Denhams Auction Catalogue

for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction to be held on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th of May 2025

Lot No Description Est Image
541 A Chinese archaistic bronze bell shaped vase with leaf decoration 14cm x 12cm 60-80
542 A pair of Meiji Period bronze figures of storks standing on turtles 23cm x 10cm x 5cm 100-150
543 A Japanese bronze club shaped vase decorated birds, the base with seal mark 16cm 40-60
544 A gentleman's silver plated Dupont cigarette lighter with ribbed decoration 40-50
545 A gentleman's silver plated cased cigarette lighter with ribbed decoration 40-60
546 A lady's Cross gold plated propelling pen and pencil, cased, engraved monogram, 2 others, boxed separately 30-40
547 Royal Airforce Pilots' Handbook of the Cairo-Baghdad Route, pub. H.M. Stationery Office 1929 (third edition). Bound in blue cloth as a wallet book; the volume is an instructional RAF manual of flying between Cairo and Baghdad - complete with 12 colour sectional maps, and in wallet pocket 2 Appendices (each with calculation notes to verso) with a blue flight map by Shell of the Amman to Rutbah pipeline dated 1933 400-600
548 An extensive collection of autographs mainly collected in the 1930's contained in a leather bound folio to include Rudyard Kipling, Don Bradman, Gordon Richards, Malcolm Campbell, Baden Powell, Olave Baden-Powell, Prince Philip of Greece, Field Marshall Montgomery, General De Gaulle, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Stanley Baldwin, Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas, Dr Michael Ramsey (Archbishop of Canterbury), the 1935 South African Cricket Team, Field Marshall Allenby, Norman Birkett, Augustus John, Anthony Eden, Viscount Snowdon, Margaret Scriven and others, together with one other album including a small collection of signed photographs including George Robey as Falstaff and Sonja Fleurie 800-1200
549 A collection of 37 early 20th Century autographs mainly UK and US boxing champions to include Len Harvey, George James Wales, Dave Crowley, Jim Sullivan, J Blake, Peter Kane, Teddy Baldock, Harry Lake, Jimmy Walsh, purported Jack Johnson, Benny Lynch, plus runners including Sydney Wooderson, Alan Pennington, Olympian's J Lovelock (running) & F R Webster (pole vault) and Billiard's champion Melbourne Inman 80-120
550 A letter from Mount Everest Base Camp signed by all members of the British 1936 Everest Expedition dated "1st May 1936" - together with covering letter from Team leader Hugh Rutledge explaining to the requestee of the signatures that this was the highest point they could offer autographs as above base camp the team is scattered and writing are limited to diary entries alone 600-800
551 Model Toys Havoc Super Agent, a pair of Havoc doll figures and outfits/play sets to include : Survival Pack No.2 x2 (both with sleeping bag, raft and rifle , one missing snake), Surprise from the Skies (complete), Mystery at the Ranch x 2 complete, Catsuits x2. with Tommy Guns, white boots, 1 missing shoulder holster and pistol, spare black boots, Tommy gun, eye mask, knife and revolver holster from Surprise from the skies 200-300
552 Model Toys, 2 Daisy doll figures and a large selection of Mary Quant designed costumes and accessories 300-400
553 Palitoy, a set of ten Pippa Dolls, seven standards (1 x Pippa, 2 x Marie, 2 x Britt, 2 x Princess Pippa), three dancing ( Marie and two broken at the torso Tammies), together with a selection of outfits and 2 beds 300-400
554 Barthelemy JJ, Voyage De Jeune Anacharis En Grece, Paris 1830, tissue guarded plates and 6 fold out maps, bound in marbled paper, folio. 30-40
555 Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, a typed letter from Pankhurst to a Miss Betty Ross on headed paper of the New Times and Ethiopia News, dated 30th September 1936 reading "Dear Miss Jones. Very many thanks for your kind card with all good wishes for The New Year (letter continues in pencil) also to our Arram? Yours sincerely E Sylvia Pankhurst (signature also in pencil) 150-180
556 The Globe and Traveller dated June 28th 1838 no.11168 "The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria This Day" 61cm x 42cm, framed 40-50
676 A pair of Samson porcelain urns and covers of melon form, the bases with anchor mark 27cm 60-90
677 A 20th Century Lalique figure of Leda and The Swan 12cm 50-75
678 A 1960's Scandinavian Alsterfors orange glass vase by Per-Olaf Strom 13cm 50-75
679 A 1960's Belgian? green and brown glazed Art Pottery vase 21cm, base inscribed 30-40
680 A 1960's Whitefriars green wobbly glass vase 19cm 40-60
681 A 19th Century Sevres style porcelain trinket box with panelled decoration, decorated fisher folk, the base with cypher mark B, 6cm x 14cm x 9cm 70-90
682 Of Masonic interest, a pair of 19th Century etched glass rummers, decorated square and compasses, columns, working tools, marked RWW WP 80-120
683 Two Murano glass figures of standing clowns 23cm 30-50
684 A Swarovski Crystal figure of a walking panther 5cm, boxed 40-50