Refurbished Oak Windsor style chair with turned legs stretcher and to the back
Victorian coat rail with 7 number Brass coat hooks, cared top rail and carvings to both sides of Dragons , with Mirror in the middle. Good condition , Needs to be fixed to wall
Walnut Flip Top table with chessboard veneered top. Single vase shaped centre pedestal leading to tripod feet. In original Good condition
Restored 20th Century Arts and Crafts Fall Front Bureau with pigeon holes to inside. 3 large drawers below fall front, with two pull out loopers to side to support lid when open. Pierced upstand to top of bureau. New brass handles on drawers
Restored Ebonised Occasional Table with Ebonised Fluted legs with gilt and a Mahogany Veneered sectional top
Romanian Galle Style cameo Vase in excellent condition with Tipo signature
Victorian cast foot Scraper set in a stone half circular weathered base one corner of stone has small piece chipped off otherwise in original condition
C1890 Mahogany display cabinet with Voisey style pillar supports. Painted panels to doors at bottom and glazed doors to top with solid shelves to inside, in good condition
Long Old Box veneered in Budinga with a red braize interior, 2 locks and Escutcheons
Early20 century Marbled Plaffioner in good condition. Sold with chains but no ceiling rose
Kidney shaped table with inlay to top of legs with spade feet
C1890 Regency Canterbury with drawer to base, turned legs brass handles in good condition
Metal Hall Lantern with Opaque inset shade, with original black paint, not wired but comes with chains
Research on Davis Derby
Family Business which manufactured optical, surveying and mathematical instruments was established in Leeds in 1779
Pantograph made in Leeds by Davis Derby
1779 firm founded in reign of King George 111
George Pitt was the Prime Minister of England
Gabriel Davis nephew john was born in the Oxfordshire town of Thame 1810
Apprenticed to J Abrahams, mathematical instrument maker to the Duke of Wellington
At the end of apprenticeship in late teens, he moved to Leeds to join his uncle’s business
Travelled for the next decade selling his products in 1830’s between Liverpool, Cheltenham and derby
1843 possibly attracted by railways settles with his family in Derby
Took possession of Meynell house now oldest surviving premises in Irongate Derby
Built workshop to back of premises in recent times property has been art gallery and restaurant
United Kingdom Coal production had risen to 55million tons and employed 250,000 men, women and children working underground with 1000 deaths per year
John Davis started to manufacture mine safety lamps to designs Invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1815.
Lived there for 20 years making his goods and started to manufacture safety lamps for the mining Industry across the country John Davis died in 1873 at the age of 63 when his son took over the business
The earliest catalogue surviving for the company dates from 1877which show products such as turret clocks, weather vanes, surveying Instruments and items for the mining Industry
Draughtman’s Polished half circle protractor possibly mid 19 century
Decorative Items
Mahogany veneered Box with parquetry design to top. Box has been totally restored to inside and outside crossbanding to external edge
Six coloured Nursery rhyme prints by Mcmillan & Co Ltd Boyce: Gay Way series Nursery rhyme Pictures . Number 36 Please to remember the fifth of November / number 28 Higgledy piggledy, my black hen / number 11 Sing a song of sixspence / number 40 I had a little Pony / number 30 Deedle, deedle, dumpling, my son John / number 32 Ride a cock- horse to Banbury Cross. All of these prints are on stiff paper and are all the same size which is 534mm x 431mm. These would go onto a Nursery wall. for sale as a group or individually.
2 number Edwardian Walnut Carved panels originaly from a door showing a sculptured flower with detail petals leaves and stem with semicircular petal design to base of panel. Waxed finished. The price shown is for 2 but can be split
Slightly coloured mauve glass c1900 to c1930 . This Lantern is in good condition and comes with chains but not wired
Quantity of boxwood antiques rulers used by Draughtsmen or Engineers In original wooden Box with brass hook to lock Box
2 number Victorian Ash Carved panels originaly from a door showing a classical urn or compote holding fruit with symetrical rosetes with swags hanging fom them ,and also leaf sprays to top and bottom of panel. price shown is for pair but can be split.
Old restored Box with geometrical pattern to centre of box Lid, Boxwood string inly to edge of Box. Nice original Brass handles to external sides of Box. Internal tray lifts out inside of tray and box has green braze fitted