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Click here to subscribeA large Victorian silver snuff box, by Francis Clark, Birmingham 1841, of rectangular shape, the body engine turned within foliate scrolled edge, the cover panel with Ancient Order of Oddfellows presentation inscription, 10.25 x 6.5cm, 5.6oz Corners and hinges all in good condition, no holes, splits ot repairs. Engraving to cover lightly done but clear
An Edwardian silver cheroot case, by S Blanckensee & Sons, Chester 1909, of plain rectangular outline, the top section of the box with ancillary compartment, the main case with hinged cover revealing a divided compartment, monogrammed, 10cm, 4.39oz together with an Edwardian lady's silver evening purse by Colen Hewer Cheshire, Chester 1907, modelled as an envelope, the fold released by a sprung thumb latch set with a cabochon sapphire, with leather and silk interior lining, suspension chain with thumb ring, initialled, 9.25cm, 3.14oz (7.54oz gross) Slight strains to the hinges of the first, suspension chain with broken ring to the purse, otherwise in good condition
A service of Victorian silver King's pattern flatware, by Thomas Alfred Slater, Walter Brindsley Slater & Henry Arthur Holland, London 1898, comprising:- twelve table forks, 21.5cm; twelve dessert forks, 18cm; six table/serving spoons, 22.5cm; twelve dessert spoons, 18.5cm; twelve large teaspoons, 15cm; six egg spoons, 12.25cm; four salt spoons, 11.25oz; a pair of sugar tongs, 15.25cm; a butter knife, 20.5cm; a mustard spoon, 12.5cm; two sauce ladles, 18cm; one soup ladle, 34cm; one gravy spoon, 30cm; all contained in a fitted polished oak canteen box with two removable trays, 156.62oz (67pce) The flatware is in very good condition. Canteen box has capacity for carvers and table and cheese knives which are not present. The box has a broken/damaged lock and some cracking to the wood
A Victorian silver twin bottle inkstand, by Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater, London 1844, the base of shaped rectangular form, decoratively pierced and engraved, the central platform containing two hexagonal glass bottles with silver mounts flanking a rectangular bombe shape box lacking the taperstick cover, 32.5cm wide, 25.17oz (weighable) Main frame in good condition, some 'nibbles' to the sharp edges of the glass bottles, the central hexagonal box should be capped by a taperstich which is missing
An Art Deco service of silver Canterbury* pattern flatware, by Richard Woodman Burbridge (Harrod's Ltd), London 1935, comprising:- eight table forks, 20cm; eight dessert forks, 18cm; eight fish forks, 17.5cm; eight dessert spoons, 19cm; eight soup spoons, 18.5cm; eight tea spoons, 12.5cm; seven egg spoons, 11cm; four table spoons, 21.5cm; two sauce ladles, 18cm; eight fish knives, 20cm; together with eight bone handled table knives, 23.5cm; eight matching cheese knives, 20.5cm and five bone handled carving implements, all initialled 'L', contained in a fitted, polished walnut canteen box with drawer, 91.92oz (90) * This is the British Art Deco Canterbury pattern not to be confused with the American Canterbury pattern which is rather more ornate In good condition - just one egg spoon missing.
A George III and later oak eight day longcase clock, the 12 inch arched brass dial with centred subsidiary seconds dial and date dial within an inner ring of Roman numerals and outer ring of Arabic numerals, signed to a silver disk to the arch 'Mich Wild, Doncaster', the later carved oak case with swan-neck pediment over fluted front corner hood pilasters over a leaf and portrait carved long trunk door and leaf carved box base, raised on short bracket plinth, 217.5cm high
A fine, impressive and very rare Victorian engraved gilt brass and malachite inset clock with thermometer and aneroid barometer in the form of a full-sized occasional table Thomas Cole, London, number 1 545, circa 1860 The eight-day movement resembling that of a standard Cole strut clock with rectangular frontplate stamped with serial number 1 545 and applied with two separate shaped backplates for the going and strike trains each with going barrels, six-spoke wheel crossings and three pillars secured by screws from the rear, the going train incorporating vertical shaped platform English lever escapement regulated by sprung three-arm steel monometallic balance, the strike train sounding the hours on a coiled gong mounted behind the movement, the left hand backplate stamped THOMAS COLE, LONDON to lower edge, the 10 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial incorporating recessed circular subsidiary barometer scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations and a curved Fahrenheit scale mercury thermometer to the finely engraved centre decorated in the Greek revival manner with hatched radial rosette incorporating anthemion motifs within a Vitruvian scroll border, with plain minute and cruciform hour blued steel hands within generous gilt cavetto moulded bezel incorporating concentric bead-cast borders and fitted with a heavy bevelled glass, the case with table-top incorporating quatrefoil lobed rim applied with eight malachite roundels set in pairs between anthemion and stylised scroll decorated projections of the stepped rim, the shallow dome-shaped rear panel centred with a square box enclosing the movement and incorporating winding/hand setting holes and shuttered escapement viewing aperture to underside, the whole mounted via hinged screw pivots and a curved graduated stay onto a conforming square plate attached by a rotating joint onto the elaborate two-tier triform base, the upper section with three slender square section uprights incorporating outswept bracket-shaped terminals to top over stylised panel and foliate scroll engraved feet resting onto a concave-sided platform stage with conforming fine foliate motif and gadroon border engraved detail, the lower tier with three further panel decorated square section baluster uprights mounted onto a substantial stepped triform block applied to a wide platform base adorned with three finely cast recumbent sphinxes within further finely worked stylised scroll and gadroon engraved borders, the underside with three adjustable disc-shaped levelling feet (surface with overall brown patination, barometer mechanism lacking), 49.5cm (19.5ins) wide across the top; 75.5cm (29.75ins) high with table top in horizontal position. Provenance: The current lot was a given to the vendor's father, a doctor, from a very grateful patient during the early 1960's, thence by descent to the present owner. The life and work of Thomas Cole is extensively documented in Hawkins, J.B. THOMAS COLE & VICTORIAN CLOCKMAKING. Thomas Cole was born in Nether Stowey, Somerset in 1800. His father, Thomas senior, was a local clockmaker who is now known to have moved his family to Taunton in around 1815; he was a talented maker who probably taught both Thomas and his older brother, James Ferguson, the clockmaking trade. By 1821 James Ferguson had moved to London and filed a Patent for a pivoted detent escapement, by 1823 he was working from New Bond Street where he was joined by his younger brother, Thomas. Over the next twelve years the two brothers worked alongside each other and produced a series of highly complicated silver 'humpback' carriage clocks very much in the manner of Abraham Louis Breguet (leading some to speculate a connection between Breguet and the Cole brothers). The brothers then went their separate ways with James Ferguson going on to explore his technical abilities later developing a series of escapement designs including a 'resilient' lever escapement (1830), a 'double rotary' escapement (1840), a detached escapement calliper (1849) and an escapement with negative diameter (1859). Thomas Cole sought to specialise in small decorative timepieces of the highest quality. By 1845 he was advertising himself as a Þsigner and maker of ornamental clocks' and in 1851 submitted examples for display at the Great Exhibition, both under his name, and on the stands of other leading retailers such as Hunt & Roskel and Hancocks. He then went on to exhibit at the Paris Exhibition of 1855 where his entry warranted an 'Honourable Mention', and again at the British International Exhibition in 1862 where he was awarded a medal for 'Excellence of taste and design'. Thomas Cole was elected to the Royal Society of Arts in June 1861; he died three years later of typhoid fever, at his home at 1 Westbourne Park Road, Paddington, leaving his second wife Charlotte and their three children (two boys and one girl). The originality and inventiveness of design coupled with the exceptional quality of finish ensured an enduring popularity for Thomas Cole's work, mainly from the rising Nouveau Riche class of Victorians made wealthy from the Industrial Revolution. Until the discovery of the current lot only two other full-sized 'table' clocks by Thomas Cole were known. Both of these were first documented as consecutive lots offered at Christie's, King Street, Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers 13th December 2000 (lots 63 and 64). The first was numbered 1884 and was signed for the retailer's Hunt and Roskell, London; whilst the second bore the numbers 1578 and 1505 and was dated March 1862 to the going spring barrel. Both of these clocks were very similar only differing in detail - mainly in the design of the engraving; they sold for the premium inclusive amounts of £69,750 and £71,950 respectively. It seems that these two examples were purchased by the same buyer as they were offered again by Christie's, in their sale of Magnificent Clocks, on the 15th September 2004. Presented together as a 'harlequin pair' (lot 29) they realised £81,260 including buyer's premium. Finally number 1884 appeared for a third time at Christies where it was sold for £73,250 on 15th March 2012 (lot 25). Although the current lot is outwardly similar than the other two known examples overall refinements and improvements in both its specification and detailing are evident. The dial incorporates the additions of a barometer scale and thermometer whilst the rim of the table is generally of increased complexity featuring a stepped layered edge. The base is also more substantial with the central platform being significantly wider than on the other examples. This allows the lower tier of baluster supports to be spread further apart and the base plate to have an increased footprint resulting in improved stability and more satisfactory proportions. In addition to this the horizontal elements of the both the central platform and the base are extensively engraved compared to the relatively simple single geometric band seen on the lowermost step of the other two examples. Overall the detail design of the engraved enrichments possessed by the current lot are particularly harmonious being in the Greco-Egyptian style throughout. This style of decoration was made popular by Thomas Hope during the first quarter of the 19th century and seems to have been used relatively sparingly by Cole and then only for his finest examples.
A fine French silver small pocket sundial Jacques Thoury, Paris, late 17th century The oval silver plate with outer hour scale engraved IIII-XII-VIII divided into quarter-hour subdivisions around a central rosette with radial hour-lines between, the glazed four-point compass with adjacent inscription Pour 49, degrez opposing fine foliate pierced and engraved hinged gnomen, the underside with leaf decorated spring bar bisecting engraved signature Jacques Thoury, A Paris and fitted with two small baluster turned feet opposing moulded silver-gilt compass box engraved with a fine radial leaf design to the base cap, length 5cm (2ins). Provenance: The estate of a connoisseur collector of regional furniture, works of art and clocks. An almost identical dial by Jacques Thoury is in the collection of The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich where the curators note that Thoury was as a Member of the Founders' Corporation from about 1684. Another similar dial signed Roch Blondeau, Paris was sold at Christies, King Street THE ALBERT ODMARK COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT CLOCKS AND WATCHES 11th March 2005 (lot 249) for £2,640.
Pink Sapphire Tennis Bracelet, a row of oval cut, rare, pink sapphires, totalling 7cts, set in rhodium vermeil and silver, fastening with a tongue and box clasp with a figure-of-eight safety catch; 7.5 inches long; only a small percentage of sapphires mined are 'fancy' colours, ie not blue, and pink is only a small part of that quantity
A pair of George III apothecary scales, with silver gilt pans, Solomon Hougham, London 1794, steel balance arm with box ends and two weights, within a silk-lined shagreen case, collector's label '18',19.5cm wide11.5cm deepPapers within describe these scales as belonging to the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville (1751-1824), third son of Francis Bacon. He was Member of Parliament for Warwick 1774-1780, Equerry to King George III 1781-1797 and Groom of the Bedchamber and he married Louise Countess of Mansfield in 1797. There is also a note inscribed in ink ‘Gift of HRH Princess Elizabeth to my dear father when Groom of the Bedchamber to His Majesty George 3d’.A further footnote bearing Fulkes' engraved monogram beneath a coronet and swan inscribed in ink ‘A very gracious and kind present to me from HRH The Princess Elizabeth’, and handwritten in ink ‘A very sincere well wisher for your happiness and welfare before(?) this trifle when you was ill, hoping that if ever it is necessary for
A George V tea caddy, maker's mark rubbed, Chester 1910, engraved swag design, 3 1/4in. (8.5cms); a George V caddy spoon, by Atkin Bros., Sheffield 1920, 3.95oz; a George V capstan form inkwell, by A.J. Zimmerman, Birmingham 1913; a George V jewellery box, maker's mark rubbed, Chester 1919; and a George V silver photograph frame, by E. Mander & Son, Birmingham 1910. (5)
A silver novelty desk stand, hallmarked London 1923, maker's mark of Albert Clarke Modelled as a vintage car, possibly a 1902 Baby Peugeot, the boot a stamp box, the hinged seat revealing an inkwell. 13 cm long. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, some slight dints, slight loss to underside of seat, approximately 14 troy ounces all in.
A Russian diamond set enamel decorated silver buckle, 88 Zolotnik Yakorlyapunov St. Petersburg Kokoshnik mark, cyrillic makers mark and possible French swan import mark Of oval form with ribbon tied and laurel decoration, in fitted case. 7.5 cm wide. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, box a little tired.
A silver mounted Spanish eight Reales (piece of eight) coin pendant, hallmarked London 1972, maker's mark of RW Together with certificate from Spink & Son Ltd, printed "We guarantee that your coin has been recovered from the Lucayan Beach Pirate Treasure Trove of 1628", in box en suite. The pendant 4.5 cm diameter. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, pieces of eight pendant approximately 56 grammes all in.
A horn and white metal mounted snuff box in the form of a riding boot mid to late 19th Century The horn boot with white metal mounted lid with initials H, the remains of part of a spur attached to the base, height 9cm. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 18: Overall discolouration and wear to the horn. Cork has been detached from the interior cover, small loss of silver inlay to cover, small splits and cracks to the lower boot area.
ENAMELLED JEWEL. A silver gilt & enamelled Chairman's Lady's jewel, for the Urban District Council of Camborne-Redruth. Medal by Thomas Fattorini Ltd., Birmingham, in original box & once owned by Mrs. Dennis Bray, the wife of Dennis Bray, Council Chairman 1963-4. Sold with two photographs relating to this jewel & a book by the Chairman, Denis Bray.
A small Victorian silver vinaigrette, by Frances Clark, Birmingham 1843, engraved rococo scrolls, pierced gilt grille, 2cm, a George III navette shape oval box by Samuel Pemberton, 1792, engraved decoration, monogram within a shield cartouche, 3.cm and a George IV box by John Bettridge, Birmingham 1824, engraved decoration, 3.5cm, (3).
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