Decorative Arts and Ephemera
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
Pair of Art Deco chrome wall sconces
Price: £50
This is a stunning pair of Art Deco sconces in polished chrome. These hold candles and are in a very unusual Art Deco design. A not to be missed lot for Art Deco collectors!
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
Lot of two Victorian glass hat pins
Price: £20
These are two long hat pins with glass heads. One is a simple black sphere ant he other is a
A gilt metal and onyx figure of a Cherub holding a Globe 1960s
Price: £25
This is an amusing figure of a cherub holding a globe, perhaps intended as a desk ornament or paperweight or possibly as part of a two piece clock set. The cherub is modelled in gilt metal with a smiling face, standing on one leg with the right arm upraised and supporting a globe which is held in place by a screw attachment. The globe and base are formed from onyx with typical striations. Similar pieces are usually dated to the 1960s which would seem to be the case here. Mounted onyx globes do appear, but the addition of the cherub figure is more unusual.
Two Bronze Pre Colombian style Figurine Pendants
Price: £25
Two Bronze pre Colombian style Figurine Pendants, one depicting a man with his hands on his hips, the other depicting two men one astride the shoulders of the other, both figures in a stylised geometric style similar to so called 'pre Colombian' artefacts.
'Pre-Columbian' art is a broad category that encompasses the art of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean prior to the arrival of the Spanish at the beginning of the 16th century. The figure sculptures, made in a wide variety of media, are highly stylised and many contain some of the features seen here, although an exact parallel is hard to find. These two figures are cast in good quality bronze and were presumably intended as souvenirs of some kind. While not contemporary, the dating of these pieces is difficult and they must be assessed on their decorative appeal.
A Complementary Pair of Gilt Metal Art Nouveau style picture frames, 20th Century
Price: £65
Two Gilt Metal Picture Frames of differing sizes but with matching designs in mirror image modelled in typical Art Nouveau style with slender ladies holding a branch and flowering wheat sheaves and lotus, the reverses with swing mount stands
Two Sets of Serving Cutlery made by Haddad Jezzin Cutlery, Beirut, Lebanon 1960s
Price: £45
Two Sets of Serving Cutlery comprising a carving knife and fork and a pair of salad servers made by the firm Haddad Jezzin Cutlery based in Beirut, Lebanon. The Haddad family began manufacturing metal items, principally army rifles, knives and steel blade swords, after settling in Jezzin, Lebanon in 1770. By the 1930s they had branched out into cutlery and became known for pieces with birds heads made of bone and buffalo horn, inlaid with coloured bone & brass as here. Each of the two sets have near identical decoration with gilt wings, patterned backs and a red bone crest. The carving fork marked ‘S & A Haddad’, the carving knife ‘S & A Haddad Jezzin Stainless Lebanon’. The salad spoon marked ‘S & A Haddad Made in Lebanon’, the salad fork ‘S & A Haddad Stainless Steel’. Each set is contained in its original box with the original label and both sets were given to the vendor’s parents in the 1960s and were clearly made new then.
Arts and Crafts Stumpwork Firescreen 1900
Price: £20
This is a wonderful firescreen in a typical Arts and Crafts minimal design, with lovely stumpwork embroidery depicting two couple in garden
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
Edwardian brass door knocker c. 1910
Price: £20
This is a beautiful brass door knocker in the shape of a lions head. This is quite a common motif. This lion is quite well rendered with a gentle face. Marked Portugal on the reverse.
Beautiful small daguerreotype in a frame c. 1850
Price: £25
This is an amazing daguerreotype of two young girls probably made for an officer to take as a memento while travelling. The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process in the history of photography. Announced to the public in 1839 the daguerreotype enjoyed great popularity in the 1840s and 1850s. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate.
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.
Kenton Clock Radio Hong Kong 1970s
Price: £35
This is an early example of the clock radio format made by the Kenton factory, Hong Kong. The casing is in red leather and the format resembles that of the standard travelling clock, where the mechanism is hinged to the lid and then clips in to the base. There are six transistors and the loudspeaker is of Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) type (moving coil). The clock is of the standard wind up type and the radio, which still works but can only receive a limited range of frequencies, is powered by two AA batteries. The front face with the makers name and the interior marked 'Genuine Leather Case Hand Made in Hong Kong'.
Massive Victorian Carnelian Cameo Shell
Price: £40
This is a very large example of a carnelian shell, such pieces often being used for the creation of cameos in the nineteenth century and before. This example has been polished in certain areas to give the shell a more elegant and finely worked decoration suitable for use as a table ornament. Carved carnelian cameo shells were favoured souvenirs from the Grand Tour and were found mainly in the North and West African waters. This piece is of an exceptionally large size, which is both desirable in itself and occurs much less frequently.
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
Fun set of egg cups and timer 1970s
Price: £10
This is a very nostalgic set of four egg cups and timer in turned wood with fitted box, made in Japan
An Art Deco Style Globe with a flying Aeroplane labelled, Government of India Copywright 2008
Price: £25
This is an Art Deco style desk top ornament of a revolving globe set on a stepped chrome base and topped with a chrome aeroplane in a design which is clearly not of the intended period look but is full consistent with the date of manufacture which is set out clearly on the globe itself - 'Government of India Copywright 2008'.
Victorian small note pad for chatelaine
Price: £50
This is a charming small note pad that would have hung from a ladies chatelaine or a ladies "tool belt" so to speak. It is silver plated with the original paper pages with actual notes on them which is fun. There is also the original mechanical pencil. There is a spring hinge so the notepad opens automatically. The silver plate has a repousse design of angels or putti very typical during this time.