HARDY BROTHERS CATALOGUE: 'Hardy Brothers 'World Renowned Angling Specialities'...': an uncommon late 19thc example: 8vo, printed card covers cloth backed, 180pp, numerous wood engraved illustrations, covers a bit browned and chipped else in good condition: TOGETHER WITH a Hardy's Price List for 1954/5. (2)

A set of eleven Wilkinson 'Allied Commanders of The First World War' pottery toby jugs, designed by Sir F Carruthers Gould, Issued in Limited Editions between 1915 and 1919, comprising: Lord Kitchener, holding a jug inscribed 'Bitter for the KAISER', 25cm high; Admiral Beatty, holding a shell inscribed 'Dread Nought', 26.5cm high; Field Marshall Haig, seated upon a tank, titled 'Push and Go' to the base, 27cm high; Admiral Jellicoe, holding a jug inscribed 'Hell Fire Jack', 26cm high; Marshall Joffre, holding a shell inscribed '75mm Ce Que Joffre', 25.5cm high; Lord French, holding a jug inscribed 'French Pour Les Francais', 26cm high; the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, holding a shell titled 'Shell Out!', 25cm high; Marshall Foch holding a champagne bottle inscribed 'Au Diable Le Kaiser', 31.5cm high; General Botha, holding a jug inscribed 'Loyalty', 26.5cm high; Woodrow Wilson, with an aeroplane on his lap, the base inscribed 'Welcome! Uncle Sam', 27cm high; and King George V, holding a globe, the base inscribed 'Pro Patria', 30cm high, each with printed marks, facsimile signatures and retailer's marks for 'Soane & Smith'. (11)

A cased 22ct gold limited edition Winston Churchill gold medallion, 82/500, 120.3g.

A good and large gilt brass and champleve enamel carriage clock, by E Maurice & Co, with push button repeat, striking on a bell, height including handle 20.5cm.

A very rare old bottle of John Jameson & Son's 9 Years Old in Wood Pure Irish whiskey, bottled at Dublin Port & Docks Board Warehouses for M Brannan & Sons, Wine Merchants, Dublin, probably 1920s.

A good early Victorian rosewood library timepiece, by William Johnson, Strand, London, with fusee, 24cm high, with pendulum. 

A good 9.5ct natural Ceylonese sapphire and diamond ring, the two old European cut diamonds  approx 1ct each, platinum set, with accompanying certification.

TOLKEIN (J R R): 'The Lord of the Rings': one volume India paper edition, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1969: INSCRIBED TO TITLE PAGE BY TOLKEIN in blue ballpoint pen, with loosely inserted b&w photograph of the author posed at Merton College Oxford in 1968: covers a little bumped and creased, else generally in good condition. (1)

A good pair of 19th century emerald and diamond earrings, circa 1820, each emerald set in unmarked 18ct gold and surrounded by fourteen set old mine cut diamonds with milgrain edges in silver, surmounted by a single diamond. Each emerald 2.5ct, diamond total weight 2ct approximately.

(THH) A rare pair of Grand Tour type alabaster relief portrait plaques of Charles Edward Stuart ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ and Henry Benedict Stuart, each in an octagonal ebonized and brass mounted frame, with applied and engraved decoration, 29.5cm wide, each with bronze 'Legitimacy of the Jacobite Succession' medal suspension.