Thought you'd be familiar with 5. ~ even if the decoys didn't give it away ~ You're not wrong about 8. it can be carried, it's wooden and it's a chess set ~ But you haven't got the right answer ~ look closer at the board and the pawns and maybe you can buff up your answer.
Just as you say Mike but a tad later, it's unclear on this picture but it's marked for King Billy, 1830-1837. Don't know why, but I prefer the variant spelling, tip-staff.
1. French stool (Louis XVI) style with accommodation for a small lap-dog. 2. A maison-specific grape harvesting hod (hotte in German) 7. Indicators of mail-coach arrivals & departures originally set up on a post in a coaching inn yard. 8. Staunton tactile chess set for blind players.
(5) Punt gun. One of Ernie James' ?
ReplyDelete(8) Portable treen chess set ?
Thought you'd be familiar with 5. ~ even if the decoys didn't give it away ~
DeleteYou're not wrong about 8. it can be carried, it's wooden and it's a chess set ~
But you haven't got the right answer ~ look closer at the board and the pawns and maybe you can buff up your answer.
(7) Possibly a weighing device. As it's marked up to 16 possibly marked in ounces.
ReplyDeleteThere are just the two dials with a clamp for a post between them and two manually movable pointers (note the 'pips' near the ends of the pointers).
DeleteA tipstave, walnut and brass. English. Temp George IV, circa 1825. Brass head probably unscrews to contain warrants.
ReplyDeleteJust as you say Mike but a tad later, it's unclear on this picture but it's marked for King Billy, 1830-1837. Don't know why, but I prefer the variant spelling, tip-staff.
Delete(4) Leather sprung boxing dummies. 19th century.
ReplyDeleteYes Mike, forerunner of the punch-ball and punch-bag, I believe.
DeleteNew picture 3.c may make identifying object 3 a tad easier.
ReplyDelete3 is a Jockey's weighing scales.
ReplyDeleteWell done Rog, weighing-in scales, jockeys for the use of ~
Delete1. French stool (Louis XVI) style with accommodation for a small lap-dog.
ReplyDelete2. A maison-specific grape harvesting hod (hotte in German)
7. Indicators of mail-coach arrivals & departures originally set up on a post in a coaching inn yard.
8. Staunton tactile chess set for blind players.