Strauss & co - 8 October 2012, Cape Town

254 A Victorian silver-gilt- mounted travelling dressing-table set, J Vander, London, 1866 rectangular, the leather-lined interior fitted with seven glass bottles, three covered boxes, nail and medicine accoutrements, each moulded with the initials ACD, the side with a secret drawer enclosing two ivory-backed hairbrushes, a clothes-brush, an ivory glove-stretcher and a covered box, the front with a velvet-lined jewellery drawer, contained in a brass-bound simulated coromandel case, 380g of weighable silver, 21cm high, 34cmwide R8 000 – 10 000 255 A Victorian silver-mounted frame, Edward Beresford, London, 1884 pierced with scrolling foliage and putti holding swags, some distress, 36cm high; a silver-mounted frame, Boots Pure Drug Company, Birmingham, date mark rubbed, moulded with scrolling foliage, headed by a vacant cartouche, some distress, 19,5cm high; a George V silver-mounted frame, maker’s mark indistinct, Chester, possibly 1919, some distress, 16,5cm high; and another, A Brown & Co, Birmingham, 1902, with damage, 10cm high (4) R2 500 – 3 500 256 An Edward VII silver-mounted Art Nouveau frame, A & J Zimmerman, Birmingham, 1902 circular, with scrolling foliage headed by a vacant cartouche, 21,5cm high; and an Edward VII silver-mounted frame, Boots Pure Drug Company, Birmingham, 1903, square with circular aperture, 8cm high; and another, marks rubbed, rectangular, 10cm high (3) R3 000 – 3 500 257 An Edward VII silver-mounted frame, maker’s mark indistinct, Birmingham, 1904 heart-shaped, distressed, 20cm high; a smaller example, H Matthews, Birmingham, 1900, similar, some distress, 9,5cm high; and another, E J Houlston, Birmingham, 1906, square, 9cm high (3) R1 400 – 1 600 258 An Edward VII silver-mounted Art Nouveau frame, W I Broadway & Co Ltd, Birmingham, 1906 rectangular, with scrolling foliage headed by a vacant cartouche, some distress, 30cm high; and another, John Bull Ltd, London, 1987, some distress, 17cm high (2) R2 000 – 3 000 259 A George V silver-mounted frame, possibly H Matthews, Birmingham, 1911 rectangular, with guilloche border, 22cm high; and another, maker’s mark rubbed, Birmingham, 1914, with dents, 31cm high (2) R3 000 – 4 000 254 85