George III Wine Label Made in London, circa 1780 by James Phipps I

The Wine Label is of the scroll form and is decoarted with a feather edge border. This example is engraved for PORT. Length: 2.25 inches

The label is broad rectangular in form with a bright cut border and a domed section above pierced and engraved with scroll work. The label is engraved for Claret and is marked twice ...

The wine label is plain in design, and has a curved narrow rectangular form. This example engraved for MOUNTAIN. London.

The wine label is rectangular in form with rounded ends and an outer pierced border displaying stylised flower heads contained within semi-circular motifs. The edge engraved with a p...

The label is narrow rectangular in form with a bright cut border and domed section above pierced and engraved with pluming scrolls. The label is incised for CLARET. Measures: Leng...

This label is cast with an oval form and displays a comb border interspersed with flower heads. This example pierced for SHERRY.

Large George III antique mahogany cellarette/wine cooler having a splendid quality mahogany lift up top with a moulded edge opening to reve...

This turned commemorative oak bowl is of deep cylindrical form applied with a silver shield-shaped plaque inscribed ‘H.M.S. Royal George. (108 Guns) Capsised 29th Augst. 1782. This P...

Each cistern is in the form of a fluted vase on a rectangular pedestal. The lead-lined vases have brass handles, removable lids with pineapple finials and taps. The crossbanded pedestals have cupboard doors enclosing slatted shelves for warming plates in one and a lead-lined slops drawers, a tambour fronted shelf and a cellaret in the other. Susan Stuart, 'Gillow of Lancaster and London', 2008 vol 1 p308-315 illustrates many pedestal urns including the drawings for Workington Hall, Cumbria, dated 1788. PLates 342 and 343 show pedestals with a similar arrangement of shelves and drawers. Thomas Sheraton explained the functions of dining room pedestals in his 'Drawing Book' of 1793: 'IN spacious dining rooms the sideboards are often made without drawers of any sort, having simply a rail, a little ornament...

Geo. III mahogany bed step commode with leather inset top. Purchased in England in the 1960's, and used as a sofa side table in an anglophile's home in ...

Herschel actinometer, 1930s, wood and brass, signed Griffin & Tatlock ltd London. It is an instrument invented in 1825 by John Herschel and used for the measurement of the solar heat...

Attractive map with decorative cartouche from "A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World by William Guthrie, print...