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Remaining categories not covered elsewhere on this website:

Samplers and Tapestry,
Scent Bottles,
Scientific Instruments,
Silver,
Sporting - Fishing/Hunting/Golfing,
Taxidermy,
Tea Caddies, boxes, etc.,
Textiles - Soft Goods, Clothing, etc,
Tools,
Treen,
Tribal Art,
Vestas,
Walking canes, sticks, umbrellas, etc

159 A cased Dallmeyer film projector, a portable Kodak projector, a screen on stand, a canvas-cased Canovision camera with accessories, a Fujica cased camera kit with flash lenses, etc; and four other miscellaneous cameras. (A lot) - : £20-30 (Scientific Instruments)

884 A cased Vickers stereo microscope. - : £30-40 (Scientific Instruments)

1040 A set of brass, marble and oak Avery shop scales. (20.5in) - : £60-80 (Scientific Instruments)

34 A cased alter cross with hallmarked silver inset; and a boxed silver plated communion set. (2) - : £30-40 (Silver)

98 A Keswick Industrial Art School hammered silver plated bowl. (5.25in) - This circular bowl has a ten side scalloped rim embossed in the centre with an English rose and has a general hammered formation. The interior is slightly rubbed. It is silver plated and marked KIA with KESWICK Y545. Apart from general scratching to the silver plate it is in good condition. : £60-80 (Silver)

112 A hallmarked silver vase, trophy cup and toastrack; and a Victorian silver mounted walking stick. (4) - : £30-40 (Silver)

204 Six silver hallmarked spoons; and a hallmarked silver mustard pot. (7) - : £20-30 (Silver)

273 A rectangular Victorian silver purse; a hallmarked silver vesta; and a silver mother-of-pearl handled pen knife. (3) - The case is 4in long and looks as if it has been later converted to the interior as a purse. It could have been a cigarette case or a card case. It is well engraved with foliate scrolling with circular vacant cartouche to one side. The corners are set with bands of gilt metal and is in very good condition. Makers name is GS*FS. The vesta has a striking groove to the base and is similarly engraved. The maker looks to be RB. The pen knife is Sheffield S8 and is in perfect condition. : £40-60 (Silver)

309 A gentlemans dressing set; a Victorian mother of pearl handled ladies set; a silver plated penknife; and a cased 1937 spoon. (4) (A lot) - : £20-30 (Silver)

345 A hallmarked silver sugar caster. (7.5in) - This octagonal sugar sifter has a pierced lid with turned finial. It has minor denting and is clearly hallmarked Birmingham 1910 with makers name of VB&Co. A good, quite large sifter. : £80-120 (Silver)

375 An early nineteenth century good clean little silver snuff box. (2.5in) - This little box has channelled sides with piano hinged lid, which is engraved with foliate decoration, base has rectangular similar engraved floral decoration. It opens to reveal a silver gilt interior which is has a makers name S&S, clearly hallmarked Birmingham, condition wise has minor dents generally, the base is coming away from the body very slightly at the back. : £80-120 (Silver)

398 A Victorian silver plated four piece tea/coffee service; a large gadrooned tray; an oval tray; and a shell entree dish. (7) - This four piece silver plated set has acanthus scrolled handles with bodies decorated with scrolled cartouches. They are rectangular and rounded, the oval bodies having hinged lids to the coffee pot and tea pot. They are by R & B with good silver plate marks and impressed numbers. The tray is 18.5in long with gadrooned rim and foliate scrolled decoration. There is another oval tray with a pierced gallery and gadrooned rim decorated with swags. The entree dish has a scrolled handle with bud, fern and leaf decoration. : £30-40 (Silver)

583 Miscellaneous silver and silver plate. (A lot) - The Victorian cruet set is of very good quality with foliate engraving to bulbous tray with fruit and scrolling to rim supported on scrolled volutes. It has a central oval handle and is 12in high. Looks as if it is by MH &Co. There is damage to some of the glass bottles, and one looks as if it doesn’t match. Also in the lot is a cut glass sugar caster with hallmarked silver mounts. The top has a turned finial - London 1972. It is 6in high. There is also a hallmarked silver posy vase decorated with Celtic designs Birmingham hallmarked raised on socle. It is 6in high. There is a cased set of EPNS coffee bean spoons. : £50-80 (Silver)

639 A pair of nineteenth century silver-plated candlesticks; and a set of nineteenth century steel bladed knives and forks. (A lot) - The oval candlesticks are 12in high and are fairly rubbed with the copper coming through. They have ribbed decoration to the shafts, with urn shaped candle holders above dish bases. They are weighted with signs of solder repair. They have baize linings and are certainly nineteenth century examples. The silver-plated flatware has marks to the blades and the handles could be filled silver? but they don’t appear to be hallmarked. They are heavily scroll decorated and some are loose on the handles. It is a set of twelve, and the plating on some of the blades is showing rust. : £30-40 (Silver)

780 An oak cased canteen of silver plated cutlery. (A lot) - This was purchased from Arthur Price of England and consists of 50 pieces in an oak box made to commemorate the Queens Jubilee. It cost over £1200 from Arthur Price at todays prices. Complete with guarantee, certificates, etc. : £80-120 (Silver)

958 A Victorian Sheffield plated cruet set with hallmarked silver mounts. (10.5in) - This Victorian set appears to be on an unmarked base, although it could be silver? It has a central column with scrolled handle around seven circular rings to hold bottles on a scalloped stand with seven scrolled hoof type feet. The supports and column have wing nuts underneath, with a wood inner platform. Four of the glass bottles are matching, of hexagonal panelled form, cut with oval facets and having star bases. They are hallmarked silver mounted - rubbed marks. The three other pieces appear to be additions, but are contemporary with the piece. The silver mounts on two of them are quite dented. One of the five bottles has a crack to the rim. A pretty set. : £80-120 (Silver)

978 A quantity of silver plated school trophies/plaques, etc. (A lot) - : £30-40 (Silver)

87 An Auchterlonie lead weighted hickory shafted driver. - This has a brass head with a weighted back, marked Auchterlonie in gilt to the top of the head and leatherbound grip. : £40-60 (Sporting - Fishing/Hunting)

1037 A large fibreglass Fieldtrek 13ft kayak. - : £40-60 (Sporting - Fishing/Hunting)

329 A taxidermy case of perch. (26in x 24.25in x 10in) - This taxidermy case has five perch mounted naturalistically with logs, reeds, etc, on a pebble strewn ground. It is in good clean condition with no apparent taxidermist’s label. The case is plywood so we would suggest it is twentieth century. The perch are all in good condition, not moth-eaten. There is a blue background, and the glass is all intact. A nice cased set, with red fins to the fish. : £200-300 (Taxidermy)

219 A domed shagreen box with brass & Wedgwood mounts. (8.75in x 4.5in x 6.5in) - A shagreen box of domed form, having brass mounts and bone borders, the lid mounted with blue Wedgwood plaque, the interior with cranked hinges. (8.75in x 4.5in x 6.5in) cving brass mounts and bone borders, the lid mounted with blue Wedgwood plaque, the interior with cranked hinges. (8.75in x 4.5in x 6.5in) This is a very fine quality box but obviously from Aspreys or something as has no age. The interior looks very clean with brass mounts on cranked hinges. It has no apparent makers name. The condition is suberb and it came from a quality house that we cleared. There are no damage repairs or restorations. The top circular Wedgwood style panel is grubby but that is all. A lovely clean box. : £300-500 (Tea Caddies, boxes, etc.)

428 An 1877 Victorian carved coal desk tidy. (12.25in x 8.75in x 9in) - supported on porcelain knob feet, the piece naively carved with saltire style cross panels with titles “A box for pens”, “A ink pot”, “A box for envelopes”, and “A drawer for note paper”, the apron with panel reading “G M Coal 1877”. (12.25in x 8.75in x 9in) A Victorian carved coal desk tidy of architectural form, naively carved with two lidded compartments flanking a circular inkwell with pen rest behind, having drawer below This piece of naive folk art came from a vendor in Scotland, and we presume that G M Cole 1877 refers to some mine although we haven’t fully researched this. The whole piece is naively carved, almost with a pen knife with diamond panels, crosses and saltaires, there are old repairs here and there but generally the piece is intact, the platform is one piece of coal as is the drawer. The drawer knob looks as if it may have been later? The compartment to the right of the inkwell has a crack to the back of the side wall and the lid has a diagonal repair rather badly done across one corner. The right hand lid is titled “A box for pens”. The left hand box has a loose side which hasn’t been glued. The top is intact although the finial handle dated 1877 looks as if it has been reglued to the top. This left hand compartment is titled “A box for envelopes”. The circular inkwell has the original stopper and is titled “A ink pot”. The pen rest behind the ink pot is detached from the stand and has two grooves cut in it for pens. The white porcelain feet could be later although they do exhibit wear. A most unusual genuine piece from 1877. : £800-1200 (Tea Caddies, boxes, etc.)

65 An Afgan upholstered cushion bag. (19in x 22in) - : £30-40 (Textiles - Soft Goods, Samplers, Clothing)

82 A cased mother-of-pearl hand-painted fan. - This fan is in an American box with fine pierced mother-of-pearl sticks. It is hand-painted and inlaid. It is distressed. : £30-40 (Textiles - Soft Goods, Samplers, Clothing)

205 A cardboard cased silk top hat by Carse. - : £20-30 (Textiles - Soft Goods, Samplers, Clothing)

467 Miscellaneous saws and other tools. (A lot) - This lot consists of several bow saws and several oak framed early saws, and axe, a chopper, a ruler by Maun Industries Ltd, etc. : £20-30 (Tools)