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Click here to subscribeA Victorian London Small Arms Company Percussion Cap Musket, the 88cm steel barrel with three steel bands and hinged ladder rear sight , the lock plate engraved with crowned VR cypher, L.S.A.Co. 1871, the walnut full stock with brass fore-end tip, trigger guard and butt plate, and with steel ramrod.
A PERSIAN SHAMSHIR, LATE 18TH CENTURY. with curved watered steel blade of rose and ladder pattern, decorated on one side with a gold koftgari calligraphic cartouche, the forte chiselled with a shaped panel on each side, copper-gilt hilt of pistol form (cracked), chiselled over its surface with flowers and foliage against a finely punched and gilt ground. 60cm; 23 5/8in blade
A 35 BORE GERMAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE WITH BARREL BY JAMES 1 WILKINSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1840. with signed browned twist heavy octagonal barrel of circa 1810, rifled with five grooves, stamped with the barrelsmith`s mark beneath, fitted with barleycorn fore-sight and folding ladder back-sight, case-hardened breech, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with foliage inhabited by a serpent, detented lock engraved with foliage around the border and a hound in pursuit of a stag, retained by a blued quick-release thumb-screw, and fitted with engraved case-hardened hammer en suite with the tang, double set trigger, highly figured walnut full stock cut with a shaped panel of chequering at the fore-end and the grip, carved raised cheek-piece (bruising and scratches, the fore-end with one small crack), finely engraved steel mounts comprising trigger-guard shaped for the fingers and incorporating an adjustable front guard, spurred butt-plate decorated with a stag, three moulded ramrod-pipes, and two sling swivels, silver scrolling side-plate inset with a vacant gold escutcheon beneath, oval escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap (one small crack), and brass-tipped steel ramrod, perhaps the original. 76.5cm; 30 1/8in barrel. James 1 Wilkinson is recorded as Henry Nock`s foreman and succeeded him as Gunmaker in Ordinary to George III in 1805.
A .577 percussion Enfield three band service rifle, barrel length approx 99cm, with barleycorn front sight and ladder rear sight, the border engraved lock struck with crown and 1863 tower, full stocked with regulation brass furniture retaining swing swivels and ramrod (barrel lightly pitted).
A Victorian mahogany extending library ladder, circa 1870, bearing embossed metal plaque titled "BY HER MAJESTYS ROYAL LETTERS PATENT, HENRY DRUCE PATENTEE, NO 275, MANUFACTORY OXFORD", each of the three tiers released by a metal scissor action fitting, 175cm unextended Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports
A set of six George II walnut ladder back dining chairs, by Giles Grendey. Giles Grendey was one of London`s most successful 18th century furniture makers. He was apprenticed in London Joiner`s Company in 1709 and became `free` in 1716. By 1720 he was running his own workshop, taking his first apprentice in November 1720. Grendey set up shop in St. John`s Square, Clerkenwell, where it remained for the rest of his career. His dwelling house was close by at No.2, Lyon Street. In 1729 Grendey was elected to the Livery of the Joiner`s Company and served as Upper Warden in 1747 and 1757, before becoming Master in 1766. By this time he was 72 years old and had probably retired from full time business. By 1779 he had moved to a country estate in Palmer`s Green, where he died on 3 March 1780, aged 87. Grendey`s workshop was on the site of the former London house of the Earl of Aylesbury. It was far larger than most furniture shops, and this suggests that Grendey was both ambitious and well funded. When his workshop was struck by fire in 1731 over £1,000 worth of stock destined for export was destroyed. Yet compared with contemporaries such as Thomas Chippendale, relatively little is known of Grendey`s work. Known documented commissions are few and cannot easily be reconciled with extant furniture His reputation rests primarily on surviving pieces bearing his trade label. About fourteen labelled items and suites are known, including the spectacular Lazcano commission of at least seventy-seven red and gold japanned items, now widely dispersed. The Newport church chairs were first recognised and published by Simon Jervis in 1974. No documentation survives and it is not known how and when these dining chairs came to be in Newport Church.. The chairs can be approximately dated by the style of the label which, although fragmentary, corresponds to the shorter of two versions employed by the Grendey workshop. Other furniture bearing this label can be dated on stylistic and technical grounds to the 1740s or later, and so the present chairs are likely to have been made in the middle years of the 18th century. The ladder-back style derives ultimately from the so-called `Dutch chairs` of the early 18th century; these ladder-backed, turned and rush-seated chairs were imported from Holland in huge numbers from the late 17th century onwards, and were also widely copied by English chair-makers. The Grendey examples are `polite` versions of the form, demonstrating its acceptance into mainstream English furniture-making. Chairs of this type were typically furnished with rush or `matted` seats, a cheap and popular alternative to the more expensive upholstered drop-in seat. The present boarded seats are replacements, installed some time before 1974. The rush seat now fitted to no. VI was made while the chair was on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Marks and stamps: the chairs frames are not numbered, but the later boarded seats are numbered I to V in ink on the undersides. Chair no. V and the labelled chair are stamped T C on the inside of the back rails (other chairs may be stamped but the later seats obscure much of the seat rails). This stamp is hitherto unrecorded. Others chairs bearing Grendey`s label are also stamped with various initials, assumed to be those of journeymen employed in Grendey`s workshop. Selected literature: R. W. Symonds, `Giles Grendey (1693-1780) and the Export Trade of English Furniture to Spain`, Apollo (1935), pp. 336-342. R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, `Georgian Cabinet-Makers VIII - Giles Grendey and William Hallet`, Country Life (1942), pp. 176-77. R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 3rd edn. (1955), pp. 47-48, 144-5. Christopher Gilbert, `Furniture by Giles Grendey for the Spanish Trade`, Antiques, XCIX (1971), pp. 544-50. Simon Jervis, `"A Great Dealer in the Cabinet Way" - Giles Grendey (1693-1780),` Country Life (6 June 1974), pp.1418-1419. G. Beard & C. Gilbert, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, Leed, (1986), pp. 371-372. Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds (1996), pp. 31-2, 238-249.
An aquamarine and diamond bracelet, c.1940, a centrepiece of three trap cut aquamarines, each claw set in a square collet, with pairs of diamond set arched links in between, to links set with pairs of lunette shaped aquamarines a two row square Brazilian snake chain bracelet to a ladder style buckle clasp
A gentleman`s 18ct gold automatic Omega Constellation chronometer bracelet watch, c. 1970. The rectangular cut corner champagne dial, with a striped pattern, black hands and batons, to an integral Milanese bracelet with a Florentine texture finish to a ladder clasp. Model No. 353.019. Import hallmark 18ct gold London 1973
Two albums of photographs, Bristol Police Fire Brigade interest, circa 1912 - silver prints, probably taken by a brigade officer in Bristol and on visits to other brigades, first album of 96, 3 x 4in images of Bristol horsedrawn ladder truck, Shand Mason steam pump, fire boat and crew, Dennis motor pump, fire scenes, open day; second album of 96 2.5 x 2.5in images, similar content, including individual shots of crew, other towns including Derby, Reading and Malvern
A .577 three-band Snider Enfield service rifle, 92.5cm sighted barrel fitted with ramp and ladder rear sights, border engraved lock dated 1860 and stamped with a crown over VR at the tail, full stocked with regulation brass and steel mounts, steel cleaning rod. Firing pin removed and barrel pitted.
A large quantity of various makes including Corgi: La France Aeriel Ladder Truck Centerville FD, Scammell Highwayman Ballast and Trailer Cadburys, GPO Telephones 2-van set, Royal British Legion WWI 4-piece set; Matchbox Yesteryear: 1922 Foden Steam Lorry Hovis, 1922 Ford T Harrods, 1930 Ford A Canada Post; EFE: 3 x 3-piece sets – Tate & Lyle Story, Taylor Woodrow Story, AEC Mammoth tankers, plus 4 individual AEC Mammoth trucks and 2 x Bedford TK Artic BR Door to Door Lledo. Together with c15 white metal bus kits by Westward, Anbrico, Varney, Pirate Models etc plus a few part-made or made, 3 x Robert Opie steel advertising signs and some loose plastic Wild West figures. Many items boxed, minor/some wear, most items QGC/some chipping to as new. (80+)
A quantity of various makes including Corgi: E-One 75` Ladder Titusville FD, Eddie Stobart 3-vehicle set with figures etc, Ford Model T 2-van set, Weetabix Collection 3-vehicle set, 1902 State Landau; Majorette: Club 1/24 Bugatti 55; Lledo: Post Office Telephones 3-vehicle set ; Matchbox Yesteryear: 1907 Peugeot; 1911 Daimler, 1911 Model T Ford. Most items boxed, minor/some wear, minor damage to a few, contents mostly VGC or as new. (c40)
A good set of late 19th century match rifle sights, by Alex. Martin, 20 Exchange Sq, Glasgow, number 1707, comprising 5¼" folding ladder rearsight with GS vernier adjustment to 400 in increases of 10, and with 2 interchangeable apertures, and quick release fore sight with vernier windage adjustment and built in spirit level and with 5 interchangeable bead and ring elements, in their fitted blue velvet lined leather covered case with maker`s name in gilt on the lid. The contents VGC (the case externally worn)
†A Belgian 6 shot 15mm open frame SA PF revolving rifle, 43" overall, octagonal barrel 25¼" with folding ladder rearsight and bayonet bar at muzzle, the top flat engraved "Bertonnet a Buenos Ayres & Paris", the cylinder engraved with rocailles, the frame with vine leaves and stamped "E Lefaucheux Invr Brevete", large square fronted scrolled trigger guard, walnut butt with chequered wrist and carved panels. WO & GC (action requires slight attention, minor wear and pitting). Plate 9
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