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Illustrated by Janet & Anne Grahame-Johnstone Copy 48 of 250 copies, number and signed in pen by the author on the limitation page and one of 85 specially bound in hard grain morocco...

Christie's: Furniture, Pictures & Silver from Tythrop Park, April 27, 1995. 1st Ed Soft cover. A Christie's Auction catalogue for the Cotton family. Listings include works from Isaac Liger, James Shruder, Peter Archambo, and David Willaume...

Christopher Dresser for Coalbrookdale, Cast Iron Aesthetic Movement Hall Stand, English Registration Number 214965, Date of Registration: October 17, 1868 A rare and architecturally...

We are delighted to offer for sale this finest quality Waring & Gillow Lancaster, Burr Walnut inlaid large bed side table which is part of a large suite This piece is part of a bedroom set, I have in total a triple bank wardrobe...

This set of antique books were published in England by Leipzig Gernhard Tauchnitz in 1883 and 1884. The two volumns contain Italian sketches by a ...

This exquisite textile was created in England in the early 20th century, when the Arts & Crafts style was in fashion in the decorative arts. The movement championed traditional methods of working by hand to create beautiful objects which were then decorated with motifs and patterns inspired by nature. Arts & Crafts practitioners created a variety of objects, including metalwork, jewelry, wallpaper, textiles and furniture. Because of the influence of the Arts & Crafts movement, art needlework panels...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, fully restored, hand dyed brown leather storage trunk coffee table...

Title: 1773 John Blair Map of the Ancient Holy Land: Tribes, Journeys, and Empires This exceptional map by John Blair, published in London in 1773, offers a richly detailed view o...

A good Victorian circular brass stick stand: made from brass rod with cast finials, cast iron base with removable drip trays

A good quality Regency period mahogany Canterbury, having three slatted divisions with ring turned supports, a single frieze oak lined drawer and r...

A pair of ultra sleek contemporary hand-crafted English white ash night stand tables with storage drawer. Designed with sharp minimalism in mind - whilst highlighting the handmade c...

Great map of Italy Lithograph engraving by John Dower Original colour Published, 1861 Unframed Good condition / repair to top right corner seen in last image    

PRESENTING an EXTREMELY UNIQUE and RARE 19C British Tunbridgeware Hair Pin/Bobbin or Slide. This slide is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before, it is a VERY RARE survivor. From circa 1860 – 80 and made in Tunbridge Wells, England. Made of walnut with gorgeous marquetry inlay on the entirety of the front with classic Tunbridgeware micro-mosaic all over the front. The rear is walnut. The marquetry inlay appears to be various different woods, namely, maple, walnut and satinwood. Would have been worn in a Lady’s hair bun with the micro-mosaic facing forward. This would have belonged to a VERY ELEGANT LADY in the mid to late 19th Century. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells. The famous makers of Tunbridge ware were in the Tunbridge Wells area of Kent; their most notable work was from circa 1830-1900. Early makers of Tunbridge ware, in Tunbridge Wells in the mid-18th century, were the Burrows family, and Fenner and Co. In the 19th century, around 1830, James Burrows invented a technique of creating mosaics from wooden tesserae. Henry Hollamby, apprenticed to the Burrows family, set up on his own in 1842 and became an important manufacturer of Tunbridge ware, employing about 40 people. Edmund Nye (1797–1863) and his father took over the Fenner company when William Fenner retired in 1840, after 30 years in partnership with him. Thomas Barton (1819–1903), previously apprenticed at the Wise factory, joined the Nyes in 1836, and worked as Nye’s designer; he took over the business in 1863 and continued there until his death. In Tonbridge (near to Tunbridge Wells), George Wise (1703–1779) is known to have had a business in 1746. It continued with his son Thomas, and Thomas’s nephew George (1779–1869), who took over in 1806. In its early years the company made articles such as workboxes and tea caddies with prints of popular views; later items had pictures created from mosaics. Their workshop in Tonbridge, Wise’s Tunbridge Ware Manufactory, was next to the Big Bridge over the Medway; the building was demolished in 1886 to widen the approach to the bridge. Tunbridge ware became popular with visitors to the spa town of Tunbridge Wells, who bought them as souvenirs and gifts. Articles included cribbage boards, paperweights, writing slopes, snuffboxes and glove boxes. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tunbridge ware by Edmund Nye, Robert Russell and Henry Hollamby was shown; Edmund Nye received a commendation from the judges for his work. He exhibited a table depicting a mosaic of a ship at sea; 110,800 tesserae were used in making the picture. The manufacturers of Tunbridge ware were cottage industries, and they were no more than nine in Tunbridge Wells and one in Tonbridge. The number declined in the 1880s; competent craftsmen were hard to find, and public tastes changed. After the death of Thomas Barton in 1903 the only surviving firm was Boyce, Brown and Kemp, which closed in 1927. Marquetry was an old technique which was continued by Nye and Barton to create images such as birds or butterflies. ‘Green Oak’ as caused by the fungus Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Stickware and half-square mosaic was invented by James Burrows in about 1830: a bunch of wooden sticks of different colours, each having triangular or diamond-shaped cross section, were tightly glued together; in the case of stickware, the resulting block was dried, then turned to form an article such as the base of a pincushion. For half-square mosaic, thin slices were taken from the composite block, and applied to a surface. Tesselated mosaic, was a development by James Burrows of half-square mosaic; it was adopted by George Wise and Edmund Nye. Minute tesserae were used to form a wide variety of geometric and pictorial designs. Many sorts of wood were used for the various colours; about 40 were in regular use. Only natural colors were used; green was provided by “green oak”, produced by the action of fungus on fallen oak. Designs for articles were often taken from designs of Berlin wool work.

The large and interesting silver gilt trophy of Captain George Welstead, purchased with prize money from the East India Company, 1805, in the form of a footed cup with a separate cov...

Great image of relics belonging to Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie Fine steel engraving by Charles Lawrie Published by Blackie, Ed...

Hallmarked in London in 1922 by Arthur Bowe trading as Noble & Co., this attractive pair of George V, sterling silver Rimonim have ornate lattice work throughout the bodies and featu...

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Presented in the publisher's original unclipped dust jacket an...

Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, second state printing. Octavo printing. In the original publisher’s black cloth boards with gil...

Fleming, Ian, You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Octavo. In the original publisher’s black cloth boards with the front lettered in gilt and spine titled...

It does not come with an insert . Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.

London: John Murray, 1915. 2 volumes, 8vo; 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (190 x130 mm). Vol. 1: xvi, 748 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 786 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in 1835 in Vol....

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime vintage Bachelors chest with butlers serving tray and Military Campaign drawers. Please note t...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Burr Walnut bedside, side table sized cupboards made by the English company of Brights o...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for this lovely Antique Edwardian hand carved oak walking stick or umbrella stand Please note the delivery fee liste...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime pair of vintage Military Campaign style Walnut Nightstands or side table sized chests of drawer...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime vintage Military Campaign style Walnut Nightstand or side table sized chests of drawers with br...

The openwork gold fluted pendent mount is channel set with an oval cornelian seal engraved with the coat of arms and crest of Hood with the arms of Periam in pretence for Captain Alexander Hood RN (1758-1798) who married Elizabeth Periam of Butleigh. English, circa 1790. Captain Hood (1758-1798) was a cousin of Samuel Hood, Viscount Hood, and of Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport. His younger brother was Sir Samuel Hood who captained Zealous at the Battle of the Nile...

Antique map of Missouri ( Southern Part ) Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Mid-20th century English 9 ct gold small globe Masonic ball pendant, 1950s An English cross Masonic globe ball pendant. The pendant globe ball ...

- Rare child's armchair or possibly a sample made when large country houses were being remodeled in the Baroque taste towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. ...

An English iron umbrella stand from the 20th century with dog sitting in front of a tree motif. Add a dash of whimsical elegance to your foyer or hallway with this handsome English i...

This regal necklace features 47 cut and polished deep red garnets. The entire bib is worked in silver gilt. Each linked piece is topped with a glowing bevel set garnet all the way ar...

Finely detailed shipbuilder's half block model of the steamship Dunbrody, built and engined by The London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co. ...

This is a RARE first limited edition of Watson's poems, printed on deluxe japon and bound in vellum. Unwin's Cameo series of poetry was a distinctively packaged sequence of books tha...

Beautiful 1960s Mid-Century Modern magazine rack stand in bamboo. The organic beauty of the woven materials is timeless and classic, making bamboo and rattan furniture incredibly ver...

Hallmarked in London in 1922 by Morris Solovitch, this striking, Sterling Silver Breastplate, features decoration depiction the tablets with the engraved Ten Commandments in Hebrew, ...

Unusual satinwood bedsteps of a good generous size; still retains its original interior though this could easily be modified; three steps with leather inserts on each step; was origi...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original circa 1910-1920 pine painted library steps or ladder which is stamped G.R.D.C A good looking and decorative piece, original...

A fine English shipwright's or carpenter's sash fillister or plough plane, c.1900, of finely patinated beech wood and brass by Atkin and Sons, Sheffield Works, Birmingham Marked A &...

English silver cigars case by Joseph Gloster Ltd, Birmingham, 1949 Silver cigars case with gilded interior For small thin and long cigars, approximate 1 cm diagonal fits Hall...

Antique Edwardian quality mahogany inlaid banjo barometer having a quality mahogany inlaid shaped case with an 8 inch silvered engraved dial with original hands, brass bezel and a th...

From the library of John A. Spoor an elegantly bound Rubáiyát by Club Bindery. Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872. Third Edition. 8vo, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm); xxiv, 36, (xiv) pp. Beautiful dark maroon morocco binding by Club Bindery 1892 (gold stamped on bottom of inside cover), gilt titling and gilt fillets on turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pictorial bookplate of John A. Spoor 1921 on inside front cover by Emery Walker. Elegantly printed with text within decorative frames on each page. Spine lightly rubbed, small tear to the inside front endpaper. [Potter, 137] Condition: Near Fine Edward Fitzgerald continually revised and rearranged his version of the Rubáiyát, which was first published privately by the author in 1859, through four distinct editions during his lifetime. This third edition settled on 101 quatrains (as opposed to 75 in the first edition and 110 in the second), which is how it solidified. 500 copies were printed. A RARITY. In this third edition the translator is not credited on the title page, nor is the introductory text. Fitzgerald said of his Persian translations that they were "All very well, but very little affairs..." (from the Bibliographical Note in the 1926 Shakespeare Head Press edition, which we are offering, inventory #416) This copy bears the bookplate of Chicago business mogul John A. Spoor. An avid book collector, he assembled a notable and impressive book collection during the late 19th and early 20th century, which was auctioned in 1939 by Parke-Bernet New York over the course of 6 days. The Morgan Library holds a number of books with the Spoor bookplate in its collections. This bookplate was engraved by Emery Walker (1851 – 1933), an engraver, publisher and photographer active in the Arts and Crafts movement, whose work in type design inspired the evolution of private presses in the UK, among them William Morris' Kelmscott...

Bobines ash wood display unit by Homefolks Dimensions: D 5.9 x W 87.5 x H 190cm Materials: ash wood, brass The Bobines display unit is handmade from natural ash and solid brass...

Untitled print of a man from Cairo, Egypt. The man is playing an (music) instrument. This print originates from 'Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn, door de vermaardste deelen van Klein As...

This early 20th-century English umbrella stand features a simple, well-balanced design executed in tubular brass with a square openwork top and a cast iron drip tray. The structure i...

We are delighted to offer for sale this charming brown oak magazine rack with double compartment. This decorative, simple, stylish and well made piece is ideal to keep your magazin...

A Charming Late 18th Century Georgian, Mahogany, Hepplewhite Period Childs High Chairs, Having Camel Back With Elegant Pierced Splat, Scrolling Arms, Removable Safety Bar And Adjustable Foot Rest Over Detachable Mahogany Table Stand Raised On Square Legs. This remarkable little 18th century childs high chair, which also doubles as a childs chair and table...

A fine pair of 15 inch floor globes by J & G Cary, dated 1820 and 1833, each set into a mahogany stand with a vase shaped support and three legs centred on a compass, one with a labe...

This antique brass automobile lantern was made by the Jos. Lucas Company of Birmingham England in approximately 1900 in the period Edwardian style. This ...

Antique map of Nevada and Utah Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Antique map of Alabama Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

It does not come with an insert . Linen in the back. Zipper closure. Dry clean is recommended.

Spectra dichroic blinds, Rona Koblenz Dimensions: W 108, D 5, H 203 cm Material: Dichroic Borosilicate glass 6mm, SS cable, SS fixings Weight: 35/50KG Fixing methode: Hanging De...

Antique map of Tennessee Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

This screen from England skillfully combines a metal frame designed to mimic bamboo with intricately woven rattan panels. The unique blend of materials and design creates an airy and...

Antique George III quality mahogany inlaid banjo barometer having a swan neck top, quality mahogany case with inlaid satinwood shells brass bezel engraved silvered dial original hand...

Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1985-86, Edit by Georgia Fogg. Printed by Sotheby's, London. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of t...

Antique map of Nebraska Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Christie's: Godmersham Park Kent, Auction June 6th to 9th 1983, Volume 1. 1st Ed Hardcover with dust jacket. 1961 lots, mostly photoed in color. Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed h...

Negretti & Zambra Fine Edwardian mahogany cased barograph with beveled glass panels and central chart drawer. Seven vacuum chambe...