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Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1925. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, octavo (spine

Dreweatt Neate Bristol Salerooms

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Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1925. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, octavo (spine head torn); Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, Second Series, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1932. Green cloth, inscribed 'Nelly Cecil / from / Virginia Woolf', octavo (spine punctured, without loss); Woolf, Virginia. The Moment and Other Essays, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1947. Crimson cloth, dustjacket, octavo (jacket fragmentary); and Woolf, Leonard & Strachey, James, eds. Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, first edition, Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, London 1956. Tan cloth, dustjacket, octavo, (4).

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Brettells Auctioneers & Valuers

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Five Bound First Editions By Batsford, Four with Pictorial Dust Jackets, Dartmouth, The English Country House, Heart of England, Legacy of England, South Eastern Surrey

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A Set of Four Beswick Foxhounds, First Version. No's. 941-4.

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Brettells Auctioneers & Valuers

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A Set of Four Beswick Foxhounds, First Version. No's. 941-4.

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A set of four coloured prints in oak frames The first steeple chase on record 38x47cm

Neales Nottingham

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A set of four coloured prints in oak frames The first steeple chase on record 38x47cm

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Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator) - The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The First e

Neales Nottingham

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Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator) - The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The First edition reprinted together with Fitzgeralds's Monk-Latin version now printed for the first time. Translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E.Denison Ross, intro by Charles Ganz & line engravings by John Buckland - Wright: London, Golden Cockeral Press, 1938, large paper edition, quartered velum over tan buckram, gilt design to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Bound by S & S London.

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Strawberry Hill Press (Publisher) - [Lucan] - M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii: [Tw

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Strawberry Hill Press (Publisher) - [Lucan] - M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia cum notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii: [Twickenham]: Strawberry-Hill, 1760, 4to, full brown calf, later reback with part original spine laid down, gilt. First state: with the second comma in line 8 in the notice to the reader (Ad Lectorem page), under the B in Burmannum. One of approximately 500 copies printed. Tombleson / Jeavons engraving of Strawberry Hill tipped onto frontis leaf. The civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.

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Kelmscott Press (Publisher) - Ruskin, John - The Nature of Gothic. A Chapter of the Stones of Venice: Kelmscott House, Hamme

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Kelmscott Press (Publisher) - Ruskin, John - The Nature of Gothic. A Chapter of the Stones of Venice: Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. Printed at the Kelmscott Press by William Morris with an introduction by William Morris, n/d [preface dated 1892] 8vo, stiff velum, 4 silk ties, one detached, numerous woodcut initials and some small engravings. Kelmscott header and footer.The first page of text is handsomely decorated.

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Hood, Thomas - The Comic Annual: London, Charles Tilt, 1832, 2nd edition, 12mo. Famous work issued yearly on humorous elemen

Neales Nottingham

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Hood, Thomas - The Comic Annual: London, Charles Tilt, 1832, 2nd edition, 12mo. Famous work issued yearly on humorous elements of life. Title page and frontis vignette engraving, illustrated with copious highly humorous woodcuts. Together with The New Comic Annual, being a similar but undated copy.[1830] The first piece is titled Falstaff s Festival Or The power Of Mirth. An Ode In Honor Of Comus. Illustrations by W. Brown. (2)

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Australia, extensive multi album collection mint and used, covers including First Airmail Service 1931, postal stationery, p

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Australia, extensive multi album collection mint and used, covers including First Airmail Service 1931, postal stationery, presentation packs

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A Second World War Mercantile Marine O.B.E. group to Chief Engineer G.B. Crossley, M.N., late A.O.C., comprising: Order of t

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A Second World War Mercantile Marine O.B.E. group to Chief Engineer G.B. Crossley, M.N., late A.O.C., comprising: Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), Civil Division, Officer's badge, type 2; 1914-15 Star (Amt. S.Sjt., A.O.C.); British War & Victory Medals (S.Sjt., A.O.C.); King's Commendation for Brave Conduct badges (2), first and last in case/box of issue, all mint state and seemingly unworn; together with a related newspaper cutting and Crossley's national identity card; also sold with the lot is a mounted Defence & War Medal pair attributed to Lieut. E.R. Heward, R.A., with miniatures, and a quantity of uniform insignia, mostly buttons. Chief Engineer Crossley, M.N. received the King's Commendation for his conduct during the sinking of the S.S. 'Mendoza' on 1st November 1942 (L.G. 11th Jan. 1944) and the O.B.E. whilst in the S.S. 'Menelaus' (L.G. 10th June 1944).

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Dee, Atkinson & Harrison

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A A Milne, When We Were Very Young, first edition 1924, illustrated by Ernest H Shepard

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Dee, Atkinson & Harrison

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A A Milne, Now We Are Six, first edition 1927, illustrated by Ernest H Shepard

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Dee, Atkinson & Harrison

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Queen Elizabeth II, a signed letter on Buckingham Palace notepaper "Many kind friends overseas sent me gifts of food at the time of my wedding. I want to distribute it as best I can and to share my good fortune with others. I therefore ask you to accept this parcel with my very best wishes - Elizabeth", framed, together with five First World War Oversea's Club certificates

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Szumowski, Peter (1954-) - Acrylic on canvas - First Date, signed and dated '87, 77cm x 103cm - A.R. - A.R.

Clevedon Salerooms

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Szumowski, Peter (1954-) - Acrylic on canvas - First Date, signed and dated '87, 77cm x 103cm - A.R. - A.R.

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Keys - Aylsham Salerooms

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A mixed Lot comprising: Two open face keyless Pocket Watches, the first unsigned, with 15 jewel movement to an Arabic enamel dial, with luminous markers, in a polished nickel case, with snap on back, marked with a broad arrow, over GS TP over M 82 9, the second Leonidas, the jewelled movement to a silvered Arabic dial with luminous markers and hands, with subsidiary seconds, in a polished case, with snap on back and marked with a broad arrow over GSTP, over T30065, over XX (2)

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Keys - Aylsham Salerooms

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A First World War issue leather cased, Prismatic Compass, Verners pattern, VIII, of typical patinated brass construction, with rotating disc and folding eye piece, and marked to the back with a broad arrow, over FL, over no 113037, over 1918, fitted in stitched leather case, dated 1916

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Duke's

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THOMAS HARDY: "Desperate Remedies”, First Edition, single volume, published Ward & Downey, 1889

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Duke's

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THOMAS HARDY: "Under the Greenwood Tree", First Edition, two volume edition bound as a library copy, published Tinsley Brothers, 1872

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Trumpet Major", First Edition in three volumes published Smith Elder & Co, 1880 (3).

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Trumpet Major", First Edition in three volumes published Smith Elder & Co, 1880 (3).

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Hand of Ethelberta", First Edition, rebound, published Smith Elder & Co, London, 1876, two volumes

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THOMAS HARDY "A Laodicean", First Edition, published, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1881, three volumes

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THOMAS HARDY: "Two on a Tower", First Edition, published Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, three volumes

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Mayor of Casterbridge", First Edition, published Smith Elder & Co., London 1886, rebound in calf with mar

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Mayor of Casterbridge", First Edition, published Smith Elder & Co., London 1886, rebound in calf with marbled boards two volumes See illustration

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Woodlanders", First Edition, in three volumes, published Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1887 (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Tess of the d’Urbervilles", first Edition in three volumes, published Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1891 (rebound) (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Wessex Tales", First Edition in two volumes, published Macmillan & Co, London & New York, 1888. See illustrat

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THOMAS HARDY: "Wessex Tales", First Edition in two volumes, published Macmillan & Co, London & New York, 1888. See illustration

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THOMAS HARDY: "Life’s Little Ironies", First Edition, published Osgood McIlvaine & Co, 1894, another and another published Macmillan 1915 (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Poems of the Past and the Present", First Edition, published Harper & Brothers, 1901

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LOIS DEACON AND TERRY COLEMAN: "Providence and Mr Hardy", published Hutchinson of London, "Dearest Emmie", Thomas Hardy’s letters to his first wife, edited by Karl Weber and other biographical works (a collection)

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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: "Enoch Arden", first edition, contemporary full green morocco, published London 1865, three other Tennyson calf bound volumes and other calf bound volumes of poetry (a lot)

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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI: "Poems", with a memoir of the author by Franz Huffer, published Leipzig 1873, calf bound, two volumes, "Swinburn’s Poems and Ballads", first series and second series, 1878 and "Milton’s Poetical Works", calf bound marble boards, published William Pickering, London 1832, three volumes (7)

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: "The Poetical Works", published Longman, Rees Orme Brown and Green, Paternoster Row, London 1827, marble boards, calf bound, five volumes and Christopher Marlow, "The Works", first collected edition, published William Pickering, London 1826, three volumes (8)

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Way we Live Now" in two volumes, first edition, with 40 wood cut engraved plates by Luke Fildes, publ

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Way we Live Now" in two volumes, first edition, with 40 wood cut engraved plates by Luke Fildes, published Chapman & Hall, 1875, Anthony Trollope, "He Knew he was Right", with 64 illustrations by Marcus Stone, published Strahan & Co., London 1869, two volumes. (4) See illustration

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Small House at Allington" with 18 illustrations by J E Millais, RA, in two volumes, published Smith Elder & Co., 1864, half calf gilt spines, and Anthony Trollope - "The Vicar of Bullhampton", first edition with a vignette title page and other illustrations by H Woods, contemporary half carved, gilt panelled back, published Bradbury & Evans, 1870 and Anthony Trollope - "The Claverings", first edition with 16 illustrations by M Ellen Edwards, two volumes, modern half calf, published Smith Elder & Co., 1867 (3)

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GEORGE ELIOT: "Adam Bede", second edition in three volumes, published William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1859, Samuel Warren "Ten Thousand a Year", first edition 3 volumes, published Edinburgh & London, 1841 and Henry Fielding "The History of Amelia", published London 1832, 2 volumes, (8)

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GEORGE ELIOT: "The Mill on the Floss", first edition, published William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London 1860 with half titles, title pages, marble boards, leather spine three volumes

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "Orley Farm" with illustrations by J E Millais, first edition, published Chapman and Hall, 1862, two volumes, and William Thackeray "The Newcomers - Memoirs of a most Respectable Family" edited by Arthur Pendennis with illustrations after Richard Doyl, first edition, published Bradbury & Evans 1854-55, two volumes (4)

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ELIZABETH GASKELL: "North and South", first edition, published Chapman & Hall, 1855, two volumes, and "Mary Barton": A Tale of Manchester Life, second edition, published Chapman & Hall (4)

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WILLIAM MAKEPIECE THACKERY: "Vanity Fair": a novel without a hero, with illustrations on steel and wood by the author, first edition, published Bradbury & Evans, London 1848

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EDITH SITWELL: "Poems, New and Old", published Faber & Faber, John Betjamen: "Summoned by Bells", first edition, 1960, Lawrence Whistler: "Ode to the Sun and other Poems", published Heinemann and other volumes of 20th century poetry (a collection)

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A late 19th Century Commemorative Mug, inscribed “HMS The Queen The First Battle Ship in the Queen’s Reign HMS Illustrious Launched 1897), 3 ¼” high

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Keys - Aylsham Salerooms

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A Paragon Tinker Tailor Series circular Bowl decorated with a humorous scene of a cat in a Scottish military costume ‘First in the Fight’ after Louis Wain, 6” wide

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Collection of Spode Commemorative Plates: ‘Canterbury Cathedral Plate’; ‘Durham Plate’; ‘Iona Plate’; ‘First Canterbury Pilgrim Plate’; ‘Durrow Plate’; ‘The St Chad Plate’; ‘The St Gall Plate’; ‘Westminster Abbey Plate’; Together with six other decorative Plates including a Royal Crown Derby Royal Pinxton Roses Plate, in original box

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Keys - Aylsham Salerooms

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Two Japanese bone Netsuke, the first depicting an old man carrying a sack, the second of a reclining water buffalo, (2)

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Two George III Tablespoons, the first Old English pattern, London 1804, Markers Mark TS and the second bright cut, Old English Pattern, possibly Exeter, 1795, Makers Mark RJ (2)

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Keys - Aylsham Salerooms

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A mixed Lot of three various Vesta Cases, the first of hinged rectangular form, with all over engraved decoration and side suspension, Birmingham 1897, together with a base metal example of hinged square form with all over engraved decoration to an initialled cartouche and striker to the base, and a further electroplated example of hinged rectangular form with all over embossed decoration and vacant cartouche, with striker to the base (3)

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A mixed Lot comprising: Two various Comports, the first of shaped circular form, with pierced gallery and raised on a spreading circular foot, Birmingham 1962, the second with a pierced gallery and panelled body, raised on a spreading circular foot, Birmingham 1946, Makers Mark Adie Bros Ltd (2)

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A mixed Lot comprising two various Napkin Rings, the first of cylindrical form, with engine turned decoration and contemporary armorial, with reeded and foliate borders, Birmingham 1909, the second of baluster form with crimped rim and embossed floral and foliate decoration and initialled cartouche, Sheffield 1899 (2)

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Two Staffordshire porcelaineous cow creamers and covers, each modelled standing with iron red patch decoration, on green enamelled oval mound bases, 13cm high, first half 20th century (slight wear to gilding)

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Dreweatt Neate Godalming Salerooms

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition plus other items.

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A Beswick Barn Owl, first version, 1046A, gloss

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A Beswick Barn Owl, first version, 1046A, gloss

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A Pair of Samplers, the first by Jame Dalrymple Paisley, incorporating the alphabet, trees and a house, and another by Marga

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A Pair of Samplers, the first by Jame Dalrymple Paisley, incorporating the alphabet, trees and a house, and another by Margaret Dalrymple, incorporating the same house (with extensions), the alphabet and trees both 43 x 30 cm

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Anthemion Auctions

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Godden (Geoffrey), Staffordshire Porcelain, together with Minton Pottery and Porcelain of the First Period 1793-1850, and an Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain by the same author, (3).

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Anthemion Auctions

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O'Brian (Patrick), The Unknown Shore 1959, First edition with dust wrapper.

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Frederick J. England (1939 -), "First snows, Hill Farm near Flash, Staffordshire", signed, oil on board, 24.5 x 24cm.; 9.75

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Frederick J. England (1939 -), "First snows, Hill Farm near Flash, Staffordshire", signed, oil on board, 24.5 x 24cm.; 9.75 x 9.5in.

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Three Lowestoft teabowls 1780 - 1800 one painted with flora issuing form rockwork, another painted with floral sprays, the t

Peter Wilson

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Three Lowestoft teabowls 1780 - 1800 one painted with flora issuing form rockwork, another painted with floral sprays, the third printed with a Chinese landscape, (the first teabowl restuck, the second third with staining) (3) 9cm max. diameter

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Lowestoft teabowl circa 1780 with moulded reeding, painted with floral sprays, also another teabowl, possibly Lowestoft pain

Peter Wilson

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Lowestoft teabowl circa 1780 with moulded reeding, painted with floral sprays, also another teabowl, possibly Lowestoft painted with puce flora, (crack and chips to the first teabowl) (2)

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Five Worcester cups 1800 -1820 to include a Chamberlain cup with dolphin crest, another with vermiclue gilding, two Barr cof

Peter Wilson

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Five Worcester cups 1800 -1820 to include a Chamberlain cup with dolphin crest, another with vermiclue gilding, two Barr coffee cans one with gilt monogram, a Flight Barr and Barr chocolate cup, and also a Spode coffee can, (the first cup cracked) (6)

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Anthemion Auctions

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John (W.D.), Nantgarw Porcelain, First edition 1948, brown leather binding.

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