(1) At his Street sale on the Tuesday, there is a pair of late 19th century baluster-shaped glass decanters with diamond-cut decoration (estimate 80 to 100) and two late Victorian oak tantalus , each with a very affordable estimate of 100 to 150.(2) This tantalus is decorated with exquisitely carved exterior: on the top is a vignette comprised of three birds; a chick and the chick's parents.(3) More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus , a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.(4) The first lockable Tantalus appeared around the mid 19th Century and was first seen in England around 1870.
