GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A pietra dura octagonal table-top stand, the field inlaid with egg-shaped reserves of specimen marbles and decorative hardstones, 25.5cm wide

A pietra dura rectangular desk weight, inlaid in malachite, lapis lazuli, verde antico and other specimen stones with a field of lozenges, 21cm wi...

A pietra dura rectangular panel, inlaid in colourful marbles and decorative hardstones with a parrot amongst fruiting branches, 21.5cm x 11cm, ebo...

A Regency dark patinated bronze urnular pedestal pastille burner, cast with lotus, pierced cover, circular base, 10cm high, c.1820; a 19th century...

A Regency design oval convex looking glass, the mirror plate within a moulded frame, 31.5cm wide

A Renaissance Revival verdigris patinated bronze door knocker, of substantial proportions and cast a merman, 21cm long, 19th century

A Robinson & Leadbeater parian bust, Queen Victoria, modelled after R J Morris, impressed marks, Jubilee 1887, waisted socle, 38cm high, c.1887 ...

A Rococo gilt softwood picture easel, acanthus-capped leafy C-scroll cresting, laureate stratchers, shaped scrolling apron with diaper and foliage...

A Royal Dux figure, of Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), seated cross-legged, 30.5cm high, impressed 3245 6, 32cm high, printed circle and raised pink...

A Russian lacquer rectangular box, hinged cover painted with a snowy landscape, 10.5cm wide, early 20th century

A Russian lacquer rectangular box, hinged cover painted with bears in a forest, 13.5cm wide, early 20th century

A Russian Orthodox rectangular icon, painted with a bearded saint, 11cm x 8cm, 19th century; another, printed in polychrome, 14cm x 11cm (2)

A scratch-built 3.5" gauge display model of a London, Tilbury & Southend Railway 1 Class 4-4-2 tank locomotive, unlined olive green livery, painte...

A scratch-built black painted and polished brass and steel model desk cannon, spoked wheels, 21cm long

A set of early Victorian brass 1 Cwt scales, for farm and industrial use, no.56, by Cottam & Hallam, Winsley Street, London, 45cm wide, c.1840, pi...

A set of early Victorian Gothic Revival letter scales, by R W Winfield, Birmingham, marked No.170, January 13 1840, 16.5cm high

A set of three Indian leaf paintings, each in colours with a figural subject, 15.5cm x 11.5cm

A set of Kashmiri novelty stacking globular boxes, the largest 11cm diam

A set of three 19th century oak and parcel gilt architectural finials, each carved as a lotus bud, 20.5cm long, c. 1835, [3]

A softwood museum architectural model, of a Tudor Craftsman's House, labelled, 68cm high, carrying case en suite, 20th century

A South East Asian brass betel nut cutter, chased with borders of roundels, steel blade, 19.5cm long, India/Ceylon, 19th century; another (2)

A Soviet Russian naval bulkhead clock, 15cm circular metal dial with Arabic numerals, USSR Red Star and a submarine, singular winding hole, portho...

A string of green glass aggry trade beads, the largest 2.5cm diam, 19th/early 20th century

A Studio Pottery clay-baked compressed inverted conical vase, moulded in low relief with a field of 'alligator skin', 29cm diam, indistinctly sign...

A suzani type rectangular textile, possibly Uzbek, embroidered and applied in 'patchwork' with stylised geometric motifs, 134cm x 72cm

A suzani type rectangular textile, possibly Uzbek, embroidered and applied with arches and geometric motifs, 144cm x 70cm

A terrestrial globe, the Phillips' Challenge Globe, by George Phillip & Son, London, chrome meridian ring, Art Deco base, 46cm high, mid-20th cent...

A Tibetan coral and turquoise mounted gilt metal flask, as a temple lion, the head detachable as a cover, 8.5cm long

A tooled leather desk suite, comprising a pen stand with stamp box and and blotter, the blotter 52cm wide, mahogany letter rack ensuite, 36.5cm wi...

A 'trench art' model, of a bi-plane, the fuselage formed from a spark plug, 8.5cm long; a novelty money box as a 1937 Coupe, 15cm long; a Harrod's...

A turned marble goblet, 14.5cm high

A Victorian bell metal quart tavern beer mug, scroll handle, scroll handle, crowned weights and measures mark 239 LCC, skirted base, inscribed to ...

A Victorian brass and cast iron rectangular six-section walking stick stand, ball finials, tin liner, 58cm high, 42cm wide, c.1880

A Victorian cast iron miniature fire place, crested by the Royal coat of arms and flanked by fruiting oak, 32cm wide, c.1860

A Victorian gilt brass mounted coromandel writing box, hinged cover and sloping top applied with Neo-Gothic cut-card work and enclosing a tooled d...

A Victorian iron and electric green glass gimbal lantern, by Wm Harvie & Co Ltd., 121 Bishop St, Birmingham, broad baluster reservoir, scroll hand...

A Victorian mahogany mechanical gout stool, rounded rectangular stuffed-over carpet top adjustable on a ratchet, shaped frame base, bun feet, 54.5...

A Victorian mahogany solitaire board, the circular field picked out in polychrome for glass marbles, 30.5cm diam

A Victorian mahogany table-top collector's chest, oversailing serpentine top above three long drawers, plinth base, 28cm high, c. 1860, (faults)

A Victorian police truncheon, painted with crowned VR cypher and numbered 223, 43cm long

A Victorian pyrography panel, decorated with a Grecian maiden, to verso with a courting couple, 74cm x 35cm, c. 1890

A Victorian rosewood-crossbanded walnut lozenge-shaped tea caddy, hinged domed cover, outlined throughout with boxwood stringing, 19.5cm wide, c. ...

A Victorian Tunbridge ware and rosewood book slide, the folding canted rectangular end supports inlaid with sprays of flowers, 27.5cm wide (closed...

A Victorian uranium glass helmet shaped water jug, scroll handle, circular foot, ground pontil, 22cm high, c.1860

A Victorian walnut and parquetry rectangular writing slope, inlaid with lozenges and broad geometric bands, hinged cover enclosing an inset velvet...

A Victorian walnut slope front stationery box, hinged twin-covers enclosing shaped divisions, well apertures and compartments, 30.5cm wide, c.1880

A Victorian walnut slope front stationery box, hinged twin-covers enclosing stepped divisions, an inkwell and pen compartments, drawer to base, 30...

A Victorian walnut slope front table top stationery cabinet, hinged covers enclosing shaped divisions, pen tray and well apertures, drawer to base...

A Victory cast iron novelty figural door stop, cast a rural lumberjack and his hound by a tree, picked out in colour, shaped base above an adverti...

A Vincennes Sèvres Gobelet Lizonné octagonal cup, well-painted in polychrome enamels with ribbon-tied sprigs of country flowers on a white ground,...

A vintage retro American aluminium rowing machine, by the Health Developing Apparatus Co. Inc, cast seat and foot rests, the black faux crocodile ...

A William & Mary style brass five-light table centre candelabrum, scroll branches, waisted sconces, dished circular drip pans, globular central kn...

A yard of ale glass, 90cm long

Advertising - a 19th century pot lid, Fortnum & Mason's Mushroom Savoury, transfer printed in sepia tones with a vignette of fungi and inscribed P...

Advertising - Confectionery - an Edwardian novelty biscuit tin, by Barringer, Wallis & Manners, Mansfield for Huntley & Palmers Biscuits, Reading,...

Advertising - Derbyshire, an early 20th century earthenware public house bar-top table vesta, for T.E. Yeomans, Derby, advertising various tobacco...

Advertising - Nottingham - an oval alloy sign, for the Home Brewery Company Limited, Notts, referring to the Right of Way Act 1932, 42.5cm wide, m...

Aeronautica - a desk model, of a World War II German Messerschmitt fighter plane, 29.5cm long

Aeronautica - an Air Ministry night time aircraft identification poster, for the MD315 Flamant, 51cm x 38cm; two steel aircraft identification mod...

Aeronautica - an Art Deco period patinated desk model, as a Farman F400 Series, F406 Plane with DH Gipsy major engine, plinth base, 11cm high, c. ...