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Click here to subscribeA mixed lot – sewing – comprising an ivory sewing clamp with ‘C’ frame below a reel, 11.5cm, a pin cushion in the form of a set of rosewood bellows with bone ferrule, a red leather tooled needle book, an oval gilt metal ‘Souvenir’ pin cushion, a pedestal bone pin cushion, seven finely carved Indian ivory crochet hooks with figured finials, three a/f, and another piece. (13)
Six needlebooks, comprising; a mother-of-pearl example engraved to each side with a rural building, 4.5cm x 3cm, a similar pierced bone example, a.f., 6cm x 4.5cm, an ivory example, one side with fluted decoration, 7cm x 4.7cm, and three Mauchline ware examples (Town Hall, Duns - photographic/Edinburgh From The Castle/Comrie - Made of Wood white grew at Aberuchill Castle), all with worn interiors. (6)
A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a pair of ivory cotton barrels, three others, a bone cylinder for a needle flannel, another in white metal as a rolling pin, a mother of pearl top tape measure, similar emery, a mother of pearl waxer, two brass thimble cases, a similar scent bottle, a bone ribbon threader, and a Rodgers needle threader a/f. (15)
Seven tape measures comprising a turned boxwood combination standing needle case/tape measure, bone winding spindle with Stanhope (six views Edinburgh) 11cm. high, a boxwood drum form example with coffee grinder handle, 2.2cm. dia, four vegetable ivory examples, one incorporating a waxer to base, and a damaged glass example. (7)
A 19th Century ivory cased gentleman’s vanity case of rectangular form with a complete complement of accessories comprising a pair of cut throat razors with tortoiseshell scales by Brookes And Brookes, Sheffield, a conforming single blade folding knife, two manicure implements, two pairs of steel scissors and a pair of steel tweezers, case 17.3 x 7 x 2cm.
Five Bodkin cases comprising an early 19th Century orange and gilt lacquer example, twin opening, tortoiseshell lining, 14.5cm, a wooden floral Spa example, a 19th Century ivory engine turned example, 11cm, a French wooden example polychrome painted with a jardinière and a man holding a flaming heart, lacking bone divider, 13cm, and a straw work example a/f, 11cm. (5)
A fine French 19th Century thimble case with ivory thimble and integral needlecase modelled in the form of a carriage lamp, the ebony body with four inset mirrors in ivory frames within brass dot decoration, the domed top with conforming decoration to a gilt mount and turned ivory finial, the ivory finial unscrewing to a needle case, 7cm high.
A mixed lot – sewing - comprising an ivory circular pin cushion inscribed to one side ‘A Havant Present’ 4.2cm dia, a natural shell pin cushion, a Mauchline ware thimble egg (St Mary’s Church, Moid), a steel stiletto, two cylinder needlecases, a small circular tin “The Prince of Wales Box” and a scissor sheath. (8)
A mixed lot – sewing comprising - a vegetable ivory combination reel holder and pin cushion, 6.5cm, a similar pedestal pin cushion, an ivory clamp, a mother of pearl notelet, a silver rectangular pin cushion for a chatelaine, a miniature single blade pocket knife, a small silver button hook and two other pieces. (9)
A rare and interesting 18th Century Italian oval miniature on ivory, lace related, depicting a lady of quality seated, her lace dress with blue bodice, examining lace hanging from a lace pillow held by an Indian servant with white hat, part masked, his beard in a net, his jacket painted with diamonds in harlequin style, painted in white, black, blue and brown on a grey ground, gilt metal frame, 9.8cm.
A mixed lot – sewing – including an ivory box ‘Aiguilles’, sd. 6cm, an ivory folding rule, two mother of pearl knives, a coquilla egg, Mauchline ware circular pin cushion (Alloway Old Kirk), a similar pair of glove stretchers (Life Boat House, Clacton-On-Sea), a miniature sample, and other pieces. (qty)
A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a silver gilt filigree cylinder form box, 4.6cm, a pin card as the jack of clubs, a turned boxwood needle case in the form of a miniature truncheon, 9cm, a leather pin cushion, a burnt circle decorated ivory emery, an Avery Helen needlecase, incomplete, a pair of Singer steel scissors, a miniature brass sewing box with pin cushion lid, 5cm, and a German silk box in the form of a metal suitcase, three internal reels 6.2cm. (9)
Three tape measures comprising a brass novelty example in the form of a lidded coal bin, complete tape in inches and cm. wound from the base, 4.2cm high, a plastic example ‘My Deal Next’, tape repaired, and a vegetable ivory acorn form example the spindle with Stanhope (Six View – A Memory of Farnham) lacking tape. (3)
A fine 19th Century French carved ivory reel stand, the circular box base on three bun feet with floral and leaf carved borders fitted with two circular tiers each with six floral carved ivory reels and divided by a carved baluster pedestal, the rising circular top extensively carved with flowers and leaves below a jardinière fitted with a pin cushion, 14.5cm high, 7.5cm max dia.
A fine Japanese Lacquer and Shibayama inlaid Box.Meiji Period (1868-1912)Of canted rectangular form, the cover decorated in kinji and inlaid in shibayama style in mother of pearl, coral, stained ivory and tortoiseshell with a caparisoned elephant in an ornamental garden beneath a flowering cherry tree, butterfly and sparrow, takamaki-e keyfret border, stylised Ho-Ho bird sides, nashiji underside and interiors. 5 1/2 inches x 4 inches.
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