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The Chester Sale

4 – 6 November 2008 | starting at 13:00 GMT
Live Auction

Lot gallery

1171 lots available

An early 20th Century bronze figural oscillating timepiece Junghans

A brass-cased bull's eye timepiece with stand Anonymous, Circa 1900 2

An early 20th Century brass and wrought iron water-clock or 'clepsydra' In the manner of Pearson & Page

A 19th century French gilt spelter figural mantel clock Japy Freres & Cie

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A late 19th Century French corniche-cased brass carriage clock with push-repeat

A late 19th Century brass corniche-cased carriage clock with push-repeat Anonymous, possibly by Couaillet; Retailed by Finnegans Ltd, Manchester & Liverpool sold with travelling box and winder

A French brass corniche-cased porcelain-mounted miniature carriage timepiece sold with double-ended winder

An early 19th century mahogany stick barometerE. Davis, Shrewsbury, circa 1820 E. Davis, Shrewsbury, circa 1820

An inlaid mahogany stick barometer Late 18th Century and later

An early 20th Century oak stick barometer J. H. Steward, Optician, 68 Strand, London

A good mid-Victorian mother-of-pearl inlaid rosewood wheel barometer W. DeSilva, Liverpool

A large early Victorian rosewood wheel barometer D. Fagioli & Son, 3 Gt. Warner St., Clerkenwell

An early 19th Century inlaid mahogany wheel barometer Monti, Sandwich

An early Victorian mahogany wheel barometer F. W. Morgan, Manchester, circa 1840

A brass-cased pocket barometer S. & B. Solomons, 39 Albemarle St., London, circa 1900

A mid 19th Century three-draw telescopeLouis Paschal (Luigi) Casella, London

A French cast bronze three-piece desk setCirca 1900

A brass and mother of pearl snuff box Probably late 18th Century, of serpentine 'shell' form and rococo design, the hinged cover decorated in shallow relief with shells and flowers interspersed with incised mother-of-pearl strips, the bulging body and the underside both with further floral and shell decoration 7cm x 5cm x 2.5cm high

A late 18th Century carved coquilla nut scent-bottle

An early 19th Century enamel on copper miniature landscape painting

An Italian white metal Holy Water stoopProbably circa 1800

An early 19th Century black-lacquered papier mache inkstand and trayEach stamped [Henry] "Clay, Pall Mall, London"

A group of black-lacquered papier mache waresTo include:

Two mid 19th Century black-lacquered papier mache trays

Two 19th Century papier mache circular boxes

An early to mid 19th Century black-lacquered papier mache four-bottle cruet

A good group of four various brass-mounted agate boxes

A good brass-bound specimen agate table-casket

An early 19th Century pressed tortoiseshell circular box depicting the Duke of Wellington

An early 19th Century tortoishell tea caddyOf small proportions

A Victorian tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl visiting-card case

A second quarter 19th century tortoiseshell tea caddy

A second quarter 19th Century tortoiseshell tea caddy

A late Victorian figured walnut, brass strung, ebonised and silver-plated three-bottle tantalus

A late Victorian brass-mounted oak three-bottle tantalus with cabinet

A mid 19th Century brass-bound burr elm decanter-box

A mid-Victorian serpentine-fronted inlaid burr yew-wood decanter box

A mid Victorian brass-mounted coromandel lap desk

An early 19th Century yew-wood tea caddy

A Regency mahogany sarcophagus-form tea caddy

A late 18th Century inlaid satinwood tea caddy

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