A novelty Edwardian silver 'Mr Popple' cayenne pepper potSaunders & Shepherd, Chester 1906 Modelled as a stylised motorist, based upon the 1905 stage musical comedy character 'Mr Popple of Ippleton', the head pulling off to reveal the spoon, height 6cm.Footnotes:This pot was based upon the character Mr Popple and was made when the most popular musical comedy on stage was 'Mr Popple of Ippleton' by Paul Rubens, which opened on 14th November 1905 at the Apollo Theatre and ran for 173 performances. In the last act all the characters attended the Motor Carnival of the Magpie Club, at Wrexhill-on-Sea, all muffled in huge white motor coats made from blankets, the designs varied a little, but large gold buttons, huge turn-back cuffs, peaked caps and goggles are the chief adornments.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Field Marshal Montgomery: a silver freedom casketJames Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1949 Rectangular, with applied enamel plaques of Bolton buildings, Montgomery's coat-of-arms, surmounted by the arms of Bolton, engraved with a presentation inscription and five local regiments, on an ebonised wood plinth, contained in a box painted 'Bolton Lads Club', also with original illuminated freedom scroll, length of casket 32cm, weight total (excluding plinth) 70.5oz.Footnotes:On 5th November 1949 Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, visited Bolton to receive the freedom of the city. As well as the presentation ceremony itself he also attended a Bolton Wanderers' football match and visited Bolton Lads' Club. It seems likely, not having a suitable container for his freedom casket, that the Club offered him the crude wooden box that accompanies this lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Austro-Hungarian silver seven-light candelabraMayerhofer & Klinkosch, Vienna 1867-1872 marks The lights with gadroon and anthemion decoration, the reeded branches leading to the stems with ram's head ornament, the pedestal bases with applied lion masks and swags, with wooden inserts, height 54cm, weight total 165.5oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A crocodile skin case and silver-gilt travelling setCharles Henry Dumenil, London 1911, 1913, 1914The case with fitted interior containing: a silver-gilt button hook, glove stretchers, shoe horn, mirror, with leather-covered easel back, height 35.4cm, eight silver-gilt lidded and engraved glass bottles, including a flask, a shaped-oval lidded box, a four-piece manicure set, each engraved with a crest, also containing tortoiseshell items, a powder pot, a pair of hairbrushes, a pair of clothes brushes, a hand mirror, a rectangular tray, length 30.5cm, each set with a gold crest, the interior with grey moire silk, also with retail mark for Drew & Co of Leadenhall Street, case measurements 56cm x 38cm x 20cm.Footnotes:This lot was sold Sotheby's 29th May 1997 lot 138. In the description it describes this lot with an initialled canvas cover and purports to have belonged to 'Alice Ward, who was an Edwardian beauty and friend of King Edward VII, a potrait photograph is included in the lot'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare novelty Victorian silver desk compendiumSamuel Jacob, London 1895 Modelled as a golf club, the head hinging open to reveal a compartment for stamps and vestas, the handle top pulling out to give a compartment for pens and pencils, length 29cm, weight 2oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare novelty silver table lighterHamilton & Co, London 1911 Modelled as a 'candlestick' telephone, the mouthpiece acting as the wick holder and cover to the reservoir, the earpiece as a taper holder, on an ebonised wood base, height 14cm.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A George III silver boxJoseph Willmore, Birmingham 1805 Modelled as a book; together with four vinaigrettes: Reily & Storer, London 1831; Simpson & Son, Birmingham 1819; John Lawrence, Birmingham 1817; Thomas Shaw, Birmingham 1831. (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A collection of five silver vinaigrettesvarious dates and makers Comprising a suitcase example, John Bettridge, Birmingham 1818; Francis Clark, Birmingham 1838; Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1843; Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1831; Thomas & William Simpson, Birmingham 1820. (5)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A William IV silver lancet caseFrancis Clark, Birmingham 1831 With four tortoiseshell lancets, height 5.2cm; together with a vesta case; three vinaigrettes: John Bettridge, Birmingham 1824; William Simpson, Birmingham 1835; William Pugh, Birmingham 1810. (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Masonic Interest: a Victorian silver boxCohen & Charles, Birmingham 1899 The lid engraved with 'Charles Dickens Lodge 2757', and an applied image of Dickens, the interior with an inscription to Arthur Dale, the 1st Treasurer, length 6.5cm, weight 2oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A novelty silver vaseRebecca Joselyn, Sheffield 2018 Modelled as a carrier bag, with cord handles, height 34.5cm, weight total 15oz.Footnotes:Rebecca H. Joselyn studied at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2006. Since then she has won numerous awards for her 'From the Shed' and 'Packaging' collections, which were designed to question attitudes to throw-away materials and objects.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A novelty silver vaseRebecca Joselyn, Sheffield 2019 Modelled as a carrier bag with gilt handles and gilt interior, height 23cm, weight total 16oz.Footnotes:Rebecca H. Joselyn studied at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2006. Since then she has won numerous awards for her 'From the Shed' and 'Packaging' collections, which were designed to question attitudes to throw-away materials and objects.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A novelty silver cream jugRebecca Joselyn, Sheffield 2019, Britannia standard Modelled as a crushed tin can, the opened top acting as handle, the interior gilded, height 9.5cm, weight 4oz.Footnotes:Rebecca H. Joselyn studied at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2006. Since then she has won numerous awards for her 'From the Shed' and 'Packaging' collections, which were designed to question attitudes to throw-away materials and objects.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A set of six silver drink strawsRebecca Joselyn, Sheffield 2020 Plain, polished form, glass not included, length 14cm, weight 3.5oz. (6)Footnotes:Rebecca H. Joselyn studied at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2006. Since then she has won numerous awards for her 'From the Shed' and 'Packaging' collections, which were designed to question attitudes to throw-away materials and objects.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Edwardian Art Nouveau silver and enamel photograph framesone Spurrier & Co, Birmingham 1906; the other Charles S Green & Co, Birmingham 1904 The silver mounts with green and blue enamel, on wood easel backs, height 20.5cm. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Arts and Crafts silver-mounted cigarette boxOmar Ramsden, London 1938 Rectangular, the lid with an entwined thorny border and set with a Latin inscription, the base with a foliate border, with original Ramsden case, length 19.5cm.Footnotes:The Latin inscription is taken from Francis Bacon's De Augmentis Scientiarum and translates to:Stand upon the old path, look for the path that is good and straight, and walk on it.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A silver and tortoiseshell time-pieceHorton & Allday, Birmingham 1915 The tortoiseshell front with silver swag inlay, height 12cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Victorian silver candelabrum centrepieceWilliam Theobalds & Robert Atkinson, London 1838 The acanthus-adorned central stem supporting an open-work basket with fruiting vine border, with three branches presumably designed for candle receivers (now lacking), the base engraved with a presentation inscription, height 48.5cm, weight 165.5oz.Footnotes:ProvenancePhillips, Chester, 1994.The inscription reads:'This Candelabra is composed of part of the treasure sunk in his Majesty's late frigate Thetis off Cape Frio in Brazil and recovered from the bottom of the open sea at the depth of 8 fathoms water after being there upwards of 13 months by Captain Thomas Dickinson R.N. The Thetis was lost 5th Decr 1830. The treasure recovered between 31st March 1831 and 9th March 1832.'Captain Thomas Dickinson was tasked with recovering the sunken cargo of silver of HMS Thetis, which ran against the cliffs at Cape Frio in 1830. Dickinson constructed an elaborate rig which was anchored to the cliffs, and using a ship's water tank as a diving bell was able to recover 750,500 dollars out of the 810,000 total. He wrote an account of the operation in A Narrative of the Operations for the Recovery of the Public Stores and Treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis, published in 1836.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Chinese export silver-mounted ship-wreck inkwellYat Shing, Canton circa 1870 The front with a plaque engraved 'HMS Captain Sept 7th 1870' which capsized on that date in the Atlantic due to design errors with the loss of 500 men, height 5.5cm.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Edwardian silver bust of Queen VictoriaGoldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd, London 1902 Realistically modelled as Queen Victoria in ceremonial dress, on an ebonised wood plinth with presentation plaque inscribed to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, height 35cm.Footnotes:The full inscription read:'Presented To The Officers, 2nd Vol Battn York & Lancaster Regt, By Captain F Kessell, 'The Buffs', In Remembrance Of The Happy Days Spent With Them As Adjutant June 1896 to June 1902'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Victorian silver 'Four Nations' wall mirrorJames Deakin & Sons, Chester 1899 The silver mount embossed with thistles, clovers and roses representing Scotland, Ireland and England & Wales, on a dark blue velvet backing, height 42cm.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Victorian silver regimental bowl for the 5th Dragoon GuardsEdward Charles Brown, London 1869 The handles of the bowl formed as the regiment's emblem (a running horse), the base with attached battle honours, height 35cm, weight total 49oz.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of monumental horn cupsone silver: Fenton, Russell & Co Ltd, Sheffield 1913; the other silver-plated The huge horns with covers surmounted with female busts, and supported by putti on naturalistic bases, height 89cm. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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