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A VICTORIAN NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER worked with alphabets, numerals, birds and animals and other traditional symbols, 16.5" x 8" £60-120 | Nil |
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| 706 | A GEORGE III NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, worked with the motto "God is so good that he will hear whenever children humbly pray...." surrounded by birds, flowering trees and a running border, 14.5" x 12.5" £60-120 | Nil |
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| 707 | A CREWELWORK PANEL of two lovebirds seated on flowering branches with a squirrel below, mounted as a firescreen, 31" high £30-60 | Nil |
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| 714 | A 1914/15 STAR to Captain R.M. Davy, Laurel Field Artillery, a collection of white metal communion tokens, sporting medals and other similar items £20-40 | Nil |
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| 715 | A CHINA 1860 MEDAL with bars Peking 1860 and Taku Forts 1860 awarded to John Taylor First Gadroon Guards £150-250 | Nil |
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| 716 | A MEDAL GROUP comprising: Queens South Africa Medal with bars, Belfast, Laing's Nek, Orange Frestate, Defence of Ladysmith and Cape Colony, a Kings South Africa Medal with bars, South Africa 1901-1902, a 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal awarded to Driver 11982 C. Daws, Army Service Corps. With this lot is a South Africa 1900 chocolate tin containing pieces of original chocolate £150-250 | Nil |
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| 717 | AN AFGHANISTAN 1878-79-80 MEDAL with bars Kabul and Charasia awarded to Lt. D. Hardy, Royal Horse Artillery together with a scrap book and other material relating to the death in action of Lt. Hardy, together with a British War Medal 1914-1918 awarded to Lt. E.C. H. Hardy, a direct descendant. Lt. Hardy was killed in the Chardeh Valley near Kabul on December 11th 1879 whilst attempting to save the life of a wounded comrade. Opinion was expressed in the press of the time that had Lt. Hardy's deed been witnessed by an Officer he would have been eligible for the Victoria Cross. | Nil |
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| 718 | A GOLD BREAST BADGE of a Knight Commander of the Bath together with a length of neck ribbon, in rosewood and brass inlaid frame and a red silk and bullion wire Officer's sash in black japanned tin box. By repute this ribbon was the last worn by the Duke of Wellington £500-800 | Nil |
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| 719 | A SWAGGER CANE bearing the badge of Ampleforth College Officer Training Corps, a further swagger cane bearing the badge of Uppingham School and a collection of other swagger canes and walking sticks (7) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 720 | AN ARAB JAMBIYA DAGGER with rhinoceros horn hilt, native silver and red leather bound scabbard and woven baldric £50-100 | Nil |
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| 721 | A BRASS AND LEATHER BOUND POWDER FLASK of traditional form with measured dispensing device £30-60 | Nil |
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| 722 | A HORN BODIED BRASS BOUND SHOT FLASK by Boche of Paris, with patent dispensing device and a copper bodied powder flask £50-100 | Nil |
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| 723 | AN 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH HUNTING SWORD, the shell shaped guard chiselled with scenes of dogs attacking a bear, the blade inscribed "London" £80-150 | Nil |
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| 724 | A 1796 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD, with brass hilt, turned wood grip and single fullered steel blade £80-150 | Nil |
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| 725 | AN 18TH CENTURY SMALL SWORD with decorative cast brass hilt, horn grips and trefoil section blade £50-100 | Nil |
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| 726 | A NORTH AFRICAN BROAD SWORD TAKOOBA with brazil nut shaped pommel scale effect leather grip and triple fullered blade £40-80 | Nil |
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| 727 | A SUDANESE BROAD SWORD KASKARA with circular pommel, leather bound grips, cruciform hilt and European export triple fullered blade with etched serpent and moon face design £80-150 | Nil |
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| 728 | AN INDIAN SABRE TALWAR with silver studded steel hilt of traditional design and straight triple fullered blade £50-100 | Nil |
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| 729 | AN ALL STEEL INDIAN SABRE PULOWAR, the hilt with cup shaped pommel and lobate steel guard and single fullered curved blade £30-60 | Nil |
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| 730 | A VICTORIAN CONSTABLE'S TIP-STAFF, bearing the Royal Arms and the bear and ragged staff badge of the Earl of Warwick on a blue ground, the reverse marked "Walsall Foreign" £80-150 | Nil |
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| 731 | A FRAMED SILKWORK PICTURE showing the crossed Standards of the Northumberland Fusiliers and bearing the legend in scroll below "Presented at Dehli by H.I.M. The King Emperor, December 11th 1911" £50-100 | Nil |
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| 732 | A SOUTH AFRICA 1900 CHOCOLATE BOX containing a quantity of original Rowntrees chocolate, together with a further tin with punched decoration marked "226 POW Camp Overseas" £20-40 | Nil |
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| 733 | A SEALED GLASS BOTTLE containing a piece of human skin, bearing a tattoo showing a man and woman in 19th century costume and the initials M S E D with an accompanying letter reading "The long lost pocket book made out of the skin of the man who shot our father!" | Nil |
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| 750 | A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH MARBLE AND GILT METAL MANTEL CLOCK of architectural form, the circular dial with Arabic numerals, signed H Ashton, Paris, flanked by four fluted columns beneath an architectural dome, with a frieze of classical warriors, all on a velvet mounted base, beneath a glass dome, 20" high. See illustration £400-600 | Nil |
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| 751 | A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID WHEEL BAROMETER, the "onion" top with dry/damp meter above a mercury filled thermometer, the circular barometer dial with engraved numerals, the spirit level surround signed "Lewns Rye", 42" £200-400 | Nil |
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| 752 | A REGENCY STYLE ROSEWOOD BAROMETER of slender traditional form, with a thermometer above a silvered barometer dial, signed R Carnotta, Halifax, 36" £100-200 | Nil |
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| 753 | AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK LONGCASE CLOCK, the white enamel dial signed Clarke, Cerne Abbas, with subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, Roman numerals and floral decorated spandrels, the hood with scrolling swan neck pediment with brass patterae and central urn decoration, the dial flanked by turned columns, the trunk with rectangular mahogany crossbanded door, on conforming base, the thirty hour movement striking on a bell, 80" high. See illustration £700-900 | Nil |
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| 754 | A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN MOUNTED MANTEL CLOCK, the circular dial with Arabic numerals within scrolling rococo style case, 13" high £50-100 | Nil |
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| 755 | A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER by John Barelli & Co of London, the silvered backplate with adjustable scale and themometer, the mercury filled tube flanked by chequered stringing, and circular reservoir cover below, 38" high. See illustration £1500-2500 | Nil |
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A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH WHITE MARBLE AND GILT MANTEL CLOCK, the circular convex dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minutes, the architectural form case surmounted by a neo-classical style urn, the eight-day movement striking on a bell, 11" high. See illustration £200-400 |
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