GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Natural History - Paleontology - an iridescent ammonite, 15cm diam, ebonised plinth base, 22cm high

Natural History - Paleontology - an iridescent fossilized ammonite, 9.5cm diam, ebonised plinth base, 16.5cm high

Natural History -a white branch coral specimen, ebonised plinth base, 15cm high

Taxidermy - a juvenile alligator head, as a desk clip, 17.5cm long

Taxidermy - a juvenile goat, mounted against a birch branch, 48cm high

Taxidermy - a pair of Kudu horns, 90cm high

Taxidermy - a rabbit, amusingly mounted in an anthropomorphic pose, as a chef, at the counter chopping a carrot, the tableau 58cm high overall

Taxidermy - a stag's head, six points, inset glass eyes, 97cm high

Natural History - a large whale vertebrae, partially petrified, 30cm wide

An early 19th century lady's lace rounded square handkerchief, possibly Nottingham, worked with stiff and wavy acanthus, flowers, C-scrolls and fo...

A Victorian Stevengraph bookmark, woven in coloured silk threads, with birthday wishes, humming birds, sentimental verse and foliage, 24cm long, c...

A Victorian Named-View Stevengraph, The Crystal Palace, Woven In Pure Silk by Thomas Stevens, Coventry, 11.5cm x 18cm; other Stevengraphs by Thoma...

A Victorian boy's black jacket, outswept wing lapels, breasted each side, c. 1900

A set of four 19th century Orientalist square tapestries, each with Arabs at their daily business, 49.5cm x 48cm

A pair of 19th century Orientalist tapestries, each as a panorama of Arabs going about their daily business, 46cm x 143cm, c. 1880

A large Victorian Berlin wool work picture, embroidered in coloured and sequinned threads with a Mughal Indian tiger hunt, 78cm x 84cm, c. 1850Pro...

A large 19th century tapestry, worked with Arabs in a Moorish town, 80cm x 100cm, c.1870, parcel-gilt oak frame

A 19th century embroidered panel, The Battle of Trafalgar, Lord Nelson Signal, H.M.S. Victory, 1805, Will Man Every That Expect England Do His Du...

Taylor's Late Bottled Vintage Reserve 1971 Port, cased en suite (unopened)

Château La Cour de By 1999 Cru Bourgeois Médoc, Grand Vin Bordeaux, Mis En Bouteille Au Château, 13%, 750ml, labels good, level above shoulder, se...

An early 20th century fisherman's weighing scale pocket knife, comprising three blades, a corkscrew and a brass spring balance, two-piece bone gri...

Autographs - Sport - Cricket - a book, several pages profusely signed c.1976, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, West Indies, Surrey, Northamptonshir...

Local Interest - Sport/Football - a George V silver, gold-mounted and enamel Derbyshire Football Association medal, Medal Competition Winners 1921...

**Amend description**A James II 1688 one Guinea gold coin, 8.2g, later pierced

**Amend description**Coin, GB, George IV, 1823 gold two pounds, obv. large bare head looking left, with JBM below truncation, rev. St. George, ins...

**Amend description**Coin, GB, William III, 1679, Norwich, provincial shilling

Coin, Roman, Valentinian II, AV solidus, Trier Mint 388-392 AD, obv: D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust facing r...

Coins - a Charles II crown, 1668; another, William III, 1696; another, 1695; a William and Mary half-crown 1689; another Queen Anne 1707 (5)

Coins - a George III cartwheel penny, 1797; another; various tokens

Coins, Colonial/Commonwealth, Papua New Guinea sterling silver shillings, 1938 George VI and later kina and toea, various (qty)

Coins, English Hammered and Ancient Roman: Elizabeth I shilling 2nd issue mm martlet bust 3B, 1560-61 AF; 6d 1592 Fair/AF; 6d 1601; Charles I shil...

Coins, GB and World, George III, 1817 half crown, 1787 shilling (2); Queen Anne 1711 sixpence; James I 1604 sixpence; Louis XVIII 1823 2F; others,...

Coins, GB, George II, 1757 silver shilling, 2mm, 3g; George II, 1723 Hibernia farthing; others, 1733 & 1736 United Kingdom farthings; conforming 1...

Coins, GB, George V, 1935 Maundy Set, 4d - 1d, boxed en suite, B/unc

Coins, Keeling (Cocos Islands) [Australia], 'plastic ivory' (ivorine) coins, part set with duplicates, comprising 1913 issues: 1 rupee (square) 54...

Horticulture - a George V silver presentation prize medal, Presented by Dobbie & Co, Royal Seed Growers & Florists, Edinburgh, 4cm diam, Birmingha...

Horticulture & Agriculture - an early 20th century bronze presentation prize medal, Presented by Toogood & Sons, The King's Seedsmen, Southampton,...

Medallion, Queen Victoria, Diamond Jubilee 1837-1897, 55mm, fitted red morocco presentation case en suite

Coins, Roman, Republican denarii (3); Commodus denarius; Marcus Aurelius; Constantine dynasty, various; others, Celtic silver and Medieval hammere...

THE BRITISH LINEN BANK £20 TWENTY POUND NOTE, 2nd September 1946, serial number L4 10/450, with printed signature of the General Manager, Mackey

Coins, Roman: Denarii: Lucius Verus, Tr.P VIII Imp. IIII, Cos. III; Geta Princ. Iuvent. & another, Vict.[ ]; Anoninianus Valerian II Iovi Cresc...

Coins, Roman, silver: all VF or better, in album, six denarii: Augustus, C & L Caesar; Nerva Fortuna Caes., Hadrian, Justitia Aug Cos II & Cos III...

Coins, Roman, Denarii: Domitian Imp. XXI, Cos XVI; Antonius Pius Cos IIII, Tr P XII, Faustina Yr (wife of Marcus Aurelius), Julia Paula (wife of E...

Coins, Roman: all AVF or better, silver denarii: Antoninus Pius Tr. Pot. VIIII, Cos. II; Septimius Severus Indulgentia, also Severus, Tr. P. V Cos...

Coins, Roman: Denarii: Galba Diva Augusta; Julia Maesa Saeculi Felicitas; Maximinus I Fidus Militum; hemidrachm Nero Jupiter seated; billon Antoni...

A 19th century boxwood Captain Field's Improved patent rolling parallel rule, designed by Captain William Andrew Feild (1790/91 - 1870), for marit...

A 19th century brass travelling aneroid barometer, 11cm silvered register inscribed Compensated, 15cm over loop, c.1890, cased

A 19th century brass travelling pocket aneroid barometer, 4.5cm silvered register, 7.5cm over loop, morocco case

A 19th century lacquered brass four-drawer telescope, mahogany cylinder grip, 15cm extending to 41cm long

A 19th century lacquered brass monocular microscope, rack-and-pinion focusing, adjustable stage, concave mirror, mahogany case, en suite accessori...

A 19th century lacquered brass tripod map reading lens or specimen viewer, screw-thread adjustment, 7cm diam

A 19th century tortoiseshell three-lens connoiseur's eye glass or jeweller's loop, 5cm long (folded); others (3)

A brass and black painted monocular microscope, by Watson & Son, London, rack and pinion adjustment, sub-stage condenser, plano/concave mirror, sp...

A brass mounted boxwood square, Proportionate Waist Measure, by J Rabone & Sons, Birmingham, No. 1513, 61cm long

A collection of 100 microscope slides, including rat liver, pancreas, colon, muscle, skin of a palm, garden ant, cartilage, heart valve and muscl...

A Fowler's Patent calculator, by Fowler & Co, Manchester, 6cm dial, long scale to verso, chrome case, serial no.12829, 9cm over loop, cased

A George III mahogany and brass folding sovereign balance, by A Wilkinson, Ormskirk, Lancashire, paper label, 20.5cm wide (open), 10.5cm wide (fol...

A late 18th century French Provincial stick barometer, inscribed register, mercury thermometer, rounded cresting, painted throughout with country ...

A late 19th century brass travelling pocket damp detector, by J Casartelli & Son, Manchester, 5.5cm over loop, c.1890, morocco case

A pair of 19th century aluminium binoculars, the adjustable optics with three settings for Marine, Theatre and Field, diced leather grips and shad...