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A sapphire and diamond ballerina cluster ring: centring an oval sapphire approximately 11mm long x 8.3mm x 4mm deep in four-claw setting, within a surround of round brilliant-cut diamonds and channel-set tapered baguette-cut diamonds, total diamond weight approximately 1.30cts, the shank stamped '18K',12gms gross weight, ring size O.
A Saxon migration period gold ring: inset with a later single cabochon ruby, the round bezel with beaded edge and three plain gold loops, one with wire attachment, on a shank with worn braided decoration, possibly 6th Century Anglo Saxon origin, approximately 3.6gms gross weight. * Provenance Bonhams - Lot 178 sale 13686, 27 April 2006.
A silver five row cobra link bracelet, claw set with three rows of circular cut rubies, a rolled gold hinge bangle, a single row cultured pearl necklace, a gold synthetic spinel eternity ring marked 9k, 2.28g, and another similar, a French silver ring (pearl loose), a Victorian silver brooch, marcasite set jewellery, etc.
A mixed lot of silver items, comprising of a bead pattern butter knife, a nail buffer, an egg spoon, a salt spoon, a pair of pepper pots, a napkin ring, a coin silver salt spoon, various Continental items of flatware, electroplated items, various knife rests and other items, together with a silver handled button hook, a show horn and a sealing wax holder
A collection of gold jewellery, to include a gentlemen's 9ct gold signet ring, 4.60g, a gentlemen's 9ct gold signet ring, 3.80g, a 9ct gold wedding ring, 1.44g, a gold hollow hoop earring, 1.90g, a gold donkey charm, 1.48g, a gold purple paste bar brooch, marked 9ct, a gold ship's wheel compass, 3.92g, tested as approximately 9ct gold
Two jewellery boxes, to include a 9ct gold chain back cufflink, a 15ct gold five stone foil back ring, 1.39g, a gold dress stud marked 9ct, 1.34g, a Victorian gold three stone garnet and split pearl bar brooch, marked 9ct, 1.94g, a cased agate locket and other costume jewellery, to include a ceramic plaque brooch, two steel cut buckles, 19th century ivory chams, a pair of marcasite earrings, etc.
A Swansea miniature taperstick: with gilt ring handle and cylindrical nozzle, painted with three floral sprays within a gilt dentil rim, circa 1818-20, 7 cm diameter.*Note Cf. W.D.John 'Swansea Porcelain' pl.55a and Sotheby's 'The Sir Leslie Joseph Collection' 14th/15th May 1992 lots 80 and 408 for similar examples.
Gustav Becker, a mahogany mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a gong and chiming the quarters on a further four gongs, the backplate stamped for the maker Gustav Becker along with the serial number 2405077, giving a date of manufacture of circa 1927, the silvered arched dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with black Roman hour numerals and blued steel hands with two further subsidiary dials to the arch for regulation and chime/silent, the break-arch mahogany case having fluted columns to the corners and a stepped base with brass bracket feet, height 40cms.* Biography Gustav Becker, born 1819, was a prolific maker of 'Vienna' style wall regulators and mantel clocks. He had workshops at Silesia, Germany which continued well after his death in 1885. He was awarded the Medaille d'Or at the Schlesien Industrial Exhibition of 1852 for his work on regulator movements.
Japy Frères, Paris, a French champlevé enamel four-glass mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a gong and stamped with the trademark of the maker Japy Frères & Co and numbered 12522, the gilded brass dial having black Roman hour numerals within oval roundels and champlevé enamelled decoration to the centre and bezel, signed to the chapter ring for the retailer J. Ullman & Co, Hong Kong, Shanghai & Tien-Tien, with decorative blued-steel hands, the brass 'four-glass' case with bevelled glass to all sides the corner pillars having cast Corinthian capitals and decorated with champlevé enamel, the top and lower mouldings with further champlevé enamelled decoration, with an engraved presentation to the case front Presented by the Captain of H.M.S. Hawkins to M.A.A. Abbott on Ship Paying off 21-4-21, the pendulum having a large brass bob, height 41cms.*Note H.M.S. Hawkins, one of four Hawkins class destroyers commissioned after the First World War being laid down in Chatham Dockyard on the 3rd of June 1916 and launched on the 1st of October 1917. She was commissioned to the China Station departing Chatham in July 1919 and returning in 1921 under Captain Reginald G.H. Henderson who was to become Rear-Admiral, Vice-Admiral and finally Admiral before his death in 1939, the dating of this journey coinciding with the presentation as engraved on the case of this clock, along with the purchase from a Hong Kong retailer. A black lacquered album of over 600 prints depicting the ship's journey at this time is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich and depicts not only life on board but places visited including Hong Kong. Ref: NMM, HMS Hawkins (1917), China Station, 1919-1921 (Photograph album) (ALB0323)* Biography Japy frères were founded by Frederic Japy of Beaucount, born 1749, who first made movements for the clock industry at his factory in 1777, becoming the largest and most commercially important clockmaking concern in France. The business continued after his death.
John Ellicott, London (attributed), a walnut bracket clock: the eight-day duration, six-pillar movement having a verge escapement with bob pendulum and striking the hours on a bell, the backplate profusely engraved in the Ellicott manner, the eight-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals and Arabic five-minute outer markings, the matted centre with date and 'false-pendulum' apertures, with cast-brass female-head spandrels to the four corners, the arch having a 'strike/silent' dial with cast-brass spandrels to the sides, the Ellicott-style walnut case having fluted canted corners, concave mouldings to the plinth, glazed panels to the sides, and having a bell-top surmounted by a brass carrying handle, all standing on brass feet, height 52cms not including handle. *Note Although unsigned this clock shows every sign of having come from the workshops of John Ellicott, see Chorley's Auctioneers, Cheltenham, 24th July 2018, lot 1030 for a near-identical signed example. * Biography John Ellicott was an eminent clock and watchmaker born in 1706 with his father being a Cornish watchmaker who was admitted to the Clockmakers Company in 1696. John Ellicott had his first address in Austin Friars Street, London before moving to Swithin's Alley, Royal Exchange where amongst his numerous achievements he invented a form of compensated pendulum and designed the London Hospital Clock. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738 where he served on the board and wrote a number of papers being a keen observer of scientific matters having an observatory in his Hackney home and was appointed as Clockmaker to King George III. In 1760 his son Edward joined the business with their clocks signed Ellicott, London. John Ellicott died suddenly in 1772. Clocks by Ellicott are in many of the world's top collections and museums.
Charles Frodsham, London, a quarter-chiming longcase clock: the substantial eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a gong and the quarters on a further four gongs with brass-bound weights and a mercury-filled jar to the pendulum bob, the twelve-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with black Roman numerals and black Arabic five-minute markings with engraved decoration between and signed Chas. Frodsham, London, 2368, the gilded-brass dial plate profusely engraved with floral and c-scroll decoration, with a subsidiary seconds dial and decorative blued-steel fleur-de-lys hands, the arch having a subsidiary strike/silent dial, the mahogany case having a glazed trunk door, fluted quarter-columns to the hood and trunk, an inset panel to the base, a swan-neck pediment to the hood and all standing on bracket feet, height 232cms.* Biography Charles Frodsham was born into the famous Frodsham family of clockmakers on the 15th of April 1810 and apprenticed to his father William Frodsham, a founder of the chronometer making firm Parkinson & Frodsham. Charles entered eleven chronometers in the Premium trials at Greenwich until the cessation of these trials in 1836, receiving a 2nd prize in 1830. After marrying he set up on his own account at 7, Finsbury Pavement and in 1843 acquired the chronometer making business of the eminent Arnold family moving to 84, The Strand and trading as Arnold & Frodsham until 1858. On the death of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in 1854 Frodsham purchased the goodwill of the Vulliamy business, and on the recommendation of Airy succeeded Vulliamy as Superintendent and Keeper of Her Majesty's Clocks at Buckingham Palace. Charles Frodsham was a highly regarded author of papers and books on horology and in 1871 published The History of the Marine Chronometer, the first English language book on this subject. Frodsham died of liver disease in 1871 being succeeded by his son Harrison Frodsham and from 1884 the firm traded as Charles Frodsham & Co., becoming incorporated in 1893 and moving to 115 New Bond Street in 1895.
John Belling, Bodmyn, an oak longcase clock: the thirty-hour duration movement having a birdcage movement with anchor escapement and striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel and shaped hammer return, the ten-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals and meeting-arrowhead half-hour markings with the matted dial centre having a date aperture, with cast-brass c-scroll spandrels to the four corners and a blued-steel single hour hand, the oak case having shaped pillars with cast-brass capitals to the flat-top hood and all decorated with later carving, height 203cms.* Biography The first John Belling, born 1685, is recorded as working in Bodmin, Cornwall (spelt Bodmyn on the dial) until 1761 with his son, also named John and born 1738, working until his death in 1807, this example being made by Belling Snr in the early-to-mid 1700s.
A carved giltwood canape in the Louis XVI transitional taste:, with rosebud, flowerhead and foliate cresting and beaded and foliate ornament, having oval upholstered panel back, padded arm supports and bowed stuff over seat in Aubusson ribbon tied floral design tapestry, on ring turned fluted tapered legs, headed with paterae.
An early 19th Century mahogany and inlaid tea table of D-shaped outline:, bordered with boxwood lines, having a hinged top, the frieze with a central panel of cruciform arrow heads, within satinwood banded surround, on ring turned tapered legs, 91cm (2ft 11 3/4in) wide.
A mid-18th century silver miniature mote spoon, sugar nips and four teaspoons, the mote spoon possibly by Ebenezer Coker, the nips and spoons unmarked, circa 1750-60 the mote spoon with a pierced bowl, the nips with ring handles, the spoons of Hanoverian pattern, in a fitted shagreen case, length of mote spoon 9.3cm, approx. weight 1.5oz. (6)
A small collection of seven George III silver neck-ring sauce labels, various dates and makers, one unmarked, comprising: a pair of rectangular form, incised 'CAYENNE' and 'SOY', two incised 'ELDER', one 'WORCESTER', one 'ANCHOVY' and one blackened 'KETCHUP', approx. weight 1.1oz. (7)
λA late-Victorian silver-mounted tortoiseshell tea caddy, by Saunders and Shepherd, Chester 1895, rectangular form, the hinged cover with a border of pierced foliate scroll decoration, central cartouche shield, drop-ring handles, on four bun feet, the interior with pull-out tortoiseshell lid and velvet lined cover, length 11.5cm.

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