SECOND DAY’S SALE WEDNESDAY 10th OCTOBER 2018 COLLECTORS’ ITEMS, WORKS OF ART & CLOCKS Commencing not before 12.30pm Collectors’ Items, Works of Art and Clocks will be on view on: Friday 5th October 9.00am to 5.15pm Saturday 6th October 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 7th October 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 8th October 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 9th October 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Weights and measurements are approximate guidelines only unless stated to the contrary Works of Art & Collectors’ Items Clocks Enquiries: Martin McIlroy Enquiries: Leigh Extence Tel. 01392 413100 Tel. 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 651 651 A 2inch Scale Burrell Showman’s Live Steam Traction Engine ‘Thetford Town’, the double cranked compound engine with double gearing, maroon and white canopy fitted with crane attachment and chimney extension, raised on brass olivers, painted fascia boards, engine painted in maroon and black livery, 9 inch solid flywheel with hand operated rim brake, the cream spoked wheels with rubber tyres, maker’s signature to hub of 33.5cm rear wheels, maker’s brass plaque to both side ‘Chas Burrell & Sons Ltd, Engineers, Thetford, England’, 123cm overall length, seated on a green painted iron rolling road frame. *£5000 - 6000 652 653 A 1977 cask strength Caol lla Single A 1979 cask strength Bruichladdich Scotch Malt Whisky from the Islay Single Scotch Malt Whisky from the distillery bottled at 60.8% as part of the Islay distillery bottled at 54.9% as part Blackadder Limited Editions Range. of the Blackadder Limited Editions Numbered bottle 187/360 from cask Range. Numbered bottle 72/180 from no.Two, it was distilled on the 18th cask no.843, November 1977 and bottled in August it was distilled on the 23rd March 1979 1996, making it 19 years old at that and bottled in August 1996, making it time. The capsule appears intact, the 17 years old at that time. The capsule labelling in good order and the malt appears intact, the labelling in good reaching a level above the shoulders. order and the malt reaching a level just *£80 - 120 above the shoulders. *£80 - 120 Note Built in 1846, the Caol IIa distillery was under the ownership of Note Built in 1881, the Bruichladdich the Distillers Company [now Diageo] in distillery was under the ownership of 1977 and was the largest distillery on Ivergordon Distillers during 1979 and the island of Islay at the time. mothballed in 1993. Founded in 1995 Blackadder’s Founded in 1995 Blackadder’s bottlings bottlings offer a ‘no non-sense’ offer a ‘no non-sense’ approach, being approach, being bottled at cask bottled at cask strength, un-chilfiltered, strength, un-chilfiltered, un-coloured un-coloured and distributed in clear and distributed in clear glass bottles glass bottles for the transparency of the for the transparency of the buyer. buyer. 652 653 654 A 19th century carved ivory ‘Burmese’ type chess set one side stained red the other left natural, with foliate decoration, the rooks as turrets with flags, the pieces raised on petalled bases, the king 11.5cm. high, the pawn 6.5cm. high. *£400 - 600 654 160 655 A 19th century German double bass circa 1880 with a two-piece swell back, the varnish of a medium honey brown, having an ebony finger board and tail plate, machine head, length of back 109cm., contained in a carrying bag. *£4000 - 5000 * All lots subject to a buyers premium of 21% plus vat @ 20% 161 656 Bellaigue, Geoffrey de - Waddesdon Manor, Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes 2 vols, cloth in d/w and slipcases, folio, National Trust, 1974. With - Blair, Claude, Waddesdon Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork cloth in d/w and slipcase, folio, National Trust, 1974. (3) 656 *£80 - 120 657 Bronzes Pope-Hennessy, John, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection cloth in d/w, 4to, 1965. With - Bronzes other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, cloth backed boards in d/w, 4to, 1962. With one other on bronzes. (3) *£60 - 100 658 Gentle, Rupert & Feild, Rachael - English Domestic Brass 1680 - 1810 cloth in d/w, 4to, Paul Elek, 1975. With - Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, cloth in d/w, 4to, A.C.C, 1994. With - Schiffer, P, N, and H, The Brass Book, cloth in d/w, 4to, Exton, 1978. With one other book on Domestic Metalwork. (4) *£60 - 100 657 658 659 Bailey, Major C.T.P - Knives and Forks org.cloth, 4to, Medici Society, 1927. With six others on metalwork. (7) *£40 - 60 660 Eras, Vincent J. M - Locks and Keys throughout the Ages org. cloth, 4to, 1957. With - English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840, cloth in d/w, 4to, Tiranti, 1970. With - Bourne, Jonathan & Brett, Vanessa, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, cloth in d/w, 4to, Sotheby’s, 1991. With one other on lighting. (4) *£50 - 75 661 Clay, Reginald S & Court, Thomas H - The History of the Microscope cloth in d/w, 4to, Holland Press, 1975. With - Daumas, Maurice, Scientific Instruments of the 17th & 18th Centuries and their Makers cloth in d/w. 4to, Batsford, 1972. 659 660 With - Turner, Anthony, Early Scientific Instruments Europe 1400-1800, cloth in d/w, folio, Sotheby’s, 1987. With one other on microscopes. (4) *£50 - 75 662 Clifton, Gloria - Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 cloth in d/w, folio, Zwemmer, 1995. With - Bennion, Elisabeth, Antique Medical Instruments, cloth in d/w, 4to, Sotheby, 1979. With - Goodison, Nicholas, English Barometers 1680-1860, cloth in d/w, folio, A.C.C, 1977. With three others on scientific instruments. (6) *£80 - 120 663-4 No Lots. 661 662 162 665 665 666 A 19th century bronze sundial with triangular 666 gnomon, the centre of the dial with lunar and An early 20th century walnut cased barograph, unsigned, stellar medallion enclosed by a ring of cardinal the clockwork recorder on a lacquered brass base with seven points and Roman numeral ring, inscribed atmospheres, under a glazed cover, the moulded base with ‘Sine Umbra Nihil, 20.5cm. diameter. fitted frieze draw for spare recording charts, 23 x 36 x 22 cm. *£100 - 150 *£300 - 500 667 A set of five George IV graduated copper wet measures of plain cylindrical form, each bears a crown and incised Amounderness, 1826, includes Imperial Quart, Pint, Half Pint, Gill and Half Gill, contained in a fitted wood case, the interior lid bears paper label for De Grave, Short & Fanner, Late M De Grave & Son, 59, St Martin Le Grand, London. *£800 - 1000 667 668 A late 17th silkwork embroidered panel probably depicting Charles II and Catherine of Braganza under marital canopies, with attendants, worked in coloured silks, enclosed by a border of birds, animals, flowers and insects, 36 x 51cm. *£600 - 800 668 * All lots subject to a buyers premium of 21% plus vat @ 20% 163 670 670 An early 19th century needlework 669 sampler with banded decoration of 669 verse and panels of flowers, figures and animals, enclosed by a floral border, A 17th century banded sampler with 675 upper case alphabet, arabic numerals, worked in coloured silks by Margaret 675 trailing flowerheads and foliage, William and dated 1825, 31.5 x 42cm. A small Chinese bronze Amitabha worked in coloured silks by Mary *£250 - 350 Buddha seated in meditation with Iremonger and dated April 30 1684, 52 671-4 No Lots hands in dhyana mudra, 17th/18th x 41cm. century, 12 cm. *£200 - 300 *£100 - 200 676 A Chinese bronze tripod censer of squat circular form, with swept handles, bears four character mark within a dragon border, 16.5cm. diameter; a similar censer, bears sixteen character mark to the base, 13.5cm. diameter; and small censer, bears six character mark to the base, 7.5cm. diameter. (3). *£500 - 600 676 678 678 A Chinese polished bronze censer of rectangular section with pierced curved handles and on cabriole legs, 18th/19th century, 18 cm wide with hardwood cover 677 and stand. A late 19th century Chinese export *£300 - 400 lacquer folding chess board decorated to the sides with flowers and pagoda vistas, the hinged top enclosing a backgammon board, 49 x 49cm. *£80 - 120 677 164 679 679 A large Chinese bronze vase, Gu of square section, the corners with pierced vertical flanges, cast with lappets and taotie masks on a leiwen ground, 18th/19th century, 46 cm and wood stand. *£500 - 700 * All lots subject to a buyers premium of 21% plus vat @ 20% 165 680 680 mark 680 A Chinese bronze tripod censer the compressed globular body with waisted neck and loop handles, on bulbous cabriole legs, cast six-character Xuande mark, 16 cm wide. *£300 - 500 681 681 A collection of nine 19th century Chinese paintings on rice paper each depicting exotic birds amongst flowering shrubs and plants, each 19 x 31 cm. *£400 - 600 166 682 682 A pair of Chinese two-tier polished wood stands of rectangular outline, with 683 683 crossbanded tops on simulated bamboo legs linked by stretchers, 26cm. wide. A Chinese painting, mountain landscape *£300 - 500 with fir trees in the foreground, bears the seal of Wu Hang, the other seal reads “shisa ziran” (Nature is the Master of the Law), 92 x 85cm. *£200 - 300 685 685 A pair of Chinese rootwood carvings depicting dancing figures mounted on naturalistic stands, (some losses), each 47cm. high. 684 *£100 - 150 684 686 A Chinese cloisonne horse group of two rearing horses, decorated A 19th century Chinese export ivory part chess with dragons, on a rectangular base decorated with dragons and set one side stained red, the other left natural, the flaming pearls, on bracket feet, 50cm.