Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities, including a large private collection of Tribal Art and Ethnographica - ONLINE ONLY

Medical Interest - an early 19th century three-blade cast steel and horn fleam, by Borwick [of Sheffield]/Cast Steel, stamped 15cm wide (open), c....

Medical Interest - Optometry - an early 20th century suite of optician's trial lenses, mahogany case, 41cm wide

Optics - a pair of early 18th century English brass spectalces, unusual circular lenses centred by polished lozenges on a frosted matrix, typical ...

Science - a clear glass chemist's Kipp's apparatus gas generator, 49.5cm high, c.1930

Meteorology - an Isuzu thermo-hygrograph, dual-pen recorder, carrying handle, 32cm wide

Science - a clear glass laboratory desiccator, by Moncrieff, Perth, Scotland, 27cm high

Science - a collection of discharge or 'croock' tubes, the largest 37.5cm long

Science - Records - an album of five HMV 78rpm double-sided records of frequency and sound sound demonstrations, Album N.252, Records for Frequenc...

Science and Medicine - an early 20th century mahogany chemist's laboratory cabinet, ginged cover and fall front enclosing a fitted interior, long ...

Surveying - a German military grade theodolite, Dhalta 020 by Carl Zeiss, 34cm long, accessories and torch ensuite, heavy duty wooden case

An amusing canine diorama, composed of a diminutive model of a foxhound, mounted as taxidermy in an estate park landscape, glazed ebonised case, 5...

Natural History - Paleontology - an ammonite fossil specimen, mounted for display, 10cm high overall

Taxidermy - a Victorian arrangement, comprising a pair of barn owls, naturalistically mounted, glazed and ebonised case, 53cm high, 54.5cm wide

Japanese School, a brown patinated bronze, of an elephant, striding forward, 49cm long

Cased set of armorials

Curiosities - a 19th century Ottoman silver-mounted mother-of-pearl and seashell sherbet spoon, 13.5cm long; a Turkish embroidered cap; Natural Hi...

An 18th century oak carving, of a saint, 49cm long

A 19th century parcel gilt pricket candlestick, fluted pillar, shaped tripod base, 54cm high

An Italian pietra dura rectangular desk weight, inlaid with a bird on a branch, 9.5cm wide, Florence, 19th century

An early 20th century oak perpetual desk calendar, sarcophagus cresting above glazed apertures showing month, date and day of the week, 13.5cm hig...

A George III oak candle box, pierced arched cresting above a sliding cover, 42cm long

An Indian terracotta murti, modelled as Ganesha, painted features, 15.5cm high, 19th/early 20th century

A Black Forest novelty nut cracker, carved as the head of a bearded man, 17.5cm long, c.1900

The Wunderkammer - Natural History - an objet de fantaisie, formed as a conch shell upon a carved and polished coconut, turned base, 31cm high

Treen - an oak hour glass, turned pillars, 17cm high, early 20th century

Grand Tour School (19th century), after the antique, dark patinated cabinet bronze, Narcissus, circular base, 15.5cm high

Grand Tour School (19th century), after the antique, a dark patinated cabinet bronze, Venus de Milo, circular base, 13.5cm high

A late 19th century brown patinated library sculpture, of a Renaissance musician, waisted circular base, 42cm high

A 19th century walnut draughtsman's case, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of drawing instruments, the rule signed Cary, 181 Strand, London, ...

Primitive Marine School (19th century)A ship, General Gordon of Londonpastel, 44cm x 55.5cm

A pair of 19th century gilt metal mounted belge noir library porticos, each pointed architectural pediment with a Classical frieze,above Baroque f...

A Chinese silk pendant, worked in coloured threads with figures, insects, flowers and scrolls on a peach ground, 73cm long, late Qing; another (2)...

A gentleman's vintage Basis Sport wristwatch, 3cm black dial with luminous Arabic numerals and red outer chapter, 3.5cm over crown, leather strap

Royalty - a George III leather fire bucket, painted in polychrome and gilt with the monogram A surmounted by the coronet of a prince of princess, ...

A Japanese cloisonne ovoid vase, decorated in polychrome with flowers on a grey ground, 18.5cm high, Meiji period

A Middle Eastern tin glazed earthenware circular dish, painted in the Islamic taste with a bird on a flowering branch, 19cm diam, 19th century

A Middle Eastern tin glazed earthenware circular dish, painted in the Islamic taste with a bird on a flowering branch, 24.5cm diam, 19th century; ...

A pair of 19th century Historicist parcel-gilt electrotype spoons, after Renaissance examples, 19cm long, c.1880, retailer's case

A pair of 19th century slender faceted decanters, star-cut bases, 33cm high, c.1860

A pair of early Victorian mahogany armorial hall chairs, the target-turned backs painted with the crest of Colonel Robert Cornelis Napier of Magda...

A South American black ware figural vessel, in the Pre-Columbian manner, 16.5cm high

An Arts and Crafts wrought metal novelty cigar cutter, as a bird, 23.5cm long, marked RGM?, early 20th century

An Indian silver belt buckle, pierced and cast with deities amongst flowers and dense scrolling foliage, 15cm wide, c.1880

An Italian maiolica panel, painted with a portrait of a bearded gentleman wearing a ruff and a feathered hat, acanthus to angles, 23cm square, 19t...

Chinese School, a brown patinated bronze, of Guanyin, 15cm high, marble connoisseur's base

The Boer War - a 19th century earthenware shaped circular plate, inscribed War Declared in South Africa by President Kruger Oct 11th 1899, Lord Ro...

A mid-Victorian parcel-gilt silver 'Apostle' table spoon, the figural finial cast as a rotund gentleman, 21.5cm long, London 1870

An early 19th century bronze chamber taperstick, lotus base, the ring handle with butterfly thumbpiece, 9cm high, c. 1830

An Austrian silver and enamel novelty toy, as a miniature dinner plate, painted in the 18th century manner with a musician and a putto, later moun...

A Spanish navaja fighting knife, 18cm folding blade indistinctly signed, two-piece grip, 37.5cm long (open)

A Liberty Tudric Pewter Arts and Crafts period four-piece tea service, comprising teapot, water jug, milk jug and sugar basin, hinged cover, the l...

An 18th century bronze mortar, of typical form, 14cm diam, c. 1750; another, similar, (2)

Maritime Salvage - Folk Art, a 19th century ship's prow figurehead, boldly carved as a maiden, 122cm long

Railwayana - a re-struck brass arched engine plate, Bayardo, 142cm long; a cast alloy number plate en suite, 55.5cm wide, (2) 'Bayardo' was the 36...

A 19th century Derbyshire fluorspar circular bonbonniere, 3.5cm diam

17th century style Delft albarello wet drug jar, painted in tones of blue and inscribed Sirup Tamarin: Dorum, 27cm high, painted marks

Apothecary Interest - a harlequin suite of seven graduating 19th century earthenware chemist's pharmarcy drug jars, comprising Mel Ang:, Ung: Samb...

Apothecary Interest - a collection of thirty-eight 19th century and later glass chemist's pharmarcy drug bottles, different medicines, tinctures a...

Medical - Anatomy - a composition didactic model, of a human skeleton, the skull 21high

Folk Art - an unusual 19th century bone and two-tone horn pipe, boldly carved as a hand grasping the cylindrical bowl, scrolling mouthpiece, 15.5c...