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A Palissey type earthenware Plate decorated with a large crab, various shells etc. 12" (30cms) diameter, (a/f) and a Majolica oval shallow dish (chipped).

A Pair of Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Circular Picture Frames, inscribed "THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS" and "THE WATER BABY", each frame with three shells, and original corresponding prints, 66cm

A New Hall rectangular teapot and cover painted shells, seaweed and figured borders, pattern number 1045, a similar cup, saucer and dish, and an oval teapot and cover painted flower sprays

A pierced and embossed pedestal sweetmeat dish, 15.25cm (6") diameter Sheffield 1905 (weighted), a pedestal dish with shells to the borders, 11cm (4.25") diameter, Birmingham 1946 and a quatrefoil dish, pierced 10cm (4") diameter Birmingham 1925

Continental majolica Table Centre, the top formed as a scalloped shell and semi-clad maiden above two further shells separated by a snake and surmounted by naked figures, on a rocky base, marked with monogram "T.D." below a star, 55cms, (21½").

George IV oval Tray, gadrooned rim, finely cast with shells, with engraved armorial, John Bridge, London 1825, 1,040grms.

Pietro Barzanti, "The Fisherboy", carved marble figure of a boy on a rock, wearing a bonnet, holding a fish in one hand, rock encrusted with shells, flowers and frogs, signed, "P. Barzanti- Florence",and on a carved green marble plinth with octagonal top to match the base of the statue, carved with stiff leaves, entwined with an eel, the octagonal base carved with shells, 213cms, (7') overall.

A Finely Engineered Scratch Built Scale Model of a 4.7inch Royal Naval Gun Mk.XVIII, with 40 degree elevation, finished in grey, complete with brass shells, on a wooden base, with brass plaque 'Built by R.Stephenson in 2003', overall length 46cm, together with photographs of construction and a write up in Engineering in Miniature magazine.

da Costa, Emanuel Mendes. Elements of Conchology: or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells. London: for Benjamin White, 1776 8vo, 7 hand coloured folding plates, 2 folding tables, contemporary calf gilt, lower board loose, hinges split, foxing, some offsetting on plates

George V silver Fruit Bowl, the rim cast with shells above a pierced collar, pedestal and circular base with scrolled feet, Adie Bros., Birmingham 1925.

Mantel Clock with white enamelled dial with secondary seconds dial, contained within a George V silver and engraved case, decorated with shells, musical instruments and flowers.

A late 19th century Sitzendorf mantel clock, the 8.5cm enamelled dial with Roman and Arabic chapter ring, eight day movement, hinged glass door, the case moulded with fish and shells and encrusted with flowers and foliage, mounted with a scantily clad maiden reaching out to a cherub, on scroll moulded base, 39cm high, circa 1890

A SIX PIECE CONDIMENT SET of squat bellied form, Birmingham 1938, with associated spoons together with a set of four electro-plated butter shells and other items (a lot).

A REGENCY GILT METAL SEAL containing an amethyst intaglio, the body cast and chased with shells and scrolls and with a conforming suspension loop

A silver gilt copy of an Elizabethan standing cup, the egg shape body with engraved scallop shells, a band of chasing and flat ribbing, a date inscription, the cover with repousse fruit and a baluster finial, a knopped ribbed stem to a conforming foot. 12.5in. (32cm.) high. Maker Lionel Alfred Creichton. London, 1910. 20oz. (620g.).

* Shells. Sixteen fine uncoloured engravings of shells after M.Balen from Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien c.1724-26,. plate dimensions of each 285 x 178 mm with wide margins (1)

* World War I Diary. A manuscript diary written by Corporal J. E. Dix, 4th Middlesex Regiment, Devonport, 1st August to 1st October 1914,. 65 pp. written in a neat hand to rectos only of a notebook, ruled with 23 lines per page, giving a breathless first hand account of the first stages of the War, beginning with the barracks, the journey to France and subsequent battles of Mons, Landrecies, St. Quinton, Marne and Aisne, giving full first hand details of action, manoeuvres and casualties in a convincing and detailed manner, three full page sketch maps of the Battles and one later added note identifying a Lance Corporal of the 4th Royal Fusiliers, S. F. Godfrey [but actually Sidney Frank Godley, 1889-1957], who was gazetted for the Victoria Cross for bravery at Mons on 23rd August 1914, 'The enemy are coming out of the wood in thousands. Can't help hitting them. Range 900 yards. Infantry & Cavalry. They are trying to get the bridge down on the canal, some of them are swimming it. We are pouring in an awful fire & drive them back under cover of houses. Look they are driving the civilians out of their houses in front of them. Oh the cowards. Daren't fire. They get the bridge down. Now we are getting it. Where's our artillery. There shells are skimming(?) our ranks. A Toupe overhead gives our position away. Our right hand man (L. Cpl. Elliot) sends a message along that the enemy are advancing on our right. No notice taken by Officer. We are getting a crossfire now, something cruel. What's up with the Officer, is he mad. Sgt. Tee takes charge on his own & tells us to retire to the left by ones & twos. We are still keeping up our fire but they are outnumbering us by about 20 to 1. The shots are going very high, bad shooting. We all get away safe (twenty strong) can't find the Officer. Get to the town. Start to barricade the streets. Women & children all screaming. Shells coming over in scores. Join up with the 4th Fusiliers. They are holding onto a bridge that commands the main road. Their machine guns are doing murder. One gun out of action, the gunners all lying around dead & wounded. We are told to cover their retreat. Awful sights. We are all mad now. Our bayonets are fixed waiting the word "Go". The Fusiliers retire through us except the Machine Gun. A L.Cpl. & one Officer are manning this Maxim. The Officer drops but still this L.Cpl. sticks to his gun. We shout for him to come away but he doesn't seem to hear us. He must be raving mad but is doing hellish work. A shell burst nearby him. Can't see what's happened for smoke. It clears but no L.Cpl. to be seen. We pray to God that he has got away. Must have had a nerve like iron. Real British Pluck for he covered the retreat of his own Regiment', several leaves det., numerous blank versos with later doodles and scribblings, signed ownership signature to front pastedown and at rear of manuscript, orig. qtr. cloth, rubbed and some wear, large 8vo. It would appear that this is a contemporary fair copy written up by Corporal Dix shortly after his return to England, having been shot in the foot and leg at the Battle of Aisne on 14th September 1914. The conclusion of the diary notes that he went to the Southern General Hospital in Southmead, Bristol, from where he was discharged in mid October as convalescent. 'Wounds still painful but glad to get out of hospital. Think I am extremely lucky to be alive'. An excellent and vivid first-hand account of early World War I action and its terror.. (1)

* WWI - Gallipoli. A fourteen-page autograph letter from Dr. Frank Gravely, R.A.M.C., on board H.M. Hospital Ship, Oxfordshire, 25th November 1915 to 18th February 1916,. in which Dr. Gravely gives a brief diary account of these three months on board the ship, 'We got in on 23rd & no one has been to give orders yet, so that we don't know again what we are going to do, we have a hundred tons of Red Cross stores we brought from Alexandria, but don't know what we are supposed to do with them', and on 30th November, 'We have been right up to the Dardanelles to V. Beach & have brought about 500 back to Mudros and ungramatically just continuing we are filling up here & going to Malta tomorrow where we are having some repairs done which will take a few days & then I do not know what we shall do', and 'There are not many surgical cases amongst this lot, but a great many [?] & no end of jaundice cases, which it is said are slight typhoid (probably modified by the serum) & it is not known if they may be carriers of the disease' and on December 1st, 'Arrived at Anzac Beach close to Fishermans Hut which you may remember as being mentioned a good deal some time ago, & close to Brighton Beach & Hell Spit ... [we are] right in the firing line, there are guns constantly going all around us and shells falling quite close to us, the big guns make things rattle in one's cabin as in a house on land, which I should not have expected. We are close to some English & Turkish trenches which are only a few yards apart & we can see the guns on each side being fired & some of the shells bursting it is quite interesting but no more than safe. 2nd December. Have been very busy all day, we have embarked 600 straight from the beach in our own boats, had to take them with our own little steam-launch & motor-boat. Have had ten boats out & several had very narrow escapes as Turks are shelling the Beach all the time. We started at 9.00 am & finished at 9.00 pm. Very good work as there were about 200 stretcher cases which had to be got out & up from the small boats', and continuing in a similar vein, on the ship's letterhead written to rectos only, 14 pages, 4to, together with a related photo album containing approx. 80 b&w snapshots on twelve leaves, showing patients and wounded, embarkation, the ship, a few views, etc., contemp. cloth, small 4to, plus a letter sent by a nurse friend(?) at the Third Australian General Hospital in Cairo to Frank Gravely with orig. censor's stamped envelope dated 24th April 1916, plus a small quantity of later correspondence seemingly related to family property in or near Billingshurst in Sussex (-)

Papua New Guinea ceremonial ornament modelled as a mask decorated with shells, feathers and grasses

A monumental late 19th century blue jasper ware vase and cover. the pierced cover with fern leaf decoration, above baluster body, with scroll form twin handles, on a square plinth, decorated with bands of cornucopiae, dolphins with shells, lions with scrolling foliage, and ferns 56cm high

An 19th century carved walnut chiming longcase clock, of impressive proportions . By Maple & Co. Ltd., London. in the 'Renaissance Revival' taste, the three train movement chiming on a nest of eight graduated bells and four graduated gongs with hour repeater, the floral engraved brass dial with silvered roman chapter ring and maker's plaque, the pediment carved with cupids flanking a cartouche above a frieze supported by a pair of bearded atlantes with carved claw feet, the case profusely carved with shells, strapwork and birds around a front panel decorated with central female mask above a grotesque satyr mask flanked by monopaedic caryatid uprights each having festoon-carved claw feet, the projecting leaf carved lower apron on lion mask carved scrolling pilasters and shell carved feet 271cm high, 70cm wide, 40cm deep

A Regency period giltwood pier glass. the projecting ball applied cornice above a verre eglomise frieze decorated with shells and a bevelled plate between fluted corinthian uprights 60cm wide, 107cm high

A pair of Victorian silver butter shells, with floral and scrolling decoration, each raised on three snail shaped feet, Sheffield 1893 and a set of six silver coffee spoons with black bean terminals, Birmingham 1926.

A quantity of shells, coral, geological samples and sundry.

A 20th Century walnut two door cupboard with a pair of drawers raised on cabriole supports with carved shells to the knees, 76 cm wide x 136 cm high.

A Coalport (John Rose) part tea service, bat-printed in iron-red with shells, comprising: a teapot and cover, a teapot stand, a sugar box, two plates, three saucers and a slop bowl, unmarked, circa 1812 (some damage)

A pair of Canton carved ivory baluster vases, the neck with carved handles, the sides with panels pierced with figures in a landscape, 19cm high, late 19th century, losses; a mother of pearl shell carving of a biblical scene, and two mother of pearl shells, (5).

An Edwardian fruit stand, makers mark rubbed, Sheffield 1901, shaped circular, profusely embossed with shells, flower heads, bell flower chains and scrolls, with spreading shaped base, 9in. (23cm), 11oz . see illustration

A fine Edwardian richly inlaid 20 1/2in. oval mahogany tea tray with brass carrying handles and raised scalloped gallery, decorated musical instruments, flowers and shells.

A Newlyn oblong beaten copper tray, the border decorated embossed fish and shells, 21 3/4in. x 17 1/2in.

A small squat pear shaped handled pot pierced for a cover (lacking): Shells (52C) 75mm high, an orange ground pear shaped jug: Shells (52B) 227mm, rim chip and a door handle: Shells (52I) (3)

A pear shaped jug with hinged pewter cover: Shells (52B), green neck, gilt decoration, 235mm high, and another similar, 270mm handle repaired (2)

A toothbrush holder and cover: Shells (52C) and Shells (unrecorded) maroon ground, gold line decoration (2)

A pair of plates: Shells (52B) green ground and another similar, pink ground, each with gold line decoration (3)

A pear shaped jug with hinged pewter cover: Shells (52B) orange ground, green line decoration, 268mm high

Shells (52B) two medium examples both framed (2)

Shells (52B) large

A SILVER PLATED ENTREE DISH AND COVER of oval form, with cast scroll handles, on four bead and scroll feet, the cover with a removable handle, egg and dart band and engraved border detail, with an inner dish; an open dish with matching border detail, a salver, centrally engraved with a crest within a profusely engraved foliate and strap work frame, the rim pierced and cast with a border of fruiting vine divided by three bacchanalian masks and shells, on three pierced strap work feet, 30cms diameter (3)

AN ELKINGTON SILVER PLATED TEA SERVICE of lobed circular form, comprising tea pot, milk jug and sugar bowl, engraved with a repeat border pattern of scrolls, shells, pendant drapery and diaper panels, the tea pot with an ivory finial and raffia handle, on raised foot rim

A 19th Century blue and white Mustard Pot, transfer printed with birds of prey pattern and a Miles Mason coffee can printed with shells.

A large collection of world sea shells, containing approximately 2000 specimens, principally Buccinidae, Cerithridae, Bursidae, Patellidae, Cardiidae, Cassidae, Conidae, Cymatiacea, Cypraeidae, Fasciolariidae, Haliotidae, Harpidae, Architectonida, Dentaliidae, Littorinidae, Columbellidae, Marginellidae, Turritellidae, Melogenidae, Mitridae, Muricacea, Mytilidae, Ostrediae, Nassiridae, Bullidae, Naticidae, Nautilidae, Scaphopoda, Neritidae, Olividae, Pectinacea, Spondylidae, Strombidae, Terebridae, Tonacea, Tridacnidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae, Turbinellidae, Turridae, Vasidae, Ficidae, Veneracea, Volutidae and Cancelliridae, variable condition with many good-gem. See illustration on our web-site. Note (1): This collection is featured in Hook, Patrick. The World of Sea Shells, Gramercy Books, New York 1998. Note (2): Following consultation with DEFRA, it has been ruled that no license is required under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for Dreweatt Neate to sell or expose for sale in England the aforementioned collection. Prospective purchasers intending to export the collection should be advised that they may be required to apply for a separate license.

a Victorian gold demi-parure, comprising a pair of pendant earrings and a matching fringed brooch, each set with various cut pale blue pastes, applied with textured foliate motifs, shells and circular borders lengths: 8cm and 5.5cm

a pair of modern shell dishes, with marks for London 1974, maker Spink & Son, naturalistically cast as scallop shells width 12.3cm, 16oz

A Victorian mahogany bow front sideboard, the raised arched back carved with shells in high relief, over central drawer flanked by panelled cupboards enclosing further drawers, each cupboard in turn flanked by leaf and shell carved wrythen fluted columns terminating in paw feet, 75 1/2" wide x 28" deep x 45 1/2" high

George III mahogany wheel barometer and thermometer, the case decorated with inlaid paterae and shells, broken arch pediment engraved silvered dial, 97cm high

A French white painted and parcel gilt bedstead, circa 1920, each end carved in rococo style with foliate scrolls and shells, on cabriole legs, 68cm wide, 199cm long, 186cm high

A small beech framed window seat, late 19th century, in rococo style, the undulating frame carved overall with a profusion of shells and flower sprays, padded serpentine back, wings and stuffed-over seat, on cabriole legs, 71cm wide

A Florentine giltwood oval wall mirror, early 20th century, the frame pierced and carved with leaf scrolls divided by shells, bevelled plate, 73cm x 61cm

Oak drawleaf table carved with a frieze of shells and supported upon cup and cover supports united by a plain stretcher

Grainger's sucrier and Chamberlain sucrier circa 1810 painted with the Stag hunt pattern and printed with shells, (hairline crack to the stag hunt handle, old restoration to the others handle) (4) 12cm high

An electroplate mug made from World War III shells, together with a Victorian E.P.N.S. hot water pot.

* Gallipoli. A short diary acount by Dr E Ashton 1603 of 87th Field Ambulance, 29th Division, April 1915, in which Ashton arrives in the Dardanelles on the day of the Gallipoli Landing by Australian and New Zealand Troops, Anzac Day, 25th April 1915, Arrived onb 25th Ap at Dardanelles under heavy fire from our fleet and watched from our boat the landing of troops under terrible conditions, showers of bullets and shells were hurled at the troops who however made a splendid stand and on the following Wednesday the Turks were driven back to the village of Krithia a distance of about four and a half miles... (p. 2), Turkish and German troops constantly sheeling our beach, the first days shellign killing no less than 100 horses, the second day 50 horses. After several bombardments the Turkish were forced to retire fromt he redoubts in which many mahcine guns and plenty of ammunition were captured, these places proved to be death traps to our troops. About the end of May HMS Triumph and Majestic were both torpedoed... (p. 3), referring two pages later (August) to how the 87 Brigade were sent to assist the Australians, and ending On Dec 18 after a bombardment of two and a half hours, the 87 Brigade attacked and took two lines of trenches at Cape Helles, a total of seven pages plus a map, first page numbered 2, followed by a two-page letter , also in pencil, plus one page of ink and several pages of pencil notes at rear, some chipping and soiling, orig. paper wrappers, soiled and worn, small oblong 8vo (1)

* WWI - French Prisoner of War. A group of approx. eighty-five autograph letters signed by Ernest Rokeby Collins, 8th July 1914 to 12 November 1918, the majority written in pencil to his mother or father, the majority written while held as a prisoner of war by the Germans, It is a month tomorrow since I was hit early on in the day after only about four hours fighting. We are fighting a series of rear guard actions & my company have to be so placed as to engage the enemy at daylight. At about 9am as I was getting rather hardpressed I decided to retire through the supports & take up another position to cover them. I got all my wounded away except the very serious ones whom I was bound to leave behind, and left the position last getting some 300 yards clear & over a slope which hid me from the enemy, but over which bullets & shells were passing. As luck would have it just as I thought I was safe I was struck in the right arm with a bullet; it felt as though I had been hit with a sledge-hammer & I was twisted half round and fell backwards towards the floor ... (25th September 1914), a couple typed including one (3rd October 1917), giving thanks for the congratulations on receiving the Military Cross, I can only say what I did was a necessity & in the course of my duty at the time, during the Battle of Arras, and

A STAFFORDSHIRE SMALL COTTAGE and another encrusted with shells and 2 other miniature cottages, 4 1/4" high largest

[Mayo, Elizabeth]. Lessons on Shells, as given to Children Between the Ages of Eight and Ten, in a Pestalozzian School, at Cheam, Surrey, 1st ed., 1832, ten b&w litho. plts., pubs. ad. leaf at rear, contemp. boards, modern reback, rubbed and marked, small 8vo Elizabeth Mayo (1793-1865) was a teacher and educational reformer, who joined her brother Charles Mayo at Epsom in 1822 and later at Cheam where they applied the principles of Pestalozzi to English education. While at Cheam, she wrote her two best known works, Lessons on Objects (1831) and Lessons on Shells (1832). (1)

A pair of parcel gilt electroplated candlesticks by Christofle, each short stem cast with anthemion, acanthus and fluted shells raised on three paw feet, impressed no’s.206296 & 206299, 11cm (2.25in) high

A matched pair of silver double-lipped sugar baskets by Jackson and Fullerton, London 1899 and 1901, with pierced and shaped borders and embossed with flowers, shells, scrolls and roundels, 18cm (7in) wide, 362g (11.5 oz)

GROUP OF NORTHERN PRESSED GLASS JUGS, LATE 19th CENTURY, comprising George Davidson & Co. with rustic handle and leaf-moulded foot; George Davidson & Co., 1888; George Davidson & Co. cylindrical form, moulded with ferns against a frosted stippled ground; George Davidson & Co., moulded with shells and rustic handle, c.1880; mid 19th century jug of helmet form; George Sharwood & Co., of similar date; and five smaller jugs of varying designs. (12)

A Newhall porcelain oval cream jug, painted with sea shells and flowers and an iron red border, 10.5cm high, red painted pattern no.208, circa 1820; and other Newhall porcelain comprising: two tea bowls and saucers painted in predominantly pink and green with flowers and ribbands; three other tea bowls; a coffee can and a saucer (10)

An 18th Century Irish Mahogany Silver Table, the rounded rectangular dished top above a plain frieze, the shaped apron below carved with flower heads and shells, on acanthus leaf mounted cabriole legs, and leaf mounted pad feet, 72 cm See illustration