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Ceramics and Glass - Lilliput Lane models including Cowslip Cottage, Vine Cottage, Gardener's Cottage, Ring 'O' Bells, Chestnut Cottage, etc; a Beatrix Potter musical teapot; a Caithness paperweight, Five Past Midnight, 116/150; Little Gems musical boxes; a Portmeirion novelty teapot; glass drop ceiling shades, etc
A Very Tiny 19th Century White Mother-of-Pearl Carnet De Bal, the upper guard incised with a scrolling design of flowers and leaves, the lower guard plain. Five ivory inner sticks or “pages” for recording the names of dance partners, and a tiny pencil within a curled metal holder attached at the side. A delicate chain holds a finger ring. Guard length 2.75 inches or 7cm. Together with an ivory fan circa 1900, the cream gauze leaf embroidered with several horizontal bands of tiny silver sequins, the widest band forming large flower heads. The monture is completely piqué with steel. Contained in a cream, silk-lined fan box, unlabelled. Guard length 9.5 inches or 24cm (2) CONDITION REPORT: . The leaf of the piqué fan is split centrally in 3 places.
A Large Late 19th Century Bone Fan, the monture plain, the double fabric leaf of cream silk, painted in soft pastels with a mountain scene and featuring a winged lady. Signed by G. Samperé?, the central feature is a lady with butterfly wings, hovering above the ground, dark curly hair cascading over her shoulders, her dress ethereal. The verso is plain. Guard length 13.75 inches or 35cm. Together with a monogrammed female ostrich feather fan c.1890's, the monture of tortoiseshell, the loop fitted with an elaborate silk tassel in ruby and black, the cord further fitted with a plaited silk ring with which to hold the fan closed when not in use. Overall height 16 inches or 41cm (2) CONDITION REPORT: . the bone fan leaf is slightly damaged along the bottom edge, where a loose gorge stick has moved and caught the silk. The verso is worn to one fold, wear as on the recto, and light brown staining that does not transfer through to the recto. The feather fan is sound but the feathers are a little thin in places.
A Large Tortoiseshell Brisé Fan, circa 1860's to 1880's, of fontange form, good mottling, both guards applied with a gilt metal shaped panel into which are set turquoises and red stones, in diagonal lines on the lower guard and forming the shapes of flowers on the upper guard. In between, the metal work can be seen to be worked in scrolling designs. On the recto, the sticks are further embellished with peacock feathers which extend past the stick tips. An extravagant dark silk tassel hangs from an elaborate metal loop, and has the benefit of a plaited ring for holding the fan closed when not in use. Overall central height including the feathers 12 inches or 30.5cm CONDITION REPORT: . The tortoiseshell and the metal panels and stones appear sound. The feathers have losses.
An Elegant Mid-19th Century Ivory Folding Parasol, the good black Chantilly lace cover with scalloped edge attractively overhanging the cream lining. Designed with central meandering stems and leaves, the cover features eight floral sprays leading to ovals and swags, with flowers and leaves to the border. The lower shaft carving features 5 narrow bands and a bulbous end in four segments. The finial has a small ring for ribbon or other decoration. Height 24.75 inches or 63cm. Cover depth 12.75 inches or 32.5cm. Together with a second mid-19th century folding parasol, the upper shaft of light wood, the ivory lower section quite simply carved. The lace cover, which has been re-lined, would most likely fit a larger frame, but has been elegantly gathered at the crown. The design, of large roses above smaller flower clusters, finishes in a scalloped edge, large flowers alternating with leaves (2) CONDITION REPORT: . First parasol, please note a slight curve to the lower, ivory shaft. The upper shaft is pale wood. An odd tiny hole noted in the net ground. Replacement lining is strong. The second parasol is lined in a strong mustard to set off the design, with a further black lining within. One split in the net noted up next to the top of the crown, and two or three on the border. Otherwise the cover feels crisp and sound.
A Good Brussels Bobbin Appliqué Lace Folding Parasol, the motifs mounted on black silk. Lined in cream silk. The frame, of ivory, is carved from the end to the central point where the brass ring covers the hinging mechanism. The floral carving, quite deep, is designed to meander around the lower section. Lined in fine cream silk with good working action, and no splits to the silk. Overall length when extended, approx. 22.75 inches or 58cm CONDITION REPORT: . In very good order.
Four Fine and Unusual Miser's or Stocking Purses, from a large collection to follow those included in this sale. The first, c 1850, is of a very fine-gauge cream net, beaded along the opening and in two areas of the body, with the tiniest gold beads, and finished at each end with a larger brown bead and loops of the gold examples. Overall length 10 inches or 25.5cm. Next, a cream thread purse with open lattice design, each crossing point featuring a minute gold bead. The ends each feature a quite plain and rounded dull gold button (perhaps a boot button) and each section is secured with a cream ring of either ivory or bone. Length 7.75 inches or 19.5cm. Thirdly, a very fine stocking purse, featuring pink, green and yellow flowers within pale blue rectangles, two yellow bands next to the opening, all against a dark brown background. Each end is finished with an embossed cup holding loops of tiny gold beads. Finally, a larger example worked in bands of olive green and pink, the sections secured with bone rings, the ends finished with a gold metal pendulous flower head. Length 10 inches or 25.5cm (4) CONDITION REPORT: . Generally sound, some staining on item 1, which lacks closure loops. The third purse lacks one closing ring and one point of slight damage noted.
A Box of Beadwork/Work in Progress, mainly from the 19th century, containing a small early 19th century crochet bag, with 2 gold metal bars for the slender frame, a small coral tassel at the bottom, fitted with a finger ring, the body worked in colours of green, pink lilac and cream, accompanied by a small straw container of threads and silks. Together with a box containing several items in various stages of preparation, showing the techniques involved, comprising one panel of knitted beadwork depicting a peacock, still on the needles, another such panel with metal beads, attached to canvas, a very fine panel on the needles for a miser's purse, threaded beads on card, two panels, one fringed, and the strap for a 1920's beaded bag, and a reel of silk thread (qty) CONDITION REPORT: . All good as work in progress.
A Quantity of World Fans, 19th to 20th Centuries, with examples from the Indian Continent, Africa, Southern islands, Asia and the Orient. Comprising two African fly whisks with shaped bone handles, one of which seems to be carved with a hand, and another, later in date, the handle carved in teak with a warrior wearing a silver collar. A large African fixed fan, with leather covered handle and central pouch into which various feathers are slotted, to produce a near cockade shape; two very brightly coloured fixed flag fans from Pakistan, one with gold thread, one with mirrors and sequins; an Indian flag fan with rotating wood handle, woven in straw; a pair of pankha with wide wood handles, and fibre leaf underlaid with pink foil; two screens made from fibres and embroidered in bright pink wool; a pair of modern pink flag fans; a long buffalo hide fan with fixed handle shaped and pierced and painted, forming a deity; a modern palm fan; a face screen advertising the Kindayu Hotel, Japan; a Malaysian half-cockade brisé in wood with carved handle and finger ring; a wood cockade painted in bright colours forming a peacock with outspread tail, when the paper leaf is fully open; and a Burmese fan of pigskin (19) CONDITION REPORT: . all used, mainly in good condition.
A Large Late 19th Century Chinese Black Lacquer Fan, Qing Dynasty, the guards and gorge decorated in gold with figures, insects and butterflies. The double paper leaf is turquoise to the recto and embroidered with mainly pink flowers, the large paeony attracting a detailed butterfly, with two colourful birds and two more butterflies hovering around. The verso, in cream, is embroidered with pink roses and leaves in autumnal colours, a bird and butterfly hovering above. Guard length 14.75 inches or 37.5cm. Together with a Chinese carved bone folding fan, the upper guard with a tiny carving of flowers and leaves, the cream gauze leaf embroidered to the recto with a large dragon. A silk tassel is fitted to the rivet ring. Guard length 9.25 inches or 23.5cm (2) CONDITION REPORT: . Lacquer fan: the monture is in good order, some light marking to the leaf and one small hole, with a slightly bigger area of damage seen from the cream verso. Smaller fan, the leaf is splitting to the right side and a previous owner label is adhered to the left.
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 12th impression, 1962; The Two Towers, 10th impression, 1963; The Return of the King, 9th impression, 1962, folding map at end of each, presentation inscriptions, top edge red, original cloth, price-clipped dust jackets, spines and extremities a little rubbed and toned, a few tears, 8vo, with others, mainly P.G. Wodehouse including 1st editions The Clicking of Cuthbert, 1922, Divots (1st US edition), 1927, Enter PSmith, 1935 and Lord Emsworth and Others, 1937, without jackets, varying condition (Qty: 32)
Chapman (George). Foil Practice; with a Review of the Art of Fencing, according to the theories of La Boe?ssie?re, Hamon, Gomard, and Grisier. For the use of Military Classes, Instructors in the Army, and Others, London: W. Clowes & Sons, 1861, half-title, 4 lithograph plates (one folding and frayed to fore-edge margin), bound with Ibid. , Notes and Observations on the Art of Fencing. A Sequel to 'Foil Practice.', Part 1, No. 1 [all published], London: Clowes, Charing Cross, 1864, 2 lithograph plates, occasional light spotting, front free endpaper inscribed 'To Colonel Gordon Maynard Ives with the Author's Respects, Jan 7 1878', upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Colonel Gordon-Ives, C.B., contemporary red half morocco, joints cracked and weak, worn, cup ring mark to upper board, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.56. Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives (1837-1907) was born in London, the son of Jeremiah Robert Ives and Emma Maynard. He married Amy Violet B. Pullin in 1880 and later married Millicent Grace Villiers in 1897, both at St. George Hanover Square, London. He gained the rank of Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
* Sitwell (Edith, 1887-1964). A series of 18 letters, six in the third person, to her insurance brokers, largely relating to jewellery purchases, 1954-1964, all to the Atlas Insurance Company, some to named individuals, together with five letters written on her behalf by secretaries, and a valuation certificate from Cameo Corner, 1958, a total of 38 pages, small 4to (Qty: 23)NOTES'... When the Manager was so kind as to insure Dame Edith's Jewellery some time ago, amongst the items was a Renaissance pendant, consisting of a Queen's Head carved out of a garnet, with a gold crown, and surrounded by branches with flowers of white enamel with centres of rubies. (To this subsequently added a brooch - value £65, I think, if I remember rightly, from Cameo Corner. ...The whole jewel was inadequately priced at the moment. Dame Edith's secretary, Miss Salter, took it the other day, to be valued at Messrs. Philipps, the antique jewellers, of New Bond Street, and they said that although it was impossible, really, to price it, as it is a work of art, they would sell it for £600. ...' '.. a deep blue, square-oblong aquamarine ring, purchased for £160. '... my sable-dyed Rolinsky coat, bought by me for £82. 19s. '... I have just (with my Guinness prize) bought two new rings from Cameo Corner ... the amount I shall pay for these will be either £175 or £180. '... One ring is an amethyst surrounded by diamonds, the other a ring of small pearls with a few tiny diamonds interspersed. ... Incidentally, I changed the amethyst ring, and the pearl ring that I bought last autumn, for a topaz & pearl ring, and three half hoop pearl rings. These came to £25 less than the others, but I shall, when I have been televised, get another ring which will increase that sum. etc. etc. ...' Edith Sitwell was well-known for her extravagant taste in jewellery, and this correspondence shows how seriously she took the question of valuing her new purchases, very many of them from Cameo Corner in Museum Street, London. Dame Edith (who, as ever, insists that she should be properly identified as 'Dame' or 'D.B.E.'), describes the individual purchases in her letters, and is most particular to ensure that she has full insurance cover when travelling abroad. The letters reveal not only an enthusiastic collector but a remarkably business-like personality. The letters are variously written from Renishaw Hall, The Sesame and Imperial Club, and Chicago, and all bear the received-stamp of the Leeds branch of the insurers, some being annotated with financial calculations in pencil.
* Bookplates & labels. A collection of 30 bookplates, ownership labels & business cards, etc., 18th & 19th century, including bookplates for Hookham's Circulating Library, New Bond Street, [London]; Halifax Garrison Library, Patron, The Right Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie; A. Crocker, Schoolmaster, Ilminster; Worcester Library, Instituted, 1790; and a masonic bookplate for William Pearce of Birmingham; book ownership labels including: William Rhodes of Derby, 3rd April, 1730; Mr Bill's Library of Bath; Joseph Wood, Deanrow; John Rutherfurd of Edgerston; and a red morocco label for James Sanders, 1817; and business cards & advertising labels including: James Newby, Hat Manufacturer, Dorking, Surrey, c.1790; Peter White, Hat Maker of 81 Newgate Street, London; Academy for Boarding & Day Pupils, No. 1 New Meeting Street, Birmingham, conducted by Wm. Tolley Junr.; Mackay's best Viginia, No. 7. Wych Street, Drury Lane, [London], c.1800; Ruled by T. Pearson's Ruling Machine, c.1790; William Sharp, Paper Manufacturer, Abbey Mills, Romsey; R. Collinson, Printer, Bookseller, Bookbinder & Stationer, Market Place, Mansfield, all contained together in modern ring binder folder (Qty: a folder)
Bristol. A collection of 24 broadsides, tracts and pamphlets relating to Bristol, 18th & 19th century, including: Bristol Institution, for the Promotion of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Founded February 29, 1820. Sixth Exhibition of Pictures, Opened August 15th, 1831, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office, 1831, [2],10pp., some dampstains, original printed wrappers torn at spine edge and loose, slim 4to; Catalogue of the First Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, held by Permission of the Committee, at the Institution, Park Street, 1832, Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, 1832, 12pp., some browning to corners and margins, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, at the Institution, Park Street, 1833, Bristol: Printed by Mills & Son, [1833], 12pp., two small holes to title and few short closed tears to margins, some soiling and dampstaining, side stitched as issued, slim 4to; An Act for the better Preserving the Navigation of the Rivers Avon and Froome, and for Cleansing, Paving and Inlightning the Streets of the City of Bristol, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and Executrix of Thomas Newcombe, 1700, [2], 379-396pp., some toning, slim disbound folio; Theatre Royal, Bristol. This present Monday the 14th of Oct. 1805, will be presented, Shakespeare's Historical Tragedy, of King Richard III..., [Bristol]: Catherine Routh, Printer, 18, Bridge Street, [1805], broadside laid-down onto card, browned, 23.5 x 17.5 cm; Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company, memorandum in connection with obtaining incorporation by Act of Parliament, 1823, 4pp., disbound folio, plus 18 other Bristol related, etc., contained together in modern ring binder folder (Qty: a folder)

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