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Click here to subscribeA rare New Hall oval sauce tureen, cover, fixed stand and ladle, with two 'S' scroll handles and scroll knop, bat printed in black with a country house, on a flowerhead moulded ground, within gilt line borders, 7 1/4" wide overall (18.5cm) circa 1820 See David Holgate, New Hall, colour plate S for another tureen and cover of this form, but with polychrome decoration
A very rare New Hall facetted flared round sucrier and domed cover, decorated in gilt with stiff leaf and 'C' scroll bands, the top of the cover with a gilt leaf, 4" high (10cm) circa 1785-87 This is New Hall pattern number 81 See D. Holgate, New Hall, figure 53, for a plain round sucrier and cover of this, although no facetted example appears to be recorded there
A GWR brass CABSIDE NUMBERPLATE "7907". Carried by "HART HALL", the '6959 Modified Hall' Class 4-6-0 built at Swindon in January 1950 under Lot 368 at a cost of £8,530 plus another £2,095 for the tender. It was loaned to Bristol when new for broccoli traffic from Cornwall and remained in Bristol nearly all her life. She was withdrawn in December 1965 after running 544,423 miles and sold to John Cashmore Ltd, Town Quay, Newport, Mon. for scrap. Hart Hall is part of Exeter College, Oxford. The plate is in superb ex-loco condition.
Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1st ed. in book form, Chapman & Hall, 1837, 43 etched plts. by Robert Seymour and Hablot K. Browne (incl. frontis. and addn. title), lacking half - title, some spotting to plts., new endpapers, orig. cloth, rebacked with spine laid - down, rubbed, 8vo (1)
Travel interest, mostly 20th c., but including some 19th c. vols, incl. The Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 3 vols., new ed., 1933-34 (rebound in modern blue cloth), Tutira, The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station by H. Guthrie-Smith, 2nd ed., 1926, Fragments of Voyages & Travels, 1st-2nd series, six vols., by Captain Basil Hall, 1831-32, plus the two volume Alan Wofsy reprint of Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860, by J. R. Abbey, etc. (3 shelves)
COKAYNE, GEORGE EDWARD. The Complete Peerage of England...New Edition. ..ed. Vicary Gibbs and others. Vols 1-5, 7-10, 12 part 2, and 13. 1910-40. 4to., orig. cloth gilt. Presentation bookplates from Granville Proby of Elton Hall, Peterborough, (a trustee of the Complete Peerage Trust). With 2 other volumes (13)
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.-QUEEN MARY, R.M.S. AUTOGRAPH ALBUM ISSUED BY THE BOOKSELLER W.H. SMITH. Containing about 385 autographs, including those of important actors, authors and sportsman of the day. [Various places], 1937-1939. 8vo, (231mm x 175mm), [38] pages (signed mainly on recto only); paper ruled on recto only; in contemporary red morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt "Autographs WHS R.M.S Queen Mary", all edges gilt, slightly rubbed. A highly desirable Autograph Album comprising c. 385 autographs, collected either by a member of the crew or the bookstall staff, while on board the RMS Queen Mary between 1937 and 1939. Autographs include: Authors: Leslie Charteris (with a sketch of "The Saint"), Noel Coward (twice), A.J. Cronin, Susan Ertz, Eleanor Farjeon, Bruce Graeme (who penned a detective story, the 1937 "Mystery of the Queen Mary"), Ian Hay, Stephen King-Hall, Marie Belloc-Lowndes, J.B. Priestley, "Taffrail", Hugh Walpole and H.G. Wells. Actors and entertainers: Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Douglas Fairbanks, Gracie Fields, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Merle Oberon, Mary Pickford and Johnny Weismuller. Sportsmen: Bunny Austin, Tommy Farr, Wally Hammond (and 12 other members of an England cricket team, presumably on their return home from the Australian/New Zealand tour of 1937, plus manager R. Howard) and Fred Perry. Personalities: Malcolm Campbell, Randolph S. Churchill, William Randolph Hearst, Bernarr Macfadden and Louis Mountbatten.
A signed ballet shoe worn by Alicia Markova during a gala perforance of Coppelia and Les Sylphides in celebration of the Sixth Anniversary of London's Festival Ballet 1956 and re-signed by her during a second meeting with the vendor Anne Hodgson in the 1960's, together with a signed programme; a signed ballet shoe worn by Marina Svetlova during a Gala Ballet Concert at Newcastle City Hall 1959, together with a signed programme; a signed ballet shoe worn by Nadia Nerina during a performance of La Fille Mal Gardee 1961, together with a signed post card; a signed ballet shoe worn by Dolores Brown while principal ballerina of the New York City Negro Ballet Company during the 1960's, together with a signed photograph; and a pair of signed ballet shoes formerly owned by dame Beryl Grey Prima Ballerina of the Royal Ballet Corps. (4)
A New Hall saucer dish and a George Grainger tea plate; the New Hall dish printed in blue with the so-called 'Pointing Chinaman' pattern, within a diaper and scroll band with gilt-line borders, 20cm diameter, circa 1790 (some surface wear); the Grainger plate printed in blue with a Chinese dragon, 17cm diameter, script mark, circa 1839 (stained rim)
An Industrial Nameplate "BEAUDESERT". This rare and early nameplate was carried by a Class B 0-6-0ST with outside cylinders built by Fox Walker as Works No.266 about March 1875. It went new to the Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Co. Ltd at Cannock Wood Colliery Staffordshire, as their No.5. It became NCB property on 1st January 1947 at Rawnsley Shed. For a few months after September 1960 it went to the NCB's Lea Green Colliery, returning to Rawnsley by May 1962. It was finally withdrawn in 1963 and cut up by T. Hill of Chasetown in June 1964 from where the vendor's late father obtained the plate. Rectangular cast brass, 281/2"x7", slightly convex to fit the saddle-tank. Attractive, early serif lettering. Face-polished and repainted only. A special plate nearly 130 years old! Beaudesert Hall was the stately pile of the Earl of Anglesey who owned many of the collieries in the Cannock area.
A quantity of vertical fluted Caughley tea wares, circa 1795, comprising two teacups, two coffee cups and three saucers, decorated with gilt sprigs and borders and cobalt rims, underglaze blue 's' to bases, saucer 5.5'' diameter and New Hall and two New Hall tea bowls, circa 1790, decorated with sprigs of flowers below russet lined rims, one cracked, (9)