Made by the German maker Gunthermann, this tinplate clockwork model above is based on Malcolm Campbell’s (1885-1948) record land speed car, Blue Bird.
Campbell broke the land and water speed records in various Blue Bird vehicles, establishing nine land speed records between 1924-35. His son, Donald Campbell (1921-67), also became a British speed record-breaker.
The car forms part of a collection of trains and toys assembled over the lifetime of a collector from Devizes. It comes with its original box and will be offered with a £500-700 estimate at Lawrences Auctioneers in Crewkerne, Somerset, on May 18.
This c.1800 gouache shown above, from the Mewar school in Rajasthan, depicts Maharaja Man Singh (1783-1843), the last independent maharaja of Marwar Kingdom and Jodhpur State, paying his respects to Nath Siddha.
Throughout his troubled reign, Man Singh was opposed by many of his principal nobles and so relied on successive factions for support. The last of these was the Nath family, the maharaja’s spiritual advisers who came to control state affairs and turned Man Singh into a recluse.
The 14 x 10in (35 x 25cm) folio is estimated at £750-1000 in a timed online auction of works on paper from the Islamic world at Bloomsbury Auctions in Pall Mall on April 27. Works range from the 12th through to the early 20th century.
With World Cup mania due to go up a notch over the coming months as the tournament approaches, Stacey’s Auctioneers & Valuers in Essex is hoping the increased enthusiasm may turn into sales at its dedicated sporting memorabilia sale on April 30.
Among the scarcer lots is a Football Association World Cup Report book signed to the inside blank page by all 22 of England’s 1966 World Cupwinning squad. The well-preserved copy also includes the signatures of England manager Alf Ramsey, his assistant Harold Shepherdson and team trainer Les Cocker.
Estimate £1600-1800.
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A contemporary reproduction of one of Paul Nash’s (1889-1946) famous Second World War works will go under the hammer at Cornish saleroom David Lay on April 26 in Penzance.
Published by National Gallery for Ministry of Information in 1941, the 2ft 2in x 3ft 3in (66 x 98cm) lithograph of The Battle of Britain has been consigned by a Nash collector and is estimated at £1500-2000.
Nash described the abstracted aerial view as “an attempt to give the sense of an aerial battle in operation over a wide area and thus summarises England’s great aerial victory over Germany”.
The original oil resides in the collection at the Imperial War Museum.
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