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This Royal Doulton figurine titled Ruth The Pirate Maid, model HN2900, captures a whimsical and bold character dressed in a naval blue jacket, pirate hat with skull and crossbones, brown skirt, and white apron. Designed with meticulous detail and hand-painted in vivid tones, Ruth stands with one hand on her hip and the other gesturing forward, exuding personality and theatrical flair. The base bears the Royal Doulton backstamp, including the copyright Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. 1980 and artist's initials.Artist: William K. HarperIssued: 1981 - 1985Dimensions: 11.5"HCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

A collection of skulls, including a stylised bronze skull, with markers marked to the base, 5cm high, a realistic bone example, 5cm high, a polished dark wood skull netsuke with a small ceramic makers mark to the base, 4cm high, and a polished dark wood skeleton netsuke in a seated position, 5.5cm high (4) Provenance: The Clock House, Dunmow, Essex Condition ReportBone skull - minor markings to the surface Bronze skull - markings throughout and rubbing to the base. Scratches to the surface. Skeleton - a minor amount of rubbing. Good condition Netsuke skull - small rubbings to exterior. Good condition

A Kris ceremonial sword and scabbard, the scabbard decorated with elephants, rhinos, and crocodiles, the sword 47cm long, a machete with crop handle, and a wooden monkey skull case, the machete 49cm long, a metal letter opener with prancing horse surmount, 18cm long, and an ebonised page turner, the terminal with four grotesque faces, 35.5cm long (4) Provenance: The Clock House, Dunmow, Essex Condition ReportThe Kris sword overall - 47cm long, the handle 10cm long and the blade 37cm long, scabbard is 47cm long, Rubbing to the blade with some roughness to the edges. Markings to the handles. The scabbard has rubbing to the top and scratching to the metal area.The machete blade -37cm long, the handle 12cm long. The scabbard is 57cm long. Rust to the blade throughout. and heavy rubbing to the handle. Chipping to the scabbard.Letter opener - has rubbing throughout and minor scratches to the blade.The page turner - rubbing to the ebonsied area. The terminal with a slight wobble. Markings and scratches to the faces.

A pair of Chinese carved nuts, decorated with men among blossoms, 5cm and 4.5cm long, together with a small purse with a floral motif and metal clasp, and a carved bone case decorated with dragon and blossoms, with skull pendant attached with string, case 12cm long (4) Provenance: The Clock House, Dunmow, Essex Condition ReportThe nuts with nibbles and areas of loss to the carving. With some historic flight holes. Bone case slightly discoloured with some marks. The purse discoloured, would benefit from a clean.

Early 20th century continental silver vase, probably German/Prussian, of tapering form with fluted rim, embossed with crowned eagle, bow and arrow, stag skull and crucifix, stamped 800 to body, H16cmCondition Report:Approx 9.1 ozt (283 grams)

A Tibetan style gilt-bronze figure of Palden Lhamo on a mule, the fierce red haired deity with bulging eyes, the mule stood on red waves scattered with severed limbs, heads and a skull18.5cm highGood overall state - slight oxidisation.

A Tibetan silvered metal figure of Vajravarahi dancing on a corpse, holding a kartrikka (chopper) and a kapala (skull cup), on a lotus base14cm high

North Italian School, 1630 Portrait of a Benedictine monk, three quarter length, standing, holding a prayer book, beside a table on which stands a crucifix, a skull and an hourglass inscribed upper left 'AEt. sua. 30. Año Dñi 1630'oil on canvas135 x 108cmProvenance:Gurney's Manor, Hingham, NorfolkThis unusual and compelling portrait of an unknown monk at the age of thirty, has an almost Spanish intensity to it, yet he is portrayed with a careful technique of realism not much seen in Spanish painting at this time. This naturalistic approach suggests it was more probably painted in Lombardy and perhaps in or around Cremona. If so, it is in the late flowering of the long tradition started there by Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) and the Campi family of painters and continued by their followers when Sofonisba left for Spain. Almost certainly a Benedictine monk – and presumably an abbot to have had such an imposing image of himself painted - he was clearly aware of such status at his relatively young age. But any pride is countered by the large scale crucifix on the table beside him along with a skull and an hourglass to remind the viewer of both his and our own limited earthly existence. Italy in 1630, especially in the Milan region, was in the middle of a devastating plague, so perhaps this prelate was encouraged to secure his likeness, even if for the refectory of his monastery, in case he too succumbed, as had hundreds of thousands of his fellow Italians.

Two mounted animal skulls to include a buffalo skull mounted on an acrylic base, 51cm wide, 65cm high, and a similarly mounted Oryx skull, 42cm wide, 133cm high

SKULL & CROWN PICTURE - 55CMS SQ

A 19th century bamboo walking stick with memento mori skull finial, the skull with articulated jaw, 84cm in length

Vanitas. 19th century oil on canvas ’Scholar with skull’Vanitasportret uit de 19e eeuw. Olie op doek ‘Geleerde met schedel’60 x 76 cm

A pair of Paul Smith skull cufflinks

A set of Roebuck antlers and skull mounted on a wooden shield with brass inscription of 'R.A.W 6-07-06 DUNROBIN 53lbs' (l. 30cm), together with a similar mounted roebuck antler and skull with '07-2005 ELIE J.W.' inscription (2)

Antlers/Horns: Set of Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger) horns, upon partial skull, mounted on carved wooden shield, H86cm

Antlers/Horns: Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus Strepsiceros), Pair of Kudu curved horns on partial skull, mounted on an wooden shield, H80cm W58cm

Antlers/Horns: North American Moose Antlers (Alces alces), upon partial skull on oval wooden plaque with naturalistic carving, approximately W86cm overall, plaque H67cm

Antlers/horns: Set of Elk (Cervus Canadensis) antlers upon partial skull, mounted upon an circular ebonised wooden plaque, D89cm

A HARDWOOD HAND AND SKULL NETSUKE. 2.5ins long.

Vintage Fashion Accessories, to include mid XX Century beaded evening bags, gloves and fans, a sequinned skull cap, opera glasses, Victorian ostrich feather boa; a Victorian umbrella with ornate pierced and embossed 18k plated ferrule and handle and another later.

19th Century meerschaum pipe, bowl carved in the form of a human skull supported by a hand, amber mouth piece L13cm; another 19th Century meerschaum pipe with amber mouth piece and white metal mount, L18cmShipping £38.00 plus vat (UK Only)

16 bore side by side percussion Howdah type pistol by Wilkinson of London, 8" barrels with makers details to the top rib, belt slide, brass mounts and skull splitter butt cap with lanyard hole, 40cm overallShipping £38.00 plus vat (UK Only)Please note Bradley's are unable to ship weapons outside of the UK

Skulls/Anatomy: African Common Warthog Skull (Phacochoerus africanus), 21st century, South Africa, a large adult male prepared and bleached skull, including full set of large tusks, length 43cm, height 25cm

Taxidermy: A Gothic Inspired Carrion Crow on Human Skull (Corvus corone), a full-mount adult Crow with head turning to the left, stood upon a replica human skull, set amongst other bones and simulated mosses, enclosed within an antique style glazed lantern, 33cm by 21cm by 83cm overall including hanging hoop

Large Royal Doulton character jug Long John Silver (D6335), issued in 1951 and based on the pirate from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Features a cheerful expression, skull-and-crossbones hat, and a parrot forming the handle. Marked with Royal Doulton backstamp and copyright. A classic literary collectible.Issued: 1951Dimensions: 6.75"HCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

*** Please note the description of this lot has changed *** [Gauden (John)] Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings, initial leaf with woodcut arms, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding engraved plate, small burn-hole in S3 just touching a couple of letters of text, tiny marginal worming (not affecting text), contemporary black sheep with gilt vignette of the king and a skull with thorny oval surround and crown at top, winged cherubs in corners, simple ruled spine with "C Rex" at head, handsome gilt gauffered edges, rubbed, small hole at foot of spine, lacking ties, [Wing E290], 8vo, 1649.*** Attractive contemporary binding presumably executed for a royalist sympathiser.Provenance: "Eliza Lorde her book" (ink inscription on recto of frontispiece); J. Blowers (ink name on front pastedown).

Poetry.- Charles I, King of England.- [Cleveland (John)] Monumentum Regale or a Tombe, Erected for that incomparable and Glorious Monarch, Charles the First...In select Elegies, Epitaphs, and Poems, first edition, title and pp.2-3 printed in red and black, woodcut crown and skull to title, woodcut head-pieces, trimmed at head and foot, affecting final line of text on C6r, and some pagination, signatures and catch-words, [Wing C4681], no printer, Printed in the Yeare 1649 bound with [B[irkenhead] (Sir J[ohn])] Loyalties Tears Flowing after the Bloud of the Royall Sufferer Charles I. &c. Englands Glory and Shame, initial f. blank, woodcut head-piece, lacking 4 advertisement ff. at end, pen trials to final verso, closely trimmed at outer margin, [Wing B2966], no printer, Anno Dom. 1649 [i.e. 1650], together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf in compartments, 1 lower corner little worn, rubbed at extremities, 8vo. *** Rare at auction. Another issue (Wing C4681A) has "Year" in imprint.

Three boxed Matchbox Ring Raiders play sets to include Skybase Freedom Mobile Recon Base, Skybase Courage Mobile Assault Base and Skull Squadron Battle Blaster, plus 15 x Ring Raiders planes, gd condition, boxes tatty

Ransome (Arthur). Swallows & Amazons, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1930, illustrations and map endpapers by Stephen Spurrier, 8 pages with small neat marginal repairs, a few light creases and small stains, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, joints splitting, some fading and light edge wear, facsimile dust jacket, contained in solander box with label to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed by Arthur Ransome to half-title, with his ink drawing of a 'Jolly Roger' pirate flag to Beryl Morgan, 'whose great great great great great grand uncle was almost certainly Sir Henry Morgan of Jamaica, that most celebrated Pirate and Chief of Privateers, so it is quite right that she should know something about Pirates herself', signed by the author next to the drawing of the flag with skull and crossbones.Provenance: Beryl Morgan, her signature 'B. Morgan' in pencil at head of half-title. Formerly in the collection of John Cowen, who purchased this book, along with Winter Holiday & Coot Club from a bookshop in Whitley Bay in July 1991. His research revealed that Thomas Morgan joined the bookselling firm Mawson, Swan and Morgan in Newcastle in 1900, as chairman, and 'The son of Mr Morgan who now owned the book shop in the 1930s had three children. Beryl her sister Meriel and her brother Stewart. Beryl was a committed reader of the Swallows and Amazons saga and she eagerly looked forward to receiving the latest Ransome book at Christmas in the 1930s. Her father arranged with the manager of the shop, whose name has been forgotten, to obtain Arthur Ransome's inscription on the copies. These became cherished items with Beryl Morgan.'The book features in John Cowen's bibliography A Ransome Book-Case, 2000.

Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949, half-title, some light spotting to fore-margin and fore-edges, endpapers a collage of the author's eyes, 2 flaps to front pastedown open to reveal small portraits from banknotes of Queen Elizabeth II and George Washington, top edge red (faded), modern brown morocco by the Exeter Bookbinders, the upper cover with a jacket design with 3 skull buttons and prosthetic eye onlayed, 'Winston Smith' lettered in gilt, the lower cover with 'Ninteen Eighty Four' and 'George Orwell - 1949' in gilt (covers slightly bowed), 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, one of 100 copies.

An extremely fine specimen of Cervus Giganteus Hibernicus, or Gigantic Irish Deer. A very fine pair of enormous fossilized Irish Elk Horns and Skull, the horns with 14 points and spanning 98" (8'2") 249cms, some pints replaced, restored or lacking. Ex. Scare. (1) Provenance: By repute from the owner's family, found in the Bog of Allen.

Taxidermy: A decoratively carved Cows Skull, with horns, approx. 66cms (26") wide. (1)

A very large Specimen of Cervus Giganteus Hibernicus, or Gigantic Irish Deer, a pair of enormous fossilized Irish Elk Horns and Skull, the horns with 16 points and spanning 118"cms (9'10") approx. 300cms, some points replaced or lacking. Ex. Scarce, (1) Provenance: Purchased by the family of the present owner at Carton House Dispersal Sale on behalf of the Dukes of Leinster in the late 1940's.

A large 19th Century Vajrayogini Figure of Tibetan Deity Dakini, brass with flame border or Aureole wearing skull crown, and chain, standing aloft two figures on a lotus design base, approx. 46cms (18") high. (1)

An unusual French etui for a child, circa 1880, in the form of a boys peaked cap in gilt brass and blue opaque glass, the peak with gilt wire bow, the crown with gilt metal overlay to a ball finial. The interior in plush with fancy cord border, the tools comprising gilt brass thimble, gilt metal needle case, steel bladed gilt handled scissors, and a gilt handled stiletto, tool loops worn and inoperative, dia. of glass skull 5.8cms, peak to back 8.5cms, 6.2cms high.

WW1 Imperial German Wurttemberg State Pickelhaube A good example polished black leather skull, with brass metal fittings, complete with Wurttemberg helmet plate, state and national cockades, supporting a leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. Faint issue stamps and pencil name of the original owner. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

German Third Reich WW2 Army Afrika Korps issue sun helmet. A good clean example of green felt material with leather chin strap and edging. Retaining original National and Army metal shields. To the green interior, red skull cap with leather sweat band blind tooled with makers details of "R M WESENER". Minor wear, no breaks or wear to leather edging, VGC Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Prussian Waterloo Battle Honour Other Rank’s Pickelhaube A good and scarce example polished black leather skull, with brass metal fittings, complete with Prussian State helmet plate, bearing the Battle Honour Waterloo, Fitted with replacement state and national cockades, supporting the original leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. Faint issue stamps. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

German Third Reich Civil Defence Light Weight helmet by Erel Birlin. A good example of the light weight helmet, made with four groups of vent holes. The interior is complete with padded leather lining and chinstrap. The cushion pad, with Erel makers details is now loose. Retaining 90% black paint finish to the skull. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

Imperial German WW1 Steel Helmet. A very good and scarce example with original green painted finish to the skull. The interior with leather band which supports three pad leather lining. Complete with original leather chinstrap. The interior of the crown is stamped B1021 GC Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Prussian Artillery Pickelhaube and Cover A good and scarce pair, which appear to have always been together. The helmet of polished black leather skull, with grey metal ball top and fittings, complete with Prussian State helmet plate Fitted with state and national cockades, supporting the leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. Faint issue stamp date 1915 and pencil original owner's name. Fitted with a 2 piece cotton cover, retaining five hooks and with issue stamp. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

German Third Reich WW2 Luftwaffe Afrika Korps issue sun helmet. Good clean example of light sand coloured material with leather chin strap and edging. Retaining original National shield and Luftwaffe eagle and swastika. To the green interior, red skull cap with leather sweat band. Minor wear, no breaks or wear to leather edging, VGC Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

German Third Reich. NSKK leather motorcycle helmet. Good scarce black leather skull with protective comb running from front to back across the top with similar band around the edge. To the front, a large aluminium eagle and black painted swastika. Complete with fold down neck flap with integral earpieces and chin strap. Complete with nine tongue tan leather sweatband ink stamped 55. Inside front peak impressed A,Sch over FD. National Socialist Motor Corps. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Saxon State Pickelhaube A good example polished black leather skull, with brass metal fittings, complete with Saxon helmet plate, state and national cockades, supporting a leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining, this retains the original period folded newspaper to pad the helmet. Faint issue stamps. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Baden State Pickelhaube A good example polished black leather skull, with brass metal fittings, complete with Baden helmet plate, state and national cockades, supporting a leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. Faint issue stamps. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Prussian Garde Regiment Pickelhaube. A good and scarce example polished black leather skull, with brass fittings and bearing battle honour Waterloo, Fitted with state and national cockades, supporting leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. Faint issue stamps. Overall GC Sleepy condition Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

WW1 Imperial German Prussian M95 Ersatz Pickelhaube. A good and rare example of the pattern of helmet seen at the early stages of the war in 1914. The helmet of fur felt cloth skull, with subdued brass metal fittings, which show traces of a sand coloured paint. Complete with Prussian State helmet plate and fitted with state and national cockades, supporting the leather chinstrap. The interior with leather lining. The helmet has now faded which is typical of this pattern which have seen combat use. Overall GC retains a good shape. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

Imperial German WW1 Camouflage Steel Helmet. A very good and scarce example with original camouflage painted finish to the skull. The interior with steel band which supports three pad leather lining. Complete with original leather chinstrap. GC Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY

A Tibet Nepal cold iron ferocious skull talisman belt buckle, 10 x 10cm. together with an Indonesian brass tribal necklace 20 x 20cm. and an Indonensian white metal cup, 13cm. high. (3)

A Victorian Copy of an English Civil War Period Lobster Pot Helmet (Zischagge), the single piece skull with simulated four lame tail with turned edge and domed rivets, ear or cheek-pieces with six domed rivets, broad pointed peak with turned edge, three rod face bar.

A Second War Waffen SS Totenkopf deaths head cap skull badge with markings, indistinct possibly R.Z.M.

A very well detailed miniature polished bronze ‘Memento Mori’ skull, 23mm.

A Masonic sword crucifix, the circular base with skull & cross bones and snake, 24cm. high.

Large collection of skull dress rings, various sizes approx. 88 in total

SARGENT JOHN SINGER: (1856-1925) American artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation. An excellent A.L.S., John S. Sargent, four pages, 8vo, Broadway, Worcestershire, 26th September (1885), to a friend, evidently a fellow artist, in French. Sargent thanks his friend for their letter and kind words of encouragement, remarking ´Ils sont arrivés à point car je suis aux prises avec un tableau qui me donne un mal horrible´ (Translation: ´They came just at the right time because I am struggling with a painting that is giving me a terrible headache´) and continuing to add that he has been late in writing due to a lack of news regarding "Pays", evidently a painting Sargent had been entrusted with by his correspondent, explaining ´Jusqu´à present pas d´acquéreur. Le marchand que j´avais en vue n´est qu´un crétin. Un autre qui aurait pu apprécier votre tableau a fait faillite, et l´amateur avait quitté Londres quand j´y suis arrivé. Je devais aller chez lui à la campagne...... mais il m´est arrivé de me fendre la crane contre une pierre en piquant ma tete dans une rivière, ce qui m´a invalidé pourtant quelque temps (Je suis tout à fait bien maintenant). Votre tableau est maintenant dans l´atelier d´Abbey a Londres où plusieures personnes l´ont admiré. Si vous n´etes pas pressé de la faire revenir, voulez-vous que nous l´envoyons à l´institut, c´est l´exposition la plus importante de l´hiver? Elle ouvre à la fin de novembre je crois. Vous avez au moins un partisan assez influent dans le comité qui ferait son possible pour bien exposer le tableau´ (Translation: ´So far, no buyer. The dealer I had in mind is just a moron. Another who might have appreciated your painting went bankrupt, and the enthusiast had left London when I arrived. I was supposed to go to his house in the country... but I ended up splitting my skull on a rock when I stuck my head in a river, which left me incapacitated for a while (I'm perfectly fine now). Your painting is now in Abbey's studio in London where several people have admired it. If you are not in a hurry to have it returned, would you like us to send it to the institute, it is the most important exhibition of the winter? It opens at the end of November I believe. You have at least one fairly influential supporter on the committee who would do his best to ensure the painting is properly displayed´). In concluding Sargent returns to the subject of his own troublesome painting, ´Je fais un tableau dans un jardin avec des enfants et des fleurs. C´est le daible´ (Translation: ´ I am painting a garden with children and flowers. It's the devil´). A letter of wonderful content, not least for its reference to Sargent´s painting which, despite the apparent difficulties it was presenting the artist with, would become one of his finest, and the first of his works to be acquired by a public museum. Some minor age toning to the edges, only very lightly touching some of the text and signature, otherwise VGJohn Singer Sargent made his first visit to Broadway, the picturesque Cotswolds village, in September 1885. Little known and remote at the time, Broadway was the home to a small colony of artists and Sargent had been encouraged to visit to recuperate from a bad head wound, mentioned in the present letter. Indeed, Broadway had been recommended by Sargent´s friend, the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) who is also referred to in the present letter, and who had permanently settled in London in 1883.Whilst in Broadway, Sargent commenced work on the painting (which he writes was giving him ´a terrible headache´) that would become one of his most admired works, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-86). The oil painting depicts two young girls, Dolly and Polly, the daughters of Sargent´s friend, the illustrator Frederick Barnard. They are captured in the garden of Farnham House, strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies, and the girls light paper lanterns as day turns to evening. Sargent wanted to capture the exact level of light at dusk, so he painted the picture en plein air in the Impressionist manner. Every day from September to November 1885, he painted outdoors in the few minutes when the light was perfect. Sargent resumed work on the painting the following summer, again in Broadway, and finally finished the painting by the end of October 1886.Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1887 and Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, encouraged the Tate Gallery to purchase the work later that year. It was the first of Sargent's works to be acquired by a public museum, and today remains part of the Tate collection, on display at Tate Britain.

A Collection of Various Hats to include Bowler, Riding Hat, Two Afghanistan Berets, Pink Skull Cap

WHITE METAL SKULL - 13CMS X 10CMS APPROX

Gothic skull and claw-handled walking stick

English School, 17th century Skull of a parrotfish engraving, inscribed 'Ingentis cuiusdam piscis Indici caput, an/E ‘Turdorum genere.’ e M. S. R./Tab. X. 11.', from 'De Historia Piscium libri quatuor', by Francis Willughby and John Ray, published by [University Press at the] Sheldonian Theatre for the Royal Society, Oxford, 168618.5 x 28cmProvenance: A private collection, Kensington, London. Condition ReportFramed: 23 x 32cmTime staining and discolouration. Light creasing. A heavy horizontal crease runs through the print just above centre. Not viewed out of glazed frame.

Heavy set silver skull and bone bangle