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Apparel Arts Esquire Vol 1937 Advance Spring Coronation Number Edward Vlll

`1937

w/ 356 lots Sotheby Parke Bernet New York October 8-9, 1976 9 1/4" x 8 3/4" Ronald Tree was a former editor of Forum Magazine who had moved to England in the 1930s and set up residence in the magnificent Ditchley Park Manor. A member of Parliament, Tree was also a friend of Churchill, who visited Ditchley Park often during the Second World War. After the war the Trees packed up the “country house” contents of the manor and moved it to New York, where they lived until the contents were sold at this auction. A wonderful auction of “country manor” furnishings and decorations. Churchill smoked and drank in these chairs... While involved with Huston and married to FitzGerald, Marietta began an affair with Ronald Tree, who was a grandson of retail magnate Marshall Field and MP for Harborough, Leicestershire. Tree and Peabody divorced their spouses at the end of World War II and married on July 26, 1947. Marietta moved into Tree's home, Ditchley Park, but found herself bored with English country life. Tree and most of his friends were Conservatives, and Democrat Marietta again found herself politically isolated. Their daughter Penelope was born in 1949. Short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to New York City with Marietta, her daughter Frances Fitzgerald and their own daughter, future '60s fashion model Penelope Tree...

Classic armorial coat-of-arms in gouache w/ two elephants in gold & red colours Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 9 1/2"W

By John T. Rowe Print Sz: 7 3/4"H x 5"W Sheet Sz: 12"H x 9"W

Menswear Advert Art Sz: 18"H x 12"W Frame Sz: 19"H x 13"W Fashion Park Clothes was a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer of men's tailored suits and apparel. They were located...

Artistes Américains Modernes de Paris, vintage catalogue printed in 1932. Vol in folio, pp. 138, cm 32 x 1 x 25, In French. Catalogue of the "Artistes Américains Modernes de Pari...

USA 1927. Album de photographies lyrique. First edition of 650 copies on Velin paper, including 18 illustrations by Pierre Legrain. From the "Plaisir de Bibliophile" series, and or...

Guide to The Victoria and Albert Museum. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910. Moroccan leather and green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and no dust jacket as issued. 62 pp. An antique guide to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, England. The guide includes the museum's hours, a list of rooms and galleries. Departments include Architecture and Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, and Enamels, Engraving, Illustration, and Design, Library and Book Production, Metal Work, Paintings, Textiles, Woodwork, Furniture, and Leather. With 30+ illustrations in black and white with four fold-out floor plan maps in color. The binding is labeled and by Jas. Truscott & Sons, Book Binders...

Coat of Arms is an original Embossing on carboard realized by an unknown artist on 1932. Good condition. Dated with pencil on the back.