A good pair of 19th century emerald and diamond earrings, circa 1820, each emerald set in unmarked 18ct gold and surrounded by fourteen set old mine cut diamonds with milgrain edges in silver, surmounted by a single diamond. Each emerald 2.5ct, diamond total weight 2ct approximately.
about Lot 96
(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 Nepalese bronze figure of Indra, 18th/19th century, with remains of gilt decoration, 12.5cm high.
about Lot 1537
TOLKEIN (J R R): 'The Lord of the Rings': one volume India paper edition, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1969: INSCRIBED TO TITLE PAGE BY TOLKEIN in blue ballpoint pen, with loosely inserted b&w photograph of the author posed at Merton College Oxford in 1968: covers a little bumped and creased, else generally in good condition. (1)
about Lot 530
(THH) A rare pair of Grand Tour type alabaster relief portrait plaques of Charles Edward Stuart ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ and Henry Benedict Stuart, each in an octagonal ebonized and brass mounted frame, with applied and engraved decoration, 29.5cm wide, each with bronze 'Legitimacy of the Jacobite Succession' medal suspension.
about Lot 1819
A Louis Vuitton travelling trunk, circa 1890, in Damier canvas, with paper label to the interior inscribed 'No. 32432', 58cm high x 81cm wide x 51cm deep.
about Lot 1469
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 Chinese famille rose Buddha, mark to base, 26cm high.
about Lot 1411
A Victorian Scottish silver claret jug, by George Edward & Sons, Glasgow 1889, 32cm high, gross weight 691g, with ivory insulators. DEFRA Ivory Act submission ref: BRSF661X
about Lot 649
Charles Wyllie, Thames lightermen, signed, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 80cm.
about Lot 1238