for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Thursday 20th of April 2023
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| 705 | A quantity of loose album pages of mint and used world stamps including Spain, France, Denmark, Germany etc, in a red plastic folder | 40-60 |
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| 706 | A green album of mint and used GB stamps Victoria to Elizabeth II including penny reds, green album of mint and used stamps George VI to Elizabeth II, stock book of used Commonwealth stamps - India, Australia etc, stock book of Victorian and later used stamps and a stock book of world stamps | 40-60 |
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| 707 | A Royal Mail Millennium stamp album together with 5 Royal Mail Special stamp albums nos.14, 18, 20, 22 and 23. | 40-60 |
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| 708 | A blue stamp album of world stamps - GB, Austria, Belgium, Ceylon, Germany and India | 30-50 |
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| 709 | Four albums of cigarette cards including Players, Abdulla and Company, Churchman's of Footballers and Boxers, 3 albums of Players cigarette cards, an album of Wills World Flowers, Geoffrey Phillips album of Coronation of Their Majesties, 4 Wills and 1 other Churchman album of mixed cards and a small box of trade cards | 50-80 |
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| 710 | Three albums of cigarette cards including John Players, Wills etc | 50-75 |
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| 711 | Francis Pitt Brooke Bond tea cards - British Birds and other tea and trade card albums | 30-50 |
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| 712 | A Jones sewing machine marked Jones Hand Machine as supplied to the Princess of Wales, complete with instructions | 50-75 |
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| 713 | An antique leaf shaped spear with 8cm x 3cm point | 40-60 |
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| 714 | Four polished onyx spheres 6cm and 3 ditto eggs | 30-50 |
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| 715 | A 19th Century spelter figure of a standing warrior raised on a circular base 56cm x 16cm | 40-60 |
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| 716 | A cast iron figure of a standing Eve raised on a rectangular base, base marked Eve 39cm x 9cm x 9cm | 50-75 |
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| 717 | Approximately 346 South African first day covers 1975 - 1994 together with 2 empty first day cover albums | 30-50 |
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| 718 | A Japanese 1937 Naval Officers sword (Kai-Gunto) forged by Fujiwara Kanefusa (1899-1977) with wooden saya finished in black lacquered leather, the 70cm blade with clear hamon, the complete length 99cm including saya. The plain tsuba supported by two copper sunburst dai-seppas then 4 plain ovoid seppas (all are stamped 91). The length of the tang engraved "Kanefusa the 23rd, resident of Seki in Noshu" and three characters painted in white enamel on the obverse also a 5mm Seki mark at the base of the tang. The brass fuchi on the handle can be removed to reveal an unclear signature on the wood. The sword was gifted to Captain Clifford Caslon C.B.E by the Admiralty, due to his presence in command of the battleship H.M.S Nelson at Singapore during the surrender of Japanese forces in all of South-east Asia on 12th September 1945 in her role as Flagship, Eastern Fleet. 10 days earlier Caslon had hosted the surrender of Japanese forces in Malaya at George Town, Penang by Rear Admiral Jisaku Uozumi aboard the Nelson, following this, H.M.S Nelson was relieved as Flagship, Eastern Fleet on 20th September 1945 before returning to Portsmouth where on 27th November 1945 she became Flagship of the Home Fleet and together with a photographic portrait of Captain Caslon in uniform 30cm x 22cm, a warrant of commission promoting him to the rank of Rear Admiral dated 8th January 1947 framed 18cm x 36cm, a bar of miniature ribbon and other ribbons, 3 Admiral's buttons, a black and white photograph of H.M.S. Nelson with brass plaque H.M.S. Nelson Flagship Homefleet 1946 Captain Caslon CBE framed 41cm x 59cm and a brass plaque marked Clifford Caslon RN 8cm x 15cm Provenance - from Admiral Caslon by direct descent to his son Denis Caslon | 1000-1500 |
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| 719 | A brass and mahogany plaque decorated 2 dolphins marked Nelson Captain C Caslon C.B.E RN H.M.S. Nelson November 1944-1946 56cm x 20cm, the lead and mahogany plaque marked Nelson House Singapore 21st October 1805 - 1948 11cm x 11cm | 70-90 |
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| 720 | A circular bronze plaque depicting a head and shoulders portrait of Nelson marked H.M.S Nelson contained in a mahogany frame 29cm, together with a carved wooden plaque H.M.S. Nelson 31cm x 23cm | 60-80 |
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| 721 | An Eastern carved hardwood figure of a standing lady 52cm x 13cm x 15cm | 30-50 |
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| 722 | Charles Dickens "Dombey and Sons" published by Bradbury and Evans 1848, frontice piece dated 1850 | 60-80 |
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| 723 | The Companion Atlas to The Gazetteer The World 1860, published by A Fullarton & Co. | 100-150 |
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| 724 | Enid Blyton, a handwritten letter on Green Hedges Penn Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire note paper, dated November 23rd 1955, 17cm x 13cm | 150-200 |
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| 725 | A Chinese polished gilt bronze paperweight in the form of bananas 8cm x 6cm and 1 other in the form of gourds 10cm x 6cm | 70-90 |
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| 726 | A Qing Dynasty 19th Century Chinese bronze figure of a boy on a buffalo in four square with its head turning quizitivly to the left, the boy holding a stick in his raised right hand and double gourd in hist 24cm x 28cm x 9cm | 500-700 |
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| 727 | An Adam Sonos Ltd black academic gown, hood of the House of Vanheems Mortarboard (moth damage) together with a theatrical academic gown (some damage to the silk work) | 30-50 |
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| 728 | Two circular plaques decorated carved flower heads, 21cm | 30-40 |
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| 729 | A 19th Century Polynesian throwing club, the head set studs 65cm | 40-60 |
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