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Click here to subscribeA Mamod SE3 Twin-Cylinder Spirit-fired Live Steam Engine and 'Workshop': The engine mounted on a raised wooden plinth along with lineshaft and five workshop tools, spirit burner, funnel and instructions, ingenious Meccano regulator extension added, engine F-G, engine shows signs of possible overheating with amateur soldered repair to one end cap and general blackening, tools all VG
An Edward VII plain silver circular tea kettle and stand with spirit lamp, the plain squat circular body with plain ebonised handle and turned finial, on circular stand with three double scroll supports with pad feet, and with oil lamp, 9.5ins high, by John Dixon & Son, Sheffield 1903 (gross weight 33ozs)
A MIXED LOT: A cased set of six tea spoons & a pair of sugar tongs, initialled "C", a pair of sauce boats, a mounted cut-glass spirit flask, initialled, an oval capstan inkwell (glass liner), loaded, a cigarette case, a vinaigrette (A/F), a book match holder, three mounted hair brushes, a mounted steel shoe horn, two small pieces & a plated cigarette case; the sauce boats 7" (18 cms) long; 23 oz weighable silver (lot)
A MODERN MOUNTED LEATHER & GLASS SPIRIT FLASK with a pull-off drinking cup, by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co.Ltd., Sheffield 1921, another similar example, monogrammed, by C.S. Green & Co., Birmingham 1932 and a leather cigar case; the latter 5.5" (4.6 oz) weighable silver; 14 cms long (3)
Unusual leather cased late Victorian silver sandwich box of rectangular form, with hinged cover and gilt interior and separate salt and pepper containers, suspension loop and engraved armorial crest and motto - 'HEB DHLW HEB DDIM', together with a matching silver rectangular spirit flask with bayonet fitting cap and detachable cup (London 1897), Mappin & Webb. All at approximately 33ozs, sandwich box 15.5cm wide (3) CONDITION REPORT General overall condition excellent. Some surface scratching and wear. Sandwich box and condiments excellent. Flask has one minor ding near top on the back. Body is scratched where cup fits. Marks clear. Leather case has minor scuffing, otherwise excellent. Inside somewhat grubby
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER, the brass dial inscribed Tarone & Co, Fecit with spirit tube thermometer enclosed by a glazed door with exposed mercury tube, the case with break arch pediment and central finial, the feather banded trunk with checker strung border and domed cistern cover, 99cm high
Lokris, Lokris Opuntii AR Stater. Circa 369 BC. Head of Demeter left, wearing barley-wreath, pearl necklace and elaborate 'boat' earring with crescent and five pendants / Ajax the Lokrian, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, advancing right on rocky ground, holding short sword and round shield decorated on its interior with griffin, transverse spear behind hero's legs; OΠΟΝTΙΩΝ to left. SNG Berry 570 (same dies); Gulbenkian 495–496 (same obverse die); SNG Lockett 1693 (same obverse die). 12.14g, 24mm, 1h. Extremely Fine. Beautifully toned. Ex Roma Numismatics Auction II, 2 October 2011, lot 178; Ex Peter Guber Collection, Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011, lot 50; Ex Freeman & Sear Fixed Price List 9, Spring 2004, 29; Ex Viscount Wimbourne Collection, Leu 81, 16 May 2001, lot 198; Ex Sotheby's, 4 April 1991, lot 52; Ex Leu 28, 5 May 1981, lot 102. This exceptional portrait, with its right-facing orientation and elaborate earring, has been proposed to be the inaugural type of the Lokrian series. It is in any case certainly one of the most beautiful, and the reverse too is of an exceptionally fine style. Ajax of Lokris (or Ajax 'the Lesser'), who is depicted on the reverse of this attractive type, led a fleet of forty ships from Lokris Opuntii against Troy in the Greeks' great war on that city. At Troy's fall, he was alleged by Odysseus to have violated a sanctuary of Athena by ravishing Cassandra, who had sought refuge there. He thus brought down the wrath of Athena upon himself and his countrymen: Ajax himself was wrecked and killed in a storm as he made his way home from the war, and the rest of the Opuntians reached home only with great difficulty. Nevertheless, they annually honoured their former leader by launching a ship fitted with black sails and laden with gifts, which they then set alight, and whenever the Lokrian army drew up for battle, one place was always left open for Ajax, whose spirit they believed would stand and fight with them.
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