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SIMLA [now SHIMLA], INDIA - J. G. BRYNING (dates unknown, artist).  An album on c.27 leaves of original watercolour studies mainly of Auckland House School, Simla, India, including one captioned, …

THE VINE PRESS, STEYNING - Lilligay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1920. 8vo (96 x 128mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, full-page…

[VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)].  Candide, ou l' Optimisme, Traduit de l' Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph. [?Geneva: no publisher but [?]Gabriel Cramer], 1759. 12mo (139 x 80mm).…

WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946).   The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance. London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. 8vo (185 x 125mm). Half title, title printed in orange and black, 2-pages of publisher's…

WYLD, James (1790-1836), the elder.  A General Atlas, Containing Maps illustrating some important periods in Ancient History and distinct Maps of the Several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World…

PROVENANCE: The Earls of Essex, Cassiobury ParkAcquired by Frederick Poke, circa 1922, possibly from the contents sale of Cassiobury Park or at some point soon after, and thence by descent.LITERATURE…

Parts of this particular urn design are comparable to  features seen in Matthew Boulton’s and James Fothergill’s Pattern Book I, p. 170. See N. Goodison, Ormolu, The Work of Matthew Boulton, London,…

Condition report: The mechanism does work - when the trigger is pulled and the mechanism is pulled back and the tinder box lid is down, the released flint strikes and sparks fly.Otherwise, general…

Provenance: Acquired from Bonhams, London, 4th June 2008, lot 89. Previously owned by descendants of a Naval Attaché to the British Embassy in Singapore in the 1940s. C.A Llewelyn Roberts was the…

Edmund Koltz was a Viennese based sculptor who's work is also associated with  the  prominent entrepreneur and works of art manufacturer, Friedrich Goldscheider, who established his business in…

Provenance:Gifted to the current owner by a friend. The baskets were, by repute, brought back to the United Kingdom after the war by the friend's father as gifts. The baskets were featured on an…

Condition Report:Fire guard - wire appears in good order with no gaps. Brass top bar with patches of wear.Fire grate - Generally in good order with some patches of red discolouration to the front and…

Condition Report:Leather requires cleaning as it has white marks to one side. Leather with wear and discolouration consistent with age. Frame with pitting and knocks/dents as expected through use. 

With twin winding barrels, maintaining power and deadbeat escapement Lacking weights and crank key 83cm wide; 36cm high; 46cm deepCondition reportWith wood-rod pendulum.  In unrestored condition,…

The pierced A-shaped frame with deadbeat escapement41cm wide; 47cm high; 36cm deepCondition reportWith wood-rod pendulum, no weights or crank key.  In unrestored condition.  Steel work corroded. 

With two barrels and deadbeat escapement, signed with painted bronze panel in relief  J. W. BENSON, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON to the left side and CLOCKMAKER TO H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES to the right…

The rectangular case inlaid with engraved cut-brass and mother-of-pearl, with a brass carrying handle above the glazed signed dial (restored) with blued steel moon hands, and flanked to each side by…

The Anglaise Riche style case decorated in a cream ground cloisonné enamel with polychrome floral decoration, five rectangular bevelled glass panels, the signed gilt dial with sweep centre seconds…

In a one-piece-style case, with five large bevelled glass panels, folding handle and push/repeat to the back, the silvered dial with Roman chapters, blued steel hands, detailed JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL…

The case of the highest quality, with folding cast berried handle and push/repeat, above rounded rectangular bevelled panel and with four further arched bevelled panels, each within a guilloche…