Aluminium Fixed Pitch Twin Blade Propeller, circa 1965

A painted carved wooden model of a Hawker Hunter in RAF livery with an interesting provenance, circa 1955. The model is mounted on a wood and acrylic sta...

A unique pair of miniature tradesman’s or apprentice samples of English general purpose saddles. Circa 1930. Both equestrian saddle examples are individually hand crafted using a mi...

A splendid enamel painted cast aluminum model of a Handley Page Hastings on newly made polished aluminum stand. This model was originally made for the Air Ministry at the end of the 1940s when the Hastings was first introduced. Dimensions: 52 cm/20½ inches (length) x 571.75 cm/28? inches (wing span) x 31.25 cm/12? inches (maximum height on stand). Designed and manufactured by aviation company Handley Page for the Royal Air Force...

Unusual large scale model of a late Victorian crane, circa 1880. Beautifully constructed in mahogany with brass binding and details and the original working metal winch and chains, a...

A wonderful set of Terrestrial and Celestial 12 inch globes by George Philip and Son. Presented on brass inclined plain mounts attached to original turned ebonized wooden bases and uprights with axes secured at the top by brass acorn finials. Unusually, the terrestrial globe has a copyright date shown under the cartouche, 1946. The celestial globe is printed in beige against a dark blue background and shows the constellations and many named stars. Solid lines connect the stars within constellations rather than illustrating them as mythological and other figures.? A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. When looking at the stars from Earth the viewpoint is effectively inside a celestial sphere. The surface of a celestial globe shows the star field as a projection viewed from the outside and is therefore reversed, with the constellations appearing as their mirror images. The terrestrial globe is printed in several colours and comprises of twelve coated lithographic paper gores with polar calottes over a twelve inch card sphere. The age of the globe has been confirmed by the political borders and named cities displayed. The globe is nicely detailed and has a grid network of parallels and meridians. It shows all the continents and countries as they were at the time it was printed and also indicates all the principal steamship routes with distances in nautical miles. The globe also has a printed Analemma - a diagram showing the declination of the Sun for every day in the year and the equation of time. The Analemma therefore shows the position of the Sun in the sky as seen from a fixed location on Earth at the same mean solar time, as the sun's position varies over the course of a year. A cartouche is present that includes the title and maker's address. Dimensions of each globe: 30.5 cm/12 inches (diameter) x 59 cm/23 1/4 inches (max height). George Philip, (1800–1882) was a cartographer and map publisher. He founded George Philip & Sons in 1834 in Liverpool primarily as a bookseller and stationer, but rapidly expanding to become a publisher of primarily maps, atlases and educational works. He had one son, also George (1823–1902), who was admitted to the business in 1848. George senior was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and by 1819 he had become assistant to the Liverpool bookseller, William Grapel before going on to start his own business. He used cartographers (such as John Bartholomew the elder, August Petermann, and William Hughes) to produce maps on copper plates. Philip then had these printed and hand-coloured by his women tinters. The business expanded rapidly and by the time he produced his county maps of 1862 he was using machine...

A mid 20th century shipyard engineers model of The Eryx II yacht, commissioned by Comte Robert‐Jean de Vogüé and the last schooner designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson. With original...

Original state with a pleasant patine of age, gently cleaned and delicately re-polished with shelack finish.

A striking and beautifully fabricated aluminum propeller blade with a lacquered yellow accent, finely mounted on a figured walnut base.

Fantastic four blade wood propeller in great condition.

A vintage original WWII Compreg constant speed wood and brass propeller blade by Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) of Riverdale, Maryland, circa 1940s. Due to the wartime shortage of aluminum, these were built primarily of hard wood. The ERCO propeller uses...

A stunning pair of Airplane propeller blades, each highly polished to mirror effect, very decorative as modernist sculptures, for display or collection use only. The manufacturer ...

An extremely rare four-blade propeller from a Vickers Vernon aircraft. The Vickers Vernon was a British biplane troop carrier used by the Royal Air Force. It entered service in 1921,...