The Collector's Grand Tour Auction: Curated Objects and Curiosities

Country Pursuits - a pair of black leather riding boots, the beech trees with turned handles and brass fittings, 55cm high overall; a military rid...

David Cox Portrait of a Gentlemanbears signature, pencil drawing, 34.5cm x 24.5cm

Decorative Salvage - a driftwood desk sculpture, with iron ring, turned yew base, 42cm wide

Design post-1860 - an E.P.N.S writer's desk companion, in the manner of Dr Christopher Dresser, comprising vesta, seal and taperstick, crescent sh...

Early Railway Interest - a 19th century transfer printed sycamore portrait plaque, depicting George Stephenson (1781 - 1848), the source engraving...

English School (19th century)Passing Acquaintance, Gentlemen on Horsebackwatercolour and ink, 11.5cm x 15.5cm

English School (19th century)Portrait of a Gentleman, Seated, Half-Length, Wearing a Buttoned Coatindistinctly signed, pencil drawing, oval, 19.5c...

English School (19th century), a carrara marble, of a statesman proffering a scroll, circular base, 46cm high

English School (19th century), a silhouette, portait of a gentleman, bust length in profile, watercolour heightened in gilt, 11cm x 8.5cm, rosewoo...

English School (19th century), a vignette portrait, His Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth, half-length holding a telescope, stipple engravi...

English School (early 20th century), a cut paper silhouette, of a gentleman wearing a bowler hat, he stands, smoking a cigar, leaning on his umbre...

Football - a late Victorian brass novelty timepiece, as a footballer standing before an open goal, the 5cm circular enamel clock dial inscribed wi...

French Political History - a Frie Onnaing barbotine caricature reform toby jug, modelled as Charles Camille Pelletan (1846 - 1915), seated holding...

French School (19th century), a brown patinated bronze, of Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594), seated, in his study, contemplating a globe, the attri...

French School (early 20th century), a gilt bronze, Taking a Swipe, the leopard with claws out, canted rectangular verde antico marble base, 24cm w...

French School (early 20th century), a silvered and bronzed spelter model, of a sporting dog, oval base, 19.5cm wide

Golf Clubs - an early 20th century putter, brass sole, weaighted ebonised head, hickory shaft, 91cm long; a New Imperial Putter, by G C Lovelock, ...

Grand Tour School (19th century), a dark patinated bronze, of a putto holding a dolphin, domed circular base, 12.5cm high

Grand Tour School (19th century), a verdigris patinated bronze, of a putto holding grapes and a bird, domed base, 12.5cm high

Heraldry - a lead armorial crest applique, cast as a lion rampant, 14.5cm high, 18th/19th century

Indian School (19th century)Figures of the Mughal Court in an Elephant Howdahwatercolour and gouache laid on canvas, 22cm x 27.5cm

Indian School (19th century), a bronze, Shiva, lotus socle and rectangular base, 33cm high

Indian School (19th century), a pair of architectural miniatures, temple interiors, watercolour, gouache and gilt on ivory, oval, 5cm x 6.5cm, car...

Indian School (19th century), a set of three topographical miniatures, The Taj Mahal and further Agra sights of architectural interest, graduating...

Interior Decoration - a furnishing picture, Madonna, after the Old Master, print, the frame decorated in polychrome with scrolling foliage, 39cm x...

Italian School (19th century), after the Antique, a verdigris patinated Grand Tour bronze, Narcissus, verde antico marble columnar base, 21cm high

Jack the Ripper - a 19th century horn beaker, engraved as an apocryphal novelty fair maid beware whitechapel 1888 (sic), 10cm high

John Chapman, by, Johan Eberhard Ihle, after, The Senegal Negro Female, coloured engraving, 19.5cm x 12.5cm, published as the Act directs, Nov. 15...

Julius Paul Schmidt-Felling (1835 - 1920), a pair of brown patinated bronzes, of a young boy and girl, he gathering grapes, she fetching water, si...

London Architectural History - a 19th century salvaged relic roundel, depicting the front elevation Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar Gate, the le...

Marine Architecture and Maritime History - J T Wood, The Great Eastern or Leviathan, Designed by I K Brunel Esq, F.R.S, with a description of spec...

Maritime Salvage - an early 20th century book stand, applied with a plaque inscribed Made From Timber Taken From H.M.S Renown, The Ship That Took ...

Medical - a 19th century mahogany apothecary box, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of bottles, 14cm high, 16cm wide

Medical - Anatomy - a composition didactic model, of a human skeleton, the skull 22cm high

Medicine - a set of five clear glass chemist's pharmaceutical bottles, acid etched labels, ground stoppers, 15.5cm high

Military Interest - an early Elizabeth II silver rectangular cigarette box, inscribed Presented by the Officers, Warrant Officers and Sergeants to...

Military Interest - an early Elizabeth II silver square cigarette box, inscribed From Captain and Officers R.N.A.S, [Royal Naval Air Station] Lee ...

Miniature Furniture - a Victorian vernacular oak table-top chest, moulded rectangular above two short and three long graduated drawers, 27.5cm hig...

Mining Interest - a collection of miners' pit checks, various collieries, Bevercotes, Ledston Luck, Eastwood, Rgimethorpe, Hatfieild, Shipley, oth...

Mormonism - The Hull Conference and Mormons in Northern England - Anglo-American Recruitment - a collection of early 20th century postcards, with...

N Gratz (early 20th century), a brown patinated bronze bas relief, of a young boy, signed in the maquette and dated 1910, 15.5cm x 12cm

Nazi Germany and The Third Reich - a German silver five piece dressing table set, comprising hand mirror, hair brush, comb and a pair of clothes b...

Opitcs - an interesting collection of lenses and related apparatus, various forms, types and applications (qty)

Penknives - a stainless steel military issue pocket knife, by H Rowbotham & Co (Sheffield) Ltd, no.CC1286, 9cm long (folded); another, the Currey ...

Pens - a parker desk companion, the green glass base with bubble inclusions, centred by a fountain pen in adjustable holder, 16.5cm diam, various ...

Pens - a Parker Duofold fountain pen, 14ct gold nib, 13cm long; another; a Parker Vacumatic, 14ct gold nib (3)

Pens - a Parker Junior fountain pen, 14ct gold nin, screw-fitting cover, 13.5cm long; others (3)

Pens - a Wyvern fountain pen, 14ct gold nib, 13.5cm long; other gold nib fountain pens, various makes and models (5)

Persian School (early 20th century)Figures of the Courtwatercolour and gouache, 53cm x 39cm

Photography - Meiji Japan - a pair of hand-tinted photographs, of female textile workers and parasol painters, 14.5cm x 20.5cm

Policing History - a 19th century folk art caricature panel, carved in relief with a gentleman and two police officers, possibly an allusion to Si...

Political Satire - Leslie Illingworth (1902 - 1979), a set of six, The Voter in Wonderland, coloured prints, plates I-VI, relating to the 1955 Gen...

Robert Thompson, Mouseman of Kilburn - an oak canted rectangular ashtray, adzed overall, carved mouse signature, 10cm long

Sailing - Modern Design - a glass trophy, S.T.A. Race, Umuiden - Den Helder, Sail Amsterdam 700, presented by Focke & Meltzer 1975, etched with a ...

Shooting - a brown leather cartridge bag, stamped Kynoch, 25cm wide

Shooting - an early 20th century brown leather estate shoot cartridge box, by James Purdey & Sons, London, hinged enclosing a paper label and leat...

Smoking and Tobacciana - a decorative display diorama, displaying clay pipes of various designs, 49.5cm x 39.5cm

South Pacific Travel and Trade - a Pitcairn Island vase, typically carved as grasped by a hand, stamped lettering, circular base, 26cm high

Sport - Football - FA Cup Final Saturday April 26th (1930), Arsenal V Huddersfield players programme; a Brief Record of the Arsenal Stadium Lond...

Taxidermy - a Victorian long-eared owl, naturalistically mounted perched on a branch, on a mossy ground, glass dome, ebonised base, 48cm highPleas...