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Toy Soldiers & Figures Literature The Collectors Sale Tuesday 12 February 2013 at 11am Oxford The Collectors Sale Tuesday 12 February 2013 at 11am Oxford Bonhams Enquiries Sale Number: 20677 The following symbol is used Banbury Road, Mechanical Music and to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s Shipton on Cherwell, Scientific Instruments Catalogue: £10 premium Kidlington Leigh Gotch Oxford OX5 1JH +44 (0) 20 8963 2839 Customer Services † VAT 20% on hammer price www.bonhams.com [email protected] Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Viewing Dolls and Teddy Bears * VAT on imported items at Saturday 9 February 9am to 12pm Rachel Gotch Please see back of catalogue a preferential rate of 5% on Monday 11 February 9am to 4.30pm +44 (0) 20 8963 2838 for important notice to bidders hammer price and the prevailing Tuesday 12 February 9am to 11am [email protected] rate on buyer’s premium Illustrations Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will Toys, Trains and Soldiers Inside front cover: Lot 19 (detail) • Bids be added to the Hammer Price or +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Leigh Gotch the Buyer’s Premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 8963 2839 To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] Y These lots are subject to CITES www.bonhams.com regulations, please read the Soldier Consultant information in the back of the Please note that bids should be James Opie catalogue. submitted no later than 24 hours +44 (0) 20 8963 2836 prior to the sale. [email protected] New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bids not being processed. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate in excess of £200. Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, Fergus Lyons, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information A4095 Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Banbury Rd A4095 Woodstock Oxford Rd A4260 Upper Campsfield Rd Oxford and A40 A44 Airfield Oxford Kidlington By Rail: Oxford train station Bids Saleroom Regional Director Condition Reports +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Banbury Road, Michael Wynell-Mayow +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Shipton on Cherwell, We highly recommend that To bid via the internet please visit Kidlington Valuation Enquiries potential buyers make efforts www.bonhams.com Oxford Anna Pelly-Fry to inspect the lots in Oxford in OX5 1JH Carol Knight person, during our public Payments viewing. +44 (0) 1865 853 640 Arts & Antiques We expect that there may be +44 (0) 1865 372 722 fax Buyers Toby Messenger a large number of condition +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Alicia Rogers enquiries, and the effect will +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Offices be that clients submitting long Furniture, Works of Art, and elaborate requests are Sellers Henley likely to be dealt with after Payment of sale proceeds Guy Haskell Clocks, Barometers & Carpets those with short and specific +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 The Coach House requests. +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 66 Northfield End Michael Wynell-Mayow Henley on Thames Michael Welch Oxon RG9 2JN Toby Messenger For more technical Valuations, taxation and Simon Davies heritage +44 (0) 1491 413 636 questions, we suggest +44 (0)20 7468 8340 +44 (0) 1491 413 637 fax contacting the specialists Pictures +44 (0)20 7468 5860 fax by telephone. [email protected] Winchester Alicia Rogers The Red House Catalogue subscriptions Hyde Street Books To obtain other catalogues or Winchester John Walwyn-Jones Hants take out an annual subscription: SO23 7DX Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1962 862 515 Jewellery +44 (0) 1666 502200 Frances Noble +44 (0) 1962 865 166 fax +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Tessa Parry [email protected] Isabella Mendes Hannah Ibison Shipping For information and estimates Arms & Militaria on domestic and international Robin Lucas shipping as well as export licenses Chris Allen please contact Bonhams Shipping Department on: Silver +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 Michael Welch +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] Contents Subject Lot numbers Scientific, Observation and Navigation 1 - 15 Amusement and Skill 16 - 22 Wireless and Pneumatica 23 - 25 Phonographs and Gramophones 26 - 64 Small Musical Boxes 65 - 69a Cylinder Musical Boxes 70 - 89 Disc Musical Boxes 90 - 93 Dolls & Teddy Bears Teddy Bears & Soft Toys 94 - 115 Pelham Puppets 116 - 128 Juvenalia 129 - 133 Dolls 134 - 188 Toys, Trains and Diecast Hornby Dublo & OO Gauge Trains 189 - 202 Trains 0 Gauge and Larger 203 - 232 Gauge I: 10mm to 1ft Scale Trains 233 - 237 Models, Miscellaneous & Tinplate Toys 238 - 260 Diecast 267 - 288 Britains, Toy Soldiers & Figures Britains Toy Soldiers 1950’s 900 - 918 Military Bands, Ken Pizey Esq Collection 919 - 974 Nostalgia Series 975 - 986 Other Toy Soldiers 987 - 1176 6 1 Scientific, Observation & Navigation 1 4 A Gould type microscope, French, mid 19th century, A good Frederick Cox compound monocular microscope, English, the mahogany case fitted with brass column, lens tube, three objectives circa 1870, and set of glass slides 6in (15cm) wide signed F Cox, 100 Newgate Street, London, the student-type instrument £200 - 300 with rack and pinion and lever and screw focusing, in fitted mahogany case with ocular, objective, live box, and stage forceps, the case 8 1/2in (21.5cm) high 2* £200 - 300 A Tiyoda compound monocular field microscope, Japanese, 1930’s, signed Tiyoda Tokyo No. 3895, in fitted vase with three oculars, three 5 objectives and set of slides, the microscope 11in (28cm) high A small Ross brass monocular microscope, English, late 19th £200 - 300 century, with rack and pinion focussing, two objectives and two oculars, in 3 mahogany case, the microscope 10in. (26.5cm) high Two student’s compound monocular microscopes, English, circa £100 - 150 1870, one signed M Pillischer, London No. 426 in fitted mahogany case with 6 ocular, two objectives and analyser; the other unsigned, in mahogany A Leitz Wetzlar monocular micoscope, circa 1895, case with objective and bench condenser. (2) No. 31961, £150 - 200 with rack and pinion focussing, Cook, Troughton and Simms bed finished in black, lacquered brass body, with four objectives and three oculars, in fitted mahogany case with maker’s testing card, dated - 14in. (36cm) high £150 - 200 4 | Bonhams 7 A Casella copper and brass hypsometer, English, late 19th century, for the measurement of altitude, complete with water boiler, burner and mercury thermometer all housed in leather carrying case with copy of “Tables for Showing Heights” £150 - 200 8 A 6.5in.(16.5cm) radius micrometer sextant, by Hughes & Son Ltd. London, reading from -5 to 120 degrees and stamped 56556 on the arc, the index arm with constant tangent clamp, illumination lamp and micrometer, fitted with two horizon and four sun shades, in a mahogany carrying case with dark lenses, three telescopes 10 and oil tube, bearing a test certificate from the National Physical Laboratory dated April 1950. £150 - 250 9 A C Sickler brass theodolite, German, mid 19th century, signed C.Sickler No.62 Carlsruhe, with silver scales and verniers, magnifiers and telescope mounted in a trunnion 13in (33cm) high £200 - 300 10 13 A brass kaleidoscope in case, English, third quarter of the 19th Two brass pantographs in cases, English, early 19th century, century, one signed Dollond, London the other Dancer, London, each of standard the lacquered brass tube with eyepiece and ground glass disc of design with lead weights in tapering mahogany cases, the larger 28in coloured glass, in card cased with red leather cover, 6 1/4in (16cm) long (71cm) long (2) £500 - 800 £300 - 500 11 14 A 7/8-inch Dollond silvered brass spyglass, English, early 19th A pedestal Engine Room telegraph. century, With brass control head and black dial, with coloured repeater needle, stamped DOLLOND LONDON, the silvered draw engraved James South on a cast plinth with square base. 43ins. (110cm)high. to his friend T.R. Robinson, with two focusing numbers corresponding to £150 - 200 the two eyepiece lenses changed by lever, the tube black lacquered, in leather covered wood case 15 £150 - 180 A ship’s bulkhead-mounted brass engine room telegraph Brass face with coloured infill and coloured repeater needle. 12ins. 12Y (31cm)diam. Three spy glasses, early 19th century, £150 - 200 one ivory spy glass with brass draw signed Plossl in Wein; a Dollond spyglass with stained ivory eyepiece and lacquered tube and a brass telescope with single draw and two alternate oculars changed by lever (3) £200 - 300 The Collectors Sale | 5 16 20 Amusement & Skill 16 20 A good Bryans Fruitbowl wall/pedestal machine, A Bryans Tick-Tock wall/pedestal machine, converted to 2p.
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