Antique & Esoteric Auction

An ABC Theatres 'Multilite' patent cinema usherette's electric hand torch, circa 1930s

A Windsor and Newton pendant advertising sign in the form of an artist's palette, of wooden construction with hand painted lettering, late 19th / ...

A Yale and Towne pendant advertising sign modelled in the form of a key, of cast metal construction, with 'Yale Locks Stocked Here' decal, 31 x 78...

Eight 19th Century Scottish earthenware carpet bowls, hand painted with assorted geometric designs, 8 cm and smaller

A vintage LMS Railway brass horn, 31 cm

A restored Victorian pony / horse trap

A set of late 19th / early 20th Century mother-of-pearl opera glasses

An early 20th Century Scottish Land Court despatch box, bound in blind-tooled black leather, the lid having a flush-fitting brass bale handle, bea...

A large coco de mer nut, 28 cm

An early 20th Century bone and bamboo Mah-Jong set manufactured and retailed by the Chun Wah Trading Company of Shanghai, in fitted leather case w...

A late 19th / early 20th Century Harrods riding flask and sandwich box, in electroplate and glass, together with saddle pouches

A classical Graeco-Roman amphora, wreck-recovered and encrusted, on wrought-iron stand, 75 cm including stand

A Carlisle State Management Breweries oak barrel head, 49 cm

A Victorian campaign paraffin / oil lamp by J C & W Lord of Birmingham, in tinplate transit case

A late 19th / early 20th Century railway level crossing oil / paraffin lamp and mount

A Metropolitan Amateur Regatta Metropolitan Junior Eight Oared Challenge Cup medallion

A Carlisle Corporation Tram car Conductor's arm badge

A late 19th / early 20th Century Merryweather pattern fireman other ranks' brass helmet,

A late 19th Century German violin marked Hopf, having one-piece back with 'Hopf' branding, and conforming stamp to the interior, 35 cm excluding b...

An early 20th Century taxidermy fox mask, mounted on a shield shaped oak plaque, with paper label verso and hand annotated note 'Mr Smith [?], 84 ...

A 19th Century taxidermy fish preserved by J Cooper of 28 Radnor Street, London, bearing manuscript paper label 'Taken by Mr Payne at Amberley Jul...

[Veterinary/ medical instruments] A Day and Sons of Crewe, by Royal Appointment to HM The King, equestrian "Health for the Dumb" brass, wood and l...

A Mycro IIIA "spy" camera

A Victorian prismatic compass by Elliott Bros., Strand, London, 7.5 cm

A Victorian pocket combination compass and level by L Cassella, Maker to the Admiralty and Ordnance, London, numbered 201, in fitted case, 14.5 cm...

A Victorian mahogany and brass four draw telescope by Cox of London

A GPO No 328 telephone in "ivory", circa 1930s

A set of early 20th Century Librasco brass counter-top beam scales, together with a set of metric "German silver" weights, 50 cm high

An early 20th Century Zeiss monocular in leather case

A Georgian set of pocket Sovereign scales, of brass cantilever construction, folding into a mahogany case, bearing printed paper instructions and ...

A set of Belle Epoque opera glasses in mother-of-pearl and gilt brass, with telescopic handle

George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cotto...

Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B, The Border Regiment in the Great War, Gale and Polden, Ltd, bound in green cloth with gilt-embossed regimental device

Three bound runs of the Great War Prisoner of War / Internment Cap journal In Ruhleben Camp, 1915 to 1917, printed by the Camp press, 8vo, illus. ...

The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings, in four volumes, Gale and Fenner, London, 1815, 16mo

Guthrie, William, Guthrie's Atlas of Modern Geography; Containing Thirty-One Maps with a Complete Index, T. Cadell, London, 1835, illus.

Johns (Captain W.E.) Biggles Hits the Trail, 1935 and Biggles Goes to War, 1938, 8vo, Oxford University Press

Betts, John, Betts's , George Philip & Son, London, n.d, circa 1860, game map of the counties, tracing a course through 91 points, diagram of the ...

John Fox, The Third Volume of the Ecclesiastical History containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, Company of Stationers, London, 1684

Loftus's New Mixing and Reducing Book, for the use of Publicans and Spirit Dealers and Retailers in General, published by William R Loftus, 146, O...

Henry Irwin Jenkinson, Practical Guide to the English Lake District, Edward Stanford, 1881

Captain Webb, The Art of Swimming, first edition, gilt blue cloth pictorial boards and colour portrait frontis, nd circa 1875, 8vo

Acheta Domestica, Episodes of Insect Life, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, Strand, 1849, 8vo, gilt pictorial blue cloth boards, hand tinted engravings, ...

A late Victorian scrap album containing a collection of tipped-in Christmas cards, each with pen and ink annotations providing the name of the sen...

[Kind Edward VIII / Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor] A 1972 condolence recognition card and envelope, framed under glass, 20 x 15 cm ...[more]

[Autograph / Muhammad Ali / The Beatles] Signed candid photographic print depicting Cassius Clay (1942-2016) and The Beatles in a boxing ring, the...

[Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997] Two monochrome photographs of Lady Diana Spencer, later the Princess of Wales, taken on the 20th April 1978 a...

A group of early 20th Century photographic postcards depicting Carlisle, Cumbria and Gilsland / Haltwhistle, (23)

A quantity of early 20th Century postcards depicting Carlisle, Cumbrian and Lake District views, (54)

A vintage toy dog, having golden mohair, a single glass eye, and a brown mohair muzzle, wood wool filled, 22 cm

A Lines Brothers (Ireland) Ltd child's push along walker modelled as a fox terrier, mid-20th Century, 53 cm

A live steam 3 ½ inch gauge model railway locomotive "Titch", together with a Northern Association of Model Engineers boiler test certificate date...

A late 19th / early 20th Century "Dutch" or "peg" wooden doll, of a type originating from Val Gardena, turned and painted, with jointed limbs, 31 ...

An Armand Marseille 'My Dream' baby doll, the bisque head modelled with open mouth, two lower teeth and sleeping blue glass eyes, No. 351 / 2K, on...

A 1934 Drake "A Game of the Sea" board game designed by Edmund Vale and manufactured by Robert Ross & Company from the "Ahoy!" (Regd.) Series, in ...

Three 1950s / 1960s board games, including a Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Basic Kit, a Tri-ang OO HO gauge Arkitex scale model construction kit...

A Victorian needlework sampler worked by Hannah Watson in 1886, wool threads over aida, incorporating a verse above motifs "Come unto me all ye th...

A Victorian gros- and petit-point needlework tapestry of a Biblical scene, framed under glass, 52 x 41 cm

A Victorian gros- and petit-point woolwork tapestry, depicting a recumbent young girl holding aloft a song bird, reserved within a pansy border, f...

A pair of early 20th Century fur driving / flying mittens