GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY AND GRAND TOUR AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Coin, GB, Colonial Australia Mint, Queen Victoria, 1867 gold sovereign, obv: laureate head left, rev: Sydney Mint/Australia, 22mm, 8.1g, [1]

Coin, GB, Colonial Australia Mint, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1872 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield with Melbour...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1848 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, W.W. [William Wyon] in relief and date below, rev: roya...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1851 gold half-sovereign, obv: Type A1, first head, date below, rev: first shield, 19mm, 3.9g, Spink...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1853 gold half-sovereign, obv: Type A1, first head, date below, rev: first shield, 19mm, 3.9g, Spink...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1854 gold sovereign, obv: second large head with W.W. [William Wyon] incuse on truncation and date b...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1859 gold half-sovereign, obv: Type A2, second larger head, date below; rev: first shield, 19mm, 4g,...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1869 gold half-sovereign, obv: Type A2, second head, date below, obv: shield above die number 13, 19...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1869 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield with die number 13 below wreath, 22mm...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1871 gold half-sovereign, obv: Type A2, second head, date below, obv: shield above die number 8, 19m...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1871 gold sovereign, obv: first young head, rev: horse with long tail, small B.P. [Benedetto Pistruc...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1871 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield with die number 31 below wreath, 22mm...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1872 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield with die number 49 below wreath, 22mm...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1872 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield with die number 62 below wreath, 22mm...

Coin, GB, Queen Victoria, Young Head Coinage, 1872 gold sovereign, obv: second large head, rev: royal shield, 22mm, 8g, Spink 3852C, [1]

Coin, GB, William IV, 1836 gold sovereign, obv: second bust right, top of ear broad and flat, nose to 2nd I in Britanniar, rev: dated below royal ...

Coin, Queen Victoria, 1888 silver crown, narrow date, 38mm, 436g, Spink 3921, F/EF

Coins, Ancient and Medieval and Elizabethan GB: Judaea, Alexander Jannaeus (103-76BC) bronze 'widow's mite' AE14 anchor/sun wheel VG; Roman Empire...

Coins, Ancient, East Roman Empire/Byzantium, Heraclius I, c. 625 AE follis, Constantinople mint, 29mm; Greek Hellenistic, possibly Macedonia, AE25...

Coins, GB, AR: James I, Second Coinage 1604-1619 halfgroat, 15mm, 0.9g, Spink 2659; William III, 1696 sixpence, obv. first bust, rev. with early h...

Coins, GB, Queen Victoria, 1863 Maundy Set, contemporary fitted red morocco case en suite, hinged upper-cover gilt lettered: Maundy Coin and surmo...

Coins, GB, Queen Victoria, 1901: Last Regnal Year, a composed set of currencey, half-crown to farthing, the silver and penny all uncirculated and ...

Coins, GB: Henry VIII, Second Coinage, 1533-1544 silver halfgroat, Canterbury mint, TC beside shield (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer), 19mm, 1.2g, Spin...

Coins, UK, a collection of double-florin and crown coins in plastic insert with case, silver and base metal including double florins 1887 AF & VF,...

Coins, UK, a collection of mainly silver florins, including 1849 Godless AF, Gothic 1852, 1872 (three), 1873 all AF at best, 1887 JH AEF, 1904 F, ...

Coins, UK, a collection of mainly silver half crowns in two trays of 40 including, 1708E fair, 1817 base metal forgery, 1884 GVF/AEF, 1897 EF & 19...

Coins, UK, a collection of small silver, mainly threepences in collector's tray including; shilling 1758 AVF/VF, Maundy 3d 1673 AF & 1762 EF, also...

Coins, Ancient, Byzantine bronze follis, c.11th century; another (2)

***LOT WITHDRAWN***Medal, Medicine/University of Birmingham, 9ct gold portrait medallion, Mason College, Birmingham: The Heslop Medal in Memoriam ...

Coins and Tokens, GB, Medieval and Later, including Henry VII, silver penny, 16mm, 0.3g, (1); George III: 1816 half-crown, obv: 'bull head' profil...

Scripophily: A Waterlow & Sons of London, blue leather bound presentation album, 11 x 12.75in (29 x 32.5cm) gilt embossed cover entitled 'Specimen...

Masonic/Friendly Society - a 9ct gold and enamel medal, Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, named to Bro. P Ulyatt, Prince Albert L...

Masonic/Friendly Society - Masonic regalia, rose choir sash and medal; another, Worshipful Master; others, Worcester lodges; etc

Medals, Friendly Society, Freemasonry: Royal Arch Gold Masonic Jewels: a Victorian silver-gilt Masonic order, Deo Regi Fratribus Honor Fidelitas B...

Medals, Friendly Society: Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (ROAB), Justice/Truth/Philanthropy, Bull's Head Lodge 1698, silver-gilt and enamel...

Militaria - World War Two, RAF, Photography, an album of b/w photographs of aircraft and pilots at action and ease, various, black leatherette alb...

Militaria - World War Two, U.S. Navy Buships binoculars, Mark XXXV Mod. 1, Serial 139219 - 1943, by National Instrument Corp., Houston, Texas, [Un...

Militaria - Prince of Wales' Division, regimental mess dress of a full colonel, comprising cutaway scarlet mess jacket, waistcoat and trouser, [3]

A 19th century Indian steel battle axe, the crescent-shaped head damascened in gilt and copper and decorated with wrigglework, brass-mounted hardw...

A 19th century naval midshipman's dirk, 20cm double-edged pointed tapered blade engraved with leafy scrolls and laurel wreath, traces of blue and ...

A bowie-type survival knife, 25cm blade with saw-back marked Taiwan, ribbed alloy grip with compass to pommel, 39cm long; a utility knife, by Will...

A Caucasian qama dagger, 27.5cm fullered blade, the silvered grip and scabbard applied with filigree scrolls, the latter with horn cabochon, 44.5c...

A George V silver-mounted Scottish ceremonial sgian-dubh knife, 7.8cm single-edged blade, leather scabbard, checkered horn grip moulded in relief ...

A Southeast Asian dha type dagger, probably Burmese, 21.5cm double-edged blade, wicker-bound scabbard, 35.5cm long

A Spanish navaja, 20.5cm folding blade, the tortoiseshell and hardwood grip inlaid with a figure, 43cm long, 19th century; another (2)

A World War II design German dress bayonet, 25cm straight fullered blade inscribed Original Eickhorn, Solingen, two-piece chequered grip, steel sc...

An American silver coloured metal dagger, 10.5cm blade etched with a plainsman watching his cattle, the haft and scabbard chased with cowboys and ...

An Indonesian kris, 29.5cm wavy blade, the handle carved as a stylised lotus, hardwood scabbard, 40cm long overall

An Indonesian kris, 29cm blade, hardwood handle carved with stylised lotus, brass mounted scabbard, 45cm long overall; others (3)

A 19th century percussion pocket pistol, 7.5cm brass octagonal barrel, steel hammer and trigger guard, walnut stock, 18cm long; another, [2]

A 19th century double-barelled percussion pocket pistol, 8cm barrels, engraved lockplate, folding triggers, walnut stock with shell butt cap enclo...

A 19th century percussion pocket pistol, 6.5cm octagonal barrel, engraved lockplate, folding trigger, walnut stock, 16.5cm long, c.1860

A 19th century percussion pocket pistol, for restoration, 16cm long; another, flintlock (2)

A large North American/Canadian Inuit soapstone carving, of a kneelin woman, 29cm high, 20th century

A late 18th/early 19th century North American Inuit marine ivory and steel fishing harpoon or spear head, leaf-shaped blade, pierced and carved he...

A Middle Eastern jambiya, 19.5cm curved blade with central ridged fuller, white metal mounted horn hilt and hide-clad scabbard, 31cm long, conform...

A South American black ware figural vessel, in the typical South Columbian manner, 17cm high

An Egyptian dark patinated bronze ushabti, of Osiris, Lord of the Underworld, cast after the Ancient Egyptian, 10cm high, specimen rouge marble sq...

Antiquities - a Khmer stone statuary fragment, the head of Buddha, 22cm high, museum-type display stand, 31cm high overall

Antiquities - a Near Eastern Calsite globular vessel, broad flattened rim, 11.5cm high, possibly Mesopotamian, 3500-2900 BC