The Collector's Grand Tour: Curated Objects, Interior Design, Curiosities and Works from the Library

A 19th century leather and brass shot flask, 22.5cm long; another, trench art (2)

A Black Forest wall-hanging key hook, carved with triumphal regalia, 18cm wide, c.1900

A Continental silver damascened iron letter knife, scimitar shaped blade, decorated throughout in the renaissance taste, 20cm long, c.1880

A Japanese brass ring tray, amusingly embossed with a monkey wearing spectacles, 8cm wide, early 20th century; a miniature Samurai helmet (kabuto)...

A late 19th century faux-bamboo campaign tripod, 112cm long

A World War II British Air Ministry RAF GRVI bronze fire bell, marked, 24.5cm diam, 23cm high, c.1939 - 1945

Academia - a mortar board, size 6 7/8, by A G Almond Ltd, Cambridge, ownership inscription for L P S Slater, 34.5cm from corner to corner, mid-20t...

An 18th century bronze mortar, trunnion handles, 11cm high, maker's mark A struck twice, c.1750

An early 20th century leather shoulder of mutton gun case, 78.5cm long

An early 20th century silver and oak canted rectangular novelty letter clip, of equestrian interest as a riding crop and stirrups, 12cm long, c.19...

An early 20th century trench art model cannon, the barrel formed from a brass bullet casing, 13.5cm long

An Indian mother of pearl shot flask, sprung mechanism, Gujarat, 21.5cm long

Archery - a hardwood longbow, 179.5cm long

Freemasonry & Friendly Society - an early 20th century Masonic sword, by Spencer & Co, London, the blade 78.5cm long, brass hilt, 92cm long

German Political and Military History - an early 20th century portrait plaque, depicting Field Marshall Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff u...

Interior Decoration - a Medieval style painted softwood heraldic shield, inscribed Knights of the Garter and decorated with three lions passant, 8...

Military Interest - a late Victorian EPNS desk stand, surmounted by a figure of a soldier, 25cm wide

The Scout Movement and the Boer War - Edith Jane Maas RMS (1861 - 1925), a portrait miniature, Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Po...

World War I and British Patriotism - a linen handkerchief, printed in polychrome with a bulldog, Union flag, battleships and an aeroplane, and ins...

A type P8 aircraft compass, No.CA130/43, the dial 11.5cm diam, mahogany box

An early 20th century photographer's novelty gadget or system walking stick, of Adams & Co patent type, bayonet fitting cap with domed pommel, the...

A Scottish sgian dubh dagger, 11cm blade with serrated spine, ebony faux-woven hilt, bright-cut engraved fittings, 20cm long overall, c.1900

A Yemeni silver and gold coloured metal mounted jambiya, 16cm curved blade with central ridge, horn hilt, the mounts and scabbard fittings profuse...

A Yemeni silver coloured metal jambiya dagger, 16cm curved blade with central ridge, chased scabbard and hilt, 29cm long

WW1 British Ship's Bell from SS Volnay, a defensivly armed British Merchant Ship. She hit a Mine off Cornwall in 1917 laid by U Boat UC64. Owned b...

Nutcrackers - a brass novelty percussion nut cracker, of military interest, cast as a cannon, the nut crushed beneath the breach, 36cm long; anoth...

Photography - Nazism and the Third Reich - various photographs, Nazi officer; a Wehrmacht soldier; a postcard photograph of Adolf Hitler and Herma...

Photography - Travel - Mediterranean and North Africa - Trade Union History - an album of photographs, compiled during the inter-war period, copio...

English School (early 20th century)2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), Sentry Review Orderwatercolour heightened in white, 28cm x 17cm

The Crimean War - Charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade, Balaklava, a print, 54cm x 65.5cm

James Bond 007 - Fleming, Ian, Book Club editions, Dr No; Thunderball; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; The Spy Who Loved Me [4]; others, Johnatha...

World War I - Some Famous Air Achievements, etched plates, D Napier & Son, Ltd, London, early 20th century