Clothing & Textiles

A pink Chanel jacket in boucle tweed, with CC monogram buttons, collarless round neck, four patch pocket to front, 100% wool lined with 100% silk, 36" chest

SLAVERY: ABOLITIONIST INTEREST. A very rare miniature book. 'The Little Abolitionist; or Negroe's Friend', Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill. We believe about 1840. There is a copy in The Morgan Library on Madison Avenue, NYC. Locating another copy has been difficult.

A French Belle Epoque diamond and platinum brooch in a floral form, set with approx. 184 diamonds, the largest diamond approx. 1/4 carat, with trombone clasp, total weight 15.4g, 5.5cm long

An early 19th century Carlton House style desk, brass gallery, over a superstructure with four central drawers, flanked by two cupboards, the two piers each with two drawers, the pull out writing surface with hinged slope, green leather skivers, three frieze drawers, on tapering ring turned legs with applied acanthus detail, terminating in brass caps and casters, 154cm wide, 78cm deep, the desk top 72.5cm high, the overall height 95cm

William Bromley. J. Edmond Barre: The Greatest 19th Century Court Tennis Player. Mezzotint engraving. London: J.H. Dark, 1849. Plate size 71x52cm. The Frenchman, J. Edmond Barre, is considered to be the greatest nineteenth-century player of the game of "court tennis." The son of a tennis professional in Grenoble and Paris, he first came to notice as a tennis player in the late 1820's, when the restored French royal court revived the game. Barre was so talented, that he was the World Champion from 1829 to 1862 when he finally succumbed, at the age of 60, to the 36 year old Englishman Edmund Tomkins. The present engraving shows him playing at the court at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1849 at which time he remained undefeated. In 1855, Barre famously re-opened the Versailles court after he became royal paumier (tennis professional) to the Emperor Napoleon III. It was here that the renowned Tiers Etat met on June 20, 1789, and took the celebrated "Oath of the tennis-court," essentially starting the French Revolution. His career was only ended by the Franco Prussian War and the Siege of Paris, leaving him to die impoverished.

Very rare View-Master Grand Prix board game, with four Matchbox cars and viewer with discs, complete, with original box

A late 17th/early 18th Century silver mug of tapered cylindrical coopered form, marks rubbed - possibly London 1732 - 7.8cm high, 3.6oz

2006 Salon Cuvee 'S' Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut, Champagne, (75cl/12%)

A Bill Gibb of London evening dress, size 12, some buttons require replacing

Sally Rutherford (b.1940), a patinated and part cold painted bronze figure group of huntsman and three hounds, mounted on a heavy slate slab, approx. 37cm long, 36cm high Provenance: property of a hunting gentleman