Two Day Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities - online bidding only

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Two Day Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities - online bidding only

We are currently operating an online auction only with online payment and collection strictly by appointment.

Auction closed (2 day sale)

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  • ( Lots: 3000-3764)
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Travel, South Seas - a Pitcairn Island goblet, typically carved with a grasping hair, inscribed Souvenir from Pitcairn, circular base, 17cm high

Treen - a 19th century chip-carved love token, probably Scandinavian, decorated with daisy-wheels and stylised branches, to verso with further mot...

Treen - a 19th century mahogany racing pigeon box, each sliding cover with pierced vents, enclosing a diagonal division, brass swan neck carrying ...

Treen - a 19th century salvaged oak waisted circular snuff box, the push-fitting cover centred by a roundel engraved with a named view of Lancaste...

Treen - a rectangular gingerbread or biscuit mould, intaglio carved recto and verso with industrious 18th century workers and country hands, court...

Treen - an unusual oversize elm rounded rectangular snuff box, possibly a tobacconist's shop display, the hinged cover initialled in brass studwor...

Victoria Cross Winner, British Army/Militaria - William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, VC, DL (1855-1912), his 19th century Plain Armorial bookplate, eng...

Walking Sticks - a 19th century Indian silver mounted walking cane, the tall pommel chased with deities, 70cm long; a George V silver mounted pal...

Witchcraft and The Occult - an apocryphal salvaged timber bowl or stoup, incise carved XPUS, the base with feint ink inscription St Mary's Ch [Chu...

Zoroastrianism - a Persian silver coloured metal rectangular plaque, depicting priests beside an atar, 13cm x 17.5cm, inscription to verso relatin...

An early 18th century gentleman's ivory and malacca walking stick, of slender proportions, turned tapering handle, contemporary broad brass walkin...

A novelty gentleman-topographer's lacquered brass and hardwood combination walking cane, the mechanical handle and ferrule enclosing a monocular t...

Advertising - Local Interest - Shot Tower, Derby, a mid-19th century printed canvas lead shot bag, Cox Bros & Co, Derby, Patent Shot No. 4, surmou...

Machirology - a pocket knife, by George Wostenholm, Sheffield, 6.5cm principal blade marked IXL, two further blades, faux mother of pearl grip, 9...

A Baccarat shot glass, the base interior painted with the head of a fox, the image reflected in the facets, 5.5cm high, c.1850; another, painted w...

Machirology - a 19th century mother of pearl multi-tool pocket knife, 5.5cm principal blade, with further blades, button hook and accouterments, t...

A 19th century French gilt-brass rectangular inkstand, centred by a pair of inkwells cast as profusions of scrolling acanthus, the sculptural bord...

A Fowler's Twelve-Ten Patent Calculator, by Fowler & Co, Manchester, 9cm diam, leather case; a Negretti & Zambra Pocket Forecaster, boxed; a plumb...

A mid 20th century surveyor's theodolite, Hall Bros, Purley Way, Croydon, No 40416, retailed by J.A Reynolds & Co Ltd, Birmingham, cased, c.1940, ...

A pitometer water flow measuring instrument, by The British Pitometer Company (London), 132cm long, wooden case with leather sleeve to top

A Victorian walnut draughtsman's box, retailed by B J Hall & Co Ltd, Birmingham, hinged cover enclosing boxwood rulers, 34.5cm wide ...[more]

An early 20th century boxwood and brass engineering rule, stamped John Shaw Ltd, Worksop, 12cm long (closed); another, The Bristol Wire Rope Co Lt...

Medical - a set of surgical scalpels, mahogany case, 16.5cm wide; a field surgeon's set; other scalpels and surgical instruments, various makers; ...

Medical - an early 20th century adjustable ear trumpet, by R.J. Dowling, London, stamped with the War Department broad arrow, extending to 43cm lo...

Medical - an early 20th century surgeon's saw, by Thackray, Leeds and London, 27.5cm long; others, similar; a set of six graduating surgical knive...

Medical - Optometry, am early 20th century mahogany optometrist's case, hinged cover enclosing an arrangement of sample lenses and testing apparat...

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