£4,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
5 original watercolours, framed, for Bryant & May 'Top Dogs' matchstick covers, comprising an Old English Sheepdog, Yorkshire Terrier, Poodle, Jack Russell and Corgi, each 110 x 110mm; 10 original drawings for pub swing-sign designs comprising a pig and whistle, Royal Oak featuring the head of Charles II, a man playing chess, rose and crown, bull chasing a boy, portrait of George IV, red lion rampant, bell, swan and a farmer ploughing, each mounted, 130 x 115mm; 3 sheets with 39 laid-down samples of matchbox covers including St. Jones's Lucifers, S. Molyneux's Lucifers and Celestial Congreves; 65 print blocks commissioned by Bryant & May for commercial clients, with letter from Johnston Riddle & Co, Printers to The Book Match Dept., Bryant & May, 2nd February 1971, listing the companies