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Lot 1942
A Brussels applique guipure lace jacket, a pair of gloves and a parasol, 19th century, the jacket with flounced sleeves and open ruffled fronts works with flowers, the fingerless mittens of Honiton lace, and a parasol of black le Puy lace, the handle of carved ivory in the form of beaded, twisted strands (3). Illustrated.
Lot 1971
A fan painted with Rebecca and Elizier at the well, circa 1740, with carved and pierced ivory sticks, worked with figures in a landscape, the guard sticks with a lady peeping between two trees, the leaf painted with Rebecca being introduced to Elizier, with camels in the background, (28cm).
Lot 3
An English lacquered brass and stained ivory portable microscope Unsigned, early 19th century With lens screw-mounted on a tapered brass upright attached to a brass boss pierced to take a T shaped support for the specimen clamp, with brown-stained ivory baluster shaped handle beneath, 11.3cm high, with original slip case 12cm high closed.
Lot 4
An English lacquered brass and ivory portable compass microscope Unsigned, late 18th century With threaded loop to take the choice of two lenses (one mounted with a silvered lieberkuhn mirror) mounted on shaped square section upright with screw threaded ivory handle and mounted with pivoted specimen forceps, 12.5cm long assembled, with original silk lined red leather covered traveling case, 14.5cm long.
Lot 6
An English lacquered brass portable aquatic microscope Robert Banks, London, circa 1820 With square section post signed Banks, London Math`l In`s Mak`r to the Prince of Wales to one side and fitted with lens above rack and pinion up/down adjustable stage with ivory slip insert and tool post holes to rim, with pivoted mirror beneath, the whole mounted via a drilled flange onto the lid of the original mahogany box containing some accessories, 10.5cm high assembled, the box 10cm wide. Robert Ban(c)ks junior is recorded in Gloria, Clifton Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as succeeding his brother Anthony Oldiss Bancks in around 1796. He first worked from 440 Strand, London 1796-1804 and then 441 Strand 1805-30. He received an appointment to the George IV in 1820 and then another to William IV in 1830. The design of the current lot is probably derived from a model developed by John Ellis in around 1752. The main difference being that the current lot focuses by up/down movement of the stage rather than the lens.
Lot 7
An English lacquered brass and ivory W. & S. Jones pattern portable microscope Unsigned, circa 1800 With turned ivory handle and opposing lens folding onto the frame cut with a sprung slot to take the specimen slider, 10cm high open, 7cm long closed, in original red leather covered box, 8cm long. The design of the current lot was published by W. & S. Jones, London in 1798.
Lot 8
A fine and rare George II brass screw-barrel portable microscope Attributed to Thomas Wright, London, 2nd quarter of the 18th century The decoratively pierced and moulded barrel with objective lens opposing threaded insert fitted with an condensing lens, the interior section moving against a spring loaded horn specimen clamp for focusing, with finely turned threaded baluster-shaped ivory handle and in plush-lined fishskin covered box, with an extensive series of accessories including four additional spare objectives, simple microscope attachment, turned ivory talc box, four ivory sliders, and a set of tweezers, the box 15.5cm wide; together with original printed booklet THE DESCRIPTION and USE Of a SET of Portable MICROSCOPES with fold-out page engraved with A View of the Several Parts of a Portable Microscope and incorporating trade label Sold by THOMAS WRIGHT, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, at the Orrery & Globe next ye Globe & Marlborough head Tavern in Fleet Street, London. Thomas Wright senior is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working form The Orrery and Globe, Fleet Street, London 1718-47. He received a Royal appointment to the Prince of Wales, and then to George II in 1727. The screw-barrel microscope was invented at the end of the 17th century by the Dutchman Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1654-1725) and was introduced to England by James Wilson. An account of the screw-barrel microscope first appears in John Harris`s 1704 publication Lexicon Technicum.
Lot 9
An unusual ivory and brass portable microscope Unsigned, probably early 19th century With simple and compound objective lenses mounted opposing each other at each end of the instrument separated via twin brass uprights with fixed brown-stained stage between, the rim of the stage and compound lens end of the instrument now pierced to take various tools (lacking), 7cm high, in black japanned wooden cylindrical case, the box 7.4cm high overall. The basic form of this relatively simple portable microscope bears similarities to a model developed by Dr. William Withering (1741-99) published in his 1776 work A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain (see lot 1). However the current lot differs in that the stage appears to be fixed but in a way as to be located at the focal length for both opposing sets of lenses. Therefore, in order to alter the magnification, the specimen would need to be removed from the stage and the instrument inverted with the specimen then placed on the reverse side of the stage before viewing through the second lens.
Lot 19
A Fine George III mahogany mercury cistern tube stick barometer James Long, London, circa 1800 With ivory vase finial to the broken triangular pediment with concave bracket supports to sides, above rectangular silvered vernier scale calibrated in inches, with the usual observations and signed Ja`s Long, Royal Exchange, LONDON to upper margin, behind ebony line bordered glazed door above trunk with vernier setting square and inset with a large mercury Fahrenheit scale thermometer behind conforming glazed door, the rounded base with decorative turned ivory disc centred domed cistern cover and level adjustment screw to underside, 98cm high overall. James Long is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working in Royal Exchange, London 1769-1811.
Lot 24
A patinated brass Kew pattern marine or station stick barometer Adie, London, mid to late 19th century With domed brass cap above glazed cylindrical silvered vernier scale calibrated in inches (26.6 to 32.5) and centimetres (66.5 to 80.5) and signed Adie, London, No. 1359 to lower edge, the cylindrical shaft with vernier adjustment screw and concealed-bulb mercury thermometer with ivory Fahrenheit scale above canister shaped cistern (tube lacking), mounted via gimbals onto original mahogany back panel, the instrument 95cm high, 106cm high overall. Patrick Adie, son of the renowned Scottish Instrument maker Alexander Adie (1775-1858) is recorded in Banfield, Edwin, BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from several addresses in London 1846-86. In around 1855 Patrick Adie and John Welsh of the Kew Observatory worked together to develop an improved design of marine barometer. Their design incorporated a sealed iron cistern and the tube featured dampening constriction and Bunten air trap. The thermometer bulb is enclosed within the frame to measure the temperature of the mercury within the barometer tube, the outer brass case offered increased protection compared to earlier wooden cased models.
Lot 264
A pair of George III fiddle pattern mustard spoons with gilded bowls and engraved armorials. London 1795. A mid Victorian silver child`s feeding spoon, the bowl and handle embossed with depictions with the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". Birmingham 1848. A Victorian plated pickle fork with fluted ivory handle and a bread fork
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