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Click here to subscribeA 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY PIANO FORM MUSICAL NECESSAIRE, with inlaid ivory faux keyboard and strung borders, the hinged lid revealing an internal mirror and red plush lift out tray, with five needlework accessories, cylinder musical box below, raised on turned ebonised legs, approximately 11.5ins x 7.5ins.
AMERICA. A.L.S. from Joseph King to his parents in Yorkshire, from Jefferson, Ohio, 1809. 3pp., folio, with integral address panel and indistinct franking. Concerning his purchase of "between 3 & 400 acres of land in the neighbourhood of Jefferson with 2 town lotts in the town which we have cleared and are going to build upon and when John calculates to begin the Hatting business next winter the prospect being considerably flattering". with other news about the weather, the price of land and wheat etc. (some damages). - Long A.L.S. from J. I. C. Ireland to his sister in Gloucestershire, from Catskill Mountain House, August 14th, n.y. (late 1820s). 4pp., 4to., but also written across. After the oppressive heat of New York, he writes, "If I wished to add a new curse to Dr. Flors' catalogue in Tristram Shandy it should run thus 'may you spend next August in New York' and (if he were a consumptive shivering sort of person) 'the following January' ". He describes the journey up the Hudson river, the scenery, the story of Major Andre, and the social life at the hotel, with observations on American women, "if you sit one down at the piano she sings till she is hoarse . . .". with manuscript transcription.(2)
A Regency mahogany square pianoforte, satinwood banded, with chequer stringing, the hinged cover reveals the works, ivory and ebony keys, inscribed New Patent, Willm Phillips, Grand & Square Piano-forte Master, Little Tower Hill, London, the three frieze drawers fitted later ring handles, on spiral fluted tapering legs and castors, 5ft 7in (170cm) wide.
A Mahogany and Inlaid Baby Grand Piano, Richard Lipp & Sohn, Stuttgart, No 28314, inlaid to the lid, keyboard lid and side panels with swags of berried leaves issuing from ribbon ties and punctuated by oval paterae, raised on three pairs of tapering square section legs with castors, (180cm by 147.5cm by 101cm)
R** Teigr(?), Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a low cut white dress, watercolour on ivorine, signed indistinctly lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Romney, Portrait of a lady, half length, wearing a burnt umber dress and holding a dog, watercolour on ivorine, bears incorrect signature Romney lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Gerard, Portrait of Josephine, half length, wearing a white dress; Portrait of Napoleon, half length, wearing uniform, each watercolour on ivorine, each bears incorrect signature Gerard, the first lower right, the second lower left, each oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm, After Thiroius, Portrait of Nelson, half length, wearing uniform, watercolour on ivorine, bears signature centre right, oval 8 x 6.5 cm Klrin, Portrait of a lady, bust length, wearing a low cut dress, watercolour on ivorine, signed lower right, oval 8.5 x 6.5 cm each in an ivory 'piano key' frame, two inlaid with faux tortoishell