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Click here to subscribeA pair of Worcester blue scale ground dishes, circa 1760, reserved with gilt edged foliate panels within a fluted rim, blue painted square mark to base, 18cm diam, together with another Worcester blue scale ground dish of a similar date reserved with panels of exotic birds, butterflies and insects, 21cm diam. (3)
A brass Saccharometer. W R Loftus. London. With one weight and mercury thermometer with silvered scale and with Loftus illustrated Price List in fitted mahogany box and a Copper and brass Thermometer with scale reading from 50-84 degrees, in copper frame with sample holding chamber at the base. 16in (in box)
Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1906, 55 colour double page maps only (of 56), lacks map of New Zealand, contemp. half morocco gilt, spine defective and upper cover detached, together with Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1881, 44 double page maps only (of 45), lacks map of New Zealand, contemp. half morocco, upper cover detached, and Bacon (G.W., pub.), New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles with Plans of Towns, 1884, 99 double page maps only (of 100), contemp. half morocco, worn, folio (3)
British Isles. Delisle (Guillaume), Les Isles Britanniques ou sont le Rme. d'Angleterre tire de Sped Celuy d'Ecosse, 1745, hand coloured engraved map, ornamental title and scale of distance cartouches, some tears and closed splits, the whole ladi down onto tissue, plate dimensions approx. 480 x 615 mm Shirley state 6. (1)
*SIMON JONES (Contemporary) india Buildings, Liverpool, signed and dated 'Simon Jones, 86' and further inscribed as title (lower left) watercolour 26 x 29 ½in (66 x 75cm) India Buildings in Water Street, Liverpool was built for Alfred Holt and Co. as a headquarters for the Blue Funnel Line. It was designed by Arnold Thornely and Herbert J. Rowse who had won the competition for this building in 1923 (assessor Giles Gilbert Scott). It was built between 1924-30. Extensively damaged by bombing in 1941, it was reconstructed under Rowse's supervision. Steel-framed, with cliff-like Portland stone walls, and Italian Renaissance detail, its original building cost was #1,250,000. Rowse, the architect had travelled extensively in America. The building in scale, combination of functions and architectural treatment emulates the most ambitious of early 20th Century American commercial buildings. Sold with this lot are nine watercolours (mounted in three frames) by William L. Stevenson depicting Bird and Botanical subjects: these include 'Pigeon Orchid, Hibiscus Oleander, Mandarin's Duck, and Lady Amherst's Pheasant'.
A pair of mahogany framed salon chairs in the Louis XVI manner, the bowed top rail with gilt decorated ribbon and beaded decoration, the swept arms with dragon scale and scrolling acanthus decoration, the back and arms upholstered above an upholstered seat with gilded ribbon decorated rails, raised on turned and fluted tapering legs
A Victorian silver bladed and mother-of-pearl handled folding fruit knife and matching folding two pronged fruit fork, the handles carved with cornucopia of fruit, by George Unite, Sheffield 1876, and leather covered fitted case for same, a pair of Victorian sugar tongs embossed with floral and scale ornament, Dublin 1846, and a pair of George III bright cut sugar tongs, by Peter and Ann Bateman, London 1792
A Victorian oak cased stick barometer and thermometer by Thomas Rubergall, 24 Coventry Street, London, with engraved ivory scale and vernier, with mercury thermometer and exposed mercury tube, contained in arched top case with glazed scale, and turned cistern cover, 36ins high (see previous lot for illustration)
A 1:48th scale scratchbuilt wooden model of H.M.S Prince with planked hull and deck, fitted with deck cannons and gun ports closed, 123cm. long, contained in a polished wooden and perspex case. H.M.S. Prince was the commander-in-chief’s flagship during the battle of Solebay against the Dutch in 1672.
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