Welcome to Redd Lyon Curios of Nonington

Useful junk & second hand items and curiosities. Also antique maps & books & ephemera

Redd Lyon Curios of Nonington @ The Shop In The Shed supports The Old Parish of Nonington website and helps with its finances.

RLC is located in Holt Street in Nonington and is a mainly online business that has been selling antiques, useful junk & curiosities and second time around items of assorted kinds since 1988.
There are no business premises open on a daily basis, but appointments can be made to come and look at the ever changing wide variety of items in stock. Some of those items are shown below with the prices included. More items can be found on the Redd Lyon Curios Facebook page at
Redd Lyon Curios of Nonington @ The Shop In The Shed

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Vintage 1950 BSA Ladies Safety Shopper Bike.
Step through single speed with 24 inch wheels & 21 inch frame.
£55

Believed to have originally been bought in 1950. This BSA Safety Shopping Model R9 step through ladies bike is in excellent original and unrestored unrestored well-maintained condition and has a BSA lettered chain set and the original leather saddle. Olive Green paintwork. Some to be expected signs of wear as the bike is over 70 years old, but this has left the bike with a beautiful genuine patina. This bike is single speed with 24 inch x 1 3/8 inch wheels and a 21 inch frame. Newish tyres. The rod brakes are in good order

“BSA’s ‘Safety Shopping Model R9 was ‘the only bicycle specially designed with the woman shopper in mind. Low wide-loop frame and 24″ wheels make mounting and dismounting easy, and allow comfortable foot-on-ground position in traffic”.

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Antique late 19th century cast iron hanging flat skillet
12 inch diameter
£38

Made by Archibald Kenrick & Sons, famous for high-quality 19th-century British cast iron holloware. The name cast into the bottom indicates that it is of post 1870 manufacture.

Flat rimless 12-inch round iron plate often with a folding swinging arch handle to hang over an open fire or kitchen range. Traditionally used for baking flatbreads, crumpets, or oatcakes as well as general griddle cooking. Sometimes called a gypsy or Romany bakestone/swing pan

In excellent original condition. It just needs a clean and re-seasoning to be usable.

The hanging bar shown in the pictures is not included in the sale.

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Classical style Greco-Roman female bust.
An ideal garden or indoors decorative piece.
£35

In very good general all round condition. Slight damage to the tip of the nose and a small part of the base is missing. Some minor signs of weathering. Made from a type of plaster/cement.

60 cms tall.

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European Cattle Breeds- Six 1862 original framed coloured prints from the 1856 Paris Agricultural Show

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The photos of the framed prints are listed in the following order:-

Aubrac Cow [Vache de Aubrac]
Braun Schwitz Cow [Vache de Schwitz]
Prinzgau cow [Vache de Prinzgau]
Devon Cow [Vache de Devon
Glane Cow [Vache du Glane]
Caronnaise Cow [Vache Caronnaise]

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Six original framed coloured heliogravure prints from:- From: ‘Les Races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Etudes zootechniques publiees par ordre de s. exc. le ministre de l’agriculture du commerce et des travaux publics’ by Emile Baudement. Published by Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris, 1862.

[Cattle breeds at the Universal Agricultural Competition of Paris in 1856. Zootechnical studies published by order of His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture, Trade and Public Works by Emile Baudement. Paris : Published by Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris, 1862].

The frames  measure 22 x 19 inches and are glazed with safety glass. There is some minor rubbing to the surface of some frames.