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Richard Hughes
NORTH WALES / NORTH WEST REGIONAL AUCTIONEER & VALUER
Based in Wrexham and our Colwyn Bay auction house. Regional valuer for North Wales & North West England incl. Anglesey, North Wales coast, Cheshire, Liverpool, The Wirral, Shrops & Borders.
T:07593 181017 | richard.hughes@rogersjones.co.uk
Stephen Roberts
NORTH WALES REGIONAL AUCTIONEER & VALUER
Based at our Colwyn Bay auction house. Regional valuer for North Wales. Specialist valuer for jewellery, silver & collectables.
T: 07464 355648 | stephen.roberts@rogersjones.co.uk
Ben Rogers Jones
REGIONAL VALUER FOR RURAL / MID-WALES & BORDERS
Specialist valuer for Welsh art, Welsh ceramics, and all items for The Welsh Sale, together with a specialist valuer worldwide for sporting antiques including rugby union jerseys, caps, and rugby memorabilia.
T: 07760 261023 | brj@rjauctions.co.uk
Charles Hampshire
WEST WALES REGIONAL AUCTIONEER & VALUER
Based at our Carmarthen office & Cardiff auction house. Regional valuer for South West Wales incl. Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Swansea & Vale of Glamorgan. Specialist valuer for jewellery, coins, watches, whisky & wine.
T: 07732 434120 | charles.hampshire@rogersjones.co.uk
Philip Keith
SOUTH WALES & WEST COUNTRY REGIONAL AUCTIONEER & VALUER
Based at our Cardiff auction house. Regional valuer for South Wales incl. Cardiff, Newport, Monmouthshire & South East England incl. Bristol, Bath, Somerset, Devon & Cotswolds. Specialist valuer for Chinese & Asian antiques & fine art, tribal artefacts.
T: 07876 255060 | philip@rjauctions.co.uk
Entries now invited for: sporting memorabilia & antiques, sporting autographs, taxidermy, outdoor-pursuit antiques including hunting, shooting & fishing.
Leisure items including wines, whisky & spirits, cigars, tantaluses, corkscrews, journals, card-tables, club-style lounge furniture, sculptural items.
Games including Mah Jong, chess, game-counters, croquet sets, related Victoriana, vintage cameras, telescopes, microscopes, globes, steam locomotives etc
ENTRIES INVITED BY
9.30am 22.07.23
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JOHN SPEED hand coloured engraved map of Wales - John Sudbury and George Humble (1610 or later) with twelve oval vignettes of principal cities of Wales to the vertical margins, inset views of Bangor, St Davids, Llandaff and St Asaph, 39 x 52cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea, by descent
Comments: framed and glazed £300-400 2
HUMPHREY LHUYD hand-coloured engraved map of Wales, by Ortelius (Abraham & Lhuyd Humphrey), Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritano, c.1584 with large strapwork cartouche, 37 x 49.5cms, Latin text verso
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed and glazed £200-300
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WILLIAM HOLE ANTIQUARIAN MAP OF PEMBROKESHIRE & CARMARTHENSHIRE rare early map of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire engraved for the “Poly- olbion” by Michael Drayton, published between 1612 and 1622, 26 x 35cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: framed and glazed £150-200
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ANTIQUARIAN WELSH BOOKS RELATING TO THE WELSH LANGUAGE comprising (1) Owen ‘Welsh Grammar 1803’, 1st ed, original boards, (2) T H ParryWilliams ‘The English Element in Welsh’, 1923, (3) J Lloyd Jones ‘Geira Barddoniaeth Gynnar Gymraeg’, large volumes, 1988 (4) ‘Antique Lingae Britannicae Theasaurus’ - A Welsh and English Dictionary, Merthyr –Tydfil, 1839, 4th enlarged edition with a Botanology, and Welsh Grammar and having good half-calf binding (4)
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
5 ANTIQUARIAN WELSH TOPOGRAPHICAL BOOKS comprising (1) W Samuel, ‘Llandilo Past and Present’. Carmarthen, 1898 in blue cloth (scarce) (2) ‘Pages from The History of Llandovery’ in 4 Vols, red buckram bindings, 1994 (3) J. T. Evans ‘The Church Plate of Carmarthenshire’, London 1907, with list of subscribers (4) Lynn Hughes ‘A Carmarthenshire Anthology’ Christopher Davies, 1984, fine copy in d.j.
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
6
D RHYS PHILLIPS ‘A Romantic Valley in Wales’, 1925, very good copy of scarce volume with only 500 copies printed, all subscribed for before publication
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
7 RARE DE LUXE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES BOUND VOLUME ‘The Department of Manuscrips and Letters, 1936’, fine signed full-Morocco polished leather bound ‘pre-printed’ version with gilt tooling and titles, edged gilt, fine volume printed and bound at the private press of the National Library and the binding signed in gilt ‘Bound at the Nat. Lib. of Wales” with 16 illustrations, rare
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
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THREE VOLUMES BY / ON IOLO MORGANNWG (1) ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales’, Iolo Morganwg, John Thomas, and Owen Jones, 2nd edition Denbigh 1870, a thick large volume in original cloth gilt binding, very good copy, previous ownership stamp on prelims and later ownership signature of Ap Gwent of Swansea (2) ‘Y Gwir Degwch’ by Iolo Morgannwg, edited and signed by Tegwyn Jones, Gwasc Y Wern, 1980, numbered limited edition in original maroon cloth binding (3) G. J. William ‘Iolo Morganwg a Chywyddau’r Ychwanegiad’ 1926
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
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TWO WELSH HOROLOGY BOOKS & ANOTHER FOR CHESHIRE (1) ‘Wales Clocks and Clockmakers’ by William Linnard, 2003 (2) ‘Clockmakes of Cheshire’ by Keith Appleby, 1999, signed (3) ‘Henry Williams Lancarvan Clock and Watchmaker’by Linnard and Cloutman, 2003, one of 300 copies
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS RELATING TO PEMBROKESHIRE (1) Richard Fenton ‘A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire’ London, 1810 with folding map and 30 engraved plates, a good copy in later maroon buckram binding, (2) ‘The History of Pembrokeshire’ by Rev Lames Phillips, 1909, (3) ‘A Calendar of Records Relating to Pembrokeshire, Vol I & 2 by Cymmrodorion Society, 1911/1914 (4 x vols total)
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
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ANTIQUARIAN WELSH BOOKS RELATING TO GLAMORGAN (1) ‘Glamorgan County History, Vol IIIThe Middle Ages’ (2) ‘Glamorgan County History Vol IVEarly Modern Glamorgan’ (3) Charles Glenn ‘The Lords of Cardiff Castle’, Davies, Swansea. 1976, a fine copy in dust jacket (4) ‘Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan’ three large volumes (6 x volumes total)
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-120
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TWO ANTIQUARIAN WELSH BOOKS (1) W LL Davies
‘The National Library of Wales. Aberystwyth 1907’. fine copy edition, limited to 600 copies, (2) John Ballinger, ‘The Bible in Wales – a study of the History of the Welsh People’, with an introductory address and bibliography, Southeran. London 1906, being a masterpiece of bibliographic writings by a great Welsh librarian, with fold out plates and illustrations being a fine copy in original bible-black cloth gilt
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-120
13
DANNY ABSE / L L WYN GRIFFIN comprising (1) Abse’s ‘Funland - A Poem’ in nine parts, Portland University Library, 1971, limited to 100 signed copies only, fine copy in original card wrappers, rare, (2) Abse’s ‘A Strong Dose of Myself’ 1983, and (3) ‘There Was a Young Man from Cardiff’, 1991 (4) LL.Wyn Griffin: ‘Branwen’, 1934, signed with a good letter (5) ‘The Barren Tree’ signed presentation (6) ‘Spring of Youth’, 1935, signed and with ephemera etc
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-150
14
TWO WELSH FURNITURE BOOKS
(1) Richard Bebb ‘Welsh Furniture 1230-1950’ in 2 large Vols. in slip-case, National Museum of Wales, 2007, (2) together with its scarce fore-runner ‘Welsh Furniture’ by L Twiston Davies & H J Lloyd-Johnes, Cardiff, 1950, a very good copy in d.j.
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: Welsh furniture book has damage to case and spine
£100-120
15
TWO ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS RELATING TO WELSH LANGUAGE (1) Wyllyam Salesbury ‘A Dictionary in Englishe & Welshe’, moche necessary to all such Welshemen as wil spedly learne the englyshe tõgue thought unto the kynges majestie very mete to be sette for the to the use of his graces subjectes in Wales whereunto is pfixed a little treatyse of the englyshe pronounciacion of the letter an extremely rare large paper facsimile copy, dated 1547 and produced to a very high standard by the Cymmrodorian Society with a manuscript presentation from the society to ‘Alexander J Ellis 1880’, a fine copy, rare in this format, (2) Another rare Welsh Dictionary, William Owen ‘An Abridgement of The Welsh English Dictionary London’, 1806, a good copy in recent blue paper binding with raised bands and paper label
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-150
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JOSEPH PARRY & DAVID ROWLANDS in six fine volumes ‘Cambrian MinstrelsieA National Collection of Welsh Songs’, T. C. & E. C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1893, having coloured frontis to each volume, volume one has two portraits of the authors, bound in original publishers’ cloth, with decorative gilt title piece and black lettering on top boards, black endpaper
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
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THREE ANTIQUARIAN WELSH BOOKS comprising (1) T. Matthews ‘Welsh Records in Paris’, Carmarthen 1910, a very good copy of a scarce and important book with four fine facsimile plates of important early Welsh documents, in good half-calf binding (2) John Williams ‘Annales Cambriae’, London 1860 with folding coloured facsimile frontis, a good copy with original quarter calf (3) J A Giles ‘The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth’, London, 1847 with coloured facsimile frontis, original quarter-calf binding
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-150
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THREE WELSH BOOKS RELATING TO CARMARTHEN comprising (1) limited edition (168/600) J Gwenogvryn Evans ‘The Black Book of Carmarthen’, issued to subscribers only, Pwllheli 1906, on toned linen made paper, original half black Morocco leather binding, small folio (2) Alcwyn C. Evans ‘Royal Charters and Historical Documents of the Town and County of Carmarthen’, Carmarthen, 1878 (3) ‘The Francis Jones Treasury of Historic Carmarthenshire’, 2002, mint in dust wrapper
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £100-120
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DYLAN THOMAS two first editions published during the poet’s life (1) ‘Deaths and Entrances’, Dent 1946, his first and perhaps greatest collection included in Cyril Connolly’s seminal 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement (2) ‘The Doctor and The Devils’, Dent 1953, both editions very good with d.j.s
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-150
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R S THOMAS group of ten first editions in very good condition (1) Poetry for Supper, 1958 (2) The Bread of Truth Poems, 1963 (3) Words and the Poet, 1964 (4) Pieta, 1966 (5) Not That He Brought Flowers, 1968 (6) Judgement Day (7) Penguin Religious Verse, 1963 (8) Penguin Modern Poets 1, 1962 (9) What is a Welsh Man, 1974 (10) Cymru or Wales, 1992
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-120
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DYLAN THOMAS two limited edition volumes being (1) ‘Letter to Loren’, Swansea Salubrious Press, 1993, edited from an original manuscript by Jeff Towns, one of 200 numbered copies, marked editor’s copy and signed (2) ‘Twelve More Letters’ published by Turret Books 1969, limited to 175 copies
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-150
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DYLAN THOMAS three rare American first editions published by New Directions (1) ‘New Poems - Poets of the Year’ by New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. 1963, the poet’s second American publication, a very good copy in original purple wrappers (2) ‘Collected Poems’, New Directions 1953, fine first edition, first issue with the misprint ‘daughers’ on the final leaf (3) ‘The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas’, New Directions, New York 1946, signed by the editor John L. Sweeney, a very good copy in laminated d.j. (New Poems and Selected writings were not published in the UK and are thus very uncommon)
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£100-150
TWO RARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICAN DISCOVERY (1) Thomas Stephens ‘Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc Ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century’, London,1893, a very fine signed presentation copy of an extremely scarce book and very desirable book, (2) with an even rarer book on the same topic, Rev Benjamin F. Bowen ‘America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D’, Philadelphia, 1876, a very good copy in original cloth binding
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£120-180
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GREGYNOG PRESS 1996 box set of twelve limited (26/250) edition Gwasg Gregynog booklets poetry and prose relating to the home villages or towns of twelve different literary figures, each illustrated by different Welsh artists, comprising (1) Ioan Bowen Rees / Sir Kyffin Williams RA (2) Robin Llywelyn / Jonah Jones (3) Twm Morys / Anthony Evans (4) Nigel Jenkins / Mary Lloyd Jones (5) William Owen Roberts / Siarlys Evans (6) Christopher Meredith / Sara Philpott (7) John Barnie / Rhiain M Davies (8) Ruth Bidgood / Bernice Carhill (9) Gillian Clarke / Margaret Merritt (10) Myrddin ap Dafydd / David Woodford (11) Menna Elfyn / Ozi Rhys Osmond (12) Christine Evans / Kim Atkinson numbered 26
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: no problems
£150-250
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DYLAN THOMAS four publications relating to Under Milk Wood comprising (1) ‘Under Milk Wood’, London 1954, being a very good copy of the first edition with dust jacket, (2) ‘Botteghe Oscure IX’, Rome 1952, containing the first ever printing of ‘Llareggub; a piece for Radio perhaps, (3); A very good copy of the American Mademoiselle Magazine February 1954 containing the first ever publication of the full text of Under Milk Wood, with a preceding essay by John Malcolm Brinnin with Rollie McKenna photographs. (4) a 1961 reprint of Under Milk Wood with a fine new dust jacket design featuring the work of Welsh Artist Brian Rees
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£150-250
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HENRY ROWLANDS ‘Mona Antiqua Restaurata: An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey’, second edition 1766, London, leather bound volume, ribbed spine with gilt titles, to the back there are handwritten post 1766 additions to the catalogue of sheriffs of Anglesey from 1541 as well as additions to the catalogue of local clergy
Provenance: private collection Ynys Mon (Anglesey), formerly in the ownership of Sir Kyffin Williams RA and gifted by him to Annwen Carey-Evans who was High Sheriff of Gwynedd in 1992-93, to accompany a handwritten note on ‘Pwllfanogl’ headed paper, signed ‘love John’ by Sir Kyffin Wiliams and ‘For Annwen to Commemorate her year as high sheriff of Gwynedd’
Comments: please examine / request condition report
£200-300
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LARGE QUANTITY OF ANTIQUARIAN WELSH BOOKS including ‘Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan’, ‘Hopcyn’, ‘Monmouthshire Houses’, ‘An Accouint of Tenby’ etc (full list on request / see images online)
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: please examine / request condition report £300-400
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WHITE METAL EISTEDDFOD CROWN inscribed ‘Eisteddfod y Croglith, Penmaenmawr, 1926’ beneath triskelion symbol in circular motif, engraved decoration throughout, 18cms diameter / EISTEDDFOD FETEL GWYN Y GORON gyda’r arysgrif ‘Eisteddfod y Croglith, Penmaenmawr, 1926’ o dan y symbol trisgelion mewn motiff crwn, 18cms
Provenance: private collection Denbighshire
Auctioneer’s Note: Croglith is an older translation of Good Friday
Comments: in good condition £100-120
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UNKNOWN three original black and white photographs - poet, Dylan Thomas in Laugharne, 1953, used to illustrate a magazine article by Mimi Josephson in the same year, each 40 x 40cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: framed and glazed £100-150
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A RARE SIGNED ‘UNDER MILK WOOD’ POSTER for Michael Bogdanov’s 1995 production of Dylan Thomas’ play for voices’ at Swansea Grand Theatre, with Matthew Rhys as first-voice, signed by cast and director in gold pen on black border, 49.5 x 39.5cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: framed £100-120
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A RARE BRAIN’S BREWERY ADVERTISING MIRROR FOR DYLANS ALE bearing a portrait cameo of Dylan Thomas from whom the ale commemorated, and a shadowy view of the poet’s Laugharne Boathouse home, the beer was brewed by Brains in 1995, 65 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: framed, silver backing has worn on the mirror £100-140
CINEMA POSTER FOR DOCTOR FAUSTUS large single sheet for the 1967 adaptation starring Richard Burton with Elizabeth Taylor, 104 x 68cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Auctioneer’s Note: Doctor Faustus is a 1967 British adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, the first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it was the only film directed by Burton or Coghill, Burton’s Oxford University mentor. It starred Burton as the title character Faustus, with Elizabeth Taylor appearing in a silent role as Helen of Troy. The film is a permanent record of a stage production that Burton starred in and staged with Coghill at the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1966. Burton would not appear on stage again until he took over the role of Martin Dysart in Equus on Broadway ten years later
Comments: framed and glazed £100-150
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LATE 19TH CENTURY WELSH HORN SNUFF BOX Denbighshire, circa 1870, of oval form, the lid inscribed ‘Godfrey Davies, Slater & Plasterer, Llanelid…’, 9.5cms; together with another smaller snuff box
Provenance: private collection Conwy
Auctioneer’s Note: Godfrey Davies is accounted for in the 1871 census for nearby Gwyddelwern as a ‘’Slater and Plasterer’’, his dwelling (which appears still to exist) was called Brynline and he was recorded as the son of Evan Davies of Brynline, Llanelidan
Comments: in good condition
£100-200 36
EARLY 20TH CENTURY WELSH FLAG (Y DDRAIG GOCH) with stitched edging and printed British made, 43 x 94cms
Provenance: private collection
Gloucestershire
Comments: framed and glazed
£150-250
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A GOOD GROUP OF WELSH TREEN including a carved plaque ‘CAR DY ELYN’ (Love thy enemy), small iron banded pail, various butter-pats and dairy items (14 items)
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: good overall, please examine £150-250
DOUBLE SIDED WELSH (CARMARTHENSHIRE) FLORAL QUILT circa 1900, both sides of similar Paisley design with open roses but with different colourways, one side with pink roses the other with orange roses, 183 x 198cms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire, by descent, believed to have been originally used by the vendor’s great-grandparents at the family farm in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire
Comments: fine condition without notable marks or issues
£150-250
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DOUBLE SIDED WELSH (CARMARTHENSHIRE) FLORAL
QUILT circa 1900, in a rich Paisley pattern to both sides, one side with white ground, the other side in burgundy, 177 x 200cms
Provenance: private collection
Carmarthenshire, by descent, believed to have been originally used by the vendor’s great-grandparents at the family farm in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire
Comments: fine condition without notable marks or issues
£150-250
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DOUBLE SIDED WELSH (CARMARTHENSHIRE) FLORAL
QUILT circa 1900, one side of Paisley design to a pink ground with open roses and blossom, the other side in faun ground with repeat sprays of roses with stylised leaves surrounded by segmented trails, 193 x 193cms
Provenance: private collection
Carmarthenshire, by descent, believed to have been originally used by the vendor’s great-grandparents at the family farm in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire
Comments: fine condition without notable marks or issues
£150-250
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NINETEENTH CENTURY WELSH YEW WOOD BOOK-SLIDE SWEETHEART
TOKEN both hinging ends carved with a centre harp, acorns and leaves and the inscription ‘IAITH ENAID AR EI
THANNAU - COFIA FI’ (the language of the soul on the harp stringsremember me), 28cms long
Provenance: private collection
Cheshire
Comments: overall good, two separate sections, hinges appear to be working and original, surface marks only
£150-250
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AN EXPANSIVE COLLECTION OF WELSH TOKEN COINS contained within folder and two packets, some categorisation and labelling including ‘Mid-Glamorgan Ynysybwl Industries’, Flintshire bank tokens, Nantyglo Iron Works, Co-Op Society tokens, hotel tokens etc, approx 76 tokens total
Provenance: deceased estate
Ceredigion
Comments: no condition report available, please see images / view lots £200-300
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NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER BY SARAH PENN DATED 1800, believed Welsh (Caergwrle / Wrexham or Blaenau Ffestiniog), worked with a passage popular to needlework of the period, ‘Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand as the first efforts of this infant’s hand…’ together with two alphabets and floral borders, 42 x 39.5cms
Provenance: by family descent
Comments: some restoration, few holes repaired, fading £300-400
A BRITISH RAIL (WESTERN REGION) TOTEM SIGN FOR AFON WEN late 1950s / early 1960s, in regional colours of chocolate and cream livery, within black rim, 92.5 x 26cms
Provenance: deceased estate Criccieth, near Afon Wen in Gwynedd, north Wales
Auctioneer’s Note: Afon Wen station was opened in 1867 as part of the Cambrian Railway. Later, it formed a junction between the Aberystwith Welsh Coast Railway and the Carnarvonshire Railway. The totem is believed to have been installed in the late 1950s by Western Region and retained by LMR when they took the station over in 1963, shortly before the station was closed in 1964, as a result of the Beeching Axe. The station enjoyed its heyday in the post-war years, especially in the summer months, as it brought holiday-makers to the nearby Butlin Camp. The station was commemorated in a 1989 song by Welsh language folk-singer Bryn Fon, titled ‘Ar y Tren i Afonwen’ (on the train to Afonwen). There is currently a campaign to reinstate a railway line from Bangor to the disused Afon Wen station as part of a wider campaign for a much needed improvement to the rail service between north and south Wales
Comments: in good condition £400-600
Er ei bod hi’n byw Chwilog
Mi deithiai bob dydd
Ar y tren i Benygroes, a’i gwallt yn chwifio’n rhydd.
Mae’r ysgol ar ei hysgwydd
Mi deithia hi pob cam
Llyfra’, ‘fala, cocacola a brechdan gan ei mam.
Ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen
Mi rois fy nghalon iddi hi.
Oedd Twm Gwyn a Pansho
Yn teithio ar y tren, ond ni chai ddim i neud a nhw
Er ei bod hi’n glen.
A’r hogiau gyd yn r’ysgol, ‘n glafeirio am ei chnawd, Ond gwenu gwnaeth a dweud ‘helo’
A trin pob un fel brawd.
Ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen
Mi rois fy nghalon iddi hi.
O ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen
Mi rois fy nghalon iddi hi.
Roedd Llan yn chwara’ Chwilog, yn y Gwynedd Cup
Lawr i stesion Benygroes, ‘Cm’on bois hurry up!’
Mi neidiais fewn i’r cerbyd, di colli’n wynt yn lan
Ond fe aeth fy gwynt yn gynt, pan welais pwy oedd o’m mlaen.
O ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen
Mi rois fy nghalon iddi hi.
Mae’r gwlad yn gwibio heibio, fel dwr glaw fewn i’r draen
Heibio Bryncir a Pantglas
Fe aeth y tren ymlaen
Mi raid fi ddeud y geiria’
Ni’n Afonwen y nawr
Ond codi wnaeth a neidio’i ffwrdd, i freichia ryw foi mawr
O ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen, Mi rois fy nghalon iddi hi,
O ar y tren i Afonwen, mi gollais i fy mhen, Torrodd fy nghalon, yn stesion Afonwen.
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PRIMITIVE WELSH ELM & ASH COMB BACK CHAIR, 19th Century, nine-stick back, carved arms, bowed supports, shaped seat, turned legs joined by H-stretcher (97h x 57w x 47cms d)
Provenance: private collection
Carmarthenshire West Wales
Comments: structurally sound, in good condition, please examine, no structural problems, recently polished
£300-500
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SET FOUR BRASS ‘COUNTY OF CARNARVON’ IMPERIAL FLUID MEASURES by W. & T. Avery Ltd., comprising 1/2 Pint, Gill, 1/2 Gill and 1/4 Gill, all titled in black, GVR, GVIR and EIIR cypher stamps (4), 7.4 to 3.9cms high
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, thence by descent
£200-400
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SET TWELVE VICTORIAN BRASS ‘COUNTY OF CARNARVON’ IMPERIAL FLUID MEASURES 1880, engraved titles, from 40 fluid ounces to 1 fluid drachm, with glass ‘strikes’, GVR, GVIR and EIIR cypher stamps, in fitted mahogany case (4)
Provenance: private collection Cardiff, thence by descent
£1,000-1,500
48 No lot
49
LLANELLY POTTERY COCKEREL PLATE circa 1900, continuous leaf and flower border in blue, the interior fully decorated with the cockerel scene, 24cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: good example, without damage # £250-350
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TWO SMALL LLANELLY POTTERY COCKEREL PLATES & A BOWL typically decorated by Sarah Roberts, plates 18cms diameter, bowl 15.5cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: restoration and hairline cracks # £300-500
51
SWANSEA ‘LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN’ PATTERN MEAT PLATTER transfer decorated, of tree-and-well shape, 53cms wide
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: in good condition # £250-300
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN COFFEE CUP & SAUCER painted with sprays of summer flowers between gilt anthemion’s, gilt kidney-shaped handle
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: minor enamel rubbing # £300-400
53
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SWANSEA PEARLWARE TAVERN JUG circa 1790-1800, bellied with sparrow-beak spout and moulded handle over turned foot, underglazed blue floral decoration and ‘Drink Round Brave Boys’, 19.5cms
Provenance: private collection Powys, by descent
Auctioneer’s Note: the phrase was lifted from an old English tavern drinking song which travelled to America and adapted into a song for lumberjacks ‘Tis when we do go into the woods, Drink round, brave boys! Drink round, brave boys! Tis when we do go into the woods, Jolly brave boys are we; Tis when we do go into the woods, we look for timber and that which is good, Heigh ho! drink round, brave boys, And Jolly brave boys are we’
Comments: chips, scrapes to rim, localised browning, rare survivor # £600-800
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RARE EWENNY ROYAL COMMEMORATIVE
MUG for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Windsor), sgraffito details with 1947 date and rarely found month ‘November’ to the tortoiseshell glazed exterior, cream slip interior, 8.5cms high
Provenance: private collection Monmouthshire
Comments: in good condition # £200-250
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LLANELLY POTTERY PERSIAN ROSE PLATE, 24cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: small chip to rim, some staining to underside # £100-150
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LLANELLY POTTERY GROUP comprising pair of cherry decorated tapered vases, 15cms high, similar with plums, mug decorated with cherries, milk-jug with cherries, large tankard with roses, 11cms diameter and a small plum decorated basin, some items with stencilled marks (7)
Provenance: deceased estate, north Wales
Comments: noted scrape to jug, hairline to tankard and small nicks, overall the group has survived well, condition report not conclusive, please examine # £200-300
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LLANELLY POTTERY COCKEREL PLATE circa 1900, continuous sponged floral border in blue, the interior decorated with the cockerel scene, 25cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: small hairline crack to underside base rim # £250-350
58
LLANELLY POTTERY COCKEREL PLATE circa 1900, continuous sponged floral border in blue, the interior fully decorated with the cockerel scene, 25cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: small hairline crack to reverse rim # £300-400
59
PAIR OF YNYSMEUDWY POTTERY CHILDREN’S PLATES having moulded borders, transferred with scenes of children playing games and inscribed with verses, impressed mark YMP., together with a shard excavated from the pottery site showing the same transfer and a copy of, Ynysmeudwy Pottery by Helen Hallesy (4), plates 16cms diameter
Provenance: private collection, to accompany ‘Ynysmeudwy Pottery’ by Helen Hallesy, child’s plates are Il. 15.25 and 15.26
Comments: green enamel degraded on both dishes, surface scratches to both plates, the shard is broken and reglued # £150-250
SWANSEA BEVINGTON PORCELAIN MUFFIN DISH, everted rim and centre painted with convolvulus, rare ‘BEVINGTON’ red printed mark, 22cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Swansea, Ex. Dennis Collection no.97 label
Comments: centre rubbed, hairline to underside, no cover # £100-150
SWANSEA PORCELAIN CUPS & SAUCERS comprising (1) trio in pattern No. 219, decorated with apricot ground reserves of flowers within dark blue underglaze, featuring iron red stylised chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage, centred with a stylised garden scene with prominent cactus-like flower (2) a basket-weave moulded cup and saucer decorated with flowers, Swansea script mark and bearing Harry Sherman Collection label
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: no apparent damage # £150-250
63
SWANSEA PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE MANDARIN PLATE circa 1819, of circular form, colourfully decorated with village scene of five figures including a seated Mandarin and with European style houses to background, the border with gilt scrolled reserves of iron-red landscapes, alternating with panels of colourful perched birds, stencilled SWANSEA mark to base, Pattern No. 164, 21cms diameter
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: good example # £200-300
SWANSEA PORCELAIN ‘219’ PATTERN TRIO, of London shape, richly decorated in the Japan style with floral roundels on a blue ground, gilt highlights, red printed ‘SWANSEA’ marks to one cup and the saucer
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: in good condition, surface marks only, sl. wear # £200-250
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A RARE PAIR OF CAMBRIAN SWANSEA EARTHENWARE STRAIGHT-SIDED SAUCERS hand painted with butterflies by William Weston Young, inscribed in his mapping hand, ‘P. Polychloros’ and ‘P.10’, 15cms diameter
Provenance: see Morton Nance (The Pottery & Porcelain of Swansea & Nantgarw) p.79, and Grant-Davidson (The Pottery of South Wales) p.235, old collection label to underside, and old Phillips auction lot label
Auctioneer’s Note: a few recorded examples of this rare service are in museum collections (National Museum of Wales, Glynn Vivian Gallery and Swansea Museum)
Comments: one saucer with hairline crack, both saucers crazed and slightly stained, gilt lines very slightly rubbed # £2,000-3,000
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SWANSEA PORCELAIN SHELL
INKWELL, formed as an upturned shell picked out in gold, three smaller shells forming the finial and quill holders mounted on the upper surface, painted by William Pollard with wild flowers and strawberries, marbled gilt exterior, 10cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: cover and liner remade, small rim chip and hairlines, gilt rubbed, ink stains to crazing # £200-300
66
SWANSEA PORCELAIN DESSERT
PLATE circa 1815-17, probably painted by William Pollard with wild flowers, including cranesbill, brooklime, briar roses, and strawberries, the crisp C-scroll border picked out in green and gold, gilt cavetto, printed red mark, SWANSEA, 21.1cms diameter
Provenance: private collection Monmouthshire
Comments: stacking wear to cavetto, minor gilt rubbing to edge, green enamel in border rubbed, similarly with cavetto # £400-600
NANTGARW PORCELAIN BOTANICAL PLATE circa 1815, of plain form decorated with centre rose stem after Pierre-Joseph Redoute, with continuous cornflower motif border and gilding, inscribed to base ‘Rosa alba regalis’, NANT GARW CW impression, 21cms diameter
Provenance: deceased estate Gwynedd
Comments: no structural problems, sl. wear esp. gilding # £250-350
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NANTGARW PORCELAIN TRIO painted with sprays of summer flowers, gilt dentil rim and inside laurel band, kidney shaped handles (3)
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Comments: good condition overall # £500-600
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THE WELSH SALE/ YR ARWERTHIANT CYMREIG
Prints & Multiples
Printiau & Lluosogau
73
‡ JOHN KNAPP-FISHER limited edition (166/250) print - entitled ‘Solva’, signed in pencil, 51.5 x 69.5cms
Provenance: private collection
Carmarthenshire
Comments: framed and glazed, ready to hang £600-900
74
‡ MILDRED ELDRIDGE RWS rare scraper board - pair of choughs on a clifftop, ‘Choughs, Bardsey’, signed verso, 12 x 16cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd, signed verso as per photocopy applied to reverse
Comments: framed and glazed £400-600
75
‡ CERI RICHARDS CBE trial proof limited edition (34/50) lithographentitled, ‘And Death Will Have No Dominion’, signed and dated ‘65 in pencil, 59 x 80cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Auctioneer’s Note: later issued as an edition of 50 in the suite of 12 lithographs, artist Ceri Richards had met the poet just before he left for his final fatal American tour, and was known to be distraught at hearing of his death, resulting in a burst of artistic responses to Thomas’s poems, such as this
Comments: framed and glazed £350-450
76
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CERI RICHARDS CBE lithographentitled, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’, signed and dated ‘65 in pencil, 70 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Swansea
Auctioneer’s Note: Ceri Richards had met the poet just before he left for his final fatal American tour, and was known to be distraught at hearing of his death, resulting in a burst of artistic responses to Thomas’s poems, such as this
Comments: framed and glazed £350-450
77
‡ KAREL LEK first edition (1/7) monoprint - men in work clothes including peak caps, standing at the bar of a pub, entitled verso ‘Beer Drinkers’, signed, 72 x 45cms
Provenance: private collection
Merionethshire
Comments: unframed, excellent image
£300-500
78
‡ EDGAR HOLLOWAY set of four engravings - comprising David Jones trial proof, signed in pencil, David Jones artist’s proof (PL) 20 x 15cms, ‘The Long Wait’, signed, dated and numbered in pencil (PL) 17 x 24cms, ‘Self Portrait No. 28’, signed, dated, numbered, and dedicated in pencil (PL) 27.5 x 20cms (4)
Provenance: private collection
Powys
Comments: unframed
£300-400
79
‡ CERI RICHARDS limited edition (54/100) lithograph‘Costers Dancing’, signed in full, dated October ‘52, 47 x 51cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed and glazed
£250-350
80
‡ JOHN KNAPP-FISHER limited edition (15/150) print - entitled, ‘Thames Tug Boats’ signed in full, 52 x 74cms
Provenance: private collection Pembrokeshire
Comments: framed and glazed
£300-500
81
WILLIAM DANIELL twenty-one engravings (seven coloured) - titled Welsh topographical views, dated 1814, including ‘Beaumaris Castle, Anglesea’, ‘View of Conway Castle, Caernarvonshire’, ‘Tenby, Pembrokeshire’, ‘View of the Entrance to Fishguard from Goodrych Sands’, 30 x 39cms
Provenance: private collection Isle of Wight
Comments: unframed, good condition
£200-300
84
‡ JOHN PIPER lithograph - entitled verso, ‘Malmesbury, Wiltshire, The South Porch’ dated 1964, from the artist’s ‘A Retrospect of Churches’, signed in pencil, 63 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: framed and glazed £200-300
85
‡ SHANI RHYS JAMES MBE limited edition (1/50) aquatint - entitled, ‘The Hand Mirror’ signed and dated ‘08, 56 x 66cms
Provenance: private collection Vale of Glamorgan
Comments: framed and glazed £200-300
82
‡ JOHN ELWYN maquette for lithograph‘Capel Hawen’, 27.5 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection
Powys
Comments: unframed £200-300
83
‡ JOSEF HERMAN
OBE RA silkscreen limited edition (4/750) printentitled verso, ‘Two Miners’, signed, 50 x 68cms
Provenance: private collection Cheshire
Comments: framed and glazed £200-300
86
‡ RICHARD DAVIES set of five limited edition prints (49/100)Dylan Thomas inspired, entitled, ‘When I Woke’, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’, ‘Under Milk Wood’, ‘Fern Hill’ & ‘In The Beginning’, signed and dated ‘79, 82 x 55cms
Provenance: private collection Carmarthenshire
Comments: framed and glazed £200-300
87
‡ GEORGE CHAPMAN limited edition (17/50) etching - entitled ‘Graveyard and Monkey Puzzle Tree’, signed, 79 x 58cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed and glazed, discolouration to paper £150-250
88
‡ KAREL LEK MBE six various prints - including linocut entitled verso ‘My Blue Heaven’, 1991, 44 x 34cms, wood engraving ‘Pub Crawlers’, 28 x 22cms
Provenance: private collection Merionethshire
89
Comments: unframed £150-250
‡ KAREL LEK folder of prints - interesting collection of the artist’s ‘Leksheet’ commercial prints for the home with topics of morality in the manner of William Hogarth, twelve various images with multiples, various sizes with average size 37 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Auctioneer’s Note: the Leksheets were sold in the artist’s gallery shop
Comments: unmounted and unframed £150-250
90
‡ JOHN PETTS limited edition (21/100) print - entitled ‘Early Morning, May, Aberaeron’, signed, 27 x 36cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: framed and glazed £150-250
91
‡ JOHN PETTS limited edition (22/100) print - entitled ‘Early Morn: St Non, Llanerchaeron’, signed, 26 x 38cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: framed and glazed £150-250
92
‡ PAUL PETER PIECH two colour lithographMartin Luther King quote, ’The Choice is No Longer’, signed and dated 1988 in pencil, 76 x 51cms
Provenance: private collection overseasbased vendor, vendor met Piech during the 1980s through Tony Evora (creator of the iconic Che Guevara posters) and when studying at Oxford Polytechnic. In 1987, the vendor and the artist organised an exhibition to raise awareness for Survival International with a focus on Aboriginal land rights, held successfully at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. This was followed by an exhibition at Oxford Polytechnic focusing on Piech’s work for Amnesty International
Comments: unframed £150-250
93
‡ PAUL PETER PIECH three colour lithographhomage to peace activists Hildegard Goss-Mayr and Jean Goss, signed and dated 1987 in pencil, 76 x 51cms
Provenance: please see Lot 92
Comments: unframed £150-250
94
‡ PAUL PETER PIECH four colour lithographJack Davis poem relating to Aboriginal oppression, signed and dated in pencil 1998, 51 x 76cms
Provenance: please see Lot 92
Comments: unframed £150-250
‡ PAUL PETER PIECH two colour lithograph - for Amnesty international opposing the detention of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, signed and dated 1988, 76 x 51cms
Provenance: please see Lot 92
Comments: unframed £150-250
96
‡ PAUL PETER PIECH two colour lithograph - peace movement slogan ‘Wars will end when men refuse to fight’, signed and dated 1988, 76 x 51cms
Provenance: please see Lot 92
Comments: unframed £150-250
97
‡ HARRY HOLLAND monotype - three figures bathing, signed in pencil, titled verso ‘Beach’, typed Andrew Knight Gallery sticker verso, 20 x 25cms
Provenance: private collection Cardiff
Comments: framed and glazed ((I) 18 x 23.5cms)
£150-250
98
‡ ANEURIN JONES monoprint – T E Nicholas, D J Williams and Waldo Williams, entitled ‘Y Tangnefeddwyr’ (The Peacemakers), signed, 30 x 44cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: framed and glazed
£150-200
100
‡ ROGER MORTIMER limited edition (3/20) aquatint - view of the neolithic Pentre Isaf Burial Chamber ‘Megalithic TombStudy 3’, signed and dated ‘94, 21 x 20cms
Provenance: private collection
Gwynedd
Comments: framed and glazed £150-250
101
‡ JOHN ELWYN limited edition (189/300) lithograph - Laugharne Estuary from Dylan Thomas’ boathouse, signed, 42 x 60cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: unframed £150-250
99
‡ BERNARD GREEN limited edition (15/25) printentitled, ‘St Hywel’s Church, Llanhowel, Pembrokeshire’ signed and dated ‘96, 36 x 46cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd Auctioneer’s Note: the artist is buried in the churchyard shown
Comments: framed and glazed £200-250
102
‡ MURIEL DELAHAYE limited edition (10/275) coloured print - entitled, ‘Looking for Carreg Felin’, signed, 41 x 54cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: mounted but unframed £120-180
103
‡ MURIEL DELAHAYE limited edition (32/275) coloured print - entitled ‘Ice Cream Ladies’, signed, 40 x 59cms
Provenance: private collection Ceredigion
Comments: mounted but unframed £120-180
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Cymru Ceredigion
Aberystwyth / National Eisteddfod Aberystwyth 1992, printed signature, 41 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion
Comments: framed and glazed £100-120
‡ RHIANNON ROBERTS limited edition (15/40) printto commemorate Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Tregaron 2020 (which was delayed until 2022 due to the Covid pandemic) signed, 29 x 41cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion
Comments: unframed but mounted, in cellophane £100-120
‡ STAN ROSENTHAL limited edition (403/1100) printentitled, ‘Rape Seed Crop’ signed, 28 x 27cms
Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Comments: framed and glazed, with certificate of authenticity
£100-150
DANIEL KING 17th Century copper engraving - entitled, ‘The South Prospect of Cathedral, Church of Bangor’, numbered 81 in a series, 18 x 30cms
Provenance: private collection
Gwynedd
Comments: framed and glazed £100-150
110
108
‡ SUE SHIELDS Welsh Art colour poster - 1973 Welsh Arts Council poster for a ‘Welsh Dylan’ exhibition curated by John Ackerman, features a hillside chapel, figure and flora and fauna, 75.5 x 50.5cms
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Auctioneer’s Note: original print of this poster, preceding the reprint of the 1980s which formed a Welsh Arts Council campaign to promote Welsh poetry
Comments: framed and glazed £100-120
109
MERVYN LEVY signed posterproduced by Dylan’s publishers Dent in 1978 to commemorate 25th anniversary of his untimely death in New York City in 1953, the poster features a spirited drawing by Dylan Thomas’ friend and signed by Levy, 41.5 x 29cms
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: framed and glazed £100-150
110
DYLAN THOMAS one of 30 rare broadside prints - the poet’s famous anti-war poem, ‘The Hand that Signed the Paper’, designed and printed at the Fork in the Road Press, Alabama in 1998, 34 x 21cms
Provenance: private collection
Swansea
Comments: framed and glazed £100-120
111
NATHANIEL DAVIES artist’s proof woodcut - south Wales colliery with two figures, studio stamp, 48 x 66cms
Provenance: directly from the artist’s estate (note no ARR)
Comments: framed and glazed £300-400
112 ‡ MURIEL DELAHAYE limited edition (artists proof) coloured print - entitled ‘Woman with a Pram’, signed, 48 x 58cms
Provenance: private collection
Ceredigion
Comments: mounted but unframed £120-180
113 No lot
