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Click here to subscribeA rare Sunderland purple lustre jug, painted with two blue flags, one inscribed no impressment, the other no Monopoly flanking the inscription W B Stewart Freeman Blue Ever true Now in Wilks a Champion view All unite Nobly fight Nor till death desert your right, 18cm h, c1820 Literature: Two jugs in the Collection of Sunderland Museum attributed to the 'Garrison' Pottery of Dixon & Co bear inscriptions in the same distinctive style of lettering seen on the present example; see Baker (JC), Sunderland Pottery, Sunderland 1984, Nos 78 & 85. The practice of impressment, whereby seafaers were 'press-ganged' into naval service was abandoned after about 1815. ++Rim restored some slight wear to the lustre around the rim and on the handle
Armenian (?) embroidered and brocaded silk velvet vestment fragment, the deep salmon velvet ground decorated with animals and vases in silk embroidery with silver metal brocade and with a central hieratic figure of the Madonna and Child against an elaborate mandorla with trailing vine 'frame' similarly worked. Possibly Esfahan, west Persia, 18th century or earlier, 17in. x 21in. 33cm. x 54cm. The style of the central group suggests one of the Eastern Orthodox churches, whilst the quality of the materials and workmanship indicate an Armenian origin. It should be remembered that the wise and tolerant Safavid Shah Abbas the Great gave the Armenian community in Persia the monopoly of the silk trade in the late 16th century as well as allowing them to build their own suburb of Esfahan with its cathedral of St George. This led to a thriving Armenian silk manufactory which included many ecclesiastical vestments; the most beautiful and famous of these is the late 16th century Marcy-Injoujian shorshar (the Armenian equivalent of a cope) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a superb example of so-called 'Polonaise' silk pile weaving.
U.S.A. New Jersey Junction Railroad Co. $1 000 mortgage bond 1886 vignette of busy river scene also vignette on reverse of further river scene signed on reverse by J.Pierpont Morgan as trustee very clear signature black & brown with coupons perforated cancelled very fine. (1)***J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) major American investment banker. Involved in government financing especially in breaking Jay Cooke's government financing monopoly. Financed many railroads and ventures..
Wells (Herbert, George, 1866-1946). Autograph Letter Signed ('H.G. Wells'), Spade House, Sandgate, 19 November 1904 , [to Eric Parker, editor of the Country Gentleman], explaining that any short stories he writes are under a monopoly agreement to be submitted to the Strand Magazine and any articles to the Daily Mail and that in any case he finds them an interruption of 'the more ambitious dreams I cherish of writing novels', 2 pages, 8vo (1)
1698. 10 & 11 William III. An Act for making Billingsgate a Free Market for Sale of Fish,. 7pp, plus parliamentary session title?page, disbound, folio. For many centuries Billingsgate and Queenhithe were the main wharfs in the City for the mooring of fishing vessels, Billingsgate gradually superseding its rival. It became a "free and open market for all sorts of fish" in 1698, when this Act was passed to break the monopoly of a group of fishmongers. The foul and abusive language used there became notorious, incidently. (1)
Morris, William (1839-1896), Monopoly, or How Labour is Robbed, London, William Reeves, [n.d.], 8vo (185 x 125mm.), illustrations, original paper wrappers, front cover illustrated Morris, William (1839-1896), Useful Work versus Useless Toil, London, William Reeves, [n.d.], 8vo (185 x 125mm.), illustrations, original paper wrappers, front cover illustrated