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Click here to subscribe* Watts (Nicholas). "Spirit of Le Mans" - the Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 of Luigi Chinetti and Philippe Etancelin, limited edition coloured print, no. 170/850, after the original painting, signed in pencil by the artist and Luigi Chinetti, 44.5 cm x 66 cm, together with "Return of the Silver Arrows" - the Sauber Mercedes C.9 driven by Mass, Reuter and Dickens, Le Mans, 1989, limited edition coloured print, no. 252/850, after the original painting, signed in pencil, 44.5 cm x 66 cm (2)
* British Union of Fascism. The Spirit Watches, Poems by Ruth Pitter, 1st ed, [1939], lengthy signed inscription to Diana Mosley in Holloway Prison, Christmas 1940, inscribed to front free endpaper, from fellow BUF [and former suffragette] Norah Elam, 'To you, who with sublime fortitude & unfaltering step, passed with your faithful comrades, through this dark valley of the shadow', signed at foot of page, 'In deep gratitude, which she can never repay, December 25th 1940', orig. cloth in d.j, slightly frayed and some loss to top edge of lower panel, 8vo. Diana Mosley (nee Mitford) was arrested and imprisoned in June 1940 and remained in prison for three and a half years. (1)
A silver spirit kettle, burner and stand, Charles Stuart Harris, London 1896, the kettle of ovoid form embossed throughout with cartouches, scrolls and floral sprays below a scrolling and fruitwood mounted handle, raised on three scroll legs with shaped anthemion moulded feet, 12" high, weight approx 44oz
Mahogany wheel barometer, the replacement swan neck pediment over dry/damp dial above spirit thermometer, a small circular convex mirror and a large circular silvered dial marked for John Somalvico, number 128 Holburn Hill, over a circular bubble level aperture, marked for J. Pensa, Chartes Street, Hatton Garden, 47in (119.3cm) high
A Victorian five piece silver plated tea and coffee set, of lobed baluster form embellished with embossed floral decoration and scrolling acanthus leaf handles, comprising tea kettle and spirit stand, 43cm high, coffee pot 24cm high, teapot 19cm high, sucrier 15cm high and cream jug 15cm high (5)
A Doll overtype model steam stationary engine, circa 1925 having brass cylinderical boiler supporting single cylinder open crank engine with twin flywheels, speed governor, cylinder oiling cup, weighted adjustable pressure gauge, whistle, sight glass, drain cocks, checker plate gallery walk-ways with hand rails and supported on simulated brickwork metal stand with spirit fired heater to base.
A rare pair of early 19th century sash-window rests, in brown-glazed earthenware, moulded in the form of a portrait bust of a gentleman (5in.), together with a spirit flask in the form of John Bull seated over a barrel (9.25in.), another moulded with female portrait busts (8in.), a cylindrical bottle (6.75in.), a quill stand in the form of a slipper (4.25in.) and an earthenware cottage money bank - 3.75in.
A selection of mostly cut glass, comprising; a pair of spirit decanters and stoppers with barrel-shaped bodies, another barrel-shaped decanter and stopper cut with strawberry diamonds, another cut glass spirit decanter and stopper, a finger bowl, an opaque-twist wine glass in the 18th century style, and two other various drinking glasses, various dates, mostly first quarter 19th century
Four items of coloured glass, comprising; a green spirit decanter and disc stopper, with facet-cut shoulder and named for SHRUB, 22cm high, (rubbing to gilding), an amethyst club-shaped spirit decanter and stopper with faux bottle label named for Brandy, 25cm high, late 18th century, and two pale-blue wine flutes, mid 19th century
Various decanters, comprising: a pair of cut-glass spirit-decanters, of club-shaped form with three flattened neck rings and broad neck and shoulder flutes, 23cm high; another pair cut with fine diamonds; and four other assorted decanters and stoppers, various dates mostly first quarter 19th century