A Victorian Planetarium Orrery with clockwork lunarium or tellurion attachment, unsigned, the 44cm diam mahogany horizon plate on three tapering turned legs and covered with a hand coloured engraved paper, the two geared movements with an ivory earth ball and twilight indicator and with a larger brass sun ball and several ivory moon balls ++Losses and some crude amateur replacements including the use of table tennis balls for the planets but in entirely unsophisticated state and worthy of conservation. These faults reflected in the a modest estimate
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A fine set of George III draughtsman's instruments, including an ivory scale and folding rule, both signed W & S JONES 30 HOLBORN LONDON, an ivory sliding rule and brass and steel instruments fitted in a silver mounted tapering shagreen case, 17cm h In excellent condition and with the exception of one tiny aperture entirely complete and original, the exterior of the case also in excellent condition
A good Victorian walnut games compendium, with an applied brass monogram and mounts with oval pietra dura panels, the interior with a coromandel and ivory chess and backgammon board, an ivory chess set, draughts, bezique markers, dice etc and a spring loaded drawer containing bone dice shakers, playing cards and counters, 32cm wide
A Victorian silver mounted ivory paper knife, John Aldwinkle and Thomas Slater, London 1888, with a scroll pistol handle, 36.5cm long A pair of silver mounted tortoiseshell paper knives, William Comyns, c. 1890, with elaborately embossed handles in the 18th Century style; and Three silver mounted glass match strikers, of assorted size (6)
An early 19th Century German necessaire de voyage, in a fitted orange leather box, the cutlery with folding wooden handles with inlaid silver shields, the parcel gilt beaker by Stempel Seethaler, Augsberg 1819, also containing a steel corkscrew, an ivory bodkin with gold mounts, an ivory and tortoiseshell toothpick and miniature spoon, another ivory bodkin with possible gold mounts and an ivory mounted ebonised cylindrical condiment with detachable base and domed cover with a knop finial (10)
A superb Victorian chatelaine with four attachments as follows: A Victorian parcel gilt combined vinaigrette/ perfume bottle, Thomas Johnson, London 1875, modelled as a hunting horn, monogrammed, 7cm long A Victorian silver sewing compendium, Henry William Dee, London 1876, modelled as a cannon, containing a bodkin case, thread spool, and thimble, 10cm long, A propelling pencil, S Mordan, A silver and ivory carnet de jour, James Braham, London 1876, 6cm long
A set of four George III buttons, each painted with figures of young women in classical drapery within a landscape, in sepia tones, in one she is depicted with a lap dog, another with a wreath and doves, possibly on ivory, having blue ground, in brass frames, with convex glass lenses, 4cm (1 1/2in) diameter
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