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Lot 1288
Bachmann/ Atlas/ Con-Cor/ Model Power/ Life-Like/Delaware Valley Freight Car Corporation/ Roundhouse 'N' scale rolling stock to include, two 60' CTR Beam Flat CP305313, Beer Can Tank Hudson's Bay Oli and Gas, Husky Stack 8472TTX, three Chesapeake & Ohio 40' Quadhoppers, and others, (20), all boxed, .
Lot 1272
Eight Bachmann/ Life-Like/ Spectrum/E-R Models 'N' scale locomotives, comprising EMD SD40-2 Diesel, Black New York Central 1209 and 3708, Burgundy Rock Island 1347, Grey/Yellow EMD GP40 Diesel, Silver/Red Burlington 9280, Blue/Black Montana Rail Link 140 and Red/Silver Santa Fe 8759, (8), all boxed,.
Lot 425
A W & T AVERY LTD BRASS BEAM SCALE ON MAHOGANY BASE WITH PANS WITH SEVERAL BRASS WEIGHTS, EARLY 20TH C, A BOXED SET OF HERALD MODELS OF FIGURES FROM THE BALLET, C1950, AN ONYX ASHTRAY MOUNTED WITH A COLD PAINTED BRONZE TERRIER, AN EARLY 20TH C CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN CUSHION SHAPED DECORATIVE BOX, GLASS LAMPWORK ANIMALS, ETC
Lot 43
ϒA Victorian oak mercury farmer’s stick barometer with wet and dry bulb thermometers W.R. Jeffrey, Saffron Walden, circa 1870 With concave upstand to the cavetto moulded cornice over ivory Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and annotated with Fitzroy’s foretelling flanked by Centigrade DRY BULB and WET BULB thermometers the latter with bulb wrapped in hessian draped into a glass water reservoir, the upper margin inscribed W.R. JEFFREY, Saffron Waldon, the slender trunk with visible tube over ogee moulded panel cistern cover to the rectangular base with level adjustment screw to underside, 98.5cm (38.75ins) high. W.R. Jeffrey is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working in Saffron Walden circa 1850-70 The form current lot conforms to Negetti and Zambra’s Patent farmer’s barometer where the difference in readings between the wet and dry thermometers indicate the level of evaporation occurring from the wet bulb, hence providing an relative indication in the change of atmospheric humidity. ϒ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 163
A Regency ormolu and patinated bronze figural mantel timepiece Unsigned but probably by Baetens, London, circa 1825 The circular four columnar pillar eight-day single chain fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by a lenticular bob pendulum, the 3.5 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with Arabic fifteen minutes to the outer minute track and steel moon hands within a gilt serpent scale milled bezel, the case with surmount cast as an eagle perched on a ball and ribbon-tied oak leaf crest draped over the apex of the drum housing the movement, cradled on honeysuckle decorated scroll supports applied to a relief floral garland decorated upstand flanked by a pair of figures each cast as recumbent Classical females reading a folio, the base applied with Satyr masks flanked by conforming floral swags, raised on engine-turned toupe feet, 32cm (30.5ins) high. Several models of this timepiece sharing the same castings, form and specification are known signed either by Joseph van Baetens, F.Baetens or just Beatens who were a family firm of bronziers who also produced timepieces. Working in a similar vain to the Vulliamy family they were based at 23 Gerard Street, Soho, and according to Baillie, G.H. (in Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World) were active around 1832. The frontplate of the current lot is finely scratch-engraved with the inscription Edward Tupman, May 6th 1840. The Tupman family were another firm of clockmakers and retailers based in nearby Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury. This is probably a repairer’s mark recording the ‘first service’ of the clock perhaps by the same business who supplied/retailed the timepiece a decade or so earlier.
Lot 54
Ï’A Victorian mother-of-pearl inlaid rosewood wheel barometer J. Hewiston, Newcastle upon Tyne, circa 1860 With swan neck pediment over foliate scroll marquetry border decorated angled baluster outline upright applied hygrometer above bowfronted silvered Fahrenheit scale mercury thermometer with cavetto moulded upper and lower rails, the 8 inch star centred circular silvered register with concentric scale annotated in barometric inches with the usual observations to circumference and convex glazed cast brass bezel, the square base with recording hand adjustment square over spirit level signed J. Hewiston, 29 Market Street, Newcastle within conforming marquetry border and with cavetto moulded underside, 97.5 (38.5ins) high. J. Hewiston is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working in Newcastle upon Tyne circa 1855-75. Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 171
A Victorian gilt brass mounted ebonised quarter chiming bracket clock in the George III style J. C. Jennens, London, late 19th century The substantial four pillar triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum, chiming the quarters on a graduated nest of eight bells and striking the hour on a further bell, the backplate engraved with a central twin-handled urn within stylised line borders and with pendulum holdfast screw, the 7 inch brass break-arch dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with starburst half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced blued steel hands and rococo scroll cast spandrels beneath subsidiary CHIME/SILENT selection dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, the inverted bell-top case with hinged brass carrying handle and vase finials to superstructure over brass fillet inset glazed dial aperture and conforming fish scale fret upper quadrant panels to front door, flanked by female caryatid mounts to the canted front angles and circular over concave-topped rectangular brass fillet edges fish scale frets to sides, the rear with rectangular glazed door, on moulded skirt base with scroll cast brass bracket feet, 49cm (19.25ins) high excluding handle. John Creed Jennens was born in 1822. He specialised in musical and chiming clocks and first worked in Birmingham (1845-53) before moving to Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell, London where he was based 1863-83.
Lot 158
An unusual mahogany bracket clock supplied to H.M. Government Colonial Office Unsigned, mid 19th century , incorporating an earlier movement by Ferdinand Berthoud, Paris The six columnar pillar movement now with single chain fusee for the five wheel going train incorporating Harrison’s maintaining power and anchor escapement for regulation by a half-seconds pendulum, the rack strike train with large going barrel and sounding on a bell mounted above the plates, The backplate signed Ferdinand, Berthoud, A, Paris to lower margin, the purpose-made 7 inch single sheet silvered brass break-arch dial with high position chapter ring unusually annotated with Roman numeral hour and Arabic minute numerals at the quarters and with a subsidiary seconds dial interrupting the hour ring at twelve o’clock, with simple steel hands over lower section with large finely engraved Royal VR monogram over script COLONIAL OFFICE and small pendulum aperture, in a brass mounted figured mahogany bell-top case with hinged brass carrying handle and faceted brass acorn-shaped finials to superstructure over cavetto top mouldings, the front with brass-fillet bordered break-arch glazed front door incorporating brass fish-scale inset quadrant frets to upper angles, the sides with circular over concave-topped rectangular scroll-pierced fretwork panels, the rear with break-arch glazed rectangular door set within the frame of the case, on moulded skirt base with brass ogee bracket feet, the interior with various pasted labels including one inscribed in ink Colonial Office, Church house, 25/0-4627, 1.4.57, R. 232, 2, (lacking pendulum) 47cm (18.5ins) high excluding handle. The current lot is particularly interesting in that it appears to be clock made to meet a specific order from the government possibly at the time of the establishment of the ‘Second Colonial Office’ in 1854. The department was separated from the War and Colonial Office to deal specifically with the affairs in the colonies and was assigned an Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and continued until 1966. The Colonial Office was based in a building specifically designed by Gilbert Scott however for a period after World War II the department was relocated to Church House, Westminster.The fact that the present clock incorporates an earlier, albeit re-worked, movement by the eminent 18th century French horologist, Ferdinand Berthoud may be due to the Vulliamy workshop not being able to satisfy the order due to the death of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in January 1754. Indeed as it is well known that the Vulliamy’s often replaced movements of clocks made by other earlier makers with their own (specifically examples in the Royal Collection) it would be logical to speculate that the movement used in the current lot may well have come from their stock of ‘salvaged’ mechanisms.
Lot 29
Ï’Victorian nickel plated brass bound rosewood cased set of drawing instruments Elliott Brothers, London, mid 19th century The interior with deep blue velvet lined lid over fitted lift-out tray containing a selection of nickel plated brass instruments and ivory handled pens beside ivory sector inscribed ELLIOTT BROS, LONDON and ruler engraved with mathematical plotting and protractorscales, the lower compartment containing two boxwood scale rules each stamped ELLIOTT & SONS. 56 STRAND LONDON and a set-square, the exterior of the box with vacant nickel plated brass nameplate and capped corners to top over conforming strap reinforcements to angles and key escutcheon to front, 35.5cm (14ins approx.) wide. Elliott Brothers are recorded by Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as succeeding William Elliott and Sons at 56 The Strand, London in 1853 Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 11
An Austrian japanned brass theodolite Gebruder Fromme, Vienna, late 19th century The telescope with rack and pinion focus adjustment and fitted with a spirit level to top, mounted via a pivot fitted with a vertical silvered Vernier sector onto a curved support over rectangular table fitted with X and Y spirit levels and central glazed compass stamped GEBR. FROMME, WIEN, 632 and annotated N, O, S and W to centre within fine engraved outer degree scale, the lower section with horizontal circle with fine silver Vernier scale, locking and fine adjustment screws over triform ball and socket levelling joint and tapered tripod socket, in original hardwood box applied with trade label inscribed GEBRUDER FROMM, MATHEMATISCH-MECHANISCHES INSTITUT, WIEN, HAINBURGERSTRASSE N’R 21…, to inside of lid, the box 31cm (12.25 ins) deep. The Viennese firm of Gebruder Fromme was formed by brothers Adolf and Karl Fromme when they succeeded Joseph Perfler (established in 1835) in 1884. Their workshop was located at Hainburgerstrasse 21 until 1903 and the business continued in various guises until around 1970.
Lot 42
A rare oak cased mercury and glycerine long range barometer Negretti and Zambra, London, circa 1885 The ceramic scale inscribed NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON, GLYCERINE & MERCURY, LONG RANGE BAROMETER to upper margin over visible glycerine filled tube and scale calibrated in reverse from 28 to 31 inches amplified over a distance of 25.5 inches divided into hundredths and with weather observations, the lower section with hipped panel applied with a mercury Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer set within ogee moulded frame with cavetto moulded pediment and canted skirt base, 108cm (42.5ins) high. The firm of Negretti & Zambra are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as being established in 1850 when a partnership between Enrico Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra was formed. The firm became one of the most prolific makers of scientific instruments and continued trading well into the 20th century. The current lot was devised in around 1880 by Negretti and Zambra and is essentially constructed as a mercury and glycerine double-tube or contra-barometer but with only the glycerine filled section visible. Inside the case is a sealed mercury syphon tube of larger bore with the second visible glycerine filled (narrower-bore) column formed as an extension to the concealed open end of the mercury syphon. The unequal capacities of the two tubes together with the difference in specific gravity of mercury and glycerine results in a substantial amplification of the scale allowing the level to be read to one-hundredth of an inch without a Vernier.
Lot 28
A George IV brass pantograph Cary, London, circa 1825 The pivoted frame with circular dark green silk covered anchor-weight fitted to an adjustable slider against engraved ratio scale to one arm opposing fixed pencil holder to the other, the centre with subsidiary pivoted armature with further adjustable slider against a similar scale for the tracing stylus and signed Cary, London to the opposing member, fitted with removable bone wheel castors to each junction/terminal, in original mahogany box with tracing pointer and weighted pencil carrier, the box 73.5cm (29ins) long. William Cary is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as born circa 1759 and apprenticed to Jesse Ramsden. William worked from 272 Strand, London 1789-90 then 182 Strand 1794-1822, he died in 1825. John Cary (I) is recorded by Clifton as a map, globe and chart engraver who was born in 1755 and worked from Johnson's Court, Fleet Street 1782 then Corner of Arundel Street, Strand 1783 before moving to 188 Strand 1783-1790 followed by 181 Strand 1792-1805. He is last recorded working at 86 St. James Street 1820-21. The business was continued by John (II) and George Cary (both sons of John senior) until circa 1851 when it was acquired by Henry Gould.
Lot 39
Ï’A gilt brass aneroid pocket barometer compendium with altimeter, thermometer and compass Unsigned, late 19th century The circular silvered register with rotating outer scale calibrated 0 to 10,000 for altitude in feet divided into tenths and the inner scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths annotated RAIN, CHANGE, FAIR and inscribed Compensated to centre, in cylindrical frosted gilt brass case with suspension ring to top and small glazed floating mother of pearl compass within curved mercury tube Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometer to verso, 5cm (2ins) diameter; with original leather travelling case with hinged cover to each side; and another gilt brass aneroid pocket barometer with altimeter scale, Short and Mason, London, circa 1900, also with rotating altimeter scale annotated 0 to 8,000 and inner scale calibrated for barometric inches, the centre inscribed SHORT & MASON, LONDON, MADE IN GT. BRITAIN, No. C 27028, in pocket-watch type case with brass suspension ring, 5cm (2ins) approx. diameter, (2). The firm of Short and Mason are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as operating from 62 Hatton Garden, London 1873-75 then 40 Hatton Garden from 1876. They were leading makers of barographs and aneroid barometers well into the 20th century later merging with Taylor Instruments in 1969. Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 48
A rare George III mahogany angle barometer, unsigned, late 18th century With a particularly long angled silvered scale calibrated from 27.5 to 31 inches divided into fortieths and annotated with STORMY, MUCH RAIN, RAIN, CHANGE, FAIR, SET FAIR and VERY DRY predictions beneath sliding brass recording pointer to upper margin within caddy moulded surround, the conforming trunk with figured mahogany front panel concealing the tube over rounded base applied with hemispherical cistern cover and with level adjustment screw to underside, the trunk 84cm (33ins) high.
Lot 156
A Victorian mahogany longcase regulator timepiece Bracher, Reading, mid 19th century The substantial seven knopped pillar movement with shallow arch plates measuring 9.75 by 7.5 inches enclosing going train with Harrison’s maintaining power, high pinion count and Graham type deadbeat escapement regulated by seconds pendulum suspended from a substantial beam fitted to the apex of the movement plates and incorporating wood rod, heavy eight-inch circular brass-faced bob and subsidiary spherical timing weight with engraved Roman numeral scale to waist, the 13 inch circular silvered brass dial with Arabic subsidiary seconds over Roman numeral hour dials and signed BRACHER, READING to centre within outer minute track with Arabic five minutes, with blued steel hands, the mahogany break-arch case with cavetto cornice over circular glazed brass bezel inset hood door incorporating line-inlaid panels to lower quadrants flanked by canted angles and with applied moulded rings to sides, the trunk with concave throat moulding over lancet-shaped caddy-moulded door now with conforming glazed insert and flanked by further canted angles, on shaped panel decorated plinth base with canted skirt, 201cm (79.25ins) high. An R. Bracher is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in Reading in 1864. Reuben Bracher trained as a watchmaker under his father in Salisbury before moving to Reading in around 1850 and entering into partnership with James Trendell in 1852. Trendell died in 1866 and Bracher subsequently went into partnership with his nephew, Joseph Sydenham and expanded to occupy numbers 55, 56 and 58 Castle Street. The business continued in Reading in the hands of various successors until around 1974 when it became part of Goldsmiths group. The current lot could well have been made by Bracher soon after his arrival in Reading for use as the ‘shop regulator’ in his business.FOOTNOTE UPDATED 04/09/2019 The firm of Bracher and Sydenham held the title of 'Jewellers to the Court at Windsor' and according to the vendor the current lot was actually commissioned for and stood in the boardroom of the world famous biscuit manufacturers Huntley & Palmer of Reading, for 100 years(from circa 1850-1950) the largest biscuit maker on earth.
Lot 185
A fine Louis XVI style Sevres porcelain inset ormolu cartel clock and matching aneroid barometer en suite Bearing signatures for Martinout, Paris and Passemant, au Louvre, circa 1870 The clock with circular eight-day two train bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by disc bob pendulum incorporating Brocot type regulation to suspension, the backplate stamped with S. Marti et Cie, MEDAILLE DE BRONZE roundel over number 7 2, to the lower edge and A.C roundel over further number 2671 to left hand margin, the 6.5 inch convex white enamel Roman numeral dial inscribed Martinout, AParis to centre and with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll pierced and engraved brass hands set behind bayonet fitted convex glazed repeating acanthus cast bezel, the case with finely painted oval porcelain panel of a cherub in flight holding a barometer within decorative gilt and blue ground border, and cast surround modelled as ribbon tied vine stems issuing fruiting sprays draped around the guilloche scroll bordered dial, the base with inverted break-arch panel incorporating curved gadroon cast upper border and inset with a panel with a another cherub with a globe and surveyor’s instruments within conforming blue ground border and fine repeating lappet leaf cast surround terminating with inverted acanthus leaf crest and pineapple pendant finial; the barometer with concealed aneroid mechanism and circular convex white enamel register inscribed PASSEMANT, AU LOUVRE to centre within concentric scale calibrated in barometric inches and with weather observations in French to outer track, with blued steel pointer set behind convex glass fitted with a central brass recording hand, the case matching that of the clock with the upper porcelain panel similarly painted with a cherub in flight holding a telescope and the lower with another observing a globe, each 67.5cm, (26.5ins) high. A cartel clock and matching aneroid barometer of the same pattern as the current lot (but this time with the clock inscribed for Louis Montjoye, Paris) were sold at Christies New York sale of The Alexander Collection:French Furniture, Boxes & Porcelain 30th April 1999 (lot 178) for a premium inclusive $51,750.
Lot 40
A brass Kew Pattern marine mercury stick barometer F. Darton and Company Limited, London, circa 1933 The cylindrical silvered scale calibrated in barometric inches divided into twentieths opposing millibar scale with Vernier slide fitted flush within the central tube viewing aperture, the lower margin signed F. DARTON & Co. LTD, LONDON beneath No. 38/48. the upper margin engraved with crown motif over A.M., 4PP/1933, set behind cylindrical glass collar with brass suspension ring to top plate above Vernier adjustment screw, further plate repeat engraved with crown motif etc. and gimballed support to the slender cylindrical trunk applied with mercury tube Fahrenheit and Absolute thermometer, the base with moulded cylindrical iron cistern cover, 94cm (37ins) high; with mahogany plate fitted with brass sleeve bracket for wall mounting. The firm of Francis Darton and Company are recorced in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working at several addresses on St. John Street, London from 1834 and were still trading until the 1990’s. The current lot is made to the pattern of standard marine barometer devised by Patric Adie and John Welsh of the Kew observatory in 1855.
Lot 14
An unusual Continental lacquered brass theodolite Unsigned, mid to late 19th century With single-draw sighting telescope and spirit-level mounted onto the vertical circle with fine silvered perpendicular Vernier scale to circumference incorporating screw rack adjustment and clamp, mounted via an angled bracket, along with a second cross spirit level, onto a vertical pillar over conforming horizontal circle with silvered Vernier scale to circumference, the base with tapered tripod mounting socket post, in original hardwood box with hinged brass carrying handle to lid, 30.5cm (12ins) wide.
Lot 47
A George II/III mahogany mercury stick barometer J. Hogben, Rye, mid 18th century The break-arch silvered brass scale incorporating MOIST/DAMP, HYGROMETER scale with arbitrary calibrations 0-10 in both directions over herringbone bordered signature panel engraved J. Hogben, Rye Fecit and BAROMETER scale calibrated in barometric inches and with summer and winter observations next to a mercury tube Centigrade scale THERMOMETER within herringbone engraved surround, the trunk with visible tube over pagoda-shaped cistern cover enclosing syphon bulb and with cavetto moulded underside, (hygrometer incomplete, Vernier slide lacking), 93cm (36.5ins) high. J. Hogben of Rye does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources however a Thomas Hogben is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in nearby Smarden, Kent, 1740-92. The form of the current lot appears to be based on Benjamin Martin’s ‘Triple Weather Glass’ developed in London during the middle years of the 18th century.
Lot 49
A George III mahogany mercury cistern tube stick barometer Thomas Ribright, London, late 18th century With open triangular pediment over inset silvered scale with recording slider and calibrations in barometric inches beneath engraved signature T. Ribright, London to the right hand side, opposing mercury Fahrenheit scale thermometer within arched herringbone engraved panel to the left, the caddy moulded trunk with applied shaper apron panel to throat and exposed tube flanked by veneers arranged cross-grain angled forty-five degrees upwards above ovoid base applied with inverted half acorn shaped cistern cover, 96cm (37.75ins) high. Thomas Ribright (II) is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers1550-1851 as working 1783-1806.
Lot 33
ϒA late Victorian walnut magazine of draughtsman’s drawing instruments W.F. Stanley, London, circa 1890 The interior with blue moire silk padded lining to lid inscribed in gilt W.F. STANLEY, GREAT TURNSTILE STREET, HOLBORN, LONDON W.C., & RAILWAY TERMINUS, LONDON BRIDGE beneath TO H.M. GOVERNMENT over lined lift-out fitted top tray containing an extensive selection of nickel plated brass instruments and ivory handled pens including a proportional compass and a large folding beam compass; the lower section with three ivory scale rules each stamped STANLEY’S ENGINE DIVIDED SCALE GREAT TURNSTILE HOLBORN LONDON, another similar, a protractor, a selection of draughtsman’s curves, set square, an incomplete roller parallel ruler and a selection of other items, the exterior of the box with nickel plated name plate engraved James N. Crofts to lid and matching key escutcheon to front, 35.5cm (14ins) wide. William Ford Stanley is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from 3 Holborn bars, London 1860-64; 3, 4 and 5 Great Turnstile, Holborn, London from 1860; 13 Railway Approach, London Bridge 1869-91 and 1, 8 and 9 Tichborne Court 1872-91. The presence of the Railway Approach address within the gilt on silk trade label to the interior of the lid of the current lot would indicate a date of around 1890. ϒ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Lot 15
A Naval brass and black japanned Waymouth-Cooke pattern sextant-type rangefinder Thomas Cooke and Sons, London and York, circa 1915 The sight with eyepiece focus adjustment opposing twin prism assembly within the casing at the objective end adjusted by rotating the vertical concentric scale applied to the side of the instrument calibrated for height in feet to outer ring and range in yards to inner, the centre inscribed T. COOKE & SONS LTD LONDON & YORK, WAYMOUTH-COOKE NAVAL RANGE FINDER PAT. No. 1599/1914 around a knurled adjustment collar to centre, in mahogany box with neck strap and support rod, the box 28.5 (11.25ins) wide. The firm of Thomas Cooke and Sons was established in York by Thomas Cooke in 1837 where he built a factory at Bishophill in 1855. Thomas died in 1868 and was succeeded by his sons. At the outbreak of the First World War the Bishophill factory was redeveloped to cope with the growing demand for defence products.Vickers Ltd acquired control of the firm in 1915 and oversaw its expansion until they merged with Troughton & Simms of London, in 1922 becoming Cooke, Troughton & Sims.The first model of this sextant type stadimeter was developed during WWI (around 1914). The MkII came into production around 1917 and had a shortest focussing distance of 22 feet.
Lot 38
A silver aneroid pocket barometer J.J. Hicks for presentation to The Duke of Norfolk, London, 1904 The circular silvered register with rotating outer scale calibrated 0 to 5,000 for altitude in feet divided into fiftieths and the inner scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths annotated RAIN, CHANGE, FAIR and inscribed Compensated over signature J. HICKS., 8.9&10 Hatton Garden, LONDON to centre, the silver pocket watch-type case with knurled altimeter adjustment knob to suspension ring, milled bands to front bezel and conforming border to rear engraved Made By, J.J. HICKS; LONDON, AND, PRESENTED TO, HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORFOLK, FEBRUARY, 1904 to centre, hallmarks for London 1903, 5cm (2ins) diameter; and a gilt brass aneroid pocket barometer with thermometer, unsigned, late 19th century, the circular silvered register with arched scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths annotated Stormy, RAIN, Change, FAIR, Very Dry to outer track and inscribed Compensated to centre, the lower margin with curved mercury tube Fahrenheit scale thermometer, in cylindrical frosted gilt brass case with suspension ring to top, 5cm (2ins) diameter; each with original leather travelling case, (2). James Joseph Hicks is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from Hatton Garden, London from 1861 until after 1900. He was a committed Catholic who presented various meteorological instruments to the Vatican receiving the title of Knight Commander of St. Gregory for his services. Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk was born on 27th December 1847. He was styled Baron Maltravers until 1856, then Earl of Arundel and Surrey before succeeding the dukedom of his father at the age of twelve in 1860. In 1895 he became Mayor of Sheffield and served as Postmaster General from this time until 1900 when he became Mayor of Westminster. He also served in both Boer Wars but at the age of 53 he was injured near Pretoria and invalided home. Henry Fitzalan-Howard was a committed Catholic who, during the 1890’s, worked closely with the Vatican to relax their rules for the entry of Catholic students into the leading English Universities which culminated in him co-founding St. Edmunds College, Cambridge. He was also pivotal in the founding of Sheffield University for which he served as its initial Chancellor from 1905 until his death in 1917.
Lot 9
A German oxidised and lacquered brass theodolite Dennert and Pape, Hamburg, late 19th century The telescope with rack and pinion focus adjustment and fitted with a spirit level to top, mounted via a horizontal pivot with fine screw angle adjustment bar to the one side onto two pieced A-frame uprights over rotating table incorporating central bubble-level to upper surface, the spaotted lacquered brass canted rim with two opposing windows for viewing the horizontal silver Vernier scale each equipped with individual pivoted magnification lens and signed Dennert & Pape, Hamburg =Altona and numbered St., 1505 between, the circumference with fine screw adjustment and knurled scale locking screw, the whole raised on column upright issuing triform radial supports with screw feet, in original oak and pine box with hinged carrying handle to top, The box 46cm, (18ins) high. Dennert and Pape were founded in 1848 and worked from Altona district of Hamburg well into the 20th century.
Lot 198
An impressive Queen Anne black japanned longcase clock of one month duration Brounker Watts, London, circa 1710 The five finned pillar bell striking movement with five wheel going train incorporating anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, and the strike train with high-position crossed-out external countwheel positioned on the backplate, the 13 inch brass break-arch dial with star decorated subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture and burnished rectangular herringbone-bordered signature panel inscribed Brounker Watts, LONDON to the repeating leaf trail bordered foliate scroll engraved matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll pierced steel hands and twin cherub and crown cast spandrels to angles within engraved herringbone border continuing up into the arch to surround the fine applied repousse panel infill decorated with Chronos flanked by floral vases over grotesque masks within intense foliate strapwork, the black japanned case now with elaborate multi-stage concave and convex moulded superstructure above box upstand fronted with painted figural chinoiseries over break-arch cornice incorporating frieze and glazed dial aperture with conforming gilt border decoration and now applied with half columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows over trunk with foliate spray decorated concave throat moulding and rectangular door centred with a circular lenticle and decorated in raised polychrome and gilt with Oriental figures within an Arcadian Chinoiserie landscape, the surround gilt painted with scroll-work and leafy sprays, the sides with figures and large scale foliage over base similarly decorated and with elaborate stepped double skirt, (case with additions and partial re-painting), 290cm (114ins) excluding top finial. Provenance: Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire. Brounker Watts is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in around 1670, he was apprenticed to Joseph Knibb from 1684/5 until 1691 and gained his freedom of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1693/4. In around 1695 he married Ursula Walford and in 1696 he is recorded as working from Fleet Street, London. His name is on the company’s Oath of Allegiance which was signed the following year. In 1698 Watts was living in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West and is recorded as avoiding stewardship of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1711 due to being ‘out of town’. Brounker Watts died in 1717 and was buried in his home parish of St. Dunstans in the West. The movement of the current lot is well made and finely with fine details such as beautifully sculpted clicks and springs to the great wheel winding ratchets and crossed-out countwheel reminiscent of the work of Brounker Watts’s former master, Joseph Knibb.
Lot 37
A French aneroid ‘Holosteric’ barometer with thermometer Retailed by Ducatillon, Paris, circa 1860 The 4.75 inch circular silvered register with open centre revealing the aneroid mechanism with arched upper scale calibrated in millimetres and with weather observations in French to outer track, inscribed BAROMETRE, HOLOSTERIQUE incorporating HPBN circular trademark for Naudet, Hulot et Cie, the lower section with curved mercury tube THERMOMETRE CENTIGRADE and inscribed DUCATILLON OPT’N 29. B’D DES CAPUCINES PARIS to lower edge, set behind circular glass fitted with a brass recording pointer into a moulded brass case with repeat trade stamp to rear and suspension ring to top, diameter 13.5cm (5.125ins); with an ebonised and faux marble cradle stand, (some damage) 21.5cm (8.5ins) high including the barometer. Naudet Hulot et Cie capitalised on the expiration of Vidie’s patent rights for the aneroid barometer in 1859 by putting into production their ‘Holisterique’ (solid) barometer of which several thousand were made up until 1866.
Lot 201
A Regency mahogany chiming bracket clock, the eight day brass three train movement with an anchor escapement and a two inch cylinder striking on eight bells, the re-painted dial with Roman numerals and signed 'J. Sharp Fish Street Hill London', the arched case inlaid with brass with a cone finial, fish scale panel sides and brass carrying handles, on ball feet, 58.9cm high
Lot 268
* India. Illuminated letter signed from Pusapati Vijayarama Gajapathi Raju III, Maharaja of Vizianagram (1826-1879) to Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890) as commander-in-chief, India, dated Tivoli Garden, Calcutta, 1 January 1873, single bifolium written on 2 sides, apparently autograph, signed 'P Vejearam Raj', hand-painted vegetal border in gold to each page, illuminated miniature of 2 caparisoned elephants with crossed trunks supporting a crown to head of first page, fourth page reused for a note by one of Napier's staff (dated 16 January 1873), folded twice, retaining original envelope with illuminated border, 33 x 22 cm, together with: Illuminated letter from 'Mohomed Wahid Hyder' to Napier, dated Hussunabad, Mohulla, Kilgunja, 27 March 1876, single sheet, written on one side in various-coloured inks, illuminated Islamic-style headpiece and borders, lightly creased where folded, a few chips to edges, split to one fold touching headpiece, 55.5 x 22 cm (Qty: 2)NOTESTwo addresses by writers at contrasting levels of the Indian social scale. The Mahajara of Vizianagram's letter is a florid Christmas greeting; the second letter is an umistakably desperate request for preferment from a petitioner whose family remained loyal during the Mutiny but since appears to have fallen on hard times: 'The poor petitioner knows English, Arabic, Persia, Nagree & Mathematics as far as to the 1st school class of Bareilly College ... [and] again most humbly prays to trouble your Royal Excellency's kind memorialist to recommend him to the Military Department in which his soul [sic] object is to obtain a suitable situation'.
Lot 131
* Oxfordshire. Plot (Robert), The Map of Oxfordshire, circa 1677, hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, mileage scale, table of explanation and compass rose, old folds, closed tears affecting image professionally repaired on verso, one margin extended, 500 x 480 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESCreated by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and decorated with 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry, Oxford colleges, the city and the four county towns. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire ever produced.
Lot 137
* Poland. Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert), Estats de Pologne subdivisés suivant l'estendue des Palatinats par le S. Sanson, Amsterdam, circa 1675, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, on two sheets conjoined (as published), elaborate cartouche and mileage scale, 585 x 875 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)
Lot 126
Jenner (Thomas). A Direction for the English Traviller, by which he shal be inabled to Coast about all England and Wales, 1643, title engraved by Jacob van Langeren, folding distance table, 39 (of 40) engraved cartographical county mileage tables with 'thumbnail' maps, lacking map of Cheshire, Northamptonshire map duplicated, folding general map of England and Wales lacking lower half (the map portion), title laid down, 'The use of all the insueing Tables' leaf laid down with last two lines partly completed in manuscript, a little light spotting and water stains, bookplate of Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941, British Liberal politician), later calf, spine and edges rubbed, small 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESChubb XLVI; ESTC R38849; Skelton 25. First published in 1635 by Mathew Simmons, in this edition by Jenner "the 'thumb-nail' county maps have been erased, and larger maps on double the scale (10 miles=about 1/2 ins.) engraved in their place in the triangular space in the lower right-hand corner of the plates. The names of towns are given in full, and those in neighbouring counties are added" (Skelton).
Lot 133
Paraguay. Montanus ( Arnoldus ). Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum Adjacentibus , Amsterdam, circa 1675, hand coloured engraved map, small margins, upper margin strengthened, 285 x 365 mm, together with Jansson (Jan). Paraguay, O Prov. De Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, [1633], hand coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, central compass rose, 375 x 480 mm, French text on verso (Qty: 2)
Lot 151
* Staffordshire. Plot (Robert). This Map of Staffordshire newly delineated after a new manner with all imaginable submission is humbly dedicated, circa 1686, hand coloured map, engraved by Joseph Browne, ornate cartouche and allegorical mileage scale, the borders decorated with 233 heraldic shields, old folds, 635 x 540 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)
Lot 168
* Howe (James, 1780-1836). Boy washing horses in a stable, man leading a horse with panniers, man feeding hay to two horses, man training a horse, and man on horseback with dog, five pen and brown ink drawings on wove paper, each signed 'How' or 'Howe', sheet size 27 x 40.5 cm (10.6 x 16 ins) (Qty: 5)NOTESJames Howe (or How), also known as Howe of Skirling, was born in Skirling on the Scottish borders and apprenticed to a house painter, although his main interest was horses and cattle. A volume of engravings after his drawings was published in Edinburgh by W.H. Lizars in 1824, entitled Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse , itself a relative rarity (not present in Podeschi, Books on the Horse, Paul Mellon Collection, 1981), and a further series of prints entitled National Work depicting the breeds of horses in cattle in Scotland, was issued in three parts between 1829 and 1831 by Ballantyne & Company of Edinburgh. Howe became a firm friend of Sir Walter Scott, painting his portrait, as well as a farmyard scene incorporating Scott's legendary dog Camp at Ashestiel. A monograph on his life and work written by A.D. Cameron, published in 1986, is entitled The Man Who Loved to Draw Horses . The present drawings conform closely in scale to the prints published in Howe's Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse.
Lot 63
South America. 'Souvenir pour Mr. Pico, officier de la Marine Nle. Alger, Almeria, Gibralta, Ténériffe, Saint-Louis, Gorée, Dackar, Grande-terre, Rio-Janeiro, Montevideo, Colonia, Buenos-ayres', c.1845-50, watercolour, pencil and pen-and-ink on laid paper (watermarks D & G Blauw, B F K Rives), title-page, 12 leaves each containing 2 discrete watercolours captioned in manuscript, variable spotting and finger-soiling, front inner hinge tender, large-scale pencilled ownership inscription 'L Nauoin' to front pastedown, contemporary green half cloth album, marbled sides, oblong folio (21 x 32.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAlbum of watercolours apparently produced by a French sailor involved in the Anglo-French blockade of the Rio de la Plata (1845-50), containing twelve leaves each with a watercolour view drawn from life, adjacent to a discrete portrait of an ethnographic 'type' particular to the depicted locale. The view of Buenos Aires depicts the 'Maison de l'amiral Brown sur le bord de la Plata'. After service in the Royal Navy, Irish-born officer William Brown (1777-1857) joined the Argentinian rebel republican government in 1814, and as a result of his heroic actions in the ensuing war of independence and subsequent conflicts with Brazil and Uruguay is considered the founder of the Argentine navy. The Anglo-French force dispossessed him of ships shortly after the establishment of the blockade in 1845, reducing him to 'compulsory inactivity' (ODNB) on his Buenos Aires estate.
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