GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, STAMPS AND GRAND TOUR OF AUCTION CURIOSITIES

An Ottoman brass and tortoiseshell vase or hookah base, frilled everted rim, inlaid in brass and silver with stylised scrolling branches and bands...

An Ottoman brass tulip candlestick, hexagonal baluster pillar, dished heemskerk type base with a panel of Arabic script, 32.5cm high; another, sim...

An Ottoman Turkish Islamic mosque lamp, painted in polychrome with star-and-crescent, flags and Arabic script, on a buff ground, blue borders, fla...

An unusual 17th/18th century white metal calendar pendent SALVED FACTOR

An unusual 19th century gilt metal and opaque glass table lamp, the column with entwined snake, picked out in gilt, incurved triform base cast wit...

An unusual 19th century white coloured metal fruit knife in the form of a stylized hound, 8.5cm folding shaped blade

An unusual custom-made presentation model, Ayre's Original Keenok Uniroll, 34cm wide, c.1930 Made for Mr Peter Ayre CEO on his retirement 1979 - t...

An unusual George IV mahogany birdcage correspondence box, hinged cover flanked by a pair of sloping letter compartments, 30cm wide, c.1825 Cond...

An unusual novelty table box and cover, as a tortoise, incorporating a preserved shell with gilt brass head, limbs and plastron, rope-twist border...

An unusual silhouette panel, applied with an Orientalist caravan, on an earthenware ground, 3.5cm x 14.5cm

Antiquities - a Medieval verdigris patinated bronze boss, probably a mount from horse furniture, cast as the mask of a gorgon, 5cm diam, 14th cent...

Antiquities - an interesting collection of Roman and later oil lamps, the mahogany box 38cm wide

Automobilia - a Rolls-Royce car dashboard clock, 7.5cm circular dial with Arabic numerals, winder to base, mountings to verso, 9.5cm diam overall

Burmese School (19th century), a bronze Buddha, seated in meditation, 24.5cm high

A Middle Eastern shaped circular tinned charger, cast and chased with a frieze of archaic figures in shaped lozenges, on a ground of foliage, 46.5...

Chinese School, a dark patinated bronze, Buddha, seated in meditation, 15cm high

Chinese School, a dark patinated bronze, Buddha, standing upon a lotus, 22cm high

Continental School (19th century), a portrait miniature, of a young girl wearing a blue dress, watercolour on ivory, oval, 6.5cm x 5.5cm

Dunhill - a burr walnut rectangular cigar humidor, hinged quarter-veneered cover enclosing a lined interior, 26cm wide, label for Alfred Dunhill, ...

English School (19th century), a portrait miniature, of a young lady, her hair in ringlets, half length in profile, watercolour, 9cm x 7.5cm; Prim...

English School (19th century), a silhouette, of a gentleman, bust length, heightened in gilt, 9.5cm x 7.5cm, inscribed to verso George Stephenson,...

English School (late 18th/early 19th century), a portrait miniature, of a portly gentleman, bust length, wearing a wig, blue coat, ocre waistcoat ...

Folk Art - a 19th century naive sandstone head, primitively carved facial features, 32cm long

Folk Art - a polychrome carved and gessoed model, of an Indian Tiger, standing four square, 46cm long, 19th/early 20th century

Folk Art - a softwood jointed doll, painted features, 29cm long

French School (19th century), a cabinet bronze, of Napoleon Bonaparte, he stands, beside a cannon, rectangular base, 7.5cm wide; another, Britanni...

Indian School Portrait of Sawai Ram Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipuroil and gilt on panel, 17cm x 12cm

Indian School (19th century), a miniature, of a palace or temple, oval, gouache on ivory, 2.5cm x 3cm, brooch setting

Industrial Salvage - a walking stick stand, incorporating a 19th century pulley and cogs, brass urnular finial, 118cm high

Islamic School (first half 20th century)Persian Vases and Calligraphy, Within a Draped Reservesigned, dated 1946, 47.5cm x 50cm; another calligrap...

Italian Grand Tour School (late 18th century), a verdigris patinated antiquary's bronze, of a Roman oil lamp, cast as grotesque mask, lion-capped ...

Lace - an 18th or 19th century Continental lace collar, possibly Venetian, finely worked with flowerheads; a 19th century French child's lace jack...

Leicestershire Fox Hunting - an early 20th century copper and brass hunting horn, applied with horse head boss and brass plaque stamped Oakham 193...

Maritime - Ocean Liners - an advertising lithograph, Canadian Pacific, Empress of Scotland 26,000 Tons, after Norman Wilkinson, 47.5cm x 59.5cm, o...

Masonic/Friendly Society - a pair of clear glass tankards, probably German, each etched with a mallet and block and intials TB, hinged pewter cove...

Medical - a 19th century tooled morrocco leather box, enclosing a brass syringe and other implements, 15.5cm wide overall

Medical and Military Interest - early to mid 20th century dental instruments, a plaster cast of teeth, cards of false teeth, a Shelley sputum mug,...

Medical Interest - an early Victorian mahogany rectangular apothecary box, hinged cover enclosing a sloped arrangement of compartments with glass ...

Medical Interest - Optometry - an early 20th century optician's trial lens set, the mahogany case with brass escutcheons, 44.5cm wide

Napoleon - a 19th century French hair picture, depicting the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte, St Helena, 12cm x 11.5cm, c.1821 1840

Natural History - a brain coral specimen, mounted for display, 20cm high overall

Pens - a Parker fountain pen, 14ct gold nib; another, Osmiroid; others (7)

Pens - a Parker Frontier fountain pen, 14ct gold nib; others, various (qty)

Pens - a silver propelling pencil, Birmingham 1932; a novelty propelling pencil with integral perpetual calendar; a Waterman's fountain pen, 14ct ...

Policing Interest - a 19th century police man's ebonised truncheon, painted in colourful polychrome with municipal arms within a belt, crested by ...

Shipwreck Porcelain - The Tek Sing Cargo - a Chinese flared circular bowl, decorated with stylised motifs, 15cm diam, early 19th century, Nagel Au...

Signopaginophilia - a collection of Stevengraph bookmarks, variously worked in colours with greetings, framed (8)

Textiles - a 19th century paisley shawl, typically worked in autumnal tones, 200cm x 103cm

Textiles - a Caucasian hanging or rug, brightly worked in coloured wools with rows of stylised birds, flowers and geometric motifs, 136cm x 101cm

The Bourbon Restoration - a set of three French silver coloured metal armorial plaques, depicting the arms of Charles X, possibly from a carriage ...

THe Royal Studs - a Victorian E.P.N.S mounted horse hoof inkwell, inscribed Lady Sutton by Wild Dates out of Merevale,By Atherstone Presumption L...

Treen - a gavel, turned of exotic timber, 26cm long

Treen - an early 19th century hardwood candle stand, of small proportions, boldly draught-turned and carved throughout with friezes of foliage and...

Treen - an hour glass, turned ends and pillars, 18.5cm high

Treen - an interesting set of twelve specimen wood napkin rings, each numbered corresponding to a typed key in the sliding cover of the fitted box...

Trench Art - a set of three insects, comprising a praying mantis, wasp and grasshopper, varying poses and sizes, the mantis 10.5cm high, first/sec...

Tribal Art - a South-Western Pacific tapa cloth, painted in earth pigments with stylized flowers within a geometric framework; others; similar p...

Tribal Art - an African hardwood carving depicting The Tree Of Life, the coming together of generations, 59cm high

Tribal Art - an African hide and horn snuff bottle, Shona or Zulu, 11.5cm long, late 19th century

A Victorian concological novelty spoon warmer, naturalistically cast as a seashell on a rocky outcrop, traces of silver-plate to verso, 12cm high,...