A 48 BORE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING GUN (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with three-stage barrel octagonal over the breech (pitted, cleaned), fitted with moulded silver fore-sight, engraved blued lock of characteristic form, fitted with external mainspring partly covered by an engraved steel panel, engraved sliding pan-cover with button release, button-catch for setting the sear, flash-guard and engraved dog decorated with tulip flowers (worn, restorations), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid over its surface with engraved staghorn scrolling tendrils and pellets inhabited by rabbits and foxes pursued by hounds, decorated with a bear beneath the breech, carved cheek-piece with a foliate escutcheon supported by scrolling monsters on the left and patchbox with sliding cover decorated en suite on the right, the whole enriched with green-stained horn rondels, mother-of-pearl ball flowers and further staghorn plaques engraved with flowers and foliage, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and butt-plate the latter decorated with a rabbit (repairs), two red painted inventory numbers, and horn tipped ramrod, perhaps the original 78.6cm; 31inProvenance An Aristocratic Collection, sold Jürg Stuker, Bern, 5th-16th May 1977, lot 3684.
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A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE, DATED 1652 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel signed in stamped miniscules `Georg Kalb`, dated 1652 and inscribed with the early inventory number `No.87`, plain lock with pierced low wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover and pierced engraved dog, fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved horn plaques and ball-flower tendrils within horn segmental lines over its entire length, including scenes from the chase over the fore-end and patch-box cover, a bear-hunting scene on the cheek-piece, a rustic figure squatting behind the trigger-guard, and a small plaque behind the barrel tang dated 1659 and inscribed with the stockmaker`s initials ` HA.S`, with a horn plaque fitted over the ramrod aperture engraved with a squirrel eating fruit from a basket, plain horn butt-plate, engraved steel trigger-guard, engraved horn fore-end cap, set trigger, and horn-tipped ramrod 55.3cm; 21 3/4 in barrel
A rare Wedgwood creamware punchbowl, late 18th century, the exterior enamelled with the full arms of the Cordwainer`s Society , a bear`s paw crest above the floral initials WO and a shield shaped armorial above the motto BE FAST, the interior painted with fruit beneath a running leaf border, impressed mark, 35cm wide.
[Modern Firsts / Limited Edition Publishers Proof] Faulks, Sebastian, Human Traces, signed and numbered limited edition, Hutchinson, 2005; Clarke, Susanna, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Bloomsbury, first edition, 2004; Atkinson, Kate, One Good Turn, A Jolly Murder Mystery, signed limited edition, Doubleday, 2006; Lansdale, Joe, R, The Two Bear Mambo, signed limited edition, James Cahill Publishing, 1995; McEwan, Ian, On Chesil Beach, Jonathan Cape, Waterstone`s 25 the Anniversary Issue, 2007; Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns, limited edition proof, Bloomsbury, 2007; Ahlberg, Allan, My Brother`s Ghost, signed copy, Viking, 2000; Winterson, Jeanette, Lighthousekeeping, signed limited edition proof, Fourth Estate, 2004
A COPELAND STONE CHINA DISH FROM H.M.S. ALERT, TRANSFER PRINTED IN BROWN WITH A POLAR BEAR WITHIN A GARTER INSCRIBED ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1875, INSIDE A ROPE BORDER, THE REVERSE WITH INSCRIBED ANCHORS AND MARKED ALERT WITH IMPRESSED COPELAND MARK, 24.5CM. NOTE: THE ALERT, CAPTAINED BY GEORGE NARES, LEADER OF THE EXPEDITION, ATTEMPTED WITH H.M.S. DISCOVERY TO REACH A BOAT AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE NORTH POLE. THE EXPEDITION OF SHACKLETON AND SCOTT
Selection of Micromodels (London) Three Dimensional Volumetric Cut-out Card Kits: Beam Engine; H1 Set with Puffing Billy, Rocket, Locomotion; Pre-Grouping Series Set PGVII with The Great Bear GWR, 4-4-0 Compound MR, 4-4-0 Duke Class GWR; Pre-Grouping Series Set PGVIII with Drummond 4-6-0 LSWR, Greater Britain LNWR, Ivatt Atlantic GNR; Set X2 8 Pre-Grouping Coaches in colour; Set BD Breakdown Train; 2 x Set TO Threshing Outfit. Not checked but appear unused and all in VG illustrated paper sleeves. (8)
Seven Britains Trade Boxes containing plastic zoo animals: 1354 American Bison (contains 5); 1333 Polar Bear Sitting (contains 11); 1328 Walrus (contains 11, one with tusk snapped off); 1377 Gorilla (contains 11); 1394 Keepers (contains 6, pen to end of box); 1342 Lioness (contains 11); 1352 Baby Camel (contains 11). Conditions F-E, in overall VG clean boxes.
Four boxed Timpo Tip Tops Frozen North Series: 44057 One man kayak, two standing Eskimoes and Walrus; five standing Eskimoes (one missing foot paddles); 44056 Eskimo Dog Sled with Team, Eskimo and Polar Bear; 44049 Eskimo Igloo with three Eskimo Hunters and Polar Bear. All complete and mostly G/VG in F boxes with tape to ends.
Palitoy Care Bears: Care-A-Lot home in the clouds (F, boxed); Cloud Mobile (G, boxed); Rainbow Roller (G, boxed). Together with Hasbro My Little Pony Grooming Parlour (G/F boxed); Hasbro Charmkins Petal Windmill (G boxed); selection of loose Charmkins figures with 6 card backing pieces (unattached), quantity of loose Palitoy Care Bear and Hasbro My Little Pony figures and accessories. Overall G.
Three Steiff Danbury Mint teddy bears: EAN 660344 Teddy Bear 30 MBI 2002, cert.no.1191; EAN 660740 Golden Jubilee 2002, with cert.of reservation; Steiff EAN 663383 Chestnut brown, 30cm, Bear of the Year 2011, cert.no.470. All boxed and VG with tags (some slight fraying to labels). Together with an empty Steiff 656248 Teddybar Kohlentrager box.
Seven Steiff Bears: Grizzly 42 ean 69345; 2 x Snowman ean 654800 (one with cert. no.421), h.21cm; Goofy 33 ean 680106, ltd.ed.no.663 (label frayed); Babyartikel Schlafbarle 30 ean 230219; Joseph Musical Bear ean 37238, ltd.ed.no.1986, h.30cm (missing paper tag); Christmas Teddy Bear 25 ean 37252 (boxed). Overall VG with original tags, missing certificates.
Attributed to James Bourne, British 1773-1854- Views of Hythe Church, Kent; pen, brush, grey/black ink and wash, monochrome, two, on shared sheet, bear inscriptions and dated 1832 on the mount, 16x23.5cm and 16.7x23.8cm: together with two other river landscape studies attributed to the same hand, on a shared sheet, both bear inscriptions on the mount, 20.3x28cm., (4) (unframed)
Manner of John Constable RA, mid 19th century- Figures by a cottage with a bridge and woodland; watercolour, 23.2x32.2cm: British School, 19th century- "Staines Bridge"; watercolour, inscribed, 20x31cm: William J Ferguson, British fl. 1849-1886- "Hanwell"; watercolour, signed, 19.3x30.2cm: British School, late 19th century- Two figures by a pond; watercolour, 23x33cm: F Oldmeadow, British, mid 19th century- View of a courtyard garden with a terrace and figures in a landscape; pencil and watercolour, a pair, both signed and dated 1854, both bear inscriptions on the reverse, in arched mounts, 16.8x25cm., ea: British Provincial School, early 19th century- "Rope Walk"; watercolour, 21x29cm: British School, late 19th century- "Tablehurst, Forest Road, East Grinstead, Sussex"; watercolour, inscribed, 24x35cm: together with a mixed quantity of watercolours and drawings by different hands, mostly 19th century, (a lot) (unframed)
Ivor Beddoes, British 1909-1981- "Interior Manas Chapel"; body colour on board, signed, titled and dated `71, 37x57cm: together with two other illustrations in body colour on board by the same artist depicting a pagan ritual in a cemetery with figures in animal masks and a female nude in a chapel interior, both bear pencil inscription and dated `71 on the reverse, 50.5x63cm and 19.5x48cm, (3), (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
* Emil Otto Hoppé, Austrian 1876-1957- "Thamar- Karsavina and Adolph Bolm"; silver bromide print, 29 x 24 cm: together with three other photographs/silver prints by the same hand, "The Firebird Adolph Bolm/The Tsarevitch", "Prince Igor" and "Karsavina Spectre de la Rose", one signed in black ink, one signed in pencil, three bear the photographer`s own label attached to the reverse of the back board, 29 x 23 cm, 24 x 19 cm and 19.5 x 14.5 cm., respectively, (4) (mounted) (unframed) (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: These photographs of Karsavina and Adolph Bolm relate to the Portfolio `Studies from the Russian Ballet`, circa 1911.
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