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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.
Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
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108<br />
A sterling silver pug dog<br />
buttonhook, Crisford & Norris<br />
Ltd., Birmingham 1906<br />
doubled faced, the pug with collar<br />
and glass eyes, the stem with<br />
acanthus and stiff leaf motifs to a<br />
steel hook, hallmarked the stem<br />
17.4cm long<br />
$150–250<br />
109<br />
A group of mostly sterling silver<br />
boot buttonhooks, makers<br />
include Adie & Lovekin, Wilsdorf<br />
& Davis, probably Jones &<br />
Crompton, Synyer & Beddoes,<br />
Birmingham, Sheffield, London,<br />
late 19th to early 20th century<br />
variously shaped and decorated<br />
including an Art Nouveau hook<br />
featuring a long haired woman<br />
surrounded by floral tendrils, mostly<br />
hallmarked<br />
25cm approx<br />
$400–600<br />
110<br />
A large group of sterling silver<br />
buttonhooks, various makers<br />
including Adie & Lovekin<br />
Ltd, William Devenport, and<br />
probably Henry Matthews,<br />
Birmingham, London, Chester<br />
and Sheffield, late 19th to<br />
early 20th century<br />
sixteen variously shaped and<br />
decorated hooks in Art Nouveau,<br />
Neoclassical and Rococo revival<br />
designs, all with steel shafts and all<br />
hallmarked<br />
23cm, longest boot hook<br />
$500–700<br />
112<br />
A Chinese .900 silver<br />
presentation bowl,<br />
Wang Hing & Co, Hong Kong,<br />
late 19th/early 20th century<br />
reticulated with confronting<br />
dragons and a flaming pearl<br />
amidst swirling clouds, raised on a<br />
straight-sided foot ring engraved,<br />
'H.M.S Minotaur quarter mile 1911',<br />
silver marks to base<br />
6cm high, 11cm diameter, 175gms<br />
NOTE<br />
Launched in 1906, HMS Minotaur was<br />
the lead ship of the Minotaur-class<br />
armoured cruisers built for the<br />
Royal Navy, serving as the flagship<br />
of the China Station prior to<br />
the First World War. After the<br />
outbreak of war, HMS Minotaur<br />
transported Australian troop<br />
convoys during November of 1914<br />
$500–600<br />
113<br />
A Ballarat Regatta<br />
presentation set of fish<br />
knives and forks, awarded to<br />
H. H Storrer Maiden Eights,<br />
Barwon Rowing Club 1914<br />
the cased set with engraved<br />
silver plate blades and tines<br />
and ivorine handles<br />
HISTORY<br />
Captain H.H. Storrer (Henry, known<br />
as 'Harry'), sportsman and champion<br />
rower with the Barwon Rowing club<br />
joined the Australian Flying Corps<br />
in 1916 and saw service in the first<br />
Australian Flying Unit on the Western<br />
Front as Flight Commander of 69<br />
Squadron. He perished in a crash<br />
over Flanders in 1917.<br />
$200–300<br />
111<br />
A sterling silver tankard<br />
by Thomas Stokes & Sons,<br />
Melbourne, early 20th century<br />
the classic baluster shaped tankard<br />
with a waisted foot and scroll handle,<br />
with later engraving 'J.R.G.C. 1950'<br />
11.5cm high, 240gms silver weight<br />
$200–300<br />
108
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