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Lot 2551
A selection of collectors' items, including a group of 19th century carved meerschaum smoking pipes, four snuff boxes, an infant's Singer sewing machine and a cast iron novelty figure group money box.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 560
Three 1834 autograph letters to include one from Sir William Knighton, which perhaps supports the thesis that Coutts & Co obligingly destroyed or supressed the financial records of some of their royal clients' financial profligacy:1. Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Wheatley - 15 July 1834 autograph letter of condolence sent from the Keeper of the Privy Purse at St. James’ Palace to John Dickie, whose brother, Andrew Dickie of Coutts bank, had died the day before aged 80.2. John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln - 26 July 1834 autograph letter of condolence to John Dickie, whose brother had died 11 days before, and bequeathed the Bishop (and several others) money for a mourning ring. 3. Sir William Knighton - October 1834 autograph letter of thanks sent from the Duchy of Lancaster Office to John Dickie, whose brother had died in July. Knighton thanks Dickie for the return of the letters which he had sent Andrew Dickie, presumably when he was private secretary and Keeper of the Privy Purse to George IV. (The lot relates to lots 160, 325, 353, 368, 495, 548, 555 and 558.)
Lot 325
The teenage calligraphy of Andrew Dickie. (Relates to lot 368)1. 'Specimens of my Writing in the Earlier Periods of My Life' - Andrew Dickie 8th February 1834. An album of Dickie's award winning calligraphy, 53 examples to include specimens of his various masters' writing.2. A 1767 leather-bound merchant's book 'Begun and Finished under the Care of Mr John Wright by Whom I was thus taught to write'. 83 pages of practice accounts and 21 blank pages. It begins: 'An Inventory of the Money, Goods and Debts belonging to me Andrew Dickie as also the Debts due by me to others'. (The lot relates to lots 160, 353, 368, 495, 548, 555, 558 and 560)
Lot 1217
A collection of WW1 military themed crested china to include : A drum by Victoria china, a British bulldog by Carlton china, a zeppelin airship, a military boot by Arcadian, a cenotaph memorial by Alexandra china, an Edith Cavell memorial by Podmore china, a wireless operator by Carlton china, a WW1 'Tommy' by Arcadian, a military drum jam pot by Royal Cauldon and a brass post box money box. The collection is in mostly good condition with some rubbing to the gilding in places. The 'Tommy' has some crude restoration to the head and the wireless operator has a hairline crack. 10 items.
Lot 582
World Banknotes, a very large collection of over 500 20th century banknotes with a particular focus on the middle east, but including examples from: Afghanistan, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Germany, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Scotland, Syria, Tibet, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan and Yugoslavia; highlights include Republic of India 100 rupees first series signed B. Rama Rau, AEF; Iraq ½ dinar second issue (1953) AEF; Iraq dinar second issue 1953 GVF; Burma 10 rupees 1945 issue 'Military Administration of Burma' in red overprint, foxing otherwise VF; overall various grades with many examples in an UNC condition; together with a copy of Ahmad Ghazi Al-Sameriee's History of Iraqi Money 1931-2016 (London, 2017), n.b. written in Arabic
Lot 425
A Mauchline ware barrel-form money bank (Ardrishaig, Loch Fyne), Mauchline ware box (Lochgilphead), an embossed pewter-clad Arts & Crafts cigarette box, a walnut veneer late-Victorian sewing box with plaque engraved "C. Blair from Nephews and Nieces" etc. Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 307
The Military General Service Medal awarded to Sergeant Daniel Banfield, 8th Foot, who was ‘wounded in action in Upper Canada’ and ‘served nine years in North America’ Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Martinique (Danl. Banfield, Serjt. 8th Foot) small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Lord Cheylesmore Collection 1930; Collection of John Darwent, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004. Daniel Banfield was born in the Parish of St Finbar’s, Cork, and enlisted at Cork into the 8th (King’s) Regiment of Foot on 29 October 1804, aged 17, for unlimited service. He served a total of 11 years 164 days, of which 7 years 218 days as a private, 242 days as a corporal, and 3 years 69 days as a sergeant. He was discharged to Kilmainham Hospital at Cork on 11 April 1817 in consequence of ‘general bad health and icterus (jaundice)’, his conduct as a soldier noted as ‘very good’ and the he was ‘wounded in action in Upper Canada’. After a period as an out-pensioner, he then enlisted into the 10th Royal Regiment of Veterans at Cork on 25 December 1819, aged 32, for unlimited service. He served 1 year 90 days before the battalion was disbanded and he was discharged on 24 March 1821. He next enlisted into the 3rd Veteran Battalion as a private on 25 December 1821, being promoted to corporal in June 1823 and to sergeant in October 1823. He was reduced to private and transferred to the 83rd Foot on 25 July 1825. Over the course of the next nearly eight years Banfield was tried by court martial on six occasions, frequently being imprisoned for one month at a time and the sentence often being accompanied by ‘the loss of beer money for one year’ or ‘the loss of additional pay for two years’. He was finally discharged from the 83rd Foot on 10 May 1833, having served a total 24 years 362 days, including ‘nine years in North America’. The Regimental Board held the opinion ‘that his conduct has been that of an extremely bad and troublesome soldier during the last four years.’ Sold with copied discharge papers from his various units.
Lot 744
Vinyl Records LP's and 12" Singles Including Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk - E-ST 406; Survival - E-SW 764; Caught in The Act - ESTSP 15; Grand Funk - Grand Funk Hits - ST 11579; Daryl Hall & John Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us - APL1 1467; Foreigner - Double Vision - K50476; head Games - K50651; Supertramp -Paris - AMLM 66702; Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo! - 88282; ZZ Top - Eliminator - 923774-1; Bad Company - Desolation Angels - SSk 59408; Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse - K56006; Elton John - Madman Across The Water - DJLPH 420; The Fox - 6302 106; Lady Samantha - DJM 22085; Love Songs - 814 085-1; Peter Gabriel - Birdy - CAS 1167; Mott - Drive On - 69154; Hollywood Beyond - What's The Colour Of Money - 248655; Billy Joel - 52nd Street - CBS 83181; Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent - BITLP1; Rod Stewart - Foot Loose And Fancy Free - RVLP5; America - Homecoming - K46180; A-ha - The Living Daylights - W8305T; Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense - TAH1; Various - Two Rooms: Celebrating The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin - 845 749-1; Level 42 - It's Over - POSPX 900; Billy Idol - Vital Idol - CUX 1502; Others Including KLF; Chicane; Manfred Mann's Earth Band; David McAlmont; Elton John; Clannad; Seal; Country Joe McDonald; America; Mike Oldfield; The Tubes; Dean Friedman; Gregorian Etc (Approximately 60)
Lot 58
Signed and dated 'W-BOVGVEREAV-1895' bottom left, oil on canvas62 3/8 x 36 in. (158.5 x 91.5cm)Please note this Lot will be on view in New York City at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Pk S) the week of January 23. To make an appointment, please contact Raphael Chatroux at rchatroux@freemansauction.comProvenanceThe Artist.Acquired directly from the above.Collection of Solomon Mehrbach, New York, New York.A.A.A, New York, New York, sale of March 1, 1906, Lot 128 (as The Gardener's Daughter).Acquired directly from the above sale.Collection of Colonel Nathan H. Heft, Bridgeport, Connecticut.A.A.A., New York, sale of January 22, 1920, Lot 72 (as The White Rose).Acquired directly from the above sale.Private Collection, New York.A.A.A., New York, sale of November 17, 1938, Lot 64 (as The Wild Rose).Acquired directly from the above sale.Collection of Michael J. Kutza, USA.Sotheby's, New York, sale of April 28, 1977, Lot 169 (as La Fille du Jardinier).Acquired directly from the above sale.Private Collection, North Carolina.Exhibited"North Carolina Collects: Traditional Fine Arts and Decorative Arts," Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 9-September 18, 1994, no. 7 (as Peasant Girl).LiteratureWilliam Bouguereau's Accounts, as L'odorat.Amable Charles Franquet de Franqueville, "William Bouguereau" in Le Premier Siècle de l'Institut de France, Vol. I, J. Rothschild, Paris, 1895, p. 370 (as La Fleur).Marius Vachon, W. Bouguereau, A. Lahure, Paris, 1900, p. 29 (as L'odorat).Braun & Clément, Oeuvres Choisies des Maîtres Anciens et Modernes, Braun, Clément et Cie., New York, 1907, no. 5445 (illustrated as La Fleur Préférée). Mark Steven Walker, William Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings, New York, 1991, p. 74.Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau: Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, Vol. II, Antique Collectors' Club , New York and Art Renewal Center, Woodbridge, NJ, 2010, no. 1895/12, pl. 225 (illustrated as La Fleur Préférée).NoteThe highly refined and polished art of William Bouguereau is often used as the quintessential illustration of 19th Century French Academism. His name is forever associated with images of elegant female sitters, mostly young girls and teens, as well as mythological figures, caught in a moment of grace, lightness, and sensuality, with an almost photographic quality. These artistic traits, which Bouguereau refined throughout his fifty-year-long-career, made him hugely successful, both academically and financially. It also enabled him to present and sell his work in the United States early on, where such academic finesse and gentle moralization appealed to conservative, often industrialist, collectors of the Gilded Age. At the time of Bouguereau’s death in 1905, The New York Times even concluded: “at one time to possess a Bouguereau was regarded as the first necessity for an art patron.”Appearing at auction for the first time in over fifty years, the present work dates from the artist’s mature, experienced period, just ten years before his death. It was most likely a “tableau de vacances,” executed in the summer of 1895 while Bouguereau sojourned in his villa on rue Verdière in La Rochelle, and completed later that same year in the artist’s Parisian studio. Bouguereau repeatedly worked from live models and was known for hiring Italian teenagers in the region, whom he paid generously to gain their trust, so they would appear in later works. While the identity of our sitter remains a mystery, she was most likely a local Rochelaise, whose delicate treats and slender allure appealed to the master.On many levels, La Fleur Préférée is a textbook example of Bouguereau’s artistic mastery. In a lush landscape stands an almost life-size paysanne, unalarmed, her bare feet firmly planted in the dirt path on which she was walking before stumbling upon us. Simply dressed (she wears a traditional bodice and draped dress like many peasant girls of the time), she holds a small bouquet of wildflowers, from which she plucked a white rose -the titular favorite flower- which she languorously sniffs. Like many of Bouguereau’s earlier works, La Fleur Préférée stands as an idealized version of rustic life. Contrary to Jean-François Millet, Léon Lhermitte or Jules Breton who also depicted farmers and peasants, Bouguereau does not hint at the harsh conditions associated with the rural way of life. The young woman is beautiful, elegant (although her attire is simple, a rather sophisticated scarf is tied on her shoulders), and immaculate, as revealed by her pristine apron, and her clean hands and feet, which Bouguereau particularly excels at rendering here in a formidable foreshortening. According to Alfred Nettement, a student of the master at the Académie Julian in Paris, Bouguereau in fact had “absolute horror of what he would call realism and he always said that reality is charming when it borrows a gleam of poetry from imagination.”Yet, the present work slightly differs from Bouguereau’s past depictions of young maidens, as it introduces a new sense of confrontation and directness which resembles the more provocative, modern works such as Jeune Bergère (1885), Jeune Bergère Debout (1887) and Petite Bergère (1891). This bold face à face is duplicitous. While at first glance one might see a young girl slightly intimidated by her encounter with the viewer, using the flower as a screen, a second read reveals a self-assured adolescent voluntarily engaging with us, assessing the male audience directly, with no hint of slyness, pruderie or reserve. The sitter projects self-assurance, and her heavy gaze implies coyness, flirting even, which somehow clashes with the so-called naïveté and innocence Bouguereau aimed at depicting in the French peasants he portrayed, and for which wealthy American collectors would pay large sums of money.Here, the narrative is stronger than usual, as revealed by the successive changes of title in our painting’s history, subtly implying that each of its owner preferred a different facet of the story. The bouquet the girl holds in her hands may have been assembled by her, as she wandered through the woods along the dirt path. In this version, Bouguereau would have depicted a moment suspended in time; a halt during which “the gardener’s daughter” picked her favorite flower to smell its intoxicating perfume before returning home, or to work. But the flowers could also have been collected by someone else.
Lot 554
A group of four Danish Bikuben Soholm pottery money box busts, the Limited Edition bust in the form of World Leaders, comprising Winston Churchill (889/3000), John F Kennedy (3176/4000), Josip Broz Tito (3769/4000) and Charles De Gaulle (187/4000) (4) generally good condition, no obvious signs of significant damage or repair
Lot 232
A selection military and related sundry items to include a collection of military and livery buttons (approx 51) (mostly good condition), a Home Guard bullion title (uniform removed) WWI era brass lighter (service wear) four WW era tins, a pair of cavalry officers chainmail, early 20th Century epaulettes (some light surface rust) a modern Duke of Lancaster's cloth shoulder title, (light use), a PL-75 mess tin (dented), a miniature National Savings money box (good condition), a RWF painted shield (worn condition), plus a WWII era ribbon bar (grubby and medals appear to have been cut off the ribbon)
Lot 295
The actual Union Jack that flew from the Jack-Staff of HMS Exeter at the Battle of the River Plate against the German Pocket Battleship ‘Graph Sphea’. It has come from the home of Lt. Kemball who served on Exeter from 1938 and after it was given to him when he left the ship he gave it to his local church which now needs money for repairs.Approximately 3.6m by 1.6m, the condition is good, there are some holes and the material is thinning through use & age.
Lot 501
Star Wars - Gi Joe - Action Force - Batman - Spiderman. A selection of Elevven vehicles, figures and money box to include: E-5 Blaster replica toy with sound and light, tested successfully 1999 Hasbro. GI Joe EVN-PS1-H07G vehicle 1988 Hasbro. Action Force Z-101-43 Tank 1982 Hasbro. Items appear in Good to Excellent condition. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Lot 115
This is an anti-slavery album with poetry and floral watercolors created to raise money to fight slavery in America, with a page near the beginning stating the purpose of the album; it reads “This album given by Ladies in England with other rare and valuable articles in aid of the Cause of Anti-Slavery was purchased at a fair held by the Liberty Party in 1847 to raise funds to further the work, publish documents & otherwise spread information of the condition & needs of the slaves in our Southern States, and influence a healthy public sentiment toward their freedom. Its cost was a real sacrifice at that time and therefore rendered doubly valuable to my wife”, signed A F Farrar. We don’t know who A F Farrar was, but he clearly had an anti-slavery mind set. England abolished slavery in the 1830’s and this album was created to help out the Liberty Party (1840–48), which was the first political party organized in America to oppose the spread of slavery and cut down the power of the Southern states in owning and engaging in slavery.The album has a beautiful floral watercolor after a poem near the front, with several other poems inside, all hand-written in the Boston and Marblehead areas of Massachusetts between 1849 and 1852; there are two pages that philosophize about good and bad virtues in life, four embossed chromolithograph cards of young girls picking flowers and giving them out and one of a young girl ice skating - probably why this is also called a friendship album - and several pages with embossed borders to encase the chromolithograph cards; there’s a pastoral vignette by M H Middleton, and the album comes with beautiful lacquered covers - one with mother-of-pearl and hand-painted floral decorations on the front and a striking gilt floral decoration on the back - the spine is decorated in gilt, and the album is housed in a velvet-lined custom box with a metal clasp and the initials E J F on top. The custom box also opens to reveal a fold-out slipcase that holds the album itself, and the only apology is that the top part of the custom box is detached, but you don’t notice that when the box is closed.We don’t know who painted the watercolors in this album, but the first one resembles watercolors painted by Sarah Mapps Douglass and Ada Howell Hinton. Both were educators and anti-slavery activists from the African American community in Philadelphia in the 1830’s and 40’s, and their watercolors are highly prized. The images painted on letters by Sarah Mapps Douglass may also be the first or earliest surviving examples of signed paintings by an African American woman in this country.The box measures 6 x 8 1/2 in. wide and the album itself measures 7 1/4 x 5 in. wide, with gilt dentelles on silk moire floral-patterned endpapers, and all the edges are gilt, and selling albums like this was one way to raise money for the abolitionist movement in the mid 1800’s, and coming from England and being bought at a fair here, the album has a wonderful connection - it makes it seem like people in England were joining handswith people in this country to promote freedom and equality. A rare archive with social and historical significance.
Lot 33
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis. ESQre. Illustrated By Richard Doyle/ London: Bradbury And Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1853” on the front cover of the first part, in the original yellow wrappers, with 24 parts bound in 23, as issued. The original price was 1 shilling for each part, except the last double issue (Nos. 23 and 24), which cost 2 shillings for the two parts, and it was published in monthly parts that ran from October, 1853 to August, 1855. In a black custom slipcase. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator known for his satirical work. He was born in India and travelled the world and became famous for Vanity Fair, and he was hailed as the equal of Dickens. Thackeray wrote The Newcomes on a six month trip he took to the United States from 1852 to 1853 - it was a lecturing tour of America where he spoke about English humorists - and the novel is largely about marrying for money and the role of women in English society. The story was never really edited by Arthur Pendinnis because Pendennis was actually a fictional character invented by Thackeray in The History of Pendennis, which was published three years earlier (1848 - 1850), but Thackeray just designated the fictional Pendennis to narrate the story here. Richard Doyle (1824 - 1883) did all the artwork here; he was a Victorian artist who illustrated many magazines for Punch, as well as novels by Dickens, and he became famous for his fairy illustrations and his early woodcuts for Punch magazine, and he was the uncle of Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the Sherlock Holmes character. All 46 plates by Doyle are present here, and all the Newcomes Advertiser ads are present, except for Nos. 1, 4, and 13, which have no ads in the front or rear. There are a profusion of ads in the front and rear of the other parts: Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21, 22, and 23 - 24 have eight pages of ads in the front, Nos. 3 and 16 have 12 pages of ads in the front and No. 12 has 4 pages of ads in front, while No. 14 is missing pages 3 - 6 in the eight-page ad in front, and No. 8 has no ads in the rear. An eight-page ad for the Respirator is present at the back of Nos. 2, 3, and 5, and ads for Bradbury and Evans are in the front of No. 5 and at the rear of Nos. 11 and 14; there are Waterlow ads in Nos. 3, 9, 10, 16, and 19, and a four-page ad for Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the rear of No. 3. There are pink ads for T. Madgwick as a cabinet maker and upholsterer at the rear of 5 and 6, and ads for Norton’s Camomile Pills in Nos. 7, 10, 19, and 22 and a Simco ad after the Norton Pill ad in Nos. 7; and 10; there are ads for Virtue & Hall at the rear of Nos. 14 and 15, and ads for Chapman and Hall in Nos. 15 and 16, and a ten-page pamphlet for John Cassell at the rear of No. 10, but it is missing the rare Great Northern Railway slip. There is a blue slip for Dickens’ Household Words in No. 6 and an ad for Dickens’ works on a blue slip in No. 22 and at the rear of 24, an ad for the Illustrated Crystal Palace Gazette on a white slip in No. 9, a slip for Mayall’s Portrait Galleries at the rear of No. 10, a white slip with an ad for Punch’s Pocket Book after the plates in No. 14 and a full-page blue ad for Harry Coverdale’s Courtship and All That Came Of It at the rear of No. 14, ads for the British College of Health in Nos. 15 through 18 and again in No. 20. There’s a Prize Medal ad for Chocolate and Cocoa for Her Majesty at the back of No. 14 and a Prize Medal award for Fry & Sons and a Charles Lever Book at the end of No. 15, and an ad for A Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves (illustrated by Phiz) on a white slip in No. 16. There’s also an important ad for The Bath House Poisoning Case on blue paper in No. 19 and ads for The National Review in Nos. 21 and 22, and The Newcomes Advertiser is present at the beginning of Nos. 2, 3, 5 through 12, and 14 through 24. So many of the slips and ads are present to make this a first issue, but some ads are lacking, especial the rare Great Northern Railway slip. You need a scorecard to follow all this, folks, but it’s easier to see Van Duzer’s bibliography of Thackeray’s works. (See Henry Van Duzer, A Thackeray Library, First Editions And First Publications, Portraits, Water Colors, Etchings, Drawings, and Manuscripts, Privately Printed 1919.) The black pebbled custom slipcase measures 10 x 7 x 4 3/8 in. across and pulls up at the top to reveal an internal slipcase that wraps around the monthly parts. The spine of the slipcase has five raised bands, the title and author in gilt on the spine, with an eagle and “Magnanimus Esto” on a banner below the eagle and “P.I. London, 1853 - 1855” below that, and there is light wear at the bottom of the slipcase. . The wrappers are 8 Vo. and measure 9 x 5 5/8 in. wide, with some wear on the spines and light soiling, but there are no repairs or restoration at all to the wrappers. No. 1 has a two-inch tear along the spine, No. 4 has a small bookseller’s label at the bottom of the front cover and Nos. 4 through 12 have a small bookseller’s label at the bottom, and No. 16 has some exposed string on the left side of the front wrapper. The double issue at the end also has soiling, some spots, and light creases on the front cover, and there are browning or spots on most of the plates, but the plates are all present.
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