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Lot 375
Carved ivory standing figure of Maximilian I , probably German, late 19th century, in Holy Roman regalia of crown, orb, sceptre, cloak and agnus dei chain; his torso hinged as a triptych and carved with scenes of his coronation, entry into Padua, and dominion over Milan. Height 29cm, on embossed silver socle. (Slight losses; sectional head, hands and toes)
Lot 512
Japanese root wood and bone model of pavilions in a rocky landscape beside a waterfall, on hardwood baseboard, width 46cm; a Japanese carved hardwood stick bin applied with shell and ivory depicting a charging equestrian warrior, overall height 63cm; a Japanese hardwood panel carved with a crab amongst waterlilies, 80 x 46cm. (Losses and damage) (3)
Lot 5
A fine George II Culpeper-type microscope in style of Matthew Loft Unsigned, circa 1740 With sliding brass shutter to eyepiece and threaded two-piece moulded lignum vitae top section above gilt-tooled green vellum covered inner tube (annotated in ink corresponding to positions for focal strengths) sliding into the rayskin covered bodytube and fitted with objective lens to lower section, the whole raised on three slender diamond-section scroll-shaped gilt brass supports fitted with shaped specimen stage applied with rotating ten-hole specimen plate and centred with an oculus, the supports terminating with cylindrical feet secured via screws through lozenge-shaped flanges onto the ogee-moulded ebonised wood base applied with a pivoted mirror to centre, and with drawer containing five objective lenses and an ivory specimen canister to apron, 40cm high unextended. Provenance: The estate of a deceased collector. Purchased Sotheby`s INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Olympia, London, 28/05/2003 lot 90. Closely related instruments by Matthew Loft are illustrated in Clay & Court The History of the Microscope pages 118 and 120, further similar examples are also illustrated in L`E. Turner, Gerald Collecting Microscopes page 41 and The Great Age of the Microscope (by the same Author) on page 36. The slender diamond section one-piece supports with turned feet and lozenge shaped fixing plates are feature normally associated with instruments from Loft`s workshop.
Lot 15
Four photographic microscope slides J.H. Steward, London, late 19th century With the titles WINDSOR CASTLE.., TRAFALGAR SQUARE.., THE Lord High Chancellor laying down the law.., and OH, each with trade label J.H. STEWARD, Optician, NEAR THE ADELPHI THEATRE, 406, STRAND, in original card box with conforming trade label to lid; with a collection of ivory and bone microscope sliders, comprising three large and twenty small examples, each with four viewing apertures many prepared with various specimens between mica sheets retained by brass collars and a small selection of modern prepared slides. Provenance: The estate of a deceased collector.
Lot 20
A Victorian mahogany mercury cistern-tube stick barometer King, Bristol, circa 1840 The arched two-piece ivory vernier scale calibrated in inches and with the usual annotations, the left hand side with mercury Fahrenheit and Reaumur scale thermometer and signed KING, BRISTOL to upper margin, the mahogany case with exposed tube to the slender trunk and domed cistern cover to the rounded base, 92cm high. Probably by John King who is recorded in Moore, A.J. THE CLOCKMAKERS of BRISTOL 1650-1900 as working from 2 Clare Street 1836-42.
Lot 25
* A brass-bound rosewood cased two-day marine chronometer John Bliss & Co., New York with movement attributed to Victor Kullberg, London, late 19th century The 3.25 inch four-pillar full-plate movement with reversed fusee, Harrison`s maintaining power, finely spotted backplate and blued-steel spring set up ratchet, the Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with bimetallic balance with cylindrical compensation weights and palladium helical balance spring, the movement frontplate stamped 2999 to inside surface, the 3.75 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds and power reserve dials and signed JOHN BLISS & CO. New York, No. 2999 to centre, with gold hands and blued steel pointers for the subsidiary dials, set in a lacquered brass bowl stamped 2999 to interior, with screw-down bezel and mounted within gimbals, the three-tier case with brass capped corners and edge bindings, with recessed ivory vacant cartouche to lid, brass side handles and mother-of-pearl rectangular name plate with repeat signature and number to front (lacking winding and case keys, minor faults), 18.5cm wide, 20cm high. John Bliss senior was born 1795 in Norwich Connecticut; he was known to be working as a jeweller from 180 Water Street, New York, by 1835 when he went into partnership with the English watchmaker Edward Creighton. The partnership of Bliss & Creighton worked from 42 Fulton Street lower Manhattan making and supplying Instruments and marine chronometers until the partnership was dissolved acrimoniously in 1853. They were the first makers in North America to build chronometers from scratch, and designed a compensated balance to improve middle temperature error. John Bliss subsequently took his son (also called John) as partner forming the firm of John Bliss & Son which was changed to John Bliss & Co. on the death of John senior in 1857. From 1880 to 1929 the business traded from 128 Fore Street moving to 84 Pearl Street until 1956 when the firm was wound-up. During the last two decades of the 19th century John Bliss & Co. were known to have signed and retailed marine chronometers which employed movements supplied by Victor Kullberg in London. The movement of the current lot with features such as reversed fusee, palladium balance spring, well spotted plates and distinctive balance almost certainly falls into this category.
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