Two Day Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities - ONLINE ONLY

Railway and Fire Fighting - a British Railways Fire Brigade helmet, by Compton Sons & Webb Ltd, London, 36.5cm long, mid-20th century ...[more]

Railwayana - a cast iron London & North Western Railway Co lineside boundary post, cast at Crewe Works, early 20th century, 122cm long ...[more]

Railwayana - the GWR 4900 Hall Class nameplate, Kirby Hall, 173cm long, [1] Kirby Hall, the original borne by No. 5993, was built at Swindon Decem...

Railwayana - the GWR Modified Hall (6959) Class curved splasher nameplate and cabside numberplate, Throwley Hall, 6963, 173cm and 63cm long, [2] T...

Robert Thompson, Mouseman of Kilburn - a pair of oak lever-action nut crackers, carved mouse signature, 21cm longReference: For a similar example ...

Shipping Interest - a Doulton Lambeth P&O square sailing ship ash tray, applied with the rope-twist initials of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam ...

Sport - Football - a George V silver and enamel medal fob, E R Church A F League, 1932-33 season, Birmingham 1932; others, South Howdenshire Leagu...

Taxidermy - a South American peccary (tayassuidae) or 'skunk pig', 92cm long, softwood plinth

Taxidermy - a Victorian arrangement of birds, naturalistically mounted amongst grasses, ferns and moss, glazed ebonised case, paper label to vers...

The Cult of the Highwayman - a 19th century Staffordshire figure, Dick Turpin, finely dressed and seated upon Black Bess, 30cm high, c.1880

The Gentleman?s Club - a newspaper rod, The Newsgripper, inscribed in gilt, turned handle, 81cm long

Travel & Geology - Italy - a sample of igneous rock, from Mount Vesuvius, mounted for display, 22cm high overall ...[more]

Travel and the South Seas - a hardwood goblet or vase, typically carved with a grasping hand and stamped 'A Souvenir from Pitcairn', 19cm high, ea...

Travel and the South Seas - a hardwood carving, of a turtle, stamped to the plastron ?Pitcairn Island?, 15.5cm long

Treen - a 19th century deadfall mouse trap, of primitive construction, 29cm wide

Treen - a 19th century turned presentation mallet, carved with acanthus lappets and a ropetwist band, silver plaque inscribed 'Presented to Emma G...

Treen - a pair of 19th century turned oak campana mantel vases, 14.5cm high

Treen - a turned mahogany wig stand, 32.5cm high

Treen - an interesting New Zealand salvaged timber bottle, inscribed 'NZ Totara Fence Post Bottle 1919', 22cm high

Treen - an oak novelty snuff box, as a shoe, sliding cover, carved 'laces', 10cm long

Treen - an unusual large late 19th century turned fruitwood and sycamore gavel, the handle enclosing a knife blade, 35cm long, c.1900

Treen and Kitchenalia - a French baguette guillotine, canted rectangular base, 53cm long, early 20th century

Tribal Art - a Dogon grain store door, carved with a geometric arrangement of stylised figures, 59cm high, 45cm wide, Mali, collector's display st...

Tribal Art - a North American soapstone carving, as a totem pole, 25.5cm high, North-West Canada

Tribal Art - a pair of Benin erotic models, of copulating tribes people, rectangular bases, the tallest 4.5cm high, West Africa; another similar, ...

Tribal Art - a Papua New Guinea hardwood carving, of a crocodile, 74cm long, Karawari, East Sepik Province, 19th/early 20th century

Tribal Art - a Polynessian paddle club, pointed leaf shaped blade, 143cm long

Typography - a cased set of early 20th century cast type, the 84 pieces including the upper-case alphabet from A-Z, numbers 0-9, punctuation etc.,...

W. Hughes (American School?, early 20th century)Fall of the Peloos River, North America, the left-foreground with American Indians gazing out at n...

Whistles - a Metropolitan Patent police whistle, by J Hudson & Co, Birmingham, no.010060, on chain; another, City Police or Fire Whistle; others, ...

Wine Antiques - Corkscrews - a 19th century direct-pull corkscrew, turned handle with brush to end, 14cm long; others, similar; another, of shippi...

Woodworking Tools - a rosewood and steel 2 3/8" plane, by Edward Preston & Sons, Birmingham, brass plate and screw, 24cm long overall ...[more]

Woodworking Tools - an iron 1 1/4" bull nose plane, rosewood wedge, 13.5cm long

World War I - a pair of spelter patriotic desk busts, Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener, circular ebonised bases, 18.5cm high, c.1915

Wunderkammer - an antiquary's table-top 'museum' of archaeological finds, the diorama enclosing a Roman iridescent glass phial and a Roman terraco...

A Regency bronze two tier correspondence or letter stand cast with two handled flowering Campana shaped vase circa 1820-1850. 24cm high

English School (second-half, 20th century), a brown-patinated bronze, of a spaniel dog, monogrammed PP in the maquette, 8.5cm high, 8cm wide

French School (19th century), a dark patinated bronze, A Loving Embrace, stepped Sienna marble base, 73cm high

Italian Grand Tour School (19th century), a dark patinated library bronze, Spinario or Boy with Thorn, after the Antique Hellenistic, canted recta...

Italian Grand Tour School (19th century), a verdigris patinated bronze, Seated Hermes, after the Antique, indistinctly signed in the maquette, 20....

A pair of Victorian novelty glass figures, of Mr. Punch and his wife Judy, by John Derbyshire, each seated on an armchair and grinning in earnest,...

A 19th century fruitwood gentleman's novelty walking stick, the handle carved as the head of a dog, 90cm long

A 19th century fruitwood gentleman's novelty walking stick, the 'janus' pommel carved with two dogs' heads, 87cm long

A 19th century gentleman's novelty walking stick, the pommel carved with the head of a bearded man, 82cm long

A novelty walking cane, the pommel as a toad, 98cm long

A South Seas novelty walking stick, the hardwood pommel carved as a fist and stamped Pitcairn Island, palmwood shaft, 92cm long

An 18th century gentleman's ivory and malacca walking cane, quite plain, pierced with a suspension loop, broad brass walking tip, 85.5cm long

Angling - an extensive collection of fishing reels, various types, makes and models, Capstan Patent Bakelite; Charles Alvey & Son; Pflueger Supere...

A scratch-built model stationery engine, copper boiler, horizontal piston, 18.5cm long

A Chinese ruby carving, of Guanyin, 2.5cm long

A 19th century French measuring stick, marked Borde, Metre and Centimetre, 100cm long; a draper's stick; another (3)

A George III copper saucepan with rolled edge and steel handle, 37cm over handle; a 19th century copper frying pan, 39cm over handle; a large Geor...

Keys - various, 18th century and later (18) ...[more]

A Chinese Export nine-piece hors d'oeuvres set, comprising a central octagonal dish and eight lotus-petal shaped subsidiary dishes, each painted i...

Coal Mining Interest - a 19th century brass miner's gas lamp, by Davis, Derby, pierced canopy above two tiers of four pillars, 26cm high

Royalty - a Victorian gilt brass Royal commemorative shield shaped plaque, Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1837 - 1887, embossed with a bust-leng...

A post-Regency mahogany and brass marquetry rectangular writing box, inlaid throughout with borders of leafy scrolls, hinged cover enclosing an in...

A French spelter figure, The Lyre Player, stepped circular marble base, 66cm

Geology - a collection of egg shaped specimens, including fluorspar, alabaster, onyx and other stones and marbles, the largest 8cm long

Geology and Natural History - a collection of specimen samples and fragments, various stones, red jasper (with ink ms. label), agate, ammonite fos...