The May 15 sale at Bellmans in Billingshurst, West Sussex, includes an early portrait by Dod Procter (1892-1972) painted c.1915 in Newlyn (detail shown here). It has been in the same family collection for at least two generations.
The presence of tempera in this work, most notably in the bodice, is evidence of its early dating. Throughout the 1910s the artist experimented with the medium which was experiencing a revival at the turn of the 20th century.
Estimate £15,000-25,000.
Classix Wurlitzer Model 1800 Jukebox, made between 1955-58, with 52 45rpm records, estimate £6000-9000 at Tennants.
Tennants’ Scientific and Musical Instruments Sale on May 15 in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, includes examples of mechanical music. Shown here is a Classix Wurlitzer Model 1800 Jukebox, made between 1955-58. With 52 45rpm records, it has 104 possible selections, and is finished in cream and chrome.
Estimate £6000-9000.
Enamelled Bulgari Serpenti jewel from c.1960, estimate €40,000-60,000 at Adam’s.
A classic enamelled Bulgari Serpenti jewel from c.1960 comes for sale at Adam’s in Dublin. The 18ct gold, diamond and aubergine brown, black and white enamel bracelet watch is estimated at €40,000-60,000 as part of a sale of Fine Jewellery & Watches on May 14.
Serpenti jewels, that followed the launch of Bulgari’s signature gold Tubogas bracelets in the 1940s, were featured in Vogue and other fashion magazines on countless occasions in the Sixties. However, such was their expense, that fewer than 100 were actually produced across the decade. Most were made for Bulgari by the Valenza-based jewellery manufacturing company Carlo Illario e Filli. The key to their form and flexible memory was an internal white gold double spring kept in place by ingenious threaded gold pins.
This Serpenti bracelet watch offered by Adam’s has added rarity as the watch dial and movement concealed in the head of the snake is by Vacheron & Constantin. Other more common watch suppliers to Bulgari at the time were Movado and Jaeger-LeCoultre. It is accompanied by a certificate from Amanda Triossi, author and specialist on Bulgari, stating the bracelet was manufactured for and retailed by Bulgari in the 1960s and that the Vacheron Constantin watch is original to the bracelet.
Courtyard with soldiers holding rattan shields and an official with his hand on his sword, a c.1870 albumen print photograph by William Saunders, estimate £400-600 at Dominic Winter.
A private and unusually large group of Chinese photographs is the major focus of the auction at Dominic Winter on May 22. They are included in a collection that overall comprises more than 100 China photographs and over 50 of Japan, Ceylon, Italy and Egypt.
It appears to have been amassed by Johann Carl Albert Jahreis, who was born in 1865 in Münchberg, Germany, and died in Hong Kong in 1890, where he is buried. According to family lore he went to China to open a brewery but otherwise almost nothing is known about him.
From further research it seems highly likely that he is the same person as the ‘A. Jahreis’ who is listed in several of the China and Hong Kong Directories published in the late 1880s, where his position was given as clerk for the German merchant Eduard Schellhass & Co in Shanghai.
Shown here is Courtyard with soldiers holding rattan shields and an official with his hand on his sword, a c.1870 albumen print photograph by William Saunders (1832-92) measuring 8 x 10½in (20.5 x 27cm). The estimate for this image at the sale in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, is £400-600.
Etching laid down on card, printed by B Dickenson, London, c.1752 depicting the Murderess Miss (Mary) Molly Blandy who with her own and her sweethearts Contrivance did Barbarously and Inhumanly Poison her own Father for his Estate, estimate £80-120 at Catherine Southon.
The May 15 sale at Catherine Southon at Farleigh Golf Club in Surrey includes a group of rare prints and broadsides referencing Georgian and Victorian criminals.
This etching laid down on card, printed by B Dickenson, London, c.1752 depicts the Murderess Miss (Mary) Molly Blandy who with her own and her sweethearts Contrivance did Barbarously and Inhumanly Poison her own Father for his Estate.
With a repaired tear running from top edge through head to chest, it is estimated at £80-120.
French Revolutionary period bonnet, estimate £3000-4000 at Bonhams.
This is an original French Revolutionary period bonnet.
Made of blue felt, it is applied with large and small tricolour cockades and embroidered with an anchor and foliage. The embroidered initials PM in silver sequins are probably those of the original owner, a marine in the revolutionary army.
A type referred to as a ‘Bonnet de Police’, it comes for sale at Bonhams with an old handwritten paper label inscribed Cap of Liberty part of the dress in which the late J MacGibbon Esq escaped France in the year 1794.
It has a guide of £3000-4000 as part of a timed online sale of arms and armour that closes on May 22.
