This is a heavy aluminum piece of elaborate design, with simple wood plank top. Ca 1920's it is a very handsome piece; base; 42" long, 25" wide, 24"high: top; 51" long, 28" wide. Painted white, in excellent condition.

An interesting hand-wrought table base for the garden or indoors, American early 1900's, with a half inch bevelled glass top (modern). Overall height is 30": base is 39.5" x 31.5"; glass top is 44.5" x 23.5". In good condition with paint suitable inside or out.

Hand hammered watering can in copper with wonderful old-world character. Alistair Morris ("Antiques from the Garden" & Sothebys director) cites copper as the metal used for eighteenth century watering cans as opposed to tin-plate in the nineteenth. We can probably date this to the eighteenth century. 22" wide, 15" high, 11" wide.

Folio size plates satirizing British politics in 1830. Original hand-colored engravings from "The Looking Glass" published in London 1831. Great wit, gorgeous color. Each plate is 10.5" x 16"; images both sides of sheet; some chipping at the edges.

Framed lithograph with original handcolor of the Civil War vessel "The Sumpter" 1860's. Titled "The Sumpter running the blockade of Paiss a l'Outre by the enemy's ship Brooklyn". Approx. 16" x 14". All conservation framing materials.

Framed hand colored lithograph of Civil War ships titled "The combat between the Alabama and the Hatteras off Galveston on 11th January 1863". Approx 16" x 14". Conservation framing materials used.

Very rare piece from the Portland Stoneware Company in Maine, ca 1880. The company manufactured glazed stoneware garden fixtures, alongside its more arcane products, designed to thrive in the severe New England climate. Most unusual are the cobalt glazed figures that provide the decorative frieze reminiscent of other British forms of "the Portland Vase". Marked "Portland Stoneware Co #354". In three pieces, overall size 44" high by 27" in diameter at top...

Cast iron fountain with an egret base and scalloped bowl with putti faces on the underside. Fountain head is a zinc figure of a young boy marked "JW Fiske 26-28 Park Place NY"which dates it ca 1880. Cleaned, rust-proofed and repainted. Overall height 70", bowl diameter 40". Pitting to cast iron commensurate with age. In good condition. From a Pennsylvania estate.

Pair of JW Fiske cast iron garden bench ends with new redwood slats. Bench ends have foliate, dragon, dog head, and bird decoration with paw feet. Each end is marked JW Fiske 26 & 28 Park Place NY, which dates them to ca 1880. They have been rust-proofed and painted; slats have been shaped to fit the curved metal end supports. Bench is 62" long, 30" high and 26" deep; seat height and seat depth is 16".

A cast iron garden bench in the laurel pattern, American ca 1920. 30" high by 42" wide by 29" deep. Many layers of old paint have been removed and the bench has been zinc coated to prevent rust and finished in a flat black enamel. In excellent condition.

French urn with graciously curved scalloped underside and foliate handles set on a large plinth each side of which features the sculpted profile of 2 beautiful women (the faces are repeated on opposite sides). In terracotta it is in 3 pieces the bowl, bowl support and plinth. Wonderfully weathered surface; some wear at the top of the bowl support. Overall height 40.5"; urn height 15";urn width 29"; pedestal height 25.5"; pedestal base 18" square;

Pair of scroll back designed (originally collapsible) French cafe chairs, ca 1920's. Along with foldable cafe table of later date. Very graphic chairs with strong back design and grid seats. Chairs 37" high, 17" deep, 19" wide; seat height 18". Fold up table approx. 30" diameter. Seats have dented center front section.