded to Captain B. A. Millson, Royal Air Force, late Mercantile Marine and Royal Naval Air Service; after being decorated by the Czar for his good work on the Archangel run as a Third Officer in the Mercantile Marine in 1915, he qualified as a pilot and flew at least 64 raids at night in Handley Pages, often with resultant damage from anti-aircraft fire Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. B. A. Millson, R.A.F.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Bertie A. Millson); Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, gold, the first two on original investiture brooches, the last mounted for wear and all lightly stitched together contemporarily for display, minor contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (6) £6,000-£8,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Bonhams, March 2004. D.S.C. London Gazette 17 April 1918: ‘For skill and courage in carrying out two successful bombing raids on Bruges Docks on the night of 17th-18th February 1918. He has taken part in many night bombing raids flying Handley-Pages.’ D.F.C. London Gazette 8 February 1919: ‘This officer has carried out 64 raids at night, displaying at all times great perseverance in reaching the objective and marked gallantry in attack, notably on the night of 3rd-4th October, when he twice raided an important railway junction, dropping his bombs with skill and precision from 800 feet, obtaining direct hits, and causing serious damage. On the night in question no other machine bombed from a height of less than 4,000 feet owing to the very heavy hostile fire.’ Bertie Arthur Millson was born in Wimbledon, Surrey on 3 December 1892, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in February 1909. Just over two years later, however, he purchased his discharge and embarked on a career in the Mercantile Marine. By the opening stages of the Great War, he was serving as Third Officer of the Cunard Line’s S.S. Thracia, which ship was commandeered to deliver vital war materials to Russia. In common with other ships on the Archangel run, she became trapped in the ice in the Spring of 1915, and had to be taken in tow by H.M.S. Jupiter after being freed by means of explosive charges. Here, then, the occasion on which Millson clearly distinguished himself, an accompanying translation of the royal decree for his Russian decoration stating: ‘The Chapter of the Imperial and Royal Orders hereby testify that His Imperial Russian Majesty has conferred on 23 April 1915, on Millson, a British subject, and Third Officer of the S.S. Thracia, a gold Medal with the inscription ‘For Faithful Service.’ The Medal is to be worn on the breast with the ribbon of St. Anne.’ (Contemporary copy translation included with Lot). In May 1916, Millson came ashore to pursue a new career in naval aviation and was posted to the Royal Naval Air Service training establishment at Cranwell, where, in August, he gained his aviator’s certificate in a Maurice Farman Biplane. Having then attended a Handley Page course at Manston, he was drafted to No. 3 Wing in France in January 1917, but his cross-Channel flight ended in a crash-landing, in which he received multiple injuries, and he was evacuated home via No. 7 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne. A spell at R.N.H. Haslar ensued, followed by a night flying course back at Manston, and he returned to an operational footing in No. 3 Wing in June 1917. His subsequent active service record, enacted over 18 months and comprising at least 64 sorties in Handley Page bombers was of an exceptional nature. A detailed record of the first 23 of those sorties is contained in his opening pilot’s flying log book, covering the period June-December 1917, and from which, by way of example, the following entries have been extracted: 21-22 July 1917: ‘Raid on Middlekerque dumps. Visibility very poor indeed (no moon). Held in searchlights for 15 minutes. Anti-aircraft fierce and very accurate. No results observed because of searchlight glare. One hit through port upper plane extension and three through fuselage.’ 3-4 September 1917: ‘Raid on Bruges Docks. Attacked from the southward and took a line from S.W. to N.E. The line was observed to straddle the submarine assembling works on the south side of the docks. All bombs exploded. Visibility excellent. Anti-aircraft fire plentiful and accurate. Machine hit once.’ 1-2 October 1917: ‘Raid on Zeebrugge Lock Gates. Crossed the coast from land to sea at 6,000 ft. over Nieuport and approached Zeebrugge from seaward. Arrived over the Mole at 7.000 ft. and started to glide over the lock gates. The line started a bit short but the last three bombs exploded in the close vicinity of the north gate. No actual result could be seen owing to the intense glare of about 10 searchlights, which found and held the machine. Both gun layers kept up a continuous machine-gun fire while we were held in the searchlights. Anti-aircraft fire very plentiful and very accurate. Machine was hit in three places.’ Advanced to Flight Lieutenant in January 1918 and awarded the D.S.C. for his part in a brace of strikes against Bruges docks in February 1918, Millson was re-mustered in the rank of Captain in the newly created Royal Air Force in April 1918. He subsequently served with ongoing distinction as a Flight Commander in No. 207 Squadron from June 1918 until the war’s end, a period of gallant service that resulted in the award of his D.F.C. One example of that gallantry, as cited in an obituary notice, states: ‘On the night of 18-19 July 1918, whilst approaching Valenciennes Railway Junction, he had the petrol pipe of his machine shot away, causing the petrol to pour out of the top tank and rendering the machine in a highly inflammable condition. Notwithstanding these trying circumstances, he continued to take his machine to the objective, over which he made two runs and bombed at 600 feet, getting a direct hit.’ Placed on the Unemployed List after the Armistice, Millson rejoined the Cunard Line and obtained his Master’s certificate in June 1919. And he remained in the Merchant Navy until 1937, when he took up an appointment as an instructor at the School of Air Navigation at R.A.F. Manston. That appointment proved short-lived, however, for he died suddenly at home on 15 August 1937. Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Naval Air Service Pilot’s Flying Log Book, commencing with training flights in June 1916 and ending with operational sorties in December 1917; together with the R.A..F Manston Quarterly of September 1937 containing his obituary notice with portrait photograph.
Modern Firsts. Calvino (Italo) & Weaver (William, translator), Invisible Cities, first English edition, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974, half-title, original publisher's dustjacket designed by Arnold Skolnick, minor wear, now preserved under a wrapper, grey cloth, 8vo; Nabokov (Vladimir), PniN, first edition, fourth impression, London: Heinemann, 1969, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Faczynski, black cloth, 8vo; Waugh (Evelyn), Brideshead Revisited, third edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945, half-title, original red cloth only, 8vo; Olsen (Tillie), Tell Me A Riddle, first UK edition, Faber, 1964, OK ex-library copy, dj, hb, 8vo; Whitman (Walt), Drum-Taps, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1915, half-title, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, square 8vo; Vale (Edmund), Roc: A Dog's-Eye View of War, first edition, London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930, original cloth, 8vo; Wright's Lawd Today, first edition, London: Anthony Blond, 1965, dj, hb, 8vo; Sinclair's White Chappell, first trade edition, Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987, dj, hb, loosely-inserted prospectus, 8vo; Kenneth Grahame; Jules Verne, (10) Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Registration – BWP 317MChassis No. – BFATPY00469M.O.T. – ExemptOdometer – 60,055Given the number of prizes and awards won by ‘BWP 317M’ there can be no question about the quality and diligence of its restoration. ‘BWP 317M’ has been in its current ownership since 2013 and was restored over an 18-month period initially to be a rally car. However, with such a no compromise job undertaken ‘BWP 317M’ essentially chose its own path as a highly regarded show car. During the restoration a huge number of upgrades were undertaken to all aspects of the car with only the highest quality components used. It is no surprise then that the vendor attests to ‘BWP 317M’ driving faultlessly and being a bona fide head turner. Classified as an Historic Vehicle ‘BWP 317M’ is zero rated for road tax and MOT exempt and so is ready to turn more heads immediately.‘BWP 317M’ is finished in Ermine White which contrasts beautifully with the red Mexico decals. This pristine livery combines with the front quarter bumpers, quad Cibie lamps and four spoke RS alloy wheels to deliver a true classic rally car look. Inside, new contour front seats with adjustable headrests have been fitted with the rear bench trimmed to match. A three spoke black anodised alloy RS steering wheel is also fitted. It can come as no surprise that the vendor rates the paintwork, bodywork and interior as “excellent.”The aesthetic presentation and quality of ‘BWP 317M’ is, in some ways, just the mouthwatering entrée to the banquet that is the mechanical specification. The Ford Kent engine has been bored out to 1700c, a steel crank shaft fitted together with forged pistons and rods and a 244 camshaft. A stage 3 cylinder head is fitted together with a duplex timing chain and timing gear, roller rockers, new old stock 40 DCOE Weber carburettors and a lightened and balanced flywheel. A full Piper stainless exhaust system and manifold are present, as is a strut brace, electronic ignition and a high torque starter motor. A custom alloy radiator is fitted together with an upgraded electric fan and a full silicon hose kit. It’s not just ‘BWP 317M’s’ engine that has been so thoroughly upgraded either. A four-speed Rocket transmission is fitted together with the correct English axle and limited slip differential. The brakes have been upgraded to Wilwood items at the front and 9-inch drums at the rear. The suspension consists of coil overs on the front and a Gaz adjustable set up at the rear. Once again all mechanical aspects of ‘BWP 317M’ are vendor rated as “excellent.”In this instance the astounding condition of ‘BWP 317M’ and the quality of the restoration and upgrades can be validated and corroborated by external sources. Here follows a list of ‘BWP 317M’s’ prizes and awards:2023 The Lakes Tour:1St Place – Best Car, Show & Shine MK1 RS Escort2022 Fox Motor Sports Events1st Best Engine Bay2022 Tatton Park2nd Place – Best Car in Show2022 Lakes Tour2nd Place – Best Car, Show & Shine MK1 RS Escort
Mid-Century Modern G Plan Fresco Dressing TableThis mid-century modern G Plan Fresco dressing table epitomises the classic vintage design associated with the G Plan brand. The structure features a symmetrical drawer arrangement with three drawers on the left, a central drawer, and three drawers on the right. The piece is supported by two vertical supports, connected by a horizontal brace at the bottom for enhanced stability. This item measures approximately 137 cm in width, 46 cm in depth, and 73 cm in height, though deviations might occur based on specific variations. Known for its timeless appeal and functional design, this dressing table is a perfect addition to any mid-century modern inspired interior.
Dish ''Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of Russia (1868-1918)'', Wilkens & Söhne, Bremen-Hemelingen ca. 1910-1915, silver. Beautiful commemorative dish on behalf of the officer corps of Tsar Nicolaus II Romanov, the last Tsar of Russia, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks along with his wife and children on the night of 16 to 17 July 1918. B. Graf zur Lippe-Biesterfeld & J.E. are also mentioned on the bowl. Graf zur Lippe-Biesterfeld the grandfather and uncle of Prince Bernard zur Lippe Biesterfeld better known as Prince Bernhard (1911-2004) the husband of the late Princess (Queen) Juliana. The bowl has a brace edge decoration and an initial in the middle from Tsar Nicolaus II. Germany, Bremen-Hemelingen, Wilkens & Söhne, ca. 1910-1915, hallmarks: moon, crown, 800, maker's mark, inscription: Das Offizier Corps des Hus Regts Kaiser Nikolaus II v. Russland. 476 grams, 800/1000. Dimensions H 2 cm, Diam 28 cm.
WARHOL (ANDY), THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL; signed and inscribed on the half title in black felt ink ‘To Oli, Andy Warhol London, 1975’, with a can of Tomato Soup, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 (1)Condition Report: There is no provenance with this lot. It has been entered to auction from a private source.
RACKHAM (ARTHUR), THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, by Izaak Walton, full page plates and text illustrations, full leather, George Harrap, 1931; AUSTEN (JOHN), DON JUAN, by Lord Byron, cream cloth, John Lane for The Bodley Head, 1926; HEIGHWAY (RICHARD) THE FABLES OF AESOP, pictorial green cloth, Macmillan & Co, 1894; KOIZUMI (G), LACQUER WORK, pictorial black cloth, London, Pitman & Sons, 1925; KREDEL (FRITZ), GLASS FLOWERS FROM THE WARE COLLECTION, ink inscription to the front from Livingston Stebbins, Professor at Harvard University, Harcout, Brace and Company, 1940; KINGPRINT OF RICHMOND, a set of four 1977 reprints in slip case including ‘Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (6)
A set of castings and chassis frames for a live steam 5-inch gauge locomotive 'Maid of Kent', designed by LBSC, castings include; driving wheels, tender wheels, cylinder block, crank, other parts include suspension blocks and horns, smokebox, chimney, firebox front and rear grate, loco frame is present and partially finished with butterbeam and drawbeam and cross-brace together with axle boxes, front bogie is also present, assembled and painted, lot also includes 13 editions of 'The Model Engineer' magazine from 1948??, each with bookmarked articles pertaining to the construction of the locomotive
MODERN FIRSTS. The L-Shaped Room, by Lynne Reid Banks, London: Chatto & Windus, 1960; I Want it Now, by Kingsley Amis, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969; Jake's Thing, by Kingsley Amis, London: Hutchinson, 1978; Good Intentions, by Ogden Nash, Boston: Little, Brown, 1942; Life at the Top, by John Braine, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962; Stay With Me Till Morning, by John Braine, London: E&S, 1970; Room at the Top, by John Braine, London: E&S (third impression), 1957; A Kind of Loving, by Stan Barstow, London: Michael Joseph, 1960; Nice Work, by David Lodge, Uncorrected Proof, London: Secker & Warburg, 1988, plus two trade firsts of the same; Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin, London: W. H. Allen, 1978, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (12)
Matchbox Regular Wheels pair (1) 50a Commer Pick-up Truck - Stannard Code 3 - light tan body without dashboard brace and without roof ejector ring, mask sprayed front & rear silver trim, gloss black base, 20-tread grey plastic wheels with crimped axles (2) 71b Jeep Gladiator Pick-up Truck - Stannard Code 2 - red body with silver trim, clear windows, white interior with plastic door springs, gloss black base without patent number, 45-tread black plastic wheels - Near Mint in Good type B3 box - tear to one end flap & Good Plus type D2 box. (2)
Matchbox Regular Wheels pair of Pick-ups (1) 50a Commer Pick-up Truck - Stannard Code 2 - light tan body without dashboard brace and without roof ejector ring, front and rear silver trim, satin black base, metal wheels with domed crimped axles -couple of small chips (2) 60a Commer Pick-up Truck - Stannard Code 1 - with rear silver trim & with cab rear window, black lettered decals, gloss black base, 20-tread grey plastic wheels with crimped axles - Excellent Plus to Near Mint in Fair to Good type B2 & B3 boxes. (2)
Matchbox Regular Wheels group of Military Vehicles. (1) 55a D.U.K.W Amphibian - satin black base, metal wheels; (2) 63a Ford Military Ambulance - with hole to base, 24-tread black plastic wheels with riveted axles; (3) 71a Austin Military Water Tanker - silver trim to headlamps & bumper, type B base with rear hole, 24-tread black plastic wheels (4) 73a RAF Pressure Refueller - type B round tank brace, 20-tread grey plastic wheels - Excellent to Near Mint in Poor to Good Plus type B boxes. (4)
Matchbox Regular Wheels 14c Bedford Lomas Ambulance pair (1) off white body, type B roof, white interior, type B floor brace, silver trim to grille, headlamps and front bumper, 11 x 45-tread black plastic wheels (2) similar but without any silver trim applied - generally Excellent Plus with some minor marks around decals & rear doors in Good Plus type D2 & E4 boxes. (2)
Matchbox Regular Wheels group of Commercial Vehicles. (1) 10c Foden Sugar Container Truck - with silver trim, rear decal without crown, with base hole, 24-tread black plastic wheels (2) 15c Dennis Refuse Truck - without silver trim & with tipper body front vent hole, squared decals, 45-tread black plastic wheels (3) 62b Commer TV Service Van "Rentaset" - gloss black clip-fit base, 45-tread black plastic wheels, ladders & parts in vehicle (4) 47b Commer Ice Cream Van "Lyons Maid" - blue body with short roof & side decals, white interior with tall man & left hand brace, gloss black riveted base, 45-tread black plastic wheels - Excellent to Near Mint in Good Plus to Excellent type D & E boxes. (4)
Matchbox Regular Wheels Racing Car group (1) 19d Lotus F1 Racing Car - dark green body with racing number 3 decals, gloss white plastic driver, bare metal type A base with suspension rims & long exhaust brace (2) 52a 1948 Maserati 4CLT Racing Car - Stannard Code 9 - lemon yellow body with racing number 52 decals & mask sprayed silver grille, with hood stud, white type B driver, gloss black base, wire wheels (3) 73b Ferrari F1 Racing Car - red body with racing number 73 decals, white plastic driver, type A exhausts with 2mm recess, gloss black base, wire wheels - driver discoloured Excellent to Near Mint in Good to Excellent boxes. (3)
Matchbox Regular Wheels Emergency Vehicle group (1) 3c Mercedes Benz Ambulance - cream body, light blue windows, door decals, without patient on stretcher, base text reads from rear to front (2) 54b Cadillac Ambulance - white body with silver trim & small Red Cross door labels, blue windows, gloss black base with rear axle brace (3) 55d Mercury Park Lane Police Car - white body with hood & door labels, blue roof light, ivory interior, bare metal base with Mercury on raised platform, chrome hubs with black tyres - Good Plus to Excellent Plus in Good to Excellent type E3 7 E4 boxes. (3)
Matchbox Regular Wheels group of Cars (1) 30a Ford Prefect - fawn body with silver trim & rear rivet post braces, matt black base, metal wheels with domed crimped axles (2) 36a Austin A50 - blue-green (turquoise) body with roof brace and ejector ring, front and rear mask sprayed silver trim, mask sprayed red tail lamps, matt black base, 8 x 18-tread grey plastic wheels with domed crimped axles(3) similar but pale blue body without ejector ring & metal wheels - does have some rubs to cast lines - Good Plus to Near Mint in Good to Good Plus type B boxes. (3)
Matchbox Regular Wheels 11b ERF Tanker "Esso" Stannard Code 10 - red with mask sprayed silver trim to grille & headlamps only, with cab brace, type B base with cast shut rear rectangular vent hole, 18-tread grey plastic wheels with rounded axles - Excellent, light mark to cab roof & tiny chips to tank, but overall clean bright model in Excellent Plus clean crisp type B4 box without printers identification.
Matchbox Regular Wheels Commercial group (1)15c Dennis Refuse Truck - dark blue cab and type C thick wall chassis with extended brace, light grey container with vent hole, angled decals, without silver trim, 10 x 36-tread black plastic wheels (2) 21c Commer Milk Float - pale green, silver trim to front grille and headlamps only, cow door decals, green windows, white crates, black twin rivet base, 9 x 36-tread black plastic wheels (3) 38a Karrier Bantam refuse Truck - grey body with mask sprayed silver trim, 18-tread grey plastic wheels with rounded axles - axles are rusty - Excellent to Near Mint in Good to Excellent boxes. (3)
Matchbox Regular Wheels Construction group (1) 2c Muir Hill Site Dumper "Laing" - red cab & chassis without silver trim but with type C mudguard brace, green dump body, with base hole, 11.5 x 45-tread front black plastic wheels (2) 3b Bedford TK Tipper Truck - light grey cab and chassis without silver grille, maroon tipper body with base block, gloss black base with small model No.3 cast, 45-tread black plastic wheels (3) 6c Euclid Dump Truck type A body without silver trim, type B tipper base, 40-tread black plastic wheels - Excellent to Near Mint in Good to Good Plus type D3 D4 & E3 boxes. (3)
Matchbox Regular Wheels pair (1) 4b Massey Harris Tractor - Stannard Code 2 - red body, tan driver with cast open gap between arms & legs, metal wheels with gold rear hubs, domed crimped axles (2) 12a Land Rover - Stannard Code 2 - green body with silver trim, tan driver, type B front axle brace, metal wheels with flat crimped axles - Near Mint - in Good type B1 & B2 boxes - 12a has pen mark to one end. (2)
FIVE BOXED MOKO LESNEY BRITISH CAR MODELS, Vauxhall Cresta, No.22, Ford Zodiac, No.33, sea green, Austin A50 Cambridge, No36, roof brace, metal wheels, Ford Zodiac Convertible, No.39, pale peach body, light green base/interior, metal wheels, Jaguar D-Type, No.41, 1st issue, metal wheels, RN41, all models in very good condition with only very minor paint loss and wear, all contained in Moko type B boxes which range from good to poor with missing flaps, marking and wear, all except No.22 are the later version with model number in black on end flaps
A collection of various carpenters tools early 20th century and later including various beechwood smoothing planes one with rosewood base, two large Jack planes, a German or Dutch wood plane with handle, two American handsaws Henry Disston, a bow saw, beech hand brace drill, a whetstone, iron drill bits one stamped W Marple & Sons, Garrett Wade palm hand carving tools.
One of the most immaculately presented and meticulously restored Tommi Mäkinens we’ve ever seen. Launched at the peak of rally mania, Mitsubishi experienced huge success in Lancer Evolution sales, reportedly selling 6,000 Evolution IVs in the first three days of its launch! The 1996 WRC season brought Mitsubishi its first World Rally Championship drivers' title, with thanks to a blisteringly quick driver named Tommi Mäkinen.In quick succession, the Lancer Evolution VI came to be and in the latter-half of 1999, Mitsubishi unleashed a special edition to celebrate its favourite driver's four consecutive WRC drivers' titles from 1996-1999; the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI 'Tommi Mäkinen Edition' (TME). The Evolution VI was already a technological tour de force but the TME came equipped with a more responsive titanium turbocharger, uprated and lowered suspension, quicker steering, an upgraded exhaust, a new ECU, beefed-up transfer case internals, a redesigned front bumper for improved cooling and authentic 17" WRC Enkei alloy wheels. The interior featured embossed Recaro seats, a MOMO steering wheel and red stitching. The performance upgrades saw 0-60mph despatched in 4.4 seconds and a maximum top speed of 150mph. Power was rumoured to be north of 300bhp, rather than the 276bhp 'Gentlemans' Agreement'.Widely regarded as the finest Lancer to wear the Evolution badge, it was available in five colours, with Passion Red and Canal Blue joining Scotia White, Pyrenean Black and Satellite Silver. Due to the popularity of early imported cars, especially when imported by RALLIART like this one, the UK was allocated 50 numbered examples in Passion Red. According to Mitsubishi, it was these Passion Red cars that automatically received the renowned racing decals known as a 'Special Colour Package' (SCP), meaning that these examples were factory-fitted with black door handles to not break the line of the long profile decal.On offer here is an extremely early RALLIART-imported car before the 50 numbered cars were decided upon. This is one of the infamous 212 red special colour package (SCP) vehicles confirmed by its SNGF2 VIN plate. Within the history file, there is a document showing the car was imported by RALLIART with an original Bill of Sale and the original English service books and records showing its full service history by Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi specialists. In 2007, at 48,000 miles, the car was purchased by the previous owner who, in 2015, undertook the most phenomenal restoration, with bills and invoices for work undertaken on file well in excess of £30,000.The car was totally stripped back to a bare shell, acid-dipped and all metal that required it was repaired, including replacing the entire floorpan with a genuine Mitsubishi replacement. The shell was epoxy-primed and the underside was then given an additional treatment of Raptor stone chip. Under the bonnet, virtually every component, nut and bolt was stripped, cleaned and painted including zinc-plating the bolts and painting the engine. The wheels were also stripped and powder-coated with the rear lights and front side lights converted to LED.This car features almost every conceivable RALLIART upgrade and extra, as well as having benefited from some upgrades over its life with some non-standard parts that are described in the online listing such as the Scorpion stainless steel exhaust system. Under the bonnet are some 'unobtanium' elements that enhance the engine bay, including bespoke RALLIART pipework, slam panel, spark plug cover and strut brace (front and rear). The full specification is on our website.The car is very well known within the world of TME enthusiasts and owners groups, being such a highly respected restoration and undeniably OEM+. Our vendor is a JDM collector who exclusively looks for best of the best examples, and this Tommi Mäkinen undoubtedly qualifies, however to make room for the next JDM addition, it is time to move it on. Without a doubt one of, if not the, finest condition Tommi Mäkinen we've seen and your inspection is highly recommended and encouraged.Specification list: Engine Standard engine internals. Standard airbox Greddy intercooler Spec-R polished aluminium front suspension top mount covers Spec-R header tank Spec-R water pipe Spec-R sensor heat shield Ralliart front strut brace Ralliart rear strut brace Ralliart slam panelScorpion stainless exhaust systemAll bolts zinc plated. Most parts under the bonnet taken back to bare metal and painted. Wheels and suspensionStandard Enkei wheels Ohlins suspension – less than 3,000 miles of use All joints fully polybushed (Superpro) Interior Standard interior Ralliart floor mats Ralliart pedals Ralliart gearknob Security Ralliart stickered Disklock steering wheel lock painted the same colour as the car. Clifford Concept 650Mk2 (with 2 fobs) Aesthetics Ralliart mudflaps Rear LED lamps Ralliart sill plates. Specification Make: MITSUBISHI Model: LANCER EVOLUTION VI TOMMI MAKINEN EDITION Year: 2000 Chassis Number: CP9A0202786 Registration Number: W675 YBA Transmission: Manual Engine Number: TBC Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 62900 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Grey ClothClick here for more details and images
One for the Blue Oval connoisseur, highly original, lots of provenance and a condition to warrant a place on the show field or in the concours arena. A Mk1 Mexico at its best. The car presented here is a UK-supplied 1972 Ford Escort Mk1 Mexico, correctly finished in Sunset Red with white stripes and currently owned by one of the foremost Ford collectors and experts in the UK. This is as good as you’d want any Mexico to be. Built in May 1972 at Ford’s AVO factory in Aveley, it was supplied by Ford Rallye Sport dealer, Broadspeed Ltd of Leamington Spa, to a Mr C.G. Blake at a total cost of £1,199 including seatbelts and Ziebart protection and first registered on 14th June 1972.With just four former keepers since, all of them Ford enthusiasts including the AVO Owners Club RS1600 Registrar, William Arnold, for 13 years, there is much provenance to back up its condition. An accompanying comprehensive history file contains two large booklets spanning the entire life of the car from the initial Order Form in 1972 through to the latest service using Ford Motocraft items in July 2024. There are also historic MOT Certificates, the original service book, maintenance invoices and many AVO Club Valuations, including an early one from Mexico Registrar, Andy Percival, for £2,750. Also present are many photos of the meticulous restoration carried out in the late 1990s, which is also magazine-featured and is a testament to how well the car presents today over two decades later. Such was the standard that, when completed in April 2000 and on the cars first outing to AVO National Day, it achieved a third in class and was invited onto the AVO Club Stand at the Classic & Sports Car NEC Show in November 2000.Resplendent in one of the three original launch colours, Sunset Red (Code J), this early production L-specification example retains all the correct period details (such as the rear stone deflector held in by eight bolts in the boot floor and strengthened AVO workmanship). Panel fit is excellent, many still protected by the Ziebart rust protection applied when new and the rear arches are correctly rolled. The lens units are FoMoCo and the front Carello headlamps are protected by clear dome covers. The contrasting Mexico stickers are in fantastic condition, promoting the iconic rally look, with all glass being the genuine Ford Triplex items including the front screen.Inside displays the correct Black PVC upholstery (Code AA), as fitted to ‘L’-specification early cars. Fitted with the factory 140mph speedometer and 8,000rpm rev counter, all gauges, controls and switches are fully operational. The original black one-piece rubber floor mat is also present and in excellent condition.The boot area has the early Mexico’s battery-in-boot setup, meaning the spare wheel is mounted to the boot floor. The boot mat is original and incredibly, the rear cardboard boot spring protector is present along with black light protectors undamaged. The jack and wheel brace are within the original fawn muslin bag held down by the correct rubber band.Under the bonnet resides the matching numbers four-cylinder 1600 GT crossflow engine with the 711M block, quoted in the sales brochure at 86bhp, offering 100mph with little effort and 0-60 in under 11 seconds. Correct specification throughout from the AC oval metal airbox finished in silver to the Weber 32/36 DGV-FA carburettor will also please marque enthusiasts. The top-plate reveals the chassis number and the original VIN plate and AVO ID plate remain fixed to the slam panel.Fitted with the correct pressed steel wheels with the cooling slots measuring 5.5 x 13" and immaculate chrome hubcaps and a matching set of Goodyear GT Sport 175/70 R13. The remote servo-assisted brakes powered by the early Girling Powerstop AHV 550 Mk2A help grip the front discs and the rear drums more than adequately.Interest in Performance Fords from the 1970s and 1980s shows no signs of abating and this remarkable Sunset Red Mexico would be an asset to any enthusiast of these era-defining, characterful, sporting Fords.Specification Make: FORD Model: ESCORT MK1 MEXICO Year: 1972 Chassis Number: BFATMC00089 Registration Number: HAC 522K Transmission: Manual Engine Number: MC00089 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Make: RHDClick here for more details and images
A 2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage. This 2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is in good condition, having been well looked after by its current owner. It has a number of upgrades that add to both its performance and appearance. The car features adjustable BC coilover springs, which allow for a tailored ride, offering a choice between "sport" and "comfort" modes. Rare Niche Essen 20-inch wheels are fitted with Falken low-profile tires (30/35), and these wheels are no longer in production, making them a unique addition to the car. Lime green calipers with Aston Martin logos add a striking touch. In terms of styling, the car has an "AMR" Aston Martin Racing black mesh front grille, along with a Maxton sport body kit that includes front canards for improved aerodynamics. A matte black racing stripe runs from front to rear, and a custom-made F1 diffuser is also included. The exterior has been "de-chromed" for a more modern look, with a lime green strut brace, black sports exhaust tips, black tinted indicators, and smoked rear lights. The interior largely remains as standard, but a module has been installed to keep the exhaust throttles open at all times for a louder exhaust note. This can be switched from open to closed at any time. The car also comes with the private number plate "GW08 AML," referencing Aston Martin Limited, and is equipped with an S7 tracker for added security. Registration: GW08 AML Model Year: 2008 Engine: 4.3L V8 Petrol Mileage: 81,000 miles Colour: Silver Tracker: S7 Tracker Fitted Registered: March 2008 Key Features: Adjustable BC coilover springs for a customisable ride Rare Niche Essen 20-inch wheels with Falken low-profile tires Lime green Aston Martin calipers "AMR" Aston Martin Racing black mesh grille and Maxton sport body kit Matte black racing stripe and custom-made F1 diffuser De-chromed exterior with lime green strut brace, black sports exhaust tips, and smoked lights Interior retains standard features with a module to keep the exhaust open for a louder sound Private number plate GW08 AML included S7 tracker fitted for added security This Aston Martin V8 Vantage offers a balance of style, performance, and comfort, with some distinctive upgrades that make it stand out. It’s a well-maintained car, ready to offer the next owner an enjoyable driving experience. Cars are sold as seen. You are welcome to inspect the vehicle, please arrange a viewing with Jim Brown: 07718 617706
A good quantity of hand tools, Stanley planes including an American made No. 8, an English made No. 6, a No. 5, a No. 3 and other Record examples, hand saws including a Disston Select Model D-95, Record mould planes, hand brace, lathe, chisels, set squares, etc (3).Condition Report: - Please note that this lot is not suitable for our in-house postage service.We would recommend collecting this lot or contacting Mailboxes Etc for postage of this lot, their details can be found on https://www.adampartridge.co.uk/services/transport/
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