GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Maritime - a scratch-built diorama model, of a 19th century sail and steam boat, glazed rectangular case, 50cm wide

Maritime - a scratch-built diorama, depicting a three masted ship, 31cm wide

Maritime & Shipping - an American 'Stevengraph' advertisement, Star Line Transatlantic Shipping, 26cm x 34cm ...[more]

Maritime & Shipping - an American 'Stevengraph' advertisement, United Lines, 2482 Atlantic road (sic) Boston, Europe - USA, 25.5cm x 34.5cm ...[m...

Maritime Folk Art - a 19th century marine diorama, of a schooner leaving port, with lighthouse, figure rowing boat and steam ship in the foregroun...

Maritime Furniture - a Victorian oak and brass patent ship's tripod wine decanter table, by Samuel Hall & Son, Birmingham, the circular top with r...

Maritime Salvage - an early 20th century box and cover, circular cresting carved with a ship in full sail, the stamped brass plaque inscribed From...

Masonic and Friendly Society History - a 19th century 'Jackfield' pottery amphora vase, printed in gilt G.U.O. Oddfellows 1871, 28. 3, J Massey, G...

Medical Interest - a pair of tonsil removers, "Tonsillectomy" by Ermold, 21cm long; two pharmaceutical jars; etc, [4]

Medical Science - Anatomy - a full size bone articulated human skeleton, 165cm high, arched tubular display stand, 201cm high overall, early 20th ...

Medical Science - Anatomy - a mid-20th century composite rubberised bisecting didactic model of the human head and neck, one section with of inner...

Medical Science - Anatomy - a mid-20th century painted composite didactic model, of the human ear, shown in-situ in the skull, metal stand, 34cm w...

Medical Science - Dentistry - a painted plaster of paris dissectible didactic model, Human Tooth L.S. (Incisor), square base with paper label. 20c...

Medical Science - Zoology - a mid-20th century biological museum display, showing a sheep lung (ovis aries), a corrosion specimen prepared by P K ...

Militaria - a pair of 19th century gilt-brass and sword candlesticks, each fashioned from an army sword's blade, basket, grip and pommel, bud-shap...

Military Aviation - an early 20th century oak RAF officer's mess mantel clock, 12.5cm circular brass dial inscribed with Arabic numerals and Royal...

Napoleon - a 19th century dark patinated bas relief, embossed after Gerard François with the Battle of Austerlitz, 13cm x 32cm, oak frame

Napoleon Bonaparte - a plaster cameo portrait cast, bust length in profile, facing to sinister, oval, 5cm x 4cm

Napoleonic Wars - a 19th century treacle-glazed commemorative 'Toby' jug, modelled as a portrait of the Duke of Wellington, impressed Wellington, ...

Nepalese/Sino-Tibetan School (19th century), a bronze Tara, seated upon a lotus, 20cm high

Ornithology - an early 20th century identification print, cuckoo and eggs, chromolithograph, 28.5cm x 26cm

Pens - an oversize fountain pen, brass fittings, 13cm long; a Diplomat Classic fountain pen, engine turned overall, 14.5cm long (2)

RAF - a regimental plaque, 103 Squadron, 25.5cm long

Rolls - Royce, Derby - Factory Safety - an early 20th century enamel sign, Notice. Young Women, Girls or Lads under 18, are FORBIDDEN TO AD-JUST A...

Shooting - a Victorian brass mounted leather rectangular gun case, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of compartments lined in red baize, 83cm ...

South-Eastern European School (20th century)Jesus Pressing Grapes for Wine, seated on an alterreverse painting on glass, 34cm x 27cmProvenance: Fr...

Sport - Cricket, World War II and Movie History - a leather cricket ball on turned mahogany presentation display pedestal, the base inscribed E Wa...

Stevengraphs - Thomas Stevens, London, a woven silk Stevengraph, of cycling interest, The Last Lap, depicting a race between five gentlemen on Pen...

Textiles - an Asian hat, worked in the traditional Chinese taste with coloured silks and gilt thread, 24cm diam, late 19th/early 20th century

The Tek Sing Cargo - a Chinese porcelain bowl, painted in underglaze blue with stylised leaves and flowers, 14.5cm diam, early 19th century, Nagel...

The Wunderkammer - an ostrich egg, mounted on a Regency bronze pedestal, 24cm high, the base c.1820

Tobacco - a box of twenty five Romeo y Julieta Cedros De Luxe cigars, boxed; another, Willem II Churchill; another (3)

Tobacco - a 19th century tobacconist's shop counter tobacco cutter, 37cm long

Tobacco - a novelty pipe, as a revolver, 13cm long

Toxicology and Botany - a Victorian didactic roll-down wall chart, Bacon' s Chart of Poisonous Plants, printed in polychrome with luustrations of ...

Transport, Shipping - a 19th century earthenware table comport, Bristol General Steam Navigation Company, printed and outlined in pink, 26.5cm dia...

Treen - a 19th century Scandinavian peg tankard, willow-bound and chip-carved with geometric motifs, hinged cover, shaped scroll handle, 23cm high

Treen - a 19th century Scottish ogee barrel-shaped salt box, of staved construction of beech with alternating bands of sycamore and alder, pierced...

Treen - a 19th century turned lignum vitae tobacco jar, 12cm high, c.1840

Treen - a 19th century triple-section pastry jigger, the cast brass cruciform head with three fittings, turned boxwood handle, 24.5cm long

Vintage Luggage - a crocodile skin rectangular document case, by William Bruford & Son Ltd, hinged cover enclosing file compartments, gilt brass ...

World War I - an early 20th century woolwork 'sampler', probably the work of a convalescent soldier, worked in threads of red and pale blue on a g...

Zoology - a an arrangement of sheep wool samples, framed, 71cm x 45cm

Zoology - a preserved dissected specimen, a rabbit, mounted to display all internal organs, the parts comprehensively annotated, 46.5cm high, 26.5...

A 19th century Burmese horn mounted walking stick, the L-shaped handle pierced and carved with deities amongst scrolling foliage, malacca shaft, 8...

A 19th century Chinese walking cane, the tall silvered metal haft cast in relief with ferocious dragons, palmwood shaft, 89cm long

A 19th century fruitwood treen walking stick, the L-shaped handle carved with an acorn and oak leaves, 86.5cm long

A George III South Staffordshire enamel oval patch box, the hinged cover enclosing a mirror plate, painted in polychrome enamels with sprigs of co...

A pair of George III silver spectacles, oval lenses and arched bridge, folding temples culminating in pierced loops, 11.4cm wide, indistinctly hal...

A pair of late 19th/early 20th century lady's gold-plate lorgnettes, of typical form, engine-turned throughout, 11.5cm long, c. 1900

A pair of Victorian silver shoe buckles, engraved with scrolling foliage, 4cm wide, Birmingham 1898

A Victorian silver sovereign case, engraved with scrolling foliage, sprung cover and mechanism, 4cm over loop, William Neale & Sons, Birmingham 18...

An 18th century treen snuff box, in the form of a book, carved with fans and swags, 10cm wide, c.1760

Equestrian - a George V silver presentation medal, Hunters' Improvement & National Light Horse Breeding Society 1933, in relief with horses and fo...

Local Interest, Sport, Derbyshire Football Association & League - four silver and enamel shaped presentation fobs, dated from 1901-2 to 1938-39, m...

Macabre - a George III gold and seed pearl-mounted rounded rectangular bowed mourning brooch or buckle, inset with a plat of human hair, monogramm...

A 19th century Indian silver mounted malacca walking cane, the domed pommel chased with a band of lotus above a deep band of figures in a village...

A 19th century Indian silver mounted malacca walking cane, the domed pommel chased with figures in a village, 91cm long, c.1880

A 19th century Irish bog oak walking stick, carved in relief with shamrocks and ferns, 88cm long

A 19th century Scottish folk art 'Sunday stick' golf club walking cane, the left-handed putter fashioned for use on the Sabbath, the shaft enclosi...