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Period: 19th Century
Place of Origin: British
English Campaign Trunk of Brass-Bound Leather and Camphor Wood, circa 1820
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome medium-sized British officer's military Campaign camphor trunk or chest of brass-bound and studded leather over camphor wood, circa 1820.
Manufactured by the British East India...
Category
Early 19th Century Campaign Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Metal
1812-1826 The History of England
By David Hume
Located in Bath, GB
An attractively bound set of Hume and Smollett's history of England, with Hume's work in eight volumes, and Smollett's in five.
Hume and Smollett's 'The History of England' uniforml...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Mauchline Wooden Postal Ruler and Paper Folder with Beach & Cliffs, Cromer
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very rare Scottish Mauchline wooden postal ruler and paper folder decorated with a scene of the beach & cliffs in cromer, norfolk and probably dating from the mid 19th century. While originally made as souvenir items this ruler also provides a real insight to postal history. The ruler is of flat shape with rounded ends and a smooth edge and is decorated with scroll work designs to either end and on both sides and the main side is printed POSTAL RULER AND PAPER FOLDER with a printed section titled THE PARCELS POST providing instructions and costs of sending parcels and on the opposite side titled BILL STAMPS with a list of values and costs. The ruler also has a printed 8” (20cm) measuring edge both top and bottom, one titled English Inches and the other French Centimetres. On the opposite side the ruler has a central transfer scene titled THE BEACH & CLIFFS, CROMER with a four sections the first titled LETTER POST...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sycamore
Pair Antique English Sheffield Silver Mounted Trophy Horns, Circa 1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique English Sheffield Silver Mounted Trophy Horns, Circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Zapolya, a Christmas Tale" in Fine Leather Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale; in Two Parts: The Prelude entitled "The Usurper's Fortune;" and The Sequel, entitled "The Usurper's Fate."
London: Rest Fenner, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Very Rare 19th Century Silver Watch Walking Stick
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare 19th Century silver watch walking stick of exceptional quality. This exquisite piece is stamped with silver marks and in excellent full working order. The silver watch ...
Category
19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver, Enamel
English Regency Style Mahogany Miniature 5 Drawer Chest with Brass Knobs
Located in San Francisco, CA
A good quality English mahogany miniature chest with 2 short over 3 long drawers, each retaining their original brass knobs, supported on a plinth base. Very attractive color and fi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Regency Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1820-35 Large Clock Barometer by Silvani Brighton Antique Forecast Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Rare large barometer complete with clock signed Silvani Brighton, dated from 1820 and 1835. Finely crafted mahogany wood case with double thread at th...
Category
1840s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Rowland Ward Signed English Taxidermy Horse Hoof Match Holder
By Rowland Ward
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and important late 19th century Victorian era metal mounted horse hoof match holder by Rowland Ward.
Museum quality example, this most unusual curiosity having a gilt brass hinged lid opening to striker and open receptacle. Signed "Roland Ward...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Circa 1860 English Diorama of Stanfield Hall
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A wonderful c. 1860 English diorama of Stanfield Hall, even the original case & glass in outstanding condition. Note the wonderful use of shells, dried flowers & grasses for landscap...
Category
1860s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Wood
Genuine Works of William Hogarth in Three Volumes
By William Hogarth, John Nichols, George Steevens
Located in valatie, NY
The Genuine Works of William Hogarth Illustrated with Biographical Anecdotes. Volume I, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First edition hardcover. 524 pp. Volume II, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. First edition hardcover. 444 pp. plus index. Volume III, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1817. First edition hardcover. 525 pp. plus index. A remarkable set of antique books...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Sterling Silver Folding Opera Glasses - Antique Victorian (1895)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of sterling silver folding opera glasses; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection.
These exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver folding opera glasses have a circular form with a plain rectangular bridge.
The eye pieces and lenses are encompassed with plain circular frames, conjoined with swept bridges.
Each pair of lenses are hinged to a plain frame ornamented with the numerals 1 to 5, accented with a sliding focus dial.
The central frame is further embellished with a hinged fingerpiece, accented with a lobed terminal.
Such impressive and high quality examples are rare to the market.
Condition:
These antique Victorian opera glasses...
Category
1890s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Located in Middletown, NY
KELMSCOTT PRESS
Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba. Translated by Oliver Wardrop.
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Staffordshire Pottery Flatback Model of Balmoral Castle
By Staffordshire
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
The hollow potted castle is mounted on a long oval shaped base molded in relief with swirl patterning with a raised molded banner reading BALMORAL CASTLE...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Pottery
Hand Carved Coquille Nut Egg Box 19th Century Flea Trap Pomander Needle Case
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautiful hand carved coquille nut egg box. Beautiful carving, great patina, unscrews at center to open.
The original use was a flea trap, things were d...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae, by Theophilus Johnson
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the rarest English works on moths.
Johnson, Theophilus (1836-1919)
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae (including the Sesidae); with thirty-six original draw...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rare English Georgian Brighton Pavilion Octagonal Cribbage Board
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare English wooden cribbage game board with a view of Brighton Pavilion dating from the reign of George IV, 1820 to 1830. The octagonal shaped board stands raised on four original...
Category
1820s George IV Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
1813 The Plays of William Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
Located in Bath, GB
An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shakespeare, supplemented with a wealth of comments and critical notices.
The very scarce complete 1813 twenty-one volume edition of the plays of Shakespeare. Referred to as the Reed Edition of 1813, this is also known as Johnson-Steevens-Reed 6, the "sixth edition" by Johnson-Steevens, or the "second variorum edition".
With notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, this edition was revised and augmented by Isaac Reed.
Consisting of:
Volume I - Prefatory material and critical analysis by Reed, Richardson, and Malone. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and four plates.
Volume II - Essays by Farmer, Colman, lists of Editions, lists of Criticism, Commendatory verses, Malones "Attempt to Ascertain the Order of Shakespeare's Plays," Malone's essay on Ford's pamphlet, Steevens's remarks on the same.
Volume III - Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage, and the Further Historical Account by Chalmers. With four folding plates.
Volume IV - The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Midsummer Night's Dream.
Volume V - Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night.
Volume VI - Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure.
Volume VII - Love's Labour's Lost; Merchant of Venice.
Volume VIII - As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well.
Volume IX - Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale.
Volume X - Macbeth; King John.
Volume XI - King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1. With a folding plate.
Volume XII - King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V.
Volume XIII - King Henry VI, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2.
Volume XIV - King Henry VI, Part 3; Dissertation, &c.; King Richard III.
Volume XV - King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida.
Volume XVI - Coriolanus; Julius Caesar.
Volume XVII - Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear.
Volume XVIII - Hamlet; Cymbeline.
Volume XIX - Timon of Athens; Othello.
Volume XX - Romeo and Juliet; Comedy of Errors.
Volume XXI - Titus Andronicus...
Category
1810s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Rare 12 inches terrestrial globe signed Cary, London United Kingdom 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
Large 12" terrestrial globe made by the famous Cary brothers, made with a wooden frame, refined plaster polished to perfection, and colored paper gores. The globe is supported by a f...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Original Antique Print of R.M.S Campania 'Cunard Line', C.1890
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of RMS Campania
Chromolithograph
Published C.1890
Unframed.
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Scholar's Microscope, English, Brass, Scientific Instrument, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique scholar's microscope. An English, brass and enamelled metal scientific instrument by Henry Crouch, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Appealing micr...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
19th Century natural history English specimen
Located in London, GB
19th Century natural history English specimen
Encased in its original Victorian pine ebonised base glass dome. This natural history specimen is firmly attached to a wooden base. ...
Category
1870s Early Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Natural Fiber
Early 19th Century English Inclining Sundial by William Hawks Grice London
Located in Firenze, IT
Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
Early 19th Century English Inclin...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Large 19th Century Hourglass
Located in Firenze, IT
Shipping policy No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
A large 19th century hour glass, o...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century Parcel Gilt Gothic Revival Harp By Sebastian Erard
By Sébastien Érard
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine and elegant Regency Satinwood and parcel-gilt double action Harp from the workshop of the famous harp and piano maker Sebastian Erard (1752-1831), decorated in the Grecia...
Category
Early 19th Century Gothic Revival Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Antique Wrap Reel Machine, English, Factory, Cotton, John Nesbitt, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique rotary wrap reel machine. An English, brass and cast iron factory cotton skein winder by John Nesbitt of Manchester, dating to the late...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers to which is added, Porsoniana;
Located in Middletown, NY
RARE, LIMITED TO 5 COPIES, SIGNED BY ROGERS, EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY.
New Southgate: John Bale and Sons for H.A. Rogers, 1887.
Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting.
Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes.
AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith...
Category
19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
19th Century Brass Telescope by Broadhurst and Clarkson
Located in Dublin, IE
A fabulous 19th Century brass three draw telescope by 'Broadhust and Clarkson, London’, circa 1880. This stunning piece is of exceptional quality, fully restored and with excellent ...
Category
19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
19th Century Louis XIV Style Marquetry Baby Grand Piano by Collard & Collard
By Collard & Collard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Anglo-French 19th century rosewood, palisander, amboyna and satinwood marquetry (inlaid) art-case baby grand piano, the works by "Collard & Collard". The intricately deco...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Revival Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Needlework Encyclopaedia, English, Embroidery, Pattern Guide, Circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique needlework encyclopaedia. An English language, embroidery technique and pattern guide, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Beginning in the Als...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Victorian Mahogany Miniature Chest of Drawers
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming late 19th century mahogany minaiture chest, having rectangular top over two short and three long drawers, retaining original turned wooden knobs, flanked by rounded corner...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Croquet Set on Stand
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
F.H. Ayres Croquet Set On Original Jaques Stand.
A fabulous garden croquet set with boxwood mallets, two with brass banding, two without. The mallets are stamped F.H. Ayres and come ...
Category
1890s Edwardian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Late 19th century oak dinner gong
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th Century oak dinner gong and beater. The arched top has carved decoration above the barley twist supports. Having suspended brass gong to centre. All raised on scrolling legs.
Di...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak
Antique Book, Bones and I, Whyte-Melville, English, Novel, Victorian, Circa 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique book, Bones & I by George Whyte-Melville. An English language, bound novel, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880.
First published in 1868, Bones & I is a humorous novel written about a man - Jack Raggles - who gains possession of a human skeleton. Written by George Whyte-Melville (1821 - 1878), the book is a comedic and macabre blend of satire and class division.
Nicely presented example of this unusual title
Displays a desirable aged patina, lightly time-worn but intact
Bound with cloth over board in navy blue with gold...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Hand Carved Black Forest Deer's Head Hat & Coat Rack 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning and rare Black Forest wall mounted carved deer's head hat and coat rack with glass eyes and with branch and leaf decoration,...
Category
1880s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Unusual Victorian silver equestrian trophy vase
By Carrington & Co
Located in London, GB
Unusual antique two-handled silver trophy cup with cast and hand chased detail including a cavalry horse riding scene depicting a competition of horsemanship inside an arena. There i...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Deco Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Life & Explorations of Dr Livingstone Book, African Travel, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique copy of The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone. An English language African travel and history book, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1875.
A Victorian p...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Kent's Knife Cleaning, Polishing & Sharpening Wheel with Original Labels
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique Victorian knife cleaning and sharpening machine was made by Kent's of London England in circa 1880 in the period Victorian style. The machine is composed of two sharpening stones...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stone, Metal
Antique Table Croquet Set on Stand
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Original Table Top Miniature Croquet Set.
An original parlour game of miniature croquet displayed on it's original mahogany stand and complete with all the fittings for a table. The ...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
19th Century half mode of steam ship New York
Located in Martlesham, GB
A fabulous quality 19th Century half model of the steam ship "New York", originally called "City of New York", British built for the Inman line launched on the 15th March 1888. Cir...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Human Life by Samuel Rogers in a stunning "à la cathedrale" binding
Located in Middletown, NY
London: John Murray, 1819.
First Edition.
4to, 8 3/4 x 7 inches (220 x 180 mm); 100 pp with "1819" watermark clearly visible on many pages. Contemporary straight-grained crimson mor...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Two Day Marine Chronometer, John Bliss, New York
By John Bliss & Co.
Located in Norwich, GB
A Fine Two Day Marine Chronometer By John Bliss and Co, New York. No.3068
Two day marine chromometer by John Bliss and Co housed in a beautiful three tier brass bound box with brass carrying handles to the sides, brass push button knob opening to a third tier. The box has a wonderful rich patina and retains it’s original solid brass Tipsy key.
The movement is housed within a gimballed brass surround which is stamped H.M.I and marked with the ordnance arrow
The high quality 56 hour chain fusee movement has full brass plates joined by four ringed pillars, an Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with maintaining power, split bi-metallic balance and cylindrical shaped temperature compensation weights, polished steel helical balance and faceted endstone.
The silvered dial signed ‘John Bliss & Co, New York No 3068 with subsidiary dial below XII for ‘state of wind’ and subsidiary seconds dial above the VI, original ‘blued’ steel hands. C.1890
John Bliss & Co worked at 128 Front Street, New York between 1880 and 1929 and then 84 Pearl Street, New York from 1934 to 1939. Front Street runs from the Brooklyn Bridge to Hudson Ave. and Navy Street, close to the Docks area. On the death of John Bliss, his sons John and George carried on the business. Their chronometers were placed 3rd, 6th and 8th at the Washington Observatory Trials in 1886. They became suppliers to the US Navy and also made meteorological instruments and devised an original way of making mainsprings. Many of their movements were supplied by makers in England, particularly Victor Kullberg.
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
19th Century Plaster Phrenology Bust by Vago of London, 1869
By Vago
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A tactile plaster cast phrenology head, primitively produced yet highly decorative and a obvious rare survivor. A inscribed label of the maker Vago alo...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Antique 19th Century Victorian Solid Silver Cigar Box c.1898
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Victorian solid silver cigar box. Elegantly crafted, this box features a shaped central handle and two hinged lids that open to reveal a divided compartment and ...
Category
19th Century Other Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider HAGGARD
Located in Middletown, NY
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION / FIRST ISSUE
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887.
8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (184 x 120 mm); viii, 31, ii advert.; two color lithographs facing one another on a sin...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
16 Volumes. William Hazlitt, The Life of Napoleon.
Located in New York, NY
16 Volumes. William Hazlitt, The Life of Napoleon. Edition de Deux Mondes. Bound by Blanchetiere in full green morocco with red and brown morocco borders. Gilt-tooling on the covers ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Large Original Antique Map of The Canary Islands. 1894
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Superb Antique map of The Canary Islands
Published Edward Stanford, Charing Cross, London 1894
Original colour
Good condition
Unframed.
Free shipping
Category
1890s Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1 Volume. The Holy Bible
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Anon. The Holy Bible. Containing The Old & New Testaments. Bound in full brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, all edges gilt, raised bands. Published: Oxford: The University Press,...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
A Gold And Enamel Mourning Ring For Lord Nelson By John Salter, England, 1806
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
An extremely rare ring that commemorates the naval hero, Horatio Nelson, who died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar, fighting against the Napoleonic forces. Dr William Nelson, the admiral's brother, ordered 58 mourning rings for family and friends and every admiral and post-captain who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar . The ring is inscribed on the bezel ‘Trafalgar’; outside the hoop with Nelson’s motto in Latin, ‘Let him who earned it bear the palm [of victory]’, adopted by Nelson from a poem ‘Ad Ventos’ written in 1727 by John Jortin (1698-1770). Inside is the inscription ‘Lost to his country 21 October 1805, aged 47’. The initials N and B stand for Nelson and Bronte.
Admiral Nelson was given the title of Duke of Bronte in 1799 by the King of Sicily and in 1801 became a Viscount. The two coronets above the initials refer to these titles. Tthe motto Palmam qui meruit ferat ("let him who has earned it, bear the palm") was added to his coat of arms in 1798 after the Battle of the Nile. Nelson was buried with full honours in St Paul's Cathedral. His cortege consisted of 32 admirals, over a hundred captains, and an escort of 10,000 soldiers.
This ring is an example of only fifty-eight that were made by Nelson's jeweller John Salter in 1806. Thirty-one were for Nelson's close family and friends, the rest for pall-bearers and other dignitaries (see The Nelson Dispatch, vol.3 pt.XII, oct.1990). Three similar examples of this ring are held extremely prestigious museums in the capital. One is in the Greenwich National Maritime Museum in London, another in The British Museum in London and another in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, exhibited in the Jewellery Gallery, case 23, no. 8.
The ring has a particularly special provenance, arguably like no other mourning ring of Admiral Nelson’s. The ring belonged to the Reverend Alexander John Scott. The Reverend Alexander John Scott (1768-1840) was a British naval chaplain. He was appointed to the flagship H.M.S. Victory in 1803 where he served as private secretary to Lord Nelson. He was with Nelson when when he was shot on the quarter-deck of the Victory at the battle of Trafalgar on the 21st October 1805. Scott attended his dying chief in the cockpit of the flagship, receiving his last wishes. He refused to leave Nelson's body until it was brought back to England and placed in the coffin to lie in the Painted Hall Greenwich.
The ring, lock of hair and music book were passed down by the direct descendants of the Reverend Alexander John Scott's family and eventually gifted to the previous owners. The music book was a personal possession of the Reverend which gives watertight provenance of the person who owned the ring.
It is not clear exactly what Admiral Nelson’s last words really were although Scott documents Nelson’s last words to be “God and my country“. However, it is also recorded that a statement during his last hours was "Thank God I have done my duty.” Perhaps these two statements uttered in the last moments sound similar when mumbled by a feeble dying man. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy is that Scott remained by Admiral Nelson’s side as he died and his version is probably the most reliable.
The lock of hair is reputedly that of Lord Admiral Nelson. Without a DNA test there can be no conclusive proof of such. However, given that Reverend Alexander John Scott was with Nelson from the moment he was shot on the quarter-deck of H.M.S. Victory until the moment he was placed in his coffin, there is no reason to believe it is not a lock of Nelson’s hair.
It is difficult to overstate the significance and rarity of Nelson’s mourning rings. With only fifty-eight made, the vast majority of them were given to close family members and only a few were given to close friends. A close friend who receives a morning ring...
Category
19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Enamel
English Victorian Brass Telescope
Located in Queens, NY
English (Scottish) Victorian brass tabletop telescope with 3 legged iron base.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Odd Whims and Miscellanies by H. Repton – First Edition, 1804, illustrated
Located in Middletown, NY
London: William Miller, 1804.
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes
Small 8vo.; 9 x 5 3/8 (226 x 140 mm); vol. 1: xii, [2], 171 [1 blank]; vol. 2: iv, 164, [1 blank] pp.; large paper copy. Ten h...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Snooker Table or Billiard Pool Table Mahogany in Stock
By John Thurston
Located in Radstock, GB
Antique Snooker table or Antique billiard table by Thurston London England.
A very good quality 'Country House" mahogany Snooker table or bill...
Category
1880s Late Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Sterling Silver Miniature Engraved Vesta Match Case Birmingham 1886
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique late Victorian engraved sterling silver vesta match case, George Goodman, Birmingham, 1886.
This miniature vesta case is profusely engraved on all sides with a floral ...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Hand Carved Coquille Nut Egg Box 19th Century Flea Trap Pomander Needle Case
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A beautiful hand carved coquille nut egg box. Beautiful carving, great patina, unscrews at center to open.
The original use was a flea trap, things were d...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Rustic English Wooden Barrel with Metal Straps from the Late 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming English wooden barrel from the late 19th century showcases rustic elegance with its sturdy construction. Likely crafted from vertical wooden slats, possibly oak, this b...
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Late 19th Century Rustic Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
English Mahogany 19th Century Stick Barometer by Tarone
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English Mahogany 19th Century Stick Barometer by Tarone
Classic traditional English mahogany stick Barometer. Excellent and original feat...
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19th Century Georgian Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
Antique Ship's Clinometer, English, Brass, Maritime Instrument, H Hughes, C.1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a rare antique ship's clinometer. An English, heavy brass maritime instrument by H. Hughes & Son of London, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Delightful nau...
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Late 19th Century Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Framed 1838 Mexico & Gulf of Mexico Map
Located in Stamford, CT
Framed 1838 Mexico & Gulf of Mexico map. Printed by Fisher, Son & Co. of London in 1838. As found framed condition. Map has not been examined outside of th...
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1830s American Classical Antique British Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
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