Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson

Date:
3rd July 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/16/26
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Puttick and Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    73 ge, 14 ‘sj DP F ee 70 aa a “ 2 76 79 78 rd 4-79 Tuesday, July 3rd. i) A horn powder flask with three spanners for wheel-lock. German A brass percussion cap holder for suspension A carved powder horn, T.T., 1734. Scotch Two powder horns, slide Two ditto ditto, screw One ditto ditto, spring One Gourd ditto, screw top One powder flask One priming horn ‘An Eprouvette. Flint lock, very early form. German One ditto to fire with a match A port-fire. Theophilus Richards, rare Two Eprouvettes, Flint lock Shot belt, charge holder, etc. . A Ser or Horsesetts for a team of four,2 of 3,1 of 4 and 1 of 5 bells, now getting scarce. Alton, Hants. A single bell. Waltshire An areca nut cutter. Indian Workmanship A pair of lazy tongs 81 82 83 84 A VERY FINE BRACELET OF Wampum Beaps, threaded on fine strips of leather, 6ins. deep, 9ins. long, composed of 25 rows beads, purple ground with zigzag pattern made with white beads. Mr. W. M. Bullock in his paper on Wampum articles (Bull. New York State Museum, 1901), figures two specimens of this shape but calls them belts. With the exception of two beads it is in perfect order, VERY RARE Plate I., N. America A horn toothpick box, 3ins. long, inlaid with gold A patch box, egg shaped Two bouquet holders, pearl handles A circular silver brooch with two pins. Scotch A small sun-dial, silver A very small silver match box A star brooch, silver A silver penaunular brooch, 64ins. long. Kabyle, plate III., 16 A silver vinaigrette in the form of a fish, 4ins. long, flexible body, fins and tail gilt, in original shaped leather case, stamped gold. German, plate III., 17