SOLD FOR £85
A purple mohair teddybear with articulated limbs, music box and growler 15"
SOLD FOR £55
A gilt metal Menora
SOLD FOR £190
A 19th Century copper oval twin handled fish kettle 28", the lid with coronet and monogrammed H
SOLD FOR £3300
John Rocque, a collection of late 18th Century sectional maps of Surrey and its environs, bound in three box wallets, completed and engraved by Peter Andrews and Retailed by Mary-Ann Rocque, Old Round Court, The Strand,
SOLD FOR £60
2 boxes of magic lantern slides
SOLD FOR £155
A 8 sided 16th/17th Century hand cannon, the barrel with Proof mark 5", together with a 4" cannon ball
SOLD FOR £200
A Royal Naval Officer's sword by Gieve Matthews & Seagrove complete with leather scabbard, marked R Mantaeu-Leeds RM
SOLD FOR £580
A Third Reich German flag captured during the liberation of Paris by 30 Commando Assault Unit, signed by all members of the mission 50" x 30", together with a letter of provenance
SOLD FOR £65
A "tortoiseshell" and ivory mounted trinket box with hinged lid 8.5"
SOLD FOR £110
A bone and bamboo Mahjong set
SOLD FOR £120
A pair of Continental spelter match holders in the form of a boy with pipe and girl ,f, the bases marked C'est Moi Grandpere and Petit Grandmere 14"
SOLD FOR £70
A collection of Magic Lantern slides
SOLD FOR £160
A Victorian 6 sided concertina with 48 buttons, marked Lachenal and numbered 10649
SOLD FOR £180
A bronze figure of a standing cherub, raised on a marble base 15"
SOLD FOR £95
A bronze figure of a standing horse raised on a rectangular marble base 9", the base marked Andre
SOLD FOR £60
A circular gilt metal and glass light fitting 12"
SOLD FOR £9500
Aubert & Klaftenberger, 157 Regent Street, London. An unusual walnut floor-standing domestic regulator in the Gothic taste circa 1865. The single train movement with dead beat escapement, set silvered Roman chapter ring with outer minute track and second subsidiary dial, incorporating an unusual brass and glass rod pendulum, fitted 12 brass capped mercury vials with adjustment pointer to base. The case, with foliate carved and pierced cornice above a hollow high relief carved band of flowers, the door with arched apertures flanked by flower heads and lattice pilasters, raised on chamfered and shaped plinth base 79.5"h x 18"w x 14"d ILLUSTRATED FRONT COVER
Aubert & Klaftenberger was created in 1835 by an International partnership of 2 watch retailers, the London based C.J. Klaftenberger and D.F. Aubert of Geneva. The firm was held in high esteem by Prince Albert, receiving regular orders for clocks and watches from 1845 onwards and favoured by both the Queen and the Prince as the supplier of watches to be presented as gifts. The Company was also contributor to the Horological Section of the Great Exhibition, winning the Honourable Mention from the Jury. In 1859 Aubert & Klaftenberger were awarded a Royal Warrant
SOLD FOR £1300
John Smith, Midland clock works, Derby. A mid 19th Century oak tower clock, having a Roman silvered dial with outer minute track, set triple fusee movement striking 4 bells and chiming gong, the case in the Gothic taste with glazed door, raised on a blind fret cut pedestal, plinth base 77.5"h x 20.5"w x 13"d.
John Smith of Derby set up business in 1856 following an apprenticeship with the celebrated Whitehurst family, the descendants of John Whitehurst 1713-88 of the Lunar Society fame. John Smith's business prospered as Northern Industrial towns flourished and many consequential buildings were fitted with Smiths clocks. The most celebrated example of their work is the great chiming clock in St Paul's Cathedral.
SOLD FOR £420
A mid 20th Century Russian 5 day marine chronometer, having Arabic dial with remaining power dial and subsidiary second dial, housed within a brass mounted stained beechwood case 8"h x 7.5"w x 7.5"d ILLUSTRATED
SOLD FOR £3300
Barwise, London. A late George III mahogany and amboyna lancet cased bracket clock, parcel ebonised, having Roman silvered dial with second subsidiary dial, set 8 day repeating twin fusee movement with dead beat escapement striking bell, signed to back plate 17.5"h x 11"w x 7"d
SOLD FOR £150
A mid 19th Century French Sedan clock, ormolu mounted, having floral painted enamelled Arabic dial, set 8 day movement 4.5"diam. x 6.5"h
SOLD FOR £2800
Edward Funnell, Brighton. A Victorian ebonised bracket clock in the 17th Century style, ormolu mounted, having an arched topped silvered Roman dial set chime and rise and fall dials, set quarter repeating triple fusee movement, striking 8 bells and chiming gong, the case of architectural form, painted with flowers and insects, mounted Corinthian columns on scroll feet and plinth bracket base 16"h x 15.5"w x 9.5" ILLUSTRATED
SOLD FOR £3000
William Audouin, London. A mid 19th Century mahogany cased dial clock having Roman and Arabic silvered dial with outer minute track, signed and centred with alarm subsidiary dial, set single fusee movement with verge and folio escapement and count wheel strike on bell 22"diam. ILLUSTRATED
SOLD FOR £65
A mid 20th Century Wimshurst machine 13"h x 12"w
SOLD FOR £1400
R Rolfe, Gloucester Street, Clerkenwell. A mid Victorian oak bracket clock in the Gothic taste, the silvered arch topped Roman dial with subsidiary chime/silent and advance/retard dials, signed and decorated with foliate engraved spandrels. The triple fusee quarter repeating movement striking 8 bells and chiming gong - missing, the case of architectural form with foliate carved door flanked by quadruple cluster column supports on a shaped plinth base 29"h x 20"w x 11"d