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Stock: 11413

One of two pairs of near identical Aesthetic Movement gilt metal tiles in relief depicting a pair of cranes wading in a lake close to the shore amid bull rushes. Each with a starburst rose in relief on the back. See also 11414.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height
	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms	6 1⁄8" 15.5 cms

Stock: 12736

A large, aluminium Edwardian mounted wall sign in the shape of a powerful, rearing horse. Reclaimed from a West Country public house possibly called The White Horse Inn.
English, early 20th century.

Please note the tail is missing a/f

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	width	height	depth
	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	59 1⁄8" 150 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 12601

A small, early 20th century figurine composed of pressed steel parts, of a Knight of St John in full armour with a paper label to the base for C Galdies Valletta. Based on the full sized suits of armour in the Grand Master's Palace in the centre of the old walled city of Valletta. Malta, early 20th century.

Notes: The Knights of St John were of the order of the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and were an early Catholic military order. They were based in Jerusalem until 1291, on the island of Rhodes from 1310 until 1522, in Malta from 1530 until 1798 and at Saint Petersburg from 1799 until 1801.

	Width	Height	Depth
	5 11⁄16" 14.5 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms	4 1⁄4" 11 cms

Stock: 7159

A pair of charming Georgian parcel-gilt female terms or caryatids, mounted above tapering shafts with carved anthemion decoration. Possibly once part of a fireplace or equally they may have been a wall decoration framing a doorway in a salon.
English, circa 1770.

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	Width	Height
	9" 22.9 cms	72" 182.9 cms

Stock: 4037

A large lower part of an ocean clam shell. Clams are the largest living bivalve mollusks and are mostly found in shallow coral reefs in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. Circa 1920.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms
Internal

Stock: 14505

A traditional, Victorian copper pouring jug in good condition. The jug tapers down to a wide base. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 1⁄2" 29.1 cms	10 3⁄8" 26.5 cms	9 11⁄16" 24.6 cms

Stock: 12207

A pair of small, Victorian brass and cast iron revolving tazza stands raised on baluster form stems and with spreading, foliate feet.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms	10 3⁄16" 26 cms

Stock: 11330

A pair of small carved walnut lion monopodia terms or columns in the Roman Baroque manner. English, 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 8194

A large, nickel plated cast iron plaque in the Renaissance manner. The central oval medallion, depicting a battle scene is surrounded by four similar, smaller ovals amid warriors, satyrs, grotesques and maiden masks within strapwork borders. Possibly by Thomas Elkington.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height
	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms

Stock: 11640

An Arts & Crafts embossed copper rectangular plaque in the manner of the Newlyn School, with a galleon in full sail and bearing a monogram SO or OS and set in an oak frame.
English, circa 1910

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	width	height
	19" 48.2 cms	23" 58.5 cms

Stock: 14237

A pair of bronze 19th century Scottish shop signs. The scrolled cartouche shaped signs are centred, on the central bulbous lozenge, by the initials DI representing the Edinburgh based Dunedin Interiors company. Scottish, mid 19th century.

Provenance: Formerly hung in 6 North West Circus Place, Edinburgh and later in Austin Reed on Princess Street.

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	width	height
	13" 33 cms	26 3⁄8" 67 cms

Stock: 12387

A small bronze vase or urn elaborately decorated in the manner of the Chinese Shang Dynasty.
Mid 20th century.

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	width	height	depth
	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	13 13⁄16" 35 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms

Stock: 12386

A gilded spelter Rococo style ewer or pitcher with a stylised dragon handle of fine quality casting, moulded to the body with cherubs, masks and shields amid floral detail and raised on an elaborate round pedestal. French, circa 1860.

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	width	height	depth
	5 1⁄4" 13.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39.2 cms	5 7⁄8" 15 cms

Stock: 13023

A pair of small early 20th century Rouge Royal Marble obelisks usually displayed on the shelf of a mantelpiece.
English, circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	3 7⁄8" 10 cms	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	3 7⁄8" 10 cms

Stock: 15261

A pair of small Neoclassical style polished fossil marble urns in tones of soft brown and aubergine, possibly Connemara Red Marble, with an abundance of marine fossils throughout and each with a gilt brass anthemion style mounting to the base. English, circa 1910.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms	15" 38 cms	4 13⁄16" 12.3 cms

Stock: 12880

A delightful, early and rare Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) charity collection box of a dog painted brown and seated on a green painted base. The dog looks to be carved in resin. A collection box hangs around his neck bearing the words 'The RSPCA Invites Your Support' and the green base states that 'A coin will ring the bell'. Happily the bell still rings when you drop a coin in the box. These collection boxes would have stood in doorways of shops to catch the eye of passers by.
English, late 19th century.

Notes: The Charity was founded in 1824 in a London coffee shop. It was the world's first animal welfare charity. and was originally called the SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Royal patronage followed in 1837 and Queen Victoria gave permission to add the royal R in 1840, making it the RSPCA as it is known worldwide today.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 15225

A large Victorian antique brass gadrooned jardiniere. English, circa 1880.

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	Diameter	Height
	13 3⁄16" 33.5 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms

Stock: 14195

A large embossed brass roundel depicting a Bacchanalian procession, in a rural setting, of playful cherubs carrying wine and a basket of fruit and led by one riding a Curly-Coated Retriever. English, circa 1870.

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	diameter
	20 1⁄2" 52.1 cms

Stock: 13631

A large Art Nouveau stoneware jardiniere and stand made by Doulton of Lambeth with stylised lotus and rosette.
English circa 1910.

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	diameter	height
jardiniere	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms
stand	12 3⁄16" 31 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 12133

A pair of very small 19th century patinated cast iron campan urns in the Neo Classical style, the integral plinths with trophy decoration. English, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms	13 5⁄8" 34.5 cms	4 7⁄8" 12.5 cms

Stock: 14359

A magnificent and rare Gothic Revival, Byzantine influenced antique silver plated incense burner that could easily be converted into a grand ceiling light. The highly decorative bowl, set with many coloured glass cabochon and bearing the initials I H S a symbolic monogram of Christ, is suspended from a high domed crown on six sturdy chains. Beneath the bowl is a reversed crown terminating in a reversed ring finial.
Mid 19th century, possibly French.

This incense burner can easily be converted into a chandelier or electrolier..

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	Width	Height
	22" 56 cms	53 7⁄8" 137 cms

Stock: 11715

A cast iron Victorian roundel with the portraits most probably of Charles 1st of England and his son Charles II.
English late 19th century.

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	Diameter
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms

Stock: 11315

A large possibly teak or mahogany ship's wheel, a brass band reinforcing the felloe or wooden rim of the wheel and with eight spokes radiating out from the central brass drum or spindle which together with the rest of the steering mechanism forms part of the helm and is the device used aboard a water vessel to control that vessel's course.
English date unknown possible early to mid 20th century.

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	Diameter	Depth
	38 3⁄16" 97 cms	2 13⁄16" 7 cms

Stock: 10393

A well carved, antique Victorian oak frieze panel in the Rennaisance Revival manner with scrolling detail depicting winged and forked tongued Dragons or Griffins set within with floral decorative detail, the central scrolled shield displaying the initials WCH 1897.
English 1897.

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	width	height
	56 11⁄16" 144 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 14080

A small 19th century bronze church bell of elegant design. The canons and argent are still completely solid, allowing the bell to be hung. It does not have its original clapper, but one could be recast.
English late 19th century.

	Diameter	Height
	17 1⁄2" 44.5 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms

Stock: 12815

A pair of fine bronze amorial gate post finials in the form of mythological goats with cloven hooves each holding elaborately scrolled cartouche with mounted sextupled shields bearing two heart gules ensigned with a royal crown, a rampant lion, three roses, and two rows of stars. The first quarter represents the arms of Douglas described as: Argent, a heart imperially crowned proper[i.e. gules, crowned gold] on a chief azure three mullets (stars) of the field. Sir James Douglas known as “the good” made the journey to the Holy Land while carrying the Heart of Robert the Bruce in the 13th century, perhaps this explains his family arms. Beneath this, is the arms of Dunbar, a rampant lion bordered by roses. Sir James was married in 1372 to Agnes Dunbar, daughter of Sir Patrick Dunbar. The top right quarter is believed to be the arms of the Fraser clan.

Mounted on temporary stone blocks.
Late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 5⁄8" 32 cms	27 3⁄8" 69.5 cms	19 1⁄4" 49 cms

Stock: 13300

A tall white painted antique cast iron stick stand, with two holders, and a small dog sitting at the base. Enscribed 'Cave Canem' - Beware of the Dog.
Victorian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	9 13⁄16" 25 cms

Stock: 12991

A tall white painted antique cast iron stick stand, with central mask decoration surrounded by foliage, a large square stick support and central stem terminating in a removable drip tray.
Victorian late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	30 1⁄2" 77.5 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms

Stock: 12460

A small antique bronze stags head wall bracket after Christophe Fratin, the horseshoe shaped platform with an underside cast with oak sprigs and acorns, above the stag’s head with six-point antlers, the underside inscribed ‘FRATIN’.
French late 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	7 1⁄4" 18.5 cms	6 7⁄8" 17.5 cms

Stock: 11702

A large antique circular bronze roundel or plaque depicting a reclining female faun and a pipe playing putti.
English, 19th century.

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	diameter	depth
	11 3⁄8" 29 cms	1 5⁄8" 4 cms

Stock: 12558

An antique Gothic Revival carved and painted wooden jardiniere, with four foliate pine cone scroll supports to the upper section, painted in green, gold, blue & red.
English, late 19th century.

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	width	height
	26 3⁄8" 67 cms	55 1⁄2" 141 cms

Stock: 11900

A historic propeller from the Le Rhone Rotary engine of an Avro 504 airplane.This fine early, large laminated, mahogany and oak propeller, made around 1919 bears identification stamps indicating its British Air Ministry registration, and technical specifications. The particular 110 HP LE RHONE engine was unusual in that the entire circular cylinder block rotated around the crankshaft, in contrast to RADIAL and in-line engines when it was the crankshaft that rotated.

The AVRO 504K was a fighter bomber aeroplane used by the RAF in the First World War. 10,000 were built from the first flight in 1913 to 1932 making it the most produced plane from WW1. It was later flown by 40 air forces world wide. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English, circa 1919.

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	Length	Height	Depth
	106 1⁄4" 270 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	6 3⁄8" 16.3 cms

Stock: 11898

A Large 1920 laminated polished walnut, broad two bladed aircraft propeller. Each blade has a brass cap to the tip, the leading edge pinned with scallop decorative brass protective strip, the boss stamped OCM No. 73 OCM over the date 20.6.927, further stamped CA73 ASSO 500 Diam 295 PAS 172 194 DIS 014, and finished in deep green over perhaps red with white banding, paint surface now aged with crackle finish. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English circa 1927.

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	diameter
	116 1⁄8" 295 cms

Stock: 11896

A rare Handley Page HP 1930's two bladed aircraft propeller. Two of these very large laminated mahogany propellers were fitted on each of the four Bristol Jupiter XIF radial engines of this early Imperial Airways Airliner which carried 24 passengers and 4 crew in 500 mile hops cruising at 100mph. Initially these four classically named behemoths reached in up to 28 stages destinations as far as Karachi in then India. Later based in Cairo they were to provide the ultimate long distance connection to South Africa and eventually to Australia. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

With the names Hanno, Hannibal, Hadrian and Horsa there were four of these rather impressive clippers of the skies on Imperial Airways', later B.O.A.C., intercontinental run. They, their crews and ground staff were pioneers using what now is seen as elementary Boy's Own technology but whose personnel, installations and expertise were used to great advantage when war came in the 1940's and a flood of military aircraft were ferried from the Canadian and American factories over the Caribean and South America to the North African, Far and Near East theaters of the war.

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	diameter
	141 11⁄16" 360 cms

Stock: 11895

The markings of this mahogany Bristol Bulldog Propeller show that it was fitted to a Bristol Mercury IV S.2 Radial aircooled aircraft engine and dated May 1932 . This one has a 10ft diameter with brass leading edge covers. These engines were first fitted to Bulldogs in March 1932. At this time it was the front line RAF fighter. The provenance is obscure but it is believed that it was found in an Italian mountain village. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

The Bulldog was a sophisticated and powerful biplane and one of the last of the RAF's frontline biplane fighters. It was replaced in 1937 by the Hurricane. It was in one of these Bulldogs that the RAF fighter ace, Douglas Bader, became one of the RAF's leading air pilots.

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	diameter
	120 1⁄2" 306 cms