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 291
Illustrated books - Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) Edward Fitzgerald "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 292
Illustrated - Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1908) "Fabre's Book of Insects"
Sold for £40
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 294
Suffragette Interest - Kathleen Ainslie "Votes for Catherine Susan and Me"
Sold for £260
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 295
Erotica & Prostitution - Victor Leca "Dames D'Amour: Charmes et Plaisirs de Paris"
Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 296
Industrial History - Andrew Gray "A Treatise on Spinning Machinery" [1819]
Sold for £70
Estimated at £50 - £100
Lot 298
Sir Thomas Smith "Angli De republica Anglorum libri tres"
Sold for £150
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 302
A large portfolio containing a quantity of antique and later prints
Sold for £40
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 305
Maps - 18th Century map of Flanders Belgium "Carte du Comte de Flandre"
Unsold
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 319
Prints & Engravings - James Gillray (1756-1815) (?) after David Hess (1770-1843)
Unsold
Estimated at £40 - £50
Lot 326
Prints & Engravings -James Gillray (1756-1815) (after I.L.R.(?)) "A Morning Ride"
Unsold
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 328
A folio containing a quantity of various prints after James Gillray (1756 1815)
Sold for £30
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 329
A quantity of Georgian and later 19th Century caricature prints many hand coloured
Sold for £340
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 330
A group of five George IV Regency caricature engravings after William Heath (1794-1840)
Sold for £50
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 331
Etching after Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) "The Cambridge Jockey/Eques. Cantab"
Sold for £40
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 332
A group of etchings and aquatints after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)
Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 333
A group of caricature etchings after Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811)
Unsold
Estimated at £40 - £50
Lot 335
A panoramic strip etching after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "The School for Scandal"
Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 336
A George III panoramic strip etching "English slavery; or, a picture of the times"
Sold for £480
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 338
A large 18th/19th Century leather bound portfolio with marbled boards
Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 339
Two engravings after William Hogarth (1697-1764) including "David Garrick as Richard III"
Sold for £20
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 340
Six engravings after William Hogarth (1697-1764) including "France" and "England"
Sold for £30
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 341
Six engravings after William Hogarth (1697-1764) including plates from "Rake's Progress"
Sold for £100
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 342
A set of six engravings of "A Harlot's Progress" after William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Sold for £50
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 344
Five engravings from William Hogarth (1697-1764) "Marriage A-la-Mode"
Sold for £30
Estimated at £50 - £80
Lot 350
Four watercolours including a framed picture of boats by Frederick James Aldridge (1850-1933)
Sold for £20
Estimated at £30 - £50
Lot 353
An unusual framed 18th Century caricature attributed to Capt. Edward Topham (1751–1820)
Sold for £50
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 354
Aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "Vaux-Hall"
Sold for £210
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 355
Aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "The Death of the Fox"
Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 356
Aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "A Sudden Squall in Hyde Park"
Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 357
A Pair of aquatint prints after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "The Chase" & "The Return"
Sold for £290
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 358
Aquatint print after Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) "The Refreshment"
Sold for £230
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 360
A group of eleven antique Regency caricature Dandy prints
Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 361
Mezzotint by Valentine Green after Nathan Drake "Arthur Wentworth of Bulmer"
Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 363
Two Prints "The Analysis of Beauty Plate I & Plate II" after William Hogarth (1697–1764)
Sold for £40
Estimated at £80 - £120
Lot 364
After William Hogarth (1697–1764) " Four Prints of an Election"
Unsold
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 365
19th Century Grand Tour engraving by Luigi Rossini (1790-1857)
Unsold
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 366
A large and very fine antique engraving of Queen Marie Antoinette
Unsold
Estimated at £100 - £200
Lot 367
Six matching antique print framed and a gilt gesso frame
Sold for £140
Estimated at £40 - £60
Lot 369
A set of four coaching and early railway prints after Henry Thomas Alken (1785–1851)
Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £200