antiques & fine art sale

A pair of Regency style grey marble and gilt metal mounted table lamps, 20th century, the vase shaped body with gilt metal mounts and serpent handles on a plain column with gilt metal mounts in turn above the square base supported upon lion paw and foliate feet, overall height 42 cm.

Sold for £260

A George V RAF officers dress sword, with part fullered and etched blade with pierced brass guard, simulated shagreen wire bound grip and eagle head pommel all within a leather and brass scabbard, the blade 86.5 cm.

Sold for £220

A pair of Palladio gilt metal seven branch wall lights, 20th century, each branch with a patinated petal moulded sconce, issuing from the base of a relief moulded pilaster, 94.5 cm high.

Sold for £350

A white metal figure of a Royal Canadian Horse Artillery bugler, 20th century, standing in full dress uniform with two bugles, mounted on a shaped wooden plinth. Figure height 23.8 cm, overall height 31.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £30

After Giambologna, a bronze figure of Mercury, holding a Caduceus standing upon the breath of a Nimbus, on a circular base stamped Nell, Roma, 55.8 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £280

An Ashanti stool. Width 63 cm.

Sold for £100

A Heuer Monte Carlo dashboard stopwatch, with composition case, with Tritium dial. Diameter 60 mm (see illustration).

Sold for £320

A vintage Citizen quartz chrono alarm-chime wristwatch, with stainless steel case. Width 35 mm.

Sold for £70

An Art Nouveau style brass telescopic standard lamp, with adjustable column, sinuous leaf form supports, circular base and short lily form feet. Height 151 cm excluding light fitting.

Sold for £70

An Edwardian brass jardiniere, of oval Neoclassical form, with brass bale side handles and metal liner, on a mahogany stand with short square tapered legs and spade feet. Width +/- 50 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £140

A Dutch 17th century style repousse brass framed wall mirror, early 20th century. Height 59 cm.

Sold for £48

A Victorian solitaire board, with 32 Victorian and later marbles, all with pontil marks. Board diameter 18.5 cm.

Sold for £160

A collection of 40 Victorian and later marbles. Largest diameter +/- 48 mm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

A 19th century horn quizzing glass, closing on a single pivot, the glass, 5 cm diameter.

Sold for £20

A Nazi Labour Day "Tag der Arbeit" pin badge, by P. Erich Bruckmann, Menden i.w., a lighter in the form of a bullet, a silver metal and enamel badge with initials "WRMW", six 19th century livery buttons decorated with a swan by Pitt & Co., 50 St. Martins Lane, London, and a 15th North Auckland Regiment Great War cap badge.

Sold for £28

A French Art Nouveau patinated bronze and mother of pearl letter opener, circa 1900. the handle formed as a medallion with a cast profile bust of a lady depictive of the elements, one facing a flaming volcano the other exhaling air with a dove in the background, all supported on an Art Nouveau stylised iris and leaf stem in tones of green and reddy brown, with mother of pearl blade, the metalwork with co-joined monogram "HB". Length 16.4 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £50

Assorted velum documents and indentures, Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, dates include 1549, 1576, a Charles II inventory of Randollph Holsby Esquire of Kingsley, Cheshire, dated 1688, an indenture dated 1697 with wax seals and others, a bundle of Victorian typed scripts of 17th century Commonwealth love letters and a large folded genealogy of the Family of Le Roter or Rutter, of Kingsley in Cheshire.

Sold for £380

A Mont Blanc Meisterstuck fountain pen, No 149, the body and cap decorated with gold plated bands, the nib No. 4810, 14c Mont Blanc 585, complete with box, service guide and Mont Blanc ink (see illustration).

Sold for £240

A 19th century Derbyshire fluorspar Blue John vase, one piece, with ground pontil mark to base. Height 14.5 cm, diameter 11 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £320

An aesthetic style square jardinere, late 19th century, embossed with panels to include a kingfisher, a leaping fish, a fruiting apple tree and a fruiting peach tree, with ring handles and supported on ball feet, 18 cm wide, 20.5 cm high.

Sold for £60

A pair of Keswick School of Industrial Art copper spill vases, circa 1900, with central embossed foliate band between beaded borders, struck KSIA to the underside, 12.4 cm high.

Sold for £45

A pair of Edwardian gilt brass photograph frames, one bearing label for Sheffield Goldsmith's Co. Ltd., Watchmakers to The Admiralty, both glazed, the outer frame enclosing a needlework panel, with oval centre aperture and easel back. Height including ribbon 28.5 cm, width 19 cm, aperture 11.6 cm x 8.8 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

A small leather case containing Masonic regalia. Case width 45 cm.

Sold for £30

A late 19th century Treen nut cracker, with carved gorilla to the top. Height 19.5 cm.

Sold for £48

An oak chessboard, with tooled leather playing surface, and a turned wooden chess set. Board width 54 cm.

Sold for £400

An early 19th century flintlock sporting gun by Ketland & Co., the barrel with original browning and with integral ramrod and metal mounted butt. Length 135 cm, barrel length 94.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £800

A Victorian violin, with well figured back, back length 14.25", cased and with unmarked bow.

Sold for £380

Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912 French), "Spring", bronze, signed to base "Moreau. Math". Height 64 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £1500

A Victorian walnut cased Britannia table top upright polyphon, with 19 9" discs. 54 cm x 42.5 cm x 25 cm.

Sold for £380

A brass embossed slope front log or coal receiver, decorated to the lid with a tavern scene. Width 44 cm.

Sold for £20

A German carved wooden owl form clock, the eyes indicating the time, height 19 cm, and a wooden bracket (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Four handpainted lead soldiers, French cast as standard bearers, each raised on a wooden plinth, height 15 cm, and a gilt metal figure of a knight with pendant (see illustration).

Sold for £50

A Parker 51 pen set, and other vintage pens, Conway Stewart, Platignum, etc.

Sold for £220

A metal match holder in the form of a shoeshine boy, and a Meerschaum pipe bowl only, cased.

Sold for £28

A paper knife, in the form of a sabre, complete with scabbard. Length 24.5 cm.

Sold for £50

A 19th century brass mounted horn beaker, "Quarter Mile Second Prize", and three 1/2 pint pewter tankards.

Sold for £20

Five pocket compasses. Largest diameter 58 mm.

Sold for £45

Two antique rosewood flutes. Longest 40 cm.

Sold for £35

A pair of bronze bear head bookends by Maitland Smith, naturalistically modelled and each raised on a marble base. Height 20 cm, depth 21 cm.

Sold for £180

A Victorian copper saucepan with lid, a set of brass bell weights, herb cutter and further weights.

Sold for £20

A collection of First World War cigarette cards, cigarette packets and The Great War magazine.

Sold for £100

Six metal figures on horseback, The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan and two knights in armour, all Limited Editions. Tallest +/- 19 cm.

Sold for £100

Twenty Seven vintage fountain pens, to include Parker Duo-Fold, Conway Stewart and others (see illustration).

Sold for £580

A massive cylindrical metal and glass hall lantern, with egg and dart moulded base. Diameter +/- 58 cm, height 128 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £300

A pair of Georgian brass candlesticks, with screw off bases with re-entrant corners. Height 18 cm.

Sold for £48

A pair of enamel and tinplate bus stop signs. 42.5 cm x 27 cm.

Sold for £70

An Edwardian mahogany oval card tray, inlaid to the centre with a shell. Width 29 cm.

Sold for £20

A set of steel fire irons and pair of fire dogs. Dog height 33 cm.

Sold for £38

Two Abrahams photographs, Napes Needle and The Matterhorn. Largest 42 cm x 57 cm.

Sold for £135

A bottle of Taylors Vintage Port 1963, selected and bottled by Grants of St James Limited, level just above bottom of neck but above the shoulder.

Sold for £95

An Inuit carved serpentine model of a standing bird, early to mid 20th century, its head turned to the left, its wings outstretched, this may also be displayed in flying pose. Height 20 cm, width 21.5 cm.

Sold for £3200

A Technische Nothilfe-TeNo standard bearers gorget, circa 1930's, with makers plaque verso for P. Meybauer, Berlin SW19, with suspension chain, 12 cm diameter (see illustration).

Sold for £1600

A French blue velvet and bronze mounted scent bottle box, circa 1870/80, the interior has two opalescent and bronze mounted scent bottles each with printed images to the lids, 17 cm wide, 10.5 cm high, 9.5 cm deep.

Sold for £55

A collection of drawings, sketches and doodles by a young boy during World War Two, including pencil portraits of Stalin, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, Sir Anthony Eden, etc.

Sold for £50

A pair of cut glass gilt metal mounted twin branch candelabra, 19th century, with carved petal sconces above a petal shape drip pan with lustre drops flanking a cut glass shell upon a gilt metal stepped floral stem, the cut glass base with faceted bulbous body upon a circular foot, height 44 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £190

A Mabie, Todd & Co No. 6 gilt metal dip pen, 19th century, with ebonised tip and engraved gilt metal body with retractable nib, 13.5 cm long.

Sold for £40

After Benevenuto Cellini, a carved alabaster figure of Perseus with the head of Medusa, 19th century, height 79 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £1600

A pair of gilt metal eleven branch candelabra, 19th century, cast as a bouquet of flowers within a twin handled vase with pendant drops upon a raised base with scrolling feet, height 79 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £650

After the Antique, a marble composition bust of Ajax, 20th century on circular plinth, height 72 cm.

Sold for £200

A Victorian carved oak Treen bobbin stand, with fretwork and pierced ends supporting brass bars, all above a short drawer with moulded glass handles and tapering feet. Width 21 cm, height 23.5 cm, depth 15 cm.

Sold for £42

Militaria-Victory and war medal awarded to 1519 Pte. A. Mc George. K.O.S.B. (Kings Own Scottish Borderers), a cap badge of the same, a WWI Royal Scots Fusiliers Regiment cap badge, two silver ARP badges, a Second World War Victory medal and 39-49 star.

Sold for £90

The W.A. Pullam World Champ weight lifter silver gilt medal, with inscription verso "presented by instructor W.A. Pullam to J.G. Wilson who practised with success my system of physical training May 1919", the silver Fattorini & Sons Birmingham 1918. Footnote: Horatio William Albert Pullam (1887-1960) was a weight lifting champion, instructor and author. As a young teenager he spent nearly three years in hospital with a variety of ailments to include tuberculosis and meningitis, undergoing many operations. After encountering a strong man performance upon leaving hospital he went on to reside with a family of professional strong men and at age 19 he founded the Lothian club in Camberwell which is renowned as a first school of physical culture and hence became the famous Camberwell weight lifting club. Over his career he had over 200 weight lifting records and nearly 200 official World and British weight lifting records and a winner of over 50 gold medals. A highlight of his career was coaching the 1948 British Olympic weight lifting team.

Sold for £20

A large four handled terracotta storage crock, late 19th century, the exterior with part glazed and white trailed banded decoration, with a glazed interior, a hand impression to the interior base, 41 cm diameter, 45 cm high.

Sold for £18

A large military issue turn screw by W.H. Clay Sheffield, the handle inset with leather strips, the blade with partial name stamp and further impressed Sheffield 194* with military broad arrow, 70 cm long.

Sold for £25

A Casella rain gauge, 20th century, having a cylindrical copper body with brass mount and applied label for Casella London, with two Casella glass pouring gauges, 42 cm high, 13.5 cm diameter, the glass gauges 25 cm high.

Sold for £35

A brass locomotive steam whistle, 19th century, with valve and operating lever and a Claytons of Nottingham pressure gauge. Bell diameter +/- 7.5 cm, overall length 32 cm, dial gauge 14 cm.

Sold for £95

An Arts & Crafts copper coal receiver, circa 1900, of cylindrical form, with two ring handles beneath a copper band and with embossed eagle decoration, with original liner and all supported on four ball feet. Height 44 cm, diameter 39 cm.

Sold for £150

An ecclesiastic brass baptismal ewer, circa 1900, the lid with cross finial, the body with engraved cross and petal band, all on a circular foot. Height 41 cm.

Sold for £55

A 19th century oak and brass bound oval bucket, with bale handle and coopered brass body, with brass liner. Height 30.5 cm excluding handle.

Sold for £85

A Victorian brass coal receiver, the embossed lid with bellflower and swag decoration, with integral scoop with turned wood handle, with fixed handle with cast brass foliate terminals and all supported on a raised circular foot. Height excluding handle 35.5 cm.

Sold for £150

A pair of Regency Toleware style table lamps, 20th century, with tapering sides decorated with gilt lyres, ribbons, vases and musical instruments, all against a marbled red ground, raised on four gilt lion paw feet in turn above a square base with running leaf decoration. Height excluding shade 40.5 cm, with shade 76 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

A pair of carved wood table lamps, each with beaded neck above a bulbous body with relief carved foliate decoration, all on a shaped square base. Height excluding shade 46 cm, with shade 78 cm.

Sold for £130

A pair of Regency Toleware style table lamps, 20th century, of square tapering form, with gilt geometric cell pattern against a mottled red/black ground, raised on four gilt lion paw feet in turn above a square base. Height excluding shade, 41 cm, with shade 81 cm.

Sold for £260

A pair of brass standard lamps, 20th century, with tulip shaped sconces on a plain column in turn above a knopped base on a square foot with canted corners. Height excluding light fitting 121 cm.

Sold for £30

A large rocking horse, dapple grey, with leather saddle and reins and all on a pine frame. Height +/- 122 cm, length +/- 148 cm.

Sold for £360

A Windsor loose leaf album for the stamps of Great Britain, 9th edition, to include 56 penny reds, 10 half penny reds, a Block album containing loose stamps and booklets of stamps and two smaller albums.

Sold for £380

A town plan of Keswick, dated 1852, Shewing (sic) the present state of the drainage, lighting, water supply... Footnote: this map was produced for the Company Robert Rawlinson's report to the general board of health on the town of Keswick and notes that number 10 is owned by Edward Barron, is two private dwelling houses with one pump and one privy; the privy is common to both tenements, folded in quarters, mounted and framed, 70 cm x 42 cm.

Sold for £100

A copper and brass kettle designed by Dr Christopher Dresser, circa 1885, manufactured by Benham & Froud, with a stained wood handle and turned knop, height 24 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £120

A pair of cold painted book ends, modelled as Dante and Beatrice, 20th century with cast marks verso for the Pompeian Bronze Co, height 18 cm and 17.5 cm respectively.

Sold for £85

A Masonic brass mounted clock, late 19th century, the silver dial mounted within the letter G, mounted within a compass and square, height 19 cm, width 21 cm.

Sold for £180

A George III shagreen cased draughtsman's set, of rectangular tapering form and housing brass and steel instruments, 14.5 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £90

A Keswick School of Industrial Art copper bowl, early 20th century, with lightly planished decoration and with presentation inscription "In remembrance Feb 23.1930.MA", struck KSIA, Keswick, Z52, diameter 19.5 cm, 10.3 cm high.

Sold for £30

A Keswick School of Industrial Art copper chamber stick, early 20th century, the sconce with handwork textured band upon a dished base, struck to the underside KSIA, diameter 9 cm, and a KSIA attributed small copper dish with embossed decoration of a ship on scrolling waves, unmarked, 10 cm diameter.

Sold for £28

A miniature brass sextant desk ornament, late 20th century, with silvered gauge and inscribed Ross London, all within a fitted box with brass mounts, 11.5 cm.

Sold for £40

A pair of Arts and Crafts copper and brass candlesticks, circa 1885/90, after a design by Dr Christopher Dresser, with brass sconces and petal shaped copper drip trays upon brass knop stems with bobbin turned ebonised handles, all upon a copper domed base, probably by Benham & Froud but unmarked, height 18.7 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £140

An Arts and Crafts three branch candelabra, attributed to Dr Christopher Dresser, circa 1885/90, the copper petal shaped drip trays with embossed roundels all upon brass scrolling arms, an inverted tapering stem and domed copper and brass foot, probably by Benham & Froud but unmarked, height 22 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £70

A brass and leather bound harbour telescope on wood stand, late 20th century, 42 cm long.

Sold for £50

A late 18th century French captains commission for the Gendarmerie Nationale, dated 1791, signed to the centre in ink "Louis" and with further hand inscribed ink inscriptions to the lower section, glazed and framed 31 cm x 39 cm.

Sold for £25

A Franz Bergman cold painted bronze figure, late 19th century, modelled as a medieval style lady holding aloft a goblet, initialled verso KS, with B in vase cast mark to the underside, 7.7 cm high.

Sold for £80

A Scottish charcoal flat iron, 19th century with turned wood handle, 17.5 cm long, 14 cm high.

Sold for £420

Taxidermy - Peter Spicer, Leamington Spa, an 11 point red stag head and neck mount on oak shield, with part trade label verso "Peter Spicer", circa 1910. Shield length +/- 60 cm, protruding from wall 60 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £420

A French train guards whistle, 20th century, of flattened trumpet form, struck S.N.C.F. upon a plated chain with S.N.C.F. button, whistle 12 cm and a traditional shaped guards whistle, suspension chain and S.N.C.F. button.

Sold for £42

Workington Town Interest - A collection of black and white photographic cards and postcards, to include Workington sports 1912-Benyon Worlds Champion cycle race, the base of the fallen chimney Moss Bay 1913, the Pump House at Moss Bay, Bankfield Nurses, Workington Motor Fire Engine inspection and the Royal party viewing the Bessemer, Moss Bay, two photographs depicting early aviation inscribed later verso Lonsdale Park Workington, and others of local interest (see illustration).

Sold for £75

West Cumberland ephemera, 19th and early 20th century, comprising a West Cumberland Iron and Steel Co Limited share certificate dated 1872, a Whitehaven Race Stand Company Limited share certificate, plan of the town and harbour of Workington with two vignettes of the hall, taken from an actual survey 1793 and a quantity of grocers labels to include Peter Leech and Son of Whitehaven, golden syrup, white pepper, sweet almonds, silicate of soda, finest black treacle and own brand fresh salmon steak.

Sold for £30

A handmade cast iron and brass single furrow plough, late 19th/early 20th century, mounted upon a wooden base and with applied label "Made by Thomas Longcake, Kirkby Street, Maryport", circa 1910, a private advert in the West Cumberland Times dated 18th October 1884 notes "Blacksmith-Wanted, a good country Blacksmith: must be a good horse shoer. Apply to Thomas Longcake, Kirkby Street Maryport. 59.5 cm long (see illustration).

Sold for £95

The centre boss of a White Bedford Daimler Gnome aeroplane propeller, early 20th century, fitted to the centre with a barometer retailed by Chadburn's Limited, Castle Street Liverpool, struck "White Bedford, number 49480HP Daimler Gnome" and on the underside "RH AD 5988 Avro 179 D2650 P1950", 57 cm wide.

Sold for £95

A Robert "Mouseman" Thompson of Kilburn carved oak table lamp, the hexagonal column terminating on a square base with leaf decoration, height excluding shade 26 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

A set of miniature ebony and ivory dominoes, 19th century, all contained in a box with domino top. Width 8.3 cm.

Sold for £95

A pair of oak and brass bound book trays, circa 1900, with pierced handles, green baize to the underside. Interior width 70 cm, depth 22.8 cm, exterior width 75,5 cm, depth 28 cm, height 11.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £80

A pair of oak and brass bound book trays, circa 1900, with pierced handles, one with the remnants of a beige lining to the underside. Interior width 70 cm, interior depth 22.8 cm, exterior width 75 cm, exterior depth 28, height 11.5 cm.

Sold for £75