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Lot 319
An 18 carat gold and platinum ruby and diamond three-stone ring, the step cut ruby set between two round brilliant cut diamonds, each approximately 0.13 carats, 2.5g gross, finger size J CONDITION REPORT: If you require further images of this lot or a condition report please contact us with your request as condition reports have not been included in the description
Lot 334
An Art Deco style small sapphire and diamond rectangular cluster ring, the baguette cut sapphire set within small eight-cut diamond surround, in white illusion setting, the head of the ring 8mm x 6mm, set to white shoulders, the yellow shank stamped '18CT FINE PLAT', 2.5g gross and a small 9 carat gold sapphire and diamond oval cluster ring, Birmingham 1962, 1.6g gross CONDITION REPORT: Rectangular cluster: Step cut sapphire with wear to facet edges. Internal fracture visible through table facet and areas of colour zoning visible through 10 x lens. Eight-cut diamonds poorly cut. Finger size P Oval cluster: Sapphire very dark and of poor quality with flaws visible on the surface of facets.
Lot 349
Two Boxed Meccano Motorised Construction Sets, #07504 Meccano Motorised No. 4 Construction Set, circa 1978, step by step manual, makes sixty three models, #09530 Motorised Meccanoids from Deep space Set, circa 1979, Meccanoids Book of Models. Both sets appear complete, buyer to assure themselves for completeness.
Lot 11
A sapphire and diamond cluster ring, the central step cut sapphire 11 x 10mm, claw set above a steeply tiered illusion set diamond border, the shank stamped '18ct', finger size P, 11.gms CONDITION: sapphire dark in tone and shallow cut, strong green tone, diamonds bright, no losses, shank solid
Lot 292
Economics.- Senior (Nassau William) An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy, third edition, 1831; Three Lectures on the Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to Country and the mercantile Theory of Wealth, 1828; Two Lectures on Population, 1828; Three Lectures on the Cost of Obtaining Money, 1830; Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages, 1830; A Letter to Lord Howick, on a Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, erratum slip after title, 1831, together 6 works in 1 vol., all but the first work first editions, occasional minor foxing, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, 8vo ⁂ A good collection of scarce works by Nassau Senior, an important and influential figure in political economy - "he was the first to formulate the abstinence theory of capital...in his lecture on the Cost of Obtaining Money [he] took the first step beyond Ricardo...on the question of the Wages Fund, Senior occupies a half-way position between the view of a fixed wage fund and more modern theories" (Palgrave).
Lot 82
A SKULL AND ANTLERS OF THE GREAT IRISH DEER (MEGALOCERUS GIGANTEUS). 191cm wideAs I emerged from the cluster of trees, cradling my kill, I stopped short. He stood in front of me, elegant and proud, his colossal figure looming high above the grassland. I took a step back, a twig snapped. The deer’s head darted upwards, his immense antlers slicing through the air. His powerful jaw clenched with apprehension, a shimmer of fear flickered in his eyes - and then he was gone.Thirteen thousand years ago, Ireland was gripped by the formidable paws of the Pleistocene epoch, an era which saw Homo Sapiens mixing with creatures the size of which we can only gawk at today. The Great Irish Deer was among these beasts. Standing up to two metres tall at the shoulder, with an antler span that could reach three metres, the Great Irish Deer would have been a sobering sight. Ever since the discovery of their fossils in the 1600s, the Deer has sparked debate and fuelled the research of many an academician. Despite their name, the species was not limited to Ireland but instead was spread out across Europe, Northern Asia and Northern Africa. The Irish attribution was a result of the hundreds of remains found buried in the marl underlying the Irish bogland. The high calcium carbonate content of the marl aided the preservation of bones and antlers, providing the rich supply that now festers in museum cupboards and richly adorns the great banqueting halls of Europe. But why is it that such an impressive animal has come to such an end The strongest theory is that the climate change that occurred with the start of the Holocene led to a decrease in the Deer’s food source. With the annual renewal of its antlers, the Irish Deer required immense mineral amounts to fuel their bodies. With the slow decrease of this, it is thought that their bodies could not adjust to the reduced quantities quick enough and the rate of antler growth to other bodily requirements was simply not sustainable. Whilst the Deer did in fact survive the Ice Age that marked the switch in climates, is it notable that they died out in Ireland much sooner than in other parts of the world, the youngest known remains being found in Siberia and dating to c.6000 BC. This could be explained by the fact that in Ireland, unlike on the Continent, the deer could not move on to better grazing lands once their old food source had been exhausted. Although it is unlikely that humans were the single cause of their final extinction, it is interesting to observe the depiction of Great Irish Deer among the cave paintings discovered in France. These images would suggest that the animals were hunted, their meat being a valuable addition to hungry stomachs seated around a fire, with the possibility of their great antlers being held in an even higher regard.While these animals have been wiped from our world, their extinction itself has proved to be of merit. In the early 1800s, a French scientist by the name of Georges Cuvier used the Great Irish Deer to help him prove that extinction was in a fact a real occurrence. Before this, god-fearing people believed that no creature brought on to Earth would be destroyed and claimed that any animal who had not been seen simply lay hidden in a remote part of the globe, yet unvisited by man. Cuvier successfully argued that the Deer anatomy was too different from any other living species and, like the mammoth and the sabre tooth cat, it had been eliminated. As a result, remains such as these are all that we have to serve as a memory of a world that once was.Helena Carlyle
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