Furniture

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A military campaign chest of drawers, solid teak throughout, attractively grained timber selected for the drawer fronts, top and sides, solid brass, flush fitting handles and corner straps. There are two lever locks with a key fitted to four drawers and a more secure Cotterill & Co patent lock fitted to the top right-hand drawer, also with a key. This two-part campaign chest comes with the original black painted and iron bound packing cases which double as cupboards when the owner is at camp. Originally the property of O.S.Nelthorpe of the Rifle Brigade. English circa 1880. The chest w.38.75 in x d.18 in h.41 in The packing cases w.41.5 in x d.20.5 in x h.20.75 in

Nelthorpe's Campaign Chest

show details 		A military campaign chest of drawers, solid teak throughout, attractively grained timber selected for the drawer fronts, top and sides, solid brass, flush fitting handles and corner straps. There are two lever locks with a key fitted to four drawers and a more secure Cotterill & Co patent lock fitted to the top right-hand drawer, also with a key. This two-part campaign chest comes with the original black painted and iron bound packing cases which double as cupboards when the owner is at camp. Originally the property of R.P. Crawley, once of the South Wales Borderers. English circa 1880. The Chest w.38.75 in x d.18 in h.41 in black boxes w.41.5 in x d.20.5 in x h.20.75 in

Crawley's Campaign Chest

show details 		A late 19th century gallery easel, oak with polished steel fittings and mechanism, capable of displaying a painting up to 62 inches in height. English circa 1890. w.26.75 in x d.25.5 in x h.78 in.

Gallery Easel

show details 		A glass and mahogany display case, single door to the reverse standing on short cabriole legs. English circa 1900.

Display Case

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A set of shelves in teak with brass fold-down and inset handles. Chinese circa 1840. These shelves sit very well on top of 'Chinese Teak Chest'.

Teak Shelves

show details 		Aesthetic design hallstand for James Shoolbred, walnut with brass fittings and decoration. English circa 1880. James Shoolbred was a family firm in Tottenham Court Road making and supplying furniture and furnishings. It was one of the first there in that speciality, others of course being Maples and Heals.  They gained a Royal Warrant in 1880 for the supply of furniture to Queen Victoria.  This hall stand is closely related to one illustrated in the Trade Catalogue of Smee & Cobey and it is possible that this hall stand was manufactured by them for the London firm of James Shoolbred & Co. A very similar example attributed to Shoolbred was sold by Christie's, London at the end of 2007 for in excess of £10,000!

Hallstand No.1

show details 		A pair of Swiss carved walnut inalid and penwork chairs with scenes of chamoix. Late 19th century.

Swiss Chairs

show details 		Aesthetic design hallstand for James Shoolbred, walnut with brass fittings and decoration. English circa 1880. James Shoolbred was a family firm in Tottenham Court Road making and supplying furniture and furnishings. It was one of the first there in that speciality, others of course being Maples and Heals.  They gained a Royal Warrant in 1880 for the supply of furniture to Queen Victoria.  This hall stand is closely related to one illustrated in the Trade Catalogue of Smee & Cobey and it is possible that this hall stand was manufactured by them for the London firm of James Shoolbred & Co. A very similar example attributed to Shoolbred was sold by Christie's, London at the end of 2007 for in excess of £10,000!

Hallstand No.2

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A mid 19th century planked coffer with the original deep blue paint finish now turned close to black. Elm, English circa 1850.

A Planked Coffer.

show details 		An mid Victorian adjustable artist's easel in mahogany by Charles Roberson & Co, 1840-1907. When Charles Roberson split with Miller in 1839, he kept their premises at 51 Long Acre. Roberson's enjoyed a wide ranging reputation throughout the Victorian era and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the end of the 19th century they employed their own agents in Paris and in 1889 they had opened a further branch in Piccadilly.

Mahogany Easel

show details 		A Victorian, bronze patinated, cast-iron stickstand by E & T SMITH OF SHEFFIELD depicting a greyhound with heraldic shield, a lift out tray beneath. Victorian circa 1870.

Greyhound Stickstand

show details 		A former silver chest, brass bound oak with iron drop-down carrying handles and standing on later turned oak feet. English circa 1880.

Silver Chest

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A set of personal weighing scales by W & T Avery of Birmingham, brass on mahogany and with a full set of cup weights and an extending measure to record height. English, late Victorian.

Avery Scales

show details 		A four tiered whatnot, the top tier with a shallow gallery, a frieze drawer beneath the lowest, raised on brass cup castors. Solid mahogany throughout, English circa 1850.

Four Tiered Whatnot

show details 		A small Chinese Export camphorwood trunk, just the size of a box, brass bound in the usual way. Chinese circa 1860.

Camphorwood Box

show details 		A Victorian cast iron stick stand, attributed to Coalbrookdale, third quarter 19th century. Of nautical form, with coral, scallop shells, dolphins and bull rushes, the iron finished in simulate bronze and numbered 63088 to the underside of the lift-off shell form drip tray. The design features in the 1875 Coalbrookdale Castings catalogue, Section II, page 229, No.212. Shown here as a matched pair with Nautical Theme Stick Stand 1.

Nautical Theme Stick Stand 2

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A nieve portrait of an officer of the 2nd Life Guards on his mount before Windsor Castle. English circa 1880 and within a period ebonized frame.

2nd Life Guards

show details 		Mid 19th century portrait of a Hassar's mount painted oil on canvas and within a period rosewood veneered frame. English circa 1860.

Hassar's Mount

show details 		A late Victorian Wardian polo mallet stand by Rowland Ward comprised of four giraffe legs mounted between black stained oak, his trade lable to the back rail, and the full label for

Wardian Polo Mallet Stand

show details 		An oval 'Irish' mirror of typical form, circa 1850. Ebonized sight set with cabouchon mirrored studs, silvered hollow with bright crossed ribbon, the second ebonized band set with cut and mirrored studs, silvered scotia back edge. Good original panel to the reverse.

Irish Mirror

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A mahogany framed, leather upholstered library chair with a slide-out footrest. The rake of the back can be adjusted by depressing a lever beneath the armrest and then leaning back to the desired angle. English circa 1850.

Gentleman's Library Chair

show details 		Rosewood framed, leather upholstered easy chair, English, circa 1830. Attributed to W. Smee Sons, after a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), or John C. Loudon where it is published in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833. Schinkel was a German born architect, painter and designer who settled in Berlin from 1805. His first recorded furniture was designed for Queen Louise in 1809 for the Charlottenburg Palace. In 1815 he was appointed Geheimes Oberbaurat in the Prussian Office of Public Works.

Easy Chair

show details 		An early 19th century carved ebony armchair, incorporating elements taken from 17th century Ceylon or Coromandel Coast furniture and probably made for a London dealer. In early 19th century Ceylon furniture was being made to the latest tastes using panels of carved ebony taken from seventeenth century furniture. A set of four setees and two chairs of this type was sold to King George IV by E.H. Baldock in 1828 for £125. Other examples of this type of furniture can be found at Capesthorne Hall, Penrhyn Castle and Penshurst Place. For a full and fascinating history of this furniture see

Ebony Chair

show details 		Campaign folding easel in mahogany with brass hardware. Folds down to dimensions of 2'4

Military Easel

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A carved ebony, ivory inlaid chess table from the Galle region of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), a small drawer and dummy drawer to each opposing side for the chess pieces. c.1830-1850. The design for this table is derived from Thomas King's 'The Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified' first published in 1829. For a full and fascinating history of this furniture and associated works of art, see Amin Jaffer's 'Furniture From British India and Ceylon.' and for a similar table recently sold see sale 5681 Lot 82 Christie's Interiors - Style and Spirit 23 February 2010. London, South Kensington.

Ebony & Ivory Chess Table

show details 		Exhibition quality cast iron table from the Coalbrookdale Company, the finely painted top after the work by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Prince George's Favorites here inscribed

Coalbrookdale Table

show details 		An Edwardian chair, the construction re-using the carved walnut, brass edged rudder yoke from a fine Victorian river launch. The remainder of the chair is constructed from oak.

Deck Chair

show details 		A mid 19th century stool of finely carved rosewood on a beech frame. English circa 1860.

Rosewood Stool

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An early Victorian two drawer buffet in mahogany with a gilt brass gallery and castors. English circa 1860.

Galleried Buffet

show details 		Chinese Export hardwood table with three drawers and campaign style flush fitted pulls. Made in the Chinese style but with the design adapted to European military requirements.

Chinese Hardwood Table

show details 		Aldershot or Hut Chest, teak with brass fittings, the pine case/cupboard painted and inscribed

Aldershot Chest

show details 		A set of floor-standing shelves formed from a souvenier propellor. Laminated woods with rivetted and soldered brass edges. Mid 20th century.

Propellor Shelves

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Mid Victorian Satin-Birch easy chair, after an original design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (1781-1841). English circa 1840. Recently re-upholstered in hand dyed black leather. K.F.Schinkel was a German born architect, painter and designer who settled in Berlin from 1805. His first recorded furniture was designed for Queen Louise in 1809 for the Charlottenburg Palace. In 1815 he was appointed Geheimes Oberbaurat in the Prussian Office of Public Works. The design of this chair is also given to John C. Loudon who published his Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture in 1833.

Satin Birch Easy Chair

show details 		A Regency mahogany X-frame stool in the manner of Gillows, the supports united by a baluster stretcher with beech and ash rails. Recently upholstered in a hand dyed traditional black leather. English circa 1820. The 'Grecian' stool form is derived from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Design of 1807 and also corresponds to a pattern found in the Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows.

Regency Stool

show details 		A three tier buffet in well figured mahogany with elegantly carved detail. English, early Victorian circa 1850.

Mahogany Buffet

show details 		A late Victorian paino stool in solid polished brass with a leather upholstered seat which rotates to adjust the height. English circa 1890.

Piano Stool

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A 19th century novelty timepiece in the form of a silver plated brass stirrup, from which is suspended a timepiece with a white dial and black Roman numerals. The timepeice is set within a patinated horseshoe set with blue enamelled nails and suspended by a silver plated spur with a gilded spiked wheel. Won and presented to Sergeant W. Davies in 1892.

Trophy Stirrup Clock

show details 		A Chinese Export campaign chest of drawers of typical two-part construction, the full width top drawer with a secretaire. Well figured Padouk for the case with solid camphorwood for all secondary work. Three line inlay to the drawer fronts and with beautifully designed cut brass flush fitting handles to the drawers, heavy cast carrying handles and working locks throughout. The casework with a reeded edge surrounding the drawers and a matching design to the turned feet. Chinese circa 1830.

Campaign Chest with a Secretaire

show details 		A mid 19th century folding coaching table in solid mahogany. English circa 1850.

Coaching Table

show details 		An early Victorian whatnot of four tiers united by spindle turned uprights and with a single drawer beneath the lowest shelf. Constructed from solid Goncalo Alves. English circa 1850.

Goncalo Alves Whatnot

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A solid mahogany whatnot of three tiers united by turned wood uprights and with a shallow three quarter gallery to each. English circa 1850. Provenance: Sir William Russell. Stokesay Court, Shropshire, and with Sir William's calling card pinned to the underside of the lower shelf.

Three Tier Whatnot

show details 		A solid mahogany three tier whatnot, the lowest above a single frieze drawer, with turned supports and legs with brass capped castors. English, second quarter of the 19th century.

William IV Whatnot

show details 		A fine mid 19th century Chinese Export bamboo armchair with the original 19th century European embossed and decorated leather seat cover.

Bamboo Chair

show details 		Folding table, probably made at Simla and of shisham, with a lift-off hexagonal top deeply carved with a design of trailing leaves on a folding base with a fret-work design to match the top. Northern India circa 1900.

Folding Table from Simla

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A mahogany coaching or field table, the elgantly shaped legs allowing the table to fold flat when travelling. English circa 1870

Coaching Table

show details 		Low chair, Coromandel Coast, 1680-1700. Of profusely carved and turned ebony with (re)caned drop-in seat. For a full and fascinating history of this furniture see

Ebony Low Chair

show details 		A late 19th century piano stool by C.H. Hare & Son, mainly in steel with some brass detailing, recently upholstered in a high finish leather. C. H. Hare and Son are listed from 1832 at Crown Works, Tyseley, Birmingham and were listed in Whitakers Red Book 1914 as manufacturers of loose leaf metals, automatic machines etc. Amongst their specialities are listed music stands and stools, pianoforte tools etc.

Piano Stool by C.H. Hare & Son.

show details 		A pair of late 19th century piano stools in steel and brass by C. H. Hare and son, recently upholstered in a high finish leather. C.H. Hare and Son are listed from 1832 at Crown Works, Tyseley, Birmingham and were listed in Whitakers Red Book 1914 as Manufacturers of Loose Leaf Metals, Automatic Machines etc. Amongst their specialities are listed music stands and stools, pianoforte tools etc.

A Pair of Piano Stools

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A late 19th century piano stool in brass by C.H. Hare & Son, recently upholstered in a high finish leather. C. H. Hare and Son are listed from 1832 at Crown Works, Tyseley, Birmingham and were listed in Whitakers Red Book 1914 as Manufacturers of Loose Leaf Metals, Automatic Machines etc. Amongst their specialities are listed music stands and stools, pianoforte tools etc.

Brass Stool by C.H. Hare & Son.

show details 		A novelty foxhunt combination timepiece, polychrome patinated the gilt trophy fox mask and tails motif surmounted with crossed riding crops, the aneroid barometer and timepiece with a face of Roman numerals set within gilt nailed horseshoes. English/French circa 1880.

Fox Hunt Clock and Barometer

show details 		Cylindrical columnar bedside cupboard, flame mahogany veneers on pine. Probably Scottish, circa 1850.

Cylindrical Cupboard

show details 		An unusually large campaign chest of drawers. Solid and well figured mahogany with ash drawer linings and fine, flush fitted drawer pulls and corner straps. English circa 1850.

Large Campaign Chest

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The trunk taken by Pauline Spender Clay on her honeymoon following her marriage to one of England's richest commoners, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay. Made by Louis Vuitton of brass studded leather. Hon. Pauline Astor was born in 1880. She was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul. She married Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay, son of Joseph Spender Clay and Elizabeth Sydney Jane Garrett, on 29 October 1904. She died on 5 May 1972. Her married name became Spender Clay and she held the office of Justice of the Peace for Surrey in 1920. Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay was the son of Joseph Spender Clay and Elizabeth Sydney Jane Garrett. He was decorated with the award of Military Cross, held the office of Member of Parliament and was invested as a Privy Counsellor, a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George. He lived at Ford Manor, Lingfield, Surrey, England. He died on 15 February 1937.

Pauline Spender Clay's Louis Vuitton

show details 		A carved, gilded and swept framed mirror. English circa 1850.

Swept Frame Mirror

show details 		Mahogany campaign chest of drawers on turned feet and with the original flush fitting pulls. Well figured solid mahogany with ash and pine drawer linings. English circa 1840.

Military Campaign Chest

show details 		A late Regency mahogany Pembroke table with rounded rectangular top and boxwood edged frieze drawer to one end, a matching dummy drawer to the other, on turned tapering reeded legs with brass capped castors.

Pembroke Table

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A mahogany gallery easel made in the Egyptian taste. English circa 1880.

Gallery Easel

show details 		A leatherbound painted rattan hat box by Madler Koffer. German late 19th century.

Madler Koffer Hat Box

show details 		An exceptional, finely carved boxwood mirror, the central plate surrounded by a carved and gilded floral spandrel set within a profusely carved frame detailed with all manner of symbols associated with good fortune. The two cartouches, one at the top and the other to the base, illustrating scenes of industrious workers and trading merchants, within the tea industry. Chinese circa 1860.

Exceptional Mirror

show details 		A set of library index filing drawers made of honey coloured oak and finished all round; top, back and two sides, each fully finished section comprised of six drawers. English mid 20th century. £220.00 per section, eleven available, £1750.00 for the lot.

Library Drawers

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A Chinese Export leather covered camphorwood trunk, brass bound, studded and painted with a polychrome trailing leaf and flower. The top studded with the initials M.B. and the interior polished.

M.B. Export Trunk

show details 		An unusual mahogany high-backed armchair, the back with a vase-shaped splat and adjustable wrought-iron hook above a solid seat and square chamferred legs. Early 19th century, probably English, purpose unknown.

High-Backed Armchair

show details 		A Venetian hall chair, the carved back influenced by Rennaisance design. Carved and ebonized walnut. Italy circa 1870.

Venetian Hall Chair

show details 		An English, Aesthetic movement hall bench with typical inscised decoration and a running inlay to the seat edge. solid mahogany throughout. Circa 1870.

Aesthetic Movement Bench

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A fine and excellent Chinese export secretaire campaign chest of drawers. Solid camphorwood throughout, with well figured timber employed for the exterior. The secretaire drawer opens to a fold-out baize covered writing surface behind which is a pigeon-holed area and above a drawer for inkwell, ruler etc. The secretaire is flanked to the right-hand side by two small drawers and to the left-hand side by one deep drawer designed to match the two on the right. The top section of this two-part chest is finished with two half width drawers, the lower section comprised of two full width drawers, the whole chest standing on the original turned camphorwood feet. There are good quality brass locks with keys throughout, flush fitting brass handles to the drawers and neccessarily substantial brass carrying handles to the sides of both parts. Finally, black lines have been applied to good decorative effect to the fronts af all drawers. Chinese, Hong Kong, circa 1860.

Campaign Secretaire Chest

show details 		A Victorian cast iron stick stand, attributed to Coalbrookdale, third quarter 19th century. Of nautical form, with coral, scallop shells, dolphins and bull rushes, the iron finished in simulate bronze and numbered 63088 to the underside of the lift-off shell form drip tray. The design features in the 1875 Coalbrookdale Castings catalogue, Section II, page 229, No.212. Shown here as a matched pair with Nautical Theme Stick Stand 2.

Nautical Theme Stick Stand 1

show details 		Chinese Export chest, two short drawers over three long with flush fitting brass handles and a similar brass line inlay to the top. Original heavy cast brass carrying handles to the sides, solid camphorwood throughout. Chinese circa 1850.

Chinese Export Chest of Drawers

show details 		A full hallstand of Aesthetic design for or by James Shoolbred, walnut with a brass rail, gallery and hooks, a bevelled mirror above and lift out tin tray beneath. English circa 1880.

Shoolbred Hallstand

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A fine leather hat box, made to accomodate up to three hats, hand stitched leather with brass fittings, the handle impressed with the initials J & B. The interior finely lined with red silk and a red morocco leather trim and with pressed gilt brass buckle fastenings. English circa 1870.

Hat Box

show details 		A folding campaign chair in padouk with caned back and seat and good quality solid brass fittings. Probably Chinese, circa 1870.

Campaign Chair

show details 		A table for a yacht, solid hardwood, probably padouk, with brass fittings, fold down sides and with a lift-out centre section originally for stowing maps, now divided into three sections. English circa 1920.

Yacht Table

show details 		A mid 19th century Chinese Export brass bound camphorwood trunk. Hong Kong circa 1860.

Camphorwood & Brass Trunk

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A fine and rare suite of Howard chairs comprising a pair of arm chairs with matching stools and a button-backed armchair all with finely carved walnut show frames, castors stamped Howard & Sons/London, the beech frames similarly stamped and with a serial number all now upholstered in green glazed cotton. English late 19th century. The chairs w.29 in x d.33 in x h.34 in The stools w.22 in x d.22 in x h.16 in The buttoned chair w.31 in x d.22 in x h.31 in

A Suite of Howard Chairs

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