Pipes, lighters and smoking

Metal, wood and resin lot including lighters, pipes and cases. Ranging from 6 to 16 cm (worn, scratched).

Lot of 3 amber cigarette smokes, 2 of which are gold-mounted. In their cases (very worn).

BACCARAT Crystal ashtray. Diameter: 9 cm (scratches from use)

Two early 19th century composition and bone snuffboxes. One octagonal decorated with an allegory of the navy The other decorated with fruits and foliage L8.5 and 11cm (accidents and missing parts)

Small curved snuffbox in 750 ‰ gold. NET weight: 69.6 g Expert : Emeric BUFFETAUD

Set of 4 metal lighters including Zippo, one leather-wrapped. A silver-plated portable ashtray is included.

REF 63 - Yellow and green porcelain quadrangular snuff bottle, molded with scrolls and fleurons on both sides and a pair of Tao-Tie mask handles, original pink ceramic stopper. China . Qing Dynasty early 20th century . Height 6 cm (267)

A Chinese enamelled 'badger and eagle' snuff bottle Late Qing dynasty, Lu shanzi daoren zhi mark The bottle finely enamelled with an eagle perched on a pine tree and staring at a badger under the scorching sun, the base with black-enamelled six-character mark 祿山子道人制 Lu shanzi daoren zhi, associated stopper, 8.6cm high without stopper. 清晚期 加彩鷹與獾紋鼻煙壺，「 祿山子道人製」款 Cf. for a snuff bottle similarly enamelled with an eagle, but without badger and with different mark to base, seeThe Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Snuff Bottles, Beijing, 2003, pl.365, p.237. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years

ALPACA SMOKING SET Smoking set of 5 pieces made in alpaca. Formed by a cigar box, an ashtray, a lighter (needs revision), a matchbox and a Hebrew candlestick as a cigarette holder.

18th Century Dutch Silver & Mother of Pearl Tobacco / Snuff Box An 18th century silver mounted carved mother of pearl box, the top decorated with a mythological scene carved in low relief. Type: Box Materials: Silver, mother of pearl Markings & Inscriptions: Apparently stamped with an .833 silver fineness mark Date: 18th century / early 19th century Maker: Dutch Dimensions: 0.65" x 2.75" x 2.25". Provenance: From a Lewes, Delaware collection. Very good condition, minor surface wear.

REF 67 - Flat-shaped snuff bottle, rounded at the shoulder, in glass painted inside with a connected mainate on one side and a lakescape on the other. China. Late 19th or early 20th century. height 6.5 cm (266)

Louis XVI gold tabatiere à trois couleurs 14 ct gold. Rectangular shape with chamfered corners. The surfaces decorated on all sides with a guilloché stripe and ornamental pattern, the rims decorated all around with chased friezes of bow festoons and leaf borders in three-tone gold on a chased ground, the corners of the walls with wreaths and flower rosettes. Stamped: Unidentified Swiss MZ (J & R?), French control mark for foreign gold and silver (import), valid 1798 -1830 (Tardy, 139). One edge on the reverse with an elongated hole, probably caused by the manufacture. 2.0 x 8.3 x 2.5 cm. Weight 77.70 g. Switzerland, late 18th/early 19th century.

Tabatière Circa 1900/20 Metal inlaid 8.5 x 7 cm

Tabatière "The pages to their departing senior" 1903 Silver marked & cambered 8.5 x 8.5 cm Weight 105.3 g

REF 29 & ?3 - Two snuffboxes, one in white porcelain with mill decorations in red and blue enamel on the cover, and the other in translucent glass. Western metal stoppers. China for export. h9cm and 10cm (265)

Fürstenberg - Tabatière with landscapes in Camaieu Porcelain, overglaze decoration in iron-red camaieu, gilded copper mounting. Outside six fields with water landscapes separated by relief rocailles. Without mark. H 6, W 8.8, D 6 cm. Fürstenberg, around 1760. Literature The model in Wolff Metternich/Meinz, Die Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg, vol. I, Munich-Berlin 2004, ill. 60 f.

LONGCHAMP. Square earthenware tobacco pot, leather-wrapped. H.16 cm. Accident to lid.

Zacharias Benjamin Möller - Hamburg Tabatière Silver, gilded inside. A cambered rectangular body on a flat base; the slightly domed hinged lid with engraved rocailles and the depiction of a cavalier with a lady and her maid. Engraved flower tendrils on the underside. Marks: BZ Hamburg for 1760 - 1784, MZ Zacharias Benjamin Möller (1777 - 1806, Schliemann no. 70, 502). H 2.8; W 7.6; D 5.8 cm, weight 98 g. Hamburg, Zacharias Benjamin Möller, around 1780. Provenance Formerly Kunsthandel Meinz-Arnold, Hamburg 1979; North German aristocratic property. Literature Illustrated in Schliemann 1985, no. 729.

RESERVISTE PIPE in briar root, black horn and silver-plated metal. Circa 1900. L.22 cm. Two pipe elements are joined, one of which is a polychrome porcelain stove.

BACCARAT: Crystal ashtray. Signed. .5 x 12 cm

Holger Bäckström & Bo Ljungberg - Holger Bäckström & Bo Ljungberg Grid ashtray mod. Ultima Brass Sweden, ca. 1970. Prod. Diverse Ting 3.5 x 11 x 11 cm Demountable. Holger Bäckström & Bo Ljungberg A Grid Ashtray Ultima Mod. Brass Sweden, ca. 1970 Diverse Ting Prod. 3.5 x 11 x 11 cm Removable.

Tabatière "Christmas 1953" Art Deco 1920s/30s Silver 10.5 x 8 cm Weight 124 g

Two Chinese black enamelled snuff bottles Late Qing dynasty, one with Daoguang minyao mark and period The first enamelled with the scene of a lady climbing a tree, handing flowers that she has picked to a young scholar, beside three lady attendants, in a fenced garden, the base with Daoguang four-character seal mark in iron red, associated stopper,6.7cm high; the other with scholar travelling on horseback, his boy attendant afoot and carrying a flowering branch of prunus, four-character seal mark in iron-red to base, associated coral stopper,8.3cm high without stopper (2). 清晚期 墨彩鼻煙壺兩件，其中一件礬紅篆書「道光年製」款 Cf.an identical Daoguang mark and period snuff bottle in the Gerry P. Mack collection, sold by Sotheby's New York, 25 October 1997, lot 299. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years

Louis DAGE (1885-1963): Earthenware smoker's set including tray, cigarette holder and ashtray. Dim. tray 3 x 22 x 9 cm

SANS REF/84 - Round snuff bottle in glass painted on the inside. China. Early 20th century. Height 6.5 cm

An Eclectic Assortment of Silver Items & Two Men's Bolo Ties A collecition of silver items, including a large buckle (engraved), cuff links, bolo slide, fob, ring, key chain, spoon and ashtray, plus two metal bolo ties. Type: Buckle, cuff links, bolo slide, fob, ring, key chain, spoon, ashtray, bolo tie Materials: Silver, turquoise, metal Markings & Inscriptions: Silver, etc. Date: Late 20th century / contemporary Maker: Various, etc. Dimensions: Buckle: 3.5" W, largest bolo tie: 34", ashtray: 3.25" Dia. Provenance: From a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania collection. Good condition.

A Chinese octagonal faceted ruby glass snuff bottle Qing dynasty, early 19th century With short, cylindrical neck, standing on a flat foot with carved base, associated stopper, 5.7cm high without stopper. 清十九世紀早期 八方胭脂紅料鼻煙壺 Throughout the Qing dynasty, glass bottles were produced at the Imperial workshops to be given out as gifts from the Emperor; at the time they were mostly considered fancy containers for high-grade snuff. With the introduction of a wide variety of minerals from Xinjiang after 1759, it became fashionable to have bottles made out of these precious or semi-precious stones, although mostly the material large enough for bottles was of poor quality. It became very common therefore for the glass workshops to make imitations in glass, with ruby glass becoming one of the staples of the repertoire of the Imperial workshops, often fashioned in a faceted form. For similarly faceted, although slightly different, ruby glass bottles from the 18th century, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 128, attributed to the Imperial workshops, 1700-1750; or the Marakovic Collection, fig.I.26, illustrated online by H. Moss http://www.e-yaji.com/Marakovic/photo.php?photo=2104&exhibition=3&ee_lang=eng. To illustrate how the same shapes were popular in crystals and in glass, see an example of the same shape, but carved from flawless citrine, dated 1660-1820, from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, part V, Bonham's, Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, Lot 67; illustrated by H. Moss in Treasury 2, no. 234. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years.

CAIMI: Italian ashtray in chrome-plated and black metal. Signed under the base. H : 5 - L : 12 cm. Wear A white porcelain pocket caddy is included. H: 7 - W: 18.5 cm.

Tabacchiera con cameo raffigurante lo zodiaco - Snuff box with green cameo depicting the zodiac Turtle, border with silver decoration France, 19th century 2.5 x 6.5 X 6.5 cm A Snuffbox With Green Cameo Depicting the Zodiac. Turtle, border with silver decoration France, 19th century 2.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm

A gilt and silvered Mongolian-style snuff bottle and stopper Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century Comprising: one bottle with silvered and gilt reticulated repoussé copper outer body decorated with Buddhist Emblems and bats centred around a coral cabochon on either side, the screw-on lid set with coral and turquoise cabochons, 6cm high without and 7.5cm high with stopper. 清十八/十九世紀 局部鎏金銀蒙古式鼻煙壺 Cf. a snuff bottle of similar shape and identical construction, also with central coral cabochon to either side, from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Marketbreiter Collection, dated 19th century, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 December 2021, lot 1114. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years

A Chinese banded agate slender oviform snuff bottle Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century Standing on a flat oval foot, rising to gently rounded sides and a broad, tubular neck, the bottle very well-hollowed from a semi-translucent, milky-white stone with banded and speckled brown inclusions resembling breaking waves, gilt metal and rose quartz stopper, 5.5cm high without stopper. 清十八/十九世紀 瑪瑙雕鼻煙壺 Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years.

Three Chinese agate snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 18th century Each well-hollowed, standing on a protruding, slightly concave oval foot, the shoulders carved with mock-embossed lion-and-loose ring handles, below a gently flaring neck culminating in a flat mouth,4.7cm, 5.2cm and 6.4cm high without stoppers. 清十八世紀 瑪瑙雕雙獅耳式鼻煙壺 Cf. Agate snuff bottles with identical necks, handles and feet, dated to the 18th century, are in the National Palace collection, illustrated by Hou Yi-Li, Lifting the Spirit and Body: The Art and Culture of the Chinese Snuff Bottle',National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2021, p. 176-177, pl.III 032, 033, 034. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years

A Chinese carved hediao snuff bottle and two lacquered wood snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 18th century - 19th century The first, carved from a peach stone with a magpie perching on blossoming prunus branches, associated resin stopper, 18th century, 4.7cm high without stopper; the lacquered bottles, one of cylindrical form, the wood lacquered to a dark, almost black patina, associated stopper, 7.4cm high without stopper; the second of baluster form, the bamboo with translucent lacquer of a rich dark brown hue, associated stopper,5.4cm high without stopper (3). 清十八 - 十九世紀 核雕鼻煙壺一件及木雕漆器鼻煙壺兩件 Cf. for a similar peach stone bottle with matching stand, see H. Moss,Chinese Snuff Bottles: 5, Published by Hugh M. Moss Ltd, May 1969, fig. 5,p. 18. A similar cylindrical lacquer bottle in The Mary and George Bloch Collection: Part VII, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 26 November 2013, Lot 23, al;so published by H. Moss,Treasury7, no.1521. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years.

A Chinese turquoise-blue overlay white glass 'orchid' snuff bottle attributed to the Yangzhou School Qing dynasty, 1830-1911 The milky white glass blown in a flattened pear shape, standing on a thin, protruding turquoise foot ring, the turquoise overlay carved through to leave delicate orchids scattered around the body, the verso with a seal mark with the auspicious message 'Jixiang' 吉祥, to the lower right body, gilt metal and turquoise glass stopper, 5.3cm high without stopper. 一八三零 - 一九一 一 白地套藍料蘭花紋鼻煙壺，「吉羊」款 Cf. an almost identical snuff bottle is illustrated by Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargeant, The Water Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles, Part Two, Non-Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts,no. 34.3.757. Another bottle of the same group, also in the same collection, no. 34.3.948, where dated 1830-1911, illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 5, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 1044. This bottle was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 222. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years.

Two Chinese overlay glass snuff bottles Mid Qing dynasty, the chilong bottle probably Imperial workshops The first, a yellow overlay ruby glass bottle, carved to either side with a coiled chilong, coral stopper, 6.6cm high without stopper;the second, a white overlay translucent wine-yellow glass bottle of flattened pear-shape carved to either side with a bat suspending an overly formalised 'shou' character, green hardstone stopper, 7.7cm high without stopper (2). 清中期 套料螭龍紋及蝠紋鼻煙壺兩件 Cf. see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Snuff Bottles,Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 41, pl. 58, for a yellow overlay on ruby glass bottle decorated with a dragon, although a slightly different shape. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years.

An unusual Thai silver-inlaid bronze snuff bottle and stopper 19th century The flattened baluster shape decorated with warriors on dragon back, 6cm high without and 6.6cm high with stopper. For similar Thai snuff bottles, see Arts of Asia, January-February 2013, p.114. 泰国十九世紀 銅錯銀鼻煙壺 Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years