SOLD FOR £110
Frank Sherwin (British, 1896-1985), Railway Bridge over the Medway, with Rochester Castle, Kent, 20th century watercolour, signed, 31cm x 43cm, within a painted wood frame.
SOLD FOR £60
Continental School, Miniature Profile Portrait of a Young Child, early 20th century watercolour, indistinctly signed, 9.5cm x 7cm, within a metal frame.
SOLD FOR £65
Ejnar Landberg (Danish, b.1890), "Bodestraede, Dragor" (Denmark), 20th century oil on canvas, signed and titled, 29cm x 35cm, within a gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £140
**Arthur Easton (1939-2024), Abstract with Figure, Bird and Plant in a Landscape, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1986, 71cm x 66cm. ** Please note, Artists Resale Rights may be payable on this lot
SOLD FOR £100
John Hall Thorpe (1874-1947), Bluebell Wood, woodcut in colours, signed in pencil, 19cm x 17cm, within an ebonized frame.
SOLD FOR £60
Peter Gilman (British, 1928-1984), "Wells, Norfolk", 20th century watercolour, signed recto, titled verso, 13cm x 18cm, within a stained wood and gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £55
Peter Gilman (British, 1928-1984), "Neiljan of Maldon, Snape", 20th century oil on board, signed recto, titled verso, 22cm x 29cm, within a painted and gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £540
Ethel Luella Curry (Canadian, 1902-2000), "Eastlake North Haliburton County", oil on board, signed recto, titled and dated July 1932 verso, 20cm x 25cm, within a painted wood frame. Note: Ethel Curry was a Canadian painter, printmaker, potter, and educator. Born in Irondale, Haliburton County, Ontario, in 1902, she studied at the Ontario College of Art beginning in 1924, where she learned from and worked alongside members of the Group of Seven, including Arthur Lismer and J.E.H. MacDonald. While in Toronto, Curry formed a lifelong friendship with fellow artist Doris McCarthy; the two met as students in the 1920s and later both taught in Toronto high schools. Curry spent much of her professional life as an instructor at Northern Vocational School before retiring in 1965 and returning to Haliburton, where she remained active in the local art community until her death in 2000. References: Robert Popple, "Northern Belle: The Life Story of Haliburton's Ethel Curry, Including Her Connections to the Group of Seven" (RTP Publications, Haliburton, Ontario, 2003).
SOLD FOR £680
Isabel Wrightson (British, 1890-1971), "French Crabbers in Newlyn Harbour", watercolour with gouache, signed and dated 1961 recto, titled label verso, 55cm x 75cm, within a painted wood and hessian frame. Exhibited: The Royal Society of British Artists 237th Exhibition in 1962, catalogue no. 196; Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Sussex Artists Exhibition 1968.
SOLD FOR £95
Hedley Fitton (British, 1857-1929), "Via dei Girolami, Florence", 19th century etching, signed in pencil recto, title verso, 32cm x 35cm, within a stained wood frame.
SOLD FOR £65
Leonard Dawkins, "Freedom to Fly at Last" (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress), watercolour with gouache, signed recto, titled and inscribed verso, 20cm x 50cm, within a gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £130
Alexander P. Thomson (British, 1887-1962), "A Day on the River", early 20th century watercolour, signed recto, titled exhibition label verso, 61cm x 50cm, within a gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £130
Geoffrey Sparrow (British, 1887-1969), "The Eton College Beagles", etching with hand-colouring, signed and titled in pencil, 22cm x 29cm, within a Hogarth style frame.
SOLD FOR £540
Alexis van Hamme (Belgian, 1818-1875), "The Letters" (A Lady in an Interior Setting reading a Letter with a Spaniel at her Feet and a Cittern on the wall beyond), oil on panel, signed and dated 1874 recto, Christie's stencil and titled label verso, 55cm x 44cm, within a gilt composition frame with foliate strapwork and centre and corner crestings. Provenance: Christie's 12th June 1996, lot no.214.
SOLD FOR £100
Gustav Becker, a 400 day torsion clock, the 6.5cm dial, with Arabic numerals, the back plate signed Gustav Becker Made in Germany and numbered 1414658, complete with glass dome and key 30cm h x 18cm diam.
SOLD FOR £14500
**Alfred Egerton Cooper R.B.A. (British, 1883-1974) The Firth of Forth with the British Fleet from HMA 9 Airship, oil on canvas, circa 1916, signed recto, Bourlet labels verso, 69cm h x 89cm w, within a painted wood frame. ** Artist's Re-sale Rights may be payable on this lot. Provenance: Sir Barnes Wallis thence by descent. Exhibited: possibly "Airships in Peace and War" Prince's Gallery, Knightsbridge, September 1919. Note: The R.9 was the first airship on which Barnes Wallis worked, serving as an assistant at Vickers under Chief Designer H. B. Pratt, and was the first British rigid airship to fly. Alfred Egerton Cooper and Wallis were close friends from their time together in the Artists Rifles, a connection that lends particular resonance to this work. This painting may be among the earliest works executed in flight, or developed from sketches made in the air, and was very likely painted during the same flight as the photograph "An aerial view of a portion of the Grand Fleet at anchor in the Firth of Forth, taken from the British Airship R.9" (Imperial War Museum, cat. no. Q 20633). The painting is prominently displayed on the wall of Barnes Wallis's office in the 1955 film "The Dam Busters", widely regarded as one of the best-known and most beloved British war films of the post-Second World War era.
SOLD FOR £6000
**Alfred Egerton Cooper R.B.A. (British, 1883-1974) "Putting on the outer fabric covering of the R100 in the shed at Howden", oil on canvas, signed and dated 1928 recto, additionally signed and dated 1928 with Bourlet label verso, 64cm x 77cm, within a painted wood frame. 76cm x 88cm. ** Artist's Re-sale Rights may be payable on this lot Provenance: Sir Barnes Wallis thence by descent. Note: The painting was reproduced in full colour in The Sphere, 28 September 1929, p. 26. It is prominently displayed on the wall of Barnes Wallis's office in the 1955 film "The Dam Busters", widely regarded as one of the best-known and most beloved British war films of the post-Second World War era, and appears in several publicity photographs of Barnes Wallis, including Roger George Clark's portrait of Sir Barnes Wallis at his desk, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery
SOLD FOR £3900
**Alfred Egerton Cooper R.B.A. (British, 1883-1974), HMA 9 Airship in Flight over Norfolk, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1917 recto, Bourlet label verso, 61cm h x 91cm w, within a painted wood frame 72cm x 103cm. ** Artist's Re-sale Rights may be payable on this lot Provenance: Sir Barnes Wallis thence by descent. Exhibited: possibly "Airships in Peace and War" Prince's Gallery, Knightsbridge, September 1919. The No 9 was the first airship Barnes Wallis worked on as an assistant at Vickers with Chief Designer H B Pratt and the first British airship to fly. A E Cooper and Barnes Wallis were close friends and Cooper is thought to have gifted the picture to Wallis. The painting likely depicts flight over Norfolk as the Airship was stationed from October 17th 1917 at Royal Naval Air Service Station Pulham (later RAF Pulham). The painting is clearly visible in many publicity photographs of Wallis in his office.
SOLD FOR £55
Two Moorcroft circular blue ground anemone dishes, a Moorcroft blue ground Autumn Leaf dish, a Moorcroft Queens Choice dish designed by Emma Bosson, the reverse dated 30 11 02 and signed, 12 cm and a Moorcroft Panache dish designed by Sian Leeper for the Moorcroft Collectors Club dated 2004 12cm
SOLD FOR £60
**Patrick Hughes (British, 1939-), limited edition screen print on card, "Breaking the Ice" numbered 178/250, signed and dated "82, mounted as a card titled Greetings for Christmas 1982 **Please note Artists Resale Rights may be payable on this lot
SOLD FOR £180
A Manchester United Football club 1966-67 Players Official Souvenir Championship magazine (32 pages), signed by George Best, Pat Crerand, David Herd, Tony Dunne, Nobby Stiles, Jimmy Ryan, Alex Stepney, etc.
SOLD FOR £60
John Millington (British, 1891-1948), "The Rodney", 20th century watercolour, signed recto, titled verso, 26cm x 35cm, within a swept gilt composition frame.
SOLD FOR £130
Thomas Bush Hardy (British, 1842-1897), "Katwijk, Netherlands", watercolour heightened with bodycolour, signed and dated 1890 recto, titled label verso, 24cm x 43m, within a gilt frame.
SOLD FOR £260
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton London 1909, limited edition number 94 of 750 (signed Edmund Dulac), bound in velum and gilt, 4to, the volume with 20 tissue guarded tipped-in plates throughout
SOLD FOR £130
Julia Linstead, a pink etched glass vase decorated lilies, signed, 18cm x 23cm