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A Marshall Islands navigational chart Micronesia palm fibre and cowrie shells, with remains of labels next to the shells, 70.5cm x 45.5cm.

A LATER 19th C. CAMEROON DAGGER, THE LEATHER SHEATH SEWN WITH COWRIE SHELLS ABOUT TWO IVORY MASKS, THE IVORY POMMEL OF THE DAGGER HANDLE WITH YET ANOTHER MASK WITH COWRIE INSET HEAD. W 32cms.

A LATE 19th C. CHOKROBA, BURKINO FASO MASK AND HEADDRESS, THE RED FACE OF THE FORMER WITH WHITE TUSKS AND FRAMED BY COWRIE SHELLS, THE LATTER DECORATED WITH COWRIE SHELLS AND THREE HORNS TO HANG DOWN THE BACK OF THE MASK WEARER. W 62cms.

A LATE 19th C. GABONESE HUNTERS DANCE BAOBAB MASK DECORATED WITH BEADS AND COWRIE SHELLS, THE HAIR FROM THE PELT OF A COLOBUS MONKEY. H 29cms.

A LATE 19th C. ASANTE, MAHOGANY FERTILITY DOLL, HER FACE PAINTED IN OCHRE WITH WHITE DETAILS, BEADS AND COWRIE SHELLS AROUND HER NECK AS SHE STANDS WITH HANDS MEETING BEFORE HER. H 29cms.

A WEST AFRICAN WOODEN FETISH INLAID WITH COWRIE SHELLS IN A LINE FROM THE CENTRE OF HIS SCARIFIED HEAD DOWN HIS BODY TO THE STAND BETWEEN HIS FEET. H 39cms.

A FRENCH SILVER SHAPED OVAL DISH MADE FOR TIFFANY & CO, PARIS, THE BEADED EDGE ENCLOSING FOUR SHELLS AND A CENTRAL MONOGRAM. W 23.5cms. TOTAL WEIGHT 378g

A 19th C. FRENCH WALNUT SHOW FRAME ARMCHAIR WITH SHELLS CARVED TO THE BACK ABOVE THE ARMS UPHOLSTERED WITH ELBOW PADS, THE BOW FRONTED SEAT ABOVE TAPERING CYLINDRICAL FRONT LEGS

29 mother of pearl shells for serving caviar, naturalistic form having being dressed with a reticulated edge, some have de-laminated edges, approximately 12 cm diameter

An African Babanka elephant mask with brass tusks, trunk, brass bird to head and brass crocodile inside the ears. Decorated with sea shells and French 1 Franc coins. H:95cm

WWII Brodie type helmet stamped 'F&L 1/1939' and personalised 'A R Keddie', with leather liner, another stamped 'AMC? 3/1941' with leather liner, another with no liner, two German style helmet shells and another, (6).

A Victorian glass display dome on ebonised base filled with various sea shells including various cowries. H.21 Diam.15cm

A Shell-Work Sailor's Valentine, 'Vase of Flowers', Barbadian, 19th century,the octagonal mahogany case mounted with pink, green, lilac, and white shells, arranged on paper base evoking a vase of flowers, with glazed top, 11 3/4in (30cm) wideFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Shell-Work Sailor's Double Valentine, 'Remember Me', Barbadian, 19th century,the hinged octagonal mahogany cases mounted with pink, green, brown, and white shells, one reading 'REMEMBER ME', the other with a small panel painting to the centre depicting a sailor beside an anchor, American shield, and an eagle, captioned 'FREE TRADE AND SAILORS RIGHTS', each with glazed top, 10in (25.5cm) wide when closedFootnotes:The panel depicts David Porter (1780-1843), a US naval officer who in 1812 raised a banner with the words 'Free trade and sailor's rights' while captain of the sailing frigate USS Essex. The moment became an enduring image during the War of 1812 against Great Britain.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Interesting WW1 German Photograph Album, unusual album which seems to have been collated by various individuals as many different types of images are included in the period album. Some good shots of trench systems and various uniforms and equipment used. A very good loose picture of troops posing in steel helmets and field telephone. Good images of various shells with details painted to the heads, bomb damage, captured French colonial troops, nurses, Iron Cross recipients etc. 95 images approximately.

A mix lot to include Swarovski models, glass models of horses, shells and other items Location 9:3

Natural History - shells, various ; agate eggs; ammonite; agate coasters; etc

A COLLECTION OF ITEMS INCLUDING A CONSTELLATION GLOBE, DECORATIVE SHELLS AND STONES, BOWLS, CHEESE DOME, ETC

A 500 m spool of Flying C tubing, 200 Devon minnow shells, 250 Reflex Spinner blades and 50 Kynoch shells.

An original German Raindeer skin back pack AF and a crate with 2 Practice shells (heavy)

Ostrich egg, together with two mother of pearl shells with painted, decoration of cottage and figures, etc. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT)

19th century French gilt metal pump action ink well, the finial engraved Encrier, Pompe Boquet Brevete, dated 1839, Medaille D'argent, the porcelain section decorated with panels of wild cats, the metal dish of clam shell form, serpents and shells. (B.P. 21% + VAT)  Appears complete, but no specialist knowledge.  Main cylinder is cracked at bottom - very tarnished and grubby externally.  Inner cylinder has lose, probably broken piece inside.

A boxed Astra-Pharos die-cast model Anti-aircraft gun, early 20th century, the gun with lever operated brass mounted sprung breach, raised on a tilt-and-swivel tripod base, in original khaki paint with maker's roundel, with associated carved ammunition shells (box at fault)

NATURAL HISTORY INTEREST: A selection of glass topped "cabinet of curiosities" display boxes, 20th century, containing ammonite fossils, mineral samples, bird's wing bones, coral pieces and ash from the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with further loose specimen skulls, teeth etc, and a table top stained beech and pine three drawer collector's chest containing a selection of sea shells (Qty) CONDITION REPORT:There is no index with this collection, however several of the boxes are labelled to the base. 

A FRENCH GILTMETAL AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED CARRIAGE CLOCK BY LUCIEN OF PARIS C.1845, with raised swing handle, body bodly cast and chased with scrolls, putti and scallop shells fitted with classical Limoges 'en grisaille' panels, and conforming stand. 29cm high

Charles and Ray Eames (American), a '670' lounge chair and '671' ottoman for Herman Miller,c.1960, label to underside of ottoman - ‘Herman Miller Collection, Designer Charles Eames’,The rosewood shells, with black leather upholstery, on aluminium swivel bases, Chair: 80cm high, 83cm wide Ottoman : 42cm high, 64cm wide (2) CITES no. 610340/01Please refer to department for condition report

Charles and Ray Eames (American), a '670' lounge chair and '671' ottoman for Herman Miller, c.1970's, the ottoman, bearing label to underside - ‘Herman Miller, United Kingdom, Bath, England’,The rosewood shells, with black leather upholstery, on aluminium swivel bases, Chair: 81cm high, 84cm wide,Ottoman: 42cm high, 66cm wide (2) Provenance: This Eames lounge chair was purchased from new c.1970, the accompanying ottoman was purchased c.1976, thence by descentCITES no. 610310/01Please refer to department for condition report

Three Barr Flight and Barr coffee cans and a saucer, c.1804-13, the matching can and saucer printed with sea shells, another can printed with birds in flight, the last with scenes of Classical figures, impressed crowned BFB marks, and a Flight Worcester teabowl and saucer painted with flower sprays in puce and gilt, 13.7cm max. (6) Provenance: the teabowl and saucer from the Raymond Dennis collection; the rest from the Raymond Hill collection.

Three English porcelain dishes, c.1810-30, one Barr, Flight & Barr with an armorial crest within a gilt seaweed ground, the other Flight, Barr & Barr and painted with a unicorn crest reserved within a salmon border with gilt palmettes, the last a square dish painted with shells and colourful seaweed, puce monogram mark to the underside, 26.6cm max. (3)

A Plymouth shell salt, c.1768-70, the large shell supported on a base of further smaller shells and coral, the interior painted with flowers, the base brightly enamelled, restored, 13cm across. Cf. F Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, pl. 35, fig. 57.

A large Bow blue and white sweetmeat or pickle stand, c.1750, modelled with three large clam shells raised around and above rockwork encrusted with small shells, coral and seaweed, the clam shell rims and ridges with a formal foliate design, some chips and losses to the rim, 24cm wide.

CLAM OTHER SHELLS. Two small clam shells, width 35cm, a large conch shell & five other seashells. (8)  COLLECT IN PERSON OR BY BUYER'S CARRIER ONLY.   Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of a private vendor. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING.  The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.

A pair of continental pottery majolica-style vases with applied figures, coral, shells and seaweed decoration, 56cm, high together with a majolica wall plaque with applied crayfish and shell decoration, 26cm diameter (3)

A rare pair of small Bow blue and white triple-shell sweetmeat dishes: each in the form of three scallop shells supported on a pierced rockwork base encrusted with seaweed, coral and shells, painted with willow, pierced rockwork and a fence within a Chinese-style diaper border, circa 1750-55, 16cm wide [minor chips]. * Provenance paper label to one for Roderick Jellicoe, London.* Notes Literature Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman 'Bow Porcelain-The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman' page 43 for a similar example in the white.

Two rosewood shibayama whist or bezique counters, with gilt lacquer detailing and inlaid ivory tabs, each 9cm long, in leather whist case; together with cowrie shells, and a circular carved ivory box with four discs, marked 'Whist' to the cover, 3cm diam.

Edwardian mahogany and marquetry barometer, the case with architectural pediment, inlaid with shells and fan, boxwood and ebony outlines, silvered dials to the thermoneter and aneroid barometer, indistinctly signed, 96cm.

A collection of various sea shells.

Fine quality 19th century Japanese lacquer box, of rounded rectangular form decorated in low relief with fish and shells, the cover enclosing four lidded boxes, each decorated with landscape, 15cm wideCondition report: The cover has cracks to three corners and two edges. The box has a chip to one corner, chips to the base, and some other minor surface wear commensurate wirh age.  Measures 15.5cm x 12cm.

A Royal Dux porcelain centrepiece, modelled as a fisherwoman with scallop shells, height 41cm

An Arts & Crafts copper frame of easel form, embossed fish and shells, 35cm x 26cm CONDITION REPORT: Patches of discolouration and oxidisation, slightly sunken in the centre, some spotting and light scratches throughout with some deeper ones verso.

A FINE 1:175 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF H.M.S DREADNOUGHT, 1906modelled by M. Chescu, the bespoke 40in. pre-formed hull, with bilge keels, twin rudders, four propeller shafts on brackets with propellers, sponson booms with nets, brass portholes with rigoles, anchors secured with studded chain, pipes and winches, planked wooden decks with coal chute covers, and complete with painted metal fittings including main and secondary armament, bridge with telegraph, binnacle, chart table, searchlights, fitted wooden boats swung out in davits, stayed funnels with safety valve extension pipes, tripod mast with director firing system, signal lanyard and radio aerials, steam launches and much other fine detail, mounted on gilt brass pedestals within plexiglass wood framed case, overall measurements -- 24 x 46 x 10in. (61 x 117 x 25.5cm.)The first all-big-gun ship and rightly considered the 'grandfather' of all modern battleships, H.M.S. Dreadnought was also the first to employ Charles Parsons's turbines as opposed to the noisy and messy reciprocating engines tried and trusted by the late Victorian navy. The result was a triumph – fast, clean, quiet, efficient, armoured and accurate: Jane's Fighting Ships claimed that she was the equal of 'two if not three traditional battleships', thus rendering them all obsolete at a stroke. At a demonstration in August 1907 to show Edward VII and Queen Mary, a "scratch" gun crew fired twelve 12in. shells with 11 finding their mark a mile and a half away. Obsolete by WW1, her only 'kill' was made by ramming a submarine. She was broken up in 1923 by Wards at Inverkeithing but remains perhaps the most iconic battleship of the 20th Century.Fine overall condition.

World War I Trench Art tobacco canister, made out of two German artillery shells, dated 1917

Kristen Rosenberg, small finely executed watercolour, study of snail shells and a rock, signed, gilt framed, 3ins x 4ins

A good collection mainly Victorian mother of Pearl sea shells and some that are carved, altogether fourteen in total.

A collection of old various sea shells in four drawers. No reserve.

A carved ostrich egg together with a collection of sea shells.

2 carved abalone shells with religious scenes, 1, last supper surrounded by apostles, 2, Mary & Josephs journey to Bethlehem.

4 carved albalone shells 2 with lace work decoration.

4 carved cameo conch shells, 4-15cm.

6 carved cameo conch shells (shades).

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A BOX OF TREEN, ASSORTED NATURAL AND VINTAGE ITEMS, to include a large tea caddy of sarcophagus form (no interior compartments, requires restoration) approximate height 18cm x width 29.5cm x depth 14cm, two twentieth century wooden biscuit barrels with plated lids and ceramic liners, an adjustable desk calendar, a metal embossing press, a leather powder flask, a vintage 'Race Game' horse racing game (sd, horses and dice only), scientific lenses, a glass inkwell, a Craftsman Sheffield pewter pepper pot, horns, cowrie shells, assorted teeth and other natural specimens, etc (sd) (1 BOX)

Large selection of miscellaneous to includes oil pastels, shells, wicker basket etc

Large selection of assorted military items includes shells, cloth badges etc

A quantity of mainly electrical partsincluding headlamps; headlamp shells; regulators; alternators; ignition coils; horns and sundry parts, condition, suitability and completeness unknown, close inspection advised. (Qty)Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ◊◊◊◊ £60 + VAT uplift and storage at £12 + VAT per lot per dayFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A collection of three snuff boxes made from shells with white metal mounts.

Collection of exotic sea shells

Late 19th / Early 20th century Mahogany Spinning Chair, the back with circular panel inlaid with a design fruits held in cornucopia shells, 102cm high

shaped circular and on three ball and claw feet, the border cast with foliage and shells, the centre later engraved with foliage scrolls, flowers and military trophies, the centre vacant31cm diameter, 29oz 3dwt, 907grProvenance:Property from the Estate of Ian Stephenson, The Laithes, Penrith.Condition report: Fully marked underneath. There is some overall surface scratching and wear consistent with age and use. The engraving was probably done in the 19th century. The centre has been erased and is somewhat thin.

shaped circular and on spreading foot, the rim cast with foliage and shells, the lower body chased with flowers and foliage, with overhead swing handle, engraved with an inscription25.7cm diameter, 29oz 10dwt, 917grCondition report: Fully marked near rim and part marked on handle. There is some minor wear to the marks. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. The wear is noticeable as a softening to the engraving. The inscription reads 'Presented to H. H. Graves Esq By His Friends in Brandon & District on his Retirement as Agent to the Brandon Park Estate April 1902'.