Out of the Ordinary

A Mackintosh's Toffee advertisement,early 20th century, an original preparatory ink advertising drawing sketch for a Mackintosh's Toffee advertise...

A nickel-plated cafe coffee bean dispenser, mid-20th century, Belgian, surmounted by a brass eagle clutching a dispensing ladle and chute, 51cm di...

A Victorian industrial certificate, 1851, the certificate awarded to John Copling Jnr for his entry into the 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry ...

▴ Lunt Roberts (1894-1981)1930s, a cartoon depicting a fashionable female golfer, strutting with her caddie behind her whilst smoking a cigarette,...

An Art Nouveau advertising poster, early 20th century, French, designed by Jules Cheret, advertising Huile de Macassar Naquet hair oil, colour lit...

An 'I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet' secondhand store poster, 1960s, decorated with the classic 'Your Country Needs You' motif, colour lithograph,71....

An Edwardian advertising mirror, early 20th century, the oval plate with a bevelled edge, with a recessed image of a woman, inscribed 'Y&N Corsets...

An acid-etched brass advertising sign, early 20th century, French, inscribed 'Mme Badrigans Corsets - 2me Etage',20 x 30cmCondition Reportminor we...

'We Buy Diamonds',modern, a pawnbroker's neon advertising sign saying 'We Buy Diamonds', illuminating in blue and white against a black acrylic bo...

A neon sign,late 20th century, saying 'Perfumes' in cursive, illuminating in pink, encased in a Perspex frame, 50 x 192cm ...[more]

A pair of carved wooden wigmaker's heads,20th century, France, each raised on a turned maple stand,43 and 48cm high (2) ...[more]

A group of ten milliner's telescopic hat stands,mid-20th century, Continental, brass and nickel milliner's hat stands, on metal bases,92cm extendi...

A gilt metal milliner's advertising display stand,mid-20th century, with rotatable arms for the display of hats, raised on a domed foot,54cm diame...

An oak museum vitrine, mid-20th century, of hexagonal form, the cornice moulded with a crenulated frieze, with internal glass shelves92cm diameter...

A framed glass advertising sign,early 20th century, Danish, from the Odense Wine Company, back painted in gilt 'Vine & Spirituosa fra Odense Vin K...

A group of twelve framed French menu cards,1960s, including O'Cabanon, Brasserie Flo, Vagenende, Le Pavillon Du Lac, La Coupole, Au Roy Gourmet, L...

A 'Dell's Diner' menu board,1970s, featuring a waitress holding a knickerbocker glory and chocolate cake, with chalkboard and chalk holder to the ...

'Fish & Chips',mid-20th century, a painted wooden double-sided sign from the North of England,147 x 77cm ...[more]

A French 'Routiers' sign,mid-20th century French, a naïvely painted wooden routiers restaurant advertising sign depicting a waitress,122cm x 46cm ...

'The Jolly Sailor'1960s, an original hand-painted enamel on metal public house sign, featuring a striding, bearded, jolly sailor with a kitbag and...

'House of Simple Pleasures',late 20th century, a large distressed mirror glass and gold leaf inlaid public house sign, inscribed in gilt lettering...

A pair of pagoda-style tea canisters,late 20th century, decorated with Chinese mandarins,51cm high (2) ...[more]

A group of five silver-plated champagne advertising ice buckets,mid-20th century, French, comprising examples labelled 'Moet & Chandon', 'Bricoult...

A collection of eleven glass cake stands, mid-20th century, Hungarian, purportedly from a patisserie in Budapest, largest 38cm high (11) ...[more]

A whale whisker,late 18th/19th century, an early venencia, with white metal mounts attached to a whale baleen (or whale whisker) stem, 53cm highCo...

A pair of Chinese rice paddy boots, 19th century, a pair of hardened leather boots, the soles with iron studs, 41cm high (2)Condition ReportSome ...

An unusual pair of Masonic oak signs,early 20th century, each with a swivelling hand-painted oval disc, reading 'Strict Order' and 'Liberty Hall',...

A Victorian governess's wand,19th century, decorated in green, the head with gilt detailing and emblazoned with the Christ's Hospital crest over t...

Attributed to Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914),1865 and later, a collection of ten preparatory drawings for Punch Magazine satirical cartoons, ink on ...

A metal bust,late 19th/early 20th century, Continental, modelled as a young woman resting her head on a pillow, decorated in polychrome,47cm wide2...

A wooden sign reading 'Sneakerhead', modern, decorated with neon tubes modelled as a Nike Air Max shoe, 32 x 123cmCondition ReportThe edges of the...

'Rule Britannia',modern, a neon sign saying 'Rule Britannia' set against a lithographed cartoon originally designed by Rex Woods (British-Canadian...

A pair of Edward VIII Union Jack coronation flags,1936, each embroidered with the portrait of the monarch to the centre,57 x 82cm (2)Condition Rep...

Abercairny House, royalty and nobility,1870-1874, a fascinating photograph album filled with 108 images of Abercairny House in Perthshire and the ...

A superb travel and military photograph album of China and Hong Kong,1907 and 1908, subjects include 3rd Middlesex regiment, Peking, Tientsin, Opi...

A Victorian silver novelty propelling pencil,c.1840, modelled as a flintlock gun, struck with maker's marks down the barrel, purportedly manufactu...

A custom taxidermy diorama,late 20th century, depicting the story of David and Goliath, with a grey squirrel and a rabbit, against a watercolour b...

A collection of eighty-eight DC comic books, 1960s and later, to include: Detective Comics nos. 293, 296, 325, Adventure Comics nos. 277 and 316, ...

An early lead fire extinguisher,18th century, possibly German, of cylindrical form, with an oak pump handle, 73cm longCondition ReportSome bumps t...