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HMS Cruiser (1857)

Information about HMS Cruiser (1857)

HMS Cruiser was a seventeen gun wooden screw sloop, the main ship of the Cruizer Class of the Royal Navy launched at the Royal Dockyard Deptford in 1857. She became a sail training vessel in 1872 and was renamed HMS Lark. The ship was sold for breaking in 1912.

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Sale SS2; Lot: 0051: A 2-bolt/3-bolt diving helmet by Siebe Gorman & Co, London, matching numbers '202' and '3090', oval top and side windows with guards, hinged oval faceplate with guard, wing nut spitcock, fitted double purge valves, one to either side, rear air intake and internal ducts, weight hangers and manufacturer's plaque to corselet with one piece two bolt brail, 52cm high.

A 2-bolt/3-bolt Diving Helmet by Siebe Gorman & Co, London (SS2/51)

Sold for £5,800

Sale FS37; Lot: 1125: An early 18th Century walnut and crossbanded rectangular chest, the quarter veneered top with a wide crossbanded border and a moulded edge with rounded corners, fitted with a slide and containing four long graduated drawers below, on later bracket feet, 87.5cm (2ft 10 1/2in) wide.

An Early 18th Century Walnut and Crossbanded Rectangular Chest (FS37/1125)

Sold for £1,250

Sale FS45; Lot: 1080: An early 18th Century Italian tortoiseshell, ebony and coromandel wood architectural cabinet on a 19th Century carved mahogany stand, the gilt metal mounted cabinet fitted with an arrangement of drawers with baluster galleries and urn finials about a central portico drawer with applied Classical figures on Vitruvian scroll plinths, between spiral turned and plain columns with Corinthian capitals, the interior with various concealed drawers, the sides inlaid with brass geometric lines and satinwood husks, the stand with an acanthus scroll apron and central rocaille cartouche, on acanthus decorated cabriole legs, terminating in claw and ball feet, the cabinet 112.5cm (3ft 8 1/4in) wide, 61.5cm (2ft) high, 40cm (1ft 3 3/4in) deep - The stand 120cm (3ft 11in) wide.

An Early 18th Century Italian Tortoiseshell, Ebony and Coromandel Wood Architectural Cabinet ... (FS45/1080)

Sold for £15,000

Sale BK20; Lot: 0147: RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator) - Grimm's Fairy Tales, rebound in full crimson gilt morocco signed Bayntun, original covers bound in at the rear, 40 colour plates, 4to, Heinemann, no date.

RACKHAM, Arthur (Illustrator) - Grimm's Fairy Tales (BK20/147)

Sold for £500

Sale FS39; Lot: 0732: Samuel Marti, Paris, a brass and enamelled oval four glass clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a gong and having a 'Brocot' regulation to the suspension, the backplate stamped with the trademark of the maker showing a Paris Exposition award, S Marti et Cie, Medaille d'Argent, 1889, and numbered 2259, the round white enamel dial having black Arabic hour numerals with coloured swags set between and decorative blued steel hands, the bezel set with cut paste brilliants, the gilded pendulum bob with matching brilliants, the oval brass four-glass case having bands of coloured champlevé enamel set to the base and top with grooved corners, height 29cm * Biography Samuel Marti was one of the most prolific French makers of the 1800s and was known to be working circa 1860 at Le Pays de Montbeliard, Paris making roulant blancs. Along with Japy Freres and Roux they set up a business in 1863 to market their movements to such firms as L'Epee. Their Paris address was Rue Vieille-du-Temple from 1870.

Samuel Marti, Paris, A Brass and Enamelled Oval Four Glass Clock (FS39/732)

Sold for £420

Sale FS25; Lot: 0751: A Turkish carpet of very large size, the blue/green field with an all over geometric design of interlaced serated palmettes and lanceolate leaves in principal colours of brick red, green and orange, enclosed by a main brick red palmette and foliate meander border, 812cm (26ft 8in) x 714cm (23ft 5in).

A Turkish Carpet of Very Large Size (FS25/751)

Sold for £15,000

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