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Lot 377
Standard Oil Company. 29 Shares $100 each. Cleveland 29. April 1878. #169. Issued to William Rockefeller and signed by him at the back. Signed by John D. Rockefeller as President and H.M. Flagler as Secretary. Standard Oil Co. Inc. was established as an Ohio corporation in 1870 for producing, transporting, refining, and marketing oil. It was probably the most powerful company in all of history. Never before nor after has one individual company been able to create a worldwide market for oil products and controlling the whole supply chain from the oil wells to the consumer. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) was its mastermind, founder, chairman and major shareholder. Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through aggressive horizontal integration in the refining sector, then, in later years, through vertical integration. The company was an innovator in the development of the business trust. It streamlined production and logistics, lowered costs, and undercut competitors. Its controversial history as one of the world's earliest and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. However, its dissolution into 33 'smaller' companies made Rockefeller the richest man in the world. Vignette of State capitol, ornate border, printed by Maverick, Stephan & Co. 176 Fulton NY. Signatures are very clear. EF.
Lot 271
AEROPLANE/AIRPLANE BOARD GAMES - a selection of 4 board games to include a sealed Monopoly Century of Flight Aviation Edition, Air Charter by Waddingtons, Air Traffic Control - an airline flight game by Airfix and Aviation The Aerial Tactics Game of Attack and Defence by H.P. Gibson & son ltd. Lot further includes a Great Western Railway Game by Gibsons Games all in original boxes.
Lot 3272
Large assortment of modern release Star Wars related items, to include posters, Star Wars Monopoly Set, Signed Darth Maul Picture, Empire Strikes Back 70mm Film Slides, Sweet Tins, Reproduction Film Posters, Winners Circle Nascar with Star Wars Livery, Free Give Away Cups and other related merchandise, mixed lot (Part Lot shown in Photo)
Lot 579
Bristol maritime interest, a George III silver presentation silver tea urn, by Lewis Herne and Francis Butty, London 1762, inverted pear form, side silver and turned baluster wooden handles, gadroon border, the pull-off cover with a flame finial, on a raised circular stem on a square base with fret-work and on four claw and ball feet, leaf capped spout, inscribed 'The Gift of The Society of Merchants City of Bristol to Capt. Wm. Hamilton 1762', the reverse with two armorials and with a large palm tree being cut by a saw and engraved 'Through', in the original fitted case, height 46cm, approx. weight 71.5oz. Provenance: Bonhams, New Bond Street, Fine Silver and Vertu, 24 March 2005, lot 135. Bristol in the 18th century was a centre for the transportation of slaves from West Africa to the West Indies and North America where they were sold to work on plantations. The ships returned to Bristol with the fruits of their labours - tobacco, sugar and rum. These in turn provided new industries and markets for Bristol. The Merchants of Bristol organised into the Society of Merchant Venturers campaigned to remove the Royal African Company's monopoly on trade with Africa. On the 19th April 1763, the Court of the Society of Merchant Adventurers passed a resolution to make presentations to three captains. William Hamilton was awarded 50 guineas to buy a piece of plate of his own choice in recognition of his service as regulating captain of the port of Bristol for a period of some years.
Lot 178
Old Monopoly Set Doll Teddy Bear and Briatins Hunt and Show Jumping Figures: 1950s Monopoly Set with five Metal pieces and wooden Hotels and House, in original box with board (unchecked), unboxed metal Britains Huntsman on white horse and plastic Show jumper on a white horse, Tri-ang Pedigree undressed hard plastic talking doll (not working), blue opening eyes, brown wig and open mouth with two teeth and 1940s unmarked Teddy Bear , with repairs and damage, P-F, box F (6)
Lot 486
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 500-450 BC. Roaring griffin standing to left on tunny fish, right foreleg raised and tongue protruding / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 99; Boston MFA 1455; Gulbenkian 623. 16.12g, 20mm. Near Mint State. Very Rare. An electrum stater of superlative quality, certainly the finest known of the type, and by quality one of the very best of all known Kyzikene staters. An extremely impressive coin. A mythical creature of great antiquity, griffins are represented in Egyptian and Persian art from as early as the fourth millennium BC; from the middle bronze age (c.1950-1550 BC) they begin appearing in Syria, the Levant and Anatolia, and they can be found in 15th century BC frescoes in the throne room of the bronze age palace at Knossos. Closely associated with guarding precious possessions and treasure, and so frequently utilised as a motif in such capacities, the griffin came also to be a symbol of divine power and so a guardian of the divine. Half lion and half eagle, and so possessing the power and dignity of both of these majestic animals, these fearsome creatures in time came to be associated with the vast quantities of gold that flowed south out of the vast northern wildernesses into Greek and Persian lands. This seemingly endless source of gold caused a great deal of speculation among the Greeks as to its origin; the myths and fables eventually found form in the idea of a land they called Hyperborea (‘beyond the north wind’). Homer, Pindar, Hesiod and Strabo all make reference to this legendary place, and Herodotus writes of it: “But in the north of Europe there is by far the most gold. In this matter again I cannot say with assurance how the gold is produced, but it is said that one-eyed men called Arimaspians steal it from griffins. But I do not believe this, that there are one-eyed men who have a nature otherwise the same as other men. The most outlying lands, though, as they enclose and wholly surround all the rest of the world, are likely to have those things which we think the finest and the rarest. (The Histories, 3.116) Though it is generally agreed that Hyperborea never actually existed as any single place, but was rather an amalgam of various fragments of truth and flights of fancy, one possible source for the northern gold may be found in the Altai Mountains of Skythia (straddling modern day Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and Russia), whose name ‘Altai’ in Mongolian literally means ‘Gold Mountain’. It has been further suggested (Mayor, 1991) that this region, rich in gold run-off from the mountains, and which is also holds a great many Protoceratops fossils, may have been the ultimate source of the Greek myth of griffin-guarded gold. The sandstone rock formations skirting the gold deposits continually reveal through erosion bleached white, fully articulated skeletons of these prominently beaked quadruped dinosaurs, and being conspicuous against the red sediment would have been noticed by early inhabitants and travellers. Indeed, 5th century BC human remains in the Altai Mountains have been found bearing griffin tattoos, occasionally accompanied by gold griffin artefacts. That this symbol of power should be adopted by Kyzikos for its coinage again and again is hardly surprising then, given that the city possessed a virtual monopoly on gold coinage in the area from Troy to Ionia, in the Propontis, in Bithynia and in the Black Sea regions, and the animal’s fabled reputation as a guardian of the precious metal.
Lot 384
VINTAGE TOYS - a collection of vintage toys to include Buccaneer in original box and board in tube, a traditional Irish monopoly board and accessories - complete, a complete set of wooden chess pieces, an Historical Map of England & Wales 1500 piece jigsaw (unchecked), a pocket bridge device in original packet, chad valley domino pieces in a hand painted wooden dominos case, a set of two tone wooden dominoes, a wooden dice shaker, x16 draught pieces, a J & F Bell "Three Nuns" tin with a variety of loose game pieces, and a copy of The Sunday Times 'Canasta for All' by Colin Harding.
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