antiques & fine art sale

A Russian lacquered papier mache cigarette box, early 20th century, the lid decorated with a seated gent writing in a book before a forest background, a cylindrical Russian lacquered box depicting an archer and reclining Queen having shot a swan, a small trinket box and a further oval papier mache Vesta box depicting figures seated eating. Widest 18 cm.

Sold for £220

A good carved softwood and silver mounted snuffbox, the silver mount by Aston & Son, Birmingham 1857, and with engraved decoration, the hand finely carved. 11 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £1000

A 19th century bronze figure group of three playful putti, modelled as two putti holding aloft their companion, on an oval base in turn on a black polished marble plinth. Height 21 cm, width 15 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

A good Stobwasser papier mache snuffbox, the lid depicting a young lady titled to the underside "Le Neglige", the interior base with printed marks "Stobwasser Sibe Fabrik Meyer & Wriedin Braunschweig". 9 cm x 6.2 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £140

A pair of 19th century gilt and patinated bronze candelabra, modelled with a seated putto holding a French horn on a green marble base with applied griffin applique all on a square base. Height 29 (see illustration).

Sold for £240

An early 19th century documentary knitting stick, with boxwood strung glazed windows inscribed in ink "Mary Havelock, Forget-me-not, John Burn, Loath & Liberty, January 31st 1938", inlaid with love heart and lozenge. Length 16.7 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £180

A 19th century brass pail, with incised banded decoration, and a small brass preserve pan. Pail height 23.5 cm, pan diameter 17 cm.

Sold for £35

A late 19th century brass adjustable table lamp, with plain column with knopped base on circular foot. Height excluding shade 44 cm.

Sold for £30

A Chinese porcelain table lamp, 20th century, square form, depicting young boys amongst rockwork, bamboo, pine and prunus, on a wood stand. Height excluding shade 43 cm.

Sold for £60

A Chinese blue and white table lamp, 20th century, decorated with precious objects beneath a peach and cell border. Height excluding shade 35 cm.

Sold for £42

A Gurkha Kukri knife, in leather scabbard, with polished steel tip. Overall 45 cm.

Sold for £38

Alexander Proudfoot (1878-1957), The Faun, patinated bronze figure, signed to the base, and mounted on a green marble plinth. Overall height 25 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £350

Alexander Proudfoot (1878-1957), "The Faun", patinated bronze, signed in the bronze. 21.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £350

A rare pair of interior painted glass salts, 19th century, depicting a fashionable gentleman and lady. 7.5 cm x 6.5 cm.

Sold for £85

A quantity of geological rock specimens, to include Skiddaw granite, Skiddaw slate, Basalt, Greke new red sandstone, rhyolite, porphyrite, andesite, green tuff and others. These specimens correspond with numbers 1-51 of Mr Bridge's rock specimens notebook excluding items 24, 25 and 26 the Jurassic fossils.

Sold for £35

A quantity of geological rock specimen samples, to include bycott lava, micro granite, diorite, Borrowdale graphite, haematite, smithsonite, calcite, dolomite etc. These specimens correspond with numbers 179-201 of Mr Bridge's rock specimens notebook.

Sold for £10

A quantity of geological rock specimen samples, to include kidney ore, gypsum, barytes, galena, and barytocalcite, gabbro, sphalarite, cockscomb barytes, quartz, native copper and others. These specimens correspond with numbers 202-246 of Mr Bridges rock specimens notebook.

Sold for £65

A quantity of kidney ore mineral specimen samples, various sizes.

Sold for £10

A quantity of geological specimen samples, to include a polished slab of Madagascar rhodonite, various sizes.

Sold for £10

A quantity of geological rock specimen samples, to include molten and polished examples, various shapes and sizes.

Sold for £30

A quantity of fossils, to include wood, ammonites, ferns, a fish, sea urchin and shells.

Sold for £80

A quantity of assorted minerals and agate slices comprising bismet/krupka, smithsonite, wolfzanite quartz, bismut, tenantite, tetraedrit, malachite etc.

Sold for £85

A full size violin, late 19th century, with purfling front and verso, with pronounced scroll, the button with ebony banding, 59 cm overall, and a full size bow stamped J Guarini.

Sold for £1100

An Italian full size violin, with label for Bennettini, via S Giovanni alla Conca, 45 Milano, inscribed 1889, with purfling front and verso, the tailpiece with applied embossed brass lyre and with two piece back, 60 cm overall, and a full length bow, unmarked, frog inlaid with mother of pearl and within a fitted case.

Sold for £620

An English full size violin, early 20th century, with interior label "The Maidstone, Murdoch Murdoch and Co, London. E.C." with ebony finger board and tuning pegs, purfling front and verso and with two piece back and with unmarked bow.

Sold for £30

A French full size violin, with interior label for Francois Barzoni, manufacture speciale de la Maison, Beare & Fils a Londres dated 1929, having an ebony finger board, with purfling front and verso, the button stamped FB, having a well figured two piece back, 59 cm overall, together with an indistinctly stamped bow (see illustration).

Sold for £380

A German full size violin, 19th century, with carved lion head scroll with ivorine tuning pegs, with two piece back, 59.5 cm overall, and a German bow stamped Homa, Drgm 870255, in fitted case.

Sold for £100

A full size violin, 19th/20th century, the finger board and tailpiece with mother of pearl decoration, with double purfling front and verso, the two piece back with decorative mother of pearl inlaid decoration, unmarked, 59.5 cm overall, together with an unmarked bow.

Sold for £65

An English full size violin, with applied interior label for Clifford A Hoing, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 1949 and inscribed G51, with well figured one piece back, 59.5 cm overall (see illustration).

Sold for £1200

A German violin with interior label for Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1721, with two piece back, 59.5 cm overall.

Sold for £160

A French violin, 19th/20th century, with interior label for Michel-Ange Garini, with one piece back, and another full size violin with one piece back, 60 cm and 59 cm overall respectively.

Sold for £120

A full size violin, early 20th century, having a figured two piece back, well figured sides, 59 cm together with an unmarked 73 cm bow.

Sold for £40

A full size violin, 20th century, with ebony finger board, and figured two piece back, 59 cm overall, together with a 72.5 cm unmarked bow.

Sold for £100

A Continental full size violin, circa 1900, with applied interior label for "Model Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis, Faciebat Anno 1721" with well figured one piece back, 59 cm overall, together with a 74 cm unmarked bow.

Sold for £130

A full size violin, 20th century, with figured two piece back, 59 cm overall, together with an unmarked 74.5 cm bow, all within a fitted case with simulated reptile skin cover.

Sold for £160

An English full size violin, with interior printed and ink inscribed label for Thomas Earle Hesketh, Manchester Fecit 1904, with initials within a circle, an ink inscribed label "copy of a Joseph Guarnerius owned by Adolf Brodsky", with well figured two piece back, 58.5 cm overall, together with a 74.7 cm bow, unmarked but mounted in nickel and mother of pearl, all within a fitted case (see illustration).

Sold for £2600

A Continental full size violin, 19th century, with ebony finger board, with purfling front and verso and with one piece back, 58.5 cm overall, within a fitted faux reptile skin covered case with plush green velvet interior.

Sold for £50

A French full size Mirecourt violin, circa 1880, with fine purfling front and verso, with well figured two piece back and figured sides, 59 cm overall, together with a 74.5 cm silver coloured metal mounted bow stamped Cuniot Hury, Mirecourt, all within a modern fitted (see illustration).

Sold for £1000

A Continental full size violin, bearing label for "Nicola Amati Fecit Cremona Sub Titulo Santa Teresia", and inscribed in ink 1720, with one piece back, 59 cm overall, within a Rushworth and Dreaper black canvas bound case and a further aesthetic violin case decorated in a Japanesque pattern with fans and leaves.

Sold for £20

A 7/8 size violin, with interior label "Nachahung von Giovan Paolo Maggini Brescia 16", with double purfling front verso, with well figured two piece back, with ivorine tuning pegs, 55 cm overall, together with a 62.8 cm unnamed bow, all within a fitted case.

Sold for £75

A Continental half size violin, 19th / early 20th century, with interior label "Nicholaus Amartus Fecit in Cremona 16", having a well figured two piece back, 51.5 cm overall, together with a 61.5 cm bow, all within a plush lined modern case.

Sold for £50

A 3/4 size violin, 20th century, with two piece back, 55 cm overall, together with a 67.5 cm unmarked bow.

Sold for £20

A 1/4 size Stentor Student violin, with interior label for the Stentor Student, Stentor Music Co Limited Engand, together with a 58 cm bow, all within a Stentor fitted case.

Sold for £45

A Chinese 1/8 size violin, together with a 48.5 cm Korean bow, all within a Chinese hard shell case.

Sold for £20

A Cello, 19th century, with purfling front and verso, with two piece back, the body 74 cm (excluding button), 121 cm overall, with soft bag carry case.

Sold for £260

A 19th century Wheeldon's type stained and turned wood adjustable music stand, with adjustable height and rest.

Sold for £45

Violin miscellanea to include finger boards, shoulder and chin rests, a large quantity of strings, tuning pegs, bridge, tail pieces etc.

Sold for £100

A Lachenal and Co. thirty three key concertina, with trade mark stamped handle, pierced rosewood end plates, bone buttons and leather straps, all within an original Lachenal & Co. mahogany box with plush lined interior, the concertina 16 cm wide (see illustration).

Sold for £280

A Lachenal & Co. patent concertina, 19th century, with 31 bone buttons and pierced rosewood ends, the handle stamped Trade, English Make, Steel Reeds, 16 cm wide, housed within an ebonised pine contemporary case with paper lining (see illustration).

Sold for £300

The Gremlin, 20th century, thirty one button concertina, with pierced fretwork ends and leather straps, within a hard shell carry case.

Sold for £160

A Kimbara classical guitar, with label "Kimbara specially made in Japan for FCN-London, model No. N106", with ebonised edges and printed decoration with faux mother of pearl tuning pegs.

Sold for £22

Eight full size violin bows, one stamped Bausch, a Japanese example, the others unmarked.

Sold for £22

Four professional violin bows, one indistinctly stamped Bausch, others unmarked, 71.5 cm - 74.5 cm.

Sold for £28

A full size professional violin bow stamped Dodd, with nickel mounts and inlaid abalone shell, 74 cm long, housed within a modern fitted bow case (see illustration).

Sold for £220

A boxed set of thirteen piano tuning forks, early 20th century, in original case.

Sold for £25

A Parian bust of Beethoven, late 19th century, numbered 330 to the reverse, 23 cm high.

Sold for £50

A Bechstein grand piano, the frame numbered 43520, the ebonised case supported on turned legs with metal castors, circa 1887-93. Width 157.5 cm, height 100 cm, length +/- 246 cm.

Sold for £200

A Victorian mahogany combined jewellery and silver casket, the top opening to a plush lined interior with three lift out trays and with brass carrying handle to either side, width 47 cm.

Sold for £48

A 19th century oak table box, rectangular form with plinth base, width 34.5 cm together with a 19th century table top miniature cupboard, with carrying handle to either side, width 28.5 cm.

Sold for £40

A 19th century candle box, with centre carrying handle and aperture to either side, width 38 cm.

Sold for £65

A gilt framed overmantle mirror, the top of serpentine outline, width 182 cm, height 92 cm.

Sold for £100

A late 17th century carved oak bible box, with original hasp and open interior. Width 68 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £130

A Victorian mahogany cased single fusee wall clock, by Harvey of Camberwell, with octagonal case. Width 38 cm.

Sold for £100

A 19th century rosewood inlaid mother of pearl single fusee wall clock. Width 44 cm.

Sold for £100

A 19th century mahogany toilet mirror, rectangular, with turned and lobed columns and inverted breakfront base raised on short bun feet. Width 62 cm.

Sold for £48

A Robert Mouseman Thompson of Kilburn stool, dark oak, with latticework leather top and bearing the typical mouse trademark. Width 34 cm, depth 26.5 cm, height 38 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £350

A Robert Mouseman Thompson of Kilburn octagonal wall clock, with quartz movement. Width 18.5 cm, height 20 cm.

Sold for £200

A Victorian mahogany miniature chest of drawers, with rear upstand, two short and three long drawers with ivory handles. Width 37.5 cm.

Sold for £100

A 19th century brass cased library clock, with mercury weighted pendulum and visible brocot escapement. Height 37 cm, width 26 cm.

Sold for £300

A George III style mahogany toilet mirror, oval and with walnut veneered frame to the bevelled glass, width 42 cm.

Sold for £95

A Regency mahogany single fusee bracket clock, with pineapple finial, the dial marked Cole London, the case raised on four brass ball feet, width 24 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £400

A late Victorian/Edwardian rosewood miniature longcase clock, with aneroid barometer and mercury thermometer, with single train movement, height 48 cm, width 40.5 cm.

Sold for £220

A pair of composition gilt framed mirrors, with rococo style mouldings and bevelled mirror glass, width 37.5 cm, height 62 cm.

Sold for £150

A George III inlaid mahogany tea caddy, circa 1790, with two interior caskets with sliding tops and aperture for a bowl. Width 25.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

A George III mahogany casket, with brass carrying handle to lid, brass lock escutcheon and all raised on ogee bracket feet. Width 26.5 cm.

Sold for £55

An early 19th century chinoiserie lacquered tea caddy, pumpkin shape, with lead interior canister and raised on bracket feet. Diameter +/- 19 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

A Victorian burr walnut games casket, of bag form with single door and brass carrying handle. Width 25 cm.

Sold for £80

A 19th century rosewood sarcophagus tea caddy, with mother of pearl and white metal stringing, the interior with two caddies and central mixing bowl, 35 cm wide.

Sold for £90

A 19th century gilt framed mirror, decorated with moulded flowers and scrolls and all within a rosewood glazed outer frame, 35 cm x 30 cm.

Sold for £30

A large 19th century polished copper jug, with inverted baluster body upon a raised circular foot, height 58.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £75

An Edwardian mahogany and inlaid lancet top mantle clock, the silvered dial with eight day movement flanked by brass columns, chiming on a gong and supported upon four brass ball feet, height 29.5 cm.

Sold for £30

A quillwork square top pedestal, 19th century, the parquetry top bordered with ebony and quill work borders, width 23 cm, height 30.5 cm.

Sold for £70

A Bank of Liverpool Limited oak strongbox, with iron carrying handles, the top bearing plaque "Bank of Liverpool Limited, No. 5". Width 43 cm.

Sold for £55

A pair of Victorian and later coal receivers, with embossed brass hinges with brass handles, each with matching shovel, 24 cm wide, 40 cm deep.

Sold for £60

A 19th century walnut veneered Vienna style regulator wall clock, having an enamel dial with 8 day movement, the columns and mouldings heightened with gilding. Height 84 cm, width 34 cm.

Sold for £60

A George III mahogany apothecary chest, with brass carrying handle, with two fitted doors revealing pigeonholes and further drawers, all above a deep base drawer, the reverse with sliding section revealing four baize lined pigeonholes. Width closed 30 cm, height 64 cm, depth closed 20 cm.

Sold for £190

Two Victorian stools, each with a tapestry top, one with foliate and knurl legs the other with turned legs, 35 cm and 33 cm wide respectively.

Sold for £55

An Edwardian mahogany and inlaid tobacco chest, inlaid with fan decoration to the top and doors opening to reveal three drawers and a stoneware tobacco pot, 32 cm wide, 27 cm high, 21 cm deep.

Sold for £95

A French miniature armoire, 19th century, having a stepped pediment with foliate decoration above a carved foliate and berry frieze, the doors similar with brass escutcheons and hinges and all supported upon short scrolling feet. The interior fitted for shelves with a single drawer to the base. Width 49.5 cm, depth 25.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £280

A dome top table box, 20th century, in the Italian style having an acorn finial with cast leaves above the concave octagonal body with printed floral decoration, on ball feet. Height 39 cm.

Sold for £50

An Edwardian oak smokers tabletop cabinet, with hinged lid revealing pipe apertures and a sliding tray above two short drawers, with glazed doors. 31 cm wide, 29.3 cm high, 19 cm deep.

Sold for £30

Parkinson & Frodsham, London, a late 19th century "Buhl" case with gilt metal mounts, the enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals inscribed Examined by Parkinson & Frodsham, 15 Royal Exchange, the eight day movement striking on a bell with sun king pendulum, on matching platform and under a glass dome with later ebonised stand. 44 cm overall (see illustration).

Sold for £550

A brass skeleton clock, the dial inscribed Cockburn, Richmond, 192, with single fusee movement, on a turned mahogany base with short bun feet on a further ebonised base. Overall height excluding separate base 27 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

A Victorian single weight Vienna wall clock, with eagle surmount and turned and fluted pilasters, the dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial.

Sold for £75

An Edwardian carriage clock, the dial inscribed for Mappin & Webb Limited, Paris. Height excluding handle 12 cm.

Sold for £75

An Arts & Crafts brass mantle clock, late 19th/early 20th century, the dial with Arabic numerals and eight day movement chiming on a gong and with a bevelled glass lozenge, all on a rectangular raised foot. Height 33 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £300

An Edwardian mahogany planter, with boxwood stringing and transfer printed decoration, the octagonal body upon a stepped base. Diameter 25.5 cm, height 26 cm.

Sold for £25

A 19th century single fusee mahogany cased wall clock, the enamel dial with Roman numerals, the dial 29 cm diameter.

Sold for £85

A George III style mahogany fretwork wall mirror, with applied moulding to the head. Width 44 cm.

Sold for £50

An Edwardian inlaid mahogany tantalus stand, with drawer fitted for cribbage, width 36 cm.

Sold for £180