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Lot 195
A Late 19th Century French Pompier's Kepi, circa 1870, in black wool with red piping, black velvet centreband embroidered with crossed axes and flaming grenade in red, with black patent leather visor, leather sweatband, black cloth lining with maker's paper label; three French Medals:- a Union des Femmes de France nurse's medal, an 1864-1866 Red Cross Medal and a Colonial Medal with clasp MAROC 1925; also, a cabinet card and two carte de visites showing French soldiers (7)
Lot 444
Sir William Hamilton (British 1730-1803), three various hand coloured engravings from Hamilton's Collection Of Etruscan, Greek, And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet Of The Honble. Wm. Hamilton His Britannick Maiesty's Envoy Extraordinary At The Court Of Naples, published in English and French in Naples, 1766; mounted, framed and glazed, the largest 37.5cm high, 44cm wide overall Plates include 43 (a comic actor carrying torches), 77 (scene with draped men, one holding a Phrygian cap) and 112 (Vulcan presenting arms to Thetis)
Lot 304
A 19thC papier mache table sewing cabinet, profusely decorated with gilt highlighted mother of pearl flowers to all sides, the shaped domed lid revealing a fully fitted interior, set with various mother of pearl darning implements, boxes, jewellery cases, velvet topped compartments and other sewing aides, the front opening to reveal further drawers, on a serpentine base, with further gilt highlights, Charles Nephew & Co Calcutta retailer's label, 31cm H, 35cm W, 28cm D.
Lot 467
A late Victorian aesthetic movement light ash wardrobe compactum and dressing table by Shapland & Petter, the wardrobe having centre moulded cornice and gallery sides, the central fitted mirror door having press drawers over three solid and flanked by rosette and moulded panel doors with period brass handles, the dressing tables having a dentil moulded mirror with bevel plate, side drawers with wrythen taper supports, line scored decoration and a combination of drawers and platform base, stamped S&P of Barnstaple to the locks, the wardrobe 220cm H, 186cm W, 53cm D, the dressing table 137cm W.Henry Shapland had been apprenticed to a cabinet maker in Barnstaple, before travelling to America in 1851 to learn about a wave moulding machine. When back in England he was joined by Henry Petter. By 1888 the Raleigh Cabinet Works were employing hundreds of workers from Raleigh and the surrounding areas when on 5 March 1888 a fire destroyed the factory. The new factory was restarted at a new site on the River Taw, a former shipbuilding yard known as Bridge Wharf. Working together as Shapland and Petter they were to become one of the town's largest employers. They employed craftsmen but also used the most up-to-date machinery available for their products. Henry Shapland was a time-served cabinet maker and Henry Petter was an amazing salesman who found the market for their products.
Lot 473
A Victorian rosewood music cabinet, with brass gallery to the floral marquetry and string inlaid top, over a strung single door with bevel plate, with brass escutcheon, bracket feet and brass and ceramic casters, revealing a fitted interior, of shelves and compartments, with gilt leather fronts for Songs, Dance and Sacred, labelled to the back T. Wallis and Co, Holborn Circus, London.
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