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LOT 1952
Melody Maker Magazine Original Advertising Poster
1950S A.D.
30 x 20 in. (22 grams, 76.2 x 50.6 cm).
Off-white ground with dark blue masthead 'Meldoy Maker / World's Largest Net Sale ' red blocked text and dark blue footer 'Every Friday - 6d'; footnote 'Printed and issued by Odhams Press, Long Acre, London WC2'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.
'Melody Maker' was an important music-industry weekly magazine which was founded in 1926 by the publisher Lawrence Wright, aimed at dance band musicians under the title 'The Melody Maker and British Metronome'. The footnote reference is to the Odhams publishing venture which folded in 1968.
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LOT 1952
Melody Maker Magazine Original Advertising Poster
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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Original NASA Press Photograph Group
1960s A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: monochrome photographic print of a rocket on the launchpad, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo... 8-26-66 CKMYA Titan-Project OfficeSunrise Pre-Launch after Service Tower removal (Palm Tree in foreground) Unclassified'; monochrome photographic print of a rocket leaving the launchpad, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo..Air Force eastern Test [...] Photographic Laboratory Operated by RCA. CKMYA Titan-3C. Launch of Titan-3C Unclassified.'; monochrome photographic print of two rockets leaving their launchpads, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo / Air Force Eastern Test Range Photographic Laboratory Operated by RCA. NASA/GEMINI & Atlas Agena. Unclassified.'; monochrome photographic print of Apollo 9 capsule with flotation ring, endorsed 'John F. Kennedy Space Center. NASA Kennedy Space Center. Florida 32899. For Release March 13, 1969. Photo No. 108-KSC-69P-186 69-H-453. Aboard the USS Guadalcanal - The scorched Apollo 9 spacecraft, cradled in a foatation collar, is hoisted aboard the USS Guadalcanal. prime recovery ship, after safely carrying astronauts James A. McDivitt, David P. Scott and Russell L. Schweikart to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft shielded the astronauts from reentry temperatures which exceeded 2,000 degrees. They splashed down at 12:01 pm EST March 13, 1969, at the completion of their 10-day earth orbital mission to test a lunar module spacecraft. Ipact was less than 5 miles from the recovery ship and 780 nautical miles southast of Cape Kennedy. They were launched by an Apolo/Satrn V space vehicle March 3 from the Kennedy Space Center. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration directs the Apollo program. [copyright information.]' 74 grams total, 25.6 x 20.4 cm each
Acquired on the USA art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector. -
Post Medieval Agate Cameo with Profile Portrait of the Madonna
Italy, 19th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Carved in low relief, nimbate profile bust with palla. 2.77 grams, 34 mm
Private collection, Europe. Acquired on the English art market. -
Large Original Railway Poster - Old Country Towns by Gregory Brown
Circa 1938 A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Large paper advertising poster in five tones depicting a country town with a mix of weatherboard, brick-built and Georgian shops and buildings, figures and horses; to bottom left 'Gregory Brown / 38'; title 'Old Country Towns in Southern England' over 'via Southampton Docks or the short sea routes of the Southern Railway'; bottom right 'Printed in Great Britain by Waterlow and Sons, London and Dunstable'; linen backed. 931 grams, 134 x 108.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.
F. Gregory Brown was a commercial artist who inspired a generation of designers and helped to improve the quality of pre-war advertising in Britain. 'Old Country Towns' was one of Brown’s last works, printed just before his death aged 54 in 1941.
