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Various tinplate toys, French lithographed Nord locomotive and tender push along toy, 20” (51cm) long, poor condition, USA Northwesten wagon and two horse team, horse and cart, toy crane, tram, Bumper car, Ladybird, car, Mickey Mouse alarm clock and Magic Lantern slides and a Sutcliffe Nautilus, all A.F, (11 items).
Silverplate & Metalware - an Art Deco hand hammered teapot; a pair of Victorian silver plated inkwell stands embossed scrolling acanthus border; a caryatid candlestick section; pierced brass swing handled basket; lighting; a silver plated meat skewer; a 19th century oil lantern bowl decorated in ram head masks; a 19th century plated drinks decanter in the form of a barrel (faults) etc (2 boxes)
*Magic Lanterns. A group of 70 diapositive glass lantern slides, early 20th century, largely of Beachy Head lighthouse and environs, including some interior and close-up views, most with ink captions though some faded and illegible, the name of Ellis Kelsey and W.H. Carpenter appearing as photographer names, contained in contemporary wooden slide box (approx. 70)
Magic Lanterns. The Art of Projection and Complete Magic Lantern Manual, by an Expert, 1st edition, 1893, wood-engraved illustrations including two folding plates and commercial adverts at rear, original gilt-pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Diamond (Hugh W., editor), The Journal of the Photographic Society of London..., volume 7, [1860-1862], 1862, some wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, one plate, original cloth, rubbed and spine and extremities faded, plus Litchfield (R.B.), Tom Wedgwood, The First Photographer..., 1st edition, 1903, two photos pasted to dedication leaf including a vignette portrait of the dedicatee Godfrey Wedgwood, inscribed for J.W. Browne from the widow of Godfrey Wedgwood to front free endpaper, original buckram, slightly rubbed and faded on spine, all 8vo, plus other magic lantern and early photography interest (10)
*Magic Lantern Slides. A large group of approximately 300 diapositive slides of Egypt, circa 1880, including views of ancient monuments, villages and people, mostly professional slides, some with printed or indistinct manuscript captions to edges, contained in 3 contemporary wooden slide boxes (approx. 300)
*Magic Lantern Slides. A group of approximately 400 magic lantern slides, late 19th and early 20th century, largely hand-painted slides and stories, unsorted, plus some diapositive miscellaneous slides, contained in 3 wooden slide boxes and 7 card boxes, plus an electric magic lantern viewer by Newton & Co., early 20th century, lacquered metal with brass lens (approx. 400)
A gilt metal and glazed hall lantern in 18th century taste, second half 20th century, of pentagonal section, the arch topped sides all with urns of fruit mounted at the upper angles, the interior with a three light electrical fitment, 80cm high, 44cm wide Provenance: The collection of the late Ronnie Kirkwood and George Dixon.
Box: Irish Literary interest: Heaney (S.) Death of a Naturalist, L. 1966 First; The Haw Lantern, L. 1987, First, and Hailstones, D. 1984, First, others by Brendan Kennelly, Paul Durcan etc; The Whoseday Book, 4to D. 1999. Lim. Edn.; Best (R.I.) Bibliography of Irish Philology, Printed & Manuscript Literature, 2 vols. roy 8vo D. 1913 & 1942, buckram; Healy (J.) Nineteen Acres, Galway 1978, First,; Macgill (P.) Children of The Dead End, n.d., cloth; O'Criomhthain (T.) An t Oileanach, D. 1929, illus.; Mac Liammhoir (M.) La agus Oidche, D. 1929, pict. d.w.; & many others, includ coll. of folding Ordnance Survey maps etc., over 50 items good lot. As a box, w.a.f. (1)
Heaney (S.) Sweeney Astray, Derry 1983, First; Human Chain, L. 2010, First; The Midnight Verdict, 8vo, Gallery 1993, Ltd. Edn. (1000); The Haw Lantern, L. 1987, First, (Ex. Libris Richard Murphy); The Redress of Poetry; L. 1995, First; The Government of the Tongue, L. 1988, all 8vo, all cloth & d.j., clean copies, as a lot. (6)
Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, 8vo, Derry (Field Day) 1983, signed and dated, cloth & d.j.; Station Island, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1984, signed and dated, cloth & d.j.; New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, cloth & d.j.; The Haw Lantern, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, paperback, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
John Wise, Londini fecit, an ebony basket-top bracket clock: the eight-day duration, five-pillar movement with restored verge escapement having a profusely engraved backplate with tulip decoration and signed to the centre within a shaped cartouche, John Wise, Londini fecit, striking the hours on a bell, with the quarter-repeat work now removed, the seven inch square brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals, Arabic outer five minute numerals with further half-quarter markings and fleur-de-lis half-hour markings, the matted dial centre with engraved decoration to the date aperture and ringed winding holes, with cast-brass cherub-head spandrels to the four corners and decorative blued steel hands, the ebony case having a cast-brass pierced repousse basket top with a double-griffin carrying handle, cast brass pierced repousse frets to the sides, applied brass mounts to the front, four ball finials to the top corners and standing on brass bun feet, height 37cm (handle up) 34cm (handle down).* Biography John Wise was apprenticed in 1638 to T. Dawson and then turned over to the well-known lantern clock maker Peter Closon, becoming a Freeman of the Clockmakers Company in 1646. Having worked for a period in Warwick, he had returned to London by 1668 and by 1693 was living in Moorfields. Between the years of 1670 and 1685 he took six of his sons as apprentices along with four others. All his sons, bar the youngest, appearing to have continued in the business. John Wise was a known maker of lantern, longcase and spring clocks.* Notes See Horological Masterworks, an Exhibition of English Seventeenth-Century Clocks, published by the Antiquarian Horological Society, 2003.
A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY NICKEL PLATED TRAVELLING CANDLE LANTERN, the hinged lid opening to reveal a fold-out hanging hook, the case fitted twin folding handles, a further hinged door protecting the glass panel, the base opening to reveal a mat ch storage compartment with remains of striker, 15cm high (closed)

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