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Lot 298
Scotland.- Macleod (William Douglas) View of the Islands of Eigg and Rum. The West Highland Line near Arisaig - British Railways, offset-lithograph printed in colours, sheet 1010 x 630 mm (39 3/4 x 24 3/4 in), under glass, minor folding creases in the corners, framed, Jordison and Co., [circa 1950s]
Lot 306
GLENFIDDICH 21 YEAR OLD RESERVA RUM CASK FINISH SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT 40% ABV / 70cl Without Glenfiddich, Scotland might not enjoy the same thriving whisky scene it has today. Founded in 1886 by William Grant, and still family owned, Glenfiddich was one of the first distilleries to seriously market single malt whisky as a credible alternative to blends. This decision was prompted by a dispute with their grain supplier in 1963, leading to a scaling back in production of their Grant’s blend. By the late 1960s Glenfiddich single malt was a firm hit with the Jet Set, who were picking it up in their droves from the newly emerging Duty-Free market. That early prescience clearly paid off, as (despite strong competition from fellow Speyside giants Glenlivet and Macallan) Glenfiddich is consistently the best-selling single malt in the world, shifting over 1 million cases every year.
Lot 120
BLUES - LP COLLECTION. A collection of 29 x LPs. Artists/ Titles include Carey Bell's Blues Harp (DS-622), Juke Boy Bonner - I'm Going Back To The Country (F1036), Jimmy Davis - Maxwell Street, Curtis Jones - Lonesome Bedroom Blues, Smokey Hogg Sings The Blues, Crying Sam Collins and his Git-Fiddle, Leroy Carr - Blues Before Sunrise, Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble In Mind, Big Bill Broonzy Sings Country Blues, Eddie Kirkland - Front And Centre, Blind Blake 1926-30 - Bootleg Rum Dub Blues, Chuck Berry - Back Home, Joe Hill Louis, Little Walter and Charley Lincoln. The condition is generally VG+ to Ex+ with some dropping slightly below.
Lot 477
The rare Second War clandestine operations D.S.C. group of nine awarded to Colonel F. N. Coulter, South African Defence Force, late South African Naval Force, attached Royal Navy; as captain of an H.D.M.L. in the secretive ‘Levant Schooner Flotilla’ he participated in more than 150 special forces operations in the Greek Islands in 1943-45, his ‘passengers’ including Anders Lassen, V.C. and Jellicoe of the S.B.S. Republic of South Africa, Southern Cross Medal, the edge officially numbered ‘339’; S.A.D.F. Good Service Medal, bronze, the edge officially numbered ‘3262’; Great Britain, Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1945’ and hallmarked London 1945; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, these last six all officially impressed (67617 F. N. Coulter), mounted as worn, good very fine (9) £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: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003. Only two awards of the D.S.C. and three awards of the D.S.M. are believed to have been gazetted for services in Harbour Defence Motor Launches in the Aegean. D.S.C. London Gazette 14 August 1945: ‘For distinguished services, efficiency and zeal in H.M. Ships … in the clearance of the Aegean and the relief of Greece during the period 1944-1945.’ Frank Norris Coulter was born at Germiston in the Transvaal in November 1915 and entered the South African Naval Force (V.) as an Ordinary Seaman at Durban in June 1940. Commissioned as a Temporary Sub Lieutenant, R.N.V.R in October 1941, after attending the training establishment King Alfred at Hove in England, he was seconded for services with the Royal Navy in the following year. Following regular seagoing appointments in the minesweeper H.M.S. Speedwell and the asdic trawler Lady Hogarth, he joined the 119th Harbour Defence Motor Launch (H.D.M.L.) Flotilla in the summer of 1943, the commencement of his journey to employment in the clandestine world of the ‘Levant Schooner Flotilla’ (a.k.a. the Anglo-Hellenic Schooner Flotilla). Established in May 1943, the Flotilla was based at Mosquito II, Beirut, its primary task being to insert and collect elements of the S.B.S. and S.A.S., and other undercover units, as they carried out a busy agenda of daring raids and reconnaissance work on enemy-held islands in the Aegean. According to accompanying research, including copies of Coulter’s post-war operational notes, he participated in no fewer than 170 landings or pick ups between 1943-45, the whole in specially adapted 75-foot, wooden-hulled H.D.M.Ls 1028 and 1283. Crewed by two officers, two Petty Officers and around 15 ratings, their standard armament comprised a 40mm. Bofors, twin-Vickers, a 20mm. Oerlikon and eight depth charges. Their ‘cargo’ varied in size from a single operative to as many as 70 raiders, often raiders of the famous kind, Coulter’s notes including mention of an Anders Lassen drop-off on Samos, and trips with Major George Jellicoe to Metylini and Patmos. They also include his account of an operation to Piscopi, in which Major ‘Jock’ Lapraik and four raiders were landed to sabotage a runway being used by a German Fieseler Stork aircraft. However, their handiwork produced no results because the explosives they laid were stolen by a local Greek fisherman to bolster the size of his catch! Coulter sometimes had to steer his H.D.M.L. through the channel between the Turkish coast and Kos - actually the site of the fictional ‘Guns of Navarone’ - a passage that inevitably attracted the attention of the trigger-happy Turks. On one occasion their fire damaged the starboard side of H.D.M.L. 1283, penetrating the Coxswain’s quarters, but, as a result ‘of lots of luck, the rum ration contained in gallon earthenware jugs’ was not affected. Coulter’s secondment to the Royal Navy ended in November 1945 and he was finally released from full time service in June 1946. As late as 1966, however, he re-attested in Natal for national service in the Commandos, in the rank of Captain, and assumed command of the Highway Commando with the rank of Commandant in the following year. Awarded the Southern Cross Medal and advanced to Chief Commandant in 1968, he became a substantive Colonel in 1972 and was awarded his S.A.D.F. Good Service Medal in 1979, the year of his retirement. His also retained his interest in matters nautical, qualifying for his Master’s Certificate for ships of 100-tons or more in 1975, and serving as an Executive Member of the Durban Harbour Defence Committee from 1976-79. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Admiralty letter of notification for the award of his D.S.C., dated 22 August 1945, and investiture invitation to Government House, Pretoria, dated 14 November 1947; award certificates for his Southern Cross Medal and S.A.D.F. Good Service Medal, dated 1 November 1968 and 15 June 1979 respectively; Greek commemorative Campaign Star 1941-45 (Sea Operations); King Alfred passing out certificate, dated 23 October 1941; ship’s service ‘flimsies’ for the Speedwell and Lady Hogarth and a fine series of wartime photographs of the Levant Schooner Flotillla’s H.D.M.Ls at work in the Aegean.
Lot 120
Post-Incunabula. Kaysersberg (Johann Geiler von), Otther (Jacob, editor), & Rhenanus (Beatus), Navicula sive speculu[m] fatuo[rum], Prestantissimi sacarum literarum Doctoris Joannis Geyler Keyserbergii Concionatoris Argentinen. a Jacobo Othero collecta. Compendiosa vitæ eiusdem descriptio, per Beatum Rhenanum Selestatinum. Ad Narragoniam, first edition, s.l., s.n., n.d. [?Strasbourg, dated 1509 & 1510; pastedown with booksellers' listings, where they suggest a date of 1513], 2 woodcuts, Gothic letter, collates: [26], [252], [6]ff; i.e. 1-2⁸, 3⁴, 4⁶, A⁴, B-C⁸, D⁴, E-F⁸, G⁴, H-I⁸, K⁴, L⁸, M⁴, N-O⁸, P⁴, Q⁸, R⁴, S-T⁸, U-X⁴, Y⁸, Z-²A⁴, ²B⁸, ²C⁴, ²D⁸, ²E-F⁴, ²G-H⁸, ²I⁴, ²K⁸, ²L-M⁴, ²N-O⁸, ²P-Q⁴, ²R-S⁸, a⁶, contemporaneous manuscript on A1-2, E4, G3-4, title-page lower gutter starting to split, some pages irregularly trimmed, with some edges uncut, some toning in places, occasional foxed spot, a handful of small repaired tears to fore-margins only, wormhole/holes to fore-margin throughout, both points of condition never affecting text, the fore-edge with traces of contemporaneous 16th c ink lettering, 19th c vellum over boards, lettered in gilt, title and colophon leaves with Croydon Public Libraries stamps, somewhat erased on the former, 4to The scarce first edition of Johann Geiler von Kaiserberg's thirty-seven sermons, influenced by Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools), in which he comments and satirises the follies and vices of his day. This edition precedes the 1511 edition, better known for its greater number of woodcuts.
Lot 598
CRICKET BARWOOD ENGLAND XI V COCKSPUR WEST INDIES XI AUTOGRAPHED PROGRAMME & EXTRA'S Cricket signed programme and sheets of paper from when Dunstall cricket club presented The Dunstall Caribbean Festival, featuring a match between Barwood England XI v Cockspur Rum West Indies XI. Autographed throughout the programme and to the sheets, signatures include Richard Hadlee, Gladstone Small, Devon Malcolm, Bill Athey, Derek Randell, Chris Lewis, Tim Munton, Alvin Kallicharran, Collis King, Jimmy Adams and Otis Gibson etc Ref WC
Lot 3671
Seljuqs, Rum. 'Izz al-Din Kay Ka'us II bin Kay Khusraw AE Fals.. Second reign over western Rum Seljuk, AH 644-647 (AD 1246-1249). Figure seated slightly to right on throne; star to left and right / Legend in Arabic. Cf. Album 1225a; cf. ICV 1346. 2.98gr, 21mm, 11h. Near Very Fine.Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Lot 866
A COLLECTION OF LOOSE VINTAGE CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE to include a group of Spode 'Blue Italian' items comprising a box of six teaspoons, a box of five pastry forks (one missing from the set of six), a dish, three cups (one with a hairline crack) with three saucers (stickers could indicate second quality), a ceramic rum bottle, a group of 'Wellbeck' ceramic dinnerware to include two lidded tureens, a large meat plate, and a sauce boat and stand (all sold a/f), two ships decanters (require thorough clean), a Babycham melamine dish, two planters, etc (qty) (Condition Report: items could benefit from a clean)
Lot 60
Pam Carter (b.1952) Scottish "Eigg, Rock and Rum" Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 73cm by 74cmProvenance: Walker Galleries Ltd., Harrogate The painting is glazed. Some very light surface dirt and debris trapped under the glass. Otherwise in good overall condition. Not examined out of the frame.
Lot 100
A bottle of Wray & Nephew Jamaican Coconut rum - together with a bottle of Marmot pear brandy, a bottle of Luksusowa Polish vodka, a bottle of Bon Pere William pear brandy, a bottle of Aalborg Jubiloeums Akvavit, a bottle of Amaretto di Galliano, a bottle of Liquore Galliano and a bottle of Sambuca di Galliano.
Lot 267
AN OVAL CERAMIC RUM BARREL OR KEG 19th century, decorated with a hunting scene of riders in hunting pinks, with gold lettering and bands of decoration to the top and bottom, 30cm high (excluding cork bung) x 25cm long x 18cm deep; together with another similar for 'Brandy' decorated with two galleons at sea, 31cm high x 25cm long x 18cm deep approx. (2)
Lot 179
A Victorian Royal Navy Coopered oak rum mixing barrel, of lidded conical form, bearing the legend: "The Queen, God Bless Her" in applied brass letters, 38 cm diameter at the thick end x 48 cm overall height. together with a pair of gilt bronze "flaming brand" carriage handlesGeneral wear throughout, commensurate with age and use. Some splits to the wood and losses to the brass mounts. The interior of the barrel is wood, with an applied copper base to the underside.
Lot 76
CRIMEAN WAR. Lieutenant James Hornby Buller, 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment. Autograph letter signed, to his father. October 21st 1854, the Heights above Sebastopol. This letter is written shortly before Buller was listed as severely wounded whilst on duty in the trenches before Sebastopol on 24th October 1854 and again while being carried back to the camp. Four sides, 18cm x 11cm, with external envelope. Excerpts include:21st October, Heights above Sebastopol "On the 22nd of September we disembarked from the Mauritius—but as I told you, were embarked again the same evening. On the 23rd we disembarked at the Katchka River & marched 4 miles & joined our division which is the 4th commanded by Sir Geo. Cathcart. On the 24th we went to Balbec. The Russian Army or rather part passed within two miles on the night of the 23rd retreating, but they did not attack us or we might have suffered.""On the 26th we had a long hot march without water as the Russians had cut it off and the men suffered awfully. On the 27th we marched to the Heights above Sebastopol and found we were the only division arrived. Up to the present time we have been waiting here, the Russians occasionally amusing themselves by throwing a shot in amongst us, which so far has not touched one of us, altho' a few yards more or less would...""We have lost as yet but few men, all from Cholera which the experience of the cold renders more fatal. We get a little biscuit, salt pork, a wine glass of Rum, a little coffee & sugar for the Day, but nothing more we can get. £5 has been offered for a Bottle of Brandy.""It was first exciting, hearing the shot whistling by right & left of you, but now unless very near it passes unheeded. The cause of our delay is that the Siege Train has not arrived & if we were to begin without it, no one can say the amount of lives that would be lost. For every night the Russians are putting up fresh Batteries & putting their ships' Guns into them." Footnote:James Hornby Buller (1831-1895) retired on half-pay with the rank of Captain on 10th November 1856. He later became a Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase on 28th May 1870. His first wife, Catherine Anne Buller, died on 9th December 1874 and was the daughter of Sir William Williams Bart. of Tregullon, Cornwall. She bore James a son and four daughters. In 1877, he took as a second wife Emily Augusta, daughter of Major Henry Dashwood; R.H.A. Buller was granted the honourary rank of Colonel on 28th September 1877 and became a member of H.M Bodyguard. He died in 1895, and the following year his estate at Down Hall.
Lot 300
A PAIR OF FLAT-CUT URNS AND COVERS CIRCA 1790, probably Irish, the domed covers with knobbed finials, the bodies with fluting of large diamonds on circular facet-cut stems and on square stepped bases, each 29cm highWhilst there was glass manufacture in Waterford before the 18th century, the county’s production took on its infamous name with the establishment of the Waterford Glasshouse in 1783. The company was founded by George and William Penrose, two businessmen who wished to take advantage of Ireland’s free trade agreement with Britain. They poured £10,000 pounds into the venture and hired master craftsmen from England to produce a glass known for its absolute clarity.Sadly, the economic benefits could not last and in 1788 an act was passed that forbade the export of glass from Ireland. However, the local Irish market was strong enough to keep the glasshouse afloat until 1851 when high tax rates on flint glass forced Waterford Glass to close, joining the many that had already folded before it. The glasshouse was offered for sale but, viewed as a hopeless investment, there were no takers. Condition Report: Example 1: Two nicks to the inside rim and to flute of cover A number of very small nicks to the rim of the urn and to the stepped base Overall very presentable Example 2: Cover is very good, very small chip to base of finial (hard to capture on camera) Some small chips to urn rum Small chips and scratching to base Overall good and attractiveSee additional images
Lot 165
Stamps and first day covers including an album dating around the 1920's onwards containing approximately 2000 stamps from around the world, five Isle of Man first day covers, HMS Victory last day issue of rum in the navy, Persian Gulf set of stamps of the Kings and Queens of England and various Canadian stamps on paper
Lot 161
A mixed group of silver and silver plated wine labels including; George III silver Whiskey decanter label by Jonathan Hayne, London 1830, of canted rectangular form, an oval Sherry label makers mark poorly struck, London 1831, a pair of modern Sherry and Montilla labels by Roberts & Belk Ltd, Sheffield 1981, a pair of Brandy and Rum labels by Atkin Brothers, Sheffield 1930, 59.3gms. (1.9ozs.), gross, with a silver plated Sherry label by Huttons, Sheffield also stamped RAF, with two modern pottery labels, Brandy and Whiskey, (9)
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