GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A 19th century French rosewood and satinwood crossbanded amboyna cigar cabinet, hinged cover and fall front enclosing four sliding humidor trays, ...

A 19th century bone Barley Corn pattern chess set, red stained opposition, the kings 10cm high; tooled leather box, as a book, 37cm wide, (2)

A 19th century brass mounted burr walnut domed rectangular box, applied with engraved brass cut-card work, hinged cover, 24cm wide, c.1870

A 17th century style mahogany numismatist's coin cabinet, the oversailing top above five long graduating drawers, four fitted with red velveteen c...

A 17th/18th century bronze mortar, flared rim, angular lug handles, founder's mark HW, 8.5cm high; another pestle and mortar, trunion handles, the...

A 17th/early 18th century polychrome painted lead armorial plaque, probably Whitfield, 21cm wide, c.1680-1720

A 19th century alabaster pocket watch stand, pierced and carved with scrolling vine, shaped base, bracket feet, 22.5cm high, c.1860

A 19th century Anglo-Indian Sadeli marquetry rectangular games box, hinged cover inlaid for chess, cribbage and further games, for backgammon to v...

A 17th century bronze mortar, slightly flared rim above two girdles, 14.5cm diam, c.1600-1650

A 19th century bone chess set, possibly Anglo-Indian, black stained opposition, the Kings 8cm high, c.1880, the associated hardwood box inlaid wit...

A 19th century brass figural pocket watch stand, cast as a gentleman, out wandering, rectangular marble base, 13.5cm high

A 17th century dark patinated bronze pestle and mortar, cast and applied with bearded masks and 'split turnings', 12cm diam, c. 1680

A 19th century brass novelty easel pocket watch and pen stand, as a horseshoe crested by a jockey cap, 13cm high, c.1890; a late Victorian brass a...

A 19th century brass novelty vesta case, as a wicker fishing creel, hinged cover, 6.5cm wide

A 19th century brass octagonal sedan timepiece, 7.5cm circular enamel dial inscribed with Roman numerals, the salvaged verge fusee pocket watch mo...

A 19th century bronze country house door stop, cast with a fox mask and hunting regalia, beneath an arbour of fruiting vine, 29cm high, c.1860

A 19th century bronze Indian temple ceiling lamp, cast with pierced orb, figure and lotus-shaped reservoir, above a pair of bells, 84cm long

A 19th century brown patinated bronze desk weight, cast as a clenched fist, rectangular rouge marble base, 17.5cm wide, c. 1850

A 19th century carpenter's brass-mounted rosewood rebate plane, by W. Marple & Sons, Sheffield, 22.5cm long

A 19th century cold-painted iron desk weight, as a Bacchic mask, salvaged from a Coalbrookdale-type garden ornament, 12cm long

A 19th century Colonial brass mounted hardwood table box, hinged cover, pierced bat shaped escutcheon, bun feet, 29.5cm wide

A 19th century composition roundel, in relief with figures of a classical allegory, 11cm diam, framed

A 19th century Continental boxwood and cut-steel marrquetry fourteen-stick fan, the paper screen printed with courting figures in the pastoral idy...

A 19th century French brass Corpus Christi pole head, the four points of the Celtic cross set with red cabachons, the rope twist nimbus with fleur...

A 19th century French brown patinated bronze pedestal mantel urn,the shallow bowl fluted and cast with a band of fruiting vine centred by masks, b...

A 19th century French composition roundel, in relief with an allegory of fecundity, a mother surrounded by her offspring, classical facades in the...

A 19th century French copper grape picker's hod, of typical form, planished throughout, 85cm high

A 19th century French dark patinated spill holder, cast as a grape picker, he stands, hands in pockets, a wicker hod on his back, rounded rectangu...

A 19th century French gilt bronze desk thermometer, as Cleopatra's Needle, ivorine scale, square onyx base, 30.5cm high, c.1870

A 19th century French gilt-metal and opaque glass figural spill holder, the bucket-shaped vessel held aloft by a kneeling putto, 18cm high, c. 1870

A 19th century French Palais Royale type silver coloured metal and ormolu mounted cage work scent bottle, the sides with flowering urns, flowers ...

A 13.5 inch terrestrial globe, The Phillips Challenge Globe, the base with provision for an atlas, 43cm high

A 19th century gilt metal candelabra, as a spray of flowers, each set with a coloured paste stone, triform acanthus base, 31.5cm high, c.1870

A 19th century gilt metal novelty desk clip, as the head of a bird, glass eyes, 11.5cm long, c.1890

A 19th century gilt metal profile portrait plaque, 6.5cm x 5cm, rosewood frame

A 19th century gilt-bronze and mother-of-pearl desk tidy, cast as an Imperial Eagle, perched beside a drum and triumphal regalia, oval Belge noir ...

A 19th century gilt-metal table-top wine bottle stand, the central post with sprung mechanism, ceramic base, cast throughout with leafy scrolls, 4...

A 19th century Grand Tour micromosaic cross, inlaid in white, pink, green and blue, gilt metal back, 12.5cm high

A 19th century Grand Tour dark patinated bronze mantel urn, cast after an ancient Greek volute krater, tall marble plith base, 36cm high, c.1850

A 19th century Indian bronze articulated incense burner, as a lotus, screw-threaded mechanism, octagonal base, bell shaped feet, 23cm high, c.1880

A 19th century Indian brown patinated bronze, of an elephant, the beast stands four square, a floral howdah on its back, skirted rectangular base ...

A 19th century instructional spelling alphabet, the mahogany box with sliding cover, printed paper label inscribed Patent Letters, London, enclosi...

A 19th century Isle of Wight sand picture, depicting St Mary's Church, Brading, 8.5cm x 11.5cm, label to verso inscribed in ink manuscript The fra...

A 19th century Italian cut-paper picture, depicting sportsmen hunting with a dog, 25.5cm x 19cm, oak frame; another, similar, depicting birds, 25....

A 19th century Kashmiri canted rectangular box and cover, penwork decorated with starpwork and dense

A 19th century mahogany artist's box, by Roberson & Compy, No.99 Long Acre, London, hinged cover with paper label to verso, enclosing an arrangeme...

A 19th century mahogany rounded rectangular box, hinged cover with flush brass campaign-type handle, 21cm wide

A 19th century mahogany slope top stationery box, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of divisions, inset mother of pearl escutcheon, 23cm wide,...

A 19th century mahogany table top office filing chest, oversailing top above four small drawers, two long drawers and pigeon holes, flush brass ca...

A 19th century Meerschaum pipe, the bowl as lady of fashion's head, amber-coloured mouthpiece, 10cm long, c. 1900

A 19th century morocco leather rectangular twin-section travelling inkwell, hinged cover enclosing a pen wipe flanked by a pair of hinged covers, ...

Medical - a 19th century mahogany apothecary box, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of bottles, drawer to base, flush brass campaign-type hand...

A 19th century olivewood novelty photograph frame, as a shuttered window, hinged covers enclosing four rectangular and four oval apertures, 29.5cm...

A 19th century ormolu mount, cast as a grotesque, terminating in acanthus scrolls, 36cm wide, c. 1870

A 19th century Ottoman reverse glass portrait, of a dignitary, feigned oval, 43cm x 30cm

A 19th century patinated bronze plaque, cast after Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528) with Praying Hands or Study of the Hands of an Apostle, 17cm x 15cm

A 19th century polished steel bell shaped door porter, cast throughout with acanthus, 29cm high

A 19th century Rococo Revival bronze pocket watch stand, cast with an eagle and a lion, rectangular base, 17cm high, c.1860

A 19th century Spanish tooled and gilt leather table casket, hinged cover with swing handle, strap hinged with pierced with Gothic quatrefoil trac...

A 19th century taxidermy page turner, fruitwood blade, the haft formed from a deer hoof and fetlock, 31cm long, c.1870