Precious Objects - Carter's Price Guide to Antiques and Collectables

Adie Brothers (Birmingham) - silver, maker or retailer 4
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam and sadeli boxes - sewing and other boxes 22
art - Moghul / Mughal miniatures 2
Asprey & Co. (England) - decorative and household items 9
Baccarat (France) - paperweights, makers 30
Baker, Des (New Zealand) - carved whale tooth and antler objects 3
Bilston / Bilston & Battersea (England) - enamel ware 18
Blue John stone - various objects 2
Bock, Thomas (Britain / Australia 1790-1855) - artist and sculptor 1
bonbonniere 17
bookends / book ends
- bronze 2
- marble 1
- spelter 1
Boulle - decorative Boulle items 11
boxes, function
- dressing table boxes 48
- jewellery boxes, ceramic 112
- lace boxes 3
- sewing boxes, tortoiseshell and other 10
boxes, material or decoration
- bone boxes 21
- bronze boxes 27
- copper and brass boxes 86
- enamelled boxes 177
- gilded metal boxes 43
- glass and crystal boxes 87
- gold boxes 96
- ivory boxes 89
- leather covered boxes 38
- marble and slate boxes 8
- ormolu and gilt boxes 220
- other materials 195
- papier mache boxes 5
- pietra dura boxes 7
- ruby glass boxes 12
- tortoiseshell boxes 200
British Royal Family commemorative ware and memorabilia - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert 6
brooches, design or type - painted portrait brooches 13
butterfly wing - trays, pictures and household items, 1
cabinets, type - jewellery cabinets 1
Caithness Glass (Scotland) - paperweights, makers 25
Canova, Antonio (Italy) - sculptor 1
card cases, English and French
- castle top 12
- ivory 56
- mother of pearl 100
- other materials 64
- silver items 369
- tortoiseshell 66
cassolettes, ewers, tazza 46
Caughley (England) 1
caviar - bowls, dishes and serving sets 1
Cenedese & Co. (Italy) - paperweights, makers 1
centrepieces
- gilt, wooden, bronze and horn 6
- silver items 10
ceramics - Russian 21
champleve objects - European origin 17
Churchill, Winston (Great Britain) - memorabilia 1
ciborium / communion cups - silver items 8
Clichy (Cristalleries de Sevres et Clichy) - paperweights, makers 9
cloisonne - Russian 33
Cook, Captain James - memorabilia 4
Dali, Salvador (Spain) 1904-1989 - decorative objects 2
Deacons, John (Scotland) - paperweights, makers 6
decorative ewers - ceramic, bronze and marble 23
decoupage - household items 3
doorstops - ceramic, brass and glass 4
Drummond, William & Co. (retailers) - silver and precious objects 3
Edwards, William (Melbourne) - silver, maker or retailer 11
electrotypes 3
Elkington & Co. (England) - silver wares 4
emu eggs 170
erotica
- European 3
- Western 3
etui (ornamental case) - for costume and dressing accessories 7
exhibitions, exhibits and memorabilia - Great Exhibition of 1851, London 2
Faberge (Russia)
- 119
- Faberge and other decorative artisan eggs 47
- jewellery 5
Faberge, Theo (British) - decorative objects 6
Fairfax & Roberts, retailers (Sydney) - silver, jewellery and precious objects 1
Flynn Silver (Australia) - silver, crystal and glass objects 1
Franklin Mint (United States) - collectables 3
fruit knife - silver and silver plate 26
Gardner of Verbilki (Russia) - porcelain 7
Gaunt, Thomas & Co. (Melbourne, Australia) - jewellery, clocks, watches and decorative items 7
gold and silver
- ingots, bars and bullion 83
- nuggets 66
Golden Fleece (Australia) - advertising and garagenalia 1
Gorham Manufacturing Co. (United States) - other silver and bronze items 1
Grand Tour, 19th century - sculpture, paintings, souvenirs and memorabilia f 12
Grenadier Guards - models, memorabilia and equipment 1
Guinness - advertising material, alcohol 1
gutta percha - jewellery and objects 2
Hanau, Germany - precious objects 10
Hardy Bros. (Australia) - silver, silver plate and decorative items 19
Harrods, London - vintage and later wares 1
Hart, Kevin Charles (Pro) (Australia) - ingots and bars 2
hat pin holders and stands 2
Heaney, Colin (Australia) - paperweights, makers 6
helmets - military pickelhaube helmet 1
horse racing - cups and trophies, gold 17
household items - tin and toleware 2
Indian silver - Kutch district 1
ink stands
- silver items 5
- silver plate items 6
ivory, Western - French Dieppe 4
James Dixon & Sons, (England)
- silver plate makers or retailers 1
- silver tableware 2
Jennens & Bettridge (England) - papier mache 1
Jensen, Georg (Denmark), pill boxes - pill boxes 4
jewellery and trinket boxes
- metal 12
- silver items 525
- silver plate items 63
jig saw puzzles 1
Jones, Evan (Australia) - silver and jewellery 3
Kilpatrick & Co. (Melbourne) - jewellery, silver, watches and precious objects 2
knife / knives - fruit 47
Knox, Archibald (United Kingdom) - designer 1
Kohn, Adolph (New Zealand) - jewellery, silver and medallions 1
Kosta Boda (Kosta Glasbruck, Sweden) - paperweights, makers 5
La Rochere (France) - glass makers 1
lacquer ware - western 5
Lalique (France), item types - paperweights, makers 48
Leda and the Swan - ceramics, jewellery, glassware and statuary 3
letter opener / paper knife - Faberge and other Russian 1
letter racks - various materials 1
Leuchars, William and Leuchars & Son (London and Paris) - precious objects 2
Liberty & Co. - other decorative items 1
Libucha, Zygmunt (Australia) - silver, maker or retailer 2
Links of London - jewellery and precious objects 1
Littlejohn & Sons, Wellington (New Zealand) - jewellery and objects 1
Mappin & Webb (England) - precious objects 5
McDougall, Peter (Scotland) - paperweights, makers 1
meat covers / food covers / dish covers - pewter 57
Melba, Dame Nellie (Australia) - property from the collection of Dame Nellie 10
Melbourne Cup - sterling silver and gold cups and trophies 3
memento mori 1
memorabilia
- HMS Victory 1
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson / Admiral Nelson 6
memorabilia and models - Cutty Sark 2
Meszaros, Andor (Australia) - sculpture and medallions 1
micromosaic - panels and pictures 22
miniatures
- 17th century 8
- 18th century 89
- 19th century 338
- 20th century 107
- French 116
- Georgian 235
- on board or card 22
- on bone 2
- on copper 4
- on glass 3
- on ivory 353
- on paper 14
- on porcelain, other ceramics 24
- on tortoiseshell 2
- Persian and Indo-Persian 2
- portrait and other 1,198
- sets or collections 148
- signed by the artist 267
- Victorian 364
Money, Fred (New Zealand) - silver and jewellery 1
Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleonic era
- collectables and memorabilia 27
- portrait miniatures 42
Ned Kelly / Kelly Gang - memorabilia 1
nut crackers 1
oriental carved ivory
- carved rhinocerous horn 1
- rhinoceros horn carvings and objects 1
ostrich eggs 23
paperweights, material
- bronze 15
- glass dumps 63
- gold, silver and bronze 92
- millefiori 110
- other materials and makers 248
- sulphide (glass) 4
patch boxes 72
pendants and lockets, design - cross and cruciform 16
Perthshire Paperweights - paperweights, makers 22
pill boxes - various materials 42
pique work inlay - other small items 13
plique a jour - jewellery and objects 5
pocket / pen knife / knives 94
posy holders - silver, gilt, glass 1
powder compacts and boxes - personal grooming 7
precious objects, Russian and European - hardstone 5
Prenzel, Robert Wilhelm (Australia, 1866 -1941) - furniture and carvings 1
Prouds the Jewellers (Australia) - silver wares 1
pyx - religous objects 4
Quist, Christian Ludwig (Denmark / Australia) - silver, maker or retailer 2
Qwist, C. L. (Australia) - silversmith and jewellers 2
Ramsden, Omar (England) - silversmith 2
Raos, Peter - glass makers 11
religious objects, Christian
- alms dishes 10
- altar vases, chalices, ewers and ciborium 50
- bells 4
- bibles and prayer books 87
- candlesticks, torcheres, prickets etc. 29
- coins, seals and medallions 29
- communion and sacrament items 36
- coronitas 3
- corpus christi figures 31
- crucifixes 129
- figures and figurines, angels 257
- Jesus, items depicting 376
- monstrance 4
- Orthodox Christian artefacts 70
- paintings and prints 52
- panels and plaques 111
- prayer books 7
- reliquary / reliquaries 13
- rosary / rosaries 17
- saint and santos figures 90
- St John the Baptist 19
- tabernacle 10
- textiles and vestments 20
- Virgin Mary, items depicting 275
religious objects, furnishings
- fonts and vessels, baptismal and blessing 22
- other 30
religious objects, Jewish
- Judaica, torah pointers (yad) 52
- Judaica: kiddush cups, hanukah lamps etc. 109
- torah covers, crown and finials 3
religious objects, Muslim - Islamic items 33
religious objects, Orthodox
- icons / ikons 53
- icons / ikons, Christ Pantocrator 35
- icons / ikons, Eastern 3
- icons / ikons, Greek 38
- icons / ikons, Italian 4
- icons / ikons, mother of god; our lady; madonna 133
- icons / ikons, Orthodox 48
- icons / ikons, travelling 12
religious objects, Russian Orthodox
- icons / ikons, Russian 337
- religous objects, Russian Orthodox 11
Robur - tea pots 1
Russian
- enamel, niello, guilloche, plique-a-jour wares 311
- Imperial Porcelain 17
- jewellery 22
- kovsh / kovsch 39
- medals, badges and orders 28
- Popov porcelain 8
- precious objects 317
- silver items 287
- silver stirrup cups 3
- silver tea glass / cup holders 19
- silver, enamel, cloisonne and niello beakers and tumblers 19
- smoking accessories, cigarette cases and boxes, 43
- trinket, pill boxes and caskets 96
- trompe l'oeil objects 4
- vodka cups, sets and coolers, silver and enamel 10
Sampson, Mordan & Co. (England) - decorative items 3
Sandstein of Christchurch (New Zealand) - silver and jewellery 1
Schomburgk, Julius (Prussia / Australia) - silver, maker or retailer 1
scrimshaw
- cow and other horn 32
- scrimshawed objects 21
- shell 3
- walrus tusks 19
- whale's teeth, ivory and bone 380
sculpture and statuary - chalk ware 1
sea shells, folk art - shellwork boxes 3
seating, benches and pews - pews 8
serviette / napkin rings - other materials 5
sewing, implements and accessories - thimble holder 1
shagreen items 6
silhouettes 145
smoking accessories, match box holders - match box holders 4
stanhopes 1
Steiner, Henry (Adelaide, Australia) - silver, maker or retailer 10
Stewart Dawson & Co. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)
- precious objects 4
- silver, maker or retailer 4
Stokes & Sons (Melbourne, Australia) - badges, medallions etc. 1
Strathearn Glass (Scotland) - paperweights, makers 4
Swarovski Crystal (Austria) - paperweights, makers 4
Sydney Harbour Bridge - souvenir and commemorative items 2
tartanware - various objects 1
tea caddies, material
- boulle 2
- casuarina 23
- coromandel 7
- elm 4
- huon pine 2
- kingwood 3
- mahogany 193
- mother of pearl 14
- other materials 144
- papier mache 11
- penwork 2
- pollard oak 16
- rosewood 151
- satinwood 39
- silver 76
- silver plate 38
- specimen wood 5
- tin, brass, tole ware and pewter 23
- tortoiseshell 69
- treen and apple 4
- Tunbridge Ware 15
- walnut 63
tea caddies, Oriental
- Chinese, Japanese 49
- Chinoiserie and Chinese export 30
tea caddies, period or age
- Georgian 325
- Regency 146
- Victorian 190
Tillander (Russia) - silver, maker or retailer 1
urns, cassolettes and vases, decorative (pairs) - ormolu, marble, bronze porcelain etc. 134
urns, cassolettes and vases, decorative (singles) - ormolu, marble, bronze porcelain etc. 96
Venetian / Murano glass, paperweights - paperweights, makers 30
Vulcanite - jewellery and objects 2
Waterford Crystal (Ireland) - paperweights, makers 19
Whitefriars / James Powell & Sons (England) - paperweights, makers 11
WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik) - precious objects 5
Ysart, Paul / Vasart (Scotland) - paperweights, makers 2