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Click here to subscribeIvory Figure, finely carved as an old man stood with stick, a hen and basket at his feet, signature to base, Meiji Period 1868-1912, 24cm high CONDITION REPORT: Generally good all over with exception to one of his hands which has been restuck. Minor nicks to the corn at the base. Small shrinkage splits but nothing defacing.
English School, 18th Century Portrait miniature of Admiral Lord Howe, wearing Admiral's undress uniform watercolour on ivory 7 x 7cm (3 x 3in)Other Notes: Admiral Lord Howe was appointed to the Board of Admiralty led by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich as Senior Naval Lord in April 1763. He became Treasurer of the Navy in 1765 and, having been promoted to Rear Admiral on 18 October 1770, went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet in November 1770.The present portrait is a small copy of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Admiral Lord Howe at Greenwich.CONDITION: Under glass and with some discolouration to the background and a reddish mark lower left corner.
Augustus King (British, 18th Century) Portrait miniature of George Barrington, actor (1755-1804) watercolour on ivory, oval, unframed 12 x 9cm (5 x 4in) Other Notes: George Barrington (14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804) was an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer (following his transportation to Botany Bay) and author. His escapades, arrests, and trials were widely chronicled in the London press of his day. In 1771 he robbed his schoolmaster at Dublin and ran away from school, becoming a member of a touring theatrical company at Drogheda under the assumed name of Barrington. Trimmed to oval. Some discolouration to the background.
A Chinese export carved, pierced ivory fan, Canton, Qing Dynasty, circa 1870, the cream silk leaf embroidered in coloured silk threads with cranes and other birds in flight above a garden, the sticks and guards with manchou figures, 30.5cm long, in an associated but period lacquered box, 38cm long (2)
METAL/HEAVY ROCK LPs - MANY OBSCURE/RARITIES! Mind melting collection of 16 x LPs filled with rarities. Artists/titles are Powerlord - The Awakening (original US copy, no. cat. number - Ex+ top condition record/with insert/Ex+ still in shrink), Razor - Custom Killing (Canadian original FPL 3042 - Ex/VG+ with inner and merch insert), Fanny Adams - S/T (black label design orig US copy KS-3644 - top Ex/Ex+ copy still in shrink), Left End - Spoiled Rotten (PD 6022), Amish - S/T (SXBS 7016), Rumplestiltskin - S/T (Bell 6047), Damnation - Which Is The Justice..., The Damnation Of Adam Blessing - S/T (UAS 6738 US original - Ex/VG+), Ram - Where? (In Conclusion) (promo PD 5013), Frost - Through The Eyes Of Love, Captain Beyond - Dawn Explosion, Hades, Immaculate Mary, Wargasm and Ivory Tower. Condition is generally clean VG+ to Ex+.
A group of vertu, comprising a Victorian ivory aide memoire, A Present from Dunstable, cracked ice glass scent bottle with a brass mount and hinged lid, brass egg shaped thimble holder containing a silver thimble, further silver thimble, silver plate and tortoiseshell rouge pot, silver cigarette case, etc. (8)
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