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Monday, January 26, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
ELSINORE PUNCH BOWL
UNUSUAL EARLY VICTORIAN CAMPAIGN STOOL
GLOVE BOX BY JEWELL & CO CHRISTCHURCH
GLOVE BOX BY JEWELL & CO CHRISTCHURCH, INLAID WITH REWA REWA, BURR TOTARA, CA 1890
Sunday, January 18, 2009
AGRICULTURAL TROPHY NEW ZEALAND 1889
"EDINBURGH" BY HAMISH LAWRIE CA 1960

LARGE OIL ON BOARD, SIGNED "LAWRIE" LOWER RIGHT. CA 1960 27 INCHES BY 35 INCHES
Lawrie trained at Grays in Aberdeen and in 1941 joined the film industry in London as a cameraman. It was at this time, that he first sold a picture - to Dylan Thomas for £5. Later in the 1940's he was exhibiting at Wolf Mankowitz' Little Gallery in London. Following a period in Africa, he followed the advice of the Scottish colourist and old friend, J. D. Ferguson, and went off to live in France (at St Paul de Vence) - for 9 years, returning to Edinburgh in 1960. ART
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
MAORI LAND WARS, GOLD AND BLOODSTONE RING


Gold and Bloodstone ring with an inscription which reads
"Presented by the serg..ts of the 58th Reg to Seg..t Warren on his discharge 31st March 1863."
William Warren (1825–1894)
Colour Sergeant, NZ Medal
Colour Sergeant Warren, 65th Regiment of Foot, arrived in
New Zealand in 1846 from Sydney. He was among the 140-man
regiment that arrived in Wellington aboard the barque Levant in
response to a request by Governor Grey for reinforcements.
They were stationed at Paremata Redoubt and took part in the
action at Horokiwi in August. Later, they garrisoned the Hutt forts
and stockades and occupied the Mount Cook Barracks in Buckle
Street in 1847.
Warren saw service in Wellington, New Plymouth, Bay of Islands,
Napier and the Waikato during the regiment’s 20-year stay in
New Zealand.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
PAINTING BY HAROLD GILMAN


POSSIBLY THE ARTISTS MOTHER, OIL WASH ON BOARD, IMAGE MEASURES 13 1/2 BY 11 INCHES, SIGNED H.GILMAN (STUDIO STAMP)
Harold Gilman (1876-1919) Gilman was a painter of portraits, figures, interiors and landscapes in oil. In 1907 he met Sickert and became a founder-member of the Fitzroy Street Group. He was closely associated with Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner, and in 1911 became a founder-member of the Camden Town Group.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
ASTHETIC MOVEMENT STOOL, LIBERTY'S CA 1880
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
NEW ZEALAND SILVER AND PAUA DESK STAND

Silver and Paua shell(abalone) Desk Stand, Arts and Crafts Ca 1900, 230mm x 140mm, marked by Alfred Charles Akinson in four places.
( Atkinson was the son of Sir Harry Akinson, Prime minister of New Zealand 1883-84 and 1887-90.)He pioneered the use of Paua shall with silver and was a leading member of the early Arts and Crafts movement in New Zealand.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
NEW ZEALAND VINTAGE POSTERS

I HAVE STARTED A NEW BLOG ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO ORIGINAL NEW ZEALAND VINTAGE POSTERS THAT I HAVE AVAILABLE FOR SALE. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT AT
http://nzposters.blogspot.com/
THIS POSTER BY STANLEY DAVIS, 1882 - 1938,GREGG'S COFFEE DUNEDIN, RAILWAYS STUDIOS, CA 1928, SINGLE SHEET, 40 INCHES BY 30 INCHES, PLEASE INQUIRE FOR PRICE
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
HIAPO TAPA CLOTH , NIUE, CA 1890


measures 56 x 47 inches
This hiapo is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. It has been decorated with hand-drawn motifs. In the 1880s, many hiapo were produced with a new style of fine freehand decoration. Comprising intricate line work and detailed motifs based on various species of plants, a distinctly Niuean iconography developed. Some scholars believe that many hiapo from this period were made by a single small community on Niue.
LARGE MANAIA CARVING

Large manaia carving, (possibly cut from a pou pou) exhibiting unusual surface decoration known as “Taratara o Kai” or “Taratara a Kai” which means “prickly” or “barbed”, and is presumably applied to this pattern from the variant form consisting of a row of pointed triangles. Taratara a kai consists of parallel strips of raised zigzag notching, separated by a ridge or, sometimes, by a plain space. The pattern is practically confined to the Arawa and Matatua tribes of Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty and the Ngati Maru of the Thames area. In these areas the pattern is used on pataka (storehouses) and only rarely on other buildings. It is also present on a palisade post from a pa near Wairoa, Hawke's Bay.
EARLY NEW ZEALAND CHIFFONIER ,TOTARA ,CA 1840
Portrait of Maddys Mother, Charles MacIver Grierson RI (1864-1939)
"Maddys Mother" signed watercolor byCharles MacIver Grierson RI (1864-1939)
Born in Queenstown Co. Cork, Grierson studied at the
Crawford School of Art and later at the Westminster School in London. Here in 1892, he became a member of the RI and exhibited over 80 works with them over the following years. In the late 1890s Grierson returned to Ireland, meeting his future wife in Co. Sligo. His works are thus found in several private collections around Sligo as well as in the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. In his own lifetime they were also shown at the RA, the RHA, Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, the Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Abbey Gallery, London.
SOLD THANKS CHRISTCHURCH
Sunday, September 21, 2008
HILO 625 HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR 1920'S
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Straw work picture of The Menai Strait ca 1850
19th century English painting with . The painting depicts a wonderful picture of the and the Britannia Bridge in Wales. It is constructed with natural and dyed pieces of straw which has been applied to a watercolor painting. It is identified on the base with an inscription. The framed piece measures 27 x 22.5 inches. There is some loss to some of the straw work and a couple spots of staining. Still a wonderful early piece of English folk art. SOLD
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Gerald E Jones, FRPS, a collection of photographs

Collection of 28 bromoil and gum bichromate prints of varying sizes. Gerald E. Jones belonged to the Pictorialist movement and his impressionistic works cover a range of artistic subjects and studies including architecture, landscape, farm scenes, maritime subjects, and portait studies.
Gerald Edgar Jones of Auckland (F.R.I. B.A.). Born Wellington 29 August 1880. Elected Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, London, 9 December 1912. Senior partner of the firm of Jones and Palmer Architects. Exhibitor at the London, Paris, Berlin, and American International Photographic Salons.
Represented in several major collections
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
RARE FRENCH MAGIC SET CA1851

PURCHASED IN LONDON AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION 1851, , MEASURES 9 X 13 INCHES,
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SOLD THANKYOU GERMANY
WEBBS QUEENS BURMESE FAIRY LAMP
WEBBS QUEENS BURMESE FAIRY LAMP CA 1886, 6 1/4 INCHES HIGH
the base is acid-etched with both the Thomas Webb's Queen's Burmese and Clarke's Patent trademarks more photos
SOLD
thank you Arizona
the base is acid-etched with both the Thomas Webb's Queen's Burmese and Clarke's Patent trademarks more photos
SOLDthank you Arizona
Thursday, July 24, 2008
EARLY MODEL OF A TOTEM POLE, KWAKIUTL, CA 1920, SIGNED CHARLIE JAMES
EARLY MODEL OF A TOTEM POLE, KWAKIUTL, CA 1920, SIGNED CHARLIE JAMES
EARLY MODEL OF A TOTEM POLE, KWAKIUTL, CA 1920, SIGNED MUNGO MARTIN KASALAS
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
INLAID GAMES TABLE CA 1880 NEW ZEALAND INTEREST
LARGE PAINTING BY MATHIAS KAUAGE O.B.E.

| Mathias Kauage Sold thanks Brisbane Miugu Village, Simbu Province, Every day, Kauage would present his paintings to the public for purchase on the sidewalk in front of a hotel in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea�s main urban centre, where he lived in a small house with his wife and children. In 1987, he was one of four recipients of Sydney, Australia�s prestigious Blake prize for Religious Art. His reputation grew internationally, and he travelled throughout Europe, where he met and created a painting for Queen Elizabeth II in 1998. At that time, she bestowed upon him the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to the art of Papua New Guinea Admitted to the National Arts School in 1972, Kauage began exhibiting regularly and his lively drawings of modern technology and life in town made his work popular with expatriates and the new PNG elite. As Kauage's success and fame grew, he received many government commissions as well as many invitations to exhibit his work in Europe, Africa, and Australia. His best known works include figures he designed for the mosaic facade of the new PNG Parliament House as well as a series of images he made of the death of Highland leader Iambakey Okuk, which now hang in the National Gallery of Australia. However, Kauage's colorful imagery has also been selected for book covers, stamps, and covers of magazines, including the July edition of Australia's Art Monthly. Mathias Kauage died in May, 2003 at the age of sixty-six |
INLAID SIDE TABLE, NEW ZEALAND INTEREST
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Maori Feather Cloak
STERLING SILVER TROPHY BELT( SHOOTING)
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