OBJETS VERTU
AIDES MEMOIRE
PATCH BOXES
A group of late 18th-century Bilston or South Stafforshire enamelled patch boxes andan oviform nutmeg grater, the latter 50mm high
A late 18th-century Bilston enamel bonbonier modelled as a bullfinch, 43mm high
A late 18th-century Bilston enamel bonbonier modelled as a King Charles Spaniel, 47mm long
A late 18th-century Bilston enamel patch box with motto, 48mm long
A very fine ivory aide memoire having a central quatrefoil cartouche carved with a bouquet of flowers, probably Dieppe work, with dark blue plush spine, the interior of watered blue silk with detachable note book, 113mm high
An early 19th-century steel aide memoire having bone leaves for notes and suspension ring for attachment to a chatelaine, 69mm high, (overall)
A continental European, probably Italian, silver-gilt filigree and enamel aide memoire, with central armorial, as souvenir, with vacant pencil tube, 68mm high
VINAIGRETTES
A George III silver vinaigrette of small size and valise form, engraved with a basket-weave design, hallmarked Birmingham, 1819, makers Ledsam and Vale, 22mm long
A George III silver and parcel-gilt vinaigrette of oblong form with cast fruiting-vine border and radiate engraved panels, with ring suspender, hallmarked Birmingham 1818, makers Ledsam and Vale, 22mm long excluding ring
PERFUME BOTTLES
OTHER OBJETS VERTU
A silver perfume bottle and vinaigrette of hunting horn form, maker Sampson Mordan, hallmarked London, 1874, 80mm long
A Victorian cranberry glass perfume bottle of facetted waisted form, the hinged silver mount surmounted by a finely carved ivory figure of "Cupid", 108mm high
A Victorian opaline glass perfume bottle of facetted tapering form, the hinged silver-gilt mount marked "Howells, London", 132mm high
An English late 17th-century brass perfume flask with engraved leaf decoration, the foot engraved as a seal matrix, the screw-in stopper of white metal, possibly paktong, 68mm high
An unusually small carved ivory toothpick box with gold hinge, button and piqué point decorative border, the central panel having a piqué posé butterfly on a plant, with pink silk-lined interior with mirror tothe lid, 61mm long
A silver powder compact of small size, engine-turned, containing Houbigant powder container with label "Rachel", French with London import hallmarks for 1928, 37mm diameter
A George III copper cylindrical counter box of horizontally reeded form, the ends bright-cut engraved, with rosettes within decorative borders, the waist engraved: "ESTHER JANE ROBERTS", 43mm high, containing a number of imitation "spade" guinea gaming counters
A fine 18th-century Bilston enamel bodkin case having rococo-style gilt-bordered cartouches with polychrome pastoral landscaps with figures, one panel inscribed "Fidelle en Amour", ("Faithful in Love)", reserved on a mazarine-blue ground decorated with white enamelled dots, 95mm long
A mid 19th-century gilt-metal belt buckle, the rococo-style frame eclosing an enamelled panel with a polychrome exotic bird on a floral bough, on a white ground, gilt-enriched, 86mm high
Two silver-mounted button hooks of small size, one of die-stamped neo-rococo design, Sheffield, 1910, the other of folding design with engraved mother-of-pearl scales, each approximately 60 mm long, and a Victorian lady's seal with banded agate handle and chased gold mount, the matrix engraved "ED" in cursive upper case, 43mm high
A fine George II gold-mounted black rayskin étui containing scissors, fruit knife with gold-wire piqué-inst tortoiseshell scales, tweezers, nail file, bodkin and gold cedar-pencil holder, 99mm high
A pair of silver-mounted steel scissors, impressed "PERRY'S PATENT / BRIGHTON", one blade with integral nail file, circa 1830, 67mm, (closed)
A cut-steel button hook, 19th century, 141mm long
An unusual late Georgian gold-mounted stocking purse, 150mm long
A late 18th-century chip-carved fruitwood mirror case, with sliding cover, with heart as love token, about 120mm high