A silver mounted wheel barrow and shovel presented to four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1892 to mark the start of work on the Wirral railway from Hawarden Bridge to Birkenhead, is coming up for auction at the annual Gentleman’s Library Sale at Bonhams, New Bond Street, on 19 January 2011. [Read More]
Daily Archives: January 14, 2011
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The sale features several longtime collections, one of which is a 50-year assemblage of vintage pocket knives. This collection includes a fine assortment of German, English and American knives crafted of bone, metal and mother-of-pearl. Some of the hilts include a late-19th-century Ulster knife, a G. H. Gebr., Hollweg’s patent cam lock [Read More]