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Industrial revolution – John Rastrick autograph letter signed dated Steam Mill Norwich May 30th 1807 concerning Rastrick’s financial position and his continuing wrangling against the establishment but also reporting on his industrial developments: ‘...the people in Norpeth encouraged me to build a mill to work by steam and that they would take shairs – upon the grate promishes ...I sett to work & built a engine & mill on my own premises – never did anything come forward that releaved that neighbourhood so much in the time of distress the poor was in...I am altering & much improving a large steam mill here [in Norwich] for manufacturing flour- is nearly finished at what I meen to stop to do at this time – this is a large City but in a low way the traid is very poor...’
A Victorian polished iron chimneypiece and grate in George III taste, late 19th century, with serpentine fronted mantel and conforming frieze with Greek Key, the jambs beneath recessed roundels, above recessed spandrels, further mouldings and the arched recess with three rail grate, 128cm high, 131cm wide
A George I silver miniature fire grate, by David Clayton, London circa 1720, rounded rectangular form with baluster bars, and a hinged front, with an arched rectangular fire back embossed with flowers and scroll decoration, height 9cm, approx. weight 1.7oz. Purchased from Shredds, 4 June 1981. For very simialr examples see: For a similar example see, Victor Houart, L`Argenterie miniature, Office du Livre, 1981, page 184, plate 227. Christie`s, King Street, An Important Collection of Silver Toys and Miniatures, October 11, 1972, lot 52.
A group of brass fire furniture a set of three brass fire irons, comprising: a shovel, tongs and a poker, each with foliate finial and turned handle; a brass fire guard of fan form with lattice work grate with central rosette; a pair of brass fire dogs, with gadrooned urn finial, reeded column, gadrooned plinth base, 35cm high, 25cm deep; and a brass fender, with pierced fretwork frieze raised on lion paw feet, 126cm wide, 18cm high, 35cm deep (7)
An Assortment of Utensils; A 19th century French fruit press, stamped PRESSE APETIT BREVETE S.G.D.G., 6½ ins (16.5 cms) high. An iron hog scraper with turned wooden handle 6½ ins (17 cms) high. An iron splice with ornamental knopped handle 14½ ins (37 cms) long. An iron bar grate toasting fork with shaped handles 18 ins (46 cms) long. A pair of sugar loaf clippers stamped `R. TIMMIN? & SONS` 10 ins (26 cms). Four 19th century pastry cutters of heart shaped and scroll design 18½ ins (47 cms) in length. [9]
Four Ironware Kitchen Items: A 19th century down-hearth bar-grate trivet with a pierced lyre shaped brass top plate stamped `LONGFIELDS 574` 13 ins (46 cms). A 19th century hob kettle with brass handle and lid 10 ins (25 cms). A fine 19th century pepper mill with brass plaque embossed `W BULLOCK & CO IMPROVED PEPPER MILL` 7 ins (18 cms). A pair of Regency sugar cutters 14 ins (35 cms). [4] *
Four Kitchen Implements: A brass down-hearth pan on loop ended iron handle with stand 21 ins (54 cms) in length. A 19th century cast iron coffee grinder of decorated octagonal form marked A.K & SONS RD237707 on base, 8 ins (20 cms) in height. A wrought iron stove having as hinged bar grate top and perforated box form sides with turned wooden handle on a raised square tray base. A down-hearth frying pan with flat round pan raised on three tapering legs 4 ins 910 cms) high, 17½ ins (44.5 cms) in width.[4] *
Three Hand Held Cooking Implements: An adjustable hand-held toaster; the handle applied with a plaque cast with two dolphins and the rotating four pronged iron head attached to a discoid mechanism stamped `MAGIC PATENT 318`. 11 ins (28 cms) long. A steel bar grate cooking fork with a turned wooden handle 11 ins (28 cms) in length. A brass & iron bar grate revolving hook 18 ins (46 cms) long. [3]*
SPENDER, Stephen (1909-1995). Collection of one autograph manuscript and six typescripts with autograph signatures or emendations, of poems, [c.1929], comprising 'MARSTON, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe' (title 'For J.M.F.' in autograph, signed), 'Elegy Lying awake at night' (signed), 'Hearing from its cage' (signed), 'ACTS thrust beyond the boundary of mere wishing' (emendations, signed), 'You that were constant April' (autograph), 'That girl who laughed and had black eyes' (inscribed 'For Douglas Jay from Stephen'), 'Saying "Good morning" becomes painful' (noted 'June 12. W.L.'), together 7 pages, 4to; with 10 further poems in unamended carbon copies, 9 on uniform folio leaves with title page 'Poems Stephen Spender', including one apparently unpublished poem, 'They went off six in the car and two on the running board' (minor wear and soiling at margins). The first four poems comprised Spender's contribution to Oxford Poetry, 1929 (under his own editorship); all, with the stated exception, were included in the privately-printed Twenty Poems (1930). The present texts show a number of variants from the published versions. View on Christie's.com
A selection of late nineteenth / early twentieth century Chinese white metal objects including miniature chair, bottle vase rickshaw, table, swing handled basket, pair of shoes, saucepan and a cover, a hooped bucket and fire grate together with a dragon wine label marked sherry, a mother of pearl shell and two Japanese hat pins (qty)
A cast iron and brass fire grate in Continental Baroque style, 19th century, each fire dog of baluster form, urns cast with repeated acanthus and floral garlands with flame finials, and an associated brass and mesh firescreen in the Rococo style, circa 1900, 80cm high (associated grate section)
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