Lot
Number | Description | Final Bid |
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| Sugar Bowl. Purple Staffordshire type china from the 1851 Crystal Palace. Each side has a red transfer picture of the building, one side has a front view and the other side has an angled view of the front. The rim is decorated with leaves. There are 2 handles on the side of the bowl. The piece is not marked with a manufacturer. The top is missing. Size: 5 1/8" tall by 5 1/2" wide at the base. Condition: Very Fine, it has one crack almost half way around near the bottom, hairlines on the bottom and overall crazing. There are no chips. | $ 50 * |
| Bronze medal with a picture of "The Crystal Palace" with "For the Great Exhibition in London of 1851" below. On the reverse is "Dimensions - Length 1848 Feet, Width 456 Feet, Height of Roof 66 feet, Height of Transept 108 feet, Glazed Surface 900,000 Sup. Feet. Occupies 18 Acres. Usually these medals are much larger. Size: 7/8" diameter. Condition: Very Fine, there is some wear and very small black spots. | $ 50 |
| "World's Fair Polka," by William Vincent Wallace, published 1851 by William Hall & Son, New York, cover has a lithograph of unknown building, 5 pgs. Size: 13 x 10.25. Condition: Fair, stains, ink from pages has passed to inside covers, wear along bound edge | $ 50 |