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Click here to subscribeNine china bin labels, for Whisky, Rum (Wedgwood), Moselle, Hock, Sherry, Claret, Brown Sherry (Farrow & Jackson), Madeira (Wedgwood) and Gin; together with two dark green glass bottles with raised lettering for Keystone Burgundy. 8.5in. (21cm.), the other with crest and W. & A. Gilby. 8in. (20cm.) (a lot).
FIVE 18TH-CENTURY FOLDED-FOOT GLASSES, the first vine-etched with flared bucket bowl on a ball-knopped stem, 10cm, (4in) high; a gin glass, the plain bucket bowl etched with juniper, on a similar stem, 10.5cm, (4.1in) high; another, with ribbon swags to the bucket bowl, on a similar stem, same height; a funnel-bowl glass with flower-etched band on an integral tapering stem, same height, and a fifth, with rounded flower-etched bowl on a similar stem, 10cm, (4in) high
1735. 9 George II,. text damp?marked throughout, with the paper rather fragile at the end, contemp. calf, a little rubbed, folio. Includes An Act to repeal the Statute made [1 James I] intituted. An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits..; An Act for the better enlightning the Streets of the City of London; An Act for laying a Duty upon the Retalers of Spirituous Liquors, and for licensing the Retalers thereof; and An Act for naturalizing her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The Witchcraft Act banned accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. The second Gin Act, "for laying a Duty upon the Retalers of Spirituous Liquors..", was the second attempt to deal with the problem of "Madam Geneva". It required retailers to buy a £50 licence, and imposed a heavy twenty shillings per gallon duty on the retail trade. It also made provision for the payment of informers. It was a disasterous failure. The idea spread that when the Act came into effect gin would be permanently unobtainable. Riots resulted, there was an orgy of bingeing and suspected informers were murdered. Great ingenuity was applied to the task of evasion: some outlets styled themselves as chemists, and coloured the gin in labelled bottles with such instructions as "Take 2 or 3 spoonfuls of this 4 or 5 times a day, or as often as the fit takes you". Between 1736 and 1738 12,000 were convicted of breaking the Act, and only two licences were ever taken out. It was repealed in 1743. (1)
Louis Gerard Scotin- 'Marriage A-La-Mode', Plate 1, after Hogarth, publ. April 1st 1745; engraving, 38x45.7cm: together with a large quantity of engravings after William Hogarth including: ‘The Industrious' Prentice’,’The Idle 'Prentice’, ‘The Enraged Musician’, ‘O the Roast Beef of Old England’, ‘Gin Lane’, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, etc., all laid down on cardboard, (a lot), (unframed).
Old Rarity (2). Distilled, blended and bottled by Bulloch Lade & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. Stopper corks, embossed lead capsules. 26 2/3 fl. ozs. In original cartons. 70 degrees proof. Crawford's Five Star. Blended and bottled by A & A Crawford Ltd., Leith. Plastic screw cap. 26 2/3 fl. ozs. In original carton. 70 degrees proof. Bols Geneva Gin. Stoneware bottle. 100 cl, 35 fl. ozs. 75 degrees proof. 4 bottles
A collection of ceramic novelty whisky miniatures comprising:. Beneagles Eagles (3), Beneagles Barrel, Beneagles Sportsman's Flask, Trout, Beneagles Burns Cottage, Beneagles Haggis (2), Beneagles Curling Stone, Beneagles Loch Ness Monster (2), one lacking contents, Rutherford's Bulls (2), Rutherford's Highlander, Rutherford's Spirit of Scotland, Vol II, Rutherford's Thistle, Rutherford's Jug, Bell's (2), one lacking contents, Highland Liqueur jug, McGibbon's Golf bag and club (2), Glen Calder jug, McGibbon's Turnberry and St. Andrews flasks, Advantage Tennis Ball, Old St. Andrews Golf Ball, Mead: Rugby Ball, Elf, Handle and Barrel. Miniature dispensing barrel, jug, Bols Geneva Gin stone bottle, glass miniature crown and thistle and 3 Old St. Andrews wooden barrels on stands (39). 39 miniatures
A small collection of blended Scotch whisky, American and Canadian Miniatures comprising:. White Horse, by Appointment to His Majesty The King, screw cap, lead capsule, Dewar's White Label-8 year-old-Circa 1940, spring cap, lead capsule, Dewar's White Label-Circa 1950 (2), spring caps, lead capsules, Dewar's White Label, labelled on reverse bottled March 1943, stopper cork, lead capsule, evaporation, King William IV, tax sticker dated 1936, screw cap, lead capsule, Harvey's Blended, screw cap, Red Hackle, screw cap, Rutherford's Ceramic book. Bourbon and blended whiskey: Shipping Port, P M De Luxe, Imperial, Lord Calvert, The Four Georges, Gallacher and Burton, Seagram's-5 year-old, Four Roses, Walker's De Luxe, Juarez American Whiskey, Bronte Yorkshire Liqueur stoneware jug and a miniature Geneva Gin stone bottle (21). 21 miniature bottles
A collection of silver and plated flatware and other items, comprising; a set of six silver-gilt replica 'anointing' coffee spoons, Birmingham 1953, in a case, four others similar, a set of four French silver mounted small glass pepper pots, a pair of modern silver cartouche-shaped decanter labels, 'Gin' and 'Vodka', London 1972, a plated Kings pattern part table service, and a quantity of miscellaneous plated flatware
Wine labels: fourteen assorted mother of pearl labels including a bright cut crescent "CYDER", a beaded "Burgundy", an "OLD HOCK" escutcheon, a "Frontincac", two "MADEIRAS", a pierced, gothic letter "B" tablet, a "Madeira" with openwork surmount, and six others, together with four ivory neck rings or collars "CYPRESS", "GIN", "SHERRY" & "MADEIRA" and a horn "whisky". (19)
A scarlet gin-bari cloisonne vase of square baluster form decorated with a crane and bamboo against the dimpled foil ground, basal mark of Kumeno Teitaro, Meiji Period, 4.875in high; together with a similar vase of traditional baluster form decorated with a butterfly and iris, Meiji Period, 5in high. (2)