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Good Victorian country house diorama modelled as a three-storey house flanked by wings, applied with coloured glass, beads, dried flowers and mother of pearl discs, in glazed box frame, 43cm wide
£200 - 300
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17th century carved lined oak pilaster with Cupid figure issuing foliage, 49cm, together with another smaller 17th century figural carved pilaster, pair of carved mask furniture appliques and a lion mask bracket (5)
£100 - 150
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Rare pair of 19th century ship dioramas - possibly Channel Islands, the first depicting a three-masted vessel named Dorret before a stylised lighthouse, the second depicting a two-masted ship before similar lighthouse, 34cm wide
£200 - 300
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Fanny Mackley: Early Victorian needlework sampler - with religious verse above depiction of school building and scattered floral and animal motifs, signed - Fanny Mackley Ag 13, 1843, Waltham School, 49cm x 40cm, in period glazed birds-eye maple frame
£150 - 200
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Mid-19th century walnut and brass-bound writing slope with hinged tooled-leather writing surface and stationery compartments
£50 - 70
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Edwardian leather cased travelling scent with twin brass-capped square glass bottles in fine brown leather case, 13cm high
£60 - 90
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Period black and white photograph of R.M.S. Titanic - captioned to bottom - R.M.S. Titanic 11092 Stuart Copyright / Wrecked in mid-Atlantic by collision with ice-berg April 15th 1912, stamped to reverse - C. A. Pratt Booksellers, Oxford St. Southampton 7. May 1912, 24.5cm x 35cm, in period glazed oak frame.
N.B. A comparable lot sold at Christie's, South Kensington 5th Nov. 1998 for £1,840
£200 - 300
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Suzuki Harunobu (1724 / 25 - 1770), early colour woodcut print, with white rabbit, 21cm x 15cm, together with another by Utamaro Kitagawa (circa 1753 - 1805), 33.5cm x 22cm, both in glazed frames (2)
£100 - 150
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Thai bronze devotional figure modelled as a seated monk, on inscribed plinth base, 8cm high
£50 - 70
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Antique Persian papier mâche qalamdan (pen box) of typical form, decorated with flowers and boteh, 24.5cm long
£100 - 150
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18th / 19th century Greek Icon depicting St. Nicholas holding a bible, his right hand raised in a blessing, 31cm x 27cm
£150 - 250
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19th century Canton carved ivory fan - finely relief carved with figural and foliate reserves, 18cm high
£70 - 100
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Three antique copper jelly moulds - the largest 11cm high
£100 - 150
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Fine late 19th / early 20th century stained glass window, by T. W. Camm, Smethwick, Birmingham, with central heraldic shield and inscribed - 'Downing College', with peacock cell beside, 30cm x 71cm.
Provenance: Purchased Townsend Auction T. W. Camm Studio Sale
£250 - 300
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18th century stained glass panel with central, possibly Masonic symbol and intiails IVD with shield shaped cartouche and surrounded by figural and baroque devices, 30cm diameter, together with a circular stained glass panel composed of antique fragments and another stained glass panel (3)
£150 - 250
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Good pair of brass signalling cannons each raised on cast iron wheeled carriage with dragon ornament, 46cm long
£200 - 300
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George III needlework sampler with didactic verses and floral and armorial motifs within meander borders signed and dated Eli. th Tillyer 1782, 32cm x 32cm, together with two further 19th century samplers all in glazed frames (3)
£100 - 150
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Pair late 19th century Austrian cold painted bronze figures of Dutch boy with pipe and Dutch girl singing, on splayed plinths, stamped - Vienna S. T. B., 13cm
£60 - 80
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Good quality Victorian coromandel dome-top stationery box with Gothic brass strapwork, 22cm and pair Regency gilt metal Gothic telescopic table fire screens with architectural decoration, 24cm high (3)
£120 - 150
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Late 19th century Anglo-Indian bone-inlaid and carved sandalwood miniature cupboard with carved animal decoration - lancet-shaped door enclosing shelves, on brass bun feet, 33cm high x 20.5cm wide
£150 - 200
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Early 19th century French Prisoner of War work domino set - comprising thirty brass-inlaid ox bone pieces in carved wooden book-shaped box with bone-inlaid sliding lid, 12cm long
£150 - 200
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Fine 19th century Fijian Kiakavo (Gunstock) war club of dense hardwood with curved head with natural rustic unpolished underside and spur projection, the handle with chip carved decoration and domed knop - good patination overall, 96cm.
Provenance: In vendor's family for several generations
£1500 - 2000
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Fine 19th century Fijian Gugu war club of dense hardwood with carved fan-shaped head with styalised leaf and geometric line decoration - natural grained shaft with good overall patination, 85cm long.
Provenance: In vendor's family for several generations
£1000 - 1500
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Late 18th / early 19th century Indo-Persian Peshkabz dagger with T-section curved tapering blade, white metal and brass hilt with horn side plates, 33.5cm
£100 - 150
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Collection of ancient and later Greco-Cypriot pottery vessels including vases, jugs, ladle, cups etc (12 pieces)
£100 - 200
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Ancient Egyptian carved wooden figure of a Pharoah wearing the hedjet crown with well carved features and hole for ceremonial beard on chin - some traces of painted decoration, 22.5cm
£200 - 300
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Ancient Egyptian pottery Shabti of a Pharoah, 8cm and turquoise pottery scarab seal with incised bird - with note stating it was brought back from Egypt in 1902
£50 - 70
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Antique African possibly Benin bronze bottle vase decorated with three human masks and green patination overall, 34cm high
£300 - 500
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19th century African wooden war club with bulbous end and carved handle decorated with topless female figure, 56cm and another with double sided human mask bulbous end, 47cm (2)
£150 - 250
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Antique Ethnographic ceremonial wooden staff tongue-shaped terminal, notched and cross hatched decoration to shaft and spike finial, 138cm
£200 - 300
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Rare 19th century sailors' sail making kit - comprising seven needles contained in a cow horn tip with serrated border decoration, with inscribed initials on back and suspended from a piece of rope, 18cm long
£200 - 300
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Good quality 19th century Cantonese carved ivory fan with finely pierced figure, dragon and building decoration and central JG monogram, 30.5cm wide open
£50 - 70
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Pair good quality late 19th century Japanese cloisonne vases of tapered form, with floral decoration on dark blue ground, 15cm, on hardwood stands
£50 - 70
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Rare late 19th / early 20th century American sterling silver and horn-handled corkscrew by Black Starr & Frost, the terminal with bear mask engraved 'Elmina', 16.5cm wide, together with a late 19th / early 20th century white metal mounted boar's tusk-handled corkscrew.
N.B. Elmina was an American racing yacht, owned by Frederick F. Brewster. She achieved many successes in the early 20th century yacht races and was affiliated to New York Yacht Club. The present lot may have been awarded as a prize
£250 - 350
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Unusual early 19th century Tyroleon carved horn snuff box ornately carved with floral scrolls, musicians and dancing figures, entitled - 'Bei gesangen las dich ruhig wieder Böse Menschen haben keine Lieder' and 'Volchs Fest aus Zillerthal', 19cm x 5cm
£150 - 200
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Fine Chinese carved red soapstone seal, the finial with temple dogs, six character seal, 7cm high, together with a carved soapstone seal with carved temple dog finial
£60 - 80
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Highly unusual brass snuff box of bowfronted form, with hinged cover engraved with fantastical image of a flying machine in landscape, under title 'Progress of Steam', possibly First World War trench art, 8cm wide
£100 - 150
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Ancient Greek Tanagra terracotta figure depicting Eros, 9cm high, raised on associated plinth base
£300 - 500
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Fine quality antique Japanese hanging scroll, coloured inks on silk, freely painted with a magpie below blooming foliage - two character signature and seals, image 42cm x 127cm
£300 - 500
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Early, possibly Mediaeval, carved stone devotional niche figure of St. Catherine with sword and crown, holding an open book, 30cm high
£500 - 700
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Late 18th / early 19th century Japanese bronze, gilt and patinated tsuba of quatref oil form, decorated to each face with chrysanthemum and floral motifs
£250 - 350
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Fine late 18th century Japanese bronze and gilt inlaid tsuba of square form, relief decorated with a pine tree, the reverse carved in relief with a scholar before a table, with open book, signature seal for Tsuneshige, 7cm wide.
NB: Kawamura Tsunishige was active late 18th Century, a comparable example in The Met museum, Accession number 2008.465
£500 - 700
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19th century Edo period Japanese bronze and gilt heightened tsuba, circular dished form, relief decorated with a tiger, the reverse with bamboo, 7.5cm diameter
£250 - 350
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17th century Japanese pierced iron tsuba, circular with floral pierced ornament, 8cm diameter
£150 - 250
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Early Japanese steel tsuba, circular form, with pierced geometric ornament, 7.2cm diameter, probably late 16th / early 17th century
£300 - 500
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19th century Japanese steel tsuba of circular form, decorated in relief with chrysanthemums, signed, 7.5cm
£60 - 80
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Pair of carved Chinese jade cups of slightly tapered form, on squat foot, 5.5cm diameter
£60 - 80
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Late 19th century Indian carved wooden cigar box decorated in high relief with dragons, the interior of the lid carved with original owner's monogram - with key and maker's label - 'Habt. Joo & Sons, 33cm
£80 - 120
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Pair of Victorian Royal Worcester outside painted dog subject plates mounted in ornate gilt plaster frames, 35cm square overall
£100 - 200
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