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30 3130 †A fine and rare sterling silver Rolls-Royce ‘SilverGhost’ Spirit of Ecstasy mascot desk piece, by GPS,London, 1998,after the famed design by Charles Sykes, with Charles Sykes facsimilesignature and ‘Rolls-Royce Limited Feb 6th 1911’ around the base,and hallmarked to rear of base, 18.5cm high, mounted to a blackmarble tapered plinth, measuring 36cm high overall.£4,000 - 5,000€4,900 - 6,100According to information supplied by the vendor, this desk piece wasgifted to a notable Knightsbridge resident by His Royal HighnessPrince Jefri Bolkiah, younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei.31 †A rare ‘Mr Jorrocks’ car mascot, by ‘Snaffles’(Charles Johnson Payne), British, 1922,signed ‘Snaffles’ and with Registered Design No 692157 to base, ‘cireperdue’ silver-plated bronze mascot, depicting the comical cartooncharacter ‘Mr John Jorrocks’ in huntsman’s full dress sounding hisbugle and mounted on his galloping horse, complete with ridingcrop and reigns, 12cm high, mounted on a turned wooden displaybase, offered together with an 1890 edition of ‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts andJollities’, published by Routledge & Sons, featuring illustrations andstories of Mr Jorrocks’ humorous activities.(2)£5,000 - 6,000€6,100 - 7,400Mr John Jorrocks was a fictional comical character created by Englishnovelist and sports writer Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) whoserialised in pictorial form the exploits of ‘Mr Jorrocks of St.BotolphLane and Great Coram Street’, a vulgar urban Cockney grocer witha taste for country life, sports and hunting, in his sporting editorialNew Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834, which were latercollated and published by George Routledge & Sons in the 1838title ‘Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities’, a later 1890 illustrated edition ofwhich is offered for sale with the lot.Charles ‘Snaffles’ Johnson Payne (1884–1967) was an English artist,painting mainly military, racing and equestrian scenes, and was thesculptor of the ‘Mr Jorrocks’ mascot offered for sale here today.16 | Goodwood festival of speed