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Click here to subscribeλ A mid-19th century ivory handled seal, the matrix stamped 'HAMPSHIRE BANKING COMPANY ANDOVER', together with three smaller examples with bone and ivory handles and engraved matrices, together with a specimen hardstone seal, the matrix with a flower, 8.9cm high. (5) Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman.
λ Public execution interest. A rare and unusual early Victorian bone or ivory toggle / fob seal, inscribed 'Execn of S. D., Aug V., 1843, C.P. Makr' and the base with 'T. I. B', with a brass suspension ring, 3.2cm high. Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman. The initials 'S. D.' on this toggle relate to Sarah Dazley (1819-1843) the first and only woman to be publicly hanged at Bedford Gaol. She was known as the Potton Poisoner after she was convicted of murdering, by arsenic poisoning, her second husband William Dazley. She was also suspected but not tried of murdering her first husband and son, Simeon and Jonah Mead, in 1840. She was executed on the 5th August 1843 on the New Drop in front of thousands of onlookers and was the last person to be publicly hanged at Bedford Gaol.
λ An early Victorian ivory 'Royal Academy Antique School 1768' student's admission token, for Silvester Charles Capes, admitted on the 24th April 1843, 5.1cm diameter. Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman. Silvester Charles Capes (1825-1901) was a Victorian architect, he won the Royal Academy's silver medal in 1845 and became a fellow of RIBA in 1867.
λ An early Victorian ivory 'Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden' pass or token, for the Honourable A. Willoughby, for stage box number 1, dated 1847, 3.7cm diameter. Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman. The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden re-opened in 1847 as the Royal Italian Opera Covent Garden, after the auditorium was completely remodelled following a fire in 1846.
λ A mid-Victorian carved ivory presentation conductor's baton, the handle carved with a semi-naked figure of Euterpe, the muse of music, holding a lyre, above the Royal garter and with musical trophies, 60.3cm long, in a leather case applied with a white metal plaque, inscribed 'PRESENTED TO JAMES ROBERT BURN ESQ ACCOMPANIED BY A MUSIC STAND AND MEMORIAL BY THE MEMBERS OF HIS SINGING CLASS October 1866'. (2) Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman. James Robert Burn was a bookbinder and ran the firm of James Burn and Company in the mid-19th century.
A collection of silver plated wares, comprising; a large two handled tray, a collection of ivorine handled knives, two gilt plated embossed bowls, four glass bottles with plated covers, a cased set of Victorian ivory handled fish knives and forks, a cased set of Victorian ivory handled fruit knives and forks, a pair of French asparagus servers, two shell butter dishes, a small circular dish/plate, a breakfast/muffin dish, two sauce boats, an entree dish and cover, a meat skewer, two carving knives with forks, three napkin rings, a goblet, two knife rests, a pair of grape scissors, an egg topper, an oval embossed dish, a hinged box, four salt spoons, a mustard spoon, a further spoon, a small fish fork and a lobster pick (a lot)
A set of four Royal Worcester dessert plates, late 19th century, of Rococo outline with gilt moulded rim, painted in colours with wild flowers, shape number 1427, printed factory marks, 22cm wide together with a further Royal Worcester blush ivory leaf form dish decorated with flowers, shape 1414, 21cm wide (5)
A collection of Royal Worcester blush ivory and florally painted wares early 20th century comprising a twin-handled vase, 17cm high; a pair of small squat lobed twin-handled vases, 9cm high; a pot pourri jar lacking cover, 8.5cm high and a small circular pot and cover painted with roses; together with blush ivory to include a pair of small barrel form dishes, pair of miniature pots and covers, cream jug and a twin-handled vase, printed factory marks (11)
A Chinese boxwood figure of Liu Haichan, the seat cross-legged figure holding up a coin and laughing with a three-legged toad at his feet and a gourd in his left hand, on a shaped rocky plinth and three bracket feet, the figure with glass eyes, one absent, and ivory teeth, 25cm high, 24cm wide
A mixed lot to include three Japanese figural scroll seals, carved as a man on a minogame turtle, a cross legged scholar and another man reading a book, various sizes, a carved rootwork figure of a seated fisherman with basket and pipe, 20cm high, four various carved ivory animals to include a camel and an antelope, damaged, 4-6cm long, a resin group of three quail on a hollow log plinth, 14cm long, a signed carved ivory plaque incised and detailed with a coloured pomegranate branch and attendant bird within a reticulated border, 9cm diameter, and a small black lacquer domed box and cover, gilded with a dragon boat, 5cm diameter, late 19 th /early 20 th century (11)
A 19th century mahogany demi-lune side table, with a raised rail back above a shaped apron accommodating a central cock-beaded frieze drawer, with a central kite shaped inset ivory lock escutcheon flanked by brass handles and mounts, raised on shallow serpentine carved tapering squared legs, 76 cm high, 116 x 55 cm (later glass topped).
A pair of silver mounted ivory glove stretchers, Birmingham 1909, together with a pair of Victorian silver glove stretchers, London 1890, a pair of mauchline ware glove stretchers, an ebonised pair and a collection of silver handled nail instruments, button hooks and shoe horns, with a plated vase
A 19thC rosewood and inlaid sewing table, the shaped top with hinged lid revealing a section of lidded and open compartments, with ivory and other stringing, on an elaborate quadruple shaped stem and triple scroll platform base, profusely highlighted and inlaid with flowers, 80cm H, 57cm W, 45cm D.
λ A small collection of ivory items, including: three paper knives, two engraved 'A Present from Scarborough' and 'A Present from a Friend', a sewing barrel reel holder, a shaker, three boxes and covers, one polychrome and pique decorated, a folding memorandum tablet engraved with the owner's name 'Polly Farr', together with a pierced bone egg shape box, early 19th century and later, 20.7cm (max). (11) Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman.
λ A George III mahogany square piano by John Broadwood & Son, the case inlaid with stringing and purpleheart and satinwood banding, with applied gilt brass paterae, signed 'JNO Broadwood & Son, London, Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square' and dated '1794 Patent', with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals, on square tapering legs and brass castors, 86.8cm high, 159cm wide, 54.1cm deep.
λ A pair of Japanese Shibayama lacquer whist markers, with gilt flowers and leaves, with ivory hinged pegs decorated with insects, together with a Japanese ivory netsuke of two playful rats, Meiji 1868-1912, 9.2cm (max). (3) Provenance: 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The property of a Gentleman.
λ An 19th century mahogany wheel barometer by Clegg, the twelve inch silvered dial engraved with an urn of flowers, above a circular dial inscribed 'CLEGG 168 NEW CROSS ROAD SE', the case inlaid with boxwood stringing and rosewood banding, with a thermometer and a dry / moist dial, the swan neck pediment with an ivory urn finial, 117.5cm high.
λ A Victorian carved oak stick barometer by Carpenter & Westley, the ivory dials for yesterday and today with twin adjustable vernier scales, signed 'Carpenter & Westley 24 Regent Strt. London', in a Jacobean revival case carved with a winged angel mask surmount, above scrolls and fruit, the stem with a caryatid figure wearing a crown of laurel, holding a branch and a lyre, 102cm high.
λ An early Victorian rosewood stick barometer by Casartelli of Liverpool, the ivory dials for yesterday and today with twin adjustable vernier scales, signed 'A. & J. CASARTELLI LIVERPOOL', the case with a crenelated surmount above Gothic fluting and an arched bevelled glass, the conforming trunk inset with a thermometer, 102.5cm high.
λ A Victorian mahogany marine stick barometer by Lilley & Son, the ivory dials for yesterday and today with twin adjustable vernier scales, signed 'LILLEY & SON LONDON', the trunk with a sympiesometer and a thermometer, with a silvered dial and a leaf carving above a brass cylindrical cistern cover, 92.7cm high.
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