17th & 18th February 2026 at 10:00 am
This auction consists of over 200 lots of a Single Owner collection of Button Hooks and Penknives, a fine selection of Decorative and Fine Arts, Sculptures, Furniture, Oriental & Middle Eastern Ornaments, Tribal Artifacts, Fashion and Accessories.
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Order of Auction
Day One – 17th February 2026 at 10:00
Lots 001 to 082 - Oriental & Middle Eastern
Lots 083 to 105 - Sculptures & Bronzes
Lots 106 to 174 - Decorative Arts
Lots 175 to 190 - Furniture
Lots 191 to 241 - Paintings & Prints
Lots 242 to 301 - Books & Manuscripts
Lots 302 to 372 - Etchings & Engravings
Lots 373 to 386 - Taxidermy
Lots 387 to 413 - Tribal & Ethnographic
Lots 414 to 433 - African & Middle Eastern Weaponry
Day Two – 18th February 2026 at 10:00
Lots 434 to 521 - Single Owner Collection of Button Hooks Part One
Lots 522 to 621 - Compacts
Lots 622 to 638 - Fashion – Accessories
Lots 639 to 650 - Fashion – Clothing
Lots 651 to 691 - Fashion – Ephemera and Related Items
Lots 692 to 813 - Single Owner Collection of Penknives
End of Auction
Lot 204
(ar) An early 20th Century Crystoleum Reverse Painting on Glass by A. Asti
Sold for £80
Estimated at £60 - £80
Lot 206
A collection of 19th Century and Later Prints and Etchings
Sold for £80
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 240
(ar) The Oxford and Cambridge Universities Boat Race Hammersmith Bridge on a Race Day
Sold for £40
Estimated at £30 - £50
Lot 242
Percier and Fontaine "Recueil de décorations intérieurs" 1801
Sold for £120
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 250
E.C. Mountford (19th/20th Century) caricaturist for "The Birmingham Pictorial and Dart"
Sold for £200
Estimated at £50 - £100
Lot 256
Anonymous "A Real Paddy" (Pierce Egan (1772–1849)) "Real Life in Ireland..."
Sold for £40
Estimated at £60 - £80
Lot 261
French fashion journal "Magasin des Demoiselles" various editions 1862-1863 bound together
Sold for £40
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 263
George William, Lord Lyttelton "Contributions towards a Glossary of the Glynne Language"
Unsold
Estimated at £50 - £100
Lot 268
Henry Ellis "Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China"
Sold for £20
Estimated at £30 - £50
Lot 275
Travel & Exploration - Charles Doughtly and T. E. Lawrence "Travels in Arabia Deserta"
Sold for £45
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 278
Travel & Exploration - Arabia & Arabia etc - Wilfred Thesiger "Arabian Sands"
Sold for £90
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 280
Topography - Samuel Barfield "Thatcham Berkshire and Its Manors" (2 Volumes)
Unsold
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 281
Topography - Washington DC and Paris Souvenir Albums from Fin de Siècle Belle Époque era
Unsold
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 285
Illustrated - Gustave Doré (1832-1883) John Milton "Milton's Paradise Lost"
Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 286
Illustrated - Gustave Doré (1832-1883) Cervantes "The History of Don Quixote"
Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 287
Illustrated - Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - Jean De La Fontaine "Fables De La Fontaine"
Unsold
Estimated at £150 - £250