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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Marie de’ Medici (1573-1642), uniface cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1601, by Guillaume Dupre and signed with monogrammed initials, bust left wearing embroidered dress and wide and deep lace ruff, MARIA DE MEDICIS REG FRANC, 44mm (BMC [Jones] 13, reverse; Maz 631, also uniface). Very fine with pleasant patination, pierced at top (outside of beaded border), very rare. The piece is recorded as the reverse of a portrait medal of Henri IV (dated 1602), of which there is a uniface example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Armand-Jean Duplessis (1585-1642), Cardinal Richelieu, cast Bronze Tribute Medal, 1631, by Jean Warin (1606-72), bust right wearing biretta and robes, signed below, rev globe within a circle of stars, guided by a winged genius, MENS SIDERA VOLVIT, 50.5mm, cast with integral shaped suspension loop (BMC [Jones] 187-192; Jones, Warin, 5; Kress 576; Mol 251; Clifford 455-458; BCA 31, 1040-1041). A well patinated contemporary cast, very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Napoleonic Wars in Spain, Bronze Plaque, unsigned and undated, soldiers resting-up, a Grenadier stands by a confessional holding rifle, another in tricorn hat, seated smokes a pipe, below exergual line “Espagne” and indistinct numeral “44”, 202mm x 198mm. Very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Napoleonic Wars in Italy, companion Bronze Plaque, unsigned and undated, a soldier in a tricorn hat, resting against a wall, lights his pipe from a thurible held up to him by a young girl, below exergual line “Italie”, 198mm x 188mm. Very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,The Siege of Paris, Balloon and Pigeon Postage, Bronze Medal, 1870-1871, by C J M Degeorge, figure of Lutetia seated on cannon, releasing a pigeon, a balloon in the sky beyond, rev pigeon flies to basket on which a blank tablet, COMMUNICATIONS AERIENNES, 53mm (Malpas 94). Extremely fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, “Beaux Arts”, Paris, Bronze Award Medal to Jacques Jaujard, 1943, by R Corbin, An Important Medal associated with the preservation of Museum and Private treasures during the German Occupation of Paris and awarded to the Director of the National Museums of France, personification of Paris in a boat, named on scroll below, rev standing Apollo, edge engraved “Directeur des Musées Nationaux”, 72mm. Nearly extremely fine, scarce. Jacques Jaujard was director of the national museums of France under the Occupation. In 1939, he began evacuating treasures of the Louvre, together with items from private collections, crating them and shipping them off to the provinces where they could be stored in various châteaux in the southern Loire Valley. Working with the Curator Rose Valland, the information they gathered and, above all, the lists she drew up and passed on to him, were to facilitate locating and restituting hidden works at the end of the war.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, World War I, The Sinking of the Lusitania, Bronze Medal, 1915, by Karl Goetz, and with corrected date, figures queue for tickets being sold by Death, rev the ship sinks, armaments, planes and cars topple into the waters, KEINE BANN WARE! 7 MAI 1915 (Keinast 156). Extremely fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, World War I, The Lusitania Medal and “British Intrigues in Sweden”, Bronze Medal, Balfour shows the ‘Lusitania Medal’ to Churchill, Goetz sketches behind, rev Scottish piper with banner relating to the medal, 56mm (Kienast 156A; Engstrom 2). As made, extremely fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, World War I, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, ‘The Awakening of Egypt’, Bronze Medal, 1915, by Karl Goetz, Death with hour-glass, puts his arm around a sweating Grey, rev the Sphynx with crescent moon and star, behind Turkish troops rally at the pyramids, AGYPTEN ERWACHT, 57mm (Kienast 166). Good very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, World War II, The Aerial Invasion of Crete, commanded by General Kurt Student, large Bronze Medal, 1941, by Karl Goetz, two planes with parachutists jumping from the nearer, rev a parachutist falls, others distant to either side, KRETA 20. 5. 1941, 98mm (Keinast 587). Nearly extremely fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Matteo di Maestro Andrea de’ Pasti, cast Bronze Portrait Medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), Lord of Rimini, 1446, bust left, rev the Rocca Malatestiana, CASTELLVM SISMONDVM …, 82mm (Hill, Corpus 174). An old aftercast, very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Sperandio of Mantua, cast Bronze Portrait Medal of Pietro Bono Arogario, physician, bust left, hair long and wearing truncated cap, rev the standing figures of Aesculapius and Urania, he on a dragon holding a phial, she with open book and astrolabe, 85mm (Hill, Corpus 371; Arm I, 64, 3). An old aftercast, very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Leone Leoni (c.1509-1590), cast Bronze Portrait Medal of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle [1549?], bearded bust left, rev a ship battered by a storm, to the fore a man in a smaller boat, DVRATE on ribband below, 64mm (Attwood 33; Arm 166, 19). An old aftercast, brown patination, pierced and marked (where suspension loop removed?), otherwise very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Ferrarese School, Lionello Pio di Carpi (d.1539), Bronze Portrait Medal, bearded bust right wearing gown, rev a storm rages over a volcanic eruption, MELIVS PVTATO, 62mm. An old aftercast, very fine with dark patination.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Pisa, Medallist signing I. FR. A. S., cast Bronze Portrait Medal of Girolamo Papponi (1526-1605), bearded bust right in open gown, wearing a medal suspended on ribband, rev Arion stands on dolphin in choppy sea, holding a violin and bow, ÆSTVM SVPE …, 63mm (Barg III, 800). A clear and probably contemporary cast, very fine and with a hint of a further signature on the truncation. Papponi, a Professor at the Universty of Pisa was with the Opera della Primaziale (1558-1605)

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Bianca Capello (1543-1587), second wife (1579) of Francesco I de’ Medici, uniface cast Bronze Medal, unsigned and undated, bust left, wearing pearl necklace and pearls in her hair, beaded border, 53mm. Very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Vatican, Urban VIII, Barberini (1568-1623-1644), Copper Medal, 1626, yr 2, by Gaspare Mola, bust left, rev the Holy Door, 35.5mm (Linc 955); Johann Henisch, cast Bronze Medal, undated, by Johann Kornmann (Cormano), bust right, rev legend in seven lines, 42mm (BDM III, 207). This very fine, first better. (2)

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Vatican, Roman School, Bernini’s Baldachin at St. Peter’s, Baroque cast Bronze Medal, 1631, the four spiraling pillars supporting the canopy and four statues, rev legend in ten lines, 58mm. Reverse very fine, the obverse better with clear architectural details. The Baldachin which stands over the altar and thus the traditional tomb of St Peter, was the work of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), and was commissioned by Urban VIII when the sculptor was only 24 years old. Worked in bronze its spiral columns support a canopy and four statues, of St Helena (by Andrea Bolgi), St Longinus (by Bernini), St Andrew (by Francois Duquesnoy) and St Veronica (by Francesco Mochi). The Baldachin is also seen on the reverse of the annual medal of 1633/4, year 10.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Giovanni Niccolò Barinti (1681-1731), theologian, musician and renowned orator, large Baroque Bronze Medal, bust right wearing gown, rev Moses strikes the rock and the waters flow, ET FLUXERUNT AQUÆ, 88mm (V&T 119). Good very fine with dark patination.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Giovanni Lani (1697-1770), Theologian and Historian, large Baroque Bronze Medal, 1747, by Antonio Selvi (1679-1753), signed and dated in Greek, bust right, rev Minerva seated with the attributes of learning, 84mm (VT 208; Mol 158; Lankheit, Morton & Eden, 21 May 2003, lot 773). Cast with a curiously roughened field, very fine and scarce. The medal, a tribute to Lani’s Greek learning, was commissioned by Giovanni Calbi, a member of the Florentine Academy of the Apasti

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, USA, Canada and the Americas, British Victories of 1758 and 1759, Bronze Medal, unsigned, Britannia in chariot with Justice and Liberty, battle details around with, at top, LOUISBOURG / BOSCAWEN-AMHERST, rev Lion and Unicorn supporting reversed French lily, victories around with, at top, QUEBEC / WOLFE, 43mm (MI 709/445; Betts 419; Br 50/49; Leroux 862/861). Good very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1551, Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I (1503-1564), Bronze Portrait Medal, by Leone Leoni, bust right in decorated armour, wearing Badge of the Golden Fleece, FERDINAND D G RO HVNGA BO REX C, rev the naked River God of the Danube reclines amidst rushes, holding oar and urn, IN SPEM PRISCI HONORIS, beaded border to both sides, 72mm (Att 36; Arm II, 236; Domanig 76; Humphris, European Medallions, 36). An early aftercast, thin flan with integral suspension loop, somewhat ‘sandy’ surface, very fine and extremely rare. The medal expresses Ferdinand’s desire to re-capture the Danube from the Ottomans

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1586, Malta, Jean Parisot de la Valette (1494-1557-1568), The Termination of the Siege of Malta, Dutch Bronze Jeton, Victory stands on ship, its sails furled, MELITA IBERITA, rev equestrian knight rides over trophies, TVRCA FVGATO, 28.5mm (Schembri 229/2, listed as “unique”; vL I, 69, 1; Feuardent III 13731). About very fine, slight edge split by O of FVGATO, extremely rare.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1650, Venice/Crete, Alvise Leonardo Mocenigo (1583-1654), Supreme Commander at Candia against the Turks, cast Bronze Medal, head left in high relief, rev two female figures support a plan of Candia, LIBERAT NVTRIT CRET, 45mm (Volt 945; Ser 47). Cast at Candia and of crude manufacture, however very fine and very rare.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1684, Vatican, Innocent XI, Odescalchi (1611-1676-1689), The Conclusion of the Alliance against the Turks, Copper Medal, Annual series, year 8, by Giovanni Hamerani, bust right, wearing cap and stoll, this decorated with Imperial Eagle and Lion of Venice, rev dove over altar on which are placed the crowns of the allies, HABETO NOS FOEDERATOS ET SERVIEMVS TIBI, 35mm (Linc 1456; BDM II, 401). Virtually as struck, with dark bronze patination. The Alliance – the Holy League of the Empire – was between the Pope, represented on the medal’s reverse with his tiara, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, John III Sobieski of Poland (both crowns) and Marc Antonio Giustiniani, Doge of Venice (cap)

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1688, Francesco Morosini (1618-1688-1694), Elected Doge and his Victories over the Turks, cast Bronze Medal, by Philipp Heinrich Müller, bust almost full-face, wearing hat and ermine cape, before flags and trophies, rev Venetia seated with cornucopiae, recieves gifts from five nymphs representing the dominions of Morea, Candia, Athens, Negroponte and Cyprus, ADRIATICI MARIS DOMINA ARCHIPELAGI REGINA, plain edge, 60mm (Volt 1066, silver; T&V (1990) 55; MH 91). Very fine and very rare.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1849, Turkey, the European Scientific Institute, Smyrne [Izmir], founded by Dr Weylandt, Gilt-bronze Award Medal, scales over inscribed tablets, rev legend and wreath, oak-leaf suspender, 35mm. Very fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1854, England/France/Turkey, The Holy Alliance, White Metal Medal, by Allen and Moore, from a design by Punch, two soldiers greet each other, rev legend in French, 44mm (BHM 2537); The Battle of Inkerman, Bronze Medal, by Pinches, Grenadiers advance, rev regiments named in ‘rose’, 41mm (BHM 2541; Eimer 1492). Both extremely fine. (2)

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1883, Austria, 300th Anniversary of the Liberation of Vienna from the Turks, large Silvered-bronze Medal, by Joseph Tautenhayn, Mars with figures of Austria and Justice, stands by fallen Turk, rev five medallic busts of the allied leaders against the Turks, 72mm (BDM VI 39, illustrated [taken from plaster]). Extremely fine.

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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1889, Russia/Serbia, 500th Anniversary of the Ottoman Wars, Bronze Medal, Crown in landscape, 1389, rev Eagle over church in landscape, 41mm. Nearly extremely fine.

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MILITARY MEDALS, Foreign Orders and Decorations, Netherlands East Indies, octagonal Bronze Campaign Medal for action in Java, 1825-1830, together with a silver medal of the Order of Oranje-Nassau, a silver Danish award and a bronze medal from Finland, 1939. Very fine. (4)

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Coin-related BOOKS, Ancient, Bellinger, AR, Essays on the Coinage of Alexander the Great, New York 1979, octavo, pp vii, 132, 3 plates, publishers’ cloth; Bellinger, AR, Troy, the Coins (1960), reprinted, New York 1979, octavo, pp xiii, 219, 27 plates, publisher’s boards, almost as new; Bellinger, AR, Two Hoards of Attic Bronze Coins, NNM no 42, New York, ANS 1930, quarto, pp 14, 2 plates, cloth backed boards, gilt, slightly faded but virtually as new; Betlyon, JW, The Coinage and Mints of Phoenicia, The Pre-Alexandrine Period, California 1982, octavo, pp 171, cloth. (4)

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Coin-related BOOKS, Islamic, Petrowicz, A, Arsaciden-Münzen, Chicago 1967, octavo, pp ix, 206, xxv plates, cloth, jacket, virtually as new; Spengler, WF & Sayles, WG, Turkoman Figural Bronze Coins and Their Iconography, vols I and II - The Artuqids, The Zengids, Wisconsin 1992, 1996, octavo, pp xxv, 193, illustrations in text, casebound, jacket, almost as new. (3)

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Bronze bust of a ram, with hook to interior for wall mounting, 14.5cm high

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Old Chinese bronze Dragon Phoenix vase, 19.5cm high

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James Guthrie (1859-1930) a plaster cast panel of a Religious Scene, 29 cm x 52cm; also a bronze cast of an eagle's head and three other busts (a lot)

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Christ of Saint John of the Cross, a gilt bronze sculpture by Salvador Dali (1904-1989), inscribed 'Dali' and 'USA 169/2500', on a marble base, 25cm overall, with Certificate of Authenticity by Robert Descharnes & A. Reynols Morse

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The Nude, a bronze sculpture by Benno Schotz (1891-1904), modelled as a nude female, possibly the artist's wife, seated and looking down, signed and dated 1929, 24.5cm high, 29cm wide

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The Bubble Dancer, an Art Deco sculpture in gilt bronze and ivory by Armand Godard, circa 1930, modelled as a young maiden with outstretched arms holding a clear glass sphere, on a black marble base with veined quarter spheres, signed 'Godard', 36cm high

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Pair of oriental bronze vases, with relief birds and foliage decoration, 29cm high

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Collection of West African bronze miniature figures and emblems, probably late 19th century, including a Fan, Sea Fish, Policeman's leather rod, Shield and a 'Fetish Priest offering a bird to the coil spirits' (a lot)

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1914-15 star, bronze death plaque and scroll of '4318 PTE. W.P. (William Payne) PRESTON, (6th) A. & S. HIGHRS'; Perth record office medal certificates (1921) and other family related period boklets

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1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals of '7389464 R.G.FEAR R.A.M.C.', his dog tag, cap badge, cloth shoulder titles, a RAMC enamelled brooch, an Isaac Pitman Centenary 1813-1913 bronze medal in fitted box, and a large quantity of period military and civilian photographs and documents

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1914-18 British War and Victory Medals, with bronze death plaque, named to '38164 PTE. R.(ROBERT) DITCHBURN. NORTH'N.R.', his dog tag, and a 1914-18 British War Medal named to '2. LIEUT. R.McFADZEAN.'. Note : Family related medals

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The Confectioners Bakers And Allied Trades Exhibition London, three nine carat gold medals, engraved to the reverse 'ALVA CO-OP. BAZAAR SOC.LTD. ALVA 1928', WEST CALDER CO-OP. SOC.LTD WEST CALDER 1932', and similar but '1939', a similar silver medal '1934', and three similar bronze medals '1932', '1933', and 'ALVA 1929', all in Mappin & Webb fitted boxes and with various Prize certificates

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1914-18 British War and Victory Medals, with bronze death plaque, named to '2.LIEUT. D.(DUGALD) MCARTHUR', in period frame and under glass, and a cased group of miniature medals-1914-18 British War and Victory, and two Belgian Orders

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Glasgow Military Tournament 1892 bronze medal, and a Provincial Lodge of Glasgow Bi-Centenary 1739-1939 Medal, maker marked 'KENNING GLASGOW', with ribbon

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Five bronze medals, named to 'Archibald H. R. Goldie' from St. Andrews University 1906-1908 for Mathematics and Philosophy Note: see lot 177

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WWI bronze death plaque, named to 'ERNEST JAMES HARLAND'

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1914-18 British War and Victory Medals, with bronze death plaque, named to '6572 PTE.J.H.(JOHN HUNTER) BODEN. R.HIGHRS.', two military portrait photographs and a Royal Commemorative medal

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The 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with '8TH ARMY' clasp, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals of '10546130 L/Cpl. David Symon Heron', RAOC/REME, his dog tags and cap badges, an enamelled Belgian award, various badges, insignia and similar items, photographs, postcards, documents, and a WWI bronze death plaque named to 'JOHN SYMON'

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La Pause, a bronze sculpture of a seated French WWI soldier eating by Maurice Guiraud Riviere, signed and inscribed 'La Pause', foundry mark and signed for 'Susse Freres Editeurs, Paris', 16cm high

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Pair of bronze French Empire circular Plates, each cast with a classical scene, within a castellated border of grapes and vines, 22cms, (8½")

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Austrian cold painted bronze Paperweight, formed as a spaniel holding a grouse

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19th Century French finely cast bronze Model of bull, standing on an oval base, impressed, "Rosa B", 28cms, (11")

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Georgian mahogany Table Waiter of rectangular form, fitted with a drawer to one end, with bun handle and tray to the other, on four bronze wheels, three stamped "George the Third, T.Bullock, Prince's Patent", 51cms, (20")

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A bronze boiler plate, cast with 'Boiler 5 Clyde Lectramek Automatic Soot Blowing System', overall length approx 127cm.

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An Essex Motor Club Brooklands 1927 6 hours endurance race competitor plaque for B. Eyston, a bronze Junior Car Club plaque award for 6th place in the 1926 Brooklands 200 mile race and a similar plaque award for 8th place 1928, both awarded to B. Eyston, in their Elkington cases, together with Voitures Automobiles, 1899, Sir Malcolm Campbell's Book of Famous Motorists and a Letts Route Book.

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A velocipede, circa 1860s, with iron frame, spoked wooden wheels with steel hollow section rims and bronze hub discs, and adjustable steel saddle pan (part-restored, tyres and some other parts missing). (See illustration)

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A Bronze Group, of a Bacchante and fawn, on a marble base, 66 cm

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