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Stock: 11467

A large carved pine and limewood period Georgian Chimneypiece in the manner of Robert Adam. The varied and profusely carved detail on virtually every surface is of the highest quality and is typical of Robert Adam's late 18th century creations. The central tablet is again carved in limewood, the detail showing a pagan Roman-style ram, florally festooned, flanked by Campana urns. Far from being cluttered, each section is in harmony with the whole. Identical with one at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. See 2nd image. Shown with white marble slips to illustrate how this type of fireplace would have been installed.
English 1880s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	74 3⁄8" 189 cms	56 1⁄2" 143.5 cms	7" 17.7 cms
Internal	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms

Stock: 11466

A large period late Georgian pine Fireplace Surround well carved with egg and dart under the plain moulded shelf and around the opening. The frieze centred by a tablet carved with a ribboned fruit swag. Shown fitted with large marble footblocks and grey veined and figured marble ingrounds.
English 1880s.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	81 7⁄8" 208 cms	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms
Internal	66 7⁄8" 170 cms	50" 127 cms

Stock: 12390

A Victorian spoon backed armchair well carved in light mahogany with sculpted features on the arns and on the cabriole legs. Typical of the period with deep buttoned upholstery. English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	25 5⁄8" 65 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms	33 1⁄2" 85 cms

Stock: 12381

A bronze and wrought iron dinner gong in the Arts and Crafts manner together with the striker. The hammered gong has sections neatly cut out supposedly to change the resonance.
English, early 20th century.

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	Diameter (gong)	Height (stand)	Width (stand)
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms

Stock: 12469

A pair of superb gilt-bronze chenets, andirons in the 17th century Italian/French Baroque manner, richly decorated with dolphin podae, winged putti & fleur-de-lys surmounted obelisks.

French, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	12 3⁄8" 31.5 cms	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	7 1⁄2" 19 cms

Stock: 12323

A carved mahogany armchair in the Georgian Chippendale manner of generous elegant proportions typical of the period with excellent carved detail with a high pierced splat back;. The blue leather upholstered seat flanked by handsomely scrolled arms descending to ornate florally carved cabriole front legs with ball and claw feet. English, early 19th century in the mid 18th century manner.

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	width	height	depth
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 12259

A carved oak Victorian magistrates chair with a high upholstered back and stuffed over-seat from the Stratford Magistrates Court in south London. Image before restoration and re-upholstery. English, late 19th century.

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Stock: 11900

A historic propeller from the Le Rhone Rotary engine of an Avro 504 airplane.This fine early, large laminated, mahogany and oak propeller, made around 1919 bears identification stamps indicating its British Air Ministry registration, and technical specifications. The particular 110 HP LE RHONE engine was unusual in that the entire circular cylinder block rotated around the crankshaft, in contrast to RADIAL and in-line engines when it was the crankshaft that rotated.

The AVRO 504K was a fighter bomber aeroplane used by the RAF in the First World War. 10,000 were built from the first flight in 1913 to 1932 making it the most produced plane from WW1. It was later flown by 40 air forces world wide. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English, circa 1919.

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	Length	Height	Depth
	106 1⁄4" 270 cms	8 11⁄16" 22 cms	6 3⁄8" 16.3 cms

Stock: 11898

A Large 1920 laminated polished walnut, broad two bladed aircraft propeller. Each blade has a brass cap to the tip, the leading edge pinned with scallop decorative brass protective strip, the boss stamped OCM No. 73 OCM over the date 20.6.927, further stamped CA73 ASSO 500 Diam 295 PAS 172 194 DIS 014, and finished in deep green over perhaps red with white banding, paint surface now aged with crackle finish. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English circa 1927.

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	diameter
	116 1⁄8" 295 cms

Stock: 11896

A rare Handley Page HP 1930's two bladed aircraft propeller. Two of these very large laminated mahogany propellers were fitted on each of the four Bristol Jupiter XIF radial engines of this early Imperial Airways Airliner which carried 24 passengers and 4 crew in 500 mile hops cruising at 100mph. Initially these four classically named behemoths reached in up to 28 stages destinations as far as Karachi in then India. Later based in Cairo they were to provide the ultimate long distance connection to South Africa and eventually to Australia. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

With the names Hanno, Hannibal, Hadrian and Horsa there were four of these rather impressive clippers of the skies on Imperial Airways', later B.O.A.C., intercontinental run. They, their crews and ground staff were pioneers using what now is seen as elementary Boy's Own technology but whose personnel, installations and expertise were used to great advantage when war came in the 1940's and a flood of military aircraft were ferried from the Canadian and American factories over the Caribean and South America to the North African, Far and Near East theaters of the war.

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	diameter
	141 11⁄16" 360 cms

Stock: 11895

The markings of this mahogany Bristol Bulldog Propeller show that it was fitted to a Bristol Mercury IV S.2 Radial aircooled aircraft engine and dated May 1932 . This one has a 10ft diameter with brass leading edge covers. These engines were first fitted to Bulldogs in March 1932. At this time it was the front line RAF fighter. The provenance is obscure but it is believed that it was found in an Italian mountain village. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1930's.

The Bulldog was a sophisticated and powerful biplane and one of the last of the RAF's frontline biplane fighters. It was replaced in 1937 by the Hurricane. It was in one of these Bulldogs that the RAF fighter ace, Douglas Bader, became one of the RAF's leading air pilots.

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	diameter
	120 1⁄2" 306 cms

Stock: 11894

An original propeller from the Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 6 cylinder radial aircraft engine aircraft engine propeller dated July 1933 and much used for Avro “Anson” twin engined aircraft which was a between the wars RAF and American Army Air Corps training aircraft. It also equipped the famous Bristol Bulldog single seat fighter and others. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English 1933.

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	width
	88 3⁄16" 224 cms

Stock: 11893

A historic World War I De Havilland two blade mahogany, ash and walnut propeller. The eight stud fitting holes indicate that this propeller would have been fitted to a De Havilland Gnome 14 cylinder, 100hp two row radial rotary engine which powered the BS, later designated the SE2, single engine World War 1 scout/fighter designed and first flown by a young Geoffrey De Havilland around 1913. It was the first aeroplane in the world specifically designed as a fast single seat scout and as Bleriot was said to have originated the tractor biplane, was known as the Bleriot Scout, or B.S.1. It was manufactured at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, England. From a private collection of early aeroplane propellers.
English early 20th century.

Notes: The wooden, circular section monococque fuselage was a masterpiece of the cabinet maker's art and years ahead of its time. It merged smoothly into the lines of the closely cowled engine to give the B.S.1 a very good streamlined shape. Lateral control was by warping the single bay wings and the tail unit featured a diminutive rudder, without fixed fin, mounted above a one-piece tailplane and elevator. For its day the B.S.1 was very fast and in March 1913 its designer, now Lt. de Havilland, Special Reserve, was timed over the speed course at 91.4 m.p.h. Unfortunately the rudder was far too small for the considerable keel surface of the deep front fuselage and directional control was poor. Consequently, later on the day of the speed trials, it went out of control in a turn and de Havilland was injured as it struck the ground in a flat spin.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	97 5⁄8" 248 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 12498

An attractive and understated Baltic sofa canapé in the Empire Biedermeir manner of the early 19th century. Guilt brass mounted and built in solid wood with a mahogany veneer and still with its original striped fabric which is repairable. This furniture is elegant and stylish and would complement a modern environment. Image before restoration.
North German, early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	74 1⁄4" 188.8 cms	37 3⁄8" 95 cms	29" 73.6 cms

Stock: 8005

An elegant white painted beechwood sofa canapé in the manner of Louis XVI carved with a typical Neoclassical detail of vitruvian scrolling bellflowers and lambs tongue, supported on four tapering and fluted legs to the front. French, late 19th century, ( reupholstered in the 20th century).

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	Width	Height	Depth
	68" 172.7 cms	41 1⁄2" 105.4 cms	26" 66 cms

Stock: 12221

A substantial and impressive late 19th century profusely carved pine and limewood chimneypiece in the Georgian manner of Robert Adam. The frieze, with its exquisitely carved limewood detail, has a central plaque of a classical urn draped with bellflower festoons flanked by further bellflower swags and there are two smaller delicately carved urns on the endblocks set above finely fluted tapering columns surmounted with scrolled Ionic capitals.
English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	80 11⁄16" 205 cms	61 13⁄16" 157 cms	11 3⁄16" 28.5 cms
Internal	51 13⁄16" 131.5 cms	45 1⁄4" 115 cms

Stock: 12467

A rare pair of large textured bronze patinated cast iron & brass mounted Andirons in the Neo Gothic manner of A.W.N Pugin (1812 –1852) on tall square tapering obelisks surmounted with globe finials, with typical Pugin-esque brass patinated clasps descending to further lower clasp brackets round the Obelisk bases, supported on wide arched supports again embellished with patinated brass Gothic Revival brackets. The plain cast iron dog leg billet bars with round log stop finials. Shown with a sawn basket, sold separately and available in various sizes.

English, circa 1890.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄8" 41 cms	29 1⁄4" 74.5 cms	24 3⁄8" 62 cms

Stock: 11959

A well defined cast iron fireback with the double headed eagle looking to East and West. The symbolism is related to the Byzantine, the first Christian Church, founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine in Constantinople. An early 20th century replica of a 17th-18th century original of the house of Habsburg Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Aragon and Castile ( 1500 - 1558 ).
An early 20th century copy from an original 18th century Flemish fireback.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	24 13⁄16" 63 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	1 3⁄16" 3 cms

Stock: 12279

An ornate pair of Gothic brass andirons in the form of heraldic griffins fronting Gothic spires linked by a connecting pierced bar fender embellished with a scrolled geometric Gothic designs. Can be fitted with backbars and we can supply Swan nest baskets in various sizes if required, at extra cost.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	42 1⁄2" 108 cms	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	6 1⁄4" 16 cms

Stock: 12276

A pair of tall ornate cast brass chenets in the Gothic Revival manner with foliate detail, linked by a rope twist front fender bar. Can be fitted with backbars and we can supply Swan nest baskets in various sizes if required, at extra cost.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10" 25.5 cms	26" 66 cms	7 7⁄8" 20 cms

Stock: 11537

A pair of cast iron Gothic Revival style andirons, with stylised plant base, fluted shaft and quatre feuille top. English late 20th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	5 7⁄8" 15 cms	14 3⁄16" 36 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 12199

An unusual burnished steel Regency fireplace fender with an Imperial St Edward's Coronation Crown central finial, the front sweeping down either side with floral brass decoration and raised on three brass lion paw feet.

English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	48 3⁄8" 123 cms	11" 28 cms	12 3⁄16" 31 cms

Stock: 12455

An attractive Statuary Marble period William IV Chimneypiece. The simply moulded straight shelf supported over large scrolled endblocks over stylised floral detail, flanking the panelled frieze over panelled jambs.
English, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	62 5⁄8" 159 cms	48" 122 cms	15 7⁄8" 40.5 cms
Internal	40 3⁄16" 102 cms	36" 91.5 cms

Stock: 12443

A large pair of polished brass Rampant Lion chenets in the Palladian manner of Louis XIV. Each lion stands on a shaped fluted plinth supporting an armorial shield.

French, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	19 1⁄2" 49.5 cms	7 1⁄8" 18 cms

Stock: 6124

The Uccelli Caminetto:
A rare and very grand Italian Baroque fireplace mantel in black Tunisian Nero Antico Marble with polychrome Pietra Dura inlaid designs of birds and floral foliage. The central panel featuring an acanthus cartouche, floral scrolls and uccelli (birds) with various coloured Pietra Dura inlays and Giallo Siena, Spanish Brocatelle, Statuary, Verde Antico, Carrara & Languedoc Rouge marbles.
Italian, circa 1660.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	84 5⁄8" 215 cms	63" 160 cms	8 1⁄2" 21.6 cms
Internal	62 3⁄16" 158 cms	46 7⁄8" 119 cms

Stock: 7873

A large grey Ashburton Marble fireplace surround in the Tudor Gothic manner with fine pink and white veining and with deeply recessed mouldings above footblocks topped by decorative finial knobs.
English, circa 1850.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	73 1⁄8" 185.7 cms	50 5⁄8" 128.5 cms	5 1⁄2" 14 cms
Internal	54 1⁄8" 137.5 cms	41 7⁄8" 106.5 cms

Stock: 12291

An early Victorian carved limestone Chimneypiece with a large moulded shelf over a convex panelled frieze flanked by large roundels / bull's eyes, supported on rectangular panelled jambs. Image before restoration. English, circa 1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	64 3⁄16" 163 cms	56 1⁄4" 143 cms	4 1⁄2" 11.5 cms
Internal	32 7⁄8" 83.5 cms	40 3⁄8" 102.5 cms

Stock: 12318

A pair of brass and wrought iron andirons in the Baroque manner, the gadrooned brass tops supported on substantial scrolled bases. Flemish, 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	11 13⁄16" 30 cms	15 3⁄8" 39 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 10971

An ornate late Regency Greek revival boot scraper, with the Birmingham foundry's stamps on either side, and two pairs of storks drinking from pitchers in the manner of Aesop's fable, with further Greek Revival ornament in the acanthus leaf decoration around the base and the palmettes on the urns. English, early 19th century.

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	width	height	depth
	13" 33 cms	8 1⁄4" 21 cms	10 5⁄8" 27 cms

Stock: 12256

A small Victorian brass and wire mesh nursery fire guard, with a brass top-rail over a wire mesh grill with fixing points to each side, raised on three turned brass feet.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	23 3⁄16" 59 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms

Stock: 11768

A pair of well carved stone Renaissance overdoors each with carved central cartouche depicting Medieval noblemen. Images before restoration.
Northern England, 18th century.

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	width
	36 5⁄8" 93 cms

Stock: 11224

A cast iron fireback in the Medieval manner, with two rampant hunting hounds on either side holding a shield centred with a large cross surmounted by a knights tasselled helmet, the arms of Henry Campbell Bruce. Inscribed with a Welsh motto, Ofner na ofne angau translates as 'Fear him who does not fear death'.

Welsh, Circa 1906.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	30 7⁄8" 78.5 cms	0 13⁄16" 2 cms

Stock: 9844

An attractive English Regency antique fireplace surround in white Statuary Marble. The simply moulded shelf over the convex panelled frieze flanked by delicately carved repeating flora motif on both capitals and supported on similar panelled jambs. English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
External	72 3⁄16" 183.5 cms	49 5⁄8" 126 cms	11 13⁄16" 30 cms
Internal	43 11⁄16" 111 cms	40 5⁄8" 103 cms

Stock: 11527

A rather large framed burnished brass embossed panel in the Baroque manner, featuring myriad Putti reaping and stacking corn, pressing grapes and sleeping it off in the Bachanalian tradition, all in a rural landscape setting. The scene was possibly taken from original drawings, please see images below, which may have been part of a series depicting The Harvest as shown in The Connoisseur Magazine Oct 1911 pages 99 & 103, artist unknown.
Late 19th early 20th century.

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	length
	65 11⁄16" 167 cms

Stock: 12297

An unusual pair of Nautical themed Andirons, very well detailed and textured, topped by Schooner rigged sailing ships, riding on foaming waves, the anchors entwined with stylised seaweed, with articulated back billet / log bars. Shown here with a swans nest grate, sold separately and available in various sizes.

English, circa 1930.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	10 5⁄8" 27 cms	18 11⁄16" 47.5 cms	19 13⁄16" 50.3 cms