Dec 16 2009

A trinket or jewellery box

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A trinket or jewellery box in the form of a dressing table with a watteauesque scene showing a distant St Paul’s cathedral.

Percy’s
September ‘07


Dec 16 2009

A silver engraved fretwork basket

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A silver engraved fretwork basket with a cast silver rim decorated with a solitary flower and foliage, on 4 cast silver feet.
Engraved on base “Made in England for Theodore Starr, New York.”

London HM

Percy’s

September ‘07


Dec 16 2009

A silver wine or bottle label

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A silver wine or bottle label or ticket : IRISH WHISKEY
London 1892 by William Comyns & Sons Ltd

Ebay
KollectiK

August ‘07


Dec 16 2009

A decorative silver commemorative spoon

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A decorative silver commemorative spoon of dessert size with an embossed view of Antwerp Cathedral.

Hm 1893
Lot 42
Netherhampton Sale Rooms
25/07/07


Dec 16 2009

A silver chatelaine attachment

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A silver chatelaine attachment.
Aide Memoire with pencil.

Ebay 07/07


Nov 29 2009

A large tankard

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An impressive silver tankard in the Scandinavian style plain form terminating in domed foot, the hinged cover applied with a large finial modelled as a sejant lion, height 31cm, weight 108oz.

London 1914
Lot 104
Bonhams
7/7/07


Nov 29 2009

A silver mounted rock crystal glass decanter

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A silver mounted Glass “rock crystal” decanter.

Bonhams
7/7/07


Nov 29 2009

A silver and tortoiseshell kidney-shaped jewellery box

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A silver and tortoiseshell kidney-shaped jewellery box,
by William Comyns, London 1911,
the cover inlaid with an Adamesque patera hung with a bell husk garland and musical trophies tied with a ribbon, with relief bell husk frame, plain sides, raised on four leaf capped legs, cream velvet lined interior, length 23cm.


Nov 29 2009

A silver and tortoiseshell carriage clock

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A silver and tortoiseshell carriage clock,
by William Comyns, London 1910,
with hinged scroll handle on a domed shell cover inlaid with garlanded architectural scrolls, with reeded silver frame mount and door, with enamelled Roman dial, raised on four bun feet, length 14cm.

Lot No: 31
Bonhams
7/7/07


Nov 29 2009

A pair of silver and tortoiseshell candlesticks

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A pair of silver and tortoiseshell candlesticks,
by Charles and Richard Comyns, London 1920,
of ovoid section, with dished tortoiseshell drip pans with silver guilloche decorated frames on silver socle-form nozzles with tapering tortoiseshell stems inlaid with paterae and musical trophies with stiff leaf silver junctions on spread oval feet with applied bell husk bands and guilloche decorated frames, height 16cm.

Bonhams
Lot 29
4/7/07