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Lot 162
A COLLECTION OF COSTUME JEWELLERY comprising; necklaces, earrings, brooches and pendants to include; Toronto enamelled pin brooches, another enamel pin brooch, crescent paste set lapel brooch, amethyst coloured paste set pendant, a gold coloured meta l circular web design pendant set central stones and seed pearl etc.
Lot 76
A Royal Worcester dish painted with fruit by A Shuck (signed), a Royal Worcester plate painted with fruit by Freeman (signed), a Royal Worcester miniature cup painted with pheasants by A Shuck (signed), a Royal Worcester pin dish depicting St. James Palace and a Royal Worcester vase painted with flowers CONDITION REPORTS Plate has some light wear and scuffs, and some tiny nicks/scratches to the painted decoration but otherwise appears sound. Miniature cup has some light wear but appears to be sound. Pin dish has light wear but appears to be sound. Footed dish by Shuck has some light general wear, some firing deposits in the form of black specks to the top/painted decoration, and a few small scratches and scuffs, but otherwise appears sound. Vase has a crack/break all around the base which appears to have been glued, some chips, wear and scuffs appears sound. Sizes : footed dish 12 cm diameter x 2.5 cm high, miniature cup 5.25 cm diameter, plate 5.5 cm diamter, pin dish 9 cm diameter and vase 10.75 cm high
Lot 717
A 12mm six chambered pin-fire Lefaucheux with ivory grips. This is of unusual high quality and the marks on it indicate it was made in Belgium. It has an extremely unusual hinged loading gate at the rear of the cylinder. Note: This revolver is classed as an antique and is exempt from licensing under section 58(2) of the 1968 Firearms Act
Lot 230
A group of four WW2 medals awarded to 1169232 F/Sgt R Davey: 1939-45 and Burma Stars, Defence and War Medals, also F.Sgt Davey's tin trunk with pin-ups pasted inside the lid and containing his RAF uniform, photographs, News Chronicle dated April 28 1945, letters, other ephemera and various personal belongings.
Lot 195
A FINELY ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, MILANESE, CIRCA 1590 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, and visor, prow-shaped upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored) attached to it by dome-headed common pivots (replaced), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a projecting lifting-peg, the bevor pierced at the right of the chin with a large hole to receive a locking-screw that projected from the original upper bevor, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the armour finely etched overall with alternating bands of strapwork and trophies in each case set on a stippled ground respectively gilt and blackened (the gilding only preserved as traces), and separated by plain narrow triple bands 26.5 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr. Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold American Art Association, New York, 23rd November 1928 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts Inv. No. 890, sold in these rooms 20th March 2013, lot 291 Exhibited 'Faerie Tale Festival of Trees', Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 19 November-31 December 2005 The decoration of the helmet is of a style employed by the distinguished late 16th century armourer Pompeo della Chiesa (recorded 1571-93) who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Norman 1986, p. 31).His signature occurs on similarly decorated armours in the collections of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire, the Museo Stibbert, Florence, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Armoury of the Knights of St John at Malta, the helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The design was also employed by several of Pompeo's Milanese contemporaries, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on an armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, one who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on pieces in the same collection and an armour formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington, one who signed himself with a double-towered castle on an armour in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, and several detached pieces in the Wallace Collection, London. (For a fuller discussion of these armours, supported by published references, see Thomas Del Mar Ltd in association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, London 26 June 2007, lot 263).
Lot 200
THREE ELEMENTS OF A SOUTH GERMAN ARMOUR GARNITURE WITH FINELY ETCHED AND GILT DECORATION, BY WOLFGANG AND FRANZ GROßSCHEDEL OF LANDSHUT, CIRCA 1555 comprising the detachable upper section of a right cuisse for tilt use, formed of two upward-overlapping lames, each increasing in height to its outside, the uppermost fitted at the centre of its upper edge with a semi-circular buff-leather suspension-tab (replaced) pierced with a pair of lace-holes, and the lowest and tallest fitted at each end of its lower edge with a turning-pin (the outer one missing) and between them with a plain locating-stud to attach it to the main plate of the cuisse; a right cuisse for heavy field use, formed of five upward overlapping lames (the lowest originally forming part of the lower section of a pauldron of the same garniture) and terminating in a poleyn of four lames overlapping outward from the second which is shaped to the point of the knee and formed at its outer end with a small oval side-wing, and the lowest lame pierced at it lower edge with a pair of keyhole-slots to attach it to the turning-pins of a greave; and the upper four lames of a left cuisse for heavy field use, forming the pair to the last (its lowest lame originally forming part of another element of the same garniture); all three elements embossed in low relief and finely etched with bands of an undulating ribbon-design representing stylised clouds, blackened against a gilt ground in each case filled with fine foliate scrolls and stippling, and enclosed to either side by a narrower version of the ribbon-design on a plain black ground, repeated around the main edges of the armour which are formed with inward turns, roped except at the lower end of the poleyn which is additionally decorated on its wing and to either side of the point of the knee with stylised acanthus giving issue to fine blackened scrolls (all three elements showing pitting and wear in parts) The first 13.0 cm; 5â…› in: the second 29.0 cm; 7½ in; the third 16.5 cm ; 6½ in (3) The fine decoration of these pieces closely resembles that of the extensive "cloud-band" garniture made for the future King Philip II of Spain by Wolfgang and Franz Großschedel of Landshut in 1554. Now largely preserved in the Real Armeria, Madrid, Inv. Nos A263-73 (J. G. Mann, Exhibition of Spanish Royal Armour in the Tower of London, London, 1960, pp. 12-13, pls IV -VII) it was commissioned by the King to wear when he went to England to marry Queen Mary I at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July of that year. The first pieces of the garniture were urgently transported from Landshut to England by the armourers themselves. It was probably for this armour that Franz, the son and partner of Wolfgang, received payment in 1555. The elements offered here differ from those of the Spanish king's garniture in that their narrow bands and borders of ribbon-ornament are white on a blackened ground, rather than gilt overall as on the latter, and that they are decorated with acanthus foliage to either side of the point of the knee. Showing the same features are a pair of gauntlets formerly in the collection of William Meyrick and a cuisse and a pair of toe-caps formerly in the collections of Sir Guy Laking and R.T. Gwynn (F. H. Cripps-Day, A Record of Armour Sales 18981-1924, London, 1925, pp. 181 & 232, fig. 92 & 145). It can nevertheless be taken as certain that these pieces are products of the same distinguished workshop as the armour of Philip II. The earliest record of Wolfgang Großschedel dates from 1517/18 when he was listed among the 'Almain' or German armourers employed by King Henry VIII in his recently established royal armour workshop in Greenwich. By February 1520/1, however, he has returned to his native land and been admitted a citizen of Landshut, Bavaria. From 1549 he was recorded as the owner of a house in the city's New Town which, on his death in 1562, was inherited by his son Franz who had been working with him since at least 1555. The latter was appointed court armourer to the Duke of Bavaria in 1566 and died shortly after 1578/9 ((A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour Supplement, London, 1986, p. 13)
Lot 255
**AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ORNAMENT AND TWO ROMAN BRONZE FIBULAE, PROBABLY 1ST MILLENIUM B.C.; 3RD/4TH CENTURY A.D. the first in the form of a cobra, the body looped behind the hood with projecting attachment, the other two of arched form, one with attachment pin, each with knob-shaped finials and abstract incised decoration The first 10.5cm long, and smaller (3) Provenance The first: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30th January 1952 The other two: Comtesse de Broussiere, until circa 1913, said to have been found by her father Julien Greau, in the Rhone Valley towards the end of the 19th century, Karl Freund (Anderson JWHA Inv. Nos. 2977, 552
Lot 264
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, NORTH ITALIAN, LATE 16TH TO EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet of cuirassier's type with rounded skull formed in two halves joined along the crest of a low medial comb (bruised and cracked towards its rear) and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder (replaced), peak, face-defence and bevor attached to it by plain common pivots (replaced), the peak of narrow rounded form, the near-vertical face-defence cut at its upper edge with a pair of broad shallow notches serving as vision-slits, and at each side of the front with five vertical ventilation-slots, the face defence and bevor each secured at the right by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and bevor (that of the skull patched at its centre) flanged outwards in each case to receive a pair of rounded gorget-plates (associated); collar of one deep lame front and rear, in each case flanged upwards at the neck-opening to receive at least one additional lame; breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets (associated) and flanged outwards at its lower edge (cracked) to receive a fauld of one centrally-divided lame (associated) and fitted at each side with a turning-pin and hooked stud to attach a knee-length tasset of eight lames terminating in a winged poleyn of four lames; backplate formed in one piece with broad shallow neck-openings and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a deep detachable culet of three lames (restored, the lowest disarticulate at its left end); large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of seven lames of which the lowest four protect only over the outside of the arm (all those of the right and the lowest two of the left associated and reworked to fit their present context), and the lowest pierced at its centre with a rectangular slot to attach by means of a projecting turning-pin a fully articulated vambrace fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames (restored); fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and round-ended cuff closed at the inside by a riveted join and fitted at the outside with four metacarpal-plates (all associated, one of the right disarticulated at its upper end); and a pair of full-length tubular greaves (restored) each articulated once at the ankle and terminating in an integral square-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns and its surfaces decorated with etching on a blackened ground, that of the cuirass consisting of alternating bands of foliate interlace and trophies, the former involving oval cartouches occupied by armoured warriors of the 16th century, and that of the remainder consisting of bands and borders of trophies enclosed by projecting filigree-like volutes interrupted at intervals by trefoils (the armour lightly patinated overall); together with a piece of late 16th century mail later cut and shaped to form a codpiece See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Purportedly Prince Eugene Manice of Savoy-Carignan, Count of Soisson Fechtenback Collection, Schloss zu Laudenbach, sold Cologne 1889, lot 102 K. Schaefer, Munich, 17 April 1930 Julius Böhler, Munich, 20 May 1930 JWHA Inv. No. 1148 Literature Hans Schedelmann, 'Der Waffensammler', Waffen- und Kostümkunde, Vol. 6, 1964, pt.1, pp. 56-7, fig.19 (wrongly recorded among fake armours)
Lot 265
**A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CAP-A-PIE ARMOUR FOR TOURNEY USE WITH LATER EMBOSSED, ETCHED AND GILT DECORATION, PARTLY AUGSBURG, LATE 16TH CENTURY comprising collar of three lames front and rear (the second in each case restored and the third associated); breastplate formed of a main plate of 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets (restored), at the right of its chest with five vertically-pierced staples bearing a rigid one-piece lance-rest serrated along its front edge and secured by a pin (the staples, lance-rest and pin all restored), and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame (restored) fitted at each side of a small arch cut into its lower edge with a pair of straps supporting a large pendent tasset of seven lames (restored); one-piece backplate (restored) with a broad shallow neck-opening and outward-flanged lower edge; large symmetrical pauldrons each of seven lames (the lowest four protecting only the outside of the upper arm, in each case restored), its lower end fitted with an integral vambrace, probably for use in the foot tourney, of fully articulated tubular design, fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame, at its elbow with a bracelet couter of three lames, and closed at the inside by a series of eleven lames; gauntlets (extensively restored using reworked old elements) each formed of a flared and obtusely-pointed tubular cuff fitted with a separate fixed inner plate, six metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, a shaped finger-plate and scaled finger and thumb-defences, the latter attached by a lateral hinge to the distal metacarpal-plate, and fitted with a buff leather lining (old but not original); cuisses each formed of a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its concave upper edge with three detachable extension-lames rising to a sloping convex upper edge, and at its lower edge with winged poleyn of six lames; and full-length tubular greaves (restored) each formed with a detachable rear plate cut away over the heel, and a front plate fitted within its arched lower end with an integral sabaton of eleven lames (restored but probably incorporating old elements), terminating in a laterally pinched toe-cap; the main edges of the armour formed with finely file-roped and gilt inward turns each side of the breastplate, the lower ends of the tassets, the main plates of the pauldrons and couters, the cuffs of the gauntlets, the main plates of the cuisses and poleyns, and the toes of the sabatons all embossed in low relief with foliate volutes, fleur-de-lys and quatrefoils etched on a gilt and stippled ground with running foliages, and the breastplate further decorated in a raised medial band with similar ornament involving flower-heads See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Dukes of Ratibor, Schloss Grafenegg, Krems, Austria (sold Gallerie Fischer, Lucern, 2 September 1933, lot35) JWHA Inv. No. 2205 Literature Hans Tietze, Die Sammlungen des Schlosses Grafenegg (Oestereichishe Kunst-topographie, Beiheft zum Band I), Vienna, 1908, p.85, pl. 8 Stephen V. Grancsay, Catalogue of Armor: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, 1961, pp. 96-7 Cynthia P. Duval & Walter J. Karcheski, Medieval and Renaissance Splendor, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 1983, cat. No. 10, p. 24 Exhibited People's Bank, Worcester, Massachusetts, 8 January - 8 February 1963 Medieval and Renaissance Splendor, John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 9 February 1984 - 1 November 1956 'Romance in Steel: The Heritage of Armour', J. W. Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 January - 3 June 2001 The decoration of the armour is inspired by that found on several works of the celebrated Augsburg armourer, Anton Peffenhauser (recorded 1545-1603) whose clients included the Imperial, Bavarian and Saxon courts (see Bruno Thomas, 'Augsburger Harnische und Stangenwaffen", in Welt im Umbruch: Augsburg zwischen Renaissance und Barock, Vol.II, Augsburg 1980, pp. 525-6, 529-34; Mann 1962,Vol.I,pp. 46-7, pl. 25; and Norman 1986, pp. 16-17)
Lot 271
**A CAP-A-PIE TILT ARMOUR, 19TH CENTURY IN THE SOUTH GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1560 comprising reinforcing bevor formed in one piece with a prow-shaped face-defence cut away at the right cheek, a raised rib at either side of the neck to accommodate the basal rim of the underlying helmet, a deep integral gorget-plate with a square lower end pierced with holes to attach it to an underlying breastplate, and formed at its right with a projecting flange; collar of five lames front and rear; breastplate formed of a main plate of 'peascod' fashion fitted at its stepped arm-openings with moveable gussets, pierced at its square upper with a pair of threaded holes to attach the overlying reinforcing bevor, fitted at the right of the chest with four pierced staples to attach, with the aid of a pin, a rigid lance-rest with an arm of L-shaped section, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame fitted at each side with a trio of straps supporting a pendent scutiform tasset of two lames; one-piece backplate fitted at each of its upper corners with a hinged shoulder-hasp and formed at its lower edge with a deep flange; asymmetrical pauldrons each of six lames, the right cut away at the front of the armpit to accommodate a lance, the lower edge of its third and largest lame fitted at the rear with a separate plate, and the upper edges of its lowest three lames formed at the front with puckered semi-circular projections; vambraces of fully articulated tubular construction, each fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames, the front of the left wing pierced with a threaded hole to attach a reinforce; the latter formed in one piece, closely shaped to the front of the underlying couter and lower cannon and flaring upwards and inwards over the upper cannon and armpit; fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and pointed cuff with a separate hinged inner plate, six metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, a shaped finger-plate and scaled finger and thumb-defences (all the finger-defences of the right, and one and the distal end of another of the left missing, along with all but the detached main plate of the right thumb-defence); cuisses each formed of a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with four detachable extension-lames rising to their outside, and at its lower edge with poleyn of four lames overlapping outwards from the second which terminates at its outer end in a medially-puckered oval wing; and full-length tubular greaves each articulated at the ankle, cut at the heel with a slit to accommodate a spur, and fitted within the arched lower end of its front plate with an integral sabaton of seven lames terminating in a narrow rounded toe-cap; the main edges of the armour, except for those of the reinforces and the lower and outer edges of the tassets, formed with boldly file-roped inward turns (lightly patinated overall with a few small patches of light active rust) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 1126
Lot 425
A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common low-domed pivots (replaced), the forward-sloping visor pierced in front of the file-roped step of its centrally-divided vision-slit with six small ventilation-holes at each side, and fitted at the right with a combined wing-headed turning-pin and lifting-peg that fits into shaped notch cut into the upper edge of the associated prow-shaped upper bevor, the latter pierced at its left side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, and at its right with three diagonal ventilation-slots, the upper and lower bevors each secured at the right side by spring catches with push-button-releases, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges and pierced with three pairs of holes, now plugged with blind rivets, for the leathers that originally attached their gorget-plates, the upper bevor decorated medially and at its upper edge respectively with a band and border each burnished bright, along with the sides of the comb, against an originally black-from-the hammer ground (now cleaned bright, the helmet showing evidence at points of the delamination and cracking of its metal, and two small perforations at the crest of its comb) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in
Lot 427
Three various original works, Sydney Arrobus, landscape with bridge and viaduct over a river with figures and buildings, signed, pen and watercolour wash on paper, 20cm x 30cm, together with an early 20th century study of children outside a thatched cottage, dated 1909, watercolour, 24cm x 17cm, and B. Pyn or Pin, study of a standing nude, viewed from behind, 34cm x 15cm
Lot 249
Trade Cards, Football, a mixture to include Typhoo Famous stars, part set E8/24, namely Gordon Banks, Martin peters, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, Joe McBride, Billy McNeill, Pat Jennings and Keith newton (fair/gd, some creasing and pin holes), presented by the Victor Cup Tie Stars of all Nations (2 sheets), presented with Tiger, My Favourite Soccer Stars Booklet (complete), World of Sport Flik-Cards'Our Heroes' in Album (gd, some missing) Cadet Sweets Footballer in album, and a Topical Times Album containing Footballers Panel Portraits also included a few loose cards, (gen gd)(parcel)
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