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![A vintage Swiss made fuel burner warmer/stove by Stockli Netstal, and a cast iron tri-legged cooking pot, tallest 24cm [2]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/fb213fb0-d21f-4403-b2f3-b30900b945db/d8d29882-caad-4298-8af9-b30c01371e19/468x382.jpg)
Lot 64
This mid-century design features a young boy dressed in a pale blue shirt and rolled-up blue trousers, wearing a wide-brimmed hat that shades his face. He is shown kneeling beside a campfire, attentively cooking in a blackened skillet with a wooden spoon. The sculpted base simulates textured grass and earth, with carefully detailed flames and embers beneath the pan. The figurine captures a nostalgic moment of boyhood adventure and self-sufficiency, highlighting Royal Doulton's attention to expressive posture and storytelling through form. Royal Doulton backstamp.Artist: Peggy DaviesIssued: 1962 - 1975Dimensions: 3.5"L x 4"HCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 914
SEVEN BOXES OF BOOKS AND CDS, approximately one hundred titles hardback and paperback format subjects include cars, cooking, hobbies, encyclopaedia, art, etc. approximately one hundred CDs to include music such as rock, pop, easy listening, musicals, jazz etc. also included a vintage Allday's standard map of Birmingham City, a road map Pembroke and Tenby, also a map of Peak District, (7 boxes), (sd/af)
Lot 937
THREE BOXES AND LOOSE METALWARE, to include a set of butcher's scales with removable ceramic slab, enamel bread bins, a large brass banded cooking pot, copper kettles, a cast iron fender and brass fire irons, assorted plated, pewter and stainless wares, an anniversary clock, a brass jam pan, etc (3 boxes + loose) (sd)
Lot 727
Two large vintage mid-century aluminium commercial kitchen food storage containers - by Lune Brand of Lancaster, dated 1956, 8½in diameter, 11in high; together with an early 20th century copper and wrought iron cooking pot, with swing handle, probably Turkish, the interior tinned, 25cm diameter (handle replaced). (3)
Lot 48
An Elizabeth II silver footed dish, with shaped scrolled border with shell detail, later engraved to side "Nick Hudson 13th July 2008", hallmarked by Mappin & Webb, Sheffield, 1968, approx. 24.4cm wide x 6.4cm high, along with a copy of Nick Hudson's book "Mister Nick, Playing the Field, Sailing the Seas, Cooking up Storms" (hardback). (1 bag) Weighable silver approx. 320 grams (10.2ozt) Further details: some scratching, wear and tarnishing to areas.
Lot 672
David Wilkie (1785-1841) (After) “The Blind Fiddler (1806),” a copy made c 1810, O.O.C., approx.. 61cms x 74cms (24” x 29”). (1) This oil on canvas is a superb copy of The Blind Fiddler, a genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806, to great acclaim, and is now in Tate Britain. Influenced by David Teniers, The Blind Fiddler is well composed and well crafted. In the large kitchen of a cottage, seated on a stool, a fiddler plays a tune in front of a group of women, children and men. While the location of the cottage is not specified, it is probably in Scotland. The audience looks to be an extended family group, ranging from the youngest child to the oldest man. The fiddler’s violin case is at his feet, alongside a travelling bag. Seated closest to him, a woman, wearing a brown cloak and with an infant in her arms, listens attentively. Two men stand in front of the fireplace, the older one regarding the fiddler with admiration, while beside him, a younger man snaps his fingers, attracting the attention of an infant. At the front of the group are two children, one trailing a toy wagon with a broken wheel. On the extreme right, a young lad mimics the fiddler, cheerfully playing a toy violin. In the foreground, beside a cooking pot and a watering can, is a wooden box with vegetables lying on the floor. A knife and a half-peeled potato suggests that the unexpected arrival of the travelling musician has brought everyday activity to a halt in the cottage, as the family gathers to hear him play. Such details are characteristic of Wilkie, a genre painter whose skill in rendering everyday scenes did not stand in the way of his understanding of his medium and its limitations. The man snapping his fingers to entertain the child cannot be heard by the viewer, nor can the music of the fiddler, nor the boy capering about behind the group. Such inferences, left to the imagination of the viewer, are a characteristic of Wilkie’s art. He had a keen eye for everyday details of interiors, including fireplaces, utensils, ornaments and furniture. In his painting Rent Day, a queue of people in a sparsely furnished room wait to pay their rent to the landlord’s agent sitting at a table, while in Reading the Will, the action also centres around a table in a large plain drawing room. Wilkie’s work was immensely popular and several of his paintings, including The Village Politicians, were engraved by Raimbach, and published as prints. The present work is an accurate copy of the original, and was likely painted in the early nineteenth century. Dr. Peter Murray 2025
Lot 209
Pair of Seymour Mann Hug 'N Hold collector vinyl dolls, each presented in its original printed box with cellophane front. These lifelike dolls feature expressive sculpted faces, rooted black hair, and detailed vinyl limbs with soft cloth bodies. One doll is dressed in a lavender sleeper featuring a patriotic bear and "USA" motif, while the other wears a pink striped top with a cooking bear graphic and coordinating bonnet and pants. Both boxes read: Features lifelike expressions and wonderfully detailed costumes, with original Seymour Mann branding and product information printed on the reverse. Includes original tags and boxes, which show light signs of storage wear including faint spotting and edge wear consistent with age.Issued: 20th centuryDimensions: 17"HCountry of Origin: ChinaCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 722
A small quantity of vintage cast iron kitchen cooking pans and a kettle - including a Dudley No.5 4 Pint saucepan (cast date 1938 to base); a Holcroft AGA Esse No.5 4 Pints cooking pot with tin lid; a 9¾in casserole pot with lid (the lid cracked); a Swain 4 pint range or AGA kettle; a Robert Welch for Victor 7¾in casserole with lid; a J. Siddon of Bromwich frying pan; and a later 20th century cast iron and enamel roasting dish.
Lot 143
‘It is a common saying among railwaymen that there is not a sleeper or a culvert between Table Bay and the Victoria Falls which one of the Mores does not know.’ The unique Defence of Mafeking family group to Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. More, commanding the Railway Section at Mafeking, his wife Marion, Nursing Sister at the Mafeking Railway Convalescent Hospital, and their son Thomas, who was born at Mafeking shortly after the lifting of the siege Four: Captain J. R. More, Mafeking Town Guard The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s, breast badge, burnished silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (Capt: J. R. More, Mafeking Tn: Gd:); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. J. R. More.); Jubilee 1935; together with Cecil Rhodes Funeral Train Medal 1902, silver, in Spink & Son case of issue; and Prince of Wales’ Lodge Jubilee Medal 1837-1887, silver-gilt, silver and enamels, in its Vaughton & Sons case of issue, this last possibly presented to his father Pair: Nursing Sister Marion More, Mafeking Railway Convalescent Hospital Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. More.) naming officially re-impressed; Mafeking Railway Convalescent Hospital badge, circular gold badge with central red enamelled cross within white enamelled border inscribed ‘Mafeking’, the reverse inscribed ‘Ry. Convalescent Hospital. 1900’, 20mm, fitted with gold pin for wearing Five: Lieutenant-Colonel T. V. More, Director of Transport (Railway), East Africa and Egypt 1940-43 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal; Africa Service Medal, these four all officially impressed (179995 T. V. More); Coronation 1953, generally extremely fine (13) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Bill Hibbard Collection; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001. John Rhys More was born in 1873, son of Mr T. J. More, who was traffic manager of the Cape Government Railways. His first railway experience was as an assistant on the construction of the Vaal River railway bridge at Fourteen Streams, and he was next employed on the construction of the line from Rosmead to Stormberg. He was engaged in the construction of the line from Vryburg to Mafeking and, in 1894, on the Sterkstroom-Indwe railway. Joining the Cape Government Railways in 1896, he became assistant engineer of the Kimberley-Bloemfontein survey and then of the Rosmead-Graff-Reinet railway construction.

In 1899 he was appointed district engineer at Mafeking and, on the outbreak of the siege was appointed Commandant of the Railway Section of the Town Guard with the rank of Lieutenant and later Captain. He was responsible for the construction of the Armoured Train and Ordnance workshop. The first shot fired in the defence of Mafeking was by Railwaymen in the Armoured Train at the 5 mile Cottage, south of Mafeking, on 12 October 1899. At Game Tree on Boxing Day of that year, he commanded the second truck of the Armoured Train:

“The enemy’s fire was terrible, 1lb Maxim shells bursting a few yards beyond the truck, accompanied by a perfect hail of bullets. The Railwaymen I am pleased to say behaved very well, and when the enemy were within range, did good work with their Martinis. Sergeant Lowe and myself managed to keep the Maxim pouring in its deadly fire on the enemy, and Corporal Godson kept the Hotchkiss firing in spite of his exposed position in the half armoured truck, which only protected the lower part of his body. The two B.S.A.P. in the truck with him were told to lie down as the fire was too heavy, and both were slightly wounded by portions of shell.

“It was a terribly anxious time, 850 Boers of the Marico Commando with Artillery, under General Snyman, were pitted against 16 B.S.A.P. and 28 Railwaymen. A grimly contested fight lasting two hours resulted in the enemy having to evacuate his position and fall back with heavy loss, over the crest of the rise, where he was again successfully engaged by Captain Fitzclarence with 2 squadrons of the Protectorate Regiment.” (Extract from Captain More’s report).

After the relief of Mafeking, More returned to his local peace-time duties as District Engineer and was later Resident Engineer for the Vryburg-Bulawayo railway. Upon the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, he was in charge of the funeral train which conveyed his body from Cape Town to Bulawayo and received the special medal struck to commemorate that event. After the Union in 1910 he was Divisional Superintendent at Kimberley and Port Elizabeth. During the Great War he commanded the Railway Regiment in South West Africa (British War Medal). In 1918 he was appointed Assistant General Manager and, in 1927, became General Manager of the South African Railways, retiring in 1933. He died at Cape Town on 22 April 1951. Sold with several news cuttings, a copy of his Mafeking report and various extracts from General Orders concerning the Railway Division issued by Colonel Baden-Powell.

Mrs Marion More (née Cloete) was the wife of Captain J. R. More and was in Mafeking at the commencement of the siege. When her husband set up a convalescent hospital in the Railway Camp she volunteered as a Nursing Sister under Miss M. Crawford, serving with Lady Sarah Wilson. In his official report on the siege Captain More gave the following account of the Convalescent Home:

“Owing to numerous complaints of treatment at the Victoria Hospital by our men, I decided to utilize the Railway Institute for Convalescent purposes, thus enabling men just out of hospital to get thoroughly restored to health before returning to the trenches, and the Home proved a great success. The cooking was done by the Railway people in turns, and Mr Crittenden, Rolling Stock Inspector, rendered valuable services as Manager.

“It was afterwards taken over by the Imperial Authorities for General Purposes; Dr Holmden being the Medical Officer, and Lady Sarah Wilson the Lady Superintendent, assisted by Mrs More, Mrs Gemmel and other Ladies. On January 15th a 95-pdr Shell struck the building and completely wrecked the Library, Billiard Room and Billiard Table, necessitating the removal of the Patients to other quarters. None of the inmates I am thankful to say were hurt.”

Thomas Vivian More was born in Mafeking on 2 August 1900, less than three months after the lifting of the siege. He qualified as a Civil Engineer at Birmingham University in 1918 and adopted a railway career. During the Second World War he served with the South African Railway Engineers in East Africa, Egypt and the Western Desert, including appointmeant as Director of Transport (Railways) at Cairo with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Released from Army service in October 1943 he continued his career in the railways, becoming System Engineer in Durban (1945), System Manager in Windhoek (1946), System Manager in Port Elizabeth (1947-52) and finally System Manager, Western Cape. He retired in 1963, entering local government the same year, and died in June 1966. Sold with newspaper obituary and copied service record.

‘It is a common saying among railwaymen that there is not a sleeper or a culvert between Table Bay and the Victoria Falls which one of the Mores does not know.’
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