2364
Rotherham & Sons: An 18 Carat Gold Full Hunter Pocket Watch, retailed by Rotherham & Sons, 1907, manual wound lever movement signed and numbered 272051, enamel dial with Roman numerals, seconds dial, case maker's mark JR and numbered 513, Birmingham gold hallmark for 1907, with Rotherhams fitted box
50mm wide
£900-1,200 plus buyer's premium
2421
Edox: A Stainless Steel Automatic GMT World Time Display Wristwatch, signed Edox, model: Geoscope 42, 1970's, lever movement, world map dial display with outer baton markers, inner sliding black/white 24-hour disc, tonneau shaped case with two Edox logo crowns, back cover with Edox logo and numbered 200170, Edox stainless steel bracelet with a deployant clasp
42mm wide
£300-500 plus buyer's premium
2431
A Selection of Seventeen Rolex Oyster Case Back Opening Tools, together with a smaller Rolex Case Back Opening Tool and Four Rolex Oyster Universal Clamp Holder Tools, (22)
£300-500 plus buyer's premium
2200
A George III Silver Double-Beaker, by Charles Aldridge and Henry Green, London, 1768
formed as two reeded tapering cylindrical beakers which fit together
total height 14.8cm high, each beaker 7.7cm high, 11oz 3dwt, 346gr
The double beaker can trace its origins back to Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries, though were not widely made in the United Kingdom with the exception of a short period in the 1760s and 1770s when a number of examples were made, mostly by Aldridge and Green as with the present example.
£1,200-1,800 plus buyer's premium
2201
A George III Irish Silver Wine-Funnel and Stand, by William Thompson, Dublin, 1796
oval and with reeded rim, with shaped clip, the funnel and stand each engraved with the badge of the Caithness Legion within thistles
the funnel 14.5cm high, the stand 12.2cm wide, total weight 6oz 1dwt, 189gr (2)
The Caithness Legion were founded by Sir Benjamin Dunbar in 1794. While originating in Caithness, the legion was sent to Ireland where they remained until 1802 and presumably they commissioned the present funnel while there. For a table-spoon by James Erskine of Aberdeen, circa 1800, also engraved with the badge of the Caithness Legion see lot 2225.
£300-500 plus buyer's premium
2246
A Victorian Silver Vinaigrette, by Alfred Taylor, Birmingham, 1861
oval, the hinged cover engraved with a view of the International Exhibition of 1862, opens to reveal a flower and foliage pierced and engraved grille, the base engine-turned and centring a vacant shield
47mm wide, 13dwt, 20gr
The 1862 International Exhibition opened in London in May and was visited by some six million visitors by the time it closed in November. It had been the original intention that the building, on a site of what is now the Natural History Museum, would be kept. Unfortunately the government of the day declined to fund the purchase so the structure was instead dismantled with the many of its constituent materials being used in the construction of the Alexander Palace.
The present example is almost certainly engraved after a design published by A. Park of 7 Leonard Street, Finsbury Park and interestingly varies from the final design, presumably as it, and the vinaigrette, were produced in advance of the completion of the structure and in anticipation of a great demand when the exhibition opened. The design is almost certainly that registered by Alfred Taylor of 9 Howard Street, Birmingham as number 143413 ‘an ornamental panel shaped design with image of building’ on 12 September 1861.
Tennants is grateful to an Irish academic for their assistance in identifying the view on the present vinaigrette.
£150-250 plus buyer's premium
2351
A George V Silver Box, by D. and J. Wellby, London, 1915
in the form of a Charles II sugar-box, oval and on four scroll feet, the sides lobed, the hinged cover similarly lobed and chased with foliage on a matted ground below the snake-cast handle, with hinged hasp
20cm wide, 27oz 2dwt, 843gr
£600-800 plus buyer's premium
2005
A Labradorite Brooch, by Georg Jensen
the oval cabochon labradorite in a white rubbed over setting flanked by two round cabochon labradorites, within an oval frame depicting stylised foliage, numbered 89
measures 5.5cm by 3.4cm
£100-150 plus buyer's premium
2065
A Pair of 18 Carat Gold Cultured Pearl and Diamond Earrings, by Boodle & Dunthorne
the cultured pearl surmounted by a round brilliant cut diamond in a pear shaped yellow rubbed over setting, total estimated diamond weight 0.30 carat approximately, with post fittings
length 1.9cm
£300-500 plus buyer's premium
2099
A Georgian Paste Necklace
comprising of twenty-nine chain linked paste floral cluster motifs
length 37cm
£300-500 plus buyer's premium
