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Click here to subscribeA Late 17th/Early 18th Century Austro-Hungarian Carving Knife along with a smaller knife & fork. All having ivory handles finely inlaid with gilt nail heads and small ornamental niello and gilt roundels, with wriggle work mounts and dimpled gilt ferrules. The larger knife 13 ins (33 cms) in length, the smaller knife and four pronged fork 7½ ins (19 cms) in length.
Silver child's rattle with ivory teether, Birmingham 1912, and another, globular, embossed with mistletoe, 1909. (2) Condition Report Circular rattle: teething ring is stained and the attachment loose. The ball is split and there is damage to the edges. Other rattle: teething ring is marked and has been glued. The bells are a bit dented and split. The bottom teether is missing.
A Cauldon china coffee service, comprising five coffee cans and saucers, coffee pot, open sugar bowl and milk jug, having pink and gilt decoration on an ivory ground, together with a set of six Continental cabinet cups & saucers. Condition Report: One cup missing from the cauldron set. No apparent damage or restoration.
Paul Philippe (1870-1930). An Art Deco gilt bronze and ivory figure of a dancer, her arms raised and outstretched, stamped with the 'Bronze A.G. Paris' mark, on a stepped onyx plinth bearing the signature of Philippe (38.5cm). Condition Report: Repair to right foot, later glued, fingers all intact, other general ware commensurate with age.
A good antique Mah-Jongg set contained in a five-drawer lift-front hardwood case with metal bound corners and swing carrying handles and including 148 Bamboo backed dovetail joined tiles, 4 dice, 120 bone stick-like counters and a tiny turned drum-shaped lidded box containing four circular pieces with green painted recessed characters. Sold together with a booklet produced by Chad Valley: "Mah-Jongg, sometimes called Sparrow, Rules of the Game and how to play it" and one Hamley Bros and two type-written Score Cards. This Mah-Jongg set is described with a note found accompanying it as Ivory/Bamboo dovetailed and was purchased by the vendor's grandfather, one M.J. Carnegie in Johannesburg in 1935.
Chess - a 19th century red and white ivory chess set, in a wooden box, height of king 10 cm (top of red pawn absent, red knight in two parts) - included in the lot is a part set of early 20th century ivory tabs with applied images of chess pieces, thirteen red and thirteen black, height of each tab approx 2 cm, the tabs in envelope addressed to Runcorn Customs House, stamped and dated 1927 - Est £80 - £120
A collection of items to include two Stanhopes, each as a pair of binoculars, two betel nut buckets, a carved wood cup and cover, a carved wood container in the form of a chess piece, a pair of ivory model bellows, a plane, a carved model of a sheep with lamb, a carved stone head of an African man, a miniature leather creel, a Scandinavian cup initialled and dated 1836, two carved cherubic heads, etc
Square piano by Schoene and Co., London, 1792, the case of mahogany with chequered stringing, the fascia board and cheeks veneered with stained sycamore with holly and stained fruitwood stringing and tulipwood crossbanding and inlaid in marquetry with scrolling foliage and a harewood garland, the five octave keyboard, FF to f3, with ivory naturals faced with boxwood mouldings and ebony accidentals, single action with over-dampers, three pedals supported on the stand stretcher controlling buff stop, damper lift and lid swell, on framed stand with square tapered legs, inscribed on an oval boxwood plaque Schoene and Co., Successors to Johannes Zumpe Londini fecerunt 1792, Princes Street Cavendish Square, inscribed in ink on the soundboard with the initials RDW, length 164cm, width 58cm, case height 24cm *Provenance: This instrument has been in the same family since 1967, when it was acquired from the antique dealer Alan Legg in Cirencester. Alan Legg was also a restorer of antique keyboards.
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