home & garden sale - lorton street

A late Victorian portrait miniature on ivory, of a person in ornate pearl jewelled headdress and oriental style clothing, initialled to the side MS and marked to rear - A study by Miss Mary Slee 54 Lowther Street Carlisle No 2. 6.5 x 5.5 cm in a copper frame. NOTE: This item has been assigned an ivory exemption certificate YNPS73ZM (see illustration).

Sold for £95

A pair of late 19th/early 20th century oak wall brackets, with carved wooden angel decorations. Height +/- 20 cm, width 31 cm, depth 19 cm.

Sold for £45

A Victorian silver plated Corinthian column oil lamp, with clear glass reservoir and cranberry shade. Height excluding chimney 78 cm.

Sold for £130

Robert Morden map of Cumberland, sold by Abel Swale Awnfham & John Churchill, hand coloured. 37 x 42 cm, framed.

Sold for £28

Three Carlisle stoneware flagons, to include Joe Todd Druggist Carlisle, Carlisle Old Brewery Sir Richard Hodgson & Co Ltd Carlisle and Steel & Tulley Wine and Spirit Merchants Carlisle, made by Kennedy Barrowfield Pottery Glasgow. Smallest height 26 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £25

Two stoneware flagons, Gates Stores 33 King Street Wigton and Isaac Beckton Abbey (probably Abbeytown) 33 cm and 30 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £50

A Georgian cast iron boot scraper. Height 18 cm, width 44 cm, depth 31 cm.

Sold for £42

A set of Whitcombe Deluxe model Gradidge golf clubs and two woods, marked driver 1 and spoon 3, in a canvas and leather golf bag.

Sold for £10

Twelve 19th century clay pipes. Longest +/- 37 cm

Sold for £60

A pair of Arts & Crafts brass candlesticks, set with moss agate cabochon. Height 17 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £20

A First World War period German artillery officers sword, with curved single edged fullered blade. Blade length 82 cm with cast brass decorated stirrup hilt with cross cannon motif. This bladed product is not for sale to people under the age of 18. By bidding on this item you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over. Please note that if you require P&P for this lot, this can only be done using an age verified method.

Sold for £130

A collection of corkscrews, to include a model by Monopol, plus nutcrackers, grape shears, bottle stoppers etc in a Carr & Co Ltd of Carlisle Biscuit Manufacturers tin.

Sold for £35

Four Georgian and later snuff boxes, papier mache and horn.

Sold for £42

Six Victorian servants bells, on steel springs with brass bells. Measure 8.5 cm at bell end

Sold for £400

A collection of eight jewellery dressing table and stationery boxes, a lapis lazuli box raised on circular hardstone feet. Height 4.5 cm, width 7 cm, depth 4.5 cm and other oriental and Art Deco boxes.

Sold for £85

A set of Smith sovereign scales, a set of pocket scales, three piece Hampden pewter preserve pot, teak barrel marked HMS Ganges built Bombay 1821 broken up at Plymouth 1930 etc.

Sold for £32

A quantity of police memorabilia, to include a pair of handcuffs stamped Wrought Warranted and Abbey Quarter (presumably Abbeytown), two Metropolitan Special Constabulary badges, a wooden truncheon, a police cloak marked internally C & W 1946 (presumably Cumberland and Westmorland) a police helmet and a medal "For Faithful Service in the Special Constabulary" awarded to Sergeant Roderick L Rigby.

Sold for £60

A collection of badges, medals etc, a Tullie House Carlisle opened 26th October 1893 commemorative medal in a J A Wheatley of Carlisle box together with a silver hallmarked and enamel badge for God and The Empire (6).

Sold for £65

A First World War medal group, and death penny for William Ashton Rigby, the medals stamped WA Rigby Middlesex Regiment PS-757, the latter two medals marked Sergeant (see illustration).

Sold for £140

A collection of medals from the first and Second world War, First World War medal awarded to Captain S Gamble Border Regiment 2067 with a Border Cumberland & Westmorland Regiment badge, together with a selection of Second World War medals to include Africa Star, Italy Star, 1939/45 Star etc.

Sold for £60

Two autograph albums, Wilfred Pickles, Goodwood racing car drivers 1951, West Indian cricketers etc.

Sold for £20

Two early Victorian silhouettes, the first of John Beckton with label to rear "Died 1910 aged 60", and another marked Mary Bulman of Abbeytown, both 18 x 12 cm in wooden frames.

Sold for £130

The Works of Shakespeare in fourteen volumes, published by Gresham Publishing Company London 1907.

Sold for £50

The Works of Samuel Johnson, in twelve volumes with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy, published in London by T Longman 1796.

Sold for £75

Portraits of Eminent Conservatives and Statesmen, Ryall's Portraits first series and second series circa 1840 and "Life and Times of Palmerston" in two volumes by J Ewing Ritchie, published by The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited circa 1860 with steel engravings and "Political Caricatures 1905" by F Carruthers Gould, published by Edward Arnold London 1905.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Breeches Bible, printed by Christopher Barker 1599, together with Victorian Illustrated family bible, circa 1864 by Reverend John Brown, published by Fullarton (see illustration).

Sold for £620

History of Cumberland in two volumes, edited by James Wilson 1905, Kelly's Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland 1894 and Bulmers History and Directory of Cumberland 1901.

Sold for £80

A collection of antique gardening books, "Gardeners Assistant" by Robert Thompson in two volumes, published by Gresham 1904, four volumes of "Familiar Garden Flowers" by F Edward Hulme 1885 and "Half Hours With a Naturalist" by Reverend JG Wood 1889.

Sold for £25

Five volumes of Cumberland and Westmorland interest, "History of Westmorland" by Richard Ferguson 1905, "History of Cumberland" by Richard Ferguson 1898, "Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland" by Daniel Scott 1899, "History of Westmorland" by Richard Ferguson 1905 and "History Directory and Gazetteer of The Lake District" by WM Parson and WM White 1829 (see illustration).

Sold for £120

Eight volumes of "Round Carlisle Cross" by James Walter Brown, published by Thurnam Carlisle, "Older Carlisle" by Mary Slee 1923 and "An Authentic Account of the Occupation of Carlisle in 1745 by Prince Charles Edward Stuart" by George Mounsey 1846.

Sold for £22

"The History of Don Quixote" by Cervantes published Cassell, Petter and Galpin London, hard cover undated circa 1890, large thick quarto 737 pages, illustrated by Gustav Dore, "The Odyssey of Homer 1823" and "The Iliad of Homer 1821".

Sold for £80

A collection of seven Scottish related books, "Scotland" by William Beatty illustrated by Thomas Allom, undated circa 1840/50, "The Border Country" by E Bogg 1898, "Douglas and The Douglas Family" by C C Riach 1927, "Angling and Art in Scotland" by Ernest E Briggs 1908", "History of Scotland" by Sir Walter Scott 1855, "The Beauties of The Borders" by W Scott 1821" and "Scenes on Solway" by John F Marriner 1834.

Sold for £50

Five music related books, "A Book of Old Ballads" by Beverley Nichols, illustrated by HM Brock 1934, "Songs With Music" by RL Stevenson, illustrated by Margaret Tarrant undated, "Anderson's Cumberland Ballads 1866", Anderson's Cumberland Ballads and Songs" edited by T Ellwood 1904 and "Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and The Lake Country" first series by Sidney Gilpin 1874.

Sold for £30

Eight antiquarian history books, "The Franco Prussian War" by Captain HM Hozier volume II, "History of Napoleon compiled from the most reliable authorities French and English" illustrated by Horace Vernet and dated circa 1850, "Commentaries of The Law of England" by Sir William Blackstone (two volumes) 1787, "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Lady Brassey 1903, "The Life of Nelson by Southey" circa 1905, "The Trial of Queen Caroline" published in Whitehaven by James Steel circa 1820 and "The History of The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain Part 2" undated.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Four assorted books, "A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture" illustrated by 53 plates by Sir William Chambers London 1825, "The Royal Collection of Pictures in the Gallery at Buckingham Palace" photographed by Caldesi, Blanford & Co 1860, "Girls Own Annual 1895" and "Cumbrian Regional Report 1932"

Estimated: £70 - £100

"A Register of Records of Holme Cultram" by Francis Grainger 1929, and six handwritten journals containing rentals received for Holme Cultram Estate, farms individual properties and fishing etc, circa 1800 and an expenditure book circa 1840/50 together with handwritten journal of minutes 1860's onwards.

Sold for £40

A full Victorian photograph album with clasp, a late Victorian photographic album of people and properties many with annotations, Castle Carrock, Maryport, Eden Croft, Wetherall Church, Crosby Lodge, Scaleby Moss etc. and an album of family mostly with annotated notes circa 1920's.

Sold for £60

A large collection of badges, mostly military, regimental cap badges, lapel badges, sweetheart brooch etc and enamelled for home and country, RAF Comforts Committee, Civil Defence, Royal Artillery, Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit 22 etc.

Sold for £60

A collection of commemorative coins and medallions, stamped Georgian coins with numbers and letters 1811 one penny token Bristol and South Wales, Ewanrigg Colliery Mining token AW Hilary Esq etc (see illustration).

Sold for £70

A collection of vintage bank notes and farewell set of decimal coins, two £20 notes, two £10 pound notes and six £5 notes all with GM Gill Chief Cashier, a later £5 also with GM Gill, two £1 notes with Paige chief Cashier and six £1 notes with Somerset Cashier.

Sold for £80

A collection of inkwells, vintage pens and nibs, Caesar platinum, Parker and National Security etc.

Sold for £50

Four pairs of children's clogs, late 19th century and early 20th century, +/- 9" long, 7", 5 1/2" and 5 1/4".

Sold for £95

A collection of Georgian and Victorian silver coins, (generally in poor condition), Georgian crown, florin and shillings, Victorian florins.

Sold for £50

Five American silver coins, 1858 half dollar seated Liberty, 1872 half dollar, 1907 quarter dollar and 1862 and 1889 dime.

Sold for £55

The Premier Miners Lamp, with brass and steel construction and with lozenge The Premier Lamp & Engineering Company Ltd Leeds. Height excluding handle 24.5 cm, base diameter 9.5 cm.

Sold for £50

A collection of military cap badges etc, including The Border Regiment, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, East Yorkshire, The West Riding etc. some mounted on a girl guides "Be Prepared" belt.

Sold for £30

A 20th century globe, raised on a brass and mahogany stand. Height +/- 62 cm.

Sold for £120

A pair of cast iron horses head finials. Height 46 cm, nose to mane 30 cm.

Estimated: £150 - £200

A pair of gilt metal and marble candelabra, each topped centrally with a crane and with Corinthian column central section raised on hairy hoofed feet raised on a triform marble base. Overall height including bird 81 cm, width 25 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £500 - £800

A pair of ormolu urns, the top with cherub, the central section with cherubs. Overall height 40 cm, base width 12 cm, depth 12 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £420

A Black Forest style carved bear. Height 23 cm.

Estimated: £100 - £150

A champagne ice bucket, with ring handles marked to the exterior Cuvee de Prestige Champagne du Louvois. Height 25 cm, width excluding handles 32 cm, depth 24 cm.

Estimated: £80 - £120

A pair of cast iron boot scrapers, with lyre shaped tops. Height +/- 25 cm, width 31 cm, depth 26 cm.

Sold for £80

A pair of 19th century poker work bellows, of large form. Length 115 cm, maximum width 23 cm.

Sold for £20

A 19th century country house kettle of large form. Height 36 cm, length 39 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A 19th century copper kettle raised on a stand. Height 40 cm, maximum width 32 cm.

Estimated: £60 - £80

A set of four 19th century copper measures. Tallest 2 gallon 31 cm, smallest quart 18 cm.

Estimated: £250 - £300

A Chelsea Series tin "Students Colour Box", together with a mahogany writing slope containing a quantity of oil paints and a rosewood tea caddy.

Sold for £25

A small collection of Georgian and Victorian silver and copper coins.

Sold for £35

An antique portrait miniature on ivory, with gold coloured metal back the frame set with seed pearls. 33 mm x 27 mm. NOTE: This item has been assigned an ivory exemption certificate AQVUF2Q6.

Sold for £85

A large Ordnance Survey Office map of Cumbria, engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton under the direction of Colonel J Cameron, the outline by W Newnan the writing by J Grandison, the hills by G Waller, published by Colonel Sir Henry James RE FRS MRIA etc, Superintendant October 1864. Map 183 cm x 146 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

Two volumes "Annals Of The Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta Volume 8" 1898, "Orchids of The Sikkam-Himalaya" by King and Pantling Parts one, two, three and four.

Sold for £480

A collection of 19th century Avery brass bell weights. 2 x 7 lbs, 2 x 4 lbs, 2 x 2 lbs and 2 x 1 lb. Tallest 13.5 cm.

Sold for £75

A carved soapstone Sampan. Length 18 cm.

Sold for £20

A Royal Mail special stamp sets, in slip sleeves, 1984-2000 (17).

Sold for £80

Twenty seven boxed Beatrix Potter Royal Mint silver proof coins, and Paddington Bear 2018 silver proof 50 pence coin.

Sold for £210

An antique pewter bowl, a copper measure with iron handle and a small pestle and mortar. Largest diameter 20.5 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A cased sextant, Hukin Heath & Company "The Hezzanith Instrument Works" 1968, together with a navigation rule and star identifier.

Sold for £50

A vintage Nuswift brass and copper fire extinguisher, a brass and copper bugle and a small oval brass box. Extinguisher height 38 cm.

Sold for £20

Two volumes "Badminton Library Sea Fishing" by John Bickerdyke 1895 and "Sea Fishing" by C O Minchin.

Estimated: £20 - £30

An early 19th century Memento Mori oval hair pendant with seed pearl in gilt metal frame. Height including hanger 93 mm, width 64 mm.

Estimated: £300 - £400

A 70 cl bottle of Armagnac "Ferte de Partenay" 1937, bottle No. 0737 in wooden case.

Sold for £170

Jill Cowie Sanders, a bronze figure of a seated fisher boy, signed to the rear Jill Sanders 14/25 and with certificate dated 1999. Height 18.5 cm.

Sold for £50

A Victorian copper kettle, a brass kettle, chamber stick holder, various skims, ladle etc.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A cased conductors baton, with silver mount, London 1929 silver maker JJM but no record of the makers actual name.

Sold for £25

Four African metalwork pictures, three measuring 52 cm x 81 cm and another 48 x 36 cm.

Estimated: £80 - £120

A large African wall hanging metal picture, decorated with masks. 191 x 78 cm.

Estimated: £200 - £300

An African 20th century wall hanging, depicting Zulu and other figures, inscribed Fritz Scheffler 1985. 51 x 99 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

A Pip and Squeak children's Annual dated 1923, taken from the Daily Mirror Newspapers.

Estimated: £20 - £30

An antique mahogany cased sextant, by Spencer Browning & Co London.

Estimated: £120 - £180

Alfred Wainwright 1907-1991, six books Welsh Mountain Drawings, Lakeland Mountain Drawings volume II, Fell Wanderer, Walks in Limestone Country, Book One The Eastern Fells, Book Three The Central Fells.

Sold for £20

Two early 20th century snooker cues, the first a Tom Reece with ivory lozenge, Tom Reece from CHW and with ivorine plaque to the opposite side Tom Reece World Record Breaks 499-135 July 1907 6-147 May 1927. Height 140 cm, together with a JP Mannock anti grip cue with mother of pearl lozenge, length 135 cm. NOTE: This item has been assigned an ivory exemption certificate number JZ5H33EL (see illustration).

Sold for £320

A vintage French vineyard or crop sprayer, converted into a lamp. Height excluding bulb +/- 57 cm.

Sold for £55

A display board containing forty four military regimental badges, to include Royal Warwickshire, East Surrey, The Queens Own Hussar, Royal Berkshire etc, frame measuring 57 x 76 cm.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Stamps Great Britain and Channel Islands: Collection contained in two albums and three stock books, George VI with values to £1, later Queen Elizabeth II mint and used to castles £1, Graphite lined issues, through to 1990, and a useful range of Mint and used Guernsey and Jersey 1950's to with values to £1.

Estimated: £150 - £250

Stamps Great Britain USA and New Zealand: Large blue stock book containing a small range of USA early to modern (two pages) and New Zealand (five pages), chalon heads to Queen Elizabeth II, with Mint and used, the bulk of the pages with Great Britain including "Sea Horse", high values to 10/-, page of Imperf and Perf 1d reds, including strips of five, block of four stars and Mint block of plate 168, cancellations including Leith experimental, Edinburgh "Brunswick Stars", surface printed, official stamps, postage dues etc.

Sold for £280

Stamps Great Britain 1915-1918, 2/6d "Seahorses" fine mint corner marginal block of four (SG408) hinged lightly on top, two stamps and margin, originally sold by Bristol Stamp Firm URCH Harris & Co (see illustration).

Estimated: £400 - £600

Stamps Great Britain 1918-1919, 2/6d and 10/-, "Seahorses" Bradbury Wilkinson Prints, two of the 2/6d values (SG414), one unmounted mint and one lightly hinged and 10/- value fine used (SG417).

Sold for £80

Stamps Falkland Islands 1891 to Queen Elizabeth II, useful range of Mint, unmounted Mint and fine used on six large stock book pages, Victorian to 9d values, GV various with fine used 3/- and 5/- (SG66 and 67), later values to £3 and dependencies issues.

Sold for £50

Stamps Commonwealth, a fine collection Mint and used ranges Hong Kong to Zanzibar in green 'Devon' album, Victorian to early Queen Elizabeth II throughout the collection, the Hong Kong with Victorian values of $1, GV to $3, GV1 to $10, Queen Elizabeth II to $50, other countries Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Mauritius, Montserrat, The Rohodesias, Nyasaland, Nigeria, Pitcairn Islands, various Saints Islands including St Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan Da Cuhna, Turks, Virgin Islands, Zanzibar. A nice original clean collection (see illustration).

Sold for £500

Stamps Commonwealth, a large red stock book packed with Mint, unmounted mint and used, Victorian to early Queen Elizabeth II period, many set and high values, various 1948 silver wedding, a nice range covering six pages of Hong Kong with various values to $2, China overprints etc, pages for countries Ascension, Antigua, Barbados, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Caymans, Dominica, Gibraltar, Gambia, Gilbert and Ellice, Grenada, Jamaica, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, New Foundland, Nigeria, Nyasaland, Rhodesia, B.S.A. Pitcairn, The Saints Islands, Seychelles, St Helena, also stamps to high values in envelopes between pages. Viewing recommended (see illustration).

Sold for £480

Stamps Commonwealth, range of Mint and used in large green stock book, Victorian to early Queen Elizabeth II, with India Victorian to 5R, GV to 25R, GVI to 10R and service issues, North Borneo 1894 - values to $5, Sudan to 10 Piastres, British Solomons GV to Queen Elizabeth II values to £1, useful Canada Victoria to early Queen Elizabeth II with high values and official stamps.

Sold for £110

A Broadhurst Clarkson & Co three draw telescope, with sunshade and leather body and covers. Length when closed 25.5 cm, length when open 79 cm.

Sold for £50

A folding fire screen/table, the top with inset Victorian beadwork panel of a young girl with basket. Beadwork panel 51 x 39 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A Leidolf Wetzlar Lordomat Standard 35 mm film camera No 94143, with Lordomat 1:28/50 lens, leather case, hood and instructions (see illustration).

Sold for £70

A boxed Negretti and Zambra thermometer, in original box and a First World War compass dated 1916, in original leather case with strap (see illustration).

Sold for £42

A fishing net with five green glass fishing floats, one marked British Made, three marked Made in England and one unmarked.

Sold for £40

Two 19th century glass bottles, clear glass circular bottle +/- 26 cm diameter, height 40 cm and a green glass oval shaped 19th century bottle pontil mark to base, width 28 cm, height 40 cm.

Sold for £75

A vintage miners safety lamp, with numbers to body makers mark rubbed.

Sold for £50

James Calder & Sons vintage miners lamp, Laidler No. 1 Durham.

Sold for £90