Antiques

  • New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.

    # 47366

    CRAIG, Eric (maker/artist)

    New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.

    Box, of solid mottled kauri, 266 x 183 x 50 mm, containing [25] specimens of New Zealand ferns pressed and mounted on individual cards in uniform 210 x 140 mm format, each mount with a printed label identifying the specimen by its botanical name, using the correct binomial nomenclature in Latin (the system developed by Linnaeus); …

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  • A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    # 46516

    Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]

    A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.

    London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …

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  • Globe terrestre

    # 46572

    DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725-1805); NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1762)

    Globe terrestre

    Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant …

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  • An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.

    # 45783

    WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)

    An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.

    Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and …

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  • [GLOBE] The earth.

    # 47150

    KLINGER, J. G. (firm)

    [GLOBE] The earth.

    Published by J. G. Klinger in Nuremberg. Constructed, delineated and etched by J. A. Buhler. Nuremberg : J[ohann]. G[eorg]. Klinger, [between 1841 – 1852]. Wooden and plaster globe (6 inches in diameter), covered with 12 glazed and hand-coloured gores, fitted and spinning with metal polar axis in a circular card box, the lid provided in …

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  • A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

    # 46815

    [Maker unknown].

    A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.

    [United Kingdom? : s.n., c.1915]. Cotton handkerchief, 450 x 600 mm, recto lithograph printed in colour, with patriotic illustrations featuring a large central cartouche captioned ‘The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula’, smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depicting ships of the Royal Australian Navy (including HMAS Sydney), and at …

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  • A hand-embroidered silk shawl with peacock and roses design. Hong Kong, 1958.

    # 46318

    [Maker unknown]

    A hand-embroidered silk shawl with peacock and roses design. Hong Kong, 1958.

    Dimensions: 40 x 92 cm; embroidered lettering in yellow above and below the central peacock motif reads: ‘To Mum and Dad from Bob / Hong Kong 1957-58’; very good condition. Provenance: commissioned by Robert Hayes, a British soldier stationed in Hong Kong, as a souvenir for his parents; thence by descent to the previous owner.

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  • Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46050

    CEYLON & INDIA GENERAL MISSION

    Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CIGM, c.1920]. Wooden box, 152 x 80 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on five sides (one illustrated); surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission (CIGM) was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus, but …

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  • Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46034

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL …

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  • New celestial globe

    # 43727

    CARY, John (c. 1754 - 1835)

    New celestial globe

    [London] : J. & W. Cary, [between 1791 and 1820]. Celestial pocket globe, 3 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores over plaster and wooden sphere, two metal pins, housed in red morocco case lined with felt, bright original colour, some old discolouration under the varnish, metal eye hooks, the globe sitting perfectly within its case. …

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  • Philips' 12 inch terrestrial globe

    # 45014

    GEORGE PHILIP & SON

    Philips’ 12 inch terrestrial globe

    London : George Philip & Son, circa 1928. Terrestrial globe 12 inches in diameter, printed gores over papier mache base, graduated equator band, supported on a contemporary half-meridian engraved brass stand on original turned wooden base and three feet, some old surface rubbing, a very good example, completely unrestored and in original condition. An interesting …

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  • Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text with a reliable date.

    # 44896

    EMPRESS SHOTOKU-TENNO (718 - 770 CE)

    Hyakumantō Dhāraṇī (百万塔陀羅尼) : an example of the earliest printed text with a reliable date.

    Japan : Nara period [764-770 CE]. Three-tier turned wooden pagoda made of hinoki (Japanese cypress), with original white gesso wash, small repair to upper tier, separate turned katsura wood finial (small edge chips to the rings), overall height 220 mm; the cavity of the pagoda containing the original printed dhāraṇī (55 x 360 mm) with …

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  • Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.

    # 42458

    [HARVEY, William, 1752-1807]

    Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.

    Watercolour on paper, 247 x 227 mm, in an early gilded wood and gesso frame, inscribed verso Midshipman Hardy [sic] of Ct. Cook’s Ship Discovery 1779. Exhibited: Endeavour voyage: the untold stories of Cook and the First Australians. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2 June 2020 – 26 April 2021. Reference: Coates, Ian (editor). Endeavour voyage, the …

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  • Loring's nine and half inch terrestrial globe.

    # 43742

    LORING, Josiah (1775 - c. 1840)

    Loring’s nine and half inch terrestrial globe.

    Drawn and engraved by W, B. Annin. Boston : Josiah Loring, [c.1845]. Terrestrial globe, 9 1/2 inches in diameter, engraved gores and two polar calottes with original hand colouring over papier mache base, graduated equator, ecliptic and date line meridian, the oceans with an analemma showing the delineation of the sun for every day of the …

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  • An entomologist's folding microscope.

    # 43091

    [Maker unknown]

    An entomologist’s folding microscope.

    [Probably English, c.1840]. Folding microscope, 110 mm (handle to lens), consisting of a slotted brass supporting arm, 110 mm spiked forceps, dual lens microscope, with turned bone handle; a knurled brass knob acts as a forceps holder, and allows for positioning; the lens can be rotated to configure different magnification powers; housed in the original …

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  • A Batak shaman's calendar, "porhalaan".

    # 43543

    Maker unknown.

    A Batak shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”.

    [Northern Sumatra, twentieth century]. Comprised of twelve bamboo slats incised with Batak script, suspended by twine from a bone finial incised with shamanic symbols; dimensions 180 x 110 mm; intact, darkened patina overall. A Batak datu or shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”, used not for determining the date but rather auspicious times for rituals. Each of the …

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