Antique & Art Auction Antique & Art Auction - Cordys

enclosing enamelled dial scaled to 100
and including subsidiary dial measuring
to nine miles. $120
76
A vintage Schaffer & Budenberg meter,
steel and brass with two circular dials
measuring in feet and miles and with a
vintage brass telescopic site in need of
repair. $120
77
Two vintage Stanley planes, a no. 2
and a No. 92 in a box. $250
78
A Scottish moulding plough plane by
A. Mathieson & Son, (No. 7b). $125
79
An ivory carpenter’s rule, 12” fourfold
stanley 92½. See page 5. $450
80
A carpenter’s ivory 6” slide caliper rule,
two fold, stanley no. 38. See page 5. $350
81
A rare carpenter’s slide caliper, 24” rule,
four-fold, rabone. See page 5. $250
82
A Marples ultimatum brace, ebony and
brass. Length 335. See page 5. $650
83
A Sheaffer sterling silver fountain pen,
the body and cap engraved with a
trellis pattern, with gold plated pocket
clip and 14K nib. See page 17. $250
84
A 19thC French porcelain etui. of tapering
hexagonal shape, painted with polychrome
panels of classical figures and
richly gilded on a cobalt blue ground.
Fitted with five utensils. Lid with professional
restoration. Height 100. $280
85
A claret jug, the pewter frame attributed
to Kayserzinn with a green
glass liner. Jugendstil style with foliate
decoration of Honesty and vine leaves.
slight damage at foot ring and handle.
Height 285. See page 5. $225
86
A pair of Georgian period portrait miniatures,
each oval watercolour portrait
in ebonised black mounts. the gentleman’s
portrait inscribed verso Edward
Hopewood, 1824. The woman unnamed.
145 x 120. $220
87
A collection of alphabetical characters
cut from bone. stained green, red,
or natural. times roman capital font,
height of each 10. $150
88
An ancient Indian Gupta terracotta
head, showing traces of fire burning,
4th-5thC. Affixed Japanese collection
label inside the hollowed visage.
Height 110. $150
89
A Victorian silver ‘Punch’ pin tray of
shaped rectangular form, embossed
decoration of the seated punch and
dog, scroll, etc. Birmingham 1899,
maker Deakin & Francis Ltd. Length
103, width 80. See page 28. $420
90
A vintage Punch & Judy brass nutcracker,
figural form. Length 127. See
page 8. $120
91
Two vintage Punch items, a novelty
soap, box ‘Punch & Judy’ with figural
soaps displayed in card box as a
puppet show with musical movement,
4
Selco Products Ltd and a vintage ‘baby’s
plate’ with transfer decoration of
puppet show ‘Please Don’t Hang Me’,
circular form, empire Ware. diameter
165. $120
92
A vintage white metal Punch button
hook, the finial as a bust of Punch.
Length 145. See page 28. $90
93
A large leather bound postcard album,
folio size of 64 leaves containing approximately
425 postcards. some
damage to spine. $150
94
Nine old various books, all school prizes
in fine full leather bindings, with gilt
tooling. History, Poetry, Architecture
and Science. $300
95
A box of loose postage stamps and
three stamp albums. $125
96
A collection of 33 New Zealand threepences
from 1933 to 1965 including
one 1935. $150
97
A string of approximately 200 Japanese
bronze coins, each circular coin
pierced with a square hole. $200
98
A 1940’s New Zealand vintage Health
Department Poster depicting fish
around a toothbrush and ‘rememberuse
Your toothbrush immediately After
Every Meal’, printer’s details at base,
good original condition and tones. 505
x 380. Noted by Hamish Thompson in
‘Paste Up’ 2003, page 74, ‘Children
Worthy Target Audience for the Health
department poster campaigns to
Combat Tooth Decay’. Displayed in
school clinics, the poster designers had
a difficult job distracting girls and boys
waiting in the ‘Murder House’. Predictably,
they resorted to bright colours
and cartoon characters. $250
99
A 1940’s New Zealand Health Department
poster depicting a train with carriages
of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc.,
and the words ‘The Dental Health Train,
Railways Studios’, and other printed
details to base. 510 x 380. Good original
condition. $250
100
A 1940’s New Zealand Health Department
poster, depicting a calf drinking
from a milk pale and the words ‘Be Like
Me Drink Milk......It Builds Strong Teeth’,
printer’s details to base, background
panelled tones of pink and green, illustrated
‘Paste Up’, a century of New
Zealand poster art by Hamish Thompson
2003. 535 x 400. Good original
condition. $250
101
A 1940’s New Zealand Health Department
poster depicting a bunny with fruit
and vegetables skiing on two toothbrushes
and the words ‘For snow White
teeth, use Your toothbrush After each
Meal’, printer’s details to base. 560 x
400. Good original condition. $250
102
An Australian Warwick stamp album
with a collection, including many
1913 kangaroo series through to 1989,
incomplete, mostly used, includes ‘the
Australasian Stamp Catalogue’. $260
103
An oak Edwardian counter top display
cabinet, glazed to three sides and with
a glass shelf. 390 x 285 x 370. $125
104
A Victorian terracotta water jug and
two beakers decorated with impressed
encircling bands with raised mottos between,
along with an associated pair
of beakers, all three pieces with sterling
silver rims, hallmarked Sheffield 1878 by
J.A. rhodes. Jug height 205, beakers
115, one chipped at the foot. $225
105
A Victorian brass kerosene lamp with
a twin burner raised on a column base
from a black glazed plinth, with cranberry
and frosted glass shades with a
scalloped rim, complete with chimney.
Height 730. $225
106
A large impressive pair of Edwardian
period brass twin light oil burning table
lamps, the plain receptacles on ornate
leaf and scroll decorated branches
with column supports and circular
reeded bases. With fancy frosted
glass shades and clear glass chimneys.
Height overall 690. $550
107
An ostrich and simulated tortoiseshell
fan of 19 sticks each with various caramel
tinting . some repairs. in original
lavender blue cardboard box with
retailer’s label under lid. $120
108
A rich chocolate brown mink fur stole
with shaping to the shoulders and long
wraps with a removable tassel of five
tails to either end. $300
109
An old rare Bhutanese horn wine carrier,
a massive ox-horn fitted with brass caps
and bindings and a leather suspension
strap. Outside length 610. $200
110
A tanned Python skin collected in sudan.
Length 3700. $150
111
A Victorian tin cased drawing instrument
set, the flat rectangular japanned
case with maker’s details to the interior
lid, W.H. Harling .......London, the removable
tray with fine steel instruments, two
with turned ivory handles, also including
various rules etc. Length 335, depth 155,
height 40. $120
112
An old John Dewar & Sons Distillers
advertising plaster plaque decorated
in relief with various Scotsmen all
attempting to get the whisky bottle,
painted in tones of dark red, gold,
green, etc. Minor damage. diameter
405. $150
113
A late Victorian brass shop advertising
sign, ‘AVANT’ to the centre flanked
by ‘UPHOLSTERER’ and ‘UNDERTAKER’
in scroll form with decorative framing,
long rectangular form with conforming
tapered back board with ebonised finish.
Length 1410, height 175. See page
8. $800
114
A large old cast iron camp oven,
c.1910, circular form with a decorative
domed lid, lug handles and three spike
feet. Diameter 425, height 300. $175
115
A Japanese wedding kimono of red