Four Day Auction of Boutique, Silver, Jewellery & Watches with Furniture & Interiors (Macclesfield)(#209) 16/11/2021 5:00 PM GMT CLOSED Auction Information PDF Catalogue Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Textiles Jewellery Carpets & Rugs Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Boutique - Handbags Scientific Instruments Clocks: Carriage Clocks Charles Horner Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Decorative Arts Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Oils Coins Metalware Lighting Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Boutique - Accessories Collectors' Items Barometers Watches: Pocket Watches Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Doulton Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Watercolours Boutique - Jewellery Bronze and Other Sculptures Clocks: Longcase Clocks Antiquities & Ancient Artefacts Militaria: Section 1 Firearms Books Militaria Ceramics Watches: Wristwatches Furniture: Traditional Beswick Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Prints Boutique - Clothing Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Clocks: Wall Clocks Silver Furniture: Reproduction Ephemera Militaria: Guns Ceramic Figures Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Garden and Architectural Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Pictures: Traditional Oils Boutique - Shoes/Boots Sporting Clocks: Mantel clocks Plated Items Furniture: Mirrors Glass Kibler Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-28 of 28. View Lot 2644 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1808-1882), British naturalist, a collection of four hand written letters from 1868, one written and autographed by Charles Darwin and three written by Emma Darwin and believed signed by Charles Darwin. The four letters are written to Charles Caster Tait, a British naturalist and author of ‘The Birds of Portugal’, published by Witherby in 1924. The letter written by Charles is dated Feb 24th 1869 on Down, Bromley Kent headed paper, a letter dated Feb 2 is written by Emma, Estimate£4,000 - £6,000Winning Bid£25,200StatusCLOSED Condition ReportDown, Bromley, Kent, Feb 2nd Dear Sir, I thank you for your very obliging letter, I am pleased to hear that you have been interested in my works. As you have been so kind as to offer me some notes, I should be glad to receive any facts about which you feel positive; but I should mention that owing to having so many other subjects in hand I do not intend to follow up any further the subject of variation under domestication. With respect to the tail less dogs, there would be I fear much difficulty in determining how far the unknown causes, which occasionally lead in other countries dogs to be born without tails, have acted more energetically in Lisbon;- how far the result has followed from the cutting off of the tail; but if you should render your case highly probable it would be very interesting. Since the publication of my book I have beard of several other apparent cases of inherited mutations. I would beg a favour of you, if you should get acquainted with any good botanists, viz to send me a living young plant of the rare Drosophyllum Lusitanicum, which grown is sandy places in Portugal, I have long wished to try a series of experiments on this plant. With your taste for natural history, you must feel very isolated, and I can fully sympathise with you. I am sorry to say that my health is weak, so that I have little spare strength or time to do more than to answer very briefly the numerous letters which I receive from various quarters. With every good wish pray believe me dear Sir yours very faithfully Charles Darwin. P.S. At present I am engaged on ?? ?? ?? differences in animals of all kinds and would be grateful for any information. Down, Bromley, Kent Feb 24th 1869 Dear Sir Your kinship is ?? ?? about the Drosophyllum. If the box (which if possible had better be carved out with bars?) must be addressed to ?? own is ??, please address it to my Brothers House. “6. Queen Anne St, Cavendish Sqr” Otherwise address it as at the head of this note “for Rail” in either case please mark “living plants, to be forwarded immediately”. You seem to be collecting numerous ?? about the dogs tails; I would suggest that you should keep a list of the cases, observing what dogs in the several cases are known not to be related; for the number of cases alone should be evidence of the intervention of ?? new cases. Did I mention in my former letter that I am very anxious to learn about the rate of development of the horns in breeds of sheep in which the Rams alone are horned (viz Merino) and in ?? breeds in which both sexes are horned, -especially if ?? can ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? What ought to be observed is whether the horns are ?? larger on ?? at one or ?? two or ?? 3 months age, in ?? ?? breed than in the other. I hear from ?? that in Merinos ?? ?? the horns can just be felt at birth. I should much like to hear your facts in ?? ?? nature of ?? variations. Dear Sir, yours truly ?? Ch Darwin. If you find the Dros, I should much wish to know whether it grows in sandy, peaty or clay soil – whether damp or dry, whether sunny or shady. Beckenham, April 18th Dear Sir I am not very well owing to a fall from my horse and so write a line myself to thank you for your very obliging letter of April 13th. I hear the plants are going on very well but I have not been to go for a week to the greenhouse. I have this day ordered my Orelius Book to be sent to Messrs ?? and will send them my paper on Climbing Plants. I feel I am that there will be no occasion to trouble you for any more of the Drosophyllum. ?? I go to London I will enquire if the Secretary of the Zoolog Soc whether they wish for any quadrupeds or birds from Portugal. With many thanks for all your kindness, believe me, yours sincerely, Ch Darwin. Beckenham, June 1st Dear Sir I am very much obliged for your kindness in bringing me the specimens; but I am so much over worked and have so little strength that I shall not be able to examine them for a considerable time. You can send them if you please address to me at Orpington Station ?? Railway (So be called for) If you stay some little time in England and would feel inclined to come to dinner and sleep here I should be much pleased to thank you in person for all your kindness; but at present |I feel so far from well and having lately had so many visitors, that I am sure the excitement of more conversation would quite knock me up. I hope that you will enjoy your visit in England and I remain, Dear Sir, yours faithfully, Ch Darwin View details Estimate£4,000 - £6,000Winning Bid£25,200StatusCLOSED Lot 2645 IVAN TURGENEV (1808-1883), RUSSIAN NOVELIST; two handwritten and signed letters in French addressed to 'My Dear Friend', one dated 'Dimanche 6th Oct 1872, Paris 48 Rue de Douai', the other dated 'Paris 48 Rue de Douai, 5th Mai 73', the former two sides of writing on a folded page, the other with three sides of writing on a folded page; with a handwritten work in a similar hand in French with cover sheet titled 'A Madame Malibran', and nine sides of text (3) In the Mai 5th letter, he discusses Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,300StatusCLOSED Condition ReportTRANSCRIPT OF LETTERS: Paris 48 rue de Douai Wednesday, March 5 1873 My dear friend, I had left your first letter without an answer — I don’t want to burden any more my conscience by not answering your second letter — and so — here goes! I am very happy from the success you had at the concert that [ineligible] gave — and the whole family rejoiced in this. It’s another nail on the coffin for those two Englishmen. I am also happy to see that you definitely trust André — you will have to get through bad times, but at last with perseverance, your name and your talent, you will end up succeeding and you won’t need to do those constant trips via railroad anymore, those are so tiring and so little “remunerative”. I didn’t answer your question about performing a concert here — because truthfully there wasn’t any good answer to this question. If it was to pave the way for moving here — I wouldn’t have anything to say, but if you look at it from a monetary point of view, this concert would make you earn — with the biggest probabilities! — close to zero. It’s not worth, you’ll agree, the hassle of going on a trip — and meanwhile losing the money you could have earned over here. Everyone is alright here; everyone was down with the flu — your aunt, to start with — but it’s over; I am the only one still stuck in my bedroom. It was rough — I am always down with a sickness like that — if it’s not with this one, it’s with another. We all started taking homeopathy — and I think we were right to do so. Your aunt works like only she can; then she has a whole bunch of concerts to give — most of them for charities. Best wishes to you all and to dad; for him, I’m preparing an epistle in verse regarding a certain point he discussed in a letter to Mme Naudet. I heartily shake your hand and I am Your loyal, Sunday, October 6, 1872 Paris 48 rue de Douai My dear friend, I am annoyed to hear you still suffer from your cold — but at least, you don’t have pertussis, it’s still something. No telegram from Ullmann — but there has been a letter from Mme Benedetti that Bardot sent to you; let’s hope it tells good news. I think you did well not to go to Yxelles. Mme Viardot came back from Nohant and she returns to work tomorrow. My gout still doesn’t want to let go of me; however, I am doing better and I hope I will soon be well like everyone else. You will resume your chess games with me when you’ll come back to Paris. You will have to settle in Paris eventually. Best regards to your father and a sincere [illegible] to you [signature] PS: The letter to M. Ambroselli was sent the moment you departed. View details Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,300StatusCLOSED Lot 2646 EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG (1843-1907); six handwritten and signed letters in German to William Augener, Grieg's publisher in London. The letters are dated between 1897 and 1898 from Leipzig and Kopenhagen (sic) and talk of many things including Augener's engagement and wedding, Grieg asking William to send photographs to specific people including 'The Little Buffalo', reference to an article from 'Record' in 1898 and the composer writes "The Composer Grieg has counselled a return to the method of Moz Estimate£1,000 - £2,000Winning Bid£2,250StatusCLOSED Condition Reporttest View details Estimate£1,000 - £2,000Winning Bid£2,250StatusCLOSED Lot 2647 WILLIAM AUGENER; a collection of autographs, letters and notes from composers and musicians, to include Edward Dannreuther (x2), George De Angelis (this short letter mentions that he has 'signed the copyright paper), Georg Goltermann - German Cellist' (x2), Carl Reinecke - German Composer, (x2) possibly Zygmunt Noskowski, Felix Borowski and Giuseppe Garibaldi (23) PROVENANCE: The letters and signatures have come from a larger collection of letters and printed ephemera which the vendor recentl Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 2648 ROBERT MALAISE BOWYER NICHOLS (1893-1944) WAR POET; a handwritten and signed letter / poem on 27 Mulberry Walk headed paper, indistinctly dated and addressed to ‘Dear Vassali ?’, this begins “The Sun, that now sinks in the sea, arose from the sea”, with a further handwritten hymn/poem, signed and dated ‘June 24th 33’ which begins ‘Blessed be love that has by sense ?!” and a letter to Rose Standfield from Ellen ? dated ‘Aug 7th 36’, in which Ellen states that she encloses two original ‘M.S.S of Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 2649 JOHN STANDFIELD; a collection of ephemera relating to Standfield of Clark & Standfield, father of Amy Augener and father-in-law of William Augener the London publisher of Edvard Grieg the composer. Comprising letters, a Russian passport, a white paper ‘Earl of Derby’ passport number 25490 dated 1877, a 1898 marriage certificate for Amy and William Augener, several letters to Amy, other letters and ephemera relating to Russian projects including the building/re-erection of a ‘off-shore floating d Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED Lot 2650 AUGENER LTD; London publisher for Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, a large collection of company and personal documents, letters, note books, photographs and other ephemera relating to the publisher and his family, mostly pre or post World War II and to members of the Standfield family,, to include baptism certificates, hand written letters, two Vaughn & Freeman photographs, a linocut of trees by T.B. Pitfield, and a cabin indistinctly signed, other drawings, scrap books, prints etc, in a metal Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Lot 2651 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL; a Christmas card sent to his son, Randolph, inscribed 'To Randolph with love and Christmas wishes from Papa', two postcards from Randolph Churchill to Mrs King, and Mrs King's diary from 1963. Mrs King was the vendor's grandmother who worked for Randolph Churchill at Stour. She obtained these items from Randolph during her time with him. Her diary extracts include some fascinating notes including a helicopter arriving to pick up Sir Winston for a lunch appointment with H Estimate£300 - £500Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£300 - £500Winning Bid£210StatusCLOSED Lot 2652 SIR ROPBERT PEEL, 2ND BARONET (1788-1850); an interesting collection of Peel family letters and ephemera from George Peel, cousin of Sir Robert, to include an interesting Peel family diary of expenditure and historic events from March 30th 1842 to July 30th 1867, this includes an entry dated Saturday 29th June 1850 which covers the death of Robert Peel, part of the entry reads ‘This evening about half past 6 on Constitution Hill London, Sir Robert Peel was thrown from his horse and most seriousl Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£500StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£500StatusCLOSED Lot 2653 ALAN BENNETT; a typed and signed letter to Adrian Bedson dated Tuesday September 6th 1960, where he discusses his position as a junior lecturer at Magdalen College, with a receipt from Beyer Peacock Gorton Ltd for the purchase of a second-hand saddle tank for 95 in 1966 in the name of Mr Bedson and five photographs of the purchased tank including Mr Bedson seated upon the tank, a letter to Mr Bedson from the Ffestiniog Railway dated 28th September 1966 and three other items. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 2654 TOWER OF LONDON INTEREST; a mid-19th century brass bound oak pocket watch box, the internal pocket watch tray with blue paperbacking which is inscribed 'This piece of oak was part of a beam of the Council Chamber in the Tower of London, it was built in the reign of William the Conqueror in the year of our lord 1080 and restored by order of the ? Concert in 1862. The entire box from a beam of the White Tower. length 12cm. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£840StatusCLOSED Condition ReportExterior with general light age wear scratches and scuffs, internally generally ok. There are some knocks to the edge of the pocket watch tray. The inscribed writing to the back of the tray is clearly readable. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£840StatusCLOSED Lot 2655 QUEEN ELIZABETH II AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH: a black and white photograph depicting Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh in in Buckingham Palace, signed to mount ' Elizabeth R, Philip and dated 1955, 29x23cm, inset in brass frame. Estimate£400 - £600StatusUnsold Condition ReportPhotograph appears to the stuck down to backing mount, the philip signature appears to be over written, blemish to mount right edge, photograph is wavy. View details Estimate£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot 2656 A design for the insignia for G.R Squadron 202 Royal Air Force, with printed signature for King George to the top left corner, 16.5cm x 10.5cm Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£15StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£15StatusCLOSED Lot 2657 ISAAC WOOD OF YORK; a 19th century Last Will and Testament, in modern frame, 27 x 59cm. Estimate£30 - £50StatusUnsold View details Estimate£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot 2658 HARRY HOUDINI; a red and blue printed theatre bill for the Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead, dated Monday May 29th 1905, 88 x 28cm, later framed and glazed. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£980StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere are some slight water marks to the bottom edge of the playbill and the paper is browned throughout. We believe this poster to be original and not a later reprint. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£980StatusCLOSED Lot 2659 ARGYLE THEATRE, BIRKENHEAD; two theatre playbills, one for Fred Karno's Comedian in Mumming Birds', dated Monday July 15th 1907, the other advertising Tommy Burns and dated Monday November 11th 1889, the larger 88 x 27.5cm, (2). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe frame for the Mumming Birds' poster is cracked and the glass will need replacing, the Mumming Birds' also has water marks along the bottom left and bottom edges, both with some brown spots here and there throughout, heavier on the larger poster, both papers are generally browned throughout and with some old creases and crinkles. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 2660 ROYAL COURT THEATRE, LIVERPOOL; four bound volumes of theatre programmes dated from 1956 through to 1965, together with a framed painted wood panel of the Liverpool Play House, a costume design for an Art Deco female dancer, a watercolour costume design by Judith Croft, a Russian limited edition print of a wise man and three further items. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 2661 MANCHESTER INTEREST; a 19th century printed silk advertising notice for Ancoats Bazaar in aid of St Andrew's Church with ‘The Sale of Useful and Ornamental Work in the Town Hall, King-Street, Manchester’, the notice states that the proceeds of the bazaar will be devoted to the ‘liquidation of debt’ of 480 on the Sunday School and also the debt of 300 on the organ of the church, 32.5cm x 24cm (1). Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Condition ReportThe silk has been folded, probably since new, and has light wear and marks t the edges. Considering age the condition is good. View details Estimate£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot 2662 ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY; a 19th century handwritten letter from the secretary on company headed paper. The letter reads, ‘London 21st April 1852. Captain W. B. Loit, General Colonel Superintendant. Sir, I am desired by the Court of Directors to express to you their full appreciation of kindness with which (at much personal inconvenience) you proceeded to Chagres, New York and Havana upon important business of their company in the month of October last; and I am to add that the Court high Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Lot 2663 A collection of mostly Edwardian and early 20th century postcards, 250 plus, to include WWI silks, images of war damage in Europe including several of Ypres, historic scenes, sweethearts, several of Chester, other British views and some French Art Deco beauties, in one album. Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Lot 2664 A collection of Edwardian and early 20th century postcards, 350 plus, to include six with images of bathing beauties after Jean Lasalle printed by Raphael Tuck & Son, twelve with portraits of composers, six French postcards of beauties after Harbour, various German postcards decorated with dancers including Manja and Tamar Karsawina, with various other subjects including some of Egypt, real photographic, views of castles, beaches and churches in Great Britain, other smaller cards and photographs Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Lot 2665 A collection of Edwardian and later postcards, 130 plus, in one album and loose, to include a large selection of postcards with portraits and views of Ceylon. Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 2666 A collection of one hundred and eighty mostly early 20th century postcards, to include, humorous, Mickey Mouse, beach scenes, cars and vehicles, animals, Rene Cloke, Mabel Lucie Attwell, etc, in one album (1). Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSED Lot 2667 Two albums containing a quantity of assorted cigarette cards including Ogdens examples, a Victorian photograph album, a quantity of assorted postcards including humorous examples. Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 2668 A collection of British and World stamps to include a Strand album, and an Improved Postage album, with a selection of reproduction cigarette cards, (qty). Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 2669 A small selection of vintage motorcar booklets to include THE MODERN MOTOR CAR, with sectional diagrams (9). Estimate£20 - £40StatusUnsold View details Estimate£20 - £40StatusUnsold Lot 2670 MANCHESTER UNITED; a United v Sheffield Wednesday football programme ‘United Will Go- On’, the first home programme for 19th February 1958 following the Munich air accident, the team sheet blank and not filled in; with a 48-49 Matt Busby programme and a United v Fulham FA semi-final tie dated March 22nd 1958 (3). Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe programme does have the token present. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 2671 RUPERT; The New Rupert Book 1946, The Rupert Book 1948, More Adventures of Rupert 1947 and Rupert a Daily Express Annual 1949 with four further Rupert the Bear Annuals including More Adventures Of Rupert 1937, three Lion Annuals for 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1957, six copies of The Beano Book and three copies of The Magic-Beano Book (af). Estimate£50 - £70StatusUnsold View details Estimate£50 - £70StatusUnsold Items per page 122448 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
