Out of the Ordinary

A pair of emu eggs, 19th century, Australian, each raised on a gilt-bronze support, terminating on to a mirror base with bevelled and scalloped ri...

A brass monstrance reliquary,19th century, Continental, with a red glass crucible raised on a baluster stem, terminating on to a domed foot set wi...

A collection of Napoleonic prisoner of war and folk art carved bone miniatures, 19th century, comprising: a dolls house étagère, richly detailed w...

A grand tour gilt-bronze oil lamp,early 19th century, after Andrea Riccio, modelled in the form of a grotesque satyr, raised on a circular foot,9c...

A memento mori snuffbox,late 18th century, an unusual French burl walnut memento mori snuffbox, the lid decorated with a fine sepia hairwork scene...

A pair of patinated leather miner's helmets,20th century, Belgian, each of stitched and studded construction, raised on a turned wooden stand, bot...

A folk art architectural model of the Taj Mahal,late 19th/early 20th century, Indian, papier mâché with bobbin-turned spires surmounting the cupol...

An Etruscan Revival grand tour souvenir micromosaic pendant,19th century, likely Italian, modelled as a scarab or beetle, set within a filigree si...

An extraordinary George III thief's tool,18th century, the cut steel handheld tool consisting of a curved bladed purse-slit and a lockpick, with a...

A memento mori figure,16th century and later, South German, a boxwood figure of the penitent Mary Magdalene kneeling beside a vanitas skull, raise...

A Boer War sports medal,1902, a rare and unusual carved soft-stone medal, with a castellated edge, inscribed to the rim 'BERMUDAS Volks-Spelen Dar...

A carved folk art bog oak walking stick,19th century, American, the head carved in the form of a snarling hound, richly carved throughout, surmoun...

A keichousaurus fossil,Triassic period (50.6 - 251.902 million years ago), preserved in a black slate slab,16 x 10.5cmThe keichousaurus was a genu...

A collection of six carved Bari headrests, 19th century, South Sudanese, of various forms, one example with a leather carrying strap, 20.5cm wide1...

A collection of WWI trench art,comprising:a model of a biplane made from a rifle bullet and buttons,two silver-plated shell cases, with an engrave...

A copper and brass tobacco box,18th century, Dutch, of oblong form, richly engraved throughout with scenes from Greek mythology, to the lid with a...

A Neolithic adze,c.3000 BCE, of wedge form, carved and polished stone, raised on a wood and Lucite support, 22cm highProvenance: The Cabinet of Cu...

A regimental folk art fruitwood cane,19th century, Scottish, profusely carved with thistle garlands and a heraldic lion or hound,89cm longProvenan...

A captain's box,19th century, a folk art 'Trinity House' style walnut captain's box, the lid veneered with the motif of a ship, opening to reveal ...

Of architectural interest: a cast brass Victorian plumb line, 19th century, owned and likely used by John Wolfe Barry in the construction of Tower...

A yak skin and snow leopard fur-mounted travel trunk,early 20th century, Nepalese, set to the each corner with latticed mounts, with arrow-shaped ...

A dream stone tray,late 18th/early 19th century, a Chinese zitan wood tray, the top with a veined marble inset, commonly referred to as a dream st...

A collection of medical ephemera,comprising:a WWI brass and steel amputation saw, by Arnold & Son, London, carved with military markings to the ha...

A pair of gutta-percha telescopic hearing aids, late 19th century, each of conical form,largest 26cm extended (2)Provenance: The Cabinet of Curios...

A Corsican vendetta dagger,late 18th/early 19th century, the tapering Damascus steel blade with etched decoration, terminating on to an octagonal ...

A cast iron British naval swivel gun, 18th century, raised on an ebonised table base,the barrel 82cm long94cm highProvenance: The Cabinet of Curio...

A pair of black silk work pictures,early 19th century, each depicting a landscape scene from Cornwall, one depicting the village of Launceston and...

American School, 19th centuryA folk art portrait of a gentlemanoil on canvas43 x 53cmProvenance: The Cabinet of Curiosities - The Gary Pyper Colle...

▴ Edwin Cripps (b.1949)late 20th century, a surrealist scene with dogs in Japanese dresssigned and dated l.l. 'Edwin Cripps March 1995', oil on ca...

American School, early 20th centuryA collection of five naïve folk art family portraitspencil and charcoal on card25 x 29cm, each framed (5)Proven...

An Art Deco novelty bronze letter opener,c.1930, Austrian, in the manner of Hagenauer, modelled as a narwhal, stamped 'Made in Austria',26cm longP...

A Boer War prisoner-of-war folk art money box,1901, of casket form with a stepped lid, the sides and lid with chip carved detailing, the lid with ...

An unusual pressed horn figural pocket knife,18th century, West Indian, modelled as a chieftain, likely crafted by a European sailor,9.5cm longPro...

A commemorative scrimshawed 'bugbear' coconut, c.1890, engraved with four cartouches, with the crests of Panama, the United States, Nicaragua, and...

An Inuit tupilak,early 20th century, Greenland, of carved whalebone in the form of a vengeful spirit,7.5cm highProvenance: The Cabinet of Curiosit...

A collection of shamanistic tools,19th century, a collection of Austronesian shamanic items, all likely of Sumatran origin, comprising:a carved bo...

A Sindhi iron dastana,17th century, Northern India, of diminutive form, likely an armguard or vambrace for a boy warrior or archer, 24cm longProve...

A Yemeni ceremonial belt,19th century, woven with polychrome bands mounted with silver clasps with geometric applications,unbuckled 82cm longProve...

An unusual carved bog oak architectural hat stand,19th century, likely Irish, carved in the manner of a Fermanagh tower, surmounted by a carved cy...

Boer War,c.1900, a rare handwritten carrier pigeon message tape, written in code, unrolled 25cm longProvenance: The Cabinet of Curiosities - The G...

Early cycling interest: an unusual silver watch-fob-suspended compass,late 19th century, to the reverse with an enamelled motif of a gentleman rid...

A Tell Brak eye idol,late Uruk Period, c.3300 to 3000 BCE, Near East, modern Syria, Tell Brak, of abstract form with perforated eyes, the green st...

Two Prussian amber scent bottles,17th century, possibly Konigsberg, each engraved with geometric decoration, with a flared lip and reeded rim, one...

Inuit carvings,early 20th century, an unusual pair of figural Inuit walrus ivory carvings, possibly float plugs or amulets, one modelled as a bird...

A Maori adze,early 18th century, New Zealand, a Maori greenstone toki pounamu adze head, of wedge-shaped form, 13.5cm longProvenance: The Cabinet ...

A carved horn memento mori,19th century, German, modelled as a crowned figure of Death, on a stepped and turned coromandel and rosewood base, 18cm...

A Continental ebonised triptych reliquary, early 19th century, the central aperture of arched form with a central larger fragment set among metal ...

A fine Anglo-Indian ebony and rosewood trinket box,19th century, modelled as a tortoise, set within a hinged tortoise shell case, opening to revea...

A memento mori folk art brass snuffbox, late 18th century, the lid engraved with four skulls and crossbones, inscribed to the rim above each skull...

A modernist doll's house,1930s, a scratch-built Bauhaus-style doll's house furniture set, in the manner of Marcel Breuer, comprising a dining tabl...

A Prussian amber amulet,17th century, of elongated archaic heart-shaped form, possibly Königsberg, in a later silver mount,4.5cm long Provenance: ...

A Regency sand picture,c.1820, depicting a country house by the sea, set in a mahogany frame,the frame 28.5 x 23.5cm aperture 13.5 x 8.5cmProvenan...

A Victorian classroom aid,19th century, showing the various stages of cotton production, set within a glazed oak display, by Horrockses Miller & C...

A Masonic Jacobite Rising fob seal,c.1745, the cut steel seal with the portrait of the fifteen-year-old Bonnie Prince Charlie in relief, who by 17...

A carved wooden clogmaker's pattern sample, late 17th century/early 18th century, modelled as a toecap engraved with a geometric pattern, througho...

A George III silver-mounted coconut cup, 18th century, the bowl richly carved with scrolling foliate motifs, the rim etched with a flower and leaf...

An ecclesiastical carved oak figurine,18th century, likely Continental, modelled as the Virgin Mary, 47cm highProvenance: The Cabinet of Curiositi...

A figural bronze group,early 20th century, modelled as changelings abducting a child, raised on a green marble base,15cm wide12cm deep15cm highPro...

A Victorian taxidermy albino mouse,late 19th century, the mouse with pink glass eyes, in a domed case,dome 12cm high,together with a pair of ancie...

An anthropomorphic taxidermy of a juvenile crocodile, late 19th century, upright on his hind legs holding a book, mounted under a glass dome on an...