* Russian Revolution. An Autograph Postcard in English from 'Ellie', Petrograd, 5th/18th March 1917, to Fanny and Allie Harman of Llandrindod Wells, telling them that she is well though she has been ill for the last month and was taken to the British Nursing Home, mentioning the weather, before dramatically turning to current events, ‘You will soon hear what a terrible time we passed through. One night we all slept in our clothes, boots and all our hats and coats beside us, in case our house was set on fire. A prison, divided from us by only one house, was burnt to the ground and ours was threatened. The 2nd house from this was also burnt and many others. The Emperor is deposed, nothing is settled, all the Ministers have been arrested and new ones appointed. Criminals and political prisoners have been set free so no doubt there will be plenty of robberies and murders, they have already begun. Thank God, we are safe so far. Genie is alright – she has been an angel of mercy to me, she would send her love if she knew I was writing’, signed from Ellie and written vertically down the whole message side of a postcard, address side completed, stamped and postmarked at Petrograd 5 March 1917 and with a later franking mark with indistinct place name, dated 27 March 1917, together with a larger hand-addressed envelope with censor's stamp and label and various postmarks dated 13 March 1970, 15 March 1970 and ’92.3.17’, together with a Stevengraph woven silk postcard of RMS Lusitania, c. 1910, with message written across divided back, a little spotting and soiling QTY: (3)NOTE:An interesting first-hand account written by a British woman, seemingly a teacher, living in Petrograd at the time of the Russian Revolution. At the beginning of February 1917, Petrograd workers began several strikes and demonstrations. On 8 March a series of meetings and rallIies gradually turned into economic and political gatherings, and by 10 March virtually every industrial enterprise in Petrograd had been shut down. To quell the riots, the Tsar looked to the army and ordered it to suppress the rioting by force on 11 March. Unable to rule effectively, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on 15 March. The postmarks on the postcard and envelope are in the Old Style system and so 13 days earlier than the New Style system. Hence, the earliest postmark on the postcard for 5 March 1917 is actually 18 March 1917 (N.S.) and so stamped three days after Nicholas II’s abdication.
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Large stevengraph of Fred Archer riding the 1881 Derby and St Leger winner Iroquois,woven silk picture by Thomas Stevens of Coventry, mounted under glass in a modern frame, 28 by 39cm., good condition; sold with two unframe stevengraphs of Fred Archer, one in the colours of HRH The Prince of Wales, the other in the silks of the Duke of Westminster, (3 items).
Three 19th century horse racing prints,the first a woven silk stevengraph titled “The Start”; the next a colour lithograph titled Jockeys of the Day, a supplement of the Illustrated London News dated 1891; the other an engraving after the artist Ben Herring titled “Wanota, Winner of the Ascot Stakes”, all mounted, framed & glazed, the jockeys print the largest 57 by 47cm., good condition, (3).
Silk Pictures, 5 pictures to comprise coloured double portrait of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (tape marks to card mounts o/w gd), b/w Stevengraph of Benjamin Disraeli entitled The late Earl of Beaconsfield (mount damaged, silk gd), Lord Kitchener cigarette card issue, b/w A. Pere of couples dancing (vg) and the cover of a book of Scot's Poems incorporating a silk (gd)
A collection of mainly sporting related china and ephemera, including a Royal Doulton Tony Weller jug, a pair of Arthur Wood Sporting Series cricketing mugs, a cup and saucer inscribed "Presented by William R Ward Family Grocer Coventry" depicting a cricketing scene, a Gray's pottery plate "The Noble Sport of Cricket The Renowned Cricketers George Parr and Alfred Mynn Esq.", a Goss type commemorative football "Inverness", another similar rugby ball "Plymouth", another similar golf ball "Lydney Forest of Dean", a German pottery figure of a gentleman cricketer, a Staffordshire figure of a "Girl with carpet bowls", a plaster figure of "J B Hobbs", painted figure of a "Dog playing tennis", painted figure of a "Dog playing cricket" (very A/F), stevengraph "The First Over" (very faded), an oak mounted letter rack decorated with two coloured print scenes of huntsmen, a Victorian commemorative mug 1897, copper lustre jug, Moorcroft pin dish, Royal Crown Derby figure of a "Wren", two small glass jugs, grey glass stemmed drinking glass and a brass chamberstick
Two 19th century cardboard plates decorated with prints of paintings after Arthur and Harry Payne, The Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey June 28th 1838 and The Queen and Prince Albert Touring in the Highlands, Summer 1860, Accompanied by the Ghillie John Brown, 20cm diameter, (a/f), a Copeland Spode commemorative whisky decanter for the Coronation of George V and Queen Mary June 22nd 1911, with retailer's name Andrew Usher & Co, Distillers, Edinburgh, with crown stopper (chipped), 25cm and a framed Stevengraph The Present Time, (4).
After John Burnet (1784-1868), "Greenwich Pensioners commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar", hand coloured engraving, engraved by the artist, 43 x 71cm approx., in a glazed maple frame; Victorian woven silk Stevengraph, "The Death of Nelson", 5.8 x 17.2cm, in a titled card mount and glazed frame; and Geoffrey Hunt (b.1948), "Nelson's Ships - Agamemnon Opens Fire on the Ca Ira, 13th March 1795", signed in pencil in the margin, offset lithograph, 48 x 60cm. (3)
Two Victorian Stevengraph silk panels, 'The Good Old Days' and 'The Present Time', a 19th century engraving after Ackermann & Co 'The Iron Steam Ship Great Britain, 3500 Tonnes, 500 Horse Power', plan of Birmingham in the year 1731 and an engraving of Doctor Benjamin Hoadly Lord Bishop of Winchester (5).
A miscellany to include England's Hope, Prince Albert Edward, Princess Alexandra Stevengraph silk bookmark by J. Matthews; 'Things a Lady Would Like to Know', bound photo album, women's magazines, Home Journal, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly etc, Ogden's Redbreast Flake tin, Topical Times Footballers, Typhoo William Shakespeare cards, Thos. Broadbent & Sons, Ltd notepad etc.
EPHEMERA. A group of Dickens related ephemera in two modern albums and loose, including: actors autographs, first day covers, Tuck's Oilette postcards, a stevengraph bookmark, loose engraved illustration from various Dickens works, 3 issues of All the Year Round 1873 (poor condition), various booklets, etc
Three needlework samplers. Comprising a 19th century sampler worked in blue thread on a linen ground, 'In Memory of Flowers Allprels' worked by Mary Allprels, aged 10', 34.5cm x 32.5cm, a cross-stitch of a cat sitting in a basket, 11.5cm x 12cm, framed and glazed and a Stevengraph 'Torquay Hospital', 10.5cm x 20cm, framed and glazed
London.- Barjaud (J.-B.) & C.P.Landon. Description de Londres et de ses Edifices, first edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured engraved map, engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, Paris, 1810 § Highmore (A.) Pietas Londinensis..., lacking half-title, contemporary calf, 1810 § Bayley (John) The History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with variant title including "Biographical Anecdotes" rather than "Memoirs", engraved plates including double-page plan, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, 1821 § Transactions of the Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society for the year 1898 [-1904-05], 6 vol., limited deluxe edition signed by the secretary/treasurer, original buckram, gilt, uncut, 1899-1907, all rubbed; and a small quantity of others on London including an album of views of Highgate annotated by George Potter and a framed stevengraph of the Crystal Palace, v.s. (c.40)
1884 cased silver plated medallion by Pinches issued to commemorate the opening of The Crystal Palace, the obverse depicting a view of the palace, the reverse with bare breasted Britannia opening the doors of science and industry, together with a framed Stevengraph of the Crystal Palace, label verso on both items
Pictures and prints - a 19th century hand-coloured engraving, A Lady Reading, 14.5cm x 21cm; 19th century reprint, ‘To the Society of Coffers at Blackheath, 1790’, engraved by V. Green, 33cm x 22.5cm; pair of 19th century grisaille watercolours, indistinctly signed; pair of Thomas Stevens, Stevengraph machine woven silk pictures, horse racing; Chinese tapestry; etc, (9).
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