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An interesting collection of postcards, early 20th century, comprising two albums and other loose examples, mainly monochrome and colour European topography, including a set of 12 humorous French First World War cards depicting the German infantry as toads, together with others by Mabel Lucie Attwell, F.T. Daws, and others (Q)
A carved wooden Black Forest standing bear, early 20th century, the top lifting to reveal inkwells
A Victorian rosewood cased games compendium, 19th Century, containing chess, draughts, cards, etc.; together with a 20th century Chinese carved chess set and board(2)
A carved wooden Balinese figure of a female nude, mid-20th century, modelled as a semi-nude native woman, signed and stamped to the base 'Keradjinan - Bali Nr. 238', 59cm high
A cased violin, bearing inner label reading 'Antonius Stradivarius Cremonesis Faciebat Anno 17??'; together with two bows, one stamped TOURTE (3)
*** WITHDRAWN *** A carved tribal mahogany panel, 20th century, depicting a sea god with attendants, 29cm high x 99.5cm wide *** WITHDRAWN ***
A Chinese porcelain famille verte pedestal bowl, 18th/19th century, decorated on the border with scrolling flowering branches, 28cm diameter
A small Chinese porcelain famille rose jardiniere on stand, late 19th/early 20th Century, possibly Qing Dynasty, Guangxu period, enamelled with flora and fauna on a yellow ground, red six character mark to the base, 11cm high, top: 13.5cm x 9cm
Lino Sabattini (b. 1925) for Rosenthal, a modern movement 'Tasca Tuca' freeform two section porcelain vase, 20th Century, modelled as a human torso, applied to both sides with a silver avant garde rim, printed factory marks, signed to the base, 21cm high
Kunisada, also known as Toyokuni III (Japanese 1786-1865), Late Edo period, mid-19th Century, woodblock triptych entitled 'Taisha Enmusubi no zu' (The great shrine of matchmaking), depicting a parody scene of Japanese gods and goddesses gathering to register for the matchmaking agency. Together with another triptych by Kunisada/Toyokuni III, showing kabuki actor in their roles, framed and glazed, 52.5cm high x 87cm wide (2)
A pair of French Grand Tour bronze footed shell comports, 19th Century, on dolphin bases, 13cm high (2)
Two pairs of coloured engravings after Bartolozzi, 19th Century, in oval gilt frames (4)
19th Century British School, a pair of pencil drawings of Malmesbury House, Salisbury (Home of John Cardele), indistinctly signed (2)
A wooden cased Mah Jong set, early 20th century
A collection of Halcyon Days trinket boxes, 20th Century; together with three similar boxes (15)
A pastel and wash picture, mid-19th century, depicting a cherub holding a flaming torch confronted by a tiger, 38 x 49 cm
A brooch and a ring, the brooch of elongated form decorated with light blue enamel, the ring centrally featuring a rectangular plaque decorate with light green, blue and white enamel, between folate shoulders, ring size L½ (2)
A large collection of cameos and mounts, Including five lava cameos, nine shell cameos, a 19th century (empty) mount and three other base-metal brooch mounts (25)
A collection of jewellery, including five rings, set with cultured pearls or half-pearl clusters, a cultured pearl and emerald necklace, three pairs of gem-set earrings, a garnet bracelet, and four brooches set with cultured pearls, nine with UK hall marks for 9ct gold (14)
A pair of oval giltwood mirrors, 19th Century, with elaborate scrolling decoration, 107 x 75cm
A gilt wood oval framed mirror, 19th Century, with a ribboned pediment
A Chinese silk embroidered panel, 19th Century, 52 x 21cm, glazed and framed
A gilt stumpwork panel on silk, 18th/19th century, 69 x 29cm, mounted, glazed and framed
A French alabaster mantel timepiece, late 19th Century, with swinging cherub pendulum, the case applied with faux malachite bosses, on an ebonised stand, 23cm high
A pair of hand coloured engravings, 19th Century, Paris and London Fashions, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, for 1853/54, 32.5 x 58cm, mounted, framed and glazed (2)
A pair of alabaster 'Lion and Unicorn' bookends, late 20th Century, designed by John Spencer Churchill for the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth the second and re-issued to celebrate the quarter centenary in 1978, supplied in their original packing and sleeve (2)
Two large brown enamelled railway signs, early 20th Century, titled 'Way Out & Enquiries' and 'Gentlemen', 46 x 92cm (2)
A bronze and ormolu electrolier, late 19th Century, in Regency style, the scrolling arms with eight branches, fitted for electricity, 94cm high
An boxwood and stained ebony chess set, early 20th Century, of tapering form, complete in original box, the tallest piece 7cm high
A selection of five various burr walnut photograph frames, 20th Century, by David Linley, London, of plain design, all inlaid on the border, the largest 34.5 x 29.5cm (5)
A pair of large burr walnut photograph frames, 20th Century, by David Linley, London, of neoclassical design with arch tops, 41 x 29cm; together with another smaller example, 31 x 21cm (3)
A pair of large brown leather bound photograph frames, 20th Century by David Linley, London, with classic arch top decoration, 42 x 29.5cm; together with another two ebony photograph frames by David Linley (4)
A Gothic Revival style panel of British tiles, mid-20th Century, decorated with symmetrical motifs depicting harvest and grapes, glazed in green, brown, yellow and blue, later framed, 133 x 32cm
A French St Louis cut glass perfume atomiser, early 20th century, with gilt band decoration, acid-etched mark
A collection of eight stickpins, including one with an enameled falcon, one set with an imitation pearl, seed pearl and demantoid garnet cluster, one with an opal-set insect, one set with a pink tourmaline, one with a turquoise-set parrot, one set wi th a blister pearl, and two with paste clusters (8)
(De la Mare) Ramal (Walter) Songs of Childhood, FIRST EDITION, signed and inscribed by the author "Walter de la Mare, for Elbridge Adams with his best wishes [...] I had a secret laughter,/ I laughed it near the wall:/ Only the ivy & the wind/ May tell of it at all, February 1929" on flyleaf, bookplates, half title, sepia frontispiece by Richard Doyle, tissue guard, original quarter vellum, blue cloth with gilt publisher's device, t.e.g. with some soiling, darkening to spine, preserved in blue morocco slipcase and blue folder with bookplates, 8vo, Longmans, Green 1902; The Three Mulla-Mulgars, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bookplate, half title, colour frontispiece and a further colour plate by J.R. Monsell, original green cloth, endpapers slightly browned, dust jacket with some wear, one closed tear to top margin and one small spot of internal tape repair, 8vo, Duckworth, 1910; with typed letter signed by the author loosely inserted (2)
Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems and other Verses, FIRST EDITION, 31 illustrations (13 full-page) by Hardy, tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, in original pre some sunning, gilt edges, some rubbing 8vo, Harper, 1898.
Thatcher (Margaret) The Path to Power, The Downing Street Years, Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, all signed by Thatcher on title page, dust jackets, 8vo, housed in hand-made box with gilt title, London, Harp er Collins, 1993-2002. (3)
Abercrombie (Lascelles) The Sale of Saint Thomas, NUMBER 150 OF 480 COPIES, signed by the author, also signed by Walter de la Mare on limitation page, original cloth, spine faded, 4to, Martin Secker, 1930; Masefield (John) The Taking of Helen, NUM BER 489 OF 780 COPIES, signed by the author, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, scattered soiling, yellowing, 4to, William Heinemann, 1923 (2)
Ashendene Press.- The Minor Poems of Edmund Spenser, ONE OF 200 COPIES, printed in red, blue and black, bookplate, original calf-backed vellum, spine with seven raised bands, gilt, uncut, rubbing to joints and splitting to upper parts, prospectus lo osely laid in, slipcase, folio, 1925.
Bodoni.- Rochefoucauld (François, Duc de la) Maximes et Réflexions Morales, half title, 8 leaves of index, some spotting throughout, light marginal dampstaining at end, contemporary green morocco, gilt and blindstamped, covers with elaborate design of concentric borders, central panel with red and brown morocco onlays in corners, spine gilt with lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, spine and covers rubbed and scuffed, head of spine damaged, 4to, Parma, Bodoni, 1812.
Corvinus Press.- Findlay (Richard) Honour, NUMBER 32 OF 70 COPIES, signed by the author, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly hand soiled, bookplate, 1936; Verlaine (Paul) Fetes Galantes, NUMBER 19 OF 30 COPIES on papier Go ldflake, original half blue calf, gilt, spine slightly faded, bookplate, 1944, 8vo (2)