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A group of desk accessories and treen etc, including a tartanware card game counter in Lorne tartan (Dukes of Argyll); a pocket barometer; a steel seal matrix the motto "Frangas Non Flectas" (Barrett family (?)); various lenses and magnifying glasses including three small tortoiseshell examples; a fish corkscrew; treen letter openers and a knitting needle case (various)
A collection of silver and silver plated items etc, including a Victorian christening spoon, a pair of Georgian bright-cut sugar tongs, a pair of Exeter mustard spoons and a continental enamelled spoon. 3.44 ozt. Together with a quantity of cutlery, ladle, serving spoons, some variously crested, marked and monogrammed, bone handles knives etc, a vintage billiard cue tipper, a late 19th Century James Heeley patent corkscrew. Etc. (A lot)
Boer War Interest South African Horn Corkscrew, carved to the horn handle ‘7965 G Co R.C.R 1899’ to the edge is carved ‘597 2nd C.M.R 1900’. Steel corkscrew with some surface rusting, light cracking to the horn but generally good example. This corkscrew was fashioned by Canadian trooper, John A McLeod who volunteered to fight in the Boer War, first serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment in 1899 until invalided home in March 1900. He then re-enlisted and was sent back to South Africa in January 1902 with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles.
â—‰ A LARGE MULTI-BLADED COACHKNIFE FOR EXHIBITON, GEORGE WOSTENHOLM & SONS, SHEFFIELD, LATE 19TH CENTURY with thirty two finely polished folding blades and implements, including files, screwdriver, button hook, gimlet borer, corkscrew, ivory budding blade, saw, comb and scissors, the spatula blade engraved ‘Geo. Wostenholm & Sons, Sole Manufacturers of the Real I.XLCutlery’ on a scroll, clip-point blade engraved ‘none are genuine but those marked I.XL’ above a scroll and spearpoint blade stamped ‘Oil the joints’, a pair of ivory scales retained by four rivets (small age cracks), German silver loop, and five accompanying implements comprising German silver tweezers, fork ‘Rustless Ruler’ signed ‘Chesterman, Sheffield no. 891’, tortoiseshell-mounted silver picks and fleams, 19.0 cm (closed) ProvenanceDavid Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) LiteratureDavid Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p.81. It is likely that the founder was George Wolstenholme (1775-1833), a fork maker at Thomas Lane. Apprenticed to John Micklethwaite, a cutler, in 1790 and granted his Freedom in 1799, George later moved to Broad Lane where he made spring knives. He was first listed in a Sheffield directory in 1816 as a pen and pocket knife manufacturer at Rockingham Street, where he had registered a silver mark in 1809. His workshops expanded to become Rockingham Works and he apparently shortened his name to ‘Wostenholm’ to facilitate its stamping on blades. His son, George Wostenholm (1802-1876) was apprenticed to his father and they are described in 1825 as ‘George Wolstenholme & Son, manufacturers of table knives, and forks, pen, pocket, and sportsman’s knives, and general dealers in cutlery, 78 Rockingham Street’. George Wostenholm became a Freeman in 1826, a practical cutler and a dynamic salesman he found scope for his prodigious energy in America where, in 1830, the father and son launched a partnership with William Stenton, an experienced cutlery merchant. However, this did not last and the partnership was dissolved the following year when they were also granted their trademark ‘I*XL. ‘, bought by George Senior in 1826 and originally granted to William Aldam Smith in 1787. In 1833 George Senior died and the business continued under his son who opened a New York office in 1844, and by the middle of the century had agents in Philadelphia and Boston. America was the ideal market with its expanding frontier and enormous demand for folding knives, razors, and weapons. The firm’s trade became almost exclusively American and Wostenholm made little attempt to nurture other markets. In 1848 the Washington Works was acquired and American orders continued to roll in. The workforce increased significantly to 850 in 1861, having been around a hundred or so in the1830s. At the Great Exhibition in 1851 Wostenholm displayed a set of ornate sheath knives, including one commissioned from the well-known artist Alfred Stevens. The company also displayed a collection of exhibition multi-blades. The display won a Prize Medal for Wostenholm. The firm also carried off prize medals at exhibitions in Paris (1855) and London (1862). George Wostenholm had remarkable stamina. In early 1869, in his late sixties, he set off for a tour of Europe and in October the same year he made another trip to New York. In 1872, he again visited New York. He was active until the end, though he sold out to his business associates in 1875, when Wostenholm’s became a limited liability company. George Wostenholm died in 1876, aged 74 and left a remarkable fortune of nearly £250,000. The new company chairman and directors had little or no experience of the cutlery trade. Initially, Wostenholm’s continued to make good profit but the McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised the duties on their American exports to unprecedented heights and caused a crisis. Wostenholm’s refused to abandon the American trade and maintained an unprofitable New York office open until the early 1930s while tey had little success breaking into the Australian and other markets. In the early 20th century they opposed machine technology and consequently were in decline a decade before the First World War. This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number IF3D6KY9.
A group of silver and metalware. Various dates and makers. The group comprising: a silver caster, Birmingham, 1914, Mappin & Webb, of octagonal baluster form, 16.5cm high; a pair of silver ashtrays, Birmingham, 1938, William Neale & Son; an Irish Victorian silver pepper with associated cap, Dublin, 1855, HF, 7.2cm high; an Edwardian silver mounted calendar, Birmingham, 1904, maker's mark rubbed, 8.2cm wide, 4.6cm high; a silver pepper mill, Birmingham, 1973, with bicentenary mark, 9.5cm high; an oval Victorian silver squeeze action snuff box (damaged), Birmingham, 1895, Hilliard & Thomason; a Swedish silver spoon with shell bowl, two silver coffee spoons, a plated teaspoon, and a plated metal pheasant corkscrew, total weighable silver approx. 11.1ozt (a lot)
A collection of Victorian collectables, to include two cold-painted bronzes, a frog with symbols sitting upon a toadstool 4cm high, 'Captain Cuttle' 7.5cm high, a white metal mouse pin cushion 7.5cm long, a silver articulated fish 8.5cm long, a miser purse 9cm long, a small corkscrew 4cm long, a white metal Albert chain, a white metal tamper in the form of a leg 5cm, together with a silver figural group 5.5cm wide, and two portraits on glass largest 9cm high1.31ozt weighable (11)
A collection of corkscrews comprising two examples formed as legs, largest 8.5cm, a 'Zig Zag ' example, 15.5cm long, a concertina 'Perfect' corkscrew, 20.5cm long, a similar example, stamped 'Debouchtout', and six further examplesand an antler handled a manche a gigot22.5cm long (12)Condition ReportKnocks, wear and scratches throughout. Some losses. Loose joints.
An 20th century German novelty legs corkscrew with pink and white stockings, 6.5cm long together with three 20th century German novelty folding knives stamped, Gesetzlich, H.C. Superior and A.B.C. each with stripy stockings, 7cm long, a smaller folding knife with blue and white stripy stockings, two 20th century coloured bakelite shoe folding knives, 5cm and 3.5cm long and one other folding knife. Further information; the outer cases appear to be in good overall condition; the green and turquoise folding knife doesn't sit flush in the handle, the green and cream folding knife doesn't sit flush in the handle, the shoe folding knives good overall condition, some of the blades are tarnished and blunt.
Crystal figural is part of the Barnyard Friends collection. He has jet crystal button eyes, flat crystal nose and rhodium corkscrew tail. Swarovski backstamp. 7657 027 000. This item has its original box: 2.5"H x 3.25" dia. Artist: Max SchreckIssued: 1982 - 2007Dimensions: 0.75"L x 1"W x 1.25"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.
A rare miniature silver chatelaine for a doll, probably Dutch, 18th Century, the mount with engraved and loop pierced hook to five chains linked by a bar to five further chains, two chains securing a pair of scissors, the other three a pen knife with folding blade and corkscrew with mother of pearl scales (one part lacking), a seal engraved with cupid kneeling before a pillar topped with a heart and inscribed (++++ A Doree), and a mace form needle and thimble case complete with original thimble, 11.5cms max., the scissors 3.6cms. From the collection of Ann Wick
Two good 'Lynn' opaque twist wine glasses, circa 1765One with a generous round funnel bowl moulded with two concentric rings, the double-series stem with a central lace twist within a pair of four-ply spiral bands, over a folded conical foot, 16.4cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl moulded with six concentric rings, the double-series stem with a pair of four-ply spiral bands around a central corkscrew, on an unusual terraced foot, 14.3cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceHamilton Clements Collection (shorter)Oscar Dusendschon Collection (shorter)Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 24 June 1968, lot 784 (shorter)Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 195 (shorter)Christie's, 11 December 2002, lot 99 (taller)Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl finely gilded with a so-called 'Grubbe' border of trellis and scrolls, scattered sprigs of flowers to the lower part, with a gilt-line rim, on an opaque twist stem with a multi-ply corkscrew encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 15 June 2001Bayreuth CollectionThis border is of the type which led to the firm attribution of Giles's work on glass, as it is the same as that found on one of the four so-called Worcester porcelain 'Grubbe' plates in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.877-1935). The plates came through direct descendants of Giles and so are known to be his work, see Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles: China and Glass Painter (2005), Chapter 2 for a detailed discussion. A wine glass with a round funnel bowl gilded with the same 'Grubbe' border was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 90 which is illustrated alongside an identical glass by Delomosne and Son, The Seton Veitch Collection of Early English Drinking Glasses (2006), no.46.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An interesting engraved opaque twist betrothal or marriage cordial glass of Irish interest, dated 1764 and 1765The round funnel bowl moulded with fine flutes to the lower part, inscribed below the rim in diamond-point script 'Thomas Spring Janry, 20th, 1765. Jane Maunsell October 1764/ T. S. Jane Spring December the 20th 1764. Beauti ter & amplius/ Quos irrupta tenet copula', the double-series stem with a pair of heavy opaque white corkscrew tapes within a fifteen-ply spiral band, over a domed foot, 17.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceParkington Collection, Christie's, 16 October 1997, lot 1Bayreuth CollectionThomas Spring (1735-1766) was born in Ballycrispin near Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland. He married Jane Maunsell (1744-1782) in St John in Limerick, on 20 December 1764. The Latin inscription roughly translates as 'Blessed thrice and more are those whose unbroken bond holds'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare blue colour twist firing glass, circa 1770The ovoid bowl set on a double-series stem with an unusual opaque white solid tubular corkscrew edged in translucent blue, encircled by a seven-ply spiral band comprising five fine white threads flanked by a pair of heavier threads, over a heavy conical foot, 9.9cm highFootnotes:Only a small number of firing glasses with colour twist stems are recorded, most with trumpet bowls. An identical glass from the Julius and Ann Kaplan Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 55 and another by Bonhams on 23 June 2023, lot 113, both with the same unusual tubular corkscrew.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare red and blue colour twist ale flute, circa 1765The tall round funnel bowl set on a stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew entwined by single translucent cobalt-blue and single ruby-red spiral threads, over a conical foot, 19.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 17 November 1992Leuba CollectionA very similar ale glass from the Commander A P Barrow-Green Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 May 2014, lot 62.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A remarkable deceptive opaque twist ratafia glass, circa 1770,The tall thick-walled ogee bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white corkscrew threads within a pair of seven-ply spiral bands, over a thick conical foot, 18.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceLt-General Sir Otway Herbert Collection, Sotheby's, 6 November 1956, lot 5Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 504Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 210Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureSidney Crompton, English Glass (1968), pl.115No other ratafia glass with a deceptive bowl would appear to be recorded.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a slender stem containing a well-formed opaque white corkscrew edged on both sides in translucent ruby-red, alternating with a pair of opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceHarvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 217Bayreuth CollectionA very similar glass but instead with a round funnel bowl was sold by Bonhams as part of the Leuba Collection on 13 December 2023, lot 129.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Giles gilded opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765-70Decorated in the London workshop of James Giles, the round funnel bowl decorated with a spray of flowers and scattered floral sprigs beneath a gilt-line rim, the double-series stem with a pair of opaque white corkscrew tapes within a multi-ply spiral band, over a conical foot, 14.4cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare Beilby enamelled opaque twist goblet, circa 1765The generous bucket bowl finely painted in opaque white with three diaper lattice panels within elaborate scrollwork borders pendant from the rim, raised on a double-series stem containing a pair of heavy opaque white spiral threads around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a conical foot, 17.3cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceChris Crabtree Collection, Bonhams, 19 May 2010, lot 27Property of a GentlemanLiteratureGeoffrey Wills, Antique Glass for Pleasure and Investment (1971), p.21L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.344, no.1123The decoration on this fine goblet relates closely to the diaper panels on a on an armorial punchbowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.43-1942) which is signed by Beilby and dated 1765. An identical goblet from the Walter F Smith Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 4 December 1967, lot 215. Compare also to the wine glass with very similar diaper panels sold by Bonhams on 13 December 2023, lot 115.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An exceptional yellow and blue colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a single-series stem containing three spiral gauzes in canary-yellow, pale blue and opaque white, over a conical foot, 15.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, 10 February 1986, lot 126With Delomosne and Son, 10 February 1986Leuba CollectionThe combination of yellow and blue in a single stem is very rarely seen, canary-yellow being the rarest of all colour twist threads. The colour combination in the stem of the present lot is paralleled by a handful of glasses with multi-ply corkscrew stems in yellow, blue and opaque white, including one from the collection of A C Hubbard Jr sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 212 and one from the collection of Julius and Ann Kaplan sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2017, lot 51. See also the ale glass sold by Bonhams on 13 December 2023, lot 171.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A red and green colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The small bell bowl on a stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew edged on both sides with translucent emerald-green, encircled by alternating opaque iron-red and opaque white spiral threads, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An early ale flute and a rare opaque twist ratafia glass, mid-18th centuryThe ale with a trumpet bowl with fine wrythen moulding, on a plain stem and folded conical foot, 19.3cm high, the ratafia with a very slender tall conical bowl moulded with fine flutes, on a double-series stem containing a pair of opaque white spiral tapes around a multi-ply corkscrew, over a folded conical foot, 19cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenancePeter Lazarus Collection (ale)Sotheby's, 18 December 1997, lot 142 (ratafia)Henry Fox Collection, Bonhams, 2 June 2004, lot 7 (ale)Bayreuth CollectionA very similar ale glass is illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.78d. It is very rare to find a folded foot on an opaque twist ratafia glass.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two engraved opaque twist firing glasses, circa 1765One with an ogee bowl decorated with a daffodil spray, a floral sprig to the reverse, the double-series stem containing a multi-ply corkscrew within a pair of opaque white spiral ribbons, over a heavy conical foot, 10.7cm high, the other with a conical bowl decorated with a peacock to one side, a stag's head to the other, the short stem containing a lace twist entwined with a pair of spiral threads, over a terraced foot, 9cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Delomosne and Son, 21 May 2006 (taller)Leuba CollectionFor a firing glass with similar engraving of a peacock and stag's head, see that from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 130.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A red and green colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a stem containing an opaque white corkscrew edged in translucent emerald-green on the outside and translucent ruby-red on the inside, the coloured ribbon alternating with an opaque white spiral gauze, over a conical foot, 14.8cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceE Cecil Kny Collection, Sotheby's, 16 April, 1948, lot 67Walter F Smith Collection, Sotheby's, 18 March 1968, lot 514Harvey's Wine Museum, Bonhams, 1 October 2003, lot 220Bayreuth CollectionLiteratureGrant Francis, Old English Drinking Glasses (1926), pl.XXI, no.144For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A red colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl on a stem containing a central translucent ruby-red corkscrew edged by a pair of opaque white multi-ply corkscrew tapes, all within a pair of five-ply spiral bands, over a conical foot, 14cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePhillips, 8 March 2000, lot 21Bayreuth CollectionFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare red and green colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl moulded with eight evenly spaced vertical ribs, on a stem containing a heavy opaque white corkscrew ended on the inside in translucent ruby-red and the outside in translucent emerald-green, entwined with an opaque white spiral gauze, over a conical foot, 14.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceAlexander CollectionWith Asprey, 3 October 1986Leuba CollectionExhibitedAsprey, '100 British Glasses', 1985, catalogue pp.24-5, no.32This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO, ONOTO THE PEN, FOUNTAIN PEN, screw cap, the nib marked 14k, with original box, with further items including a Zippo letter opener (boxed), a novelty ram's head corkscrew, a group of mid century watercolour postcards, a mahogany box with set of Staunton style wooden chess pieces, a boxed diecast model car, and a tobacco tin with four assorted badgesthe pen - 13cm long32 pieces, Queen damaged, one replacement pawn. King 6.5 cm high. More images now online.

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