A 19th Century beechwood, ash and elm seated wheel back Windsor armchair with two tier stick back, on turned underframe (splits to arms and seat), and a ditto beechwood and ash stick back Windsor armchair with two tier back (with damage to back), a stained beechwood ladder back and rush seated open armchair (reduced in height), and a late Victorian oak hall chair with shield shaped back, on turned legs
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A good Three-Band Snider Enfield Volunteer Rifle by the London Arms Company, 36.5inch barrel with a clean bright bore, fitted with ramp and ladder rear sights and rotating foresight protector, various ordnance marks to the action and barrel, the lock stamped 1864 over L.A. Co. and with a crown over VR at the tail, chained nipple protector, full stocked with chequered wrist and fore-end, regulation steel and brass mounts, complete with cleaning rod and leather sling. A clean and crisp gun.
10th-11th century AD. A complex bronze ornament comprising: one larger and one smaller dress pin each with round-section tapering shaft and cruciform finial of four lobes, the larger with conical bosses and the smaller with incised ring-and-dot motifs; a pair of trapezoidal openwork plaques each with conical bosses, the plaque attached to the smaller pin modified after loss of the upper lobe; three substantial double-link chains attached to the rear of each plaque, extending to the central waisted plaque with tremolier ladder pattern motif; the chains supporting a variety of embellishments and pendants comprising: two lengths of coiled rod, a disc pendant with hook, a small conical bell, two larger conical bells, a spherical rumbler bell, a silver disc fragment, a Roman(?) hand pendant in the 'figa' gesture, two flat-section triangular pendants, a fragment of green-glazed ceramic, Baltic workmanship. 684 grams total, 87cm overall (34 1/4"). Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1980s and 1990s. Cf. Griciuviene, E. Žiemgaliai. The Semigallians, Vilnius, 2005, items 474, 478. Fine condition.
3rd millennium BC. A marble cylinder seal with scene of three women; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: Cylinder Seal of Pink Marble 19.5 x 18.5mm. The design shows women at work. Two women sitting on mats (represented by ladder-patterns) are doing something with a spouted pot. A third woman is holding up an unidentified rectangular object of which there are three more around her. This is a Jemdet Nasr seal, c. 3000 B.C., from Mesopotamia. It is in fine condition.' 12 grams, 20mm (3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; part of his family collection since the 1970s. This lot is part of a single collection of cylinder seals which were examined in the 1980s by Professor Lambert and most are accompanied by his own detailed notes; the collection has recently been reviewed by Dr. Ronald Bonewitz.
17th-18th century AD. A cut steel chessman seal matrix with hexagonal section shaft and pointed oval knob; the oval face with intaglio heraldic garnished shield arms depicting a ladder surmounted by a crest of a crenellated tower with three feathers between two tulips issuing, for the family of Lützau or von Lützow of Denmark (originally from Mecklenberg); with inked collector number to reverse and a note of identification. 29.32 grams, 24.79mm tall (24.04mm face) (1 (1)"). [No Reserve] Very fine condition. From a significant private English collection of seal matrices, formed over the past 35 years. See Natural. 1651 and 1963 or Natural. 1776 and 1881. This seal has been examined and attributed by Lars Largerqvist, a Swedish heraldry expert.
Matchbox Superfast Prototype model of a "Fire Pig" Fire Engine, made from resin, plastics and other polymers, red body with blue roof lights, white plastic ladder, silver detailing with Fire Pig transfer to one side, fitted with Superfast wheels, unknown example, with original pre production stage drawings of this model

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