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Lenoir, Paris - a late 18th / early 19th Century mantel clock with finely carved white carrara marble case the naked female with her right foot on a jar, her left hand on a Medusa fountain mask, rock and leaf carved base, the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals inscribed "Lenoir á Paris", within ormolu laurel cast bezel and leafy spandrels the rounded rectangular red marble base applied finely cast ormolu panels of winged amorini, trophies and leafage, beaded borders on cast ormolu toupie feet, the eight-day movement inscribed 20669, striking on a bell, 64cm high, 52cm wide, Circa 1790-1810 bearing old inventory label to the front clock case £2000 - 3000
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A George III mahogany cased brass surveyor's compass, maker unknown, hinged sights and cover flaps, 5cm x 24cm x 24cm (faults) £100 - 150
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A mid 19th Century cased brass monocular microscope with accessories including various glass lenses, selection of mostly biology themed glass slides, two glass slides with early microphotographs of the moon and also of Trafalgar Square by W.Watson & Sons, London, fitted mahogany box, 27cm x 19cm x 15.5cm £120 - 180
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An E.Leitz Wetzlar No 14843 monocular gilt brass microscope with multiple obverse lenses, in original numbers matching mahogany case, retailed by G.Baker High Holborn, London, the interior with card inscribed 'Vergrößerungen bis 160 M. Tubuslänge; Wetzlar, den 1 August 1889'; another late 19th/ early 20th Century E.Leitz Wetzlar No 106431 monocular gilt brass microscope of differing design with triple lens on revolving circular plate, 38cm x 16cm x 18cm and smaller (2) £120 - 180
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A monocular brass microscope with various lenses, retailed by Fisher & Co. Operative & Dispensing Chymists (sic), 40 Market Street, Blackpool, boxed, 12.5cm x 29cm x 17cm; two slide cases designed to resemble books, titled 'Microscopical Preparations' on binding, the interior fitted with wooden slide holders, one box contains no slides, the other containing some unused glass slides and two biological specimen slides (3) £70 - 100
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R. Dent - a square brass sundial, the plain gnomon set on an engraved register with Roman numerals within a border inscribed "As Time And Hours Passeth Away, So Doth Ye Life Of Man Decay" inscribed R. Dent, Coxspur Street, Londini, Fecit, 30.5cm square, 19th Century £300 - 500
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A small 19th Century French musical box playing eight Airs, with 9cm drum and comb, the movement numbered 2363 and initialled JLO, the lid interior with Airs delineated, the amboyna case with vacant mother of pearl shield shaped cartouche, 15cm wide overall, with a key (2) £300 - 400
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A miniature bronze quaiche of standard design, bowl 6cm diameter, 10cm wide overall, 19th Century £80 - 120
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Archibald Knox - a Liberty & Co Tudric pewter inkwell, the hinged lid revealing glass insert, the domed body with decorative panels on a serpentine shaped square base, stamped Tudric, numbered 0140, 13cm wide £150 - 200
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An Edwardian brass fender with pierced front and pair of square engraved pillars with compressed ball and spire finials, 144cm wide, early 20th Century £70 - 100
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A gilt metal and champlevé enamel oval photograph frame the reeded border with pierced foliate clasps, the inner frame champlevé enamelled with stylised leafy scrolls, 16cm x 22cm, late 19th / early 20th Century £80 - 120
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William Tonks & Sons - a pair of Edwardian brass fuel bins of tapered square design the slightly domed lids with compressed urnular finials, pair of carrying handles above a shaped girdle the body with beaded oval with pierced heart-shaped terminals and bell flowers, outset stylised shell feet, each with a liner, covers 32cm square, 46cm high the lids and bases with WT & S sunburst marks and bearing registration number 466084 £600 - 900
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A Victorian brass fuel bin the hinged cover lifting at both sides embossed with pair of grotesque masks, strap work borders and punch decorated centre, gadrooned rim, the body embossed with acanthus leafage, scaling and formal borders, pair of lion mask and ring handles on scrolling legs, 72cm wide max, 39cm high, late 19th Century £500 - 800
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A Newlyn hammer textured copper rounded rectangular tray embossed with a border of shells, fish and stylised seaweed, 59cm x 42cm £250 - 350
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A Newlyn circular copper dish embossed with a sailing ship, sail engraved with a rose, 23.5cm diameter, stamped Newlyn £60 - 100
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A Newlyn circular hammer textured copper dish engraved with a view of Barnstaple Castle within plain rim, broad border with frilled engraving, 24cm diameter, stamped Newlyn £60 - 100
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A 19th Century French Empire bronze Napoleonic eagle desk stand, clutching arrowed lightening bolts in talons, mounted on stepped white marble plinth, gilt decorated border, 18cm x 11.5cm x 6.5cm £80 - 120
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Keswick School Of Industrial Art - a rectangular copper tray the field engraved with floral and leaf filled spandrels on punched grounds, 24cm x 51cm, stamped KSIA £70 - 110
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A 19th Century bronze Warwick vase with pair of interlaced handles, circular white marble pedestal, 21cm wide over handles, 16cm high £100 - 150
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A pair of late 19th Century two handled urns and covers, the covers cast with classical heads, berries and leafage with crane finials, the shallow urnular bodies with pierced twig handles on slender columns and circular conforming feet cast insects, berries and leafage, stepped circular black stepped plinths, 24cm high, Circa 1880 £120 - 180
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A 19th Century gilt bronze "Go to Bed", modelled as a Chinese gentleman, the head and shoulders hinged, his right hand with provision for taper, oval base, 13cm high £70 - 110
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A 19th Century parcel gilt bronze figure of a Moor water carrier, realistically modelled with pole over his right shoulder hung with pair of baskets, circular base, 13cm high, 12cm wide max £70 - 110
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An Islamic brass tobacco box of elongated hexagonal form, the hinged cover finely engraved with shaped cartouche, scrolls and leafy swags within a wriggle work border, the front with trailing guilloches within formal leafy borders, the base inscribed with text within a circlet, 12cm wide, 19th Century £60 - 80
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A pair of Victorian Rococo revival brass table candlesticks with leafy cast nozzles, broad flower and leaf cast drip pans on conforming leaf and C-scroll pierced bases, 26cm high, 19th Century £50 - 80
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A cast iron mask of a smiling man wearing a hat, 31cm high, late 19th / early 20th Century £30 - 40
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A Victorian sprung desk clip modelled as a mermaid on shaped base, 13.5cm wide, 6cm high, late 19th Century £20 - 30
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A gilt bronze game holder modelled as a bird's talon, ratchet closing, ring top, 18.5cm long, mid 19th Century £70 - 100
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A 19th Century gilt bronze clock case modelled as a mandolin, conductor's baton, sheet music and ribbon drapes, the mandolin opening to reveal aperture for a clock, 22cm wide, Circa 1870 £40 - 60
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Thomas Corbett - an iron plaque inscribed "Thomas Corbett, Late Corbett & Peele, Perseverance Iron Works, Shrewsbury, England", Royal crest, 20cm high, 18.5cm wide £20 - 30
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A "Bentall's Safety Lever and Cover", oval plaque with shallow scroll pierced top and foliate base, 39cm wide, 29.5cm high £20 - 30
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Keswick School of Industrial Art - a circular copper tray the centre embossed with flower heads and leafage on a punched ground, the border with stylised S and other scrolls, 38cm diameter, stamped with KSIA mark around a crown, early 20th Century
Keswick School of Industrial Art (KSIA) was founded in 1884 by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and his wife Edith as an evening class in woodwork and repoussé metalwork at the Crosthwearish Rooms, in Keswick, Cumbria. The enterprise, designed to alleviate unemployment, prospered, and within ten years more than a hundred men were attending classes. A new building was erected for the school at a nearby site. The school closed in 1984. £100 - 150
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A pair of brass baluster vases with tall waisted necks and shaped rims engraved with iris, 22cm high; a brass candlestick the spherical base with three scrolling legs, tall stem with triple collar and bell shaped nozzle, 23cm high, 19th Century (3) £50 - 80
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A pair of Victorian brass candlesticks of Gothic form, the cylindrical nozzles with a broad drip pans with trefoil headed gallery the columns with bulbous centre on spreading circular feet with applied outset lion paws, 52cm high, late 19th Century £100 - 140
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An unusual cast iron tortoise spittoon, of realistic form the head depressing and hinged to reveal the interior well, black Japanned carapace, 36cm long, 28cm wide max., late 19th / early 20th Century £200 - 300
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A late Victorian brass fender of railed form with plain top rail and stepped base, 114cm wide, 64cm high, 30cm deep £40 - 60
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A brass frog with hinged lid, 8.5cm long; a brass cased filled desk weight, a Vickers pewter tea pot with ebonised handle, 18cm wide, a pair of pewter pepperettes (5) £20 - 30
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A late 19th Century brass faced pewter tray of triangular shape, embossed with three heads within oval frames the centre with winged beetle, the border set three ceramic scarab beetles, 32cm wide max., late 19th / early 20th Century £40 - 60
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An 'Artillery Bank' money box modelled as a soldier with canon, shooting into a brick tower, 19cm wide (some redecoration) £150 - 200
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An 18th Century pewter plate of plain circular design, with folded rim, the reverse indistinctly inscribed "...Princes Street", and initialled XX, 24cm diameter £20 - 30
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A set of eight late 19th Century French pewter grain measures, Double litre - Centilitre, 23cm high - 4.25cm high, stamped RG in a pyramid £80 - 120
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A Victorian cast iron tobacco jar modelled as a ribbon tied bundle of cigars, the circular lid as cigar ends with cigar handle, 12cm high, 12cm diameter max. £70 - 100
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A large pair of 18th Century brass pricket candlesticks in Dutch 17th Century style, 102cm high (faults) £350 - 450
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A late Victorian polychrome decorated cast iron doorstop modelled as a winged amorini holding a cornucopia, waisted circular base, 33cm high, Circa 1870 (faults) £80 - 120
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A Nuremburg copper alms dish the folded rim with raised centre, spirally lobed, inscribed on ribbon banner on a punched background, 41cm diameter £200 - 300
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A pair of embossed brass plaques, the borders with masks and scrolling pendants, the centres with porcelain plaques transfer printed with head and shoulder portraits of young women, 23cm diameter, early 20th Century £40 - 60
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A pair of embossed brass plaques the borders embossed with masks issuing trailing leafage, stylised sea serpents with cornucopia, the centres with circular porcelain plaques transfer printed with head and shoulder portraits of gentlemen, 31cm diameter £60 - 80
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A pair of embossed brass plaques the borders with stylised griffins and oval cartouche the centres with ceramic plaques transfer printed with head and shoulders of young ladies, 30cm diameter, early 20th Century £60 - 80
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A pair of embossed brass plaques the borders with stylised griffins and oval cartouches, the centres with ceramic plaques transfer printed with head and shoulder portraits of young ladies, 30cm diameter, early 20th Century £60 - 80
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An Austrian cold painted bronze cat, the tail stamped Geschutzt, 8cm high, 12.5cm wide £220 - 280
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An Austrian cold painted bronze chick peering into a small dish, stamped 1919, Geschutzt, 5cm high, 12cm wide £200 - 280
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