Christie's: Catalogue Library at Gaiter's Green & Fine English Furniture

Christie's Part I & II, Childwick Bury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire Objects of Art, Fine French and Important English Furniture. Christie's May 15, 1978. 1345 Lots with B&W photos with estimates and descriptions. Childwickbury Manor is a manor house in the hamlet of Childwickbury, Hertfordshire, England, between St Albans and Harpenden. The Lomax family bought the house in 1666 and lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans. Toulmin left the property to Sir John Blundell Maple around 20 years later. Toulmin's granddaughter, the author Mary Carbery, was born at the house. Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet bred and raced thoroughbreds and built Childwickbury Stud into a very successful horse breeding operation. Another prominent racehorse owner, Jack Barnato Joel, bought the estate including the stud farm in 1906. On his death in 1940, his son Jim Joel took over the operation. He too became a successful racehorse owner and breeder and maintained the property until 1978 when the stud and the manor were sold separately. Film director Stanley Kubrick bought the manor in 1978. He used the estate as both a home and a nerve centre for his film productions. He lived there until his death in 1999 and is interred in its grounds together with his eldest daughter Anya Kubrick, who died in 2009. His widow, Christiane Kubrick...

Christie's: Catalogue Furniture, Silver & Porcelain from Longleat, June 2002. Softcover auction catalogue with results. 302 pp. Featuring the late George II mahogany furniture commissioned by the 1st Marquess of Bath; the pair of French lacquer cabinets...

Christie's: Fine English Furniture, including Works of Art from Hartley Place, 20 September 2001, Christie's. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 495 lots, including properties of: the late Col. Norman Colville, M.C., the executors of the late Sir Emmanuel Kaye, C.B.E., the Lord St. Oswald, Sir Philip Powell...

Christie's: Wentworth: The property of the Trustees of The Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam Chattels Settlement and of other members of the family, Wednesday, 8 July 1998. London: Christi...

Works of Art from collections of The Cholmondeley Family and The Late Sir Phillip Sassoon from Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Christie's catalogue from the auction in London on Thu...

Christie's New York Catalogs from The Helmut N. Friedlaender Library auctions Part 1 & 2 on Monday 23 April and Tuesday 24th of April 2001. Hardcovers with dustjackets, very good con...

A group of three auction catalogues from the Christie's New York 'Interiors' sales. The Interior sale catalogues are noted for their in-depth writings and beautiful full-color pho...

Christie's New York Catalog - Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, from the auction on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th of January 1999.