We found 81449 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 81449 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
81449 item(s)/page
Lot 38
A collection of silver and other items, including an Art Deco silver and enamelled hand mirror and hair brush, a small silver mesh purse, two further purses, three thimbles in a stamp box, a cigarett box, a pair of silver napkin rings and two other silver napkin rings, one boxed, a Georgian silver tea caddy, an ornate silver spoon and two forks (19)
Lot 135
A regency tortoiseshell tea caddy, of fluted rectangular form, the hinged top concealing two lidded compartments, on a flared apron and bun feet, 15.5cm wideSome small losses to tortoiseshell on flared apron. One section of apron to reverse is restuck. Some typical minor surface wear throughout.
Lot 339
A Victorian silver sifting spoon, with bead edge, London 1862, weight 1oz, together with a Berthold Muller Dutch import silver caddy spoon, with embossed decoration, an S Mordan silver propelling pencil, set with a citrine and having three sliders, and a Victorian silver plated toasting fork
Lot 109
A fine George III mahogany cistern tube stick barometer with hygrometer or Triple Weather Glass, by Benjamin Martin, London, circa 1760, the arched top case with leaf carved surround for the inset herringbone border engraved vernier scale with arched hygrometer scale above Fahrenheit and Reaumur mercury thermometer and signed B. Martin, London , the caddy moulded trunk with scroll carved edges to throat and exposed tube above hemispherical cistern cover mounted onto the scroll edged rounded base, 93cm high, 10.5cm wide, 4cm, deep Provenance: The Edwin Banfield Collection of Barometers, Dreweatts, Donnington Priory, Newbury, 4th September 2007, lot 62. Literature: Illustrated in Banfield, Edwin ºROMETERS, Stick or Cistern Tube' (Baros Books, Trowbridge, 1985) pages 58-59. Benjamin Martin worked 1756-82 and was a prolific writer on the subjects of science, art and instruments who launched a monthly magazine entitled 'General magazine of the Arts and Sciences' in 1755. He is thought to have been the first maker to incorporate a hygrometer into a barometer with thermometer and marketed the instrument as a 'Triple Weather Glass'. The hygrometer utilises a length of gut (which expands and contracts with variations in humidity) linked to a rack and pulley rather than the simple oat beard found on later instruments.
Loading...-
81449 item(s)/page