A Pair of Elizabeth II Silver Salt and Pepper Mills, maker's mark R&D, London 2007, of typical form with concave body, one with a gilt knop, 10cm high (2) £80 - 120
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A 9ct Gold Comb Case, sponsor's mark SJR, Sheffield 1982, rectangular with panels of engine turned decoration and distinct hallmarks, with a pull-out resin comb, 11cm wide, 56g all in £200 - 300
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A 9ct Gold Lipstick Holder, Garrard & Co, London 1968, rectangular with allover engine turned decoration, the slide-off cover with a concealed spring-action mirror, 6cm long, 49g all in £150 - 200
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A 9ct Gold Compact, Ramsden & Roed, London 1964, retailed by Garrard & Co, of book from with all over engine turned decoration, the interior fitted with a mirror, 7.5cm long, 99g all in £300 - 500
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An Art Deco Silver Compact, import marks for London Assay Office, London 1948, square, the hinged cover engraved with a repeating bird motif, the birds gilt with ruby set eyes, with a ruby thumbpiece, 7.5cm square, 5oz 2dwt all in £250 - 350
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A 9ct Gold Propelling Pencil, Sampson Mordan & Co, London 1928, with an octagonal barrel, stamped MORDAN EVERPOINT PAT APP FOR, 9.5cm long, 14g all in £60 - 100
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A Twelve Piece Manicure Set, Synyer & Beddoes (Harry Synyer & Charles Joseph Beddoes), Birmingham 1920-24, each plain with a shaped handle, in a fitted case £100 - 150
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An Unusual Silver Mounted Pipe, Edwin & William Barling, London 1904, the wooden bowl with a hinged silver mount with a pierced revolving wind shield, the collar inscribed PATENT, bowl and stem stamped BARLING'S MAKE, 15.5cm long £80 - 120
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An Edward VII Novelty Pin Cushion, Levi & Salaman, Birmingham 1904, naturalistically modelled as a hedgehog, 4.5cm long £100 - 200
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An Edward VII Silver Gilt Presentation Key, Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1902, with an elaborate pierced and engraved finial and tapering stem, 16cm long, 4oz 2dwt, in a fitted case £70 - 100
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An Art Nouveau Silver Box, unmarked, circular, the hinged cover decorated with a fly, with a sapphire body, ruby head and diamond wings, the sides chased with flowers, 4cm wide, 23g £150 - 200
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A Late 19th Century Austro-Hungarian .800 Silver Cigar Cutter, Wenzel Breznia, Vienna, the handle in the form of a cluster of oak leaves and acorns, the end formed as a boar's head with red glass eyes, 13.5cm long, 2oz 4dwt £600 - 800
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A Victorian Silver and Enamel Necessaire, Sampson Mordan & Co, London 1899, of shield shaped purse form, with an inset red enamel Red Cross motif to the cover and a fitted interior, with a suspension loop to the rear; and A Silver Letter Knife, J B Chatterley & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1977, with an applied cast model of a fox's head, 14cm long 2oz 1dwt all in (2) £100 - 150
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A Victorian Silver Icicle Scent Bottle, Horton & Allday, Birmingham 1891, of typical tapering form with a hinged cover, all over chased decoration and a glass liner (lacking stopper), 16cm long; and A Victorian Silver Scent Bottle Case, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co (William Gibson & John Lawrence Langman), London 1898, circular with a hinged side and cover, with all over chased decoration, 7cm high (2) £100 - 200
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A Victorian Silver Mounted Leather Patent Cigar Case, Henry William Dee, London 1876, retailed by P&F Schafer, 27 Piccadilly, rounded rectangular, the hinged silver frame supporting expanding black leather compartments, the clasp engraved PATENT CLAST, 13cm long £150 - 250
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A Section of "The Atlantic Cable of 1865", mounted in a circular gold pendant, engraved Recovered by The Great Eastern, September 5th 1866, lat 50d 11m.n. lon 43d 59mw, with a suspension loop, 2.6cm wideThe first successful cable to span the Atlantic was in 1866, prior to this there were several failed attempts. The cable was needed to make instant communication between the Continents; hence news could be transmitted in minutes as opposed to the 10 days each way for the transatlantic ship passage.The 1865 attempt was undertaken by Cyrus Field using the SS Great Eastern.In 1865 SS Great Eastern was the world's largest ship ever built (700ft long), designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and proved far too ahead of its time to be commercial.The coordinates (50.183333,-43.983333) refers to a point approximately 300 miles from Newfoundland. £200 - 300
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A 19th Century Renaissance Style Scent, unmarked, modelled as a nude maiden sat atop a heliciform shell clasping an anchor link suspension chain between her hands, hung with three baroque pearls to the ends of the chain and the base of the shell, 4cm high excluding chain, 13g £200 - 300
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A Novelty Victorian Propelling Pencil, circa 1873 in the form of a plumb bob or spinning top, with five telescopic graduated sections, inscribed W Thornhill, 144 New Bond Street and engraved with a registration mark; and Another, Sampson Mordan & Co, in the form of a fishing ledger, 5cm long (2) £200 - 300
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A George III Silver Snuff Box, William Pugh, Birmingham 1802, rounded rectangular with engraved decoration, 5.5cm wide £100 - 150
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A George III Silver and Mother of Pearl Folding Fruit Eating Set, lion passant and duty mark only, with mother of pearl scales, the blade and tines with engraved decoration, the handles with further engraved inlay, 18cm long, in a fitted leather case; and A Victorian Folding and Separating Fruit Knife and Fork, Singleton & Priestman, Sheffield 1897 (2) £200 - 300
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A Scrimshawed Eight Reales Coin, Mexico Mint, circa 1780/90, one side engraved with an image of a three-masted frigate and titled Sybil, 3.7cm wide, 23.9gHMS Sibyl was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in October 1778 under the command of Captain Thomas Pasley. She was renamed Garland in 1795, and wrecked in 1798 off Madagascar. £80 - 120
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An 18th Century Snuff Box, unmarked, oval, the pull-off cover embossed with a head and shoulder portrait of William Camden and prick engraved* HO * MO * / W * CAMDEN, with a tortoiseshell base, 9.5cm long, 3oz 8dwtWilliam Camden (1551-1623) was an antiquarian, historian and topographer £150 - 200
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An 18th Century Silver and Mother-of-Pearl Corkscrew, maker's mark probably CW or GW, with a C shaped mother-of-pearl handle, steel worm and chased silver screw-off cover, 9cm long £80 - 150
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A Mid 18th Century Snuff Box, unmarked, circa 1750, oval with reeded sides, the hinged cover mounted with a mother-of-pearl panel carved with a shell motif, the base panel also mother-of-pearl, 8cm wide £80 - 120
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A Six Place Setting Table Service of Georg Jensen Cypress Pattern Silver Flatware, comprising six table forks (19cm), six table knives with steel blades, and six dessert spoons (19.5cm), 19oz 2dwt excluding knives, all in original boxes (18) £400 - 600
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A Six Place Setting Table Service of Georg Jensen Cypress Pattern Silver Flatware, comprising six forks (17cm), six table knives with steel blades, and six spoons (18cm), 19oz 2dwt excluding knives, all in original boxes (18) £300 - 500
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A Part Service of 20th Century Swedish .800 Silver Flatware, Robbe & Berking, comprising twelve teaspoons, six table knives, six table forks, six coffee spoons, sugar tongs, twelve pastry forks, six pastry knives, sugar spoon, preserve spoon, six dessert spoons, two table spoons, cake slice, fish slice, ladle, two cold meat forks, two commemorative spoons, approx 60ozt all in, the majority boxed (qty) £300 - 500
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A 20th Century Service of .800 Silver Table Flatware, each stamped 800, of plain form with a simple border, comprising twelve table knives with stainless steel blades, twelve side knives with stainless steel blades, two butter knives, twelve table forks, twelve side forks, six fish knives and forks, twelve pastry forks, two shellfish forks, twelve coffee spoons, twelve teaspoons, twelve dessert spoons, two tablespoons, salad fork and spoon, sugar tongs, soup ladle, sauce ladle, ladle, cake slice and two napkin rings, approx 134oz excluding knives (qty) £700 - 900
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An American Silver Spoon, Hyman Berg & Co, America, the bowl naturalistically modelled as a leaf, with a wavy steam mounted with two further oak leaves and a group of three acorns, stamped 441, 25cm long, 2oz £50 - 80
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A Set of Twelve Russian Silver Teaspoons, left facing Kokoshnik mark, each with a floral motif to the stem and drop; Three Russian Silver Spoons, each with a plain baluster knop and well engraved bowls; and Three Similar Latvian Silver Spoons, 12oz 7dwt all in (qty) £150 - 200
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A Set of Twelve Russian Silver Teaspoons, left facing Kokoshnik mark, each with a simple knop, tapering hexagonal stem and gilt fig shaped bowl, 8oz 1dwt all in, in a fitted case £100 - 150
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A Set of Six Russian Silver Gilt and Enamel Coffee Spoons, left facing Kokoshnik mark, other marks not clear, with tear shaped bowls and enamel knops and backs of bowls, 10cm long, 2oz 7dwt all in, in a fitted case £100 - 200
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A Set of Six Russian Silver Gilt and Enamel Coffee Spoons, left facing Kokoshnik mark, other marks not clear, with tear shaped bowls and enamel knops and backs of bowls, 10cm long, 2oz 5dwt all in, in a fitted case £100 - 200
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A Set of Twelve Victorian Scottish Silver Teaspoons and Tongs, maker's mark GSB over striking another, Glasgow 1896 & Edinburgh 1893, each with engraved stems, 7oz 7dwt, in a velvet lined well fitted case £60 - 100
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A Set of Twelve Victorian Silver Fish Knives and Forks, Harrison Brothers & Howson, London 1895, comprising twelve ivory-handled knives and forks, each with engraved blades, tines and silver collars, in a fitted oak case £150 - 250
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A Victorian Part Service of Table Flatware, Francis Higgins III, London 1893, Old English pattern, comprising six table forks, six side forks, six dessert spoons, four tablespoons, two ladles and ten teaspoons, approx 55oz all in (qty) £300 - 500
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A Set of Six Russian Tablespoons, U Rabinovitch, Vilnius 1893, Fiddle pattern, 23cm long, 13oz 3dwt £150 - 200
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A Russian Silver Serving Slice, BX assay master, maker's mark LM, Tallin 1872, the blade engraved with a monument; A Continental 16th Century Style Folding Fork/Spoon, import marks for London 1893; and Two Continental Spoons, 7oz 6dwt all in (4) £150 - 250
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A Victorian Provincial Silver Basting Spoon, Robert Williams, Exeter 1845, Fiddle pattern, 31cm long, 4oz 1dwt £80 - 120
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A Victorian Part Table Service of Flatware, Chawner & Co (George William Adams), London 1845, 1846, 1847, fiddle, thread and shell pattern, engraved with a crest (a stag's head erased), comprising twelve table spoons, soup ladle, six dessert spoons, four side forks, six teaspoons and a butter knife; and A Basting Spoon and Sauce Ladle, en-suite, John & Henry Lias, 88oz all in (qty) £600 - 800
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A George IV Irish Silver Soup Ladle, Thomas Farnett, retailer's mark for GRAYS, Dublin 1828, Fiddle pattern with rattail bowl, the handle engraved with a crest, 34cm, 8oz 2dwt £100 - 200
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A William IV Silver Soup Ladle, John Walton, Newcastle 1827, fiddle pattern, 31.5cm long, 6oz 4dwt £100 - 150
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Two Scottish Provincial Silver Toddy Ladles, Robert Naughton, Inverness, circa 1820, Kings pattern, struck with a cornucopia, thistle and RN, 18cm long; and Another Identical, not marked 3oz 3dwt (3) £150 - 200
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A Set of Six Scottish Provincial Silver Tablespoons, Robert Naughton, Inverness, circa 1820, Kings pattern, struck with a cornucopia, thistle and RN, 23cm long, 14oz 9dwt £400 - 600
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A Set of Eight Scottish Provincial Silver Table Forks, Robert Naughton, Inverness, circa 1820, Kings pattern, struck with a cornucopia, thistle and RN, 20cm long, 18oz £300 - 500
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A Set of Eight Scottish Provincial Silver Dessert Spoons, Robert Naughton, Inverness, circa 1820, Kings pattern, two struck with a cornucopia, thistle and RN, the other for Edinburgh 1821, 18cm long; Six Teaspoons En Suite; A Salt Spoon, en suite; and A Dessert Fork; en suite, 14oz 3dwt all in (16) £150 - 250
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A Scottish Provincial Silver Toddy Ladle, unidentified mark AW in script within an oblong pellet only, Fiddle and Shell pattern, 15.5cm long, 31.7gThis mark is classed as 'unidentified' on the Incorporation of Goldsmiths archive £80 - 120
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A Scottish Provincial Silver Toddy Ladle, George Jamieson, Aberdeen 1849, Fiddle pattern, engraved with an initial, marked GJ, London marks, ABDN, 16.5cm long, 33g £180 - 250
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A Scottish Provincial Silver Toddy Ladle, Alexander McLeod, Inverness, Fiddle pattern, marked AML INS, 16cm long, 31g £180 - 250
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A Scottish Provincial Silver Toddy Ladle, Alex Cameron, Dundee, Fiddle pattern, engraved with an initial, marked with a pot of lilies (x3) AC, 15cm long, 22.6g £80 - 120
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