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A late Victorian Negretti & Zambra gilt brass cased pocket barometer No. R/2303 the silvered scale with adjustable circular centre panel in engraved gilt brass case, 2.125ins diameter, one other by A & N.C.O.S.L with compass to reverse in plated case, 2ins diameter in leather fitted case, a 19th Century mahogany cased mercury thermometer by H & S Jones, Holborn, London with silvered scale, 7.5ins high and a 19th Century folding pocket magnifying glass in red leather fitted case £200-300
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A late 19th Century pocket barometer by F. L. West, 31 Cockspur Street, London,with silvered scale in gilt brass case, 1.875ins diameter (lacking bow) and one other by T. Mason of 5 Dame Street, Dublin with silvered scale in gilt brass case, 1.875ins diameter, both in red leather covered fitted cases £100-150
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A Near-Eastern engraved brass astrolabe, 5.5ins diameter x 7.5ins high, and an Indian brass circular calculator with five circular revolving levels, 8.75ins diameter x 12.5ins high £200-300
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A mixed collection of scientific instruments, including - a miniature sextant by Kelvin & Hughes of London dated 1917, ten pairs of opera glasses, five small telescopes, and a quantity of technical drawing sets, various £80-120
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A Paillard Bolex 150 Super 8mm cine camera, with original case, a Bolex-Lite S2 with box, and a Bolex 18-5L Super 8mm projector £100-150
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A Rolleicord medium format twin lens camera by Franke & Heidecke, in original case, with box set of filters for same, and a selection of camera accessories, various £100-150
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A Nikon 35mm "FA" SLR camera body, with four Nikon lenses, including - a Nikkor ED 300mm 1:4.5 lens, and two cases with accessories, various £250-350
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A Linhof professional twin shank profile tripod made in West Germany, 39.5ins extending to 87ins £80-120
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A Liberty & Co. Tudric pewter square biscuit box and cover, No. 0194, designed by Archibald Knox, cast with "Honesty" pattern in relief, and with applied enamel roundels, 6ins square x 5.5ins high, stamped "Tudric" and No. 9 0194 Note: Originally designed by Archibald Knox in 1903 £250-400
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A collection of pewter domestic wares, including - an 18th Century lidded tankard with straight sided drum and narrow fillet with boot heel thumbpiece, 6.5ins high, a George III bulbous salt with narrow flared rim and foot ring, 3.5ins diameter, a two-handled bleeding bowl or porringer, 9.5ins overall, an 18th Century dome-lidded tankard with baluster shaped drum and narrow fillet, 8ins high, a quart measure with pouring spout and side handle, 6.5ins high, a dome lidded jug with strainer and anthemion thumbpiece, 9.5ins high, together with fifty-six other pieces, various £200-300
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A pair of late 19th/early 20th Century Continental pewter altar pricket candlesticks of baroque form, 34ins high (now fitted for electricity), and a collection of pewter domestic wares, including - a lidded tankard with straight sided drum and cast thumbpiece, 6ins high, a circular sander, 3.75ins diameter, a 19th Century lidded water jug, 8.5ins high, together with twenty-five other pieces, various £120-160
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A Dutch brass Heemskirk candlestick after a 17th Century original, 10.5ins high, a matched pair of early 18th Century English brass candlesticks on octagonal bases, 7.25ins high, a brass skimmer with wooden handle, 25ins long, an 18th Century copper and iron bed-warming pan with turned fruitwood handle, 40ins long, a 19th/20th Century copper ships lantern, 26ins high overall (now converted to electricity) and a small collection of other metal items, various, £100-150
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A mid-19th Century English cast iron door stop modelled as an eagle and snake, with registration mark for 1846 and incised number 15, 14ins high £80-120
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A Butcher's 7ft polished steel two-tier wall rack hung with numerous meat hooks, cleaver, butcher's saw and steel, and one other 6ft 6ins two-tier wall rack £300-500
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A Butcher's 9ft 6ins polished steel four-tier wall rack of shaped outline, hung with meat hooks, a beam scales, meat cleaver, meat lifting hook, straw boater, etc. £300-500
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A pair of early 20th Century wrought iron andirons of 16th Century form, 21.75ins high, and a wrought iron stand on tripod base, 25.5ins high (possibly 18th Century) £100-150
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A Victorian copper helmet pattern coal scuttle, 17ins high, and a copper and brass scoop £70-100
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A late Georgian copper fender with pierced front, 54ins wide x 14.5ins deep x 6.25ins high, a Victorian copper rivetted bucket with brass swing handle, 13.25ins diameter x 12.5ins high, a pair of elm bellows, and a small quantity of brass and steel fire implements £120-160
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Joseph Durham (1814-1877) - A rare suite of five brown patinated bronze figures of cricketers (from "British Sports Series") - "Waiting his Innings", depicting the reclining figure of Basil Edwin Lawrence (1853-1928) of Trinity College Cambridge, the seated figure holding a cricket bat, on oval rustic pattern base, 10ins x 5.25ins x 8.5ins high, signed and dated 1863, "Batsman", a standing figure holding a cricket bat, on circular base, 5.75ins diameter x 15ins high, "Bowler", a standing figure about to bowl, on circular base with cap at his feet, 5.75ins diameter x 15.75ins high, "Preparing to Catch", on circular base, 5.75ins diameter x 16.25ins high, signed on base, and "Preparing to Throw", on circular base, 5ins diameter x 15.25ins high, signed on base Note: Exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition 1864, Nos. 963, 953, 955, 961 and 964 - See Williams, Marcus and Phillips Gordon - The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia, page 172, for a similar complete set, previously in the Pilkington Collection and now in Lords Cricket Museum. "Waiting his Innings" is clearly based on the life sized reclining figure of Basil Edwin Lawrence, which is now situated in the main entrance of the City of London School. Joseph Durham is probably more famously known for his gilded bronze sculpture of Prince Albert, forming the memorial outside the Royal Albert Hall. He was one of only twelve British sculptures to exhibit at the Great Exhibition of 1851 £10000-15000
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Winifred Romaine-Walker (fl. 1922-1947) - Dark brown patinated bronze figure - "The Workman", 13.5ins high, signed and dated 1929, on ebonised wood stand
Provenance: Royal Academy (date unknown) and Paris Salon 1933 - Collection Bourlet. Printed and written paper labels to interior of stand for this provenance. Note: Included with this lot is a bound folder of photographs, pencil and watercolour sketches and designs undertaken by the artist. £800-1200
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19th Century Continental school - A pair of brown patinated bronze figures of a hurdy-gurdy player and a fortune teller, 13.5ins and 13ins high £400-600
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Bernard Sindall (1924/25-1998) - Bronzed resin figure - "Mother swinging Child" (apparently from 1980 edition), 25ins high, on rectangular hardwood base, a Bronze figure - Young woman lying on her front, 7.75ins high x 25.5ins, and one other Bronze figure - Rider on horseback, 9.95ins high, on pink veined marble base
Provenance: Vendor was a personal friend of Bernard Sindall £400-600
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Anna Carrier (19th Century) - Pair of bronze figures of musicians, on turned wood ebonised bases, 21.5ins and 20ins high, each signed £200-300
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19th Century French school - Brown patinated bronze figure of a young man wearing doublet and hose, on square base, 14.5ins high, with foundry stamp £150-200
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20th Century Continental school - Bronze figure of the Emperor Napoleon riding a horse, on polished green marble base, 18ins high (indistinctly signed) £200-300
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Late 19th/early 20th Century Continental school - bronze two-handled urn of Egyptian inspiration, the body moulded with cobras (uraeus) and vulture wings of the goddess Nekhbet, the handles modelled as elephant heads, on marble base, 8.25ins high £120-160
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A pair of 19th Century French ormolu pillar candlesticks with leaf sconces, each supported by a Cupid astride a dolphin, on Rococo pattern bases with scroll feet, 12ins high £400-600
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A pair of 19th Century French gilt bronze, porcelain and glass candlesticks with glass drops, the porcelain base painted with cherubs within chisel gilt cartouches on a blue ground, 13.25ins high, and an ormolu and porcelain desk inkstand with two inkwells similarly decorated, 8ins wide x 4.75ins high £200-250
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20th Century French school - Brown patinated bronze figure of two Pekinese on pink veined polished marble base, signed "Susse Fondeur Paris", 6.25ins high £180-250
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After Jules Moigniez (1835-1894) - A pair of modern brown patinated bronze figures of stags on rocky outcrops, on polished oval marble bases, signed, 29.5ins high £200-300
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Late 19th/early 20th Century French school - Brown patinated bronze figure of a seated Irish Wolfhound, 13.25ins high (apparently unsigned) on pink veined marble rectangular base with moulded sides, 13ins x 9.75ins x 17ins high overall £400-600
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After Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890) - Bronze figure - Rearing horse with handler, 22ins high £300-500
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After Guillaume Coustou (1677-1746) - A pair of late 19th Century French gilt bronze figures of Mali horses, 19.5ins high £450-600
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A George III coloured silk and gouache oval picture of three classical maidens being serenaded by Cupid, 14ins x 17.5ins, in gold and gilt frame, the inner frame with applied gilt classical female busts to all four corners £150-200
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A late 18th/early 19th Century English silk picture, worked in colours with a lady filling a jug from a stream, oval 12ins x 9.5ins, and a Chinese painted silk picture of pheasants in a landscape, 7.75ins x 12.5ins, both in gilt frames and verre eglomise glazing £100-150
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A 20th Century English altar frontal worked in coloured silks and gold wire with vases of flowers, flowering stems and birds, on a fine linen ground, 31ins x 50ins £80-120
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Three mid 20th Century silk scarves by Liberty of London, two by Jacqmar, another by Pierre Cardin and one unnamed £100-150
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A 19th Century Indian Kashmiri shawl, 75ins x 77ins £200-300
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A lady's short fur coat, lined, 33ins long, and a fur gilet retailed by Meteo, 23ins long, size 8/10 £150-200
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A small collection of 19th/20th Century fans, including - a painted leaf in colours with a Neo Classical scene of a naked child riding on the back of a goat, with decorated mother-of-pearl sticks, 8.5ins, a small example printed in colours with bull fighters parading into the area, with wooden sticks, 4.75ins, a painted leaf in white and grey of flowers, with engraved bone sticks, 9.75ins, and twenty-four others, various £80-120
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A middle Bronze Age median winged and stopped palstave, 6ins
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £120-160
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An early Bronze Age dagger, 5.75ins, a late Bronze Age socketed spearhead, 6ins, a Bronze Age sickle, 5.125ins, two bronze bracelets, an iron arrowhead and an iron pin
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £150-200
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A Roman bronze figure of Herakles with the Nemean lion skin draped over his left arm, his raised right arm holding a club (1st/2nd Century AD), 4.5ins high
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £300-500
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A small collection of work stone tools, including - Neolithic axe with polished cutting edge, 5.5ins, flint two-edged blade, 6.5ins, polished miniature jade stone axe (possibly Mayan), 1.5ins, and eleven others, various
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £200-300
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A small collection of work stone tools, including - a polished Hawaiian Ko'i (adze), 7.75ins, a Neolithic flint adze, 5.5ins, a flint leaf-shaped blade, 3.75ins, and fourteen others, various
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £150-200
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A collection of Greek, Roman and Islamic pottery oil lamps, including - circa 3rd Century Greek with raised vine pattern and white slip on grey body, 3.5ins and Romano-Egypto, circa 3rd/4th Century AD with a raised pattern of a frog, with white slip on a red body, 3.5ins, and eight others, various
Provenance: From a collection formed in the mid-20th Century by the vendor's late Grandfather £100-150
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