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Lot 762
A 1940s green painted wooden portable Punch and Judy show with puppets, the front, transfer printed with a paper inset panel depicting a clown playing a wind up organ and the other a cello together with a small book of engravings with Cruickshank engravings and a small painted jester tape measure (5)
Lot 234
A 19th Century Bohemian vase by Josef Ahne of footed ovoid form with collar neck, enamel decorated with a large cartouche panel depicting children in period dress playing hide and seek to an interior setting within gilded scroll borders over an opaque caramel coloured ground, signed to the body, height 22cm.
Lot 147
A 19th Century Chinese cabinet plate, the central reserve decorated with figures set within a walled garden, framed with two border rims, the first with a brown fish scale band, the outer border with scenes of Mount Fuji and landscape cartouche panels, unmarked, diameter 19.5cm together with a Chinese blue and white charger, diameter 28cm, a Chinese oval dish with figures playing in a garden, length 15cm S/D and a Staffordshire vase stand in blue with a hand painted roundel, damages (4)
Lot 49
Three Royal Worcester figurines comprising 'Captivity' modelled as a maiden dressed in robes holding aloft a dove in her hand, green mark with date code circa 1911, height 24cm, and a pair of early Hadley figurines of musicians, she holding her arms in the air (lacking her tambourine), he playing a recorder, shape 1803, she with a puce mark and dated 1914, he with a green mark and dated 1912, all with restoration (3)
Lot 371
A late 19th Century Swiss twelve air musical box with rosewood and cross-banded floral marquetry inlaid case, bearing label to interior "Lister & Sons 246 Harrow Road London W", 66.5 cm wide CONDITION REPORTS It has been fully restored by Keith Harding of The World of Mechanical Musical Instrument. The top has splits has been repaired. All the teeth appear present, it has been playing whilst in the saleroom, but we cannot guarantee working order. Paper label has a rip to the bottom right quarter.
Lot 824
A 19th Century Dutch walnut and inlaid fold-over card table in the early 18th Century manner, the marquetry inlaid top decorated with a vase of flowers and foliate swags with butterfly inlaid spandrels opening to reveal a red baize lined interior with counter and card recesses inlaid with playing cards over a shaped freize with single drawer marquetry inlaid with foliage and flowers, raised on shell carved cabriole legs to paw/hoof feet, 74.5 cm wide
Lot 639
A collection of eleven various Japanese carved wooden netsukes and figures, including owl seated upon the back of a dog, two dogs playing, octopus upon the back of a turtle, toad upon a leaf, cicada, man with a drum, man hugging an eel, hen and chicks, man with fan, recumbent water buffalo and a soapstone seal type figure of a temple lion (11)
Lot 450
A nineteenth century Indian Colonial silver 'Swami ware' claret jug, of baluster form with cast and chased stylised Hindu deity decoration to the body, cast and applied handle in the form of a cobra, cast and applied finial of a man playing a pungi or bansuri, marks struck to base "P. Orr & Sons, Madras", height 26 cm, weight of jug 661 g / 21.2 ozt approx, presented in a fitted and lined wooden case with retailer's label, "P. Orr & Sons, manufacturing jewellers & silversmiths, Madras"
Lot 425
Early 19th Century Meissen gilt floral porcelain mantel clock, surmounted by a Goddess playing a horn, modelled with crowned eagle, cherubs, classical figures and applied flowers, blue under glazed cross swords mark, 70cm x 34cm. CONDITION REPORT: Quill missing from figure surmount Wreath laurel missing petal Nummerous losses to the relief foliage Knight missing sword Knight missing sword tip Knight missing left are Female figure missing green foliate scroll from right hand Some firing cracks Base with many losses to the relief petals Mechanism has no bell or gong. No guarantee of working order. Pendulum not original. One cherub chip to sole of foot. Some losses to applied flower, particularly on base. Soldier missing arm and part of baton. Restoration required.
Lot 3659
Botany - an unusual and rare late George III card game, Botanical Pastime, in a Series of Questions & Exemplifications, Calculated to render the first and more uninteresting part of the Study an agreeable Amusement., Printed for Darton, Harvey & Co., Gracechurch Street, [London c. 1813], Price 5s. plain [...] 7s. coloured, the cards measure 11.8cm x 7.6cm, printed pink title-card, 65 cards including introduction, key and 63 playing cards (harlequin numbering, some printed with monochrome botanical illustrations) For a similar example see Toronto Public Library, Record ID 2884022. Little is known of this scarce card game, however what we do know is that the game was advertised in 1813 in B.M. Forster's 'Botanical illustrations of the twenty-four classes in the Linnaean system of vegetables' and was inspired by Priscilla Wakefield's 'An introduction to botany in a series of familiar letters'. Cards are dealt to players with the possessor of card 102 starting the game by asking the question on that card. The player with the appropriate answer reads it aloud, and carries on the game by asking another question found at the bottom of the same card.
Lot 408
A Swiss inlaid burr walnut musical chair, unsigned, late 19th century A Swiss inlaid burr walnut musical chair, unsigned, late 19th century , playing a choice of sixteen airs via two 11 inch pinned brass cylinders and steel combs, each movement driven by a single crank-wound spring drum on iron bed, the stop/play pins protruding from the sides of the seat rails, the underside of the seat with hand-written tune sheets numbered 20079 and 20080 respectively, the chair with pierced foliate back and central inlaid oval with Chamois motifs above open arms and seat with further inlaid foliate scrolls and circular panel containing deer, the whole on reeded and accanthus legs, 126cm high, 66cm wide, 53cm deep
Lot 146
A fine George II japanned eight-day quarter chiming musical longcase clock... A fine George II japanned eight-day quarter chiming musical longcase clock Newman Cartwright, London, circa 1730 The substantial five pillar triple train rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the musical train peeling the quarters and playing a choice of two tunes on the hour via a sixteen hammers on eight bells, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture, subsidiary seconds dial and applied arched signature plate Newman Cartwright, London to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced steel hands and applied female mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch centred with A Minuett/A March tune selection dial flanked by dolphin cast mounts, in a black japanned case with domed caddy surmount to the blind fret fronted box upstand over moulded cornice and conforming infill to the quadrants above the break-arch glazed hood door decorated with gilt foliate trails, the sides with rectangular glazed apertures and quarter columns applied to bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with floral spray painted concave throat moulding over break-arch door finely decorated in raised polychrome and gilt with a stag being pursued by hounds within an arcadian Oriental landscape with pavillions, the surround further decorated with foliate trails beneath birds to upper quadrants, the sides painted with full height flowering foliage, on cavetto moulded plinth base with conforming landscape scene to front and applied skirt over squat ogee bracket feet (wear and loss to decoration), 234cm (92cm high). A clockmaker with the name Newman Cartwright does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources however a watch dating to around 1720 by 'N. Cartwright, Lombard Street' (with pierced silver pillars) is noted in Britten, F. J. FORMER CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS AND THEIR WORK. In addition to this a walnut eight-day longcase clock by Newman Cartwright, also dating to around 1720, was sold at Chorley's, Prinknash Abbey on 24th June 2010 (lot 445) for £3,000 hammer. Finally a record of successful proceedings and notice of a meeting for debtors relating to the bankruptcy of Newman Cartwright 'of Lombard Street, Silversmith and Chapman' is recorded in the Gazette printed in late May or early June 1758.
Lot 108
A fine German gilt brass quarter striking table clock with annual calendar... A fine German gilt brass quarter striking table clock with annual calendar dial Engraved with initials P K F R , dated 155(4?) The posted iron triple fusee movement of 'cruciform' layout centred with longitudinal going train with verge escapement regulated by steel two-arm balance set above the top plate flanked by transverse quarter train opposing conforming strike train, the quarter train with cannon warning arbor applied over the locking detent arbor released via capstan wheel driven by the underdial motionwork operating a sliding shunt and sounding on a bell mounted within the superstructure above, the hour strike train now fitted with countwheel for Italian double six-hour striking and released in-turn by the quarter train via detent engaging with pins to the quarter countwheel and arbor passing across the front of the movement, the exterior with annual calendar dial now with vacant centre within concentric Zodiacal scale engraved for the Julian calendar divided onto five day intervals to inner track within reserve engraved with pictorial representations and respective symbols with divisions for every day to the outer track, the applied ring aligned with the Zodiacal scale and divided in a similar manner with each month labelled in Latin along with its length, the spandrel areas engraved with symmetrical hatched foliate scroll infill over conforming band to apron incorporating pivoted shutter for the vacant alarm winding hole engraved with the initials P K, F R , the opposing side now applied with twelve-hour chapter disc with hatched foliate scroll engraved centre within concentric Arabic numerals 13-24 and outer Roman numerals, the upper spandrel areas with conforming foliate infill, the lower margins engraved to match and now applied with three vestigial subsidiary dials for day-of-the-week, quarter-hours and date-of-the-month, the quarter train side with panel engraved with a Classical female playing a harp within an architectural archway fitted with shuttered winding hole for the quarters and another vacant hole probably originally for remote winding of the going train over hatched foliate scroll engraved panel to lower margin, the opposing strike train side with subsidiary countwheel position dial annotated in Arabic numerals 1-12 over vestigial alarm setting dial within further hatched leafy trail infill, the top with fine ogee-outline cupola with complex rectangular section spire finial over stylised flower buds applied to shoulders and six pierced circular portrait panels each depicting an allegorical profile within hatched leafy scroll decorated panel infill, the slender moulded cornice applied with squat urn finials and engraved with text DIE . STUND . UND . TAG . 155(4?) over the calendar dial opposing WACHET . DAN . IR . WIST . NIT over the hour dial, the angles incorporating square section three-quarter pilasters and plinths decorated with scribed-line panels, on shallow inverted breakfronted cavetto moulded base engraved with stylised interlaced foliate motifs, (losses/replacements to dials and motionwork), 22cm (9.75ins) high. Provenance: The beneficiaries of the Estate of an Italian connoisseur collector of horological artefacts and works of art. Comparative literature: Maurice, Klaus and Mayr, Otto THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE, GERMAN CLOCKS AND AUTOMATA 1550-1650 pages 182-85 and 189-90. The current lot employs the archetypical 'cruciform' layout to the movement (where the going train is positioned longitudinally in the centre flanked by transverse quarter and hour strike trains) favoured by the south German makers of the finest 'Masterpiece' table clocks from the mid 16th century until the end of the 17th century. From a practical point of view this layout adds a degree of complexity with regards to resolving the lifting of the strike and quarter trains but has the significant benefit of allowing each face of the case to be fitted with dials/features directly relating to the function of mechanism behind. This benefit is particularly relevant when considering the statutory requirement (specifications) of a 'Masterpiece' as dictated by the Augsburg clockmakers' guild in 1558 as transcribed in Maurice, Klaus and Mayr, Otto THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE, GERMAN CLOCKS AND AUTOMATA 1550-1650 on page 67: " Mastepieces of 1558 Small-clock makers: A clock a span high, without weights, to strike each quarter-hour. The astrolabe runs as part of the clock. A small flat clock or spherical clock with the phases of the moon; the latter to move forward in time with the hand ." In order for the current lot to fulfil the above requirements it would have need to have been fitted with an astrolabic dial and one showing the phases of the moon. When considering the layout of the clock it is conceivable that an astrolabe was originally fitted to the centre of the side now applied with the twelve-hour chapter disc, however the inscription to the cornice above - DIE . STUND . UND . TAG would perhaps suggest otherwise as this simply translates as THE HOUR AND DAY. From this it is more likely that that the original dial configuration to this side was limited to time, day-of-week and date-of-month functions alone. The other side retains its original year calendar complete with Zodiacal divisions however the central feature is now missing. A clue to what was originally fitted in this space may again be suggested by the inscription to the cornice above - WACHET . DAN . WIST . NIT. Unfortunately there appears to be no direct translation for this phrase, however when considering the inscription in broadly linguistic terms it may be appropriate to speculate that it relates to day and night indication. If this is the case then the centre of the dial may well have originally been fitted with a dial indicating the variance in the relative length of the day and night throughout the year. Alternatively, as more commonly seen, the centre may have featured a disc pierced for the phases of the moon. In addition to either of these two functions the annual calendar dial would have most likely had hands to indicate the date of the year and the zodialogical aspect of the sun. One slight complicating factor regarding the reconstruction of the moving elements to the centre is the presence of the going train winding square. However examination of the going train fusee and other evidence within the movement and quarter-strike side of the case suggests that the going train may have originally been fitted with indirect winding from the side. This would have left the dial centre (and indeed the motionwork behind) free of obstruction. The distinctly two-dimensional external decoration of the current lot is unusual and differs from the fashion for intense sculpted relief made popular by makers such as Jeremias Metzger during the mid 1550's. However the decorative effect of the pierced and engraved profile portraits to the dome is particularly pleasing. The applied stylised flower heads to the angles of the cupola are also unusual being reminiscent of similar decoration seen on Gothic iron chamber clocks of the period. The movement is particularly well executed with fine delicate wheelwork which is remarkable when considering that each wheel was hand forged, cut and filed. The provision of a fairly complex system of warned striking is also testament to the clockmakers technical ability.
Lot 97
Grandstand Electronic Pocket Pacman, big screen LCD, with instruction manual and in original box, together with Grandstand Invader from Space Electronic Game (unboxed) together with Mego Corp. Fabulous Fred, The Ultimate Electronic Game in original box, instruction manual, playing pieces for baseball and roulette etc. (3) CONDITION REPORT: Condition report on request, none is tested if working.
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