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602. Mr PUNCH INKWELL. 4.7ins tall, salt glaze, highly varied/ speckled. Mr Punch inkwell is seated snugly, one leg crossed over the other, in a round backed armchair. Smiling slightly madly, and, looking to his right he holds
a pen in that hand. He wears a drooping belled hat, ruff, striped coat and pantaloons. His hump, sliced off like a boiled egg, is the font. Modelled after Richard Doyle’s famous wrapper for the magazine of the same name perhaps
606. BUCHAN PROMOTIONAL TRADESMANS SAMPLE BUTTER CROCK. 7.7ins
tall to rim top,
inset lid (few
cashing in on its popularity. ‘GARDNER’S INK WORKS / LOWER WHITE CROSS ST. LONDON’ impressed
nibbles). Again much wheeled decoration, 2
side handles. Imprresed letters to front picked out in blue ‘A W BUCHAN & CO/ WAVERLEY POTTERIES/ PORTOBELLO/ 1/2.’ An exceptional rarity. (9/10) NR £300-400+
at back, above an applied clay diamond mark with codes impressed. The registration was lodged in the name of John Gardner in April 1851 (class IV, no.
78257). Another scarcely seen, ‘classic’, early English pottery figural ink. Usual inmanufacture
flaws. NR (9.5/10) £250-300+ AB
James and John Gardner are both listed at Old
Street 1841-48 but only John by the time of the registration at Lower White Cross Street. Listed in 1850 as “makers of all kinds of writing inks”,
selling “ink powder & pounce, tracing papers, manifold letter writers,
marking ink for linen.” They appear not to have
continued in business much beyond the registration in 1853 of
a satirical version of Wellington seated as
607. EAST FINCHLEY CREAM POT. 3.6ins tall. Dark green top, couple of curving cracks to the L (stable) & a pinhead lip nick. The second of 2 dug - other sold in February sale. Very rare. (9/10) NR £40-60+
punch - one recorded but not seen for 40
years.
603. MORRELL TEAKETTLE POTTERY INK. 2.5ins tsll. Familiar teakettle shape in a shiny, speckled, mid mustardy brown glaze. Turretted penholder top. Impressed below
front protruding spout ‘M MORRELL/ LONDON’,
& to the rear a very crisply struck diaomnd registry diamond for 1870. All round one of the very best examples of its type I’ve ever seen! NR (9.9/10) £40-60+ BW
608. TIVERTON CREAM POT. 3.5ins tall, mid tan body, card inside type top. Six transfer lines, bit smudged, for ‘Dunmonoia Cream from the / Duchess of Devonshire... Tiverton Junc.’ Minor rust. (9/10) NR £30-40+
604. ARMCHAIR INK. 2.1ins tall, 2 x 1.7ins base, square shaped lip above the deep pen rest section, ‘64’ embossed to base. Overall very crude and in a really unusual deep jade green glass. Exc/ A1 (9.9/10) NR £30-40+
605. MATHERS MANCHESTER PATENT FLY PAPER PAPER PLATE. 8.8ins diam. Highly ornately transferred plate to front &
back Front - ‘Chemical Fly Papers’, London
& Manchester addresses,
diamond registration
(May 14 1867)., pict
t.m. Rear (edge chip) - various product
advertisements. Rim each side
depicts a wonderful range of flying insects! An exceptional rarity. (9/10) NR
£250-300+