Out of the Ordinary

A pair of emu eggs, 19th century, Australian, each raised on a gilt-bronze support, terminating on to a mirror base with bevelled and scalloped ri...

A brass monstrance reliquary,19th century, Continental, with a red glass crucible raised on a baluster stem, terminating on to a domed foot set wi...

A collection of Napoleonic prisoner of war and folk art carved bone miniatures, 19th century, comprising: a dolls house étagère, richly detailed w...

A grand tour gilt-bronze oil lamp,early 19th century, after Andrea Riccio, modelled in the form of a grotesque satyr, raised on a circular foot,9c...

A memento mori snuffbox,late 18th century, an unusual French burl walnut memento mori snuffbox, the lid decorated with a fine sepia hairwork scene...

A pair of patinated leather miner's helmets,20th century, Belgian, each of stitched and studded construction, raised on a turned wooden stand, bot...

A folk art architectural model of the Taj Mahal,late 19th/early 20th century, Indian, papier mâché with bobbin-turned spires surmounting the cupol...

An Etruscan Revival grand tour souvenir micromosaic pendant,19th century, likely Italian, modelled as a scarab or beetle, set within a filigree si...

An extraordinary George III thief's tool,18th century, the cut steel handheld tool consisting of a curved bladed purse-slit and a lockpick, with a...

A memento mori figure,16th century and later, South German, a boxwood figure of the penitent Mary Magdalene kneeling beside a vanitas skull, raise...

A Boer War sports medal,1902, a rare and unusual carved soft-stone medal, with a castellated edge, inscribed to the rim 'BERMUDAS Volks-Spelen Dar...

An Art Deco novelty bronze letter opener,c.1930, Austrian, in the manner of Hagenauer, modelled as a narwhal, stamped 'Made in Austria',26cm longP...

A Boer War prisoner-of-war folk art money box,1901, of casket form with a stepped lid, the sides and lid with chip carved detailing, the lid with ...

An unusual pressed horn figural pocket knife,18th century, West Indian, modelled as a chieftain, likely crafted by a European sailor,9.5cm longPro...

A commemorative scrimshawed 'bugbear' coconut, c.1890, engraved with four cartouches, with the crests of Panama, the United States, Nicaragua, and...

A Tell Brak eye idol,late Uruk Period, c.3300 to 3000 BCE, Near East, modern Syria, Tell Brak, of abstract form with perforated eyes, the green st...

Two Prussian amber scent bottles,17th century, possibly Konigsberg, each engraved with geometric decoration, with a flared lip and reeded rim, one...

Inuit carvings,early 20th century, an unusual pair of figural Inuit walrus ivory carvings, possibly float plugs or amulets, one modelled as a bird...

A fine Anglo-Indian ebony and rosewood trinket box,19th century, modelled as a tortoise, set within a hinged tortoise shell case, opening to revea...

A memento mori folk art brass snuffbox, late 18th century, the lid engraved with four skulls and crossbones, inscribed to the rim above each skull...

A modernist doll's house,1930s, a scratch-built Bauhaus-style doll's house furniture set, in the manner of Marcel Breuer, comprising a dining tabl...

A Prussian amber amulet,17th century, of elongated archaic heart-shaped form, possibly Königsberg, in a later silver mount,4.5cm long Provenance: ...

A Regency sand picture,c.1820, depicting a country house by the sea, set in a mahogany frame,the frame 28.5 x 23.5cm aperture 13.5 x 8.5cmProvenan...

A Victorian classroom aid,19th century, showing the various stages of cotton production, set within a glazed oak display, by Horrockses Miller & C...

A Masonic Jacobite Rising fob seal,c.1745, the cut steel seal with the portrait of the fifteen-year-old Bonnie Prince Charlie in relief, who by 17...

A carved wooden clogmaker's pattern sample, late 17th century/early 18th century, modelled as a toecap engraved with a geometric pattern, througho...

A George III silver-mounted coconut cup, 18th century, the bowl richly carved with scrolling foliate motifs, the rim etched with a flower and leaf...

An ecclesiastical carved oak figurine,18th century, likely Continental, modelled as the Virgin Mary, 47cm highProvenance: The Cabinet of Curiositi...

A plaster cast of the pharaoh Akhenaten,mid-20th century, cast after the antique original limestone carving, with a Louvre museum label to the und...

A Victorian copper wax doll's mould,19th century, modelled as a child's torso, 9cm wide10.5cm highCondition ReportInternally with tarnish and pati...

A sorcerer's mirror,19th century, the circular mirror pane overlaid with cobalt blue glass, acid etched to reveal nine convex mirror lenses, set w...

A sorcerer's mirror,19th century, the round bevelled plate with a central multi-foil floral lens, with a scalloped edge, set within a turned porth...

An unusual cut glass and foil starburst mirror,early 20th century, with an etched blood-red background,34 x 33cmCondition ReportGenerally excellen...

A sorcerer's mirror,early 20th century, of square form, the plate with concave inclusions, set within an oak frame,34 x 34cmCondition ReportGenera...

Witches' balls,19th century, a collection of three Victorian mercury silvered-glass spheres, each suspended on a patinated brass mount, two exampl...

'The Goat',mid-20th century, a hand-painted aluminium sign for 'The Goat' Courage public house, depicting a goat in a field, 122 x 91cmCondition R...

A contemporary 'Dracula' whirligig,made by Tim Douglas, of oak construction with plastic graveyard figures, with a crank handle mechanism which ra...

A cast bronze Cross of Lorraine, 19th century, French, entwined with foliage to the cast, impressed to the verso 'Modele Dépose - M. Thomas',35cm ...

An unusual bronze wall hanger, late 20th century, modelled as the head of Medusa with three snakes protruding from her head forming the hooks, 35c...

A Victorian sorcerer's mirror,19th century, of oval form with a bevelled edge, with a rim of convex inclusions, 37 x 18cmCondition ReportWith some...

A Victorian silvered glass scrying ball,19th century, raised on an ebonised stand, 17cm highCondition ReportMinor marks in the glass - generally e...

A Regency waxwork portrait,early 19th century, attributed to Samuel Percy (Irish, 1750-1820), modelled as a Regency gentleman in relief against a ...

An unusual ebonised wood plaque,19th century, carved in the manner of the Man in the Moon, set with a glass eye, 19 x 17cmCondition ReportWith chi...

An unusual jeu de massacre fairground carving, early 20th century, modelled as a devil, with chip carved detailing, 53 x 38cm Condition ReportWith...

A magnifying glass,mid-19th century, an Aesthetic Movement library magnifying glass, the lens set within a stepped rim with a brass suspension hoo...

A Victorian sorcerer's mirror, 19th century, of round form, the centre of the plate with seven convex circles set within an acid-etched Scottish t...

A pair of sorcerer's mirrors, late 19th/early 20th century, each of circular form set within a velvet frame, the bevelled plate with a border of c...

A folk art slate letter press, 19th century, modelled as a bible, the top engraved 'Watch and Pray',16cm wide11cm deep4cm highCondition ReportScuf...

An Art Deco bronze and conch shell thermometer,1920s, likely Austrian, modelled as a clown doing a handstand, on a turned wooden base,24cm high in...

A painted wood fairground carousel motorbike, 1940s, with a red vinyl seat, on metal mounting brackets,120cm wide40cm deep72cm high ...[more]

A carousel horse,late 19th century, German, made by Friedrich Heyn for an English fairground ride,112cm long76cm high ...[more]

A carousel horse,late 19th century, German, made by Friedrich Heyn for an English fairground ride,100cm long63cm high ...[more]

A one-armed bandit,1960s, an Inca Gold three-reel slot machine, designed by Len Ainsworth in 1960, manufactured by Aristocrat Nevada, the chromed ...

A fairground or funfair air rifle shooting target, 1940s, the shaped chromed cornice over a gallery of seven lead figures against a painted lead b...

'It's Barnes Slug Shooter',1950s, an illuminated fairground sign, decorated in polychrome, with a string of light fittings, some with intact colou...

'Big Top',mid-20th century, a painted fairground canvas directional poster, inscribed 'Big Top' above a stylised clown face and a pointing hand, a...

An arched fairground cornice sign, late 20th century, decorated in the showman's style, inscribed 'Cabinet of Curiosities - Recommended by all Pra...

A funfair panel,1950s, modelled as a gate, decorated in the showman's style, inscribed to the centre 'It's Barnes', refinished in 2010,93 x 154cmC...

'The Great Voltini',late 20th century, a superb showman's fairground ticket entry throne, painted wood by 'Joby Carter', used as the entrance poin...

A life-sized model of Davy Crockett, late 20th century, American, modelled in a seated position holding a knife,together with a seated model of a ...