A few examples of appraisal values for
STOCK WALTER

• WALTER FRYER STOCKS (BRITISH,
  WALTER FRYER STOCKS (BRITISH, 1842-1915), TWILIGHT AT HADDON HALL,... ...Derbyshire, Eng. - 1867, watercolor on paper, signed and dated "W. F. Stocks 1867," behind mat in modern carved wooden frame with UV protective glass.
• Over 470 Hollywood/Entertainment
  Over 470 Hollywood/Entertainment celebrity autographs, mostly on stock photos and some programs, almost all inscribed "To Joe", including, but not limited to Eddie Albert, Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Tim Allen, Herb Alpert, Julie Andrews, Ann Margaret, Jim Arness, Lucy Arnez, Bea Arthur, Ed Asner, Gene Autre, Lew Ayres, Lauren Bacall, Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Gene Barry, Kathy Bates, Bruce Bennett, Annette Benning, Jodi Benson, Candice Bergen, Polly Bergen, Milton Berle, Sandra Bernhard, Anne Blyth, Pat Boone, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Bracken, Lloyd Bridges, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, Matthew Broderick, Pierce Brosnan, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Raymond Burr, Ellen Burstyn, Mike Burstyn, Gary Busey, Red Buttons, Nicolas Cage, Michael Cain, Dyan Cannon, Mary Carlisle, Art Carney, Dixie Carter, David Caruso, Richard Chamberlain, Kyle Chandler, Chevy Chase, Cher, Petula Clark, Glenn Close, James Coburn, Imogene Coca, Joan Collins, Perry Como, Sean Connery, Mike Connors, William Conrad, Tim Conway, Ellen Corby, Harvey Corman, Kevin Cosner, Joseph Cotton, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Richard Crenna, Hume Cronyn, Billy Crystal, Tony Curtis,Tyne Daly, Tim Daly, William Daniels,Blythe Danner, Ted Danson, Doris Day, Laraine Day,Yvonne De Carlo, Rebecca DeMornay, Bruce Dern, Angie Dickenson, Bradford Dillman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Emilio Estaves, Peter Falk, Farah Fawcett, Jose' Ferrer, Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Jane Fonda, ,Harrison Ford, John Forsyth, Anne Francis, Annette Funicello, Peter Gallagher, Judy Garland, James Garner, Richard Gere, Estelle Getty, Alice Ghostley, Mel Gibson, John Gielgud, Lillian Gish,Whopee Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Goulet, Hugh Grant, Peter Graves, Joel Gray, Linda Gray, Ed Harris, Gregory Hines, Dustin Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, Holly Hunter, Betty Hutton, David Hyde Pierce, Burl Ives, Anne Jackson, Don Johnson,Gene Kelly, Dorothy Lamour, John Lithgow, Sophia Loren, Greg Louganis, Bob Mackie, Shirley Maclaine,Karl Malden, Steve Martin, Walter Matthau, Victor Mature, Mercedes McCambridge, Malcolm McDowell, Dorothy McGuire, Sylvia Miles, Raymond Milland, Robert Mitchum, Matthew Modine, Ricardo Montalban,Terry Moore, Rita Moreno, Abraham F. Murray, Chuck Norris, Marie Osmond, Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, Della Reese, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Mary Tyler Moore, Raquel Welsh, Jane Wyman, Robert Young, Estimate $400-600
• Marlin lever-action 410 ga.
  Marlin lever-action 410 ga. shotgun, serial number 3784, metal parts marked "Walter J" (owner); permit, FFL or NICS background required. Original uncleaned finish, scattered light rust, stock with scratches and normal wear to finish.
• GROUP OF NINE VICTORIAN CLOWES
  GROUP OF NINE VICTORIAN CLOWES AND SONS EXCELSIOR MARIONETTES LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY comprising a stock villain, a male caricature character, two clown characters, two stock women characters, and three stock men characters, the heads, arms and legs of carved and painted wood with fabric bodies, most with inset glass eyes, two with working jaws, all with later hand-sewn costumes(9)largest 72cm high, smallest 61 cm highProvenance: Bought by W. H. Whanslaw from family members of William Clowes in 1936, then purchased by Florence Lillian Bartley Finn in 1941, remaining with the family to the presentNote: In the 1860s travelling marionette shows were a common sight either on their own or at fairgrounds. This peripatetic nature makes them one of the most ephemeral of Victorian entertainments, since they left no buildings, very few printed bills, posters, or scripts, and only a handful of actual puppets survive, which makes this little collection of marionettes so special. Travelling shows were performed by family troupes, and amongst the most famous was the Tiller-Clowes troupe. The company was created in the second half of the 19th century, when Ambrose Tiller was hired by the great marionette proprietor John Simms. In 1863 Simms’ partner, John Hunt, was killed while dismantling the booth in a storm. His widow Eliza Cheadle, a member of a travelling company, became the partner, both privately and professionally, of Ambrose Tiller. Her daughter by John Hunt married John Clowes, who belonged to another well-established theatre company from the Birmingham area. Soon there were half a dozen Tiller and Clowes companies actively performing around the country, with varying family members entering into partnerships, or going off on their own. The Clowes were wellknown as puppet makers, and many of the surviving Tiller marionettes were probably made by them.The present group are all Clowes & Sons’ Excelsior Marionettes, a troupe founded by William Clowes after dissolving his company with Walter Tiller in 1894. Clowes’ troupe would tour up until his death in 1916. This group of marionettes was originally purchased by Harry William Whanslaw, the British author, illustrator and puppeteer who contributed to the revival of interest in puppet theatre in Great Britain from the mid-1920s. He acquired a large collection of Clowes puppets in 1936 that had been packed away in crates after William Clowes' death in 1916. In his own report he mentions how much the marionettes had suffered during their ’imprisonment’, how the clothes were extremely dilapidated, and his subsequent work to reconstruct them.In 1939 Florence Lillian Bartley Finn, mother of the current vendor, started enquiring about purchasing some of his marionettes, as is recorded in letters accompanying the collection. Due to safety concerns in the early years of the Second World War, Whanslaw could not risk shipping them to her in the United States, where she had moved from the UK. The purchase finally happened in 1941, and the marionettes stayed in her family until now. Florence painstakingly created new costumes for each marionette, based on her own research and how each puppet ‘spoke’ to her. In April 2012 they memorably appeared in a segment of the Antiques Roadshow with Bunny Campione where they delighted a crowd once again.
• Y STYLE OF CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
  Y STYLE OF CHRISTOPHER DRESSER FOR PRATT & PRINCE, BRADFORD PAIR OF BOOKCASES, CIRCA 1880 ebonised oak and fruitwood, inlaid with ebony and ivory, remnants of paper label to reverse of one bookcase(2)each 106.3cm wide, 149.5cm high, 34cm deepLiterature: Andrews, J. Arts and Crafts Furniture, AAC 2005, pl. 68 where these bookcases are illustrated.https://blairman.co.uk/designers-makers-and-patrons/pair-chairs-walter-morrison-1836-1921-new-discovery/Note: Christopher Pratt, a cabinetmaker, and Thomas Prince, a carver and designer, formed a partnership based in Darley Street, Bradford, in about 1845. In 1850 they took over the workshop, showroom and stock of their former employer, Joseph Nutter, and began to trade as Pratt & Prince.This impressive pair of bookcases may have formed part of a suite of furniture designed for Walter Morrison of Malham House, Yorkshire. A pair of armchairs, possibly from this suite and with similar decorative details is with H. Blairman & Sons, London.Note: Sold in compliance with UK Government and APHA regulations, with (non-transferable) exemption registration reference TS76R5PW. Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside Great Britain, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
• ENGLISH DOUBLE BARREL HAMMER
  ENGLISH DOUBLE BARREL HAMMER GUNside by side configuration, both percussion sidelock plates marked "WALTER BREM" and engraved with scrollwork, articulated and engraved hammers, 30-1/8 in. barrels, brass bead front sight, gold colored scrollwork and "Warranted Laminated" on barrel rib along with scrollwork engraving between hammers and on barrel tang, walnut stock with checkering at wrist and forend, engraved trigger guard and metal component on forend, steel butt plate, gold inlays on top of wrist and under buttstock, overall 46-1/2 in. Note: Walter Brem was born in Charlotte on July 31st, 1849. He was the son of Col. Thomas H. Brem, commander of Brem's Battery in the Civil War and Martha Fox Brem. Walter Brem was a one time owner of a hardware store on the corner of Trade and Tryon Streets with business partner William H. Martin. This gun is likely an English imported agent marked shotgun imported during his time as a hardware store owner. Provenance: The Estate of Rebecca B. Floyd, North Carolina Condition: oxidation and pitting to metal components, areas of rust, scratches, dents, and chips, wooden stock with evidence of handling, scratches, dents, wear, small crack in forend, chips to wood on top and below action, possible old repair to top of stock near left hammer, triggers and hammers appear to function, one trigger with loss of original screw