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left: A selection of clamps: 1. Small cut-steel netting clamp, circa 1840. Price: £ 115 2. An ivory "C" clamp. Price: £ 85 3. Small cut-steel clamp with netting hook and thread cage. Price: £ 145 right: French steel scissors marked NOGENT, the arms modelled as a fox and heron, from Aesop's fables. Price: £ 120 below: Tiny steel scissors, only 1 5/8 inches long, modelled on a running hare. Price: £135 
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left: A pretty mother-of-pearl shuttle showing on one side a dove of peace in flight bearing an olive branch. On the reverse the same bird is perched on a tree. Length nearly 4 inches. Price: £ 295 right: a miniature green enamelled pen knife, one inch in length. There is a tiny flake off the enamel close to the suspension ring. Price: £ 45 |
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