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101 |
The Windsor (Pear) Pair. Victorian novelty card, c.1863, gilt embossed design by Wood, Strand, the central pear motif lifting to reveal a hand-coloured lithographic portrait of Edward VII and Alexandra (when Prince of Wales & Princess of Denmark). Some toning and pale marks, top corners lightly bumped, two tiny pin-holes. A similar example can be found in the Royal Collection Trust |
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£40 - £60 |
Unsold |
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102 |
Railway. Mixed collection of maps & books, comprising: Official Railway Map of London and its Environs, London: The Railway Clearing House, printed by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., 1913, sectional, linen-backed, in crushed morocco covers lettered in gilt, 104cm by 134cm; Official Railway Map of England & Wales, London: Railway Clearing House, 1923, splits and old reinforcements at fold-lines, 146cm by 124cm; Official Railway Map of the Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Districts, London: Railway Clearing |
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85 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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103 |
National Savings poster commemorating the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the central portrait after the photograph by Dorothy Wilding, the border decorated with portraits of kings & queens since William I, 74.5cm by 49.5cm, London: Waterlow & Sons Limited for H.M. Stationery Office. Colours well-preserved and vibrant; light creasing; a couple of short tears at top edge reinforced with old tape verso |
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£60 - £100 |
Unsold |
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104 |
Three Victorian Stevengraph silk pictures depicting portraits of the following pugilists: John Lawrence Sullivan (American, 1858-1918), "Boston Strong Boy", the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing; Charles Watson "Charley" Mitchell (English, 1861-1918), heavyweight contender and Lightweight Champion; Jem Smith (English, 1863-1931), bare-knuckle prize fighter and Heavyweight Champion of England. In original Thomas Stevens mounts, framed, glazed recto & verso (both sides visible). The silk |
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360 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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105 |
Vintage novelty biscuit tin in the form of a set of leather-bound books, novels by Sir Walter Scott, secured with a belt |
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35 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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106 |
Fougasse [Cyril Kenneth Bird] (British, 1887-1965). Set of nine anti-noise lithographic posters, each one signed in blue ink (as well as in the plate), printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 29.5cm by 19.6cm. Generally good and bright with some light creasing and faint spotting in places; some pale staining and marks verso; slight loss at top border of No.1 (9) |
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700 |
£700 - £1,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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107 |
Valentine, c.1830, addressed to Master Frank Hart of Pepper Street, Nottingham. Manuscript romantic verse with central ink & watercolour motif with love hearts and applied border, paper bearing manufacturer's watermark (Hagar & Son 1825), 'Old custom tells us that we may / Write to our sweethearts on this day...Then with this my name I sign / And so remain your Valentine.' Folded as sent with remnants of wax seal, torn upon opening (through address), otherwise well-preserved with general toning |
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25 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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108 |
Petroleum Silver King bicycle lamp, John Bull puncture outfit, vintage enamel badges, Ford Anglia keyrings, and a small quantity of ephemera |
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10 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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109 |
Alexander Lamont Henderson (British, 1838-1907), experimental photographer and member of the Royal Photographic Society. In 1884, Queen Victoria awarded Henderson with a Royal Warrant, which allowed him to depict moments from the everyday life of the royal family. Victoria commissioned a number of enamels to be made from earlier plates, which included Prince Albert and John Brown (some of Henderson's enamels can be found in the Royal Collection Trust). It is believed that a number of miniatures |
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£10,000 - £15,000 |
Unsold |
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110 |
Paddington Bear. Special Edition mohair bear with leather suitcase and accessories, boxed, with certificate signed by Michael Bond, limited edition numbered 2 of 5000 |
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110 |
£80 - £120 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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111 |
Pair of 19th-century coaching prints, Charles Cooper Henderson or similar, hand-coloured aquatint etchings, 39.5cm by 60cm (mount window), framed & glazed in Hogarth frames (2) |
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£30 - £50 |
Unsold |
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112 |
Crests & Monograms. Extensive archive of thousands of crests in stockbooks, albums, scrapbooks, box files and loose in packets. Various subjects, UK & worldwide, including British Embassies; ecclesiastical; institutions; trade & commerce; transport; peerage & royalty; societies & associations; masonic; naval/destroyers; schools/colleges/universities (including Oxford & Cambridge); governmental; civic; private clubs; political; banking/insurance, and others, plus printed research, the whole house |
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£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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113 |
Collection of postcards, Edwardian to mid-20th century (the latter more plentiful), predominantly topographical views arranged by county, a few real photographic examples, and several ethnographic & missionary subjects. Together with a collection of cigarette cards, part-sets arranged by subject into envelopes, the whole housed in two small cartons (2) |
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15 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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114 |
Lieutenant Colonel Louis Harris Wrangham, M.C., R.M. (1897-1941). Collection of more than 1,000 photographs in five albums capturing military and leisure activities, including numerous photographs depicting Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) during his tour of the Indian Subcontinent and Japan in 1921-22. The photographs capture various cultures & customs, scenery & landmarks (including, for instance, the Egyptian pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza), sports & leisure (including swimming, |
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480 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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115 |
Postcards. Collection of approx. 350, Walsall & Willenhall, 1900s to 1950s, many real photographic examples, housed in two modern window albums (2) |
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110 |
£60 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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116 |
Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) & David Blair (1932-1976). Signed programme for Daphnis and Chloe at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 6 November 1962. Signed in blue ink by both on one of the central pages, Fonteyn has signed 'Margot Fonteyn Arias'. Together with three books, including Opera Annual 1954-5 (4) |
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40 |
£70 - £100 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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117 |
Postcards. Edwardian album containing approx. 70+ postcards, including cartoon/humour (George Piper, Mac, Donald McGill, and others); United States (Ford Motor Company; The Yale Bowl; Ledge House, Dead River, and others); Buxton (St. Ann's Well, caverns). Together with two Player's albums of military uniforms cigarette cards, and a Gun Drill book, Official Copy, London: War Office, HMSO, 1934 |
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45 |
£40 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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118 |
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827). Transplanting of Teeth, satirical caricature, etching with contemporary hand-colouring, early state on laid paper, published 20 November 1787 (day & month recorded in ink), by J. Harris, Dean Street, Soho, with manuscript title. Approx. 31cm by 44cm, framed & glazed, bearing The Railings Gallery label verso. Trimmed untidily within engraved area, closed tear across left, appears to be lightly tipped-in rather than stuck down but unexamined out of frame |
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200 |
£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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119 |
Collection of press photographs depicting work & culture in the Soviet Union, 1947, bearing USSR stamps & mounted English captions verso, 58 in total, condition varied, many are well-preserved, some are creased & torn, various sizes, most measuring approx. 23cm by 17cm (58) |
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10 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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120 |
Caricatures. A collection of 23 framed satirical prints, including 'Attention', hand-coloured etching on wove paper by Thomas Rowlandson after George "Mustard" Woodward; 'The Tooth Ache', two duplicate etchings by Rowlandson (both later restrikes); 'The Morning News', hand-coloured etching after Henry William Bunbury; 'Cham-Paign and Real-Pain', hand-coloured etching, anonymous; six engravings by Tim Bobbin (pseudonym of John Collier), four of which are trimmed and mounted on late-18th/early-19t |
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360 |
£200 - £400 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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121 |
"Mac", Stanley McMurtry (b.1936), collection of 11 original cartoons, ink and wash, satirical designs for Daily Mail and other publications, all with a dental/dentistry theme. All framed & glazed, a couple of the pictures bearing The Rae-Smith Gallery labels verso with details of the published versions (11) |
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400 |
£800 - £1,200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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122 |
Chris Riddell (b.1962), original political cartoon, signed l.r., ink & watercolour, a satirical caricature of a bruised and bloody Tony Blair, 22.5cm by 25cm, framed & glazed |
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120 |
£200 - £400 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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123 |
"Jak", Raymond Jackson (1927-1997), HM Queen Elizabeth II, original satirical cartoon, signed l.r., ink with watercolour wash, 48.5cm by 58.5cm, framed & glazed. Together with a framed newspaper clipping of the published version, Daily Telegraph, Thursday, May 9, 1996 |
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70 |
£100 - £200 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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124 |
Collection of five original ink cartoons by Michael Heath, Jonathan Pugh, Brian Stott, John "Cluff" Longstaff, and one indistinctly signed. Together with eight framed cartoons taken from 20th-century magazines, a small collection of loose dentistry advertising and cartoons from magazines, five framed 20th-century prints of moon cartoons, and a folder of cartoons clipped from Punch and similar, 20th-century, plus several postcards |
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55 |
£50 - £70 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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125 |
George Brough (1890-1970), motorcycle racer and manufacturer of Brough Superior. Archive of correspondence, photographs and ephemera from Douglas Wesson (1914-1979), Brough's company secretary and friend. Collection includes a Motor Cycling Club tankard, 'London-Exeter 1931, G. Brough, Sidecar'; four vintage Brough Superior enamel badges, including S5, S99 & S100; three unused Brough Superior stickers, two of which are SS100; an autograph postcard, typed & signed, 24 February 1938, regarding Wes |
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£300 - £500 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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126 |
A collection of early-20th century erotic cards/postcards, mostly real photographic, mostly blank verso, a few with postcard backs. Housed in a red cloth wallet decorated with similar nude photographs and pictures. The photographs are slightly curved from being in the wallet, but otherwise well-preserved; the wallet has some wear |
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40 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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127 |
Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, "Monty" (1887-1976). Autograph letter signed in blue ink on Isington Mill letterhead, 9 December 1958, responding to a letter from Lieut. Reginald Massey, confirming that he recalls an incident where the pair successfully helped a young Derby soldier in solitary confinement return home to visit his dying wife, having previously been unable to get compassionate leave - which was around the time of D-Day. Lightly tipped to |
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£100 - £200 |
Unsold |
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128 |
Ortelius & Llwyd. Cambriae Typus, the earliest published map of Wales as a separate country from the rest of Great Britain [1573 or later]. Hand-coloured copper engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, depicting ship & sea monster, approx. 37.2cm by 50.2cm (plate-mark), 40.5cm by 51cm (frame window/margins), framed & glazed. The map appears very well-preserved, creamy laid paper, one tiny patch of loss at extreme edge of upper margin (not near the plate-mark or engraving), unexamined out of frame |
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140 |
£200 - £300 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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129 |
Glamorganshire Maps. Collection comprising: Glamorganensis, by Joan Blaeu, [c.1645-48], 38.5cm by 51cm (plate-mark), framed, glazed recto & verso, Latin text verso; Map of the South East Circuit of the Principality of Wales, Comprising the Counties of Glamorgan, Brecon & Radnor, by C. & J. Greenwood, 1831, 63.5cm by 71cm. framed & glazed; Chester to Cardiff road map, by John Ogilby, [1675 or later], 41cm by 50cm, framed & glazed; An Accurate Map Glamorganshire, by Thomas Kitchin, Bowles & Sayer |
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£60 - £100 |
Unsold |
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130 |
Cooke, Charles. A New & Accurate Map of North America including Nootka Sound [c.1794], hand-coloured copper engraving on laid/chain-lined paper, Northern Canada marked 'Parts Unknown', 28cm by 44cm, framed & glazed, clean & bright with light creasing and fold-lines. Together with A Map of the five Great Lakes with part of Pensilvania, New York, Canada and Hudsons Bay Territories, [c.1755], 22cm by 27.5cm, framed & glazed, clean & bright, faint fold-lines, discolouration at upper-right (2) |
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60 |
£100 - £150 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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131 |
A mixed collection of antique maps to include three of Warwickshire, one of Worcestershire, and one of South Wales, two being framed & glazed (5) |
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10 |
£20 - £40 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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132 |
Spike Milligan (1918-2002). Autograph note on invitation card, 'Dear Jane - Thanks for the invitation - sorry I can't make it - I'm in the middle of writing a TV series, I'm in the clutches of ITV, but good luck - it's a beautiful art form you are creating...Love Spike'. Stafford Art Gallery invitation card, exhibition of Embroidery & Collage by Jane Dew, 1971. The inscription is well-preserved in bold ink, the card has a faint horizontal crease and four tiny pin-holes with remnants of glue/pape |
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£40 - £60 |
Unsold |
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133 |
Railway. An archive of railway ledgers, 1900s to 1930s, recording letters forwarded to chief mechanical engineers; repairs/fitting/building of steel boilers, firebox plates, cylinders, axles & tyres; boiler inspection reports. Predominantly N.E.R. & L.N.E.R., Darlington. Most volumes bound in half-calf or half-morocco. Contents of ledgers is generally good, the bindings are worn, some heavily, sold as found with all faults (31) |
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400 |
£500 - £1,000 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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135 |
Cricket. A library of cricket & sporting biography, history, reference, and magazines, including Wisden & Playfair Annuals (1990s/2000s), condition varied, collection sold as found with all faults, in 11 cartons (11) |
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10 |
£50 - £80 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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136 |
Collection of prints, to include 32 Baxter & similar process prints (The Reception of Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas the Day before He Was Massacred; portraits of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert; Duke of Wellington; Christ's Descent from the Cross; The Mountain Stream, and others); 26 Vanity Fair caricatures by Spy & Ape, 1860s-1890s, chromolithographs (including Statesmen & Men of the Day) |
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£150 - £200 |
Unsold |
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137 |
Coop, J. Wallace (Illust.). Bulls and Bears: Cartoons of Members and Ring Traders of the Liverpool Exchange, Cartoons by J. Wallace Coop, Biographies by Seymour Taylor, Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., 1908. Folio, publisher's blue cloth. Contents good, clean, bright, light handling marks in places, some offsetting & pale spotting to endpapers, small ownership label on front pastedown; cloth binding with discolouration & marks, bumping & wear to corners |
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£50 - £80 |
Unsold |
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138 |
Collection of four books comprising: Chess for Beginners, by William Lewis, London: Chapman & Hall, 1835; Don Quixote, illustrated by Walter Crane, London: Blackie & Son, 1900; David Copperfield & Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Frank Reynolds, London: Westminster Press, n.d. Condition varied, sold as found with all faults (4) |
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18 |
£30 - £50 |
Winning bid: N/A |
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139 |
Bartholomew's Revised Half-Inch Maps, Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd., 1960s. Great Britain, sixty sheets, colour Ordnance Survey maps, linen-backed, rolled (60) |
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£50 - £60 |
Unsold |
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