Sales catalogue: Phillips, Son and Neale

Date:
13th September 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/15/208
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Phillips, Son and Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    96 A 4-fold screen in leatherette, a china fruit dish on plated stand, and 3 glass vases 97 <A Singer’s sewing machine on stand 98 An old Chinese kakemono, decorated with numerous figures depicting a Chinese legend 99 THE STAGEH ORGAN (2-Manvua.L), By BisHor & Son of London and Ipswich, originally designed and built for the Cathedral Scene in “Much Ado About Nothing,” and as used in “ Henry VIII” and other plays SPECIFICATION :--GREAT ORGAN, Compass CC to a, 56 notes: 1. Open Diapason, 8 ft., 56 pipes; 2. Clarabella, 8 ft., 56 pipes; 3. Trumpet, 8 ft., 56 pipes SWELL ORGAN, Compass CC to a, 56 notes: 1. Violin Diapason C, Bass into No. 5, 8 ft., 44 pipes; 2. Hohl Flute, 8 ft., 56 pipes; 3..Vox Angelica, 8 ft., 56 pipes PEDAL ORGAN, Compass CCC to f, 30 notes: 1. Open Diapason CCC to ff., 16 ft., 18 pipes; 2. Bourdon, 16 ft., 30 pipes CouPLers, &c.: 1. Swell to Great; 2. Swell to Pedal; 3. Great to Pedal The model being that of a small church organ [3 stops on each manual and bourdon on pedals, with special theatre additions as enumerated above] would therefore, with slight alterations, be suitable for a place of worship. The instrument, in present form of construction and tone, ts most suitable for a high-class Kinema Theatre BOOKS. 100 Brockhaus Konversations Lexikon, 1901 17 vols. 101 Lee’s Life of Shakespeare, 2 copies, one presented to Sir H. Lvee by Miss Marie Corelli, with signed inscription, and 4 others 6 vols, 102) Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, revised by Birch 8 vols. 103 Leonard Williams’ Land of the Don, Toledo and Madrid, and 6 others 8 vols. 104 Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, illustrated by Aldin, and 1 other 3 vols, 105 i Lacroix’ Arts of the Middle Ages, Science and Literature, ew’ Manners, Customs and Dress (2 copies), Military and Religious Life, and The Eighteenth Century 6 vols. 106 HKlbert Hubbard’s Complete Writings, author’s edition, signed 3 vols.