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Click here to subscribeAn early 18th Century Irish oak Side Chair, the unusual splat back with tri-arched decoration and cruciform centre, over a shaped and pierced splat with shield brass armorial inset (possibly the O'Briens of Dromoland) over a plain square seat, on front turned legs united by H stretcher (some restoration). (1)
An early Victorian mahogany Library Desk Chair, with arched back above three pierced splats and scroll arm fronts above a cane seat on front turned legs, together with an Arts & Crafts Armchair, with railed back and sides above a saddle solid seat, and a large Victorian swing frame Dressing Table Mirror, 38" (96cms). (3)
A group of railway ephemera, to include a black and white postcard of The Flying Scotmans crossing Royal Border Bridge Bewick-on-Tweed, a reserve seat and ticket for the same ride, train sound cassette, train cigarette cards, notices from the Great Western Railway, MMSR brass plaque, LNER look out badge, face pin badges, modern railway company sign and a LNER Mallard model. (a quantity)
A mahogany dining room suite, comprising a twin pedestal dining table, with additional leaf and marquetry outer banded border, 77cm high, 144cm wide, 99cm deep, together with a set of six chairs, two carvers, each with shield back on a cream floral upholstered seat, with a similar designed sideboard, with curved front above one long and two short drawers, with four cupboard doors, 80cm high, 168cm wide, 41cm deep.
* Seymour (Robert, pseud. Shortshanks). Shaving by Steam, E. King, circa 1825, etching with contemporary hand-colouring, long explanation below the image describing the 'automated' procedure, the slight mount staining, 245 x 350 mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESA satirical print lampooning the fascination with 'automation'. It shows a dandy, using a monocle, who ogles the ladies in the next room who are having their hair styled. Another, sitting on a chair, reads a newspaper, 'Herald'. The 'Patent Shavograph' operates from right to left upon the customers who sit on a circular bench, each with his head held firm in a wedge cut from a circular disk. The razor has just sliced off the nose of a military officer who stands gesticulating wildly, whilst attempting to stop the blood flowing from his wound. His understandably dismayed neighbour rises from his seat with a look of horror on his face, whilst another shouts 'Stop! Stop!' Four men on the left, waiting their turn for the razor to reach them, are blissfully unaware of the accident. One has his head pressed into position by a rod held by a fashionably dressed man who is also working a lever that presumably controls the whole contraption.
A set of four 1960s 'Sirocco' rosewood and leather safari chairs by Arne Norell for Scanform, height 72cm, width 68cm and depth 66cm. CITES Article 10 application pending. Condition - good, general wear including minor scuffs and scratches, one chair missing some seat string and another with the string loose, two with original export boxes.
A Charles I joined oak backstool, the back panel carved in relief with a central flowering rose and dated 1612, probably Lancashire, width 47cm, depth 45cm & height 98cm. Condition - chip to left front of seat, old worm holes to left side, left upright cracked at joint, play in all joints, general wear, top moulding appears to be a later piece, original likely domed but broken off, carving on legs and uprights likely later.
JOHN WILKES A creamware teapot and cover, c.1763-65, probably Leeds, the globular body inscribed in black with 'Wilkes & Liberty', the reverse with 'No. 45', each inscription within a red and black scrolling cartouche, with moulded spout and scroll handle, restoration, 19.5cm across. (2) John Wilkes (1725-1797) was a radical English politician who represented the seat of Aylesbury. Also a journalist, his criticism of the King's opening of Parliament speech in issue 45 of his magazine 'The North Briton' earned him a warrant for his arrest for libel in 1763. Citing parliamentary privilege, he was cleared of the charge and went on to become Lord Mayor of London in 1774. Provenance: with Sampson & Horne, June 2007.
1828: DANIEL O'CONNELL MP A Sunderland lustre jug, c.1828, printed in black to two sides with a profile portrait inscribed ' Daniel O'Connell Esq MP For the County of Clare', the rim with a wide copper lustre band between pink lustre borders, some restoration to the spout, 11.8cm. Upon his appointment to the Board of Trade, William Vesey Fitzgerald was forced to seek re-election. Exploiting a loophole in the Act of Union of 1800, O'Connell stood against him for the County of Clare in the by-election held at the end of June 1828. Whilst successful, O'Connell was barred from taking his seat in Westminster on the grounds of his Catholic faith. This forced Parliament to consider the Catholic Emancipation bill on 13th April 1829, which passed into the statute books. Cf. Lincoln Hallinan, British Commemoratives; Royalty, Politics, War and Sport, pl.87B right.
REFORM BILL A rare Bristol Pottery pearlware jug, attributed to William Fifield, brightly painted with two men coming to blows, and with two figures toasting reform, beneath the spout with a royal coat of arms inscribed 'Hy. Ann Hodge Bristol' reserved on a ground of playing cards, the rim with a fine band of flowers, a crack to the handle, 17.3cm. Edward Davis Prothero, a Whig, was MP for Evesham from 1826 until retiring in 1830 in order to fight the seat of Bristol at which he was initially unsuccessful. In the general election of 1831 both he and James Evan Bailie were elected for Bristol, ousting the incumbent Tory, Richard Hart Davis.
A large pair of late Victorian Howard style armchair, upholstered in foliate patterned material with piping and with arm covers raised on turned front legs terminating in castors. Height to top of back 87 cm, width across arms 91 cm, seat depth 72 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: These substantial chairs are structurally very sound with no loose joints. They have original castors. The rear left leg of one chair may be a replacement or for some reason has been stripped. It does not feel like a replacement and is extremely solid but has lost all of the polish. There are no springs protruding from beneath. The upholstery seems very sound however the covering which is good quality is faded and the colour is no universal, it is darker in places and lighter in others. This is a shame as the fabric is actually in very good overall condition with no holes, tears or repairs. We can see no evidence of any woodworm.
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