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    3 June 2008

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    • A GROUP OF 13 ENGLISH, CONTINE
    Lot 505

    A GROUP OF 13 ENGLISH, CONTINENTAL AND ORIENTAL SILVER TOYS

    MOSTLY LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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    GBP 500

    Estimate

    GBP 400 - GBP 500

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    A GROUP OF 13 ENGLISH, CONTINENTAL AND ORIENTAL SILVER TOYS
    MOSTLY LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
    Comprising: a Victorian Britannia standard toy sugar dredger of late 17th century style, maker's mark apparently of Henry William Dee overstruck by William Comyns, London 1869; a Continental model of a lantern; a miniature English Jersey can; a Chinese water wheel, palanquin, pagoda lantern, rickshaw with concertina cover (one wheel A/F), dragon (one foot A/F) and junk (one crewman present but detached); a Continental filigree bullock-drawn carriage; and three other items

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