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Sale of International Exhibition Memorabilia Tuesday 13 August 2013 12:00 Sale of International Exhibition Memorabilia Tuesday 13 August 2013 12:00 Capes Dunn & Co 38 Charles Street Manchester M1 7DB Capes Dunn & Co (Sale of International Exhibition Memorabilia) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 decoration 'Gardens of Crystal Palace', ANOTHER PRINTED 1803 - LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION - SOUVENIR with flowers and inscribed a 'Present from The Crystal Palace' 'PROSPERITY PURSE' 100 years and a SHALLOW CARDBOARD BOX, printed with crown Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 outside Crystal Palace (3) Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Lot: 2 1839 - FRENCH INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, Hobard, J.B.A.M., Lot: 11 Rapport sur L'Exposition de 1839', Pub 1842, calf and marbled 1851 - A SILK PIN CUSHION printed with a 'View of Crystal boards Palace' and ANOTHER inscribed 'Members of the Great Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Exhibition 1981' (2) Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Lot: 3 1851- THE GREAT EXHIBITION - A 'Lancs Telescopic View of Lot: 12 The Ceremony of Her Majesty Opening' at Crystal Palace 1851 - BOXWOOD BARREL SHAPED AND FABRIC TAPE Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 MEASURE, the turned bone handle with a Stanhope viewer; TWO PAIRS OF MINIATURE BINOCULARS with Stanhope view and ANOTHER BONE ITEM, all with views of The Crystal Palace (4) Lot: 4 Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 1851 - THE GREAT EXHIBITION, A TELESCOPIC VIEWER, 'The Interior of the Crystal Palace in London' titled to the front in four languages Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 13 1851 - A BLACK LACQUERED PAPIER MACHE SPECTACLE CASE, end opening, inscribed 'A Present from The Crystal Palace', manufactured in German', 6 1/4" long and a PEWTER Lot: 5 THIMBLE inscribed 'Exhibition of a Nations' 1851 (2) 1851 - C.T. BROCK AND CO's 'Crystal Palace - Fire Balloon', 6 Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 feet in circumference Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Lot: 14 1851 - TRAVELLING WRITING SET in the form of miniature Lot: 6 umbrella on a tin trunk, the umbrella converting into a dip pen, 1851 - STEVENGRAPH WOVEN SILK PICTURE, 'The Crystal the trunk containing a steel screw top ink bottle, 4 1/2" long, the Palace' with original printed paper backing umbrella, inscribed 'A Present from The Crystal Palace' Made Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 in Germany Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 Lot: 7 1851 - SCHART, GEORGE 'THE POMPEIAN COURT IN THE Lot: 15 CRYSTAL PALACE' Published by Crystal Palace Library and 1851 - A BLACK LACQUERED AND DECORATED AND Bradbury and Evans, London 1854 with folded plates, calf and MOTHER O' PEARL INLAID CIRCULAR PLAQUE, depicting marbled boards and a PRIZE VOLUME OF 'The New figures outside The Crystal Palace, 10 1/2" diameter and a Testament' presented to Jane Chesterfield at the Crystal SIMILAR CAKE DISH, with metal hoop handle (a.f.) (2) Palace, Sydenham, 13th May 1876 (2) Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Lot: 16 Lot: 8 1851 - SHARPS OF REDDITCH FLORAL FABRIC COVERED 1851 - MAUCHLINE WARE SAND TIMER depicting 'Arcades NEEDLE BOX, the whole collapsing to form eight panels, one Crystal Palace' and a MAUCHLINE WARE PARASOL with with a woven silk pictures inscribed 'A Present from The Crystal screw action table clamp (lacks fabric cover) (2) Palace', the others with strap and packets labelled 'Cottons' Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 and having a central needle box over a pin cushion also two cardboard needle boxes, the lids with Baxter style prints of the Crystal Palace and containing ten packets of Mapplebeck and Lot: 9 Lowe's and T. Weston's Victorian needles (3) 1851 - MAUCHLINE STYLE BARREL SHAPED MONEY BOX Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 'Crystal Palace', Sydenham - Made in Germany', MAUCHLINE WARE TRINKET BOX with three views of 'Crystal Palace' and a SIMILAR CYLINDRICAL NEEDLE CASE inscribed 'Made Lot: 17 Abroad' (3) 1851 - AN IVORINE CLAD AND METAL MOUNTED TRINKET Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 BOX, inscribed 'A Present from The Crystal Palace' Made in Germany and a fine linen pictorial panel inscribed 'Crystal Palace - printed in the machinery department', 12 1/2" x 17 Lot: 10 1/2" and a CARDBOARD BOX with printed velvet pin cushion 1851 - A PINE OBLONG MONEY BOX, the lid with printed of seashell surround (3) 1 of 31 Capes Dunn & Co (Sale of International Exhibition Memorabilia) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 Lot: 18 Lot: 26 1851 - E. BYAM'S MOROCCO COVERED 'REGISTERED 1851 - PAIR OF VICTORIAN PLATES WITH DIAPER STATIONERY CASE COMMEMORATIVE OF THE GREAT EMBOSSED BORDERS, the centres with black transfer prints EXHIBITION 1981', lid only, in the form of a model of the entitled 'The Crystal Palace - Exhibition of 1851', ANOTHER Crystal Palace and PINE TRINKET BOX with print decorated DIAPER EMBOSSED PLATE, blue transfer printed and lid 'Exterior from the South' (2) ANOTHER with vine embossed border, 7 1/4" diameter (4) Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 19 Lot: 27 1851 - TORTOISESHELL CLAD SMALL OBLONG TRINKET 1851 - T. GODWIN VICTORIAN POTTERY LARGE TWO- BOX, the hinged lid inset with a reverse decorated glass panel HANDLED LOVING CUP with purple transfer printed depicting The Crystal Palace, 3 1/2" wide decoration titled in the mark 'Crystal Palace', 4 3/4" high; a Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 POTTERY PINT MUG, blue transfer printed and titled 'View of the Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition 1851' and a Crystal Palace SOUVENIR POTTERY TEA CUP inscribed Lot: 20 'Castle Street School' (3) 1851 - A BLACK LACQUERED AND DECORATED SHAPED Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 OVAL HAND SCREEN OR FAN, with mother o'pearl inlay, depicting The Crystal Palace and finely turned wood stick handle Lot: 28 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 1851 - A WHITE PORCELAIN MUG with grey transfer print of the Crystal Palace and titled 'The Great Exhibition Hyde Park 1851', 3 1/2" high and FOUR SIMILAR BUT SMALLER MUGS Lot: 21 (5) 1851 - A VICTORIAN POTTERY LARGE JUG, black transfer Estimate: £35.00 - £45.00 printed with the Crystal Palace, 6 1/2" high and TWO SIMILARLY BLUE TRANSFERRED PRINTED JUGS, 8 1/2" AND 7 1/4" high (3) Lot: 29 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 1851 - T. GODWIN VICTORIAN POTTERY PLATE with blue transfer print 'Crystal Palace'. 10 1/2" diameter, (bears printed paper label 'The Pulver Collection' and THREE SMALLER Lot: 22 COMMEMORATIVE PLATES, 7 1/2" diameter (4) 1851 - PAIR OF VICTORIAN POTTERY SMALL JUGS, with Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 black transferred prints of The Crystal Palace, purple lustre borders, 3 1/4" high and a BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL JUG (3) Lot: 30 Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 1851 - A LARGE VICTORIAN POTTERY BOWL with blue/grey transfer printed interior depicting a state coach leaving the Crystal Palace, elaborate border and exterior decoration, 13 Lot: 23 1/4" diameter 1851 - POMMADE POT AND LID colour printed and gilt Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 lettered 'Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851', 3 3/4 diameter and A SIMILAR POT LIT, 3 1/4" (2) Estimate: £35.00 - £45.00 Lot: 31 1851 - A VICTORIAN WHITE PORCELAIN LARGE MUG with grey transfer print of the Crystal Palace and gilt handwritten Lot: 24 inscription 'In Commemoration of the Exhibition of the Works of 1851 - A VICTORIAN BLUE AND WHITE TRANSFER Art of all Nations held in London in the Year 1851', 4 1/2" high PRINTED MINIATURE CHAMBER POT decorated inside and Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 out with scenes of Crystal Palace and classical figure group and TWO VICTORIAN POTTERY OCTAGONAL BISCUIT BARRELS, one blue transfer printed and one puce transfer Lot: 32 printed with a lid (3) 1851 - A VICTORIAN WHITE PORCELAIN JUG with purple Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 transfer print titled 'The Great Exhibition Hyde Park 1851' and on the reverse 'Ironbridge Colebrook Dale' with gilt monogram 'J B' and gilt enrichments, 6 1/4" high Lot: 25 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 1851 - A PRATT POTTERY PLATE titled 'Interior View of The Crystal Palace', 7" diameter and A PORCELAIN SAUCER DISH with black transfer print and text 'View of the Interior of Lot: 33 the Building for the Exhibition of the works of all Nations', 6 3/4" 1851 - PINDER, BOURNE & HOPE, BURSLEM, POTTERY diameter (2) PLATE with brown transfer print 'Crystal Palace', 9 1/2" 2 of 31 Capes Dunn & Co (Sale of International Exhibition Memorabilia) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com diameter; a similar but unmarked MEAT DISH, 13 1/4" wide 1862 Crystal Palace - ENGRAVING ON BUFF COLOURED and a SIDE PLATE, 7" diameter (3) PAPER, 'The Great International Exhibition of 1862', 11 1/4" x Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 17", together with ANOTHER, 'The Opening of the Industrial Exhibitions of All Nations, May 1st 1851', 11 1/2" x 26", (the image as found), both framed and glazed (2) Lot: 34 Estimate: £25.00 - £35.00 1851 - VICTORIAN POTTERY MUG blue transfer printed autour and titled 'View of the Building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition 1851', 3" high; a small grey printed MUG and a Lot: 41 WALLIS, GIMSON & CO. OCTAGONAL PLATE in Japanesque 1851 - ARMYTAGE AFTER WRAY, A HAND COLOURED style, 9 1/2" wide (3) ENGRAVING 'A view of the Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 Park' 4" x 8 3/4" and a CHROMOLITHOGRAPH 'The Crystal Palace, Sydenham' after a photograph by Valentine and Co., Dundee. 7" x 9 1/4", both with mounts but unframed (2) Lot: 35 Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 1851 - BANKS, LANGLEY, 'A NEW SYSTEM OF HANDRAILING', published by the author in Manchester 1853 and including a design by Langley Banks for the Grand (Twin) Lot: 42 Geometrical Staircase in the Crystal Palace, calf and cloth 1902 - ORIGINAL FULL PLATE PHOTOGRAPH 'The Vienne II' together with 'PALACE OF INDUSTRY, 1851' by C R Fay, and a 'Balloon Party - Crystal Palace Dec 20' , 8 1/2" X 11", 1951, cloth boards, Ex Libris (2) mounted and framed Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 36 Lot: 43 1874 - PROGRAMME FOR CRYSTAL PALACE 'FETE' - 'In 1854 - A PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH 'Crystal Palace and honour of the Marriage of H.R.H.
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