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A George III personal silver mounted tortoiseshell dental scaling set / tooth pick box, circa 1780, oval navette form, the hinged cover set with a mirror, the interior with four compartments, two of which have tortoiseshell covers, bright-cut borders, with two steel implements, length 10.5cm.
A silver and enamel match box cover, maker`s mark worn, London 1931, rectangular form, enamelled with the burgee of Bembridge Sailing Club, plus a silver and enamel napkin ring, by Deakin and Francis, Birmingham 1929, enamelled with the burgee of a Scottish club, in a fitted case. (2)
Boer War interest, a late-Victorian silver and enamel vesta case, by Saunders and Shepherd, Birmingham 1899, rectangular form, the front enamelled with the scene of a wounded soldier carrying his gun, repair to enamel, also engraved `copyright`, the reverse initialled, length 5cm, approx. weight 1.2oz. This type of vesta case normally has `A Gentleman in Kharki` written under the soldier. This comes for a line in the Rudyad Kipling poem, `The Absent Minded Beggar`.
A collection of ten silver vesta cases, various dates and makers, comprising: one of circular form, with spot-hammered decoration, plus two with engraved foliate decoration, two with engine-turned decoration, and five of plain form, plus a match box cover, approx. weight 8.2oz. (11)
A novelty political silver stamp moistener, by William Hutton and Sons, Sheffield 1912, modelled as a a scroll with David Lloyd George`s face, pull-off cover, on a circular base, also marked with a registration number, height 7.2cm. This may relate to the 1911 Act of Parliament in which the ability of the House of Lords to veto the House of Commons was removed.
A late-Victorian novelty silver mounted glass scent bottle, modelled as a budgerigar, by Alfred Crichton, London 1882, also with a registration lozenge, modelled in a standing position, the mounts with texture feather decoration, the hinged head set with red glass eyes, and opens to reveal a silver-fgilt interior and glass stopper, height 8.2cm, length 13cm.
A late-Victorian novelty silver mounted atomiser, by Alfred Clark, London 1900, retailed by Clark, 20 Old Bond Street, the plain globular shaped glass body with an applied mount of trailing ivy leaves, the screw-off pump mounted with a nightingale, perched on a branch, height b15.8cm.
Crimean war interest, a silver mounted iron chain link inkwell, by William Byrne, London 1895, oval form, with two hinged compartments, one with a silver mounted inkwell, one flush hinged cover inscribed `LINK OF SLINGS OF THE MAIN OF YARD OF RUSSIAN MAN O` WAR ``TWELVE APOSTLES`` SEVASTOPOL 1855`, the other cover with the crest and motto of Keppel, Earls of Albemarle, length 21.5cm. The imperial man-o`War Dvenadtstat Apostolov (The Twelve Apostles) was one of the last and most powerfully armed sailing three-deckers built for the Russian Navy before the advent of steam. Launched in 1841 and displacing 4,790 tons, she originally mounted 130 guns but this was later reduced to 120 guns in subsequent refits. Despite her massive fire-power, she never saw action in the Crimean War (1854-56) as her guns were off-loaded and employed ashore to defend the port of Sebastopol against repeated allied attacks. In December 1854, she was converted into a temporary hospital ship but only two months later, on 13th February 1855, she was scuttled as a blockship across the entrance to Sebastopol harbour. Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, GCB, OM (1809-1904), the sixth son of the fourth Earl of Albemarle, joined the Navy in 1822 and enjoyed a long and distinguished career at sea for almost fifty years. Finally `beached` in 1869, his last appointment was as C. in C., Portsmouth, from 1872 - 75, and he retired in 1877 with the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. During the Crimean War, he initially commanded the brand-new 101-gun screw 1st-rate St. Jean d`Acre, but the following year (1855) transferred into the 92-gun 2nd-rate Rodney in order to take command of the naval brigade assaulting Sebastopol. It was probably during this phase of the War he acquired the `souvenir` offered in this lot. We are grateful to Michael Naxton for his assistance with this foot note.
A William IV silver wine label, by Charles Reily and George Storer, London 1831, shaped rectangular form, pierced `SHERRY`, length 5.4cm, plus a Victorian silver wine label, by George Unite, Birmingham 1839, oval form, incised `WHISKY`, scroll and shell border, and a George IV silver wine label, shell and gadroon border, London 1827, pierced `SHERRY`. (3)
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