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A lithographed tinplate early 1960's dolls house 340mm long, 280mm high and a large section of plastic dolls' house furniture including baths with two babies, lavatory, kitchen units, feeding bottles, television and pots and pans

The Game Book of Brigadier-General Henry Robert Kelham C.B. (1853-1931), 19.5cm by 34.5cm, the leather cover embossed "Game Book, Morocco, Spain, Sicily, Malta & Gozo, Malay Peninsular, Singapore, China, Scotland, Baltistan, Egypt, India, Kashmir, Astor", and with inked names "Tripoli, South Africa, and Crete", the spine embossed "HRK The Highland Light Infantry", and with brass clasp, and containing a diary record of hunting expeditions illustrated with over fifty-five photographs and thirty-two watercolours by the author, and a hand-drawn folding map "Rough Sketch on the Ghiri", together with related newspaper cuttings, printed photographs and ephemera, the titled watercolours include "Stalking the Great Bustard 1883 (the Mesa Casas Viejas, Dec 72)", "My Favourite Camp, Chumrerar 1887 N.W. Himalayas (the scene of many a happy day)" and photograph titles including "A days shooting along the Orange River", "Gunga Singh-My bearer", portraits of the author's hunting dogs and game trophies various See illustrations Historical footnote pasted into the inside cover. It is a piece of writing paper with letterhead "Heigholme Hall, Leven, Hull, North Humberside, which states the following: "Brigadier-General Henry Robert Kelham C.B., 1853-1931, son of Henry Robert Kelham R.N. entered 74th Highlanders 1873, Captain Highland L.I. 1882, Major 1890, Lieut-Colonel 1899, B.Colonel 1906 (retired 1910), & Hon Brig-General 1912, served with Egyptian Expedition 1882, present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir/Medal with clasp, bronze star. In Crete 1898, in S.Africa 1899-1902, in command of this Regiment, present at the Battle of Hodder River (or Modder?), Battle of Magersfontein, at Relief of Kimberley (twice wounded, despatches twice, medals with clasp and C.B.), was Brig-General County Lowland Grouped Regt. .... Scottish (and 1906-08, and Lowland Territorial Div 1908-10), appointed Brig-General 1914;-in 1903 Doris Lilian, daughter of Edmund Tattersall of Coleherne Court, S. Kensington & Fremington House, Barnstaple, N.Devon" and is signed indistinctly and dated 8 Oct 1977. Henry Robert Kelham died at Instow while out shooting on the marshes with his wife, in 1931, and his obituary appeared in The Times on October 7th of that year. An extensive summary of the life and ancestry of Henry Robert Kelham is available for inspection (but not for sale, and it is copyright) during the viewing.

A FINE NORTH ITALIAN ETCHED AND GILT LEFT TASSET FOR FIELD USE, CIRCA 1590-1600, PROBABLY MILANESE formed of a single plate widening slightly to its lower end and embossed to simulate ten lames, its lower corners rounded, its upper edge fitted with three suspension-buckles (the hasps replaced), its surface etched in five vertical bands and in a border accompanying its main edges with foliate strapwork, trophies-of-arms and fantastic animals, all gilt on a stippled and blackened ground, and enclosed in each case by trios of narrower bands of which the central one is decorated with etched and gilt guilloche, its main and simulated edges all decorated with file-roped turns or ribs (one chip and several small cracks in main edge, four vacant rivet-holes in upper end) Inv. no. A202. Tassets of a very similar design are preserved in the armoury of the Knights of the Order of St John, Malta, Cat. No. 91, as part of an armour made by Pompeo della Chiesa of Milan for Jean de Valette, Grand Master of the Order (see S. C. Spiteri 2003, p. 371, fig. A5). A further pair of tassets of this design, formerly in the same armoury, are now in the collection of H.M. The Queen, at Sandringham. Others, bearing the signature of Pompeo, occur as parts of armours at Wilton House, Wiltshire, made by him for Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (see F. H. Cripps-Day 1925, p. 268, fig. 205), and in the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer, Vienna, Inv. Nos A 1283 & 1428 (L. G. Boccia & E. T. Coelho 1967, fig. 348). They also occur, however, on the armours of other Milanese makers of the late 16th century, as for example, one in the Art Institute, Chicago, Acc. No. 1982.2194, by the Master IFP (L. Tarassuk 1986, Cat. Nos 6 & 9, pp. 16-17, fig. 12), and one by the Master of the Triple-Towered Castle, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington (Sotheby's, London, 4 May 1964, lot 174).

A FINE NORTH ITALIAN ETCHED AND GILT BREASTPLATE FOR FIELD USE, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA 1590-1600 of late 'peascod' fashion, formed of a single heavy plate with deep neck and arm-openings, etched in borders around its neck and arm-openings and in seven diverging vertical bands with bands of interlacing strapwork, partly blackened and partly burnished on a stippled and gilt ground, enclosed in each case by narrower bands of guilloche and engrailing, and involving oval cartouches enclosing classical subjects including representations of Victory and Mars, and fantastic animals, all gilt on a stippled and blackened ground, the main edges of the breastplate decorated with file-roped inward turns, and the lance-rest and its retaining-screws gilt (showing some patches of patination and light wear), fitted with a buff leather shoulder-strap (replaced) to either side, three further later buff leather straps for the attachment of a pair of tassets to its outward-flanged lower edge on each side, and a pair of threaded holes, reinforced at the rear, at the right of the chest for the attachment by means of two baluster-headed slotted screws of a lance-rest with a bevelled sub-rectangular base-plate and a folding arm of angular section, roped at its front edge and fitted on its underside with a lever-operated spring-catch, 42cm; 16 1/2in high inv. no. A095. ` The etched decoration of the breastplate is of a pattern employed by several Milanese armours of the late 16th century, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on a half armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, Acc. No. 1982.2194, and another who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on a visor and bevor in the same collection, Acc. No. 1982.2493 (see L. Tarassuk 1986, Cat. Nos 6 & 9, pp. 15-16, figs 10 & 14). The pattern is particularly associated, however, with Pompeo della Chiesa, recorded 1571-93, who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (see A. V. B. Norman 1986, p. 31). It occurs, for example, on a signed half-armour at Wilton House, Wiltshire, made by him for Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (F. H. Cripps-Day 1925, p. 268, fig. 205). Further signed works of Pompeo, such as a cap-a-pié armour in the Museo Stibbert, Florence, Inv. No. 3476, a half-armour in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cat. No. 32, and a further half-armour in the armoury of the Knights of St John, Malta, Cat No. 91, the close helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Acc. No. 14.25.652, show the pattern employed in conjunction with intervening panels of trophies (See L. G. Boccia 1975, Cat. No. 23, pl. 24; C. Otto von Kienbusch 1963, pp. 46-7, pl. XXXIII; and S. C. Spiteri 2003, pp. 274-5, figs A1-5). The pattern occurs on its own on a cuirassier armour in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Inv. No. 35712 & 4183 (see L. G. Boccia & E. T. Coelho 1967, fig. 404), on a half-armour bearing the triple-towered castle mark, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington (Sotheby's, London, 4 May 1964, lot 174), the close helmet of which (Sotheby's, London, 12 October 1976, lot 300) is now reunited with it, a half armour bearing a double-towered castle mark, in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, Brescia, Inv. No. 999 (see F. Rossi & N. di Carpegna 1969, Cat. No. 18, pp. 20-1), and several detached elements in the Wallace Collection, London, Cat. Nos A58 & 59 (see J. G. Mann 1962, pp. 29-32). It is possible that the breastplate under discussion derives from the same garniture as one or more of these pieces.

A RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSSES BY JOHN DAFTE, CIRCA 1680-85 with three-stage barrels swelling towards the muzzles, stamped with London proof and Foreigner's marks at the breeches, engraved barrel tangs, signed rounded locks engraved with pairs of lines around the borders (worn), figured walnut full stocks carved with a raised moulding about the tangs (one grip cracked through and repaired, the fore-ends with minor repairs), full brass mounts comprising pierced scrolling side-plates with profile dragon mask terminals, butt-plate engraved with border ornament and scrolling foliage, trigger-guards with acanthus finials, a pair of moulded ramrod-pipes, and escutcheons engraved with the owner's crest and motto, each fitted with a steel saddle ring on the side-plate (later ramrods) 76.8cm; 30 1/4in (2) The Crest is that of Duff of Scotland. John Dafte was made Free of the Gunmaker's Company in 1668. He was implicated in the Rye House Plot of 1683, the Horrid Conspiracy, when the Duke of Monmouth and others planned the assassination of King Charles II and the Duke of York on their return from Newmarket. Dafte was interrogated and found not guilty, being described as a 'very honest fellow'. See J. S. Cooper and K. J. Westwood 1989.

ATTRIBUTED TO H S BUSH 'St James Barracks, Trinidad 1858', 7" x 10 1/4", 'Government House, Trinidad', signed H S Bush, 7" x 10 1/4", 'The Harbour of Granada from Government House, 1859', 7" x 10", signed H S Bush, 'The Town of Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 1857', 9" x 13", watercolour, unframed, (4) (see illustration)

A Suite of Doll's House Bentwood Type Furniture, comprising tripod table, footstool, settee, a pair of armchairs, and six single chairs, a small doll, and a group of doll's house ceramics See illustration

A Sitzendorf porcelain figure of a woodpecker resting on a branch, naturalistically enamel decorated, 27cm high, damages; a 19th Century pink lustre shallow dish painted with naive study of a house within moulded and painted borders, 20cm diameter; a 19th Century Staffordshire copper lustre jug 9cm high, both S/D.(3).

(ER761/1) A pair of Queen Anne candlesticks, London 1712, maker's mark indistinct, of octagonal form, knopped stem, onto a spreading octagonal foot, moulded base 16cm high, 17oz Provenance: Purchased Walter Beaton, Dundee. Ex collection Sir William Henderson of West Park Dundee. Note: Sir William was president of Dundee Choral Union in the late 19th century. His home built in the Italian villa style in the 1860's and extended in 1872. The house and grounds were donated to The University of Dundee in 1942 was requisitioned by the War office. After various later extensions for students, is now home to The West Park wedding and conference centre

An all bisque doll's house doll, with painted and moulded features and jointed body, together with a collection of other doll's house dolls (faults).

A collection of toys, including a football game, a doll, two books, a set of cards and doll's house furniture.

MICHAEL FAIRLESS: STORIES TOLD TO CHILDREN, ill Flora White, 1914, 1st edn, orig pict cl gt + NELLIE SLOGGETT “ENYS TREGARTHEN”: THE HOUSE OF THE SLEEPING WINDS AND OTHER STORIES SOME BASED ON CORNISH FOLKLORE, ill Nannie Preston, [1911]. 1st edn, orig decor cl gt, pict paper label + NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE: A WONDER BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, ill Walter Crane, [1892]. 1st edn, orig pict cl + S H HAMER: THE LITTLE FOLKS FAIRY BOOK, 1905, orig pict cl + M SUNDERLAND McLAUGHLIN: PARABLES FROM FAIRY LAND, ill George Soper and Osman Thomas, circa 1921, orig parchment bkd bds (5)

A M BURRAGE: INTRUDERS NEW WEIRD TALES – THE OCCULT FILES OF FRANCIS CHARD SOME GHOST STORIES – SOMEONE IN THE ROOM STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW, Ash-Tree Press, 1995, 1996, 1997, (500), (500), (500), orig cl d/ws + H R WAKEFIELD: THEY RETURN AT EVENING – OLD MANS BEARD, Ash-Tree Press, 1995, 1996, (300), (400), orig cl dws + A N L MUNBY: THE ALABASTER HAND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES, Ash-Tree Press, 1995, (250), orig cl d/w + R H MALDEN: NINE GHOSTS, Ash-Tree Press, 1995, (300), orig cl d/w + E G SWAIN: THE STONEGROUND GHOST TALES, Ash-Tree Press, 1996, (400), orig cl d/w + S BARING-GOULD: A BOOK OF GHOSTS, Ash-Tree Press, 1996, (400), orig cl d/w + ELEANOR SCOTT: RANDALL’S ROUND, Ash-Tree Press, 1996, (500), orig cl d/w + A C AND R H BENSON: GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE, Ash-Tree Press, 1996, (400), orig cl d/w + 9 others same series (20)

Gibraltar album 41 albumen prints: Gibraltar from Campamento, view from San Felipe, from Santa Barbara, from English Lines, N. front from British lines, The Barracks Catalan Bay, Catalan Bay, The Neutral ground & Spanish & British lines, S. Barracks, Casemate Square, Old South Port, from the Old Mole, from the New Mole, The Land Fort, Old Mole and Water Port from the Castle, The North Town (two views), The Line Wall north of Commercial Square, Water Port or Main Street, East side Segnal Station from the Old Guard House, from the Old Stone Sentry Box, Signal station from Foot Path, The Castle from the Queens Road, On the Road to Governor's Cottage, Governor's Cottage & Lighthouse, Hendmill Hill, Windmill hill from the North, Windmill Hill & O'Hara's tower, Gilbraltar South from the Alameda, The Alameda the Grand parade, The Alameda with troops on parade, View from Buena Vista looking S.W., View looking N., The Alameda the lover's walk north (and south), Europa Pass, Europa Flats, Rosia, Corkwoods San Roque, 16 x 22cm, and two photographs of Tangiers, morocco album, worn, spine lacking, c.1870-80

A collection of 26 c.1920's and 1931 Auctioneers For Sale posters for Morris Sons & Peard, many different properties and farm sales in the Taunton and Bridgwater areas including Hurley Farm, Crowcombe 1924; Melville House and 9 Hammet Street Taunton 1931; Golden Manor Lydeard St Lawrence 1931; Tuxwell Farm, Spaxton 1931 and many others ++folded but in good condition

A pair of imposing Regency Revival bronze table lamps, each mounted with a pair of female caryatid figures above shaped bases, fitted for electricity, 61cm high, 40cm wide. Purchased at a country house sale in Ireland in the 1950's

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1683, House of Habsburg, Leopold I, the Hogmouth (1640-1658-1705), The Siege and Liberation of Vienna and Victory over the Turks, Silver Medal, by Johann Kittel, laureate bust of Leopold right, VIENNAM OBSIDET FRUSTRA MAHUMEDUS, rev crowned bust of Ferdinand I right, VIENNAM OBSIDET FRUSTRA SOLIMANNUS 1529, 38mm (Mont 894; Julius 175; Hirsch 28; F&S 4112; ANS [1910] 22; BDM III, 169). Very fine.

A COLLECTION OF CIRCA 80 AUCTION HOUSE CATALOGUES for sales of Sporting Memorabilia 1990's to date, including issues from Christies, Bonhams, Mullock & Madely, Anthemion etc., (Qty).

Dolls' house dolls: six bisque 60mm to 280mm, two glazed 55mm and 115mm, half doll 90mm, one composition 130mm and Moreno black baby 80mm (11)

A small late 19th Century Bristol type lamp work group modelled as a three masted frigate ship having sailors climbing the rigging, to the side a smaller vessel and a light house all set to a shredded crystal base and set to a circular turned wooden stand, together with an associated domed cover, height 33cm S/D.

Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me and Forbid Them Not, after John L Lawlor, Shape 302, Minton, circa 1852, incised titled, also "S LAWLOR SC, LONDON 1852", impressed year cypher (1851?), 34cm high; and Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law, after a painting by H H O'Neil, possibly modelled by William Beattie, Shape 183, Minton, circa 1850, incised titled to the oval base, apparently unmarked, 34cm high (2) Naomi and Her Daughters, a similar group is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.91, shape 183, and Christ blessing little children is illustrated as fig.335. Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law was shown at The Great Exhibition 1851, after a painting by H H O'Neil, a replica of which hangs in Osborne House. John J Lawlor (1820-1901). Born in Dublin and began his studies at the Royal Dublin Society's Schools. Came to England about 1845 and commenced working on the statues for the new Palace of Westminster, entering the RA Schools two years later. His work was shown at the Great Exhibition in 1851.

Springbank-20 year-old-1967 Distilled 31.10.1967. Cask numbers 3131-3136, bottle number 382. Distilled and bottled by J & A Mitchell & Co. Ltd for Prestonfield House, Edinburgh. As above lot. Lead capsule embossed with the Springbank "S" on top. Single malt, 46% volume 1 bottle

A quantity of Architects drawings from the 1930's and 1940's Relating to Walton Linsday during his student years and early working life. Comprising a folder from Sir Patrick Abercrombie Richard Nickson for the 'Redevelopment Plan' Wenlock Barn Estate circa 1946, A watercolour for 'The winning scheme Town Hall Kingston Jamaica from 'Norman & Dawbarn, a set of Johnson & Crabtree plans for Hamilton House London, also a quantity of student drawings from Walton Lindsay Bartlett School of Architecture and some of his early work

A selection of dolls house accessories including kitchen crockery, a log basket, rabbit hutch, dog kennel and Aga cooker, six pieces of handmade 1940's wooden furniture, and three small jointed teddy bears

A wax shoulder head girl doll in sailor suit, 9 1/2" high, a china head dolls house doll, 4" high, and an all bisque baby, 2 1/2" high (3)

An all bisque dolls house doll with fixed blue glass eyes, blond wig and original clothes, 3 3/4" high and another with brown glass eyes and knitted outfit, 3 1/2" high (2)

A china head dolls house doll, 7" high, another bisque doll with moulded head and hat, 6" high and three small dolls, 3 1/4" - 3 3/4" high (5)

A black all-bisque dolls house doll with painted face, mohair wig, swivel joints and red felt outfit, 3 1/2" high

An unusual bisque gentleman dolls house doll, the moulded head with moustache, on stuffed body with bisque limbs, brown velvet suit, 8" high

A large quantity of wooden dolls house furniture including a green painted dresser and longcase clock, c.1940/50's

CLAUDE BLAIR, SHIRLEY BURY AND OTHERS; THE CROWN JEWELS THE HISTORY OF THE CORONATION REGALIA IN THE JEWEL HOUSE OF THE TOWER OF LONDON, L The Stationery Office (650), 2 vols, numbered, 4to, qtr goatskin by Cedric Chivers, s-c

Robert Adam (1728-1792) Two designs for schemes at Osterley Park, one with a central flower spray with two poles supporting urns and swags and with two parrots all within an anthemion border, the other with a central floral spray witin an anthemion band, a band of entwined flowers and a geometric and floral border, Pencil and watercolour, One pricked for transfer, sheet size, 50.7cm x 45.5cm. The second possibly a pole screen banner design. Provenance: Commissioned by Robert and Sarah Child from Robert Adam in 1777 for Osterley Park and thence by descent to the Earls of Ducie. Sarah married in 1791, as her second husband, Thomas Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie and these drawings have since remained in the Ducie family. These three drawings were part of a folio including botanical and ornithological studies which Sarah Child had collected in the 1790's. Some of the botanical and ornithological studies were by George Raper, a Midshipman on the First Fleet to Australia in 1787, which had been acquired by Sarah through her friendship with her near neighbour Sir Joseph Banks. They were bought in 2005 by the National Library of Australia in a Private Treaty sale organised by Dreweatt Neate. Robert Adam is without question the most important neo-classical architect working in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. Following success in Scotland with his brothers in the family practice (succeeding their father William Adam 1689-1748) Robert Adam's international reputation stemmed from his Grand Tour to Italy. The three years he spent there from 1754 to 1757 fired his passion for ancient classical forms and decoration. Adam returned to London rather than his native Edinburgh in order to embark upon a career that revolutionised taste in architecture and interior decoration. His drawings from Italy provided a source of direct inspiration from which a substantial number of commissions from the wealthy and aristrocratic were gained. The importance of Adams work at Osterley Park is signified by its demonstration of Adam's invention of the English 'Etruscan' style that was the product of his matured vision. In his book 'Dictionary of Art' Damie Stillman (I.I37) states that 'The Etruscan dressing room is the finest surviving example of his style, inspired by Piranesi and 'Etruscan' vases, but developed by Adam into the height of elegant, brittle and flat Neo-classical decoration'. The fire screen for which this panel was designed survives in situ at Osterley Park in the Etruscan dressing room. The screen was also made to a design by Adam. It has been suggested that Thomas Chippendale made the screen, however other firms to include Linnell and Ince and Mayhew are known to have executed pieces of furniture for the house. Throughout his career Robert Adam kept copies of the designs he provided his clients. Some of the drawings (notably sketch-designs) are from Adams own hand, others were prepared by the assistants he employed. The drawings were kept together by relatives after Adams death until 1833 when a collection of almost 9000 drawings were bought by the architect Sir John Soane. The collection remains in the museum founded in his house in London. Among the collection at the museum are 35 drawings which relate and cover many aspects of the Etruscan Room at Osterley Park. There are four designs in the museum for the embroidered panel of the screen (Vol.17, No.s 141,142,143, 145). According to the account of Eileen Harris (The Furniture of Robert Adam. 1973. Academy Editions. p.105) the final design from which the screen was embroidered is dated 14 April 1777. As the drawing currently being offered is inscribed with the same date and and has been subsequently re-dated May 1777, this would signify that this was in fact the clients copy and the final drawing from which the screen was embroidered by Mrs Child. These three drawings are of particular importance because they reflect the late stage of Adam's development in the Etrus

Robert Adam (1728-1792) 'Design of a Fire Screen for Mrs Child for the Etruscan Room at Osterly (sic)', Pen, ink and watercolour, Inscribed, dated '1777' lower left and dated 'April 14th 1777, altered the 25th' lower right. On one sheet of paper, the centre section cut out and replaced with a revised design and the whole pricked for transfer to the silk banner, 62cm x 47cm. Provenance: Commissioned by Robert and Sarah Child from Robert Adam in 1777 for Osterley Park and thence by descent to the Earls of Ducie. Sarah married in 1791, as her second husband, Thomas Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie and these drawings have since remained in the Moreton family. These three drawings were part of a folio including botanical and ornithological studies which Sarah Child had collected in the 1790's. Some of the botanical and ornithological studies were by George Raper, a Midshipman on the First Fleet to Australia in 1787, which had been acquired by Sarah through her friendship with her near neighbour Sir Joseph Banks. They were bought in 2005 by the National Library of Australia in a Private Treaty sale organised by Dreweatt Neate. Robert Adam is without question the most important neo-classical architect working in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. Following success in Scotland with his brothers in the family practice (succeeding their father William Adam 1689-1748) Robert Adam's international reputation stemmed from his Grand Tour to Italy. The three years he spent there from 1754 to 1757 fired his passion for ancient classical forms and decoration. Adam returned to London rather than his native Edinburgh in order to embark upon a career that revolutionised taste in architecture and interior decoration. His drawings from Italy provided a source of direct inspiration from which a substantial number of commissions from the wealthy and aristrocratic were gained. The importance of Adam's work at Osterley Park is signified by its demonstration of Adam's invention of the English 'Etruscan' style that was the product of his matured vision. In his book 'Dictionary of Art', Damie Stillman (I.I37) states that 'The Etruscan dressing room is the finest surviving example of his style, inspired by Piranesi and 'Etruscan' vases, but developed by Adam into the height of elegant, brittle and flat Neo-classical decoration'. The fire screen for which this panel was designed survives in situ at Osterley Park in the Etruscan dressing room. The screen was also made to a design by Adam. It has been suggested that Thomas Chippendale made the screen, however other firms to include Linnell and Ince and Mayhew are known to have executed pieces of furniture for the house. Throughout his career Robert Adam kept copies of the designs he provided his clients. Some of the drawings (notably sketch-designs) are from Adam's own hand, others were prepared by the assistants he employed. The drawings were kept together by relatives after Adam's death until 1833 when a collection of almost 9000 drawings were bought by the architect Sir John Soane. The collection remains in the museum founded in his house in London. Among the collection at the museum are 35 drawings which relate and cover many aspects of the Etruscan Room at Osterley Park. There are four designs in the museum for the embroidered panel of the screen (Vol.17, No.s 141,142,143, 145). According to the account of Eileen Harris (The Furniture of Robert Adam. 1973. Academy Editions. p.105) the final design from which the screen was embroidered is dated 14 April 1777. As the drawing currently being offered is inscribed with the same date and and has been subsequently re-dated May 1777, this would signify that this was in fact the clients copy and the final drawing from which the screen was embroidered by Mrs Child. These three drawings are of particular importance because they reflect the late stage of Adam's development in the Etruscan style. The drawing for the screen also allows us to trace t

S. Ward, Country house with figures, watercolour, signed and dated '1885'.

The Property of a Lady Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A., 1769-1830 study for the head of a man signed with initials and inscribed on a separate label: the sketches have been/done by Sir Thomas Lawrence/about the year 1796 or 98/at my grandfathers house/in Kew, near London/they are done with a paper/match, burnt or singed/at an open fire/the little book is his very/first attempt at drawing/when he was a waiter/at a public house, also inscribed in ink: Dresden 1878 Sophia Pappendick/from Lucy Wharton Dresal (?)xmas/97 pencil and burnt paper stump, on laid paper with partial watermark: L MUNN 18x15cm.; 7x6in. Sophia Pappendick, mentioned on the label, would appear to be a descendant of Mrs Papendick, assistant Keeper of the Wardrobe to Queen Charlotte. Mrs Papendick's journal Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte, edited and published by a granddaughter Mrs Vernon Delves Broughton in 1887, mentions the drawings of which this is an example.. In referring to evenings spent at home in the 1790's, she wrote, When we wished to fill up the time with music, I sent for Rodgers; otherwise we read, worked, or had a game at cards. It was during these evenings that Lawrence drew those beautiful drawings in burnt paper pencils. (Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte, ed. Mrs Vernon Delves Broughton, 1887, vol 11, p.145) We are grateful to Dr Kenneth Garlick and Peter Bower for their assistance in cataloguing this drawing Provenance Eleanor Brewster; by descent to the mother of the present owner (by 1960)

A late 18th Century Georgian needlework sampler with running floral border around central panel, alphabet bands and verse above a country style house, named and dated 1798, 42 x 30.5cm, framed. S/D.

A Carved Engraving, of the old school and masters' house Sherborne after W S Penny, and two artist's proof etchings of Sherborne School (3)

T Mendoza framed signed limited edition print 1986/87. The House of Commons and MP`s of the time 24" x 34"

An Armand Marseille bisque head and shoulder doll, impressed '370, 11/0', with brown hair, fixed blue eyes and open mouth, together with seven doll's house dolls and a book, 'Only a Doll'.

A German all bisque doll's house doll, impressed '67', and a collection of other doll's house dolls (approx 35) (playwear).

A 19th Century bisque doll's house doll with moulded hair, painted features and fabric body with bisque lower limbs, clothed, a bisque doll's house doll with blonde hair, fixed blue eyes and jointed composition body, clothed, two other doll's house dolls (faults, one head missing), and a small collection of ivory furniture and tableware.

A collection of 16 signed letters, photographs and cards from members of the House of Commons 1970's to 1990's, including Edward Heath, Douglas Hurd, David Steel, Neil Kinnock, Robin Cook, Jack Straw, Cecil Parkinson and John Patten, (6).

A collection of 13 signed cards, photographs and other pieces from Members of the House of Commons, 1970's to 1990's, including Leon Brittan, Paddy Ashdown, Douglas Hurd, Gillian Shephard, William Waldegrave and Cecil Parkinson.

A very large quantity of Theatre programmes c.1940's - 1960's including many for Brighton theatres Dolphin and Theatre Royal; also London Aldwych, Royal Opera House, Mercury Theatre and others. A programme for a WWII production at the Westminster Theatre "It Depends What You Mean" directed by Alistair Sim and a programme for a recital by Myra Hess at the Dome, Brighton 5th December 1948 (a lot)

An all bisque Dolls House Doll, fixed blue glass eyes, painted features, 3 ¼” + Small composition Doll, painted features, 6”, (2)

A tudor style two storey Dolls House, 25” wide + Mattel The World of Barbie Doll Trunk, containing five assorted dolls and some clothing + Box: Assorted playworn Diecast Model Cars and other Vehicles + Carton: Small lot coloured Magic Lantern Slides

Mattel Barbie accessories: hairdressing salon, cooker, bath, fitness machine, four poster bed, two carriages, Dutch Market Barbie-Big Jim catalogues with Chr. V. Aaken retailer's stamp; Italian plastic dolls' house furniture; Pocohontas doll; seven Disney novelties

A Barton Toys 1960's Dolls House, removable front revealing six rooms with wallpaper decoration 1060mm, two bisuqe shoulder-head dolls (disassembled), five composition, two wooden and nine bisque and glazed ceramic dolls' house dolls (19)

Collection of Toys, including pokerwork ball containing dolls house furniture, concentric wooden eggs, Muffin the Mule figures, Michael Jackson doll, horse race spinner, Rubik's puzzles, lead soldiers, wooden puzzle etc.

A rare and important George III period plane-wood and satinwood bombé shaped commode, circa 1770. with rosewood crossbanding and boxwood and ebony stringing, decorated with floral marquetry and neo-Classical arabesque and anthemion inlay work, the double serpentine top and half serpentine sides above three sans traverse drawers with brass ring handles and gilt brass escutcheons, raised on French style splay feet 125cm wide, 83cm high . Provenance: The Estate of the Hon. Ann L. Fraser.. The quality of this commode suggests that it was made in the London workshops of a skilled immigrant cabinet maker of the 1770's; a possible attribution being Pierre Langlois, with inlay work by Zurn. Note the 'transitional' nature of the decoration, from foliate marquetry to neo-Classical inlay, as well as the 'transitional' methods of construction, involving a French cabinet maker adapting to the demands of wealthy London clients. The mahogany drawer linings with the fronts veneered onto horizontally laid blocks follow stablished English techniques, while the lack of dust boards and overhanging drawer fronts are echoes of the maker's continental origins. The florid and finely cut inlay work married with expensive drawer linings in a pure commode form are an example of the immense impact that French design and craftsmanship had on the development of English furniture.. Two label fragments on the reverse of the commode inform us that it was offered as a lot in 'The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme', sold by the Anderson Galleries in New York on February 24th 1926. The commode was lot 13 in part 5 of the sale and was sold to a Miss H Counihan, an agent, for $2,250.00 (£1,216). Lord Lever had purchased the commode from David L Isaacs, the esteemed Oxford Street antiques dealer, on July 15th, 1913 for £350 ($647). We know from the inventory mark in the catalogue that it was in the Lever's London residence, The Hill in Hampstead. At the time of the auction in 1926, the New York Times commented that Lever was a "un que figure among the great collectors … art purchases were a necessity to him … he surrounded himself with the finest he could buy!". Shortly after the sale, the commode was acquired by Lord Fraser of Allander. It has remained in the Fraser family collection by descent, now forming part of the estate of the Hon. Ann L. Fraser. . References: 'Catalogue of Commodes',. Lucy Wood. ISBN 0112905323.. P's. 6&7. No's. 13, 16 & 17. 'The Age of Satinwood', Percy Macquoid. ISBN 1851700803.. fig's 718,719 & 721.. The Antique Dealers' Fair & Exhibition 1955. Grosvenor House.. Catalogue entry for Mallett & Son (Antiques) Ltd. 'The Dictionary of English Furniture', V.II. ISBN 0907462375.. fig's. 19, 21 & 23.

Gill (Eric). The Devil's Devices or Control versus Service, by Douglas Pepler, published at The Hampshire House Workshops, Hammersmith, 1915, several woodcuts by Gill, single ad. leaf at rear, orig. linen-backed printed boards, a little rubbed at extrems., 8vo (one of 200 proof copies, unnumbered and unsigned), together with Libellus Lapidum... The First Part of a Collection of Verses and Wood-Engravings made by H.P. and D.J. ...printed and published at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex, 1924, sixteen woodcuts, some minor scattered spotting, orig. printed wrappers, a little dust-soiled, slim 8vo, and two others related (4)

Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff ‘Chatsworth House being ye Seat of his Grace Wm. Duke and Earl of Devonshire...’ Coloured engraving S. 32.5cm x 47.5cm; Together with other country house views from Britannia Illustrata (14)

Three-pieces of 1950's silver doll's house furniture, together with an Edwardian silver miniature hand-mirror; and four-pieces of filigree doll's house furniture. (8)

Dolls house, twin gabled/bay windowed mock Tudor, electric lights, central front door, side garage/room over, end extention under chimney stack, metal lattice window frames, hand painted floral decoration, contains six rooms, c1950's 114cms wide, 65cms high, 44cms deep, good

cHOPARD - a 1970's lady's 18ct gold bangle watch, with import marks for London 1971, also stamped LUC, 0.750, and KLd, numbered 34705, device and 5038, the oval tiger's eye dial with tapered gold hands, signed, with original 9" Le Coultre 839 movement, to a shaped oval surround and tapered hinged bangle width of dial 5.4cm, diameter of bangle 6cm accompanying correspondence from Chopard confirms that this watch, designed in-house in the late 1960's, was in limited production for ten years. Furthermore, during this time only 200 examples were made.

A 19th Century wool work sampler dated 1828 with central verse above embroidered scene with figures and animals by a church and house, all within foliate detailed border, 16 square, S/D.

* Glazebrook (Hugh de Twenebrokes, 1855-1937). Portrait of Lieutenant A. S. Dunne 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, c. 1915, three-quarter length oil on canvas portrait of Lieutenant A. S. Dunne in military uniform, with walking stick and cigarette, signed, approx. 1630 x 910 mm (6 x 3 ft), some minor flaking to lower edge, inscribed to verso A. S. Dunne. Lt. Inniskilling Dragoons, period gilt frame Arthur Sidney Dunne, son of Arthur Mountjoy Dunne, K.C., of Denford House, Hungerford, received his commission from the Royal Military College on 9th January 1913 He was posted to India in the same year, but returned home from Bombay at the end of 1914 By July of 1915 he was stationed at Febvin, near Bethune in Northern France. On 1st July 1917, a raid was conducted on enemy lines at Cologne Farm, near Hargicourt on the Somme, involving three officers and 120 men. Twelve prisoners were taken, and many German troops were killed, with the loss however of Lt. Dunne and eight men. He is buried at the nearby British cemetery of Templeux-le-Guerard. Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook (1885-1937) studied at the South Kensington schools under Sir Edward Poynter, and in Paris. Principally a portrait painter, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Academy, and elsewhere. -1

Circle of Antonio Joli, a view of the crowded piazza during a celebration, possibly the Coronation of the King of Naples, with Vesuvius to the background, oil on canvas, 45 x 77 cm See illustration Provenance: Purchased by the vendor's family in the 1960's from a Christies Scotland country house sale

Sindy: a large selection of Pedigree Sindy Doll accessories including House (disassembled), Stage with backdrops, Vacuum Cleaner, Wardrobe, Hostess Trolley, Writing Bureau, TV Camera, Wash Basin, Beauty Salon, Cooker Unit, Bed, Dining Table and Chairs, Dressing Table, Fire Place (with utensils and mantel clock), Bathroom Suite, Luxury Setee with Table Set and Horse, majority with original boxes; Barbie 7403 Lounger with Table in original box

Bing: signalmans house with bell on painted tinplate base, 255 mm, 1920’s, G-VG