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Lot 136
A Victorian silver cased small desk timepiece J.W. Benson, London, 1890The French eight-day movement with silvered backplate and gilt platform lever escapement, the circular white enamel dial with vertical Arabic hour numerals and blued steel spade hands set behind a convex glass within moulded bezel, the rectangular case surmounted with an Indian style onion dome decorated with scroll cast and chased band to outer edge, over conforming foliate decoration within panels to the top, sides and around the dial, the front apron with rosette centred anthemion cast motif and the rear with plain door, on reeded bun feet, Hallmarks for London 1890 and inscribed J.W. BENSON, LONDON, FRENCH WORKS to underside, 8.5cm (3.375ins) high; with original shaped red leather covered carrying case with twin hinged panels to front each gilt inscribed with repeat retail signature to the blue silk lined inside surfaces. Provenance: The beneficiary of the Estate of a private collector, East Midlands. The firm of James William Benson were in business from 1854 until 1973 and are recorded as working at 62 & 64 Ludgate Hill, London with a retail outlet at West End House, 25, Old Bond Street. An advert of theirs in the Illustrated London News of the 13th of December 1884 shows a printed view of their 'Steam Room' and 'Mezanine'. The business traded as J.W. Benson from 1856 and was continued by James Benson's sons James, Alfred and Arthur after his death in 1878; in 1891 the firm became a limited company.
Lot 20
A collection of aneroid barometers and in varying states of repairVarious makers, late 19th and early 20th centuryComprising two gilt brass cased pocket barometers signed Negretti & Zambra, LONDON numbers 2371 and 5378; a similar silver-cased pocket barometer with altimeter scale, unsigned, marked for London 1893 makers JS&S; a French nickel finish combination barometer with altimeter, thermometer and compass, unsigned; a brass barometer with altimeter scale inscribed TAMAYA & CO., TOKYO, 821; an oxidised brass surveyor's barometer with altimeter scale signed F. Darton & Co., London; a silver plated desk barometer signed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON, 10131; an unusual brass aneroid WEATHER INDICATOR with external lever for calibration and annotated for winter weather conditions, diameters 13.5cm (5.25ins) and smaller, together with a rare brass desk weather forecaster signed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON with circular scale incorporating adjustments for DIRECTION OF WIND and barometric pressure providing response in the form of a letter key over slot for the corresponding forecast adjusted via knurled knob to the side, 14cm (5.5ins) high, and an unusual gilt brass pocket hygrometer also by NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON with paper scale in pocket-watch type case, diameter 3cm (1.375ins), (10). The Negretti & Zambra weather forecaster in the current lot is based upon their design patented in 1915 which was developed using actual weather conditions over a ten year period. By setting the wind direction and lining up the central disc for the current barometer reading, a key in the form of a letter appearing within the appropriate aperture in the centre of the disc (which takes into account whether the pressure has been rising, falling or remaining steady) can be obtained. This key can then be translated into a 'forecast' by lining up the letter in adjustable the slot below.
Lot 102
* Cartographers. A collection of thirteen portraits of cartographers, 16th - 19th century, including Galle (Philip). Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orben, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium, Antwerp, circa 1595, hand coloured portrait of Abraham Ortelius, slight spotting to margins, 325 x 220 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Westermayr (C.). Nicol. Sanson, D. F. Sotzman, Joh. Bapt. Homann, Guillaume de L'Isle, Alex Hub. Jaillot, Edme Mentelle [and] Gerhard Merkator, circa 1800, seven uncoloured engraved oval portraits with title and birth and death dates below image, each approximately 135 x 85 mm, with Munster (Sebastian). Untitled portrait, circa 1550, uncoloured woodblock potrait of Munster seated at a desk holding a quill and paper, Latin text to the right hand side below and on verso, image size 120 x 100 mm, plus Vinkeles (R.). Petrus Pancius [and] Gerardus Mercator, 1790, pair of hand coloured portraits after J. Buys, each 150 x 90 mm, with Hubert (Francois). Mathieu Merian..., circa 1750, uncoloured engraved portrait, trimmed to plate mark and laid on later paper, 135 x 90 mm (Qty: 13)NOTESThe first described item is the most famous portrait of Ortelius and appeared in the 1579 edition of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', the first modern Atlas.The text below the image translates as 'By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world, by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, p.14.
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