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Click here to subscribeCharles I oak mural glass case livery cupboard, West Country, circa 1640, the rectangular plank top above an open canopy and surrounded by cable carved moulding above the pair of fielded panelled doors each with an arched carved panel and central stylised flower enclosing a shelf to the interior, 91cm long, 22cm deep, 64cm high
Early 18th century oak, yew and fruitwood inlaid small ‘spice’ cupboard, English, of show-tenon boarded construction, the single raised-panelled door with a large central stellar inlay, conforming spandrels, and all framed by yew crossbanding, single-shelf interior, 26cm deep, 42cm wide, 52cm high
AMENDED DESCRIPTION - G-Plan style teak side cabinet, with four drawers beside a sliding cupboard door, on turned legs, no labels, H80, W122 D39.5 cm, and a white Ladderax wall shelf, with three teak shelves stamped Savar and labelled BFB-Hyllan, Stockholm, Sweden, 'String Designed' , H77 W81 D20 cmCondition Report: Signs of a loosening joint on the left hand side. Top in good condition with slight wear to the varnish. Some light wear and marks to the front, drawer fronts with some fading, no labels found. Bottom of legs with some staining. Signs of re-painting to the Ladderax supports, shelves labelled BFB-Hyllan, Stockholm, Sweden, 'String Designed'
A string of white pearls with an 18ct gold clasp, retailed by Mappin & Webb, with original box. Length 52cm Condition report: Each pearl approx 6.4mm, string looks unworn, ok quality, clasp works ok. Slight tarnish to the gimp at the end of the string, pearls have been in the box for a good time as there are dents to the velvet. Clasp a generic off the shelf clasp, not stamped M&W
Group of mahogany Globe Wernicke glazed front shelvesconsisting of 5 glazed front shelves, an enclosed front shelf, loose cornice and loose base, 87cm widePlease note the two smaller tops are from a different bookcase and do not fit the larger oneDimensions of four pieces (in image) 157cm high, 87cm wide 26cm deep. Dimensions of smaller shelves 66cm high, 26cm deep, 86cm wide approxCondition report:Some loose, scratched and the two tops are smaller in size to the remaining shelves.
Churchill (Winston Spencer). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31, volume II 3rd impression, November 1923, folding maps and charts, facsimile letters and illustrations, occasional light spotting, previous owner signature to volume 6, original cloth, spine ends a little rubbed, volume 5 covers with some rippling to covers, a few marks, 8voQty: (6)Footnote: Woods A 31a. Provenance: volumes 1 & 2 with Cliveden Library 'War Library' bookplate with shelf number and 'Waldorf Astor Nancy' printed at foot. Nancy Astor (1879-1964), an American-born British politician moved to Cliveden in Buckinghamshire following her second marriage to Waldorf Astor in 1906, and became the first female Member of Parliament, from 1919-1945.
Keynes (John Maynard). The End of Laissez-Faire, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1926, endpapers lightly toned (small shelf number to front endpaper), original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine (some fading to extremities of covers), dust jacket, spine toned and split along one fold, a few nicks, a couple of small ink stains to rear panel, 8vo, together with How to Pay for the War, 1st edition, 1940Qty: (2)Footnote: Woolmer 97 for the first work, Based on the Sydney Ball Lecture given by Keynes at Oxford in 1924, critiquing laissez-faire capitalism. 2000 copies printed.
A Victorian gilt metal mounted, walnut trimmed ebonised and marquetry credenza, slightly oversailing top above a pair of panel doors enclosing a shelf, flanked by slender mirrors and bowed glazed vitrine doors, each enclosing two further shelves, inlaid throughout with flowerheads and scrolling leaves, plinth base, turned feet, 107.5cm high, 185.5cm wide, 42cm deep, c.1880
A Sheraton Revival satinwood crossbanded mahogany and marquetry book or display cabinet, the bookcase superstructure with swan neck pediment above a pair of glazed doors enclosing two velvet-lined shelves, the projecting serpentine base with slightly oversailing top inlaid with scrolling acanthus and outlined with barber-pole stringing, above a long drawer, the front inlaid with ribbon-tied hammocks of fruit, and a pair of panel doors inlaid with an urn, swag and further foliage and enclosing a shelf, outlined throughout with boxwood and ebony stringing, 218.5cm high, 103cm wide, 52cm deep, c.1900
° An early 15th century German manuscript volume of Lenten sermons, c1400.The volume consists of 134 foliated and three unfoliated paper leaves, 29 x 20cms. in a parchment binding, from which five metal bosses have been removed [1]. The text is written in two columns, and the four columns visible at each opening are identified with the lower-case letters a, b, c and d [2]. With the exception of folio 134, the text is rubricated, a process largely confined to initial capitals, biblical sources and the days of the week on which each sermon is to be delivered [3].The watermark of an ox’s head surmounted by a flower [4] resembles Briquet 14743 [5, 6, 7], an example of which has been identified from a manuscript at Würzburg dated 1403.[1]The contents are as follows:Folios1-30 Lenten sermons, signed Explicit per manus Heynrici Kothewicz Anno Domini Mo CCCCo primo 3a post Martini – completed by the hand of Heinrich Kothewicz in the year 1401 on the third [?Sunday] after St Martin [27 Nov 1401] [8].31 blank32-115 Lenten sermons116-133 Lenten sermons of Jacobus de Varagine, marked incomplete134 (reversed) single leaf identified as de Sancto Vitounfoliated index, dated Anno Domini 1481 [9]The sequence of the volume’s creation begins with three unbound and unfoliated groups of sermons, represented by folios 1-133 and written within a decade of the element dated to 1401. In 1481, to enable the compilation of the index, foliation in Arabic numerals was applied to the recto of each leaf and the letters a, b, c and d to each column. It was probably at that date that the paper gatherings were bound into covers formed from wooden boards with a parchment cover. Folio 134 [10], which was mistakenly bound in reverse, probably dates from the time of the binding.The hand which added the folio numbers and the letters to each column inscribed column b of the opening folio liber sancti Petri in Erfordia C.l4 – the book of St Peter in Erfurt [number] 154 [11]At the same time the lower margin of the same folio was annotated Tria opera quadragesimalia quartum vero incompletum – three Lenten works, a fourth however incomplete [12]In the binding process two fragments of text were inserted as packing:1.letter reciting a letter of John [von Fleckenstein], bishop of Worms, to his official concerning a dispute with the dean and chapter of the monastery of St Cyriac at Neuhausen, which can be dated to his episcopate of 1410-1426 [13]2 Nine lines of rhyming couplets on the theme of hunting, probably a Minnesang Lied (German courtly love poem) [14]In the 19th century the left margin of the opening leaf was annotated in pencil 55m and 145, the significance of which is unclear, and the lower margin 133, representing the number of folios [2]In the 20th century the top-left corner of the opening leaf was annotated in pencil 1481 (the date of the index) and XI.bb (probably a shelf-mark).[1] CM Briquet, Les filigranes, dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu’en 1600; Amsterdam, The Paper Publication Society (Labarre Foundation), 1968.Remains of the Benedictine monastery dedicated to St Peter on the Petersberg, outside Erfurt in Thuringia are still extant.During the Thirty Years’ War Erfurt was occupied from 1631 by the troops of Gustav II Adolf of Sweden. The following year the monastery was dissolved, and briefly converted into a protestant monastery in 1633. The buildings were converted to secular use in 1803. Further damage took place in 1813 and 1814 and from 1820 the church was used as a store for flour and military provisions.Although nothing is known about the provenance of this manuscript, it seems likely that it left the monastery during one of these episodes of military activity.Gorringe’s would like to thank Christopher Whittick, former County Archivist for East Sussex, Drs Susanne Brand and Jens Röhrkasten, Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham, for their assistance in the preparation of this report.
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