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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 FS41; Lot: 0635: A large Derby breakfast cup and saucer the painting attributed to John Brewer of Bute shape, finely painted with fox hunting scenes within gilt bordered octagonal panels on a banded apple green ground, puce crowned crossed batons marks, circa 1795-1800, cup 7.5cm high, saucer 16.5cm diameter.

A Large Derby Breakfast Cup and Saucer the Painting Attributed To John ... (FS41/635)

Sold for £1,050

Sale FS39; Lot: 0730: Grignon Meusnier, a French mantel clock with calendar the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the backplate stamped with the maker's details Grignon Meusnier, Paris, Breveté, 117, the skeletonised dial having a white enamelled chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued-steel moon hands, with the balance to the movement visible within the centre along with a silvered alarm setting disc and winding arbor, with three further subsidiary dials set below within the case depicting the day, month and date, the gilt-metal case of scroll form and surmounted by a cast matching handle, the case numbered 117 and stamped with the initials GM to the decorative rear, height 19cm * Biography the founder Pierre Grignon is recorded as working in Paris from the mid-18th century. by circa 1860 the business was known as Grignon Meusnier recorded at rue Charlot 60in the heart of the clockmaking region of the city. in 1853 they had been granted a patent for the fitting of a movement pendulum (balance).

Grignon Meusnier, A French Mantel Clock with Calendar (FS39/730)

Sold for £820

Sale BK19; Lot: 0573: SAXON, Christopher - Lancastriae [ Lancashire ] hand coloured map with 'early' hand colouring, 485 x 395 mm, laid down, some offsetting, short tears without loss, good margins1577. * the earliest individually published map of the county.

SAXON, Christopher - Lancastriae (BK19/573)

Sold for £1,250

Sale FS41; Lot: 0952: A harlequin set of eight early 19th Century elm and ash 'Wavy' ladderback dining chairs, having rush seats on turned tapered legs, united by stretchers, terminating in pad feet - including two elbow chairs.

A Harlequin Set of Eight Early 19th Century Elm and Ash 'Wavy' ... (FS41/952)

Sold for £920

Sale FS41; Lot: 0746: A Chinese jade snuff bottle and stopper of flattened form, carved with taotie masks between key fret borders, the stone of pale celadon colour with russet inclusions, 10 cm.

A Chinese Jade Snuff Bottle and Stopper (FS41/746)

Sold for £420

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