A Fine and Early Live Steam approx 4¼" Gauge 'Piddler' 2-2-2 Locomotive by Stevens's Model Dockyard or Similar, featuring twin outside cylinders with inside valves, slip-eccentric reversing, piston-rod extension supports, cast brass frames and wheels, boiler 3" diameter x 8" long with 'flame recess' below, whistle, dome, pedestal safety valve and square-based original chimney, two water-level test cocks to backhead, lever-operated speed regulator from footplate, substantial hardwood front buffer beam with brass buffers to both ends, overall length 14½", with fitted 3-wick spirit burner with brass tank and filler cap, all in plain brass finish with some evidence of blackening to cylinders and wheels, G-VG
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A Mamod SE3 Spirit-fired Twin-cylinder Stationary Engine, with brass boiler, regulator, twin oscillating cylinders exhausting to chimney, complete with safety valve, level plug, whistle and 'super' vaporising burner, the base attached to a plywood panel, overall G, grubby, slight corrosion to level plug end of boiler and minor damage to chimney
A SEL Model 'Major 1550' Spirit-fired Twin-cylinder Stationary Engine and Accessories, with brass boiler, lubricator, twin oscillating cylinder, complete with safety valve, level plug, whistle and two-wick burner (one wick tube missing), complete with photocopy of original 1955 sale receipt and instructions, together with bench grinder, circular saw and fan, all on Bakelite bases, overall G, a little grubby, boiler soldering appears to have been repaired at some time at whistle end (6 inc receipt and burner)
A rare French double-tube contra-barometer, Lebleu-Turpin, Estaires, late 19th century, the rectangular paper scale inscribed BAROMETRE above visible U-shaped syphon tube with mercury bulb to top left opposing oil-filled section with amplified scale annotated with weather observations in French, The centre applied with a standard mercury syphon tube with conforming weather observations to scale at the top next to a large Centigrade and Reaumur scale spirit thermometer with annotations in French for maximum and minimum temperatures reached in Paris and other French cities over decorative multi-knopped bulb, the lower section printed with text CONTROLEUR et THERMOMETRE, Centigrade et Reaumur, par LEBLEU-TURPIN, dit LESECQ, Fabricant de BAROMETRES, LA GORGUE, (Nord), Estaires Imp. Cordier, set behind glass within an ebonised cavetto moulded frame transfer decorated with fine gilt scrolling foliage, 96,5cm (38ins) high The development of the double-tube barometer is generally attributed to Robert Hooke who in 1668 demonstrated instrument to the Royal Society. The intention of the design is to facilitate amplification of the movement in the level by introducing a second column of flued in a narrower bore extension of the open end of the mercury syphon.
A mahogany and inlaid mercury wheel barometer, Vitore Albino, Bourton-on-the-water, second quarter 19th century, with swan neck pediment over double line edged baluster outline upright applied with hygrometer over arch-glazed silvered Fahrenheit scale alcohol thermometer and convex mirror within reeded ebonised surround, the 8 inch country landscape centred circular silvered register with concentric scale annotated in barometric inches with the usual observations to circumference and convex glazed cast brass bezel, the rounded base with recording hand adjustment square over spirit level signed VITTORE ALBINO, BOURTON, ON THE WATER, 97.5 (38.5ins) high excluding brass finial.Vittore Albino is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as a clock and watch maker working in Bourton circa 1850.
FIVE BOTTLES OF SINGLE MALT, comprising a bottle of Dalwhinnie Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, aged 15 years, 43% vol, 70cl, fill level high shoulder, seal intact, boxed, a bottle of Cardhu Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, aged 12 years, 40% vol, 1 Litre, fill level mid shoulder, seal intact, boxed, a bottle of Aberlour Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 10 years old, 40% vol, 70cl, fill level mid-neck, seal intact, boxed, a bottle of Celtic Whisky, a 12 year old Single Malt from The Celtic Spirit Co., Abersychan, Wales, 40% vol, 700ml, fill level lower neck, seal intact, boxed and a bottle of Bushmills Single Malt Irish Whiskey, aged 10 years, 40% vol, 700ml, fill level mid shoulder, seal intact, boxed (5)
A Jaeger-le-Coultre Atmos Aquarium clock the gilt brass case glazed with opaque perspex panels containing gilt angel fish, starfish and water weed, inset spirit level to base, glass signed `Jaeger-LeCoultre`, circular white dial with gilt batons and Arabic numerals at the quarters, signed `Swiss Made`, the movement wound by atmospherics, 9¼in. (23.5cm.) high. * Condition: Brass top to case heavily tarnished and some tarnish spotting around top edge of base. A few small tarnish spots to uprights at corners and two larger line marks to lacquer to left hand front upright. Some fine crazing visible to outsides of perspex panels when viewed from a certain angle. Dial VG.
A brass and mahogany bound single draw telescope on a wooden stand, 56.5cm extended, a Victorian abalone shell veneered table thermometer of obelisk form, 19cm, a brass Royal Warrant crest, 21cm wide, a pair of Florentine style giltwood wall brackets, 24.5cm and a mahogany and brass bound spirit level, (6).
Mid 19th Century inlaid mahogany-cased wheel barometer, P. Bianchi, Blandford, the 10-inch silvered main dial reading from 28-31 inches of pressure with remarks, the trunk with swan neck pediment over hygrometer, mercury Fahrenheit thermometer, convex mirror with reeded slip, bone adjusting knob and named silvered spirit level dial in an ebony and boxwood-strung case, 114cm high Condition: Crack through bone adjusting knob, minor joint/split to reeded mirror surround, otherwise good condition - **General condition consistent with age
A Mamod SE1 Stationary Steam Engine, on red base for Meccano fitting, single-cylinder oscillating engine, fitted with early-type whistle and level plug, safety valve and complete with spirit burner, overall G, a little paint loss, polish residue and slight corrosion spots to boiler (2 inc burner)
Madeira, Portugal. Alcohol: 22%. Exceptional level and appearance.17.2/201920 VintageJancis RobinsonWhen to drink: to 2040Malvasia grapes grown at the famous Faja dos Padres vineyard at Cabo Girão. Especially fine vintage. Greenish walnut skin. Lean and nutty on the nose with a slight spirit overlay. Alcohol present on the palate too but fabulously tangy and intense on the finish. Bitterly fresh aftertaste cuts through all that sugar. Julia Harding MWTasted: 19-Oct-2011. Removed from a North Wales cellar.

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