Victorian ships inkwell with original fitted ink pots
Price: £65
This is an unusual inkwell that originally would have sat on an officer's desk on a ship. In oak wood with brass fittings and decoration. With two original inkpots.
Pygmalion powder compact 1950s
Price: £45
This is beautiful spherical powder compact by Pygmalion in the 1950s.. This is engraved metal with a fitted interior that includes a mirror and powder puff and screen. Also includes original pouch.
Art Deco Royal Academy hip flask, Troika Pewter
Price: £25
This is a fun hip flask engraved with the Royal Academy of Arts emblem. Silver plated pewter. 1930s
Tall onyx covered caddy
Price: £45
This is a very striking tall round caddy made from white onyx with very fine red veining with matching cover.
Regency gilt metal posy holder with a flirting mirror c. 1840
Price: £350
This is a beautiful Regency gilt metal posy holder with a flirting mirror and mother of pearl handle. ('Flirting mirrors' were used by ladies who wanted to look at potential suitors without being too direct!)
Jerusalem Mother of Pearl decorated bible dated 1944
Price: £50
This is a very beautiful bible that is from someone's trip to the Holy Land in 1944. It is leather that has been decorated with Jerusalem Mother of Pearl and engraved with the date. This also includes various souvenir postcards and other items collected during this trip. A real piece of ephemera. Published by Collins Clear Type Press.
Pair of alabaster bookends, 20th century
Price: £85
This is a very beautiful set of bookends that are worked into shapes of books. What sets them apart is the different colours of alabaster used.
Victorian marquetry miniature table top games table
Price: £75
This is a very unusual miniature table top games table comprising a beautiful marquetry design ready for chess or any game. It is an octagon shape with eight legs. Could be a cabinet maker's example of a large table.
1950s souvenir doll
Price: £25
This is a fun doll that is a souvenir from someone's travels to Mexico in the 1950s. She is dressed in traditional clothes with a sombrero and necklace. The body is fabric. The legs and head are papier mache.
20th century alabaster table lamp
Price: £15
This is a very nice petite lamp made from polished Italian alabaster with gold mounts. It dates around the 1970s.
Victorian papier mache tip top occasional table
Price: £450
This is a lovely table in the typical floral style of papier mache. It is ornately painting with flowers surrounded with gilt leaves and shell pieces. It is a tip top table that makes a wonderful decoration. It is on a turned column with a triangular base, all decorated with gilt designs.
Victorian hand coloured paper fan c. 1890 by Henley Importer of Paris Fans, Liverpool
Price: £50
This is a very pretty fan comprising two sides that are hand coloured mezzotints depicting 18th century genre scenes of lords and ladies. The sticks are celluloid with gilded decoration. Comes in original box marked Henley Importer of Paris Fans, Liverpool
Set of 14 Delft Amsterdam houses on fitted shelf
Price: £80
This is a wonderful set of Delft ceramic houses modelled after buildings in Amsterdam, they are bottles that had some sort of liquor in them at some point. These come with a shelf especially designed to showcase these lovely collectibles.
Pair of Japanese Imari Plates, Meiji Period circa 1880
Price: £120
Pair of fine quality Japanese Imari Plates, Meiji Period (1868-1912) circa 1880, decorated in underglaze blue, iron red and gold with a typical fabric derived 'brocade' style design, the central three leaf clover shape roundel surrounded by three shaped panels with fans all on a ground of stylised scrolling foliage, the reverses plain with two concentric circles in underglaze blue next to the foot rim. The form of these plates is unusual, copying the standard design of a Chinese eighteenth century dinner plate.
Chinese Art Deco carved boxwood frame 1920s
Price: £50
This is a wonderful Chinese frame that has been carved with symbols and dragons, boxwood
Chinese Embroidered Silk Table Screen 1960s
Price: £30
This is a very delicate table screen made of four panels all with a section of embroidered silk that creates a natural setting with birds and branches, in fitted box
Edwardian Silver Albert watch chain with fob etc
Price: £60
This is a great lot of gentleman's items with a watch chain, snuff box, fob and mechanical pencil.
Victorian shell and silver purse
Price: £25
This is a lovely small purse comprising shell sides mounted in silver, with fitted red interior.
Victorian Albert watch chain with fob and cross
Price: £50
This is a very unusual Albert watch chain with an oval fob featuring a round medallion with a cross on one side and engraving on the other, tortoise and bone,
Italian decorative duck marble and alabaster
Price: £30
This is a beautiful decorative duck made from highly polished green and brown marble joined with fine alabaster, eyes are also stonef
Italian onyx decorative urn and egg on stand
Price: £40
This is a wonderful set of two table decorations a large onyx egg and urn in the most beautiful polished agate stone
English dripware pottery covered biscuit jar, 1930s
Price: £20
This is an unusual pottery biscuit jar, with metal mount, handle and cover, marked on the bottom S Made in England S. This might indicate Staffordshire as the region
10 Chromolithographs from Illustrated London News publication celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee 1897
Price: £85
This is a rare hand finished chromolithograph print taken from a publication that celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The design and vivid colours harken back to the Victorian era.
Print 1: This print depicts the weddings of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and on the bottom depicts the marriage of Mary of Teck to the then Duke of York. The portraits surrounding these images are of the two brides and other royal family members. (numbered Plate 17)
Print 2: This print depicts the development in the modes of transportation during her reign. Clipper ship to steamer, carriage to train, walking and carriages to bicycles and automobiles. The portraits will be the inventors and visionaries of these developments. (numbered Plate XI)
Print 3: This print depicts the House of Commons with Prime Minister Salisbury and the House of Lords. The surrounding portraits are politicians of the day. The bottom centre is of Gladstone. (numbered Plate A)
Print 4: This print depicts the development of the Royal Navy during her reign. it starts with tall mast sailing ships (1836 fleet) and proceeds to steam ships (1853 fleet) and then finally to the most modern ships and even submarines (1897 fleet). The portraits are a bit random - but probably are naval officers and Royal family members. (numbered Plate IX)
Print 5: This print depicts three important battles during her reign. The portraits depict military officers and other influencers during these wars. (numbered Plate VIII)The portraits depict military officers and other influencers during these wars. (numbered Plate VIII)
Print 6: This print depicts the christenings of Victoria's first two children, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Princess Royal and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. The large portrait on the upper left is the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. (numbered Plate V)
Print 7: This print depicts the Queen's marriage to Prince Albert and the image below is a well known family portrait. The portraits are members of the Royal Family such as parents and possibly siblings. (numbered Plate IV)
Print 8: This print depicts Victoria's accession council, the opening of parliament and a royal procession. The portraits are very difficult to pinpoint but they would be politicians and influencers of the day. (numbered Plate III)
Print 9: This print depicts Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838. The top image is the ceremony followed by the procession with Buckingham Palace in the background. The portraits depict monarchs that came before here. Edward the IV is the large central top portrait. (numbered Plate II)
Print 10: This print depicts a later family portrait and three of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne. The larger portraits are Edward Prince of Wales, George Duke of York and probably Prince Edward Albert.
Clarice Cliff Celtic Harvest centrepiece bowl
Price: £75
This is a beautiful display bowl by Clarice Cliff in the well known Celtic Harvest pattern, with wheat sheaths and fruit on a raffia style background, with metal rim
Pair Austrian Secessionist Style Vases 1930s
Price: £100
This is a pair of unusual vases in the Secessionist style which very closely related to Vienna Art Nouveau, yellow ground with grey mottling and floral decoration, with full marks
Rare Ditmar Urbach Art Deco Pitcher, Czech 1930s
Price: £75
This is very rare double sided pitcher by Ditmar Urbach, with Art Deco zig zag design in orange, yellow, purple and blue
Herman Kähler, HAK, Large Vase in Glazed Stoneware
Price: £75
This a large stoneware vase by Herman Kähler, the Kähler ceramic factory which was located in Naestved, Denmark. Signed HAK on bottom with number 22-118
Art Deco Shelley Harmony Drip ware Vase
Price: £80
This is a striking medium size vase with a very simple Art Deco design in different blue hues
Art Deco Shelley Harmony Drip ware Vase
Price: £100
This is a striking large vase in the very distinct Shelley drip ware design in green and blue on beige ground
Art Deco Shelley Harmony Drip ware Vase
Price: £100
This is a Shelley vase, Harmony drip ware pattern that was very popular in the 1930s
Shelley dripware pottery berry bowl with underplate 1940s
Price: £80
This is a very unusual set of a footed bowl that has small holes to drain the water off of the fresh berries with underplate
Pair of Mughal style frames c. 1900
Price: £50
This is a beautiful pair of frames from the British Raj occupation of India that lasted between 1858 and 1947. They are carved wood in the typical Mughal style with carved flowers with lattice work. The photos appear to be original with an officer and two young children. This would have been three frames that would have been connected with hinges for a table.
Formal ornate posy holder with dress clip in daffodil design, c. 1840
Price: £280
This is a beautiful gilt metal posy holder with a very detailed floral scroll work and daffodil design. The top is fitted with a dress clip.
Shagreen scent bottle etui with two miniature scent bottles and funnel c. 1810
Price: £800
This is a very rare small scent bottle etui comprising a shagreen case fitted with two miniature scent bottles and a funnel.
Silver posy holder with wheatsheaf and grape motif c. 1840
Price: £250
This is a very lovely posy holder with chain, decorated in relief with a very detailed grape motif and wheatsheaf design comprising grapes, vine leaves and wheatsheaves
Continental standing shell egg containing sewing implements and a scent bottle c. 1880
Price: £980
This is a very rare table decoration comprising two shells mounted in gilt metal in a bead work design with a matching gilt metal stand, fitted to an alabaster base with gilt metal detail of bead work and stylised leaves. The two shells open to reveal a scent bottle, scissors, thimble and two other sewing implements.
Monocular in gilt metal with turquoise cabochons, French c. 1850
Price: £450
This is a very unusual collapsing monocular in gilt metal with turquoise cabochons, French c. 1850.
18ct gold engraved needle/bodkin case, French with a mark for Nicolas Baptiste de Laurlay 1781
Price: £1400
This is a very beautiful needle or bodkin case engraved in the guilloche or engine turned technique with a very fine repeating geometric design. It bears a mark for Nicolas Baptistede Laurlay 1781
Scent bottle in red and gold cut glass with silver gilt top, English c.1870
Price: £250
This is a very unusual scent bottle in a very fine cut glass design in red and gold, with a stopper and silver gilt top, English c. 1879
Palais Royal silver gilt and glass scent bottle with hand-painted scenes of Paris c.1800
Price: £550
This is a beautiful Palais Royal small scent bottle with eglomise paintings depicting scenes of Paris on the four sides and the top. The bottom is a large carnelian stone. It is mounted with a chain to hang from a chatelaine.
18th century fan in glass frame
Price: £85
This is a stunning 18th century fan in blue and white with floral garlands and a central medallion painted with a bird
Daum pate de verre bowl, Gingko
Price: £1000
This is a beautiful large bowl in pate de verre glass formed as leaves or petals. The design is Gingko. Comes in original fitted box. Model 03570 Coupe Grand Modele
LOT 1
Set of 5 matching 18ct gold sewing tools in fitted case, August Boileau, French c.1850
Estimate: £100 – 200Auction Begins
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Fine quality hand worked round tablecentre
Price: £155
This is a lovely round tablecentrre of hand worked bobbin, filet and needlepoint lace
French hand embroidered runner and 18 mats
Price: £195
This is a lovely set of a long hand embroidered table runner with 18 mats in pinks, yellows and golden white net.
Runner 90x42cm
Space Age Coffee Percolator Samovar 1950s
Price: £20
This is a wonderful piece of 1950s kitsch, a chromed metal percolator and samovar with wood handles
Art Nouveau Bronze Plaque c.1900
Price: £75
This is a beautiful bronze hanging plaque depicting an Art Nouveau woman in natural setting, with integrated ring to hang
English Arts and Crafts Pin Tray 1900
Price: £30
This is a lovely carved wood hanging pin tray with typical Arts and Crafts carving
