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Lot 39
AN EMERALD AND DIAMOND RING IN 18CT GOLD, LONDON 1970, 3.2G, SIZE N AND A PAIR PAIR OF EMERALD AND DIAMOND EARRINGS IN GOLD, 12 MM L, UNMARKED, 2.2G EMERALDS WITHIN RING HAVE ABRASIONS TO FACETS. ONE EMERALD CHIPPED. EARRINGS' STONES IN GOOD CONDITION. LIGHT SURFACE WEAR CONSISTENT WITH AGE AND USE.
Lot 4132
Four Fine and Unusual Miser's or Stocking Purses, from a large collection to follow those included in this sale. The first, c 1850, is of a very fine-gauge cream net, beaded along the opening and in two areas of the body, with the tiniest gold beads, and finished at each end with a larger brown bead and loops of the gold examples. Overall length 10 inches or 25.5cm. Next, a cream thread purse with open lattice design, each crossing point featuring a minute gold bead. The ends each feature a quite plain and rounded dull gold button (perhaps a boot button) and each section is secured with a cream ring of either ivory or bone. Length 7.75 inches or 19.5cm. Thirdly, a very fine stocking purse, featuring pink, green and yellow flowers within pale blue rectangles, two yellow bands next to the opening, all against a dark brown background. Each end is finished with an embossed cup holding loops of tiny gold beads. Finally, a larger example worked in bands of olive green and pink, the sections secured with bone rings, the ends finished with a gold metal pendulous flower head. Length 10 inches or 25.5cm (4) CONDITION REPORT: . Generally sound, some staining on item 1, which lacks closure loops. The third purse lacks one closing ring and one point of slight damage noted.
Lot 4157
A Box of Beadwork/Work in Progress, mainly from the 19th century, containing a small early 19th century crochet bag, with 2 gold metal bars for the slender frame, a small coral tassel at the bottom, fitted with a finger ring, the body worked in colours of green, pink lilac and cream, accompanied by a small straw container of threads and silks. Together with a box containing several items in various stages of preparation, showing the techniques involved, comprising one panel of knitted beadwork depicting a peacock, still on the needles, another such panel with metal beads, attached to canvas, a very fine panel on the needles for a miser's purse, threaded beads on card, two panels, one fringed, and the strap for a 1920's beaded bag, and a reel of silk thread (qty) CONDITION REPORT: . All good as work in progress.
Lot 4206
A Quantity of World Fans, 19th to 20th Centuries, with examples from the Indian Continent, Africa, Southern islands, Asia and the Orient. Comprising two African fly whisks with shaped bone handles, one of which seems to be carved with a hand, and another, later in date, the handle carved in teak with a warrior wearing a silver collar. A large African fixed fan, with leather covered handle and central pouch into which various feathers are slotted, to produce a near cockade shape; two very brightly coloured fixed flag fans from Pakistan, one with gold thread, one with mirrors and sequins; an Indian flag fan with rotating wood handle, woven in straw; a pair of pankha with wide wood handles, and fibre leaf underlaid with pink foil; two screens made from fibres and embroidered in bright pink wool; a pair of modern pink flag fans; a long buffalo hide fan with fixed handle shaped and pierced and painted, forming a deity; a modern palm fan; a face screen advertising the Kindayu Hotel, Japan; a Malaysian half-cockade brisé in wood with carved handle and finger ring; a wood cockade painted in bright colours forming a peacock with outspread tail, when the paper leaf is fully open; and a Burmese fan of pigskin (19) CONDITION REPORT: . all used, mainly in good condition.
Lot 4229
A Large Late 19th Century Chinese Black Lacquer Fan, Qing Dynasty, the guards and gorge decorated in gold with figures, insects and butterflies. The double paper leaf is turquoise to the recto and embroidered with mainly pink flowers, the large paeony attracting a detailed butterfly, with two colourful birds and two more butterflies hovering around. The verso, in cream, is embroidered with pink roses and leaves in autumnal colours, a bird and butterfly hovering above. Guard length 14.75 inches or 37.5cm. Together with a Chinese carved bone folding fan, the upper guard with a tiny carving of flowers and leaves, the cream gauze leaf embroidered to the recto with a large dragon. A silk tassel is fitted to the rivet ring. Guard length 9.25 inches or 23.5cm (2) CONDITION REPORT: . Lacquer fan: the monture is in good order, some light marking to the leaf and one small hole, with a slightly bigger area of damage seen from the cream verso. Smaller fan, the leaf is splitting to the right side and a previous owner label is adhered to the left.
Lot 642
* Sitwell (Edith, 1887-1964). A series of 18 letters, six in the third person, to her insurance brokers, largely relating to jewellery purchases, 1954-1964, all to the Atlas Insurance Company, some to named individuals, together with five letters written on her behalf by secretaries, and a valuation certificate from Cameo Corner, 1958, a total of 38 pages, small 4to (Qty: 23)NOTES'... When the Manager was so kind as to insure Dame Edith's Jewellery some time ago, amongst the items was a Renaissance pendant, consisting of a Queen's Head carved out of a garnet, with a gold crown, and surrounded by branches with flowers of white enamel with centres of rubies. (To this subsequently added a brooch - value £65, I think, if I remember rightly, from Cameo Corner. ...The whole jewel was inadequately priced at the moment. Dame Edith's secretary, Miss Salter, took it the other day, to be valued at Messrs. Philipps, the antique jewellers, of New Bond Street, and they said that although it was impossible, really, to price it, as it is a work of art, they would sell it for £600. ...' '.. a deep blue, square-oblong aquamarine ring, purchased for £160. '... my sable-dyed Rolinsky coat, bought by me for £82. 19s. '... I have just (with my Guinness prize) bought two new rings from Cameo Corner ... the amount I shall pay for these will be either £175 or £180. '... One ring is an amethyst surrounded by diamonds, the other a ring of small pearls with a few tiny diamonds interspersed. ... Incidentally, I changed the amethyst ring, and the pearl ring that I bought last autumn, for a topaz & pearl ring, and three half hoop pearl rings. These came to £25 less than the others, but I shall, when I have been televised, get another ring which will increase that sum. etc. etc. ...' Edith Sitwell was well-known for her extravagant taste in jewellery, and this correspondence shows how seriously she took the question of valuing her new purchases, very many of them from Cameo Corner in Museum Street, London. Dame Edith (who, as ever, insists that she should be properly identified as 'Dame' or 'D.B.E.'), describes the individual purchases in her letters, and is most particular to ensure that she has full insurance cover when travelling abroad. The letters reveal not only an enthusiastic collector but a remarkably business-like personality. The letters are variously written from Renishaw Hall, The Sesame and Imperial Club, and Chicago, and all bear the received-stamp of the Leeds branch of the insurers, some being annotated with financial calculations in pencil.
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