The lots include two 19th century Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats (£1,500-£2,000); an ornate giltwood overmantel mirror from the late 19th century (£1,000-£1,500); a pair of French faux-crocodile-skin binoculars (£500-£800); and a late 18th century English stained and painted model of a 62-gun ship (yours for £2,000-£4,000). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Reaching the front door, she opened it and shut it again hard, using the music of the bells to cover her stealthy return through the maze of Edwardian dining chairs, assorted cabinets, and overmantel mirrors. ❋ Diana Killian (2006)
And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire .... ❋ Herbert George (2004)
They were named Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, and Mr. Bensington interviewed them in a small room with hermetically sealed windows, a spotted overmantel looking-glass, and some ailing calceolarias. ❋ Herbert George (2004)
The other three stood by the fireplace, Rudi leaning against the overmantel. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)
For example, there is a statuette of a kneeling cupid on the overmantel. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1970)
"There's where it was," she said softly and pointed to a deep niche cut into the surface of the stone overmantel. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
A Victorian overmantel reached from the mantelpiece to the ceiling. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1950)
She has taken out all the pins now, and has thrown her bonnet on to the lounge nearest to her, and is standing before the glass in the overmantel patting and pushing into order the soft locks that lie upon her forehead. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (N/A)
Inch by inch his eyes moved until they reached the top shelf of the overmantel and stopped. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
He found what he wanted presently, in a little blue cup on the overmantel, and in a few minutes he had fixed the switch to the wall. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Italian Renaissance fireplace and overmantel, modern 8 ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
The overmantel usually had a carved panel, but later, during the sixteenth century, this was sometimes replaced by a picture. ❋ Lucy Abbot Throop (N/A)
Inside there is a quaint overmantel, with Elizabethan carving, and E.R. in the centre panel. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A hideous teaset with a great deal of gilding occupied the mantelpiece, and above it a monstrous overmantel inset with mirror-glass reared itself to the ceiling and reflected a score or so of distorted views of the room. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1944)
The Young Doctor, who was leaning against the overmantel of the stove warming himself, crossed over to Thorogood with an expression of portentous solemnity on his face. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)
Her long thin frame, bent low to work the bellows under the enormous overmantel, she assented: ` ` Perhaps! ❋ Unknown (1923)
She pushed her aunt away with such force that the old woman staggered backwards and to save herself had to catch hold of the overmantel above her head. ❋ Unknown (1923)
Arlette glanced on all sides, even at the walls, even at the mound of ashes under the big overmantel, nursing in its heart a spark of fire, before she sat down and leaned her elbow on the table. ❋ Unknown (1923)
We will leave it where it is now, where it will lie, I dare say, until the crack of doom -- behind the overmantel in the servants 'parlour, gentlemen, with its back to the wall. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)
