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Catalogue of the well-known collection of old English glass, the property of the late Hamilton Clements, Esq. (sold by order of the Executors). The second portion, comprising a fine selection of rare and interesting old English drinking glasses, including engraved, enamelled and cut wine, cordial and ale glasses; armorial, electioneering, masonic, privateer and Irish volunteer glasses; goblets of large size; many with colour twist stems, fine champagne and sweetmeat glasses, a superb collection of taper sticks and candlesticks, a remarkable Anglo-Venetian goblet and rummer, rare Jacobite and Williamite glasses, including portrait glasses of the young pretender, the Duke of Cumberland, and King William; and the famous Houghton glass, also a rare set of three Jacobite glasses with cryptic mottoes; many of the glasses described have been illustrated in standard works on the subject by Percy Bate, Joseph Bles, Francis Buckley, Grant R. Francis, W. A. Thorpe, and others; and in various art journals and periodicals, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. (G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow, C. V. Pilkington, B.A.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the Fine Arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Wednesday, July 16th, 1930, at one o'clock precisely

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