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The Personal Archive of Louis Osman, Goldsmith and Architect

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This collection was sold on 27 March 2018.

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Lot 286, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A design displaying detail from a crest, in pencil, watercolour and leaf on stiff white paper, signed and dated 1981, 60cm x 55cm, together with further A4 sheets with small sketches of the same mounted on a set of gates. £80-120

Lot 286, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £180

Lot 287, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of jewellery designs, including a design and annotated working drawings for the ‘Spider’s web’ necklace; nine pages of designs for jewels for the Australian Pearl Company; an A2 design for a zodiac pendant necklace on blue paper, accompanied by 12 A4 sketches of the signs of the zodiac; a designs for an opal suite, a pectoral cross, a diamond engagement ring, cross pendants, bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc,...

Lot 287, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £1,500

Lot 288, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: Four jewellery designs, comprising designs for a sodalite and sapphire collar necklace and pendant, an azurite and diamond suite, a dioptase and gold necklace and a gold and solitaire diamond pendant, on white, light and dark grey A1 and A2 paper, in pen, pencil, crayon, watercolour and gold leaf, the first two signed and dated. £300-500

Lot 288, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £1,800

Lot 289, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of designs for silverware for the University of Liverpool, including a mounted design for a water jug, further designs for wine carafes, jugs, wine glasses, beakers, etc, on buff and brown paper and tracing paper, in pencil and pastel, mostly A1, and a large watercolour and leaf design of the crest of Liverpool University, on brown paper, 95.5cm x 101cm and another watercolour design for a bowl with a crest. £1...

Lot 289, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £160

Lot 290, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of designs relating to ecclesiastical silver works, including designs for the Hollenden verge for Stoke Flemming Church (mounted), a cross for Ely cathedral, the Mantrap cross for Kings College, London, a High altar cross for Exeter cathedral, a chalice for Tavistock Church in Devon (mounted, plus further sketches unmounted), assorted drawings of the altar and designs for the new altar set and a painted hessian ro...

Lot 290, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £650

Lot 291, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of jewellery designs, comprising two A4 and one A2 sheets of designs for a suite of ruby set jewellery, an A2 sheet of working drawings for a sapphire set suite, an A4 sheet of designs for a series of lapis lazuli gold and diamond jewels, on purple paper mount and a series of nine square sheets of sketches of silver and jewellery pieces in ink and watercolour, mounted on card, 18cm x18cm, and a further ink and wat...

Lot 291, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £650

Lot 292, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of designs for silver work, including the design of the crest for the borough of St Edmundsbury, 77cm x 52cm, a full colour and gilt design of the Bury St Edmunds charger, together with further details of various coats of arms included on the piece; designs and details relating to the bog oak and silver bowl commissioned by Sir Edward Hall; designs and sketches relating to a waterlily bowl commissioned for P. Jenk...

Lot 292, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £550

Lot 293, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: Material relating to the making of the Prince of Wales Investiture Crown, comprising a set of nine ink, watercolour and gift cards showing ideas of details for the crown, mounted on blue card board, three sheets of preliminary designs for the structure of the crown on tracing paper, further A4 sketches for various elements of the the crown and preliminary ideas for the whole, along with photographs, the model ‘head’ on wh...

Lot 293, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £5,500

Lot 294, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A silver ring, the broad band ring of woven design, with solid borders and riveted pins, unmarked, ring size R½, band width 14mm. £100-150

Lot 294, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £1,300

Lot 295, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A silver and enamel ring, the broad band ring composed two narrow bands connected by batons highlighted in bright yellow-green enamel, with gold rivets, unhallmarked but bearing Louis Osman’s maker’s mark, ring size R, band width 20mm. £150-200

Lot 295, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £7,000

Lot 296, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A 22ct gold mounted enamel button, the rectangular enamel panel with abstract blue and white decoration, collet set within a 22ct gold button mount, hallmarked for London, 1971 and bearing Louis Osman maker’s mark, button dimensions 24mm x 11mm. £100-150

Lot 296, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £1,000

Lot 297, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A porcelain bowl on silver stand, by Lucie Rie and Louis Osman, the shallow porcelain bowl with white orange skin glaze by Lucie Rie, atop a Britannia standard silver circular stand, with textured finish and three supporting arms, hallmarked for London, 1984, and bearing Louis Osman’s maker’s mark, (bowl repaired), bowl diameter 35.4cm, stand diameter 18cm. £600-800

Lot 297, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £4,800

Lot 298, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: Material relating to the Magna Carta casket and to the Victoria & Albert Museum lectern, including eight A1 brown paper sheets of chalk and gilt designs for the Magna Carta casket, including elevations, plans, a drawing of the Capitol Building and a plan for the full enamelled plate, together with tracing paper designs for the calligraphy title, four A4 pages of sketch designs of the Magna Carta casket - and a box of slides i...

Lot 298, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £2,800

Lot 299, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A large assortment of architectural drawings, plans and sketches, including drawings relating to his work at Staunton Harold (for the National Trust), Guys Hospital Chapel, Hungerstall Park, St Mary’s Church in Painswick, Ranston House in Dorset, Duntroon Castle, Edmund Hall at Oxford University, Gloucester cathedral, etc, and including Osman’s bound and hand illustrated university dissertation on Norwegian provincial log...

Lot 299, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £400

Lot 300, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: Designs for the Goldsmiths’ Company narwhal tusk centrepiece, comprising a full size side elevation, with details, in pencil, watercolour and leaf, on grey paper, 210cm x 42cm, and a further working drawing in pencil on tracing paper. £200-400

Lot 300, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £440

Lot 301, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: Two mounted designs for the badges of office for Northamptonshire, comprising designs for a chain for the Chairman of the County Council and another for a chain for his lady, on A1 buff paper in pencil and watercolour, both mounted, together with two further sheets of related sketches and details, on A1 white stiff card. £200-400

Lot 301, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £280

Lot 302, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of designs for silver work, including designs for a candelabra and bowl for the John Feeny Charitable Trust, Birmingham, a goblet and a covered bowl for the Carpenters’ Company, a wine flagon for the Grocers’ Company, a candelabra for the Merchant Venturers in Bristol, designs and working drawings for a leather presentation casket displaying a copy of the marriage settlement of James III of Scotland and Margar...

Lot 302, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £2,400

Lot 303, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of mounted watercolours and drawings, of architectural themes, most signed, various sizes. £300-500

Lot 303, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £800

Lot 304, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of mounted watercolours, of historic architectural details, including gargoyles, etc., most signed, various sizes. £200-300

Lot 304, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £420

Lot 305, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A 22ct gold model commemorating the Apollo moon landing, 1969, by Louis Osman and Malcom Appleby, the spherical model of the moon with realistic cratered surface, hallmarked for 22ct gold, London, 1969, bearing Louis Osman maker’s mark and monogramed by Malcom Appleby, with a small calibré-cut diamond inset to indicate the Apollo landing site, in a two part rectangular lead glass display case, moon diameter approximately 5...

Lot 305, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £22,000

Lot 306, 27 Mar 18

Louis Osman Archive: A selection of material relating to medals and coins, including part of the designs for the medal celebrating European Architectural Heritage, year 1975, along with a brass copy of this medal, assorted designs for a proposed new currency for the Republic of Liberia, designs for the Verulam Medal of the Metals Society, along with five metal trial castings of this medal, designs for medals for York Minster and Lincoln cathedral...

Lot 306, 27 Mar 18

Sold for £900

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