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Lot 402
Group of silver items to include a late Victorian heart-shaped trinket box highly decorated with embossed scrolling & pie-crust rim (Sheffield 1899 - John Henry Potter, 4.5cm long); a late Victorian trinket box with embossed gadrooned decoration (Chester 1900, 5cm high), a ' Reynold's angels ' matchbox holder, 2 x silver pill pots, a silver lidded vanity jar and a silver lidded pill pot (7)
Lot 1362
Diecast: a large collection of vintage diecast vehicles, to include: a Matchbox 55c Ford Galaxie Police Car with red roof light, VG condition in original box; Dinky UFO Interceptor and Maximum Security vehicle (105); Corgi Volkswagen Breakdown Truck; with further examples by Dinky; Corgi; Matchbox; Viking Models and similar, to include a LEGO oil tanker (Danish), all in playworn condition. (two trays)
Lot 8
A pair of Chinese silver smokers stands, circa 1900, stamped 'C.J. Co, Sterling'. Each with a dragon decorated matchbox holder on a circular ashtray with three cigarette holders, height 10.5cm, diameter 11.5cm, weight 144 and 162 grams. (2)'C.J.Co' were the China Jewellery Company who were active in Shanghai between 1875 and 1920. Provenance: From the estate of William Arthur Blackburn Leach.DOB: 2nd Jan 1872.Leach was born in Norwich where he attended a local grammar school, later becoming an apprentice carpenter and engineer. In 1902 after he had qualified, he went to China where he obtained a position in the Public Works Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council. He spent his working life in Shanghai until he left in 1926.During his time in China he held interests in a Christian Mission school and helped to support street children.He seized every opportunity to visit other parts of China and took thousands of photographs. He purchased widely on his travels, particularly woodcarvings, bronzes, traditional kimonos, paintings and porcelain. He treasured silver items and bought much to take home. He travelled home at least four times during his stay in China and these return visits were round-the-world trips in which he travelled through and visited Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Egypt and The Holy Land, the Far East, Canada and USA.On his return to the UK he lived in Northampton where he was a lay preacher and a local councillor. He gave a great many talks on his experiences in China and the many other Countries he had visited.He died in 1962.
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