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Lot 9
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY MALACCA CANE STICK, the handle carved with the head of a boxer dog, inset glass eyes, 18ct gold plated ferrule, 83cm long, together with an early 19th Century Anglo-Indian cane, the ivory handle with pique decoration, engraved with white metal mounts and ferrules, 90cm long (2). See illustration
Lot 110
A George III mahogany bulb cistern tube mercury stick barometer. Bregazzi, Derby, circa 1810. The exposed tube with adjustable wire pointer flanked by twin glazed paper scales calibrated in barometric inches and with annotations for both summer and winter conditions, the upper margins with rococo scroll printed decoration, the lower signed Bregazzi, Derby, the case with convex pediment and cavetto cornice above turned pilasters flanking registers, the trunk with moulded angles above rectangular hinged cistern cover, 94cm (37ins) high.A Samuel Bregazzi is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working in Derby circa 1816-45.
Lot 111
A Victorian mahogany mercury stick barometer. A. Abraham, Liverpool, circa 1840. With concave-sided upstand above glazed ivory vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations beneath signature A. ABRAHAM, LIVERPOOL to right hand side opposing mercury Fahrenheit and Reaumur scale thermometer to the left, the trunk with ivory vernier adjustment screw to throat and fine caddy moulded angles over circular base with domed cistern cover and level adjustment square to underside, 95cm (37.5ins) high. Abraham Abraham & Co. are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from several addresses in Liverpool 1817-75. Banfield describes them as ‘important makers’ who exhibited at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851.
Lot 112
A fine Scottish George III mahogany slender bowfronted mercury stick barometer. Alexander Adie, Edinburgh, early 19th century. With gadrooned dome surmount and slender silvered vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and annotated Stormy, RAIN, Change, FAIR and Very Dry beneath signature A. Adie, Edinburgh to upper margin, behind bowed glass within reeded surround above trunk with the same bowed profile and moulded border over vase shaped cistern cover with gadroon carved waist and underside applied with a foliate bud finial with level adjustment square beneath, 99cm (39ins) high. Alexander Adie is recorded in Goodison, Nicholas English Barometers 1680-1860 as born 1774 and apprenticed to his uncle the eminent Scottish instrument maker John Miller in 1789. In 1804 his uncle took him into partnership under the name of Miller and Adie, the business continued until after Miller’s death in 1815. Adie was particularly interested in meteorological instruments and is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Sympiesometer in 1818. In recognition of his work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819. He was appointed optician to William IV and later Queen Victoria and took one of his sons, John, into partnership in 1835. Two of his other sons set up businesses; Robert in Liverpool and Patrick in London. Unfortunately John Adie was prone to ‘Fits of Despondency’ which resulted in him shooting himself in 1857, Alexander Adie died the following year -no doubt expediated by the stress of his son’s demise. The current lot is an earlier example of perhaps Adie’s most attractive design of domestic barometer. The classic elegant simplicity of this model endured as subsequent versions were supplied by his sons. The instrument has survived in good original, unrestored condition however needs some attention in order to bring it back to working condition.
Lot 105
Jean Antoine Injalbert (1849-1933) - 'Cupid with the Doves', a late 19th century French gilt bronze of Cupid with two doves standing on an ornamental dish, Cupid has a small stick where he is tickling the tail feathers of one of the doves, seated on a Corinthian column, with plinth base, signed to base, height 55cm NB: Jean Antoine Injalbert was a much decorated French sculptor, born at Beziers, he created four allegorical figures of the city of Paris, navigation, commerce and abundance on the Pont Mirabeau, Paris, in 1896 (illustrated)
Lot 114
A rare early 1960’s German Mignon ‘Remote Control Toy-Car’ battery powered Volkswagen Beetle. Body in red plastic with litho detailed tinplate seats and cream plastic steering wheel. Complete with control cord and hand controller with often missing steering wheel and gear stick. Boxed, minor wear. Vehicle VGC-Mint. See Plate.10
Lot 361
A Continental silver foil back paper fan decorated with stars, a bamboo and paper fan painted with a goose and flowers, and a Chinese bone and silk fan painted with flowers, framed as one, as well as a Spanish black silk fan painted with a bird, a pierced bone stick fan, and a Chinese red lacquer and silk fan painted with flowers, framed as one, 52 by 72cm. (2)
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