WEDNESDAY 12th DECEMBER 2007
CURIOS
Over 350 lots are photographed in the catalogue which
is now lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout
ORDER CATALOGUE ONLINE HOME PAGE
WEDNESDAY 12th DECEMBER 2007 CURIOS Over 350 lots are photographed in the catalogue which is now lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout ORDER CATALOGUE ONLINE HOME PAGE |
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| 643 Princely State of Jaipur hallmarked silver comb case and powder compact. A fine pair. The engine turned comb case by JWB hallmarked Birmingham 1947 bears diagonal stripe of coloured enamels and applied Arms of Jaipur as worn by the State Forces. Top removes to reveal a comb (two teeth absent). Housed in a black silk cover ... rectangular engine turned compact case by DS &S hallmarked London 1947 with applied Arms of Jaipur on the lid. Mirror to silver-gilt interior. Housed in lightly padded maroon leather case. Both generally VGC (2 items) (£75 - £100) |
| 644 British Military issue Wrist Watch by International Watch Co. This example with a black face and sweeping second hand is signed International Watch Co. The reverse of the case with issue stamps 6B/346 573/48. Running order. (£220 - £250) Offered as an historical item only; the instrument’s accuracy is neither warranted or implied. |
| 645 19th Century Star of India Device. A good cast iron example, retaining original gilt painted decoration. Diameter 8 inches. GC colours remain bright. (£80 - £120) |
| 646 Boer War Cheddar Tribute China Plate. A rare example of white pottery decorated to the centre with a blue transfer of a Crowned VR Cypher within a Union wreath and below “Pretoria 1900” to the edge again in blue transfer Kimberley: Ladysmith: Mafeking Cheddar Rejoicings”. Some crazing to the glazing. |
| 647 Royal Navy HMS Birmingham Shooting Prize Spoon. This spoon bears Birmingham Hallmarks for 1926. Decorated with the ships crest in coloured enamels. The reverse with engraved script “Matches Won St.Helena HMS Daffodil HMS Durban Cape Town High’drs Saldahna Cup S.A. Police E. London Garrison Art’ly Cape Town Lost P.E. Rifle Club”. Also April 1926 and Feb 1927”. GC Enamels remain bright. |
| 648 Early 18th Century Dutch Silver Campaign Travelling Set of Knife and Folk. A rare set bearing silver Amsterdam hallmarks circa 1740. The fork is all silver the handle embossed with a floral design. The steel blade knife with a matching decorated handle. Housed in original polished brown leather case. Blade rusty in places GC. (£150 - £200) |
| 649 16th Lancers Mid 19th Century Regimental Mess China Plate Warmer. A scarce example of a white pottery plate warmer decorated with painted blue flowers. Retaining pottery spout, this again with floral decoration. The underside with “16th Lancers” under the glaze. GC, two edge chips and a small hairline crack, Colours good (£120 - £160) |
| 650 Selection of Boys Brigade Badges etc. Including: King’s Badge (plating worn) ... Pouch badges ... Modern plastic commemorative and proficiency badges etc. (Approx 44 items) (£30 - £60) Viewing recommended |
| 651 Selection of Boy Scout Badges etc. A quantity of badges including Master’s plumed badges, silver, silver plate, anodised ... Lapel badges etc. Overall GC (Approx 30 items) (£50 - £100) Viewing Recommended |
| 652 Tokyo 1964 Competitor Badge plus others This is a gilt and enamel pin badge with Japanese writing to the reverse ... Accompanied by a small selection of enamel sporting badges (non Olympic) Overall GC. (Approx 11 items) (£30 - £60) Viewing Recommended |
| 653 Selection of Airline Company Badges. Comprising Various World Airlines. Bullion Cap Badges... Flying Wings.... Plastic junior flying wings etc. Overall GC. (Approx 59 items) (£40 - £60) Viewing Recommended |
| 654 Selection of Tram and Transport Company Badges. Comprising: Cap Badges etc. Including: Leeds ... Manchester ... Edinburgh ... Halifax etc. Overall GC Some enamel damage to some badges. (Approx 30 items) (£100 - £200) Viewing Recommended |
| 655 Selection of Bus and Transport Company Badges. Comprising: Cap Badges etc. Including: Portsmouth ... Southend ... Salford ... Halifax etc. Overall GC Some enamel damage to some badges. (Approx 16 items) (£75 - £100) Viewing Recommended |
| 656 Selection of Bus and Transport Company Badges. Comprising: Cap Badges etc. Including: Portsmouth ... Leeds ... Eastern Scottish. etc. Overall GC Mostly modern badges. (Quantity) (£75 - £100) Viewing Recommended |
| 657 Selection of WW2 Railway Service Lapel Badges etc. Five example for LMS (2) ... LNER ... SR ... GWR ... Accompanied by a small selection of post war badges of Railway transport interest. (Approx 17 items) (£30 - £50) |
| 658 Royal Artillery gold regimental brooch, Flintshire British Red Cross insignia etc. 15ct gold Royal Artillery bar brooch, with small diamond chips to the wheel and enamel decoration. Stamped 15ct to the bar ... British Red Cross Society County of Flintshire badge “27553 Gwen H. Williams” ... Red Cross armband stamped Flint Voluntary Aid ... WWI cap tally “HMS Despatch.” Poor Condition ... Similar tally “HMS Colombo.” Poor condition ... Trench art bullet knife, plus other items. Overall GC. (8 items) (£50 - £100) |
| 659 Rochester, Kent Victorian painted truncheon. A good rare turned wood 18 inch example. Black painted ground emblazoned with gold crown, VR Cypher and ornate oval inscribed “Kent”; below the oval “Rochester Divn. 20”. The painting remains clear, some paint loss to tip and a little on the crown. Generally GC. (£200 - £300) |
| 660 Manchester William IV painted truncheon. A fine and exceptionally rare hardwood 17 1/2 inch example, the top of the grip with stepped brass circular pommel. Black painted ground emblazoned with pre 1837 Royal Arms, IIII WR Cypher, Arms of Manchester and “TSB”. Minor wear to paint in places. Generally VGC. (£400 - £500) |
| 661 Large Crested China WWI Style Tank. This tank is made by the Arcadian Factory and is decorated to the top with a colour transfer of the crest of the City of London. GC Approx Length 6 1/2 inches. (£40 - £60) |
| 662 Household Cavalry State Trumpet. A scarce example, silver plated and embossed with floral decoration including roses and shamrocks. Engraved with the maker’s details of McQueen’s Manchester, Made in England. Mouth piece absent, with a little service wear. Near VGC (£200 - £400) |
| 663 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment Officers’ Mess china plate circa 1873-81. This fine quality 9 inch example was produced by the Minton Factory and retailed through Pellatt & Wood, 25, Baker St. London W. Rich deep blue border with gilt floral outer edge and inside narrow gilt line. To the centre is a regimental device, surmounted by an Imperial Crown. The reverse with a Minton factory mark. Minor wear, generally GC. (£100 - £120) The Minton stamp would indicate that this plate was made between 1873 and 1891. 108th became 2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on Friday 1st July, 1881 whilst under the command of Lt.Col. Henry Lock (Hon. Major General). |
| 664 84th (York & Lancaster) Regiment Officers’ Mess china plate circa 1896. This fine quality 9 inch example was produced by the Worcester Factory and retailed through Phillips Ltd Mount St. London. Rich deep blue border with gilt floral inner band edged with narrow gilt line. To the centre is a regimental device, a red rose of Lancaster and to the border a title strap surrounds “84” and above a coronet. The reverse with a Worcester factory and retailer’s mark Minor wear, generally GC. (£100 - £120) The Worcester stamp would indicate that this plate was made circa 1896. |
| 665 King’s Royal Rifle Corps mounted Officer’s horse bridle. A scarce turn of the Century example of polished black leather, backed with scarlet melton cloth and retaining black leather shaped bosses. Good clean condition, leather supple. (£40 - £60) |
| 666 Silver bullion tassels from a regimental Colour. This silver bullion pair of tassels are connected with silver cord. The tassels are with ornate three knots and 4 inch drop tassels. Little age dulling. GC (£50 - £100) Believed to have been used on the Colours of a Light Infantry Regiment |
| 667 Selection of items of Nursing Interest. Comprising: a small silvered prize medallion for the “Coroneted Edinburgh Dental Hospital & School” Awarded in 1918-1919 Contained in original fitted case Diameter 40 mm. VGC ... A similar example awarded 1919-20 ... An Early St John Ambulance Association silk armband ... Three Red Cross badges including Life Member ... WW2 pattern WVS Armband ... French Balloon Medallion. Overall GC. (8 items) (£30 - £50) |
| 668 Selection of Boy Scouts Badges. These include a Merit Medal in case “S. Osborn” ... Enamel lapel badges ... Proficiency cloth badges ... 3 x Commissioner’s cap badges. Overall GC. (31 items) (£40 - £60) |
| 669 Lancer Regiment Lance Pennon. A cotton example of red and white cloth of swallow tail form. Complete with leather strap attachments. GC ... Accompanied by a lance tip, this with a chromed finish. GC (2 items) (£30 - £50) |
| 670 Winston Churchill Cigar Tribute to HMS Ajax Battle of the River Plate. A rare Churchill cigar box and last remaining cigar belonging to Warrant Officer Reginald Biggs DSC Gunnery Officer on board HMS Ajax during the historic action against the Battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Comprising: Polished camphor wood box, the lid is impressed “Churchill” and to the front is a dramatic picture of Sir Winston holding a Tommy Gun and smoking a cigar and “Churchill Special”. The reverse retains the originally paper label of “Hunter & Co. Light of Persia Cigar House Tricainopoly Madras” The box is accompanied by a last remaining sealed cigar, bearing pictorial cigar band of Churchill and Tommy Gun. GC. A letter of provenance for Warrant Officer Biggs accompanies the lot. (£150 - £200) The “Churchill Specials” were especially commissioned for the British Prime Minister. Following the return of HMS Ajax and Exeter in February 1940 the Officer’s and crew were invited to a Heroes Banquet at the Guild Hall London. The guest of honour was Sir Winston Churchill, who had instructed that each table would have a plentiful supply of “Churchill Specials”. At the end of the meal Warrant Officer Biggs liberated one box. In the post war years it became his personal tribute to smoke one cigar on the anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate. A letter of authenticity dated 2003 accompanies the lot, plus photocopy newspaper cuttings appertaining to Warrant Officer Biggs. |
| 671 Christmas 1900 chocolate tin and contents. A good example of the gilt tin which was given to troops serving in South Africa during the Boer War Christmas 1900. This example is complete with its original chocolate bars. Colours to tin remain bright with minor age wear. 98% original painted finish GC. (£80 - £120) |
| 672 1914 Princess Mary Gift Tin and contents. A scarce complete example with cigarette packet (19 present), tobacco and 2 x 1914 Christmas Cards. The tin also contains a scarce example of Princes Mary’s Buckingham Palace greeting. The tin with all original gilt finish, but now with one split. GC. (£80 - £120) |
| 673 A full Edward VII 1902 Coronation chocolate tin The lid of the tin is brightly coloured with portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria. To scrolls announce “Coronation Day June 26th 1902”. The base is printed “Rowntree & Co Ltd York”. The interior retains original chocolate bars and small coloured pictures of the King and Queen. Colours remain bright 95% present. (£30 - £60) |
| 674 Earl Kitchener and West Indies Regiment WWI commemorative tins. The tin is brightly decorated with colour transfers, depicting the Earl to the lid, set against the Union flag. To the sides Cavalry charge forward into battle with swords in the air, a portrait of Field Marshal Sir John French, Battleships on the high seas, a portrait of Admiral Sir Jon Jellicoe, Nurses attending wounded and Boy Scouts at the Ready. Colours and transfer remain clear, with some age wear. GC. Height 5 inches. (paint 80% present) ... Accompanied by a scarce West Indian Contingent Committee Gift tin for 1916. This tin is decorated with the West Indies Regiment Cap Badge to the lid (Paint 85% present). (2 items) (£40 - £60) |
| 675 Winston Churchill Teapot and Three Side Plates. Comprising: Tall Teapot and three sandwich side plates. Each item is of cream pottery, to the centre a colour transfer depicting Churchill smoking his famous cigar. To the background a Battleship of the Royal Navy steams ahead, with an aircraft flying above and with the text “There’ll always be an England” The border with gilt decoration. Maker’s stamp to the reverse of Nelson Wear England. GC (4 items) (£60 - £100) |
| 676 WW1 Period British Officer’s Style Wristwatch. This example with a unmarked silver case and white enamel dial, with a second dial at the 6 o;clock position. GC running condition. (£30 - £50) This style of wristwatch was popular amongst Officer’s during the Great War and was private purchase. Offered as an historical item only; the instrument’s accuracy is neither warranted or implied. |
| 677 93rd Highlanders, five 1856 Crimea War photographic studies. A rare set of five photographs on glass studies of members of the 93rd Highlanders, taken in 1856. The first shows a Private in marching kit. He is seated, facing the camera, with feather bonnet, musket and white buff equipment ... Image 2 is the same man showing a view of his equipment from the back ... Image 3 shows him again this time kneeling aiming his musket ... Image 4 shows another Private with glengarry and wearing his Crimea War Medal ... Image 5 shows two band boys of the Regiment, wearing Band pattern doublets and black leather cross belts, with Regimental mounts. Now mounted into an oak glazed frame. Image size approx 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Overall Frame size 19 x 17 inches. GC Images clear. (£100 - £200) |
| 678 Zulu style warrior’s war shield. A good scarce late 19th century oval shaped shield of brown animal hide. Typical lattice work design to the centre. Height 32 inches. GC (£160 - £200) |
| 679 Selection of four African Spears Comprising: Two throwing spears, with metal blade and thin wooden shafts ... Accompanied by two Zulu style wooden stabbing spears. GC (4 items). (£30 - £50) |
| 680 18th/19th Century circular Indian shield (dhal). A good steel example of convex form with applied brass floral pierced rim and steel scrolling overlay central rim. Four central polished steel tulip edged bosses, the entire surface silver inlaid with various designs and floral panels. Diameter approx 14 inches. GC (£160 - £200) |
| 681 18th/19th Century circular Indian shield (dhal). A good steel example of convex form with steel tulip decorated rim. Four central polished steel tulip edged bosses, the entire surface silver and gilt inlaid with various designs and floral panels, also central circular script panel. Diameter approx 12 1/2 inches. GC (£160 - £200) |
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