GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

A Victorian Aesthetic Movement oak gentleman's cabinet, tray top above a frieze drawer and an open niche, the base with a pair of drawers and encl...

A Victorian beadwork panel, colourfully worked with the Royal Coat of Arms, 36cm x 46cm, c.1850, gilt frame

A Victorian brass cylindrical so-to-bed or vesta, The Royal Improved Safety Box For Wax Tapers and Vesta Lights, bright-cut engraved and embossed ...

A set of early 20th century brass balance scales, probably pharmecutical, the shaped base with housing eight weights, 43cm high

A Victorian brass rectangular inkstand, glass wells, the spreading base cast with a border of masks and foliage, bracket feet, 22cm wide, c. 1880

A Victorian copper and brass stationery rack, the scroll work supports applied with a spider and a fly, the spreading rectangular ebonised base wi...

A Victorian Gothic Revival snakewood folding book slide, applied with gilt-brass cut card work, 37cm wide, c. 1870

A Victorian mahogany and parquetry waisted rectangular writing box, hinged cover applied with a brass shield shaped cartouche and inlaid with two ...

A Victorian mahogany novelty money box, as a chest of drawers, 14.5cm high, c.1880

A Victorian mahogany table-top stationery cabinet, the sloping bipartite hinged doors enclosing a fitted tiered arrangement of graduating racks, a...

A Victorian Neo-Gothic metamorphic library chair, converting to a set of library steps, each tread lined with brass studded leather, the rails pie...

A Victorian oak country house silver box, hinged box with brass inscribed The Rt Honble Earl of Coventry, iron swan neck carrying handles, 32cm hi...

A Victorian oak novelty gentleman's smoking room humidor cabinet, as a safe, each door centred by a lockplate, the aperture cover inscribed Secure...

A Victorian oak wall hanging combination clock, holosteric barometer and perpetual calendar, 9cm painted dial inscribed with Roman numerals, circu...

A Victorian Scottish oak souvenir circular snuff box, the cover printed with a penny red stamp and inscribed Made of Wood Grown on the Lands of Ab...

A Victorian toleware rounded rectangular strong box, The London Cash Box, by Henry Loveridge & Co., hinged cover enclosing a lift-out compartment,...

A walnut rectangular humidor, hinged cover enclosing adjustable divisions, 35cm wide, 20th century

A whale tooth scrimshaw, decorated with a house, a further dwelling to verso, 12cm long, 19th century

An early 19th century bone ladle, 16.5cm long, c.1820; a bone seal, snakeskin case, 9cm c.1850

A whale tooth scrimshaw, decorated with a three-masted sailing ship, a further vessel to verso, 14cm long, 19th century

A white-veined marble scholar's contemplation sphere, 14cm diam, turned stand

A William IV tipstaff or truncheon, the ebonised baton painted in polychrome and crested by the royal cypher W IV R and centred by the Confessor's...

Advertising - an early 20th century rectangular advertising card, Clarke's "Thunder Clouds" Tobacco, printed in polychrome with stagecoaches passi...

Advertising - an Edwardian walnut stationer’s shop counter display stand, Twinlock Solid Leather Ring Books, printed in gilt, drawer to base, 36cm...

Advertising - Guiness - a set of three Pirelli Glass animals, comprising seal, toucan and tortoise, all holding pints of the eponymous beer, c. 19...

Aeronautica - an early 20th century aeroplane cockpit barometer, 6.5cm silvered register marked Compensated for Temperature, mounted for the mante...

Aeronautica and Aviation - an early 20th century ice bucket, formed from the centre of an aeroplane propellor, plated swing handle and liner, 17cm...

An 18th century bronze mortar, flared rim above a centre girdle and reeded bands, 9.5cm high, c.1750; others (3)

An 18th century bronze mortar, flared rim above a girdle, spreading base, 10.5cm high, c.1700 - 1750; others, similar (3)

Sports - Billiards - Crystalate Snooker Pool Balls, by Thomas Padmore & Sons, Limited, Birmingham, a set of 24, coloured, boxed en suite, early 20...

An 18th century bronze pestle and mortar, flared rim above two girdles, 10cm high, c.1700-1750

An 18th century French polychrome, giltwood and gesso finial, pointed cresting, carved with an armorial, associated turned haft, 65cm long

A George III heraldic coach panel, painted with the crest of Dixie, Baronets of of Market Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire, 19cm x 18cm, c.1775, mapl...

An 18th century pewter circular armorial plate, the broad outswept rim surmounted and engraved with the crest of Purkiss of Cambridgeshire, verso ...

An 18th century Scandinavian dark patinated brass bell, in relief with a stylised tree, 25cm long

An 18th century silver shape brass ejector chamber stick, flared sconce, scroll-capped handle, dished base, conical snuffer, 13.5cm high, c.1765

An 18th century style sundial, shaped and pierced gnomon, 19.5cm diam

An advertising vesta case, Thomas Green & Son, Ltd, Green;s Lawnmowers, printed in polychrome, hinged cover, striker to base, 7.5cm long; another,...

An architectural plaster cast, The Hampton Court Palace Capitals, after the English Renaissance, 43.5cm x 36cm, the outer wooden bracket inscribed...

An arrangement of antiquary's plaster intaglio impressions, after the Antique and Medieval,23cm x 20.5cm, scumbled frame

An arrangement of antiquary's plaster intaglio impressions, including Canova Lions, Colosseum, further Classical and Medieval subjects, 23cm x 29c...

An arrangement of antiquary's plaster intaglio impressions, Philippe IV, Louis XII, Homer, Serapis and other classical notables, 28.5cm x 29.5cm, ...

An arrangement of Grand Tour-type plaster intaglio impressions, 30.5cm x 18cm, rosewood frame

An arrangement of Grand Tour-type plaster intaglio impressions, 30cm x 17.5cm, rosewood frame

An Art Deco McMurdo crocodile skin and gilt-metal table cigarette lighter, 7.5cm wide; another, (2)

An Art Deco silver-mounted white onyx desk calendar, 13.5cm wide, marked Sterling, c. 1935

An Art Nouveau pewter plaque, in relief with Petrarch and his muse Laura de Noves, 22cm x 13.5cm, c. 1905

An Austrian cold painted bronze, cast as a partridge, 7.5cm long, c.1900

An Austrian cold painted bronze, of a dog, 9cm long, c.1900

An Austrian cold-painted bronze, of a retriever, mounted on an onyx dish, 16cm wide overall, c. 1930

An early 19th century Anglo-Indian/Ceylonese palmwood writing box, hinged cover enclosing a folding plateau with inset writing surface, and an arr...

An early 19th century bronze chamberstick, the coiled sconce held aloft by the Devil, his tail curling into a handle, shaped broad pan, grotesque ...

An early 19th century creamware plaque, in relief with young man, on a bisque ground, 11.5cm high, red velvet frame; another, black Jasper, spri...

An early 19th century gilt bronze desk model, after a Medici Lion, pink marble base, 11cm high

An early 20th century brass marine timepiece, 14cm painted dial inscribed with Roman numerals, mahogany mount, 23.5cm diam overall, paper label to...

An early 20th century brass marine timepiece, 14cm silvered dial inscribed Henry Browne & Son Limited, Barking & London, Arabic numerals, subsidia...

An early 20th century bronze desk top model signal cannon, oak carriage, wheel-chock attached by a chain, 15cm wide

An early 20th century bronze desk top signalling cannon, open touch-hole, mahogany stepped carriage, 23cm long

An early 20th century copper and brass Masthead lamp, by R.G. Murray & Co., Glasgow, no. 1052, 59cm high; another, circular, marked 8023, dated 19...

An early 20th century EPNS novelty cocktail companion, as a an 18th century tankard, hinged cover enclosing six sticks, 11.5cm high