GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A George III brass mantel silhouette, as an urn, 20cm long, early 19th century

A George III mahogany rectangular table top bagatelle, hinged cover enclosing a baize lined playing surface, outlined throughout with boxwood stri...

A George III morocco leather canted rectangular work box, hinged cover with brass axehead handle, enclosing a fitted interior with an arrangement ...

A George III religiopolitical commemorative painted and parcel-gilt lead canted rectangular tobacco box, commemorating the Roman Catholic Relief A...

A George III silkwork oval map, by M Foster, Dalestorth School, [Nottinghamshire], embroidered in colourful silk threads with a map of the United ...

A George III silkwork picture, embroidered in colourful silk threads with a farmer's wife feeding chickens and further poultry, a barn and a lands...

A George IV Neoclassical copper hot water urn or samovar, pierced domed lift-off cover, chased and turned frieze, twin acanthus-capped scrolls han...

A George V silver circular box, the domed cover now set with a plaster cameo impression of Sir Walter Scott, 10cm diam, Adie Brothers Ltd, Birming...

A George V silver mounted clear glass square desk inkwell, hinged cover, 9cm wide, Birmingham c.1925

A George V silver mounted ebony folding conductor's baton, hinged and screw-threaded mechanism to centre, the pommel and mount chased with scrolli...

A German tinplate penny toy, by Georg Fischer, military horse drawn wagon, 10.5cm long, early 20th century

A gilt bronze mounted pollished fossil stone objet de fantasie, the substantial domed specimen crested by a coiled snake, square base with acanthu...

A Grand Tour bronze and noir belge library column, surmounted by a figure of mercury after Giambologna, the square plinth with pierced balustrade ...

A Grand Tour design composition statutary pedestal, after the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, 95cm high, 24cm wide

A 'Grand Tour' plaster model, cast after the Ancient Egyptian as a pharaoh's head, mounted for display, 26cm high

A Grand Tour stone model, of a sphinx, rectangular marble base, 28cm wide

A Grand Tour type 'Attic' amphora vase, after the antique, painted in the manner of Greek encaustic decoration with figures in combat, 35cm high

A Grand Tour type desk top library column, square base, 21.5cm high

A Grand Tour type plaster medallion impression, depicting the Colosseum, 7.5cm diam, framed; another (2)

A graveyard curiosity or macabre memento mori, Tree Bark ~ Hampshire Flint: Off the Grave of Gilbert White of Selbourne (the "parson-naturalist", ...

A harlequin set of three graduated meerschaum pipes, each bowl carved as the head of a lady of fashion, amber-type mouthpieces, 12cm to 18cm long,...

A Japanese bamboo page turner, carved with the Three Friends of Winter and an eagle perched in a mountain landscape, 43.5cm long, Meiji period

A Japanese brass and copper powder flask, chased with stylised motifs on a textured ground, 16cm long, signed to verso, Meiji period

A Japanese cloisonné enamel cabinet vase, of small portions, decorated in brilliantly coloured enamels with butterflies in flight on a dark blue g...

A Japanese porcelain figure, of Daruma in meditation, his repose disturbed by a fly, glazed in mottled tones of iron red and pale blue, exposed gr...

A large 19th century French plaster bas relief portrait plaque, of Empress Joséphine, Napoleon's consort, bust-length, fully-turned to sinister, h...

A large 19th century green glass flatenned ovoid wine bottle, kick-up base with pontil scar, 34.5cm high; a large 19th century brown glass onion w...

A large Burmese hardwood shaped rectangular work box,profusely carved in shallow relief with a peacock, dragons, lotus and scrolling foliage, hing...

A large Chinese hardwood rectangular table top stand, panelled top above a deep frieze pierced with scrolls, paw feet, 42cm wide

A large Italian Grand Tour Renaissance three-tone plaster square connoisseur's plaque, of the Madonna della seggiola by Raphael (1483-1520), in to...

A large marble library obelisk, stepped square base, 77.5cm high

A late 17th century steel horse spur, of typical form, 23cm long; an 18th century English bronze crotal bell, traces of verdigris, numbered 6 with...

A late 19th century Colonial hardwood and leather whip, silvered pommel inscribed H E Dumbell, Gibraltar 1900, 160cm long overall

A late 19th century earthenware novelty rectangular plaque, The Lawsuit, the caricature moulded in relief with a legal satire of two farmers argui...

A late 19th century gilt brass table casket, cast in relief with flowers, scrolls and whiplash stems in a fin de siecle hybrid of Art Nouveau and ...

A late 19th century gilt-metal mounted mahogany bracket clock, 12.5cm circular porcelain dial inscribed with Arabic numerals, twin-winding holes, ...

A late 19th century novelty mechanical magic lantern slide, The Mouse Eating Man, cranking handle to side, 18cm wide; others, kaleidoscopic; other...

A late 19th century Prisoner-of-War novelty glass bottle diorama, enclosing the Instruments of the Passion in softwood, the stopper with ink manus...

A late 19th century turned rosewood seal, the screw-fitting brass matrix with intaglio for George Stead, Widnes, Sherry, 10cm long, c.1900

A late Victorian oak table top coin collector's cabinet, the rectangular front panel applied with a re-entrant moulding and enclosing fifteen slid...

A lead fire mark, Birmingham Fire Insurance Company, cast with a fireman beside his appliance, 27cm wide

A marble sculptural fragment, carved as the head of bearded gentleman, 14cm high, 17th/early 18th century

A Medieval limestone sculptural fragment, carved as the head of a man, 20cm high, 19cm wide, 12th/13th century

A Medieval Revival French steel helmet, hinged visor, 38cm long

A Medieval Revival gilt brass alter Corpus Christi, of Christ crucified on a cross bottony, the tripod base cast with stylized beasts, 97cm high, ...

A Medieval sandstone carving, depicting two primitive figures, their stylized faces with eliptical eyes, seated hunched and entwined, gazing forwa...

A Mediterranean/Roman ovoid terracotta vase, matte-mottled surface, 15cm high

A mid-18th century vellum wallet or sleeve, each cover of the 'binding' scrivened and illuminated in the Baroque taste with foliate scrolls, enclo...

A mid-19th century copper shot flask, in relief with reserves of game, fowl and gun dogs, 15.5cm long; another similar, aluminium, boldly cast in ...

A mid-20th century gentleman's tan leather brief case, hinged cover, the fitted interior with calendar, stationery and writing compartments, brass...

A mid-20th century travelling artist's combination paint box and en plein air easel, by Winsor & Newton Limited, 46cm wide ...[more]

A Middle Eastern copper rounded rectangular dish, chased in the Islamic taste with Arabic script, 30.5cm wide, 19th century; a Persian copper circ...

A Middle Eastern dark patinated bronze hookah base, chased and decorated in the Islamic taste, traces of silvering, 23.5cm high, 19th century

A Middle Eastern Islamic bronze ovoid water ewer, stylised zoomorphic scroll handle, 35.5cm high, 19th century

A Middle Eastern woollen Islamic prayer rug, the field with mihrab within banded borders of hooked medallions and geometric guls, 180cm x 125cm

A Minton's tile, from the Aesop's Fables series, designed by John Moyr Smith (1839 - 1912), The Tortoise and the Eagle, in tones of blue, moulded ...

A 5" terrestrial desk globe, by G Thomas, Paris, turned ebonised base, 21cm high, second quarter 20th century

A Moorish hardwood and parquetry hexagonal low occasional table, the well figured top inlaid with a specimen wood reserve, above a mihrab frieze, ...

A museum type composition model, of a cat, after the Ancient Egyptian, 20.5cm high

A museum type composition model, of a head, after the Ancient Egyptian, rectangular marble base, 14cm long