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Stock No: 12921
The Warmest Greetings and Best Wishes
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A Merry Christmas
and A Happy New Year
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All at Westland London.
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Stock No: 12044
WESTLAND, AT YOUR SERVICE....A large American pre war enamel on tin advertising sign with a charging Buffalo...not emulated in our restoration workshops. Circa 1920....Not for sale.
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Stock No: 10846
A large and ornate Victorian wrought iron and brass jardiniere in the Renaissance manner, with a copper bowl, the base seated on rope twist and gargoyle motif. English, Late 19th century.
Link to: Antique Furniture, (English, French, Italian, Chairs, Tables, Desks, Cabinets, Bookcases and Lacterns.
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Stock No: 12723
A SET OF FOUR POLYCHROME ENAMELLED DECORATIVE PANELS, with brightly coloured stylised tropical foliage decoration.
TWO...137cm x 92.5cm x 2.5cm
TWO...156cm x 92cm 2.5cm.
Link to: Antique Paintings & Tapestries.
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61.4"
156 cms |
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Stock No: 12678
World of Interiors advert (October 2012 issue, on sale September)
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Stock No: 12615
A PAIR OF REPLICA FIELD CANON in cast iron in the 17th century style, each with ribbed barrel mounted on a foliate cast carriage, with twin spoked wheels. Early 20th century.
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Stock No: 12568
" DAUGHTERS OF THE TEMPEST " A rare and imposing Italian Renaissance antique mantel in Botticino marble, the moulded rectangular shelf above a barrel shaped frieze carved with foliate decoration, the scrolled and shaped jambs with carved female heads of the godesses Aello and Okypete..Stormswift and Swiftwing....The Daughters of The Tempest.... above a carved raised and fielded panel decorated with fruit on scrolled beaded footblocks.
Italian, circa 1650.
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Stock No: 11900
FROM THE LE RHONE ROTARY ENGINE OF AN AVRO 504, this fine early, large laminated, mahogany and oak propeller, made around 1919 bears identification stamps
indicating its British Air Ministry registration, and technical specifications. The particular 110 HP LE RHONE engine was unsual in that the entire circular cylinder block rotated around the crankshaft, in contrast to RADIAL and in-line engines when it was the crankshaft that rotated. The AVRO 504K was a fighter bomber aeroplane of the RAF in the First World War; 10,000 were built from the first flight in 1913 to 1932 - making it the most produced plane from WW1 and later flying for 40 air forces world wide.
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Stock No: 11899
B is for BLERIOT....AN EARLY , RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL HISTORIC FRENCH TWO BLADED AIRCRAFT PROPELLER. The markings show that it was fitted to a British De Havilland Gnome 50 chevaux / horsepower radial engine as used on the BLERIOT X11, around 1910. The X11 was the immediate successor to the X1 which made the historic cross channel flight in 1909...powered by an Italian Anzani engine.
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Stock No: 11898
PART OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY AEROPLANE PROPELLRS : A LARGE 1920's LAMINATED POLISHED WALNUT BROAD TWO BLADED AIRCRAFT PROPELLER... each blade with brass cap to tip, the leading edge pinned with scallop decorative brass protective strip, the boss stamped OCM No. 73 OCM over the date 20.6.927, further stamped CA73 ASSO 500 Diam 295 PAS 172 194 DIS 014, and finished in deep green over perhaps red with white banding, paint surface now aged with crackle finish. English circa 1927. See also 11892 and 11896....six others not yet on website.
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Stock No: 11897
PIAGGIO SEAPLANE...HURRICANES AND SPITFIRES.........A RARE WALNUT LAMINATED AIRCRAFT TWO BLADED PROPELLER, the markings denoting that it was intended for the Isotta Francini 7 370 hp engine powering an early 1930's Italian Piaggio Seaplane.
There was much cross licensing between aero engine and prop manufactures and it greatly resembles designs by Dr H.C.Watts of the Weybridge Airscrew Co of the 1930s...who made the two bladed props similar to this for the first Hurricanes and Spitfires...which during the course of WW II graduated to 3 and 4 bladed higher performance props by ROTOL...an alliance between Rolls Royce and Bristol aero companies.
RINALDO PIAGGIO were a North Italian airframe construction Company founded in 1884, of considerable standing who specialised in marine aircraft until the factory was obliterated by allied aircraft in the 1940's. They resumed after the war producing the ubiquitous Vespa scooters and still produce mostly executive and airline feeder aircraft.
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Stock No: 11896
HANNO, HANNIBAL, HADRIAN AND HORSA.....A RARE HANDLEY PAGE HP 42 1930's AIRLINER TWO BLADED PROPELLER : Two of these very large laminated mahogany propellers were fitted on each of the four Bristol Jupiter XIF radial engines of this early Imperial Airways Airliner which carried 24 passengers and 4 crew in 500 mile hops cruising at 100mph. Initially these four classically named behemoths reached in up to 28 stages destinations as far as Karachi in then India. Later based in Cairo they were to provide the ultimate long distance connection to South Africa and eventually to Australia.
WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDING THE PIONEERING INFRASTRUCTURE was over a very few years installed along the various routes. These included way stations for engineering attention, refuelling and overnight accommodation for passengers. Another simple but pragmatic device was the ploughing of a deep furrow on the desert sand visible from the air as a navigational aid...intersepersed with emegency landing strips in case of sandstorms and other long desert crossing hazards.
WITH THE NAMES HANNO, HANNIBAL, HADRIAN AND HORSA there were four of these rather impressive clippers of the skies on Imperial Airways'...later B.O.A.C.. truly intercontinental run. They, their crews and ground staff were pioneers using what now is seen as elementary Boy's Own technology but whose personnel, installations and expertise were used to great advantage when war came in the 1940's and a flood of military aircraft were ferried from the Canadian and American factories over the Caribean and South America to the North African, Far and Near East theaters of the war.
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Stock No: 11895
BRISTOL BULLDOG PROPELLER..Fitted to a Bristol Mercury IV S.2 Radial aircooled engine.... this is a 10ft diameter mahogany propeller with brass leading edge covers.
THE MARKINGS : Show that it was fitted to a Mercury IV S2 engine and dated May 1932..these engines were first fitted to Bulldogs in March 1932. At this time it was the front line RAF fighrter.
PROVENANCE : is obscure but believed, bizarrley to be from an Italian mountain village. The Bulldog was a sophisticated and powerful biplane..and one of the last of the RAF's frontline biplane fighters. It was replaced in 1937 by the Hurricane.
Personel : It was in one of these Bulldogs that later RAF fighter ace, Douglas Bader ...prisoner of war and friend of German Fighter Ace and air battle tactician Adof Galland lost both legs in an accident in the early '30s but still went on to become one of the RAF's leading air combattants and a Group Captain air battle tactician before his capture.
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Stock No: 11894
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY CHEETAH ENGINE PROP... DATED JULY 1933...An original propeller for the Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 6 cylinder radial engine type much used for Avro “Anson” twin engined aircraft which was a between the wars RAF and American Army Air Corps training aircraft. It also equipped the famous Bristol Bulldog single seat fighter and others.
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Stock No: 11893
AN HISTORIC WORLD WAR I DE HAVILLAND TWO BLADED WOODEN PROPELLER, constructed of mahogany, ash and walnut. The eight stud fitting holes indicate that this propeller would have been fitted to a De Havilland Gnome 14 cylinder, 100hp two row radial rotary engine which powered the BS1...later designated the SE2... single engined World War 1 scout / fighter designed and first flown by a young Geoffrey De Havilland around 1913. It was the first aeroplane in the world specifically designed as a fast single seat scout and as Bleriot was said to have originated the tractor biplane, was known as the Bleriot Scout, or B.S.1 and was manufactured at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough.
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(B.S.1) One 100 h.p. De Havilland Gnome.
Dimensions: Span 27 ft. 6 in. Length 22 ft. 0 in.
Weights: All-up weight 1,230 lb.
Performance:
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Maximum speed 92 m.p.h. Landing speed 51 m.p.h.
Initial climb 900 ft. min. Endurance 3 hours
BS1 Further details : Its wooden, circular section monococque fuselage, a masterpiece of the cabinet maker's art and years ahead of its time, merged smoothly into the lines of the closely cowled engine to give the B.S.1 a very good streamlined shape. Lateral control was by warping the single bay wings and the tail unit featured a diminutive rudder, without fixed fin, mounted above a one-piece tailplane and elevator.
For its day the B.S.1 was very fast and in March 1913 its designer, now Lt. de Havilland, Special Reserve, was timed over the speed course at 91.4 m.p.h. Unfortunately the rudder was far too small for the considerable keel surface of the deep front fuselage and directional control was poor. Consequently, later on the day of the speed trials, it went out of control in a turn and de Havilland was injured as it struck the ground in a flat spin. The WD 2 3 17 marking would indicate an inspection date.
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