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Baxter prints These prints were made by George Baxter and date from the 1830s-1850s. These small ones were produced to decorate needle packets and boxes

8/933 = $29 England framed Baxter or Mannell needle packet print 131x170mm 8/1636 = $19 England Baxter Prints on a sheet lettered around the sheet Baxter Inventor and Patentee with a London address prints are named clockwise from top left ‘The May Queen’ ‘The Greek Bride’ ‘Sunset’ ‘Affection’ ‘The Albanian Lovers’ ‘Rustic Felicity’ ‘Prince Frederick Wm of Prussia’ ‘View of the Rhine’ ‘The Princess Royal Princess F W of Prussia’ ‘The Persian Lovers’ 8/1637 = $28 Baxter Print 1850 Greek dance Yeelle strip lettered under this mounted Print Print 125x47mm 31mm

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Bookmarks

8/1658 = $38 Bristol Board with stitching Happy may thy Birthday be + paper coloured print picture on blue silk ribboning - one corner missing - NEW 8/1660 = $65 Bristol Board with stitching Keep your Powder Dry crown & crossed rifles & oak leaves & acorns - stitching not complete - NEW 8/1662 = $75 Bristol Board beaded cross + bible + flowers silk ribboning NEW 8/1664 = $30 Victorian Bristol Board with stitching Hope is the [anchor] of the soul ribboning - stained - NEW 8/1665 = $35 Victorian Bristol Board with stitching Behold the Book whose leaves display Jesus the life the truth the way Read it with diligence with prayer Search and thou shalt find him there + bible ruched silk ribboning NEW 8/1666 = $40 Victorian Bristol Board with stitching The [eye] of God is on me ribboning - small hole & a small stain - NEW 8/1656 = $30 Victorian Bristol Board with stitching Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth silk ribboning - some damage to ribbon - NEW 8/1657 = $60 Victorian Bristol Board with fine stitching O Welcome Home With Love from Minnie K large house in its grounds silk ribboning NEW 8/1659 = $25 Victorian Bristol Board with stitching An Open Bible Thy Lamp …word … unto … is a …my feet’ missing words are found in Psalms which verse numbers are in centre 2 silk ribbons - one has separated - - Some board edges fragile NEW 8/1661 = $15 Bristol Board with punched Ever thine dear silk ribboning NEW 8/1663 = $50 Bristol Board with beading edged with green beaded pattern NEW 8/1667 = $10 Bristol Board with stitching Remember me ribboning - board is quite fragile - NEW

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Boxes See also Mauchline and Fern Ware See also Tunbridge Ware

bm440 = $24 Wooden mother-of-pearl disc inlaid on top 270x190x100mm brown paper-lined red plush lining on base empty - sliver of veneer missing on one side - bm442 = $32 Cloth-bound handmade by Betty Maloney, Sydney entire outer covering is of fine brown cotton 312x212x70mm lid has been padded box is fastened by a bone stiletto empty lined with similar fabric in orange & is padded lid has been sewn down with brown cotton

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Buttonhooks

8/1221 = $36 Sterling silver and steel for gloves Crisford & Norris [C&N] Birmingham, 1910 engraved with monogram JB 1911on the other side 82mm 19/98 = $18 Steel and whalebone for gloves 119mm - some staining - 19/99 = $16 Steel and bone for gloves 94mm - crack in bone at join - 19/100 = $18 Steel and whalebone? for shoes 108mm 19/103 = $13 Steel with hammer-ridged shaft 105mm -- some red paint on shaft - 19/105 = $18 bakelite with steel for shoes 142mm 19/106 = $14 bakelite with steel for gloves 80mm 19/107 = $25 mother-of-pearl and steel for gloves 98mm a196 = $20 Sterling silver and steel WJ Myatt & Co Birmingham, 1913 for shoes 152mm - steel shaft stained - - tip is missing/damaged to show steel end -

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Buttons

391a = $22 pair // $12 single Australia handpainted porcelain Beate Pansie Blue Stripe 19mm 391b = $22 pair // $12 single Australia handpainted porcelain Beate Bouquet 14x18mm 391c = $22 pair // $12 single Australia handpainted porcelain Beate Pansy 14mm 391d = $22 pair // $12 single Australia handpainted porcelain Beate Forget-me-nots 11mm temporarily out of stock 391e = $22 pair // $12 single Australia handpainted porcelain Beate Pink Rose 6x11mm

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Coin purses

8/859 = $90 Victorian Beaded on both sides all beading intact with just one flower centre not complete gilt fastening 87x81mm - brown silk inner lining is in tatters but it doesn’t detract -

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Half Dolls

8/1561 = $70 Porcelain marked Foreign on rim 55mm 8/1563 = $80 Porcelain 4 attachment holes 73mm 8/1564 = $80 Germany Porcelain #5617 [lettered at front edge] 2 large attachment holes 67mm 8/1565 = $100 Germany Porcelain 4 attachment holes 75mm

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'Jewellery'

19/82 = $31 Sterling silver Charles Horner Chester 1908 size 7 converted to wear as a pin - holed in side -

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Mauchline and Fern ware SCOTLAND Sycamore
7/425 = $80 Rectangular lidded box Transfer - pink roses with A Present from Ramsgate [England] 165x111x46mm Floral white ware. Brass catch empty - small chip off one rose -	7/416 = $28 Rectangular box 85x60x45mm Small transfer - Knole Kent [England] empty - brass catch missing -
7/420 = $36 Beaker-shaped, lidded glass holder Photographic ware - Burns' Monument, "Banks of Doon", Ayr 75x51mm empty - 35mm surface crack on the outside - - 10mm crack in the lid -	7/421 = $40 Beaker-shaped, lidded glass holder Photographic ware - Ilfracombe 72x51mm empty
8/639 = $76 Needle packet cover or card case? Fern ware on black lacquer A Merry Xmas & A Happy New Year 63x44mm this is a flat hollow case open at each end - crack on one edge - empty sale pending	8/1668 = $135 Rectangular lidded box 168x134x52mm Australian scenes Fort Denison Sydney Post Office Sydney King Street Sydney Albert Memorial Sydney Hyde Park looking west Sydney - some light stains on lid - blue papered base – some wear - brass fastener – one small part missing - - but it closes securely - - not a glossy surface - empty NEW

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Mini baskets

8/1602 = $3 finely woven basket empty 29x19mm

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Nail files

19/18 = $11 mother-of-pearl and steel with copper ferrule 96mm

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Penknives These were often found in lady's sewing baskets

8/1255 = $15 Germany Pearlised plastic and steel maker’s mark is a whale 2 folding knives 77mm folded 8/1258 = $10 Cream plastic [old] and steel with brass rivets and suspension loop 1 folding knife 58mm folded

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Antique pencils

8/589 = $13 Bone & steel propelling pencil - contains no lead - - crack down one side - 80mm 8/1211 = $18 Sterling silver pencil? 73mm

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Antique postcards

8/1330 = $10 Hand coloured The Crystal Palace Sydenham message on verso is dated 3.8.05 with a NSW postage stamp addressed to Erskineville

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Reading spectacles

8/1392 = $20 Gold-coloured fine wire ‘arms’ round glass with bifocals - small piece of right frame missing -

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Thimblescopes

8/1440 = $40 USA Kit Froebel to enable one to read marks in the thimble apex in pink velour holder

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Tunbridge Ware

8/1559 = reduced to $380 England Rosewood & Sycamore Glove Box very fine mosaic ware on lid sycamore knob silk lining may have been replaced as it’s in wonderful condition - 3 very small pieces off the edges of the box - 228x80x55mm 8/1567 = reduced to $460 England Rosewood & Sycamore Glove Box very fine mosaic ware on domed, hinged lid wide band of matching mosaic ware on all 4 sides original green silk lining - which on the base is worn & stained - + a key - 1 small sign of repair on 1 sq cm in back right hand corner of the lid - 247x95x79mm

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Others

8/1465 = $7 USA Chocolates Thompson Candy Co shape of a pair of scissors and 2 thimbles from a TCI Convention in 1980!!

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