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Click here to subscribeA small group of gentlemen's vintage dress watches, manufacturers including Longines and Tissot, also a single WWI War Medal awarded to 289375 W.Stewart STO. 1. R.N. (af) and further commemorative crowns.Additional InformationMedal has been holed, mount replaced, heavily worn. None of the timepieces tested, no guarantee of working order, some of these also very heavily worn.
An Elizabeth II Royal Naval dress sword, the blade with etched detail and Wilkinson Sword Co Ltd London mark to base, blade length 79cm, with copper and brass hilt to wire work shagreen grip and a shorter George VI example, both in brass mounted leather scabbards (2).Provenance: The Great Stromboli.
MEISSEN; a pair of mid-19th century shuttlecock players, each with blue painted crossed swords mark to base and incised numbers, height approx 16.5cm. Provenance: from a private Worcestershire collection, purchased from Burnley Antiques and Fine Arts Ltd in 1981.Additional InformationHaving inspected both figures rigorously under a UV light, we cannot find any restoration which is remarkable given the delicate nature of these figures. Some very minor losses to the lace work on her elaborate dress and some minor rubbing to the gilding but overall in excellent condition.
VOLKSTEDT; a pair of German porcelain figural candlesticks modelled as lady and gentleman in elaborate dress with painted floral detail standing before columns modelled as tree trunks with applied flowers and leaves, both marked to bases, height of slightly taller 32cm.Additional InformationSome chips and losses to the flowers, probable restoration to lady's right hand and forearm, the tip of the little finger on the right hand has been broken off, some visible firing cracks especially to the flowers, some rubbing to the painted detail, rubbing to gilding, both with visible glue or binding agent between tip of column and candle receptacle although probably present from manufacture, some pitting, inclusions, etc, please refer to illustrations and request additional if necessary.
MEISSEN; a mid-18th century figure of a female singer from the Gallant Orchestra of The Dresden Opera, modelled by JJ Kändler, circa 1750, blue painted marks to back base of figure, height 14cm. Provenance: from a private Worcestershire collection, purchased from Adams Antiques 1993.Additional InformationSome areas of restoration to her hat, music score, right hand and tip of left foot, also to the fold in the lower part of her dress. General scuffing to the raised parts of her dress and to the gilt heightening.
SPANISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A YOUTH IN 16TH CENTURY DRESS bust length, indistinctly signed (upper left), oil on canvas, 49 x 39cm++Lined with retouching/over painting in the earlier or mid 20th c. Medium slightly unstable with several small pin head sized spots of flaking lower left, localised craqueleur, pigments dark in passages, in good quality ornate late 19th c giltwood and composition frame
EMILY M PEYTON (EXH 1903-1911) CECIL NONA KERR in a white dress and pearl necklace, signed, ivory, oval, 6.5 x 5.3cm, giltmetal frame Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1905, No 1101. The sitter was the daughter of Admiral Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr, youngest son of the 6th Marquess of Lothian by his second wife. Cecil Nona Kerr (1875-1960) married in 1915 Col Richard Crichton. She was Lady-in-Waiting to the Marchioness of Milford Haven.++Slightly loose in the frame and somewhat dusty under the glass, not cracked or rubbed
A small collection of jewellery, comprising: a 9ct gold and smoky quartz-set dress ring, the cushion-cut smoky quartz, claw-set, in a mount detailed '9ct', ring size K ½, 6g gross, a pair of smoky quartz pendant earrings, suspending circular-cut quartz pendants; a gold and silver cultured pearl brooch of abstract flower spray design, and a single row of graduated cultured pearls, suspended from a marcasite set silver clasp (4).
A 19th century yellow precious metal mourning ring, set with a plaited hair compartment, within a half-pearl border and three half pearls set to the shoulders, ring size L, 2.2g gross, a closed back mourning brooch, of oval design, with glazed hair compartment, within a half pearl border, 3.3g gross, and a turquoise set dress ring, in a foliate scroll mount, ring size N, 2.9g gross. (3).
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