Curios

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900Height: 7.5”Width: 14”Depth: 9.25”The painted pine traveling officer's box, sign written to the top 'S. Shirley Royal Engineers', and richly textured in bitumen, opening to reveal a compartmentalised interior with upper slatted book shelf, bearing many officers' tools and...

Origin: Probably EnglishPeriod: Late Nineteenth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880Length: 11 inchesIn black leather cowhide over wooden soles, and buckle clasps, the wholes shod with iron, the clogs survive from nineteenth century Lancashire.The condition of the clogs are thoroughly charming with the leather showing signs of...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Nineteenth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1860-80Height: 30 inchesDepth: 8.5 inchesWidth: 41 inchesNaively but charmingly painted in three simple colours, the lack of naturalism but presence of stylised features point to folk art and the original paintwork remains throughout.  The horse is positioned in...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1950-70 Width: 9.5 inches (the shield)Height: 17.5 inches (the shield)Depth: 12 inches (the mount, at maximum)Presented on a naturalistic cabin style log shield, the roe buck head and neck mount survives from the middle of the twentieth century.The...

Origin: British Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c.1900-25 Height: 12.5 inches Width: 7 inches Length: 32 inches The large, naïvely constructed and primitive painted wooden locomotive train with carriage set in pea green with cast iron wheels, smoke stack and boiler survives...

Origin: Probably South AmericanPeriod: Early/Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1920-50Height: 5 inches (at maximum)Length: 9 inches (at maximum)The comparatively large and angular shaped skull of the Alpaca (Vicugna pacos), survives preserved from the first half of the twentieth century.The condition of the whole is good...

Origin: English/South AmericanPeriod: Late Nineteenth / Early Twentieth Century Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1895-1910The Case:Height: 14 inchesWidth: 18 inchesDepth: 2 inchesThe glazed mahogany display case with hinged sides for access and off white interior housing a collection of exotic butterflies native to Britain and South America...

Period: Early/Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1940-60Redhead: 13 inches highShoveler: 9.5 inches highThe Redhead and Shoveler ducks, both preserved and mounted on circular and rectangular wooden bases respectively survive from the middle of the twentieth century in slightly tired but solid condition.Aesop's Fable: The Tortoise...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900-1910Diameter: 2 inches (at base of column)Height: 4.75 inches (overall) In the Victorian taste, the carved bone miniature skull set at an angle showing a full set of teeth mounted upon a stepped ebonised plinth column, the bone showing...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: 21st Century & EdwardianProvenance: UnknownDate: The Mount c.2014, the Bowling Ball c.1900Height: 21.5 inches (the whole, at maximum)The well-preserved and mounted adult grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) specimen with adjustable tail, perfectly balanced on an Edwardian period turned lignum vitae bowling ball with...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: 21st CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.2000Depth: 8.5 inchesHeight: 6 inchesWidth: 5 inchesWeight: 4.3 KgsThe weighty decorative carved stone human skull showing a full set of teeth having a green patinated finish.The skull is in super condition and there are no chips or cracks to...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1950-60Height: 29 inches (with cats)Depth: 9.5 inchesWidth: 16 inchesThe well painted moulded plastic mock chimneystack with simulated brickwork and black carrying handles, having three well moulded cats on a yellow plinth with three coin slots, one with...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1950-70Depth: 5 inches (at maximum)Height: 6.75 inches (at maximum)Tommy Cooper was born Thomas Frederick Cooper in Caerphilly, Wales on March 19, 1921. He was born 2 months prematurely and the doctors warned he might not make it through...

Origin: IndonesianPeriod: Early/Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1920-40 Largest: 5.5 inches x 5.5 inchesTwo Smaller: 5.25 x 4.5 inches The set of three ruby, ebony and ivory painted hardwood masks in the grotesque style with expressive overtly stylised faces and accentuated features, large googly eyes,...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early/Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1930-45Each: 14” x 3.5”The black and cream hand painted signs on hardboard, for 'Drugs' 'Lotions' 'Lotion Bowls' 'Specimens' 'Bed Linen' 'Medicines' 'Bandages' and 'Dressings', each surviving from an English hospital ward from the second quarter of the...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1910-1920Height: 18 inchesDepth: 2.5 inchesWidth: 8.5 inches (all at maximum)Rod mounted on an ebonised circular plinth stand the dried starfish having five rays radiating from the central disc.In good order, there are no flaws to report other than...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1910-25Length: 7.5 inchesWidth: 4.25 inches (at maximum)The original early twentieth century period shop display female hand with moulded mock wedding ring having a metal rod frame and a wonderfully well rendered composition gesso-plaster body, the whole with the...

Origin: BritishPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900-25Height: 8.75 inchesWidth: 8 inches (at base)The life size artists study painted plaster and gesso mannequin head and shoulder torso bust model of a child, hand painted with blue eyes, black eyebrows and rose lips on a realistic...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1910Height: 10.5 inches (with heron)Width: 5 inchesDepth: 5 inchesOf cubic form constructed from tinplate, the edges with decorative hammered plates laid over, the sides each with a raised circular motif, and the front side inset with a Ruskin...

Origin: ChinesePeriod: 700-900 B.C.Provenance: Guangdong Province, ChinaDate: Formed over Many Centuries 800B.C.Width: 20 inchesHeight: 28.5 inchesDepth: 7 inchesWeight: 30 KGS approxThe attractively formed cave formation specimen standing at over two feet tall in milky white limestone deposits showing attractive formations formed over thousands of...