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Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Art

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT Charles Miller Ltd 25 Blythe Road London, W14 0PD

Wednesday 20th April 2011 at 12 noon, precisely

Public Exhibition Order of Sale

Sunday 17th April 12pm-4pm Pictures & Prints 1-34 Naval 35-98 Monday 18th April 10am-7pm Sailor Art & Collectables 100-144 Tuesday 19th April 10am-5pm Liner 145-169 Instruments 170-244 Wednesday 20th April 10am-12pm Models 245-283 (Limited View Only)

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A2 Detail from Lot 37 Pictures & Prints 1

1. 2. ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18TH-CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY Portrait of a Naval Officer with shipping beyond Stonehouse Victualling Yard, , with Fort Nelson beyond Watercolour and grey wash on laid paper Pen, ink and grey wash Inscribed on verso ‘My father drawn by himself in a naval uniform 10¼ x 16½in. (26 x 42cm.) M Aylward’ £200-400 12½ x 8½in. (32 x 21.5cm.) £200-400

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2 3 3. 4. FOLLOWER OF THOMAS SEWELL ROBINS AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY COLLECTION OF WATERCOLOURS OF (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY) ASSORTED SHIP TYPES A merchantman under reduced sail with a man o’ war beyond comprising sixteen views over twelve pages, painted singly and in pairs on gilt-edged pages, each neatly inscribed with vessel Watercolour type and caption, the frontispiece inscribed Ships. copied from 17¼ x 19in. (44 x 48cm.) the logbook of Wm. H...n, Cap. of the ship Transit of Bristol on two £300-500 voyages to the Mediterranean in 1819 and 1821. -- 11½ x 9¼in. (29 x 23.5cm.) £1000-1500

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3 5. ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS GEFFROI ROUX (1811-1882) A galley of war at anchor Signed ‘F’çois Roux 1852’ Watercolour 10 x 15in. (26 x 38cm.) £500-800

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6. LOUIS ROUX (1817-1903) An armed Xebec sailing off a headland Signed and inscribed ‘Louis Roux à Mars.le’ (lower right) Watercolour 8 x 12in. (20.3 x 30.5cm.) Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles, No.28 £300-500

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7. ANGE JOSEPH ANTOINE ROUX (1765-1835) The Swedish La Galithée 1827 Strengthened banner title inscribed ‘’Antoine Roux Fregate Suédoise La Galathée 1827‘’ Watercolour 8½ x 12½in. (21.5 x 32cm.) £400-600

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4 8. ATTRIBUTED TO MATHIEU-ANTOINE ROUX (1799-1872) A French man o’ war in company with a U.S. Brig off Cape Horn Signed and dated ‘A. Roux 1820’ (lower right) Watercolour with pen and ink 15¾ x 20½in. (40 x 52cm.) £700-900

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9. ATTRIBUTED TO ANGE JOSEPH ANTOINE ROUX (1765-1835) An Anglo-French Naval Engagement Watercolour, with later inscription on mount 15¼ x 21¾in. (39 x 55cm.) £600-800

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10. LOUIS ROUX (1817-1903) The Wreck of the ‘Hampton’ Signed ‘Louis Roux’ (lower right), and inscribed in banner ‘Brick Americain [sic] “Hampton” Cap-ne Foster, Assailli par un ouragan au Milieu de l’ocean le 1st Sep.bre 1828.’ Watercolour heightened with white 15¾ x 24in. (40 x 61cm.) £300-500

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11. 12. ANGE JOSEPH ANTOINE ROUX (1765-1835) ANGE JOSEPH ANTOINE ROUX (1765-1835) A brig in company with other shipping off a headland Study of the armed merchant ship ‘Corsaire la Babiole’ 1812 Signed and dated ‘Ante. Roux 1795’ (lower left) Signed ‘Ant Roux Marseilles 1812’ (lower right) and inscribed on mount ‘Corsaire la Babilole Capitaine Jn Joseph - Roux 1812’ Watercolour laid on board Watercolour 12 x 19in. (30.5 x 48.2cm.) Image size 16¼ x 25¼in. (41 x 64cm.) Provenance: Ex-Collection: Jean Meissonnier, Marseilles, No.99 £2000-4000 £1200-1800

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6 13. E.H. KITTOE (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY) The Paddle Steamer ‘Lily’ leaving Albert Bridge, Battersea Park beyond; the Paddle Steamer ‘Citizen S’ approaching Albert Bridge, Battersea Park beyond Watercolour and pencil Lily signed ‘E.H. Kittoe 1882’ (lower right); Citizen S signed ‘E.H. Kittoe 1882’ (lower left) 11 x 21¼in. (28 x 54cm.) both (2, a pair) £500-800 13 (part)

14. CLAUDE MUNCASTER (BRITISH, 1904-1974) Depth charging Eastern Med. 1943 ‘U’boat destroyed as a result Watercolour heightened with white Signed ‘Claude Muncaster’ (lower left) title inscribed on verso 10¼ x 14½in. (26 x 37cm.) £150-250

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15. LAURENCE DUNN (BRITISH, 1910-2006) A three-quarter profile view of the S.S. ‘Steiermark’ under tow Signed ‘Laurence Dunn’ (lower left), inscribed ‘STEIERMARK’ (lower right), and inscribed in pencil on verso with potted history. Watercolour heightened with white on card 9¾ x 14½in. (25 x 37cm.); together with an autograph copy of Dunn’s The Book of Ships, London, 1968 (signed on fly) (2) Built by Krupp Germania and intended for the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the 8,736 ton cargo ship Steiermark was not completed until November 1939 and was absorbed into the German navy as an armed commerce raider. Renamed Kormoran in 1940, she was badly mauled by the gunfire of H.M.A.S. Sydney on the 19th November 1941 and was scuttled eleven days later. Her wreck was located in March 2008. £100-150 15 (part)

7 16 (part) 16. 1 7. 18. HENRY LYNCH BACON (BRITISH GEORGE HENRY JENKINS ERIC TUFNELL (BRITISH, 1888-1978) 19TH-CENTURY) (BRITISH, 1843-1914) MTB 224 at speed; two MTBs at speed H.M.S. ‘Iron Duke’; H.M.S. ‘Galatea’ H.M.S. Warspite lying at anchor at dusk with a squall approaching Watercolour Watercolour Watercolour Signed and inscribed ‘HB 1893’ (lower Signed ‘GH Jenkins’ (lower left) and Both signed ‘E Tufnell’ (lower right) the right) and titled ‘H.M.S. Iron Duke HB inscribed on verso ‘Launching of H.M.S. latter inscribed ‘1939-1945 MTB built by 1893’ and ‘H.M.S. Galatea HB 1893’ Warspite. Nov. 13 1913. presented to JF British Power Boat Company’ on verso (lower left) Corbett by Adm.l. Sir A Boyle. This ship Each 9½ x 12½in. (24 x 32cm.) played a large part in the Battle of Jutland’ Each 9½ x 14in. (24 x 35.5cm.) (2, a pair) 8 x 12in. (20.2 x 30.5cm.); together with a Historic data pasted to verso; together quantity of ephemera pertaining to Rear £300-500 with a watercolour by Eric Tufnell (1888- Burnett including caricatures of 1979) of H.M.S. Hermes 1928-29, inscribed Admiral Beatty, Admiral Jellico and a Jack as per title (lower left) and signed ‘EC Tar by ‘Ray’, some press clippings about Tufnell 1975’ (lower right) -- 10 x 14½in. H.M.S. Belfast 1942, and a collection of (25.5 x 37cm.). Historic data and gallery framed cap tallies including H.M.S. Hood, label for the Parker Gallery pasted on Belfast and Victory verso. (a lot) (3) £200-400 £300-500

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8 19 19. 20. CHARLES EDWARD DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934) BRITISH SCHOOL 20TH CENTURY The White Star Liner “” steaming off the south coast of Two Elders-Fyffe boardroom pictures: The S.S. Reventazon; Ireland S.S. Manzanares Signed and dated ‘Charles Dixon 1918’ (lower left) Oil on canvas Watercolour heightened with white Initialled ‘J.S.’ (lower right) 7½ x 15in. (19 x 38cm.) 16 x 28in. (40.6 x 71cm.); 16 x 26½in. (40.6 x 68cm.) Built, as all White Star Line ships were, by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, the (2) Cymric was intended as an enlarged Georgic but with the livestock launched 1906, torpedoed off Salonika 1918; provision converted to emigrant accommodation whilst she was on the Reventazon Manzanares launched 1911, name changed to in 1936, wrecked near stocks. Registered at 13,096 tons and with accommodation for 258 1st Vegesack and 1,160 3rd class with a crew of 110, her maiden voyage took place on Jaeren, Stavanger 7 September 1939. 11th February 1898. Two years later she was used as a troop transport in £600-800 the Boer War and thereafter she ran the Boston route, but was transferred in December 1914 back to her original Liverpool-New York run. On April 29th 1916 she departed New York without passengers and by 9th May was 21. steaming 140 miles west north west of Fastnet when she was torpedoed GEORGE KNIGHT (BRITISH, FL. 1872-1892) three times by U-20 under the Command of von Schwieger, who just one year before had destroyed the Lusitania. Five men were lost with 105 French fishing boats working with Mont St. Michel in the distance saved. Oil on canvas £2000-3000 Signed ‘Geo Knight’ (lower left) 18 x 32in. (46 x 81.5cm.) £400-600

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9 22 22. 23. CHINESE SCHOOL, MID 19TH-CENTURY JACK CHEONG (CHINESE, 19TH/20TH CENTURY) A view of the ‘Eastern Queen’ sailing on a starboard reach in The four-masted iron barque ‘Glenericht’ sailing off a headland company with a junk and other shipping off the Chinese coast Oil on linen Oil on linen Inscribed ‘Glenereicht’ [sic] (lower middle) and signed and 17½ x 23½in. (44.5 x 59.5cm.) inscribed ‘Jack Cheong picture painter Hong Kong’ on verso of stretcher; stamped packing board backing £3000-5000 9 x 12¼in. (23 x 31cm.) Launched in November 1885 by T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool for L.H. McIntyre & Co., the Glenericht was registered at 2,434 tons, was 289’6” long with a 44’3” and drew 25’2”. In 1907 she was sold and re-named Mariechen Interned between 1914-1921 in Chile, she was broken up in the in 1923. £1200-1800

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10 24 24. 25. 26. CHINESE SCHOOL, Circa 1908 CHINESE SCHOOL, LATE 19TH-CENTURY CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1891 The P & O Line R.M.S. ‘Salsette’ underway The Imperial German Cruiser S.M.S. The Canadian Pacific Liner ‘Empress of ‘Hertha’ underway in high seas Japan’ underway in heavy seas Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Oil on linen 16¼ x 23in. (41.2 x 58.5cm.) 15 x 23in. (38 x 58.5cm.) 17½ x 23½in. (44.5 x 59.6cm.) Provenance: With the Parker Gallery The Hertha, a protected cruiser of the ‘Victoria Built by Caird & Co., Greenock, and launched £600-800 Louise’ class, was built by A.G. Vulcan of 2nd April 1908, Salsette was the fastest ship Stettin, launched 14th April 1897. Initially in the P & O fleet and carried a large golden she served abroad in the German East cockerel at her head to signify that fact. Asia Squadron, and as its flagship from 17 On the 20th July 1917, whilst on passage from February 1900 took part in the Allied response London to Bombay with a general cargo, to the Boxer rebellion. She was replaced by she was torpedoed and sunk by the German Fürst Bismarck in 1903 and from 1908 was a UB40 in the and then a coastal defence ship fifteen miles south west of Portland Bill. from 1914, and finally a barrack ship at the Sinking in fifty minutes, all her passengers Flensburg Sea Plane Base from 1915. She was and crew (apart from those who died in the struck from the list 6th December 1919 and initial explosion) were able to leave in the broken up at Audorf-Rendesburg 1920. lifeboats and were landed at Weymouth. £1000-1500 £2500-4000

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11 2 7. MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) The Skipper Pencil 15½ x 12in. (39.5 x 30.5cm.) £300-500 27

28. MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) Preparing to Sail Pencil

7 11¾ x 7 ⁄8in. (30 x 20cm.) £200-400 28

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29. MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) The Crest of the Wave Oil on canvas Signed ‘Martyn R. Mackrill 10-’ (lower left) 24 x 30in. (61 x 76cm.) £4000-6000

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30. 31. MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) Against Wind & Tide A Hardening Breeze Watercolour Watercolour Signed ‘Martyn R. Mackrill 09’ (lower left) Signed ‘Martyn R. Mackrill 09’ (lower left) 11 x 14½in. (28 x 36.8cm.) 22½ x 30in. (57.2 x 76.2cm.) £1200-1500 £2000-3000

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32. 34. MARTYN R. MACKRILL (BRITISH, B. 1962-) A QUANTITY OF MARITIME SALE CATALOGUES Blue and Gold Yachts Racing in the Clyde approximately thirty Christie’s catalogues for sales in London, Oil on canvas Amsterdam and New York during the period 1979-2007 Signed ‘Martyn R. Mackrill 08’ (lower left) Full Listing Available on Request 20 x 30in. (50.8 x 76.2cm.) (a lot) £3000-5000 £50-100

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35. 36. 3 7. A FINE SET OF THREE LARGE 18TH- ‘THE HON. JOHN FORBES’ AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF EARLY CENTURY PRINTS OF INDIAN INTEREST 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL CARICATURES BY mezzotint on laid paper by Charles WILLIAMS, CIRCA 1819 after Lambert and Scott and engraved by Townley after George Romney, 1796; G. Vander Gusht for Carrington Bowles together with three other contemporary comprising seven hand-coloured entitled London, 1736, and depicting ‘Tellicherry’; mezzotints: Sir Thomas Pasley Bart by scenes including The Navy Tavern ‘Fort William at Bengall’ and ‘Fort St. Charles Townley after William Beechey ; the wardroom-Newcome and George’, later hand colouring, R.A.; Sir Charles Hardy Knt., Admiral of Capt. Clackit; the quarter before battle each -- 17 x 23in. (43 x 58.5cm.) the White, Commander in Chief of His etc. each --- 5½ x 8½in. (14 x 21.5cm.) Majesty’s Ships in the Channel, & Master (3) (2 framed) of Greenwich Hospital by W. Dickinson Provenance: with Parker Gallery, London after George Romney; Sir Robert Harland £200-400 £1500-2000 Bart by Richard Earlom after Nathaniel Dance, various conditions (4) £150-250

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16 38. 44. ‘THE NAVAL ANNUAL’ LAUGHTON, L. G. CARR. OLD SHIP FIGURE-HEADS & STERNS edited by T. A. Brassey. Portsmouth: 1894, 1900, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, London: Halton & Truscott, 1925. 4to. Half title, mounted coloured 1924, 1936. eight volumes, 4to. plates, charts, diagrams. Original blue frontispiece, mounted coloured plates. Original blue cloth gilt. cloth gilt (first 2 vols. faded and rather worn, rubbed) Provenance: Gerald Langton Clarke (armorial bookplate). Number 316 of 1,500 copies (8) £80-120 £60-80

45. 39. LEONARD, PETER: ‘RECORDS OF A VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN CAMPBELL, GEORGE: ‘LOG LETTERS FROM THE CHALLENGER ‘ COAST OF AFRICA, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP DRYAD, AND OF THE London: Macmillan, 1876. 8vo. Folding lithographed chart printed in SERVICE ON THAT STATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE colours (chart and title spotted and stained, occasional light mainly TRADE IN THE YEARS 1830, 1831, AND 1832’ marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary blue half calf, spine Edinburgh, William Tait, 1833. Small 8vo. 3-page list of vessels gilt with tan morocco lettering-piece (quite heavily rubbed) engaged in the slave trade at end (some spotting and staining, more Provenance: Robert Day (armorial bookplate). pronounced to title and first few leaves). Contemporary calf-backed £50-80 marbled boards (rather worn, upper cover detaching) £100-150

40. ‘COMPLETE LIST OF STEAM SHIPS, STEAM LAUNCHES, AND 46. SAILING SHIPS OF THE NAVY. 1st JANUARY, 1871. ‘ PLIMSOLL, SAMUEL: ‘OUR SEAMEN: AN APPEAL’ [No place: 1871]. Folio. Contemporary blue half calf, spine gilt with London: Virtue & Co.,1873. 4to. Plates, 4 supplied in facsimile, 2 red morocco lettering-piece (rubbed, joints splitting); together publisher’s slips inserted at the front. Original blue cloth (rubbed and with ‘Chart of the Navy of Great Britain from the Earliest Period of stained, corners worn) History’ (letterpress chart folding into original green wallet, circa £70-100 1860); and ‘Classified list of the earlier Steam Vessels of the British Navy compiled from navy lists 1847, 48, 49, 59 and other sources’ (typescript) 4 7. (3) SPRY, W. J. J.: ‘THE CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY’S SHIP CHALLENGER’ £100-150 London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, second edition 1877. 8vo. 12 wood-engraved plates, folding lithographed chart, illustrations. Original green pictorial cloth gilt (lightly rubbed) 41. £50-80 COOK, JAMES. THE JOURNALS edited by John Cawte Beaglehole. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 6 volumes including portfolio of charts and views 8vo and 48. folio. Folding charts, half tone plates, 58 facsimile charts and views THORBECKE, ELLEN: ‘HONG KONG. PHOTOGRAPHED AND edited by R. A. Skelton in separate portfolio. Original blue pictorial DEPICTED BY ELLEN THORBECKE WITH SKETCHES BY SCHIFF’ cloth gilt, dust-jackets, contained in later wooden box. FIRST EDITION Shanghai, Hong Kong & : Kelly & Walsh, [1939]. Small (6) 4to. Half tone and coloured illustrations and decorations. Original coloured pictorial boards (spine and corners rubbed, some erosion to £250-350 foot of spine) £100-150 42. FOLKARD, HENRY COLEMAN: ‘THE SAILING BOAT: A DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN BOATS’ 49. WYVILLE-THOMSON, C: ‘THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. AN ACCOUNT London: Hunt and Son, 1854, second edition, 8vo. Half title, wood- OF THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE DREDGING CRUISES OF engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations. Original blue pictorial H.M.S.S. PORCUPINE AND LIGHTNING DURING THE SUMMERS OF cloth gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: “?Iles Wellington Yacht 1868, 1869, AND 1879’ Club” (old inscription at head of title) London: Macmillan, 1874. second edition, 8vo. Half title, folding charts £100-150 and diagrams, some printed in colours, illustrations (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original blue cloth with upper 43. cover stamped in blind, spine gilt (a few small ink spots, very lightly GRIFFITHS, ANSELM JOHN: ‘OBSERVATIONS ON SOME POINTS OF rubbed). Provenance: “Claud Stracey Clitherow, Feb. 18th 1902” SEAMANSHIP; WITH PRACTICAL HINTS ON NAVAL ŒONOMY’ (signature on front pastedown); newspaper cutting laid down on front free endpaper Cheltenham: J. J. Hadley, 1824. 8vo. 16-page list of subscribers at the end (occasional spotting). Contemporary cloth-backed boards (?later £50-80 spine). Provenance: John Bower (armorial bookplate); Graham Bower (early signature on title); John Manley Hemyss, 1824 (signature on front free endpaper) £70-100

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50. 52. WYVILLE-THOMSON, C: ‘THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER. THE AUSTRALIA: THE FIRST BOTANY BAY FLEET ATLANTIC. A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL RESULTS We left Rio Janeira the 4th August 1787. This reports people falling OF THE EXPLORING VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER DURING THE overboard - The Alexander in distress as the crew had mutinied, YEARS 1873 AND THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1876’ four of the worst secured - sent in irons to the Sirius. On the 12th London, Macmillan, 1877. 2 volumes, 8vo. Folding charts printed in made Table Bay, good supplies of fresh provisions, including colours, plates and illustrations (occasional light mainly marginal livestock, every person now had meat, bread, and one gallon of spotting and staining). Original green pictorial cloth gilt (rubbed, beer a day while in port. The only place proposed to stop before corners bumped). Provenance: “Dr. Braidwood, Birkenhead” reaching Botany Bay, is the Island Of Desolation-so named by (stamps). FIRST EDITION Captain Cook. -- 26cm. of column space, back page, Cols 1-2, in an original and complete issue of The Newcastle Chronicle, dated (2) 7th of June, 1788 £100-200 £300-500

51. 53. LORD ANSON (1697-1762): AN AUTOGRAPH COMMISSION A GOLD ANCHOR PENDANT COMMEMORATING THE GLORIOUS issued to Cmdr John Ballett to command the sloop Otter, dated 1ST OF JUNE 1794 18th January, 1747, printed on vellum with manuscript insertions designed as a pendant and engraved on the stock Earl Howe / and Admiralty Board seals, counter-signed Bedford; Duncannon June 1st 1794 -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high and another obscured -- 11 x 12in. (28 x 30.5cm.) According to Rif Winfield’s Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-92, Ballett £700-900 assumed command of Otter in January 1748, with the Otter ‘cruising in home waters’ under command of William Cust, and William Lloyd during much of 1747. Ballett’s cruise took him to the Carolinas and 54. Bahamas where he died in September 1749. It is presumed the anomaly THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE is a simple clerical one as often happens at year’s turn. A letter was received Yesterday Evening from Admiral Earl Howe... £200-400 giving an Account of his safe Arrival with the Six captured French Ships of the Line... also the returns of killed, and wounded for both British and French fleets, contained in an original stamped copy of The London Gazette EXTRAORDINARY for 11th June, 1794; together with a copy of The London Chronicle for 16-18th July, 1793 with a report of Lord Howe’s departure from St. Helens with a list of ships in his fleet; and a copy of theLondon Chronicle for 16-19 September 1797 reporting an action fought by Sir under Lord Bridport’s orders; and a copy of The Evening Post for March 23 1717 with an account of an attack by Turkish ‘infidels’ being repulsed from Butrinto (4) 53 £200-400

18 55. A 19TH-CENTURY PARIAN MARBLE BUST OF NELSON unmarked, possibly after Joseph Pitts -- 12½in. (32cm.) high Literature: Walker, R: The Nelson Portraits, Royal Naval Museum, 1998, p.154-5. £300-400

56. PATRICK LEWIS FORBES (BRITISH, FL. 1893-1914) A view of the church of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk Watercolour Signed ‘PL Forbes’ (lower right) faintly inscribed on verso ‘Burnham Thorpe the birthplace of Lord Nelson and where his father was Rector’ 10 x 14¼in. (25.5 x 36cm.) £300-500

5 7. NELSON RETURNING TO VIA PRAGUE AFTER THE Nelson arrives at Prague on the 28th of October, spent also the 29th, his birthday. Had audience with the Archduke Charles, saw the curiosities of the city, and continued on the 30th on his journey to London by Dresden with Sir William and Lady Hamilton. In the superb library of the monks called Premonjtralenses, Lord Nelson signed his name with his left hand, his right having been shot off... -- 25cm. column space, page 3, in a complete issue of The Times, dated 30th of October, 1800 £300-500

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Lord Mayor’s Day: When the procession reached the top of 59. Ludgate Hill, the mob took the horses from the carriage of the late NELSON AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE Lord Mayor and also that of Lord Nelson, and drew them amidst repeated huzzas of “Lord Nelson” all the way he passed. Along Lord Nelson of the Nile visited Covent Garden Theatre last Cheapside he was greeted by the ladies from the windows with night with Lady Nelson, Sir William and Lady Hamilton and his their handkerchiefs and the loudest acclamations....” -- 33cm. of Lordship’s father, the Rev. Mr Nelson. Every part of the house column space, Col 3, Pg 2, In an original and complete issue of overflowed at the beginning of the comedy, and when he The Times, dated 11th of November, 1800 appeared, Rule Brittannia was sung by the performers, amid the enthusiastic acclamations of the audience. Lord Nelson, with his £300-500 party, occupied the two boxes next to that on the stage, opposite the King’s side, and the theatre has seldom displayed a greater assemblage of beauty and fashion... -- 11cm. of column space, Col 3, Pg 2, in an original and complete issue of The Times, dated 11th of November, 1800 £300-500

60. BERESFORD, CHARLES: ‘NELSON AND HIS TIMES’ Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1898, full morocco boards with gilt titles (front cover detached); together with some documents pertaining to Admiral Sir James Scott, KCB (a lot) £50-80

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61. 63. 64. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY A GEORGIAN GILT METAL BOX A COMMEMORATIVE BRASS SNUFFBOX, COMMEMORATIVE NELSON REVERSE- COMMEMORATING THE FOUNDATION OF CIRCA 1805 GLASS REPRESENTATIONAL PICTURE THE ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, 1806 the lid with uniformed bust of Nelson, by A Correct Representation of the Funeral the lid inset with a frosted silver cliché Peter Wyon, side with Greek Key design, 1 Barge... striking on the obverse of the “First the base listing battles -- 2 ⁄8in. (5.5cm.) Mathematical Prize Medal”, by Thomas diameter; together with a pair of Regency Published 1st March, 1806 by W.B. Walter, Wyon Jr., the box with scrolled acanthus commemorative brass hat hooks/curtain Fox, Knot Co., London, contained in leaf designs, mother-of-pearl base, with ties, circa 1805, each with a medallic original frame machine turned decoration, the inner lid roundel of Lord Nelson, also by Peter 12¼ x 15¾in. (31 x 40cm.) including frame plain mother-of-pearl (some rubbing to the Wyon, integral attachment screw -- 5¾in. Literature: Le Quesne, L.P. Nelson gilding, and some discolouration below (14.5cm.) long Commemorated in Glass Pictures, Antique the glass. The medal is extremely rare) -- 3 (3) Collectors Club, 2001, p. 48 no. 24. 1¼ x 2 ⁄8in. (3.2 x 6cm.) £200-300 £400-600 £400-600

65. 62. A LATE 18TH-CENTURY ENAMEL AND AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BRASS COMMEMORATIVE NELSON HAT COMMEMORATIVE NELSON REVERSE- HOOK OR TIE BACK GLASS ALLEGORICAL PICTURE with colourful depiction of a man o’ war, Admiral Lord Nelson the Hero of the Nile, inscribed around the edge ADMIRAL of the Battle of Copenhagen, falling into NELSON / VANGUARD 74 GUNS AUGST the Arms of Victory... 1st 1798 -- 2¾in. (7cm.) high Published 20th January 1806 by W.B. £150-250 Walker, Fox & Knot, London, contained in original frame 12¼ x 16¼in. (31 x 41.7cm.) including frame Literature: Le Quesne, L.P. Nelson Commemorated in Glass Pictures, Antique Collectors Club, 2001, p. 75 no. 55. £400-600

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66. 6 7. 68. A REVOLVING LIBRARY BOOKCASE A REVOLVING LIBRARY BOOKCASE AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY PATCH/SNUFF MADE FROM TIMBER RECOVERED FROM MADE FROM TIMBER RECOVERED FROM BOX MADE FROM THE TIMBER OF H.M.S. H.M.S. FOUDROYANT H.M.S. FOUDROYANT VICTORY with two shelves and central pillar support with two shelves and central pillar of circular form, with silver plaque with coasters, the top with copper maker’s support, the top with copper maker’s engraved H.M.S. VICTORY 21st Oct 1805 provenance plate for Goodall Lamb & provenance plate for Goodall Lamb & -- 3½in. (9cm.) diameter Heighway -- 35 x 20½in. (89 x 52cm.) Heighway -- 34 x 20½in. (86.5 x 52cm.) £250-400 £400-600 £400-600

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69. 71. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY COMMEMORATIVE NELSON GOLD MATTHEW BOULTON’S MEDAL FOR TRAFALGAR, 21ST OCTOBER ROLLER SEAL 1805 with stone matrixes depicting Nelson; H.M.S. Victory and one in pewter, engraved in sky Robert Duncan ab / HMS Spartiate, 7 gold hatched blank -- 1in. (2.5cm.) diameter with applied ribbon loop -- 1 ⁄8in. (4.7cm.) diameter £200-400 Impressed into the Service at the resumption of hostilities in May 1803, Duncan served in Spartiate until the ship was paid off in December 1809. £400-600 70. ALEXANDER DAVISON’S MEDAL FOR THE NILE, 1ST AUGUST 1798 72. by C.H. Küchler in copper-gilt, impressed in sky T. WILLIAM / MID H.M.S. PALLAS: A SILVER SNUFF BOX COMMEMORATING THE / H.M.S. MINOTAUR, and with the usual dedication from Davison SAVING OF THE CREW, 18 DECEMBER 1810 7 around edge, later ribbon loop applied to top -- 1 ⁄8in. (4.7cm.) inscribed on the lid A Token of Gratitude from the Officers of H.M. diameter Ship Pallas, to the Duchess of Roxburgh and John Manners Esq. Thomas Williams entered the Navy as a in 1794 and for their united efforts in saving the Lives of the Officers and Crew enjoyed a lively career, attained the rank of Commander in 1815 and of that Ship, which was wrecked near Broxmouth the night of the retired on half pay a year later. He just qualified for the Naval General 18th December 1810, the gilt-lined interior with London hallmarks Service Medal before he died in 1849, and his example had clasps for 1810-11 -- 3in. (7.5cm.) diameter Nile and St. Domingo. Pallas was a 32-gun 5th Rate of 1804, Captained by George Monke. She £400-600 was returning from a cruise off Norway and heading for Leith. With poor visibility and frequent showers, lime burners’ kilns at Dunbar were mistaken for the Bell Rock lighthouse. Altering to the wrong course, she ran hard aground and in a few minutes had shipped twelve feet of water. Cutting the fore and main masts away to landward, the ship’s company scrambled over the wreckage to the shore. The Captain and Pilot were severely reprimanded, and the Master, David Glegg, ordered never to serve in that capacity again. £400-600

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22 THE WRECK OF H.M.S. ASSOCIATION Although the War with over the Spanish succession was still at its height, as the summer of 1707 drew to its close, the bulk of the British Mediterranean Fleet prepared to return to England for the Winter. Sailing orders were issued on 29th September and thirteen warships, including the Flagship Association, set sail from Gibraltar under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir , C. in C. Mediterranean. It had been an eventful year and the fleet, in close co-operation with the Duke of Savoy, had taken an active part in the combined attack on Toulon. Even though the final assault had not been a success, many French ships had been destroyed and the town heavily bombarded. Such action had necessitated refitting and the fleet was more than ready for the security of Spithead. On the voyage northwards the squadron encountered exceptionally severe weather with the result that on 22nd October the Admiral ordered the fleet to heave-to and take soundings. A lengthy conference concluded the position to be in the latitude of Ushant, near the coast of France, but in actual fact the appalling weather had driven them one hundred miles west of this point, and only two hours sailing time south of the . In the mistaken belief that the clear 74 Channel lay ahead of them, the flagship herself led the way into the storm. Daylight faded, the weather worsened; the compact line of the ships slowly dispersed until at about 8.20p.m., without warning the 73 Association struck the Outer Ledge of the Gilstone Reef. Despite the fact that the Admiral’s barge had time to get away, there were no survivors, and the ship broke up and sank within minutes. Three other vessels -- Romney, Eagle and Firebrand -- also foundered in the same vicinity and about two thousand men perished alongside Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Within the last forty years, all four of these wrecks have been located and carefully explored; numerous artifacts, as well as a significant quantity of coins, have been recovered.

73. A PEWTER SPOON RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF SIR 75. CLOWDESLEY SHOVELL’S FLAGSHIP H.M.S. ASSOCIATION (1707) A PART-SET OF NAVAL COPPER RUM MEASURES with panelled stem to fig-shaped bowl impressed with worn for ½ gallon; 1 pint; ½ pint and a gill, two stamped ‘VR’ and two maker’s mark for ‘R I’ -- 7in. (18cm.) long; together with W.H. ‘GR’ Lane catalogue from 1983; and McBride & Larn’s volume Admiral (4) Shovell’s Treasure £150-250 (3) Literature: McBride and Larn: Admiral Shovell’s Treasure, Troutbeck Press 1999, p. 64, this lot illustrated on left.; W.H. Lane & 76. Son, Penzance auction catalogue: Treasure From The Sea, 1st June A 19TH-CENTURY ‘TOMAHAWK’-PATTERN 1983, lot 552. BOARDING AXE £400-600 unmarked, set on oak shaft with number plate stamped ‘2’ -- 25in. (63.5cm.) high overall Literature: Gilkerson, W: Boarders Away I, p.37-8. 74. A PORTUGUESE 4000 REIS GOLD COIN RECOVERED FROM THE £400-600 WRECK OF THE ASSOCIATION for Peter II, and dated ‘1703’, in fine condition -- 10.8gms £300-500

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7 7. H.R.H. KING WILLIAM IV’S PERSONAL SAILING TELESCOPE the tapering mahogany main tube with 2in. objective lens and single draw signed J&W Watkins/Charing Crofs/LONDON and futher inscribed This glafs belonged to/His Majesty William the 4th/when he was at Sea/was given by him/to Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence/who gave it to/Berkeley Paget/1831, the eyepiece with dust-slide (missing lens cap) -- 25¼in. (64cm.) closed Jeremiah and Walter Watkins only worked between 1794 and 1798 from 5 Charing Cross, London, the partnership ending with Walter’s death. Stocking a full range of optical and philosophical instruments of high quality, they were telescope makers by Royal Appointment to the Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke of Clarence, later William IV. The lot offered here bears a striking resemblance to the instrument held by the Duke whilst wearing his full dress naval uniform in the famous portrait painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, circa 1800. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence (1802-1856) was the seventh child (fourth son) of the happy-but-illegitimate family of five sons and five daughters created by the Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and the comic actress Dorothea Jordan at Bushy Park, Middlesex. Adolphus was sent to sea at the age of eleven, receiving his commission in 1821. In December 1826 he was made captain and had several commands before his father’s coronation and thereafter he commanded the Royal Yacht until 1853 when he was promoted to flag rank. He died unmarried on 17th May 1856 at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire. The Hon Berkeley Paget (1780-1842), a politician, was the younger brother of Henry Paget (Marquis of Anglesey); Sir ; General Sir Edward Paget; and Sir Charles Paget, another naval officer who commanded the Royal Yacht prior to William and was given a fine telescope by George IV (please refer to sale 004 lot 109, 21 Oct 2009 in these rooms). It is presumed that Berkeley made the acquaintance of Lord Adolphus through his elder brother although in his own right he was a successful politician serving as MP for Anglesey from 1807 and later Milborne Port in 1820, and was a Lord of the Treasury between 1810-1826. Marrying well, he was well-connected in society and between this and his other illustrious brothers, was no doubt well acquainted with the Royal Family. Provenance: The Hon. Berkeley Paget and thence by descent. £3000-5000

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79. 80. RELIC OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT, BY HENRY BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1875-1876 SLIGHT 1841 a rare blue stoneware beer jug by W. T. Copeland & Sons, with with manuscript dedication on fly dated September 13, 1842, glazed rope-work decoration flanking expedition transfer crest to 1 bound in wood from the wreck -- 3½ x 2 ⁄8in. (9 x 5.5cm.) front, the base inscribed DISCOVERY over maker’s transfer mark (restored hairline crack to front) -- 9½in. (24cm.) high; together £80-120 with a letter from Robert Copeland (consultant at Spode) dated 1993 (2) For this expedition, led by Sir George Strong Nares, Copeland produced special services for both H.M. Ships Alert and Discovery, sent by the Admiralty in an attempt to reach the North Pole by way of Smith Sound, culminating in Commander Albert Hastings Markham’s Farthest North of 83° 20’26”N (May 12, 1876), a record latitude at the time. £1000-1500

81. A FINELY DETAILED 2”:1’ SCALE STEEL, BRASS AND WOOD MODEL OF AN 1890-PATTERN 3PDR HOTCHKISS QUICK-FIRING NAVAL GUN swivel-mounted on a grey-painted plinth, and contained (when dismantled) in a pine carry box with plaque inscribed 1895 Hotchkiss 3PDR scale 2=1FT, Made in 1929, the assembled model -- 11½ x 20in. (29 x 51cm.); the box -- 24in. (61cm.) diameter. Deactivated This gun was a light 47mm. naval gun introduced in 1886 to defend against new small fast vessels such as torpedo boats, and later . It was also used ashore as a coast defence gun and later occasionally as an anti-aircraft gun. A surviving example exists in Hong Kong where it has long been deployed as a noon day gun. At full capacity it was capable of firing thirty rounds a minute. £1000-1500

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26 82. THE LAUNCHING CASKET FOR H.M.S. ALERT, 1894 constructed in walnut with carved feet and lockplate, the inner lid with pencil and wash profile picture ofAlert inscribed H.M.S. “Alert” / Launched at Sheerness December 28th 1894 / By Mrs Fellowes and separately John Fellowes. R.N. C.B. Captain Superintendent / H.H. Ash Esqr. Chief Constructor, plush-lined interior with fitted supports for mallet and chisel -- 7½ x 15 x 11in. (19 x 38 x 28cm.) Alert and her sister Torch were amongst the last masted cruisers built for the late Victorian navy. Steel-framed and with attractive clipper bows, they were originally schooner-rigged but later had their yards removed, although they retained three masts. Displacing 960 tons, they measured 180ft with a 32½ft beam and drew 11½ft of water and had a complement of 106 men. They were the first to be fitted with modern vertical engines driving a single shaft capable of 13.25 knots. Their ten quick-firing guns were supplemented with two Maxim .45in. machine guns. Torch was sold for breaking in 1920 with Alert following six years later. £800-1000

83. J. FOSTER STACKHOUSE (BRITISH NAVAL SCHOOL, 19TH-CENTURY) H.M.S. ‘Royal Sovereign’ underway 82 Grey wash and pencil Signed and dated ‘J. Foster Stackhouse/’92’ (lower left) with sketches in margin 84. 9¾ x 10¾in. (24.5 x 27.5cm.) A 19TH-CENTURY SILVER BOATSWAIN’S PIPE Launched in 1891, the distinctive side-by-side funnels make Royal the keel decorated with the profile of a muzzle-loading gun and Sovereign instantly recognisable. The very acme of Victorian shot by a gun port and a trophy-of-arms, the pipe with foliate design, she appears in many photographs of the 1897 Spithead Review decoration and the barrel marked with a crown and anchor dressed overall. She never saw active service, being broken up on the and ducal coronet initialled ?”F.M.H.”, marked for George Unite, eve of War in 1913. Birmingham, 1876 -- 4¾in. (12cm.) £80-120 £400-600

85. REVERSIBLE SILVER COMMEMORATIVE BROOCH FOR H.M.S. VENERABLE (1899) with profile depiction of the vessel, the reverse with naval crown and banner title, marked for W.M. & Co Birmingham 1910 -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) diameter £80-120

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86. 8 7. H.M.S. TRAFALGAR: A SET OF THREE MIDSHIPMAN’S LOGS A 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN’S LOG BOOK kept by P. Worgan between 1859-64 and well illustrated with kept by Harold C.S. Rawson (born 1860) between April 15th 1897 maps, technical plans, deck layouts, occasional photographs and and September 1898 for service aboard H.M. Ships Narcissus, prints where appropriate, watercolours etc. From March 1864 Centurion and Raleigh, written in a clear, small hand and with service is recorded aboard the Victory (for two weeks) and then occasional pasted watercolours, maps, technical diagrams and Excellent; R.N. College, Heathfield House, Kew; and finally a photographs, annotated on fly ‘22 Plates 4 Photographs’, bound cruise aboard Wolverine with a ‘cruise up the Blue Mountains’, the in red morocco with gilt titles, in later slip case (front cover joint last entry being the bell for supper, bound between quarter calf weak) -- 12½ x 8¼in. (32 x 21cm.) cloth boards with gilt titles; together with the signal log of H.M.S. £300-500 Trafalgar apparently kept by Worgan, undated but presumed contemporaneous (4) 88. A RARE FIRST WORLD WAR PERIOD MIDSHIPMAN’S LOG £800-1200 kept by Hughes Hallett aboard H.M.S. Vengeance between 19th December 1914 - 10 April 1915, written in a clear legible hand and including many pasted charts and technical diagrams in watercolour, including several naval operations, bound with card covers with H.M.S.O. label to front -- 12½ x 8in. (32 x 20cm.) £200-400

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89. 90. A 19TH-CENTURY DECORATIVE PANEL THOUGHT TO BE FROM A PAIR OF DINNER PLATES FROM THE ROYAL YACHT VICTORIA & THE ROYAL YACHT VICTORIA & ALBERT II ALBERT II in the form of a transom board, and painted with an 18th-century each with gilded blue borders, bearing central crest inscribed HER Fête Galante scene -- 18 x 45¼in. (45.7 x 115cm.) MAJESTY’S YACHT, the reverse impressed and stamped with the maker’s marks for W.T. Copeland & Sons, Stoke on Trent -- 10¼in. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 1st March, 1984, lot 410: This lot formed (26cm.) diameter; together with a double capstan treen inkwell part IV of a group of XV items sold by the family of Mr Lawrence made from timber recovered from the Royal Yacht Osborne Wrighton, Valet to His Late Majesty King Edward VII, and which were stated to be personal mementoes. (3) £800-1000 £500-800

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29 91 92 92 91. 93. A 16IN. TOMPION PLATE FROM THE BATTLESHIP W.L. WYLLIE 1851-1931 H.M.S. KING GEORGE V (1910) A battleship firing a broadside at the Battle of Jutland with cast in brass with a ‘milled’ edge -- 16in. (40.5cm.) diameter torpedo boats in attendance Built at Portsmouth, displacing 23,000 tons and manned by a Signed “W.L. Wyllie” lower left complement of 900 men, King George V was the name ship of a class of four, her sisters being Centurion, Audacious and Ajax. As part of the 8 ½ x 11in. (21.5 x 28cm.) (plate) Royal Navy’s visiting squadron to Kiel in June 1914, she was inspected Framed and glazed by the Kaiser and held several receptions. Two years later at Jutland, she was the Flagship of the 2nd Battle Squadron. She was decommissioned £200-400 in 1919, used as a training ship between 1923-26 and scrapped early under the terms of the 1922 Treaty of Washington in 1926. 94. £400-600 A PRESENTATION PLATED COPPER PICTURE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMOURED CRUISER RURIK (1908) 92. depicted in three-quarter profile within an ebonised frame -- A QUANTITY OF ROYAL NAVAL SHIPS’ BADGES FOR H.M. SHIPS 20 x 30in. (51 x 76cm.) including frame SIRIUS, CONCORD, CHEVRON AND GLORY The Russian armoured cruiser Rurik was ordered in 1905 to replace cast in brass, Sirius mounted on a wooden plaque for wall the heavy losses incurred in the recent war with Japan. Launched in hanging, the largest -- 7 ½in. (19cm.) diameter 1906, she was the last major warship to be constructed abroad. Built by Vickers, she displaced 15,433 tonnes (15,190 tons) and carried 20-4.7in, (4) 8-8in and 4-10in. guns. Her magazines were fitted with rapid flooding £150-250 equipment and drenching sprays - a feature unique to the Russian navy. Rurik was broken up in 1923. £300-500

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30 95. A REGULATION ROYAL NAVY OFFICER’S SWORD AND RELATED EPHEMERA FORMERLY OWNED BY VICE-ADMIRAL R.A. EWING, C.B., D.S.C. with 31in. etched steel blade signed Gieves, wire-bound fishskin grip with lion’s head pommel, inscribed on the thumb piece R.A. Ewing , contained in regulation scabbard -- 37in. (94cm.) long overall; together with R.N. uniform coat, dress coat and cloak; and a large quantity of paper ephemera comprising photographs and letters; civilian tails, top hat and pumps (a lot) Vice Admiral Sir Robert Alistair Ewing (1909-1997) was in command of 1939-45; NATO Standing Group Staff, 1950-51; Imperial Defence Coll., 1952; in command of HMS Vanguard, 1953-54; Director of Naval Staff College., Greenwich, 1954-56; Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty, 1956-58; Flag Officer Flotillas (Mediterranean), 1958-60; Admiral Commanding Reserves and Inspector of Recruiting, 1960-62; retired list, 1962. £300-500 95 9 7. A 19TH-CENTURY CHILD’S SAILOR SUIT 96. AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY CHILD’S R.N. UNIFORM COAT comprising a heavy cotton suit, the top with stitched blue scarf, an embroidered woollen vest and a blue silk neckerchief tailored in blue serge with regulation-type buttons, fouled anchor embroidered on left arm, sleeves with insignia for , blue (4) scarf, buttoned-over lapels, now contained in a glazed picture case Provenance: Purportedly made for Stanley Coote, son of Admiral -- overall dimensions 21 x 19½in. (53.5 x 49.5cm.) Robert Coote, circa 1880s. £100-150 £100-150

98. H.M.S. HOOD: A COMMEMORATIVE TIEPIN AND MATCHBOX COVER the tiepin with gold plated bar and enamel crest; the matchbox cover with machine decoration and enamel crest -- 2½in. (6.5cm.) (2) £100-150

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31 Sailor Art & Collectables 100. A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER- OF-WAR BONE ALLEGORICAL CALVARY ALTAR SCENE the crucifix decorated with French and Christian symbols including a cockerel, chalice, stone mason’s tools, lantern, spear, sponge on stick, ladder, monstrance, pricket candles and others, the cross flanked by carved depictions of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen, finished in polychrome and mounted in a glazed strawwork-lined wooden case -- 10 x 7¾in. (25.5 x 19.5cm.) £2000-4000

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101. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR CARVED BONE DOUBLE GAMES BOX with pierced and decorated sliding lids, containing two sets of bone dominoes and dice -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) wide £500-800

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103 103. 104. 105. A VERY RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF- BONE AND WOOD MODEL GUILLOTINE FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR WAR BONE AND WOOD ARCHITECTURAL STRAWWORK PICTURE with bound and shackled victim lashed to MODEL OF A HOUSE a table, with detachable head mechanism depicting a group of houses with trees in a with finely carved pediment, balustrade, corresponding with blade, supported on strawwork border -- frame 6 x 10in. rails etc, glazed windows and painted a strawwork base with glass dome cover (15 x 25.5.cm.) panelled back, mounted on a wooden -- 10 x 11in. (25.5 x 28cm.) £80-120 board with chequerboard paper lining and £500-800 contained within an early 19th-Century mahogany glazed display case. The model 8 x 8 x 6¼in. (20 x 20 x 16cm.); the case 12 x 12 x 10in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 25.5cm.) £2500-4000

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106. 1 0 7. A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR-DECORATED SCRIMSHAW-WORK A 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE’S TOOTH WHALE’S TOOTH incised on one side with profile of a sperm whale -- 6½in. incised over both sides and depicting a whaler with crew (16.5cm.) long, 340gms. successfully harpooning a whale, the reverse depicting a £250-400 lighthouse -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) long. 500gms. £700-900 108. A NARWHAL TUSK possibly 19th-century, missing upper section -- 66in. (168cm.) long £800-1200

109. A 19TH-CENTURY MARINE IVORY WHISTLE of two-part bulbous form, the mouthpiece with inset ebony section, threaded in the middle with indistinct scrimshaw design and mother-of-pearl disc on end -- 3in. (7.5cm.) long £150-200

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110 . 114 . A FINE 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY A 19TH-CENTURY FINELY-CARVED WHALEBONE AND MARINE WALKING STICK IVORY WALKING STICK with steel-tipped plain tapering whalebone shaft to finely realised with twist-barley shaft, fluted and patterned at top, terminating in marine ivory handle depicting a hand with mother-of-pearl an ivory knot -- 36½in. (92.8cm.) overall buttoned cuff and cut-steel band grasping a serpent with forked £700-900 tongue and inlaid jet eyes -- 35in. (89cm.) high £1500-2000 115 . A 19TH-CENTURY OAK AND COPPER WALKING STICK FROM 111. TIMBER RECOVERED FROM H.M.S. FOUDROYANT A 19TH-CENTURY WELL CARVED WHALEBONE AND MARINE with plain tapering ebonised shaft and pressed copper handle, IVORY WALKING STICK with inscriptions pertaining to provenance impressed around side the bone shaft with contrasting twist-barley design, terminating -- 36in. (91.5cm.) with a marine ivory knot handle with jet inlay -- 34¼in. (87cm.) £200-300 high £1200-1800 116 . A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND ROSEWOOD WALKING 112 . STICK A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY WALKING with plain tapering shaft, horn inserts and rosewood handle -- STICK 33in. (84cm.) with plain tapering shaft terminating with a carved fist clenching a £200-400 working whistle -- 32in. (81cm.) £400-600

113 . A 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-CAPPED SHARK VERTEBRÆ WALKING STICK of substantial form, the top inscribed Capt. A. Jones 1863 with a profile outline of a ship engraved around the cuff -- 36in. (91.5cm.) overall £300-400

110 (detail)

35 118 117

11 7. 119 . A 19TH-CENTURY BURR WALNUT WORK BOX A 19TH-CENTURY CARVED WOODEN DITTY BOX the lid depicting an early merchant sail/steam ship in full sail, with the side panels worked with shipping approaching a fortified smoking funnel and red ensign, the side panels with geometric headland, a trophy-of-arms and dedicated to Hannah Stevens AD design, interior with compartmented tray and pin cushion -- 1833, with red painted sliding top -- 4 x 12 x 6 ½in. 5½ x 13 x 9½in. (14 x 33 x 24cm.); together with a smaller (10 x 31 x 17cm.) marquetry money box, the front panel with marquetry picture of £400-600 the light ship Nore -- 7 x 3½ x 4in. (18 x 9 x 10cm.) (2) 120. £500-800 A COCO DE MER the front now hinged to serve as a container -- 12in. (30.5cm.) 118 . £400-600 A RARE ‘SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS’ SOCIETY’ WOOD AND METAL COLLECTING BOX substantially constructed in teak with heavy brass banding, the top stamped Number 2103, with hinged locked access panel underneath and printed pictorial dedications on front and back board for the society – 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20cm.) £100-150

119 120

36 121 121 (detail) 122

121. 123. AN ATTRACTIVE 19TH-CENTURY WALRUS IVORY KNIFE AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY POWDER HORN the 4in. steel blade with indistinct maker’s marks, carved fluted with wooden seal with turned filling stopper, and sprung brass handle terminating with foliage and a finely detailed lion, the pouring nozzle -- 13½in. (34cm.) diameter sheath fluted to match and incised with scratched date “1883” -- £300-500 9½in. (24cm.) overall £700-900

122. A RECONSTRUCTED ELEPHANT BIRD EGG (AEPYORNIS MAXIMUS) of composite reconstruction, comprising parts from two or more examples -- 14in. (35.5cm.) high The elephant birds were giant rarities native to Madagascar. Thought to be extinct for about 1,000 years, it was the world’s largest bird, believed to have been up to 3m tall and weighing close to half a ton The egg volume is approximately 160 times greater than a chicken, their thickness proving durable to the climate, fragments are littered over desert areas of the island. £500-800

123

37 124 124 (detail)

124. A RARE EMIGRANT’S JOURNAL, WRITTEN ON PASSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND, 1863/4 kept by John Griffith and written in a bold, florid hand in a chatty and informative prose on eighty sides of folded laid paper watermarked for Harris & Tremlett 1843-4, commencing London/ Sunday 20th December 1863 aboard the Indian Empire: and comprising a witty and articulate account of life on board a square-rigged emigrant ship: “having little to do, I sit down to write an item in this book. I.. found my bunk in a small house on deck... fitted up to accommodate 14 adults..”, descriptions of his fellow passengers, accommodation, rations and activities, the last entry made for Wednesday, Feb 10th 1864 at ‘Lat 39½ S, Long 14½ W’, the pages stitched together with tarred twine and covered with jute sacking -- 9¼ x 6in. (23.5 x 15cm.); together with a typed transcript, notes on the Indian Empire, contained in a fitted cardboard box John Griffith was 20 years old when he boarded the 1,351 tonIndian Empire and makes an engaging companion for the two month span of this journal. During the voyage the ship was stricken with fever and Griffith records several deaths, including the head cook and a fellow passenger. Shortly after celebrating his 21st birthday, the manuscript stops as he himself had succumbed and died, being buried at sea. On arrival in New Zealand, the ship was quarantined and it seems the Captain took it on himself to see his possessions, including this rare journal, were returned to his family in Bangor, North Wales. This voyage is recorded in Sir Henry Brett’s study of 19th Century sail White Wing, Brett Publishing, Auckland, New Zealand, 1924. (2 Vols) £500-800

125. DOVER PILOT CUTTER SIGNALS, CIRCA 1834 an interesting set of watercolour and manuscript signals with pictorial top entitled DOVOR PILOT CUTTER’S SIGNALS. Signed W.G. Fecit 1834 (lower right) -- 6 x 4in. (15 x 10cm.) £250-350

125

38 126 127

126. 128. A 19TH-CENTURY MECHANICAL ROLL-TOP WRITING SLOPE A 19TH-CENTURY CREAMWARE JUG COMMEMORATING H.M.S. VICTORY the front draw with reciprocating action to roll-top cover, with raised internal compartments supported on wooden springs and with three transfer designs of similar type showing Victory under folding writing slope with marquetry inlay designs for a sperm way, the trophy-of-arms and sails underneath -- 9in. (23cm.) high whale and whaler in coloured woods, with brass binding to top £200-400 edge -- 8¾ x 18in. (22.2 x 46cm.) closed £500-800 129. A LATE 19TH-CENTURY TRANSFER PRINT LUSTREWARE CUP 1 2 7. AND SAUCER COMMEMORATING THE CLIPPER FLYING CLOUD A PAPIER MÂCHÉ SNUFF BOX COMMEMORATING SPERM of typical form with strong image to front of cup -- 7¾in. (19.5cm.) WHALING diameter the lid with finely realised painting of a New Bedford whaler and £100-150 whale boats harpooning whales, the front inscribed Brunswick Sperm Whaling 1841 -- 3in. (7.5cm.) diameter £200-400 130. A 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SHELL-MOUNTED TERRACOTTA BUST OF A FISHERMAN BY P.A. GRAILLON depicted leaning out of a shell and holding a pipe (later), supported on a wooden frame (later) -- shell height 6in. (15cm.) £100-150

131-132. NO LOTS

128 129 130

39 133. A LAUNCHING MALLET FOR THE S.S. ETHEL GWENDOLINE, 1883 carved with roses and foliage, the mallet with silver cuff engraved S.S. Ethel Gwendoline / Built By The Usk Shipbuilding Co. Ltd / 16 Novr. 1883, contained in fitted plush-lined box with plaque engraved Presented to Miss Ethel Gwendoline Oliver Nov 16th 1883 -- 11½in. (29cm.) diameter A cargo ship of 244 tons, the Ethel Gwendoline foundered off Rattray Head 21 March 1890. £300-400

133

134. A LARGE-SIZED MID 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-WORKED NAUTILUS SHELL BY C.A. WOOD incised overall with designs and captions including the Great Britain; Great Western, Royal and American patriotic arms and devices, dedicated to Queen Victoria and signed ‘C.A. Wood’ (professional restoration) -- 7in. (18cm.) high £500-800 134

135. AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY ‘WHIRLIGIG’ carved in wood and depicting an Honest Jack Tar Sailor holding hand signals, mounted on a wooden block with an iron pin -- height including raised arm 35¼in. (89.5cm.) £200-300

136. A MODEL OF H.M.S. HASTINGS’ FIGUREHEAD cast in white metal and depicting the Marquess of Hastings, mounted on an ebonised plinth with brass plaques celebrating the centenary of Kellock & Co. -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high Produced by the Liverpool Ship Brokers Kellock & Co. to celebrate their centenary in 1920. £150-200

135 136

40 137 138

1 3 7. 138. 140. A MID 19TH-CENTURY FOUNDER’S A 19TH-CENTURY MODEL OF A MUZZLE- A TWIN CLOCK AND ANEROID WOODEN SIGNAL GUN TEMPLATE LOADING CANNON BAROMETER DESK SET BY WESTBURY, MODEL U.S.A. with 11½in. brass barrel, mounted on a turned from teak and comprising a 23in. stepped wooden truck on slides, with with brushed-steel dials signed Westbury, four-stage barrel, cascabel and trunnions, brass tracks and wooden wheels (old wear the clock with eight-day going barrel solid muzzle with central arbor -- 26¾in. and restoration) -- 16½in. (42cm.) long movement and “Ship’s Watch” strike train, (68cm.) overall overall ship’s wheel rims, mounted on a bronzed base with thermometer set between -- Traditional gun casting methods used unique £400-600 positive (or ‘male’) templates which were 8 x 12½in. (20 x 32cm.) destroyed as part of the process. This later £500-800 template was probably used to create the 139. more modern boxed or split mould, so that THE SHIP’S BELL FOR THE TANKER after forming the hollow mould, this was split, WORLD JURY 1954 141. being contained in two heavy iron boxes, to A PAIR OF REGENCY CUT GLASS SHIP’S of typical form, incised WORLD JURY release the model or pattern for reuse. This DECANTERS saved time and money, since the model could SEPT. 30., 1954, complete with clapper -- be used repeatedly, and allowed identical 13in. (33cm.) high each with facet-cut ground mushroom sets to be produced. The central cone, which Built by the Japanese Yard Mitsubishi at stopper and base and plain tapering body would have been created with this model, Nagasaki, World Jury was launched on 30th -- 8½in. (21.5cm.) high gives a founder a starting point to bore the September 1954, completed 26th February barrel. £150-200 1955 and wrecked at Ras Abu ar Rasas, £400-600 Masirah Island 24th August, 1961 on passage between Durban-Banda in ballast. £200-400

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41 142 (detail)

142

142. AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING 1:16 SCALE WORKING DEMONSTRATION MODEL OF THE TUNNELLING SHIELD USED TO EXCAVATE THE ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL AND INSPECTED BY THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT THE OPENING ON 12 JUNE, 1908 constructed in aluminium and brass with hydraulic plate-delivery piston arms supported in front of excavation platforms with removable guards, loosely supported on an ebonised wooden base with plate inscribed MODEL OF THE TUNNELLING SHIELD / 30 FEET 8 INCHES IN DIAMETER / USED IN DRIVING THE / ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL / UNDER THE . / PRESENTED BY / J. HENRY PRICE / ASSOC. M. INST. C.E. -- 24½ x 23in. (62.3 x 58.8cm.) Designed by Maurice Fitzmaurice (Engineer to the London County Council and built by contractors Price & Reeves between 1904 and 1908 at a cost of about £1 million (and eighteen months ahead of schedule), the tunnel was built to alleviate congestion which had not been dealt with by the opening of the tunnel at Dartford. Excavated partly using a tunnelling shield and partly through cut-and-cover methods, it was the largest of its kind then built and the first to require a shield to turn a corner -- the entrance arches of the tunnel are in fact the cutting edges of the original tunnelling shield, forming in effect a loading gauge. Consisting of a single bore 4,860 feet 48 feet below the high-water level of the Thames, with a maximum depth of 75 feet below the surface, the Rotherhithe Tunnel was designed towards the end of the horse-drawn era and so has characteristics the modern motorist finds perplexing, if not dangerous: It has a shallow gradient to cater for non-mechanised traffic which, prior to the London Barrier, was prone to flooding; the route includes nearly right-angled bends at the points where the tunnel goes under the river bed preventing horses from seeing daylight at the end of the tunnel too early which might make them bolt for the exit; and it now caters for 34,000 vehicles a day, vastly exceeding the designed quota of 2,600, creating one of London’s worst bottlenecks. However, notwithstanding these modern gripes, the opening in 1908 was, according to The Times, a rather glittering affair: The Prince and Princess left Marlborough House at a quarter to 3 in an open landau, which was drawn by four horses, with postilions and outriders. Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by an escort of Household Cavalry... [they] proceeded.. by way of the Mall, Westminster-bridge, St. George’s-road, New Kent-road, Tower-bridge-road, Spa-road, Jamaica-road, and Union-road. Large crowds assembled in the streets, which were gay with bunting and mottoes of welcome; and their Royal Highnesses given a most enthusiastic reception. After the formalities had been observed, they proceeded through the tunnel and a reception in a special pavilion: Inside the room was a model of the shield used in the construction of the tunnel, the working of which the chief engineer explained to the Prince and Princess... Returning via Stepney, the Royal procession enjoyed a similar turnout to that seen on arrival. £1000-1500 143. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS: ‘PANORAMA OF LONDON AND THE RIVER THAMES’ [LONDON,1845] Very large folding wood-engraved “bird’s eye” panorama by Smyth on 2 strips, joined, mounted on linen, total dimensions 303 x 2,395mm. (some light staining), folding into original red cloth wallet (lightly rubbed and stained), with folding “key” plate mounted on front pastedown. The panorama extends from Vauxhall Bridge to Greenwich £350-450

144. NO LOT

143 (detail showing Somerset House and a Livery Pageant)

42 Liner

Detail from Lot 145, Lusitania photographed by Captain W.T. Turner from the foremast rigging

43 145

145. A REMARKABLE PRIVATE ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY CAPTAIN W.T. TURNER, INCLUDING VIEWS TAKEN ABOARD THE CUNARDERS MAURETANIA AND LUSITANIA apparently dating between 1904 and 1910 and comprising approximately four-hundred private views taken by and of Turner, most pasted along top edge and annotated with characters and locations in pencil to reverse, around half taken aboard various commands, mostly Mauretania, but with several hitherto unseen views from Lusitania. Also interesting scenes taken opportunistically, including several views of the wreck of the U.S.S. Maine; several dockyard views of luggage being loaded; the boat train dining car; Turner posing with various passengers or relations, often wearing his hat or tunic, or of Turner taking a sight with his sextant. Also a contemporary promotional brochure for Mauretania and some views of Lusitania taken from Mauretania, bound between soft leather covers embossed CAPT. W.T. TURNER / R.M.S. MAURETANIA -- 10 x 14½in. (25.5 x 37cm.) £3000-4000

145: Captain Turner taking a 145 145: Captain Turner and group sight on ‘Carpathia’ 44 145: ‘Lusitania’ departing from Liverpool for New York, photographed from ‘Mauretania’

Not intended to be of interest to any but himself and family, this album captures a rare view of the private side of a liner captain from the ‘Golden Age’ Frequently ragging around, Turner is often shot with a pretty girl, who is wearing his hat, or lying in a hammock. He was clearly a happy man and his sense of humour is much in evidence. One of the more striking shots is a view of Turner climbing the rigging of the main mast of Lusitania and holding his camera, the next view is the shot of the funnels and deck taken from that location. These rare views are unknown and unpublished, providing a wealth of interesting material about Cunard’s most tragic Captain. Made the scapegoat for the tragedy that overwhelmed the liner on 7th May 1915 when the German submarine U-20 torpedoed Lusitania - despite precautions, and a universal belief that the great liner’s speed and size would save her, she sank in under 20 minutes with the loss of 1,200. Although Turner survived, his hitherto successful career was over and the authorities, perhaps hiding their own shortcomings in not providing a naval escort, roundly blamed him.

145: View of the bow, probably ‘Mauretania’

145: Playing deck quoits on board ‘Lusitania’ 145: Captain Turner in the foremast rigging of ‘Lusitania’ photographing the image on section divide 45 146. R.M.S. MAURETANIA (1906): TWO SETS OF SIMILAR STATEROOM DRAWERS the four drawers with ball catch securing, cast handles, top recess with decorative moulding, and brass plates inscribed R.M.S. Mauretania, shaped backs (three handles replaced, backs with later planking, old wear and losses), each -- 40 x 17 x 25in. (101.5 x 43 x 63.5cm.) (2) £200-400

146

1 4 7. A TRAVEL AGENT’S MAP FOR NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, CIRCA 1910 coloured lithograph with the company’s routes depicted in red with profiles from their fleet, agent’s label forW. Lippmann, Köln [Cologne], Dom Kloster 1 -- 31 x 40.5in. (79 x 103cm.). Framed and glazed (later) £100-150

147

148. A COLLECTION OF LINER POSTCARDS approximately four hundred postcards dating between approximately 1900 and 1950 for assorted lines, mostly unsent and including Cunarders such as Lusitania, Queen Mary etc., some inscribed on reverse with additional details where not printed (qty) £300-500 148

46 150

149

152 151 154 (part)

149. 152. 154. AN EARLY ORIENTAL-PATTERN P&O IRON­ A RARE OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION TWO CRÊPE PRINTED SERVIETTES STONE CHINA DINING PLATE, CIRCA 1840 COMPANY ASPARAGUS DISH COMMEMORATING THE TITANIC the reverse impressed with maker’s with OSNC monogram to centre, green leaf printed by S. Burgess, 8 York Place, mark probably for John Ridgway & Co., pattern under gilt Greek key pattern rim, Strand, with depiction of ship and details numbered ‘5093’ and transfers inscribed the reverse with maker’s marks for Bisto of her voyage within a black border, with ‘PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. COMPANY’ England and agent marks for Stonier & additional garland of violets executed in -- 9¾in. (25cm.) diameter Co Liverpool, further inscribed White Star watercolour, together with another similar, Line Rd No 58922 -- 9in. (23cm.) diameter; each approximately 14in. square Literature: Laister, P: A Guide to British together with a small asparagus fork Shipping Company China of the 19th & 20th (2) marked for the White Star Line Centuries, Wyndeham Grange, 2006, Vol 2, £200-300 p.173. (2) £200-300 £300-500 155. R.M.S. CARPATHIA / TITANIC: A 150. 153. COMMEMORATIVE GOLD ANCHOR A FIRST CLASS CELTIC-PATTERN SIDE R.M.S. TITANIC: A COPY OF THE NEW YORK in 18k gold, inscribed on the shank R.M.S. PLATE FOR THE WHITE STAR LINE TRIBUNE, 9TH APRIL 1912 CARPATHIA / APR.15 1912, contained in monogrammed WSL on the rim, with advertising the sailing schedules for Titanic, original fitted plush-lined case with maker’s turquoise colouring, the back with maker’s Olympic and Carpathia, and also Lusitania marks for ‘Jay’s, London’ -- 1½in. (4cm.); mark for Stonier & Co Ltd Liverpool -- 9in. and Mauretania amongst others, in a 16.7g. complete broadsheet copy (23cm.) diameter Inscribed with the date of the Titanic’s £400-600 £100-150 foundering, it is at present unknown why and for whom this souvenir was commissioned. At least one other example is known suggesting a 151. small run was issued. A THIRD CLASS BLUE AND WHITE £800-1000 ASPARAGUS DISH FOR THE WHITE STAR LINE of rectangular form, the reverse with indistinct maker’s marks and agent’s transfer for Stonier & Co Liverpool -- 9¼in. (23.5cm.) £400-600

155

47 156. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA PERTAINING TO SOME OF HER INTERNAL DESIGN comprising a notebook kept by H. Benerdello between 1937-40, listing various refitting jobs with some costings, date stamps etc., accompanied by nine autograph sheets with coloured sketches for various fittings, handles, fire grates etc., contained in card folder inscribed Queen Mary restoration estimate outstanding, Orders to be placed; together with an 8 x 12in. silver gelatin print of Queen Mary adhered to an album sheet and a large chromolithographic poster signed C.C. Evers advertising Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary £200-400

156

1 5 7. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: A COMMEMORATIVE PROPELLER-FORM INKWELL PRODUCED BY THE MANUFACTURERS CIRCA 1935 the hub with cut crystal reserve, inscribed on the underside QUEEN MARY casting weight 53 tons finished [weight] 35 tons J. Stone Ltd, with additional marks for H.H. Plante 12 Bury Street, St. James’s SW -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter £400-600

157 (pen not included)

158. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: A SET OF SIX PLAIN PINE PATTERN PLATE COVERS BY ELKINGTON PLATE each stamped on the underside with marks for Cunard, Elkington 158 Plate and the date letter for 1955, each 5¾in. (14.5cm.) diameter (6) £100-200

159. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: A SOUVENIR TABLE LIGHTER FOR 1936 modelled in electroplate with removable middle funnel presenting a permanent match, mounted on an ebonised plinth with side- mounted strike boards and design registration number for 1936 -- 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter £300-500 159

48 163 162 161 164 160

160. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: SIX WAVE-PATTERN CHAMPAGNE GLASSES, CIRCA 1936 by Stuart Crystal -- 4in. (10cm.) high (6) £300-400

161. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: SIX WAVE-PATTERN TUMBLERS, CIRCA 1936 by Stuart Crystal -- 4in. (10cm.) high (6) £300-400

162. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: SIX WAVE-PATTERN WINE GLASSES, CIRCA 1936 by Stuart Crystal -- 5in. (13cm.) high (6) £200-300

165 163. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: SIX WAVE-PATTERN SHERRY GLASSES, CIRCA 1936 by Stuart Crystal -- 4in. (10cm.) high 165. (6) A GOLD SOVEREIGN RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE £200-300 P & O LINER minted 1915 (George V), and contained in plush-lined box with certificate dated 30th June 1932 -- 8.1g 164. R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: SIX WAVE-PATTERN APERITIF GLASSES, One of five sisters built by P&O for the Indian and Australian service CIRCA 1936 (the others being India, China, Arabia and Persia) they were the largest additions yet made when completed in 1897. Surviving the Great War by Stuart Crystal -- 3in. (7.6cm.) high (unlike Persia, India and Arabia who were all torpedoed) she was (6) unfortunate in colliding in fog with the French ship Seine off Ushant. She sank 20th May, 1922, in 20 minutes with the loss of eighty-six souls £200-300 and bullion then valued at £1,054,000 (about £22 million today). By 1935 most of this had been salvaged by the Italian salvage vessel Artiglio. £250-400

49 166 (detail)

166 (part) view of table in situ 166

1 6 7. A LARGE QUANTITY OF OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEWART BALE FOR THE S.S. MONARCH OF ; EMPRESS OF BRITAIN; EMPRESS OF JAPAN AND THE RANGITIKI, CIRCA 1929-31 166. comprising approximately one hundred and seventy 9 x 11in. R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH: A WALNUT VENEER SIDE TABLE FROM silver gelatin prints of the exteriors and interiors, each with studio THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM, CIRCA 1938 stamps and some with additional annotation; together with of drum form, with cut-away side panels and ebonised base, a small quantity of ephemera regarding the launch and some stencilled on the underside QUEEN ELIZABETH 1ST CL SMOKE technical data for interior systems for the Monarch of Bermuda RM -- 18½ x 21½in. (47 x 54.5cm.); together with ten original (a lot) photo-postcards of Queen Elizabeth’s interior accommodation £500-800 including the smoking room (2) 168-169. £1200-1800 NO LOTS

‘Monarch of Bermuda’ ‘Rangitiki’: First Class promonade deck

50 Instruments

Detail from Lot 178

51 170

170. [GEORGE ADAMS, LONDON]: ‘A CORRECT GLOBE WITH NEW DISCOVERIES’ [circa 1785] a 2¾-inch diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the meridian at 15°W graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with trade wind arrows, a wind rose with fleur-de-lys in the southern Indian Ocean, and Cook’s Track 1760, the continents delicately shaded and coloured in outline in red, green and yellow band showing towns, river and mountains and forests in pictorial relief, Australia labelled as NEW HOLLAND and with Tasmania as a promontory, North America with no northern coastline, western labelled Parts Unknown. Contained in the original spherical wooden fishskin-covered case, the interior laid with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved unvarnished celestial half-gores and two polar calottes, a cartouche for A Correct Globe with ye New Constellations of Dr Halley & Co, the equatorial and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac, the stars to six orders of magnitude and the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, the rims of the case painted red, with two brass hook eyes Literature: van der KROGT, P., Old Globes in the Netherlands (Utrecht, 1984) LAMB, T., & COLLINS, J., (ed.), The World In Your Hands (London, 1994) SCHMIDT, R., Globe Labels. An Addition to the Catalogue “The World In Your Hands” (Vienna, 1995) Van der Krogt (stating that: “The smallest globe [by Adams, i.e. 2¾-inch] is unsigned”) illustrates and describes a similar globe as 1 (“Cook’s first voyage ... is indicated with the legend Cook’s Track 1760”) mounted on a tellurian signed by George Adams and describes another three similar unsigned globes (Ada 2-4) mounted in an armillary sphere, tellurian (both signed by George Adams) and a planetarium signed by Nairne & Blunt. A similar globe is described as item 5.16 in The World In Your Hands: “This anonymous pocket globe has often been ascribed to the work of George Adams Jnr since an armillary sphere signed by Adams uses this pocket globe. However, recent research has shown that the origin of these gores is Hermann Moll’s pocket globe of 1710” The label of 5.16 is illustrated by Schmidt (p. 3) and is the same as that on the present example. Item 5.13/5.14 would also seem to be similar: “the terrestrial showing the track of Capt. Cook’s first voyages (1768-71 but incorrectly dated 1760) and the discoveries of his second and third voyages, i.e. New Caledonia, indicating that the globe was made in or after 1784 when Cook published his account of the third voyage”. Given this rather confusing plethora of possible sources, one hypothesis could be that John Senex (who is described in The World In Your Hands as “very much a rival to Hermann Moll”) bought up Moll’s plates after his death in 1732. It is known that Senex’s widow sold off his plates in 1755 and “George Adams acquired the plates for the pocket globes” Van der Krogt describes a tellurian using a Senex globe made by George Adams (Sen 1), so it could be that Adams used a re-engraved version of Moll’s globe, from Senex’s stock, for the items Ada 1-4. £2500-4000

170 (detail) 170 (detail)

52 171 173 172

171. 172. A 3IN. TERRESTRIAL GLOBE BY NEWTON, SON & BERRY, A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 3IN. FRENCH DESK GLOBE BY FOREST CIRCA 1832-41 with twelve colour-printed gores, signed on the cartouche FOREST made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores with cartouche GEOGRAPHE-EDITEUR 17 RUE DE BUCI PARIS, mounted through inscribed Newton’s New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. the poles with steel pin and turned ebonised stand -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) Published by Newton, Son & Berry 66 Chancery Lane, LONDON, high; together with another smaller by ‘J.L. & Cie. Paris’ -- 5in. the equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days (12.7cm.) high and showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the prime (2) meridian marked Meridian of London, the continents coloured in outline, the oceans showing the routes of the voyages of Captain £300-500 Cook, and Clark and Gore, the Antarctic showing Alexander 1st l. and Peter 1st l. but no coastline, (some varnish loss and surface abrasions), with steel axis pins, contained in turned wooden bowl 173. (lacking lid) inscribed underneath A present from Lady / Falmouth to A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 3IN. DESK GLOBE BY J. FOREST, PARIS the Boys / Shapwick 1842 -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) diameter with twelve coloured gores, cartouche inscribed Globe Terrestre £1000-1500 0.001m.pour166,666 metr. Dressé par J. Forest En Vente chez l’Auteur, 17 rue de Buci, Paris, Gravé par A. Soldan, coloured continents and wind patterns, mounted on an alloy desk stand -- 6in. (15cm.) high £150-200

174. A 19TH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL ORRERY with ivory planets orbiting the sun, with a gilt-plated earth and ivory moon revolving on a mechanical action, mounted on an ebonised hexagonal base with gilt-brass fittings -- 13 x 13in. (33 x 33cm.) £1200-1800

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175. A RARE 12IN. TERRESTRIAL GLOBE BY BASTIEN / PIERRE LAPIE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830 with twelve engraved and coloured gores and polar calottes, the cartouches inscribed Globe Terrestre, Dressé Par P. Lapie Geog, Colonel, au Corps royal d’Etat Major and Au Compas d’Uraie, Che: Bastien Aine Editeur Rue St. André des Arts No.43 à Paris, various tracks for Cook, Bouganville, Australia called both Australie OU Nouvelle Hollande, Tasmania still I. de Van Diemen, graduated equator and eclipse, Meridian line set via Paris (London not listed), the globe set within printed and coloured paper-covered meridian ring with hour indicator at top, mounted in original printed and coloured paper-covered stand listing cities meridians, with red-painted edges and turned wooden stand -- 21in. (53cm.) £3000-4000

176. A RARE FRENCH GLASS OIL LAMP GLOBE signed and numbered Brevet d’invention number 151621, with light blue oceans, continents and countries outlined in different colours, graduated equator, Paris meridian, St. Petersburg marked, India entitled ‘Hindustan’ -- 7½in (19cm.) high, mounted on an oil lamp base with glass funnel, converted to electricity -- 21½in. (54.5cm.) high overall £1000-1500 176

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1 7 7. A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY 12IN. TABLE GLOBES BY J. & W. CARY, 1816 the terrestrial with a cartouche signed as per title and dated ‘Septr 2d, 1816’, comprising twelve delicately hand-coloured gores with fully graduated equatorial, ecliptic and anti-meridian, the oceans with an analemma, numerous explorers’ tracks, with notes and dates, and trade winds in the Indian Ocean, the continents showing towns, cities, rivers, and the Great Wall of China, Central Africa inscribed ‘Unknown Parts’ and ‘Hottentots’; the celestial with cartouche signed as per title and dated ‘Jan 1.1816’, twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with fully graduated equinoctial, ecliptic with twilight zone and four colures, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with dotted boundaries and stars to seven orders of magnitude with nebulae and variously labelled with Greek and Roman characters and Arabic numerals according to source; both globes mounted in brass horizon rings on original stands of issue with coloured meridian rings with red-painted edges -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high (2) Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd., London, 1989. £5000-8000

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178. 179. AN ADAPTED 30-HOUR POCKET CHRONOMETER BY JOHN A 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY THOMAS MERCER/KELVIN, ARNOLD, LONDON, CIRCA 1785 WHITE & HUTTON the 2¼in. enamel dial signed JOHN ARNOLD / LONDON / No.92, the 4in. silvered dial signed and numbered Thomas Mercer Ltd/ subsidiary seconds at ‘VI’, blued-steel hands, counter-signed on St. Albans, England/11257, blued-steel hands, up-down and the gilt back plate John Arnold, London, Inv. et Fecit No.31/92, subsidiary second dials, counter stamped ‘11257’ on back plate engraved balance cock with O Z balance, contained in brass case and inside bowl, Earnshaw escapement, mounted in gimbals with domed top glass, now in fragment box adapted for use as a within two-tier mahogany case with bevelled top glass and mantel mount (dial cracked, hands later, runs intermittently) -- ivorine label inscribed and numbered Kelvin White & Hutton 5550 5 x 5in. (12.7 x 12.7cm.) London, complete with guard box and invoice from Mercer’s Originally conceived as a pocket chronometer, this watch was adapted dated August 1946 for a repair; and a certificate from H. Browne early in its life, possibly by John Roger Arnold, and placed in a marine Ltd for April 1946 case with gimbal mounts, this in turn has been cut down and turned This invoice describes the instrument as ‘formerly K.W. & H 5550’ into a mantel clock. Purchased several years ago without a key, it has suggesting the repair (which was over £5) was, in effect, a complete re- not been run for many years and will require a service. fit with new dial and number for Mercer’s. The certificate from Browne’s Literature: Mercer, V: John Arnold & Son, Antiquarian Horological dated a few months earlier describes only KW&H with a daily plus rating of 2.5 seconds. Society, London, 1972, appendix XII, p.210. £1000-1500 £1200-1800

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56 180. A RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, LATE 18TH-CENTURY MECHANICAL EQUINOCTIAL DIAL BY STRELIN & FERSCHEL signed on the 3in. silvered dial Erfinder Strelin & Ferschel (“Invented by...”), silk gnomon on detachable frame to subsidiary minute dial with steel indicator, rack and pinnion elevation secured to ebony base with inset compass and three levelling feet, contained within original chamois-lined fitted morocco case with autograph (Ferschel) manuscript instructions in German, the case -- 7½in. (19cm.) diameter Provenance: Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Part Three, Sotheby’s, 30th October, 2002, lot 29. The Time Museum, Inventory No 1514 £1500-2500

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181. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY HOUR GLASS the glass blown in one piece with striations and filled with black sand, set within a sturdy oak frame with five turned supports and simple circular decoration on the end caps -- 7½in. (19cm.) high This glass has been timed at 58 minutes. £400-600

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182. AN 18TH-CENTURY BRASS SUNDIAL unsigned, the plate with black-filled lettering, attractively pierced gnomon, inscribed between ‘IIII’ and ‘VIII’ the Reverend Mr. Streynsham Master 1732 -- 15½in. (39.5cm.) 182 £800-1000

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ALL TELESCOPES ARE OPTICALLY CORRECT UNLESS 185. OTHERWISE STATED A RARE ½IN. THREE-DRAW CARDBOARD AND VELLUM TELESCOPE MADE BY LEONARDO SEMITECOLO VENICE, CIRCA 1760 183. with the main tube signed LEONARDO SEMITECOLO VENICE, with A ¾IN. FOUR-DRAW CARD TELESCOPE, CIRCA 1800 impressed and inked decoration, mounted with horn stages to unsigned, the main tube covered in thin black morocco, green each draw, brass and eye objective caps with dust slides -- draws with stop lines and stained horn stages, lacquered-brass 9½in. (24cm.) end pieces with dust slides -- 12in. (30.5cm.) closed £400-600 £400-600

186. 184. A ¾IN. CARDBOARD AND VELLUM THREE-DRAW TELESCOPE, AN UNUSUAL 1½IN. TWO/THREE-DRAW SHAGREEN AND BRASS CIRCA 1760 TELESCOPE BY DOLLOND, LONDON, CIRCA 1790-1800 unsigned, with horn staging between draws, rosewood eyepiece handsomely signed as per title on the objective dust slide, and objective, with turned rosewood caps (later) -- 13½in. (34.3cm.) the objective set in a single front draw, two standard draws £400-600 terminating with flared eyepiece -- 15¾in. (40cm.) closed An interesting instrument and possibly a one-off, being needlessly complicated by having the objective set in an additional front draw (which was used later by many manufacturers as a shade slide, whilst keeping the lens fixed to the main tube). Whilst the instrument has good magnification and focus, the eyepiece may lack a lens which would provide a wider field of vision. £400-600

58 1 8 7. A HIGH-POWERED MID 19TH-CENTURY 2½IN. FOUR-DRAW MAHOGANY AND BRASS MARINE TELESCOPE BY DOLLOND, LONDON with lens cap and dust slide, signed by the eyepiece Dollond / London / The Greatest Power -- 15¼in. (38.2cm.) closed £400-600

188. A LARGE DECAGONAL MAHOGANY AND BRASS 1½IN. SINGLE- DRAW MARINE TELESCOPE BY NAIRNE & BLUNT, LONDON, CIRCA 1775-80 with finely engraved brass lens slide signed as per title, parallel main tube and tapering eyepiece with dust slide -- 48¼in. (122.5cm.) closed Edward Nairne was one of the most significant instrument makers of the Georgian period. His impressive list of apprentices includes Jesse Ramsden who went on to eclipse his teacher, and Thomas Blunt with whom he formed a partnership between 1774 and 1793. £800-1200

189. A 1IN. SINGLE-DRAW REVERSE-TAPERING MAHOGANY AND BRASS TELESCOPE BY HENRY PYEFINCH, LONDON CIRCA 1765 with decagonal mahogany main tube with brass fittings, signed by the bulbous eyepiece H. Pyefinch Cornhill London -- 37½in. (95.5cm.) £800-1000

190. A ½IN. SINGLE-DRAW MAHOGANY AND BRASS TELESCOPE BY WILLIAM DRURY LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1770 the decagonal mahogany main tube with dust slides, signed by the bulbous eyepiece Wm. Drury fecit Liverpool -- 13½in. (34.3cm.) (closed) William Drury worked from two addresses in Liverpool between 1769 and 1773. £500-800

191. AN ‘OFFICER-OF-THE-WATCH’-TYPE TELESCOPE BY ROSS, LONDON the leather-covered main tube with nickel-plated brass fittings, signed and numbered by the eyepiece Ross, London No.23622 and inscribed by objective lens Le Prince Batthyany-Strattmann R.Y.S. -- 17½in. (44.5cm.) closed 190 H.S.H. Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann (1826-1914) was an hereditary Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and held several positions at the very end of the Empire’s era, including Prince and Count of the Holy Roman Empire; Hereditary member of Hungarian Upper House; Hereditary titular Ban of Croatia and Lord Lieutenant of County Eisenburg; Chamber of Nobles in Upper and Lower Austria, Moravia, and Carinthia; Prince in Bohemia; Imperial Austrian Chamberlain and Privy Councillor. A prolific yacht racer and winner of many cups, his other hobbies were shooting and tennis. He married in 1901. £100-150

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192. 194. A 1¼IN. SINGLE-DRAW LACQUERED-BRASS MINIATURE DESK A 1½IN. SINGLE-DRAW SHAGREEN, IVORY AND CARD TELESCOPE ON STAND, PROBABLY EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MONOCULAR, CIRCA 1760 unsigned, with two-power eyepiece, threaded lens cap, removable unsigned, the draw-tube decorated with a gilt foliate design, 1 stand with tripod and thread, contained within cardboard tube turned ebonised ivory threaded end caps -- 4 ⁄8in. (10.5cm.) closed with marbled lining, assembled -- 6½ x 5in. (16.5 x 12.7cm.); £400-600 collapsed -- 4¾in. (12cm.) diameter A high-quality production, it has been suggested that this could be by P & J Dollond. 195. £400-600 AN 18TH-CENTURY CARD, HORN AND SILVER 1¼IN. MONOCULAR unsigned, with impressed decoration on draw-tube, horn end 193. pieces and silver dividers, contained within original wooden AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1IN. DUAL-POWER MONOCULAR fishskin and silver covered case with plush lining -- 3½in. (9cm.) unsigned, with shagreen-covered main tube, draw-tube marked high, cased and numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’ at intervals, threaded lens cap and flared £200-300 eyepiece with dual-powered lens, correspondingly marked ‘1’ and ‘2’ by a switch -- 4in. (10cm.) high, closed £150-250

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196. 198. AN 18TH-CENTURY REFLECTING TELESCOPE BY J. SPRINGER OF A 19TH-CENTURY 2¼IN. SINGLE-DRAW REFRACTING TABLE BRISTOL TELESCOPE constructed in polished brass and signed on the back plate J. unsigned, the lacquered-brass tube with rack-and-pinion focus, SPRINGER Maker BRISTOL, fine thread focus, polished steel hinged stand lug, contained in fitted mahogany box with principal mirror, eyepiece with smoked glass accessory, secured accessories (no stand) -- 28½in. (72.5cm.) cased diameter to tripod stand with removable folding legs, contained in a £200-300 wooden box (later), the telescope -- 14 x 21in. (35.5 x 53.5cm.) Joshua Springer worked from three addresses in Bristol between 1759 and 1809. 199. £700-900 AN EMPTY MAHOGANY TELESCOPE BOX FOR THOMAS HARRIS & SONS designed to receive a 2½in. diameter x 30½in. tube with 1¼in. 1 9 7. diameter eyepiece, with trade label in lid dated 1865, complete AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 2IN. REFRACTING LIBRARY with key and one securing hook -- 32in. (81.5cm.) diameter TELESCOPE BY GILBERT & GILKERSON, LONDON £80-120 the 29¾in. main tube signed on the backplate Gilbert & Gilkerson, Tower Hill, London, rack and pinion focusing and folding tripod stand -- 19 x 42¾in. (48 x 109cm.) overall £400-600

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200. 203. A FINE PAIR OF TELESCOPE BINOCULARS BY NEGRETTI & A 19TH-CENTURY BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE ZAMBRA LONDON unsigned, constructed in lacquered-brass with usual rack-and- constructed in polished aluminium with patinated blue and pinion fine adjustment, platforms and dual mirror, contained black morocco cover, signed as per title and further inscribed within fitted mahogany case with accessories including ½in. and 2 Optician to Her Majesty, with additional owner’s inscription ⁄3in. nose-pieces in brass containers, the case -- 17in. (43cm.) reading CAPTAIN ALDWORTH / “THE MASCOTTE” / RANGOON high; together with another monocular microscope, unsigned, AUTUMN MEETING 1884 / THE ST. LEDGER / THE AUTUMN CLUB contained within fitted rectangular box, with one ¼in. nose-piece / THE BURMAN HANDICAP”, focus and spacing wheels and shade in brass container signed Burrow Malvern; together with a bull’s- slides, contained within original leather case of issue, with carry eye lens on stand -- 9in. (23cm.), and other accessories strap. Cased measurements -- 15in. (38cm.) high (a lot) £600-800 £300-400

201. 204. A GOOD PAIR OF 7 X 50 GERMAN WWII U-BOAT BINOCULARS BY AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BOTANIST’S MICROSCOPE BY CARY LEICA LONDON stamped and numbered on the back plate with the coded maker’s incomplete and with old wear, signed as per title on the vertical reference ‘Beh 461889 7 x 50’, individual focus eyepieces with support, contained within fitted mahogany case with four original original removable rubber waterproof cowls -- 8¼in. (21cm.) high bone and mica multiple slides -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) diameter No German instruments made during hostilities carried their maker’s name, instead in 1940 a three-digit code was used for factories still £150-200 in production. In this instance Beh is the code for Ernst Leitz (Leica), GmbH, Wetzlar. £400-600

202. A MID 19TH-CENTURY BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE BY MORITZ PILLISCHER constructed in lacquered-brass, signed and numbered on the foot M. Pillischer London, No.2975, rack-and- pinion fine adjustment, dual mirror and platforms, contained in original fitted case with apparently complete and additional accessories including ¼, 1 and 2in. objectives, two pairs of eyepieces, condenser and others, the case -- 15¼in. (39cm.) high; together with a letter explaining various features and reporting it has a power of 12x to 260x, although is satisfactory up to 200x (2) Moritz Pillischer worked between 1851 and 1887 from Oxford and New Bond Streets. £500-800

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205. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY MEDICINE CHEST BY JOHN MOORE, LONDON the front opening to reveal compartments and labelled drawers, the top and rear poison compartment with some original gilt- capped bottles and later content, doors secured by sprung locks operated by closing the lid, maker’s/retail label inscribed John Moore, Chemist to the KING, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden No.15, securing hooks and brass drop handles -- 10¾ x 9½ x 7¾in. (27.4 x 24 x 19.5cm.) £400-600 205

206. 207. A 19TH-CENTURY DENTAL SET A RARE LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH-CENTURY POCKET ‘STEELYARD’ (SCALES), ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN SNART (I), LONDON with approximately twenty polished steel instruments by Moore & Son London and Evans, contained in removable red plush-lined constructed in steel with counterweighted calibrated balance beam trays within original mahogany box -- 5½ x 10¼in. (14 x 26cm.); with two pivot arms, sliding weight and suspension loop, stamped ‘36’ on the counter balance and weight and contained within an together with a small medicine chest, complete with assorted bottles and single drawer with measure, flask and a set of mother- early 18th century sharkskin-covered green velvet-lined spoon of-pearl pans with weights etc. case -- 8¾in. (22.2cm.) diameter; later display stand (2) (3) John Snart (I), a specialist in weights and scales, worked from The Sign £300-500 of the Heart and Scales, Maiden Lane (by Goldsmiths Hall) between 1693 and 1732. He was a member of the Guild of Blacksmiths which could account for the overall ‘forged’ look of this instrument. £300-400 208-209. NO LOTS

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210. 2 11. 212. CIRCLE OF GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH, AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY POCKET AN UNUSUAL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY EARLY 19TH-CENTURY) DRAWING SET BY BENJAMIN MESSER SMALL SIZE PANTOGRAPH BY LONDON EBSWORTH Portrait of an early 19th-Century surveyor with theodolite, compass and boxes etc. apparently complete, with a full set complete with lead weight and of ivory and gilt-brass instruments accessories, contained within original Oil on canvas and signed on a ruler Messer London, fitted mahogany case -- 15in. (38cm.) 24 x 20in. (61 x 51cm.) contained within a fitted silver-mounted diameter; together with an early 20th- £400-600 shagreen pocket case, the lid with silver Century drawing set by Cary Porter Ltd plaque inscribed JOSH LOVERING 1807 -- London, in japanned case; and a 19th 5¼in. (13.5cm.) high Century ebonised desk ruler £800-1200 (3) £300-500

213. A LARGE LATE 18TH-CENTURY BRASS PANTOGRAPH BY MEREDITH, LONDON of typical form with ivory wheels and lead counterweight, signed on one arm as per title, contained within original fitted taper- ing box, with pointer and pencil -- 38¾in. (98cm.) in diameter; together with a nickel-plated roller rule signed Troughton & Simms, London

213 (2) Nicholas Meredith is recorded as working from two addresses in New Bond Street, London, between 1789 and 1793 £200-400

214. 214 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY PANTOGRAPH 212 BY CARY, LONDON constructed in lacquered-brass, one arm signed as per title, with ivory wheels, contained in fitted case with brass-cased lead counterweight and pointers -- 21¼in. (54cm.) diameter £200-300 64 215

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215. 218. A FINE EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET BY STANLEY A RARE 19TH-CENTURY SET OF GEOMETRIC SOLIDS BY CLAXTON & PROTHERO comprising three trays, complete with polished steel and bone instruments, mostly signed Stanley London, contained within cut from satinised wood, each stamped ‘C&P’ and numbered, fitted oak case with maker’s label in lid -- 14½in. (37cm.) diameter contained within original box of issue with maker’s label inside lid with diagram numbered to correspond -- 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter £800-1200 Claxton & Prothero worked between 1846-1849 from 27 Harrington Street, London. 216. £400-600 AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY CIRCULAR PROTRACTOR BY TROUGHTON & SIMMS LONDON the 8in. diameter instrument constructed in nickel-plated brass, 219. signed on the index arm as per title, contained within fitted case A RARE QUANTITY OF CONTINENTAL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY -- 10½ x 9½in. (27 x 24cm.) GEOMETRIC SOLID MODELS OF CRYSTALS £250-400 comprising approximately three hundred and fifty numbered fruitwood shapes, contained in a small wooden chest of ten drawers, with turned bone handles, the lower with folded paper 2 1 7. bags inscribed 200 (and 154) nach der Natur modelliste Kristalle... A FINE 19TH-CENTURY ROLLER RULE BY ELLIOTT BROS LONDON the exterior with bracing and covered in marbled paper, with sliding front (old wear)-- 11 x 8¾ x 9¼in. (28 x 22 x 23.5cm.) heavily constructed in nickel-plated brass and signed and inscribed Elliott Bros, 56 Strand London / H.A. BROWNLOW £800-1200 Bengal Engineers, contained within fitted mahogany box of issue -- 19¼in. (49cm.) diameter £150-250

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220. 222. A COLLECTION OF 19TH-CENTURY POCKET INSTRUMENTS A COLLECTION OF 19TH-CENTURY SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS comprising an aneroid barometer and compass set signed comprising an inclinometer signed J.A. Reynolds & Co. / Late A.G. Short & Mason, contained in a black leather case; together with a Thornton & Co./ Birmingham, with oxidised-brass case, polished separate cased French barometer; a five-drawer monocular with vernier divided to 60º, bubble level and compass, contained in ivory main tube; a brass compass; and a fob compass original case of issue; together with a lacquered-brass drum (all unsigned) sextant signed Suffell, Long Acre, London; a theodolite signed F. Robson/Maker/Newcastle on Tyne; and a pocket dry-card (6) sighting compass in leather belt case £200-300 (4) £400-600 221. A SMALL-SIZED STATION POINTER BY FRODSHAM & KEENE, LIVERPOOL 223. A LATE 19TH-CENTURY POCKET BAROMETER AND COMPASS with oxidised-brass arms, signed and numbered on the spokes SET BY C.W. DIXEY, LONDON Frodsham & Keene/Liverpool/No.525, polished brass scale, contained within original fitted case -- 11in. (28cm.) diameter; with 1½in. silvered dial signed C.W. Dixey, Optn. to the Queen, together with hand-held scales stamped J. Cooke & Sons 5 New Bond St. London, No.221, gilt brass case with bezel indicator, contained within a leather travel case with a signed (2) enamel compass inset in lid (case parted at hinge); together £100-150 with a further five assorted pocket compasses; two pocket thermometers (one defective) and a sewing clamp (9) £200-400

66 224. A RARE 18TH-CENTURY POCKET BEARING COMPASS unsigned, the steel pin with brass foot, loosely mounted blued- steel needle marked ‘N’ and ‘S’, contained within original lignum vitæ bulb case with threaded cap -- 2½in. (6.4cm.) high £200-300

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225. A MID 19TH-CENTURY MINER’S DIAL BY J. CASARTELLI, MANCHESTER with 5in. silvered dial signed as per title, lacquered-brass case, bubble levels, one inscribed internally S. Crowther, Surveyor, Bolton, folding sighting arms, contained within original mahogany case of issue, with trade label inside lid additionally inscribed 12th July 1862£13.10.0, cleaned & readjusted 27th July ‘72, original maker’s note regarding the compass contained loosely within, case measurements -- 3¾ x 12¾ x 7in. (9.5 x 32.5 x 17.5cm.) 225 Joseph Louis Casartelli was a prolific 19th-Century manufacturer of instruments and worked in Manchester from two branches between 1851 and 1895 £200-300 226. A 19TH-CENTURY SURVEYING COMPASS BY JAMES GARGORY BIRMINGHAM with 3½in. silvered dial, signed James Gargory Birmingham, folding lacquered-brass sights, contained within mahogany pocket case with removable hinged lid with securing hooks, the base with tripod securing arbor and removable hinged lid -- approximately 5in. (12.7cm.) square; together with a late 19th- Century three-draw telescope signed Dolland London day or night, with facsimile flag code inset to leather of main tube, a brass protractor (unsigned); together with a mahogany box with hinged glass panel -- 10¼in. (26cm.) diameter (3) £100-150

227. A DECORATIVE BRASS ISLAMIC ASTROLABE, PROBABLY EARLY 20TH-CENTURY engraved overall with Islamic-type decoration and approximate calibre, pierced rete, four double-sided plates secured with a mater and pin -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) diameter £200-400

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228. A RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY DECKHEAD “TELL-TALE” COMPASS BY ISAAC BRADFORD with 4½in. compass card signed I. Bradford & Son No. 136 Minories London, the reverse with sealing wax balancing weights, contained within white-painted housing, the exterior with gold leaf decoration suspended within gimbal for deckhead mounting - diameter including bracket 10in. (25.5cm.) I. Bradford is recorded at this address between 1808 and 1822. £1200-1800

229. A 19TH-CENTURY DUTCH DRY CARD COMPASS with 4in card, contained within a green-painted toleware drum with glazed top -- 5in. (13cm.) diameter See illustration on page 61 £150-200

230. A RARE GERMAN WWII-PERIOD S-BOAT [‘SCHNELLBOOTE’] COMPASS BY C. PLATH, HAMBURG the 7in. ring card signed as per title and contained within a liquid- filled dome with outer substantial brass compass ring counter signed and numbered 8539, Kriegsmarine emblem and number 5088, Plath trademark, and gimbal ring supports -- 12 x 14in. (30.5 x 35.5cm.) The extraordinary conditions under which the Schnellboote served demanded an extraordinary compass. Plath came up with this distinctive model, designed to remain steady and true whilst being buffeted and drenched in remorseless circumstances. The result introduced a design which is now, in essence, the standard form of compass for modern yachts. 230 £700-900

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231. 233. A 19TH-CENTURY 7½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY ADIE & A MID 19TH-CENTURY 9½IN. RADIUS EBONY VERNIER OCTANT SON, EDINBURGH BY SPENCER, BROWNING & CO., LONDON with black-painted diamond frame, polished arc signed as per with Pi-shaped frame, the arc with ‘SBR’ division mark divided to title and numbered 210 and further inscribed “J.H.”, silvered scale 105º, signed on the cross bar as per title, brass fittings including divided to 145º, vernier with magnifier, seven shades, two mirrors two mirrors, six shades, sighting tubes and ebony handle, and ebony handle, contained within original fitted keystone case, contained in fitted mahogany keystone box with accessories and with sighting tubes and trade label for James Murray & Co., trade label for ‘J. Scott Bermondsey Wall’ -- 13in. (33cm.) diameter Calcutta -- 14in. (35.5cm.) diameter £400-600 Adie & Son worked from three addresses in Edinburgh between 1835 and 1857. £250-400 234. A 19TH-CENTURY 9½IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT with ebony frame, ivory scale divided to 100º, Vernier arm, mirrors 232. and shades, contained in a keystone case (old wear including A RARE 7IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY J.C. DENNIS, Vernier clamp missing, eyepiece detached, scale cracked, case LONDON, CIRCA 1842 distressed); together with another, similar, without case the three-circle oxidised-brass frame with polished arc inscribed (2) ‘DENNIS’S PATENT SEXTANT LONDON’ inset silver scale divided £80-120 to 145º, the frame further inscribed Register No. 1287 June 6 1842, complete with mirrors, seven shades, rosewood handle and sighting tubes, contained in original box with artificial horizon and other accessories, the lid with retail label for Henry House inside, the top with inset ivorine plaque inscribed ‘J.C. Dennis Patent Sextant London’ -- 13½ x 11½in. (34.5 x 28.5cm.); together with a modern 6½in. radius micrometer sextant by Kelvin & House Ltd., contained in box with error certificate dated 1959 and sailcloth outer cover -- 10½in. diameter (26.5cm.) (2) £500-800

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235. 237. A 19TH-CENTURY 7½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY A GOOD LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY 7IN. RADIUS VER- HEATH & CO, LONDON NIER BELL-FRAMED SEXTANT BY HEATH & CO LTD, LONDON the polished brass ladder frame with arc numbered 22692, scale the oxidised-brass frame with polished brass arc, signed and divided to 150º, vernier clamp and light diffuser, mirror, shades inscribed as per title and numbered U57 David P Larham, scale and fruitwood handle, contained within fitted box with sighting divided to 155º, contained within original fitted case, complete tubes and test certificate dated 1886 -- 11½in. (29cm.) diameter with accessories including binoculars, sighting tubes etc., test £250-400 certificate for 1920, further contained within original leather travelling case with gilt-embossed maker’s marks -- 12 x 11in. (30.5 x 28cm.) 236. £400-600 A 6IN. RADIUS MATES-PATTERN SEXTANT BY HENRY HUGHES & SON LTD, LONDON 238. with oxidised-brass and three-circle frame, polished arc signed A MINIATURE EBONY AND BOXWOOD MODEL CROSS-STAFF as per title and numbered 4633, silvered scale divided to 160º, vernier with magnifier, complete with mirrors, shades, sighting the arcs divided over one side, complete with sight vane -- tubes, etc., and ebony handle impressed 3, contained within 8½in. (21.5cm.) diameter original fitted case with test certificate dated 1909 -- 9in. square £200-300 approximately This sextant was used aboard the S.S. Berwell during Atlantic convoy duty in World War II and was also used aboard the landing craft 239. deployed during Operation Overlord (D-Day) 1944 A 19TH-CENTURY KEW-PATTERN MARINE BAROMETER BY ADIE & SON, EDINBURGH £200-400 with black-painted main tube, with thermometer and ivorine scale, the silvered main scale signed as per title and numbered 258, mounted on oak backing board for wall hanging -- 41¼in. (105cm.) overall 239 Adie & Son worked from three addresses in Edinburgh between 1835-1880 £400-600

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70 240. A RARE 18IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY GREGORY, LONDON, CIRCA 1775 with ebony ‘V’ frame, ivory scale divided to 125°, brass index arm, Vernier with centralised ‘0’, signed on the cross bar GREGORY LONDON, sighting tube, index and horizon mirrors, two pin feet and rosewood handle (horizon mirror silvering worn, lacking shades and one pin foot) -- 19 x 20½in. (48.2 x 52cm.) Probably Henry Gregory I who worked between 1744 and 1782 - the firm became Gregory & Son in 1776 and then formed partnerships with former apprentices including Gabriel Wright and William Gilbert. This sextant was probably an attempt to break into new markets, although with its ebony frame and huge radius, it still gives every appearance of an octant. The to divide finer scales accurately, thus allowing the frame to shrink, was already then in hand, with Jesse Ramsden publishing his ‘description’ for a dividing engine in 1777. Literature: Mözer Bryuns, W.F.J.: Sextants at Greenwich, OUP 2009, p.164, no.137, where a similar instrument is described. £1000-1500

240

241. A 16IN. RADIUS EBONY AND BRASS VERNIER OCTANT, CIRCA 1780 divided to 95º, Vernier with centred ‘0’, polished brass index arm engraved with foliage and a trophy-of-arms, name plate inscribed G. Heath, London, pinhole sights, mirrors, three shades and bone- capped pencil -- 17in. (43cm.) high overall; contained in a later stepped keystone case with facsimile label £800-1200

242-244. NO LOTS 241

71 Models 245. A COUNTER TOP DISPLAY UNIT FOR THE WEB MODEL FITTING CO. comprising a plush-lined interior with large range of high-quality ship model fittings in wood and plated metal, contained within a sloped wooden display case with glazed front and bearing gilt inscription as per title -- 20¼ x 24½ x 13¾in. (51.5 x 62 x 35cm.) £600-800

246

246. A 19TH-CENTURY MODEL OF THE S.S. probably by Triggs Maritime Architects, with carved from the solid, scored decks with wooden fittings, saloon with helm and helmsman over, twin raked stayed funnels, lifeboats in davits, rigged masts and yards with furled paper sails, mounted on a calm green sea with cotton wool foam, painted backdrop and Plexiglas cover (later) -- 13 x 34½ x 10in. (33 x 87.5 x 25.5cm.) £400-600

245

247. A MID 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S MODEL OF THE TRADING BRIG TRUE BRITON with carved and painted hull, with simple deck fittings and deck lights and saloons, painted lower masts, yards, with painted tin sails, standing and running rigging, mounted within contemporary glazed display case -- 23½ x 34½ x 11½in. (60 x 88 x 29cm.) £300-500

248

248. A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S-TYPE MODEL OF A TWO-MASTED YACHT with carved and painted hull, scored decks, raked masts with rigging, mounted on a glass crystal sea with printed backdrop, in ebonised wooden case (dust, old wear to rigging, model loose, side panels of case cracked/broken) -- 21½ x 28¼in. (54.5 x 71.7cm.) £200-400 247

72 249. A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S MODEL OF A P & O STEAMER with hull carved from the solid, typical simple deck fittings and superstructure, stayed funnel, rigged masts with carved furled sails flying painted tin flags for P & O and the Red Ensign, contained in original period glazed case -- 19 x 34¼ x 12¾in. (48 x 87.5 x 32.2cm.) £400-600

250

250. AN ATTRACTIVE MID 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S PICTURE HALF- MODEL, OR SHADOW BOX, OF A THREE-MASTED SHIP the carved green hull with crew, masts with carved lined sails, rigging with fluttering flags and pennants, depicted in a carved sea sailing off a fortified headland, in a glass-fronted display case -- 18 x 32in. (46 x 81cm.) £800-1000 249

251. A MID 19TH-CENTURY UNRIGGED SAILOR’S MODEL OF A 96- GUN SHIP with hull carved from the solid, protruding guns, chain plates, cat heads, carved bust-length male figurehead, deck with trace lining, with simple fittings including cannons, a capstan, deck light, jolly boat, deck lights etc., loosely mounted on a stepped wooden plinth -- 23in. diameter The distinctive stern on this model suggests H.M.S. Asia may have been its origin. £500-800

252

252. A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S PICTURE HALF-MODEL OR SHADOWBOX the hull carved from the solid with attractive stern decoration and figurehead, simple deck fittings, carved, painted and lined wooden sails, rigging with flags flying from mast tops and signal lanyard flying Marryat code ‘183’, set in a carved and painted sea within glazed case with skyscape painted background -- 16½ x 27in. (42 x 68.5cm.) £600-800

251

73 253. AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY WOOD SAILING MODEL, PROBABLY OF THE LAKE DISTRICT ‘SHARPIE’ MAVIS the hard chine hull with weighted drop keel, planked and screwed deck with cleats and eyes, fitted cockpits with cupboards, mast with yard, boom and set of early brick coloured linen sails and rigging -- assembled dimensions approximately 57 x 54in. (145 x 137cm.) £700-900

253 254. A 19TH-CENTURY POLYCHROME HALF-MODEL OF A COBLE carved from the solid, finished in black with gold lining and numbered 1S, mounted on a painted backboard with wooden frame -- overall measurements 14½ x 23in. (37 x 58.5cm.) £300-500

254

255. A MODEL POND YACHT BY CLYDE MODEL DOCKYARD with carved hull with lead-weighted keel, scored deck with brass fittings, single mast with Bermudan rig of stitched linen sails, loosely mounted on a wooden block -- 33 x 28in. (84 x 71cm.) overall £400-600

255

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256. A FINE 19TH-CENTURY BONE MODEL OF A NANTUCKET WHALER the hull planked and pinned with bone trenails, hinged keel, finely detailed fully-fitted interior complete with benches, keel box, rope tubs with harpoons, hatchet, set of oars, rigged mast with boom and yard, rudder and tiller, signed under the keel AB 1839, mounted on turned bone columns to bone plate on wooden plinth -- 15½ x 20in. (39.5 x 51cm.) £1200-1800

257. A 19TH-CENTURY IVORY DIEPPE MODEL OF A 40-GUN FRIGATE the carved hull with scrolled head, carved stern and quarter galleries, deck complete with simple fittings including guns in carriages, belaying rails, bitts and crew, masts with yards, standing and running rigging, with blocks and full suit of shaved ivory sails -- 7 x 8in. (18 x 20cm.), mounted on display base with glazed dome cover -- 12½ x 10in. (32 x 26cm.) £2500-4000 256

257

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258. A NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF THE THIRD RATE 74-GUN SHIP BELLONA with planked and pinned hull, brass guns protruding from ports with raised lids, warrior form figurehead, planked decks with simple fittings and two fitted boats over well deck, bound masts with yards and s’tuns’l booms, mounted on an early 19th-Century prisoner-of-war two-tier strawwork base with bone trim -- overall measurements 13 x 16 x 6in. (33 x 40.5 x 15cm.) £2800-3500

258 (detail)

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259. A WELL-PRESENTED NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR- STYLE BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF A 100-GUN FIRST RATE with planked and pinned hull, carved warrior form figurehead, head rails, stern and quarter galleries, planked decks with simple fittings, bound masts with yards and s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on a wooden inlaid marquetry base with bone trim -- measurements overall 19 x 22 x 8in. (48.2 x 56 x 20.5cm.) £8000-10000

259 (detail)

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260. AN EXTREMELY DETAILED 1:192 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIP U.S.S. MISSOURI AS FITTED 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1945 by Fine Art Models, the high-definition resin hull with photo-etched brass fittings and laser-etched wooden deck, mounted on an American black walnut display base with ‘launch’ sleepers within glazed case with maker’s label. Overall measurements -- 15½ x 62 x 10¾in. (39.5 x 157.5 x 27.5cm.) Dust cover £2000-4000

260

78 261. A WELL-PRESENTED 32’:1” SCALE DIORAMA OF H.M.S. KENT ON THE CHINA STATION AROUND 1931 modelled by E. Dyke with laminated and carved wood hull at anchor with bilges being pumped, detailed superstructure and fittings including spotter bi-plane, finished in two-tone grey and depicted in company with an Imperial Airways flying boat and junk also at anchor in a calm green sea with wooden Plexiglas cover -- 9 x 24½ x 9in. (23 x 62 x 23cm.) H.M.S. Kent was the nameship of a class of seven cruisers all completed by 1928 and including two, Australia and Canberra built for the Royal Australian Navy. Appropriately Kent was built at and, after a busy War which saw her on active service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic and Normandy, she was broken up in 1948. £700-900

261

262. A DETAILED STATIC DISPLAY 1:92 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE VALENTINE-CLASS VIRAGO (F76) OF 1943 modelled by E. Dyke in laminated and carved wood with grey hull, green decks with detailed superstructure, armament and fittings, depicted in a dark green sea -- 8¾ x 24½ x 8¾in. (22 x 62 x 22cm.) overall Built by Swan Hunter in 1943, Virago had an active Wartime career serving in the Arctic, North Cape, Normandy, Malaya and Burma. She was broken up in 1965. £500-800

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263. A DETAILED 1:92 SCALE DIORAMA MODEL OF THE FRIGATE H.M.S. WREN (F28) AT ANCHOR IN THE PERSIAN GULF, 1949 modelled by E. Dyke with laminated carved hull painted light grey with lowered companionways and active bilges, detailed superstructure and fittings as appropriate, set in a calm painted sea in company with a dhow and small craft, with Plexiglas cover -- 12 x 29½ x 9½in. (30.5 x 75 x 24cm.) overall Wren was a modified ‘Black Swan’ Class escort sloop, the last class ordered during hostilities. All twenty-nine were laid down between 1941-44 and completed 1942-46. Wren was kept busy and saw service in the Atlantic, Biscay, the 263 Arctic and Normandy, and was sold for breaking in 1956. £600-800

79 264. A WELL-PRESENTED HALF BLOCK MODEL OF AN ORION-CLASS DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP, CIRCA 1909 with varnished hull carved from the solid, with grey- painted superstructure and armament, mounted on a wooden display board with drawn radio aerials and rigging, dimensions overall -- 24 x 48in. (61 x 122cm.) The four ‘Orion’ Class ordered under the 1909 programme represented a huge step forward in design and layout for modern . Comprising H.M. Ships Conqueror, Monarch, Orion and Thunderer, all four survived the Great War and with the exception of Monarch, which was sunk as a target, were sold for breaking in 1922 and 1926. £800-1000 264

265

265. A WELL-PRESENTED HALF-MODEL OF A 40’ TORPEDO CARRYING HYDROPLANE DESIGNED AND BUILT BY JOHN I. THORNEYCROFT & CO. LTD, 1916 modelled by Peter Ward, in laminated mahogany with brass prop shaft and propeller, carved torpedo, mounted on a display board with painted Royal Naval ensign and engraved details plate -- 6 x 26½in. (15 x 67.3cm.); together with some historical data £500-800

266 269

266. A 5/8IN.: 1’ SCALE HALF-MODEL OF THE FALMOUTH KEY HUNT PRIDE OF PORT ORIGINALLY BUILT BY W. THOMAS, THE BAR, FALMOUTH modelled by P. Ward in laminated mahogany recovered from Lloyds of London, green-painted hull with varnished top, sides and cabin, cut-away masts with booms, mounted on display board inscribed as per title and impressed on reverse with Lloyds’ provenance -- overall measurements 10¼ x 30¼in. (26.5 x 77cm.) £200-400

80 267

267. A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE ‘BOLD’ CLASS FAST ATTACK BOAT, H.M.S. BOLD PIONEER (P5701), BUILT BY J. SAMUEL WHITE, COWES, 1951 carved in laminated wood and fitted with two propellers and rudders on ebonised back board with annotated specification plate -- 14 x 72in. (35.5 x 183cm.) An experimental class of fast boat that ultimately did not live up to expectations, the “Bold” class (Bold Pioneer and Bold Pathfinder) were the first to use gas turbines. Designed by the Director of Naval Construction at Bath, they had a LOA of 121ft, a Beam of 25ft-6in. with a Draught of 6ft-10in. The Main machinery of both vessels was 2 x Metro-Vick G2 Turbines, supplemented originally by 2 x Mercedes Diesel engines for cruising at 16 knots, driving 4 shafts. (The Mercedes engines later being changed for Napier Deltic’s). Sporting twin side-by-side funnels, both displacing 150 tons when fully loaded, they had a normal complement of 20. As Gun Boats they had 2 single mounts of 4.5ins (fore and aft) and a 40mm Bofors aft, and as Torpedo Boats, they had a 40mm Bofors on the forward mount with 4 x 21in Tubes. An omen may now be seen, as to the eventual perception of their failure, in that at the time of their respective launches, the Metro-Vick G2 Turbines were not ready, both craft being launched with the diesels only fitted. The Metro-Vick G2 Turbines were never to be fully developed for marine installation and proved to be very troublesome in service, but when able to deliver, the craft could attain 43 knots. HMS Bold Pioneer was launched August 18th 1951 and scrapped in 1958. HMS Bold Pathfinder was launched September 17th 1951 was sold to Messrs Pounds of Portsmouth for scrapping in 1962, (reportedly not completed until 1986). £800-1200

268. A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK MODEL PROBABLY FOR A TYPE ‘A’ FAST PATROL BOAT, BY J. SAMUEL WHITE, COWES, MID-1950S finished in grey with red bilges, mounted on ebonised display board -- 13½ x 65in. (34.5 x 165cm.) £600-800

269. A HALF-BLOCK MODEL OF THE SAILING YACHT SHADOW, 1872 carved from laminated mahogany, with drop keel cut-away masts and bow sprit, mounted on a display board with title for wall hanging -- 6¼ x 14in. (16 x 35.5cm.) £80-120

268

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270

270. 271. AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY LIVE STEAM SPIRIT-FIRED WOODEN A WELL-PRESENTED BUILDER’S-STYLE MODEL OF THE COASTER MODEL OF THE PADDLE TUG ALERT OF YARMOUTH M.V. INDORITA, ORIGINALLY BUILT BY ABDELA & MITCHELL LTD, QUEENSFERRY, FOR JOHN SUMMERS & SON LTD, SHOTTON, with hull carved from the solid, fitted with removable pot boiler 1920 and burner and steam line with oiler to single cylinder horizontal engine with gear drive to paddle shafts, removable paddle boxes laminated carved hull with lined fruitwood deck and hatch and deck housing, scored decks with details including anchors, covers and gilt-brass fittings as appropriate, contained within winch, water barrel, ventilators, etc., and friction rudder with contrasting wood glazed display case with brass plate -- overall access hatch, loosely mounted on a cradle stand within glazed measurements 21¼ x 34½ x 11¼in. (54 x 88 x 28.5cm.) display case. Model -- 20 x 38 x 12½in. (51 x 96.5 x 32cm.); £400-600 Case -- 24 x 44½ x 16in. (61 x 113 x 40.5cm.) Provenance: Christie’s, South Kensington: Sale 2471, 23 October 1987, lot 479 (£1,450). £2000-3000

271

82 272 273 272. A TRAVEL AGENT’S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE M/N ACHILLE LAURO AS RE-FITTED FOR 1965 modelled by G Procacci Naval Modello, Genova, with carved hull, lined paper decks, painted superstructure, poolside loungers and parasols, funnels with company livery, communication masts and rigging, set on a cut-out Plexiglas sea on wooden display base with name and maker’s plates with period Plexiglas cover -- 12 x 41in. (305 x 104cm.) £500-800

273. A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED 32’:1” SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE British India Steam Navigation Co liner Kenya modelled by R.A. Wilson with carved laminated and plated hull, with detailed deck fittings as appropriate, planked decks and with capped deck rails, masts and rigging, mounted on a raised display base with legend within wood-bound Plexiglas case, overall measurements -- 8¼ x 24¼ x 6in. (21 x 61.5 x 15.3cm.); carry box and historical data £700-900

274 274. A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK PLATING MODEL carved from laminated wood, finished in white with plate specifications inked over, mounted on wooden board inscribed ‘Ship 410’, overall measurements -- 12 x 57in. (30.5 x 144.7cm.) £500-800

275

275. A 19TH-CENTURY BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE S.S. NORHAM, BUILT BY M. PEARSE & CO. FOR CORY & CO, WEST HARTLEPOOL, 1871 carved in contrasting woods with deck housing and mounted on an ebonised display board inscribed S.S. “NORHAM” CORY, LOHDEN & Co. OWNERS, built by M. PEARSE & Co., ENGINES BY BLAIR & Co., STOCKTON ON TEES (missing funnel) -- 12 x 58in. (30.5 x 147.5cm.) A relatively small cargo steamer of 826 tons, the Norham was launched on 18th July 1871, but on the 17th December that year she collided with the S.S. Neptune south east of Gibraltar and sank. £1500-2000

83 276

276. A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER- OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF THE 100-GUN FIRST RATE OCEAN with planked and pinned hull, open gun ports with brass guns, deck fittings including casks, capstans, companionways, decklights etc., bound masts with yards and s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted on a bone and ebony marquetry case within a contemporary strawwork case with bone feet (sympathetic restoration overall, base later), overall measurements -- 12 x 13 x 6in. (30.5 x 33 x 15cm.) £10000-15000 276 (detail)

84 277

277. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF A 100-GUN SHIP the planked and pinned hull with scrolled head, carved stern with plain quarter galleries, baleen wales, open gun ports with red-painted lids and brass guns, planed and pinned deck with simple fittings, bound masts with yards, s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on a strawwork and bone display base with glass dome cover. Overall measurements -- 18 x 18in. (46 x 46cm.) £4000-6000

85 278

278. 279. A SMALL BUILDER’S BOARDROOM MODEL OF THE ORE A BUILDER’S MODEL FOR THE TWIN SCREW MOTOR YACHT CARRIER M.V. EASTERN MATSU BUILT BY KURE ZOSENSHO FOR MEDINA, BUILT BY SAUNDERS-ROE, LTD., EAST COWES, 1932 WORLD ORE CARRIERS LTD, 1963 the carved and painted hull fitted with twin propellers on ‘A’ with laminated carved wooden hull with gilt-brass fittings as brackets, with scored and lined deck and carved cabins, silvered appropriate, contained within perspex display case with builder’s metal fittings including deck rails, navigation lights, davits with and model maker’s plate (some rigging parted, display base dinghy, winches etc., mounted on two columns within glazed varnish lifting) -- 11½ x 29½ x 6¾in. (29 x 75 x 17cm.) wooden case -- 12 x 28½in. (30.5 x 72.5cm.); together with the Purchased by the Liberian Stallion Transports Inc. 1975 and sold for original builder’s specification on headed paper for Eustace F.S. breaking in 1978 at Mukaishima, Japan. Watkins; and the blueprint plans £700-900 (3) Provenance: Christie’s, Brighton and Hove Engineerium Sale, October 22nd 1979, lot 266 (£400) £2000-3000

279 279

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280. A BUILDER’S PRESENTATION MODEL FOR THE MS SPARREHOLM BUILT BY KOCKUMS MALMO 1944 FOR SVENSKA AMERIKA LINIEN with laminated and carved hull, painted deck fittings, masts and superstructure, mounted within original glazed wooden case with builder’s structure plates. Overall dimensions -- 22½ x 57 x 11½in. (57 x 145 x 29cm.) Sparreholm was renamed Begonia (1967); Begonia Rex (1968) and Tilde (1970). Damaged by fire on 2nd July 1971, she was broken up at La Spezia in July 1974. £2000-4000

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281. BUILDER’S MODEL OF THE COASTAL CARGO SHIP SVERIGE BUILT BY KIELLERS MEKANISKA WERKSTAD, GÖTEBORG FOR SVENSKA LLOYD 1869 with laminated and carved hull, secured lacquered decks with painted fittings, masts with standing and running rigging and full suit of stitched linen sails, mounted on two turned brass columns, in original glazed display case with builder’s plates and additional copper plaques at each end impressed A/B SKEPPSMODELL GÖTEBORG, overall cased measurements -- 36¼ x 58½ x 19in. (92 x 148.5 x 48.2cm.) Built in 1871, Sverige was a small cargo ship of 454 tons. She was wrecked at Domesnaes on the 25th November 1892. £6000-8000

88 282

282. A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER- OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN SHIP MODEL OF A 74-GUN SHIP with planked and pinned hull, brass guns protruding from ports with raised lids, finely carved stern and quarter galleries, polychrome warrior figurehead, planked deck with carved deck rings, stove pipe and carved fittings, whale deck with two fitted boats over, bell, bound masts with yards, s’tuns’l booms, decorated fighting top-screens, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted on a herringbone-pattern strawwork base with bone trim, secured within a stained pine glazed case with urn finials later( ) -- measurements including case 23 x 23 x 8½in. (58.5 x 58.5 x 21.5cm.) £12000-18000

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283. A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF THE 74-GUN FRIGATE MARS with planked and pinned hull, baleen main wales, gun ports with raised lids and sprung retracting guns, polychrome warrior-form figurehead, finely carved stern and quarter galleries, planked deck with inlaid baleen and carved deck fittings, bound masts with standing and running rigging with long boats strung out, yards with s’tuns’l booms, mounted on display base within Plexiglas domed cover. Model -- 17½ x 22in. (44.5 x 56cm.); Case -- 21½ x 29½ x 11in. (54.5 x 75 x 28cm.) H.M.S. Mars, a 74 gun Third Rate designed by Sir John Henslow in 1788, was built at and launched on 25 October 1794 for a total cost of £50,270. Although ordered and laid down whilst England was at peace, the long war with Revolutionary France had already begun by the time she was completed and was thus an extremely valuable addition to the fleet as soon as she was commissioned for sea. Initially assigned to the formidable Channel Fleet, she was still serving in Home Waters when, on 12 April 1798, she sailed from St. Helens as part of Lord Bridport’s squadron bound for Brest. On 21 April, whilst patrolling in company with H.M.S. Ramillies (74), and two , Mars sighted two enemy vessels, closely followed by a third French warship, to which they gave chase. The bigger Frenchman proved to be the 74-gun Hercule and, after three hours, Mars brought her to action in what was to prove a classic engagement between two perfectly matched adversaries. With Ramillies trailing behind due to a lost foretopmast, and the frigate Jason too far off to participate, the two opposing 74’s became entangled thanks to fouled anchor cables and opened fire at 10.30pm. After a merciless pounding lasting two hours, Hercule could stand it no longer and struck her colours shortly after midnight. Damage to both hulls was extensive, the ships’ starboard sides being burnt cinder black, whilst losses were high on each vessel including Mars’ commander Captain Alexander Hood. A nephew of both Lords Bridport and Hood, he was mortally wounded about twenty minutes into the action and died just as Hercule surrendered. Hercule herself was coaxed back into , repaired at a cost of£12,500, such was the damage inflicted by Mars’ thunderous broadsides, and eventually absorbed into the Royal Navy under her own name. Mars went on to serve in the Lee Column at Trafalgar where her captain (George Duff) was killed with 28 others in the action. Thereafter, after a spell in the Baltic, Mars was laid up in 1812, fitted as receiving ship at Portsmouth and broken up there in 1823. £20000-30000

END OF SALE

The next sale is 26th October, closing for entries 2nd September.

90 Notes Artist Index

Bacon, H.L. 16 Jenkins, G.H. 17 Roux, A.J.A. 9, 11, 12 Cheong, J. 23 Kittoe, E.H. 13 Roux, F.G. 5 Chinese School 22, 23, 24, Knight, G. 21 Roux, J.A. 7 25, 26 Mackrill, M.R. 27, 28, 29, Roux, L. 6, 10 Chinnery, G. 210 30, 31, 32 Roux, M-A. 8 Dixon, C.E. 19 Muncaster, C. 14 Tufnell, E. 18 Dunn, L. 15 Robins, T.S. 3

Ship Name Index

Achille Lauro, M.V. 272 Hastings, H.M.S. 136 Pride of Port 266 Alert, H.M.S. 82 Hertha, S.M.S. 25 Queen Elizabeth, R.M.S. 166 Alert, P.T. 270 Hood, H.M.S. 98 Queen Mary, R.M.S. 156, 157, Alexandria, S.S. 246 Indian Empire 124 158, 159, 160, Association, H.M.S. 73, 74 Indorita, M.V. 271 161, 162, 163, 164 Bellona, H.M.S. 258 Iron Duke, H.M.S. 16 Raleigh, H.M.S. 87 Bold Pioneer, H.M.S. 267 Kent, H.M.S. 261 Rangitiki, S.S. 167 Carpathia, R.M.S. 155 Kenya, S.S. 273 Reventazon, S.S. 20 Centurion, H.M.S. 87 King George V, H.M.S. 91 Royal George, H.M.S. 79 Challenger, H.M.S. 39, 47, 50 La Babiole 12 Rurik 94 Chevron, H.M.S. 92 La Galithée 7 Salsette, R.M.S. 24 Citizen S, P.S. 13 Lightning, H.M.S. 49 Shadow 269 Concord,H.M.S. 92 Lily, P.S. 13 Sirius, H.M.S. 92 Cymric, R.M.S. 19 Lusitania, R.M.S. 145 Sparreholm, M.S. 280 Discovery, H.M.S. 80 Manzanares, S.S. 20 Spartiate, H.M.S. 71 Eastern Matsu, M.V. 278 Mars, H.M.S. 283 Steiermark, S.S. 15 Eastern Queen 22 Mauretania, R.M.S. 145, 146 Sverige,S.S. 281 Egypt, R.M.S. 165 Mavis 253 Titanic, R.M.S. 153, 154, 155 Empress of Britain, S.S. 167 Medina, M.Y. 279 Trafalgar, H.M.S. 86 Empress of Japan, S.S. 26, 167 Minotaur, H.M.S. 70 True Briton 247 Ethel Gwendoline, S.S. 133 Missouri, U.S.S. 260 Venerable, H.M.S. 85 Flying Cloud 129 Monarch of Bermuda, S.S. 167 Vengeance, H.M.S. 88 Foudroyant, H.M.S. 66, 67, 115 Narcissus, H.M.S. 87 Victoria & Albert II, R.Y. 89, 90 Galatea, H.M.S. 16 Norham, S.S. 275 Victory, H.M.S. 68, 69, 128 Glenericht 23 Ocean, H.M.S. 276 Virago, H.M.S. 262 Glory, H.M.S. 92 Orion, H.M.S. 264 Warspite, H.M.S. 17 Great Britain, S.S. 134 Otter, H.M.S. 51 World Jury, M.V. 139 Great Western, S.S. 134 Pallas, H.M.S. 72 Wren, H.M.S. 263 Hampton 10 Porcupine, H.M.S.S. 49

92 Instrument Makers Index

Adams, G. 170 Frodsham & Keene 221 Nairne & Blunt 188 Adie & Son 231, 239 Gargory, J. 226 Negretti & Zambra 200 Arnold, J. 178 Gilbert & Gilkerson 197 Newton, Son & Berry 171 Bastien 175 Gregory, H. 240 Pillischer, M. 209 Bradford, I. 228 Harris & Sons 199 Plath, C. 230 Cary 204, 214 Heath & Co. 235, 237 Pyefinch, H. 189 Cary, J. & W. 177 Heath, G. 241 Ross 191 Casartelli, J. 225 Henry House & Son 236 Semitecolo, L. 185 Claxton & Prothero 218 J.A. Reynolds & Co. 222 Short & Mason 220 Dennis, J.C. 232 Kelvin, White & Sutton 179 Snart, J. 207 Dixey, C.W. 223 Lapie, P. 176 Spencer, Browning & Co. 233 Dollond, G. 187 Leica / Leitz, E. 201 Springer, J. 196 Dollond, P. & J. 184 Mercer, T. 179 Stanley 215 Drury, W. 190 Meredith, N. 213 Strelin & Ferschel 180 Ebsworth 212 Messer, B. 211 Troughton & Simms 216 Elliott Bros. 217 Moore & Son 206 Forest, J. 172, 173 Moore, J. 205

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