The Superb Collection of Horse Brasses & Related Items of the Late Mr Mark Roberts of Cefn, St Asaph - To be sold not before 1.30pm 28/11/17

265. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE to include a good quantity of antique and later pierced brasses, some on single martingales, along with other harness brassware £50-80

266. FOURTEEN SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE LEATHER MARTINGALES holding a good selection of antique and later pierced and other brasses £100-150

267. A SELECTION OF SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE and leather tack including eight martingales, one being a breast strap, having various pierced and other antique and later brasses, one having four reproduction royalty examples, a pair of blank name plates with shire horse decoration atop, three blinkered harnesses etc along with six pieces of brass tubing, various lengths £100-150

268. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE including three good pairs of martingales, some with bell centred brassware, three further straps of brassware, a heart shaped breastplate containing six pierced antique versions of the Prince of Wales feathers, a selection of nose and other straps, two further bell swingers, a brass buckle and three single leather backed brasses £200-300

269. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE including two coiled straps, twelve multi- brass martingales and one single, both antique and later examples including tricolour bridle rosettes, some with further decorative brassware and buckles, along with a small quantity of leather strapping £100-150

270. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - sixty plus examples of antique and later pierced brasses including single, multiple and double sided martingales with various horse, animal and classical designs £100-150

271. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - on approximately one dozen single, double and multiple martingales, many crescent examples including one stamped 'Trent & Mersey Canal' £100-150

272. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE including good antique and later martingales and harness ware, multi-colour leather and brow and nose bands, one item marked 'McKay, Saddler, Killin' £150-250

273. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE mounted on fourteen martingales including six double strap examples, Victorian and later in both classical and unusual designs £200-300

274. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE INTEREST - a 4ft display board containing various harness and mouth bits, farrier's tools and horseshoes, a blood letting fleam etc £80-120

275. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of individual and martingale mounted harness brasses and blank nameplates, Victorian and later pair martingales having numerous classical designs and patterns £200-300

276. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board with eleven antique harness martingales containing approximately forty brasses including bell mounted, multi-colour bullseye rosette and classical pattern pierced examples £200-300

277. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft 1ins display board containing Victorian and later martingales and harness strap ware including rare Welsh dragon mounted examples, some in pairs £200-300

278. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft 1ins display board containing Victorian and later martingales and decorated harness strap ware including a red example with centre triple bell brass and 'J Jones, Abergele' maker's plaque, a pair with 'W Sharp, Halifax' maker's plaques and numerous other interesting and classical pierced designs £150-250

279. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of shire horse brassware and martingales, mostly mounted on red leather, Victorian and later classical designs with a pair of tricolour bullseye rosettes, a mounted pair of brass hames and centrally mounted reproduction commemorative brass £150-250

280. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board containing sixty plus pierced brasses, both singularly and martingale mounted in Victorian and later classical designs, including an unusual brass in the form of a floral rosette with a possible statesman to the centre, another formed as the head of a tulip etc £80-120

281. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of Victorian and later martingales and other brass decorated harness strap ware, one with 'Hoggard, Saddler, Sandiacre' maker's plaque £80-120

SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with three leather display pads, possibly by makers of horse brasses showing various blank plaque shapes and designs, Victorian and later including a top central shield of Gothic style crosses £100-200

282. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with single and multi-brass martingales including Victorian and later pairs, a group of four Abergele Shire Horse Show brasses dated 2000-2003 £80-120

283. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with early Victorian and later brass decorated leatherwork and martingales, some brasses having unusual designs, two straps with maker's names 'Hennessey, Maker Usk' and 'Badenoch, Saddler' £200-300

284. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board containing eighty plus brasses, Victorian and later including five crown centre examples, one stamped 'Crowned 1911' and another stamped 'Jubilee', two royalty examples 'God Save the King, 1902' and 'God Save the King, Edward VII', a range of crescent with star examples, a '1910 Tottenham Carnival Cup Winners', five RSPCA merit badges with dates including 1919, 1931, 1932 and 1934 plus one other along with further classically styled and horse patterned brasses £200-300

285. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with vintage Victorian and later brass decorated harness straps, leatherwork and martingales including Victoria royalty examples, two Jubilee, one with Victoria head, a pierced 'VR 1870', a strap of reproduction commemoratives, a heart shaped pad with 'Whitelaw Dunns, Saddler' maker's plaque, along with further unusual and interesting examples £300-400

286. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with antique and commemorative brass and leather harnessing including a pair of 'Hughes, Llangollen Diamond Jubilee 1837-1897' examples, a pair of 'T J Williams, St Asaph' makers marked straps, a martingale of four Queen Elizabeth commemorative brasses, Jubilee year 2002, a shaped breastplate of six beehive rosettes by 'T Hill, Saddler, Norfolk Street, Sheffield' etc £200-300

287. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board having a good array of horse brasses and harness ware to include Victoria and George V commemoratives, triple horse topped hame plates, bell swing fly terrets with tricolour plumes, multi- colour bullseye rosettes, triple bell martingale brasses and other classically patterned and interesting articles £200-300

288. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with a twelve piece shire horse harness set by 'J Jones, Maker, Abergele', the brasswork on red and white leather strapping, vintage period, quite possibly unique £150- 250

289. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE HARNESS DECORATION - a 4ft display board mounted with an assortment of chrome and white metal show decorations including bell and fly terrets with feather plumes, swingers, pierced martingale badges, strap mounts, nose bands and hame plates etc £150-250

290. SHIRE/ HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of dressed martingales and individual horse brasses and further decorated strapwork, sixty plus examples of pierced and plate brasses, Victorian and later in classical designs £100-150

291. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board mounted with an excellent array of nose bands, straps and martingales, plus a colourful assortment of bullseye and beehive rosettes, the whole predominantly displayed as pairs on red and black leather strapping, the centre item with maker's nameplate 'Wigglesworth Clayton, Accrington Church' £300-400

292. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a near 4ft display board showing Victorian and later harness brassware including nose bands, martingales, colourful pot bullseye and brass beehive rosettes, along with single pierced examples of classical designs including a rare back-to-back crescent example £250-350

293. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of excellent arrangements of harness decorations including red leather martingales, triple crown topped horse hame plates, multiple bell fly head terrets with tricolour horse hair plumes, brass swingers and beehive strap rosettes etc £300-400

294. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board containing thirteen martingales of royalty and other brasses including a pierced 'Victoria', 'God Save the King 1902', 'Edward VII Crowned 1902' and 'Maltese Cross' group, a later group of six various crown heads from Elizabeth I onwards, a 1977 Jubilee group of six 'Queen Elizabeth II', a 'George V' with central head, a 'George V and Queen Mary, Crowned 1911' example, a full group 'Charles and Diana', a pierced clover leaf and star with maker's plate 'Wilson, Saddler, Keighley' along with interesting examples £300-400

295. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board showing fifty four brass terrets/swingers including a 'George V Crowned 1911' with jewelled flag centre and registered design number, two blue pot bullseye rosettes, crescent and triple crescent and pierced pattern examples £400-600

296. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft 1ins display board of royalty and pierced pattern single and martingale mounted brasses including 'Victoria', 'Edward VII', 'George V', later commemoratives for 'Charles and Diana', 'Andrew and Sarah', other examples include pierced crowns, 'VR 1870' and numerous other pierced and plate classical designs, in excess of sixty pieces £500-600

297. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a near 2ft square display board mounted with fifty plus saddler's and brassmaker's nameplates including initialled and monogrammed examples, makers from Coxwold, Hodnet, Wakefield, Llangollen, Abergele and other locals and including two pairs for 'W Groome, London' and 'W T Pilkington, Accrington' £150-300

298. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board housing an excellent collection of maker's hame plates, sixty one in all, places include Newcastle Emlyn, Conwy, Hartford, Bromsgrove, Ruthin, Sheffield, Llangefni, Ffestiniog, Llangollen, Worcester and many others, the lower section of the board with five martingales of horse brasses being Victorian and later including two pot bullseye rosettes, the nameplates mostly hinge type £300-500

299. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board containing twenty triple bell fly head terrets with tricolour horse hair plumes £250-400

300. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft wide display board housing a good collection of fourteen single and twelve double bell fly head terrets/swingers, the doubles with tricolour horse hair plumes £300-400

301. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a near 2ft square display board containing fifty plus saddler's and brassmaker's nameplates, predominantly hinge type, makers include Ormerod, Blackburn, Roberts Denbigh, T W Bailey Ross, John Jones Abergele, G Slater Belper, Dyke Ebbw Vale along with many others £300-500

302. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a 4ft display board of multi-bell fly head terrets with tricolour horse hair plumes, mostly three bell swingers, two being groups of three set in cylinder brass showcasings, Victorian and later £300- 400

303. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a group of ten martingales displaying thirty plus brasses, both Victorian and later on studded and shaped strapwork along with a pair of bridle straps having 'W Davies, Maker, Liverpool' nameplates £50-80

304. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - to include a brass show cylinder with triple bell fly head terret having a tricolour horse hair plume and beehive end rosettes, a brass with 'Royal Welch Fusiliers' emblem and stamped '23rd Foot' above a Welsh dragon plaque, a pair of clam shell swingers and two pairs of horse strap brassware £60-80

305. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - ten grouped hame plate and brasswork displays, some with bell tumblers £80-120

306. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a good selection of Victorian and later leather mounted brass harness decorations, lead chains and straps along with a display sample of lettered hame plates and brassware for 'Staddon, Maker, St Phillips, Bristol' £80-120

307. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - including three martingales of 'Abergele and North Wales Shire Horse Society' brasses, a large collection of 'National Horse Brass Society' brasses and others including a 'City of Birmingham Centenary Horse Parade' dated '89 and a quantity of others £50-80

307. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a good selection of Victorian and later leather mounted brass harness decorations, lead chains and straps along with a display sample of lettered hame plates and brassware for 'Staddon, Maker, St Phillips, Bristol' £80-120

308. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - including three martingales of 'Abergele and North Wales Shire Horse Society' brasses, a large collection of 'National Horse Brass Society' brasses and others including a 'City of Birmingham Centenary Horse Parade' dated '89 and a quantity of others £50-80

309. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - nine colourful and other martingales of twenty plus Victorian and later horse brasses and decorative shapes, some unusual designs and bullseye rosette examples, one double sided with 'J Jones, Maker, Abergele' nameplates £70-100

310. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a quantity of decorative harness martingales and strapping, Victorian and later including three black bullseye mounted crescent brasses £80-120

311. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a royal commemorative grouping with others including a 'Victoria Jubilee' hame plate and a triple horse topped example set as a display, 'George V', 'Edward VII', 'Elizabeth II' etc along with crown and crescent examples on paired straps £150-250

312. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a small collection of working horse brasses, mostly 20th Century including a twin set stamped 'God Speed the Plough' and 'Seed Time' along with a scale metal model of a Victorian horse drawn ridging plough, 58 cms in length £50-80

313. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE TACK - a quantity of heavy horse harnessing and leather strap work including collar, brass hames, nose bag etc £50-80

314. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE TACK - a loose quantity of shire horse harnessing and strap work including a large collar, a head bridle with blinkers, a pair of hames etc £50-80

315. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE TACK - a quantity of shire horse harnessing and leather strap work including a large collar, a pair of iron hames and other brass decorated straps etc £50-80

316. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE TACK - a good quantity, predominantly chrome and silver plated enhanced harnessing and strap ware including a large collar, a pair of chrome hames, contained in a vintage pine box £80-120

317. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE TACK - a good quantity of brass decorated leather harnessing and strap work contained within a vintage tin trunk £80-120

318. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - a vintage travel case containing a good quantity of stock in hand bell terrets, swingers and fly head plumes etc £100-150

319. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - in two show displays, one as an acorn carved oak board with three twin bell fly head terrets having horse hair plumes and other applied brassware, the other as a wide brass strap with shaped ends displaying bell terrets and cockerel topped swingers £50-80

320. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - twenty plus martingales, strap work, nose/headband and lead straps containing numerous Victorian and later pierced brass work and beehive bell swingers etc £50-80

321. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - on twenty plus martingales and strapwork including nosebands and bridle leads, displaying thirty plus Victorian and later pierced and beehive horse brasses with many more buckle and plate decorations £50-80

322. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE - twenty plus martingales, straps and nosebands etc, displaying fifty plus Victorian and later pierced and plate brasses, in classical designs including royalty £70-100

323. SHIRE HORSE SHOW ROSETTES - a large quantity within a vintage suitcase, mostly 1990s and 2000s dates, various societies, show and winner rosettes £40-60

324. A GOOD QUANTITY OF BRASS SHOW PLATES including Shire and Heavy Horse Machinery Society, vintage steam shows and rallies etc £40-60

325. A GOOD QUANTITY OF NATIONAL, ABERGELE & OTHERS SHIRE HORSE SHOW BRASSES including a few multiples on martingales £30-40

326. A GOOD QUANTITY OF VICTORIAN AND LATER HORSE BRASSES including a pair of pot centred crescents, numerous royalty and classical pierced and plate designs £50-80

327. FORTY PLUS VICTORIAN & LATER HORSE BRASSES mostly multiple displays on martingales including colourful bullseye rosettes and royalty etc, along with two matching straps of horse bells £80-120

328. SHIRE/HEAVY HORSE BRASSWARE including hames and nameplates, decorative strap work and interesting articles including a brass strap marked 'T Dodds, Maker, Chester, 1882' £50-80