Bleasdales Limited The Sewing Sale Incorporating: Tunbridge, Mauchline Ware, Needleworks and Buttons together with property from the collections of The Late George and Margaret Watts Warwick, CV34 4BH, England Wednesday November 27 2019 at 10am
Sale Venue: The Great Hall, The Lord Leycester Hospital, Westgate, High Street, Warwick, CV34 4BH
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Incorporating: Tunbridge and Mauchline Ware, Needleworks and Buttons Together with property from the various collections of the Late George and Margaret Watts
Wednesday November 27 2019 at 10am The Great Hall, The Medieval Lord Leycester Hospital Westgate, High Street, Warwick, England, CV34 4BH
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A portion of this sale comes from two distinguished UK private collections being sold anonymously. Both collectors have been clients for many years and have previously sold with us. In both cases the need to downsize their collections has become more immediate but both still retain sizeable collections which have been carefully acquired over the last thirty years.
The late Claire Gilchrist’s Button Collection Part 1 Claire started collecting buttons in the 1960’s , she was fascinated with the history of fashion and manufacture through the ages and the variety of materials used, from the humble cotton Dorset knobs, to the elaborate French enamels, and her search for examples of the whole spectrum took her to auctions in Paris and antique fairs all over the country, she was a member of the British Button Society for many years and amassed a collection of beautiful buttons. Alex Rawlings Part 2 of this collection will be included in our July 2020 sale
Miss E Cansdale Ctext ATI ACFI Miss Cansdale is a longstanding member of The Dorset Thimble Society and part of her collection was included in our last sale. Despite being over ninety she leads a busy and productive life, she continues to lecture, educate and organise exhibitions in all aspects of needlework, lace, and related crafts particularly encouraging young people .
The Late George and Margaret Watts George and Margaret Watts were avid collectors. Margaret was an arts and crafts teacher and very much of the ‘make-do-and- mend’ mentality. George was first a herdsman and then an engineer, but at heart, he was a historian, enwrapped in the deep history of geology and fossils to the English Civil War and beyond. Both had this in common and a love of culture. George’s collections ranged from cacti to 17th-century furniture, and Margaret acquired delicate needlework, and all its paraphernalia, as well as brooches. They both loved trawling through flea markets/auctions and finding things in ‘miscellaneous’ boxes pushed under tables. These interests led to the whole family joining the Sealed Knot. It was here that George made muskets and gun carriages, as part of the Trayne of Artillery, and Margaret made costumes. George lived in Coventry through the Blitz and collected shrapnel. He remembered it as it was before the war – an incredible Tudor city. But much as he loved Coventry, he loved the countryside more and was never happier than when walking through it. The items up for auction today are a lifetime’s work and reflect the lives of both George and Margaret. The Watts Family Mrs M.Hamlin Mary Hamlin has been a long standing client and now in her nineties has relinquished her collection of samplers for this sale having moved to a new home. Mary Hamlin was very supportive in the establishment of Bleasdales Ltd when her fine collection of sewing tools and boxes were sold anonymously in some of our earliest sales, I would like to record her my appreciation of that support.
Photo:lordleycester.com The late George and Margaret Watts in character
Ivory legislation affecting future sales As many clients will know the UK Goverment has passed legislation which will bring to an end the sale of ivory within the UK with a very few exceptions. Despite the Goverments position is unclear when the legislation will come into place, three proposed dates have passed and given the current distractions of Brexit and other issues we do not expect the new proposed implementation date to be any different. We do however expect the ban to come into force in 2020 and our next sale (July 2020) is likely to be the last which will include ivory items. The legislation is currently being challenged in the courts by a number of parties which disagree with the assumptions that have been made, indeed many believe that the proposed legislation will not only lead to the destruction of works of art and cultural artefacts but will make the slaughter of those elephants remaining even more likely.
4 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 5 Tunbridge Ware 12 A Tunbridge ware rosewood go-to-bed, the octagonal body in panels 1 of geometric mosaic, the turned rosewood base with striking rings, the A rare Tunbridge ware print decorated disc form pin cushion , top in radiating geometric mosaic with bone candle and match mount, one side with a map of the coast around Pegwell Bay, the other with a 9.5cm high building on the coastline and cottages to the fore, later loose stitched £50/100 cover, general wear, loss to varnish 5.2cm. The building is possibly Reculver Church 13 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A well turned rosewood circular Tunbridge ware box, the over £50/100 hanging lid in geometric stickware, 6cm dia £30/50 2 Tunbridge ware – four pieces comprising a disc form stick ware pin 14 cushion, 4cm, a mosaic cross form thread winder, 5.2cm, and two Tunbridge ware – sewing – four pieces comprising a rosewood pin turned cylinder form boxes one with mosaic overhanging top, 4cm, dish with geometric mosaic panel, 7cm, a turned stickware pin cushion, the other with stickware inset, last with some loss to internal thread 4.5cm, a similar barrel form waxer, 3cm, and a double ended pin upstand (4) cushion, 3.5cm (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £40/80 15 3 Tunbridge ware – sewing – four pieces comprising an oak pin dish Tunbridge ware – two pieces comprising a sarcophagal form table with mosaic circular panel, 7cm, a stickware barrel form thimble case pin cushion with two bands of mosaic on turned bun feet, 14cm, and a with worn silver thimble, 4.5cm, a thread winder in stick ware, 4.2cm, rosewood rectangular box the lid with floral mosaic panel, 11.5cm (2) and an attractive needle book one side in floral mosaic, the other (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) geometric mosaic, interior with chequer boards, velvet spine, silk ties, £50/100 7cm (4) £50/100 4 A Tunbridge ware sewing casket in coromandel wood and mosaic, 16 probably by Thomas Barton, the cushion form lid with a mosaic panel of Tunbridge ware – sewing – five pieces comprising an attractive stick Battle Abbey gatehouse within a broad floral mosaic border, enclosed to ware tape measure with over hanging top, replacement tape, 3cm, a the front by a pair of floral mosaic doors with geometric mosaic borders stick ware barrel form tape measure, tape lacking, 2.8cm, a disc form opening to reveal three drawers each with a geometric mosaic banding, mosaic waxer, 2.5cm, a stickware vase form pin cushion, 2.5cm, and a on an angled plinth on replacement bun feet, escutcheon roundels needle book with geometric mosaic corners, 5.2cm (5) replaced, tray divisions lacking, hinges replaced, 25 x 20.5 x 21cm £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 17 £200/400 A rosewood Tunbridge ware box of rectangular form the pull off lid 5 with a mosaic panel of a butterfly, 5.8cm A rosewood Turnbridge ware box of square form, the pin hinge £30/50 lid with a panel of floral mosaic within a geometric mosaic border, the 18 sides with a floral band of mosaic, velvet lined interior, the base with Two Tunbridge ware stamp boxes comprising a rosewood example circular printed label ‘Porters, Toyland, Tunbridge Wells’, 15cm sq the lid with two pence blue stamp within an unusual zig zag border, £40/60 4.2cm, the other with a stamp ‘Postage Stamps’ within a geometric 6 mosaic border and sides, 4cm (2) A scarce Tunbridge ware miniature chequers box and pieces, the £50/100 lid with board within a geometric mosaic border, the sides coromandel, 19 with fifteen boxwood drafts and fifteen rosewood, 12.8cm sq. Tunbridge ware – three pieces comprising a turned stickware vesta £50/100 with striker base, 3.2cm, a miniature rosewood sealing wax ‘chamber’ 7 stick with stickware base, 5.3cm and a book mark/page cutter in A rosewood Turnbridge ware box of rectangular form, the pin hinge geometric mosaic, 12.5cm (3) lid with cube work panel within a geometric mosaic border, paper lined £40/80 interior, 23cm 20 £40/60 Tunbridge ware – three pieces comprising a rosewood circular box 8 with geometric mosaic lid, 4.5cm, a square form Tangram box with Two Tunbridge ware rectangular boxes both with lift off lids, one with stickware lid, 5cm and a small rosewood rectangular box with stickware a lid panel of stick ware, internal tray, 11cm, the other with cube work and mosaic lid, 5.5cm (3) lid and mosaic bands to the sides, 8.5cm (2) £50/100 £40/60 21 9 Tunbridge ware – three pieces comprising a turned rosewood circular An early 20th Tunbridge ware box by, The Tunbridge Wells box with stickware and mosaic cover, 3.5cm, a small square form Manufacturing Co, Ltd, of rectangular form, the hinged domed lid box with stickware lid, 3.5cm and a miniature rosewood sealing wax with a panel of floral mosaic within a geometric border, ink stamp to lid ‘chamber’ stick with rosewood stickware base, 5cm (3) interior, 11.5cm £40/80 £30/50 22 10 Tunbridge ware and associated wares – six pieces comprising A Tunbridge ware rosewood rectangular box, the hinged lid with a three Tunbridge ware napkin rings of octagonal section decorated diamond panel of stickware within conforming border, the sides with in geometric mosaic panels, 5cm dia, a miniature milking stool the two similar bands, yellow silk lined interior, complete with key, 24cm octagonal top with stickware panel within inlaid borders, 10cm high, a £30/50 Sorrento ware circular box, 8cm dia, and a similar castanet (6) 11 £40/80 A small Tunbridge ware rectangular visiting card case, pull off cover, one side with a panel of floral mosaic, the other in cube work within edge and side borders of geometric mosaic, minor loss to one edge, 8.5 x 5.2cm £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 5 23 32 A good early 19th painted Tunbridge ware sewing compendium A painted Tunbridge ware sewing clamp, of cylinder form below a in the form of a Brighton Pavilion tower in three sections, the lower pin cushion top, the roundel painted end with a black on red printed section painted with eight pairs of double doors below arches on a circular label ‘The Absent Not Forgotten’, 6cm stepped circular base, internally fitted with ring painted tools comprising £30/50 a tape measure, a cylinder needle case, a waxer, thimble and a 33 reel, the centre section with green painted platform below a dome An unusual Sorrento ware picture frame, the rectangular glazed unscrewing to reveal a pin cushion, 22.5cm high aperture within inlaid panels of vases of flowers, figures and £1500/2500 arabesques within similar bands incorporating mosaic, 44 x 30cm 24 £80/120 An early 19th painted Tunbridge ware circular box with domed 34 pin cushion to lid, ring painted and a painted with flowers and with a A good Tunbridge ware thermometer stand, the ivory scale with colour print with elegant figures before the Brighton Pavilion 9.7cm max mercury thermometer and inscribed ‘Hollamby Tunbridge Wells’, dia., and two small boxes one with pin hinge lid painted with a house, between two rib turned stickware pillars below turned finials, the repaired, 8.7cm and another with inlaid sliding lid, 5cm sq. (3) rectangular base with geometric and leaf mosaic borders, on bun feet, £80/120 13.5cm 25 £80/120 A rare and unusual print decorated early Tunbridge ware 35 travelling mirror by Wise the rectangular case with sliding lid with a A Tunbridge ware concertina candle holder, on clamp, the circular print the reverse of the lid with a printed label ‘Nuckell’s Library rectangular clamp with a band of floral mosaic, the joints with stickware Broadstairs published by T. Wise Tunbridge, 24th March 1806’, the tops and bases, the candle holder with brass sconce, 30cm high max. interior fitted with a mirror, 8.7 x 5.3cm £50/100 £150/250 36 26 A Tunbridge ware ink stand, the circular base on three bun feet with A good and rare early Tunbridge ware white wood print decorated an octagonal band of mosaic and stickware and mounted with a pen box by Geo. Wise of rectangular form, the lid with a colour print stand, the octagonal glass inkwell with mosaic top, chip and minor within a vivid red panel within black line borders, the print titled to the abrasions to well, 12cm dia. lid interior ‘Chapel Royal, North Street, Brighton – Published by Geo. £50/100 Wise, Tunbridge April 1807’, pink paper lined interior, 20 x 12.2 x 9.5cm. high. 37 £200/400 A Tunbridge ware rosewood card box and a cribbage board, the fist of hinged rectangular form with floral mosaic within a cribbage 27 border, with a set of playing cards, 13.2cm closed, the rosewood A good early Tunbridge ware floral painted sewing pannier, of cribbage board with floral mosaic, on four bun feet, 23.5cm (2) delicate turned form the swelling body painted with a band of flowers £40/80 and leaves, below a domed lid with turned finial and swing handle, the interior in blue paper, 14cm. diameter, 17.5cm. high maximum. 38 £200/400 A Tunbridge ware watch stand and a ring stand, the first of angled form with a border of geometric mosaic, with a watch and key, 7.5cm 28 wide, the ring stand with mosaic and stickware circular base on three A rare 19th Century Tunbridge stickware thimble – star roundel bun feet with a tree form stand, 7.5cm high (2) turned top, triple concave frieze over a flared rim, 2.7cm. high. £40/80 £100/200 39 29 A Tunbridge ware rosewood ink stand, the rectangular base on four An early print decorated Tunbridge ware white wood pin wheel bun feet with a canted border in van dykes below a mosaic border, the one side with a colour print of the Brighton Pavilion with elegant top with two pen stands and an octagonal glass ink well with mosaic figures, the other Brighton chain pier and front, 5cm dia top, 13.5cm £50/100 £50/100 30 40 An early Tunbridge ware print and paint decorated salve pot and A rosewood thermometer and compass stand by Nye, the square two cylinder bead boxes, the line painted pot with a domed lid with a base with floral mosaic sides, the octagonal column in variant bands colour print of Brighton Pavilion with elegant figures in the foreground, of mosaic on a stickware base collar, the ivory thermometer mount 3.6cm dia, the bead boxes inscribed on printed labels “gold/ silver”, inscribed ‘E. Nye Tunbridge Wells’, the top inset with a compass but 2.4cm dia (3) lacking screw cover, 13.5cm high £40/80 £50/100 31 41 An early 19th century Tunbridge print decorated documentary A good rosewood Tunbridge ware pin table, the circular top in sewing box of rectangular form veneered in lace wood within broad stickware, on a turned pedestal, flared circular base and three bun feet, line and crossbanded borders, the lid with an oval colour print of a 7.7cm dia. carriage pulled by cherubs within a gold and pen work border (split £50/100 to print), old Sheffield plate side carrying handles. The interior with ruched pink silk lid panel over a pink paper covered compartmentalised 42 tray fitted with a multiple reel, two scent bottles, four bead cylinders Tunbridge ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a whitewood labelled Gold/Silver, a box pin cushion, a pair of sliding lid boxes with cylinder clamp with pin cushion top with line painted decoration, the fan painted lids, twelve various bone reels with labels, a set of three end with a large green label inscribed ‘A Present From Ramsgate’, reels, bone pin cushion and tape measure, a porcelain thimble, another general wear, 7cm, a similar thimble egg with worn silver thimble, 5cm, silver, another rosewood, two pairs of steel scissors with sheaths, a and a circular rouge pot the top with star inlay, ceramic liner cracked, pair of bone cylinder boxes. The underside of the reel tray inscribed in 3.7cm (3) ink ‘Bought March 7th 1817-£3 Emily Hill – Presented by her mother £40/60 June 6th 1826 being her sixteenth – Birth Day’, 34 x 28 x 14cm 43 £400/500 Tunbridge ware – sewing – two pieces, comprising a rosewood cylinder reel box with overhanging stickware top, 5cm high, and a turned rosewood stickware circular sewing weight, 4.7cm dia. (2) £50/100
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The Sewing Sale | 7 44 56 Tunbridge ware – sewing, a rectangular needle box the sides with Tunbridge ware – a large go-to-bed, the octagonal section body in two bands of mosaic, the lid in mosaic and titled ‘Needles’, 6cm bands of mosaic, the lid in stickware with a match and candle holder, £40/80 partitioned interior, striker to base, 9.5cm 45 £50/100 Tunbridge ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a cylinder 57 form combination pin cushion/waxer in stickware, 4.2cm, a stickware An early painted and print decorated Tunbridge ware whitewood thread winder, 4.2cm and a rosewood tape measure with stickware box, the sliding lid with a colour print of Brighton Pavillion with elegant overhanging top, reduced tape, 3cm (3) figures in the foreground, within a floral painted border, the interior lined £50/100 in green paper, 9.5 sq x 4.5cm 46 £60/100 Tunbridge ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a combination 58 waxer/tape measure/pin cushion in turned stickware, 6cm, a A Tunbridge ware box of rectangular form, with angled burr combination waxer/pin cushion in stickware, 3.5cm, and a stickware veneered sides, the pin hinge lid with a panel of geometric mosaic circular pin cushion, 4.5cm dia. (3) within a van dyke border, green paper lined interior, 10.5 x 7.5 x 4cm £50/100 £30/50 47 59 Tunbridge ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a rosewood An early 19th Century whitewood sewing pannier in the Tunbridge cylinder tape measure with overhanging top, replacement tape, 3.8cm, style, the angled sides painted with leaves and flowers, the pin hinge a stickware pedestal pin cushion, 2.7cm, and a combination waxer/pin lid painted with cottages in a rural landscape, painted swing handle, cushion in stickware, 4.5cm (3) pink paper compartmentalised interior, 13 x 10 x 13.5 max £50/100 £40/60 48 60 Tunbridge ware – sewing – two pieces, comprising a block form A rare print and paint decorated early Tunbridge ware whitewood rosewood clamp with a swing arm terminating in a stickware pin child’s sewing pannier, probably Thomas Wise, the canted sides cushion, 17.5cm high, and a rectangular rosewood pin cushion box the painted with flowers, the pin hinge lid with a central print titled to the sliding lid and sides with bands of geometric mosaic, 11.5cm (2) interior ‘New Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa’ within a floral border £40/80 and outer black line hatched border, the swing handle painted with 49 stylised green leaves, compartmentalised pink paper interior, 12 x 8.5 Tunbridge ware – a rosewood sewing clamp, the ‘C’ form frame with x 10cm max. a band of geometric mosaic below a stickware pin cushion, 19cm £40/80 This box appears for the first time to establish a link between the Tunbridge manufacturers and the Spa town of Leamington Spa. 50 The image depicted is the Lower Assembly Rooms (later called the Tunbridge ware – sewing – two pieces, comprising a rectangular pin Parthenon), Bath Street, opened in 1821. The portico was removed cushion with mosaic border in the style of Thomas Barton, 7.5cm, and in 1853, the building burnt down in the 1960’s and was re-built c1970. a circular stickware pin cushion on three bun feet, 4.5cm dia. (2) The original architect was Samuel Beazley (1786-1851), a leading £40/80 theatre architect and established London architect. 51 No other Tunbridge box with a Leamington scene has previously Tunbridge ware – two stamp boxes, both rectangular comprising an been recorded, although pieces for Cheltenham and Oxford have. It example titled to the lid in mosaic ‘STAMPS’ within mosaic borders, is possible that this could have been a box later embellished with the 4cm, and another the lid incorporating a green halfpenny stamp within print, but this seems highly unlikely as the image fits the lid and border mosaic borders, the base with ink stamp for The Tunbridge Ware well and the border detailing is typical of other Tunbridge pieces. Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 3.8cm (2) I am grateful to Rob Gill of Gosford Books, Coventry for his assistance £50/100 in identifying the image. 52 £200/400 Tunbridge ware – three pieces, comprising an attractive turned 61 yew wood circular box the lid with stickware circular inlay, the interior Tunbridge ware – sewing – two pieces, comprising a rosewood containing a brass cased compass, 4.7cm, a turned rosewood barrel sarcophagal form weighted pin cushion with stickware border, 12 x 9 x form go-to-bed with mosaic top, 4.7cm and a brush with geometric 5.5cm, and a turned stickware pin cushion, 4.5cm dia. (2) mosaic band, 16.2cm (3) £40/80 £50/80 62 53 Tunbridge ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a needle book Tunbridge ware – three pieces, comprising a rectangular card tray the covers in floral mosaic and cube work, internal chequer boards with floral mosaic centre within a geometric mosaic border, 13cm, a complete with flannels, 6.5 x 4cm, a reel form waxer with mixed mosaic turned rosewood circular box the lid with circular stickware panel, 6cm, and stickware ends, 2.5cm, and a rosewood reel with stickware end, and a brush in cube work, 18cm (3) 3cm (3) £60/100 £50/100 54 63 Tunbridge ware – two stamp boxes, comprising a rectangular An early painted Tunbridge ware whitewood pedestal pin cushion, example the lid with young head QV in fine mosaic within a geometric with floral and line painted decoration, very small chip to top edge, 5cm border, 4cm, the other in rosewood with a ‘penny red’ printed stamp high within a mosaic border, 4cm (2) £40/80 £50/100 64 55 An attractive Tunbridge ware pedestal pin cushion, the square Tunbridge ware – four pieces, comprising a 9 inch stickware ruler, a base raised on four bun feet and decorated in a geometric grid design, paper knife decorated in mosaic, 19.5cm, a stickware decorated napkin the baluster turned pedestal supporting a vase form stickware pin ring, and a reproduction nutmeg grater with overhanging stickware lid, cushion, 6cm high 5cm (4) £50/100 £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 7 65 75 An attractive early Tunbridge ware print decorated rectangular Mauchline ware – seven pieces comprising a spectacle case whitewood box, the pin hinge lid with a colour print depicting elegant (Esplanade, Bognor) 15.5cm, a cylinder light house box (Walmer figures at the Pantiles, simple black line borders, plain sides, pink Castle), a cylinder box (Britannia Pier Yarmouth), a rectangular box paper lined compartmentalised interior, one division lacking, 16 x 8.4 x (Broadstairs), two napkin rings (Aldeburgh Church/South Gates Kings 4.5cm Lynn) and a tumbler case (On The Beach, Hunstanton) 7.2cm high (7) £100/200 £40/80 66 76 A Tunbridge ware rosewood circular sewing weight, the ends in Mauchline Ware – six pieces comprising a cylinder ink well (Worthing stickware divided by faded blue velvet, 4cm dia. New Pier) 5.5cm, a cylinder box (Brighton Beach From The West £40/80 Pier), a tumbler case (photographic – The Hall Lytham), a napkin ring 67 (Grimsby Docks), a matchbox cover (Killiechassie House) 6.5cm and a Two pieces of early painted whitewood Tunbridge ware, comprising stamp box (Melrose Abbey) 7.2cm (6) a ring painted cylinder pin poppet, the screw off overhanging lid with £40/80 a printed circular label ‘A Present From Brighton’ within a leaf painted 77 border, 3.7cm, and a cottage form pin cushion, adapted, lacking roof, Mauchline ware – eleven pieces comprising an oval brooch 4cm (2) (Cavendish Hotel, Grand Parade, Eastbourne), 6cm, a cauldron £50/100 pin cushion (Carpet Gardens, Eastbourne), a darning mushroom 68 (Burns’ Cottage, Alloway/Bought In The Monument/ The Gossip….), Tunbridge ware – sewing – two pieces, comprising a ring painted a rectangular sewing box (Foret de Fontainebleau), a book mark cylinder whitewood clamp the end with printed circular label ‘A Token (Fontainebleau, La Roche…) and a set of six napkin rings (Tenby From of Esteem’ below a pin cushion top, 5.5cm, and a cylinder needle case, The Croft/South Sands Tenby/ Tenby x4) (11) split to top, 10cm (2) £50/100 £40/60 78 69 Mauchline ware -seven pieces comprising a stamp box (Cavendish A Tunbridge ware dressing table box by Thomas Barton the sloping Hotel, Eastbourne), 8.2cm, a tumbler case (Inveraray Castle), a sides raised on bun feet and with a broad band of floral mosaic below cylinder box (Beachy Head Lighthouse), a circular box (Eastbourne a hinged lid with pin cushion flanked by replacement glass bottles with Pier), another (Ashridge House, Berkhamsted), another (Windermere screw form silver tops, the base with printed label ‘T. Barton Late Nye Lake) and a rouge box (Bowness Windermere From The Bay) 3.3cm …’ with key, 22.5 x 10.5 x 12cm (7) £100/200 £40/80 70 79 Tunbridge Ware – sewing – three pieces, comprising a stickware Mauchline and related wares – nine pieces and a reference book and mosaic waxer, 2.2cm., a stickware pedestal pin cushion, 2.7cm., comprising a needle cylinder (Hastings Pier), 19cm, a cylinder ruler and a needle book with mosaic borders, 5.5cm. (3) (The Pier Felixstowe), a rectangular box (Melrose Abbey/ Made From £40/80 A Tree), 10.5cm, another (The Bishops Tower Kirkwall), a cedar wood cylinder box (Honister Crag), a cedar wood box (Keswick Boat Station 71 Derwentwater/Borrowdale/ Skiddaw), two burns to front, a rectangular No lot playing card box (Alloway Kirk/Burns Cottage/Made of Wood…), Mauchline and Related Wares 20.5cm and two damaged pieces, together with a copy of Mauchline Ware, A Collectors Guide (10) 72 £40/80 Five Mauchline ware pin cushions comprising a girdle form example (leaves), 4.5cm, a pail form example (Dolgelly), one upstand replaced, 80 5cm and three disc form examples (Dunkeld/Made of Birnam Wood/ Mauchline Ware – sewing – five pieces, comprising a rectangular Anderson Bookseller Dunkeld – Peel Castle From The Pier Isle of Man/ reel box (Auld Brig O’Door – photographic/ Brook’s sewing cotton), Rhenass Waterfall, Isle of Man – Anvers L’Hotel De Ville Et le Bas 17cm., a thimble box (The New Pier, Weston Super Mare), 3.8cm., a Escaut) all approx. 5cm dia. (5) disc form pin cushion (Ventnor Looking East/Osbourne House), 5cm., (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) a heart shaped pin cushion (Folkestone), 6cm., and a needle book £40/80 (Barmouth from The Island), 8.5cm. (5) £40/80 73 Mauchline ware – nine pieces comprising a wool ball holder 81 (Sandown From The Sea), 10cm dia, a cylinder reel box (Towyn From Mauchline ware – six pieces, comprising a rectangular money box Railway), 7.5cm dia, another with three apertures (Scott Monument, (oval of flowers/tartan bands), 10cm, a sliding lid box (Pevensey Princess Street, Edinburgh), 8.5cm dia, three cylinder form reel boxes Castle), 8.5cm, a Fern ware rectangular box (Ventour – photographic), in alternative finishes, a rectangular cut corner reel box (black ground/ 10.5cm, a rectangular box (mosaic), 8cm, a Fern ware napkin ring, and flowers/ Forget Me Not) internal label for Clark and Co’s, 10.2cm, a a thimble egg (Crescent Buxton) with a Dorcas thimble, 5cm (6) knitting needle cylinder (Entrance Into Coventry From The Railway £30/50 Station), 19.2cm, and a cylinder ruler (Bournemouth/ Bournemouth 82 Pier), 22.5cm (9) Mauchline ware – seven pieces, comprising a rectangular dome (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) top money box (Margate Sands and Jetty with tartan bands), 10cm, a £50/100 barrel form money box (Carpet Garden, Eastbourne), 8cm, a tumbler 74 case (Chateau de Ballenoy), 7cm, a cylinder ruler (The Palace, Mauchline ware – sewing – eight pieces comprising a wool ball Eastbourne/The Wish Tower), 27cm, a cylinder rouge pot (Southsea (Hoylake church) 8.5cm dia, a dome top reel box (Royal Parade, Castle), 3.5cm, a rectangular box (Church of The Holy Trinity, Stratford Southend), a cylinder sewing companion with reel and thimble (Pulpit on Avon), 6cm, and a thimble egg with silver thimble (Ryde Pier), Rocks, Landslip, Lyme) a crochet cylinder (Suspension Bridge Clifton/ 5.5cm (7) View From The Suspension Bridge) a pin dish (Cavendish Hotel, Grand £40/60 Parade Eastbourne) a disc form pin cushion (St Nicholas Church Sevenoaks), a thimble egg (Admiralty Pier, Dover) and a bell shaped tape measure (The Holborn, Viaduct), 5.5cm high (8) £50/100
8 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 9 83 95 Mauchline ware – sewing – five pieces, comprising a bell form tape Tartan ware – five pieces, comprising a circular box (McPherson/ measure (Henley on Thames) tape very fragile, 6cm, a saucepan colour floral print and verse), 7.5cm, a cylinder box (McFarlane), 8.5cm, thimble case (Tunbridge Wells From the Front), 4.5cm, a thimble case a rectangular box (MacIness), 9cm, another (MacGregor), 9cm, and a in the form of a teapot with silver thimble (Folkestone Looking West), rectangular reel box, very worn, internal label for ‘J and P Coats’, the 5cm, a thimble cylinder with thimble (Burnham Beeches), split, 3.2cm, other pieces all with wear. (5) and a slant top thimble box with thimble (Sea View Isle of Wight), £40/60 3.5cm (5) 96 £50/100 No lot 84 Mauchline ware – sewing – five pieces, comprising a saucepan Tape Measures form thimble case (Aldeburgh Life Boat), 5cm, a skittle form sewing 97 companion with thimble and needlecase (Haddon Hall), 7.5cm, a Two novelty tape measures comprising a brass example in the form slant top thimble box with thimble (Shanklin From The Cliff), 3.2cm, a of a bottle in ice bucket, tape replaced, 5.5cm, and another in copper cylinder thimble case with pin cushion top (Arched Rock, Freshwater and brass as a coffee grinder, lacking tape, 3.5cm (2) I.W.), 5cm, and a cedar wood dome top box with silver thimble (Boat (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Landing, Derwent Water), 4.2cm (5) £50/100 £50/100 98 85 An Austrian cold painted novelty metal tape measure in the form Mauchline ware – sewing – five pieces, comprising an unusual large of a dog kennel, the complete printed tape in cm and ins. and stamped egg containing an alabaster hand cooler (Miller Park, Preston/Battle ‘London Made In Austria’, 2cm high Abbey Near Hastings) split and chip to edge, 10.5cm, a dome top reel (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) box with cord handles (Forth Bridge ….), 8.5cm, a slant top thimble £40/80 box with silver thimble (Hereford), 3cm, another with silver thimble 99 (The Dripping Well, Fairlight), 3.5cm, and a thimble egg with thimble Two novelty tape measures comprising a brass and painted example (College Chapel, Winchester), 5.5cm (5) as a flaming heart, the printed tape in cm and ins. and stamped ‘London £40/80 Made Austria’ some loss to first 3cm of tape, 3.5cm, and another in white 86 metal as a standing pig, tape reduced and frayed 5.5cm (2) Mauchline ware – three pieces, comprising an ‘Inimitable Strap – W (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) and A Smith Makers To His Late Majesty’, 20.5cm, a pencil diary/ £40/80 notelet (Warranted part of the Barn roof of Mossgiel while occupied by 100 Burns/ verse), 10 x 7cm, and a darning block of skittle form (Pitlochry/B Three tape measures comprising a combination pin cushion example Thompson’s Patent Darning Block), 12.5cm (3) in ivory with pierced and engine turned decoration of waisted cylinder £50/100 form, tape commencing at 17cm, 4.2cm high, a bone example as a 87 turret, tape complete but strengthened at start, 4cm, and another in Mauchline ware – sewing – a rare early knitting needle cylinder vegetable ivory, replacement tape, 4.5cm (3) with work slot, the black ground decorated in red sponge work, 24cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £20/40 £40/80 88 101 No lot Six tape measures comprising a celluloid novelty example in the form of a tiger, complete tape, 5.5cm, two vegetable ivory examples, one Tartan Ware with complete tape, a small white metal disc form example with steel 89 tape on suspension clip, and two others, tapes incomplete (6) Three Tartan ware girdle form pin cushions (Clan Stuart/M’Beth/ (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Gordon) all approx. 4cm (3) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 102 £40/60 Six vegetable ivory tape measures comprising a pear form example, 90 complete tape, 5cm, another as a pineapple, complete tape, 4cm, and A small Tartan ware snuff box by C. Stivens, Laurencekirk, the lid four others, two incomplete (6) painted with a titled view of Balmoral, full length wooden hinge, 98% (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) foil interior with Royal Arms over Stivens stamp, 3.2cm. £40/80 £60/100 103 91 Three tape measures comprising a ring painting early Tunbridge A pair of Tartan ware card markers, numerals in gold on black 10 to ware example, complete but fragile inked tape, 3cm, a bell shaped 900, brass swivel marker covers, 9.5 x 6.5cm. (2) Mauchline ware example (Moffat), 6.5cm, and another of cylinder form £30/50 (Bournemouth From The Pier), both lacking tapes (3) 92 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Tartan ware – sewing – four pieces, comprising a metal shuttle £40/80 (McDuff), 7cm, a double ended girdle pin cushion (McBeth), 4cm, 104 a thimble egg with silver thimble, 4.5cm, and a reel or string box of Two novelty tape measures, comprising a brass cauldron, complete cylinder form (McDonald/ colour floral print), 6.5cm (4) tape in inches and centimetres marked ‘London. Made in Austria’, 3cm. £50/100 high, and a copper and brass coffee grinder with complete printed tape, 93 4.2cm. (2) Tartan ware – five pieces, comprising a book (Stuart/ portrait of Burns) £50/100 titled ‘Burns Poetical Works’ – 1902, 9cm, a napkin ring (Caledonia), a 105 circular stamp box, 4.2cm, another (Gordon), 6.7cm, all with wear (5) Six tape measures, comprising an ivory barrel form example the £50/100 complete tape inked in nails, 3.5cm., a vegetable ivory pedestal 94 example incorporating a double ended pin cushion, 11cm., another of Tartan ware – six pieces, comprising a napkin ring (Caledonia), pineapple form with pin cushion base, complete printed tape, a box another (Indistinct), two cylinder boxes with overhanging lids, a wood bell form example with bone handle with complete printed tape, vinaigrette cylinder (McBeth), 5.2cm, and a needle cylinder, 7.5cm, all 5.7cm., a vegetable ivory crown form example, complete printed tape, with wear (6) 6cm. and a box wood barrel form example the bone spindle lacking £40/80 Stanhope, complete tape but lacking screw cover, 3.8cm. (6) £80/120
8 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 9 106 Pin Cushions A rare dated and named mid 17th Century Elle or measuring stick, 118 Dutch, the baluster handle above a silver collar, the square section A mother of pearl pin cushion in the form of a set of bellows, 9cm ebony tapering shaft divided and inscribed with silver pins ‘Anno 1653’ (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) the square tapering silver tip engraved ‘Eiffien Henurux Eb’, 83cm. £40/80 £200/400 119 107 A good birch bark and quill work American Indian pin cushion Two 19th Century ivory tape measures, comprising a fine example of octagonal form each side decorated with a flower within a garland, the flowerhead overhanging top over a basket weave body, the inked 5.5cm tape in unusual numerical divisions, 3cm., the other with flowerhead (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) top over a ribbed cylinder body, the tape printed in nails, 2.5cm. (2) £50/100 £50/100 120 108 Two disc form pin cushions comprising an ivory example with burnt Three 19th Century ivory tape measures, comprising an example circle decoration, one side inset with a convex mirror, 4.2cm, and with Sadeli top, tape within, 2.5cm., another with pierced cylinder another in mother of pear with roundel decoration, 3.4cm (2) body the tape printed in nails, 2.5cm., and another Chinese with floral (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) pierced overhanging top, replacement tape, 2.2cm. (3) £50/100 £40/80 121 109 Five pin cushions and emeries comprises a reverse glass decorated Two 19th Century ivory tape measures and two waxers, comprising disc form example titled ‘International Exhibition 1862’, 3.5cm, an ivory a basket weave body tape measure with overhanging top, reduced example in the form of a decanter, 4.8cm, an ivory girdle form example printed tape, 3cm., another plain with complete printed tape, 3cm., a lacking infills, 2.2cm, another in gilt metal with turquoise coloured stone fancy ivory disc form waxer, 2.5cm., and another in bone, 2.3cm. (4) borders, some lacking, 2cm, a bone example of tapering cylinder form, £50/100 2.2cm, and a mother of pearl flower head disc form example, 2.5cm 110 (5) A 19th century Dutch wooden measuring stick, ellemaat, square (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) tapering form with turned handle, brass wire divisions and brass tip £50/100 being a quarter ell, 21cm 122 £50/100 Eight pin cushions and emeries comprising four disc form examples 111 two in ebony, another wooden example and another in bone, 3.7cm Two 19th century English wooden measuring or yard sticks dia, another formed from a plum stone, a girdle form example carved comprising a rectangular section example stamped twice ‘VWR 9’ in basket weave, another in turned rosewood, and a square form ivory below a flowerhead, the steel pin divisions in nails, 91cm, the other of example with burnt circle decoration and inscribed to one side ‘Emery’, cylinder form with central brass cylinder repair, the steel pin divisions in 2.4cm (8) nails, 91cm (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £30/50 £60/100 112 123 Two celluloid novelty tape measures comprising a book form Two ivory pin cushions both with burnt circle decoration, the first of example, complete retractable tape, 4.5cm, the other as a dogs head, pedestal form to a girdle form frame lacking infill below a vase form pin tape terminal as tongue, tape complete but frayed at terminal, 5cm cushion, 7.2cm high, and a disc form example, 4.2cm (2) (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £60/100 £50/100 113 124 Three vegetable ivory tape measures, all of barrel form and with Two pin cushions and an emery comprising a pierced bone Stanhopes (Verdun – six views/Bangor and Neighbourhood – six example in the form of a wheelbarrow, repaired to one-wheel support, views/Souvenir De Dieppe – nine views), all complete with tapes, 5.5cm, another from a natural shell with painted velvet infill inscribed approx. 4cm high (3) ‘Polucher’, 4cm, and a silver mounted ‘pumpkin’ stamped ‘Stirling’ (3) £50/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 114 £40/80 Five tape measures, comprising a white metal and mother of pearl 125 circular example, stamped ‘Patent J.B. and S’, 2.2cm, another in brass, Four waxers of disc form comprising two in decorated mother of pearl, a boxwood example, and two vegetable ivory examples, all with tapes one in ivory and another in bone, one side brightly painted with a crown (5) within border, to the other ‘GIVR’, last 2.1cm dia. £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 115 £40/80 Two novelty celluloid tape measures, comprising an apple with leaf 126 and stalk, the printed tape in inches and with wasp terminal, 3cm, and Five cast soft metal animal form pin cushions comprising a swan another of circular form the top with two ladybirds, the tape marked with hinged body, 14.5cm, a cat, 4.5cm, an ostrich stamped to base ‘Made In Germany’, 3cm (2) ‘Made In Japan’, 14cm, a bear, and an owl lacking legs, 6.5cm (5) £60/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 116 £40/80 Two 19th Century ivory tape measures, comprising a well carved 127 example as a basket weave cylinder the overhanging top carved with Two large format bead decorated pin cushion comprising a flowers and leaves, reduced printed tape, 2.5cm, and another as a rectangular purple velvet example decorated with flowers and inscribed pineapple, the tape printed in inches, 3.2cm (2) ‘Life’s Best Pleasure may be who save thee, keep and save thee £50/100 heaven sent treasure’ pin stuck to base ‘Friendship Rhb’,in a glazed 117 top cardboard box, 24.5 x 19.5 x 12cm and another of star form No lot decorated in beadwork diamonds, 16cm (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 11 128 140 Six pin cushions comprising a gold foil book form example titled Three bone pin cushions comprising a disc form example engraved ‘Forget Me Not’, 5cm, a brass casket form example, 5cm, two to one side with a flower and ‘A present from Reigate’, 4cm, a spiral beadwork examples one lacking part of looped border, and two cylinder form pin poppet, cover with old split , 3.5cm, and a basket form vegetable ivory examples (6) example brightly painted with flowers, the pumpkin top below a gilt wire (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) handle, 3cm high (3) £50/100 £40/80 129 141 Eleven pin cushions comprising an ebony cauldron 4.5cm, an Four pin cushions comprising a green leather drum form example, Eskimo shoe, 7cm, a velvet fan, 6cm, a Jockey cap, worn, and seven 3cm, another as a set of bellows in green velvet, 8cm, a rectangular others (11) Bristol card example in the sampler style, one side with a basket of (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) flowers within other motifs, the other ‘From a Friend’ within birds and £40/60 other motifs, ribbon tied corners, 7.5cm, and another as a lady’s shoe, 130 green silk tassel and stitch work, 7cm (4) A collection of larger format pin cushions including a hoof form £80/120 example, 10cm, an Eskimo shoe, 9cm, a pin stuck heart, 15cm and 142 twelve others (15) Five pin cushions comprising a circular example with lace border, the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) silk centre with raised and beadwork flowers and stems, 9cm, a blue £40/80 silk buttoned rectangular example, 6.5cm, another in brown leather as 131 a lady’s boot, 6.5cm, a pink velvet example each side with gilt metal An 18th Century dated and inscribed knitted pin ball in brown and plaque inscribed ‘Souvenir’, 6cm, and a painted card example in the cream one side with two birds and inscribed ‘The Gift is small the Love form of a leaf, 5cm (5) is all – 1777’, the other with a jardinere of flowers within a geometric £60/100 border, minor loss to centre of jardinere, 5cm 143 £300/500 Two rare commemorative pin cushions comprising a foot stool style 132 example of square form, the domed velvet cover painted with flowers A card mounted with various early excavated pins and needles and inscribed ‘Queen Caroline Died 7th Aug 1821’, 7cm, and another annotated including an example dated as 6/7th Century BC, largest, as a throne style chair decorated in beadwork the back inscribed in 11cm, card 22.5 x 15.5cm beads ‘Prince of Wales’, 9cm (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £30/50 144 133 Three pin cushions comprising an example in the form of a throne Five pin cushions comprising a rectangular red velvet and stacked style chair decorated in beadwork and pearls, 9.5cm, a blue and card example, 5cm, a coloured beadwork example with looped border, white beadwork cushion form example, 6cm, and a cream and red silk 7cm, a wicker basket containing velvet fruit, 5cm, a blue silk disc form example as a lady’s boot, 5cm (3) example one side in floral beadwork, 5cm, and a strawberry emery, £50/100 4cm (5) 145 £50/100 Five pin cushions and emeries comprising three strawberry format 134 examples, largest, 10cm, a wool and beadwork cushion example, 5cm, Five pin cushions comprising an embroidered circular pierced card and a colour print rectangular pin card, 7.5cm (5) example, 6.7cm dia, a geometric beadwork cushion form example, £40/80 looped border possibly some lacking, 9cm, a disc form example worked 146 with alphabets, numerals and dated 1831, worn and loss, 5cm, a Five pin cushions comprising a Bristol card rectangular example one wicker basket example, 3.5cm and a knitted and beadwork strawberry side with flower spray the other inscribed ‘Anne’, 7cm, a purple silk emery, 3cm (5) example as a lady’s boot, 4.5cm, a square form beadwork example, £50/100 3cm, another as a wicker basket, 3cm, and a knitted and beadwork 135 strawberry emery, 4cm (5) Two pin cushions comprising a circular knitted disc form example £40/80 decorated in white beadwork, one side dated 1832 within a geometric 147 border, the other a snowflake, ribbon suspension, 5cm, and another Three pin cushions comprising a silk example as a fish with pin form blue knitted circular example elaborately worked with steel beads, 4cm fins, 8.5cm, a card and paper example as a book pin struck ‘Lucy (2) September VIII’, 6cm, and a pink silk disc form example one side £80/120 painted with a child resting by a bridge, 5.5cm (3) 136 £40/80 A good 18th Century silver wire pin ball of spider web pattern with 148 embroidered ribbon girdle and suspension, ball 4cm dia Nine pin cushions comprising two material fruit, another as a cottage £200/400 loaf, a basket, another a pair of silk lady’s boots worn and loss, a 137 Mauchline disc form fern decorated example, 3.5cm, and a good A mid 19th Century French engraved and pierced steel mounted beadwork pillow form example with looped border on a beadwork pin cushion of cut corner rectangular form, elaborately pierced with suspension, 35cm max (9) flowers and Gothic tracery, red velvet cushion, 4.5 x 3cm £50/100 £50/100 149 138 Two 19th Century painted velvet large format pin cushions in the Three bone pin cushions comprising a disc form example one side form of dogs, comprising a seated pug dog with blue bow collar and engraved ‘A friends gift’, 4.7cm dia, another of pail form brightly painted bemused expression, 17cm. high, and a Pekanese, 13.5cm. high. (2) with flowers, 2.5cm, and a double ended barrel form example, 2.2cm (3) £80/120 £50/100 150 139 Two large format pin cushions comprising a faded pin stuck example An 18th Century embroidered pin cushion incorporating a ‘JB-16.3 – (18) 37’, 16cm. and a crochet work example ‘From a Friend swaddled baby, of inward curving square form in ivory silk one side Liverpool 1844’, 16 x 11cm. (2) embroidered with palm style trees, the other with a print of a baby in £30/50 stitched swaddling amid flowering stems, 9cm £100/200
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The Sewing Sale | 11 151 163 A Georgian large format pin cushion of inward curving rectangular A floral painted bone pin cushion and two similar pieces form one side embroidered and pin stuck with flowering leafy stems, comprising a bucket form floral painted pin cushion inscribed ‘Love The the reverse pin stuck ‘AEM 1798 Sweet Baby’ with tasselled silk Giver’ below a swing handle, 5cm, a similar disc form emery, 3.2cm corners, 14 x 12cm. and a needlebook painted with flowers and a basket of flowers, pink £30/50 silk ties, 4.2cm (3) 152 £50/100 Two good ivory pin cushions and a waxer, comprising an oval 164 basket form pin cushion, 4.2cm., another of disc form one side well Three pin cushions and a waxer all in bone comprising a pedestal carved with birds amid branches enclosing a nest with eggs, 5cm., and barrel form example painted with flowers and inscribed ‘Love The a disc form waxer one side carved with flowers and leaves, 2.5cm. (3) Giver’,6.5cm high, another vase form pedestal pin cushion painted with £60/100 flowers, 6.5cm, a cylinder pin cushion with black painted decoration, 153 slight loss to pierced gallery, 4.5cm, and a disc form waxer painted with Nine pin cushions, comprising four soft metal examples, a kingfisher, flowers, 2.4cm dia (4) 8.5cm., a bear, 8cm., a fox, 6.5cm., a shoe, 9cm., a Jerusalem olive £50/100 wood vase form pin cushion, 9cm., a jockey cap pin cushion in green 165 and brown silk, 7cm., a leather pumpkin, 2.7cm., a bone disc form A silver pin cushion in the form of a parrot perched on a mother example, 4.5cm., and a pierced paper hexagonal needle book, 5cm. (9) of pearl pedestal on a circular silver base, Birmingham, 1926 by Adie £80/120 and Lovekin, 10cm high 154 £50/100 Three large format pin cushions, comprising an early 19th cream silk 166 pin stuck pin cushion ‘Welcome Sweet Babe’ with fringed silver wire Five material pin cushions and emeries, comprising a beaded border and one corner tassel, 17cm. square, and two military heart strawberry, a cottage loaf, a mouse and a pumpkin and melon, last shaped examples ‘The East Surrey Regiment’ and ‘Worcestershire 4cm dia. (5) Regiment’, approximately 18cm. (3) £40/80 £40/80 167 155 An attractive silver and enamel disc form pin cushion, decorated A miniature sampler style pin card, of rectangular form one side with leaves and fruit highlighted in purple and green enamel, minor worked with alphabet and numerals, the reverse in green silk, 7 x abrasions and losses to enamel, suspension loop, 3cm 4.3cm. £40/60 £40/80 168 156 Two 19th Century ivory pin cushions, comprising an ivory basket A French carved boxwood pin poppet and an ivory vinaigrette, weave example incorporating a tape measure, slightly reduced printed the pin poppet carved as a quiver of arrows with cloute work and a tape, 3.5cm and a pin cushion in the form of a miniature table, 3.5cm steel bead hanging loop, the top with twelve of fifteen faceted top steel (2) pins, 5.7cm., the vinaigrette of circular flowerhead form pierced and £40/80 decorated with cut steel pins, 4.2cm. diameter. (2) 169 £50/100 A 19th Century Chinese carved ivory butterfly pin cushion, well 157 carved, one side with a bird amid flowering branches, the other with A French pin cushion and cart, the purple velvet pin cushion over a fish, shells, etc. 8cm wide milk glass pannier on gilt metal wheels and frame pulled by a silvered £50/100 metal goat, 16cm. 170 £50/100 An unusual large disc form steel pin cushion, 18th Century, each 158 disc pierced and engraved with flowers and scrolls, 8cm A pin cushion and thimble holder in silver plate modelled as a £50/100 sedan chair, hinged cover over three shaped bevel glass panels, the 171 body decorated with flowers and scrolls, 7cm. A silver novelty pin cushion in the form of a bicorn hat, plum velvet £40/80 infill, some marks rubbed, Birmingham, Rgd. 562 725, 10cm 159 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) A good early 19th Century knitted pin ball, one side in red and white £100/200 inscribed and dated ‘A Small Gift 1805’ amid motifs, the reverse in red 172 on blue with a star and other motifs, stitched silk ribbon girdle, 5.4cm No lot diameter. £800/1200 Sewing Boxes, Etuis, Companions and other Boxes 160 173 A late 18th Century pin ball, in shades of green, light brown and An early 19th Chinese export ware carved tortoiseshell netting cream in bands of variant colours as a radiating octagon, small area box of oval section, the hinged cover with silver scroll thumbpiece, of staining to one side, stitched silk ribbon girdle, small stain and two the whole extensively carved with figures, pagodas and flowers and holes to girdle, 6cm. initialled to an oval cartouche, containing various bone netting tools, £200/400 13.5cm 161 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A good early or mid 18th Century silver wire embroidered orange £100/200 silk pin ball, in five segments, embroidered with birds, insects and 174 flowering stems the top and base with an embroidered silver star motif, A Georgian sewing companion for a child in the form of a gilt 7cm tooled red leather book, the interior with tooled velvet lid pad over a pin £400/800 cushion, thimble stand and open compartment, 7.5 x 5.5 x 3.2cm 162 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Four pin cushions comprising a bone barrel form example £40/80 surmounted by a further floral painted smaller barrel, 5cm, a floral cut 175 bone rectangular pin cushion with replacement liner, 4cm, and two A Victorian sewing basket formed from an armadillo, silk lining with mother of pearl examples one of rectangular cut corner form, the other drawstring, 20cm circular (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/80 £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 13 176 185 A continental leather and steel etui, circa 1840, of octagonal form, An Anglo Indian Sadeli work sewing box of sarcophogal form, with central steel carrying handle and pierced steel hinges, the silk circa 1830, in ivory, bone and steel, the lid interior with a frame lacking lined interior with a few accessories, 13cm high. mirror, over a lidded and compartmentalised tray with a full compliment (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) of ivory and Sadeli work fittings, some minor losses to exterior, 33 x 23 £40/80 x 13cm 177 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A tortoiseshell cased etui, with a full compliment of silver fittings, £80/100 circa 1835, the rectangular case with pewter lines, the flush fitted plum 186 velvet interior with silver thimble engraved ‘Mitty’, a single blade folding An impressive rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid sewing, knife with shell, ribband and floral scales, a decorative fish form bodkin, writing and jewellery casket, circa 1835, the whole with cut mother a pair of steel bladed scissors with floral scroll silver handles and of pearl floral, animal and bird panels within quarter bobbin mouldings, sheath, and a tweezer/ earspoon, 13 x 9 x 3.2cm ring side handles on carved bun feet, the hinged sarcophagal form lid (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) fitted internally with a mirror in tooled leather frame, over a lidded and £100/200 compartmentalised tray in patterned red silk and paper, the front with 178 a pair of panel doors with internal tooled leather panels and fitted with Three sewing companions comprising a floral needle roll with a plain drawer, a jewellery drawer and with a drawer fitted as a writing numerical divisions initialled ‘SR 1884’ and with a bolster pin cushion, slope complete with two original ink wells, complete with key, 34 x 26 6cm, a Georgian leather and tortoiseshell book form companion the x 37cm interior in floral blue silk with tool wallet, note boards, flannels and (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) needle packet compartments, 10.2 x 7 x 1.5cm, and a pale and green £300/500 leather sewing box as a travelling trunk with steel studded decoration, 187 carrying handle and oval catch, 10cm (3) Three mid Victorian sewing boxes all of rectangular form comprising (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) a rosewood example with pewter line inlay and cut mother of pearl lid £50/100 motif, 27.5cm, another ebonised with mother of pearl shield motif to lid, 179 27.5cm, and a burr walnut example with domed lid, geometric inlaid A continental sewing companion, circa 1880, of oval section in escutcheon and lid motif, 27.5cm, each with compartmentalised tray brown leather with engraved gilt metal mounts with looped carrying (3) handle, the silk interior with pin cushion, two gilt thread winders, needle (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) case and stiletto, one end fitted with a purse, the other with a gilt tool £50/100 handle and six crochet hooks, on ball feet, 19cm 188 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A good mid 17th Century needlework and stumpwork box of £80/120 rectangular form raised on gilded hexagonal bun feet, the front with a 180 huntsman and dog in pursuit of a stag and flanked by a camel and lion A shell work sewing box and a blue velvet sewing box, both circa below a sky and sun, the sides and back in stripes of coloured silks 1890, the shell work box of rectangular form the lid with colour print depicting stylised flowers, the lid with a lady holding a book in one hand titled ‘A Present From The Isle Of Wight’ compartmentalised interior below a floral arbour in raised work amid a lion, a stag, a dog, a rabbit, with pin cushion, the lid inscribed in ink ‘Mary Ann Cleaver…’, 17.5cm x a country house, flowers, trees and insects, engraved gilt brass latch 11 x 6.5cm, and a blue velvet and gilt metal mounted, bag form sewing plate to front, the interior lined in painted paper and compartmentalised box, the interior with mirror and a selection of tools, 19cm (2) to one side, overall in good condition the front sides and back fresh (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) with bright colours, the lid a little faded but bright and fresh in parts, 31 £40/60 x 24 x 13.5cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 181 £2000/4000 A dated nanny brooch of conventional form, circular spangle in scroll mount, the tube with thread and needle holder, stamped ‘ DRGM 189 268036’ and spot engraved ‘Mrs Watson 1907’, 5cm A late 19th Century wooden box covered in linen and decorated with (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) wool crewel work, canted front, the lid and base with brass studded £30/50 borders, wear to some corners and discoloured, 22 x 21 x 26cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 182 £40/60 Six sewing companions comprising an olive wood sewing ‘basket’ inlaid with thimble and other tools 21.5cm, a red velvet case with five 190 tools and thimble, 17cm, a hussif, 13cm, a red cardboard sewing box A fine French etui with parcel-gilt silver tools, in red leather- with contents, 16.5cm, a book form leather ‘ Lady’s Companion’, 9.5cm covered case with incut corners, the cover gilt- tooled with chinoiseries and a plated metal ‘cigarette case’ with map of British Isles fitted as a including a pagoda, a child dancing on the back of an ostrich, a bridge sewing companion (6) with figures over lily pond, within a chain-link border, tooled to the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) underside with retailers stamp ‘DREYFOUS – PARIS LONDON NEW £40/80 YORK’, the interior in ivory silk over a flush-fitted ivory velvet base with steel stiletto, scissors, bodkin and needle case all embossed and 183 chased with white metal China figures in elaborate pagoda settings, A Regency sewing box of sarcophagal form covered in diced and a gilt thimble having an arched foliate border, the stiletto cotton brown leather with gilt metal mounts on large brass paw feet and with and needle-case insert each with boars head and diamond marks, for side carrying handles, the front fitted with a drawer, the lid interior Paris, 14 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm with a monochrome print on silk of women and a young boy under an £400/600 arbour within a tooled surround, the lower section compartmentalised and fitted with a pair of printed silk pin cushions, hinged leather 191 compartment, tool card and a pair of lift out boxes, 30 x 25 x 16cm An early 19th Century continental engraved silver etui of oval (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) section and tapering form engraved with flowers, scrolls and leaves £50/100 one side with an oval panel of flowers the other as a vacant cartouche, hinged cover, the interior with engraved bodkin and stiletto, two vacant 184 apertures, 10.5cm A mid Victorian burr yew wood sewing box of sarcophagal form, £150/250 mother of pearl escutcheon and lid oval, wooden ring side handles, bracket style feet, the lid interior with ruched silk letter compartment 192 over a lidded and compartmentalised tray in blue paper and silk, with a A good Georgian sewing companion in the form of a book in card few tools and accessories, 32 x 25 x 18cm and paper, the spine titled ‘Remember me’, the covers with botanical (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) studies in foiled borders, interior with mirror and needle flannel, 7 x 5cm £80/120 £40/80 12 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. 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The Sewing Sale | 13 193 205 A fine Georgian needlework sewing companion in the form of a A mid 19th Century French bonbonniere in card, of rectangular book in green silk, the covers and spine in raised floral silk, the interior form, the sides in patterned pink paper below a glazed curved lid with tool divisions and pin cushion, 6.5 x 5cm reverse decorated with a boy playing a flute with a girl dancing in a £80/120 garden landscape, gilt pressed paper borders, 7.5 x 11cm 194 £80/120 A rare etui for a doll, circa 1850, of tapering rectangular form in 206 tooled green leather, the velvet and silk interior flush fitted with a full A mid 19th Century French bonbonniere in card, of hexagonal form, complement of miniature silver tools comprising needle case, thimble, the sides in pressed paper the lid inset with a coloured print under scissors and stiletto, 4.2 x 2.5cm max glass titled ‘Les Premices de L’Hymen’ within a gilt foil border, pink £200/400 paper interior with mirror to lid, 11cm 195 £60/100 A silver plated etui in the form of a fish with a full complement of 207 fittings, ring suspension to mouth, the blue velvet interior with white A Regency tooled tan leather sewing box for a child or doll, of metal decorative scissors, bodkin, stiletto, thimble and fish form needle elaborate sarcophagal form with gilt tooled decoration on four gilt ball case, 10cm feet, the interior with a printed silk lid panel over a compartmentalised £300/500 interior with silver thimble, bone tape measure, pin cushion, reel and 196 cylinder box, catch lacking, 8.5 x 5.5 x 5.5cm high. A leather cased tambouring or crochet set, the brown leather £100/200 cylinder case with steel mounts the interior with elegant steel handle 208 and full complement of six hooks, 6.7cm high A mid 19th Century French sewing box for a child, of rectangular £80/120 form in ivory paint, the lid with cut steel mounts and moulding, the 197 interior in red silk, central tool card over a mirror base flanked by An unusual Spa work knitting needle or tambouring case of oval compartments for silk winders (four of six present), with pin cushion, section and drawer form with boxwood line decoration, one side with brass thimble and sundry tools, 14 x 6 x 4cm. a landscape painted rectangular panel titled ‘Grand havre, Guernsey’, £60/100 pink paper lined interior, with a few tools, 20cm 209 £80/120 Two French ‘Souvenir’ cardboard sewing boxes circa 1830, both 198 rectangular and with floral painted velvet pin cushion lids, the smaller A mid 19th Century continental sewing companion of rugger ball with internal pin cushion, 13cm and 8.5cm. (2) form in alternate panels of red velvet and steel ornamented diced £50/100 leather, the interior fitted with a silver thimble and a mirror, the lining to 210 the upper section inscribed in pencil ‘Chorida from Sommy, Jan 1856’, Two children’s cardboard sewing boxes, comprising a rectangular 9cm example the lid with a colour print of four young girls and inscribed ‘A £50/100 Present from Brighton/ Made in Germany’, gilt spandrils and clasp, 199 10.5cm and another, circa 1830, the velvet lid painted with flowers, An unusual Georgian travelling mirror of box form, the whitewood the compartmentalised interior with a pin cushion, 9cm, first with a few case with a sliding lid painted with a botanical study within a gilt on accessories. (2) black border, the interior fitted with a mirror, brass suspension ring, 12 £50/100 x 10.2cm 211 £60/100 Two 19th Century colour printed cardboard boxes, comprising 200 a rectangular example the lid with young girls at work and play over A small travelling mirror case, circa 1825 in a rectangular whitewood ‘Choclat Des Enfants’, the interior with eight individual boxes each with case, the sides decorated with anthemion motifs, the sliding lid painted print of a young girl, 13 x 10cm., and a set of three graduated boxes with three female classical figures, the interior fitted with a mirror, 5 x each with a juvenile colour print, largest 8.5cm. (4) 7.5cm £50/100 £50/100 212 201 A crocodile skin sewing companion of bag form, the silver gilt A pair of Spa work rectangular boxes, possibly for playing cards, mounts for London 1917, unfolding to an oval with various tools, needle each with a titled view ‘Place de Spa’ and ‘La gezonsrere pres de Spa’ book and a pair of oval winders, 16 cm. wide closed. within decorative black and gilt borders, pink painted interiors, 11.8 x £50/100 9cm (2) 213 £60/100 An unusual needlework exercise portraying a group of sewing 202 tools, probably French, circa 1830, housed in a circular wooden A good miniature etui in the form of a natural walnut, internal floral box covered in coloured paper, the ‘tools’ comprising bodkin, needle decorated tool mount with a full complement of fittings comprising case, scissors and stiletto, and needlecase executed from and on a needle case, thimble, bodkin, stiletto, scissors and ivory swivel notelet, bed of cottons, bound, stitched, painted and with remnants of sequins, the gilt fresh, 4.5cm wide set within a floral paper border within a border of needlework three £300/500 dimensional flowers and a ribbon border, 20.5cm. diameter, 6cm. high with a modern protective cardboard lid. 203 £150/250 A Georgian miniature ‘garden’ contained in a natural walnut, the walnut in four segments hinged and united by a green silk cord, each segment decorated as a grotto with roses, flowers, mirrors and foliage, one segment with a paper figure, approximately 4cm high £200/400 204 A mid 19th Century French bonbonniere in card, the star form base raised on feet and inset with mirror panels, the raised octagonal centre with a domed reverse decorated glass panel head and shoulders of a young woman, the interior in spotted paper with glass base and gilt pressed paper cartouche, 13.5cm max. £100/200
14 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 15 214 220 An exceptional mid-Victorian sewing box by ‘F. West Manufacturer An attractive George III whitewood sewing box, with fitted interior, to Her Majesty’, the box of rectangular form in ebony the lid and front of rectangular form, the sides with green line inlay, the lid in burr yew extensively decorated in geometric and leaf form cut mother of pearl, centred by a blue and white oval print of cherubs within an inlaid oval, the interior with a full complement of high quality fittings below an inset with a conforming edge border, the interior in pink paper and fitted with mirror. The tray in blue silk, compartmentalised and fitted comprising a netting cylinder, flanked by an ivory tape measure and bone thimble, a set of six mother of pearl top pierced and carved reels with finials, two whitewood cylinder boxes with inlaid lids, a set of four reels on rod, matching tape measure, waxer and emery, a set of twelve mother of a set of three whitewood cotton barrels, a removable pin cushion and pearl silk winders, a cut glass and gilt mounted scent bottle, a matching needle book, together with an ivory clamp, 21.5 x 16 x 7cm. pair of needle book and pin cushion with carved and pierced mother £200/400 of pearl covers, a central removable tray with needle, mother of pearl 221 tambour hook, a gold bladed folding knife with mother of pearl scales A lady’s companion and a reel roll, the first in green leather with by Joseph Norton, two pairs of gold mounted steel scissors, a peg titled tooled spine the interior with tool card, thimble, pin cushion and a in worm corkscrew, a gold tweezer earspoon, a mother of pearl gold few accessories, 10cm. high, and a purple silk reel case decorated with mounted letter knife the handle incorporating a folding steel blade steel and other beads, 10cm. (2) by Palmer, folding glove hook, an open top gold thimble the frosted £40/80 ground with raised Gothic freeze, the companion thimble (hole to top), bodkin, a gold propelling pencil with inset amethyst top, and a gilded 222 pearl handle stiletto. Original gilded key for the lock stamped ‘Barrons A mid 19th Century green glass and gilt metal mounted sewing Patent’ below a crown, the case with an inset engraved brass tablet companion in the form of an egg, the cover raised by a chain on a between the hinges ‘F. West Manufacturer to Her Majesty, Prince pulley within a gilt frame with ring side handles on a cross frame base Albert and Royal Family, No 1 St James’s Street’, 31.5 x 22.5 x 13cm on ball feet, the cover revealing a velvet mounted interior with a full high. Fitzmaurice West cutlers and dressing case manufacturers to complement of gilt fittings comprising thimble, needle case, scissors, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and other members of the stiletto, button hook and bodkin, 28.5cm high, 10cm wide at base. Royal Family succeeded G. Palmer at 1 St James’s Street in 1844. £400/600 They moved to 2 St. James’s Street in 1877 and then to 9 King Street 223 in 1883. A good Palais Royal satinwood and steel mounted sewing box £1500/2500 of rectangular form with a full complement of fittings, mother of pearl 215 diamond escutcheon, the lid with faceted steel mounts enclosing a A good Spa Work sewing box, circa 1835, in stained burr yew mother of pearl shield and a steel carrying handle. The interior with or maple, the concave sides below an overhanging lid with a mirror lined lid over a flush fitted velvet tray with a pair of steel winding concave border painted with flowering heathers and enclosing a clamps, a pair of mother of pearl snowflake winders, a cut glass scent rectangular painted panel of fisher folk and a dog at the waterline with bottle with hinged gilt cover, a steel and gilt metal stiletto, a pair of gilt shipping beyond, the interior with a silk lid panel over a lidded and mounted scissors and a further smaller pair with mother of pearl basket compartmentalised tray with pin cushion and two pin dishes in painted of fruit arms below oval loops, a gilt earspoon bodkin, an engraved floral surrounds, a reel compartment and three figural and landscape mother of pearl 11 inch folding rule, gilt metal thimble, needle case, painted lids, 28.5 x 21.5 x 11cm. high. and toothpick, a mother of pearl tambour hook, bodkin, a pair of reels £200/400 and a further steel clamp with pin cushion top, complete with key, 26.2 x 18 x 9cm. 216 £800/1200 A Georgian whitewood sewing and reel box, probably early Tunbridge ware, of rectangular form, the sliding lid with a red tinted 224 print of a classical woman with lyre within a painted outer border, A fine Palais Royal burr yew wood and inlaid sewing box, circa. compartmentalised interior with thread holes lined in pink paper, the 1835, with a full complement of fittings, the sides of concave form base fitted with a drawer to one end, 16.5 x 9 x 7.7cm. high. within satinwood and black trellis borders, the cushion lid with a raised £60/100 oval centred by a mother of pearl rectangle and a cut steel carrying handle. The lid interior fitted with a mirror, over a flush fitted velvet tray 217 with floral embroidered border with gilt and pearl beads. The fittings in A Regency red leather sewing box of bombe form, raised on brass mother of pearl comprising a set of four snowflake winders, a carved lion paw feet with brass lion mask ring handles, gilt brass escutcheon cornucopia needle case, a stiletto with steel shaft, a bodkin, a tambour and lid plaque and fox mask spandrils, the interior with a printed silk hook, a thimble with gilt metal bands, a pair of steel scissors with gilt lid panel over a pink paper compartmentalised tray with three hinged mounts to mythical beast arms and serpent oval loops, a pair of steel leather lids pierced for threads, a pair of silk pin cushions, needle book scissors, and a cut glass scent bottle with gilt screw cover, complete etc. 24.5 x 16 x 11cm. with silk squab and key, 26.5 x 18.5 x 11cm. £150/250 £800/1200 218 225 A rare and unusual Georgian whitewood card game or ‘fortune A good set of floral painted French ivory sewing tools, circa. telling’ box of rectangular form, the sides painted with floral garlands 1830, comprising a quiver form needle case, 7.7cm., a stiletto with gilt and scrolls, the sliding lid with a circular monochrome print of a woman mounted steel shaft, 9.7cm., a tambour hook with gilt mount and steel seated in a tree with a distaff, the two division interior with a set of turn key, 11.5cm., and thimble with gilt rim. (4) hand written cards to one side raised by pulling a ribbon which runs £80/120 through the box, the set of 44 gold edged cards hand written in ink with a question, the answer to the reverse, cards 8.7 x 6cm, box 7 x 7.5 x 226 10.2cm. high. A Regency whitewood pen work weighted sewing box, the sides £150/250 decorated with flowers between wavy lines, brass lion mask ring side handles, below a geometric woolwork top, the interior lined in blue 219 paper, 18.5 x 13.2 x 11cm. A documentary French sewing box of rectangular small format £80/120 inlaid to the front and lid with brass lines the lid with a brass, bone and tortoiseshell cartouche, the interior with curtained mirror over a lidded and compartmentalised base, inscribed in ink ‘B. Shalletin given by her father Paris June 20th 1849’, 18.5 x 13.5 x 8.5cm. high. £50/100
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The Sewing Sale | 15 227 235 A mid 17th Century silk needlework casket, the front with a pair An attractive mid Victorian rosewood sewing box by Woolfield of hinged doors with a male and female figure amid flowers, castles, inlaid in pearl and brass of rectangular form, the front and lid inlaid houses and a tent, below a rectangular hinged section reducing to a with flowers and leaf scrolls, the lid interior with decorative silk panel box top, the remainder of the exterior divided into geometric panels of with internal printed label for ‘S Woodfield; Manufacturers of Desks, coloured silk work, the hinged top section lined in marble paper with Dressing Cases and C, 28, Buchanan Street, Glasgow’, over a lidded six divisions, the lower section with two fitted pin cushions divided by a and compartmentalised tray with seven mother of pearl flower top removeable mirror, the doors revealing an arrangement of four drawers reels, a similar waxer, emery and tape measure, a silver thimble, in panels of geometric silk, pierced brass escutcheon, metal handle mother of pearl letter knife, a gilt ‘souvenir’ pin cushion and a tool card mounts to lid, raised on carved wooden segmented half dome feet, with tools, a further label within the tray, with key, 31.5 x 23 x 12.5cm silver braid corners, general wear and discolourisation to exterior, 25 x £500/600 18 x 29cm. 236 £1000/2000 A mid Victorian papier Mache sewing box of rectangular form the 228 black ground decorated in gilt, the base and lid with shaped borders, A fine ivory and shibayama etui, the rounded corner rectangular the lid with a raised oval painted with lily of the valley the front with case decorated with a bird, flowers, insect on a gilded foliate ground, further flowers and leaves. The interior with ruched purple silk panel the flush fitted interior complete with gilded fittings comprising pencil, over a lidded and compartmentalised tray In silver paper and purple folding knife, stiletto, bodkin, thimble, steel and gilt mounted scissors silk with a fitted set of five engraved top mother of pearl reels on bone and a needle case, variously decorated, gilt clasp and hinge, 12 x bases labelled for ‘I and W Taylor’, matching tape measure and waxer, 6.5cm a silver thimble and a tool card with five tools, 31 x 23 x 12cm £300/500 £300/400 229 237 Two sewing boxes and a tray, comprising a cantilever 1950’s oak A Georgian mahogany, line inlaid and crossbanded rectangular sewing box on angled legs with central carrying handle, 40cm wide, an sewing box, brass floral ring side handles on brass ball feet, the pink early 19th century mahogany box with sliding internal tray, 27.5cm, and paper lined interior with a print to the lid ‘View of Cliefden House…’ with a dovetailed eight compartment mahogany tray, 20cm (3) a few accessories including a silver plated spool knave, 33 x 23 x 16cm £30/50 £50/100 230 238 A ceramic ‘giant reel’ sewing box with end label for ‘Dewhurst’s A unique mid 19th century rosewood, boxwood and steel studded, Sylko…’ internal tray with conforming pin cushion, 15cm dia and a sewing box of canted rectangular form, the lid with central raised small example, 4.7cm (2) tablet, opening in the form of a writing box, the upper section with a £30/50 rosewood border hinged compartment with brass grill flanked by glazed 231 panels of three dimensional flowers amid shells and foliage, the lower A ‘Ladys Companion’ leather book form sewing companion the red section with a lidded compartment flanked by leather needle books morocco case tooled and titled to the spine and stamped ‘W Lund and a removeable box compartment for nine reels over a pin cushion, Maker, 24, Fleet St’, the interior with tool/skein card with steel needle flanked by conforming glazed panels of flowers etc, on canted block case, scissors and bodkin, further fitted with a scent bottle, pencil and feet, 28 x 20 x 16cm folding silver bladed knife, replacement thimble, 9.5 x 5.5 x 4cm This highly unusual box is of uncertain origin, the lock is certainly £40/80 English suggesting it may have been made here by an emigree craftsman 232 £400/600 An attractive Palais Royal satinwood sewing box, circa 1835, of elongated octagonal form, the cushion lid with a symmetrical design of 239 cut steel pins enclosing a rectangular mother of pearl plaque, the lid An early Victorian papier mache rectangular sewing box of small interior fitted with a mirror over an ivory velvet flush fitted tray with gold size, the lid and sides painted all over with continuous river landscapes wire embroidered pin cushion the mother of pearl fittings comprising the lid incorporating a ruined castle, the lid interior with printed and two pairs of snowflake mother of pearl thread winders in mirror plain silk panel, the confirming lidded and compartmentalised tray with compartments, a bodkin, a tambour hook, a thimble, a rectangular a set of five decorative mother of pearl top reels, a silver thimble and needle case, a stiletto, a pair of steel and gilt mounted scissors with three tools, the internal edges of the box with gilt scrolls, 20.5 x 14 x floral arms and oval loops, a cut glass scent bottle and a further pair of 7cm steel scissors, steel lid handle present but damaged, on four steel ball £300/400 feet complete with key, 21.5 x 15.3 x 9.5cm 240 £500/800 A mid Victorian coromandel wood rectangular sewing box 233 the front and lid inlaid with panels of cut mother of pearl, the lid A mid Victorian sewing companion of bag form, in green leather interior with ruched blue silk panel, over a conforming lidded and of oval section, with bands of gilt tooled leather with colour onlays, gilt compartmentalised tray with two thimbles and five various tools, 30.5 x brass four leaf clover clasp, the silk lined interior with pin cushion, gilt 23 x 15cm metal scissors, needle case, stiletto, bodkin and thimble, each end £200/300 opening, one fitted with a gilt crochet hook handle and four hooks, the 241 other a purse, twin gilt brass carrying chains, 13.5 x 8cm A late 19th century French sewing box of rectangular form, the £150/200 white lacquer ground with polished steel mounts the lid inset with a 234 glazed floral tapestry panel, the blue silk lidded and compartmentalised An attractive late Victorian sewing companion of canted corner interior with a selection of accessories, 21 x 10 x 5.5cm rectangular form with metal mounts and catch, covered in plum silk £50/80 and machine embroidered with flowers, the interior with mirror over 242 three bone tools, plated scissors, steel bodkin and silver thimble, Four late 19th century/ early 20th century sewing companions two 15.5cm covered in plush, two in leatherette, all with a selection of tools and £50/80 accessories, largest 24cm (4) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £40/80
16 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 17 243 252 Four sewing and knitting companions comprising a black leather An attractive mid Victorian papier mache sewing box, of oval example with mirror to lid, 13.5cm, a leather wallet form example, rectangular form, decorated all over with polychrome flowers 21cm, both with tools and accessories, and two wallet form leather cases amid gilt borders, the interior with pink silk and velvet lidded and containing knitting needles, one marked for ‘W.H. Head and Son’, 19cm (4) compartmentalised tray with a set of six flower head mother of pearl (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) top reel holders, waxer, tape measure and emery, lock stamped ‘VR £40/80 Patent’, 26 x 18 x 7.5cm 244 £150/250 A good Victorian shell decorated box, of rectangular form 253 elaborately decorated with a vast selection of shells in variant sizes A mid 19th Century Palais Royal sewing box, of rectangular form, arranged in a symmetrical form, mahogany carcass with internal pine veneered in stripes of light and dark, the lid with a fancy veneer panel divisions, on four bun feet, with key, 34 x 18 x 15cm with gilt carrying handle within a border of decorative gilt brass studs. £300/500 The lid interior with silk squab over a purple velvet flush fitted tray with 245 silver wire pin cushion, two pairs of mother of pearl snowflake winders, An attractive mid-Victorian coromandel wood rectangular sewing ornate silver handled scissors, needle case, stiletto and thimble, folding box, the front and lid inlaid in floral cut and engraved mother of pearl mother of pearl tweezer/earspoon, and a pearl bodkin, with key, raised and abalone within geometric inlaid borders, the lid with ruched silk on brass ball feet, 18.5 x 13.5 x 9.5cm letter panel within a tooled border, over a blue silk and silver foil £200/300 compartmentalised tray with six slightly variant mother of pearl top 254 reels, four inward curving silk winders, two silver thimbles and sundry A mid 19th Century Palais Royal musical burr walnut sewing box, tools, with a key, 30.5 x 22 x 14cm of near oval section with mother of pearl escutcheon and lid plaque, the £150/250 lid fitted with a mirror over a velvet flush fitted tray with ivory handled 246 stiletto, needlecase, and reel, silver thimble, folding knife, steel bodkin, A mid 19th Century ivory etui by Lund of London, the rectangular cut glass scent bottle and replacement steel scissors, the musical curved corner case engraved to one corner ‘Madeleine’, the flush fitted movement in need of attention, replacement bun feet, 16.5cm double interior with engraved gilt pencil, three tortoiseshell handled £200/300 tools, a silver thimble and two replacement pairs of steel scissors, 255 engraved gilt catch and hinge, stamped ‘Lund Maker 56/57, Cornhill, A Georgian burr yew wood rectangular sewing box, crossbanded London’, 13 x 5.5cm and edged in boxwood, the front fitted with a compartmentalised £50/100 drawer, the lid slightly canted , the interior with elaborately veneered lid 247 panel, on bun feet, 26 x 19 x 16cm A Georgian mahogany sewing box with a comprehensive £80/120 selection of ivory fittings, the rectangular box with banded edges 256 and a drawer to the front, the interior with blue silk lid lining over a A Regency red leather sewing box for a child, of sarcophagal form conforming compartmentalised base. The ivory fittings including gold/ with oval gilt escutcheon and lid plaque, raised on four lion paw cast silver ivory bead jars, an ivory shuttle, 14.5cm, ivory tambour hook, two brass feet, the lid interior with printed silk panel, the lower section lined ivory clamps, an ivory knitting Nancy, four cotton barrels, a multiple in tan leather with velvet pin cushion, needle book, tool card, and a few reel, a lucet and other pieces, the front compartment fitted with a accessories, with key, 13.5 x 9.5 x 7.5cm netting cylinder, the drawer containing various wooden netting tools £80/120 and gauges, ivory side and drawer handles, 31 x 21 x 12cm 257 £150/250 An early 19th Century Anglo Indian horn sewing box, of 248 sarcophagal form, the base section reeded, the lid with a raised An attractive and well fitted papier mache sewing box by Jennings radiating reeded panel below a carved knop, the interior with lidded and and Bettridge, circa 1840, the black ground decorated in gilt and compartmentalised tray with fitted pin cushions and a few accessories, polychrome with flower heads, tasselled ropes, and other motifs, on ebonised bun feet, with key, chips to front corners of lid, 22 x 16 x ogee sides to a cushion lid, bracket feet. The interior with silk and 13cm velvet compartment over a conforming lidded and compartmentalised £100/200 tray with six mother of pearl top reel holders, two sd, silver handled 258 scissors, stiletto and bodkin, and an additional mother of pearl stiletto, A late Victorian rosewood sewing box, of rectangular form, mother stamped to base ‘Jennens and Bettridge Maker To The Queen’ below of pearl escutcheon and lid circle, the interior with compartmentalised a crown, 30 x 22.5 x 14cm tray with a few accessories and reels, 30 x 22 x 11cm £250/350 £30/50 249 259 A good Spa work rectangular sewing box labelled for ‘Hri. Jehin’, A late 18th/early 19th Century Chinese export lacquer sewing box, the lid with an extensive painted panel titled ‘Entrée de Spa’, the the sides of undulating form the scalloped lid rising to a raised panel, interior with lid mirror over a compartmentalised tray with fitted pin the whole decorated in gold and silver lacquer on a maroon ground cushion, surrounded by a pair of cylinder bead pots and three lids all raised on carved dragon head feet, the lid interior with two bamboo painted with titled scenes, with an oval printed label ‘a la Reine Victoria, sprays over a compartmentalised and lidded tray with a full selection Hri. Jehin, Peintre Fabricant A Spa’, 26.5 x 17.5 x 8.5cm of carved ivory fittings, including a clamp, shuttle, pair of needle cases, £140/180 29.5 x 21 x 12cm 250 £300/500 A mid 19th Century continental clamp form sewing etui, the 260 wooden mounted steel clamp supporting a green stained wooden A fine late 19th Century French ivory etui with 18ct two colour cylinder below a domed pin cushion top, the interior with ivory thimble, gold fittings, the case of shaped outline the lid initialled ‘CT’, the flush boxwood needle case, turned multiple reel and tape measure exiting fitted interior with gold handled stiletto, bodkin, shield mounted thimble through the side, the lid inset with a mirror, 19cm with two colour gold frieze, a tapering needle case and a pair of steel £40/80 bladed scissors with floral and leaf decorated gold arms to ribbed oval 251 loops, gilt hinge and clasp, 12 x 6cm A Georgian burr yew wood sewing box, of sarcophagal form with £600/800 boxwood strung corners, the interior with ruched silk lid panel, the 261 lidded and fitted compartmentalised tray with sundry accessories An attractive late 18th/early 19th Century tortoiseshell etui, of including thimble, reel, thread winders, the box on brass ball feet, shaped outline, inlaid with silver swags and vases of flowers, the complete with key, 24 x 19 x 14cm interior with tool mount now with glass scent bottle only, 7cm high £80/120 £100/200 16 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 17 262 273 A good late 18th/early 19th Century Staffordshire enamel etui, of Two early 20th Century continental etuis comprising a Dutch blue large tapering cylinder form, the green ground with four landscape and paper covered example and a brown paper covered example of cut figure panels amid gold scrolls and white trellis and dot work, gilt brass corner rectangular form, each with three silver tools, 12 and 12.5cm joint and ferrule, the interior with gilt brass tool mount, lacking fittings, (2) 10.2cm high, 3.8cm max. dia. £50/100 £150/250 274 263 An early 20th Century continental sewing companion the case An unusual 18th Century engraved and gilded double hinge etui, with curved front and covered in grey paper, the yellow silk and velvet of rectangular section and inward curving form, the upper lid hinged interior with silver tools comprising disc form pin cushion, bodkin, and with flush catch disguised in the engraving, internal tool mount, the needle case, stiletto, crochet hook, thimble and two pairs of graduated lower section with conforming catch and fitted as a thimble container, steel scissors, 19 x 15cm 13.5cm £40/80 £150/250 275 264 No lot A good early 19th Century Spa work counter box of rectangular form, the green ground within multiple colour line borders, the lid Needleworks and Costume painted en grisaille with a titled view of houses and landscape ‘La 276 Geronstere Pres De Spa’ the six division interior with four titled counter A fine Charles II lace collar worked with leaves, flowers, drapes and boxes – Le Bricolet/Le Watkoz/La Cascade Du Coo/Le Tonnelet and other motifs, 24cm deep x 150cm approx, some minor loss with two printed labels ‘Darbo Md Tabletier au 3 signes pas faydeau, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) No 21’, 29 x 14.5 x 5.5cm £200/300 £100/200 277 265 A small late 17th Century/early 18th Century oval silk needlework No lot panel depicting a shepherdess, sheep, trees and a farm house within a silver wire chain stitch border with sequins and mounted on floral 266 printed silk, in a 19th Century gilt gesso decorative frame, the colours A Regency part pen work and part painted demonstration sewing bright and fresh, the oval 8cm, max frame measurement 15 x 11.5cm box with printed trade label of “W.I. Reeves and Son 80, Holborn Bridge, £100/200 London”, of sarcophagus form, each part with an incomplete variant 278 technique or process, gilt brass ring side handles with floral and leaf back A pair of wool work embroidered floral slips and a pair of silk plates, gilt brass floral bracket feet, marbled paper base with trade label, wall hangings, the pair of slips each as a flower and leaves in tones 23 x 18 x 14.5cm By 1819 William John Reeves was 65 and the of blue, yellow, green and brown, 17th Century or later, 17.5cm and business became W.J. Reeves and Son when his son James Reeves a pair of tear shaped cream silk wall hangings embroidered with pairs (1794-1868) joined the business. In 1829 the business relocated to of hearts, trailing leaves, and jardineres of flowers, within blue ribbon Cheapside and this box can therefore accurately be dated to 1819-1829 borders below hanging loops, fading and wear, 27cm, contained in an £150/250 old cardboard box the interior lid with a print of a basket of plums titled ‘ 267 J.B de Ynigo, Bordeaux Imperials’, 29.5cm (5) A nanny brooch, circular spangle in leaf and scroll mount, stamped £80/120 ‘DRGM 682605’, 4.5cm 279 £30/50 A 17th Century needlework purse of near square form, the silver 268 wire stitched ground decorated to each side with variant flowers in A rosewood and brass inlaid sewing box of sarcophagal form, circa petit point in shades of pink and green, the stems in silver chain stitch 1835, the lid and front with cut brass floral panels and quarter bobbin or braid, twist of silver cord to one corner, 8 x 8.5cm. † Invoice from mouldings, the lid cartouche initialled ‘HHD’, on turned bun feet, the Christopher Clarke Antiques Sept 23rd 1976 £37 interior with ruched silk panel within a gilt tooled leather frame over a (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) lidded and compartmentalised tray with six variant mother of pearl reel £100/200 holders, waxer emery and a few other tools, 29 x 21 x 15.5cm 280 £100/200 An early 18th Century knitted purse the cream ground applied with 269 flowering stems in green pink and blue, draw string top, silver wire A late 19th Century/early 20th Century stained wood Japanese tassels to base, 12 x 9.5cm † Probably the second purse from lot 532 sewing box the lower section fitted two small drawers over three long Neal Sons and Fletcher 1980 See lot 281. drawers each with a metal handle, below a side mounted bracket (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) supporting a further drawer below a box, 20 x 23 x 51cm £80/120 £40/60 281 270 A documentary mid 18th Century knitted purse the lower section in A red morocco and gilt tooled wallet form sewing companion, red applied with cream beads below a green band inscribed in cream circa 1815, bright steel catch, interior in tan leather with numerical beads ‘Hope is my comfort M.B’, 12 x 8cm with a hand written label compartments, two leaf flannel and tool mount, complete with original ‘Made by Mary Blackburn (about 1745) prior to marriage with Stephen unused pencil, 10 x 7cm closed Hope Gt Gt Grandfather of Mr Hope, Basildon, and a further label ‘Lent £50/100 by Miss Hope – Torquay’ † With invoice and catalogue for Neal Sons 271 and Fletcher, 1980, The contents of Broomhill, Ipswich Road, Suffolk’ An early 20th Century Belgian etui, the rectangular case covered Lot 532 – The Executors of Miss P.M. Hope in mottled brown paper to simulate leather, the velvet and silk interior (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) flush fitted with silver stiletto, bodkin, thimble, scissors and needle £50/100 case, most with leaf decoration, various marks, 12.5cm 282 £40/80 Nine various bags and purses 19th Century and later comprising 272 a small blue velvet drawstring bag decorated in steel beads with floral An early 20th Century Italian etui, the rectangular case covered in panels and tassels 12cm, a knitted purse in the form of a stocking, grained leather, the silk and velvet interior with a printed label ‘Dco 14cm, two blue and steel bead misers purses, four beadwork evening Cravanzola….Roma’, with six silver mounted tools mostly decorated bags and purses and a French embroidered purse/wallet, 11 x 9.5cm with flowers in the Art Nouveau style comprising, disc form pin cushion, closed. (9) The first probably Genoa Velvet reticule, Thomas Hudson, stiletto, bodkin, thimble, scissors and needle case, 15.5cm Cirencester 21st September 1971 £5-50 £60/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 18 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 19 283 292 An 18th Century stomacher in gold watered silk, the couched metal A 17th Century whitework stomacher, Italian quilted in white linen, thread outlining padded flowers motifs and pods in silver metal thread, 25 x 19cm, and a cuff or tab white quilted with central Dorset button, complete with linen side tabs, 38 x 16.5cm, in a glazed box frame, 46.5 20cm (2) x 22.5xm The watercolour drawing of this item suggests it (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) was acquired in Coventry in 1971 £100/200 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 293 £150/250 Two 18th Century whitework fine linen caps constructed in three 284 pieces with panels of drawn thread embroidered in satin of quilted or A good 18th Century embroidered pocket of large size the fine scale design couched with fine cord each scale decorated with French cream linen ground embroidered in yellow silk in back and satin knots, 19cm, and another in quilted whole linen in a geometric design (2) stitch with lyre form motifs, backed by pierced patterned linen † The drawing of the first item suggests it was acquired Coventry 1972 edged with cream fine linen, lined with coarse linen, 40 x 27cm max (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) The watercolour drawing of this item suggests it was acquired in 1972 £100/200 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 294 £200/400 Two 18th Century white work linen caps one in three panels of 285 quilted linen, 17cm, another in Italian quilting with flowers, leaves and A rare 17th century slap soled mule or vamp in blue velvet with whirls, 21.5cm (2) silver wire floral scroll embroidery, white kid heel and upper sole with (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) braid stitched heel seam, sole unattached at heal, tooled brown leather £100/200 liner, 21cm 295 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A 17th Century floral needlework panel probably from a bed, £500/800 coarse linen backing worked with scrolling leaves and flowers in 286 wool and silk within diamond pattern borders, some loss, wear and A pair of embroidered slippers 18th /19th Century , in red felt lined background staining, 44 x 185cm in kid leather edged with velvet, each embroidered in raised silver wire (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) flowers and pods, tan leather soles, 23cm (2) £200/300 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 296 £80/120 A mid 17th Century stump work picture of rectangular form centered 287 by a lady playing a guitar below an arbour surrounded by flowering A mid 17th Century needlework prayer book cushion of rectangular stems, a lion with bead eyes, a leopard, ladybirds and birds on form worked with a man and woman in a garden below a sun, each branches and a half sun, many of the leaves three dimensional, 37.5 upper corner with a castle or house, some flowers stems and other x 30cm, in a glazed gilt frame, 45 x 37.5cm † Invoice Christopher details in couched silver thread, silver braid edges, one only silver Clarke, 22nd October 1976 £150 corner tassel, pink silk backing, 25.5 x 18cm, in a glazed box frame (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 23.5 x 31.5xm £1500/2500 The watercolour drawing of this item suggests it was acquired in Stow 297 On The Wold 1972 Invoice from Christopher Clarke Antiques, August A Georgian silk and floral embroidered waist coat brightly worked 1st 1972, £35 with roses, thistles and shamrocks, pocket flaps, floral embroidered (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) buttons, lining and back with some loss, the front with some staining £500/1000 and shredding, 65cm, and a black full length military patrol coat 288 generally in poor condition (2) A 17th Century embroidered rectangular panel centered by an (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) arched top mirror, the silver stitched background with silver thread £50/100 arabesques, sequins and silk embroidered flowers in pink and blue, 298 20.5 x 15cm, in a glazed gilt frame, 28 x 22cm A 17th Century Honiton lace handkerchief the broad border of (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) flowers and leaves, plain cotton centre, 38.5 x 40cm, in a glazed frame £200/400 47cm square 289 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A 17th Century coloured beadwork panel dated 1655, the cream £200/400 bead ground with three flowerheads and leaves, a snail and a 299 caterpillar, initialled and dated ‘EB 1655’, 18 x 26cm The Three 19th Century needleworks comprising a silk embroidered watercolour drawing of this lot suggests it was acquired in Stow On rectangular picture of the young Jesus flanked by Mary and Joseph The Wold and also notes ‘some damage – repaired with some modern in an open landscape, 34 x 43cm, in a glazed maple frame, a small beads otherwise design slightly modified because of number of original rectangular needlework silk picture of a shepherdess and sheep, beads. stained and worn, 19 x 14cm in a glazed frame, and a continental (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) needlework rectangular geometric panel tasselled to lower edge, in a £300/500 glazed frame, 19.5 x 62cm (3) 290 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A mid 17th Century silk on silk rectangular needlework picture £40/60 in various stitches centered by a lady side saddle on a horse led by a 300 male groom with a further figure on a camel style horse, amid flowers, A quantity of needleworks, white work trimmings, material pieces and birds on branches, tents, caterpillar, snail and other motifs, minor loss a feather fan, linen etc (qty) to right of head of groom, 21 x 31cm, in a glazed frame 28 x 37cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) The watercolour drawing of this item suggests it was acquired in Stow £40/80 On The Wold 1971 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 301 £400/800 An attractive and finely executed mid 18th Century silk floral embroidered reticule, of unusually large size, the base in silk wrapped 291 wire modelled as a basket, the body in alternate stripes of floral silk A 17th Century whitework stomacher in white linen or cotton in embroidery divided by knotted open panels, the drawstring with Italian quilted pattern with stylised flowers and leaves, 32.5 x 21.5cm elaborate tassels below a knotted border, 38 x 28cm. approximately. max £300/500 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £100/200
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The Sewing Sale | 19 302 309 A fine 17th century purse or case in two parts, the ground of silver An 18th Century whitework band sampler worked in variable sized wire on a yellow silk core, laid down with pink silk couching in a diaper bands with panels of cutwork in a glazed frame, 41 x 20cm pattern, each end with a gusset of conforming design trimmed in silk (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) and silver cord, the inner section plain, the outer decorated to each £100/200 side with contoured velvet panel stitched with flowers and leaves in 310 metal and coloured silk threads, one side with a peacock the other a A late 17th Century/early 18th Century whitework band sampler pair of birds, the outer case with a border of red velvet decorated with worked with three bands of cutwork over a plain panel and further raised flowers, the interior lined with a brocaded crimson silk, 15.5 x bands of geometric stitch work and a large bottom panel of flowers and 9.5cm geometric motifs, in a double sided glazed frame, 44.5 x 16.5cm This finely decorated purse or case now of ‘flat’ form may originally (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) have been conceived as a cylinder container for a specific object or £150/250 document, the exceptional workmanship suggests it was made by a skilled professional needle worker for someone of considerable wealth 311 and stature and is in remarkable condition for it’s age Three Victorian polychrome samplers comprising a sampler by £500/100 ‘Mary Ann Lees, aged 10 years, Febry 15, 1842’ worked with alphabets and numerals, trees and birds over a verse and further numerals above 303 a house flanked by trees within a trailing border, in a glazed oak frame, Four framed needleworks and silks, comprising a petit point interior 38 x 42cm, another, by ‘Jane Jones, Age 7, 1857’ worked with a house scene depicting Red Riding Hood, 38 x 31cm, a black hair or silk oval amid flowering jardinières and other motifs within a trailing border, in a depicting an 18th Century river bank scene, holed, 19cm, a frame glazed frame with mount, 18.5 x 26cm, and a spot sampler headed by containing two Stevens silks ‘Peeping Tom’ and ‘Lady Godiva’, and a alphabets, in a glazed oak frame, 62 x 21.5cm (3) wool tapestry of a standing dog, 1865, all glazed and framed. (4) (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) £80/120 £40/60 312 304 A band sampler initialled ‘WH-IE’ and dated ‘1729’ with bands Specimens and samples of finely executed needleworks by of geometric motifs above numerous letters of the alphabet, some H.M. Kording – Germany – circa 1910, comprising three modern repeated and two bands – ‘ABFTH-HAMS HER SAMPLER’ over a ring binders, 45 x 36cm, with a total of 67 pages, each with one or further alphabet with cut work, the sampler unframed, the colours still more samples including embroidery, openwork, knitting and other bright and fresh, 48 x 16.5cm techniques, together with three neatly executed books of instruction £200/400 and designs, 32 x 25cm and a further group of loose designs, tracings, etc. (qty) 313 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) A good early 19th Century darning sampler, unmounted, the £50/100 colours fresh, by ‘Hannah Frost, Aged 9, 1809’ in colours of grey, black and golden orange, each corner with a cross surrounding a central Samplers cross within rectangles, zig zag border, 39.5 x 41cm. £200/400 305 An early Victorian Sampler ‘Sarah Richardson aged 7 years, 1839’ 314 with central verse amid jardinières, birds, trees and flowers within a zig Three samplers comprising an early 18th framed example worked zag floral border, in a glazed oak frame, 35 x 27cm with alphabet, spandrils, flowering jardinières and other motifs including (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) three sets of initials, losses to top corners, 33.5 x 20.5cm, a large strip £80/120 sampler dated 1930 with panels of darning, cuffs, stitches and other techniques, 130 x 25cm and an unfinished sampler dated 1911, on 306 adjustable embroidery frame, 63cm (3) An unusual early 19th Century monochrome sampler ‘Ann Morgan, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) aged 19, 1812, Newtown, Montgomeryshire’ worked with an alphabet £50/100 and numerals over a series of geographical lists – The countries of Europe and their Capitals/ British Isles/ Chief Islands of England/ 315 Islands of The Mediterranean/ The Chief Mountains of Europe /The A strip sampler ‘Mary Hull, 1760’, worked with alphabets, numerals, a Fiery Mountains of Europe, worked with ships and a vase of flowers verse, strawberries, baskets of flowers, birds, crowns and other motifs, with birds highlighted in colours, some moth, in a glazed oak frame, 42 within a scroll border, 59 x 20cm, glazed and framed. x 32 cm (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £100/200 £100/200 316 307 A map sampler ‘Clapham British School’, the map of England, An attractive late 18th Century sampler in a decorative frame by Wales and part of Scotland, counties with single letter, within scroll and ‘Sarah Bowmar’ worked with alphabets and numerals, crowns and a block border with blue cloth edge, some moth, 28 x 25cm, glazed and verse, within a garland of flowers in coloured silks, the frame decorated framed with trailing flowers, some slight colour run, a note on the back ‘Moth (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) damage repaired lower corners, 2nd March, 1972, WGW’, in glazed £50/100 frame, 42 x 32cm 317 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A sampler ‘Jane Goman Prouse, 1836’, worked with a verse over a £100/200 tree flanked by Adam and Eve amid flowering jardineres, trees, hearts, 308 buildings and other motifs, within a trailing stylised floral border, some A German whitework band sampler dated 1744, formed from two small holes, 41 x 30cm, glazed and framed. panels of various bands of raised decorative stitches in patterns and (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) motifs, the plain lower section dated around an initialled and crowned £80/120 shield, in a double sided glazed frame with an old typed label of 318 provenance. ‘This sampler was embroidered by the great, great, great A darning sampler ‘Mary Lacy 1796’, in white with four variant cross grandmother of Fraulein Helena Koch of die Klause, Jugenheim a/d form panels, 21cm sq, glazed and framed. Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany who sent it to C.S Cadbury, Xmas (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) 1928’, 35 x 19cm. £80/120 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £300/500
20 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 21 319 328 A sampler ‘Elizabeth Taylor finished her work, 1840’, worked with Two large samplers, the first circa 1880/1900 ‘For Mother Grace a verse over a symmetrical house amid trees and plants within a Miller Age 15, 19 Falkland Road, Dorking, Surry’, worked in blue and strawberry border, 42 x 44cm, glazed and framed. red wool with alphabets and numerals over the Lord’s Prayer, within a (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) formal border, 63 x 42cm, the other a Welsh memoriam sampler, black £80/120 and white, 64 x 44cm, both glazed and framed. (2) 320 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) A band sampler ‘Agnes Lethbridge, Aged Nine Years …. 1850’, £40/80 in red and white with bands of alphabets and numerals, cut work and 329 variant stitches, the lower section with vertical leaf sprays, open knitted A sampler, three Bristol card memoriums and two others, the lace border, small stain,43.5 x 40cm, in a double-sided glazed frame. sampler unmounted ‘…Remembrance of John Bottomley of Heywood (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) Late of Halifax … 1872 Aged 75 years’ over a verse flanked by angels £80/120 over a crown and verses, wool work tomb and flowers ‘Jane Ellen 321 Whiteleys Work’, 60 x 64cm, the Bristol card examples for 1861, 1862 A poignant unfinished sampler 1809, geometric medallion Quaker and 1894, another Bristol card ‘Lord Remember Me’, and a colour print style border in the Ackworth school manner, enclosing two unfinished of a child with stitched details, inscribed to reverse ‘Sarah Hannah floral petit point bands above an ink letter ‘Worked by Margaret, Hughes – Infants Department, 19 x 13.5cm, all but first framed. (6) second daughter of John and Margaret Penrose Robinson who died (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) at 9 years of age in consequence of having swallowed a small particle £40/80 of lobster shell … August 1809’, a few moth patches, 48 x 42.5cm, 330 glazed and framed. A group of unmounted spot samplers, comprising a roll of (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) numerous panels of coloured geometric wool work, 22 x 160cm, £100/200 another similar but including a vase of flowers and a kettle, 16 x 86cm, 322 another 22 x 92cm, and three more modern smaller panels together A group of samplers and sample pieces by ‘J.M. Waites’, mounted with a small 18th Century sampler, ‘S.J. Bennett, Ripple’ ,damaged, 12 on glazed linen comprising an alphabet sampler, 12 x 10cm, another x 10cm (7) with stitches, 22cm sq, a miniature knitted bonnet, two Bristol card (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) pieces and eight other demonstration pieces, 58 x 47cm, in glazed £50/100 frame. 331 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) No Lot £150/250 323 332 A group of sample pieces ‘Remothellen Jackson, Bagington Two pattern books and a selection of Bristol card book marks, School, 1883’, comprising a pair of miniature sleeves and cuffs, 18cm, comprising a German Embroidery Pattern Book with ten concertina a crude alphabet and numeral sampler, 15 x 8cm, and two cotton panels, 14 x 9.5cm, another with floral paper boards with two panels button holes, stitches, darning, etc., 42 x 33cm, glazed and concertinas of eight panels, 6 x 8cm, seven examples of Bristol card framed. cross stitch including a multiple book mark in paper wrap ‘Worked for (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) me by dear little Janie’. (9) £100/200 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) £30/£50 324 Two samplers, comprising ‘Annie Wiegers, Hilversum’, circa 1840 333 ,worked with rows of stitches, alphabets and numerals in pink, 27 No lot x 28cm and ‘Girls Bd. School, Nellie Edwards Standards 1892’, in Chatelaines alternate red and white with alphabet and numerals, 21 x 23cm, both glazed and framed. (2) 334 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) Two chatelaines comprising a late 19th Century continental example £50/100 in brass, the clip cast and pierced with an angel amid scrolls with five panel form chains to a swivel notelet, a tape measure, a thimble 325 bucket, a book form pin cushion and a scissor sheath, 30cm, and a Two samplers, comprising ‘Margaret Ellen Berry, 1833’, worked in polished steel example with five chains lacking fittings, 33cm (2) coloured wools with alphabets and numerals over a vase of flowers, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) crowns and other motifs, 32cm sq, and ‘E.B. 1877’ worked in coloured £40/80 wools with alphabets and numerals over vases of flowers, trees, birds, and other motifs over a verse within a crenalated border, 41 x 47cm, 335 both glazed and framed. (2) An 18th century gilt metal chatelaine, the hook mount cast with (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) classical style figures to a panel with a crown flanked by cornucopia, £50/100 flanked by a thimble case and companion case, the central etui decorated with figures amid scrolls and shells, containing folding 326 handle scissors, pencil and ivory tweezers, four items lacking, 19.5cm Three samplers, comprising ‘The Apostles Creed, SW 1893’, worked (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) in coloured wools within a formal border, another ‘Elizabeth June £250/350 2nd 1953’ pictorial centred by map, 43 x 29cm, and another ‘Barbara Cartlet Worked This in The 10th Year of Her Age 1823’, worked with 336 alphabets and numerals over figures, trees and other motifs, 33 x A late Victorian chatelaine, the gilt metal pierced hook mount with 23cm, all glazed and framed. (3) (3) three gold chains to a seal, pencil and a fob watch, 23.5cm (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £40/80 £40/80 327 337 Two samplers, comprising ‘Ann Sayer Marked This in the Year 1798 Two chatelaine fittings comprising a pair of steel scissors in sheath Aged 9 Years’ worked with alphabets and numerals, verses, and a row of on chains and pierced floral mount, 16cm, and a similar knife in sheath crowns over a pair of pillars headed by vases of flowers within a strawberry (2) border, holes, 40 x 33cm, and a monochrome sampler ‘Frances Gibbons (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Gibbons wrought this sampler in the 7th Year of her age 1819’ below verse £30/50 and alphabets, small holes, 34 x 21cm, both glazed and framed. (2) (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) £50/100
20 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 21 338 349 Two late 19th century chatelaines comprising a white metal example A mid Victorian skein book bound in leather, the cover with an with silver vesta, silver purse and a pencil, 21cm, the other in white inset coloured beadwork floral panel, gilt clasp, the interior with twelve metal elaborately pierced and jewelled with swivel notelet, pencil and envelope form compartments containing silks, 15.2 x 9.5cm oval mirror, 23cm (2) £40/80 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 350 £50/100 A J and P Coats ‘One Mile Six Cord’ ebonised wood reel, with cord 339 and both printed end labels, 9cm. in original cardboard box, with labels Two late 19th century chatelaines mounted on a card comprising to base. a white metal example with seven fittings, 44cm, and a gun metal £30/50 example with four fittings, 29cm (2) 351 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Six bone reels with wooden cores labelled for ‘I and W Taylor, £50/100 Leicester’ comprising two pairs and two varients all with decorative 340 borders to tops, largest 3.5cm. (6) A Victorian paste set chatelaine elaborate pierced floral and scroll £50/100 mount with five paste set chains, 16cm 352 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Four variant bone reels with wooden cores labelled for ‘I and £40/60 W Taylor, Leicester’, three with decorative borders to tops, largest 341 3.5cm. (4) A 19th Century carved ivory chatelaine, the gadroon carved hook to £40/80 an eight link ivory chain, 22cm 353 £30/50 Reels and cotton barrels, comprising a set of three ivory reels with 342 roundel turned tops, 3.5cm., a pair of ivory spindle wound cotton An impressive American silver chatelaine the reverse of the clip barrels, 4.5cm. and a pair of Sadeli top ivory reel boxes. (7) stamped ‘Black Starr And Frost, New York, Sterling’ the clip mount £50/100 formed from interlaced letters ‘LWJC’ with five chains to a triangular 354 leaf scroll decorated scissor sheath with replacement scissors, an A collection of ivory and bone reels, comprising three Chinese egg form hinged lid box containing pin cushion, a pin wheel, a thimble examples one lacking spindle, a pair, two others and three various box with thimble and a scent flask with variant monogram to one side, reels one with floral carved top, largest 3cm. (10) 33cm £40/80 £200/400 355 343 Wooden cotton reels – thirty eight, thirty with various labels for A gilt metal chatelaine in the 18th Century style, the mount with an ‘Brooks’ and eight for ‘Alexanders’ (38) oval panel depicting a garden terrace with seven variant length chains £30/40 of solid links, the centre chain composed of four variant plaques, with associated fitting comprising a button hook, miniature mirror, 356 silver cherub head pin wheel, floral engraved acorn thimble case with Wooden cotton reels – sixty eight variously labelled comprising thimble, a book form box, a key and a sliding pen/pencil, 19cm Singer x 10, Knox x 8, Kerrs x 13, Chadwicks x 8, Coats x 17 and 12 £100/200 various (68) £30/50 344 No lot 357 A Victorian brass reel stand as a parrot on a perch, the circular base Reels and Thread Winders on three ball feet, the baluster stem with seven reel spikes, the parrot 345 as thimble case, the top perch fitted with a candle holder, 34cm high Reel holders and related items comprising nine mother of pearl top £100/150 reel holders including two pairs, the smaller pair with matching emery 358 and waxer, and two mother of pearl tops only (13) A collection of thread winders, comprising a Chinese engraved (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) mother of pearl snowflakes, 5cm, a pair of snowflakes and three other £40/80 pearl examples, six bone multiple winders and four others (16) 346 £40/60 Cotton barrels and reels comprising four various Chinese carved 359 ivory cotton barrels, a larger European example, 4.2cm, a bone reel on A pair of Victorian brass reel stands, each on a leaf cast base on turned stem, 6cm, four bone ended reels with labels and six wooden four paw feet, the baluster stem with three pierced circular tiers each reels (16) with six reel rods around a central pin cushion, 22cm high (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £100/150 £40/80 360 347 A rare rosewood box, circa. 1845, containing sample reels, the A collection of thread winders comprising a large engraved Chinese box of plain rectangular form, the lid interior with ruched velvet lid mother of pearl snowflake, 5cm, five similar rectangular examples, panel, the base section in burr maple with sixteen rosewood cylinder two others in pearl, a Spa work example, five in bone and six wooden compartments each containing a turned bone reel with screw on examples including a large example, 13cm (20) mother of pearl flower head top, each with colour printed base label for (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) ‘Brook’s Patent 6 Cord’, complete with key, 24 x 17.5 x 8cm £50/100 £250/350 348 361 Four rare reels comprising a near pair with glazed domed tops A collection of 19th Century labelled wooden reels, comprising within a brass scroll border enclosing an intaglio style panel of The nine for ‘ I and W Taylor six cord’ base labels for ‘Taylors Persian Royal Coat of Arms within ‘I.P Clarkes Patent’ , the bases in stamped Thread’, five others with red labels for the same maker, and four gilt brass, tin bodies, 3cm high, another similar but the top with a rose, variant reels, largest 3.5cm (18) and a pearl top reel the metal stem stamped ‘Barber And Clarkes £80/120 Patent’ the mother of pearl base with a paper label with conforming 362 wording, 3cm (4) A collection of fifty seven wooden reels, mostly 20th Century (57) £150/250 £20/40
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701 712 709 363 376 Five large format antique Chinese thread winders comprising a A silver spool knave or reel holder the domed blue velvet base to a plain Zhitan wood example, 12.5cm and four lacquered and floral silver mount and frame, a bone reel to the rod, Birmingham, 1905 by carved examples, largest 12.5cm (5) Adie and Lovekin, 6cm dia £20/30 £40/60 364 377 No lot A tortoiseshell cased crochet set, rectangular hinged top case, the handle with chuck below baluster with seven of eight hooks, 9.7 x 4cm Shuttles £40/80 365 378 A Chinese mother of pearl engraved shuttle initialled ‘MC’ within A set of 19th Century blued and gilt steel knitting needles, in flower sprays within a scroll and dog tooth border to both sides, original cardboard case of patterned paper, 23cm 10.5cm £30/50 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 379 Two bone lucets, one with work in progress, both worn smooth, 9 and 366 9.5cm (2) Five small shuttles comprising a horn example inlaid to one side with £30/50 engraved white metal flowers and leaves, bone post, 7.5cm, another similar worn and slight loss, 7cm, a carved bone example, another in 380 mother of pearl, and a diminutive ivory example, 3.7cm (5) Knitting gauges and related items comprising five bell form (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) examples, a Beehive, an Embassy triangle, a plastic beehive, an ‘MP £50/100 Handy Guide’ and a cardboard Knitting Register, 13.5 x 6cm (10) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 367 £20/30 Seven various shuttles comprising a tortoiseshell example, damaged, 11cm and six bone and ivory examples, largest 11.2cm (7) 381 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Knitting comprising a wooden umbrella form knitting needle case, £40/80 35cm, another of cylinder form in oak, 28cm, another in split and coloured straw work, some losses, 22cm, a ‘Mitrailleuse Knitting Tin 368 Case’, 23cm, four pairs of needles, five packets of needles, a stitch A fine 19th Century shibayama decorated ivory shuttle, each side holder on card, The MP Handy Guide, 11.75cm, two bell shaped metal with three variant insects, one side with signature, ivory post with hole gauges, four other gauges and a Briggs Patent Teneriffe Wheel, (qty) held by brass pins, 11.5cm. (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £400/600 £50/100 369 382 No lot No lot Knitting, Crochet, Netting and Tambouring A collection of Knitting Sticks and Sheaths 370 383 Four knitting needle sticks and sheaths comprising a fruit wood Two knitting sticks, comprising a mahogany example for a child Dent Dale sheath, 28cm, a turned knitting stick of spindle form, 21cm, initialled and dated ‘AE 1824’, brass collar, 10.2cm, and a violin scroll a basket weave knitting stick, 20cm, and a turned knitting stick with example with pewter needle mount, 14.5cm (2) belt slot and initialled ‘EW’, 14.5cm (4) £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 384 A Welsh mahogany knitting stick, curved carved blade to a square 371 knop initialled and dated ‘AK – 1842’, 18.5cm Four wooden knitting sheaths and sticks comprising a Dent Dale £50/100 sheath with carved decoration, faint traces of initials, 22cm, a mahogany sheath probably Cumbria with ring turned and bone mounted stem, 385 24cm, a stained wood knitting stick with curved belt clip, 21cm, and a A carved hardwood knitting stick, in the form of a fish, 11cm turned box wood spindle form knitting stick, 17cm (4) £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 386 £50/100 Two carved wooden knitting sticks, probably Northumberland, 372 both of slightly curved and tapering form with cross hatched carved Tambour and crochet hooks comprising three incomplete tambour decoration, 19 and 16cm (2) hooks in bone and ivory, three bone examples with chuck type fittings, £80/120 two fancy brass slider crochet hooks, an agate handle crochet hook 387 and others various (qty) A nicely patinated fruitwood Dent Dale knitting sheath, turned (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) mount with brass terminal, 25cm £40/80 £50/100 373 388 An ivory tambour hook and a needle case, the tambour hook with A knitting stick and a sheath, the sheath probably Teesdale, engine turned decoration, steel thumb piece, complete with hook, 19cm, the other probably Welsh with deep belt hook and chip carved 13cm, and a bone cylinder needle case with crown finials, 10cm (2) decoration, 16.5cm (2) £40/60 £50/100 374 389 A rare pair of Palais Royal knitting needle protectors, the mother of A fine late 18th Century Welsh fruitwood knitting stick inscribed pearl spiral bodies with gilt metal mounts united by a gilt chain, 29cm. and dated 1798, of two stages united by two three link chains and a £50/100 swivel, one part with a hook over a lantern and ball, the other with a 375 lantern and ball over a cut out hook and inscribed to one side ‘Thomas A Dutch mid 19th Century silver tambour hook in leather case, Bra Bruck 1798 – AW’, the whole with zig zag chip carved decoration, engraved two part body with turn key, complete with hook, 13.7cm. the opposing side to the inscription incorporating within the design a black leather rectangular case with ruched blue silk interior, and shepherds crook, 39cm named for ‘C.G. Hallberg, Stockholm’, the tambour hook with makers £300/500 mark ‘LJE’. 390 £50/100 No lot 38 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 39 Sewing Clamps 403 No lot 391 A brass hemming bird clamp the rectangular frame incorporating a Needle Cases and Related Containers needle case, the sprung bird below a pin cushion, 14.5cm 404 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Five needle books comprising a Sadeli ware example 7.5cm, a floral £30/50 pierced bone example, 5cm, another with loss, 7.5cm, a diamond 392 pattern mother of pearl example, 8.5cm, and another, 3.5cm sq (5) Four clamps comprising two wooden examples each with open (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) reel below a bowl top, 15cm and 20cm, a turned rosewood example £40/80 supporting a reel and pin cushion, 17.5cm and a black horn example 405 with vase form pin cushion, 12.5cm (4) Four cardboard needle packet boxes and a brass Avery (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) comprising ‘The Silurian Needle Case’, the lid with photographic oval £50/100 ‘Fountains Abbey’, 10cm, a mirror lid example with internal needle 393 pack concertina, 7.5cm, another ‘ The Pocket Needle Case’, interior Eight various clamps comprising an unusual decorative ivory mothed and worn, 7cm, another worn with needle concertina , 6cm, example on brass frame, 15cm, three Chinese carved ivory examples, and a brass Avery ‘The Nosegay Needle Case’ loss to two corners, three others, and a wooden clamp frame only, some sd (8) 8.7cm (5) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £40/60 394 406 A fine decorated steel clamp by Carl Victor Heljestrand (1819 Two cut card needle books and two card exercises comprising an – 1861) the rectangular frame and screw mount partly gilded and embroidered circular needle book, 6.5cm, a square example with cross decorated with flowers supporting a trough form pin cushion, one long embroidered covers, 4cm, an embroidered circular exercise, and a side with a view of The Royal Palace, Stockholm, the other with quiver circular card and paper purse with painted seaweed decoration, 6cm, and arrows, 11.5cm some with wear (4) £300/500 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 395 £40/60 An early 19th Century steel and damascened clamp, the 407 rectangular frame with floral decoration below a hook and a trough Needle books, needle packets and pins comprising seven needle form pin cushion with floral and other decoration, 13cm books including The London, The Household and The Busy Bee, a pin £100/200 tin with complete contents, 18cm, and a collection of needle packets 396 and pin books (qty) A rare early 19th Century steel clamp by Joseph Rodgers the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) rectangular frame below a hook with a turned pedestal supporting a £30/50 trough form pin cushion stamped ‘Joseph Rodgers and Sons Cutlers 408 To His Majesty No 6, Norfolk Street, Sheffield’, 13cm Four needle cases comprising two beadwork covered examples with £200/300 minor losses, largest 9.2cm, a spiral turned and pierced ivory example, 397 9cm, and a Chinese carved example, 5.5cm (4) An early 19th Century steel clamp the rectangular frame below a (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) hook and an open reel with cut steel decorative top, 9.5cm £40/80 £80/120 409 398 Three needle cases comprising a Georgian shagreen and silver Two early 19th Century cut steel clamps, each with a decorative example with silver dot decoration, some losses, 8.5cm, a Georgian silver curved frame and supporting a hook, largest 8.5cm (2) example of tapering oval form with engraved decoration and makers mark £60/100 for Samuel Pemberton, 7.2cm, and a continental silver needle case of tapering cylinder form with leaf scroll decoration, 5.5cm (3) 399 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Four various 19th Century ivory sewing clamps, comprising a £50/100 Chinese carved example, 6cm., a plain example with green silk pin cushion top, 8cm., and two reel top examples, largest 12.5cm. (4) 410 £50/100 Four brightly decorated continental wooden needle cases two of umbrella form, largest 16cm, and two of cylinder form, one applied with 400 a colour oval print of two children, largest 12cm (4) Two pairs of clamps comprising a rosewood pair with ring turned (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) rectangular frames below reel tops, 15.5cm, and a whitewood pair with £50/100 reel and cup tops sd to extremities, 21cm (4) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 411 £40/80 Two Black Forest carved wooden needle cases comprising an example carved as a crocodile, 12.5cm, the other incorporating an 401 acorn form carved thimble case with horn terminal, 14.5cm (2) Four clamps comprising a white metal hemming bird example, the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) decorated rectangular frame mounted with a pin cushion below the £50/100 sprung bird mounted with a further pin cushion, indistinct patent date, 12.5cm, a polished steel clamp with hook top, 11cm, a small 412 rectangular bronze clamp, 5cm, and a 19th century Chinese carved Three needle cases comprising a bone fish form example, 9cm, a ivory clamp, 6cm (4) beadwork covered cylinder example with losses, 9.5cm, and a turned (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) rosewood example as an umbrella with bone handle, 11cm (3) £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/80 402 A mid-19th Century French ivory sewing clamp with ivory 413 thimble, the cylinder frame with bands of decoration and supporting Four vegetable ivory needle cases comprising an example as an elaborate turned and pierced urn lined in silk, the screw cover with a furled umbrella, 9cm, a standing example, 7cm, an acorn ended velvet pin cushion and revealing a thimble, slight loss to edge of pin example, 9cm and another (4) cushion, 20cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/80 £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 41 414 425 Six bone needle cases comprising two as furled umbrellas one Three tooled red leather needle packet boxes comprising a stained red, three cylinder form examples one with Stanhope (Maria rectangular example the canted lid inscribed ‘Needles’ within richly tooled Einsiedeln), 9.5cm, and a stiletto form example, 9.5cm (6) borders, 5cm, another with pull off top one side gilt tooled with colour (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) onlays, 5cm and another of similar form inscribed ‘Ask For Any Size To £50/100 Refill’ interior with three card cylinder needle cases, 4.8cm (3) 415 £60/100 Five bone needle cases comprising an example as a furled umbrella, 426 9.5cm, the others of cylinder form two incorporating needle threaders, A cardboard needle packet box to simulate leather, of rectangular some sd (5) form the lid with a panel of flowers and swifts, interior with flannel and (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) concertina with label for ‘H Wilkes and Co… Redditch’ and with an ink £40/60 inscription ‘…17th April 1892’, 11 x 8cm 416 £30/50 Five Tyrolean needle cases comprising two standing examples each 427 fitted with multiple reel/needle case and thimble stand, two cylinder Three needle packet containers comprising an unusual leather form examples, an oval section example and a spiral decorated example with sliding mechanism, Patent date ‘January 17th 1867’, cylinder example, 8cm (6) 6.8cm, another the ‘The West End Needle Case – Army and Navy (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Co-Operative Society Limited’, 9.8cm, and a green leather case titled £40/60 ‘Needles’, interior booklet with numerical divisions, 7cm (3) 417 £60/100 A collection of needles cases and containers comprising two 428 leather book form examples titled ‘Needles’, 4.5cm, a Tartan ware Two needle books comprising a gilt metal souvenir style example the slant top needle packet box (Hay) the lid painted with a spaniels head, covers with colour inlays, interior worn, 9cm, and a floral decorated worn, 5.5cm a wooden rolling pin with label ‘1889 Change Roller Being papier mache example, interior with chinoisserie style paper, 8cm (2) Good Value For A Farthing’, 9cm, a white metal example ‘Ask For £30/50 Wm Lewis And Son Metallic Needle Case’, 4cm and ten other needle 429 cases (15) Four needle packet containers comprising two variant white metal (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) sliding examples for ‘Abel Morrall’s’, largest 5cm, a cardboard example £50/100 the lid with colour print of a woman with rake, 4.7cm and a tartan 418 pattern cardboard example with pull off cover, titled in gilt ‘Needles’, A falling side needle packet box the pin cushion lid over colour prints 4.8cm (4) of elegant young women, the interior with needle packets and central £40/60 thimble box, ink dated to base ‘August 22nd 1921’, 11cm high. 430 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Two good needle books comprising a Bristol card example one side £40/60 worked with a beadwork vase of flowers, the other two cornucopia, 419 7.5 x 5cm, the other in cut stamped card one side with a botanical A continental silver needle case in the form of a swaddled baby, watercolour, the other a pencil study of a boat and house by the bank, hinged at the neck, with import marks for London, 1891, makers mark blue ribbon ties, 9 x 6cm (2) DL?, 7cm £40/80 £150/250 431 420 Four needle books comprising a red and green silk example as a set A good coloured split straw work cylinder needle case with of bellows, pin stuck edges, 6.2cm, a yellow silk and white beadwork pointed ends to green tassels, the internal upstand also decorated, example as a lady’s shoe, 7.5cm, a cloth example the cover with gold near mint, 10.5cm foil oak leaf spray, 5.5cm, and a circular green card example with £60/100 beadwork embroidered border, pink silk ties, very minor loss to pierced 421 card edge, 6cm (4) A good split straw work needle case of oval section with geometric £50/100 decoration, the internal upstand also decorated, near mint, 8.5cm 432 £50/100 Three Bristol card type needle books comprising a circular example, 422 needlework border and inscribed ‘May you be happy, Hope is the A bead work decorated cylinder needle case with geometric (anchor symbol) of the soul’, ribbon ties 6.5cm, another each side decoration in various coloured beads, bone core, near mint, 9cm with cross stitch botanical panel, 9cm, and another with stacked card £50/100 border and inscribed ‘Mama, Needles’, green ribbon ties, 8.5cm (3) £50/100 423 An Avery style gilt brass needle packet case ‘Louise New Patent 433 folding Needle Case’ decorated with roses and thistles, interior with Three needle books comprising an umbrella form example worked four skep decorated numerical compartments and with a printed label with coloured floral beadwork, 9cm, a patterned cloth heart shaped for ‘Chas Rimmer, Studley’, 9 x 4.7cm example with gold foil border, 7cm, and a cut card circular example £150/200 with silhouette style cut flower sprays to each side, pink ribbon ties, 6.5cm (3) 424 £40/80 Three unusual leather needle cases comprising a rectangular maroon leather example tilted in gilt to each side ‘Whissell’s Needles’ 434 within a tooled border, inner case with numerical compartments, 8.2 x Three needle books comprising a red and white beadwork example 4.5cm, another in black leather the front panel in tan leather and titled of rectangular form, 6cm, a green silk fan form example with coloured ‘Needles’ within elaborate gilt tooled motifs, the interior with a needle beadwork stem sprays, 7cm, and a brown silk example as a set of cushion, 5 x 4.5cm, and another of envelope form in red leather titled bellows, 7cm (3) ‘Needles’ within gilt tooled flowers and spandrils, the reverse with a £50/100 lyre, interior with numerical compartments, 8.5 x 5cm (3) 435 £80/120 Four Bristol card needle books comprising a coloured floral beadwork example inscribed to one side ‘Love brings peace’, 9cm, another worked in blue cross stitch with alphabet, another floral 5.5cm, and an arched example inscribed ‘Ellen Marsh – Birthday present’, 9.5cm (4) £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 41 436 449 Three needle books comprising a black velvet example as a shoe A continental figural silver needle case, in the form of a male in worked with a pattern of geometric beads, 9cm, a Bristol card example breaches, decorated jacket and hat, a group of playing cards in his inscribed ‘A gift from Lydia’, 7.5cm, and a silk and stacked card hand, his other hand behind his back holding a playing card, pointed example, 8cm, (3) oval base, 5.6cm £40/80 £80/120 437 450 Three needle books comprising a Bristol card rectangular example A 19th Century carved Dieppe ivory standing needle case, as a worked in wool with a basket of flowers and a cornucopia, 8.5cm, male fisherman in traditional costume, one hand to his pocket, the another in red silk with stacked card cross design, 6.5cm, and another other with a ring of fish, on oval seal base, 7cm in blue wool and clear glass beads in a geometric pattern, 6.5cm (3) £100/150 £40/80 451 438 A 19th Century carved Dieppe ivory standing needle case, as a A fine late 18th Century silver gilt filigree ‘Almanack’ needle book fisher woman in traditional costume, one hand in her pocket the other in original leather case, the gilded quill work covers with catch, holding a ring of fish, on circular seal base, 7cm interior with pink silk covers and four felt flannels, 6 x 3.7cm., the black £100/150 leather case lined in plum velvet complete with hook clasp, 7 x 4.7cm. 452 £200/400 A bodkin case and two needle cases, the bodkin case of oval 439 section in silver covered in red leather, indistinct makers mark to base, Four needle packet containers, comprising a slant top mother of 9.5cm, a silver wire covered card needle case, 7.6cm, and an ivory pearl example, 5.4cm., a scarce cardboard example of square section needle case decorated in red and black in the chinoiserie style, 9.4cm with photographic views of Osborn House/ Balmoral/Buckingham (3) Palace/Windsor Castle over royal portraits, interior with pin cushion, £50/100 5cm. high, a silk and Bristol card numerical needle book, 5cm., and a 453 Sharps ‘Silver Needle Case’, 3.7cm. (4) No lot £50/100 440 Stilettos Needle cases and boxes, comprising an Abel Morrall’s falling side 454 needle packet box, village and rural landscape prints, 11cm., a ‘John A collection of stilettos including a turned ivory reversible example, James and Sons, Redditch’, red morocco needle wallet, 13cm., and 8cm, a bone French Prisoner of War style example, 8cm, eleven other three others. (5) stilettos and parts of five incomplete examples (18) £30/50 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 441 £40/80 A cardboard falling side needle packet box, the pin cushion lid over 455 colour prints of young women in fashionable costume, the interior with Three stilettos and a seam knife comprising a well carved reversible needle packets for Woodfields and Sons, central thimble box with ivory stiletto, 10.5cm, a mother of pearl example with clenched fist thimble and pin paper, 11.5cm terminal, and a steel example, the seam knife with turned horn handle, £30/50 well worn, 6.5cm (4) 442 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) An Avery gilt brass needle packet case ‘The Bee Case’, introduced £40/80 06/27/1872, hinged cover, impressed to base ‘W. Avery and Son- The 456 Bee Case – Redditch’, 10cm Five stilettos comprising two in mother of pearl one with floral pierced £80/120 terminal, the other with feather terminal, 7.5 and 6.5cm, another with 443 steel shaft and carved and pierced floral mother of pearl handle, 10cm, Two 19th century ivory Dieppe figural needle cases each of a another and a steel example (5) fisherman in traditional costume, one parting a the waist, the other at (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) the neck, both lacking legs , 6 and 6.5cm (2) £50/100 £40/80 457 444 Five 19th Century stilettos comprising a Palais Royal style example Three bone needle cases with Stanhopes comprising a decorated with gilt mounted mother of pearl handle, 8cm, a carved ivory cylinder example (Apparition At Knock – five images), 10.5cm, another reversible example, 7.5cm, an example with engraved silver gilt handle as a furled umbrella (Souvenir of Blackpool – seven images), and and two steel examples, one part gilded (5) another as a cannon barrel, cracked and stained (Memory of Elgin – £40/60 six images), 8.5cm (3) 458 £50/80 No lot 445 Bodkin Cases and Bodkins Two needle cases and a pen handle, comprising an ivory pea pod needle case, split to top, 9cm, a bone furled umbrella with Stanhope 459 (Marie Francois Sadi Carnot … 1894), 11cm, the handle with A late 18th mother of pearl and silver mounted bodkin or billet Stanhope (A Memory of Liverpool – six views), 10cm (3) doux case engraved with flaming hearts, flowers, quivers and other £50/100 motifs, 12cm (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 446 £50/100 Eleven various needle and bodkin cases, including a natural horn example, 6cm, and a vegetable ivory example, 7.5cm (11) 460 £50/100 A Georgian silver bodkin case of oval section and tapering, with bright cut engraved decoration, Birmingham 1789 by Samuel 447 Pemberton, 8.2cm It is unusual to find a fully hallmarked example A Palais Royal style mother of pearl needle case, of rectangular as the duty payable out weighed the value of the object most examples form with ball form border, gilt ferrule, 7.8cm just bear a makers mark £50/80 £60/100 448 461 A 19th Century carved ivory peapod needle case, 9.5cm A continental silver bodkin case with bodkin, line and floret £50/100 decoration of tapering oval section, stamped ‘835 S’, 6.7cm £40/60 42 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 43 462 475 A fine late 18th Century Vernis Martin style bodkin or billet doux A pair of 19th Century German (Augsburgh) silver ribbon scissors case, of cylinder form with gilt or gold mounts, the green ground decorated in the form of a stork opening to reveal a swaddled baby, one ring with cherubs and garlands, each end with flowers, 10cm With a resting on a tortoise, 10cm, high, and a pair of steel scissors in the form rolled note in pencil ‘Given to me by my Grandfather John Noble Brest in of a stork, 10.5cm (2) 1824 – to his Goddaughter Elizabeth Jane Noble from Edmund Burke’ £150/250 £300/500 476 463 A good pair of silver gilt scissors with sheath, circa 1830, oval A large late 17th Century silver bodkin with ear spoon above a section tapering blades to fruiting vine arms below decorated oval teardrop eye, the main body with a rectangular slot amid panels of loops, complete with matching sheath, 9.7cm flowers and other engraved decoration, indistinct makers mark, 14.5cm (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £200/400 £30/50 464 477 A good late 17th Century silver bodkin tear drop eye over a A good pair of late 19th century Dutch gold mounted scissors with rectangular slot within engraved floral and geometric panels, initialled sheath, diamond section tapering blades to engraved wavy arms and ‘AD’, indistinct makers mark, 12.5cm plain oval loops, complete with matching sheath, 8.2cm £200/400 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 465 £80/120 A late 17th Century silver bodkin, tear drop eye below an ear spoon, 478 the rectangular slot within engraved decoration, various feint initials, Two pairs of scissors comprising a Palais Royal style pair, steel 13.5cm blades and mounts to pierced and carved cornucopia style arms and £100/200 oval loops, 9.5cm, and a pair with carved ivory arms and loops, one 466 collar lacking, 9cm (2) A late 17th Century silver bodkin, circular eye over two rectangular (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) slots within flower head and other engraved panels, initialled ‘ML’, £50/100 indistinct makers mark, repair to slot, 14cm 479 £100/200 Two pairs of scissors comprising a pair of late 19th century Dutch 467 silver mounted scissors, steel oval section blades to engraved arms A large late 17th Century silver bodkin, earspoon over a tear drop and oval loops, complete with matching sheath, 9.7cm, and a pair with eye and rectangular slot within engraved flower head and other panels, diamond section tapering blades to scroll decorated arms and loops, initialled ‘MI’, 13cm Dutch or German, with a leather sheath, 10cm (2) £200/300 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £50/100 468 A large late 17th silver bodkin, circular eye above a rectangular slot 480 within engraved panels, asterisk mark, 13.2cm Four pairs of silver handled scissors and two decorative silver £200/400 sheaths one with hanging chain, largest 13.5cm (6) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 469 £80/120 An 18th Century silver bodkin with line engraving, rectangular slot below an open ring, 11cm 481 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) A pair of 19th century Dutch silver ribbon scissors cast as a stork, £50/100 opening to reveal a fish in its stomach, on oval loops and claw feet, 10.5cm 470 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Two 18th Century silver bodkins comprising a plain example £50/100 with rounded end slot below an earspoon, 10cm, and another with rectangular slot below an open ring, scratch engraved ‘EL’ with the 482 makers mark IB above a star, 10.6cm (2) Five pairs of 19th century steel scissors comprising a pair in the (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) form of a fish, 11.5cm, and four pairs in the form of storks (5) £50/100 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £50/100 471 No lot 483 Three pairs of larger format steel scissors comprising two pairs Scissors with portrait medallions, the first stamped ‘AN’ and with portraits 472 of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, 15cm, another pair stamped A Swedish cased set of two pairs of graduated scissors and a ‘Janetisk’ with portrait medallions of King Haakon VII and Drenningmall folding two blade knife, the leatherette rectangular case labelled of Norway, 15.5cm and a pair of novice scissors, 15cm (3) to the lid interior ‘Emil Olsson, Eskilstuna’ each piece gilded and (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) decorated in blued steel, blades stamped ‘C.W.D Eskilstuna’, case 17 £50/100 x 9.2cm 484 £100/150 A cased set of three graduated steel scissors, oval section blades 473 stamped ‘M.F and Co Germany’ the arms with two colour etched Two pairs of Georgian steel scissors each with an engraved silver panels to gilded oval loops, in a tooled leather triangular case, 15.5cm sheath, comprising a pair with diamond section blades stamped ‘W. (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Pecci Sheffield’ with elaborate pierced arms and loops with file cut £40/80 decoration, 13.5cm, the sheath with line and dot decoration, 15.5cm 485 overall, the other pair with diamond section blades stamped ‘P’ below A collection of scissors comprising a pair of dressing table an asterix, curved arms and decorative loops, 9.5cm with a leaf and scissors with blue enamel handles, 24.5cm, a pair of brass handled bright cut silver sheath, 11cm overall (2) desk scissors with brass sheath, 17.5cm, a pair of dagger form £80/120 scissors stamped ‘Mercator, Solingen’ some pearl to arms lacking, 474 15cm, two pairs of folding steel scissors one in leather case, and a Four pairs of steel scissors including a button holing pair, one pair by pair of Georgian scissors with silver sheath folding blades to arms now Joseph Rodgers, another by Taylor of Sheffield, three pairs with leather lacking, 9cm (6) sheaths, largest 11.5cm (4) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £50/100 £50/100
42 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 43 486 498 Three cased sets of graduated scissors comprising a set of five Two pairs of 19th century or earlier Persian scissors comprising with ivory mounted arms and loop contained in a folding green leather a large pair with brass arms and loops, the hollow ground blades case, 16 x 11.5cm closed, a set of three graduated steel scissors with with elaborate tendril and cross hatched decoration, 26cm, and an all decorative arms contained in a crocodile skin case, 15.5cm and three steel pair with hollow ground blades, well pierced loops in line, 15cm variant pairs of steel scissors in a pig skin case, 18.5cm (3) (2) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £60/100 487 499 Five pairs of scissors comprising a pair of Persian style steel scissors Eighteen pairs of 19th century and later steel scissors, largest, by ‘J. Rodgers and sons’, 14.5cm, a pair of engraved and part gilded 11cm (18) scissors stamped ‘Asprey, 166, Bond Street,’ 11.5cm, two pairs of (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) delicate steel scissors and a pair of Indian bone scissors the arms as £50/100 birds below pointed oval loops, 13.5cm (5) 500 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Eight pairs of 19th century steel scissors including a novice pair, £50/100 largest 16.5cm (8) 488 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Eleven pairs of small format scissors including three pairs as storks, £50/100 largest 10.5cm (11) 501 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Nine pairs of 19th century and later steel scissors including a pair £40/60 with off set loops, 12cm, a novice pair, a pair stamped ‘GPO’ 13.5cm, 489 and others (9) Six pairs of larger format steel scissors comprising a pair of 18th (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) century probably Turkish scissors with hollow ground blades, 18.5cm, £40/80 two Chinese pairs 19.5cm, a pair for a novice stamped ‘Halma’, 502 17.5cm, another pair, 13cm, and a pair with portrait medallions of Six pairs of scissors and a sheath comprising four pairs of brass Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, stamped ‘SB’, 15cm (6) handled desk scissors two with brass sheaths, a pair of silver handled (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) scissors, another pair and a scissor sheath, largest 19cm (7) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 490 £50/100 A collection of scissors 19th century and later to include a pair of 503 grape scissors, champagne scissors, folding scissors (18) A collection of scissors comprising an early pair stamped ‘Gambia’, (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 22.5cm a tailors pair 30cm, and ten other pairs various (12) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 491 £50/100 Three pairs of 19th century steel scissors comprising a pair with 504 diamond section blades with finely file cut and pierced arms below oval Scissors and related items comprising an Indian carved sandal wood loops, 9.5cm, a pair of engraved stork form scissors, 8.5cm and a pair scissor case, some losses, 20.5cm, a pair of brass handled scissors in of button holing scissors, 9cm (3) elaborate brass sheath spring mounted on a brass plaque as a letter (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) clip, 24cm, and a selection of scissors, two elaborate brass scissor £50/100 sheaths and other pieces (qty) 492 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Four pairs of scissors comprising a pair with silver handles the £40/80 blades stamped for ‘T. Turner and Co, Sheffield’ with a silver sheath on 505 chain, 14cm and three pairs of steel scissors (4) Scissors and sheaths comprising an attractive set of three graduated (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) file cut steel scissors by Brookes and Crookes the internal blades £50/100 monogramed ‘AWV’, with damaged green leather case, 15.5cm, a 493 pair of steel scissors with carved mother of pearl handles, 9.2cm, an Five pairs of early 19th century steel scissors together with a brass attractive pair of file cut steel scissors, 8.7cm, a pair of spring folding scissor sheath, largest 10.5cm (4) safety scissors with bone scales, a floral embroidered and bead (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) mounted scissor sheath with steel scissors, 11cm, and an engraved £50/100 Georgian silver scissor sheath, 7.5cm (6) 494 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Ten pairs of 19th century steel scissors, largest 13cm (10) £80/120 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 506 £50/100 A rare 17th Century scissor case in two sections united by 495 drawstring cords, the cardboard core covered in red fabric worked Two pairs of 19th century decorative steel scissors both with with silver wire scrolls and borders, the cords edged in silver thread pierced and engraved arms as birds below leaf works ovals, one pair and surmounted and terminating in elaborate silver wire tassels, case stamped ‘Solingen’, the other ‘S’ below a crown, 13cm and 12cm (2) with minor losses, 8.2cm. (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £200/400 £40/80 507 496 A late 18th century porcelain scissor case each side painted with Ten pairs of 19th century steel button holing scissors, largest, boating scenes amid raised scrolls, gilt rubbed, gilt brass rim, 8.5cm, 11.5cm (18) with a pair steel scissors with etched decoration, 9cm (2) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/80 £40/80 508 497 A pair of 19th century polished steel scissors, diamond section Eighteen pairs of 19th century and later steel scissors, largest, tapering blades stamped ‘BT’ for Bartolomeo Terzano, Campobasso, 11.5cm (18) the arms and loop pierced and engraved with flowers, leaves and (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) geometric patterns, 19cm £40/80 £40/60
44 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 45 509 524 A cased set of polished steel graduated scissors, unused, Two rare glass thimbles, the first of spiral construction applied with contained in a pigskin wallet form case, each pair with diamond section two bands of coloured flowers inscribed ‘Teneria’ and dated ‘1885’, blades stamped ‘M.P’ in lozenge and ‘France’, pierced and decorated minor losses and possibly re-stuck, and another made up of clear arms and loops, largest 15cm, case 15 x 10.5cm lattice glass applied with flowers and initialled ‘BR’ and ‘74’ (2) £60/100 £50/100 510 525 A pair of Palais Royal scissors, oval section tapering blades to gilt Nine thimbles comprising six modern enamels, a Royal Doulton mounts, the mother of pearl leaf and pierced carved arms below oval flambé thimble, a modern Meissen thimble, and a white metal and snake loops, 10cm enamel thimble inscribed ‘Juliana Bernhard…’ (9) £100/200 £30/50 511 526 A pair of late 18th Century scissors mounted in gold the short blades A quantity of brass and other metal thimbles including children’s with engraved two-colour gold engraved arms, the steel loops with examples (qty) conforming gold mounts, 8.5cm £30/50 £100/200 527 512 Seventeen thimbles mounted on card mostly steel core Dorcas but No lot including four silver (17) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Thimbles and Thimble Cases £30/50 513 528 Five thimble cases comprising a dome top Mauchline ware example Various thimbles comprising seven hallmarked silver examples, one (Cromer), 4.2cm, another as a skittle (Moel Y Guest), a Tartan ware in Mauchline slant top box (Hereford Catherdral), one commemorating example, worn, a vegetable ivory acorn, and a wooden example in the the wedding of Charles and Diana, boxed, a Dorcas, and another form of a carved basket, 3cm (5) similar with cutter (9) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £40/60 £40/60 514 529 Thimbles – two stepped displays of metal thimbles excavated, 13th An American gold thimble, unmarked, engraved panelled frieze Century and later (27) marked ‘8’ (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) £40/80 £50/100 515 530 A French silver fable thimble, ‘The hare and the tortoise’ A collection of thimbles including brass, plastic, aluminium and brass £60/100 advertising, glass, miniatures etc (qty) 516 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) A French silver fable thimble, ‘The wolf and the lamb’ £30/40 £60/100 531 517 A late 19th Century porcelain thimble, Worcester, well painted with A French silver fable thimble ‘The broken pitcher’, stamped ‘France’ a bird on a flowering branch and a branch of flowers within gilt dot £60/100 borders 518 £50/100 A French silver fable thimble ‘la Ronde’ girls dancing with garlands 532 to a female lyre player, stamped ‘France’ Seven wooden thimble cases and stands, comprising a Swiss £80/120 chalet, 6.5cm, two pedestal acorns, a carved walnut, a barrel, a clog 519 incorporating a pin cushion, an egg form companion, and a barrel, 5cm, A late 17th century English silver thimble of good gauge the each with a thimble (7) rectangular plain tablet initialled ‘IW’ and flanked to one side by the £50/100 makers mark ‘BW’ 533 £100/200 Four thimble boxes and stands, comprising a mother of pearl and 520 abalone shell rectangular example, 3.7cm, two glass thimble shoes, A late 17th century or early 18th century Dutch silver open top and a clog, all with a thimble (4) thimble the frieze cast with a series of animals in movement possibly £40/60 otters or dogs, one hole. 534 £50/100 Seven thimble cases, comprising a mother of pearl and abalone 521 shell example of rectangular form with domed lid, 3.8cm, a white metal An attractive late 18th century English silver thimble, the frieze with basket weave cylinder example, and five leather thimble cases, all with rectangular cartouche boldly initialled ‘AK’ within a band of leaf and a thimble (7) geometric engraving £50/100 £40/80 535 522 Seven thimble cases, comprising two coquilla nut pierced egg form An early 19th century English porcelain thimble decorated in examples, 5cm and 4cm, a wooden barrel form example, two other alternate stripes of cream and blue with gilt highlights eggs, an acorn and another, five with thimbles (7) £50/100 £50/100 523 536 Seven English silver thimbles and four others, the seven all Eight thimble cases, comprising five bone and ivory examples four as hallmarked, a heavy gauge white metal thimble cast with military acorns, one stained red, an egg form example covered in coloured split figures in 17th century costume, a pierced thimble with jewelled border, straw work, 5.5cm, and two wooden examples, one modern, seven a French thimble and another engraved ‘Emma’ (11) with thimbles (8) £50/100 £40/80
44 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 45 537 552 Six vegetable ivory thimble cases, all of acorn form, five with A mixed lot – sewing – comprising three hand painted paper skein thimbles, largest 5.5cm (6) holders, various netting tools and gauges, macramé fish, ivory lucet, £40/80 fringing fork, Chinese mother of pearl gaming counters, fancy brass 538 needle case, seam knife and stiletto, a colour chart for embroidery Seven vegetable ivory thimble cases, six of acorn form, one as an threads and other pieces (qty) egg, each with a thimble, one with vegetable ivory thimble, largest (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 5.5cm (7) £50/100 £40/80 553 539 A mixed lot -sewing- comprising an EPNS spool knave, 20cm, a white Two thimbles, comprising an elegant silver steel top example, the metal glove darner stamped ‘Sterling’, 11cm, another in ivory, a silver floral engraved frieze with a cartouche initialled ‘EN’, and another the leaf scroll decorated cylinder case, Chester , 1897, 15cm, an ivory frieze inscribed ‘Isles Patent’ (2) swivel notelet, a ribbon threader, an ivory bodkin, three packs of Swan £30/50 Bill Hooks and other items (13) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 540 £50/100 Two unusual 19th Century wooden thimble cases, comprising a rosewood and satinwood book form example, the sliding spine allowing 554 part of the board to slide to reveal a thimble 7.7 x 5.5cm, and a walnut Wool winders – comprising an olive wood example turned base with and ebony boot form example, the sole with brass studs, 6cm high (2) adjustable arms below a cup top, 28cm high, a pine and beech wool £50/100 winder the clamp crudely inscribed ‘E. James Aug 8 1799’, 54cm, another 32cm, a hand held example and two clamps (6) 541 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Five good Indian silver Kutch thimbles, and a Perakanese silver £30/50 thimble, four of the Kutch thimbles labelled as from E.F. Holmes collection. (6) 555 £50/100 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising four metal cylinder form Mitrailleuse style needle cases, 6cm, a wooden lace bobbin, a tin titled 542 ‘ Needle Case’, a Flora MacDonald leather needle book and a Phoenix Two 19th Century pictorial silver thimbles, comprising Abbotsford, needle book (8) loss to rim, and ‘International Exhibition 1862’ (2) £30/50 £50/100 556 543 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a bone furled umbrella needle Three early bronze thimbles, two labelled as E.F. Holmes collection case with Stanhope (Crystal Palace), 10cm., another of cylinder form (3) with Stanhope (four view continental), 8.8cm., a vegetable ivory acorn £50/100 ended example, 8cm., a pair of ivory knitting needle protectors, an 544 ivory silk winder, two pairs of steel scissors, a silver scissor sheath, Five thimbles, comprising a silver thumb nail example marked ‘Pat and a small book (G. Curling Hope) – My Working Friend, col. frontis of 19157’, another in brass, a Georgian ribbed silver finger guard, a silver stitches, 1842, green cloth, 12 x 8.5cm. (9) thimble engraved ‘1915/1919’, and an unusual white metal three-part £40/80 thimble. (5) 557 £50/100 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising twelve tin ‘Mitrailleus’ style 545 needle cylinders, 5.7cm., crochet hooks, scissors, two bone shuttles, Seven silver thimbles, including two children’s (7) a spectacle case and glasses, hand lens, a selection of aluminium £40/60 advertising thimbles, others, and sundries. (qty) 546 £40/80 Five British silver thimbles with raised letter borders for towns and 558 cities comprising Birmingham/London /Torquay/Stratford-On-Avon/ Three sewing tools – comprising a 19th Century ivory tambour hook Colchester (5) with steel mount complete with hook, 13cm., a 19th Century Cantonese £50/100 carved ivory pin cushion, 5.4cm., and a steel clamp with pin cushion 547 top, 10cm. (3) Four British silver thimbles with raised letter borders for towns £50/100 and cities comprising Llandudno/ Penmaenmawr/Lidgett-Lincoln/ 559 Aberystwyth, last with top repaired (4) A mixed lot – sewing – comprising wooden reels, six knitting needle £50/100 gauges, needle packets, button cards, haberdashery, paper and other 548 tape measures and a quantity of brass thimbles including a threader A rare Piercy’s Patent tortoiseshell and gold inlaid thimble, inset and cutter (qty) with the Royal coat of arms over a scroll ‘Piercy’s Patent’ and an £20/30 initialled tablet ‘AP’ within a floral garland, complete with case 560 £400/600 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a Tartan ware slant top needle 549 packet box, 5.7cm, a 19th century ivory reel top clamp. 14cm, a while No lot metal needle case, a mother of pearl circular box, a Spa work wooden cylinder bodkin case, and a maroon leather and tooled needle wallet Miscellaneous Sewing with flannel, 6.5cm (6) 550 £50/100 A child’s sewing machine, circa 1900, the frame decorated with 561 colour transfers of a young girl feeding birds, the splay base with A mixed lot – sewing – comprising four white metal continental needle similar bird spandrils, stamped to plate ‘Foreign’, 22.5cm wide cases including a pair, all stamped ‘925’, 6.2cm, a silver double ended (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) pin cushion, 3cm, three 19th century ivory pieces comprising a tape £40/80 measure, part clamp, a cylinder box and a toilet pin cylinder (9) 551 £40/80 A child’s sewing machine ‘The Tabitha’ decorative gilt metal frame on plain wooden base, 11cm wide (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £80/120
46 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 47 562 572 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising two violin case form etuis, one with A mixed lot – sewing – eight 19th Century ivory pieces comprising a decorative scissors, the other scissors and silver thimble, 11.5cm, a tape measure with carved overhanging top, no tape, 3cm, two cotton silver mounted pin dish and companion silver box, an ivorine thimble barrels, two thimbles, a cylinder needle case, a thread winder, and a and scissor case, a Tayler’s pin ejector, an EPNS crochet ball holder, miniature egg (8) a Sharp’s Silver Casket needle case, and a carved darning mushroom £50/100 (9) 573 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) Three 19th Century ivory pieces, comprising a Chinese butterfly form £40/60 pin cushion, each side pierced and carved with flowering branches, 563 6.5cm, a clamp the rectangular frame with side mounted pin cushion Seven sewing companions comprising an embroidered hussif of roll below a reel top, 9.5cm, and a finely carved and turned stiletto, 15cm form incorporating skein holders, tool divisions, flannel, pocket, and a (3) bolster for reels with pin cushion and emery, 20cm wide, a reel bag, £80/120 two plush velvet companions with tools, a leather wallet form example 574 and two others (7) Three good 19th Century ivory pieces, comprising a geometric and (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) leaf decorated needle case with crown finial, 10cm, a similar reversible £40/80 stiletto, 6.8cm, and a tambour hook of stacked and spiral form, white 564 metal collar and turn key, slight split to cover, with hook, 13.5cm (3) A mixed lot – sewing – comprising wooden bone and metal needle £80/120 cases, multiple reel, stilettos, an EPNS boat shaped basket and other 575 pieces (qty) A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a framed display of sewing and (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) other tools, titled ‘Sewing and Needlework Accessories common before £30/50 the sewing machine and mainly hand made from scraps’, 42 x 54cm, a 565 reel box, embroidery oval, tin of metal crochet hooks, and other pieces. A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a collection of needle books (qty) and similar containers, a modern falling side needle packet box with (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) pin cushion lid, two reel stands, various large format thread winders, £30/50 darners, clamp bases and sundries (qty) 576 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a 19th Century ivory thimble, £30/50 an ivory tambour hook lacking screw, mother of pearl stiletto, pair of 566 winders, disc pin cushion, two bodkins, two Bristol card needlebooks A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a group of larger format pin and three other pieces. (13) cushions including a Boer war military example, 18cm, a modern £50/100 ceramic figure as a reel holder and pin cushion, a Chinese basket 577 weave circular sewing box, a lacquer handkerchiefs box and another A good 19th Century carved ivory stiletto and three other pieces, wooden example, 16cm (qty) the stiletto of reversible screw form well carved with leaves below a (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) finial, 8.7cm, a circular bone box the lid brightly painted with flowers, £30/50 3cm, another in carved ivory with internal pierced cover, 2.8cm, and a 567 small black leather note book with stylus. (4) A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a steel clamp the frame with hook £40/80 below a pin cushion trough, 12.5cm, a pair of steel scissors with file 578 cut arms and loops by Joseph Rodgers, 9.5cm, a Tartan ware girdle A mixed lot – sewing – mostly 19th Century ivory pieces including pin cushion (Caledonia), 4.5cm and a Mauchline ware plaster case three shuttles, ivory cylinder jar, and other pieces together with a (Melrose Abbey – Grown On …/Holyrood Palace), labelled ‘Pinto vegetable ivory and bone combination tape measure/needle case, Collection H197’, 6.3cm (4) 10.5cm, and a pair of silver handled scissors in leather sheath (qty) £60/100 £40/80 568 579 A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a German cone form white A mixed lot sewing comprising darners, wooden shuttles, needle wood sewing companion transfer inscribed “Erinnerung Von Roznau’, books, wicker sewing pannier etc in three parts, 16.5cm, five bone shuttles, a leather cased crochet (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) set, incomplete, 8cm, two 19th Century ivory glove powderers or £30/40 vinaigrettes, and a boxwood turret containing a modern porcelain thimble, 4.7cm (10) 580 £40/80 No lot 569 Sewing Cabinets A mixed lot – sewing – comprising a mother of pearl needle book 581 inscribed ‘Menagere’, chips to corners, 5.5cm, a similar heart shaped A late 19th century stained pine two drawer counter reel chest, pin cushion inscribed (Brighton), a similar emery, a needle threader, a the front with two drawers inset with gold on cream glass panels pair of bone knitting needle protectors and other pieces (qty) ‘Alexanders Machine Cotton’ with white ceramic knob handles, the £40/60 back and sides inscribed ‘Alexanders Six Cord’ the top ‘R.F and J 570 Alexander and Co. Limited Glasgow – Best Six Cord Machine Cotton’ A mixed lot – sewing – 19th Century ivory Madras pieces with burnt with sunburst trade mark, 53.5 x 31 x 16cm circle decoration comprising a needle book, 6.5cm, two disc form pin £100/150 cushions, one with slight loss at edge, 4.4cm and 3.5cm, a square form 582 emery, 2.2cm, a waxer, 2.3cm, and a clamp, the rectangular frame A late 19th century walnut two drawer counter reel chest the front below a reel, 10cm (6) with two drawers with inset gold on white glass panels ‘Chadwick’s £50/100 Sewing Cottons’, brass gothic style handles, the back with a single 571 conforming glass panel, 54 x 29 x 16cm A mixed lot – sewing – four 19th Century ivory pieces comprising a £100/150 circular table form pin cushion with decorative border to top, 3.5cm dia., a pedestal pin cushion, split to top, 5.5cm, a bead cylinder engraved ‘Silver’, 2.4cm, and an ivory reel, 3.4cm (4) £50/100
46 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 47 583 594 A late 19th century teak two drawer counter reel chest, the front Lace Bobbin – a scarce turned bone hanging bobbin spot inscribed with two drawers inscribed in gilt edged in black ‘Kerr and Co’s N.M.T’, ‘William Worsley Hung 1868’. brass knob handles, the sides and back with confirming text, the top £80/120 with an oval panel depicting the works within similar text, 48 x 32 x 15 595 cm Lace Bobbins – a scarce turned bone hanging bobbin spot inscribed. £100/200 ‘W. Bull Hung April 1871’. 584 £80/120 A specimen case for J and P Coats, the glazed top hinged case 596 inscribed on the two long sides in black on gold ‘J and P Coats Limited Lace Bobbin – forty nine turned bone lace bobbins, some decorated. Sewing Cotton’ containing a complete selection of ‘Sewing Cotton £40/80 Manufacture 1-21’ and ‘Spool Making 1st Series 1-5’ and ‘2nd Series 1-6’ with printed card key, case, 30 x 36 x 8cm 597 (From the collection of Mrs M. Hamlin) Lace Bobbins, in a three drawer chest by Richard Gravestock and £80/120 containing two hundred and twenty two wooden lace bobbins including forty two decorated examples, chest 23 x 15 x 26cm. (qty) 585 £80/120 A good late 19th Century haberdashery cabinet of twenty four drawers, each with a numerical label, gold on black, and a conforming 598 contents label divided by a brass flush fitting handle, moulded plinth Lace Bobbins – a selection of modern lace bobbins including a base and overhanging top, the drawer titles including ‘Hooks and good selection of Honiton commemorative bobbins in two rolls, plain Eyes’, ‘Silk Reels’, ‘Colored Cottons’, ‘Thimbles/ Measures’ etc., 136 x Honitons, a yew wood box by Richard Gravestock containing wooden 34 x 89cm high and other bobbins some inscribed, and others. (qty) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £800/1200 599 A 19th Cenntury blown glass lace makers lamp, the bulbous body Lace Bobbins and Related Items on baluster stem to a spreading foot, 22cm. 586 £40/60 A lace bobbin box and a selection of lace bobbins, the rectangular 600 oak box pin initialled and dated 1805, the bobbins comprising a card A lace makers lot – comprising a pillow with work in progress, an mounted with ten wooden bobbins including two with lanterns and adjustable wooden pillow stand, a box of reels and threads and a balls, a bone lace bobbin inscribed ‘Make Wide Lace’, a wooden lace box of patterns, ephemera and lace related books and booklets, and bobbin with two lanterns each with two balls, a lace bobbin the pull off a quantity of lace and other pieces, and a quantity of lace and other top with miniature bobbin, eight various bone bobbins and thirty nine pieces (qty) others (51) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 601 £50/100 Lace Bobbins - twenty seven comprising sixteen wooden examples, 587 including two spot inscribed ‘Mercy’ and ‘My Love’ last as symbol, and No lot eleven bone including spot inscribed examples ‘Nelly’ and ‘Oliver’. (27) £40/60 588 602 Lace bobbins - thirteen turned bone examples spot decorated with A 19th century clear glass lace makers lamp the ball top on a hollow boys names comprising John/James/ Thomas/Frederick/Edwin/ stem with curved handle, the domed base with folded foot, 27cm high George/Daniel/Charles/ William/David/Samuel/Richard/Josepth. (13) £50/100 £50/100 603 589 Two 19th century glass lace makers lamps comprising a blue glass Lace bobbins – thirteen turned bone examples spot decorated with ball on turned wooden pedestal and circular base, 14cm, and another girls names comprising Betsy/Ann/ Emma/Ruth/Victoria/Mary/Lucy/ the ball top on hollow baluster stem and circular foot, 13cm (2) Eliza/Dinah/Maria/ Jane/Sally. (13) £50/100 £50/100 604 590 Lace bobbins, thirteen comprising nine bone examples all inscribed, Lace Bobbins – twenty two turned bone and wood, spot decorated Sweet Kitty/Dear Sarah/Kiss Me Quick/My Dear/George Barbey 1834/ with boys and girls names comprising John x 2/Thomas/George x 2/ John Bunyan/Thomas/Love is Sharp To Final The Smart -spiral/ William/Joseph/Betsy x 2/ Ann x 2/Mary/Eliza x 3/Jane/Maria/Sally, and Elizabeth Perry Litchborough, two of the wooden bobbins inscribed – in wood Loisa/Levinia/Charlot/Richard. (22) George/Wishe My Love Again – spiral (13) £50/100 £80/120 591 605 Lace Bobbins – nine turned bone spot named lace bobbins No lot comprising Sofia Cowman/Elizabeth Sitratasy/ Sarah Jane Matthews/ William Hide/Dear Fanny/Eliza Watts/James Prigmore Dec 9 1867/ Miscellaneous Dear Jane ?/ and a worn bobbin dated 1829. (9) 606 £50/100 A continental gilt metal and micro mosaic scent bottle, circa 592 1870, the oval gilt body set to one side with a micro mosaic panel of a Lace Bobbins – six turned bone lace bobbins spot inscribed Dear classical rotunda within a border of enamel flowers, the hinged cover Aunt/Buy the Ring/Kiss Me Quick/Don’t Be Falcs/Love Don’t Be Falcs/I set with a further circular plaque of a temple, inner stopper, on two love the Boys. (6) chains to a suspension ring, 11cm £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 593 £60/100 Lace Bobbins – two unusual examples in turned bone, the first spiral spot inscribed ‘William Chaier A Lover of Mine’, the second, possibly prisoner of war work of crude slender form inscribed ‘Alma – Sebastopol’. (2) £40/80
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The Sewing Sale | 49 607 614 Two Victorian scent bottles comprising a cut glass example in a ruby A mixed lot comprising a miniature Fry’s Chocolate sweet tin in the and yellow overlay, ball form silver screw cover for Birmingham 1884, form of a mantel clock, 8cm, a Lifebuoy Soap miniature First Aid Set by ‘Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders and James Francis Hollings with contents, 4cm, a pin dish in the form of a brass wire work chair, a Shepherd, internal stopper, 13cm, the other with porcelain body glass bird feeder, a morocco paper card case and thirteen other pieces painted with colourful flowers, ball form silver screw cover for London (17) 1884 the makers mark probably Charles May, crack to body, 12.8cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (2) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 615 £50/100 A mixed lot comprising a coquilla egg and two other pieces, a silk 608 printing block , 11.5cm, an engine turned ivory circular box 3cm, three Four 19th glass scent bottles comprising a blue glass example of small vegetable ivory boxes, an olive wood egg, a pottery bird form octagonal section, hinged silver cover with internal stopper to one end, whistle, 5.5cm, a corkscrew and an oval ivory cased swivel mirror, a screw silver cover to the other, 10.2cm, a black glass scallop form 7.5cm (15) example with screw off silver cover for London 1894, by Sampson (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Mordan and Co, a few minor chips and abrasions to glass, 6.2cm, a cut £50/100 glass scent bottle with screw cover, 5cm and another in purple glass, 616 internal screw thread damaged, cover lacking part of screw surround, A pair of 19th Century well carved Dieppe ivory figures of a 3.2cm (4) fisherman and companion, in traditional costume each holding a ring (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) of fish, on canted rectangular bases, 7.7cm. (2) £80/120 £100/200 609 617 Four late 19th Century/early 20th Century scent bottles, comprising A mid 19th Century maroon leather rectangular purse/ wallet, with a ruby glass example of octagonal section with gilded circles, hinged elaborate gilt tooling and colour onlays, gilt engraved catch, blue silk gilt brass cover with internal stopper, a few minor chips, 5.5cm, a gilt two pocket interior, 9 x 12cm. metal mounted mother of pearl example damage to pearl shell at neck, £30/50 11cm including chain fitting, a spiral fluted porcelain scent bottle with transfer decoration, hinged gilt metal cover with internal stopper, 11cm 618 including chain mount, and a ceramic egg form example painted with Two 19th Century mother of pearl handled seals, in the style of flowers on a speckled ground, screw silver cover for Chester, 1891, Palais Royal, one with brass mount the other silver, 7.2 and 7.7cm. (2) makers mark unclear, 4.5cm (4) £60/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 619 £60/100 Two 19th Century mother of pearl handled seals, in the style of 610 Palais Royal, one carved as a clenched fist, 6cm., the other with inset Five glass scent bottles comprising a Georgian cut glass example gold shield mount to a silver terminal, 8cm. (2) of oval pointed form with silver screw cover complete with internal £60/100 stopper, 12cm, another of square section with cut ovals and remnants 620 of gilt decoration, with stopper, 17.5cm, an early 19th Century cut An early 19th Century French oval ivory box, the cover inset with a glass and initialled example with dented silver screw cover, chip to painted panel of a young girl and child within an engraved silver mount, base, 11cm, a circular cut glass example with worn silver screw cover, 5.5cm. Birmingham 1896, makers mark indistinct, 5.5cm, and another lacking £50/100 cover, 4cm dia (5) 621 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A tortoiseshell box and two 19th Century painted ivory boxes, £60/100 the first of circular form with gilt mounts, 6.5cm. diameter, and two 611 ivory circular boxes each with overhanging top painted with figures in Five larger format scent bottles comprising a globular cut glass landscapes, signed, the bases floral painted, the smaller cracked to example with hinged silver cover, hinge intact but pin broken, internal side, 5 and 4.7cm. (3) stopper, Birmingham 1902, 11cm, a cut glass scent bottle of twisted £50/100 cylinder form with cut glass stopper the silver collar for London, 1895, 622 14.5cm, a green glass perfume bottle in a pierced, trellis and scroll A 19th Century tortoiseshell and white metal folding lorgnette, sheath, Birmingham 1902 by Henry Matthews, 21cm, a heart shaped 11.5cm. closed. moulded glass scent bottle with pewter screw cover, 11.5cm, and £30/50 a glass scent bottle encased in a canework with ivory screw cover, 10.5cm (5) 623 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) An Edwardian leather cased hair ornament, the rectangular red £80/100 leather case velvet and silk lined and named for ‘Gowland Bros’, feather plume with detachable horn and silver fork, case 22 x 8cm. 612 £30/50 A mixed lot comprising a miniature tin paint box, 7cm, a carved wooden pipe as a bull’s head, five folding pocket knives one in the form 624 of a ladies shoe, 5cm, two retractable pencils, a fleam, miniature brass A mid 19th Century ivory fan, the front guard carved with a young magnifying glass and seven other pieces (18) woman carrying a sheath of corn over a vacant shield, flowers and a (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) bird, 21.5cm. £50/100 £60/100 613 625 A mixed lot brooches and similar items comprising a continental silver Two 19th Century fans, comprising an example with painted and brooch of a stag, 5.5cm, a Celtic style silver brooch, an agate brooch, pierced mother of pearl guards and pierced sticks, the leaf printed to seven other brooches and badges, a silver and enamel oval buckle, one side with classical figures and animals in a garden, the other 19th 5cm, a silver ARP badge boxed, another silver and enamel badge, Century figures in a classical garden with well, guards repaired, three boxed and five other pieces (18) sticks broken at leaf base, 27cm., the other with chinoiserie gilt figures (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) amid pavilions the reverse with flowers, the printed leaf to one side £50/100 with Chinese figures on terraces, the other a vignette of pagodas amid birds, insects and flowers, leaf damaged, 28.5cm. (2) £50/100
48 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 49 626 636 Three early 20th Century fans, comprising a white ostrich folding fan An attractive and high quality cased swivel notelet by with tortoiseshell guards and sticks, 32cm., in cardboard box, a black Collingwood the pink enamel cover with three ivory notelets between lace fan the leaf painted with a signed panel of a woman holding a gilded covers, in a tooled leather rectangular case internally gold shoe amid flowers and birds, wooden sticks and guards, 37cm., and a stamped ‘Collingwood and Co – To the Royal Family – 46, Conduit floral painted silk fan with part gilded wooden sticks and guards, 35cm. Street, London’, the notelet, 6.5cm, case 9 x 6cm Collingwood (3) founded 1817 and adopted ‘and Co’ 1876, they were appointed Court £60/100 Jewellers to Queen Alexandra circa 1910 627 £80/120 Three 19th Century fans, comprising a mid 19th Century example 637 with figural carved and pierced ivory guards and sticks, the leaf painted An attractive early Victorian beadwork bag each side with colourful with three panels of figures in open landscapes amid flowers, one stick flowers over a garden scene with urn on pedestal, looped lower broken near swivel joint, 29cm., another the carved and pierced ivory border, gilded leaf decorated clasp on chain suspension, 14 x 18.5cm sticks and guards with floral painted decoration, repaired break to front excluding chain guard, the leaf in ivory guaze with three painted panels, 23cm., and a £60/100 pierced horn and sequin decorated fan, damaged, 16cm. (3) 638 £50/100 A collection of silver hair ornaments and similar accoutrements 628 probably Dutch, early 19th century, comprising five hair pins four with Two late 18th Century oval enamel patch boxes, comprising an pierced and engraved decoration, another with filigree mount, 20cm, example inscribed ‘When This You Fee Remember Me’ around a bust two damaged examples, a pierced and engraved buckle, 6.5cm a pair portrait of a woman, pink base, internal mirror, 4.3cm., the other ‘A of earrings, and two other pieces (12) Trifle From Ashby’ within a blue border, internal mirror, 4cm. both s.d. (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (2) £50/100 £50/100 639 629 A Palais Royal style gilt metal opera purse of circular form with leaf Two late 18th Century oval enamel patch boxes, comprising an pierced panels and tasselled chains, 4.5cm dia elongated oval example depicting a figure crossing a bridge with rural (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) landscape, internal mirror, 6.5cm., the other ‘Love Conftitutes the £30/50 Value’, green base, internal mirror cracked, 4cm., both s.d. (2) 640 £50/100 A group of purses and other items mounted on velvet board, 630 comprising a bellow form metal pin cushion with floral painted Five lady’s beadwork exercises and a paper and card fortune decoration, 8.5cm, two chain mail purses, one on hook, a knitted teller, the beadwork comprising a pair of trellis work slippers each stocking form purse, a gilt metal thimble egg, a photo locket and a inscribed in ink to the card sole, a teapot as a thimble holder, 11.5cm., Georgian silver vinaigrette (7) a beadwork double lidded basket, 6.5cm. and a beadwork mat in tooled (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) leather surround, 11.5cm., the fortune teller with green card covers and £50/100 twenty one internal ink inscribed panels, ribbon ties and tassel, 7.7cm. 641 (6) Two cards one mounted with appendages including purse, notelet, £50/100 scissors etc, the other with three fob chains (2) 631 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) A fine late 19th century ivory and shibayama card case of £40/60 rectangular form, one side with flowering branches in carved mother 642 of pearl and other materials a butterfly above, the other with a double Three cards, one mounted with an engraved EPNS spectacle case on flowering branch and butterfly, 9.5 x 6cm chains and ring, 26cm and a pince – nez, one with three Albert chains £400/600 two with fobs, and another card with watch retainers two with fobs (3) 632 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) A 19th century carved and pierced ivory model of an early steam £40/80 locomotive fitted as an ink stand, on six pierced wheels below 643 intricate fret cut panels and funnel, the top with old Sheffield plate Purses and bags comprising a knitted miser’s purse with carved ivory sander and inkwell, two wheels sd, 11.5cm wide on a velvet mounted rings and tassels, 28cm, a beadwork purse of festoon form, 34cm, wooden plinth below a glass dome, 16cm high a crochet and steel beaded reticule with base tassel, 27cm, a black £300/500 material bag and a leather purse on hook and chain further mounted 633 with a scent bottle (5) A fine 19th century carved and pierced ivory miniature model of (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) a standing corner cupboard with inset mirror back, elaborate fret £60/100 pierced door and side panels, below three graduated shelves furnished 644 with a variety of objects including a basket of painted fruit, 15.5cm high A mixed lot comprising a glass scent bottle with gilt hinged cover, £100/200 on chains, 10cm, two small chain mesh purses, a whistle and key on 634 leather fob, a pencil on chain, an opium chatelaine, a skirt lifter ‘The An elaborate Persian photograph album, circa 1930, the front cover Alexandra’, an octagonal glass scent bottle, a silver cheroot case with a domed oval enamel plaque of a man seated on the ground holder, a gilt metal lorgnette on beadwork neck loop and two other item reading a book, within a panel of lacquer with leaf scrolls and other (12) motifs overlaid with white metal engraved borders within elaborate (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) borders in bone, metal, and wood in star and other motifs, the back in £50/100 lacquer with a panel of buildings and warriors within multiple borders, 645 leather spine, internal blue lacquer covers, paper pages with tissue A group of boxes and display cases including a pearl inlaid Ottoman guards, 20 x 37cm box, 34cm, two glazed display cases and nine others (12) £100/200 (From the collection of Miss E. Cansdale) 635 £40/80 A late 18th century/early 19th century misers purse in the military 646 style in gilt thread with crimson bands, gold wire slides and ball A silvered brass skirt lifter, of scissor form the circular sliding boss terminals, 27.5cm decorated in relief to each side with a bird within a wreath, 15cm £40/80 £40/60
50 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 51 647 660 A brass skirt lifter of horse shoe form, decorated with leaves A tin ‘Magic Lantern’ and a selection of slides comprising ‘All marked ‘Fyfes ABC Patent – Registered Sept. 21 1876’, screw British T Series’ – Cinderella (12) / New Testament Series 2 No. 165 mechanism, 7.5cm (12)/ Red Riding Hood (12)/ Babes In The Wood (12)/ Beauty And £40/60 The Beast (12)/ The Elephants Revenge (12)/ Primus Junior Lectures 648 Series’ – Alice In Wonderland (8)/ Boy Scouts (6) and eight various A silvered metal skirt lifter, impressed ‘The Eureka’ with registration slides (qty) kite mark for May 1878 amid scrolls, the clasp stamped ‘Regd. No (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 8074’, 9cm £50/100 £40/60 661 649 Seven mechanical magic lantern slides in wooden frames Two skirt lifters, comprising a suspender, the brass hook with chain comprising three rotating circular slides – knife grinder/spiral/ watermill to a sprung clip decorated with scrolls and leaves, 18cm, and a brass and four slip slides – pig and eggs/ pierrot throwing baby/ clown with unmarked Eureka decorated with flowering stem, 8cm (2) bowl and moving eyes/ baguette carrier with long nose figure, each £40/80 approx. 11 x 17.5cm (7) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 650 £50/100 Three skirt lifters, comprising a white metal ‘Bijou’ on blue and brown cord suspension with tassel, clip 9.5cm, a small white metal tong form 662 example probably for a child, 7.5cm, and a brass ball and ring, 10cm Four Staffordshire pottery cottages and castles including a castle (3) form example incorporating a watch stand, largest 29cm high (4) £40/80 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £30/50 651 An unusual late 18th Century English enamel miniature tea caddy 663 presumably for a doll, of oval form, the white enamel decorated with Five Staffordshire pottery cottages including a pair in the form of flowers and inscribed ‘Green’, hinged lid with copper gilt top, 2.4cm pastille burners, 16cm high and three others (5) high (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £80/120 £40/60 652 664 Five 19th Century gilt metal purse mounts and a buckle, the largest A set of thirty Dutch polychrome Delft tiles each depicting a bird on purse mount with chains, 13cm (6) branch or grass in tones of blue, yellow, green and brown each approx £30/50 13cm square together with five similar variant tiles, a part tile and framed blue Delft tile of a man (37) † Formerly with Patrick and Gillian 653 Morley Antiques circa 1986 An 18th Century tortoiseshell and gold pique folding knife, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) probably from an etui, scimitar style blade, 7cm closed £200/400 £100/200 665 654 A 19th Century or earlier garden hoe, the iron blade of thistle form A 19th Century continental silver posy holder, lattice work body initialled ‘I.S.’ on an ash shaft with brass collar below a ball terminal, below a leaf border, on a scrolling stem, 11cm 139cm £80/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 655 £30/50 Lady’s crafts and amusements, comprising an early 19th century 666 face screen, the velvet panel painted with flowers and leaves on a A copper bronze mortar, probably 17th Century, the body with four spiral turned ivory handle, 32cm, a small beadwork decorated silk decorated circular panels divided by lugs below a flared rim, 14cm dia, miniature basket or purse, 6.5cm, a similar stamp wallet, 6cm, and *Invoice Roger Warner, Burford 12/1/1970 - £36 bracelet, 17cm (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/60 £50/100 656 667 Bristol card work, comprising an inscribed stamp purse, 6.2cm, an Two bronze mortars, comprising a small example probably 17th alphabet sampler, 9.2cm, and eight book marks, one unworked (10) Century, the body with four shaped rectangular lugs below a flared rim, £30/50 11cm dia, and another of plain form, 13.5cm dia. * The first 657 invoice P.P. Morley Antique, Kenilworth, 19 April 1974 - £24 (2) Three lucets and two tatting-pins on chains, comprising two ivory (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 19th Century lucets and a wooden example, largest 8.5cm, the gilt £50/100 metal tatting pins with decorative bows each on a chain terminating in 668 clip (5) Three 18th Century bell metal skillets, the largest with handle cast (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) ‘Thomas ++++’, the body cast with two devices, 20.5cm, another £30/50 ‘T.P.B. Water I’ repair to handle, 14.5cm dia, and another ‘Cox. 658 Taunton III” repair to handle at u/n, 16.5cm dia. (3) No lot (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £80/120 Further property from the collections of the Late George and Margaret Watts 669 Two 18th Century bell metal skillets, the largest with handle cast 659 ‘John Neathers’ with double heart motif, 18.5cm dia. and another ‘Wasbrough’, 17cm dia. (2) An early 19th Century carved ivory portrait roundel, head and (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) shoulders of a young man with well carved curled hair, on a black £80/120 ground, in turned ivory frame under glass, the reverse with various ink inscriptions, 8cm dia. Invoice from John Brown and Co Lot 340 25th 670 Feb. 1970 Two pairs of brass candlesticks, comprising a Gothic style pair, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 22cm, and a plain pair on domed bases with variant ejector handles, £50/100 20cm (4) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/60
50 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 51 671 682 A 17th Century brass candlestick probably Spanish, on a domed A documentary 18th Century pewter plate with arms and another, base, 22cm high, 16cm dia. at base. *Invoice from the first with reeded rim engraved with the Arms of Rokeby of Mortharn Jennings of Leominster 26 September 1973 - £43 with touch of Daniel Ingole, with certificate from Howard H. Cotterell (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 1st Jan 1933 and Jackson Stops invoice Lot 121, 22nd April, 1970, £80/120 24.5cm, and another pewter plate, initialled MH, four touches and 672 additional marks to reverse, 22.5cm (2) A 17th Century brass candlestick, on circular base tapering (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) downward to the stem, 20cm high, 15cm dia. at base £50/100 *Invoice from Dunning’s Antiques, St Albans, 20 April 1971 - £23 683 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Nine pieces of pewter and similar wares, comprising a pair of £80/120 pedestal pint goblets, 12.5cm, a pair of tankards, two spouted pint 673 measures, two small measures, 7cm, and a coffee pot (9) A 17th Century brass candlestick, domed circular base to a (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) turned stem with broad drip pan, 25cm high, 12.5cm dia. at base £50/100 *Invoice from Christopher Sykes, Woburn, 6 November 1972 - £25 684 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A pair of 18th Century carved oak caryatids, one of a bearded £60/100 naked man over a lion mask on shield, a basket of fruit on his head, 674 the other of a female with variant mask to shield, 45.5cm high (2) A 17th Century brass or laten seal top spoon, the fig shaped (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) bowl stamped with a rose in circle, losses to edge of bowl, 16.5cm £100/200 *Invoice Eila Grahame Antiques, London, 3 August 1973 - £18 685 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A pair of 17th or 18th Century cedar wood figural panels, £50/100 probably internal lids from a box, one depicting a male musician 675 the other a lady, in burnt work on stamped ground, 24cm high (2) An 18th Century wrought iron candle and rush light holder, on *Invoice P.P. Morley Antiques, Kenilworth, 11 January 1974 - £22 tripod base, scroll detailing to stem, 63cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £100/200 686 676 An Indo-Portugese table cabinet, late 17th/early 18th Century, A 17th Century wrought iron rush nip, spiral twist stem with scrolling India, Gujarat or Sind, each side with floral engraved ivory panels terminal to arm, on tripod base with scroll feet, 30cm within chequer and line borders the top inset with a central tortoiseshell (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) panel probably a replacement, iron side handles, the fall front internally £100/200 decorated in the same manner and revealing an arrangement of six drawers, the upper drawer divided as three to the front, original drop 677 handles, 30.5 x 23.5 x 19.5cm *Invoice P.P. Morley Antiques, An 18th Century down-hearth standing steel roaster, horseshoe Kenilworth, 16 December 1972 - £130 four spike end on sprung stem, the stand lacking wooden base, 40cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £1000/2000 £50/100 687 678 An 18th Century Zanzibar teak casket covered in decorative brass A pair of 17th or 18th Century polished iron ember tongs of ware, ring side handles, brass latch, the back with a trellis design, on scissor form, 47cm † Invoice from Christopher Sykes, Woburn, 6 sledge feet, some losses, 27.5 x 17 x 18.5cm November 1972 - £8 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £200/400 £40/80 688 679 A large late 18th Century or earlier rectangular slipware comb A group of metal items, comprising a primitive brass bell with later decorated baking or loaf dish, pressed border, 47.5 x 38cm wooden handle, 16cm high, a small 17th Century sheep bell, traces of *Invoice Manor House Antiques, Stow-on-the-Wold, 24 September decoration, a hinged brass box or inkwell, 4cm, a candle snuffer and 1974 - £100 two tokens ‘A Bristol Farthing 1652’ and another ‘John Clfre Merch. In (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Bath – 1655’. (6) £800/£1200 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 689 A 17th or 18th Century salt glazed Bellarmine jug and another, the 680 first with bearded mask over an oval containing a shield, loop handle Two large pewter chargers, the largest with stamped initials ‘AB’, with tail, 20cm, and a larger later loop handled jug, 39cm (2) repairs, 46cm, and another with reeded rim initialled ‘IC’ with four (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) touch marks, 41.5cm (2) £200/400 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £80/120 690 An 18th Century green glass onion form bottle, and a reproduction 681 leather costrel, the bottle with chip to lip, deep base kick, 18.5cm, the Two large pewter chargers, the largest with reeded rim with four costrel, 17cm (2) touch marks struck twice, 46cm, and another stamped ‘IWG’ and three (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) touch marks, 38cm (2) £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £80/120 691 An early 19th Century Pratt style puzzle jug, possibly Bristol, the circular pedestal foot to a circular body centred by a sun mask, ‘C’ scroll handle to three spouts, one repaired, below a pierced collar, 28cm (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £100/200
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The Sewing Sale | 53 692 704 A 19th Century or earlier silver mounted walking cane, the long A mid 19th Century circular tray top mahogany tripod table 38cm silver mount extensively decorated with fruiting vines and incorporating diameter a vacant shield, the domed top centred by a flower head, hardwood (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) shaft, the ferrule with conforming decoration, 93cm £30/50 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 705 £100/200 A late 17th Century oak coffer, the two panel front below and divided 693 by a carved rail, three panel top 110 x 51 x 63 cm A Basil Matthews ceramic figure, of a floral decorated standing bull (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) inscribed ‘Basil Matthews – Lazy Daisy 41’, 20cm wide £100/200 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £40/60 Arms and Armour from the collection of the late 694 George Watts A mixed lot, comprising a cloissone vase, 9cm, similar plate, 18.5cm, 706 two Doctor Syntax blue and white transfer plates, 26.5cm, a modern A 17th Century officers sword or walloon, 81cm, flattened diamond slipware style dish, 22cm, a WWI brass troop tin, a four piece copper section blade reduced at the tip, characteristic side guards one pierced chocolate set stamped ‘ARGV Europe’, and a set of stag antlers on with four bars rising to the knuckle guard to a leaf decorated pommel, shield, 60cm wide (11) wooden grip, 96cm overall, with a later leather covered scabbard with (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) shoulder belt £50/100 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 695 £400/600 A set of six silver fruit knives and forks, with mother of pearl 707 handles, Sheffield 1901, in a walnut canteen, 32cm A Zischagge or lobster tailed helmet, probably 17th Century, the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) skull with radiating ribs to a star and ring finial, shaped and pointed £30/50 peak with adjustable nasal bar, the neck guard of four articulated 696 lames, pointed ear defences *Invoice from Michael D. Long 8-3-73 ‘1 An early 19th Century 30 hour longcase clock movement with helmet £82’ floral painted square dial, inscribed ‘Wm. Bradshaw, Coventry’, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) below a date arch, in a later oak canopy case, with pendulum and £400/600 weight, case 42cm wide 708 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A 17th Century English pike mans ‘pot’ helmet, raised comb, £30/50 ‘rivetted’ skull base and brim, plume holder † Invoice from Michael D. 697 Long 7-12-73 ‘1 Pikemans Helmet £85’ 19th Century Continental School – oils on old oak panel, a man in (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) a blue jacket and red cap holding a pewter lidded salt glazed vessel £200/400 another figure beyond, in a later oak frame, the panel 16 x 13cm 709 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) A 17th Century English pike mans armour, comprising breast £50/100 plate with musket ball proof, with double hinged tassets each of eight 698 ‘layers’ with rivetted decoration, 73cm high, 50cm max width at base David Bates – 1840-1921 - oil on canvas, inscribed in pencil verso *Invoice from P.M. Norden, undated ‘Civil War Pewriod Pikemans ‘Autumn North Wales by David Bates’, 60 x 50cm in original gilt frame breast plate and tassets circa 1645 £180 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £200/300 £600/1000 699 710 A mixed lot, comprising a brass and bevel glass cased carriage clock, A 17th Century English pike blade, a dagger and a small pike, dial cracked with stain, with key, 15cm, three blue and white Worcester pike blade of inward curving diamond section to a flattened ball and style tea bowls, two restored and one with small chip, and two similar langettes, remnants of worm eaten shaft, 53cm, a dagger in the 17th saucers, 12.5cm dia. (6) Century style, diamond section blade, curved quillions, steel bound (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) grip to a faceted pommel, 34cm, the pike with steel trefoil blade, £40/80 160cm (3) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 700 £100/200 A large 19th Century Chinese carved blackwood figure of Shou Lao, bearded holding a peach and staff, his gown inlaid with silver 711 wire, 51cm high Four sword blades, various dates and a steel sword hilt, (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) comprising a broadsword blade with three fullers, 97cm, a single edge £80/120 blade with engraved panels and inscribed ‘Pro Deo Et Patri’, 77cm, a double edged blade struck with a running fox or wolf and stamped ‘Anno 701 1616’ and struck to each side with a crowned half length figure carrying A 17th Century oak joint stool, the railed frieze on block turned legs a sceptre, 90cm, a short double edged blade each side struck with three united by rail stretchers, 43.5 cm wide † Invoice Patrick and Gillian marks, one side with an ‘F’, 69cm, the circular steel sword hilt of shallow Morley Antiques, Kenilworth, undated - £86 bowl form, the border pierced with twelve circles and stitch holes the (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) centre cross with circular centre, struck with the letter ‘S’, 17cm dia. (5) £150/250 (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) 702 £400/800 A 1930’s oak two door cabinet in the Arts and Crafts Style 712 enclosed by a pair of bar glazed doors, on short chamfered block legs, A Brown Bess flintlock musket and associated items, the musket panel back, 74 x 25.5cm with 98.5cm sighted barrel variously stamped, steel ramrod, steel lock (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) with standing lion, brass trigger guard and butt plate, hinged steel sling £50/100 mounts, 140cm overall, together with a pair of wood and metal musket 703 stands, a steel flintlock stamped ‘Tower’ and ‘GR’ below a crown, A late Victorian walnut and inlaid pier cabinet enclosed by a single 13.5cm, and a box of accessories marked ‘G. Watts WMP010109 glazed door, gilt metal mounts on short turned feet Great Trayne’ (5) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £50/100 £500/1000
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The Sewing Sale | 53 713 722 Two powder and shot flasks, comprising a natural horn, the Button – a fine 18th Century French rebus button, painted on ivory steel mounts with geometric wriggle work decoration, 34cm, a with two ovals of text and symbols on a blue/black background painted wooden roundel form flask with iron mounts, 18cm, together with a with scroll and flower garlands, under glass in a copper gilt rim, tin reproduction horn and wood inkwell and a part horn adapted for a flask back, 3.6cm (4) *For a similar rebus button see Ertell (V.B.), The Colourful World of (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) Buttons, Plate 16, No. 22 £50/100 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 714 £150/250 No lot 723 Button – an 18th Century French revolutionary button, printed in Buttons black on cloth inscribed on the outer ring ‘Potius Mori quan Foedari – 715 1788’ the centre with a horse supporting a scroll ‘ama vie’, under glass A comprehensive collection of buttons, buckles and similar in copper gilt rim with tin backing, 3.7cm items comprising four ring binders of cards of buttons, including 17th (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) and 18th Century examples, dress buttons, livery and a tin of buttons £100/200 including hunt, various Honiton buttons some annotated, and others 724 some excavated (qty) Button – a fine 18th Century button, painted in watercolour with (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) figures in a landscape with buildings, under a domed glass in silver £50/100 rim, tin back, 3cm dia. 716 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) A cased set of six evening buttons of Essex crystal style, each £100/200 inset with a horses head, three ring loops only, green leather case, 725 12cm. Button – a fine 18th Century button reverse painted, on to a £40/60 bevel glass panel with a landscape view in brown, a fisherman in 717 the foreground, two pillars, trees and other buildings beyond in a A frame containing eleven livery buttons and a brass badge, decorated gilded rim, copper rivetted back, 3.7cm dia. † For a similar together with a die stamp for a livery button, the frame 15 x 48cm (2) button see Ertell (V.B.), the Colourful World of Buttons, Plate 5, No. 1 *Invoice Christopher Sykes, Woburn, 6 November 1972 - £8 and £7 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of the late George and Margaret Watts) £150/250 £30/50 726 Buttons – a fine set of six 18th Century buttons, each painted in Buttons from the collection of The late Claire tones of white and brown with putti at play and work on a blue ground Gilchrist Part 1 under glass within brass frames, 4cm dia. (6) † See Epstein (D) and Safro (S) Buttons, Page 42 for a very similar set. 718 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Button – a fine French 18th Century architectural button, £300/500 with an engraving, black on white, the building titled ‘La Monoye’, under a domed glass in white metal frame, tin back, 3.6cm dia. 727 *See Houart(V), Buttons A Collector’s Guide, Pages 12 and 13, for Buttons – a fine set of six Bilston enamel 18th Century buttons, similar examples where it states that these buttons were issued in sets circa. 1775, each depicting a young woman head and shoulders or of sixteen circa. 1780 in Paris. waist length, in elegant attire against a blue ground within tortoiseshell frames, 3.2cm dia. (6) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £100/200 £1000/2000 719 728 Button – an 18th Century ballooning button, simple painted image Buttons – a pair of 18th Century buttons, each painted in black on within circle borders, under glass within a brass rim, brass back, 3.6cm white with a classical style scene on a blue/ black background, under dia. glass, copper gilt rims, tin backs, 3.4cm dia. (2) *See Osborne (P.A.), About Buttons, Pages 10 and 11, for the set from (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) which this example derives. £100/200 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £100/200 729 Buttons – a pair of 18th Century buttons, each painted on ivory with 720 figures in costume and titled to base, under glass, copper gilt rims, tin Button – a fine 18th Century button decorated with seed pearls, backs, 3.5cm dia. (2) as a cherub by an elaborate structure, on a black background, under (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) a domed glass within a decorated copper gilt rim, tin back, 3.6cm £100/200 *See Ertell (V.B.), The Colourful World of Buttons, Plate 14 No. 2, for a similar seed pearl mourning button 730 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – a pair of 18th Century buttons, each painted with a nude £100/200 partially draped figure in white against a mottled brown background, under glass, copper gilt rims, tin backs, 3.9cm dia. (2) 721 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Button – a fine 18th Century button painted with a landscape, to £80/120 the fore a gentleman fishing, beyond a ruined castle, river bridge and windmill, under a domed glass in copper gilt rim, copper back, 4cm dia. 731 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – two 18th Century verre eglomise buttons, both silver and £100/200 blue, one painted with stars the other with a chinoiserie scene, copper gilt rims, tin backs, second cracked, 3.5cm dia. (2) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £50/100
54 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 55 732 741 Buttons – two 18th Century buttons, painted on ivory one depicting Buttons – ceramic – early 20th Century, comprising a card of six a Roman style warrior, the other a lady seated playing a triangle in titled ‘Moorcroft Buttons’, 3cm, a set of five Ruskin, impressed mark, open landscape, both under glass within copper gilt rims, tin backs, 3.2cm, a set of seven small unmarked and three others, and two cards 3.5cm dia. (2) each with a set of six Crown Staffordshire Art Deco examples, and a (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) pair (35) £100/200 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 733 £50/100 Buttons – two 18th Century buttons, comprising a floral painted 742 example and another painted with a gentleman carrying a basket of Buttons and Buckles, a cased silver set comprising six pierced scroll flowers on a pole passing a column with a dove, both under domed decorated buttons, a pair of shoe buckles and a waist buckle in two glass in copper gilt rims with copper backs, 3.6cm dia. (2) parts, flush set in green velvet in a black leather case, Birmingham (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 1908 by Levi and Salaman, case 12 x 21cm £100/200 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 734 £50/100 Buttons – a pair of late 18th Century buttons, each painted on 743 ivory with a figure in open landscape, one of a male playing a wind Buttons – a cased set of three buttons, in blue enamel and white instrument, the other a woman with a bird on a line, within decorated metal by The Guild of Handicraft Ltd., flush fitted in cream velvet, the rims, the open backs in pearl, both under domed glass, 3cm dia. (2) silk lid lining inscribed ‘The Guild of Handicraft Ltd., 16a Brook Street, (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Bond Street W – Works: Essex House, Chipping Campden, Glos.’, £150/£250 2.5cm, the case 4.7 x 12cm 735 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – five 18th Century mother of pearl examples, one £100/200 initialled ‘WB’, 3cm, with chip to back, three with cut decoration, one 744 with metal embellishments, one with blue coloured stones, 3.5cm dia., Buttons – a cased set of seven, continental silver gilt and enamel the last in gilt metal with central stone and mirror backed gilt, 3.7cm decorated buttons, circa. 1890, central gilt roundel within blue and dia. (5) green enamel, 2.2cm, stamped ‘935’, and with additional mark, set on *See Epstein (D) and Safro (M) Page 43 for examples of similar ajoure ivory velvet within a blue leatherette case, 7.5 x 13.5cm buttons. (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £80/120 £50/100 745 736 Buttons – a cased set of six, white metal and paste set buttons, 19th Buttons – two pairs of 19th Century buttons and two others, Century, set with a circle of stones within a swirl design, 3cm dia., set comprising a tortoiseshell pair with leaf scroll silver inlay borders, on purple velvet in a rectangular blue leather case, 4.5 x 20cm 3.5cm dia., a pair with domed spangle centres within paste borders, (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 3.2cm, and two smaller paste set examples (6) £50/100 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 746 £50/100 Buttons – a cased set of twelve, art nouveau style silver buttons 737 each with a maiden’s head, 2.2cm dia., unmarked, set on ivory velvet Buttons – six 19th Century papier mache buttons, five variously in a red leather rectangular case, 7.5 x 15.5cm inlaid with mother of pearl one with running dog, 2.5cm dia., and (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) another in a chequer design, 2.5cm (6) £60/100 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 747 £60/100 Buttons and a buckle, a cased set of six buttons and a buckle, the 738 buttons in blue enamel trellis design, 2cm, the oval buckle in blue Buttons – eleven 19th Century buttons, comprising four horn enamel stripes, buttons stamped ‘Sterling’, the buckle with lion and examples comprising a pair inlaid with mother of pearl and coloured letter K only, set on cream velvet in a rectangular green cloth case, 9 metals with flowers and leaves, 3cm dia., another inlaid with bird on x 11.5cm branch, and another with three dimensional horses head, three verre (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) eglomise type tin back buttons, 2.5cm dia., a landscape cameo button £40/80 in cut steel border, 2.4cm dia., two carved ivory buttons, and another 748 bone carved and pierced with two birds, tin back, 3.4cm dia. (11) Buttons – two cased sets, comprising a set of six blue glass ball form (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Victorian buttons each encircled by a snake, mounted on plum velvet £100/200 in a rectangular maroon leather case, 3 x 12.2cm, and a pair of stud 739 form buttons each enamelled with cupid with bow and arrow in white Buttons – a set of six 19th Century porcelain buttons, each painted on blue within a shaped border, mounted on maroon velvet in a black with flowers in tones of blue, within gilt borders, blue crossed swords leatherette rectangular case, 3.5 x 7.4cm (2) mark to reverse, in the manner of Meissen, 2.1cm dia. (6) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £80/120 £50/100 749 740 Buttons – a cased set of six, silver Art Nouveau style buttons Buttons – three 18th Century enamel buttons, probably English decorated with a pierced design of flower and leaves, unmarked but comprising an example painted with a man in an open landscape, the reverse with Rd. No., 2.8cm dia. set on green velvet in a rectangular blue border with gilt scrolls and white dots, open white enamel back, green leather case, 5 x 20cm 2.8cm dia., another the pale blue ground painted with a flowering stem, (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) open deep blue enamel back, 2.1cm dia., and an oval example domed, £50/100 painted with puce flowers, silver back, 1.5cm (3) See Epstein (D) and Safro (M) frontis Page 18 and 19 for similar examples (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £150/250
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The Sewing Sale | 55 750 759 Buttons – two cased sets, comprising a set of four white metal Buttons – a fine framed display of twenty two buttons, 18th buttons initialled ‘HH’, back stamped for ‘Pitt and Co., London’, 1.5cm Century and later including an Italian mosaic butterfly, 3.5cm dia., a dia., set on green velvet in a black leather rectangular case initialled fine floral enamel with paste border, 3cm, a black and white enamel of ‘TEB’, 4 x 9.5cm, and a pair of early 20th Century enamel buttons a dog within copper gilt rim, 2.6cm dia., a paste set example, 3cm, six decorated with a cupid playing a flute in open landscape within various enamels, a tortoiseshell and pearl inlaid floral example, 2.7cm turquoise jewelled borders, 3.2cm dia., in an oval leatherette case, dia., a large silver example of a lady in elaborate hat holding flowers 7.5cm (2) within a shaped border, 3.7cm and others. (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £80/120 £400/600 751 760 Buttons – eight 18th Century silver buttons, comprising a set of Buttons – a card of sixty livery and similar buttons and another six with leaf decoration, and a pair engraved with a flower within a card, mostly gilt and variant but including two pairs and a set of four, garland, last 1782 by John Winter and Co., 2.5cm dia., in a modern most 2.5cm dia. card, 38.5cm x 27.5cm, the second card with a set of plastic case. (8) ten (70) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £50/100 £80/120 752 761 Buttons – thirteen silver 19th Century examples, comprising a set Buttons – a framed set of five 18th Century enamel buttons, of six, domed, with floral and leaf decoration, 1.8cm, another set of six probably French, in alternate stripes of blue and white enamel each floral engraved, marks to reverse, and a filigree example 2.5cm dia., in with small trefoil motifs within raised dot borders, 3.4cm dia., in a a modern plastic case (13) glazed oval gilt frame, 18cm (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) *See Epstein (D) and Safro (M) Buttons, Page 43 for very similar £80/120 examples. 753 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – a set of five passementerie buttons, in the 17th Century £100/200 style in blue velvet over wooden cores within steel beaded border, two 762 depicting figures in 17th Century costume, the others animals on fable Buttons – a framed display of late 18th/early 19th Century enamel themes, some losses to beads, 4.2cm dia. (5) *See buttons, in a variety of shapes and sizes, various colours in stripes Epstein (D) Safro (S) Buttons page 21. and dots, turned over copper gilt rims, largest 4.6cm dia., in a glazed (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) oval gilt frame, 18cm £100/200 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 754 £100/200 Buttons – a group of continental silver buttons of hussar type, 763 possibly Hungarian, late 18th Century/early 19th Century comprising Buttons – a fine framed display of ten 18th Century steel buttons, seven ball type in three sizes, and nine of hollow dome form, each mostly with cut decoration some featuring pearl and paste decoration, with spiral decoration terminating in a stylised flower head, the domed most approximately 3.7cm dia., in a glazed gilt rectangular frame, 28 examples 2.6cm dia. (16) x 26cm (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £50/100 £150/250 755 764 Buttons – a set of three 19th Century porcelain buttons, each Buttons – a framed display, containing a set of six 18th Century painted with a bird on a branch within a gilt border, impressed Copenhagen ceramic buttons with pierced decoration one with a crack, numerals to reverse, 3.7cm dia. (3) one with a chip to edge, 3.8cm dia., and a set of four 18th Century (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) enamel buttons with a flowerhead within a red circlet and outer circular £100/200 border of green leaves, 2.8cm dia., in a glazed gilt rectangular frame, 756 28 x 26cm Buttons – a set of four 19th Century porcelain buttons and *See Epstein (D) and Safro (M) Buttons Page 56 for similar examples another, comprising four painted with figures in 18th Century of the first. landscapes each with a building within gilt borders, 2.5cm dia., and a (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) smaller but apparently matching example painted with a bird, 1.8cm £200/400 dia. (5) 765 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – a good card display of twenty one buttons, including £100/200 a floral enamel in cut steel border, 3cm, thirteen other enamels 757 including two sets of four, a gilt brass ballooning button, 1.6cm dia., a Buttons – a fine framed display of 19th Century mother of pearl three dimensional metal shell, and a silver and enamel pierced floral buttons, comprising a set of six each engraved and hightened in example, card, 25.5 x 18cm lac with a butterfly or similar winged insect, minor blemishes mostly (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) natural, 3.5cm dia., and a set of eight cut and decorated mother of £100/200 pearl buttons, 2.3cm dia., in a glazed gilt rectangular frame, 28 x 26cm 766 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – a good card display of thirty, mostly Art Nouveau £150/250 period, including silver and white metal female head examples, a large 758 mother of pearl example engraved with a stylised butterfly, 3.6cm, an Buttons – a framed display of a set of six early 19th Century engraved mother of pearl, 2.5cm, four enamels and others, card 25 x ‘habitat’ buttons, each containing one or more natural specimen and 17.5cm fauna under a domed glass with copper gilt rim, 3.5cm dia., in a glazed (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) rectangular frame, 32 x 28.5cm £150/250 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £200/400
56 | Bleasdales Limited All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. All lots are subject to a buyers premium of 20% in addition to the hammer price. The Sewing Sale | 57 767 772 Buttons – a good card display of thirty, mostly 19th Century Buttons – two card displays, mostly celluloids and plastics, one including four enamels, one 18th Century in copper gilt rim, 2.5cm, two of twenty four and one of twenty three, including some figurals and silver and enamel floral pierced, 3cm, silver, glass and brass picture portraits, cards approximately 25 x 19cm (2) buttons, card 24 x 20cm (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £40/60 £150/250 773 768 Buttons – three card displays of tinies, in various materials Buttons – a good card display of forty five, mostly silver including including enamel and glass, circa. 110 buttons (3) a set of five cupid kissing female, 2.7cm, a set of six with enamel (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) decoration, 1.8cm, a set of six floral, a set of five domed filigree and £50/100 others, card 24.5 x 21cm 774 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) Buttons – three card displays, comprising a card of six large brass £100/200 cockerel head buttons, 4.4cm, another of twenty black and other glass, 769 one in fabric, largest 3.5cm and another with a set of seven glass swirl Buttons – a fine card display of thirty, mostly 18th Century cut pattern buttons in tones of brown and cream, 2.2cm dia. (3) steel examples including a set of eight, 2.5cm, two sets of four, two (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) embellished with pearl, and others, card 30 x 29cm £50/100 (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) 775 £100/200 Buttons – approximately 40 small card displays, mostly mounted 770 with sets, late 19th or early 20th Century in various materials (qty) Buttons – two card displays, one of twenty seven including glass (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) and enamel, a set of three owl heads, three agates, card 25.5 x 17cm, £40/60 the other of thirteen including a set of five in blue and white enamel 776 within cut steel borders, 3.5cm, a cut bone button carved with a stag, Buttons – a sample box for Hiebel and Vater, Bavaria/ Germany, 3.4cm and others, card 25.5 x 17cm (2) five sample cards of glass buttons, circa. 1930, cards 20 x 14.5cm (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £100/200 £30/50 771 777 Buttons – two card displays, one of forty gilt brass decorative Buttons – a small collection of Dorset thread buttons, some on examples mostly sets, largest 2.2cm, card 24.5 x 15cm, the other small cards (qty) fourteen brass mounted with glass, card 23.5 x 20cm (2) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) (From the collection of The late Claire Gilchrist) £20/40 £50/100
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‘Knitting Sticks and Sheaths - A History’ by Dr Ian McFeeters ‘..a style of presentation... which brings the sticks and sheaths to life...well worth getting.’
DORSET THIMBLE SOCIETY
Knitting in the United Kingdom was, until recently, largely associated with working class homes and as a result many tools produced in Britain were made from affordable materials and were predominantly handcrafted with designs that followed the folk art tradition. Conversly in Europe, knitting spanned all social classes and there are many more examples of sticks tooled in more expensive materials, such as silver and ivory.
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