A pair of 18th century paste set shoe buckles.

A pair of 18th century paste set shoe buckles.A pair of unmarked silver buckles set with old pastes. The chape prongs are also silver with traces of gilding. There is a tiny mark on the back of one buckle but this looks like a fault in the casting rather than a silver mark. c1780. In good condition The pastes look to be all original under a lens and there aren't any missing. 5 x 4. 5cm Stock no. LH16

The key shape is the locking mechanism which secures the cork bung in the glass ink bottle

The back is plain rosewood

A turned lignum vitae seal box with its red wax sample impression of a seal

A decorated medieval brass thimble made in Nuremberg at the end of the 16th century

a pair of scissors

It is made like a sandwich with two pieces of cut glass with colored foil between

In very good condition- some surface wear to the Tartan decoration

25 inches closed

in the form of a sloping knife box

A silver thimble embossed with a view of Brighton Pavilion -a Palace built by King George IV whilst the Prince Regent in a seaside resort on the south coast of Britain

The calendar works by turning the top section to align with the correct day of the week

There are no marks