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Lot 257
A collection of new and used boxed appliances including a Tiffany style table lamp together with a pie maker, walking stick, battery charger, tv antenna, air freshener, retro radio alarm clock, Britain's filters, pest repellers, electric toothbrushes, microwave steamers, lamp, pepper mill, wine glasses, mop head, etc (Untested, sold as seen)
Lot 257
An early small delftware dry drug or pill jar, c.1680, painted in blue with an angel with outstretched wings above a banner inscribed 'T.ALB.RHAS', a chip to the inside rim, 10cm high. Trochisi Albi Rhasis were lozenges made from ingredients including white lead. They could be dissolved in white wine or rose-water to make an eyewash. They could also be used to treat gonorrhoea.
Lot 43
A good Admiral Byng wine glass, c.1763, the round funnel bowl engraved with the admiral hanging from a gibbet flanked by the initials A B, the reverse inscribed JUSTICE, raised on an airtwist stem above a conical foot, 16cm. Admiral John Byng was a Royal Naval officer and an MP from 1751 until his death in 1757. During the Seven Years War, Byng was sent to relieve a besieged garrison at Minorca. With his ships in a poor state of repair, Byng opted to return to Gibraltar to see to his ships and await further promised resources. On his return to Britain he was court-martialled for failing to "do his utmost" to prevent the loss of Minorca. He was executed by firing squad on 14th March 1757 - the engraving on the glass being symbolic rather than accurate - despite appeals to King George II for clemency. Byng was seen by many as a scapegoat for the Admiralty's inefficiency and the execution in this way of such a high-ranking officer divided the country. His descendants today continue to campaign for a posthumous pardon.
Lot 47
A privateer wine glass, c.1780, the drawn trumpet bowl engraved 'J Barton / Success to the Unity', raised on a plain stem with a long teardrop above a folded conical foot, 18cm. More than one ship called The Unity was involved in the American Wars of Independence, and it is likely that this glass relates to one of them. Paper label for the Scrivener collection.
Lot 84
A small sealed wine bottle, early 18th century, of transitional onion mallet shape with kick-in base, rising to a short tapering neck with string rim, applied with a circular seal bearing the initials 'P/HA', 17cm. Cf. David Burton, Antique Sealed Bottles 1640-1900, Vol. II, p.91 for a slightly earlier seal with the same initials also enclosing a star and garter and found in Wiltshire.
Lot 85
An English wine bottle, c.1720, of small mallet form, with tapering neck, string rim and kick-in base, 16.2cm. Provenance: disinterred in Eastcott, near Devizes in 2013. The bottle is sealed with a cork and the contents suggest it was deliberately buried and used as a witches bottle to guard against evil spirits.
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