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Ornate Antique French Bronze Dore Jewelry Casket, with inset painted porcelain plaques; having a hinged lid opening to a velvet lined well, above two doors opening to shelves and raised on dragon form feet. Circa 1870. (n.b. doors close but do not lock)

Height: 13”
Length: 12”
Depth: 6.5”

Original patent model for a sliding door lock and latch by E.G. Kehoe in brass, retaining its original Patent Office Tag dated November 15, 1870, Patent No. 109,220. Together with a Certificate of Authenticity from the United States Patent Model Foundation.

The passage of the Patent Act of 1790 required that every application include a miniature working model of their idea. Over the next 90 years more than 200,000 models were submitted, until lack of storage space and fires finally forced...

Antique Charles X Style Cut Crystal Box, oval with alternating rounded and facet cut decoration, and mounted with ormolu bands and escutcheon. Circa 1900, Probably French.

6.25" x 4.75" x 5" tall

A Rare Stoneware Wine Flask (called a “Schraubflasche” in German), cylindrical with a pewter screw top, sloped shoulder and white glazed body with applied silvered decoration of a scrolling branch with leaves and berries. Silvered underglazed mark on base.

Probably German, 18th Century (chip to base)

Height: 5.25"
Diameter: 3"

Antique Brass and Wire Nursery Fireplace Fender having a brass toprail and crosshatched wire body. These taller firefenders were to keep the baby out, rather than to keep the sparks in. American Circa 1800.

34" x14" x 18.25" tall

Antique English Regency “tiger” tortoiseshell tea caddy having a bowed front, a hinged, pagoda form top opening to a two lidded compartments and raised on ball feet. Circa 1800. (Old repairs.)

Length, 7.5”;
Depth, 5.75”,
Height; 5.5.”

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Small pair of Rookwood pottery vases in a tan glaze with a moulded band of daisy decoration. Base with Rookwood logo, dated 1948, pattern #2591. (Slight crazing on one vase.)

Height: 5”

Large Georgian Tea Chest in nicely figured mahogany; rectangular with quarter column corners, having a stepped lid surmounted by a brass carrying handle and opening to a fitted interior retainiing two tin tea caddies and a sugar box and the whole raised on ogee bracket feet. English, Circa1780.

11.75" x 7.5" x 6.5" tall

FinePair of Italian Grand Tour Bronze Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870. Height: 11.25"

Antique English Tunbridge Tea Caddy, with the lid inlaid with the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. It is unusual to have the tumbling blocks in a variety of exotic wood samples. Made in Tunbridge Wells, circa 1860.

5.25" x 4.25"x 4.25

Fine Antique Arts and Crafts Gilt Wood Mirror. American, Circa 1870 .

Mirror22x28.5
Frame 30x26.75

Most likely French, 19th century. The image of an Englishman hunting with a hound was a common image on enamel boxes, especially snuff boxes in the eighteenth century. However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, as well as the completely hand painted nature of the lid identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation.

Damage to hinge. Lid does not close entirely. Loss to underside enamel.

Antique brass and wire D-form fire fender. Circa 1830-1850. English or American.

Length: 31.5” Depth: 11.5” Height: 12”

Fine pair of antique Continental brass jardinieres, urn form, with repousse swag decoration, supported by plinth bases with repoussé grape leaf panels. Circa 1860-1880.

Height: 13”
Maximum Diameter: 8.5”

Wonderful American Eastlake Style Dressing Mirror with comb box below, openwork pediment and crusty old finish. Circa 1870.
H: 24"
W: 13"
D: 5.25"

Large antique Imari vase with ribbed body and painted butterfly and floral decoration. Circa 1860-80. (Repair to bottom.)

Height: 18"

Two Antique English papier mâché shoe form match safes (or ‘vesta case’), one with hand painted decoration with a butterfly, the other with inlaid piqué work, oval hinged lid, and ‘strike’ on bottom of shoe. Circa 1870.

Length: 3.25”

Large Regency Domed Top Decanter Box in mahogany, having a rounded top with double hinged lids with locks and a central divider over a carved and molded base and raised on small ogee bracket feet. Possibly a Ships Bottle-box. English, circa 1800. with four modern decanters with wooden ball stoppers

16.71" x 15.75" x 14.75" tall