A good early Victorian rosewood library timepiece, by William Johnson, Strand, London, with fusee, 24cm high, with pendulum.
about Lot 1610
A 4.2ct brilliant cut diamond and platinum ring, colour G/H, clarity VS1/VS2, with accompanying certification.
about Lot 286
Charles Wyllie, Thames lightermen, signed, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 80cm.
about Lot 1238
GIFT FROM CHARLES DICKENS TO 'Little Lucifer Box': a Victorian figured walnut and gilt brass combined writing slope and stationary casket, the hinged upper section retaining original key, with central plaque engraved 'Happy Birthday Little Lucifer Box 20 Oct 1859', lid of lower section with circular plaque engraved 'Catherine Elizabeth Dickens', the whole approx 36 x 26cm, some damages and loss to lining, two similar (non-matching) glass inkwells present.
about Lot 62
A 18ct white and yellow gold diamond ring, set central pear shaped yellow diamond of 2.06ct with a baguette and brilliant cut diamond to each shoulder, by Timothy Roe, hallmarked London 2011, size N.
about Lot 307
(THH) A large and impressive pair of bronze recumbent lions, each on a Breccia marble base, 35.5cm high x 54cm wide.
about Lot 1862
A large and impressive Chinese bronze twin handled censor and tripod stand, Xuande six character mark to base, the censer 30cm wide,
about Lot 1226
A 19th century carved and painted wood butcher's shop diorama, the visible area 40 x 60cm, in the original mahogany framed case, the whole 50.5cm high x 71.5cm wide x 19.5cm deep.
about Lot 1379
DICKENS (Charles): 'A Christmas Carol..': 2nd edition, London, Chapman & Hall, 1843: half-title, title printed in red and blue, edition statement printed in red, etched hand coloured frontispiece and 3 further hand coloured plates by John Leech, wood engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, joints cracked at several points and block shaken, publishers salmon cloth gilt, aeg, backstrip frayed and torn (split from lower hinge and chipped to ends), lower endpaper joint cracked, original yellow endpapers (several ink ownership inscriptions to FFE verso), small 8vo. (1)
about Lot 59
UNRECORDED: RELIEF OF THE POOR IN JACOBEAN LONDON: 'Great Cryes, turned into Great Joyes; with Bountifull Helpes, and Good Hopes, to increase the same, that is; the Cryes of the Poore in the Cittie of London, and elsewhere, turned into Great Joyes..', London, printed by John Dawson for John Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop at the Three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, neere The Royall Exchange, 1624: 80pp, rubricated borders, stab-sewn, some waterstaining round lower edges, initial leaf a bit chipped and creased, a few wormholes and tracks to initial quires but without any loss of sense, external pages dustsoiled but a good crisp copy overall, small 8vo. A rare late Jacobean tract on the relief of the London poor: we have been unable to trace any copy of this book in auction or library databases. (1)
about Lot 541