UZBEK LAKAI FELT TENT BAG

Central Asian Felt Tent Bag Second half 20thC UZBEK LAKAI FELT TENT BAG or OK BASH
Felted wool, flatwoven wool (inner), goat hair
Uzbekistan, Central Asia 39 inches long
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ADVANCE AUSTRALIA SILKWORK

Very cute, note the elephant instead of a sheep and the very rat like kangaroo
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ANGLO INDIAN CHILDS ELBOW CHAIR CA 1800

Anglo Indian, Sheraton child's elbow chair ca 1800
wonderful patina and color 25 inches high 18 inches wide
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MASSIM SWORD CLUB

DELFT CANARY IN CAGE PLAQUE

late 18th century
perfect condition
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sold thanks Lincoln

SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

Unusual subject, from Portsmouth
19 1/2 inches x 26 inches

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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

19th century, the card de visite of the sailor is stamped "Ouless Jersey" 21 inches by 17 inches
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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

19th century 22inches by 22 inches
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SOLD

RARE UNRECORDED PATTERN CLARICE CLIFF 1928

10 1/2 inch plate,
impressed date 1928

VICTORIAN PAINTED CHEST OF DRAWERS

Magnificent original paint 115cm wide 106cm high 56cm deep Ca 1860

LARGE PARQUETRY SPECIMEN PANEL

Exhibition quality 41 inches x 25 inches
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PARQUETRY PANEL

various New Zealand timbers 26 inhes x 15 1/2 inches
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LARGE MOSER INTAGLIO BOWL

Magnificent wheel cut intaglio bowl by Moser, 13inches in diameter, perfect condition.
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SILVER ROSEWATER BOTTLE Ca1850

Indian 8 inches high 356gms
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SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER Ca1850

305 gms Indian silver 8 inches
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LARGE CARVED MAORI SERVING TRAY CA 1900

Carved bread tray by John Henry Menzies
1840 -1919
of Menzies Bay Banks Peninsular

Kauri 24 inches x 16 1/2 2nches signed JHM in four places

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sold thanks Christchurch

DELIGHTFUL PORTRAIT MINIATURE CA 1830

On ivory 31nches x 2 1/2 inches Red morocco leather case
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PAIR OF MINTON MAJOLICA WALL POCKETS

Pair of Minton Majolica wall pockets with Minton date code for 1872 10 inches by 5 inches no restoration 1 small chip to back

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ONE DESTROYED

MILITARY DESK CA 1860

MAGNIFICENT CAMPAIGN DESK IN ORIGINAL CONDITION,
PATENT ACTION REVEALS STUNNING FITTED INTERIOR, LEGS UNSCREW ON LARGE BRASS THREADS, BRASS CUP CASTERS, 34 INCHES DEEP BY 54 INCHES WIDE, 33 INCHES HIGH
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FERN ALBUM BY ERIC CRAIG Ca1880

An large impressive album of 117 different New Zealand Ferns collected and compiled by Eric Craig Ca 1880.
Mottled Kauri boards, 61 pages of pressed ferns each measuring 18" x 10 1/2 inches,
- Mr Eric Craig of Princes St, Auckland. Eric Craig (1829-1923) was a collector, publisher and dealer of natural history and ethnography, who ran a curio business called “The Fern and Curiosity Shop” near to the old Auckland museum.
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sold thanks Christchurch

NAIVE PAINTINGS OF AKAROA

" Cygnet" and "Ruahine" at Wainui,
44cm x 40cm
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"Regatta Akaroa 1907" 73cm x 42 cm
both painted from postcards by Ray Bisman, Lyttleton

SCRIMSHAW POWDER HORN, MAORI WARS ca 1865

A well worn powder horn with scrimshaw decoration
in the style of those produced by Gustav von Tempsky.
Possibly the man depicted holding the Union Jack and firing his pistol is von Tempsky himself.
I do not think this horn is by von Tempsky but one made by one of the Forrest Rangers with his direction as you can see "prick marks" where the woman's face has been copied from a drawing on paper.
Still a very interesting piece of New Zealand scrimshaw.
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MAGIC JOLLY JUG, Ca1864

The Jolly Jug was popular in the early to mid 19th century. Elsmore & Forster in Staffordshire were one of the firms that manufactured such items.

When you fill the jug with water, you can pour from the spout in the normal way, but you can also make the liquid come out through a hole in the base of the jug. When you are pouring from the bottom of the jug, you can also make the flow stop, apparently at will.

Inside the jug is a hole which connects to a tube that runs up one side of the handle. If you look at the underside of the jug, you see a second hole, and this hole connects to a separate tube that runs up the other side of the handle. Towards the top of the handle the two tubes meet. There will also be a small air hole at the top of the handle, just a couple of millimetres across.

To make the siphon action work, you need to tilt the jug back slightly, keeping your finger over the little hole in the handle. Initially there will be liquid in one of the tubes in the handle - the tube that connects to the hole INSIDE the jug. When you tip the jug back slightly, the liquid will move up that tube and down into the other tube that connects to the hole on the underside of the jug. You now have a working siphon, and liquid will continue to flow from the bottom of the jug until you remove your finger from the little hole in the handle. This will break the siphon, and the liquid flow will cease.

Inscribed " James Hailstones 1864"

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KONSO FUNERARY FIGURES, ETHIOPIA

Pair of Konso posts, early 20th century
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MASSIM LIME SPATULA

Lime infill early 20th century
13 3/4 inches
From old local collection, collected by Colonel John Durnford-Slater
British Army, India, Ca1935
sold thanks Australia
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ITEMS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT, SOLOMON ISLANDS

Collection of turtle shell earrings, 4 nose bones, Jacobs Tears rattle arm bands and a beaded arm band all early 20th century and all from an old local collection
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comb sold thanks London

RARE MASSIM MWALI, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The Kula is the most famous trading journey in Oceania large canoes from throughout the Masssim area had trading partners on other islands, with whom they traded their own surplus produce clay pots, taro, pigs, shell money, etc. At the same time, each kula trader had a trading partner on the other island with whom he exchanged gifts, and these gifts passed form hand ot hand within the kula ring. There was a strict procedure for the exchange. Red shell disk necklaces (bagi)) were always exchange in a clockwise direction and white clamshell armbands (mwali) in an anti-clockwise direction. The most famous kula items were named and each item changed hands frequently. The participants politicked (and employed magic wherever possible) to obtain the choicest examples and hold them for a while as they were publically displayed and conveyed great status. It is very unusual for a mwali of this size and age to be sold
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