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Stock: 11896

A rare Handley Page HP 1930's two bladed aircraft propeller. Two of these very large laminated mahogany propellers were fitted on each of the four Bristol Jupiter XIF radial engines of this early Imperial Airways Airliner which carried 24 passengers and 4 crew in 500 mile hops cruising at 100mph. Initially these four classically named behemoths reached in up to 28 stages destinations as far as Karachi in then India. Later based in Cairo they were to provide the ultimate long distance connection to South Africa and eventually to Australia. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

With the names Hanno, Hannibal, Hadrian and Horsa there were four of these rather impressive clippers of the skies on Imperial Airways', later B.O.A.C., intercontinental run. They, their crews and ground staff were pioneers using what now is seen as elementary Boy's Own technology but whose personnel, installations and expertise were used to great advantage when war came in the 1940's and a flood of military aircraft were ferried from the Canadian and American factories over the Caribean and South America to the North African, Far and Near East theaters of the war.

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	diameter
	141 11⁄16" 360 cms

Stock: 11895

The markings of this mahogany Bristol Bulldog Propeller show that it was fitted to a Bristol Mercury IV S.2 Radial aircooled aircraft engine and dated May 1932 . This one has a 10ft diameter with brass leading edge covers. These engines were first fitted to Bulldogs in March 1932. At this time it was the front line RAF fighter. The provenance is obscure but it is believed that it was found in an Italian mountain village. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

The Bulldog was a sophisticated and powerful biplane and one of the last of the RAF's frontline biplane fighters. It was replaced in 1937 by the Hurricane. It was in one of these Bulldogs that the RAF fighter ace, Douglas Bader, became one of the RAF's leading air pilots.

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	diameter
	120 1⁄2" 306 cms

Stock: 11894

An original propeller from the Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 6 cylinder radial aircraft engine aircraft engine propeller dated July 1933 and much used for Avro “Anson” twin engined aircraft which was a between the wars RAF and American Army Air Corps training aircraft. It also equipped the famous Bristol Bulldog single seat fighter and others. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1933.

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	width
	88 3⁄16" 224 cms

Stock: 11893

A historic World War I De Havilland two blade mahogany, ash and walnut propeller. The eight stud fitting holes indicate that this propeller would have been fitted to a De Havilland Gnome 14 cylinder, 100hp two row radial rotary engine which powered the BS, later designated the SE2, single engine World War 1 scout/fighter designed and first flown by a young Geoffrey De Havilland around 1913. It was the first aeroplane in the world specifically designed as a fast single seat scout and as Bleriot was said to have originated the tractor biplane, was known as the Bleriot Scout, or B.S.1. It was manufactured at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, England. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English early 20th century.

Notes: The wooden, circular section monococque fuselage was a masterpiece of the cabinet maker's art and years ahead of its time. It merged smoothly into the lines of the closely cowled engine to give the B.S.1 a very good streamlined shape. Lateral control was by warping the single bay wings and the tail unit featured a diminutive rudder, without fixed fin, mounted above a one-piece tailplane and elevator. For its day the B.S.1 was very fast and in March 1913 its designer, now Lt. de Havilland, Special Reserve, was timed over the speed course at 91.4 m.p.h. Unfortunately the rudder was far too small for the considerable keel surface of the deep front fuselage and directional control was poor. Consequently, later on the day of the speed trials, it went out of control in a turn and de Havilland was injured as it struck the ground in a flat spin.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	97 5⁄8" 248 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 11527

A rather large framed burnished brass embossed panel in the Baroque manner, featuring myriad Putti reaping and stacking corn, pressing grapes and sleeping it off in the Bachanalian tradition, all in a rural landscape setting. The scene was possibly taken from original drawings, please see images below, which may have been part of a series depicting The Harvest as shown in The Connoisseur Magazine Oct 1911 pages 99 & 103, artist unknown.
Late 19th early 20th century.

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	length
	65 11⁄16" 167 cms

Stock: 8696

A large antique circular embossed brass plaque, centred by the bust of Emperor Charles V (1500 - 1558 ) and surrounded by portrait medallions, putti and leaf scrolls. He was the Duke of Burgundy and ruler of the Netherlands from 1506, became the ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1516 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in central, western, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia, the first to be described as "The empire on which the sun never sets".
French late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	35" 89 cms

Stock: 3648

A finely detailed cast iron Victorian oval plaque in the Italian Renaissance manner.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	8 11⁄16" 22.2 cms	15 3⁄16" 38.7 cms

Stock: 2998

A round embossed patinated brass Victorian roundel in the Renaissance manner depicting a group of men smoking and drinking in a tavern.
Late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	24" 61 cms

Stock: 7174

A rare Victorian mahogany steel and brass philosophical demonstration model of a steam locomotive with 13.5 gauge 2-4-0 axel arrangement, two cylinders, reverse and various mechanisms.
English, circa 1860 (photo before restoration and re-polishing).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	49 1⁄2" 125.7 cms	14" 35.6 cms	12" 30.5 cms

Stock: 8887

An early 19th century wrought iron external triple bell & pull with scrolled leaf and silhouette figures of possibly Father Time or The Grim Reaper or an Angel - who can say ! In working order with later chain.
English, circa 1800.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	6 1⁄2" 16.5 cms

Stock: 10488

A carved oak cherubic Victorian wall mask in the Jacobean manner, against folded drapes background.19th century possibly earlier.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄2" 19 cms	8 7⁄8" 22.5 cms	3 1⁄8" 8 cms

Stock: 9284

A set of two antique Coalbrookdale cast iron cooking pots of graduated sizes as illustrated in the Coalbrookdale Company Catalogue 1875, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

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	Diameter	Height
Larger	14 5⁄8" 37 cms	11" 28 cms
Smaller	12" 30.5 cms	9 5⁄8" 24.5 cms

Stock: 7179

A Theatrical pair of large, carved wood polychrome and gilt Egyptian masks, based on the funerary mask of King Tutankhamun.
Late 20th century

Two funerary masks of Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt (1336 – 1327 BC) based on the famous original housed at the Museum of Cairo, Egypt and excavated by the English archaeologist, Howard Carter in 1922.
Tutankhamun ruled from Memphis, Egypt and was around seventeen years old when he died. The original masks are considered to be the finest examples of art and craftsmanship of ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom, and the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and its extraordinary treasures in the Valley of the Kings was an international sensation, influencing art and design of the Art Deco period. The original mask, illustrated below, was created from hammered gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz, turquoise, obsidian and coloured glass and covered the head of the mummy on the innermost third coffin. His forehead in a striped royal headdress bears Egyptian symbols of divine authority and protection, Nekhbet the vulture and Wadjet the cobra, and stylised falcon heads decorate his shoulders. Tutankhamun was the living representation of the deity and his mask would aid his magical transition from mortality to divinity. The reproduced kohl eye make-up endows him with an eternal glamour.

A mysterious curse has been associated with the discovery of the tomb and its treasures, perhaps initiated by the press who invented a text:
"They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death.
The reverse of Tutankhamun’s beautiful original gold mask carries a protective spell in hieroglyphics:

"Your right eye is the night bark [of the sun god], your left eye is the day bark, your eyebrows are [those of] the Ennead of the Gods, your forehead is [that of] Anubis, the nape of your neck is [that of] Horus, your locks of hair are [those of] Ptah-Soker. [You are] in front of the Osiris [Tutankhamen], he sees thanks to you, you guide him to the goodly ways, you smite for him the confederates of Seth so that he may overthrow your enemies before the Ennead of the Gods in the great Castle of the Prince, which is in Heliopolis...the Osiris, the king of Upper Egypt Nebkheperura, deceased, given life like Ra."

The sell-out, touring exhibition of the original treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb at the British Museum in London in 1972 may have inspired the creation of Westland’s representations of the young & serene, God-King Tutankhamun.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20" 50.8 cms	32 13⁄16" 83.2 cms	16" 40.6 cms