Gorringe's Auctioneers Spring Fine Sale 2022

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Lot 94
A 19th century Swiss gold
mounted tortoiseshell snuff
box, the lid inset with a gouache
miniature of a lady within a
landscape, 9 x 6cm depth 2.5cm
Lot 95
£500 - 700
Pietro Paoletti (Italian 1801-
1847). A set of three leather
bound volumes of Antique
plaster gems, each double
sided case modelled as a
binding with tooled gilt spine and
marbled boards, opening to each
side to show an arrangement
of plaster gems with hand
annotated descriptions on the
inside of the boards, 34 x 24cm
depth 5cm
Lot 96
£600 - 800
A good cased pair of
percussion pistols, by E
& W Bond, London, with
Arundel and Bramber
Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry
presentation inscription dated
1839, the 9in. browned twist
octagonal barrels engraved ‘45
CORNHILL LONDON’, scrollengraved
flush-fitting casehardened
locks signed ‘E & W
BOND’, with silver flush fitting
plate engraved ‘Given by the
Officers to the best Marksman
in the Arundel and Bramber
Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry
June 9th 1839’, 38cm long,
in original lined and fitted oak
case with E & W Bond retailer’s
label and accessories. The
Sussex Yeomanry Cavalry was
reformed as a regiment in 1831
because a wave of civil unrest
across Britain from 1830. On
the 18th May of that year The
Arundel and Bramber Yeomanry
Cavalry, formed of two troops,
established its HQ at Arundel.
The Sussex Weekly Advertiser
of 3 June 1839 reported that the
Arundel and Bramber troop were
to undergo eight days’ training,
beginning on Thursday 6 June;
the following week’s issue does
not report the event, but it seems
certain that the pistols in this lot
were presented to the troop’s
best marksman on its opening
day. The Yeomanry Cavalry was
disbanded in 1848. Pistol length
38cm, hammers damaged
Lot 97
£5,000 - 7,000
An Arnold Dolmetsch of
Haslemere clavichord, with
boxwood and ebony strung
satinwood banding, and ebony
keys, 5 octaves, number 1172,
width 128cm depth 44cm height
76cm
£1,500 - 2,000
Lot 98
A 48-key C. Wheatstone
English model rosewood
concertina, with twenty four
buttons to each side, original
label and numbered 1638,
diameter 18cm, housed in the
original rosewood case
Lot 99
£300 - 500
A Dorothy Wilding black and
white photograph of the Queen
Mother, signed and dated in
the margin 1954, in the original
embossed leather frame, overall
width 17.5cm height 25cm
Lot 100
£300 - 500
A signed black and white
photograph of Winston
Churchill by Vivienne, showing
him in 1951 seated and looking
sternly into the camera, signed
on the mount, in later ebonised
frame, overall 19 x 14cm
£600 - 800