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Click here to subscribeJames II (1685-1691), Gunmoney coinage, Halfcrown, 1690 May:, Limerick, large size, y with straight tail, 13.59g/12h (Withers 4/5; S 6579N). Obverse with cabinet friction, fine, reverse better, scarce £80-£100 --- Provenance: B. Allen Collection, Part III, DNW Auction 152, 14-15 November 2018, lot 852 (part) [from J. Hardiman February 1997]
IN THE MANNER OF GILLOW, A SUPERB BURR WALNUT, ORMOLU AND MARBLE BREAKFRONT SIDE CABINET, the centre section with a well carved frieze over a pair of glazed doors, flanked by concave glazed sides, with a pedestal to each end, having a small drawer with well carved mask and foliate fronts, above glazed cabinet door, all supported on a plinth base. 8ft 8ins long x 4ft 4ins high x 1ft 3ins deep.
Shapland and Petter, Barnstaple, an Arts and Crafts mahogany and copper bookcase cabinet, circa 1905, projecting moulded cornice above a cavetto copper frieze with the repousse motto 'Reading Maketh a Full Man', above triple leaded and glazed doors opening to leather trimmed height adjustable shelving, serpentine top over a central display void and drawer, flanked by linenfold cupboards either side with extended copper hinges, each with an internal drawer, one with a revolving and retractable wine rack, raised on square supports, lockplates stamped S&P, height 212cm, width 157cm, depth 56cm
Five assorted 19th Century and later study furnishing colour prints, to include Rolfe's Angling Sketches - Not Long Caught' after J. West, Vanity Fair Supplement 'A General Group', Vanity Fair Winter Number 'Newmarket - Tattersall's 1887', Vanity Fair 'The Winning Post' and Vanity Fair 'The Cabinet Council 1883', largest 36 by 50cm, all framed (5)
East India, a bundle of a family's ephemera, comprising photographs, letters, and post, including a typical late 19th century tourist's snapshots of Rome and other Italian sights; a family portrait taken in India, complete with native attendants, landscape cabinet card; manuscript correspondence, including an East India Post Card, addressed to Mr Anderson Powell's New **** Hotel, ****, Punjab, inscribed and dated to verso 17th ***, 188*; an envelope cover addressed to Mrs M Anderson, The Grand Hotel, Kasauli, Punjab, India; etc., [archive collection]
Local Interest - The Nightingale Family and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire & Lead Mining - an extensive collection of deeds, indentures, accounts, abstracts, settlements, receipts and other material, mainly relating to the Nightingale family?s Lea Hurst estate, some going back to Peter Nightingale of Lea late 18th century (including an assessments of the encumbrances on the estate 1889 including one of £20,000 to yield £2,000 p. a. to Florence Nightingale), also to lead mining and canal interests at Lea and Cromford, mainly 19th and early 20th centuries, including lease of the Bridge Inn, Duffield Bridge 1911 with other papers relating to Duffield, maps relating to proposed sale of land from Kedleston estate 1930, and of Stanedge and Hallam Moors by the Duke of Norfolk, 1897, various papers relating to conveyances and inheritances in Lea village, deeds and copies of deeds relating to lead mining interests of the Allsop, Wass & Nightingale families, others relating to the sale of land at Lea and Cromford to the Midland Railway, correspondence to and from James Smith & Sons, Darley Dale Nurseries, 1930, and a considerable amount of legal documents relating to the conveyance of Lea Hurst land to the Matlock, Belper and Ilkeston water undertakings, late 19th/early 20th centuries, (qty); Apprentice indentures, not all local in origin: a quantity of mainly vellum apprentice indentures covering the years 1807-1925, including the trades of blacksmith, bricklayer, cabinet maker, carpenter, joiner and builder, collier, cordwainer, frame-smith, glover, horse handler, iron moulder, lighterman, pattern-maker (to Matthew Kirtley, Midland Railway at Derby), shoemaker, skinner, wagon riveter (for the Great Western Railway at Swindon) and wheelwright. Also, the apprenticeship indenture of Richard Waite (1845-1925) to Henry Isaac Stevens of Derby, 1866 (21), [suitcase, collection]
The Verner Family, a late Victorian family album of correspondence, dated from 1868 to 1888, occasionally embellished with ink manuscript diary notes, some photographic carte de visites and cabinet cards, baptism certificate for Wilfried (dated 1863), some other ephemera, their lives mainly centred in and around London and the Home Counties (Wilfrid, for example, is employed at the Western Board of the Bank of England), one or two letters from a Parisian hotel, though the epistles are of no great moment, they are a chatty, lively, informal conversation between family members that evidently got along well, contemporary vellum, gilt clasp, 8vo, [1]
Binding - an early 19th century French Directoire red morocco print-collector's album, three-quarters of which is illustrated with uniform contemporary cabinet engravings of earlier Old Masters, the leaves of which are 'framed' and ruled in black ink, the covers outlined and tooled with a foliate roll, the angles with sunburst spandrels, the spine with Adamesque paterae in ruled compartments, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, folio (36cm x 27cm), [1]
A late Victorian/early Edwardian middle-class family's photograph album, mostly illustrated with informal family groups, British topography - some photographic prints, occasional interiors, etc., disbound red cloth, oblong 8vo, (1); a mid-Victorian family photograph album, partially-illustrated with cabinet cards and carte-de-visites, all of which are annotated with the portraits' identity and inscribed with their origins - mostly North-West England, including Liverpool, Manchester, and Cheshire, frequent clergymen and other people of typical respectability, disbound, 4to, (1); a 1930s album of family snapshots, (1), [3]
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