Collectors’ Items, Works of Art and Light Fittings

An 18th century fruitwood pounce pot, the dished top with star motif piercing above an ogee shaped body, height 6.3cm, together with a mahogany cribbage board and a boxwood paperknife, length 33.5cm.

An 18th century horn flask, inscribed and dated 'E.L. 1786', fitted with a hinged oak lid, length 34cm.

An 18th/19th century fruitwood pestle of turned form, length 34cm, a wooden mallet, a fruitwood fork and a long-handled treen spoon.

An 18th century steel hammer with pointed handle and overall cut decoration, length 15cm.

A group of 19th century sailor's tools, comprising two fids, three needle cases enclosing needles, and a creaser.

An unusual 18th century steel implement, possibly used for warming beer or wine, impressed 'Steel', length of handle 34cm, together with a nickel cooking fork with decorative stem, and an unusual smoothing iron, marked 'No. 2 J. & J. Siddons, Rd No. 573'.

A 16th/17th century patinated metal spoon with fig-shaped bowl, length 11.5cm, together with a small patinated bronze candlestick, height 10.3cm.

A small group of wooden kitchenalia, including a lemon squeezer, two crimping tools, a small butter pat mould and a ladle.

A group of seven mainly 19th century wooden kitchen spoons of various designs and sizes.

A group of five mainly 19th century boxwood leadworker's tools, one stamped 'S. Blake'.

A 19th century Malacca walking cane, the handle inset with an enamelled 'State of Jersey One Twelfth of a Shilling' above a deer's foot collar, length 88cm, together with an antler-handled riding crop.

A Scottish wrought iron standing candle holder, probably 18th century, the adjustable twin branch with spring candle socket and a triple pricket candle stump holder, raised on tripod supports with flattened tab feet, height 120cm. Note: a similar example is illustrated in 'The Rushlight and Related Holders, A Regional View', by Robert Ashley, 2001, p. 262. Fig. 231.

An 18th/19th century wrought iron adjustable pot hook with scrolling terminals.

A 19th century English patinated and partially gilded copper full-bodied weather vane, modelled in the form of a galleon, mounted on a turned wooden base, height 83cm.

A 19th century cast iron doorstop in the form of a Highlander, height 34.5cm, together with a Punch and Judy cast iron doorstop, height 30cm.

A 19th century tin plate and wrought iron weather vane, fret cut in the form of a shire horse above an arrow, length 80cm (later painted).

An 18th century wrought iron harnen stand or oatcake warmer, the curved panel with scrolling mounts, width 34.5cm.

A 19th century wrought iron trivet and a wrought metal bun or cake peel, length 38.5cm.

A 19th century cast iron shoe last, mounted on a turned ash stave, length 69cm, together with a wrought iron sign bracket.