19th C Scrimshaw Whales Tooth of Horsted Place East Sussex Hot Air Ballon & Pig

A well executed almost life size skull and crossbones pine carving, depicting the remembrance that we all will pass. Likely a part of a larger religious carving, possibly placed a...

A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436. Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1. Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...

Rare 19th century antique powder horn with scrimshaw, circa 1872. The horn is inscribed "Charles Lee" in scroll on the side of the horn and the woo...

Set of 5 Assorted 19th Century Marble Corbels: 1 x Large Green verde Antico Cartouche: Height - 31cm / width 33.5cm / Depth - 6cm at thickest part 2 x Apricot / white marble Corbels...