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TURKISH RUG WESTERN ANATOLIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the abrash green field with allover geometric motifs, yellow spandrels, within polychrome stylised leaf border; and a QASHQAI RUG, the indigo field with three blue and purple lozenge medallions, purple spandrels, within ivory boteh border(217cm x 132cm; and 252cm x 153cm)
TWO CAUCASIAN RUGS LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY one with indigo field with allover dark red serrated lozenge pattern, within ivory rosette and vine border; the other with indigo field with three red and yellow lozenge medallions, within ivory serrated leaf and glass border(149cm x 99cm; and 136cm x 110cm)
Mauchline ware – thirteen pieces, most with condition issues comprising a rectangular box (Scott’s Monument – photographic/Edinburgh Castle/Holyrood Palace), 15.5cms, another, (View From West Pier, Brighton), 13.5cms, a turret money box (The Ravine Bridge, Belle Vue Park, Lowestoft), 9.5cms, a napkin ring (Dunkeld), a tumbler case (Folkestone), 7.5cms, a lidded cauldron (Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny/And at his elbow…..), 7cms, an ivory ground rectangular box (The Belvedere, Victoria Terrace, Weymouth), 8cms, another with sliding lid (New Market Hall, Shrewsbury), 8.8cms, another, (Winchester Cathedral/College Chapel/City Cross), 14cms, another, title obscured, 8cm, another, (floral colour print/Remembrance), 9cms, a comb case (Rustic Bridge), 10.3cms, and a cylinder box (Llandudno Drive), 8.5cm. (13)
Four tape measures, comprising a painted wooden example as a pear, printed tape, 4.7cms, a boxwood example with coffee grinder handle, complete printed tape, 2.2cms dia., a vegetable ivory pierced cylinder example with complete printed tape, 3cms, and an ivory example the complete printed tape marked in nails and quarters, 2.5cms. (4) From a Connoisseur’s Collection
Five tape measures, comprising a 19th Century ivory barrel form example, tape a/f, 4cms, a mother of pearl example, tape a/f, 2.5cms, a bone cylinder example with mother of pearl flower head top, complete printed tape, 2.5cms, a vegetable ivory example on waxer base, complete printed tape, 5.2cms, and a 19th Century ivory example with burnt circle decoration, complete tape, 3cms. (5) H
Five tape measures, comprising a mother of pearl cylinder example with reduced printed tape, 3cms, a boxwood barrel form example with complete printed tape, 4cms, another in boxwood with coffee grinder handle, complete printed tape, 2.5cms, a vegetable ivory example, complete inked tape but smudged, 5cms, and a rosewood vase form example from a set, complete printed tape but first inch worn, 5.5cms. (5) H
A 19th Century ivory and pearl tape measure and three matching cotton barrels, the tape measure of cylinder form with original green silk unmarked tape wound from the over hanging top inset with a mother of pearl circle, 3cm, the cotton barrels matching, 3.5cm. (4) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Two combination tape measures, comprising a bone and vegetable ivory example, the tape measure with complete printed tape in cms., the winder with Stanhope (Souvenir De Bologne five views) and inscribed ‘Boulogne sur Mer’, over a pierced bone cylinder needle case, 11cms., and a brass blue painted example with retractable printed tape below needle case, twin reel and brass thimble top, 6.5cm. (2) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Five tape measures, comprising two vegetable ivory examples both with complete tapes, one damaged to base, 5.2 and 4.2cm, a coquilla nut example lacking tape, 5cm, a bone circular example with brass coffee grinder handle, complete tape, 2.6cm dia., and a rolled linen example adverting Beecham’s products. (5) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Three 19th Century tape measures, comprising an ivory barrel form example with gilt band, steel boss and winding handle, printed tape commencing at 7ins., 5cms high, an oriental ivory example of pierced cylinder form with overhanging roundel top, plain tape, and a bone cylinder form example with complete printed but faded tape. (3)
Five pin cushions and waxers, comprising two mother of pearl disc form pin cushions one with cut decoration one engraved with a flower, 3 and 2.7cms, an ivory disc form example with spiral decoration, 2.3cms, a bone waxer and another with mother of pearl flower head top. (5) From a Connoisseur’s Collection
Six pin cushions and emeries, comprising a 19th Century ivory example of basket form, 2.8cm, a similar bone example, 3cm, a wicker basket example, 2cm, a leather pumpkin, 2.2cm, a knitted strawberry, 5.5cm, and a silver elephant stamped ‘925’, 2cm. (6) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Seven pin cushions and emeries, comprising an unusual pedestal form example in polished coal, 6.5cm, a plated metal lady’s shoe, 10.5cm, a coquilla form example in the form of a bucket, 8cm, a vegetable ivory and bone pedestal example on wooden base, 6.5cm, a gilded brass example as a hare, lacking glass eyes, 4.5cm, a floral felt emery, 4cm, and a 19th Century example as a top hat, 3.7cm. (7) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Seven 19th Century and early 20th Century pin cushions and discs, comprising a pierced and carved bone cylinder example with blue silk top, 4.5cm, a double ended example with vegetable ivory girdle, 3.5cm, a home made example perhaps as a coconut with ribbon trims, 7.5cms, a hexagonal paper fern silhouette example with blue silk trim, 7.5cm, a floral embroidered silk example, 7.5cm, a white metal example ‘St Bartholomew – Guard, Prosper, and Bring Happiness’, 5cm, and a card example commemorating Queen Victoria’s jubilee. (7)
Two 19th Century pin cushions and a box, comprising an ivory disc form pin cushion one side well carved with a bouquet of flowers, silk edge weak, 4cms, a similar bone example carved with fruit and leaves, fault to rim edge, 4cms, and an ivory cylinder box the screw cover deeply carved with flowers and leaves, 4cms high. (3)
Five 19th Century bone and ivory disc form pin cushions, one carved to one side with a figure at a cloth covered table, lacking infill, 4cm dia., another well carved with fruit and flowers to one side, 3.5cms, two others one lacking infill and a single disc only carved with fruit and leaves, stained, 3.8cms dia. (5)
Four pin cushions and two waxers, comprising a 19th Century ivory fan form example, 7cms, a Tunbridge mosaic girdle form example, one infill lacking, 2.5cms, two early 19th Century silver girdle form examples, a rosewood Tunbridge ware barrel form waxer, and a stag horn disc form waxer, one side carved with a dog, loss to edge, 2.6cms. (6) From a European Collection
A William IV rosewood weighted netting box, of rectangular form the lid edged in quarter bobbin moulding, the lid lined in patterned floral silk over a compartmentalised lower section with hinged frame and lined in blue paper, with three various ivory cotton barrels, bone and other accessories, 25.5 x 12.2 x 8cms. From a Connoisseur’s Collection
A good Regency red leather covered sewing box of sarcophagal form, raised on gilded paw feet with a drawer to the front with gilt brass flowerhead ring handle below a pointed oval escutcheon, the lid with reeded end bolsters with pierced gilt mounts with a raised central tablet with brass oval. The lid interior with black printed silk panel of cupid over a green paper lined compartmentalised interior edged in gilt, with fitted pin cushion and thimble provision, velvet needle book, with four various bone and ivory 19th Century reel holders and a gilt rim ivory thimble, the drawer with small needle works etc., 19 x 11 x 11.5cms. From a Connoisseur’s Collection
A Palais Royal etui with a full complement of fittings, contained in a green leather case in the form of a harp, the interior lid in ivory silk over a green velvet flush fitted base with a mother of pearl snow flake winder, a mother of pearl thimble, a rectangular mother of pearl needle case, a pair of scissors the steel blades with floral gilt mounts to pierced and carved mother of pearl arms to oval loops, and a similar stiletto, all but first with enamel and gilt pansy motif, the scissors with pansy motif to each arm, 16.8 x 9cms. max. From a Connoisseur’s Collection
A rare early 19th Century Palais Royal small format rectangular sewing box with a full complement of fittings, the sides in black printed green paper within black and gilt ‘tooled’ borders, the lid inset with a mirror centred by a black and white print of two putti in a garden with baskets of fruit. The interior with silk squab to lid, the flush fitted ivory velvet base with two slightly variant but apparently original mother of pearl winders, a mother of pearl thimble with gold shield and double copper gilt frieze, a mother of pearl rectangular needle case with gold shield and gilt ferrule, a pair of steel bladed scissors with gold mounts to carved jardinière arms with plain inset silver roundels below oval loops, and a mother of pearl bodkin, 12.7 x 8.4 x 3cms. From a Connoisseur’s Collection
An Anglo Indian sewing box and a Chinese export sewing box, the first of rectangular form with canted lid, decorated in split porcupine panels divided by ebony and ivory inlaid bands, the lid interior inscribed ‘Matara’ over a tray with nine lids, some quill lacking, 28 x 19.5 x 15.5cm, the second of sarcophagal form in red and gilt lacquer on a black ground, the interior with tray with a selection of original bone and ivory fittings, drawer to front, brass side carrying handles, 32 x 23 x 12.5cm. (2) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Two late 19th Century French sewing companions, comprising a rectangular example in plum velvet with open work plated mounts on ball feet, the scissor form catch marked ‘Breveté S.S.D.S.’, the interior in ivory silk with five steel tools and replacement silver thimble, 12.5cms, and a blue velvet and gilt mounted purse form compendium the interior in blue watered silk with steel scissors, needle packet holder and flannel, 12.5cm. (2) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
Two 19th Century Anglo-Indian sewing boxes, comprising a sarcophagal form example the lid with carved sandal wood panel of a building within Sadeli work borders, complete with tray and ivory fittings some sd, 25.5cm, and another similar but lacking Sadeli work borders and tray, 25.5cms. (2) From the collection of Margaret Blakeley
An 18th Century silk, ribbon work and embroidered sewing companion, of four fold wallet form, the exterior formed from a trellis pattern of cream and blue ribbons, the ivory silk interior embellished with three panels of coloured silk floral embroidery formed as two triangular topped pockets and a hinged central cover revealing a scissor sheath, 9.5 x 7cm closed, 26.5 x 7cm open.
A 19th Century French ivory etui with a full complement of gold fittings, the case of stepped and shaped outline, the flush set fittings comprising a gold needle case, a gold thimble with floral engraved border and vacant cartouche, a pair of steel scissors with oval section tapering blades to interlaced gold arms below oval loops, a bodkin, and a gold handled steel stiletto, case 10.5cm.
A fine Palais Royal burr yew wood sewing/writing and toilet box, circa 1840, of rectangular form, the lid with shield form brass plaque, the front with a moustache form handle above a shield form escutcheon, the sides with flush fitting brass carrying handles. The interior fitted to the lid with a mirror within a red and gilt tooled surround over a pair of gold topped glass inkwells divided by a pen dish with hidden wooden release peg. The writing slopes in replacement but well matched gilt tooled leather, the upper compartment fully fitted with four cut glass jars and bottles with silver lids and divided by a perfume funnel, with a lift out flush fitted tray with ivory, gilt metal and steel embellished tools comprising a quiver form needle case with verre eglomise panel, a thimble with steel dot frieze, a cylinder needle case, a bodkin, an ivory handled seal, a tambour hook, a pair of steel scissors with blued highlights, a folding tweezer/earspoon (lacking three steel discs to handle), a steel bladed eraser, a toothbrush, a folding blade knife, a quill knife and a steel tweezer/ earspoon, complete with complex steel key. Box 32 x 23.5 x 17.5 cms.
An attractive mid 19th Century fully fitted French etui veneered in burr mulberry, and inlaid with ebony to simulate a barrel, mother of pearl circular tablet and catch mount, the interior with a mirror to the lid over a velvet lined flush fitted base with steel scissors and bodkin, ivory handled steel stiletto, ivory thimble, ivory needle case with gilt metal joint, a reversible ivory crochet hook and a cut glass scent bottle with stopper and silver gilt screw cover, 15 x 8.5 x 3cms max. For a similar example see Groves (S) – A History of Needlework Tools plate 104.
A late 19th Century French opaque glass egg form sewing etui for a child, gilt metal hinge mount, the base with pendant drop, the lid on chain and ring suspension, the interior in ivory velvet with a full complement of gilt metal fittings comprising bodkin, needle case, stiletto, scissors and thimble, 10cm high excluding chain.
A late 18th Century ormolu etui, the case decorated with classical figures and cherubs amid ‘C’ scrolls, shells and other motifs, the hinged cover with axe head handle, with a full complement of gilded and other fittings comprising spoon, bodkin, bodkin/earspoon, folding knife, scissors with hinged loops, tweezer/file, pencil, ivory swivel notelet/tweezers, 11.5cms.
A late 18th Century silver etui, unmarked, the case decorated with flowers, leaves, shells and scrolls, the hinged cover revealing a full complement of silver and other fittings comprising spoon, tweezer/earspoon, tongue scraper, bodkin marked for Joseph Willmore, scissors with hinged loops, two octagonal tapering handles one within the other, two screw on knife blades, a twin prong fork, a pencil holder, and an ivory notelet, last probably a replacement, 10.2cms.
A fine Palais Royal sewing box with a full complement of fittings, circa 1830, the lid formed from a large mother of pearl shell engraved with a vase of flowers, gardening tools, torchere and quiver within a border of trailing vines within a gilt metal floral and pierced trellis border, the gilt metal sides with a central mother of pearl and gilt mounted escutcheon flanked by eight glazed domed oval panels each with a display of paper flowers, the back with an engraved panel of mother of pearl, the whole raised on four gilt lion paw feet. The interior with mirror to lid over an ivory velvet flush fitted tray with floral decorated pin cushion, a pair of mother of pearl snowflake winders in circular mirror compartments, an engraved needle case with enamel and gilt pansy motif, a mother of pearl tambour hook, a steel and mother of pearl stiletto with pansy motif, a pair of steel bladed scissors with gilt mounts and leaf carved mother of pearl arms with twin pansy motifs below oval loops, a bodkin/earspoon, a mother of pearl thimble with gilt bands and pansy motifs, a letter knife with gold shield motif, a cut glass scent bottle with screw cover and a pair of mother of pearl reels. Complete with ivory silk squab embroidered with a bouquet of flowers with a leaf border the central display with raised flowers and embellished with sequins. Box 21.5 x 18.5 x 8.5cms. †For a similar example see Groves(S) – A History of Needlework Tools plate 89.
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